skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what impact this will have for developers using non-Apple development tools. For example, I'm a C# .NET Core developer using Visual Studio. I'm hoping that the architecture shift won't be too disruptive to people who choose to use development environments other than Apple's Xcode.
Your point a) is moot, this is not what this is about. When writing manual SQL nothing stops you from doing `SELECT * FROM persons WHERE age > 'eighteen'` (the `age` field is a number, obviously). Coming from Django I was often bitten by `Person.objects.filter(age__gt=trashhold) # boom!` (note the misspelled variable "threshold") or, if you prefer manual writin SQL: `Person.objects.raw("SELECT * FROM persons WHERE age > {}", trashhold) # boom! as well`. (Admittedly this is unrelated to type safety, just a disadvantage of Python being interpreted, but still something that Haskell/IHP protects me of.)

Regarding b), yes there are good reasons for prepared statements. I won't go into your argument "for scalability" (premature optimization cough) but cached query plans aren't perfect either: data and data typologies change, and so does the optimal query plan. See https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/ for a blog post about Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto users being bitten by that.

> I wonder if the person who wrote this understands SQL to sufficient depth. Not saying either way, just asking.

I did not write the IHP code, just the above comment. But I've read many of CJ Date's books and have a good grasp on the relational model, and of SQL too. I simply don't see things as black/white, there are certain queries where I do prefer prepared statements and functions, or PL/pgSQL even, then there are ones where I use an external .sql file to keep things tidy. But most of the time (especially in the user facing part of a web app) I like my ORMs or SQL DSLs.
This blog and its insights into the workings of the human brain has been a great source of comfort to me and helped me get past several places in my life that I was stuck.
Facebook has completely failed. New York and Sydney have been thousands of miles apart since Facebook first set out to "bring the world closer together" and they haven't budged an inch since then.
The Surface Book is exactly this: A (x64 Windows) tablet with a laptop dock that contains a stronger GPU and battery.

One problem is that people expect the CPU power of a laptop, which requires much more power and cooling than the typical tablet. As a consequence in tablet mode a Surface Book has about two hours of battery life.
Given the existence of kernel_fpu_begin(), any idea why that TCP paper says this?

> Since it requires a floating point operation, implementing it in the kernel requires some integer approximation

This line seems to be ignoring both kernel_fpu_begin(), and software floating point, unless I'm just missing something.
Couple things that stood out: code is not in a "src" folder separate from configuration. Views have just an "html" file extension - usually you would at least have the templating language extension there too. Didn't see any indication of test coverage. Also it looks like you have your own test runner?? Using Jest for ex. gives you a lot.

First thing in the readme is lines of code. I would start with what this is, what problems it solves, and why it's better than the alternatives.
Winmate Rugged Computers Are Designed for the Harsh Environments of Oil Refinery
I never believe the newspaper and hard to trust the TV news you have to investigate and get the Truth always,they all want headlines and ratings, so always check it out before you believe
This is what I meant by "objecting wholesale to the Chinese economy", although I could have been clearer.

These are all very important problems, but not manufacturing problems, they're problems with just living in China. By a similar measure we could say that it's not ethical to work for Patagonia because the US police regularly execute people of colour, or because abortion is effectively illegal in many states. I don't think these are useful arguments to make in this context, I think it's more useful to make them as their own thing.

The ethical production I was talking about was more in terms of "sweat shops". It's likely in China that a worker in a factory is going to be paid enough to not be below the poverty line, is going to have no real problems with food or water. Also while their working environment isn't going to be up to the safety standards of Europe, it's unlikely that they will be very actively dangerous day to day.
So what if I chose to live in an area more expensive than what the company is in? would they then increase my salary accordingly?
This is absolutely true. Many are still running on old-old Mac Pros with Snow Leopard. Upgrades are done when hardware can't keep up anymore, but they also tend to use big DSP rigs from Avid and UA that remove the CPU bottleneck for major tasks.
I'm sorry Scott has decided to shut down his blog. He posted many interesting things over the years, and the community of commenters that clustered in the blog's open threads was usually a joy to deal with. I was part of that for years. I'm sorry to see it go.

