skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching my 60 y/o mom from Windows laptops to a Macbook reduced the amount of family IT support I do by about 75%. She still struggles with some stuff, but more on the level of how to do things than issues with the machine itself.
Really? That's new. Mind you, I have basically all but stopped using Asus the moment they started catering their brand towards 'gamers' on reddit.
They (most likely they) already cut Norway cables to Svalbard last year. Also, see the history of this vessel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_research_vessel_Yantar
Shetland also got their Internet cable cut. The entire population offline for a few days. Hopefully due to accident and not sabotage.
> In this case, other countries ( and respective factors mentioned by parent including corruption ) must be compared in order to draw a conclusion as to whether that statement is even true.

I disagree. Mentioning other countries is only relevant as a comparison, but the statement itself is standalone as far as determining whether it's true or not. Sure, we can argue about the degrees of corruption, and some of the subjective claims in my statement such as "deeply" and "any", but I think anyone would be hard pressed to argue that these issues are _not_ true.

> Tell me how China is that much more unique than say.. Russia

Like I said, the combination of these factors is unique to China. By comparison, Russia is not experiencing the economic growth that China has seen in recent decades, and is not set to become the next biggest superpower. Its culture is also far less xenophobic, and there's more regard for the environment and human life.

Again, we can argue about the subjectiveness of "more" or "less" here, link to articles and studies that "prove" each side, but since the topic isn't about Russia, mentioning other countries simply muddles the discussion. This is a common tactic used by Chinese apologists, and is hardly ever productive, but serves their goal of taking the focus away from China, and minimizing the issues that should be discussed.
Yup. I remember it wasn't long ago that people would work in the Valley and live in SF. They were willing to commute 2-3hr each day on corporate shuttles just to live in SF.

The quality of life in the city has really taken a hit.
When those attempts are guaranteed to always fail because your server is properly secured, there's no reason to even care that they're happening.
Many much moosen

https://youtu.be/CafPNEWnDhk
https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/biden-vows-us-will-end-nord-st...
Saw one of these codes on Kelloggs cereals in italy. Have never seen them before and wanted to know the technical details behind them, but couldn't find anything further than this page.

Also the generation [0] seems to be only for organizations, schools and Museums [1].

[0] https://order.navilens.com/
[1] https://museos.navilens.com/index-en.html
I use Fujitsu since a long time at home (3 notebooks, 1 workstation). I think Fujitsu has almost none bloatware. For me the reason, why I buy this (a bit expensive) brand .. and Linux does work mostly well too.
Yes; your laptop should have the Windows license embedded in firmware. If it came with one, that is. You can download the Windows installer directly from MS.

Installing all the drivers needed is on you. They might or might not be downloaded from Windows Update.
> I admit I miss the days when I could have spent weeks working on a project without being interrupted by daily "agile" meetings.

I think if there's no team you need to talk to very often and you're working in a pretty static environment then you should be fine. It's just that a lot of those nice problems are harder to come by these days.
Then I just stop visiting the sites that use it, while everyone else will just continue to do so while bitching about not liking it.

It's really simple: You either use sites with DRM and thereby accept it, or you don't. There's no point in crying about how browsers shouldn't even give you the choice.
In the good old days (XP and before) one would get either media or a tool to create CDs with the machine... The key was stickered at the bottom.

I switched to Linux also for work laptop sometime after that so I wouldn't know when that stopped.
There's probably a point in life at which the relative importance of those concerns changes for you.
Yes, because the Russian narrative makes so much sense...
But they use Blockchain which in turn makes it useful, do I really need to spell this out.
Denver spent $4.1M to get more people on e-bikes. It worked
Sanctions. Not sure on what exactly, but could be for example on the compressor turbines.

