skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single-click to open is one of the few hills I am totally planning on dying on.

Why click double when you can just click once? As for selecting, just have files be selected on hover. Normally, I just right-click. Double click might have maybe made sense back in the days where clicking on things was expensive and you wanted to prevent miss-clicks but these days I don't see the point.

The weird thing is, that is doesn't even take much time to get used to one way or the other. On systems with double-click, I just need a few minutes to get used to it again and vice versa.

Since single-click is more ergonomic and more accessible (as some people have trouble double clicking), it should be the default. The whole double-click thing seems to be some sort of weird cargo cult to me but I am willing to hear counter points.
> Most images are not shared though

Not yet.

As the joke goes:

People in the 60s:

I better not say that or
the government will wiretap my house

People today:

Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?
Clean mount lists in Linux
> If an industry can't function without abusing people

what abuse? clicks? page views?
It is indeed the "trash" mechanism.
Consistent rendering is only possible when the material models used by the various engines are similar enough. Physically-based renderers produce pretty similar results for basic diffuse-metallic-clearcoat, etc. materials. Where things become hairy are more advanced effects like refraction, subsurface scattering, ambient occlusion etc., where different engines use different techniques with different tradeoffs, because there's no easy one-size-fits-all implementation. The UsdPreviewSurface part of the USD spec doesn't even support many of these advanced effects. If your scene uses these effects a lot, then consistent rendering is less likely.
great demo video
Even in my poor East German home village I know plenty of people with entirely normal jobs who retired early (mid-50's to 60). But TBH what's the point of early retirement if you are still physically and mentally fit, like your job and enjoy working with people you have known for decades?
> If that was true Europe would have the highest productivity of the world, but it doesn't.

Depends on how you measure productivity. Per hours worked, the top 10 most productive countries is almost only European. Per capita the results are different.
The disability insurance that was included with my US job was significantly better than the one I have now.

If I was let go I would retain health coverage through COBRA.

Let’s be clear: The US health system is a shit show, it’s just not - mostly - one that impacts high salaried employees (if it did it would have changed long ago..)
It doesn't matter who the important countries are militarily if Argentina and Kazakhstan are the ones which have no enforced rules on training AI on foreign data.
And that process is surprisingly full of rigour and self-imposed restriction.

Cinema is an excellent example of this. Good cinematographers follow a set of cinematic conventions that have emerged as "rules" and around which the industry has evolved (like the single-camera convention).

Great cinematographers invent rules and convey them to the viewer in the first act and use them to communicate the rest of the film.

And to make this point even more clear you could substitute throughout the above for animation/animators, and everyone would get it.
> And degrees are only 3 years in France.

Uh, no, France follows the European-wide bachelor's master's doctorate system when it comes to granting european credits. Which means that, yes, you can follow the normal cycle of 3 years (license/bachelor's), 5 years (masters), 7 years (doctorage), and these will basically count if you're looking to study abroad.

Some of my coworkers have 2 years of studies (IUT/BTS). Some have 4 (M1). Some of the PhDs in my company have 9 years, other 11, others are both working and researching at the same time. There's no mandatory 3 years.
> If the long-term effects end up being along the lines of the big social corps withdrawing from the EU, I see that as an enormous win for that economic zone

it will be a major net loss. the EU is already becoming the internet’s new china. what you’re writing will just make it clear the EU is a non-start for internet companies.
Why do you suggest petrol should be taxed as a % of sales price and not per litre?

The negative externalities we are worried about occur mostly in proportion to how many litres of petrol we burn, not how many pennies we pay for them, do they?
The last time I checked, youtube-dl and yt-dlp can both be obtained via (Python) pip. To my knowledge, these will be the latest releases.
Until the mid 60s it was the USSR that was leading the space race
Or they could get that extremely lucrative contract AND not have to deal with all the overhead and hassle that results from hiring non-green card holders. If you could have a rule that tremendously simplifies your hiring process and saves you a lot of headache in the future it makes sense from business perspective, especially when there’s already a lot of grey area.
It seems like Europe is optimized lower-percentile outcomes, whereas the US is optimized for things going smoothly.

In the US if things go as planned, you have a house, two cars, health insurance, and you can pay for college for your kids. If they don't go well you can be in real trouble depending on what exactly went wrong.

