skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it’s impossible for third-parties to write an IDE doesn’t mean Apple can’t. In fact, it seems more likely that Apple would ship Xcode for iOS as a way of trying out new API capabilities and then in a year or two allowing other devs to use some of the same capabilities. That said, I could imagine that if such an API existed, Visual Studio Code would be the first text editor devs would be excited for. I like Nova, it’s much faster than VS Code, but VS Code has all the extensions, and is cross-platform. I tend to use Nova for files, VS Code for folders and JetBrains IDEs for projects…
> I’d be less happy actually as a consumer if they allowed third party browser engines.

I have to ask. Why do you hate freedom?

I've seen this opinion all over the internet from techies and I'm just baffled. Why do you like a pocket computer that isn't actually yours to do with as you like? And why do you feel compelled to force others into this philosophy?

When the iPhone first launched I never would have imagined how locked down it is now. And the thing is it doesn't even keep you more secure. Seemingly legitimate phishing apps have made it past Apple before.
> Cyber insurance is not generally public information.

It might not be required to be, but it might still be disclosed anyway for various reasons in public market filings, on investor calls, employees talking in social media, and so forth.
Rome isn’t anywhere near ready to compete with babel.
> How do you divert a river and put it back on demand, with not even medieval technology?

Now I am wondering how Kurus handled this situation after he took Babylon.
I recommend reading Steve Yegge's (in)famous "Platforms Rant". https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

The conventional understanding is that AWS was a top-down mandate by a prescient Bezos way ahead of its time, and that vision ultimately paid off.
Scammers make $100k in a single night impersonating Musk on Twitter
Putting valgrind into the stdlib is really clever, and also, I like memory safety being the carrot to get you to write tests. I worry having a 'safe' system like rust sometimes causes very smart (TM) developers, especially less experienced ones, to be complacent and write less tests.
+1 for Nim and being usable without a GC or for manual memory management like dealing with C apis. Though to be fair, quite a few types in the stdlib are heap based. But you can make your own static heap pool.

With the new ARC & move semantics, Nim has hit a sweet spot, IMHO. It's like the language struggled to find a fit for a long time. But ARC allows very low overhead memory safety, perfect for mcu's and wasm in particular.

Though perhaps Swift could be a contender in this arena as well with its ARC, but it's development is so Apple centric.

What's interesting to me is that with move semantics and smarter compiler analysis, an ARC based GC overhead approaches that of Rust's compile time lifetime memory management. For any non-trivial program Rust seems to use a lot of Rc's or copies to get around lifetime analysis issues. So if the compiler can automatically figure out lifetimes in code it can eliminate many ARC operations.

I hope more languages adopt more flexible ARC based gc's or improve on rusts ergonomics.
More about this Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft-backed initiative to foster American the semiconductor fabrication industry. https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-semiconductors-idUSL1N2M...
I think, becoming or finding a humble "adult" CEO isn't easy.

I worked with brilliant founders, who were really bad managers. It almost seemed like their high skills in engineering came from letting every other part of their personality deteriorate.
I think more than a left-right thing, this is a different axis. Some people are just more fearful in general. I've been surprised by friends of my same political persuasion that have acted in ways I would honestly need to call, not-quite-sane. Such as deciding now to keep their child out of school for the entire 21-22 school year, or leaving deliveries on their porch for 3 days before bringing it inside. These are smart people in many ways, but somehow their brains were hijacked.

Talking to them about the actual risks triggers an emotional response. Even relating the risk level to something they do every day like driving seems to have no effect.

These are people who are educated and consume news from respectable sources.
Just theorizing here, but if Apple can't detect and shot these down, they are superior and more precise (in an urban environment) than whatever you can commercially find (which is probably GPS+cell tower at most) as it can utilise the whole find my device network.
Didn’t know about real estate trust funds. Thanks! :)
I take it the author hasn't heard of E-Foils or jetfoils?

Maybe not a family transport option, but we're talking a surfboard filled with 18650 cells (or similar) riding on a underwater wing driven by a jet or small propeller.

They are relatively old with companies building competition models at least five years ago.

The technology at heart is an outgrowth of the portable electric vehicle industry and hydrofoil development in the windsurfing commnity.

If you think this article is neat, I would check out the technology. You can build a performance board yourself for sub 3 grand US (possibly less if you are willing to vacuum mold the board yourself).

Good resources are available from the portable electric vehicle or electric skateboard communities. Board building has been covered in depth by generations of surfers.
> I really loathe the “sell yourself via video snippet” aspect. It’s inhumanely degrading.

