skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like most companies, Jane Street also doesn't discuss pay. However, as we reported last year, pay for U.S. trading interns at Jane Street in 2020 was $14.5k a month, plus an extra $500 a week work from home stipend (making $16.5k as a monthly total) for.

From https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/finance/jane-street-p...
Well, deer and wolves haven't evolved bullet-proof hides either.

The best strategy against such a source of massive trauma is probably not to be seen.
I agree.... but unfortunately the Apple Watch cellular is not available in many jurisdictions, including mine :weep:
US ratio approaching 1 doesn't mean world population will lower but that Mohammed will replace you.
I was using the ARM version, by slow I mean I can see the splash screen for a couple of seconds. Whereas VSCode starts up instantly. I've got `alias c='code .'`, typically I open the editor from iTerm2 the same way I would use vi. IntelliJ is still more advanced in many ways. I guess the point I was trying to make is that Electron looks like a better platform for cross platform apps compared to JVM.

Also, many NeoVim plugins are using component from VSCode, and the other way around.
My general go-to for PC hardware is ASUS with none of their weird extra drivers installed but I’d be willing to try a Lenovo next.

My experiences with Dell have been nothing but bad, we’ve had a bunch of XPS 15s at the office and they all developed all sorts of weird symptoms and instabilities, we’ve had one Quadro-powered one bloat up and the first and only thunderbolt dock exploded its connector, an ultrabook with very little use had its m.2 SSD just randomly die after a few months, etc.

Acer is alright but they go for very cheap components and sometimes compromised design (I had one I owned suck in a bunch of dust that caused it to run warm and melted something in the keyboard so keys stopped working, but replacement parts were available and the repair was painless)
The root cause may be many small nudges and later turns to the last observable event.The direction the system turns can be manipulated contingently to suit the capabilities of the causation
Finally ego and ignorance and lack of long-term perspectives remain as causes.
Always been that way, always will be I guess. Someone happens on a set of very specific behaviours they use to fix some aspect of their behaviour/health/etc. Sometimes delusional, sometimes not, sometimes fake, sometimes not. Normally taps into something that seems "common sense". They or someone else sells it as a more general fix. Rinse and repeat. Just taps into a human need to find simple solutions? Diets, self-help, temperance, etc etc etc. Sometimes descends into cult-like behaviour, sometimes goes other way -- origins get lost, edges get sanded off, become folk wisdom
Maybe, but I regularly go two days on battery now. That's something I've never experienced with a laptop before. Notwithstanding inefficient software
> remember the same Taliban sheltered 9/11 terrorists and is still allied with al Qaeda!

But when the Saudis presumably financed some of the same/similar bad guys it wasn't even worth much of an investigation? I find such "they're bad guys!"-arguments to be applied very inconsistently
Also:

C.A.R. Hoare:

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
Well encryption would likely be bad if it made things smaller and compression would be bad if it didn’t make things smaller.
>>That wasn't in the original brief, and I've never heard it before in the 20 years?

Yeah it's one of those unspoken "national interests" that underlies how the US plays The Great Game, but rarely states explicitly.

>>>Frankly if it's an expensive unpacifiable area, let China have it. They can sink effort into an unwinnable war instead.

If we are lucky, that will be the outcome. If the Chinese find a way to balance transit routes and natural resource extraction without somehow pissing a conservative Muslim population (while they are simultaneously oppressing Muslims in their home territory)....that could turn into a problem. If they build out links to Iran, it will not only throw a lifeline to that economically-struggling adversary, it will help China pivot away from reliance on maritime lines of communication. That maritime reliance is key to the US's strategy of threatening economic strangulation of Chinese coastal industry in the event of a conflict.

>>>Also, having consulted a map, how do you expect China to physically get there?

Via their shared border? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93China_bord...

