skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody asked, yet I'll say it nonetheless: I had the same experience, reversed.

Employer gave me a MacBook pro, I tried for a year to get used to it, but no matter how much I tweaked it I couldn't completely get out of the horrible (imo) experience that is Mac os Windows manager.

It I want to switch to an open window I'll switch to the freaking opened window, stop trying to hijack what open an app means.

Anyways, Mac os isn't bad, but you have to accept to give up a lot of things. It's their way, or nothing.
The visual density of Japanese characters has more to do with the fact that it's not a requirement to have white space between words so you can line break mid word. The characters also don't change in size (no real upper or lower case) so everything is pretty mono spaced.

For example look at the wikipedia article for mother in english vs Japanese

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8D%E8%A6%AA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother

In the English sections with pictures there's significantly more white space between the text and pictures than in the Japanese version.
>Youtube will not be outdone by a competitor, neither will Facebook, neither will Google

What happened to MySpace?
Fairly normal in larger organizations, has been the case in my past 3 jobs.

I guess my last several orgs just kept that away from me then, for whatever reasons they had. It's honestly surprisingly new to me that "committees" for such a thing are "normal" at large orgs.

In those cases, I had a lot of autonomy over promotions-as a leader, other than the usual "get approval from the CFO for funding if there is a raise involved"; beyond that, coordinating promotions with my director what the promotion would entail was all there was to it.
I've done this and one thing to consider is Linux has terrible power management. Linux sucks battery life even out of the best configured laptops. I'll probably move back to mac.
But systemd has all of those things. Everything in systemd can be orchestrated with dbus. In fact that’s all systemctl really is — a dbus client. And the file format is ini. And shell style environment files if you want.

And systemd actually comes with two image launching systems systemd-nspawn and systemd-portable. And then with systemd-machined you can add software that needs virtualization too.

The interface to journald is more complicated than it should be but it’s also really powerful — docker logs doesn’t hold a candle to the kind of filtering it can do.

Overall systemd is a stupidly powerful and featureful supervisor compared to Docker. Just the dependency management alone should demonstrate that. Then you get mounts, swap, socket activation, more powerful restarting policy and the whole suite of isolation and security features.
Once Again, Facebook Is Using Privacy as a Sword to Kill Independent Innovation
Oh, 50% discount. I might bite. Sad thing is they had no way to tell their app store customers about this (at least not the very infrequent users like me), and I had to find out from a random HN discussion.
This is great! If the developer is reading this thread can you add an option to filter out ligature fonts?
nbdev looks promising. I'm wondering if it solves what I see as the biggest pain of using notebooks when I'm doing data science work.

When a notebook gets large, it can be difficult to keep track of dependencies between cells. For workflows in which you have to run cells n_1, n_2, ..., n_k before running cell n.

I try to organize my cells so that if I run them from first to last, all dependencies are covered (e.g. "Restart kernel and run all cells).

Unfortunately, this doesn't help when I discover a bug in cell n_2 and don't want to run ALL cells n_2 + 1, ..., n-1, n because some of them carry out expensive operations.

When working in my editor, the way I resolve this is to make a light CLI wrapper around my program (if __name__ == "__main__": import argparse; ...) and my CLI commands encode all this dependency information.

Is it possible to get this kind of experience in a Jupyter notebook without building a custom plugin (I think a frontend plugin would suffice)?
Is this about availability? Meaning that purchasing the Arm Neoverse that Graviton2 is based on, is too difficult if not operating at massive scale?

This Anandtech review has a page called "An X86 Massacre":

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...

Are giants like Apple and AWS just making it impossible for a player like Cloudflare to buy enough of the leading-edge Arm processors? And Epyc performs so well, and it's easy to buy, so they wait another year?
Buildroot – A simple, easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems
Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley
This is a lot of great resources, thanks a lot! I'll definitely refer back to this comment.
Surprised to discover that the Ono-Sendai of Neuromancer fame was an actual cyberspace company.
Thanks for the comment, I agree whole heartedly. Apple makes incredible devices, but their stance towards software is concerning. The web is the natural solution to their walled garden.
What are the best metal construction laptops to run Linux on? I really prefer Apple's unibody hardware to any plastic shell laptops I've seen.

