skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat, recently starting a job which provides an MBP. I've last used macOS in school, a few years ago.

It's mostly meh. I don't care for the OS conventions ( like the cmd stuff) and I'm not going to force myself out of years of muscle memory for one of my machines, but i can mostly tune that ( with third party tools, but still). Cmd remapped to ctrl, cmd+tab remapped to ctrl+tab. The only issues is Ctrl+C doesn't work in iTerm, I've yet to fix that.

However the UX is like something for children - what's with drag and drop for installing a program?? The included tools range from meh to garbage - Pages mangling .docx and saving them in its proprietary format is inexcusable. And for some reason i can't get the MBP to sleep when it's charging and an external screen is connected - clicking sleep through the menu makes it sleep for a second and then it wakes up. Oh, and it's extremely annoying that the scroll button on a mouse and trackpad have to share the same scrolling direction.

Honestly i find that macOS is OK. Slightly better than Windows, but with annoying differences and stubborn "this is how things are, the old way no longer works, you're holding it wrong" attitude. Linux is best in terms of flexibility but has some other downsides.
The two main differences:

1) Nobody pretends that business skills are especially hereditary. It is common for people to enter and exit the 'class' of business owner.

2) Success as as a business owner requires steady economic activity where people get what they want. Success as a noble ruling a fiefdom requires kneecapping anyone who challenges your god-given right to rule.

One big observations:

This is what US government spending has done in the last 2 centuries: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Governme...

That is a pretty solid contender for why people are less generous. I too would be investing more money in my community if I had more control of it. There is a pretty simple correlation between growth in government spending and a reduced ability of businesses to have a positive impact in their community.

It isn't like people were relying on business then business owners got greedy. People took control away from businesses and the businesses stopped being in control.
It is, I have used it and it works great on a pi3.
Typical distance between European capitals is ~500km. It is less than an hour net time by plane, but adding travel from city center to the airport, check in, security check, waiting time, waiting for luggage, travel from destination airport to city center - all those are compounding into 4-5 hours door to door depending on road traffic. High speed train is about the same or even better, and you have internet connection on board all the time.
Open source and its social impact
Yeah, around that time I was still in college and used trains a lot. I remember we had a running joke about everything inside the trains we traveled in had some sort of sticky, yucky film. When you grabbed something and then let go you could kind of feel the train clinging to you. The heating in the winter was always either broken or turned to 11. My friend once, by accident, melted a big chunk of his shoe on the radiator under his seat.

I've recently traveled by that same line. The train has changed a bit, the film seems to be gone but the ~100km trip takes 5 minutes longer than it used to, averaging <50km/h... So still ways to go.

edit: spelling
Because then you can’t login. Those are not the cookies blocked by the ‘legitimate purpose’ switches, that’s just more tracking.
Depends what you optimize for. I used to travel from Germany to London and had to change in Brussels. Yes you have to wait a bit, but not like at an airport. The walking distances and wait times are very small and the trains connect timewise so it is fairly stress free.

If you want to play it super save, you can stop for a good meal in Brussels as you are taking a break in the middle of a city, rather than hanging around in an airport.
Flair: A simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing
> These plans can have substantial subsidies.

ACA subsidies disappear once you make $50k or more a year.
WSU researchers find clues to new mechanisms for coronaviruses infections
How could a process accumulate hundreds of negative dentries during normal operation? If that happens something fishy is going on.
AwesomeWM, Doom Emacs, Tmux in Alacritty, LibreWolf with Saka Key extension (mainly to get link hints so I can click elements without the mouse), Rofi to launch applications, and Unclutter to hide my mouse when it's (usually) not being used.
Construction of road infrastructure can be compared to construction of tracks and stations, and it's fair to say taxpayers foot the bill in full for both.

The difference is that trains operate at a loss even with high ticket prices and operational subsidies are necessary for market viability. That is not the case with car and truck usage.
The price comparison with air travel is why a serious carbon tax might make sense.
Docker Desktop is relatively bad compared to native docker on Linux. If you spend your day doing that macOS is very stifling. Or if you want to change a keyboard shortcut Apple don't allow you to, like cmt+tab.
any chance you can make this an option to buy and self host?

your ToS prevents me from using.

your readyset and the nimbus thing are very interesting too.
Having commuted with both american and german rail systems before, my educated guess it's likely due to who owns the rails. American rail freight companies have far more control over prioritization than european freight companies.

DB Netz owns the vast majority of german rail and therefore prioritizes what makes them the most money. Historically that's been carrying people due to all the government and company subsidies they get for supporting commuters and students. During COVID times the rail freight increased dramatically because the personen trains were offline. I suspect that will have generated some inertia towards freight, but it will take years to see and only if the right folks at DB crunch the right numbers.

