skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the transition around 8 years ago. I wouldn't say I was a power user in Arch, but used i3 as a window manager and lived mostly in the terminal.

However for a job I got a Mac and it wasn't really hard to get into it. There is a terminal application and you can basically install most Linux tools. I got used to the Mac and enjoyed that everything is working out of the box, like connecting external devices. I could use my work Mac for personal usage and after some time I abandoned my Arch machine.

I also don't use Docker extensively, but I sometimes have to create a container and so far didn't have any problems with it. I'm not having an M1, so no clue how it is with that one.

I'm still on Mac and don't miss the Arch days, where I had to compile some packages and install drivers manually. Also I don't use any Apple tools, like iTunes or so, and therefore I'm not locked into their ecosystem.
Their entire rebuttal is "jstolfi makes some good points but he's mean to us on reddit"
The name is from the other era ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#1932%E2%80%931938:_...
Is that 0.01% really deterred by one particular OS and hardware platform being restricted? There's alternatives.
> We know that Turing machines are very limited things and that the computational processes they carry out also very limited in applicability.

Again, source? Do you know of anything that is able to perform a computation that a Turing machine cannot?

> Just the fact that we can imagine things that can't be computed by a Turing machine should clue you in that it's probably otherwise.

Like what? Uncomputable numbers like Chaitin's constant? We can "imagine" them by stating their definition, but we cannot compute them. Or do you have something else specific in mind?
Do you look at anything other than factchecks? Taken right from the VAERS website (in bold font, no less): "Knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001) punishable by fine and imprisonment." A single case of a doctor submitting a goofy report in 2005 (and even having the CDC follow up with him!) doesn't establish a widespread pattern. Has even a single such incident been reported with the Covid VAERS submissions? I have to imagine the media would be keen to trumpet it, given their evident interest in putting out the word that there's "nothing to see here" in the VAERS numbers.

> Moss explained one way VAERS can amplify fears about the COVID-19 vaccine in particular. Most vaccinations are given to a small segment of the population: young, healthy children, who are generally less likely to have health problems afterward. But the COVID-19 vaccine is given to a much larger group — all Americans 16 and older are eligible now. And the earliest recipients included a large number of elderly patients and adults with preexisting health problems.

This is trivially accounted for by comparing Covid and influenza vaccines. If I limit to ages 18-59 I get ~73,000 total adverse events for influenza vaccines across their entire history, and 173,000 adverse events for Covid vaccines since they started to be administered at the beginning of the year.
I'm a fan of Ash Maurya's Running Lean (ISBN-10: 9781449305178) and the Lean Canvas methodology it describes.

The entire premiss of that book is to avoid "faceless audiences" but to talk actual people that you think should or could be your customers.

Once you know it is important to find the right audience, the next step is to actually find them and engage. Which is what this "lean canvas" thing is about.
AFAIK almost all street ketamine is just diverted medical supply. Might be cut with something, but other than that it is pharmaceutical grade.
In the current low interest rate environment, I've heard that it's common for founders like Musk to borrow against their shares instead of selling shares. The difference is that they pay small interest rate but don't pay larger income tax by realizing their income.

Basically, the same thing that their companies used (or maybe still use) for avoiding high tax on repatriation or their non-US earnings.

Edit: Here's a proof but with different incentives (keeping control): https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-techs-cash-poor-billi...
I think the point there isn’t a technical challenge, but rather a business challenge. Namely, Apple probably actually cares about how satisfied their customers are. They probably could easily make their iPhones support following instructions from some forum about how to install Fortnite hacks, but some of those hacks are going to cause problems for their customers, either accidentally (bugs) or maliciously (spyware, random ware, etc.). The typical response from a HN thread might be “well if the user installs something that’s their problem,” but Apple probably actually cares about their customers’ satisfaction more than they care about assigning moral culpability.
“Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available (although Bill Jolitz series on it in Dr. Dobbs Journal had started and were interesting), and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a state where it was so usable that I never really thought about switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.“

Linus Torvalds, 1993

https://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html

If Linux hadn’t been created, 386BSD and its derivatives would be correspondingly more popular. Or Hurd would have happened. Or both. Maybe BeOS would be a contender amongst commercial OSes.

If Linux hadn’t been created things wouldn’t be that different in all likelihood.
What could go wrong with what? They "just" found some units in permafrost and woke them up.

>They’ve also existed for at least 35m years – and can be found today in freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and moist terrestrial habitats such as moss, lichen, tree bark and soil.