Interesting, why do you find it more degrading than selling yourself via text snippet (your CV)?
I get the mindset, I just don't hold that view. I also judge people that get so hung up on it, just as they judge me for saying it. Functionally, saying "like" when bridging two parallel thoughts seems reasonable enough to me.
I have two tvs from them, bottom of the barrel Black Friday deals and they work great and seem fairly durable (they've both been through a few moves)
And the evidence for that is?
shrug dunno what other mail clients have but I've used Fastmail's email client for over a decade and never thought "wonder if someone else's is better".
Is it your belief that the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation were trying to foment a socialist revolution? This is of course nowhere to be found on her Wikipedia page, but Cooney was a former US Information Agency officer and an alum of the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom.

https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/13012009015380131...
Which aspect, and how?
Yes. Though I recommended subscriptions, I do have a price limit. I really like the interface of Cinema4D but it’s over $100 a month! No thank you.

I also think there just are hard limits in what’s a sustainable business. E.g. Small, indie, bespoke notes apps probably can’t support even one person long term regardless if it’s a one time purchase, subscription, paid upgrades, or any other pricing model.
Sure, I know lots of people in our field don't have much choice to avoid Chrome on the desktop, even if they want to (and they might simply prefer it anyway, despite the higher power use and its generally being heavier on system resource use)
Uh buying fake reviews are to blame here, the leaked database is just very compelling evidence.
I find it difficult to believe that CEOs and their advisors would not read insurance contracts. This may seem true, but any business with a corporate council and a team contemplating buying insurance is likely to take care to ensure that they contract for, and purchase, the product they intend to purchase.
The Lure of H Mart
> While reality proofed all of these predictions wrong the current Starship development brings back these fond memories and the exciting outlook on unparalleled developments in space in the somewhat near future

Here's a fun question: how much of what Starship is doing would have been impossible in the 70s?

In my view, the reason we don't have space colonies already is because we decided not to. Nothing we're doing now was strictly impossible then, just a little bit harder. No one was trying, was the problem.

It reminds me a bit of Brian May. In the early 70s he was getting a PhD in astrophysics, studying interplanetary dust. He stopped because his band, Queen, was doing pretty well. In 2006, he realized no one else had ever picked up his particular avenue of research. He resumed his PhD research and completed it.
Any plans for Plaid/etc integration for transaction syncing?
If you get weird colours or it's black but fully lit up, then its the TCON board (the LCD controller). These are easy to replace as they're usually on their own board and you can just swap it out for a new one.

If you get the full image but its dark (you can hold a flashlight to the panel to see), then it's the LED strips. You simply take off the panel and replace the strips that are broken (though you should probably just replace them all). Fairly easy to do.

Rarely it could be the PSU that drives the LEDs, but that would usually mean the entire screen is dark.

TVs are actually quite nice to work on. They usually have big circuit boards which are nicely labeled and enough space that you could easily replace a capacitor or two with a soldering iron. :)
What Does It Paste: What you see isn’t always what you get
I hate when software changes. When I'm buying software, I want for it to stay as it is. All new features don't bring anything but bloat. All I need is bugfixes and security fixes. It does not require a significant investments. So my ideal software is when developer spends some time, builds a program, sells it and spends a little time keeping it alive.

There are some exceptions. For example Intellij Idea should support new Java versions which might require significant development. But those are exceptions (for example I hate almost all new Intellij Idea features, thankfully most of them could be disabled).
It’s always complex, but that tweet is pretty damn explicit. It’s a bit of a challenge making anything else of that.
Compared to any OLED, they're just as good. A bit bright, but everything else is solid. The speakers are what are often complained about, in that they're small and not that loud. Ours is loud enough that we keep it on 7 (out of like 50? I've never gone above 10) for a room that is 14'x28'.

I'm sold on them for future purchases.
I think I can accept the tracking Chromecast does when I stream Netflix through it. I have it behind a remote switch so that Chromecast only gets electricity while I'm watching something, then it just gets switched off again.

Or am I underestimating the tracking Chromecast is doing?
Cause that's free in Linux and you kinda resent paying extra for something that should be built into something like visual studio. And now even vscode does it out of the box.
Oh that's interesting, so the strip club featuring women could have to just have other positions like bouncers, doormen, cooks etc that were fillable by both men and women, which they already do.

I didn't even think of that in the prior person's example.
This little bit, which is not coming in this version but is enabled by it:

> f"" as a short-hand for a format string. For example, f"hello {name}" as a short-hand for the equivalent format_args!() invocation.

I'm excited by. I like the f-string formatting in Python quite a bit.
There are things that suck about SV, but there are great things too: the weather is extremely nice, lots of cultural diversity, good food scene, and there's so much tech that you have lots of opportunities and security.

