skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish there was a nice wrapper dedicated to abstracting hardware support better so developers can focus on the interesting parts

The University of Utah had a research project back in the late 1990s which offered exactly that – the OSKit project [0]. A set of libraries for common (at the time) x86 hardware so OS developers and researchers could focus on what was original about their OS instead of writing yet another hard disk or Ethernet driver

Unfortunately, the research project ended circa 2000 and it is dead now. No support for contemporary devices like Wifi and USB. But, if you just want something to run in a VM (QEMU or VirtualBox or whatever) it probably still works.

[0] https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/
This list is highly opinionated to the point that it deviates from the concept of a miatake. A better title would be “what I think css gets wrong.”
I'd be surprised if there was any place or time where people didn't placate and humor those with power over them. The article's label of "babytalk" for this behavior just obscures the observation; it would be like calling typical code review language "fussytalk" and then expounding on how fussy programmers are.
ASML's EUV light sources are made in San Diego (ex Cymer) and many of their EUV twin scan machines are made in Wilton, CT. So oddly it seems they outsource to the US.
You haven't even said what you plan to do on it. What are your fave apps and why do you care about Docker? Do you actually do anything compiles to native code that couldn't target the M1 with a simple switch with your toolchain?

Merely by omission, I'm guessing that these are not serious points of contention and any MacBook will do, either an M1 if you don't mind a few bumps or get it next upgrade cycle. If I were in that boat, an M1 Mac Mini would likely be it.
...and likely contains more computing power than the computer it's connected to. A USB host controller is not exactly a simple device.
Reminds me of a thing someone put together when I was Mapbox where we had each US state, in order, as a commit alongside their (IIRC) GeoJSON shape as a way of progressing through the growth of the country.
This. The OP is effectively a re-wording of the Gervais principal - same idea with slightly less words in blog form. It's a bit ingenious to claim a whole new theory.
One could also argue that DSLs are not always good esp. in large projects maintained by many devs.
You just wrote it yourself - he has an enormous desire to be praised, so much so that he completely fails to notice just how much he lacks a connection with literally anyone or anything (Michael is of course a comically over-emphasized example). This is the key to understanding the "clueless" or the "educated gentry" ladder, they are unhappy with being in "labor" but lack the balls/intelligence/true desire/luck/whatever else to be the "elite", so they come up with alternative scoring rules. Why do you think writing an op-ed in the NYT is so highly desired in that ladder? The other ladders don't dabble in praise, they either want their jobs to satisfy basic life needs (labour) or want ever-growing power with minimal regard to others opinion (elite), more specifically others opinion is only relevant insofar as it is a stepping stone on the path to more power.
Why Is “Before the Big Bang” Meaningless?
None of those things have prevented people from having kids before. In fact they are mostly inversely correlated.
The short answer is a fuzzy “more educated and equal society”. You don’t tell people what to do. They will automatically do the society-endorsed right thing(tm).

Just like religion and blind faith drops when education increases.

You could argue that “marginalized local communities” are driving the votes for populist parties, thus creating the whole problem, and by taking better care of them will actually free up more resources for everyone in the long run, because immigration is no longer this massive expense that everyone thought it was.
Correct me if I'm wrong but GitHub was first, and has more users.

Given that GitHub is more popular, I'd suggest the only reason we know about gitlab is because its open source.
It's not like immersive language classes aren't a thing. Even the normal foreign language classes at my university, past the third or fourth semester at least, only had 1 day of English while handling administravia, and then the entire class from then on was in the target language. During summer semester, all of the classes were taught this way, even the introductory ones.

Part of the difference between children learning something and adults learning something is that we have trouble achieving Beginner's Mind.

Finding techniques that work fine to be remedial or even insulting makes you get into your own way. In the extreme case, how do you fill a cup which is already full?

Less philosophically, each language you master gets its own language center in your brain, just as each finger you can control individually maps to an identifiable region of your motor cortex (and if you can't control your pinky, it's because they've blended together). Translating back and forth is a crutch for most, and a separate skill for others (eg, professionals). That's why when you ask your friend, "what did those guys say in the background?" you get something vague back. Nothing translates directly, idioms doubly or triply so.

What did that guy say? He said he's really mad at that other guy, (using a lot of colorful language), and I can say "he's mad" or we can go into why calling someone a dog/goat/cow/fish in this language is one step down from saying bad things about their mother.
It's worth noting that Querix was founded back in 1994 -- when Informix and proprietary databases were more popular than today.
Sleep seems so essential to our lives and yet we understand very little. I had two car accidents due to lack of sleep the night before. Whenever I don't get my sleep I can't focus, my recollection is poor and I have trouble doing basic stuff. You can find texts online about people literally dying from chronic insomnia. I always wonder how some people can function well with little sleep and almost everybody seems to do better than me. And I'm convinced that lack of sleep accumulates because I can sleep till noon if I have no obligations that day.

