skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semi-related to this and the recent Haiku R1/beta2 announcement: just for giggles, I installed that inage on a USB3 external SSD and fired it up under KVM, and was suddenly greeted with a faster, more polished desktop environment than Windows 10 or Ubuntu offer out of the box. Consistent UI patterns, applications that open in less than the 250ms perception threshold, and some truly useful utilities installed (a fast POSIX terminal, programmer's editor, media viewers, basic but serviceable WebKit-based browser, etc.). All of it happy to run in 1-2 GB of RAM and two cores of my six-core laptop, even under virtualization.

Running on an Atom-based SBC I had on the workbench, it's even more responsive.

Yes, building native apps requires at least a basic knowledge of C++. No, it won't seamlessly run the latest React SPAs as well as Chrome. The driver situation isn't as good as (say) Linux or FreeBSD.

And yet, the focus on providing a productive environment for normal computing tasks instead of endless up-selling to an app store, countless background updaters, and vendor-bundled crapware is like a breath of fresh air.

This is what we've lost in the move to impose ever more layers of services, unique per-app GUIs, and ubiquitous (even gratuitous) packaging of "webapps" in lieu of targeted, native apps.

To be clear: this isn't a unique property of Haiku. A nice clean install of FreeBSD or Debian has many of the same properties, and I have reason to believe that a Windows 10 "distro" based on something like Server Core could be similarly light and responsive.

Unfortunately, the major platform providers seem deeply uninterested in building systems that don't push you aggressively towards newer hardware, loads of subscription services, and "strategic" software bundles no one asked for.
Are you arguing that unions lead to communism? While Europe has a rich weave of social-democratic governments, that would hardly constitute communism. In fact, I'd daresay actual communist parties in Europe with any real power are a distinct rarity.
Too me it seems a fairly logical conclusion.

A police office in the US has to assume the perpetrator will be armed with a weapon and that then leads to the 'shoot first ask questions later' approach to policing.

Alternatively, places where guns are not so prevalent means that anxiety is greatly reduced.

As an example the majority of English police (i.e. bobbies) do their patrol work while not carrying a gun.
I'm a light mode user. I don't like dark mode for my work. But I also don't imposed on anyone. Everybody's free to use what they consider best for their eyes/work. It's the same as what shortcuts/icons to keep at hand on desktop/quickLaunch, it's a personal preference.

So when I hear some fanboy about dark mode this and dark mode that I roll my eyes and try to ignore it until shoves it in my eyes with his "I know better" attitude. At which point I kindly remind him that I don't go in his house and rearrange furniture to my liking and better change the subject
Just deployed time zones. Thanks for the suggestion!
The multiple implementation story of Rust isn't as great as some older languages, but it's getting there.

There are at least two e2e implementations of Rust:

- rustc, the reference implementation.

- mrustc, an alternative written in C++ [1].

There are also multiple implementations Rust's IR (MIR):

- rustc compiles MIR to LLVM.

- A backend that compiles MIR to Cranelift [2].

- Miri, a MIR interpreter used for dynamic analysis [3].

mrustc doesn't perform the borrow check, so it can't prevent you from triggering UB like rustc. But you can use rustc for the borrow check and mrustc for codegen.

[1]: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

[2]: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift

[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
Can someone explain how they managed to do this? I've never seen anything like it!

Perhaps all the text is rendered via JS and re-rendering in an infinite loop where the CSS switches the padding of the div surrounding the text back and forth by ~5px at each point in the loop?
Excellent. This could be a great device as a Qt PoS or inventory management system.
But deprecated doesn't mean it's "been removed". If I understand what you were originally trying to say, then deprecated is a better fitting word than depreciated because that is a financial term. Whereas deprecated is a common software term meaning exactly what you said "it's still there and it still works [...] but no longer see value in it's function".
>There can be more reason to be concerned about a monopoly than just consumer price harm.

Yes, but it doesn't mean they're economically-well-informed reasons.
I saw him in 2008 when I was doing rock journalism covering what was then Rothbury Festival. Crowd was attentive but it was not the highlight of the weekend.

This quote struck me:

“What role does improvisation play in your music?

None at all. There’s no way you can change the nature of a song once you’ve invented it. You can set different guitar or piano patterns upon the structural lines and go from there, but that’s not improvisation. Improvisation leaves you open to good or bad performances and the idea is to stay consistent. You basically play the same thing time after time in the most perfect way you can.”
Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation
No, and I had the same responses. I applied at 12 Solutions Architect roles, and 1 company replied and offered the interview process.

