skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, of course it is, because Macs are slow at running Linux stuff in the same way that Linux is slow at running non-Linux stuff.

On the other hand, Apple should decide if they care about Docker performance. The answer seems to be "a little" (Hypervisor.framework) but much less than, say, Microsoft.

Apple doesn't talk about their future plans. Today we see stagnation, YET with spikes of exotic ideas (e.g. L4, which would permit efficient L4 Linux).

Per Apple's style, a big kernel change on the Mac side would absolutely be tied to a hardware change, to break things once and not twice. Build a new Mac with a Linux-friendly kernel (perhaps Linux, perhaps modified L4, or something new), put it on their beastly ARM CPUs, and I'm drooling.

Then again I don't work at Apple.
You’d rather not make an additional $100,000 _post tax_? That’s about $9,000/mo, way more than the CoL difference, way. And $300k in the Bay Area isn’t even crazy, $400k is also reasonable. If you want to stay in Utah for family/life reasons that makes a ton of sense, but don’t make it about the comp, it doesn’t add up.
My preference is for full brightness white text #fff on complete black background #000.

My reason is based partially on the following article:
The key point in the article is
“These results suggest that reading text with inverted contrast may be a way to inhibit myopia; however, more studies need to be done in children to confirm the proposed strategy.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/myopiainscience.wordpress.com/2...

It would be nice if color could be a browser preference universal for all sites, but I don’t know how it would handle needing different brightness levels based upon semantic markup.
Hypoxic training helps swimmers acclimate to the feeling of hypoxia while swimming so they can time their breathing better, it doesn't improve lung function. Humans need much longer exposure to low oxygen for the desirable adaptations to kick in.
Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week:

Hey [redacted],

I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree.

The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update your profile with your latest experience and preferences. You can edit your profile privacy settings to not appear in public search engines at any time.

Our mission is to build an open, valuable, and skills-based credential for all engineers. We believe that allowing Triplebyte engineers to publicly share their profiles and skills-based credentials will accelerate this mission.

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Co-founder & CEO, Triplebyte
Is there anything like "terraform provider for bare metal"? Would be soo convenient to just go from full nuke and pave to functional dev machine with a single config repo.
I wonder how long it takes between rounds to recharge the system?
DOSBOX can't run older DOS programs, try my emulator: https://github.com/dmsc/emu2 , ASM86 runs in it.
> your dream self can't tell what these other dream-people are thinking, even though they're all part of your mind

That's a great proposition! Nevertheless I'd be more inclined to believe that these dream-people are not really thinking, and most likely don't have conciousness, as they're stimulations of our visual perceptions slightly modified in some sort of dynamic/interactive manner and mixed together with our memory and recollections.
Oh that's brilliant, I hadn't noticed that. I just added all of my photos of Corgis to the demo:

https://dogsheep-photos.dogsheep.net/public/photos_with_appl...
https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Boolean%20Logic%20i...

Yes, it used 0 and 1. And it did not contain bitwise ops. Those were quite the surprise!

My first efforts were in Applesoft. Computers at school. Got an Atari machine and programmed the crap out of it. Wrote my own assembler, a few games, etc...

Then I got an Apple and finding them in Applesoft was a nice surprise! Prior to that, I thought they were an assembly only thing.

The trade off in the Atari basic was doing things mathematically was pretty easy and it generally, but not always, was faster.

A few of us wrote fairly complex programs with basically no if statements. Kind of a fun way to think about things back then.

I much prefer -1 and 0 and the bit ops, frankly. Internally, I remembered this kind of thing as "really fucking true" as in every bit better signal, or it's false!
Amazon definitely doesn't do this now. Amazon sometimes offers me a free Prime trial and they make it fairly clear that if you don't cancel before the conclusion of the trial, they'll automatically subscribe you to Prime and charge you. I'll sometimes take the trial but I always mark my calendar to cancel before the renewal.

Personally, I consider this to be a dark pattern and it makes me reluctant to sign up for any trial or even subscription services in general. I'm glad that Amazon is upfront about it but would prefer that they didn't do this at all.
> Siri is already a bit too chatty, and I never feel like having an extended conversation with her.

Tell me about it. I have to unpair my bluetooth headphones every day, for stupid reasons that aren't Siri's fault. But when I say "Siri, open bluetooth preferences", it parses my command on screen VERY quickly, and then slowly enunciates "Okay! Let's take a look at your bluetooth settings." I'm just tapping my foot and waiting for her to quit talking.

Of course, then, 1 out of 3 times it takes me to the wrong settings page. Because if Settings has been opened recently, it can't deep link from Siri. /shrug
I have a DVD and a streaming subscription. I use the DVD fairly often, but the streaming rarely. There’s very little I want to watch available on streaming. I really should cancel.
The fact that intelligence agencies have been able to out maneuver the democratic process does not mean that Snowden's disclosures were unwarranted.

