skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article flaws:
- ascribes demise of vector supercomputers to AI winter; false, supercomputers did just fine post-AI winter. It was Intel’s economies of scale and growing availability of open source software for managing clusters that eventually killed them.
- doesn’t discuss the M1 in any depth, just asserts it’s a vector supercomputer; false, not only does the M1 have a number of specialized units (beyond generic vector units) accelerating demanding tasks, it also has monster ILP, with 8-way integer dispatch and a huge reorder buffer.
- only discusses machine learning and implies it’s the primary workload; false, a lot of workload on a typical end user machine is video.
People going full “galaxy brain I know everything without researching or asking questions” annoys me like nothing else. So I took a whopping 2 minutes to Google it and there’s hundreds of reports of the 2018 Honda CR-V having a FUBAR’d electrical system https://www.aboutautomobile.com/Consumer-Complaint/2018/Hond...
Do you not appreciate the world that was prepared for you? Safe, healthy, entertaining, etc. Much of this work was done with future generations in mind. You could throw evolution in there too. It's nice to not be limited to a single cell.

On top of that, many people enjoy giving back, either to their kids or community. Preparing nice things for people after your death can bring comfort in life. That may come in the form of money, open sourced code, etc.
I would also like to know how you could possibly know for certain if the parent was lying? And why the visceral reaction to boot?
Your arguments really sound like “just-so stories” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story)

You are picking examples that fit your idea of what natural rights should be, and are ignoring the countless counter examples. If a free society is fundamentally better, why is China so successful? Countless empires have been built on 5e backs of slaves, conquered people, and oppression. Yes, most eventually collapsed, but so have all democracies except the ones that are currently around… and there is no reason to believe the ones around are the “end state” of the evolution and not just a snapshot of civilizations that will eventually collapse like all those that came before. Democracies have fallen, to be replaced by dictatorships… dictatorships still exist, and many are successful members of the international community… Saudi Arabia is a strong ally of the US, and doesn’t seem close to collapse.
1. Hopefully I’ll be able to start going back to school. All depends if I can get my residency straight.

2. Hopefully finish or get rather far in the side project I’m invested in the most.

3. Start trying to contribute to NetBSD. I’m extremely happy that my Alpha, VAX, and SGI hardware can be revived with a modern OS and I would like to help contribute to that / prevent stagnation while I can.

There are some other things I’d like to do, that likely won’t happen, thanks to the added stressors of the next year, and the passage of time.
What do you expect a former head of state to do instead that you wouldn't consider scummy? I don't see your point here. People still have to and want to work.

The story here is that Kurz is actually corrupt, why anyone would hire him is beyond me.
MicroWeb DOS web browser – for 8088 systems
From GUI to Terminal Ecosystem
And furthermore, how it manages to make it all look like a painting when zoomed in. No matter if Android or iPhone, old or new, they all seem to have this really annoying effect.
My guess is this is some sort of AI driven compression. The compressor presented the neural network with images of the woman's head and some background leaves and said: "Corporate needs you to tell the difference between these two pictures." The neural network happily replied, "They're the same picture". And so the compressor discarded the woman's head from the data and replaced it with the leaves, which have unerringly been found to be equivalent.
>That was also a time of great cynicism. We almost did not get our first fund raised. Nobody was buying the story we were telling.

Not sure I understand the parallel being drawn here when the market cap of crypto currently stands at over $2T. Clearly, plenty of people are buying.
As a counterpoint from my own personal experience, time spent managing kubernetes is time NOT spent introducing new features.

I once had the displeasure of watching an upstart data science team at a boutique portfolio management firm break under the weight of k8s management. The team was great at critical thinking, risk-modeling, and statistical analysis. They knew very little about infrastructure, such as networking fundamentals or CPU/Memory management. This team went from helping our firm rapidly develop a sentiment analysis model that sifts through social media for trading signals to wrestling with kubectl all day. Productivity bombed. Team was disbanded about a year after they started using k8s.

It's a shame the author emphasized and inflated the discrete costs of operating a cluster because that emphasis and exaggeration distracts from the TRUE cost ... opportunity cost. We want our engineering teams doing what they do best, writing code and adding new features. Not bogged down in managing the plumbing/infrastructure. Happy to have that abstracted away.
> But please don't mislead people into thinking Linux (on the desktop) comes even remotely close to Windows or macOS in terms of a good user experience out of the box.

