skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read somewhere once that the PC culture is precisely like a religion, but there is no absolution possible.

You will eventually be damned whatever you do.
When I said we, I meant all of us, including developers. Economic forces had a lot to do with it, of course, but developers flocked to SaaS business models and away from traditional native apps. This is a huge loss for user control of their data.

Imagine if that hadn't happened! I think we would have amazing tools for managing our information locally, in a highly automated and intuitive way.

The seeds of these possibilities are everywhere. Search, of course, but also things like tagging and even automatic tagging with with machine learning models. Imagine if Chrome had the same tools for organizing bookmarks as Gmail has for tagging email, plus all of the power of recommendation engines under the user's control.

No, instead Google keeps bookmarks extremely underpowered because they'd rather have people search for everything all the time in order to drive traffic to their ads.
> MeetButter is an app that helps you with coordinating meetings

Oh. So...not an app for buying butter or a dating site for people with unattractive faces?
I agree that the situation with Apple sucks, but they haven't changed their stance since the start of their app platform. So I'd rather pay $2 to fix my own workflows than to withhold my money in protest of Apple's long term platform vision.

I like iOS for the most part and wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I disagree with Snowden's notion that "all work is political work". That requires a stretch of semantics that most people simply would not agree with. The word 'political' has a definition. It doesn't just mean "everything".

If we're saying everything affects everything else, then that's not really interesting or useful to note. Meaningful decision making and meaningful discussion requires compartmentalization. Words like 'political' do have boundaries.

I remain in favor of workplaces that stay out of politics and the culture wars, and instead adopt as close to ideologically neutral stances as they can. This is very possible and is where businesses largely were just a few years ago. If people have an issue with where they work, they should quit. But leave political warfare to the sphere of actual public-facing politics. Increasingly, overt ideological warfare is taking over every space - work, media, leisure activities, etc. It's unnecessary.
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Only in the very early days of the web, were links standardized around blue/purple text, and even linked images had blue/purple borders.

But quickly web designers decided that the conventions were boring or ugly, and changed the default color schemes and removed underlines and borders. The web as a whole began moving towards CSS and JavaScript and more full-fledged web applications.

Putting the disappearance of purple links on cloud companies and Facebook and Google is rather preposterous.
Are there any excited embedded developers in the crowd? I have done a little embedded work and cross compiling has always been a huge pain in the ass to setup. I know some people have even gone as far as purchasing expensive niche workstations with ARM CPUs specifically to avoid this problem. I feel like having a mainstream ARM platform like the MBP will make compiling software for ARM-based single board computers a breeze.
I was only taking issue with the objection to string typing. I totally agree that the rest of bash requires a bit of stockholm syndrome to love.

I haven't yet taken the time to play with it but I'm hoping www.oilshell.org addresses some of the warts.
why then ask this question when discussion is about purchasing "serious" laptop?
Sure, we can quibble about all day.

But consider my second point. If there is no caloric crop sustainability crisis in our future, then there is definitely no leafy green sustainability crisis looming on the horizon. The problems that vertical farming of kale solves are... Not very impactful ones. If all the kale in the world disappeared tomorrow, most of us wouldn't even notice.
So it takes 18 months for G to train their models. Good to know.
> providing a $50 monthly discount on plans for low-income consumers

This only serves to support the inflated pricing of the monopolists.
That sounds really fun. Do you remember what the approach was?

I know that these lumped models are standard in heat transfer calcs, but the application to humans is always interesting. It reminds me a lot of thermal comfort models built to represent human comfort relative to environmental conditions. They all tend to use simplified heat balances to model the heat exchange (with net loss/gain resulting in feeling cold, hot respectively), and there's a couple (Pierce Two-Node Model) which uses two thermal lumps, one for the internal core, and the other for the skin.
> The first thing I that popped into my mind was "Meat Butter", then Lard

I also thought "Meat Butter", but my next associations after that are semen and lube. I often wonder whether more marketing departments should hire at least a couple of 13 year olds to pitch names to and then see if they laugh or not.
I find it funny that their website looks like a menu from Rome Total War.
Now that laptop tech is well established and single board computers (like the raspberry pi) are common, I wonder if there time is right for someone to create a laptop standard similar to what ATX was for desktops.

It would be great to have a standard chassis that could hold an upgradeable pi-like board and a custom keyboard.
Arthur Andersen was a large accounting firm which went bankrupt after their client Enron went belly up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
Very well done, and very thoroughly delves into my own initial "WTF?" reaction to using Zoom for the first time (and second and third times).