In Europe if they don't go as planned, you still have access to housing and healthcare, and your kids can still get a degree. If things go as planned, you are paying for the people who weren't so lucky.
How did you come to the conclusion that other citizens via the government should pay for you time off? Your employer needs to pay for it. It's not a welfare benefit.
Thank you for this; I've been manually unticking everything since these regulations came into effect and have to admit it was getting a bit tiring (plus sometimes I was too hasty and accidentally clicked "Accept" when the cookie buttons were in a weird order or had non-standard wording.) I hope this helps me decline all the things more efficiently.
You can use it as a second display haha
I thought this referred to some kind of wave that is emitted when two particles are entangled (or alternatively a wave that communicates information between two entangled particles), which goes against my lay man's intuition about how quantum physics works.

After reading my best understanding is that entangled particles can act as a single wave function and that they have detected when this wave interacts with other things.
I'm a physicist in Germany, my supervisor got iPads with Apple Pencils for the entire group, we find it very useful for note taking especially since we can share screen on zoom to use them like digital whiteboards. When I give tutorials I notice at least a quarter of my students are usually using either iPads, remarkable or a windows convertible with pen support
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Covid-19: Examining the Effe five news of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions [pdf]
Buy them all – maybe.

Carry them all – hardly.

Apple has invested a lot of time and effort into making full continuity across their entire computing ecosystem actually work, which allows the user to pick only one device that is the best poised for the task at hand.

The user can switch devices as they please and carry on on another device from where they left off on the previous one. It is seamless.

Of course, the user can also choose to use all of the devices at the same time if that is what they want or it merely suits them.

Microsoft and Linux ecosystems, however, do not have the same level of completeness and continuity and convenience.
This whole article ('cold war'?) seems rather long and overwrought.

> The more precisely we know what to use a piece of information for, the more precisely we can organize it.

Well, duh. Notes are the leftovers of, and precursors to, more structured information. The miscellanea. This seems to me to be obvious and unremarkable.
> As will an american, unless they're going to go without healthcare? Unless you're doing some _wild_ saving, paying for health insurance as you age is going to necessitate working.

In the US, most highly-skilled senior engineers will be multi-millionaires in their 40s which means that they can immediately retire and pay out of pocket for private health insurance covering the entire family without even making a dent on their principal. Even if that wasn't an option, one can get health insurance via one's spouse or work a few hours part-time for an employer that provides it.

I retired in my 40s and spent the last 10 years living in both the US and multiple European countries (with a lot of time spent in Germany as I have family there). While I've so far enjoyed living in Europe, the worsening downward slope in quality of life is more obvious here than in the US. Unrestrained immigration is a big problem that's going to get a lot worse in the next decades and is already rapidly eroding the much praised European social safety nets.

Ultimately, US offers optionality which means that one isn't chained like a slave to a grossly inefficient disintegrating socialist state for the rest of one's life.
European citizen, or EU citizen?
> I wouldn’t want to deal with low GDP growth, public strikes (see France) and little ability to build wealth.

Have you ever been personally affected by something as abstract as "low GDP growth"? Or public strikes except maybe a bit of inconvenience? And what do you need "wealth" for except to reduce financial risks that are much lower in a civilized country to begin with?
there is no conceivable global government that would care at all about a random guy on an island with no money
Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)
> That's more appealing than nebulous benefits.

Benefits aren't nebulous, they're concrete things. My employer offers a pension(401k) contribution, health insurance (which is a queue skip really here), income protection for long term sickness or death in service, and a "perks card" which is 95% crap but gives me a 25% discount on the largest gym chain in my area. That's just monetary.

On the "non-monetary" side, I'm guaranteed 33 days _paid_ time off (and promised 40 this year), have an option to take a month _unpaid_ with notice, I have employment rights and can't just find myself without a job with no notice or dismissed for no reason. There's also the "overhead"/admin work of managing a business and handling the tax affairs. Sure it's straightforward, until HMRC decide it's audit time.

> Contract work is a fundamentally different proposition and equating it to employment is foolish.

That, I agree with.
The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect
Thank Hinton for that. It's a pity we don't have a Nobel for software.

But a Turing award is pretty neat as well.
> At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.

My Macbook's MagSafe charging cable already plugs into a USB-C charger, so I already only need one charger (but two cables) for my (Android) phone and (Apple) laptop. But, of course, the bureaucrats know better than the customers and engineers.

Btw, from what I've read, Apple is contemplating removing the charging ports from their iPhones completely and going with wireless charging only. So much for banning everything but USB-C charging ports..
Do you pay tax in Europe while in the US, or just do the parasitical thing?
Fascinating. I love the different rituals that humans all over the world perform for their dead, there is something morbidly beautiful in all of it. Haven't heard of sin eaters before, now I am a bit intrigued by the book! Thanks, OP.
This would be more like Google giving away their search algorithm in 2000.
yt-dlp/youtube-dl depends on APIs defined by Google. Those APIs can be changed at any point in time, so I’m not sure it’s sensible to include this package in Debian stable, where packages aren’t expected to change often.