"Out of the box" is the key phrase here. GP said that Linux was good at serving a certain "slice" of users, and it sounded like they were arguing that trying to massage MacOS into something those users would like is probably more trouble than it works. The setup described by this blog post isn't really "out of the box" either, so I don't think it's crazy to suggest that to someone inclined to tinker with their setup to make it absolutely perfect would potentially be better served by Linux.
I think 50 years is way too long to plan ahead for. A ~9-12 year approach makes more sense. Look at these intervals:

1942 - First mass-produced fully-electric analog computer

1951 - First mass-produced commercial computer (using vacuum tubes)

1963 - First mass-produced integrated circuit mainframe computer

1974 - First mass-produced personal computer

1984 - First GUI operating system with widespread adoption

1995 - AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy bring the internet to the masses

2007 - First smartphone with widespread adoption

~2017 - I'm actually having trouble coming up with something. Maybe cryptocurrency (specifically Ethereum) gaining widespread adoption, but it's too early to judge its significance. Same with VR.

The job market and what it meant to be a programmer changed so much between these intervals.

You might not even be in tech anymore in 11 years. Maybe you'll be retired after a lucky windfall. Or dead.
Anyone who can become the youngest head of government (his first elected position was when he was 31) is impressive. I am not sure how chancellors in Austria are elected, but Austria has 72.45% voter turnout, and I'd imagine anyone who can get elected is fantastically well connected, motivated, and good at coalition building.

Seems like a win for Thiel, assuming Kurz remains motivated and driven.

My only question would be is Kurz a good team player, and what specifically was corrupt that led to his downfall? Is this behavior considered corrupt as a capital manager?
Thank you for this very interesting share, I had not heard of this before!
> Having said that, this does not imply FOSS developers shouldn't have the "product mindset". Quite the opposite, in fact.

Disagree. FOSS developers should have whatever mindset they feel like having. Motivations run the entire gamut. Some FOSS developers really do want to build a polished "product" that others will want to buy (or whatever the non-paying equivalent might be). Others just want to scratch their itch and share what they've made. Telling either of those people (or any of the people in between) that they're "doing it wrong" is incorrect by definition.
As covered elsewhere in these comments, Rectangle is the new Spectacle. https://rectangleapp.com/
I really tried to like macOS for an entire year. I used Yabai[1] as tilling window manager which is much better than Amethyst mentioned in the article. I also wrote my own compose key tool macos-compose[2] and rofi-like clone choosem[3] (eventually bought into Alfred).

Yet with all of this effort I still went back to linux after a year (Arch with Qtile and Gnome). What really killed macos for me was the fact that animations could not be disabled entirely and everything felt like it's behind several ms of a delay. I work on the move so I don't have the luxury of multi-screen setup so switching between programs, workspaces and windows is the most important part of my workflow - it just drove me nuts.

Now I run simple Lenovo yoga laptop with arch+qtile+gnome and honestly, my performance at work at least doubled. That's my anecdote anyway.

1 - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

2 - https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose

3 - https://github.com/Granitosaurus/choosem
> How do you measure success or failure?

A great question!

Here's one way. Does a country build walls to keep people in, or keep people out?

How about that terrible video of people clinging to a jet leaving Afghanistan and falling off of it to their deaths? Were they fleeing a Taliban golden age in Afghanistan?

I personally know several people who fled the USSR. Ask them about the golden age they risked their lives to leave.
Totally possible that an FBI agent would be using the intelligence community sense of "open source" meaning "publicly available", rather than the sense of "open source" that's the mode around here.
You mean the cartoon filter that has been around since forever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRNiyjVpEM
A) I'm not sure what nit you are picking, RAW formats are typically not compressed, and if they are (I haven't encountered any personally) they would be losslessly compressed. They certainly aren't quantized.

Edit: ok here's some lossless and lossy compression of RAW. IMHO, "lossy compressed raw" is an oxymoron. https://photographylife.com/compressed-vs-uncompressed-vs-lo...

B) the context is whether a raw photo can be "manipulated" in any way. The answer is a resounding yes. See: Darpa MediFor project. Search for work by Siwei Lyu (I'm on mobile and don't feel like digging through the links, there's tons of published work out there)
Ideally we’d want neutralizing vaccines wouldn’t we? Before the pandemic, my idea of a vaccine was a preventative measure that worked for long periods of time. I read Harvard did a study of tetanus shots and found boosters had no significant statistically beneficial effect.

I have never heard of a polio vaccine have this issue, I think Salk did an excellent job at testing it’s effects without forcing participants and there’s a great deal of historical data to prove it. Of course a vocal minority may have issues but I haven’t heard them on polio at all, only on relativity new Lyme disease vaccine ‘causing autism’.

I’ll look at binding vaccines more, I just want vaccines that aren’t subscription services.
Does Navidrome care about the file structure of the music folder? Does it properly respect embedded tags?

I've tried to use various web-based music streaming servers in the past, but keep finding they fetched their own metadata in the background, ignoring the tags I've curated and modified to my liking.
https://www.discogs.com/release/10503660-Bill-Orcutt-An-Acco...
Why does the harness need to be on the moving part in the first place?
I'd assume the bad faith is in not mentioning the entire backstory. Lies by omission are still lies. :)
I suppose they could've used some of the seeds to sow something. For that you do need the space to do so though and the materials. This is Stalingrad during the siege.