But taking a cynical angle like yours, you could apply that reasoning to any big city in any country: why do they have to pay more? Well, obviously because people hate Tokyo/Paris/NYC/Milan/London/etc.
That aesthetic screams 1986 to me. Not sure why I pick that year as it could apply to any number of years around that period; Nikelodeon shows well into the 90s used that aesthetic for sure.
Tryout is at the extreme side of being intimate and without any due distance at all. CV is is impersonal and as much distance as you can get. Videos are in between. Is it still absurd?
I couldn't find the picture so spoke from memory and the details were quite wrong, but looks like "canopus sensor"[1] on Mariner spacecrafts was what I had in mind.

1: http://petermasek.50megs.com/starplot.jpg (mirror: https://images.app.goo.gl/9xAn7ATPMSKYLEHs8)
> Commercial and industrial software are very different things.

Exactly my point. Trust no humans is not a philosophy that applies in aviation software.

It shouldn't apply quite as much in some other software either.
Thanks! The app itself is all React + Redux + TypeScript. Backend API is Node + Feathers + TypeScript. So certainly nothing fancy.
Just out of curiosity, what would that look like in concrete terms? Can the president credibly threaten to fire people or mess with their funding?
Implanted Wireless Device Triggers Mice to Form Instant Bond
When you put it like that...I still think the strip club comparison was weird because I can think of at least one other other common and far less contentious career-path with an interview/try-out process similar to this:

Acting.

Is there perhaps something deeper you want to say about sex workers that’s going unsaid right now?
I feel like you and I have wildly different expectations of societal collapse scenarios.
I downvoted you for several reasons: while I do agree with the basic idea (an iPad shouldn’t be a MacBook with touch), I think the way you argue for it lacks nuance and doesn’t hold up. First of all, there is no reason why you can’t have both, *nix tools and a central App Store. Most people don’t use nix tools? Don’t install them. This would also work with sandboxing, e.g. I wouldn’t care if every app brings their own compilers even if it wastes memory. But even that is too much in apple’s eyes. The reason I need a MacBook that has the same processor as an iPad to develop for the iPad is completely arbitrary. Also, ideally I would like to not have to carry around multiple devices but more importantly, don’t buy them because it costs money (for some reason this argument rarely comes up, but money matters, especially in developing regions). Lastly, having devices that serve multiple purposes is a good thing for the environment. It’s also the way forward for the last 2 decades. When was the last time you had a separate MP3 player, a camera a calculator and a GPS device with you? Why shouldn’t my iPad be capable of enabling actual productive work?
I used to do this but life is too short and there is no joy.

Some products take years to get to #2, they just are really poor at what they do and you don't even realize that they are terrible until you see someone with a better version.

Examples: Toasters, Knives, Cars, Chairs, Mobile Devices
They're also smart to avoid stirring up public sympathy.

Taking California as an example, relatively few would feel sorry for PG&E shareholders if they were hit by ransomware (but no infrastructure was disrupted). Same with someone like Chevron, or Facebook for that matter.

Take down a children's hospital OTOH, and you might have citizens beating down the doors of their representatives demanding justice.
It's not OLED, also looks pretty cheap?

I don't want a crappy, cheap, panel with no smart features. I want a premium panel without smart features.

Think like Apple Pro Cinema Display in TV form.
Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS 5 years ago
Cheap IR supply line?
I actually don't have a TikTok account, was thinking of this comedy sketch: https://youtu.be/l8LJYeeorhc
>you can bet anything that Google is going to go bananas with marketing Chromium-based Chrome for iOS

But Apple is a Pro at PR so Google PR should not work, the only issue would be if Safari is garbage or Google attempts to use some non standard APIs on their pages - but in this case Apple could give everyone a hand by using their expsensive lawyers and doing once in their life something good and go after Google.
> I get 1/4 of the way in and suddenly the scales seem completely arbitrary and I have no way of deciding where I fall.

That sounds a bit like Semantic Satiation, where words (usually when repeated) suddenly stop making sense. I have no actual information about that; your description simply reminded me of it.

Discovering I had aphantasia so late in life -- I'm 56 -- just reinforced the knowledge that everyone is wired differently and therefore approaches Life from different directions. I knew that, intellectually, but it was still kind of a slap in the face. [2]

[2] No reason for the footnote. I'm just trying to fit in around here. Maybe if I had multiple footnotes it would make more sense....
Even 30% of papers being reproducible is orders of magnitude better than random chance. That’s the signal that pushes science forward.

