skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it on my work computer and it's not a word I'm comfortable showing to clients. You never know who may have had (or still does have) an addiction, and I also don't want them seeing it and thinking I have an addiction since that could be bad for business.
I'm really sad about this. My dad has been playing for a decade, and occasionally brags about his farm. He's really found something to tinker with that brings him joy as he ages.
Rust is a huge omission from that list. Until about 5 years ago there was no safe, GC-free, practical systems programming language, and furthermore it was unknown how to build such a thing. Now we know.
> One day I went to use the woman restroom my “iBuddy” was there. She told me “die!” and slammed the door in my face.

Dunno about anyone else, but this really doesn't add up for me. I can't imagine that happening in real life. It doesn't make sense.

That threw me off the whole story. Hoping it's real, though.
I feel the same for the browser environment. Other than a few new “exciting” APIs and canvas, developing for the browser is essentially still the same deal.

I’m tired of hacking documents into apps. I want the web to be split into Markdown-like web (i.e. pure content and some meta) and actual web apps that work like native apps.

I want Accept: application/web
Reminds me of when I saw the customs declaration they had to make for the Troll oil platform[1]. It was "a thing" made here in the country, and it was being transported out of the country, so of course they had to customs declare it...

The declaration essentially said "one oil platform, unpackaged".

There was a suitable tariff code for it, but the value of it was so great the electronic customs declaration system couldn't handle all the digits.

Instead they had to write the value as a free-text comment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A_platform
> they babysit our children

I think realizing that daycare with some level of adult supervision and guidance is the primary purpose of much of K-12 could allow us to design better schools that are more like kindergartens, recreation centers, laboratory facilities, art and performance studios, and libraries, and less like factories and prisons.

Though thinking about the factory bit, I do think that craft and maker facilities, as well as gardens and outdoor building areas, are nice to have in schools, making students the creators and crafters rather than the products.
I've used this application and the one that came before, caffeine, and in my opinion Apple shouldn't remove it. It would've been different if it was rejected as soon as it was submitted to the Apple store... But after 6 years it's very unfair, after it has built a brand identity and a community.

That said there's a command line application that comes with MacOS X called caffeinate that does essentially the same thing.
> In hindsight, maybe I should have complained, I probably could have got that tutor in a lot of trouble. But I didn't.

Might be good you didn't. I obviously don't know the particulars here, but I've learned that the attitude of the university teaching staff can be confusing because of non-obvious job reasons.

At my university, there was this PhD having labs with us who I liked - she seemed one of the smarter and wiser of the people I've dealt with up to that point. A year or two after those classes, we ended up having a discussion about upcoming changes in the curriculum. I asked if she'll still be running the same labs she did with us, at which point she almost burst into tears and said something like, "oh god I hope not". I was perplexed by it, until she explained to me that she never wanted these labs, she was forced by her superiors to run them, and they are completely unrelated to the domain of her research. That insight made me understand several other cases of PhDs and professors that seemed incompetent and/or disinterested - it's not that they were bad or stupid; it's because the university mismanaged them into teaching things entirely outside their domain.
Obama played golf 113 times in his first term. Trump played 302. In the first 100 days of the presidency Obama played golf once, Trump played 19 times.
The simplification of user experience has reduced the opportunity for many individuals to learn. In the 1980's many under achieving boys found the small rewards of computer programming addictive. This promoted self learning in a way that no longer happens.
1984's From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe is a great dive into the 'modern' look. It's not a deep look, but a fun one all the same (it is Tom Wolfe after all).

He traces the design we all see in the downtowns to the works of early german communists and their desire for good looking spaces and architecture that could cheaply be made for the masses in the coming revolution of the working classes. When capitalists heard about it they stopped listening after 'cheap' was uttered. "Oh, this is the 'modern' look and it's the new thing and it's cheap? Do 'em all like that then."

My recollection of Wolfe's short piece is a bit dated, but that's the theme as I remember. It's a short and fun little satirical look at how the 80's downtowns got to be looking as such.

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

As an aside, I wonder how Minecraft is going to change the look of architects and cities in the future. I'm dead certain that the architects of the 2070s will have gotten their love of design in Minecraft.
Maybe I’m just too jaded, but this is how I assume all big tech companies operate. The people that win get the results, even if it means being a massive piece of shit and treating your employees like garbage.

In fact, I would wager that not a single VP or higher at any major tech co isn’t a self-serving, backstabbing asshole. You simply don’t get into those types of positions on merit alone. You need to play the game.

That type of environment, where it’s almost impossible to do good work because you constantly need to be watching your own back is so unappealing to me that I can’t fathom why anyone with self worth would work at a FAANG. Perhaps it’s because they don’t know yet, but Blind exists, and it’s more horror stories than not.

