skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's no secret that Macbooks are terrible Linux laptops. If you want to use Linux, buy a different brand, that's kind of the gist of it. Using Intel WiFi has never been flaky for me on Linux (Windows being a whole different story) and the weird wakeup have never happened to me as far as I remember.

There's a project underway to delivers a better touchpad experience on Linux, but that's still a work in progress as far as I know. It also strongly depends on how much details the manufacturers disclose about their hardware, how willing they are to open source their drivers and how much they rely on copyrighted binary blobs of firmware. From what I've read about the Mac hardware, it's probably going to be a challenge to get everything running smoothly. Synaptics hardware, found in many laptops, isn't always much better in this regard.

Apple applies some very optimised CPU power profiles to their laptops, which aren't directly available to other operating systems. It's why Windows consumes more power on Macbooks as well, and why the fans (if present) kick in more often.

I have noticed that my Thinkpad lasts a lot longer on Linux than on Windows unless I turn the power settings down to the point where Windows' UI becomes janky. It really depends on the year, model and serial number of each laptop whether Linux will boost or degrade the performance and usability aspects of the device. Manufacturers that sell Ubuntu as an OS option seem to do well in this area, though.

I'm hopeful for what the Linux touchpad project will bring. The new GNOME releases and the recent updates to the Pop_OS window manager seem to put more of an emphasis on touchpads, so things are moving in the right direction.
I just can't imagine why the bigger picture is never interesting.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=earth+mantle+core+climate&ia=...
They also (intentionally or not) make many of the changes “reversible” with tweaks and other programs. This allows the people who have a visceral reaction to revert and usually over time it softens, and then you find yourself not bothering with it.

The biggest change for me was the switch to zsh which ended up in me changing my default shell everywhere else.
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A poll conducted on behalf of an advocacy group with unpublished actual question format that conveniently aligns rather exactly with the preexisting position of the advocacy group can't safely be assumed to be a anything other than a push poll.
> As a kid in the 1970’s, I imagined 2021 would be much more futuristic.

In the 1970s, we had calculator watches. Now we have smartphones. So that's one way to look at it :)
The impact of social media on mental health has been a topic of regular discussion. Given what we’re learning about how social media hijacks our brain’s reward systems, tends to fuel anxiety and negative thoughts about ourselves, and give the user a distorted perspective of the world around them, no, I doubt this has anything to do specifically with the parent commentor.

There are dozens if not hundreds of articles that explore this [0], [1], [2], etc.

- [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/how-t...

- [1] https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/it-or-not-social-me...

- [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/
Hasn’t this already happened though? Repeatedly? With no real consequences?
> New college grads can really struggle with finding balance after transitioning out of college
> Ambitious juniors often see this and decide to go all-in

The most common issue I see with dedicated juniors is when work is, by a large margin, the biggest thing in their life.

When work is your thing, it only takes one thing to go badly at work for it to impact your happiness. Given how much can go wrong in a career that is entirely outside your control, no matter how good you may be you'll inevitably hit a bump, and that can be really painful.

I was lucky in that when I started work, I always had a large piece of my life that was outside of it. At first this was rowing crew, eventually it turned into cycling and crossfit.

Finding hobbies like this, where your results are almost entirely within your own power, I found to be a powerful hedge against negative factors at work. It takes a while to figure this out, though, and I don't blame anyone for whom this hasn't clicked or didn't quite work.

> It normalizes the idea that work is inherently bad, and that hating your work is natural

Yes! I have a real problem with this positioning, especially because I don't think a solution to not enjoying work is to suck it up and do a bit less- I'd love more people to aim for work that excites them, and gives them energy.

> No job is going to be fun all of the time, but if you're hating every hour of work and counting down the hours to the end of the day every day then you're probably in a below average job.

Absolutely true. When I first joined my current company, we were 35 people in size, now we're ~650. That growth means I've worked on so many different things, in several different environments.

Sometimes it was great, other times it sucked. Sometimes it sucked even while it was great- finishing an infrastructure migration into Google Cloud was an awesome achievement, but after a 18 month migration, I was fairly exhausted.

If you get the balance right, there's an amount of flexibility and distance you and afford with your work that helps you get through the difficult parts, and maximise what you get from the good.
Nothing, really. There's plenty that's restrictive about one of several app stores on the platform (the one offered by apple), but - that's a store.

Actually using the OS; you can do pretty much anything you want - up to and including installing practically everything ever written for linux (including entire window managers and the whole lot - I've seen full GNOME installs on top of MacOS). About the only thing you can't do is modify the proprietary binary blobs they give you, but that's just commercial software 101.