Via China's ally Pakistan, the same routes most of US military logistics took into Afghanistan for the first decade?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257931864_The_Afgha...
There are "variants of interest", "variants of concern" and "variants of high consequence", in order of possible impact. The first are labelled, the latter "make headlines".
It is an unsolvable problem. Arguably the reason pre-NT Windows and pre-X MacOS were inadequate is that they were far too simple. Rewriting the systems and basing them on server-like architectures was absolutely necessary to achieve some level of robustness.

In my experience no amount of zealotness will produce better software. Abstractions are good for things you really need but you never know how the product will evolve and what you really need...
US forces abandoned the country 'overnight' - leaving behind all of the military equipment the Taliban would need for their reconquest:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210814-weapon-seizur...

Why wasn't all this equipment repatriated or destroyed? Why were the bases just abandoned without proper transition to Afghan Control, so that in some cases they were even looted by civilians?

Possible explanations:

1. Extreme incompetence or total apathy by US Commanders/Politicians

2. There was no land/sea transport route through Pakistan to retrieve all the equipment

3. The US Military-Industrial Complex was happy for all this stuff to be lost, so it could be reordered

4. The US wanted the Taliban to reconquer the country quickly, so that any power vaccuum could not be filled by China or Russia

5. Managed decline of the US Empire, requiring deliberate humiliation and demoralization of the US forces, enabled by corrupt senior US commanders and politicians who have made deals with China.
> Trump had zero involvement in their withdrawal planning.

Trump had a deal signed with the Taliban, in which a withdrawal of half the troops was already initiated, funding was cut, and 5k Taliban prisoners were released. Immediately after that deal, Taliban went on a huge offense and the end was set in motion.

Biden inherited a signed deal that had US completely withdrawn in May, and he even extended it to August.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Agreement_(2020)
He was obviously posturing to make the question go away. Everybody knew this would be the outcome, the die was cast.
The US played a pivotal role in saving our asses over in Europe, and we are eternally grateful, but ever since, the US has been bad at war. It's not the firepower, it's not the soldiers, and it's not the organization. These are top notch. It's the **ing politicians dragging young men and women into wars not worth fighting.
Applying the Futures Wheel and Macrohistory to the Covid19 Global Pandemic
This is an advertisement, it's admitted at the very end of this "article".
> They say that at 3kbps this new codec sounds as good as Opus at 12kbps

With that jump in quality, makes you wonder about the processing power consumption ratio.
I'm sorry, I can't see how the first part of your comment is responsive to the comment you're replying to.

> If you want to discuss CIA torture, this isn't the proper venue.

OK. But it is the proper venue to have a group moan and hand-wringing session about impending climate disaster a few times a week?

> if you want to color outside the guidelines, you have to realize you've become the problem that this culture wants to rid itself of

I think this is actually a great way of stating my point (no sarcasm): that HN is a curated echo chamber, which is very different from what it claims to be.
I like the idea of solo development. However, I don't see the value in the solutions offered. A marketplace for css components? A headline generator or optimizer?

Maybe I am just too close to the technology to appreciate what people are buying.
Like Choosing a Pope: How Succession Got Messy at Jeopardy
Lambda calculus is one of the many term rewriting systems. There is a lot of material for free.
If this problem was universally solvable, someone would have done it and made millions.

If you want a flawless experience, you will have to pay for it. Big time.

Oh, and the title should read "I have a love-hate relationship with software", since apparently they still use different types of complicated software.
Dollars definitely buy option to press “do not track” button on every new iOS app.
I was. But you had to do so many hacks because things like tables couldn’t be styled in CSS and tables were often the only way to style items on a page as div layers were still in their infancy.
I don't have the same laptop but regarding hibernate/sleep; In the end I configured my linux machine to shutdown and never use hibernate or sleep. It made the experience a lot more reliable. A longer boot time beats having intermittent trouble on wake.