Not having to deal with office politics and deranged managers is worth a hell of a pay cut imo.
> I think it's mostly a case of communicating the change poorly.

Deliberately. The technical reasons are irrelevant. If Apple had slowed down the phones and shown a notification that said "Phone running in reduced mode. Replace your battery to restore full performance." they would be acting ethically. Hiding it was unethical and they deserved their fine and more.
Brings new meaning to 'wet behind the ears'.
I’m sorry, I’m not following your comment. I had interpreted the one I had originally responded to as “please don’t dox this person” to which I was responding “the pictures in the article are enough to dox the person already”. I am not quite sure how ‘limono or ‘exApple-anon come into this; FWIW I would doubt that they are or that ‘limono is even the person that wrote the article on Medium.
I was talking about the specific restaurant mentioned in the comment I was responding to.
> Wayland replaced X

The never ending revolution? I am still waiting to upgrade.

> Rust

Rust is great, but overkill for business logic. It's bummer that people think they need to care about low-level details where it doesn't matter just to use a non-shit language. Meanwhile Haskell is waiting :).
> I hope you never get to experience how the sausage is made.

I appreciate your arrogance, but as you might notice by reading my comment I already have more than enough experience making said sausage. Thus your complete lack of arguments, which you tried to hide with snide remarks and an unimpressive attempt to appeal to authority, were dully noted.
In the grand scheme of things, there is nothing impressive about V8 - it’s just a really good interpreter. Every technology we have today could be easily programmed in pre-1996 languages, they haven’t unlocked anything not possible before. We even use the exact same tooling. That is the stagnation.
Parabiosis (blood exchange), if it works, would seem to have a lot of societal implications around the question of where the good blood comes from.

The most obvious implementation would be for old, rich people to pay for the blood of young poor people. That could conceivably work, but it's also more than a little dystopian.

Some follow-up questions if this actually works are: how much blood are we talking about here? and is there a way to grow/manufacture blood in a lab, perhaps by growing human bone marrow outside the body?
> Also a useful hint: if you're going to use one in a domicile where you live for long periods of time, it may be worth looking at soapstone designs, as they retain heat more (though warm up is longer)

Why would that matter? The amount of heat transferred to the living space is the same.

I can see the benefit of radiating some residual heat when not active (for example, through the night) but that seems to be offset by the delay you'd have when you start it up again.
We've made revolutionary advances in version control, package management, and CI practices too.

I think this is an example of "post something quite wrong and get lots of attention because it is so wrong".
I have found that people who harbour opinions like these usually just aren’t very good at realising how bad they are at what they are doing in the first place. So they need the niceness to keep the false assumption that they are not that bad.

Sometimes the emotional state of the recipient is just a function of how grown up they are.
I was talking about the food mentioned in the comment I was responding to.
California is a single state in one of many countries in the world
>They are also doing everything they can to block people from distributing apps outside of their walled garden.

People keep saying that but nothing on my Mac has ever stopped me from installing whatever software I want. I wish people would stop repeating this lie.
I think the general thrust of the article, that CS innovation is harder and less prolific than 1996 is generally true. I think it's a lot more nuanced than in the article though.

Something not mentioned is that CS (and every field) has gotten larger with time, and the frontier for new discoveries and improvements is getting farther and farther away.

Another thing is that while there aren't a lot of fundementally new things, much of our technological progress in the past 100 years is refinement on established things.

> We’ve just lost the will to improve.

That statement strikes me as a little to broad. We are less risky in our persuit of improvement is true, but I wouldn't say that we've lost it.
Isn’t that basically a Montessori school?

"The Montessori method of education is an educational method developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori. Emphasizing independence, it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement, such as grades and tests."
Hackett: https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

Based on this paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/ckg-popl2017.pdf
Meh, people always bring up the "flying cars" bit but I'm going to call bullshit that these were ever really feasible, not from a tech perspective but from an economic, energy and safety perspective.

The tech for flying cars already exists, just not the tech for protecting people on the ground from flying car crashes.
Since it is generated from Wikidata, you can click the SPARQL link and adjust the language.
That command makes me really glad Amphetamine exists.
I'd say "judgment" rather than the significantly more loaded "whims", but you're right, the policy still relies on a human arbiter.

A codified system is bound to introduce problems: 'You get one bathroom break during class per week, and you've used yours, but this is an emergency? Sorry, I trust you, but the system says I have to give you detention if you go.'

