skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of tangential to the main point but - I find the new version of Fearless to be utterly lacking in "soul", "energy", "magic" or whatever you want to call it. The unquantifiable things that made the original so good are missing.

Sure, the remakes are competent and perhaps even better technically, but after listening to both side by side (song by song, new then old) - to me there is no comparison. I went online looking for reviews of the "new" album and I only found critics gushing over how great the remakes are. Did they even listen? Did they compare? Sounds like it was just a money grab justified with a healthy dose of moral outrage.
Yes. Bad actors. The EU should add a bad actor tax.
For free... Only after you buy their (overpriced) proprietary hardware. Where could I download a copy of their OS, for free, to install on my non-Apple desktop? Okay now do you see why that isn't a fair comparison?
You can’t use that to rationalize cancel culture. This takes some mental gymnastics to justify.
Something something Apple makes a bit over 40% in margin on $1000+ devices, and growing even higher for their higher priced devices. They can afford to not have advertisements.
Keep in mind that the company named Nuance is a big, 30 year old public company with a lot of products, which acquired Nuance and changed its name in 2005. According to Wikipedia they did $2 Billion USD in revenue in 2016 and had $5.7 Billion in assets.
That’s not how throw works. And that’s exactly why the switch(true) pattern should not be used: novice users not fully knowledgeable about every specification of a language should not fail to understand such a basic piece of code.

There’s not even a line difference to using if statements correctly (as others in the comments have demonstrated)
The one thing an if statement does is checking if something is ‚true‘. I don’t understand why anyone would use a ‚switch‘ here apart from showing how clever they are.
My poor taskbar is already cluttered.
Don't blame the doctors, the entire medical establishment from pre-med undergrad to the hospital has been captured by the insurance companies with the backing of federal regulation. They've removed any doctor/patient relationship with a simple heuristic that (surprise!) always results in some pharmaceutical intervention.
If we move too slowly on the topic of bullying, then people needlessly suffer.
You aren't limited by the wavelength in terms of pure transmission and reception. Bass frequency sound waves are multiple feet long, yet earbuds transfer those frequencies just fine.
For millions of years, this part of Texas was under water. Much of Austin is a thin layer of dirt on top a a bed of limestone. Limestone is a relatively soft rock, but it isn't nearly as soft as dirt and clay. Boring machines can cut through it, but I'm sure it raises costs.

I lived in the south SF bay for 20 years before moving to Austin 17 years ago. One plus is the dramatic lightning and rain -- it is quite a treat compared to the milquetoast weather of San Jose. One negative that many Californians might not be ready for is the heat. I hope you like sweating and damp underwear. Before moving here, spend a week in July or August to figure out if you really want to spend 3 or 4 months of the year like that. The food situation here has improved a lot while I've been here, but it isn't anything like San Francisco.
That's my point, You don't pin Bing first however. After you pin the first set of sites it then shows the option to pin the search engine that does less than 5% of searches in the US. ;).

My point here is that it pretends to be neutral and allows Reddit, Fb, and Youtube...But google is nowhere to be found.
AFAIK yes. Of course you need some actual non-light hardware to guide the light and such though.

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

https://www.eetimes.com/how-does-optical-computing-work/
Either you will break, thus exiting the switch-case block or you will fall-through. The fall-through behavior won't do what you want:

> the script will run from the case where the criterion is met and will run the cases after that regardless if a criterion was met.

Using the switch method won't allow you to return several errors while the simple ifs method described earlier could accumulate the errors and return later. The switch method is elegant though.
I read the cartoon and even read the clarification:

“Since behaviors are the result of choice, I would assert that the woman’s objection to sea lions — which, if the metaphor is understood, is read as actually an objection to human beings who exhibit certain behaviors — is not analogous to a prejudice based on race, species, or other immutable characteristics.”

Sounds exactly like the sort of thing I’d expect to hear from somebody who really wanted to show me some FBI crime statistics :p
Which probably means the writers get paid more but is more expensive for the consumer. As Medium seems to be dying out, this is probably a more viable business model. I'd expect Medium to pivot to this eventually.
It's pretty fair. You pay money - you get a product. In Windows, you pay money - you get ads and tracking.

edit:

To make it clear to people not reading the comment carefully, I'm not saying MacOS is "free". I'm merely saying that once you pay for the computer, the OS is included in the price.

And there is no additional monetization under the form of ads or tracking. Unlike in the Windows world, where you pay for the license, yet you are still being tracked and served ads.
Using a "proper" programming language adds a dependency. If you're okay adding a dependency, then adding a dependency on bash should be fine.

The worst part of Linux development is the insistence on 'portability' when using the Unix tools. As a result bash, make, awk, have all stagnated.
> Global warming is an easily observable fact, it's happening, it will ruin the world for everyone.