I think you have confused loyalty to the current leadership of US government spy agencies with allegiance to the American people.
Cadence https://cadenceworkflow.io/
dbt (data built tool). Brining SWE best practices to analytics engineering. about damn time!
Reading this I kept thinking "What? What? Why would you do this?!"

Less than half a percent isn't that much relatively, but those are still many millions.

It'd be hard to convince me that they did it because they're nice, they have share holders who are not interested in that stuff.

So what could have pressured them to do this? Regulation?
> A few Sundays ago, Camerata Pacifica artistic director Adrian Spence, aided by his tech-savvy son Keiran, went live on Facebook to broadcast a previously recorded performance of Mozart’s Trio in E flat (K. 498), a.k.a. the “Kegelstatt” trio.

> an original performance of an hour-long piece composed by Mozart in 1786

I'm surprised the bot recognized the piece when it was apparently played at about half speed. :)
Relatedly, this seems like a good place to mention the wonderful Ian’s Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
Still just watermarked, in fact.
30%+ downvotes seems like there is not a consensus around this issue
There's a difference between productivity and prediction.

Velocity is a great prediction tool. Given a total estimate, it can tell you approximately how many weeks it will take to be done. It's a unit conversion factor: velocity = 25 points / week, therefore 100 points = 4 weeks.

Productivity is defined as output / input. Effort and time are both "input." Velocity is a way of converting from points (effort) to weeks (time). To measure productivity, you still need to define "output."

OP said, "On the productivity question, if you're interested in some soft (very squishy) numbers, I can provide them."

But OP didn't define "output," so they weren't measuring productivity. They just showed that their effort --> time unit conversion factor had changed. Given that there's any number of possible reasons for this—changes in hours worked, changes in overhead, changes in estimating technique, changes in estimate accuracy—the numbers probably aren't meaningful.
I consider thinking to be "work".

You say that salaried people aren't paid by the hour, but that's arguably a fiction. There's always a defined work day. Some employees end up "working" for inordinate amounts of time. And some employers do push employees to be more productive.

So if the standard is 40 hours per week, I'm just saying that you do the work whenever, not eight continuous hours per day, for five days per week. That decreases control of employees by employers.
I have this kind of issues on Mojave. I blamed the firewall. With ethernet disconnected, everything runs smoothly. Connected: random freezes of 1-2 secs.

Why does it need the internet all the time?
Man, I think I was having this issue earlier in the year and thought it was some funkyness with the firewall or application -- custom golang apps.

Who at apple thought it was a good idea to hop on the internet when invoking an application without any warning? This is loony.
That vetting will come at the cost of 30% of money paid for your software and any money earned within the software.
I shall post my findings.
> Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw.

It's funny, because while it's certainly become more influential lately, that subculture existed as a niche in the C++ world before Rust and before C++11. So much so that when I first heard about Rust I thought "these are C++ people."
all sorts of Project Crossbow news these last couple of months. after what happened with Hathaway at Pac Tech back in the 80s I thought it'd never come around
Rental car companies play game with the categories. Just a couple of months ago they tried to convince me a Camry is a full-size car and gave me a Corolla for my mid-size reservation.
Years ago, I heard of a dating site doing the opposite of this. They normally sent periodic digests and newsletters to their users to try to increase engagement, but if a user went a certain number of months without logging into their account, but still allowed monthly fees to be charged, they were labeled as a “sleeping giant” in the database. Once in this state, they would not be contacted by the site for any reason until they logged in again by their own initiative. The site had determined that, on average, contacting these users had a net-negative effect on retention — i.e., they would be reminded that they were paying for an unused service and cancel.
Self-driving cars could work more like a hive mind. Humans can share ideas, but not reflexes and motor memory. So we practice individually, and we're great at recognizing moving stuff, but we never get very good at avoiding problems that rarely happen to us.

And we know we shouldn't drive tired or angry or intoxicated but obviously it still happens.
For anyone interested in this (and not the broken bastardised Western versions you'll find on youtube) check out:

The Hindu‑Yogi Science of Breath
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....
hahaha literally you have to walk down a huge hill in Pike St to go to the Market.
> Strictly losing money with no upside in the future is in violation of the "duty of loyalty" that all corporate officers have toward shareholders.

I'm pretty sure that's just the absurd HN take on the "duty of loyalty", not an actual fact.