On the american side, I've sat for 20 or 30 minutes regularly (up to an hour on the worst days) while our commuter train had to wait for the rail owner's freight train to roll through. And that's a regularly scheduled commuter!!
> How is the human brain able to achieve a higher level of success with 1% of the data?

The most obvious answer is "the human brain uses a shit-ton more compute", for 18+ years as well.

We spend data, which we have in abundance, to save on compute, which we do not. Even at the most generous low-end estimates of the human brain's computing power, we are only barely there; on the high-end estimates that people in love with the ineffable mysteries of the brain love to cite, we are multiple orders of magnitude away from even the biggest supercomputers matching the brain. So no matter which way you slice it, we are extremely compute-poor.

Feeding a lot of data through an extremely lightweight optimizer like first-order SGDs is one way to cope with lacking compute: https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/scaling/2013-bottou.pdf Bottou asks why (even in 2013!) is SGD so hard to dethrone when we can empirically see plenty of optimizers like second-order gradient descent algorithms which can beat SGD quite solidly? His observation is that while they are much better than SGD in terms of iterations or _n_, they lose in compute/wallclock because SGD can just go-brrrr through the data much faster than they can.
You can go a step further. Use a computer vision algorithm to find planets, and then do some spectroscopy to identify planets with water in their atmosphere. Course correct to aim at one of those planets
> But carbon emissions still go down, paid for by one party. What’s
the issue?

Unfairness/inequity. That's why I said my question was not a
Utilitarian one. I do not speak for the PP.

edit: removed possible smartass condescension
> Literally trillions if not quadrillions of passenger-miles per software-related fatality.

So these were all miles where people were unwilling testers as well. The difference being airplane auto-pilot is primarily focused on keeping the plane in the air, not dodging pedestrians. I think it does a lot of warnings for the pilots as well, but I'm not in the industry.

It's really comparing apples to oranges, isn't it?

> since self driving cars are a even harder and more dangerous technology with far more downside risk, they should use a standard even more rigorous than the historical airplane standards

So this is on The United States Department of Transportation to be far more involved in regulating the software that governs self driving. But the question is, was the FAA as relaxed in governing the aerospace industry 60 some odd years ago as USDT is now, and did they just get lucky that flying planes is actually easier than driving cars? Or is there actually some negligence involved?
> your counter-argument that somehow it's less influential because you haven't heard of/used some projects directly holds no ground

Oh come on, they are indisputably right that Microsoft, Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, hell, even Cloudflare are more technically influential than Netflix is.

Apple and Google would make anyone's top 5, that's his point. No argument about it. Their products collectively dominate anyone's life, along with MSFT. Netflix is maybe in your top 10, top 20 for sure, but it's not up there as one of the few 'platform that everyone's lives are built on' techcos.

(Like, Netflix vs Microsoft? Seriously? For that matter, Amazon probably wouldn't be in my top 5 either, and not only because it's not mainly a tech company. I s'pose it depends how you define 'Amazon', and if you include AWS. But for Netflix there's just no argument that they win a spot there.)
It has already been “extraordinarily elevated” because the money supply has been “extraordinarily elevated.

This is accelerating inflation. That’s going to be a problem. They can call it the Putin price hike all they like but the invasion only made the situation worse. This is 100% poor monetary policy and a Fed that is painted into a corner. Buckle up.
There are Mac applications you can download to get this behaviour. Magnet does it and is cheap, and Raycast (spotlight alternative) does it and is free.
There are plenty of countries that are seeing inflation and didn't get any stimulus money. The official explanation blaming the war also happens to be the better fit temporally (you'd have to explain a two-year lag) and sectorally (why are energy prices and energy-intensive food prices rising sharply, when income effects would be seen more broadly, or focussed on luxury products (i. e. everything except food, energy, and housing))
Here (southern Poland)

I do believe that trains are really good in compare to what we had like decade or so ago

Quiet, looking modern, clean, reasonable seats and their "placement" strategy

For comparison: monthly ticket price is like 10% of minimal wage (or 50% of that for students) for distance around 100km/day
Paralysis by analysis is what happens not when there are a wide variety of choices. It is what happens when one feels one has to do a deeper and broader analysis than they have time, energy, know how, or mental fortitude to undertake.

If one felt they had to understand the managerial structures, maintenance schedules, and just a smattering of aeronautical engineering in order to pick which flight you were going to take to Hawaii you would experience the same thing.

The author is correct that listening to 100 expert beginners on Reddit is a poor way to pick a distro or learn anything about anything but wrong I think in his dismissal of distro hopping. One doesn't need to drive every make and model of car but its actually expected to read some reviews then drive several. Learning how to use your distro beyond clicking the icon for your web browser and reading your distros docs will actually give you the background to understand the different tools at your disposal.