As to old papers, go back to the 1950’s and plate tectonics was still being debated. What do you think the other geological papers where based on? When you read a specific older paper it’s generally because it stood the test fo time, but that’s just selection bias.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-to-give-mars-an-atmos...
A NASA proposal that seemed rather cool to generate an artificial magnetosphere umbrella. It doesn't require any superscience to do, just willingness to build a really enormous generator. Which might be worth doing if the result is a 2nd Earth?
Yes, it does crash if two threads write to a property at the same time. The worst thing about this kind of bug is the inconsistency - often being discovered first by real users. There are also a plethora of shared state bugs that should be reduced with clearer concurrency semantics. All-around big step forward towards Swift's goal of being a "safe" language.
Bezos' API mandate declaration in 2002 shows remarkable vision and leadership.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Now that you mention it I remember! But Ubuntu core is IMO better suited for this. I find it sad to see it go nowhere (visible to me at least), the value proposition is pretty clear to me, coupled to the snap store and with easy rollback and transactional updates it has all the tech to take it up with Android and WebOS.
1 hdmi input is fine for connecting whatever a/v receiver you want to it that can have multiple hdmi inputs and outputs, as well as speakers and audio zones and such. the only problem is now the receiver becomes the privacy/speed bottleneck. i have an older receiver that doesn't require internet, but now receivers are going down the same invasive road as smart tv's. so while i like my current setup, i think the tv would need multiple hdmi inputs to bypass this issue (and not require a receiver).
Ah, yes, the two-wheeled conveyance storage building...

One of the issues I have had with "idea people," is that they think that every deviation from their Big Idea is "bikeshedding."

On the other hand, I like to keep the product at "beta" quality from as close to the beginning as possible. That often means that I spend a lot of time developing infrastructure scaffolding (like persistent preferences, error handling, security, accessibility, localization or messaging systems).

This means that I'll suddenly stop producing new features for a few days, while I set up some infrastructure (that will result in an explosion of features in a few days).

In fact, I'm doing that, right now. I am writing a "developer" screen for the app I'm developing. It won't ship, but will allow other technical team members to do things like set up test servers, and evaluate REST interactions. The non-tech people aren't gonna see much for another week or so. They'll have to be happy with what I've already given them (and they are quite happy).
Picked up a few of these, they look fine and work great.
"We find evidence that industry and size adjusted CEO pay is negatively related to future shareholder wealth changes for periods up to five years after sorting on pay. For example, firms that pay their CEOs in the top ten percent of pay earn negative abnormal returns over the next five years of approximately -13%. The effect is stronger for CEOs who receive higher incentive pay relative to their peers. Our results are consistent with high-pay induced CEO overconfidence and investor overreaction towards firms with high paid CEOs."

https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperform...
There's a weird gap between Gen Z and Millenials in how each of our generations experienced what "tech" is, and I do wonder how it affects the Gen Z tech world in particular. My generation, Millenials largely learned technology at a time when unpolished, non-standardized platforms were still the norm. We got comfortable with installing and rolling back drivers, setting up routers and printers, and navigating text-dominated forums and mailing-list email chains to troubleshoot issues. Lots of us were into PC gaming, and that kind of stuff was just expected if you wanted to play. When we went into technical fields later on, those skills were still really applicable.

Meanwhile, my early-teen step-siblings have very similar interests to what I had back in the day (they enjoy playing games like roblox/minecraft on the computer, and FPS on consoles) - but are way less comfortable messing with the OS to troubleshoot vs what I was doing at their age. They were raised with tablets, where things just kind of work. When they do want to learn something, they pretty much always go to youtube first - and I'm not really sure if that's more effective or less effective than what we used to do, or if means they will have a harder time parsing technical docs later on in life.

They've expressed interested in computer science fields, and I do think they'll be able to learn it just fine. In some ways, maybe the exposure to more polished UX will make their bar for those experiences higher than what my generation would accept.
I think they can, but they just refuse to. I’ve seen (a few times) some comments with the username and text as “[deleted]”. But I’m not @dang, so I can’t say for sure.
100%. However the bias for people to write comments are through the lens they see the world. Most people are in the middle to lower strata of an organization (just as a numbers part) therefore they only see their own lens.

That and a general narrative from the news media that C-Suite has it pretty good relative to the rest of the world (financially they definitely do).
My Roku remote takes several seconds to wake up and connect (over bluetooth?) every time I turn on the TV. It's infuriating. Give me back IR with its line of sight limitations!
In a strict security environment, shouldn’t the employee request permission or, at the very least, give IT a heads up that they’re going to sign up for an external service? IT would vet the service and then apply the domains to the whitelist.

I know how bad it sucks to have to ask permission for every little thing, but if the alternative means risking ransomware attacks, then the case should be laid out transparently to everyone in the org so they understand why the rule is in place.
Having enum variants be structs has been proposed, and that could solve your issue if `mem::disciminant<Enum::Variant>` returned what you wanted.
Handy coincidence that the last alignment happened just as our technology reached the point where we could take advantage of it.
I think I heard my grandfather mention the term once or twice. "Died of consumption." I never knew what it was.
Amazon Sidewalk enables your "disconnected" Smart TV to phone home using a neighbors network.