skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love your comment. I can only imagine how thrilling it would have been in the early days to see order of magnitude improvements in generalised single threaded computer performance every couple of years.

Today, as it happens with all fields that become more complex over time, excitement is found in more nuanced areas.

Hardware has become task specific and that makes it exciting to different niches for different reasons.

You mention the idea of thinking in cycles and that concept is quite appealing to me. I believe the lack of focus on squeezing performance is a symptom of the accessibility of modern application development combined with the fact that most commercial products wouldn't see a financial benefit to delivering computationally efficient applications.

I do wish modern applications were more efficient, but that's a fool's errand as I don't see companies like Spotify rewriting their desktop client in 5 or 6 different native UI kits. Vendors like Microsoft and Apple will never collaborate on a common UI specification outside of web standards, so we are forced to suffer through Electron apps. Heck, Microsoft can't even figure out what UI API it wants to offer for Windows.

That said, if you're interested in computer science, we are only just uncovering novel approaches on how languages can allow engineers the ability to ergonomically leverage parallel computation. We see this in languages like Rust and Go - both of which are not perfect but there are so many lessons being learned here.

To me, the software engineering and language design world is unbelievably thrilling right now.

I do think and wish that large companies who own the platforms would work together more to avoid this standards mishmash application developers must contend with in today's landscape as it would help facilitate greater accessibility to writing efficient cross platform client applications that aren't written using web technologies.
Lenovo Coil Whine – Is it fixable? Or is it a reason to stay away from Lenovo?
I recently bought a Lenovo X1 Carbon. It makes an annoying high pitched sound. At first I thought it would be the fans and it will go away when I configure the dynamic fan speed.

But it turns out it is "Coil Whine" and that is common among Lenovo laptops:

https://www.google.com/search?q=coil+whine+lenovo

I cannot find any info on how to get rid of it.

So I will try to return the laptop. If I can't return it (Already removed Windows and replaced it with Linux), it would be a 100% wasted investment.

Since I otherwise liked it, I wonder what replacement to buy.

Are any Lenovo models safe from Coil Whine?
I think banks that do support SMS in addition to TOTP are also fine. Still, those are pretty rare as well.

Wondering if there's a similar list for European banks.

UPD: there's link to https://2fa.directory/int/#banking on the U.S. page
Windows 11 seems a bit better on this front than 10. I don't use either very often (mostly for gaming and sometimes at work) but I have yet to see the active window having the same color as a background one, or even be unable to tell where one window stops and the other begins.
Can be rephrased as, all cars will require a heavy, difficult-to-produce, difficult-to-recycle battery that needs a huge reliable supply chain to make it happen, and cities that can withstand the load of charging hundreds of thousands of cars in the evening. Europe doesn't even have the money to do those things so i will dismiss this as the same kind of populism that brought germany to the brink of recession.
I'm pretty sure the people leaving Twitter right now are in favor of censorship.
Someone has already done it for you: https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates...

For RPI4, firmware update is requried to improve rpi performance and decrease temps.
Cool. Can the GPU be attached to more than one VM at a time? I’m curious what the approach to sharing the GPU is.
I've seen a bunch of them around the UK (Side note: should the title be "EU", presumably it doesn't include the UK, which IS in Europe); I do wonder how we're ever going to get enough charging points to make all-electric a reality; From houses with no parking, to flats with no parking, car parks with no space to put the electric charge point, all this before we get to the problem that battery tech is a huge money sink.

I really want an electric vehicle, it ticks lots of boxes for me, but unlike an ICE vehicle that I can top up in seconds, and which are usually engineered with a decent amount of longevity, the battery in an electric vehicle is likely to be next to useless within 5 or so years of buying it; even if it's good enough for me, who would want to buy it when the advertised second-hand range is down to 50 miles per charge?

They seems like an utterly terrible investment to me, and at £50k+ (luxury car price bracket according to UK gov), it is an investment to me if I'm spending that much.
Apple seems to be latching onto the idea users need to run ML on their consumptive devices, as opposed the cloud, and I don’t believe it. I think you agree. Yet in my opinion, if anything they want the appearance of that necessity, as expressed in loss of efficiency and battery life for older devices to sell new ones.
Command-line data analytics
You're confused.

Expressing your opinion, even on twitter, is an act of (written, typed) speech.

Preventing someone from expressing themselves, when they have done no wrong, is an action.
Perhaps the belt-tightening going at the moment has made people realise how much money they're wasting on Kubernetes et al.
Windows has several high-contrast themes built-in (and in Win11 they are quite a bit more aesthetically pleasing than they used to be), you can actually even toggle between normal and high-contrast via a keyboard shortcut.
What a completely pointless and banal digression into divisive politics when nobody asked for it.
In addition to humans there are brands yearning for recognition
I don’t think there are many English nationalists - they left for UKIP ages ago.
That isn't so true anymore, given their focus on home directory management and killing all user processes on logout (desktop-focused and doesn't work well with tmux or ssh)
Freer circulation of information has caused a funding crisis for costly enterprises like investigative journalism,

but on the other hand, there /is/ a «freer circulation of information».