I doubt it would've been easy to procure the materials needed to create the greenhouse and also hide it from the general population as well. They were trying not to draw attention to themselves from their fellow Stalingrad citizens, who were also starving.

There were apparently 16 scientists in the building guarding these. For argument's sake, let's consider an easy find on Google: https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1433/how-large... and let's assume the first area cited there as it seems to be a "conservative"-ish estimate, which is 4000 sqft of garden per person per year. Which I guess is actually rather small considering Stalingrad's location, probable (based on a wild guess that the city doesn't have the greatest) soil conditions within city limits and the weather in that region, they need to use their own labour to farm this (using horses would draw even more attention, provided you could get horses in the first place and working the land requires more calories, which in turn you need to grow first.

So 64000 sqft or 1.4 acres or about 6000m^2.

I think that our ancestors weren't stupid, so they would've considered this and they seem to have come to the conclusion that starving themselves was the better option.
I worked on Paint Shop Pro a long time ago, when they first added red eye correction. It did it not by manipulating the image, but by painting an artificial eye over the original. The dialog was hellishly complex since you had to specify not only how the new eye should look but how to make it match the original. But it delivered impressive results. Last I saw, it was scheduled to be replaced with something simpler and more traditional in the next version.
I can say that I’ve seen blatant sexism at a place I worked previously. It often felt like being back at college working with friends in a frat.

Often fun, but I was glad when a female intern complained and they took cleaning things up seriously. That was within the last 5 yrs.

Apparently this was something that was an issue talked about among the women at the workplace for awhile and I only became privy much later when hanging with some of them outside of work and presumably they felt comfortable speaking about it.

Personally I’ve only worked with one person I think I’d feel comfortable discussing any discrimination I’ve faced.

I suspect that’s pretty common, not that discrimination is necessarily common but that people feel uncomfortable talking about it.
No thanks. My plans are my own, and no one here (or anyone else online) is interested in them.
>Seems like a win for Thiel, assuming Kurz remains motivated and driven.

he doctored polls to stay in power. Now i guess he'll doctor financial reports to stay on the good side of Thiel and to keep such a cushy job :)
>... what specifically was corrupt that led to his downfall?

From the article:

>Kurz, who was once Europe’s youngest elected leader at age 31, resigned as Austria’s chancellor in October after prosecutors announced he was under investigation for allegations of corruption.

>Austrian authorities are investigating claims that Kurz and his political allies used public money to publish doctored polls in a bid to retain power. Kurz has denied wrongdoing.
It creates gross inefficiency by forcing repair shops to "fix" a statistically unlikely flaw, while genuinely dangerous problems that Tesla owners are already aware of get pushed to the back of the line.
Yabai gave me the best results by far! It's as fast as you can really go on MacOs and it feels like a true twm system. Unfortunately, due to restrictions of the OS itself (you can see the issue tracker) you can't really have the same quality of tilling as you can on Linux's X or Wayland.
I've used Magnet in the past and now I'm using yabai+skhd. I would say Magnet brings features similar to Windows10 like regions and snapping, while yabai+skhd is closer to something like i3wm with focus movements, space/screen management, swaps, etc.
The site has changed a lot in the last six months. The click bait. The outrage push posts etc. I think this is the new normal.
The stareater feature was just noise reduction taken too far. A star looks just like a noisy pixel.
Or when your grandma or grandpa spend their life savings and are stuck without adequate care and services, then they die much sooner than they normally would.
It would cause tick saliva from causing infection for a lifetime, it matters so you can give a vaccine and not need to upkeep it especially in rural areas. It matters because it will prevent it forever. I think I’m thinking of something that lasts longer, someone mentioned a binding vaccine.

What does at risk of polio mean? I read that polio infections only affect Americans who aren’t vaccinated and touch recently vaccinated baby feces. If you aren’t in that situation you won’t get polio.
That makes sense, thanks. I wonder if it might make sense to use a reduced-round Chacha for generation. Aumasson calls for 8 rounds; I think Rust’s CSPRNG uses 12.
Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Tightly Monitored Isolation
Also, you'd think Apple would natively support window tiling, but apparently their UX and desktop design philosophy is that they know best when it comes to window size and placement.
I don't see how you can compare being a senator to being a middle manager at some bank. The problem is that the banker faces huge consequences if they do something stupid to earn a little money by abusing their position and the upside isn't even that big. By comparison, senators have the opportunity to earn literally millions by doing things that aren't even technically illegal, like being given a wink-and-nod promise of a revolving door-style highly paid position in industry, "insider" trading that for some reason just doesn't count, etc.
Good thing that won't show up in photos!
>This is obviously only true of MS-DOS on purely floppy-based systems.