I actually don't know how people choose Solutions Architects. One tipp would be to go on LinkedIn, look for the Solutions Architects at the company you apply for, and ask them how they got hired or just look at their CV.

Right now it can be that the market is dried up and this sales role is especially hard, since many fields don't have active customers any more (or won't get new ones in quite some time)
Yo, this is legit what hasura does!
Getting Started with Deno
As discussed quite a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485182
Why Twitter Will Replace Your College Diploma
- Try drawing the steering wheel of your car

- Try drawing the face of your wristwatch / clock
Epididymal Fat Is Needed, but Not for Testosterone Production or Copulation
This whole copyright case is a whole load of bollocks. Hope that Internet Archive will fend that off, because otherwise it would be a very tragic loss for the internet.
This seems like a good way to burn out your entire workforce. Assuming 8 hours of sleep a night, that leaves just 40 hours of free time a week, much less if you consider going to/from work, household chores, and all the other daily things that eat up your time. My guess is that this strategy might be more productive in the short-term, but less so in the long-term
Web+ is integrated with the Haiku Network Kit and other things, accomplishing nothing for the end user. Most of the performance issues comes from there.
Already available...

Chrome: Turn off Javascript support - chrome://settings/content/javascript

Firefox: Install NoScript and disable Javascript support.

Both have the advantage that you can whitelist sites that you trust.
If you have a thin budget and lots of part time employees or people just dipping their feet in the project/ trying things out, while you are bootstrapping, I could see it feeling expensive. But the cost is trivial compared to say US healthcare for a single employee for a month.
The whole area is only a few blocks. A society on that scale can be peaceful even without any organized police presence, but we knew that already: just look at how any small town or village is run. The problem with larger neighborhoods and cities is that often there is no real sense of community to speak of, so nothing for police to "work with" in the first place.
Live SRE / DevOps Job board – post your jobs
AI Climate Change reading group
Hello!

I am starting a reading group that will virtually meet regularly to discuss selected works related to Climate Change and AI, and I'm looking for people to join!

I am personally interested in a holistic approach, and would like to read every topic from pure environmental works to math and stats theory behind ML to ML applied to climate change. I have these three pieces to give you an idea of the range I am interested in:
- [Racial Ecologies ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnm95)(chapter 2 was recommended to me)
- [ Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits](https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/)
- Select [papers from the ICLR 2020 Workshop](https://iclr.cc/virtual_2020/papers.html?filter=keywords) that took place back in April

However - I care more about finding a group that wants to read & meet regularly so I'm open to deciding on the material as a group. If you're interested, please [fill out this form](https://forms.gle/LgcDKWPFAuLqrMpT9) so I can gauge interests!

I originally posted about this group on the [Climate Change AI forum](https://forum.climatechange.ai/) which has some great resources if you are new to this area!
> Semi-automatic rifles can look the same as automatic rifles

And the people who confuse the two often talk about banning semi-automatic firearms (which ends up being just about all of them).
There's a youtube channel called Psych of Play (by Daryl Talks Games) which has a video[0] about an ad for a Tetris game released in 2017, and the video goes on to explain some hypotheses about the ability to have stored knowledge being separate from the ability to recall it. Some links are made with sleep, too. There's also an example of a person with both retrograde and anterograde amnesia who has no idea who you are after a few seconds, and no idea how he knows the piano, but can play it anytime he wants.

There's a lot about how memories are formed and recalled that is still the subject of much research.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq5UWSwV2Os
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Yes the concept of data modeling and self-service analytics are interesting, yet few people fully grasp it. Chapter 3.1 is probably one of my most favorites.
The complexity of software has far exceeded the ability of traditional strategies to manage it. We know how to reliably scale our software: the principled application of formal methods. More advanced type systems, proofs of correctness, principled math-based strategies for software construction, etc. Yes, all of these are locally more expensive than the slipshod strategies most companies are using now, but I am confident that if the cost of buggy software was correctly internalized, it would become clear that improving the processes we use to create software would leave us a lot better off in the end.
And traveling via hyper-loops because the whole vacuum tube collapse thing won't be an issue.
>Any science or truth exists only at the whims of the social order of the day.

gravity exists independent of social order
You know what is nuts is that I first learned about this on Watchmen (the HBO series).

At first I was enraged, because I thought that liberal Hollywood made it up to stoke racial resentment. Then I looked it up and was even more enraged that it actually happened. Heartbreaking.
What makes me most excited about Starship. Is not the first iteration. Of course, I will be ecstatic when it finally goes into space. But I cannot wait for version 2!

Version 2 [0] has a diameter of 18m and an astonishing payload.