That said, this decision to shut down the blog looks like an overreaction to me. Scott seems to think that he should be able to be both a prominent online pundit, on the one hand, and completely anonymous, on the other. That just isn't realistic. If you're someone who matters, people are going to want to know who you are. And there are people who make it their business to uncover such information.

A part of being famous is a certain level of unwelcome attention. It's not just the good and kind that pay attention to you. It's the weird and threatening too. This should not be news to anybody. It seems to me Scott got his first brush with real fame (in the form of an article by a top newspaper), and discovered that even a modest helping of it was was more than he was willing to deal with.

Goodbye SSC. It was good while it lasted.
This create CRUD templates for stubdb.

Happy to learn more on Stubdb - how does it differ compared to Sqlite (also from issues in stubdb - it wants to support IPFS)
Related: The Netherlands used to included religion in its national records. This allowed the Nazis to have a comprehensive list of all Jews.
I find it funny that there is a cap to how many software software engineers could get to the US, but not how many domestic employees or nannies you could take. Hell, you can bring nannies as an H1B.
That doesn't make sense. What is in / that is dangerous?

Finder hides all of /etc and /bin and /usr for the "protection" of normal users, just like the default view for Windows Explorer under C:\Windows\System. But you can still change the contents on Windows, or see the directories in Terminal on macOS.

Should they hide those directories when you use Terminal too? After all, /etc is important. Your reasoning would also stand up there - perhaps whatever files you were attempting to modify under /etc wasn't actually that important.

When does the "you cannot easily modify files on your own machine" stop?

Would you also accept the inability to change your wallpaper with such glee? Perhaps the wallpaper you wanted wasn't actually that important.
Version control for GitLab wiki is still not there.
Supposedly it will be in 13.2.

For a small shop using GitLab local install versioning of the systems/software/lab protocols documentation is something hard to live without.
I pay too because I feel like having a stable email address is important. And if I'm a paying customer I have some rights. Compare with a gmail account, you have no right to anything.
Saying that this is merely an “amateur mistake” or “bureaucratic oversight” is naïve.

See Scott’s response on Reddit: https://imgur.com/PlXBJZI
> They suppose that the shutdown could have saved $10 trillion worth of lives.

I suppose it could have cost $10 trillion worth of lives. Not sure what the calculus of suppose is exactly, once I have figured that out I can take this to the bank.
This sounds suspiciously familiar

Do you have your windows taskbar in non-default position? Mine is on top of screen and some games in some display modes give offset mouse position
Then, I reached a moment of Lisp epiphany.

Where my VR coding system,
Would build computational blocks of pure logic.
A graphical metaphor, for the engineer to define,
Functions, variables, and conditional branching to the nines.

Their results are returned, and fed into something new,
Each rigorous, discrete, and unit tested too.
Like a jigsaw linked together by logical flows and light,
Further enclosed, they add to its computational might.

And Lisp would be the ideal,
To achieve such a metaphorical fusion of thought.
From conception to code,
Between the virtual and the real.

The key-value pairings,
Between the operator and its operands,
All enclosed by parentheses,
Bringing closure, and harmony to its lands.

Less is required, the tedious keyboards of our day,
Instead, on the VR you would tinker and play,
Like a meticulous craftsman of another age,
Building until perfect, each module of the sage.

The world’s combined intellectual prowess,
Would be available at your needs,
Collected in a public digital library,
The modules and code, for you to integrate into your feed.

And then it would run, the great engine of light,
Bringing forth its magic, and manifesting in twilight.
Running on pure thought, and reliable to the nines,
The Engineer would sit back, and marvel at his find.

