skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preface: I can't do this (specifically). But I have done many types of software development across two decades. My journey began with LAMP-style web work, took me to C++ and the desktop (apps, GUI toolkits, browser engines), then to embedded - from smart TVs to smart speakers, to network protocols for drone systems and beefy car infotainment ECUs and lower-level microcontroller/borderline electronics work.

My conclusion: You can get into just about anything, and for the most part the difficulty level is fairly uniform. But there's simply a vast sea of domain-specific spec knowledge out there. It doesn't mean that it's too hard for you or you can't learn it. Anything that is done at scale will fundamentally be approachable by most developers. Just be prepared you'll need to put in the time to acquire a familiarity with the local standards/specs and ways of doing things. Knowledge turns seemingly hard things into easy things, and if it's been done before chances are it's documented somewhere.

The truly hard stuff is innovating/doing things that haven't been done before. Novel development happens rarely.
Testing is (almost) Stable right now.

They included a JDK17 pre-release so an upgrade though backports in a month will be easier than. (It's in the release notes linked here).

Same reason why v15 and v16 are only in Unstable right now: They where not meant to be released for Debian 11, so removed from Testing.

Usually Testing and Unstable are mostly in sync. Besides the packages in Unstable that are causing serous trouble of course.

But right now Testing is mostly identical to the (still next) Stable Debian 11. So it makes no sense judging availability of packages in Testing right now until the release is out.
Good for you, then your problem is simply picking the right path through the casino.

For me, the riggedness of the game urges me towards the 'don't play' strategy.
I’m going to guess that when you close issues that are years old, a fraction of them will reappear as enough people have devised workarounds for the issues and they will become the de facto fix.
OQO had much of this working ~14 years ago, but I don't think it met much of the phone replacement functionality that it would have needed.
> Then the scientists force their virtual worlds to change course

I think this is where the exercise fails. Yes, if we change course we can do a lot of different things that may work. The problem isn’t that we don’t have any options, it’s that we can’t convince society to change course in the first place. How do we accomplish that step? Because otherwise it seems like we will just keep arguing in circles until it’s too late to do anything.
The federal government seems to be paying the bill in Germany.
> If the PSI/CSAM system had been announced along side E2E encryption for iCloud backups, it would be clear that they were attempting to act in their users best interests.

Most likely because the only way this announcement makes sense, is that they tried to respond for misleading leaks. We'll see on September probably some E2EE announcements, since iOS 15 beta supports tokens for backup recovery. At least, let's hope so.
It's super sad considering the new stream of users of all levels, but energy is spent at the higher layers (emacs config, org tricks) rather than core..
I achieve the same results with a whole-house fan run at night, foil-bubble-foil, spray foam insulation and insulated white-backed window curtains. The summer procedure is to power up the fan and open the windows at sundown, then reverse the procedure at sunup. When the paulownia trees reached 40 ft. in 3 years, we only run the AC a couple of hours in the afternoon to maintain a 76 degree environment. This is in North Carolina at about 900 feet elevation. It's a 3 story 2700 square foot house with Hardieboard (thin concrete) siding. You might call BS, but my electric co. and propane co. are very disappointed.
An elephant in the room is worth noting: democracies were built to avoid dystopias, yet there are growing trends of "it is better to leave" in long established democracies - "Contact your representative then" increasingly seems to no longer be an established, working idea.

Several factors may accompany this phenomenon: polarization; perceived failures in education¹; sometimes anti-centrism in the government; political (the purpose of the party) and societal (the affiliation of the citizen with peers) crisis of identity...

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¹and Canada is the Country which promotes the relevant OECD studies
All these downvotes, and not one person prepared to explain why portions of a Spain-based footballer's earnings from Spanish companies accruing to Belize based companies is the tax authorities being abusive...

Or why the tax authority would prefer a situation where the tax code is sufficiently complex the Messis and their financial advisers think such an evasion scheme is worth trying to one where they just receive a percentage of his very large earnings without any fuss or court case, like your average employee of a Spanish company. The reality is the reverse: people with a lot of income to disguise and creative tax planners love finding ambiguities and imaginative interpretations of deductions and exemptions designed for other purposes, and tax authorities would rather not be chasing them through the courts years later.
Wearing my rose tinted glasses too

the direction of the 90s was pointing at was, cosmopolitanism, techno-utopianism, radical secularism. I can't help to think that the decades that followed were a big regression from that with human tribes forming around the most ancient, base anxieties of the species. Unfortunately this decline was not captured in the the arts which became significantly less significant
> the colon is worth more than the dollar, really ???

I'm a little confused by this. The exchange value for 1 USD to 1 Costa Rican Colon is 1:621. But I'm even more confused why this is a problem for you. It's the purchasing power that is important, and Costa Rica is significantly less expensive that the United States for someone holding US Dollars.