Although I think the title is misleading. I was expecting something more technical, as most "how X works" articles and videos tend to be.

"Zoom's UI is bad" would be more descriptive. Even "How Zoom doesn't work" would be more accurate to the content.
The US made a grave mistake by taking Islamic countries as allies in their fight against Communism. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan etc. were all incredible mistakes that resulted in a worldwide revival of Islam and its inherent violence.
I would use "think" in the loosest possible sense, as we're pretty much certain it wasn't. Calabash can't be grown across much of that journey, and there's no archaeological or ethnographic evidence to support it. Additionally, the historic varieties are most closely related to African crops, not Asian varieties (with no evidence of founder effect). Furthermore, the seeds remain viable for years even in salt water, so oceanic transport is completely realistic.

Fun fact though, it's found in the earliest domestication deposits in the Americas, alongside squash.
I know, I know - getting a laptop with linux running natively is great, but seriously folks - just go buy something like an XPS 13 or Razer Blade for the same cost and put Linux on it.

You'll get an infinitely better piece of hardware.
awesome! please convince your colleagues to do the same. maybe it will trickle down to california, and LA in particular, where gov is love-nuzzling with google.
YouTube is where mechanics are. A lot of people mod that car, you can find them there as.well.

OBD tools will run you lots of money $2500+ for the good one. Don't buy a cheapo one.

Cars are less about tech, more about mech. I lost interest very quick because the setup cost is in the $10K+, and they always get worse over time. This is the opposite of software. Fun if you like being a detective or debugging software
> Feinstein (D-CA) co-introduced EARN IT. She might be up for re-election one more time before she retires.

Yes. I call her Senator Hollywood. That's the only constituency she really represents. She's been on the wrong side of all tech related bills over her entire career. EARN-IT is simply the latest one in that list.
I know they just came out, but I am a little disappointed this laptop doesn't feature a Ryzen 4700U instead.
Isn’t WSL2 basically a virtual machine with better integration? Is it still super slow when accessing /mnt?

I can also install something like multipass on macOS if I want a good integrated virtual machine.
I'd much rather have a more powerful x86 workstation for the same money than an ARM laptop. Never really had problems with cross-compile. And without support for running Linux natively, it doesn't get me much for even for the parts of testing that don't need the specific target (well, VMs maybe).
The reason is that other manufacturers make money.
Building an AR tool could be interesting, I've pondered this idea
> Ludicrous examples

Yes they are, and it's not really adding to the debate.
Of course, they are all almost equal, and lately Sony has really been killing it, though the others are getting good at mirrorless too.
What Does Apple Silicon Mean for the Raspberry Pi and ARM64?
Fedora Developers Restart Talk over Using Nano as the Default Text Editor
Past a certain price point, kit from any brand delivers photos and photographic performance that one would have a hard time finding technically wrong or inferior to that of another brand. So by all accounts, we should see a lot of variety in the cameras and lenses that are used professionally.

However, take a look at articles like this[0] to see just how prevalent Canon gear is at professional events. Apparently, they even have relations with a lot of press outfits to have them exclusively shoot with their equipment.

[0]: https://www.shutterbug.com/content/battle-canon-vs-nikon-sup...
Is there a MySQL Roadmap somewhere? I cant seems to google anything up. Compared to Postgres which seems have way more information.

And Postgres still hasn't caught up to MySQL in multi / clustering solution. Or may be they dont ever intend to focus on it and leave it to third party.
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This is actually news to me... I bought a M43 camera a couple years ago because I thought it was a standard with staying power and a healthy ecosystem of lenses and bodies from many manufacturers. Is Panasonic the only one still producing M43 gear? I thought Fuji did as well, unless they decided to ditch it, too. I'd be upset if the standard disappeared!
Didnt they try this before and ISPs just ate the money and didnt finish laying cables?
I believe the FCC has to approve internet prices already, so they wouldn't be able to just arbitrarily inflate the price.

edit: Obviously I was mistaken, oops
according to 4chan, years ago

that a government official is using *chan lingo is a stretch, and lends credence to Bannon's point about trying to appeal to the 4chan demographic aka disaffected male youth, who would get the "cp" connection.
Austere scholars of pork wrote a bill to pacify their corporate sponsors. The entire SpaceX's Starlink will cost a fraction of that. Now watch this $100B disappear without a trace, as usual.
The advantage of cannon and Sony is that they are conglomerates and have the resources to develop new tech in-house. With the transition to digital that burden is high for the independents so they’re always playing catch up. If I were buying today I’d likely buy Sony (or perhaps canon), I don’t see a future for the rest.