It now has to be managed - the scenario is more complex.
I have to agree; as a complete nerd, that would _love_ an electric vehicle for all of the good things about them, battery tech and all-touch interiors will keep putting me off getting one, probably until I'm forced to.
Worst case, you’ll end up either dying(Cirrhosis, pancreatitis, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.), or with wet brain.

I’m in my mid 30s, and have seen first hand people my age go down with those - and even more so for the older generation. My father passed at age 49, and every single one of his drinking buddies have also passed away.

Unless you’re “lucky” and keel over from a massive heart-attack or stroke, it is a miserable way to go.

My step-father, a vet with PTSD, has been sober for 2 years now. He was admitted with all the usual symptoms of impending liver failure - but luckily managed to stay sober. He’d drink maybe 6-10 tall boys a day, and had done so for 10 years straight.

The mental difference to us, the people that interact with him daily, is very apparent. He seems much quicker and sharper, is back to being articulate in his speech, doesn’t struggle with finding words, and the list goes on.

I’d put all my energy and focus on fixing the drinking problem. You may be physically ok now, but what about 5-10-15 years from now?

As I wrote earlier, I grew up with alcoholics - from all walks of life, all with their different drinking habits and preference - they rarely get old.
German speakers are giggling over the headline (kakapo means poopoo butt)
This is one of those "when you owe the bank $12.7B it's the bank's problem" situations. What happens if they fail to sell on the debt, will there be provisions to claw back the money from Musk or Twitter?
But what the fuck is an "Elite" anyway?
So, fatalistically accept that climate change is happening and we don’t have a choice?

Or stop driving cars altogether? (I like this plan most)
The agenda is not to make more people drive more eco-friendly, but make less people drive at all (and use either public transport where available, but only when absolutely necessary - or preferably stay at home). Providing access to charging infrastructure is diametral to that goal.

It's also why this scheme will fail and the next conservative wave will overturn this ruling.
Your use of the word "site" implies that Federated systems like Mastodon and Matrix can never fulfill their promise.

I think the last thing we want is another site owned and controlled by a for-profit company.
I remember when Firefox first came out and it was so much faster than Mozilla at the time. Not sure what happened.
LFSR's are mind blowing; the fact that you can generate a randomish sequence that covers an entire ^2 range visiting each number once, and only once, seems like a lucky piece of magic.

And in just a couple of lines, excuse my quickie untested code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

// 5-bit maximal LSFR taps to get pseudo-random sequence of 31 unique numbers in range 1-31
// 0x12, 0x14, 0x17, 0x1B, 0x1D, 0x1E, 0x18, 0x17
int main(int c, char **v) {

uint8_t taps = 0x17; // could be any of the taps above
uint8_t seed = 0x7; // start, could be 1-31
uint8_t lfsr = seed;

do {
printf("%d\n", lfsr);

lfsr = (lfsr & 1)
? (lfsr >> 1) ^ taps
: (lfsr >> 1);
} while ( lfsr != seed );

return 0;
}
An act of speech is an action.

Preventing someone from expressing themselves is an action.
It's one of those things that I'm thinking about every once in a while but never get round to doing it, also because it's not clear to me what the optimal solution would be. A relative has set it up with LastPass, there are a few email addresses that issue an access request access that has to be actively denied within a week or so before it is granted. Seems reasonable to me, except that I don't use LastPass.

But I think the more important thing than that would be to keep a file outlining what the things to look for are. You should also add in contact info for landlords, employers, attorneys, important contracts,... those sort of things. And to set up a testament.
I have a problem with this fundamental thinking of what "site" should replace it.

This is exactly why I'm an ActivityPub geek, because it's not one site, it's sites. It's many softwares and many sites. Now I'm not claiming it will replace twitter, or that it's easy to use for most people. I can say for a fact that it is not, I see twitter users come over confused all the time.

But regardless I think the concept of federation being available to any software like Wordpress or Nextcloud is truly something we should treasure. It might not replace twitter, but it might actually turn the entire internet into one big social media federation.

My mind keeps putting ActivityPub into the context of the late 90s and 2000s when I was registered on countless message boards. Imagine if all those message boards could inter-communicate using a common protocol. That's where ActivityPub could lead us.

The usability aspect can be worked on, it can be worked around. The gain in internet freedom is worth the effort.

