skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late Soviet regime produced so much farm hardware as if it wanted to outright lay siege to the field and storm it by having greater numbers.

Most of it went rotting. I remember a village school with a large yard full of half-disassembled tractors and combines. Apparently the students were supposed to learn to use all the stuff and then give the field no rest. In reality it would just rot.

I don't think you should label all that people incompetent. They were mostly very practical in solving their immediate problem while having no freedom to rethink it. The system sucked and people were just trapped in it.
So you don't know and do not care to explore further whether or not it's doing a good job, but you want it to do less of it. A really weird take to be honest.
I think the problem described is the following:

1. A researcher puts out a model with bad initial parameters/data.

2. The chain workers/miners train the model as request.

3. The model fails at the test or verification dataset due to the bad setup.

In this case, the miners would not get paid despite doing exactly what was asked of them.
>makes random comments like this that are bound to create controversy.

Controversy means engagement, engagement leads to fame, fame is worth a lot of money if your companies are publicly listed.
> > What is art? Art is when you challenge the assumptions that people make about a medium and use that conflict to help them change what they think about that medium.

> I think the above definition, perhaps unwittingly, robs us of traditional value in art. By that above definition, a classical greco-roman statue that doesn't challenge anyone's ideas or perception cannot be art.

When you see a medium normally used for creating functional pieces of buildings formed into a realistic visage of a human by carefully beating it with a hammer and a metal rod, that moment of realizing what material it's made out of and the tools used to make it transform what you see out of the stone around everywhere. Sculptors in the past have said that they are freeing the sculpture from the stone it is encased in. Using that kind of mindset, you can easily see classical greco-roman sculptures as the art they are.

The sculpture isn't art on its own. It's the understanding of the sculpture, when it was made and what they managed to create that makes it art.

> The definition for "object". I prefer the word "pattern" where any physical object is matter arranged in a certain pattern.

Can emotions be art? Or is it the capturing of them that makes it art? What can art _not_ be?

> What the writer has helpfully noticed is that art seems to be elusive; doesn't easily allow its definition to be pinned down, but it has a concrete existence in part of who we are. It cannot really exist without this thing we call "consciousness".

Bingo :)
> just as they would on an Intel processor with its identical cores.

Whilst its true that all intel macs have identical cores, the latest intel architecture also has Efficiency cores that are different from the performance cores.
Yes, I suspect it should be fine with dGPU and 1080p screen. I think in addition to the greater power draw, the compute needed to drive the 4k is just greater. In fairness I keep the dGPU active all the time as the Intel GPU produces significant UI lag under Linux at least.
Threads like these reminds me that HN is an overwhelmingly urban community with almost zero exposure to the agriculture sector
> help establish that 4 week vacations were "normal".

I (an European) always took this as granter yet considered it crazy people have as little as just a single month of vacation a year. It's been just recently I found out this isn't even the case in the USA where people normally have just 2 weeks. This scared the heck out of me. Why even live at all if all you have to live is 2 weeks a year and you have to sell the remaining 50 weeks of your life time yearly? I would rather commit suicide.
Gerbil Scheme, a meta-dialect of Scheme with post-modern features
Get back to us with real numbers for non-farm use of water and you may have an argument. Although the urban population numbers have been achieved by water conservation measures that are so strict parts of the SF sewer system stopped working because they assumed a certain minimum flow of water with the waste, none of this is cost free.

That other parts of California's economy have gotten really big, high tech rather obviously for the HN crowd, doesn't mean its agriculture sector has become less important for the US and the world. Something we're going to become generally well acquainted with as fertilizer price rises due to unrelated political polices decease yields all over the place.

If they've indeed moved towards more water intensive crops, that doesn't change the terms of the original compact made with them and the urbanites that allowed these water systems to be built in the first place. If the rule of law still means something, as noted elsewhere taking their water rights away will not be cheap as it's a "taking" as used in the Bill of Rights, and our diets are going to change as these "more water intensive crops" are no longer available or at their usual prices.
Have you used it without the dock? Because my experience with daily driving Linux at work for 10+ years with Thinkpads has been the complete opposite, with the exception of NVidia's driver garbage (which is just a problem with NVidia generally).

My current work system is a P53 that has an Nvidia GPU though and it's been working very very well for me through updates and the like via dkms.

The only other problem on that list I've encountered was within the first month or so after buying my T14s suspend support was a problem.