Whilst V1 will change space launches forever. I think that V2 will become the most versatile of space vehicles. The capacity so large that it would be able to launch a copy of the ISS by itself. [1].

I think V2 will usher in new capabilities of manufacturing in space, space mining on asteroids and off worlds, interstellar way stations (planet hopping across the solar system) and the ability to launch a global coverage of Starlinks in 1 launch instead of 24 falcon 9 launches [2].

So yes, while V1 changes the game and puts SpaceX at the forefront of space and rockets. Once they turn their attention on V2 and that launches. Absolutely everything changes and true infrastructures can then be built and once an infrastructure to the end of the solar system occurs. We can only imagine what humanity looks like.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/cwurkj/update...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/cy4lno/18m_st...

[2]: https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlin...
Interesting, so you're saying the union is most concerned with hours and making sure that none of the hours that would be directed to union members as per their collective bargaining agreement are redirected elsewhere.

Are your union members actually paid by the hour or are these hours tracked to justify/demand a certain headcount of salaried union members?
"personal reasons"
I'd advocate for a complete disregard of human remains today, because death is supposed to be benefit for the environment. Just reuse the organs that are in good shape, then grind and compost the corpses.
Animal Farm is not intended to be a fable. It is an allegorical retelling of Stalin's co-option of the Russian revolution - and that co-option is presented as only being possible because the populace is illiterate and ill-informed, which allows for revisionism from the Stalin-figure.

Orwell almost certainly did support anarchist revolution and utopia, given his role in the Spanish Civil War - and his concern about the suppression of anarchism through a totalitarian control of information is exactly what 1984 is about. He never would have felt that "Anarchic utopias do not stay utopic for all that long."
A simple method that I use to demonstrate that: point a phone's camera at the screen+surroundings.

Then it's easy to adjust the screen's brightness/turn on lights until the screen is not overexposed/the environment is not underexposed.
What a Buried Crater in Mexico Says About the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs
After reading a biography on Musk I basically came to the conclusion that his life has been a series of 1 in 1000 bets that have paid off:

- Paypal

- Tesla

- SpaceX

etc

Multiple times in the book it describes how he gambled it all on whatever project he was working on and it paid off for him. He is clearly brilliant and exceptional at hiring great people work for him. I think it's also important to realize that survivor bias is also at play here.
Here comes the newspeak.
To be more precise, it is returning to Controlled Digital Lending https://controlleddigitallending.org, where it lends out one digital copy for each physical copy it has purchased or acquired. CDL is unlikely to face major legal challenges, because it's effectively lending the digital copies exactly as if they were print copies.

The issue that caused all the outrage was the National Emergency Library program, where the Internet Archive was simultaneously lending out an unlimited number of digital copies of a book, regardless of whether it only possessed one physical copy.

This is (on its face) a violation of copyright. Under the first-sale doctrine, you're free to lend out a copy you've purchased. But you aren't free to make unlimited copies of a copy you've purchased and lend them out.
> Maybe more money should be diverted to training and wages, and less to equipment and vehicles?

The police in my town make more than I do. NYPD officers make way more than I do and get sweet benefits I will never enjoy. In return they act petulant and ignore their duties whenever someone forces them to apply less than brutal tactics to non-threatening people.

They need comprehensive retraining and removal of the problem cases.
Ah yes because these scientific studies using light vs dark mode were able to precisely capture “productivity” output which totally translates to the work that SWE do.
Why would someone ask? The information is available. And if I see a degree from a university I don't recognize and then discover it's unaccredited, sure, that's a red flag. You can't get employment in my industry without a degree from a regionally accredited university.
Good job, this looks extremely expressive and with fewer corner cases ("dark knowledge") than MPL/SNS, and unlike Altair/Plotly doesn't require a whole browser to display the output!

Still, I'd like to ask if you considered alternatives to MPL for the back-end. It's a venerable but ancient project with years of accumulated technical debt, and I'm sure you had to deal with lots of inconsistencies there.

For example, PyQtGraph is an alternative with a clear class hierarchy and can handle large-scale datasets without slowing down (while anything non-trivial in MPL has you wait seconds to render).

