skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those that dislike patriotism so much should provide the ultimate proof of their beliefs and renounce their citizenship.

It’s quite clear you are not referring to single individual here but instead calling out a group and [sarcastically] suggesting they take some action. If including myself in a mentioned group is “making it about myself” and odd, I’m fine with that.
Promitive as it was, QBasic had the right mix of commands people wanted (drawing, colors, music, file access), with the immediacy of running and seeing where your errors were (stepping through code) to make many a beginner coder motivated enough to stay with it to learn and develop beyond. I'll always owe it a debt for being my outlet through my middle school years.
Ah, beta testing new M1 software
Moralizing hasn't solved the obesity crisis, so I don't think it will solve the climate crisis either.
I sure hope it's cheaper than the Rohloff hub, I can't imagine anyone buying these if they are very expensive. I thought I had read that chains and sprockets were pretty efficeint in terms of energy loss.
I also was trying to figure out why I would use this over Bazel. Then I remember reading a story yesterday about how ex-googlers miss their tooling when they leave. Their CTO is an ex-googler, so maybe this is the reason.
> Your argument is, essentially, the state is powerless to restrict markets.

This either/or attitude about free markets and regulation is upsetting. Someone makes a point about a specific technology and the effects of its high value to both public and private sector, and the common reaction is to generalize for the whole history of economic theory around markets. If people trust the state in its ability to regulate a given market, then great. I think it's overly optimistic in this case however.
I've always taken the Feynman quote to mean: just because you understand the rules doesn't mean you understand the implications, which are varied, vast, and counter-intuitive.
I have use all of these tools and your take isn't accurate at all. Make doesn't obfuscate anything more than Plz or CMake or whatever.

Here are some real reasons why Make isn't the end-all:

- Make doesn't allow platform selection in a nice way.
- Make doesn't work on Windows natively (no, NMake doesn't count).
- Recursive make doesn't work well at all.
- Make doesn't track byproducts or deleted artifacts.
- Make doesn't have auto-clean.
- Make doesn't facilitate out-of-source builds.
- Make itself isn't a scripting language (arguably good/bad).
- Make doesn't facilitate compiler selection cross-platform, so things like MSVC are nearly impossible to integrate nicely without the use of the developer tools prompt.
- Make can't (elegantly) handle a number of rule cases, such as single-input multiple-output rules (it can, but it's a hack).

Not sure why you think Make is unapproachable. That's like saying shell scripting is unapproachable. No developer worth a damn is going to avoid shell scripting, and as long as they understand "this file turns into this file using this command" then Make makes sense.

As with all tools, Make and Autotools and CMake and probably Plz will be misused by developers that think they're being clever. In actuality, they make things worse at best and unusable/unmaintainable at worst.

As a build systems designer, I've evaluated Plz personally and found it to be neat but not suitable for most of the problems I think build systems should solve.
Meanwhile your comments seem to just be hot air ;)
The short answer is yes, they are (well, can be) easier and faster and work better.

I would strongly recommend watching this talk if you want to understand why systems like Bazel and Please were created:

Build Systems with Andrey Mokhov (Jane Street)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9YA32uV3Ls
> I'm finding I'm using Amazon less as more retailers go online and offer better prices. Rarely does Amazon have the best price anymore.

For me, I found this not to be true. I've been ordering gifts for people fleeing the company I work due to a merger and the changes, so there has been a lot. Literally everything I found on niche sites I found on Amazon for cheaper and at a faster delivery rate aswell.
Back in my BSD-on-a-VAX days, I once typed

grep string * > out

and wondered why it was taking so long. The shell (probably csh) had created the file "out" before it expanded the *, so my grep command was forever finding "string" in it's own output. It filled the disk before I realized what was happening. I just did a quick test and bash seems to create the output file after doing the globbing, and under tcsh, grep gave a warning that the output file was also an input file and it did not search it.
Is this true on a per capita basis?
>Imposter syndrome literature takes this a step further by implying that no one knows what they’re doing, that everyone is equally bad, and that there are no adults in the room. The goal isn’t just to lift people up, it’s to mentally bring everyone else down.

It may seem like that at first, but carry it to the logical conclusion. Assuming one does have imposter syndrome and isn't just incompetent:

1. Other people in your field are not as highly skilled or immune from mistakes as you think

2. You are not as far below them as you think

3. Their amazing accomplishments, which had convinced you of their inhuman skill and your incompetence, are still amazing. And how can you call somebody who achieves amazing things incompetent?

4. So, if there's less distance between you and them than you thought, the only explanation is that you're not as incompetent as you thought.