Also, if you absolutely need a pessimistic reason, I imagine it would avoid headaches with customers complaining (regardless of who's right).
Sadly, that service is only available for 4.3% of the population.
I am routinely surprised to receive email spam from my gym membership. It's like they're daring me to remember to cancel it.
I think you meant to say 100-200 watts a square meter average output as a 300 watt solar panel isn't much larger than a square meter. Either way, you are right that it is unlikely that solar charging via a car roof will be anything aside from a backup/gimmick. But it is possible to get a good charge from solar panels on a rooftop with not a huge amount of panels.
It's python. ..that took too long to figure out
I'll add an endorsement for lifting, especially as part of cross-training for another sport to avoid injury.

I am also extremely partial to sprinting. The closest you can come without drugs to a certain type of very lean and muscular physique is to combine lifting and sprinting. Sprinting is great for your abdominals, quads, calves, so it can really balance out the bulky, top-heavy look that can come from only lifting.
But it is. Just because people are conditioned to avoid sharing information doesnt mean they cant break that norm and gain the advantage.

Unions are exactly that.
That may have been true for Americans living two hundred years ago when constituents voted for the people who birthed the two party system, but it certainly isn't today. Gerrymandering of House districts, the limit on the number of Representatives, the nature of the Senate in our bicameral legislature, and the electoral college all guarantee that some votes will count significantly more than others. That's not a democracy, it's a facade that replaced democracy a long time ago (and one could argue was never a democracy to begin with, since many people alive today gained the right to vote in living memory).
I hear OLED can be just as bad if not worse. So same diff.
Same here, I thought maybe Golang at first
I'm guessing your case was more like 2015 Amazon than 2005?
Athos gear (https://www.liveathos.com/) is able to do live form feedback.
Stretching is to yoga as scratch is to programming languages.
I’m thinking of a more junior supporting role, separate from development and architectural design. The librarian doesn’t write the books.
The energy that a plant captures doesn't go in to biofuels; it goes into growing the plant. Pushing roots through rock, extracting minerals from the earth or whatever it is plants do. Pushing water from the soil up trunks or through stems.

The biofuel is burning what amounts to the plant's surplus energy that it wasn't using for anything, and recovering some of the energy that went growing the mass of the plant. It isn't comparable.

The point here is plants are covered with tiny green solar panels that are grossly inefficient compared to what humans produce. However, they are beyond cheap to produce (in fact they grow themselves) and suggest that we are not even close to pushing the limits on what we can do with solar energy design wise.

Efficiency of the solar panels really isn't all that important compared to making something with the flexibility and weight of a leaf. Comparing efficiency between solar panels is a waste of time outside the research community; all that matters is total cost to install vs. watts produced.
Hong Kong used to be the the Chinese financial hub and manufacturing centre.

Today it is just one more financial hub and manufacturing centre out of many.

It just isn't important any more. Its survival or not is pretty much irrelevant to both the West and China.
I think that’d fall under inevitable discovery. Even avoiding trying to look at the phone would reveal its lock screen.
Be careful, exactly 10 years after I cancelled my Netflix, Netflix started to charge my card again. I contacted Netflix, but they cannot did anything about it. I ended up having my card issuer to issue a new account number to me.
The bigger dark pattern is how they shuffle around the buttons in the checkout to trick you into adding a prime trial.
I saw it somewhere online, maybe WebMD. They called it the 3-3-3 technique. It's supposed to ground you. It worked for me, but your mileage may vary.
This sounds insane, do you have some examples?
Current law does not allow him to raise the defense of whistleblowing at trial. This is ironclad precedent and won't be overturned without a new law being passed or the prosecution agreeing to it.

The government would get to tell the jury he gave away XYZ classified documents, and he would not be allowed to even mention why and would have no chance of getting that overturned on appeal.

Snowden has said he will come back and stand trial if he is allowed to raise whistleblowing as a defense. The government has not taken him up on that offer.

edit: First source google had to offer: https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/wsj-op-ed-why-edward-s...

Excerpt:

>[M]embers of Congress, journalists and advocacy groups keep repeating the same argument: Mr. Snowden should turn himself in, mount a solid defense and all will be righted at trial.

That’s a fantasy. I served as legal adviser to two high-profile whistleblowers between 2010 and 2013, former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, both charged with espionage. I also witnessed last year’s court-martial of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning), who faced charges of espionage and aiding the enemy. Here’s a run-through, to the extent that I am allowed to offer, of how such a shadowy proceeding would unfold.
Not only has Linux and its software ecosystem gotten better (though I guess we have the browser-fication/Electron-ification of everything to thank for that - even MS Office in a browser is pretty good now!) but the hardware options have too.