This dark idea of an "authoritarian apple" is the same sort of "conspiracy fantasy" that people project onto the motives of political parties they don't like. It's the same sort of "leaps of logic" to assume "oh, yeah, they restrict app store apps from adding kernel extensions, so — they must hate the idea of you having control over anything, so obviously you don't have root access to your own machine.". "Or okay, yeah, you still have that, but obviously they're about to rescind that, any decade now." They're not.

The prediction is wrong, because it's an extrapolation from a bad starting point — which is a total misread of their motives. The motive isn't about authoritarian control; it's about eliminating footguns.

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For example, it's awful nice to be able to have a power failure, have my machine boot back up, and see all of my windows from the prior session right where I left them, and even have all the data in them refreshed from an autosave. As a system API, not just a per-app thing. Or, it's nice to install a program, and know that doing so is totally self-contained; it's not barfing a bunch of (potentially incompatible) new library dependencies into /usr/ or whatever that could screw with something else I've got installed. That I don't have to sweat over it "altering something" in my system when I do the install process. There are a lot of things like this; things where I basically feel like I've got a "wingman" or someone watching my back, because the folks who wrote it were primarily concerned about designing it so I'm highly unlikely to screw myself (i.e. the polar opposite of `rm -rf`).

It's just way lower stress to be able to focus on the actual problem I'm working on instead of also having to second-guess if my machine's going to betray me. That peace of mind isn't just a fluffy emotional thing; it also reduces cognitive load so I can work more effectively.
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I don't think it's 100% intentional. Twitter links were working pretty well from February through May this year; which unfortunately untrained me to not click twitter links.
Why do electric cars even need the format of a car? I can imagine a wheelchair that docks/undocks from the car to charge while driving.
You might be one of the people that down-voted my submission. This is probably a language problem, I don't think the original MIT license is a permissive license at all in this case.
Those settings windows are part of the API and windows has to provide them for legacy software in many cases.

What was absolutely insane was not replicating the functionality into the new control panel setup leading to power users feeling dumb because they can’t find network settings under network settings.
EOSweekly: Ultra Revenue Sharing, 2nd Mock Election Update
Most of the article is about the position of the battery, but this remark also seems very wrong:

"And the price tag will only go up with new technology."

Electric equivalents are predicted to be cheaper up front to buy soon, and already are cheaper in terms of TCO in many jurisdictions.

Electric vehicles seem generally easier to make modular and reconfigurable.
> Downtime is not an enjoyable experience anymore

This sounds more like a lack of anything to do than downtime.

If you prefer to be doing something and you hate when you're doing nothing, you need to identify more somethings to fill your time with. If the only "something" you have in your life is work, then you're going to gravitate back to that by default.

Flip it around and start identifying the things you enjoy, then make an effort to do those things in your non-work time.

Downtime doesn't literally have to mean sitting around, doing nothing productive. If you're the kind of person who must be active, then you need to become the kind of person who picks activities you enjoy and makes a point to do them.
You don't know anything about ivermectin. You have no clue at all whether it's effective or not.
The author seems to believe people either mock everything or don't mock anything. Obviously using mocks for all your tests is a very bad idea, but that's not how things are done generally.

Unit tests allow you to validate a unit's behavior very quickly. If your unit test takes more than 1 second to run it is probably a bad unit test (some would argue 1/100 second max so your whole unit test suite can complete in a few seconds). In unit tests you use mocks not only to keep the test hermetic, but also to keep the execution time as low as possible.

Then you should have integration & e2e tests where you want to mock as little as possible, because you want a behavior as close as production as possible. For those you care less about how long they take. That's because you usually don't run those tests at the same stage as unit tests (development vs release qualification).

The author does not make the distinction between different types of testing, the resulting article is of pretty poor quality imho.
More importantly it's nothing to billion dollar corporations or governments. Money should not equal speech. Instead I think that firstly we need a "proof of personhood", a way to identify real individual users and distinguish them from bots and shills that run multiple accounts. As it is now the system can be easily gamed which works great for those who have plenty of resources. Genuine users get the short end of the stick.
It doesn't even require a particularly long commute to get to that cost. Some back of the envelope calculations:

The IRS has to conduct an annual study of the average cost of operating a vehicle, to set the mileage reimbursement rate for cars driven for business purposes. They currently estimate it at $0.56/mile (including depreciation, insurance, registration, gas, maintenance, etc.). So $9k/yr is 16,000 miles/year. The average U.S. household has 1.9 cars, so that's 8500 miles per car. If you commute 250 days a year, that's only a 17-mile commute each way, which is not coincidentally just about the U.S. average.
This is great, and covers aspects of work balance/integration/whatever-you-want-to-call-it that I haven't seen talked about as much.