I've only ever had reliable sleep/resume using a mac.
Fun fact: I mulled over whether to write “an AAAA record” or “a AAAA record”. I ended up deciding to go with “an AAAA record” even though I would read it “a quadruple A record” which is physically easier to say than “an A A A A record”.
If you're looking for a binary serialisation library that generates simpler/more readable code and doesn't do parsing look into flatbuffers. Going through generated protobuff code in . NET last time I used it was vomit inducing. Flatbuffers don't provide RPC AFAIK so not comparable with gRPC

Capnproto tried to do too much with distributed objects and RPC, I was looking into it years ago but it still seems like the C++ impl is the only one that supports those advanced concepts.
>>>Still, were those really successes?

Probably not. There's definitely something we are doing wrong. Personally I look at the Russian intervention in Syria as a model for "hybrid warfare done -r-i-g-h-t- well enough". I think they manage to prop up client states, accomplish strategic objectives, and do it all without completely breaking the bank.
The post is contaminated with some wet marketing language, adding unnecessary noise to the information. The most important part of this whole post is this:

...
[V]ector quantization ... works well at bitrates around 1 kbps or lower, but quickly reaches its limits when using higher bitrates. For example, even at a bitrate as low as 3 kbps, and assuming the encoder produces 100 vectors per second, one would need to store a codebook with more than 1 billion vectors, which is infeasible in practice.

In SoundStream, we address this issue by proposing a new residual vector quantizer (RVQ), consisting of several layers
...
Thanks for the link! Great stuff!

I was slightly surprised to find the site at the article link doesn't seem to have playback built-in, but this looks like a really awesome web-player!

ModArchive also has in-browser playback available too.
Are Delta Symptoms Different?
While this is off topic I blame the writers/producers.

They get money to produce 1 season. If they end that season with a cliffhanger there is a larger chance that viewership demands a season 2, than if it ends cleanly.

I feel like the writers are taking the viewers hostage, so to speak.

I guess you could say that Netflix should demand season 1 to stand on its own. Or at least be clear if a given season ends cleanly.
Transpiling is source language to source language, regardless of whether either of those languages is considered high livel. In this case, transpiler is the correct term.
Perhaps due to reliable and quick germination? Could allow for regular churn for experiments as you adjust conditions
Every source file in C corresponds to an object file, and the linker can only exclude unused code if the entire object file is unused. So if you want to optimize your library to for size when linking it statically, it needs to be split up into many source files.

See the musl libc for how that can look taken to an extreme: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio

The opposite problem, that the compiler can't optimize over object file boundaries, was the impetus behind Link Time Optimization (LTO). But that could also be handled by pasting all the source into one giant file. See SQLite's amalgamation for one example: https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
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When reading stuff like this I often think “so what”? All of the above is true, but life is still fun. I’m glad I was born into this absurdity.
That's not accurate, birth rates show no signs of slowing down in parts of Africa and West Asia:

https://ourworldindata.org/exports/historical-and-projected-...

"There were strong negative correlations found between national IQ and three national indicators of fertility."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

Many of these same high-fertility/low-IQ countries are trashing the environment, as indicated by plastic pollution: https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

The future you are celebrating is basically Idiocracy. Low fertility rates in the West and East Asia are a very bad thing for the future of our species and the planet.
What are the licensing implications of using DCP firmware from macOS installations - just having the hardware and OS license is enough to use it within Linux?
https://archive.is/8fe41
Already covered extensively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180074

One of the most frustrating things I've been finding about HN recently is the duplication noise.

The same thing happened with the recent Apple stuff. We had a series of repetitive posts on the same topic, which only lead to a thread of hundreds of posts saying exactly the same thing. Its like, what's the point, I'm not learning anything new, just the same old story and the same old discussion.

Please guys, there's a search box on the bottom of the page. ;-)
Google tells me your car weighs 2090kg/4647 pounds. This tuk tuk probably weighs a tenth of that. Add passengers, and you probably are still looking at a factor of 5.