That said I think Canon and Nikon had some kind of IP agreements and shared some technologies, or I may be wrong.
I also found the "no quarter" phrasing interesting by the parent poster. As countless people have found out across history, those who show no mercy will in turn receive no mercy when they need it.

If pushback against the intolerant aspects of progressivism is occurring even on HN (of all places!), they may need that mercy sooner than they think.
The better question is, why not?
The fact that they really aren't "a thing" seems to be the exact reason they're getting out of the business, yes.
No, the numbers are pretty accurate. In most of the cases I've run into, Perl is faster than Python for its operations. Some trivial examples[1] showed up on HN a few weeks ago, about how this person "optimized" python, by eventually replacing python with C.

As for the nested complex data structures, Perl's been doing that forever (e.g. since 5.x started). And its trivial to use.

That's one of the nicer aspects of Perl. Things you think should work, often, just do. And work the way you want them to. It's not perfect. It is very, very good though.

[1] https://scalability.org/2020/05/on-optimizing-scripting-lang...
We already paid for nationwide broadband installation several times by now. How many more funds do we need to siphon to major corporations that still don’t build anything?
That's not my reading of the grandparent - instead my reading was that COVID was closer to the (normal) flu than to the Spanish Flu, Bubonic Plague, or other such calamities - or at least that many people would feel that way.
Like it or not, certain parts of the US are too rural/poor to justify even monopolists expanding internet service there. This will incentivize them to build in those areas.
I would go further. Have all classes and training sessions recorded so there's record for review of how accurately curriculum is being followed, what off the cuff side commentary might be made, etc - to weed out bad instructors, bad role models. This also acts as protection for the officers themselves if there's evidence they were trained poorly or wrongly.
Why do we have to throw $100B at everything? Just repeal the state limits on Municipal networks and let it ride.
I saw a large thread on a subreddit about music asking others to boycott a specific store because the CEO made a campaign donation to Trump. Several people sounded like they were actual customers...

But the kicker is that in the end it turned out that he didn't even make the donation.
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"Serious operators" probably use a cloud storage solution that supports WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, like box.com or Google Drive - "real operators", on the other hand, have a self-hosted solution (-; And IMHO relying on iCloud for essential data storage probably isn't a good idea.
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Here's the rest of the stack so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438323

This, from a year ago, reads interestingly now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737344
I wonder if this is more a problem with the article than the study. I haven't read the study. It feels oddly described. Like, are they saying that when a Tsimané sings a song (solo, without instruments) on Tuesday, and then later sings the song on Friday, it's guaranteed to always start on the same pitch, without hearing some sort of reference note from an instrument? If so, that's basically perfect pitch.

We all have comfortable vocal ranges, and I know generally where to start the Star Spangled Banner to hit both the high notes and the low notes, but since I have relative pitch and not perfect pitch, my starting point is still always going to vary within a minor third or so.

Incidentally, I noticed in my college ear training courses that I (I have excellent relative pitch) would routinely score higher than the folks with perfect pitch. There's something about perfect pitch that can be really distracting to musicians for certain exercises, as it's not quite as flexible as relative pitch. So maybe that's related to the Tsimané.

Also, there are aspects of different notes that very much are noticeable in physical reality and don't need to be culturally learned. In an old singing group of mine, we would have fun with a game where we would stand really close to each other, face to face, and sing unison, and then one of us would start to go slightly sharp or flat while the other would try to stay steady. There's an ugly "beating" sensation when this happens that goes away when you come back to unison. It's not just theory, you hear/feel it. That's present to a lesser extent with octaves, and then fifths, through the harmonic sequence.

Those subtleties are of course covered up when you're using separate instruments or timbres, but using different timbres doesn't disprove the underlying presence.
You are spot on. I know a ton of people who fit your description. I wish this were higher up the comment stack. So many people are missing this simple viewpoint.
Do it: because you'll learn things you won't learn any other way.

I think getting on freelance sites is smart, especially because you thought of that first. People who think "I'll just set up my shingle online" may have a tough time, because no one knows how to reach them (disclaimer: obviously doesn't matter if you have potential clients right now).

You'll definitely become sharper in your tech skills, because 1) you don't have to follow your company's tech stack 2) you'll start being exposed to aspects of technology your official position 'shielded' you from worrying about 3) you can go all-in on cutting-edge tech that your company would've never even considered.

Incidentally those are all very relevant skills for starting your own startup, though I don't imagine you're there yet.