If one spends 6 months using Ubuntu before discovering that Debian Arch or Mint would be a better choice instead of starting with Mint Arch or Debian off the bat is this really a huge loss?
"The stupidity on the right is most visible in the many conspiracy theories spreading across right-wing media and now into Congress. “Pizzagate,” QAnon, the belief that vaccines contain microchips, the conviction that Donald Trump won reelection—it’s hard to imagine any of these ideas or belief systems reaching the levels that they have without Facebook and Twitter."

I feel sad for this author. Still clinging on to right vs left. Refusing to understand that half of the country voted for the candidate he opposes. Yet he can not make the simple intellectual jump to understand the other side? You really cannot sit in the shoes of Americans who vote differently to you and understand why they feel this way, what their reality is, what their experiences are, what they have been taught? This intolerableness stems from the author's high horse he sits on. This article is merely a reflection of his own lack of intellegence.
Agreed - especially in the context of how unbelievably clumsy the US is at doing trains.

Here in western Poland however it was a bit easier - lots of tracks remained since 19th century. And with these diesel buses popping up, an opportunity presented itself to go relatively low investment and lots of political bang. Those trains are usually way too packed in my personal experience.

Similarly, Pendolino high speed rail was developed and implemented to huge fanfare. Only the tickets ended up being so expensive that basically only the upper-upper-middle class wants to take them. Why take the high-speed train at double the price to get you there twice as fast, when all you need is to get there?
Might just be that i was taken for case insensitive.

62 characters is not a lot for tools that have a lot of settings.

In the case of tools like grep, the settings are really more of a command vocabulary, and should rightly be written in their own language in a script file, like sed and awk, but grep makes some especially commonly needed ops available as a simpler command with switches for convenience. And that results in some seemingly arcane and inconsistent commandlines.

Defining how to search for something is just not a simple 2 or 3 options covers it kind of job.

By contrast, another tool with the same problem but clearly originated from a different starting idea is 'find'. It also has to have essentially a vocabulary to express your intentions in composed sentences, and it ends up with a mix of switches and words.
Ah neat, will try and see what happens :D
Aren't there already well-tested LRU cache algorithms out there? It seems like adapting one of those to the general problem of kernel cache management would be a good way to address the general problem described in the article.
If that was the case we wouldn't have KataContainers or isolated Windows containers.

Apparently there are some benefits to VMs.
That’s going to be tough: the bit about competing with low cost flights. We flew Ryan air to Italy for 50 bucks a person each way. By train would have been much more expensive and taken a ton longer.

But let’s see how they build this out. I do love living in a Berlin. The public transit system is amazing. It’s not perfect. But it’s reliable enough that I do not miss my car.
Part of the reason that Amtrak is expensive is that it's so slow. For a flight from Chicago to Seattle you only need to pay pilots/flight attendants/etc for around 5 hours of work, whereas for Amtrak it's 46 hours or more.

Wendover Productions goes into detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
That sounds like you might take good advantage of machines with more than one network card, send the local updates via broadcast to all the machines in a cluster via one network and do the internet side via the other.
> Maybe not for UBI, but definitely for Modern Monetary Theory

MMT: “The only real constraint, and the one from which false fiscal constraints are a distraction, of government net tax and spending policy is monetary impacts like inflation/deflation, so government spending and taxation debate should center monetary conditions and considerations, not fiscal balance“

(For sake of argument leaving off debate over accuracy of this characterization): massive inflation resulting from monetary effects of fiscal stimulus

Commentators: “This is why wer should disregard MMT!”

Wait, what?
https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+netrual+cement
Next-gen Tesla Roadster going to production next year, says Elon Musk
You couldn't slip on wet leaves and expect to sue the property owner back then.
It's not out of bitterness. People don't necessarily realize that benefits are as expensive as they are, or that they had been increasing in cost so dramatically. It's more like, "sorry we aren't giving raises this year, but we are covering an added $400/mo in insurance costs for everyone."
Just solving urban transport with train would be a huge thing here in Croatia. Rails are so shit that if you need to commute it's faster to travel through peak rush hour with a car than ride a train. It's depressing really because good rails would really connect less developed places near the capital and offload the pressure on city.
Ukrainian MP Claims Russia Dropped Chemical Weapons from a Drone in Mariupol
In the US, trains are seen as ancient cowboy technology. Trying to build more train infrastructure is surely an uphill battle.
They're not saying there's no reason to complain. They're pointing out a very valid phenomena. For those of us on the total outside, it helps us temper bad feedback. Otherwise, you can end up with a situation like the following:

Person A from place without infrastructure X: wow, life with infrastructure X sure would be better. I wonder if we should invest in X?