>Instead, we should be giving people skills to accurately self-assess without tying current abilities to their self-worth

Is it any better to tie self-worth to future abilities? I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but it might just be delaying the problem.
Exactly what I was about to say. Bazel is a monstrosity in terms of how much shite it pulls in to get started.
Does this mean python performance is finally competitive with those fancy JIT languages now?
I'm talking about "marketting" to other software developers, not to non-software developers. Communication with people like oneself is a core skill, not a specialized trade.

This isn't a paid product, after all.

(I'm also a traditionalist that thinks writing good prose and writing good programs are related skills.)
I think one good way to think about it is all of these build systems create Make environments. They create the makefiles and have all the other tools that go with it.

So at the end of the day you end up with an executable artifact, but hopefully you did a lot less work to get there.
Not everyone has the uzery of quitting. Free will we all have but situations can drastically curb our options.
Here’s the talk:

https://youtu.be/n_qon5rAElg
> when my coworkers look at code, they just debug it in their minds almost instantly

Woah back up, this is a good thing.

Easy to understand good is better. Writing code in a simple way means that the next person having to go back and fix bugs / etc won't have as many issues.
To be clear: I was neither advocating for or against lockdowns. I'm advocating thoughtfulness of trade-offs, informed by (but not limited to) data; as opposed to rigid ideology, or knee-jerk gut reactions. And in particular: to recognize that even if one believes that the data of a specific real-world circumstance clearly favors one end of the spectrum, there are also circumstances where the data can break the other way. Therefore we need to be tolerant and open-minded to good-faith skepticism in either direction.

The fact that a wrong answer can be fatal makes it all the more important to avoid what Daniel Schmachtenberger refers to as "limbic highjacking", or more colloquially, "being triggered" (which includes both fear of death, and fear of losing autonomy).

> ends justifying the means... the trend of a growing security state

It's also worth remembering that these are not mutually exclusive: that circumstances exist where the ends do justify the means, yet are also used as a cynical power grab with additional negative externalities. Again, the only way to know the difference is dispassionate discernment (what Julia Galef refers to as "scout mindset" rather than "soldier mindset" [0]).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYEtQ5Zdn8
Then why is it considered a "mini moon" if it's not a moon at all?
No one who doesn't believe they can accomplish something ever accomplishes it. Few things in life are certainties. But I know there are many paths for my next action: some which involve self-modification and others which involve world-modification.

In all but few cases, self-modification is the superior strategy. And I find that self-deception gives me the ability to perform self-modification much more easily.

And after all, my objective is success by my own metric. If the parameters of my life are constrained by outside factors, it hardly changes the actions which I take where I have agency. Imagine my objective as ending up in the top right corner of an infinite plane. You say that the universe actually constrains me to the rectangle whose corners are (-500, -500) and (+100, +100). Well, now all my actions to reach the top right corner will now target me into (+100, +100). That is adequate. That will do.

In any case, I'm fairly certain that those who don't work hard and who don't believe in their ability to achieve success (by their own metric) will outcompete in survival metrics all those who don't. If societies choose to overempower the latter, they will eventually be outcompeted by societies that empower the former, c.p.

My limited experience has me fairly convinced about this. But it doesn't matter, because if I'm wrong, I'll be outcompeted in turn.
Sounds like they are responsible for about a tenth of the recovery since the March recession.
>I've been living with 16GB of RAM forever, so maybe I am used to fitting in that memory space... I avoid Electron based apps like the plague, and with being able to run iPad/iOS apps on the M1, I've been able to cut down even further since things like Authy are way faster to launch when they aren't large Chrome based hogs.

iOS apps on the Mac are a game changer for me. The UX isn't 100% perfect, but it sure is better than web apps, which are very often slow, resource intensive and kill your battery. I haven't touched the Twitter web app since I've installed the iOS/Catalyst app on my Mac. Even with its iOS-optimized user interface, the better performance of the iOS app makes it so much more enjoyable than the web version.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing other iOS apps arrive on the Mac, to replace their web variants.

There's really something to be said about how web developers have been killing the performance of their websites with their bloated frameworks or whatever. I know web apps will always be at a performance disadvantage compared to native apps, but the performance regression has gotten absurd. Using Reddit via the Apollo iOS app is a quick and buttery smooth experience, meanwhile the redesigned Reddit webpage is a laggy stuttering mess on my MacBook Pro.
most Americans? lol I'll believe it when I see it
A Commodore 64 emulator on a raspberry Pi connected to the family TV is what I used, with similar results. My boy was instantly programming and in awe of all the magic the words could weave. Boot straight into BASIC.

This one: https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/
The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremmie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
> Autoconf, Automake, m4

all of which are even worse than make itself.
Security is the antithesis of convenience. Would you rather they send every unit out with Frontier Law levels of user protections? Every graphics artist, musician, businessperson, student, and Joe Bloggs who buys a Mac needs to study the implications of owning a computer for themselves and mitigate all the threats on their own. Suddenly Apple computers are infected with malware like Windows was in the 2000s and we just burn all the research Apple did on the right compromise for their entire user base because a few power users want to turn on a machine and debug system processes before they even log in.