My point was that the problem was with GP's specific (though perhaps commonplace) school culture/teachers, not the general idea of requiring permission.
The other question is whether a young person loses any lifespan, by forcing their body to generate additional blood at a younger age, by being a blood donor. I suppose this could be tested experimentally by performing frequent phlebotomies on a mice and observing if it affects life span.
Well, your body needs water to survive, so water could be called an energy drink for when you’re dehydrated /s
> No self-respecting country relies on foreign cryptography to protect its diplomatic communications.

I am fairly certain most of the western world relies on a Belgian cipher called Rijndael to encrypt all/the majority of its diplomatic communications.

I'm not really sure what you mean by this comment.
How would that fix the actual problem? And how do you judge what is a worthy discovery and what isn't?

As parent said, UBI would probably fix the incentive scheme, your solution wouldn't. You need to decouple the reward from the result so that research is done out of sheer curiosity and love of science.
> Haskell in 1996

The good thing is Haskell keeps on changing.

But yes on the whole the author is right and we should all feel embarrassed and indignant.
> Food merchants should have been practicing utmost care with contamination to the order of handling plutonium for nuclear weapons.

We're not able get everyone aboard mask-wearing.
It's really not.

Using car batteries for various types of welding is common hobby practice
That's sort of true. But this is only true in a democratic republic, not true direct democracy. Also, I don't believe most people are really claiming #3 - most people agree the choices suck, but don't hold individuals personally responsible.
They probably want their users to use their proprietary store, but I got a new MacBook Pro for work in September and I installed everything I needed and wanted using Hombrew and brew cask, so I didn't use the Apple Store at all. You can also Download .dmf files and install Apps that way. What is it that you say they do to prevent people installing Apps outside the Apple Store?
I do all that because I'm relatively wealthy and have plenty of time and freedom. And that does show. Aging still manifests as a slowly increasing suspectability to various damages like a minor allergy that puzzles doctors, minor hair loss, minor pain here and there, but this all adds up and wears the body out. The cause of aging must be a lot deeper than excessive consumption of sugar.
Yea, OpenBSD iked is not Strongswan, its a new code. Much smaller and secure, not all features supported yet though, like redirect.
Start printing the red Make Software Great Again hats.
The "Why didn't you go to the bathroom during lunch? \n The bathroom during lunch: " memes all have a grain of truth.
> Here's a very common talent stack here on HN that works pretty well: math + CS + data science + one domain (e.g. finance or biology).

Nice formulation! The domain expertise is key, I think. And often underappreciated by people at the start of their career.
JS does have Symbols but they are relatively modern: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I also start to see a similar pattern in mine. At this point, she's figuring out barter. She'll approach me with some thing that belongs to me (or occasionally with something entirely random) that she picked up somewhere when I wasn't looking, expecting that I'll give her something she wants in return (especially things we don't let her play with, like a smartphone). She doesn't understand the concept of relative value yet, as evidenced by trying to exchange a scrap of paper for my glasses today.

> But I'm not sure that any given Zoom meeting is important enough to mess up my son's breeding.

Agreed. I'm lucky to be working in a place where my superiors all have kids, so this is implicitly understood.
Just because your HR would be ok with it doesn’t mean all would be
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That's a good point. It's especially noticeable with schools though because they're often isolated and completely empty very often. This makes them look especially prison-like.
You already forgot about the Epic games debacle where Apple did exactly that?
Hypothesis failed; choose new hypotheses and try them.

Edit: Since I'm getting down voted I wanted to specify that empirical evidence is gained through experience. The scientific method of trying hypotheses is a way of gaining empirical evidence.
The difference is that Debian or others still give both the users and the developers a CHOICE to distribute / acquire the app through other means. Apple cripples (and even outright denies this) on some of its platforms.
I have a friend who went through this two times. (Second time was "shame on me").

One problem was that he worked with a lot of H1-B coworkers. So management would push, and they feared for their ability to stay in the country, and when he got there, people would just just suck it up. His first day, calls at 1am 2am 3am. He left.

So a year later they cajoled and talked him into another job. He was given assurances and when he got there, basically the same culture slapped him in the face again. sigh.
Imagine 100 years ago on a forum on stage coaches, and automobiles keep getting posted. Yes Rust is the cool new thing, but I don’t see it as a fad. In fact, I see Rust turning into a best practice for our industry unless something like it but easier takes its place
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What crack are you smoking? You simply get up and walk to the restroom like any normal person would. Teachers can largely be ignored, if they physically do anything to you it's lawsuit time.
You can use it that way if you want. That's not how everyone else uses it, however.
We’re also missing TypeScript and C#, both of which are quite popular.
> It’ll only result in these local businesses losing access to the $750 I pay in delivery each month.