Person B from place with infrastructure X: There's lots of problems and it annoys me daily.

Note that in this situation, the wrong conclusion is to say "well, then maybe infrastructure X is a bad idea". We want to avoid that line of thinking (since it's not an appropriate conclusion given the statements), so it's worth pointing out many tempering factors, such as those mentioned by the parent comment.
>high performance audio software

>runs in browser

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>The Bank of Canada also seems to recognize the economic costs of doing nothing

Nothing in that quote mentioned anything about the cost of doing nothing.
Sending probes is dangerous. You never know who is going to capture it and figure out where it was sent from. Conclusion: make deniable self-destructing probes.

1. Send probe to star system slow enough to be random interstellar rock on a collision course with planetary body,

2. it collects data as it approaches body,

3. then have it self-destruct in the atmo destroying all technology and information in the probe. Use the energy from the destruction to send a message back on a wide cone that can be intercepted.
What about making it autohide--doesn't it have a similar implication? Or changing the font height/taskbar height.
This thread show how non-linear and non-deterministic reading is. Many people including me seems to have read "day zero" as "zero day" I wonder how our brains process text such that an out-of-order interpretation is possible. Probably helps that "zero day" is a common phrase (I'd argue "day zero" is pretty common too!)
Have they been down recently? I mean reasonably down...
Proving the less obedient one is, actually, smarter. ;-)
Why can't health insurance be like car insurance again?

Why can't individuals negotiate premiums?

Why can't individuals switch to another insurance provider at any time?

Why can't insurance providers cover 100% over anything prescribed by medical practioners?

Seriously, why does any medical treatment in America have to be so opaque and stressful? We are regressing as a society if life is not becoming easier.
I don’t think anyone thinks that offsets are the complete solution. Eventually we will have low carbon flight tech. A lot of money is being invested in developing this but it takes time to transition. Your argument seems to be based on the idea that because it doesn’t totally solve the problem then it is a scam. But if it contributes to the solution and buys time then what is the problem? It is all about buying time. Tech is rapidly advancing.

For instance, I was just in Dubai. Wow, that is an unsustainable city. Except that they are plowing wealth into solar. It is 13% solar powered today (plenty of sun in those parts) and will be 100% by 2050. That’s great. But the world needs time to transition. And if we can buy time by creating revenue streams for saving rainforest lands and mangrove forests and the like, that’s a win win. But it still isn’t enough without the tech.

And yes, sure, it would be great if no one drove cars or flew. But short of economic collapse, we need time to transition. What am i missing?
This is super incorrect; if anything, employer-based health insurance strengthened the unions' ability to negotiate for their workers. As a sibling comment mentioned, the major catalyst was WWII wage controls:

> During World War II, wage and price controls prevented employers from using wages to compete for scarce labor. Under the 1942 Stabilization Act, Congress limited the wage increases that could be offered by firms, but permitted the adoption of employee insurance plans. In this way, health benefit packages offered one means of securing workers.

> In the 1940s, two major rulings also reinforced the foundation of the employer-provided health insurance system. First, in 1945 the War Labor Board ruled that employers could not modify or cancel group insurance plans during the contract period. Then, in 1949, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a dispute between the Inland Steel Co. and the United Steelworkers Union that the term "wages" included pension and insurance benefits. Therefore, when negotiating for wages, the union was allowed to negotiate benefit packages on behalf of workers as well. This ruling, affirmed later by the U.S. Supreme Court, further reinforced the employment-based system.

- Health Insurance in the United States, Melissa Thomasson, Miami University
(https://web.archive.org/web/20110903053358/http://eh.net/enc...)
Laying on the beach all day is a lot more enjoyable when, when you’re done, you have a nice, safe home to go back to, good food, health care, etc. It’s easy to romanticize having nothing but real life is complicated. Living primitively is simple but it’s not easy.
Common Crawl actually does not contain Twitter, you can go check the indexes https://github.com/ikreymer/cdx-index-client . Twitter is extremely aggressive about scraping/caching, and I guess that blocks CC. Models like GPT-3 still know a decent amount of Twitter material, and I figure that this is due to tweets being excerpts or mirrored manually in non-Twitter.com URLs (eg all the Twitter-mirroring bots on Reddit).
Very interesting, I can see a whole raft of applications for this tech that are outside of the game scene, various collaboration tools use very similar tech under the hood and this would be a very nice way to abstract some of that out and to lower the bar to launch collaborative applications.
Minneapolis to Seattle is around the same distance as Madrid to Warsaw. And for that trip you’d need ~4 transfer and it would take ~30 hours in total. So it doesn’t seem that much better.