I perceive a level of anti-Apple bias in HN threads, I don't think it's imagined, but more prevalent is the power user bias of people who have advanced knowledge of computer systems and want a superuser machine off the shelf.

To me, the fact that you call them "security features" and not some pejorative euphemism is a bit of a capitulation.
Apparently well adjusted modern gear can be 98% efficient.
First thing every software engineer does after leaving Google is rewrite Blaze. Just like every site reliability engineer rewrites borgmon. What I chose to do myself was make Blaze happen using a Makefile config. There's a blog post somewhere where Google talks about why they switched from GNU Make to Blaze c. 2006. if I remember correctly it basically boiled down to not having strict dependency checking. So I thought, why not simply avoid their published mistakes without changing build systems? I learned everything I could about make, discovered that variables are secretly lambdas, and that enabled me to figure out a way to have a static archive package for each folder, which also avoided the need to write a makefile code generator. Then I wrote a simple C program to check incremental elf symbols so the build graph stays sanely formed. It totally got make working like a dream in a way I simply hadn't seen before. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/...
> People are too busy asking why instead of how

What does that mean? Asking why what instead of how what?
That’s a fine opinion. I still uphold that such throwaway troll accounts should be banned, but to each his own.
A corporation can influence / censor / ban you, a government can do all of that and ... kill you.
This simply doesn't scale. We have this happening to an extreme in the US because cities are spread out and people are already used to drive to get what they want (so roads are well-built for deliveries), but the more density you get the less this becomes practical (O(n^2)). Large cities everywhere else in the world perform distributions not point-to-point but point-to-hubs, where people are used to go out for a short walk to get what they want from their local grocery store, electronic store, restaurant, etc. I think we'll see more and more deliveries being made for semi-large items though.

Looking at my history, I made an average of 60 orders per year through Amazon while living in the US, an average of 4 orders while living in the UK, and an average of 5 orders while living in France.
Until the SSD dies.
It's recommend to disable swap if you have an ssd
Is it a monstrosity? You need the JVM but the JVM doesn’t seem like a monster to me.
can I tape a large chunk of cotton candy to my face?
Agreed, with one caveat. It isn't "people" who think that racism just went away. It's white people.
Same here...

2012 - 1

2013 - 7

2014 - 109 (mostly free ebook)

2015 - 18

2016 - 76 (more disposable income + moved to a house)

2017 - 116

2018 - 214

2019 - 243

2020 - 212
I also read scripts from the user repositories on my distro. It’s perfectly pragmatic for us because we understand shell scripts and system administration. It makes me feel better too. But I would never tell someone to avoid installing developer tooling simply because it pipes curl to bash. It’s not pragmatic to tell a new developer they need to learn to be a sysadmin before installing homebrew.
You are not referring to rohloff, but the gates carbon drive, which is amazing technology. Rohloff works with either a chain or a belt.
I enjoy the rohloff system. I use it with the gates centertrack belt drive instead of a chain.

The rohloff system is quite heavy though, so I don't know if it's "more efficient" than a traditional high end sprocket-and-chain system. The rohloff also shifts the weight to the rear of the bike. Maybe the pinion gear box system might be better since its weight is low and towards the center of the bike.
It is that fire - it was the only fire in New London on Nov. 18 with injuries.

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-tony-hsieh-zappo...

>DTP Companies spokesperson Megan Fazio said in an email that Hsieh was injured in a Nov. 18 fire in New London.

>New London Fire Chief Thomas Curcio told The Courant there was only one fire with injuries that day — at a home at 500 Pequot Ave. (Curcio declined to release the identity of the person injured in that fire.)

>Curcio told The Courant that, at about 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 18, his department received a report that a fire had trapped someone in the home. All of New London’s fire vehicles responded to the scene, Curcio said, and pulled the person out of the home
Igloo-Shaped Polygons for Outdoor Dining
Thanks! I was so sure this just _couldn't_ be PowerPoint that I didn't even bother to check.

I suppose the lesson here is that talent matters more than the tool.
As a guy who ignored the chain on his first bike with XTR gears and had to replace whole drivetrain - yep, I would buy this chain. No question asked, as long as they guarantee me that it wont be stretched.
How well can these handle dirt and debris? It looks like a high precision connection which makes me slightly worried that an errant grain of sand or just an accumulation of road grime might jam up the works.
I agree, and I was disappointed that none of these two masterpieces was mentioned in the article. My personal favorite is "Confession of a mask" for its ambiguous feelings.

