skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in hearing more about the moon landing, check out this BBC podcast: 13 Minutes to the Moon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads

I’m on episode 3. So far there have been interviews with Steve Bales (guidance), Gene Kranz (flight director), etc.

(It was recommended by someone else in another thread. Thanks to whoever that was!)
TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious
I think enjoying the struggle will lead you wrong more often than not. I normally find that if I’m really struggling, it doesn’t mean I’m learning, it means I’m missing some information and I need to seek guidance. I’ve always learned more from looking at a successful existing implementation than trying to brute force my own solution (though it’s fun/useful to have a pop at something on your own first, of chorse). Sure, you need some tenacity and concentration, but I don’t understand people who will happily and repeatedly bash their head against a wall for hours without ever checking whether there’s a way around the wall!
Cool! Good to know. I don't think None is totally problem free either, as it is easy to confuse with `NaN`. `Nothing` definitely bypasses all the mentioned issues and seems like a better choice.
My degree involved 4 months of school followed by 4 months of paid work. It meant that it took 5 years, but it was totally worth it. I graduated with 2.5 years of experience at different companies, no student debt, and a full-time job already lined up.
Make sure to set SSH to log in directory to vim. Unlike Real Linux admins know how to quit vim so it will be no issue for them.
This always gets trotted out by people who make good money and who's family and friends basically all make good money. It's like the personal finance instance of saying "I have nothing to hide so I don't need privacy".

I'd rather not have the in-laws knowing exactly how much I make or have my next employer know exactly how much more they're offering than the last one thank you very much. While I understand that in some countries tax returns are public, those countries are very different than the US in a multitude of ways (which are beyond the scope of this comment, I'm not going write a wall of text, those invite nit picking).
The Soviets repaid the debt with unimaginable human losses: 25-30 MILLION war dead.

80 percent of all German military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front.

Just think about those numbers.
Wait... what?
Do you mean every company or everyone?

The reason I don't want to share my tax return is that it reveals my income. The last time I revealed my income it created a lot of negative relationships.
I hate that some people insist on cranking up the heat during the winter. Some of us wear the kinds of pants that will actually keep our legs warm out in freezing temperatures, and we shouldn't have to change into shorts to not be sweating at work.
>and I'm not sure how to even start explaining what's happening when I punch in commands.

When you see your kids do something with a GUI ask them to write down a list of instructions so that you can do it too. That list of instructions is basically what using a CLI is, it's just less discoverable.
Microsoft's Fluent Design System
> It seems wasteful to cool the air from over 30C to 20C, just to have nearly everyone wear heavier clothing, instead of cooling it to something like 22C where everyone can use normal street clothes.

Oh I agree, I was talking (not clearly), from my own context where we don't have to cool the office, but heat it, in that case it's the efficient choice.
Should tax bills be public information? (2010)
I wish more companies would realize the growing commute issues. I'm 14 miles from the office, but it takes 35-45 min to get there on good days and often in the winter if there's even a single snowflake falling, I'm looking at a 60-90 min. drive without fail.

What's going on where I live simply won't scale to any more people. It's madness already.
I think we know what we want it to look like - like a conversation with another human, but we don't know how to get there.
I was in a bus and one website I needed to access was blocked on the bus Wi-Fi (maybe a technical issue).

I opened a SOCKS tunnel to a server, ran the desktop version of Firefox on my phone (that I had installed in a Debian chroot) and set it to use this SOCKS tunnel.
You are agreeing with the parent on the first part and simply disagreeing with the parent, without any evidence, on the second part.
Download iCloud for Windows [0], iCloud Bookmarks Chrome extension [1] and enjoy seamless synchronization. I think that it works for history as well. The only thing that I miss is Reading List synchronization, Chrome does not have it, but you can use a dedicated bookmark folder as a replacement. It should also work with a Firefox, but I did not try it myself.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-bookmarks/f...
Of course, I had just never seen a palm oil plantation before.
The article uses Reddit's Javascript execution times as an example
According to some stats I have found[1][2] it does not seems like there is any exodus, if anything it seems that iOS gains market share every December (gifts?) and then loses a bit over the year, but the number has been stable since forever.

There are definitely less iPhones in Europe than in US, but that is more of a reflection of the global trend. iPhone was dominant in US because for a long time they had a carrier subsidy system that made it not worth it to buy a phone on a plan for less than $450 (because you paid the same price no matter the price of the phone). Back at that time that's what an iPhone cost.

In Europe the subsidies worked differently so the price was a more important factor.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/461900/android-vs-ios-ma...
[2]: https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share#germ...
> has or in English a different meaning than in code?

“Or” in English can mean either exclusive-or or inclusive-or (usually it means the latter), and/or is a means to specify inclusive-or without ambiguity (the parallel construct for exclusive-or is “X or Y, but not both”) used mostly in contexts where misconstruction can be exotics to the drafter of the text, such as contracts and formal policy documents.