A big problem I see on an ongoing basis is the confusion between time spent working and work produced. After ~10 years in this field, I feel like a pitcher who loses their fastball sometimes, and have learned when to sense that and pull myself from the game (stop working). I feel for people who don't see or sense their performance deteriorating in a way that just calling it a day and coming back with fresh eyes could improve.

Should you just plow through sometimes? Definitely. But if I find myself needing to consider that for more than about a week a quarter, someone probably planned poorly or is taking advantage of the fact that I care about completing my work.

There are other comments about work vs personal/skills development - the latter I do not consider work, personally, even if they're inter-related at times. I have actually noticed a big difference between my previous employer and current employer. I had enough slack at my previous employer to pack in quite a bit of high value personal/skills development after I finished my work and on weekends. Ironically, its this slack that gave me the time to learn skills that I was eventually hired for at my current employer - however, I have none of this mental bandwidth or time at my current employer. I can't figure out how much of that is pandemic-related, new child related (had a baby while at the new employer), or new employer culture/balance issues with how I work best. I guess it's just hard to track the true cause when the world goes into a blender while one's life changes significantly too.
This doesn’t make sense, hydrogen fuel cells are essentially batteries/an energy store, and it takes a large amount of electricity to produce the hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cells are closer in relation to lithium ion batteries or gasoline, you still need a massive energy producer to extract the hydrogen (like wind, solar, hydro, fossil fuel, or nuclear). So hydrogen is not an alternative to nuclear, if it ever took off it will really increase demand for large energy producers like nuclear.
> Alan Turing (people did use his Enigma

Enigma is the German cipher device he was instrumental in cracking. It was not his machine.
A few hospitals now have urgent care and ERs right next to each other, with a triage nurse in front saying which area to go to. That seems like a good system. I obviously agree with you that people can’t be expected to perfectly discriminate which they should go to.

The root of my comment was to defend the availability of ER services against someone who literally suggested that ERs were not needed for anyone who didn’t arrive by ambulance or by police, not to argue the specifics of his child’s case for which neither one of us have any real knowledge.

I am sorry about your wife’s experience. It contributes to making healthcare discussions so challenging, because there are incredibly emotional, stressful, and unfair situations in each direction (people who got billed tens of thousands on one side; people who were not diagnosed on the other) — including in countries with socialized medicine.

I would suggest that your wife would have been best served not by an ER doctor, but by a highly trained and thoughtful primary care physician who could have followed her and understood what she’s going through longitudinally. Sadly, we burden medical students with $200K in debt and then ask them to choose between a high-paying good-lifestyle specialty or a low-paying poor-lifestyle specialty.

And then one layer down, the primary issue is it’s hard to pay PCPs more when 99.5% of their visits are for common colds, medication renewals, knee pain, etc. and 0.5% of their visits make huge impacts (e.g. diagnosis of cancer early). Just like trying to discriminate urgent care vs. ER, how does one know which patients to send to an NP who can take care of routine issues, and which to send to a PCP with a better understanding of complex issues including management of multiple specialists’ recommendations.
> It's worth noting that Venus is still probably a better terraforming target than Mars [1]. This romantic notion of Mars has rooted itself deeply at this point (eg with Elon Musk) but Mars is basically a more distant and inconvenient Moon.

There's a distinction there worth pointing out. We can actually land on Mars, and if something goes wrong there are options (Apollo 13 style). If something goes wrong on Venus, you're falling through acid clouds and getting cooked. The vacuum of space is less perilous than the atmosphere of Venus.

On the other hand, as you mentioned, Venus has the raw materials and the magnetosphere for terraforming. Might be worth just dropping some hardy lichen on Venus to get the process started, because no one is going to go there as-is.
Most users actually don't care about the particular program itself. They care about the problem said program claims to solve. If the program gets in the way, they get frustrated and they may even move on.

Only a fraction of users will voluntarily report bugs. Even less will do it in a meaningful and detailed way.
these seem extreme for most apis but are likely very good at preventing double charging. a “normal” api call usually costs nothing. i bet stripe and adyen have apis with an average cost per call (to someone) being like $20-$30

the cost to undo a charge is high in people and reputation
There is so much emphasis on fake news but I think any story can be shaped by _which_ facts are discussed. Face it, you can't put a complete nuanced view in the sound bite world of social media.