* Global warming is not easily observable. Hence the debate raging about its existence. To observe it requires a complex scientific community and even then, only those close to the ground "observe" anything at all.

* I agree global warming is happening

* I 100% doubt global warming would ruin the world for even the majority of humans. Damage, destruction, strife for sure. But it's not an apocalypse.
Vercel does not support IPv6 and HTTP/3 while cloudflare pages already supports both of them.
I always thought that water’s taste was its temperature.
Gamers don't care about women having opinions on their hobby.

Gamer care about opportunistic women's study majors who know nothing about gaming insulting their favorite pastime to try and justify their wasted lives.
That can work assuming the team isn't already overloaded. But when people are being asked to work 60h a week or more to accomplish their tasks, it becomes untenable.
Google Docs does this.
What does an all cash deal of $20bn look like? I'm assuming it's really just an ACH transaction or something? There's not a convoy of armored cars with silver briefcases or anything... Is there?
Another trick that might be more practical for actually debugging is using the object shorthand. For example, instead of...

console.log(x, y);

which contains the information you need, but lacks any useful context, try...

console.log({x, y});

...which will print out like an object, including the key names.
And what do you suggest is better? I've worked with nearly every tool (open source and closed) under the sun in medical, industrial, and personal settings and Dragon NaturallySpeaking/Professional was by far the best in terms of accuracy regardless of prosody, accent, background noise, technical terms used, etc.

Personally I think they should've been acquired a decade ago.
Some folks have already mentioned this, but typically if a website has user login/signup, cookies are used to "identify" the user once logged in.

This enables the websites backend to know who is making the request for authentication/authorization purposes.
No parties for Yuri's Night this year :(
This year it's virtual only.
https://yurisnight.net/
The speed of light in copper cable is not the same as the speed of light in a vacuum. Light will propagate faster through optical cables than it will in copper cable.
Ironically these measures are being pushed by industrialized countries who no doubt cause far more destruction than we do either directly or indirectly. Developed world leaders speak of sanctioning Brazil over Amazon deforestation yet they maintain trade relations with China. I'd suggest they stop financing the highly destructive Chinese industries but I won't since I know their entire consumer goods economy would collapse.
I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
Could this be the source of “The Hum”?
Ive been using Edge for the last few months and very happy with it. The new vertical tabs feature is great.
Too many drugs..
I think journalistic work in gathering and checking facts and statements is fundamentally the same. Delivery sucks though. There is to much news generated each day, but feeds like in Fb or Twitter are not cut out to track issues. So we just endlessly consume information without achieving understanding.
> I think the grandparent was saying that the super visible solar panels allow the house owner to signal to their neighbors/visitors/friends/family that they are environmentally conscious

Not exactly. I meant that most people don't think standard PV panels are so unsightly that they would pay a huge premium for solar roof tiles, and many actually like how standard PV panels look.
I'm not sure you'll get the features of Virtualbox if needing GUI but there is Hypervisor.framework[1]
based upon xhyve[2]. It's what powers Docker Desktop on Mac.
You can build linux images with linux kit[3]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
[2] https://github.com/machyve/xhyve
[3] https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
Wow! This project is awesome.
We understand them, we just think y'all are stupid for doing that.
Everything I’ve read about Gagarin suggests that he was a phenomenal person. People liked him as a person. He was both smart and kind. Add in his personal bio and it’s not hard to see why the Soviet leaders picked him.
Apple's EULA prohibits you from installing their OS on anything but their own hardware- so they make their money there.

Microsoft trying that would absolutely kill the company- either by lawsuit or people getting up in arms over anti-competitive behavior. They make a small amount every few years when you buy a new computer, and hope you'll also pay for their other software (or give them data, which is tantamount to the same thing).
1 in 10 americans lives in poverty, which is 25k/year or less for a family of four. Your position is that those are just the stupidest, least capable 10% of people and they deserve to be impoverished? If you work full time and you don't make a liveable income, how are you supposed to "manage your finances" better? If you have a disability and you can't work full time, does that make you stupid for not being able to "earn a living"?
Pages is for static hosting first, with some dynamism ( think an SPA or just a static site with 1-2 dynamic things). The focus is on the front-end.

Heroku takes your backend application code, and runs it dynamically.
The article is misleading, in implying that `switch(true)` is a special case: "The fundamental principle of the switch true pattern is that you can match against expressions as well as values."

It should be states as "The fundamental principle of the switch pattern in JavaScript is that you can match against expressions as well as values."