And then I awoke from my dream,
Suffusion complete.
He was also concerned about people finding his blog starting from his name, mostly for reasons having to do with his work. He even mentions this in his post. People are saying that he didn't do a good job of protecting his privacy anyway - that's quite wrong, dude knows what he's doing.
What software is generally used for this? Is there anything available for the average person that doesn’t require spending a small fortune?
Try yellow dragon fruit. It is much better than red or white and it is a different species. Red/white taste grassy with a nice texture, but yellow has a sweet tropical flavor.
A very eye-opening event for me was when I visited Berlin in 2003 (?). We watched ZDF (government-financed German TV) news and saw a huge crowd protesting against Bush’s war in Iraq. Wanting to join them, we found a mostly empty square with a much smaller group of protestors standing in a triangle-formation in front of the cameras, which were setup such that the crowd would appear massive on TV.

So if you think European media are free of political bias and distortions, think again.
Regardless of the intentions of the author, any piece of art can be read by some as a reflection on the real world (perhaps one of the best examples that is not post-modern is the often touted interpretation of The Lord of the Rings as an allegory for WWII, which is very explicitly against Tolkien's wishes and intents).

Especially in a pseudo-naturalistic game, it is interesting to observe which aspects the game chose to model and which aspects it chose not to model, and discuss the implications to the comparison between the game world and the real world. This is as valid for Factorio as it is for Conquistador or Monopoly or Civilization VI. If the reader believes that "important" (to them) aspects were left out, they may legitimately criticize this reading of the game and point out why viewing some aspect as realistic would be wrong, regardless. Of course, it would absolutely NOT be legitimate to automatically extend this criticism to the game itself, or even more so to the author, it is just a criticism of a certain reading of the game.

There are cases when this type of reading can be seen as an explicit intention of the game design, and in those cases it starts to become more acceptable to criticize the author(s) themselves. For example, while pollution was a major problem in early Civ games, it was removed from the newer ones (until the latest expansion for Civ 6). Given the known importance of pollution in recent human history and discourse, and its presence in the other games, this omission can naturally be seen as intentional and can be criticized or praised based on the message it sends. This would not be correct for Factorio.
There's a difference between "Scott, who blogs at slatestarcodex.com" and "Scott, who used to blog before we threatened him, and now can be found only on archive sources".
Chromedriver used to support three major releases of Chrome at a time, now it supports one: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads This means all selenium scripts break every two months.
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Those are superb points!

You might want to know that (4) has been IMO solved (long time audio enthusiast here, spent more than 15 years on solving that exact problem, developed my own startup that was focused on making DACs with the best possible analog sections - I gave up to a better idea done by someone else, which I'm going to mention next.

Rob Watts, a DAC designer from the UK has solved the problem with his FPGA based DACs and pulse array analog sections. Instruments' transients and how they impact a listener (human hearing is far, far more complicated than vision) seems to be the key for the brain to mark a given sound a "natural one" and properly place it into 3D space. Watts works exclusively for Chord Electronics nowadays, but he'd started his own kind of DACs in the 80s. The guy is a genius, I have nothing more to say. My long time quest for properly sounding audio source has been finished. Currently he's working on his Davina project which is going to bring the same technology for audio reproduction (and rebuilding) to studios, leveling up his game even more. Stay tuned, because it's going to take some time. The only other company that does something similar is DCS, but they're extremely expensive and they're rather on the fun side of listening than accuracy.

Myself, I use Chord Electronics Hugo 2 DAC (that's the cheapest one having all important Watts' technology, ca. $2500; there's also Mojo - very cheap, but it's mostly for the on-the-go listening) paired with either Audioquest NightOwl headphones or my valve custom made stereo. It's a bliss.