On the literary side, the article does mention the "Sea of Fertility" tetralogy where the second volume is the most political, with a surprising depiction of an idealistic coup that cannot succeed. But the quality of this tetralogy clearly goes down with each volume.
Diabetes+lies+(Presell+Page)
Your side note should be the first point.
I hate the "M1 vs Intel MacBook" comparison. Every Intel MacBook back to 2016 has broken thermals. They're all running at maybe half their rated clock speed. 13" MBP is a 4GHz part running at 1.4GHz. 16" MBP is a 4.8GHz part throttled to 2.3GHz. You're comparing M1 vs. a broken design which Apple broke.

Don't congratulate Apple for failing to ship trash.

There's an argument for efficiency on a laptop, no doubt, but that's not what the parent commenter is talking about.

M1 is the highest perf-per-watt CPU today, no question. Ignoring efficiency, there are plenty of faster CPUs both for single-core and multi-core tasks. That's what "my Hackintosh did the build in 5 minutes" is showing.
Here's a quick read of that one time Minor Planet Center cataloged the Rosetta Space Probe as an asteroid

https://thenerdnextdoor.com/tag/2007-vn84/
Is this really true? I thought Rosetta translated x86 to arm

Tried looking for docs but didn’t find anything decisive either way
I appreciate your opinion. I'd do even more so if you'd tell me why I should be banned. The OP mentions a "sock-puppet PR company" aiming to support Aston Martin. And please let's keep the spirit of HN and be open, honest, direct and respectful.

On twitter: Aside from 4chan and parler, do you know a more toxic social network than twitter?

Besides, Bosch (known for diesel-gate) doesn't lend much credibility to the claims (of course, abiding to twitter laws without any proof).
I think the reactionaries in any of these conversations are the ones advocating that Apple not improve security, i.e. that they don't make progress in protecting their users.

There are many reactive voices speaking out in support of Apple, but they are responding to those who complain (for the most part) from the outside, or on their way out of Apple's door.
Nobody has mentioned the cannabis industry, specifically extractors. We have all your jars. We buy out ULINE, we go to Fred Meyers / Meijors / Fleet Farm, Walmart, etc...

Amazon could charge 4 times (currently about 2.5 times) the price per 12 quart jars shipped, and it still makes sense to use them when your product is $10-$60 a gram.

It's not all our fault, but not all extractors in the commercial industry are using lab glass, and it shows on the shelves in legal states.

Typically, some ULINE commercial accounts will show items as "Sold out" when customers with upgraded accounts will see at least some quantity. You can also order Ball brand jars from the company themselves in most cases.
That's actually perfect, as you can game the system for non-immediate items.
The First Step to Creating a Truly Autistic Friendly Workplace
Great chain, but the Gates Carbon Drive is likely a superior technology. Europe has largely adopted it, but it is rare in the states. I have a Riese & Müller bike with a Gates Carbon Drive and it is absolutely lovely. Silent, but best of all, no grease on my pants or hands, ever. They handle dirt and dust super well (just dry off and wipe down with a cloth/no gears get jammed with a sealed planetary gear system). It also is said to last thousands of miles, if not 1e4 miles+.
Cool, updated the profile.
Network topology design at 17,000 km/h: LEO satellite Internet
> I don't understand, so you don't care and it's okay if he cares, but if he says that people not caring is part of the problem then he's an elitist? What is your argument here, that he has no grounds to point out the apathy toward the long-term impact of your decisions?

What problem? How do my decisions to prefer one computer platform have any impact on GP or you or anyone? Apple turning the entire Mac line into iPads can’t and won’t eliminate more open platforms that you or GP may prefer. There’s no future inflection point where Apple has locked down the Mac platform in a way that enables them to storm into your home and replace your Linux computer (or whatever) with a Mac.

It’s elitist because the suggestion is that my preference represents an inability to evaluate the impact it has on me. It has no meaningful impact on you. It would have no meaningful impact on you if I decided to eschew all computing technology and go live in a monastery.

> You go so far as to validate the things he's concerned about and reiterate that you just don't care about them. I don't see what's wrong with pointing out the inherent shortsightedness of that line of thinking.

I am allowed to have different preferences and priorities. It’s not shortsighted, I see the compromise I’m making and I’m satisfied with what it provides in return. And since it in no way harms you or GP, it’s not your business to tell me to change my preferences.

> Have you considered that those people understand basic human psychology and that they take issue with the exact priorities that they are speaking against?

Have you considered that taking issue with other people’s preferences and imposing your own is far more controlling than just accepting that some people like different things, even if their preferences are personally limiting in a way you’re not comfortable with for yourself?
Reduced chain width has significantly changed bicycle drive trains over recent decades. Bicycles have many more usable gears. A manufacturer who pushed a non-standard chain heavily would wound cycle shops. Standardization facilities keeping parts in stock.