From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...:

A switch statement first evaluates its expression. It then looks for the first case clause whose expression evaluates to the same value as the result of the input expression
I don't believe that to be the case. The vast majority of applications built on top of ORMs design databases so that they are easy to map to. Sure, as soon as you access a database that wasn't designed for the ORM you run into trouble but this is an all or nothing problem. Getting rid of the ORM where it works doesn't actually provide you with a benefit.
Ask HN: Seeking 5 founders for product/advertising exchange
Fellow founders,

David Bethune here, SUS grad and longtime HN fan. I'm looking for 5 people who need wiki software (like Wiki.js, Notion, etc) for their startups to help us promote our new hosted wiki product, Miki, with real users.

http://miki.mimix.io

Wikis are ideal for documenting all kinds of business and software projects and ours was entirely dogfooded because we needed it to document our other software.

Here's the documentation we built as an example of what you can do with Miki:

http://nebula.mimix.io

Here's the offer: We'll give you the hosted product (in its own virtual machine) free for 3 months and then at cost after that. In exchange, we want to promote you on our home page as a real, live customer.

If that sounds good, please contact me at david@mimix.io or hit me up with questions here.

Thanks in advance,
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And then the very decision to step back must be weighted against the fact that there will be highly visible public commentary like this very thread, raking your passion project over the coals and questioning your experiences and motives.
I keep on coming back to debugging with print statements. I (embarrassingly) started using console.trace more often only recently.
Is this the link to the actual book text, or a summary? Thanks.
The are a number of Windows settings for turning off what it calls "suggestions". Do a search in the Settings app for "suggest", click "Show all results" and see what comes up. Amongst them are:

* Show suggestions occasionally in Start

* Show suggestions in your timeline

* Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows

* Get tips, tricks and suggestions as you use Windows

* Turn off suggested content in the Settings app

Changing these settings can greatly reduce Windows 10 spam.
Nice little article. Learned a new trick or two.

I'd love to see one on the step-thru debugger!
Nobody is arguing that the majority of popular content on YouTube is controversial, but there have definitely been arguments that YouTube radicalizes people.

If they can say that for YouTube, why not for Substack if it implements similar discoverability?
The thing is that we're at a point where I can't tell if you're talking about someone who is always complaining about being accused of being racist, or the people who are always complaining about everything being racist.
What this piece leaves out is that given this reasoning, Taylor Swift can simply declare another piece of art the "New Taylor version," thus completely devaluing the previous "Taylor version."
> September 15, 2005 — ScanSoft acquired and merged with Nuance Communications, of Menlo Park, California, for $221 million.

> October 18, 2005 — the company changed its name to Nuance Communications, Inc.

So Nuance was worth ~$220MM at the time of acquisition. I'm sure it's worth a lot more now but ScanSoft acquired like 50 other companies too, including old voice recording giant Dictaphone.
Is it possible to proxy traffic through Cloudflare so that at least the client —> proxy portion of the traffic is done over HTTP/3?
I have a weird habit that whenever someone tells me not to read something, or that something is bad or subversive, or they’re not real journalist, that makes me want to read them more. Perhaps I’m a radical: I think people should be free and encouraged to express their views as much as they want.
> it would have improved since 2006

cross platform pwsh is just few years old

> I replaced Powershell with NuShell.

Sure, you can replace it with LOLCAT either, its totally legit.

Regarding startup time, I can't believe there is such drama. If that troubles you so much, you can easily workaround it by always keeping powershell process pool ready in the background (1 or 2 suspended instances until you use them).
> but correct essentially for free.

Definitely not. Per your example, "what happens if an interrupt gets raised between prefetch and the data load" is not a question that the type of emulation can answer. You can implement hardware as well as software that gets details like this right or wrong. In both cases you usually need an extensive catalog of observations or a full description of the original hardware to correctly emulate it functionally.
> We did our research and contacted Associate professors and Principal investigators on LI

Academics typically don't use LinkedIn much (I assume this is what you mean by LI); if you want to reach them through social media then Twitter is probably a better bet.

However, rather than contacting individual researchers, you might find it more effective to try contacting people in Research Services/Research Support teams, whose role includes helping academics with things like costing grant proposals.
However that ink on flimsy cardboard is still somewhat unique. The NFT only associates a wallet address with a hash of whatever digital document. It's similar, but not quite. It has value in human imagination, sure, one can convince oneself that's the case. But the token is merely a hash of something that can be obtained very easily in full original quality on the Internet. The flimsy cardboard is not. At least not in the same sense (you could scan it and put a jpg of it online for example).

Also the card will stay in this world for a long time if protected from weather and light, I assume, where as the NFT needs to be constantly kept alive by "mining". I agree it's similar, but it's also different. And interesting. At least to me. :) Also value is relative, of course. I mean: One man's collectible is another woman's trash. It probably needs a certain shared set of beliefs/illusions to agree that something like that has value.
I'm not defending Windows here, but you buy an Apple computer, you get the computer and their software. You can't get either independently without paying for the other, but neither could be considered "free."
Constructive criticism: As a Vim user, this website contains nothing that would convince me to actually try Amp. The only thing mentioned on there that does not apply to my Vim setup is "written in Rust". And as much as I love Rust, "written in Rust" is not a sufficient argument to get me to give up a tool that I've been living and breathing for over a decade.