PS: Regarding (3) there's no way noise cancellation technologies can produce superb audio. Not possible (unfortunately) at this point of technological advancement of how speakers are being build (and close to nothing has changed during the last 60 years in that area), so they should rather be saved for dealing with unpleasantness of very loud environments, not necessarily suited for music listening.
Like hindi and urdu, the biggest difference between yiddish and other german dialects is the script[1]. I have "Velo" and "Poulet", so my loan words are not as exotic as the hebrew/aramaic ("tukhes") and eastern european ("ну") influences on yiddish, but all the dialects[2] have loan words ("Homeoffice") and most have their own unique terms ("Rundumeli").

https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/הויפט_זייט is interesting if you can read hebrew script.

https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte_(Schwyzer... will give you some idea why I recommended starting with the NZZ, which almost writes in standardised german.

[1] it was yiddish that got me into russian, because it's easier to find more than just Andrews Sisters on YouTube in cyrillic:
eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeqbs9OFX0

also recommended, for any germanophone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1fERC_504
(or anglophones who don't mind subtitles)

[2] in tourist hiking areas, a popular past-time is to guess where people are from by how they greet on the trail.
Out of curiosity, for Central European media, how many of them reported on the damning half-dozen OPCW leaks[0] that create turbulence for Central European foreign policy in Syria?

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-a...
Apple Just Changed Mac Forever (With an ARM-Based Processor)
Thank you for the video + article combo. I enjoyed listening, but also that I was able to look back at the text to see specific things instead of having to rewind the video/audio and listen again.
Sorry I couldn't find a clear rationale in the link. Why does Google prefer a stateless load balancer? Is it infeasible to maintain state at that scale?
Did the same and told them why
Nope there was no mention of booting another OS. Craig talked about native virtualization that can be used to run Docker containers and other OS runtimes.
This sounds awesome! I'm using NixOS for almost a year now and am still very pleased with it. It can take some time to get things to work, but when it works you'll never have to look at it again! My biggest problem with Haskell is usually getting the dependencies right. So, the Nix package manager seems like a good fit.
This has been discussed once or twice... What did your search engine tell you?
> I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago

This. Sometimes we joke that "all news is fake news"; but it is actually true!
I feel ya, I am getting really disappointed that Apple decide to throwaway usability/accessibility of macOS in pursuit of more iOS-like design language. I can't even read the text on the menu bar clearly, had to zoom in and lower contrast of my screen.
I'm not sure virtualising ARM on Intel platforms will ever be performant enough to be usable. They will probably have to ship an emulator, and even then there will be issues as it'll be very difficult to emulate the strictness of ARM CPUs on non-ARM architectures, for things like unaligned memory accesses and replicating the memory model.
Or, you know, simple things like being able to easily attract people. No matter how I prefer Purescript/Haskell/Ocaml/F#/k or even Idris (not practical but I like writing things in it); if I need people fast, PHP/C#/TypeScript are just a better bet (I am surprised how easy it is to find good people with these skills now; seems unemployment hit these as well?).

But it depends on what you are doing ofcourse.
Yeah, except it is NOT a "maximize" button and never was.
macOS just doesn't do maximized apps the way Windows and some Linux DEs do.
Thank you for your comment ! What do you mean by crowdsourced DataRobot ?
The OS is the curated use case. Multitasking is an afterthought. Once the OS is no longer "holding them back" the Apple chip will run into similar problems that Intel CPUs run into.
The hook-nosed kike’s name is (((Scott Alexander [redacted]))).

ALL hook noses are fair game. Wish I could dox the (((NYT))) jewrnalist, too.
but often enough the blue curtain is just a blue curtain
Been there. To cancel the New York Times digital subscription, send an email to help@nytimes.com. You'll get a special offer, ignore that and you'll be unsubscribed.
> Logic isn't worth much without plugins, and I expect many smaller developers not to port to ARM

I don't think they can afford not to - mac users make up a signifcant share of their target audience.