In code, the meaning is already unambiguous; in all languages I am aware, “or” or the symbol referred to in speech with that name (e.g., “||”) is strictly inclusive, and do there is an exclusive-or operator, it is different.
Remote working is the real game changer: less commute means less pollution which means greener and better environment and less usage of fossil fuels.

I still don't understand why companies work against this (including mine), moving as argument the fact that workers might work less or do something else than working for the company
> If your desktop/laptop runs macos, or you use an iPad, you can send and receive SMS using iMessage. You can link as many devices as you want, they just need to login to the same iMessages account.

Fradow specifically mentions the requirement of sending sms via windows desktop.
I wasn't suggesting that there aren't ethical dilemmas, just explaining the processes how I think usually things like this work in bigger companies. Some low-skilled worker can do the ethically questionable thing. The skilled engineers just solve some cooler problems generally and provide tools to those who deal with the ethically questionable work. And I am pretty sure that most people, even talented engineers don't often think about that too much. They just want to solve cool problems.

It is quite obvious that someone with not so much skills is more willing to do unethical work than someone with higher skills and demand for those skills.
Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?
I agree with the general point, but not with the argument:

> If you're not proud, then that should be exposed too.

What if I'm not proud because I earn only half of what my neighbor earns?
There's not a whole lot of risk in being first in line to buy up all of the XBoxes and scalping them to desperate parents.

There are external risks. In the case of XBox, Microsoft can either unexpectedly increase supply or the demand can be lower than expected.
I was there a couple weeks ago. They had the Apollo control room blocked off to visitors for the rennovations so we saw a different one. The tours are kinda boring but you have to suffer one to get to the Saturn V. That thing is incredible, looking at the welds on the engines knowing they were done by hand blows me away. Also, seeing how large the turbo pumps are and imagining the LOX flowing at full tilt is scary. I get the feeling the term "control" is used very loosely once those engines are ignited.
If you try to register multiple Gmail accounts from the same location (such as a public library), at some point Gmail will start to ask you for a phone number verification.

This is something I saw a few years ago in France (before GDPR), there is no reason it has changed.

I suspect it is to avoid fraudulent accounts while still letting a few mails being registered without verification for first time users in a location.
No blockchain bullshit:

- libremesh - https://libremesh.org (cert is broken :/) (layer 3, they use bmx6 / bmx7 like nycmesh)

- freifunk-gluon: https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/v2018.2.x/ this is used for more than 100k nodes in germany, it is however layer2 (batman-adv) so beyond 100-200 nodes you'll run into problems but there are solutions.
Hah, I remember seeing this when it first came out. Thanks for the reminder. It's not the only reference to Julia Evans on the site either.
What made a difference in cutting food waste in Amsterdam was having to adjust to using physically smaller refrigerators than the average size found in US/Canada.

When going to the grocery stores in the US, I never had to think “Will I have enough space to fit all this food?”, which actually resulted in buying a lot of stuff that wasn’t always needed (eyes are bigger than stomach at the supermarket).

In Amsterdam, shopping trips were more frequently needed, but the food that was bought was also smaller in amounts and less weight, so it wasn’t that big of a deal in the end, and less food ended up being wasted.

(Having to bike or carry food by hand is also a bigger incentive to carefully plan resources vs. loading up the entire trunk of a car). :^)
Hmm. This is a very common functional programming pattern in languages like Haskell and Scala. You define an AST representing your domain, using native, simple types, usually structured as a tree. Then you just write code...
I think one solution is to make sure it's possible for everyone to have a mobile phone. They are so important on so many levels.

In this situation in particular - needing to get an SMS without a number - google voice is a good solution for that issue. I used it for a while when my US bank required getting a code via SMS to a US number. I know it's a chicken and egg thing getting it going - but if there's a way to get a person in this situation a gmail account, a lot more stuff opens up from having that resource.
Aren't most council houses semi-detached - I wouldn't describe it as a middle class thing?
> look forward to Mac laptops that gain useful features and don't fall apart in months.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
You're likely correct, but most of that code's either been written long ago and is now in maintenance mode or if it's new code it's very specialized and irrelevant for 99% of the developer population. Do I care what some internal chip fw is written in? Not really, but it's probably C and it's probably full of security vulnerabilities. Such is life.

There's also those that misguidedly use C when they shouldn't (e.g to speed up Python code). It's unfortunate, but such is C's siren song - mesmerizing one with promises of speed only to be dragged into the depths of undefined behavior.
Check out this article: http://archive.vg/blog/retro-book-look-the-simcity-planning-... I have the book and can attest to the content. While SimCity has its biases, it originally had a lot of basis in reality.
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> I'd rather not have the in-laws knowing exactly how much I make or have my next employer know exactly how much more they're offering than the last one thank you very much.