You will be a stronger developer 6 months from now, in my opinion. And if you're willing to weather the pay hit - do it.
I've had success with just removing the video from my watch history.
Or a social credit system that prevented you from using public transit
He talks about tech workers but he leaves out users. We users decide what companies survive. Tech workers work because they need to eat. Users use the tech because it's cool or convenient. We can make plus arguments or minus arguments for both sides but only users decide what companies succeed. If we don't use the tech there is no way for it to succeed. At some point we need to decide if using a service is really worth the overall impact it has in society and decide whether it's worth using.

It's time that we as users take more responsibility on what tech is deployed. Is the convenience of tech worth the impact it's having in our society? By most measurements, we are saying yes, emphatically. It's important that we stop saying that the power lies with someone else. We have the power to change the situation too.
A big chunk can jump back out at you, along the original angle of incidence. And it can really fuck up the pond's chemistry. So I endorse not throwing big chunks of alkali metal in ponds.

Putting a small lump in a bucket outdoors using a rope-activated rig sounds pretty reasonable, though.
I’m very naive when it comes to these sorts of things. What would we do to help out? Would it be “we’ll fund up to 50$, but the charge is capped to 75$”?

It seems like once you’re going to distort the market, pricing becomes difficult? What about: if there’s 4 serious competitors, then we’ll give you a 50$ subsidy, otherwise, we’ll tell the providers the minimum plan, and that minimum is free to a chunk of the population? Or, do you get municipalities to roll out municipal internet?
Considering the number of people using it, addressing those (considerable) UI glitches is worth talking about.

People video chat with non-technical people (elderly parents, etc) and it really sucks when you have to go through these sort of awful experiences just to get two people communicating.
Why some methodologies cannot spread?
Real world is complex, and you need certain approaches to be able to handle the complexity.
Reminds me of the argument made in https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&curpost....

I cross compiling Linux kernels daily. I think Clang makes this simpler, but missing C runtime for cross compiling userspace executables still leaves much to be desired.

I think Zig is doing interesting things here. Clang should just straight up adopt this, IMO.
https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
Sony doesn't have aftermarket firmware but the firmware up to the A7ii has been hacked so you can run Android apps and control the camera that way. As far as photography is concerned there's no need for flashed firmware beyond that.
Mixed feelings.

They might have chosen that due to their intended audience. The numpad is pretty handy for many professional applications. Let's say you are using Blender - there are many keys bound to the numpad. You can work without those, but it's awkward. Not to mention applications requiring lots of numeric input.

You could plug in an external numpad(or better yet, a bluetooth one). But this is a laptop, it's one more thing to carry.

I personally don't require a numpad these days - I'm typing this on a mechanic keyboard without one. Have I missed it occasionally? Yes. Would I prefer a laptop without one? Yes. Give me more keyboard real state and a better layout.

Now, the off-center small touchpad is the biggest offender here, IMHO. This is a design reminiscent of early 2010 cheap 15.6" laptops. Maybe it's a good touchpad. But I am already prejudiced against it, because it looks like the old synaptics (or the even worse competitor I forgot the name). They don't provide any details in the specs, they just say "multitouch".
No, encryption still encrypts stuff. There is no obfuscation being suggested in these bills. Rather, some groups will have the ability to see data without encryption, as they do today, but with easier access and less red tape and less having to do inside deals and people looking the other way or depending on NSL's. Please don't get me wrong, I am not in support of these bills. I think it is risky to incorrectly describe what is happening, especially for non technical people.

I believe the right way to describe this to non technical people would be: "Today, some people can see your traffic even if it is encrypted. If one of these bills (there are a few versions) are approved, then more groups will be able to see your data, easier and quicker."

If you want to get people more interested in speaking up, then the best lessons learned would be from the interview between John Oliver and Edward Snowden. John interviewed many people on the street about the NSA having access to all your phone data. Nobody cared until he clarified and said, "So you would be ok with government employees looking at your significant others nude pics / sexting pics". At that point, most of the people interviewed said they would be furious.
Mono and .NET Core run terribly on ARM. I have several containerized C# apps that I need to run on x86_64 hosts, because on ARM they'll just crash randomly.
That along with "on the computational capacity of the universe" was the paper that stopped me from ever taking Seth Loyd seriously again. Later finding out he was a creepy Epstein croney... well sometimes the universe makes a lot of sense.
And this tradeoff is implicit in every attempt to move away from Google. For example, watching Youtube means that Google knows which videos I watch; watching Peertube means that some folks in the swarm know which videos I watch. Google is trying to establish a reputation as less likely to extort or ruin you than various advanced persistent threats.
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