A bad dock can introduce a lot of problems.
Do some american Apple fanboys don't realize that EU has laws and if you are in EU and do bussiness in EU you have no choice then respect the laws? Apple has the fucking freedom to not sell shit in EU,

TL:DR you can sell food products in EU with shit in it because is your product and you are free to put shit in it, you have to respect EU laws related to food products (hope is dumbed down enough for some fanboys to understand)

BTW Apple has paid lawyers, they will release a statement surely with a slightly better defence then this shit, so let those paid guys do their job.
The EU realises that they are a conglomerate of sovereign nations, and that private corporations' business interests do not override their democratic mandate.
Everywhere in the EU. It's not like ADHD can be diagnosed with a blood test, so you are asked questions from a standardized survey and you get a script if you answer "yes" enough times.
> So maybe over regulated?

Doesn't look like FB, Google, MSFT or Apple are anywhere close to exiting the EU market because of regulations so ... maybe not?
Pasture, that is harvested for straw/hay to feed to cattle, still gets fertilized usually at a minimum with added nitrogen. That nitrogen could be better used in other fields growing crops specifically for humans, never mind the negative implications of the runoff that causes damage elsewhere.
With such issues, don't expect Ubuntu to fix it while staying at the same kernel version. Instead, either try their HWE-stacks or upgrade to the intermediate non-LTS releases.

Fedora, for example, will always use the latest upstream kernel while keeping the rest of the packages reasonably stable. Usually, this plays nicer with new hardware.
Isn't the exploit only for the malware drop? The malware itself can then be analyzed even if tje exploit cant.
In Billy Baker's book "We Need To Hang Out", which is about trying to fix his lack of social connection as a middle-aged guy, he eventually realizes (spoilers!) that he should stop trying to reconnect with his college friends who are now widely scattered and instead focus on building new connections with the men around him -- that guy at Pilates who seems friendly, or a father of one of his kids' classmates. It's fun to revisit the college friends again, but they just can't be around for the week-to-week.
> Why would that be the EU's job?

Reducing electronic waste is a key issue that the EU will need to tackle rather sooner than later. At the moment, Windows 11 won't run on old computers without TPM 2.0, which will render all PCs without one to either electronic waste or a constant security threat despite that the machines could otherwise run Linux perfectly fine - but no one outside of a bunch of nerds will run Linux on them because the software state of desktop Linux is just abysmal compared to the well-polished offerings of Apple and Microsoft.

Additionally, right now almost all economic and public activity depends on Microsoft to an unhealthy degree. We couldn't even get Microsoft to supply GDPR-compliant versions of MS Teams for schools during the pandemic, it's extremely hard to disable telemetry on anything Microsoft. Microsoft simply does whatever the fuck it wants and can get away with it, simply because there is no meaningful competition for anything they offer. And that dependency is extremely bad - just imagine the 45th coming back as the 47th in two years. The CoJ tore down two "agreements" for data transfer already because it cannot be assured that the US government does not steal our data (or worse, serve us malware) based on a secret NSL.

Europe needs independence, not just from Russia and China where it's long overdue, but also from the US.
I think most of the praise on Thinkpads comes from older versions, from IBM and the first Lenovos. I have an X220, and even though it's quite outdated hardware for today's world, it is still a very capable machine.

The most recent laptops are very good, but their support of linux is lacking compared with the older ones. As a rule of thumb, I try to find the model page in arch wiki before any purchase, it should list most of the common problems and how to fix them (if they are fixable at all, your X1-Extreme page for example[1]).

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Extreme
Having spent way too much time down this rabbit hole, here's an opinion I synthesized from those way smarter than me.

If Russia fully mobilizes (ie, declares this a war, calls up reserves, etc) AND the west slows their support, Russia can win.

Ukraine has the people and the will to win, but without heavy weapons, ammo, the training to use western weapons and logistical support that's not enough. Right now Biden is trying to pass a $33B support bill. But Congress is playing their stupid politics and if it doesn't pass the alliance will probably fracture and Ukraine will also likely lose support from other Western nations.

Russia is currently manpower & materiel constrained. They can fix the former by fully mobilizing. The latter is harder to fix, but they have destroyed Ukraine's production. So they if Ukraine is cut off from Western arms shipments....

But even after winning Russia still has the problem of occupying Ukraine. It's not clear that's possible with flattening the country.
I had success with donefirst.com
We stayed in touch with our college friends for about a decade after college, but we all live in different parts of the country and eventually fell out of contact. One difference might be that we graduated before social media existed and none of us has adopted any sort of social media since (though, for all I know the submitter of this article might be one of my college friends - how would I know? This is the main reason why I don’t consider sites like Hacker News and Reddit to be social media. Everyone is anonymous.)