I recently got a ThinkPad X1 Extreme which is their equiv of the 16" MBP. It has a nice 4k screen, NVIDIA 1650, 6 or 8 core processor, user replaceable 2 x RAM slots (up to 64GB) AND 2 x PCI-E SSD slots, replaceable battery (take a few screws out), better keyboard than the 'fixed' Apple one, real USB-A ports in addition to the 2 x thunderbolts, real HDMI port and an SD Card slot. And it isn't much thicker or heavier than the MBP. It works great with Ubuntu. The two together feel like the ultimate expression of freedom when coming from the Macbook Pro and OSX.

Containers and Kubernetes (via microk8s) run fast and natively rather than in a VM too.

There are three downsides though - the battery life is worse (5-6 hours - but it charges 0-80% in 1 hr and I have been stuck at home near an outlet so it hasn't been too bad), trackpad okay but not as good (though I am starting to prefer the TrackPoint nub while in a more typing mode anyway) and it ran a bit hot and fan-noisy until I repasted the CPU/GPU with Thermal Grizzly. But that it was so easy to take apart and do without voiding the (onsite next day!) warranty that I'll almost forgive it...
I'm definitely excited to see how the VASIMR tech being developed by Ad Astra pans out, and whether anybody manages to build a functional nuclear thermal rocket. Hopefully the new super-heavy-lift capacity that's expected in the coming decade will help to enable the groups working on those and other designs.
I think most biofuel is currently more expensive because it is diverting high input monoculture crops that are typically grown for feed like say corn ethanol or soybean oil. I believe ethanol from sugar cane in Brazil was cheap but only because the humans laboring to harvest it and process it were paid very little. But yeah the current choice of using industrially farmed high input crops to source biofuel does make it expensive. I think ultimately heavily refined energy dense fuel does require lots of time or energy input to produce.
Have you done any tinkering with node-red yet? It’s pretty handy for tying stuff like that together and runs nicely on a pi (incl mqtt integration for esp/arduino/sonoff integration)
Huh this is crazy. 2 seconds is way slow and this shouldn't involve any network activity. Seems like a real problem.
If you want them ASAP, best bet is to make your own. Everyone selling them is slammed.

That said I was able to order 10 from https://radianjeans.com/collections/reusable-mask and they arrived in just under a week.
This is a really insightful way of framing the trend. I hadn't thought about it this way before but it makes perfect sense.

However: I think there's a more sinister aspect that's not covered in the article. Think about how dystopian so many software products are today - the privacy violations, the toxic social interactions, the dark patterns. It makes perfect sense that the companies behind these products would lean as hard into kawaii as they can, to mask the bad stuff and make the user more receptive. Who could be worried about the personal information they're giving away when there's a cute little cartoon animal shyly asking for it?
I should clarify. You sign up for a free trial and never log in and never confirm your account. Scum kings will still begin charging you after your free trial ends.
How can you cancel (without cc chargebacks) if you typed in the wrong email address?
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/epis...
I agree. There is some transfer limit on free GDrive accounts, though I'm unsure of what it is. I've seen it mentioned by archive teams.

What I find really interesting about all of this is that it highlights that YT can, when it's deemed necessary, actively police content. Something long thought to be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, in regards to copyrighted content.
The lack of security on an American bank account is simply appalling. A while back, I had an anomalous charge come out of my account via an instrument known as a "demand draft," or "remotely created check." [0, 1] Essentially, this was a check drawn on my account, without a signature of any kind, and without my knowledge. All that would have been necessary to create such an instrument was my account number and routing number.

I was able to catch the charge and dispute it in time to get my money back, but the money wasn't a big deal. It was only $40, but I wasted more than that in the value of the time [2] I spent to get it all straightened out.

You see, it turns out that my bank can't just block these remotely created checks, or even block them from this one single, known, fraudulent [3] source that tried to steal my $40. Instead, they had to close my account and reopen another one. I protested that I knew this was going to either cause a late fee, or I'd miss some random thing that only charged my account infrequently, but the best they could do was keep the account number temporarily active and redirected to my new account number, giving me time to switch things over. And, I ultimately did miss one account when I did my switchovers. Fortunately, I was able to call the company and get it straightened out right away, with no harm done.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_draft

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_created_check

[2]: I used this incident as the basis for my claim in the Equifax settlement, which I fully expect to never see a dime from, because big corporations don't suffer consequences when they fail to protect peoples' personal data.

[3]: I was actually able to conclusively prove the entity named on the instrument was completely fraudulent. Law enforcement isn't all that interested in $40 worth of fraud, though, so I'm pretty sure they're out there still doing it.
kid does not have computer, unfortunately, parents don't allow him to setup go fund me.

here is reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/gm3x61/pong_made_b...
He's the person who made the markdown format, which you've used as your username.

Other than that, he's mostly known for writing and talking about Apple.