North America (US and Canada) is a powerhouse in hydrocarbon technology. A lot of the fields in Russia are running Schlumberger technology. We'll see how that goes forward in the sanctions world, will probably end up nationalized/stolen like the various Boeings and Airbuses from European leasing companies.
https://freemyip.com/ is a good tool when on residential network with no static ip from ISP.
Also note that "species are evolving to adapt to XYZ" really means "everything that can't deal with XYZ is dying". If the ecosystem just doesn't have any species that can deal with XYZ, then that part of the ecosystem just dies.
He meant terminating the deal obviously. It's the idea that the president pre announces sabotage operations that's ridiculous.
Which was precisely the author's point.
If you had read the whole post, you would know it does say "allowed".

As for the rest: yes, great, people who do [thing I don't like] are scoundrels. A slow clap for you.
Even human-written content has become so bad it's sometimes hard to tell it apart from a Mark V. Shaney or Racter implementation. I mean, aren't our brains' language capabilites not just Markov chains on steroids, with billions and billions of inputs and weights? Why are we still using text-based content-generation algorithms? Can't we train some kind of AI to generate "good" fiction content? Like, for example, this:
"Oh," said Lucy, peeping into the parlour, "is that our old friend, the fairy?"
"Yes," said Mr. Bennet, looking up from his newspaper, "my sister has been entertaining you in the best way she can."
"She has been telling me," said Mrs. Bennet, with a solemn laugh, "all about her doll's tea-party. I wish I had been there."
"My dear," replied her husband, "I am certain that it has been her greatest enjoyment. And the little girl really seems to have had a very good time of it."
"Not more so, I am afraid, than the other ladies. _They_ had none of the advantages of hearing the charming story.
The threat is there, sure, but they have to understand that escalation like this will and has to lead to escalation from the West, otherwise we are showing Russia can do what it likes without costs. Or we can just appease them and watch them try to destroy our way of life anyway.
It's probably not a problem, nice thing is that the existing kernel sources will stay available, so even if special systems need to run on 486, they can always build kernels.

There's probably no intersection where 486 legacy systems are going to be in need of kernel features that are not already implemented.

In that unlikely event, it may still be possible to backport said feature to the last 486 compatible kernel.
Fun seeing that people were doing monte carlo integration for 2d lighting back in the 90s :) I assume this wasn't GPU accelerated at all at that point?

I did realtime 2D lighting with per pixel sprite normals and stuff like that, but I never got to the point of doing GI bounces - sophisticated direct lighting and shadows were already demanding enough without the use of programmable shader units. https://vimeo.com/1514095
Being slow and crap is basically what consumers expect in a windows laptop. Which is why they largely moved to mobile or a work provided laptop without the crap ware.
I use Windows 11 on an Intel 10th generation NUC and it is very fast. It came from Novatech in the UK.

My last computer was a 32 core 128gb RAM Threadripper from ChillBlast.

Surprisingly the Threadripper had a slower single core performance than the Intel NUC.

I also use a Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox with Vagrant for development machines to do DevOps.

But I also use IntelliJ and it is fast enough on the NUC and it's SSD and 32GB RAM. I don't play games. But I write multithreaded software so I get 12 logical cores to play with. (6 physical cored and 12 hardware threads)

I think the innovators dilemma has occurred with mobile technology. Mobile chips such as my NUC and ARM chips in phones are good enough for development. (See apple silicon) I can run 6 virtual machines without slowdown.

Admittedly my IntelliJ is running on a small repository. I suspect it I was working on an employer's project it would slow down due to all the files.

Most of the time the computer is waiting for IO and the CPU can be different levels of idle. I recommend the Gist "latency numbers every developer should know"

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

I would recommend people buy from manufacturers that don't preload stuff into their laptops. Such as Framework, System76, ChillBlast, Novatech.

EDIT: I had an ASUS but I installed Ubuntu on it and I cannot remember if the windows had lots of manufacturer software on it. I rarely booted into windows.
Well, see, that’s just it: once they become fungible then the value inevitably follows.
I dont get why people keep trying to make SRV happen.