For my schizophrenic sibling one of the most troubling aspects of his condition is bad irregular sleep. Sometimes he can't sleep all night and then he sleeps the whole next day. But it's never enough sleep, nothing but constant drowsiness and lack of energy. Psychosis sure does resemble dreaming while awake, you accept weird ideas, things just happen etc, same as in a dream. And once medication kicks in, seems like slowly waking up and dream fades out.

Somehow it's all connected and whoever figures out the puzzle of sleep will make the world a much happier place.
Not all countries are the same as the USA
There is more than one set of bytes.

You may not care about copying the inode structure when you are copying your files from point a to point b, but you should when you are cloning the disk.

Many times the software on the CD is looking at the physical layout of the disk, not just the logical data, to function correctly.
In my company we store financial data for hundreds of thousands of clients in sql db. It's decade okd system and we have hundreds of tables, stored procedures (some touching dozen+ tables) and rely on transactions.

It took me weeks to convince my managers not to migrate to new hot nosql solution because "it's in cloud, it's scalable and it also supports sql queries".
I explicitly said hair dye won’t do that, but that chemicals can impact your scalp permanently, i.e. chemotherapy or radiation. Acne can impact your scalp permanently (scar tissue from acne can prevent new growth in those areas). Using too many extensions (particularly if sewn into the scalp) can damage your scalp permanently (again, scar tissue).

Having said that, over the counter stuff absolutely affects the the health of your hair and dying too frequently, leaving dye on too long, using a poor quality of dye (of which over the counter almost always is), too much peroxide (which is often needed so the color can stick) can absolutely damage the hair on your head permanently (until that hair is cut off and regrows). The only way to truly recover from the damage due to hair dye is to cut it all off and regrow, which for people with long hair, can take a tremendous amount of time.
michael's desire for connection does make him a lot more genuine than most of the other characters on the show, although this might be because he just isn't capable of the subterfuge and even the casual sarcasm employed by the others.

a lot of michael's behaviors are pretty naked attempts at gaining status. the irony is that he latches onto things that no one else actually respects. a good example is when he bought the sebring. michael did not buy that car because he liked it; he bought it because he wanted other people to see him in it, purely a flex. as is often the case, the joke was on him. no one thought the sebring was a cool car. just continuing on the car theme, look at what pre-breakdown jan was driving: a volvo, a nice vehicle befitting someone of her stature but not flashy.
This actually seems rational to me. They grossly overpaid for ARM, and selling it on the public market may well end up being another huge and embarrassing write-down. On the private market, though, they had a shot at finding a buyer to whom ARM was worth more than its value as an independent company.

Of course, given the kind of company that ARM is, any such buyer is going to be, almost by definition, an antitrust situation. So maybe it never could get past regulators. But, from a purely self-interested standpoint, it makes sense for them to try.
I personally have been being using Intellij for everything for the last five years.

I tried to migrate to VSCode for golang.

I mean, don't get me wrong, the situation is not the worst possible, but the only reason you would want to use that is because you never tried refactoring with Goland.

Are you kidding me? I had to go look for what is the current needed extensions for go that are still maintained, configure them etc...vs just download and use Goland.

If you can't or don't want to spend money OK, but otherwise is a non sense to use anything else.
It's clearly not if you read the rest of that sentence, that's my metric for it to be useful. My metric for it being good is much deeper. Which is why I questioned what you responded with.

We are already at the point of useful and context aware code generation anyway which is why I've found everyone on this thread questioning it to be kind of funny, Microsoft was demoing complex generations a year ago. So we're well on our way.

https://www.pscp.tv/Microsoft/1OyKAYWPRrWKb?t=29m19s

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3518429/jetbrains-taps-mac...
Congrats on the release. What Racket really needs right now is a proper dependency manager with support for constraint solving and allowing multiple conflicting transitive dependencies. Cargo and yarn are the gold standard for this. A lot of Lisps tend to overly focus on language and compiler features and neglect the more boring tooling and infrastructure that makes a programming language successful.
Unintentional Covid-19 Vaccine Test Case
An elderly woman in Quebec who had recently been given the Moderna vaccine was mistakenly given the Pfizer vaccine two weeks later. This isn't covered in the man pages. She presents as a 97 year old with dementia. So, for the experts, now what? Story here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-mother-dementia-covid-19-vaccines-1.5885397
Google 'forest fires Portugal'.