I'm especially partial to MacOS, but honestly they're great machines.
It was outdone by Facebook, back when the industry was still growing. 10 years later, things have solidified.
I'm not sure what you do, so you should check. I do web dev + Rust, and so far I have had no issues.
It's a shame webrtc uses it's own protocol. Otherwise there would probably be dozens of self hostable alternatives.
Last time i did look into docker it couldn't even tell if a service is up or still starting and there were all kinds of weird hacks around that like "is something listening on the configured port". Did that improve?
Thank you! I like the idea of starting off very simple. I think I jumped into the deep end too quick because I had a specific project in mind, but I guess I should work my way up to it. I will probably be working my way through your video series, it looks very approachable.
This is the stickiest thing I've got by far. It is so nice to have a "front" phone number with SMS (and sometimes MMS) capabilities & voicemail capabilities that can be used from a web browser. If I thought that Google was capable of selling me the service as a valued customer rather than the product, I'd be happy to pay for it.

I've looked around at a few possibilities and narrowed it down to two I intend to try:

* https://jmp.chat/ plus maybe http://getkaiwa.com/ -- on the fiddly side, but with great fiddliness comes great flexibility, maybe?

* https://www.openphone.co/ -- seems more turnkey
Even in a digital world, the Rubik's Cube endures, says creator
I use dialpad.

The service isn't free but the call quality is far better than Google voice and you can text from your number with an app on your phone or computer.

I guess the guys who created grandstation (what turned into Google voice) started this company.
Wait, I didn't say that I get to legally dictate what Facebook is allowed to do.

However, I get to be morally outraged at their actions whenever it pleases me, and I get to get others to be outraged too and if we're enough people we may convince them to change course.

In that sense, I don't care one bit about the guy in Teheran who thinks being LGBT is wrong and I don't have to.
Congrats on your Show HN!

I absolutely liked your copy.

Is karma.fm one of your side projects too?
I was looking for the same thing, and definitely did not want to pay monthly. The best alternative I found was Tumult Hype. $50 flat I believe, plus a pro version for another $50 that includes SVG animation tools. It's a GUI based approach to CSS3 and JS animations. Exports to HTML or MP4.
Then you really missed out on a treat the [1]Nintendo Virtualboy released in 1995. I had a lot of fun playing it sadly it never took off.
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5iEqDDv3U
GUI based systems were a thing at least since Smalltalk 80.

Generally all kinds of IDEs were common on smallest machines. Lisp had nice IDEs on small machines like the early Macintosh Common Lisp which ran usefully in 4 MB RAM on a Mac SE.

> found it easier to get things done in Franz LISP than in the rather overbuilt Common LISP systems of the era

Many others thought different and GUI based Windows systems with IDEs won much of the market.

> I found it easier to get things done in Franz LISP than in the rather overbuilt Common LISP systems of the era.

Franz LISP was dead end, never made it to Windows as a product.

> Common LISP systems of the era were one giant application you never left.

Many of CL systems of that area (which appeared mid 80s) could be used like Franz LISP just with vi and a shell: CMUCL, KCL, Allegro CL, Lucid CL, LispWorks and many others.

Franz Inc. created Allegro CL, which ran bare bones on Unix with any editor&shell, with GNU Emacs (via ELI) or additionally with its own IDE tools. Eventually also ran on Microsoft Windows, including a GUI designer.
That's nice, thank you.
I’m 41, lived in Canada till I was 31. Software Engineer, living in Boston mostly. I have always paid for the top tier health insurance benefits in my jobs. I have to say the experience in the US is waiting long for everything regardless and the User Experience :P is terrible. I spend so much time on calls clearing up confusions like who I owe money too, who replaces some health equipment I need, and etc. Privatizing seems to make for too much economic specialization that ends up meaning no vertical integration and thus a disjoint customer experience.
Due to some logistics complexities recycling fuel doesn't make as much economic sense as it does for places like France. Though if we did have 1000 plants it would make a lot of sense haha.

But besides that there is always waste. The key part is understanding what level of waste. There's a fair amount of low level waste (low radiation levels). In fact, this is like 90% of total waste (even more if you count my volume). But this type of waste is not the kind people are typically concerned with because it isn't radioactive for long nor is it producing dangerous levels. These types are not really recyclable though (concrete, steel beams, etc).