At the same time, I think people enjoy being outraged. You get an actual physical energy burst, and you can think how superior you are to the misguided idiots you are talking about.

I don't think social media is tricking us into this behavior, it is just helping us do it better. It would be good if we could figure out how to discourage the behavior in the first place.
This too shall pass. The design of gas vehicles have not always been very friendly to disabled people, and bespoke upfitters like Braunability and MobilityWorks have done heavy duty engineering work to bring us into a golden age of affordable ramp vehicles. [1] As the EV market supercedes the gas market, someone will figure it out for EVs too. Smells like a promising market niche if you have a proclivity for hardware.

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/itm/203485967149
Anything that suggests that work is the beginning, middle and end of life is utterly and completely misguided in my humble opinion.

As the great sages tend to say, you're not going to be on your deathbed wishing you'd signed that extra deal, you're going to be lying there thinking of your family, your love, the time with your kids.

Now that's not to say there aren't moments in your life when you're up for working hard. And your 20's can be a good time for this: you're full of energy, you're free of encumbrances like kids and mortgages, and it can feel pretty great to bust your balls doing something you enjoy.

But let's not forget that it also feels great busting your balls actually enjoying yourself properly, too. When you're in your 20's that can be sex or travelling or socialising or a million other things.

As a whole though, the ethic of "gotta work hard all through your life" troubles me. There aren't enough spaces for creativity, relaxation, debate, books, or simply doing nothing.

It's these things that make a life worth living, not (just) some meteoric rise through a career.
We use it on servers, so it makes sense to use it on the desktop too for maximum dev familiarity and compatibility, since it now works well there...

I am always surprised by these things. I mean, even trying to use something widely-used (nowadays) as Zoom, basically gives me two options (on a HiDPI screen):

- Use X11, but when I share a window and use drawing tools, whatever I draw is displaced by a seemingly constant offset. It's caused by scaling for HiDPI, because if I disable scaling, things work.

- Use Wayland, but I can only share the whole screen. Drawing works, but the overlay is incredibly flaky and often incorrectly registers clicks.

Besides that on both Wayland and X11, doing video call makes the fans blow at full speed and quickly drains the battery when a laptop is not hooked up (probably no hardware acceleration of video encoding/decoding). Oh, and I probably want to use a wired headphone, because using a BlueTooth headsets regularly dropout.

Zoom is just a single example, but there are just so many paper cuts if you want to work outside a solo developer context.

(Windows has a lot of issues as well, but at least basic workflows generally work.)
Yes I get that. My annoyance isn’t the only factor in play.

Though with remote work, employees with different time zones, and pandemic parenting, it’s hard to see someone working and say “oh they’re working too much”
Because if they didn't the company would struggle and eventually everyone would loose their jobs.
> I've had managers try to nanny my working hours like this. It wasn't fun. I know they thought it was a good gesture, but if I have a spare hour or two in the evening and a good idea I want to try out before bed, I don't want anyone telling me I can't work right now.

Author here: I didn't make this clear, but Grey only forced me to go home once.

The important message was that I could, if I wanted, claim my own time back. I was free to clock off early, help a friend move out, whatever it might be that my life asked of me.

When I wanted to work hard I did, and was never forced not to. But provided I wasn't harming my team, I was free to pick and choose when I did that and disconnect past the hours I was strictly required to be available.

Definitely not nannying, in fact I think this is the most adult way you can treat your employees.
Why is everything portrayed in a sensationalist outrageous bad negative way.

This is ultimately a neutral thing.

Climate change has been happening since the dawn of time.

The transition period will suck but human beings will adapt.

There may be positive things that come out of it as well.
> hijacks our brain’s reward systems,

Maybe for the ppl who are not capable just blocking the offending site or unable to control themselves from eating 5 big macs with big gulp in a single sitting.

Yea lets blame twitter , mcdonalds or whatever from stopping ppl from living their lives.

I blocked twitter, FB ect in my router software. Whats such a big deal, i don't understand.
We do not currently know why it is so hard. Empirically it is know to be true.

But it is clear that parts of the brain involved in feeding behavior can override the cortex.
I wanted try my hand at this problem for fun, but I realized the problem description is a little bit incomplete. Which fields of the mentioned files should be encoded and which are irrelevant?
Infinidash is preparing a token sale
Coinsort just announced that Infinidash has created a governance token and is preparing their token sale.
Venetian gravity is much closer to earth's too