If, on the other hand, I'm not the target audience, the website should make that clear, e.g. "Amp is a Vi-like editor designed for people who find Vim too hard to get started with" or whatever.
I have Windows 10 Pro and I don't see any ads.

I don't have win app store / one drive too, removed that on the first day.
I mean if you buy a surface book you get windows 10 pro installed and activated, so they’re kinda already doing this
Sorry, I don't have a good introduction to recommend, I just wanted to include a link if anyone is intrigued by "scientific types", which refers specifically to: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/ScientificTypes.jl
Nim Without GC
> Ultimately it has value because people agree it has value.

This feels like a pyramid scheme. What makes it different?
> So where do you draw the line?

A reasonable suggestion would be to draw the line around private data.

By design, DRM is intended to restrict people's use of data which the publisher wants to spread as widely as possible (on the condition that they are paid for every copy). This data is therefore not private in any sense.

All your other examples work with this line: Private keys are obviously private; internal company documents are "private" in the same sense that corporations are people; government secrets are private (and countries are legal people); and Facebook should be keeping people's personal data secret on their behalf.
I've seen ads in the form of notifications. And Apple Music and Apple News tried to guide me to subscribe to those services even though both do have functionality that doesn't require subscribing.

Also the OS isn't free. When you buy an Apple computer, you're also purchasing a license to use macOS on that machine.
Most projects I've read focus on specific components (mainly ALUs). I'm aware of a photonics flip-flop equivalent design, but I'm unaware of equivalents for dense memory. I imagine DRAM would remain mundane electronics even if the CPU were fully migrated to the tech.
Consent status: manufactured.
It can be a very elegant way to encapsulate annoying complexity in an interface that is easy for callers to use correctly.

Typical example: say you need to connect to an api that has pagination. You call it and you get a chunk which has a number of things and a counter of remaining chunks. Normally this king of thing requires the caller to keep a lot of messy state.

with yield you can make an interface that the caller can just iterate over and it will give them one thing at a time and fetch the next chunk if the current one is exhausted and there are chunks remaining. The state of the "current chunk", "chunks remaining", index etc can all be enclosed so the caller doesn't need to know anything about them.
You don't need to use international law to create an international crime. For example, many countries have laws against the sexual exploitation of children that apply internationally.

If the French government, say, wants to punish French executives who damage the environment anywhere in the world they can do this. The situation is a little more complicated with the EU (they make rules which get implemented in national law) but the effect is much the same.
While this is likely yet another bad move by Microsoft I hope this pushes web devs to start focusing on web apps and puts a stop to all those websites packaged with a browser that are around 200MB each.
Command/type aliases and autocompletion make this a non-issue on the console and advanced code editors. Personally, I don't mind the verbosity even when using plain editors, like Notepad2, my text/script editor of choice.

Extra-long command names and deeply namespaced .Net types can be a chore both to read and write, but I find the *nix tools way too cryptic. Never could get used to them, but then again, I've been on DOS/Windows all my life since the 90s.

To be honest, I'd occasionally get frustrated and think about switching to Linux. However, Python and PowerShell are the two things that have kept me on Windows. The fact that they are both open-source and cross-platform is just the cherry on top.
> In Windows, you pay money - you get ads and tracking.

Where do I have to click to get those ads?
That’s an interesting evasion, but it seems no more difficult to tax on the burn or estimated burn than it is to tax the flight itself. I guess my point is to keep it simple and tax the actual problem at the root of it rather than the related activities. There has to be market incentive for innovation in providing the service without causing the problem. That is the only way I see of moving toward environmental sustainability.
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Given how much Microsoft has monetized Windows these days, they could probably give it away free and still make money.
Same in my Toyota. It has explicit instructions which, despite a few honest efforts, I can't seem to follow well enough for the assistant to work with any reliability. It's also painfully slow as it fails to understand, making the tumble into the pit of infotainment despair seem to happen in slow motion. Not sure how it ever hit the market.
Given the state of Perl, I really think that launching a Perl 7 is crucial to its survival. Perl 5 has evolved a lot over its time, so it does make sense to draw a line in the sand with the new version number, but more critical is to simply signal that Perl is not dead, and to get people thinking about a “new version” since Perl 6 is now gone.
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There is a difference between a physical object (painting, sculpture, trading card, slice of bread) which cannot with our current technology be exactly reproduced, and a digital thing, which can be.