Also, I don’t think 90kph is a realistic cruising speed for this tuk tuk. Assuming 22kph, that’s a factor of 16 in air resistance.

The Tesla wins on a aerodynamics, though, and rolling resistance could be lower for a Tesla/US road than this tuk tuk/Sri Lankan road.

Overall, I would guess you would need a factor of 10 or so to compare the two vehicles (but that’s a wild guess/gut feeling. If humans had 8 or 12 fingers, chances were my guess would be 8 respectively 12).
From the article itself:

"The fall of the last major city [Jalalabad] outside the capital secured for the insurgents the roads connecting Afghanistan to Pakistan, a Western official said."
Oh, the actual project was an emergency hack where we accidentally reverse engineered what the component we were trying to replace, and then went on to outperform the original 100 fold. Very creative enterprise.
Anything functional will taste like a dog’s breakfast. IV normal saline tastes absolutely awful
I never got the courage to try D5W or any other solutions.
It would be shortsighted to try to pin this failure on your disfavored party. During 20 years of Afghanistan, 11 saw a Republican president and 9 saw a Democrat president. Not to mention other allies in the field, who contributed quite a lot to the peacekeeping effort.

Afghanistan isn't a modern country and cannot sustain a modern military or modern governance. Taliban is adapted to local conditions, Afghan govenrment isn't. But modern countries cannot help someone build a tribal fighting force best suited for the most remote mountains on the planet; people tend to replicate their own institutions wherever they go, because they are the only ones that we actually understand.
I completely second that (we are moving well beyond the Amiga tracking scene now but hey, it's all AWESOME!!)

Some of Radix/Mosaik's later work I think is absolutely stunningly beautiful too: Leandi, Aerials (On bandcamp) etc. Well worth a listen!
Use two different laptops
> I bought my T61 in 2008, and the ThinkPad recommendation was old then. Things change with time. I believe most laptops these days are rather standardized, so linux support is ubiquitous.

No, it is not. "Modern standby" on most laptops can't be disabled and will discharge your battery overnight. Also, non-Intel WiFi is buggy 90% of the time. And don't get me started on fingerprint readers...
Cold Flux – Highlighting the peril of our global icecaps
I missed that one and am grateful for this duplication :)
I made a crypto trading bot that buys coins the moment they're listed on Binance
NBMiner update unlocks up to 70% of Nvidia RTX 30 LHR series mining performance
At least the old pre-Verizon, non-Japanese Yahoo. Japanese Yahoo is very integrated 'till today (banned at Auctions? There's a big chance of your account being shuttered down.) and Verizon's Yahoo has gone down to mail and news (okay, there's Yahoo Finanace (the products, not their newsroom), but I don't think that most people are using it now, and Yahoo Answers being gone is one of the most prominent examples).
probably good then that you dont use other social media. Hope its not too bad regarding HN. Its kinda nice to see im not the only one struggling with this kind of things.
A large group of people have determined that it is wasteful and have therefore pushed to change it. I'm not a "lone thinker" in this regard. I can't imagine a world view in which you deem the disposal of straws, used entirely to suck liquids inside of probably an hour window, is not an easy problem to solve. I would also argue that such seemingly trivial changes are symptomatic of increasing reflection and movement towards the reduction of plastic, rather than as you paint it, some kind of virtue signalling exercise intended to piss off other people. At the end of the day, most people are not in control of global supply chains or have extenuating circumstances that inhibit their ability to contribute to the reduction of plastic waste beyond mitigating what they do and dont chuck out.
I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!).

I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.
Congratulations, and thank you so much for Debian!