It seems like an extra layer of indirection that doesn't solve any real problems and just adds complication.

Edit: i guess up until recently where ECH provided more of a rationale.
And here I had just read the parent comments as sarcastic. Ugh.
My mum (in her 70s) switched to a MacBook Pro and while it increased the family IT support for me in the short term as the Mac "expert" among us, once she'd figured out her way around, I've not had a single help request in about 5 years now.
Not just Biden.

Nuland and at least one more offical made threats back in January/February itself. I think it was Blinken.

Not a very clever thing to do.
I see this indeed, it is why some older people move almost entirely to an (entry level) iPad and are quite happy. The Windows laptop is something of a necessary evil to them, they use it from time to time but hate it (fear of virusses, nag ware, because they use it very little they always need to spend time updating, confusion because of Windows-S).
Ah, I had played around with this the first time the story came out:

$ curl -s https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq2sPGNU0AEKyyC.jpg | dd status=none bs=1 skip=599 count=40| sh
> "How often does the trackpad REALLY need a firmware update?"

Never. Literally had broken trackpad drivers on Lenovo for years. They were aware of the issue, it was "normal" on the model I had. This was around 2013.

I will never ever again recommend anything from Lenovo. Trackpad was a minor issue compared to other problems that I had with that same laptop.
I always wonder if the VPs and higherups at companies like Lenovo actually try to use the shit they're shoveling.
The state and result of observation depends on the method of interaction, i.e. hamiltonian. In principle it's possible to observe the cat in a mixed state, we just don't use interaction that gives that result.
That's an idea I hold close for many years now.

I remember finding this: https://www.deviantart.com/greenhybrid/art/2d-Whitted-Style-... when searching for "2d path tracer".

I did a very simplistic foray in the subject: https://github.com/hadrianw/2d-pathtracer

I still hope for a full fledged 2d game with global illumination.
True. But there a lot of "can't be bothered to" going on here. And just burning it for energy (in a ~clean, modern facility) seems a lot better than having old plastic crap everywhere across the landscape, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Yes, sorry - 25000 words, too late to edit my comment. But it sounds like miserable work, writing on something you are an expert in, or are interested it sounds like a great way to improve your skills and make a bit of money. But researching, writing, and editing content on a made up topic for some charlatan book publishers sounds aweful.
I have an idea I want to pass by you, since you seem to understand the importance of this better than some others. (At least as far as my under educated opinion on network security goes) (I'm a hobbyist, self taught most things.)

So lets say you are going to be running a home server to be setup as a read only server to the outside world, but write capable through a separate port connected only to a laptop that has no internet access (or very restricted) which also has the nicety of being so obsolete it doesn't have IME or any other intel idiocy backdoors attached to it.

Would you still put a hardware firewall between each of these connections? And if so, would you also run it through a VPN on the read side of the server?

I personally don't trust VPN's, since I see them as middlemen you pay to pretend they don't keep logs of anything. Of course there is always the whole argument of 'not having anything to hide, so no worries'; but I see it as false, since the whole point of using a VPN is to hide your bits from attackers and snoops. Even if it's legitimate/legal data.

So, what would you do to avoid using a VPN, provided you can't own the VPN instance somehow somewhere due to being a bit of a cheapskate? Would some basic OpenWRT firewalled routers be enough for your purposes (and thus mine possibly) or would you go with some more complex setup where a person has to trust yet another company to not be trying to hijack data somehow?

Server intended:

Opteron build, DDR3 tech. 6 cores, hyperthreading (if any) disabled. All forms of speculation turned off. All that jazz.

1 nic port is to be setup to be downloaded data only, no upload allowed.

Other nic port is access point for SSH via old laptop setup for security purposes.

Everything running on linux, as much as possible. No windows allowed.
And to make matters worse, AI is coming for us. Specifically for our creativity, soon destroying any sense of remaining human meaning.