They haven't found a new specie, they found frozen units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdelloidea
Reminds me of the "women want pockets in all their clothes" angle. If it were vital, someone would be making buckets of money from that exact solution. That you don't hear about it suggests that fashion-first is king in the sort of clothing you wear out.

Every year there's a new pitch from a modular laptop or a hackable smartphone. Never met anyone who uses one though.
But the problem with this approach is that you're making it impossible to extract the actual changes when you do want them, whereas simply skipping non-merge commits is a minor inconvenience (`--first-parent` tends to cover it).

I mean, granted, it's not ideal. I think this is a bit of a problem with the low-level nature of git - Ideally it'd be easier to semantically bundle such sequences of commits such that it's be more reliably dealt with in the broader ecosystem (not every tool supports --first-parent), and in any case, there's nothing forcing you to maintain the first-parent-is-linear-mainline-history; that's just a tradition which, again, many common tools follow. Then of course there's the poor integration with git hosting (such as github) and git - I can blame a file, but I can't easily correlate that with the discussions in the PRs, and whatever correlation there is is purely online, with all the limitations of a single-vendor non-distributed system like that entails.

Ideally this wouldn't even be a tradeoff at all; it would be obvious how to track history both at the small scale and the larger scale (and perhaps even more?), but alas, it's what we have.

Out of curiosity - when you merge via squash, what kind of commit messages do you retain? Do you mostly concatenate the commit messages, or rewrite the whole thing?
Infinite scroll isn't a trick. It gives the user precisely what they indicated they want: more content.

If it took them to a different view, or made a purchase, or caused some negative side effect that the user then has to engage with to cancel, then it would be subterfuge.

Giving the user more of what they explicitly desired (and provided user input to request in the form of a swipe up) is the opposite of a dark pattern.

A good example of a dark pattern is when cancel/confirm buttons swap places from their usual locations on the sale screen, to trick a user into clicking buy when they meant cancel. When a user gives the gesture for "more content" and they get more content, that's simply an app that works well.

It's not the UI that makes social interaction addictive. Second landlines for teenagers "addicted" to social networking was a thing long before Instagram.
You paid once, yes, but what about recurring payments?

Tongue-in-cheek LotR reference, but, it was pretty clear that Microsoft changed tactics after releasing Windows 10, turning it into an auto-updating evergreen OS without paid updates. They're earning money elsewhere now - Office365 and Azure are their big cash cows, I believe. But other departments are pressured to make money too.
I don't immediately see why something like a window manager might need a data structure which requires multiple concurrent writers. Or, while at it, why can't events coming to each window be perfectly serialized and not require any concurrent mutation. Could you share an example?
I agree - we could use much broader protections codified in law vs all those who would surreptitiously capture and use data.

and ironlicaly I guess, re " it seems rather myopic to ONLY consider TikTok, WeChat, and Huawei when it comes to protecting Americans' personal information" ... while I don't think it was true at the time of the previous admin's order - didn't TikTok come out and say they are starting to store people's voice prints and other biometric data for other future use?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-pe...

It's almost like they pull the order just to let that go through - it's like the order to make it anti-myopic or something.
I still cannot get my head around on to why the world is not embracing open sourcing of data. One way or other people get what the want so you might as well give open access and reinvent the entire business model altogether. Harnessing the power of community could be the key for this reinvention.
kinda makes you wonder about the panspermia theories when space is mostly cold, dry, oxygen deprived and full of radiation. perhaps some more advanced humans elsewhere worked out how to bind DNA to these creatures and shot them at their nearest habitable exoplanet
The two things are not mutually exclusive. We can have hardware and software that's open to tinker with but still come ready to use out of the box.
> death traps for employees

This is really sad. Millions of dollars worth of cargo, and yet they put the lives of the sailors at such risk.
I think it’s missing the point to say it’s alt-left. In the Uk side of things it was always true r uk was left and r ukpolitics was right, and then there was a fascinating shift in various ways during election times. But either way the core of the issue was just that whatever the prevailing view is drives out disagreements.

Twitter is bad because bubbles form and then they collide causing fights. Reddit solves this by making the bubbles much stronger and ensuring they never collide.
Apart from unproductive blame, what would be a solution, or set of solutions, that could make everyone happy here?
No, there are residency laws in each state. I'm not sure what happens when they conflict. For example, camping for 1 month each year in WA isn't going to get you out of paying CA income taxes if you own a home there that you live in the other 11 months of the year.
Sure, but most of Europe use electric and we generate a lot of our electricity from nuclear and hydro. By switching to electric India can change to other sources of electricity in the future.
Internet of Things Magazine 50 pages
There is a great new publication with technical articles about the Internet of Things. It contains content from many well known manufacturers, such as Intel or Molex.
The Expanse is a variation on that too.
> It appears like Canada has decided that they do not want to be in resource extraction for environmental purposes

Do you have a moment to talk about Calgary? Canada is the fourth largest producer of crude oil in the world. Not bad for a county half the population of California over the same area as the USA.