> the people were rude

All 4 million of them? If you've written off an entire country as rude, it might be on you.
Thanks for all the corrections! I'm learning a lot from this conversation. :)

> there is absolutely nothing to be gained by bringing that up on Intel first

If you're an OSdev fan, then "self-hosting" (i.e. being able to do your kernel development for your new system on the system itself, making your testbench your new workstation) is usually considered a valuable property, to be achieved as soon as is feasible.

Of course, the M1 effort probably had a lot of involvement from the iOS kernel teams; and the iOS kernel folks are a lot less like OS-enthusiast hackers and a lot more like game-console platform-toolchain developers, thoroughly used to a development paradigm for putting out new iOS devices that focuses on non-self-hosted bring-up via tethered serial debugging / whatever the Lightning-protocol equivalent of ADB is. So they probably don't really care about self-hosting. (Are they even there now? Can you iterate on XNU kernel drivers effectively on an M1 Mac?)
Everyone copes with death differently.
The link you posted does not explain the law. It is effectively an ad.
"I'm going to go ahead and guess that the problems discussed
were fixed, and I'm closing this bug report. "

This is not a way to assert a bug is fixed. Success looks like actually trying the code in the bug report that demonstrates the bug, and/or contacting the report participants, to confirm that the bug is actually fixed for the participants.
There seems to be an increase of people with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions like repetitive patterns of behavior and a perturbed sense of identity.
Of course you should care about the language the tool was written in. As another example, 1Password is redoing their mac app in electron. Many are upset about this and concerned it will lead to worse performance. Solely because of the technology being used.

Similarly here, evaluating esbuild vs swc inherently involves comparing their capabilities, benefits, potential etc. A lot of that is informed by the language its written in.
> most people don't want to have a million dollars, they want to spend it.

Had not heard that one, that's very good.
Aleph (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Front End Engineer
If you're reading this and haven't deleted your account already, will you ever?
Well, in the USA we are literally called Human Capital Stock. So, I would disagree that's the case here.
Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead
It's a good point. In particular I feel it's going to make parenting challenging because his children will know growing up that they will never need to work.
>> The reason for that was the genocide carried out against non-black Haitians.

That seems over the top to call a slave revolt genocide against the opressing group.
I remember only two international crises -- the Gulf War and Serbia. when protecting the Earth against asteroid impacts started receiving what felt like more than its fair share of news coverage, even as a teenager I knew that the world must be in a great place. With the Internet taking off, I thought it would be the dawn of a golden age. Of course, that came to an abrupt halt on 2001/9/11.
Getting your doctors off internet explorer would be a good start
How hard would it be to get 1GBs symmetric?
Hm yeah ok, we should not look at case fatality rate when the true number of cases is so uncertain. I think it's more about what the actual risk of death is if you get covid, which is lower than this case fatality rate.
Yep, the responses are interesting as they all assume a certain company size (which makes sense given how many faang etc. employees post here.) Eventually a company will hire IT that create their own work and aren’t mindful of the chilling effect monitoring has.

We are much smaller and still larger than the median company size in the US: https://www.naics.com/business-lists/counts-by-company-size/
Is there a way to version-control shortcuts and import/export them between devices, especially for those unwilling to use iCloud and associated keyring upload and content scanning?
That's general population, not traveling population. A traveler can be a vector of infection in more ways than someone who stays local.
Yes, individual welfare is better for our society than corporate welfare. Philosophically I shy away from both, but it's foolish to argue against the former while the latter gets a complete pass from both major parties. This political dynamic is one of the major factors underpinning our growing wealth divide.

Even though the Fed eventually got those 2008 dollars back, they still affected the market (otherwise what would have been the point). The losers were those who were prudently (imprudently, apparently) holding cash, and would have otherwise received higher interest rates due to the demand. By creating new temporary dollars for bailouts, the Fed destroyed that demand. And the moral hazard allowed companies to keep loading up on debt such that they needed another bailout for Covid, which was reflexively carried out without any objections from congress.

These new dollars never coming back in will be a good thing long term, as creating direct price inflation will prevent the Fed from being able to continue lowering rates and thus prevents them from creating even more asset inflation than they already have.
Good points, thanks. The point I was trying to make is just that cash positions will bear the brunt of the money printing. Outstanding mortgage and other debt still benefits from the low interest rates and the fact that cheaper money in the future will pay back the loan.

Do you think inflation will fall back to normal levels because consumers will not have enough money to pay for the inflated prices producers will be demanding? If that causes US growth to implode as you hypothesize, I think that will lead to quite a depression. Interest rates at 0 can't help at that point.