Furthermore there's always the emulation option although it remains to be seen how performant that would be in an such a demanding, time-critical application like AU/VST instrument and effects.
The UK is set to launch a new digital strategy, again
I had a similar experience with reporters. I worked on a commercial product, on release someone just opening store had a sale, some reporter interpreted that sale as dumping a failing product and wrote that story. No amount of proof to the contrary would get them to retract. Whether or not it effected sales I have no idea but I learned some reporters are scum

There is also the phenomenon of reading articles about topics I know well and haven them be completely wrong which leads to to at least entertain the idea that the same is true for topics i don't know about. No idea what the solution is.
Licensing only works if you have to be in a certain jurisdiction to operate in it. Given that more "journalism" is online, if Murdoch or the Barclay Brothers or whoever don't like the restrictions of your licence, they can just employ journalists somewhere else. If they need boots on the ground, they can employ independent contractors.

How do you prevent independent journalists selling pieces to certain outlets without unfairly placing the burden on the journalist? Is it a list of proscribed publications? How does a publication get on the list? What happens to all the "good" journalists who work for an organisation when it gets put on the list?

What, exactly, is a journalist? Does it include columnists who write opinion pieces? If not, how do you prevent an outlet from running more and more "opinion pieces" masquerading as news? If you get defrocked for doing something your employer considers highly profitable, they can just rebrand you as a columnist.

What does it mean to be licensed? What does having a licence allow you to do that you can't do without one? Is this your "press pass" allowing you to ask questions at briefings? There have been cases recently when this has been revoked on a whim. Is it just to get a byline in a printed newspaper? Again, they can rebrand unlicensed journalists as runners, and print the piece under the name of a real journalist.

Journalism is not a terminal career like medicine or law. If you get thrown out of one of those professions, you lose your livelihood. There is nothing else that you are as well trained for that pays as well. You have to start at the bottom of something else. Most journalists are not particularly well paid. Former journalists can earn as much, if not more, writing press releases and advertising copy.
It's not the sort of work the National Review does so I'm not sure I really understand the hypothetical. Do journalists sometimes omit details to protect subjects or sources from harm? Sure. But the bar for harm is usually higher than 'the subject wouldn't like it'.
Wow, i’ve read all her 3 long blog posts about what happened and it angers me so much. I knew Vice was shit, but I had higher expectations from NY Times, Google or Twitter.

Here are the other parts:

- part 2: https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...

- part 3: https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...

There was a positive outcome too, though, check out this video where she helps save someone’s life (SFW): https://youtu.be/4VKZTmTP7oY
I live in Taiwan and know many engineers who work in Science park (Foxconn, Tsmc, etc.) It is not at all uncommon for Taiwanese engineers looking to work in China because they pay more, but they really don’t want to do that if given a choice. Lots of people work in China for three or four months and return to Taiwan for a two week rest. Taiwan just doesn’t pay very well for engineers and takes advantage of them being citizens of this country.

These same engineers looking to go would rather relocate to Germany or the US than China. Either way there is a serious brain drain going on here where the brightest want to leave. Taiwan is a wonderful place but I question its stability over the next few decades.
> The main problem is MSM with corporate money behind it

Plenty of non-profit MSM, including the BBC, The Guardian, AP, and so on.
Try yellow dragon fruit. It actually has a flavor. I find white and red to be bland or maybe grassy tasting. Yellow is sweet.
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I wouldn't only because I've already seen enough examples of them impugning their credibility that I've been able to form my own conclusions.

I wasn't aware that the NYT was considered equivalently and oppositely biased. The articles I have read have not put up any red flags for me, but I'm not closed off to the possibility that I've missed the signs or haven't read the right articles. Hence my question.

I take it you think virtually all their reporting is sufficiently biased so as not to be considered trustworthy?
Fair enough. Your comment (which I upvoted) reminded me of this, from Emerson's journals:

Wm Little came to church & heard my sermon against minding trifles. He told me, had he preached he should have taken the other side. Probably not one hearer besides thought so far on the subject.
Yes I suppose that's true.