I do suggest reading up on our own AcidburnNSA's post about waste[0]

[0] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
I saw parts of Bangkok where people were feeding stray cats and had set up little donation boxes to that effect.
Playing with this a bit. It appears I can't use `pip` with `pyodide` and have to use `micropip` with:

micropip.install('torch')

Which fails with a message:

Couldn't find a pure Python 3 wheel for 'torch'

Would you agree that this is a substitute for "pencil and paper" to express ideas around data?
Interior BC Canuck here. The system is miserable. My gf has mental health issue, short of actually attempting suicide, there is pretty much no way to get access to any psychiatrist [I guess she wouldn't be a burden on the system if she succeeded...]. Her father had bloody urine, and was recently denied cancer appointments. And on top of that private practices are straight out illegal.

Also, as personal experience, while living in Quebec, as I was in-between visa, I had to walk for 2 days on a broken foot as the ER wouldn't check me unless I paid ~1000$ for a consult. I was lucky to be be able to go to a private clinic, paid $50 and was done.

I really wish I could just pay to access a private practice...
This web site feels to me like the Intel ARM knock-off websites that kept equating "the full internet experience" to "running flash" which was something Apple was studiously not doing on iOS.

Bad memories aside, tracking what worked before and is in progress to working again, is useful service. Back during the 68K -> PowerPC switch this kind of information was very helpful.
Funtoo Linux and Sabayon joining forces
I mean, I agree with the specific case, but I really don't see how entirely disenfranchising a political party for the views they usually espouse isn't a slippery slope that leads to non-democratic results (i.e. major parties being silenced; or one government being arbitrarily declared "legitimate" while another is declared "illegitimate.")

Note: I'm not talking about censorship of individual posts they make for the views expressed in those posts. That's what Facebook was doing here, and I fully support that. (I'm from Canada; the concept is enshrined in law here!)

I'm just talking about the idea that you probably don't want third parties like Facebook to be responsible for deciding whether to censor people, rather the much "safer" question of whether to censor individual posts. Especially when those people are current political candidates, and the people calling for their de-platforming are people opposed to their election, who are perfectly willing to libel them if it silences them at a time crucial for swinging an election.

Facebook, unlike a government, does not have a concept of due process, and so is not equipped to deal with complaints from people who have motivations (like swinging an election) strong enough to be willing to "take it in the chin" for libelling someone, as long as their libel causes the desired de-platforming effect at just the right time.

This is why we tend to want censorship to be a legal matter: courts have well-built, well-thought-out mechanisms to allow the recipient of a complaint against them to fight back. Meanwhile, what kind of arbitration system does Facebook have? Or, more abstractly, what kind of arbitration system are they required to have? Are there any requirements at all, for how Facebook and other networks should work with people, when others are asking for them to be de-platformed?
They've already made him the common enemy and are filled with rage about whatever they've deigned to be censorship.

At least in highly-televised public hearings, you have the opportunity to impress upon the public the insanity of their elected officials' positions.
Yes, this it.

American care is actually really quite good, but the cost curve is very aggressive, it's something like 2x as much and doesn't cover everyone.

And inverse is true: Canadians believe in some fantastically weird things about the US system.

In my experience as a Canadian living in the US, I was basically shocked at how new, modern and efficient everything was, how service was relatively quick and how knowledgeable the experts were.

The Canadian system 'covers everyone' but it absolutely rations care, you will wait quite a while for non essential services, and in some cases a little bit longer than comfortable for other services as well.

My concern about comparing the various systems, is that I believe a lot of the 'exceptionalism' of the US system bleeds out into the rest of the world and we benefit from that quite a lot.

The challenge is: how do we get the prices down without materially reducing quality of care because even as their gross inefficiencies, it's hard to suck out just the problem costs without affecting the system as a hole - akin to 'losing weight' if you go on a diet, you're going to lose muscle as well as fat.
Make an extra effort to learn something else and move away. If you are already making a living by building ios apps, you're smart enough to be a developer in any other ecosystem.

I have a co-worker that was in your exact same situation and just by showing interest in the devops world and sitting next to them and expressing his interest in that area he managed to just move there and now he loves it. You might find something similar, it just takes will, courage and effort.
> The point is that even if we go to a ~70% wind model, we will _STILL_BE_WORSE_OFF_THAN_FRANCE_WAS_40_YEARS_AGO_.