Years ago, it really saddened me to realize that a Dual Floppy IBM PC running MS-DOS was actually the high water mark of secure general purpose computing for the masses.
1. Reach “conversational” level in Spanish

2. Complete a 50 miler ultra-marathon

3. Buy a vacation home on a lake

4. Start leading and organizing group events that I wish existed but no one else has stepped up on
That whole post makes no sense. Almost like Peter himself hired a PR team to randomly say nice things.
Here is a photo of the current situation from central boulder. The 100mph wind gusts caused the fire to jump dozens of times.

https://postimg.cc/CzdZ7Bqq
They are talking about frameworks leveraging and extending the builtin Emacs completition mechanism [1]. The most well known ones are Ivy and Helm, I believe, but there are now many others.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Co...
I think we can allow adult car owners to decide on their own what is a genuine hazard and what is scaremongering.
Why would you not wear a mask during a global pandemic in such close proximity to others and such a poorly ventilated space as a bus or train? I can never understand why people treat mask wearing as such an unreasonable burden, and I've yet to hear someone explain their reluctance in terms that don't involve an almost depraved indifference toward exposing others to a potentially deadly pathogen.
Hi everyone, I worked on a little side project to generate a summary of your tweets in 2021. It uses Twitter API to get your tweets public info and compile into 7 slides of info.

Hope you like it!
Right. To me the photo was set up for the retweets and likes. They got their leaf-headed friend to stand in front of some leaves and took a photo. Probably didn't even use an iPhone. This might have been some Samsung psy-op to discredit the iPhone neural processor.
I have some interest in the topic (thanks to Arraycast and Conor Hoekstra) and bought to Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan, however it is still a bit too involved for my small brain.

On the other hand, I am very much enjoying How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng, which is a few levels down in difficulty.
Why does everyone automatically assume this explanation is correct? Based on the photo, it looks to me like a real leaf in the foreground, probably having fallen at the perfect time to create this photo. I would be curious to hear Apple's explanation on this...
Recent media article:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/30/covid-travelers-infec...

"COVID: Travelers infected one another across hallway, research shows"
The issue is that the LEDs are concentrated in a slightly different area of the housing than a filament on an incandescent bulb, so the rays are not all reflected as expected when an LED bulb is installed.
> Fabrice Bellard have created his QuickJS embeddable JS engine

Oh. That's the QEMU/FFMPEG Fabrice Bellard? That sounds definitely interesting. (Perhaps more than the actual article, haha.)

https://bellard.org/quickjs/
- The scientific method. It has served us well broadly speaking over the last 3 centuries

- Humans oscillating between greed and fear. Has happened for the last few millennia :-)

- Showing up on time , being reliable and doing your best leading to good outcomes

I usually base my decisions around these 3..
What if the solo developer in your team gets hit by a bus?
Few things seem to be at play here.

1. iPhone uses face tracking to adjust focus on subject's face

2. Same face detection can end up detecting faces in arbitrary objects. Very common occurring. Here the leaf.

3. iPhone uses multiple lens to compose a single photo. 1 lens focused on the persons face while another with better focus on the face estimated the face to be within the leaves.

4. The composite photo now has picture of leaf replacing the person's face.
A shame that's not on offer in North America.

OTOH, looking at the XL (which has 7 seats rather than 5), cold weather highway range is only 140km. I suspect that this accomplishes more in Europe than it does in the US; in any case, I see enormous value in having PHEV range for daily tasks while retaining the engine for family trips, which quickly get into the hundreds of miles.
I meant imminent to the Rocky Flats area. Of course all the buildings were razed, but I would assume it wouldn't be a Good Thing for that place to also be on fire.
In the F.A.Q they mention that it can be modified for telescopes:

====

Can I use it on my telescope?

With a bit of modification, yes. We have seen many astrophotography projects with the official Pi cameras, you can follow the same instructions.

====

I wonder if it can be also modified for PCB inspection microscope purposes? I have a C-mount lens already:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002033939765.html

More context on the idea I've been thinking about on: https://twitter.com/braincode/status/1464964031576379400

So... can this new Arducam 16MP autofocus be easily modded so that it:

1) Conserves the autofocus feature.

2) Accepts a C-mount lens like the one listed above with the right distance from the sensor?
Update: 'The Team' section was removed from the site.
I have a question

Are zero-knowledge proofs really zero-knowledge if you do enough of them, can’t you reconstruct?
For your product I would want to see more interesting ML problems advertised
Ticks tend to hang off you in places that aren’t immediately obvious.
Sure for any specific signal x you can craft the corresponding signal X so that ifft(X)==x, but the idea here is to generate a random signal with certain properties (blue spectrum and uniformly-distributed time-domain values). This is the tricky bit.
2022 could be the year the metaverse goes mainstream