And we're on the verge of a AR/VR breakthrough, probably making the screen time issue even worse.
Ah, the old "split people into groups and then stoke resentment and animosity between them" trick. Where have I seen that before?
I would interpret it in the sense that there's no such thing as cheap plastic. We've been riding on this wave of ubiquitous cheap plastic because it's cheap to produce, but getting rid of it in an environmentally responsible fashion is where's the bulk of the "price" goes.

I'd say, bite the bullet and add the recycling costs to the production costs. Pay it upfront. If unsure, make it even more expensive.
KNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval
It's the same thing. Ghost writers are using GPT-3 (know this for a fact).
https://archive.ph/qVWco
Very nice interface. Here to just say good jobyyy!!!

Also, thanks to the people that have added references to more advanced resources.
Touché. Living in Berlin during the post Covid phase is a life saver.
These guys are doing a better job of it than most governments[0]. It's amazing the variety of items these guys are able to create out of used plastic bottles.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrothersMake/videos
This reminds me of yesterday's article "We used to get excited about technology. What happened?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33308249

To which I replied "It's the lack of control."

Sounds like I'm not the only one growing old who is feeling tired about having to treat every new hardware device as an adversary.
But this is how you get those dirt cheap laptops isn't it? Likewise for super cheap huge TVs.

I've long believed that most computers sold cheap as consumer devices simply aren't fit for purpose, sure, most people here could take one and make the changes required to remove bloat and spyware, but it's out of the reach of a typical consumer
This is another example of "Navernoye, seno vkusno pakhlo" -- a flippant remark about danger, the final sentence of the autobiography/memoir that Putin published in 2000, to introduce himself to Russia, and the world. He was trying to establish a reputation as a man who could be wild and unpredictable, therefore you would never want to play a game of chicken with him, because you could not be sure how far he would take it.

This is from the well-regarded Fiona Hill / Clark Gifford book:

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In fact, the Putin book turns out to be the only source for this story, something that ought to have set off alarm bells. Ot pervogo litsa was intended to be a campaign biography, or “semi–autobiography.” The publication of the book was orchestrated by Putin’s staff in the spring of 2000 based on a series of one–on–one interviews with a carefully selected troika of Russian journalists. Putin’s team’s task was to stage–manage the initial presentation, to all of Russia, of this relatively unknown person who was now standing for election as president of the country. It was crafted as a set of conversations with Putin himself, his wife, and other people close to him in his childhood and early life. Every vignette, every new fact presented in the book was chosen for a specific political purpose. The journalists who interviewed Putin also used some of the material for articles in their own newspapers and other publications.

What, then, could Putin’s purpose have been in revealing such a character flaw? The answer becomes evident when one reflects on the curious ending of the book. Ot pervogo litsa ends with the interviewers noting that Putin seems, after all the episodes in his life that they have gone through, to be a predictable and rather boring person. Had he never done anything on a whim perhaps? Putin responded by recounting an incident when he risked his own life and that of his passenger, his martial arts coach, while driving on a road outside Leningrad (in fact when he was at university). He tried to grab a piece of hay through his open car window from a passing truck and very nearly lost control of the car. At the end of the harrowing ride, his white–faced (and presumably furious) coach turned to Putin and said, “You take risks.” Why did Putin do that? “I guess I thought the hay smelled good” (Navernoye, seno vkusno pakhlo), said Putin. This is the last line in the book. The reader clearly is meant to identify with Putin’s coach and ask: “Wait! What was that all about? Just who is this guy?”

See more here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/mr-putin-operative-in-the-k...
If you have to run more fibre, there is no point. Because the main cost of running fibre is the work, not the material. And it's so thin you can run as many as you want.

So, if you're going to run new fibre anyway, just run 10x as much as you need. In fact this is pretty standard procedure with most telcos.

Not sure about the polarisation by the way, when I was working with this it was not yet a thing but it's decades ago.
They are already paying the price: hydrocarbons are mostly gone as a source of income; besides they cannot even spend that income due to sanctions. And yet they continue the "hybrid war". I'm on your side, but I'm also realistic.
The EU ban on single-use plastics is insane
This continually grinds my gears.