No.[1]

Denmark has about 48% of their energy from wind, and their per capita carbon emissions are at the same level as in 1960.[2] Ireland with 33% is at the same level as in 1980.[3] Portugal with 27% now has the same emissions as 1990.[4]

There is a trend here.

> I don't get why this is so hard to understand for all those down voters.

You are ignoring data that doesn't agree with your hypothesis.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/217804/wind-energy-penet...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

[3] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

[4] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
It's coming for Linux too [0].

Unfortunately, they'll be removing the webRequest API [1] which was the only reason I would have wanted to use it. This will happen probably whenever Google deprecates Manifest v2 and Manifest v3 becomes the only interface for extensions, which will stop uBlock Origin from working.

Other than that, when I tried Edge it didn't work perfectly on every site. But, it will be nice to have another non-Google browser to choose from.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/20/microsoft-edg...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/15/microsoft_adopting_go...
Maybe you are just too far into docker. I noticed that a lot of default workflows (needlessly) depended on docker running with privileges. One big reason for that seem to be Mac users that only know docker from inside a VM. However, if you think about what you're really needing for CI you will easily see that docker-in-docker gains you nothing. You can as well use plain docker (or podman). The same holds for privileges. No CI operation should need privileges, if only for the reason that it should never alter the CI system itself.

I encourage you to not take the standard workflows as a given and really think about what you need and I bet you either end up with a use case that can be covered by rootless podman or something that requires real VMs anyways.
> It's fairly obvious from the outside which companies are "tech" companies.

It it though? You'll find a bunch of replies here with disagreements about what "tech" companies actually are, so how is that obvious?

> But let's be honest, you're just being pedantic now.

And I think you're being too obtuse. It's one thing to refer to "tech companies" as a general colloquialism (I do), but if you're going to try to start counting them, I think the distinction is important. You'll find pretty quickly that many companies started in the last 10 years will just call themselves tech companies (Nikola, WeWork, Palantir, etc. come to mind) but have slight variations on revenue generated from software services.

My bigger point here, as I've pointed out in other threads is that "tech" isn't a market - its an operating model. It's one to thing colloquially say "this is a tech company", but then when someone says "how do we count how many tech companies do X" then we start to get into a whole bunch of grey areas about how to measure something...hence my original comment.

> But yes, of course they are a tech company. One of the first.

It's a bad example, but it's still a tech company? I think you just proved my point :)
Actually, the first MEMS devices predate this by decades, though the first MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers were actually developed around the same time as the Sega VR, though not available commercially. The article does link to the patent for the motion tracker used, and it's pretty odd (and not MEMS): https://patents.google.com/patent/US5526022A/en
Sorting on the columns with checkboxes seems broken.
Not really a tool per-se, Japanese has standardized subset of kanji suitable for computer use. This is the JIS X 0208 (Kanji 1 and Kanji 2 containing 6,879 characters) and JIS X 0213 (Kanji 3 and Kanji 4 containing 11,233 characters). There are several tricks font designer can utilizes, such as reusing radicals (component of a kanji) and combine them. This technique only works for certain type of fonts and still requires hand-tuning.
> Google is slowly replacing all their messaging products with this

This is exactly what Google used to say about hangouts! https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2017/03/updates-in-g...
The author probably missed it, though I'm sure Sidney himself didn't.

I wonder, in fact, if that's how it came to be: that Sidney coined "Philisides" as a pun, then derived "Astrophel" from that. The poem Astrophel and Stella predates the first known use of Philisides, but it may have been in his head already.

If not, it's a heck of an amusing coincidence.
Really interesting! Do you mind sharing what your company is? (I am the author of the blog post)
Not unique to Asia, though. The software situation in Germany feels similar.
I'm talking about facts, not character judgements. There are Senators (or at least there were during the time of the hearing I'm referencing) who absolutely thought that Covid was no worse than a bad flu, science be damned.
I put my memory palaces in Anki.
> nobody cares about this shit in Europe btw because our identities are based on our nationality

This seems to be changing : in France young Muslims are now placing Sharia above the secular law :

https://www.marianne.net/societe/laicite-et-religions/des-fr...

Note that the USA (and European Union, and of course the Muslim countries) are blamed for the dissemination of this dominant communitarian model.
We need a library of flash support that can be integrated into players and browsers easily.
It certainly is a gaping hole. But the machines that docker runs on in my experience have a 100% sudoers ratio, so the practical impact is limited.
Ubisoft is French…