(I'd love to hear more suggestions that don't require a JS engine and don't build on MPL.)
Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials
Where did the closed shop restrictions come from, did it come from anti-union lobbying or some think tank somewhere? This smells completely like "the government is useless", then going in and defunding things that the government is responsible for.
Do you have any specific software in mind?
Have you ever dealt with a cartel in real life? The idea that you can apply a "hacker" solution or "black hat" the cartel itself is naive. The whole point of any cartel (legal or otherwise) is to control and punish any attempts to operate outside of the rules and contracts that leadership negotiates.
Anyone who considers doing something like this should be very aware of the career, financial, legal and physical risks of doing so.
What industry are you in? I guess it isn't CS, because you don't even need a degree here. And the context of this thread is CS.
Here is a cool suggestion:

I love doing manual labor for the physical challenge. In many such jobs the apps are crawling into the work flow. I'm sure they exist but what I've seen is lots of management and programming effort not producing the smoothness possible. I'm entirely convinced now that one cant get the design anywhere near perfection without experience doing the work. (where ofc substantial experience is better than some)

A manager together with an intelligent person with substantial development skills can design an UI where things that happen more frequently are easier to do. Then in the real world low frequency tasks may require 8 other people to wait 30 seconds while you tap buttons. It is not a big loss but it feels wrong. With some tasks it would be more convenient if you could operate the phone with one hand.

In my current job it may seem like time for a task is limited so we do a half-arse job. If it later turns out we do have time we want to get back to it but we cant. Checking a box means the job is done (we drink coffee in stead) no one would dare explain to the managers how the real world works. To them a job that takes 100-306 min always takes 203 min. Explaining a hundred tiny annoyances is waaaaaay to much work. Imagine a conversation about sessions that expire after 30 min while 5% of the tasks take slightly longer.

Also common is a complete lack of context with the current task. If the app knows I'm hammering floor boards with nail type 42 it can anticipate a need to order more nails. This feels empowering while navigating to the nail section of the supplies section then scrolling over a list feels as if it interrupted your actual work.

You can only do perfection if the entire feedback/testing loop takes place in the head of a single person. If one has a lot of experience one can sometimes encode the tricks of the trade.
What you're saying is fair, but also imagine that's how conservatives felt for years. The left-leaning media outlets appear to be wildly exaggerating things they want to exaggerate, just as Fox News does on their side. Not sure if examples are needed.
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick
"Reading and Myopia: Contrast Polarity Matters" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x :

"reading white text from a black screen or tablet may be a way to inhibit myopia, while conventional black text on white background may stimulate myopia"
How would she know?
FYI the creators are actually charging $2/week subscription for this game. Profiting from a cracked software definitely crosses some moral boundaries.
Why Is Your NES a TV Station?
What would some of those philosophic implications be?

Also, this link asks if music notation is Turing complete, not music itself. Is out method of writing musc turing complete or is the music itself turing complete? What about something like maqam or other microtonal systems? Or temperament beyond the twelve-tone temperament we know and love?

Good find though, that's a very interesting question...
The decision to do what they did is mind boggling.

I can only assume they were caught up in the atmosphere of unknown that was COVID... and somehow decided that their actions made sense.

It was poor judgment executed on a huge scale that potentially puts the whole Internet Archive at risk.

I would love to have been able to hear what the discussions were surrounding that decision and if / how they dealt with the obvious objection of "hey guys this is illegal".
IETF: Terminology, Power and Oppressive Language
Streaming Laying Bare How ISPs, Big Tech, Big Media Work Together Against Users
What blew me away is that the author is using 2d vector graphics to draw all that. I think there might've been a follow up post where he shows the process.
> On the web when the bulk of your application code time is waiting on APIs, database queries, external caches or disk I/O it creates a dramatic increase in the capacity of your server if you can do it with minimal RAM overhead.

Python doesn't block on I/O.
At least according to his own blog posts, he tried to work from within to change Amazon for the better, to the extent that was feasible without making his own life a living hell.

When things went too far for him, he resigned in protest. And yes, it is a privilege that he is able to do so and still live comfortably, but that doesn't make it a meaningless gesture.

Now that he's no longer in a position where saying what he really wants Amazon to be/do/have done to it will lead to those around him vilifying him on a daily basis, he's using his privilege, and his voice, which speaks louder than most in the tech world, to try to get that to happen.
Now waiting for one of these with an eInk screen...
You're making the classic mistake of assuming a common thread connects the people who've annoyed you in various unrelated contexts.
Words have no inherent meaning
Wonder if the physics bugs exist on this web port of CS for maps like ka_roadwars_v2

That was an epic map where you could glitch into the wall with a vehicle and shoot yourself off in the air and go into the hidden gun room.

Fun times.
> Left-leaning people who believe large companies are inherently bad for society.

Curious to read more about this. It could just be me, but I have not seen much criticism of Google coming from this perspective. The closest I can think of is criticism of their skill at avoiding taxes.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your point, but having at least one successful exit + being willing to stake $100mil means that other investors are much more likely to sign on.