But on the flip side, you'll know exactly how much your colleagues make.
It's a reasonable comment, but I think it's being downvoted because many believe SC4 was the most difficult game in the franchise. It's been a long time since I've played any of those games, but I recall a good bit of backlash about the new SimCity being too easy compared to previous games.
Public companies? Sure. Private companies and individuals? No. They can have good reasons to keep their finances private. Just think about how much profiling will happen about a person if you were able to look up their finances first. This applies to job interviews, sales processes, etc.
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

To me, pretty much any modern Thinkpad[0] looks like 90s laptops[1] made out of crappy, flexing plastic whereas something as sleek as a MacBook Air[2] from the same year looks positively futuristic.

If (when?) I jump ship I'll either get an XPS 13 or a T4XXs, and the only reason I'm undecided is because of Thinkpads their design, especially the gratuitous logo-ing.

[0] https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/rR1UdxX-DdlR2hDEoq3jjC30Nho...

[1]
https://i.ibb.co/Krb07X4/8-C061277-2-A27-4204-BFAE-03-CFDEFD...

[2] https://tweakers.net/i/4R_rvojQOTIskfm9fHVoeguxcPE=/1280x/fi...
Not to forget Chemicals like PVCs plasticizers, solvents like benzene in paints, bis-phenol A in plastic bottles, flame retardants in our home that we breathe whenever we sit down in something soft, insecticides(air in cities is super polluted of them) and diesel particles.

Those things are extremely dangerous, but we have not natural sensors to detect and avoid exposure to them.

I bought a geiger detector and it surprised me to find places with thousands of times more radiation than others.
Especially given how insanely long our child rearing process is compared to other species, and how as we get more sophisticated it seems to get longer...
Windows’ driver ecosystem is important to Windows’ market success - switching out the kernel (and so, the driver interfaces) would throw that all away.
Meh, it’s still taxable income that has to be reported :)
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And the next generation at Microsoft doesn’t even think this is humble pie - we think Linux (and open source in general) is the most delicious (and profitable!) pie we could possibly imagine.
You think the quoted email is manufactured?

I see no reason to suspect that and I do not believe that WMF would not say something if a Wikipedia Administrator wrote a fake email in their name.

> We have to decide if we believe fram or wmf.

That is a false proposition. People can choose to believe different speculations, but there is no evidence that the statement from Fram are not written by Fram and the statement from WMF is not written by WMF. I see no evidence to doubt the authenticity of each parties statements.
It depends on what you mean with OOP. If you mean the original meaning: just messaging, extremely late binding, hiding the state etc. OOP never took off.

The established meaning is using classes as some kind of abstract data type with getters and setters or using classes interfaces. That kind of OOP is usually supported.
As usual, paranoid managers fearing they're losing control over their "minions".
You are incorrect in everything you said.
Mecklenburg Lake Plateau is the only one under 200km though, anyway, it take some preparation to do that kind of trip.

Baltic Sea = 200km to the first coast

Saxon Switzerland = 250km

Harz = 275km
I use a DAP for all of my music and purchase most of it via bandcamp. I can barely buy music on iOS but I can (and still do) all of my library management, music purchasing and file management on a One Plus 3T using a usb c to micro sd dongle.

File management is so tricky and app centric on iOS so I dont think this will ever work.
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Resource Timing (part 3) – Waterfall Chart, understanding loading times
Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
I think the bottleneck for nearly everyone is the 256GB SSD, which is borderline insane for a $6000 machine. A 512GB or even 1TB SSD over 256GB is peanuts (well, unless you purchase the upgrade from Apple).

256GB does not store you a lot of RAW photos, video, or whatever Pros are editing with this machine.
Apple has shortcuts which is actually better than tasker and has system wide support and new shortcuts can be easily shared and can easily do some of tasks mentioned above. https://www.imore.com/macstories-releases-archive-150-free-s... seriously amount of ignorance that Android fans about ios is breathtaking.
Don't do mod 10, sum the digits.
> 500W/h

Again, "W/h" is almost always wrong. You mean just "W", which already contains the "per time" part because W = J/s.
By framing it as a flip side it sounds like two sides of a “fair” coin, but for the vast majority of people their relationship to their employer is one with a serious power imbalance.
Yeah that's a good point.
did they get greenlight for deploying those? I remember a lot of local karens opposing it because of birds or something
Well that may not be a bad thing in the longer term. It creates an incentive for the rich to reduce income inequality.
I guess you're looking for Gitlab then. They even documented their work culture and publicly share it:

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/resource...
I always figured that the main thing people really wanted out of "OO" was simply namespaces. People forget about dealing with older programming systems with global namespace (C, Matlab, Fortran, etc). Namespaces were a big step forward, and in the early days, most of the languages with them were OO, so it would be easy to mistake the benefits of namespaces for OO magic.