If they keep sending people stimulus checks forever, it seems that portends extreme continued inflation, since the govt. is giving out free dollars with no way to reclaim them in the future. So I really feel the most realistic outcome for the US is the Japan scenario unfortunately.
To protest against pretentious people caring about how their death is used I am going to claim that anyone can do with my body, ashes, or anything, whatever they want since I won't be alive any way to care.
It occurs to me that while today we have the idiom ‘spiraling out of control’, that probably dates from a post-aviation world.
I've been doing that since forever with Gentoo. Old kernel and desktop but recent applications. Or the other way around, really.
things in africa and israel are not better today. The yugoslav wars were kind of to-be-expected since yugoslavia split at that time and they largely ended in the 90s. There 's more war today than in the 90s
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
Divergent Association Task
This came up a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150654
The latest iPad Air has a fingerprint reader on the power button, which is nice. Hopefully this makes its way to other Apple devices.
Sure it is. Hard work weights probability in your favour and gives you more opportunities. Surely that's the best anyone can ever hope for? Do you have a system in mind that makes guarantees?
Except when the system can't handle the animations and they get jerky.
Carbs cause a sugar rush and after the pancreas deals with it, you get hungry again a couple of hours later. This is why people snack between meals, increasing their caloric intake. If you avoid carbs and focus on proteins and healthy fats, you can go 4, 6 or even 8 hours without getting hungry, effectively reducing your caloric intake.
Our planet as a whole does, so this doesn't seem to be a universal truth.
Open firmware, but who says the silicon isn't backdoored? And why is open firmware more important for your freedom than open silicon? What about on-chip ROMs? :-)

In the end, you're always drawing arbitrary lines in the sand. If you really want to go all the way to actually reach a tangible goal, I'm only aware of one project that actually offers trust guarantees backed by hard engineering arguments: Precursor

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

(TL;DR on the trick is that, by using an FPGA, you make it nearly impossible to backdoor, because it would take a huge amount of compute power to engineer a backdoor into the FPGA silicon that can analyze arbitrary randomized FPGA designs to backdoor them).

For more practical computing, I find M1s have a very solid secureboot design. We can retain that security even after putting m1n1/Asahi on there; doing so requires physical presence assertion and admin credentials and locks you into a single m1n1 version without repeating the process, so we can use that to root our own chain of trust. Similarly we can continue to use Apple's SEP (in the same way one would use a TPM, HSM, or a YubiKey for that matter; sure, it's a proprietary black box, but it also can't hurt you except where you let it) just like macOS does, for things like encryption and storing SSH secrets. And all the coprocessors have IOMMUs, and the whole thing is very logically put together (unlike the giant mess that are Intel CPUs; e.g. we know they have a JTAG backdoor in production chips after authenticating with keys only they have, never mind things like ME) and designed such that the main OS does not have to trust all the auxiliary firmwares.

I'd love to have a more open system competing in the same space, but I have no problem trusting Apple's machines much more than I do the x86 PCs I use these days anyway, and it's hard to find things that compete in the same performance/power space that are more open than either of those, unfortunately.
How about Douglas Adams in the 1970s? His idea of the "Babel fish" which allowed clear communication across languages, rather than ushering in universal peace as expected (as idealists in the 1990s thought the Internet would) instead resulted in more warfare and devastation as aliens could insult each other clearly.
Maybe they don't prefer loss and compression? We all have our (often disagreeing) preferences...
> By now we could be running UUCPesque media feeds over local ad-hoc wifi with free educational resources, reliable dockable workstations in our pocket and a self-organizing community economy rewarding social and environmental values.

You can build your dream on Android right now. It provides all the basic infrastructure to make it possible. The reality is that not enough people share your dream to make it viable.
Your goal shouldnt be to work at at an early startup. As you mentioned it's not worth it.

Your goal is to be a founder at a startup, and for all of people's claims that startup success is entirely luck that is not true.

Luck certainly plays a role, hell being in the position to choose between being a founder vs employee of someone else startup requires incredible luck, on a global scale.

But, me and you, the privileged 0.1% of the world, are masters of our destiny. To claim otherwise is to accept mediocrity as inevitable and not the consequences of our decisions.
Interesting. How did they react? Was it in the US? (My friend and I are from a culture where talking about money is less socially acceptable than in the US.)
Last message in the thread:

> I'm going to go ahead and guess that the problems discussed were fixed, and I'm closing this bug report. If there's anything more to be worked on here, please send a mail to the debbugs address and we'll reopen the bug report.

I don't think this really qualifies as "ignoring". Having read the last two messages or so, their approach looks totally reasonable to me. Please don't scold maintainers for cleaning up? :(
> ... staying home (and ahem, going to the toilet at home more) as opposed to going to the office.