Glad to hear you found a newer version!
Not quite. Ad companies win the elections, so the pressure on the elected politicians is to have really good relationship with them.

What that means for the clerks trying to regulate the ad business... Well...
Uh what? How is this a problem? I work for a large telco in a former socialist country, where the telco is still 51% owned by the government. We have projects that require you to be a national citizen, and pass a security check of course.

They're building SPACE ROCKETS. I would imagine even tighter security.
Beginning 2013, there is the semester tickets for students, which is twenty euros per month.

Before that, 70 euros? Where were you living, Freising?

Two external rings were around 50 euros at the time, and many students rent inside the (old) 4 inner rings, or the first external one if you study in Garching
Some number of them may already have an equivalent amount of PTO.
They actually made a Japanese version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmFeXTN7GA
I own an iPad but mostly use it at home, so you wouldn't see me using it at an airport or on a train.
Find the "every poll of users I’m aware of has shown that they prefer double-click by a 2-1 or higher margin" mentioned in-article comments interesting, especially when contrasted with all other comments expressing a single-click preference.
> Most capable senior engineers...

What about the less capable though? Do we just forget they exist?
I don't know about you but a 3x performance increase going from a scripting language with fast iteration times to a programming language that has long compilation times plus a borrow checker is hardly worth the risk of a rewrite to the average company.

Add on top the fact that one of the performance problems was interfacing nginx with luajit, aka there are two unnecessary memory copies.

When I think about these things, I'm thinking cloudflare was lucky enough to outgrow lua rather than being lucky to have gotten away with luajit.
Wow the comments in here are revealing and dismaying.
You do know that the majority of Americans aren't software engineers on ridiculous packages right?

Real actual engineers who build roads and power grids make way less money and have way less benefits while IMO doing much more important work than 90% of software engineers even understand.

Please take into account the real world before commenting on how good things are for everyone?
As a Linux user, both on the desktop and on my home servers, what "serious problems" does the Linux desktop have? I know it isn't perfect, are you referring to the lack software support by the likes Adobe and MS Office?
Legitimate interest is defined by GDPR.

"I can make money by collecting this data" is not a legitimate interest.
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At the time of my first daughter's birth, my local government gifted me an ipad mini. Three use cases:

1. I find it extremely useful for one specific thing: chess. I can't effectively play blitz timed games with a mouse, and with a smartphone I get way more off-by-one mistaken taps than with the ipad mini.

2. Almost five years later, my daughter enjoys making animations on it with Scratch Jr.

3. It is a comfy form factor for just plain reading content from the web. When I come across something specific that I'd like to put more than, say, 40 minutes of directed attention to, I sometimes pull up the resource on the ipad and hit the couch. It's a lot easier for me to focus on long form content (especially if it's dense or boring) with the ipad because it isn't my computer. I can't instantly call up other interesting and ongoing tasks with a meticulously programmed hotkey.

Also, touchscreen laptops felt like an upgrade to me until I tried to use one. IMO, the geometry just isn't there. If the screen is close enough to be touched as part of the general workflow, then it's too close for your eyes or else the keyboard itself is too close.
They'd pick up absolute junk information.
It totally depends on what you want to use a measure for. Just like neither height or volume alone will tell you what will fit in your car.

By any measure that puts energy used by the brain in the denominator, humans are probably dumber than ants. But that doesn't mean those measures are always accurate.

(For contemporary neural networks, you also have to distinguish training costs from inference costs.)
I tried out the 7B one last night and wasn’t impressed. When asking to write in Python it correctly can write regex to parse a date but when you ask it the same but in TypeScript for Node.js it fails to do so
Spanish football federation threatens to sue Jenni Hermoso over kiss ‘lies’
I don't understand why Yann is so focused on his "Animals are smarter than AI" analogy. If compute wasn't so limited, couldn't we just train a transformer on video, audio and text data? I don't see why it would not learn the basic physical structure of our world just like a language transformer learns the grammatical and other structures of language.
Then with this prettaines transformer you can build an agent and use some reinforcement learning too.
I feel very confident that this would mirror the level of intelligence of non-human animals quite well.
With a lot of high potency weed consumption you are going to get various psychosis and such at higher rates, sure the public health ramifications are better than for alcohol..

But this thread is celebrating marijuana use and binge drinking at all time highs in a demographic as a natural ramification of ending prohibition?