It is awesome to see freedom and reliability continuously upheld by this great distribution!
Thanks for the tip! I really don't have a problem with Thunderbird in itself, more so with the fact I have a program open that I'm compelled to look into way too often, simply because I have it opened. Just leaving it closed on default and only opening it when I need it does the job for me.
The speaker is a researcher on programming education at the University of Leiden. If you’re interested in this talk, would definitely recommend checking out her programming language, Hedy (hedycode.com), or her new book, The Programmer’s Brain https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brain
that is kind of part of the equation. these super successful one-person shows build things that sound extremely niche, trivial to sometimes even stupid. But that is the reason they can grow their companies under the radar. the key part is that they know about a real pain their audience has and that audience happens to be much much bigger than outsiders or even the founders themselves thought/think.
Part of this is from dumb EU policy, which classifies woodchips as 'renewable energy':

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/4/18216045/ren...

Thus fueling demand for these sort of plantations.
Mod Archive has an in-browser player! Another comment somewhere in here links https://modtu.be which seems to be a fairly awesome in-browser player too!

Blurry lines between amiga and PC tracker scenes hey? there was a lot of back-and-forth. Impossible not to have Purple Motion on any classic-mods list though, I absolutely agree!
Google Drive is mainly a response to Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's then-SkyDrive, and Dropbox. It was initially an integration into Gmail, and became a fully-fledged separate product later.

Photos is the spiritual successor to Picasa, integrated into the web. It was a response and a one-up to (again) iCloud and SkyDrive which both have phot syncronisation, which is something that is missing in Android. It was initially integrated into Google Drive, and became a fully-fledged separate product just now, when the integration has been cut.

So Google's next successful product would be

1) When Apple and Microsoft has bothered to be the first, and

2) whatever is connected to Google Photos.

(btw, since Stadia has became a meme, it partially fits 1 (xCloud) but sure it isn't connected to Photos in any way)
> At the same time, they are battling a rise in herbicide-resistant weeds, giving extra impetus to the search for new ways to kill weeds.

Great, so now we will be getting laser resistant weeds...
Get ready folks...although barely affecting 1.3 million people, it speaks of the next black Swan...water and food first...then electricity...
It could make for a hilarious new comedic art form.
> Previously, writing code was like building a house. You made a large up-front investment and the house was yours. Sure, occasionally you would get a leak or a light bulb would go out, but the house is relatively stable over long periods.

Nice analogy. This is why I stick to HTML/CSS/JS. I've been doing pretty much the same thing since 1997. I've never built a phone app or used a JS framework (other than may own). Unfortunately it means I'm largely unemployable because I'm not current on all the latest tech - I'm current on 20 year old tech. Nevertheless, I'm actually quite happy about that. I really love what I do and don't feel stressed about development. I know I've missed out on all the new flashy tech but as the years go by, that seems like a good thing. I'm just 'making occasional improvements to my home every few years'. It seems like HTML/CSS/JS was a good investment. Nice article. Thanks.
The Wikipedia 'flat design' article might need updating with this information.

I see your point re. desktop UI elements, but I think 'flat design' became a zeitgeist term in the 2010s for the majority of creatives / graphic designers.
Try it sometime.

You'll find that:

1. It's harder than it looks.
1. The hierarchy is stubbornly inconsistent.

Take the example of MP3s, or more generally, audio files vs. text vs. images vs. multimedia.

Do you classify all audio indepednetly of any text, regardless of whether it's, say, a history of WWII in the Czechoslovakia?

Is a historical study of military technology used in Czechoslovaki during WWII filed under history (WWII), geography (Czechoslovakia), technology (military), or military science (technology)?

What happens when countries change or borders shift (Holy Roman Empire -> Austria-Hungary -> Czechoslovakia -> Czechia)?

Or when a region is disputed (West Bank, Taiwan, Kashmir, Oregon Teritory, Malvinas, ...)? Is Ireland part of the British Isles?

Is it "mythology", "fiction", "religion", "theology", "philosophy", "cult", or "mass delusion"?

Even if it's a single person's classification, conflicts rapidly emerge. Increase the number of catologers, or add multiple readers/users, and you'll start getting complaints and exceptionally strong disagreements.

I'm not opposed to the practice. I've attempted it myself numerous times. I'm working on several approaches presently.