From what I understand, this was the real driver of the shortage. The toilet paper manufacturers had to retool for home-size rolls to meet demand, where they were previously making tons of office-size rolls. Highly efficient manufacturing processes don't turn on a dime.
...which is why those intent on pushing their narrative into every nook and cranny of society start by redefining commonly used words like 'racism', 'oppression', 'equity', 'woman' etc.

Yes, words have meanings. Those meanings may shift, language evolves after all. This is not what happens currently though when words are forcibly redefined to fit a certain narrative. This is a language revolution by means of revolutionary language.

The so-called 'n-word' and the absolute ban on its use by 'whites' where the version ending with 'a' seems to be used in every other line of most rap lyrics is in this comparable to the Dutch word for a homosexual man ('flikker') which was banned from common use but taken up as a nom-de-guerre by homosexual men. This habit of seeding the field of language with linguistic landmines has done nothing to ease tensions, the opposite is true. This is a relatively recent development as can be seen by watching earlier commercials: bout a week ago I happened to play a video of the first two hours of MTV [1] in the corner of my screen when my ears and eyes were drawn to a commercial about 'The United Negro College Fund' [2] using its full name. The fund still exists but I'm hard-pressed seeing them use their full name in any advertising campaign now due to the stigma attached to the word 'negro', according to an entry in the talk page [3] they are in the process of changing their name because of this. This commercial was 40 years old.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJtiPRDIqtI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNCF

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:UNCF#United_Fund
You're a mean coward.

I just checked your profile and saw you've absconded after being challenged about your terrible take on this submission.

Is ironic that you can pontificate and criticize so meanly but scurry at the sight of the first moderate challenge.

Good riddance.
> Mostly these people know very well that there are shortcoming

Apart from this thread is about how the person thinks it doesn’t have any shortcomings compared to macOS.

> because that original "hacker spirit"

I love hacking too! I want to spend more time hacking. Hence I don’t want to waste my time doing uninteresting things like managing a desktop environment. That’s not interesting hacking it’s janitorial.

> Your position is pure consumerism - fat cat wants everything _now_

You’re just being personally abusive now - not sure why you feel the need to do that. Please cut it out.

My position isn’t for consumerism - it’s using the best tool for the job and appreciating quality engineering. Why would I pick a wonky tool instead? A good hacker picks good tools.
True. Then we have to examine the power dynamics and decide as a society if additional protections need to be given to workers. After all, there's way more pressure on a worker to provide food and shelter than on an employer to hire someone. It would be interesting to see what a union could come up with as an industry standard contract concerning equity distribution/compensation.
We also connected the entire world together, thanks to Big Tech. Silicon Valley culture is imposed on the world whether you like it or not: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...
Who says I'm not trying to make my own billion?
Can anyone comment on the possibility of going in the opposite direction?

I’m considering buying the frame.work laptop, daily driving pop!_os and then virtualizing OSX on it for the few OSX programs I use (this supports framework and not apple).

It looks like it may be fairly easy and possible with a 10-20% performance hit?

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

From what I can tell you can pass through a single GPU with a bit of work, even a iGPU? Is that correct?
> I’m going to start trying this at work. I wonder how it will be received?

You’ve never done that at work? In every company I’ve worked for, nobody would bat an eyelid at dropping an issue that hasn’t been touched for more than a year
I’m at not so delusional as to believe in this level of exceptionalism. Strive for success, but humility is equally important.
>> Killing does not justify killing,

I think the rest of your lengthy post refutes that. Or maybe it means "but we understand why they did it."
That depends on how you define meaning and significance. A perfectly rational machine might decide that since the universe is going to run down and die a cold death regardless of anything the human race might do, everything is meaningless. Fortunately I'm not a perfectly rational being and I don't get a choice about whether temporary happiness and prosperity mean something.
Maybe you are younger or have more dexterity in your fingers? I really have problems with them, and my thumbs remember the pain of plugging those micro USB things in even now as I’m typing this.

But yes, I think magnetic adapters or wireless charging is the way forward. I’m pretty careful when I buy things now (eg the Bluetooth speakers I just bought has a wireless charging dock, and that’s why I bought them over the others).

I bought a magnetic USB-C adapter for my MacBook Pro charger but haven’t had a chance to use it yet (pandemic means I don’t move my laptop very much).
Fortunately nobody has ever needed to access the internet from these machines.

People on HN forget that a huge amount of computing has nothing whatsoever to do with the web.
> if you work hard you will get it

That's a misunderstanding. It's working hard on the right things. Working hard digging a hole then filling it up again will never lead to success.

As for luck, the idea is to put yourself in a position where luck can find you. For example, you'll never meet the partner of your dreams by never leaving the house.
I'm very happy for him and I don't feel jealous or even envious. It's only causing me to question my professional choices.