OO crapola also mapped reasonably well onto GUI design. That's a whole class of programming that doesn't really exist any more. Where it does (I dunno what people use besides Qt), it looks kind of objecty.
For Android AOSP, you can fix the bug yourself. Can you do that on iPhone iOS other than filling a Radar?
s/mobile phone/<x>/g with x being any of email, reliable ISP, physical address, bank account, at various points in our history.

Interestingly enough, around here it seems like many (most even) homeless people do have a mobile phone, save for those that actively reject societal norms.
Point 2. Stop subsidising suburban lifestyle for the rich

The average price of a house is $226500. (https://www.zillow.com/home-values/).

Almost anyone can get an FHA mortgage with 3.5% down. The thought that only rich people can afford a home is not true for most of the country.
Imagine the data-driven marketing gold rush that would ensue from having everyone’s tax returns be public.

That alone is reason enough not to do it.
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I'll assume that every ounce of bottled water or soft drink replaces water that people would have drank anyway, and possibly with more efficiency - a larger percentage of the (expensive) bottled water gets used on the unalienable human need to drink than if the same water was piped to houses and used for both drinking and washing.

The plants may be blamed for transferring water scarcity from places where the drinks are bought and drunk to the places where the bottling plants are operated, but not for creating water scarcity.
"The last time I revealed my income it created a lot of negative relationships. "

Why? With coworkers who were jealous?
And you need to consider that Xeon W by the time the Mac Pro ships will be an even worse value in light of what AMD is doing. The W-3223 is a $749 chip and has only 8 cores and 16 threads. At a similar price point (rumors are 700-ish) we expect the EPYC 7282 with 16 cores and 32 threads at only a slightly lower clock (rumors are 3.2 base vs 3.5 for the Xeon W). And let's not forget the ... well what else can be said? ... the epic amount of PCIe bandwidth these EPYC chips will bring. Without using very expensive data center oriented PCIe 3.0 x8 SSDs, normal PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs are going to give these EPYC servers a very serious boost.
I don't think this just affects "rich" people.

It could also be that Waterluvian had a low income and that affected his relationships.

Or it could be that it just differed in a direction (up or down) that his peers didn't expect or appreciate for whatever reason.

I can think of a lot of reasons revealing my income would affect various relationships I have (whether that's a good thing or a bad thing isn't relevant), even though I wish it wouldn't. Information about money does change the way people treat you.

When I was a kid, people knew my family wasn't doing so well and I'd get lots of well-intentioned charitable offers from friends and friends' parents that just made me feel really bad about myself, so there's one way that having a lower income revealed can affect relationships in an apparently positive way that's still uncomfortable.
Just a consideration: I don't believe that remote is so much more productive. The central advantage that I see is that in other regions than the Bay Area, the costs of living are much cheaper. Since for the employee, the central metric of revenue is "salary - costs of living" you get:

- "better programmers/employees for the same money",

- "cheaper programmers with the same quality",

- you have it easier to find good employers (less skill shortage) since you can also include potential employees who live somewhere else and are not willing to relocate.
What stands out to me about Kranz's view of technology and the future is his optimism. While it might be tempting to dismiss this as dated postwar scientific idealism (e.g. Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y."), Kranz walked the walk by successfully guiding the greatest accomplishment of the era.

Kranz's inclusion of "love" adjacent to "skills" and "knowledge" is the lesson our current technological culture could stand to learn the most from.
Yes a very good point about job interviews.

But if salaries were transparent, there would be much less reason to beat about the bush regarding job offers - It would be quite clear what the going rate was, and how that related to executive pay, etc.
In the Midwest (Kansas, Oklahoma,... etc), the US has seen a massive amount of wind developed in the past few years.

To give you a feel for what I mean, in a few short years, the SPP region went from a small amount of wind to having greater than 60% renewable penetration. This means over 60% of generation serving load came from renewables at one point. ERCOT (grid operator for Texas) has also had really high numbers (upper 50).
I think complete fiscal transparency would be uncomfortable for a pretty short amount of time before people adjust to it, and the symmetry of information as a result would be extremely helpful.

People ask for a lot of fixes to say, pay inequality between men and women, but I think transparent salaries would go a long way and are a fairly simple mechanism. I have very rarely made the experience that pay inequality, if properly justified, was taken the wrong way.
This is really an apple to oranges comparison. What you linked is not an implementation of the insertion sort. It's a an implementation coupled with proof of correctness. Try to make a mechanize proof of correctness of your python code, and it'll be as long (or longer). If you just write an implementation in statically typed languages like OCaml, F#, Haskell, Typescript (or even Idris, if you go less crazy with the typing), and you can get it down to less 10 lines easily.