I mentioned Southern Europe not because I would think that the fire problem there is more dire than in Australia or California but because the effects on international migration would likely be different. Affected people in Portugal have a very easy time moving to a different European country and Portugal itself is quite small. So, whereas one could argue that forest fires in the US are unlikely to affect the population dynamics of the US taken as a whole, they are in fact likely to affect population dynamics of Portugal. With people first moving to the coastal areas and Lisbon, and afterwards many moving further to some place like Germany or Scandinavia.
I think that's exactly what the author meant

> consolidation
> cost reduction
> synergies
> passed back to the consumer
=> second order

fucking up your competitors
=> first order

That's generally why you have to guess at the long term effect of any merger. "Will the consumer benefit only in the short term and the diminution of competition will end up hurting them in the long term?" is the question regulators should answer.
I think of it as the Python of Scheme (yes yes I know). Batteries included, well documented, big focus on ease-of-use.

It also has a Big Idea; it aims to be the practical realization of the grand idea that Lisps are the perfect platform to build programming languages on, and to take this so radically far that you can have entirely different programming languages that nevertheless share, not just a runtime, but all their libraries. Unfortunately, so far, nobody except Racket enthusiasts appear to have much interest in building languages on top of Racket - but it's absolutely possible and practical, and someone really did accomplish the astonishing feat of implementing Python (Python 2, alas) in Racket, in such a way that you could combine libraries from both languages.
Perceived relations between Gemini, Gopher and HTTP
$0. I had everything stolen by my ex-gf and her friends. It was all liquid, in the form of gemstones and collectibles in Las Vegas. The cops there are useless. I'd just clawed my way out of poverty over the course of three years and was about to sell everything, fund a 529 for my five year old daughter and start a small business. I'd managed to buy and resell until I had a little over $100,000 in merchandise to sell. I had everything put away and secured in containers and didn't check on it for months while working when she wasn't due to health issues. Our dumbass neighbor got her hooked on fentanyl and that was it. Everything gone.
I think we just need to make it more acceptable in corporate culture to go, "hey, I'm no longer growing or thriving in this role, perhaps I should return to my old one", preferably without receiving a pay cut.
I actually think MongoDB highlights the challenges in this article. Namely:

- Tremendously popular database, a huge success by open source standards!

- Their open-source API has been used by Amazon to create their biggest competitor (DocumentDB). Or alternatively any cloud provider will help you spin up pre-built images with MongoDB installed (no path to monetisation).

- Have not (yet) been able to turn it into a profitable business, with large (and widening) losses recorded the last 3 years (at what appears to be the height of it's popularity).

- To create revenue they need a huge sales team (I've heard the pitch and seen the cost!). They not only have to bid against competing technologies, but also their own free tier!

- This resulting in... Mongo having to change their licence to create a profitable business.

23.15B market cap though - but they have had to ultimately change their licensing plan to find a profitable way forwards.
> Why not just do labor, middle management, owners like in the first part of the piece?

I think the idea is that the communication styles from the first part carry over to the second. Which means that if you're an university-educated professional or a cultural leader, you mostly communicate through baby-talk and posture-talk. At least that seems to be the author's point, I'm not sure to what extent I agree.
In my case, non-speech background sounds allow me to dream - which wakes me up because the crisis I'm currently going through changes these dreams into nightmares.

The key for me is that the background sound must contain speech. Podcasts don't work either because their is no visual component. I need to be able to imagine the visual, even if I'm not watching it. Somehow, that's important. Maybe it stimulates that part of my brain to prevent it from creating visual dreams. I suppose there's a general rule in the brain that when you're listening and watching something, that part of your brain goes into input-mode rather than compute-mode.

There are two important takeaways here.

1. I've (for myself) obviated the need for sleeping pills (the solution my colleagues have taken).

2. There are seemingly no ill effects to preventing my brain from dreaming naturally for over six months.

If you really think about that 2nd point, this means that it would be possible to create sleep specific programming. One could use it to incorporate messages to ones self.

Many in this sub-thread are thinking they can use it to learn new things - typical HN! ...but since novel content wakes your mind, I think it would be more valuable to program motivational content. Content that reinforces your core principles and might help you focus yourself in the subsequent day. It might even be possible to have a small portfolio of programming if you're expecting/planning a different type of day.

Obviously, I'm going through a temporary crisis, so I cannot pursue this, but someone should.
Thanks for this, I learned the word Hypnagogia from the discussion. Now I know what to say without sounding as crazy when I mention seeing things to a doctor next time. For some reason it's always spiders.
What Makes Up Things That Aren't Matter?
> (c) onboarding or familiarising with new codebases, including new areas of large codebases.