If you're using exclusively delivery platforms and not getting delivery from the restaurants themselves, I can guarantee you that the local businesses likely never had access to the 750$ you pay. Assuming a tip of say 20% to the driver, let me take the sales tax of my local city which is around 8%, a 10% commission from grubhub with a processing 3.05% fee (plus $0.30 per order).

This means on a platform like grubhub, your 750$ you pay in delivery is paying grubhub 97$, 60$ to government, 150$ to delivery people. Restaurants only receive 443$, assuming you never take advantage of deals they offer to stay afloat, and the restaurant only pays grubhub the minimum fees (they are often pressured more or the grubhub algo will deprioritize them).
Something tells me most hobbyists are not doing their car battery welding on-the-fly in -60F weather in the middle of Sibera with the stakes of failure being freezing to death though.
Regarding your second, I think South-America around the Andes would have some use for something like that, also around Phoenix, AZ and similar places in the CONUS. And finally China can play the certification game too, and simply deny anything which it doesn't like landing rights, or just entering their ADIZ for "safety reasons". I mean, 737-Max anyone? Show us the effing source code for your avionics, or FO. Could happen, don't you think so?

/me giggles
My point wasn't that I lack the knowledge of how to fight aging in these typical wealthy/time-rich-person ways. My point was that the article was not helpful in giving new information.
I wonder when this will be a benchmark number for a desktop GPU/NPU...
Interesting. I sold a car on ebay a few years ago but don't remember seeing a phone number until they won.
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." —Henry Ford
> Since you bought the property and it’s yours, why do others get to have a say in it?

Because you signed on a line that said you agree to being governed by the HOA when you bought the house. It’s that simple. The sad reality though is that if you don’t like it, you have to find somewhere else (which doesn’t work well if your whole city is under the HOA)
Travels in Siberia is a terrific book, as is Midnight in Siberia by David Greene. Both of those books inspired my own trip through Siberia: https://www.gregkogan.com/journal/russia-trans-siberian-rail...
> Most people don’t have significant cash savings.

Unfortunately those are often the same people that get hit the hardest once inflation increases the sales prices while their salaries remain stagnant and they can't afford hedge options.

> The Euro is only 22 years old [...] the 5,600,000-fold deflation of BTC in that time makes it almost, but not quite, as impressively unstable as hyperinflation.

The initial exchange rates of the Euro was determined by the European Central Bank whereas Bitcoin is decentralized and started with an "exchange rate" of literally zero (they were gifted via mail and forums).

Calculating a fold-increase or 'volatility' on this timescale is thus arbitrary (you could just as well argue it's "infinite"). The SD of daily returns as a volatility measure for Bitcoin has decreased from >10% in 2011 to <4% in 2020 and the 3-month realised volatility is mostly comparable to and sometimes even lower than "traditional" tech stocks like AAPL and AMZN.

Dominant risk in Bitcoin is not volatility or 0-day anymore but key management (e.g. exchange hacks, wallet loss, scams/phishing attacks). GBTC for example is an ETF-like trust which allows you to invest in Bitcoin without holding any.

Interesting side note: ~9% of currently available Bitcoins are held by companies on their balance sheets (~7% by companies which are publicly tradable btw).

HN might still be cautious about Bitcoin, but the market thinks it has matured.
> Should English language newspapers from countries that aren’t America have footnotes in feet so that Americans - a plurality of native English speakers - don’t have to do some basic math?

Yes, I believe. They should. Why to force a lot of people to do math, when it is could be done in a jiffy on a server side? Isn't there a javascript library, which makes such footnotes all by itself? If not then why not to write one?

In French newspapers it is probably doesn't worth it, because the total majority of readers are familiar with the metric system. But English readers are divided on two camps, one is more familiar with the metric system, other with the imperial one. What on Earth prevent English writers from satisfying both camps?

> Probably just easier to remember that 3.3 ft. is a meter.

Yes, I mostly divide by three to convert. But it gives a conversion error in a second digit.

> Plenty of Americans do it everyday when they read articles that reference the metric system...

Do they enjoy it? Or may be they would be happy to have all references to the metric system converted?

It seems for me (as an onlooker from outside) that it is an ongoing war between imperial and metric systems, and each writer belongs to one of camps, and will do anything to win or at least to make life uncomfortable to an opposing camp. It seems stupid also.
Apple requires software to be "notarized" (signed by apple) be able to run on newer Macs. Apple also blocks developers they do not like from notarizing apps. See Apple vs Epic.

You might be able to bypass the notarization requirement as an end-user, if you have enough technical know-how, but good luck explaining that to your customers. Especially when all the dialogs are calling your software malicious, untrustworthy, etc.
Then let's amend it so those things are there.