They might talk a good talk, but they aren’t going to stop oil production until they run out. Same as anyone else.
“I think it is much easier for us to make something ourselves”

says every developer until burning 100x cost/resources/time building a lesser version of the same thing that has to be now documented, supported and maintained.

From what I know (especially for big corps) $6k annual contract value ($500p/m) can usually be put on a credit card without triggering any lengthy enterprise 6-18 months sales cycles.
Not an exact confirmation but there was a story about the VP of Telegram meeting with the Russian Prime Minister, which is quite weird considering Durov's notorious anti-political stance.
Well I'm not really necessarily saying it should change now, but I was responding to 'this has always been obvious, why interesting' - you'd think policy would've been different from the start if it were so obvious.
> instead of paying $500 upfront for heated seats, they will be available as an annual unlock for say $100/year. Since they know an average owner keeps a new BMW for only 3 years, this is a saving for new buyers

For someone who only occasionally needs heated seats, this is value adding.

I agree that forcing everyone into a subscription is coercive. But there are a lot of people for whom the flexibility of a subscription creates more value than it costs. Rejecting it ex ante because of its financing model is overly simplistic.
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?
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> don't bring up minority use cases

There are a lot of minority use cases with cars. I suspect there are more, in aggregate, minority uses than there are cases in the mode. In any event, there is a massive non-extortive beachhead for this model, as deminstrared by Uber and Zipcar et al.
> What does "verify the count's accuracy" actually mean? It means that, when you manually count up the votes on the paper ballots, the count matches the original count that the machines gave.

That does appear to be the claim they made. And it matters. Notably, some "anti-consensus" material out there forwards the idea that electronic tallies were modified, or that secret watermarks or hidden paper composition tricks caused machinery to intentionally miscount ballots. So, manual paper counts are one way of refuting those claims, and the problem of what to do about it when those counts don't seem to make those claims go away because there are parties that push the claims regardless of evidnce is one of public information.

> What it does not mean is that it has been verified that every single paper ballot corresponds to an actual eligible voter and accurately reflects that voter's intent.

Voter registration systems constitute a control that should produce more confidence than skepticism here while maintaining effective privacy. If you try and walk into a polling place where you're not registered, your best case scenario is that you get a provisional ballot which will require review to be counted and likely faces extra challenges, especially in a close or contested election. If you try to walk into a polling place where you are registered and vote multiple times, you're going to have to convince poll workers that they shouldn't have marked you as having already received a ballot.

Similar controls exist for mail-in ballots.

What's your plan for influencing an election at scale by acquisition & submission of ballots that don't correspond to an eligible voter?

I agree that some of your suggestions could provide extra security. Perhaps some should be adopted.

But given that most voices that don't accept Biden's victory don't seem to go as far as pointing out any plausible (let alone proven) mechanics for how the existing system was compromised, I don't think proposed but as yet missing extra layers of are the reason why people don't have confidence in the outcome, and that's reason to think that enhanced security wouldn't solve the real problem, which is one of discourse and disinformation.
Is it really different from C though? (But with some runtime intervention instead of UB)

Rc and Arc are maintaining the “be sure that you'll only free this once” invariant automatically. In C you have the same invariant, you just have have to maintain it by yourself (or use an ad hoc reference counting mechanism) and if you don't it's a double free (UB). And in both cases you are responsible ensure the memory is freed at least once.

Mutex ensure you don't perform one read and one write at the same time. This is also forbidden by the C memory model and you'll probably end up using a mutex too (or other concurrency primitives) with the exact same risk of deadlock.
If the computational hypothesis for minds and brains is true, and it is only conjecture though a tempting one, I can only see one way out. Analogies are a wicked thing to indulge in here. But bear with me.

If an engineer designs a computer that computes on encrypted information, from an observer's naive perspective, the entire contents of memory is rewritten with a random value for each step. Yet there is a mathematical relationship between those seemingly random bits and whatever is encoded. Even just using some error correction and non-deterministic parallel processing and it might look pretty much like noise if you don't have the decoder ring.