Right now it's clearly aimed at slightly more adept users. But imagine if Joe Sixpack could login to the modern equivalent of AOL, post a message, and that message is federated across hundreds of softwares and hundreds and thousands of sites and eventually Joe gets a reply from someone halfway around the world using a completely different software. That is what I find magical.
"Certain [gender|sexual|racial|etc] identities are not valid" is a political opinion held by those to whom I am quite comfortable telling, as the official policy of SourceHut, to go fuck themselves.
It's a "comment" for Nature, not a journal article. They are basically the op-eds of the journal, along with "correspondence" and "column" pieces, as far as I understand - and very much not held to the same standards as the journal articles.
Members of the 9front dev-community have recommended the MNT Reform.
That’s a feature for me. I don’t want to have to sign into my browser or have it phoning home constantly. It’s a privacy risk.
Stop PCP payments first and then we will see how many can afford a car.
Climate change isn't nearly as big of an issue as the proposed solutions
You expected Red Hat to staff up an entire team of filesystem experts to support your loopback mounting case?
I've been lucky enough to have my phone number for the past decade and all of the services I use have already authenticated that number. When I moved to Europe earlier this year, I ported my number from BIG_NAME_CARRIER to Google Voice and so far everything has been fine.

That said, I'm still vigilant for alternative login options when I see them because I assume sooner than later, some company will audit all customer numbers on file and realize mine has changed from `mobile` to `voip` like mentioned in the article.

I think the only ones still tied to my number are a credit card and a neobank, but I could theoretically live without those.
Any irregularity or structural weakness in that wall could have killed him and drivers around him.
I'm not sure what an input router is, but the concept of mouse chording is absolutely an inherent property of Plan 9/9front and Acme. To the best of my knowledge you cannot mark, cut, copy or paste text at all using the keyboard. Copying is especially cumbersome and involves a three-button chord in conjunction with some precision pointing (first to mark the text, then to where you want it pasted).

I'm sure this could be implemented using keystrokes as well and the source code is of course available. However, I doubt such a change would be accepted upstream. You could say it's a central point in the "Plan 9 philosophy".

https://plan9.io/sys/doc/acme/acme.html
I think this and multi-story car parks are going to be the best solution; what's worse than streets lined with cars parked everywhere? Streets lined with parked cars with wires snaking to and from them.

The place I just moved to is already pedestrian-hostile, who needs it getting worse because we shoehorned electricity into our transport?

Don't get my wrong, I'm a big nerd, I want an electric car, but the way we're doing it doesn't seem right.
Amazing story of tragic absurdity.

"as an external consultant, I'm not allowed to know some of the
trade secrets in the documents. The internal side of the team needs
to handle the sensitive process information, and be careful about
how that information crosses boundaries when talking to the
external consultants. Unfortunately, the internal team doesn't know
what the secrets are, while I do. I even invented a few of them,
and have my name on some related patents. Nonetheless, I need to
smuggle these trade secrets back into the company, so that the
internal side can handle them. They just have to make sure they
don't accidentally repeat them back to me."
Try uploading a file in GNOME. The interface has no thumbnails. This has been an open issue for something like 18 years. Its not a problem in KDE.

More info:

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
Roughly what are TSMC's volume compared with Intel's on their leading logic nodes?
Hmm, at the moment, I don't see any one option taking over in that regard. Mastodon is probably the most likely option so far, since I've seen a few people I follow there creating accounts there, but it's not a huge wave of people and I'm not sure it'll work out in the long run. Stuff like Discord, TikTok and Facebook have been mentioned, but they're just so different from Twitter that I don't see any of them replacing it (or Facebook doing well in the future in general).

So I guess it's going to be a matter of seeing which of the Twitter esque replacement systems wins out eventually, whether it be Mastodon, Blue Sky or Nostr.
E-mail, although it has different clients, is still fundamentally the same thing — you send a message with a subject, body and attachments. However, it seems that social networks built on ActivityPub are fundamentally different — Mastodon is an imitation of Twitter, with short low-effort posts, Friendica is an imitation of Facebook, then there are ways to link blogs… So what I don't understand is, how does this all work together when the formats are completely different?
I think a chart of the job titles of the dead / disabled from COVID with numbers would be incredibly useful.

My niche has shot through the roof for demand salary and remote with no sign of turning back.

My only macro explanation is 20% left the gig totally.
It's actually the other way around: WebP images are about the same size as JPEG encoded with mozjpeg -- compression is no better. WebP does have advantages for images with transparency. Google effectively abandoned webp more than five years ago now and began work on webp2. But they've now abandoned that as well.

JXL, AVIF and HEIC use next-gen compressors and are about half the size of JPEG and WebP at the same quality. HEIC has a range of terrible patent problems, so the current choice is AVIF vs JXL.

AVIF has wider industry support and is likely to get hardware decode. JXL is technically more interesting and more flexible, and far better CPU encode/decode performance.
When I was first taught what GDP was at school we covered that it had limitations and biases, alongside other metrics that attempted to correct this.