We can't have plastic straws, yet, serving my milkshake is served (with the fundamentally broken paper straw) in a clear plastic cup, which could easily have been a paper cup.

I can't have a thin (sub grams of material) plastic bag for my greasy takeout to protect my car seat, so I have to buy the "reusable" plastic bag (multiple 10s of grams of material) only to throw it in the trash the minute I get inside.

My country does a great job collecting plastics, only to ship them off to be dumped in the ocean by third-world countries.

Grass trimming string was not banned.. How insane is it that I cannot use and then properly dispose of a straw, but it's entirely fine for me to literally grind hundreds of meters of plastic into microscopic particles and release them into the environment, no questions asked?
I struggled for a couple of hours with a similar problem on a Lenovo and finally gave up, wiped the drive and installed Linux Mint.

The user was a little hesitant to use Firefox, quickly adapted and I've not had any calls for help since.
They do it because employers are too averse to increase salaries, and job hopping is sometimes the only way to get raises.

It is a game of perverse incentives.
Terminating a deal he wasn’t a part of?
Did I hear anyone say "Desert Bus"?
> finding stable employment that pays well and reliably is an important goal to have

This is just your opinion and temperament.
oh right, that's a good point. getting older, having a family and wanting to settle down is a good explanation for wanting a stable job after years of work on short term projects.
Great comment! Another trend from then 80s at least was to start out in SF and then move to Silicon Valley when you became a couple (the commute became a killer). In fact that was us (well SV->SF->SV). I learnt about this from a single friend who moved to Palo Alto and realized he couldn’t date any more — all the single guys were up in the city.

SF doesn’t have great kid infrastructure any more so I imagine this will continue, though spread more to the east bay as well as the peninsula is pretty crowded.
Suzerains gonna suzerain.
You can install windows 10 for free and leave it like that forever if you can deal with the watermark and non-restrictions like not changing the wallpaper.
Thank you for the work! It has been amazing using dokku.
It's sort of like the spelling and grammar mistakes in spam mail.
This is true even when installing a fresh copy of Windows. Microsoft have made some deals to include a lot of apps that gives you nothing. Zero. Well, unless you for some reason need candy crush on your laptop. If that's your thing, sure, enjoy. For the rest of us; please just give us the minimum.

Pre-installed Office package just in case we will buy a license in the future?
Ah, that explains a lot.
> not even the one- or two-star Amazon reviews caught the garbled nonsense

You treat Amazon reviews as credible information?

Wow!
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During the pandemic I used what I had to hand, I chucked Fedora on a Vostro 3750 (which was my old dev laptop years ago so had an SSD and 16GB of RAM) and the thing was perfectly acceptable for all his schooling, youtube stuff, since that model was a 17" battleship desktop replacement it was perfect for him with an external keyboard and mouse .
The administration had previously waived some recommended sanctions on Nord Stream 2. Presumably they'd enact new sanctions that would make it impossible to operate the pipeline.
Off the top of my head:

- Understand the event loop to avoid blocking

- Understand the JIT compiler to write compiler optimization-friendly code

- With Typescript: speed up build and dev times using the SWC compiler, understand which types take more compilation time

- Minimize heap allocations to avoid memory leaks: https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/09/28/minimize-heap-allocati...

- Write native modules when you need CPU intensive operations (the official doc is quite good: https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html)

- Take care of node_modules (e.g. https://mainmatter.com/blog/2022/09/29/pnpm/)

- With Docker: optimize docker image to only include what you need. E.g. use Alpine if you don't have any particular external dependencies
last time i read, lower volume was offset by higher prices and russia stood to increase both their export earnings and their domestic stockpile
Since it’s always the same comment it is easily compressible and should just be automatically generated and included as part of the pre roll ad. Then it could even be localized for the viewer!