However, I have met lots of friends in the state I have lived in for the past 2+ decades. We go camping, play board games, do bbqs, go to movies, etc. together. So… I don’t know what the submitter is talking about.
A lot of reasons to profile this if you want to advertise battery life. Internally it let's you collect metrics on apps threatening your battery life promises and externally it gives the consumers the ability to accurately blame apps when they get lower than expected battery life. For example they can notice that safari uses less power than chrome or that final cut uses way more power than they expected, etc etc
Israel demands apology after Russia says Hitler had Jewish roots
Anecdotally, I'm running a T14 as my personal system and I've never encountered any of these issues, so I suspect some of this is model-dependent.
They wouldn’t need to guess. CPUs measure their own current consumption and demand specific voltage levels from their regulators. They know the instantaneous power consumption to at least three significant digits.
Yeah. At tech companies and tech conferences, you get a pretty distorted view of the sorts of computers most people are using. Especially taking into account the fact that you probably also see a disproportionate number of people running Linux on Thinkpads in a lot of places, one might assume that Windows is barely used by looking at laptops at the typical event I attend.
I’ll second you on the grub stuff, and the nvidia stuff.

I wish I could switch to an intel gpu. I’ve considered buying a thunderbolt dock just so I can not use nvidia when at home.
Not the OP, but the usage of à in the sentence is typical for french, where it means 'at'
I was similar, not that I wasn't invited, but I couldn't handle something where the point was entirely social. I wanted a game where I could know if I was good or not (and preferably be better than other people.) It also drove me crazy that we were playing a high fantasy game where we were fantasizing about having all kinds of great powers and doing amazing things but nobody was doing anything cool outside the game. Not that I was doing any better; I just liked to hate myself for it. I probably could have made some friends if I had gone back.
> When choosing a distributed database you are in a way already by definition giving up a chunk of of the C, Consistency.

Er, I don't think that's right. Distributed systems (even those running in asynchronous networks) can and often do satisfy linearizability. Gilbert & Lynch's proof of the CAP theorem just says that if you do choose linearizability (C) in an asynchronous network (P), you can't also guarantee total availabilility (A)--under some network faults, some operations may not complete. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/731-sp04/readings/GL-cap.p...
I would love to see EU companies like apple, fb, google and so on. Instead what I see is that the EU is just trying to regulate them, without having at least one champion in the same league. So maybe the laws are the reason that the EU is so far behind.
Street View offers an opportunity to sneak peek inside one of these buildings, due to a truck offloading some equipment from inside: https://goo.gl/maps/BtPKn5RMdRiEv5n6A
Fast-acting enzyme breaks down plastics in as little as 24 hours
Yeah Fedora is my go-to for anything business related because of this. In my experience it's the best mix of platform stability while still getting the good stuff that gets added to the kernel on a regular basis.
Until all of fossil fuel demand is displaced, solar will not be cheap enough for desalination. After that point, it will be reasonable, but we are years away from that. We should make farmers not hosting dual-use solar on their fields subsidize farmers who do.

(Dual-use generates power, and also increased ag yield, reduced water loss, and more PV efficiency.)
More accurate: of all the animals tested for this, honeybees and humans seem to be ...
Behind on tech companies, or forward in consumer rights?
That makes much more sense, I wish they had stuck with that.
> Have American citizens ever tried to "check their privileges" and imagine how a life of a "visa-slave" changes after crossing the American border? I can give you some hints into my "living experience" of such a crossing.

Why should they? Why should they care about you coming in and dumping their wages?

I am not American but EU and it is similar here.
they should fear political use of the dollar first, oh wait...
>The coming years will be fun

I wouldn't call the impending cognitive dissonance "fun" unless one likes being a spectator of ideologically driven mental gymnastics.

We've done weird stuff to low levels of our economies. That's gonna have marginal consequences across the board. And a little bit across the board adds up to a lot of hardship.
Real life despots and fanatics are usually quite a bit crazier and less coherent than Thanos. As usual you have to tone it down to make it believable in fiction. A realistic depiction of a genocidal fanatic would be too stupid or insane to be believable.

See: Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, ISIS, Kim Jong Un, and numerous other examples.

If they were rational they would not be despots and fanatics. Unfortunately charismatic lunatics command followings. Charisma bypasses the rational mind and shoots straight into the limbic system (as do fear, outrage, etc).

Cult leaders are good cases too: L. Ron Hubbard, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Keith Raniere, etc. These people would be as bad as the worst despots if they actually had power over more than a few people.

Thanos' line is more rational than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
> "We knew climate change would stress our water supplies and we've been preparing for it but we did not know it would happen this fast," said Gloria Gray, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors.

Seems a little disingenuous
Not surprised your ThinkBook is beating the M1 MacBook since you crippled the Mac with 8GB of RAM.
It is notable that the linked article [1] is critical of those that don't understand these concepts, then goes on to misunderstand some of the concepts.

[1] https://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/
Didn't China predict they'll have their lowest crops yields in modern history ?

I can't find the article I remember reading but here is one: https://www.reuters.com/business/china-ensure-agricultural-p... and another: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/climate-c...