Apparently my high school teacher should have written a nature paper, instead.
Translation: That sounds like you caused this problem for yourself by choosing debian stable.

emerald, compiz: fairly famous window managers/compositors everyone used to use, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

> how is this related to window borders

compiz is famous for including all sorts of fancy/over the top effects like windows going up in flames, so stuff like glowing window borders should be no problem at all.

By now compiz seems mostly unused, but many effects are also available in kwin.
For instance

system settings -> desktop behavior -> desktop effects -> dim inactive

Kinda the opposite of outlines, where it just dims everything else instead of highlighting one, but maybe it works for you?
Nothing needs to replace Twitter, but I do think now would be the perfect time for someone to launch a competing service whereas that would have been foolhardy a few months ago.

Nothing to do with the Musk takeover being seen as a negative or a positive, just perfect timing in the sense that there is suddenly a lot of attention being placed on Twitter right now.
I don't, really. Especially for things that matter. I think in abstractions, half-formed references, symbols, shapes. Words are cheap knockoffs of those made for mass consumption.
Maybe the sophons are doing their work. Seems like a fundamentals problem to me.
Well, this is why these mandates are made 13 years ahead of time - so infrastructure issues can be addressed and charging points built.

People didn't just throw up hands and sit in a corner when petrol stations weren't every 15km of their road and when there was no electric rail anywhere.
1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random.

2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with.

3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.
This is nostalgia, you're remembering things as better than they were. Back then there were so many bad UI in software http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm
I would call an unconditional jump inherently different from a conditional one, i.e. both if and goto are primitives.

Of course on some machines everything can be predicated and the line between an if and a goto is blurred.

Then there are indirect jumps...
Ecactly. It's the current day replacement for the oneliner soundbyte on television since that medium went out of style.
Firefox and webkit also have JXL support. Like Chrome, the FF version is behind a flag. The webkit one is a build-time option.
I don't think you should call this populism. After all, many consumers will be critical of the measure. In fact it's the opposite - a progressive policy.

And of course all the points you are listing as weaknesses completely ignore the existing negative externalities (such as health impacts from emissions, tire wear and noise, economic dependence, and of course the long-term impact on the environment). So even if your pessimistic takes are correct, we need to compare them to the alternatives to get a sober judgement.
In every form of racing this guy would be called a cheater, but NASCAR is different. NASCAR isn't about the racing, it's about entertainment.
Gran Turismo has cartoon physics (or at least the first 4 or 5 did) not the best one to translate from.

That said, you probably won't roll a Corolla (low center of mass and relatively low grip tires) without hitting something like a curb or a surface change. You are more likely to just uncontrollably drive in to an obstacle.
The story is pretty unusual, I don't want to dox anyone by giving specifics.
Depending on the survey and the country (and they vary a lot) about 20-40% want to buy an electric car now (more so if you include hybrid) and the percent who are dead set against them at any cost is dropping. Those trends are growing at faster rates, before they are mandated EVs will be the main preference by ~80% of the public.

https://assets.ey.com/content/dam/ey-sites/ey-com/cs_cz/topi...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/s...
One of the most interesting things to think about in this regards is the past and the crazy things they thought, and why they probably didn't seem especially crazy at the time. In the earlier ages of exploration of our world people have been able to discover ever more amazing things from springs mysteriously heated even in the coldest of times and places, to a tree producing bark that chewing on can make ones pain completely disappear (more contemporarily known as willow/aspirin), and endless other ever more miraculous discoveries.

Why would it thus be so difficult to imagine there being some spring or treatment that could effectively end illness or even aging? A fountain of youth just awaiting its discovery. It was little more than a normal continuation outward from a process of exponential progress. But of course the exponential progress came to an unexpected end, and consequently the predictions made now look simply naive or superstitious.

We're now currently in our own period of exponential discovery and the fabulous tales of achievements to come are anything but scarce. Of course, this time it'll be different.
“given contact details of a former DEA agent, who confirmed no legal issues”
You can also use a <link> tag in the <head> fwiw. As long as it is marked with rel="me", it'll work.

Probably more useful with how many sites these days are JavaScript blobs that don't really transmit over static HTML anymore.
Delhi Police search houses of The Wire editors
https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite/blob/master/README.md#ch...
Unfortunately, not 100% of Nix packages are reproducible, so using it doesn't guarantee reproducibility. Since the tests don't currently use disorderfs, there could be more issues lurking due to filesystem ordering issues.

https://r13y.com/
imho, too little too late.
At this point we need carbon negative solutions, not only incremental improvements (combustion car -> electric car), this is the same lack of ambition as banning plastic bags on grocery stores in 2022, might have been a timeline solution in 2000.
Than Mozilla? You mean than Netscape?
Expect people to ride tractors to town.