It is extremely useful to lower the cognitive overhead when looking into different areas of the codebase. Inconsistent naming patterns, „magic” strings instead of enums, preferences about array iterations, using deprecated features etc shouldn't need to part of a code review if they can be detected automatically instead. This is especially useful for junior devs.
Use it to maintain salinity levels in deep ocean currents, to sustain current circulation patterns and reduce the impact of arctic runoff, impacting weather systems. Or something.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14474-y
Meaning no disrespect, I don't see why your "back of envelope" estimate (which you didn't actually share) should be given more credit than the video. Like I said, I think that written description is simply wrong. It wouldn't be the first time a journalist misreported the details of some technology, eh?

I just watched the video again with the playback speed at 1/4 (thanks Youtube!) and at 0:46 ( https://youtu.be/z-h56N_A3rY?t=45 ) when the car hits the bumper I can clearly see the driver lean forward due to inertia. Of course you still need to wear a seatbelt, this isn't magic. (You know on Star Trek how the Klingon disruptors make a person disintegrate, clothes and all, yeah? How does the disintegration process know to stop at the floor? What is it about the interface between boots and floor which stops the disintegration? Could you use that to make disintegration-proof armour?) I get what you're saying. I do.

The point is not that the driver magically didn't feel inertia (he did, and you can clearly see it in the video) it's that the car didn't crumple. The kinetic energy given up by the stopping car went into the flywheel rather than into violent deformation of the physical structure of the car. I.e. it works (if it works at all, I don't deny that it might be a hoax) like a "crumple zone" without the crumple:

> Crumple zones are designed to increase the time over which the total force from the change in momentum is applied to an occupant ...

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone
Me: I believe in any number that I can represent with my computer

Professor: I am suddenly concerned that my PhD student does not believe in induction

Me: I am suddenly concerned that my PhD supervisor does not know the difference between converse and contrapositive
It's a problem for governments because it will expose the ponzi-scheme nature of their social welfare programs.
It helped shutting down rumors or runaway conspiracy theories. You know how reddit can get when they have an idea in their head, wrong or not.
Who is an example of a barbarian?
If you are are already familiar with apple software you'd be crazy not go with the new M1. Super power efficiency without compromising on power? Yes please. It's the first big advancement in a while. It's priced very well for what you get.

The only reason I'm not jumping on the M1 train is I'm die hard linux. I also prefer desktops and never work outside of a home/work office. So I can get the same/better performance with AMD Ryzen and not need to care so much about power/battery.
Michael Scott would make fun of the chopsticks, use them to play drums etc. say something racist, and then search for a fork or spoon.
Diaspora is not part of the fediverse and never has been. Diaspora is federated but has always used their own, separate protocol.
Love the comments on the link.

when i compaire this to my 5 year old laptops it is faster

"I am completely blown away, I agree with you. I purposely got the lowest M1 Macbook Air 8GB 256GB, and it kicks the crap out of my 2015 15" Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM. Not even close..."

when i compaire this to my old 2013 machine the new one is faster?

"I upgraded from a 13" 2013 MacBook Pro - to the M1 MacBook Air 8GB 512GB - the difference is like night and day!"

Next, water is wet...
The landing also looked pretty close to Cuba.
See also “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438327/

I’ve watched it several times after becoming fascinated by the place upon watching this (much) shorter piece on Youtube: https://youtu.be/otIU6Py4K_A

Thanks OP for posting this article, I always eagerly enjoy new pieces about the area.
shorting means betting on falling prices, how such a bet is implemented is an implementation detail. Borrow+sell, put options or much more complex derivatives are possible.
I actually see the cargo-cult tendencies quite a bit, I'm working as hard as i can to question everything we're doing and how we're doing it. Not a very rewarding task, but if you don't you're obsoleted by others.
Did you mean ingenious or ingenuous?
Depends on a persons use case because but not all WP installs are blogs / news sites.

However if you can and are going down the static site route then I’d wager there are easier platforms to start with.

I built a static site generator that takes markdown files and “compiles” them to HTML using pandoc. The whole thing is just 1 shell script. But that use case also wouldn’t suite most other people.

So it really depends on what the team need and what the site does.
If you’re interested in this stuff, the book, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell is an entertaining and insightful book (from 1983, so a bit dated in parts but well worth it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_Ame...
I'm convinced software engineers can be part of either of the 3 ladders, but most are in the upper middle class set.
The other part is that Micheal doesn't posturetalk to his employees. He desperately wants them to be his friends, because he has none. It's one of his defining characteristics.
Carmack would have used it for Oculus, had management not said no. https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/807797812700348416
What to Do If You’re Part of the In-Debt Generation
According to the article you can be a loser, a sociopath or Michael Scott. And the harder you're trying, the more likely it is that you're Michael Scott.