Looks like everything is aligning for a pretty bad 2022 and 2023
The vast bulk of Windows laptops that go out the door go to companies that want them to be as boring as possible. This is probably the primary reason Linux desktops never made mainstream headway. Pretty much anything that increases support costs is largely a non-starter.
I mean... I am Russian-Ukrainian. I'm more or less aware.

I doubt there is a way for Russia to win here in any meaningful way. Russia already lost too much armor without gaining anything but a land route to Crimea (which it needs to secure somehow).

Russia does not have any modern tech of its own production and population that is not a supportive as the government would like. Even now real support is not as widespread but it will only get worse with economy going south. People are cheering while they still feel safe and relatively comfortable.

I highly doubt Russia can do much without WMD here. And using WMD's will be a loss anyway.
What does this sort of thing mean? If the US had adequate food safety reporting, would this sort of thing even exist? I think not. So I make two hypotheses:

1. US states don't put enough resources into food safety.

2. The entire food safety apparatus is a victim of regulatory capture.

These aren't mutually exclusive.
It is fascinating that we have recessions, food crises etc. all because NATO wanted to expand and Donbass cannot be allowed to be independent.

While we are at it, should we liberate Northern Ireland? What exactly is the difference, except that in the case of Northern Ireland less than 50% wants to be British and in Donbass more than 50% wants to be Russian.
I cannot confirm any of this, and I am a complete noob regarding Linux. I don't have a 4k screen, and the Intel GPU is deactivated since day one anyway, so I can't say anything about using both GPUs in parallel. Sleep and power saving works just fine, firmware updates work without interference from my side. I use Nvidia proprietary drivers. Thunderbolt and external screens work without trouble. And battery life is good, maybe a little worse then under Windows, but that rather feels like minutes and not hours. Max I get out is just a little over 4 hours of Civ VI. Leaving it in sleep depletes the battery in the course of 3 days, more or less.
Drought has always been part of the American west. The distinction here is the frequency & intensity of # of drought days. Those are increasing due to us pumping GHG into our atmosphere.

The ecosystem in the west has adapted to drought, but they never adapted for a sudden increase in drought in only a few decades (not long enough for evolution to create useful adaptations on a large scale to speciate) + a competing species reducing total avail land and taking up water supply.
Thanks! I was able to update the link title to make it clearer. Good catch.
> (3) And im willing to pay for it.

If the true externalities of your consumption are not priced into the product then you're not really paying for it.

As a general rule this is the problem with our entire lifestyle. Very few people will deny that we do not life a sustainable life style, and yet almost none consider what this means.

The definition of unsustainable is that you are consuming beyond your ability to pay. If all the true future costs of our industrial life were factored into the products we consume, we could not afford any of them.
Grass fed vs grain fed are two different things. If a cow is at pasture it is generally not eating any crops grown elsewhere, that's the point of the pasture they eat the grass that grows on it. I agree with the argument against feeding cattle a diet solely consisting of grain, this is usually done on a feed lot and it's not good for them or the environment. I'm ok with grain finished with a mixed diet since the animal will spend most of its life at pasture. Cattle do require food during the winter so hay and silage must be made for them but these are made from grasses and vetches that can grow on more marginal land than grain crops and they won't deplete the soil as much especially if they are fertilized using the manure from the cattle. So if you are going to make an argument it should be against purely grain fed cattle, you would actually find some traction among ranchers this way as well.
> A bad dock can introduce a lot of problems.

That's why I bought the $400 official Lenovo dock.

Unfortunately, I can't do my daily work without the dock. (at least not without having to introduce numerous dongles and USB hubs, which may cause more issues)
> Offsets are committed in the next poll() invocation.

I'm a little surprised by this--not that you're necessarily wrong, but our tests consumed messages synchronously, and IIRC (pardon, it's been 3 months since I was working on Redpanda full time and my time to go get a repro case is a bit limited) did see lost messages with the default autocommit behavior. At some point I'll have to go dig into this again.
I liked the article a lot.

I prefer the term retryable to idempotent. If there's a failure in the first call, to be truly idempotent it should fail on the second.

Retryable on the other hand is easier to argue about. Important thing is not the response but the end state of the system.
Will likely happen in our lifetime. I'm positive of it. not a damn thing we can do either. If it doesn't rain, no 'genome edited drought resistance' will matter. Crops need water period (be nice if they needed _less_ water though)
> So the enthusiasm seems to be for the genuine technical and community merits.

Or just fun. People also play and create free games on the Internet.
You can use the NFC chip, just dissemble your phone and remove it and create your own circuit board to use it. Who is stopping you?
Oh, you want to use it on iOS? Well that’s an entirely new complaint…

Imagine if an user of a Visa credit card must be allowed to use the same magnetic stripe on the Mastercard network. Do you support that? How is Apple doing anything different?