Naturally, one should hope that there is an explanation that means overall use is a better public health situation after the prohibition. I.e. increased alcohol use is among generations traumatized by prohibition and younger generations will choose better for themselves.
Currently, I have two iPads: relatively modern mini and the 3rd (first model with retina, iOS 9). Mini collects dust for years, I never use it (yet unwilling to sell). The 3rd one still rocks YouTube in Safari, its basically a TV with batteries. I use it at kitchen, e.g. when I cook.

Both of my iPads never leave my home. I am an avid traveller (before the pandemic) and even then I never took my iPad out of my house.

I do travel with my MacBook Pro (with Linux these days), Kindle and a couple of smartphones (I use both iPhone and Android). I don’t see any need in an iPad at all.
> Here is a realistic estimate for Munich

Munich is the most expensive Germany city, just saying...
Most likely the average dev in the US with your level of skill still makes 2-4x more than you without 2-4x the expenses.

Germany may be good to live and get by but not great to actually grow, financially. The whole system is still designed so that you depend on your 800€ gov check in your senior years.

Unless your parents already built some wealth it is barely possible to do so in your own lifetime in Germany.
Inspired by, but no shared code as far as I can see on a brief scan.
> One has optionality and isn't chained like a slave to a grossly inefficient socialist state for the rest of one's life.

I don't think this conversation is worth continuing if you consider the US a bastion of freedom and the entirety of europe being entrapped to socialism.
>a decision Bloomberg says Amazon made to satisfy regulators

Regulators are out of control, yes. But that does not change the fundamental nature of the internet. Especially as it pertains to something which is purely data, copyrighted material. Amazon is not stopping filipino and bulgarian kids from downloading mission impossible any time soon. Nor is it stopping people from bulgaria from paying for AI services in the Philippines which are trained on American data.
Interesting. I wonder how this would differ for programming as a practice and models of hiring. Programming differs from scientific research in that in scientific research publications of new knowledge is a frequent primary goal. In programming, generally speaking, both as a practice and in hiring the goal of compatibility selection greatly exceeds both notions of competence and discovery. That distinction results in different sets of biases by which shared knowledge is accepted or discarded.
You can use the wayback machine extension to quickly open the latest archived version. If it's not already archived, you can also quickly trigger the process.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...
> Model architecture doesn't matter compared to the dataset. Any model from a class can learn the same skills from the same data, but change the data and they all change their abilities - the intelligence is in the data.

You might be right in the same sense that big-O notation is 'right'. Constant factor can matter; especially once you have to take energy use into account.
For the last several years, I wake up almost every morning after only 4-5 hours of sleep. Then I don't feel right during the day unless I am able to go back to sleep.

It makes me think that theory of pre-industrial dual sleep periods may be true.

It's also possible that I'm just older and have to urinate. Or the reflux issues that interfere with my breathing somewhat need to be cleared out.

As far as falling asleep, I have found that Vitamin D3 can help quite a bit, if taken in an adequate dose.
tldr: the election only happens after significant organizing and demonstrated worker interest in forming a union.

Currently it’s a two step process: get a threshold % of workers to indicate interest in unionizing, then hold an election over all workers to see if a majority want a union. The ruling makes it so that if the company interferes with the election, the NLRB deems that initial interest level sufficient for allowing a union to form and recognizing its authority to collectively bargain on behalf of all covered workers.
This and also how to let them talk to each other and follow the conversation after setting up only the initial topic - that would be awesome!
Have you tried Kindle (or other e-reader) instead of iPad? Works very well for me.
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packaging is not much more work than building something from source. it's all the same process until the end step where you use the packaging tools to assemble the whole thing. it can get tedious when you end up having to package dependencies as well. but it's mainly grunt work, and none of the work is special to packaging. without packaging everyone would have to do the same work.

my favorite packaging tool was conary. it has automated packaging to such an extent that in most cases all that is needed is to tell it the command to run the build and install processes for that application. it figures out everything else by itself. which files are documentation, what are libraries. what are dependencies. one thing it did was to split a package into components. there is a :doc component, a :mysql component and others, which were especially useful for optional dependencies. if you didn't use mysql you could leave out the :mysql component and install the package without a mysql dependency.

where with deb or rpm i had to manually figure out what goes where if i wanted to split up a package, in conary that process was mostly automatic.

and, to address another comment here, conary worked just fine with the FHS. i do not think that the FHS was or is the problem. not being able to install multiple versions of a library is a limitation of the packaging tools. conary didn't have a problem with that, as long as packages were built without file conflicts conary did not get confused when you had multiple versions of the same package.

it's a pity that the distribution built on it did not survive.

that said, we do need containerization, but for a completely different reason: trust and security.