Something like that is the only explanation I can come up with. Information is stored at a level of abstraction in a structure that is maintained by being continuously re-encoded in the ephemeral computations at a lower level.
Caution in the case of Keystone XL is about potential spills, not the actual pumping of the oil. It's okay that oil is being pumped there, if the economic engine so demands. It's good that it's being transported by rail, because it's less likely to create an (additional) environmental catastrophe.

You might say it's dirtier to move the oil by train, I'd say it's responsible and a price worth paying to protect sensitive ecologies from inevitable pipeline leaks. You say externalities are higher, I say your worst case summed externalities are lower.
Works on Zen.
Most oil you buy indirectly. By buying groceries for example. Most non-local groceries could not be sold without oil-based transportation. In fact, if we stopped having oil-based transportation, we'd face starvation. Alternative fuel trucking and shipping is just not there yet in terms of scale.
Not only high gain but high power also.

Shot noise was originally attributed to electrons hitting the anodes of vacuum tubes, but transistors turned out to make the same kind of noise so it applies to them too.

And it is current-dependent so sometimes you can be quieter at idle by biasing lower.

For resistor noise, nothing wrong with a megohm referencing input to ground since there's not any significant current flowing there.

But in a tube preamp the typical 100K anode resistor will conduct a bit and can get hot. These should be carefully auditioned. Plus higher wattage rating parts give less noise in this service than they put in most commercial amps.

If you increase gain using something like 150K, 220K, or even 330K there will be less current (through the resistor and the tube) but the increased amplification factor will equally multiply any noise which occurs before that gain stage.

Then with power you've got the ability to broadcast audio, naturally over extremely short distances (compared to radio frequencies which hopefully you are filtering out) but those are the distances inside your chassis where different parts of the wiring layout can interact beyond a cetain point as broadcast and receiving antennae, and either provide negative or positive feedback, stabilizing or destabilizing respectively parts of the circuit whether you intended it to happen or not.

On top of the expected acoustic mechanical feedback from the speaker at high volume, which reverses polarity based on distance, you've also got magnetic feedback. Once a very high-power output transformer goes wild it can reach out a lot further and touch your pickups directly from a few feet away.

At this point the noise at idle is usually as loud as as ten pounds of bacon frying and I hate that.

So get out the soldering iron and fix it so you can only tell it's on if you put your ear close to the speaker, when it's actually set loud enough to play with a heavy drummer.

Hearing protection required beyond this point.
$0 for income tax as his salary is $0 and he funds his lifestyle by borrowing against shares he owns: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-techs-cash-poor-billi...
Rail is also a linear infrastructure which can be used to put fiber in the ground cheaply.
I think the most important part of what a developer should learn from ops is the daily struggles. Observability, performance characteristics under load, debuggability, stability, etc. If you just build shit and throw it over a hedge for an ops team to manage, you'll never learn.
A couple of months ago Northvolt acquired cuberg to acquire its high-density cell designs meant to be used in specialised applications like electric aircraft:

https://cuberg.net/news/northvolt-acquires-cuberg
> What was not mentioned is how to find the audience for what you create; whether it's a new thing with a new market to be created or an improvement on an existing thing with an existing market.

This. 100%

I have an imaginary audience that I've curated over the years. I use them to critique my draft poems. These voices are people I've met, both online and in real life, in various poetry forums and workshops. They are people who have given me valuable advice about draft poems - advice that I've internalised over time to the point where I can self-critique my new work as I redraft without needing to constantly badger the real 'them' for feedback. They are the people I want to write poems for - even if they don't know it.

OTOH when I listen to an audience of one - me - for feedback on some non-poetry work[1] then I do it knowing that the work is going to end up as Outsider Art[2]. This state of affairs doesn't particularly bother me, but sometimes I do get sad that I've taken paths that real people are unlikely to be interested in. Maybe in fifty years the Posterians will notice, like they noticed Wilfred Owen back in the 60s.

[1] - I posted links to some of my less mainstream works a couple of days ago in another comment, so no need to repeat myself here.

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
> it's not like the cops are going to ignore the gram of coke they just found in your pocket.

Why not? Seems like a waste of time and $. If they get the $50k or $650k back, they at least have a chance at civil forfeiture.
No. The truth is they eat too much sugar. Finding food without sugar (why the hell do i need sugar in peas ?) is tricky to say the least.
What do you call a model where you sell "fully self driving capable hardware" that isn't not once, but about 2.5 times?
And yet you can get a raspberry pi (which is way faster than your 286) for less than the price of a mediocre restaurant meal and learn all this stuff. Or an Arduino microcontroller to go even deeper low level.
There are so many ways to tinker with electronics right now - but my main computer and phone are not "games", they are tools that I expect to work in a secure way.