skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps addition and multiplication are the tools we use to get a computer to appear to act like a biological system with all its chemical pathways and simultaneous stimuli.

Lets take that one step further. Who taught orbiting bodies how to do differential equations?
What this article describes is no different than programming patterns in more traditional languages.

I legitimately can't think of anything that has made it more difficult to write by hand in the last 15 or so years; if anything it's never been easier! Building complex software is...complex, and frameworks and tools in the CSS world are no different than reaching for an MVC framework or ORM.

There's minor quirks between browsers, but it's a far cry from being platform-specific, and a huge improvement on the incompatibilities of yore.
By the way, when ls isn’t printing to a terminal it defaults to one file name a line, so 'ls -a' would work fine here (and arguably be a bit more correct).
I bought a consumer-grade Lenovo (Flex 15") for about $1200 CAD.

While it has amazing components like the AMD Ryzen, Radeon GPU, etc. The quality of the rest of the components is trash.

The trackpad keeps disconnecting, the screen is very poorly backlit, the speakers sound like headphones that came with 1990 Walkmans. It's not a good laptop even if it looks good on paper.
Whoops, so it is. I agree that 3:2 is close to ideal in a laptop form factor.
So good! Thanks for the share.
Everyone uses public services, even if they don't ever interact with them directly. For example, it's the Government which decides whether it's you or someone else that owns your land.
You're literally giving examples of how his premise applies in real life.

"Companies in theory only offer volume discounts when it makes commercial sense to do"
- Encouraging more use makes commercial sense because it yields more money overall even with the discount (if done correctly)
- Users aspiring to buy more makes commercial sense because people buying more means more money
- It makes commercial sense to give discounts because large customers cost less relative to small ones due to fixed costs not changing based on customer size

...and so forth. You're saying his premise is irrelevant but giving a series of examples of why his premise is relevant.
It really depends on how much influence the engineer has over the final product, and whether it's intended to be marketed locally or globally. The GP's concerns is probably more relevant in small-ish teams developing a US-centric product.

I wouldn't say it's an overarching concern that would justify turning away overseas (disclaimer: not located in US myself) talent, but can't say he's totally wrong in specific contexts..
Verge has been publishing leaks to support this group for months now, and it's disingenuous to suggest, given the body of evidence, that voluntary pay transparency is the extent of their organizing or goals.
There are a few reasons:

- Reviewing purchases should put some reasonable controls around how much software you can accumulate. Adding to the tech stack has maintenance costs, and you don't really want to do it without some sort of review. In this case, it's not the dollars as much as the fit.

- With SaaS tools in particular, there are often privacy or security concerns. Those teams should review. Probably want legal's eyes on it to get the right terms in place as well. Again, less about the dollars here, and more about the agreement, risk, required disclosures (subprocessor, etc), and those kinds of factors.

- On the spend itself, you'd be surprised how this adds up, especially if folks are signing multi-year deals and not bothering to negotiate licensing. Remember, if it's easy for you and me to buy, it's easy for everyone else to buy too, and it multiplies quickly.

Now, on one-off hardware purchases and such, I agree it should be a lot easier. At least at the startup I work at, anything under $500 is just an expense report, so just make sure your manager is cool with it and go for it. But there are considerations here also around stuff coming in that IT or facilities then needs to support - obligating their time with your purchase is something you need to agree on or avoid.

EDIT: Also as someone else pointed out, grift on purchase orders is easy without any oversight.
When I sent the sticker to another device it showed up as a broken thumbnail, is there something else I need to do to make the sticker show up on the divide I send it to?
"and yet"? It's "and therefore".

† The only problem is that the atrocious #fafafa on #050505 is made a whole lot worse because there aren't a bunch of even worse things distracting you from it.
It's more the subtle difference between robustness and correctness.
CTE is a complex disorder. It started off being linked to concussions, then linked to untold amounts "sub-concussive" blows over many years (even without a diagnosed concussion)[1], to to now being debated as to whether it's a real, distinct disease[2][3].

We're talking about a disease that is somewhat similar to many other diseases of the brain, that much like Alzheimers, cannot even be diagnosed in living people yet. Not playing sports doesn't guarantee one safety from whatever CTE is either [4].

I'm no medical professional, but this is a topic near and dear to me. I've done quite a bit of research and talked with medical professionals about it. It's really an "up in the air" kind of thing, in my opinion. I will say that the average person and the media seem to think it's a much bigger deal than the medical professionals I have spoken with (all of which do research in this area at one of the top 20 hospitals in the US (Vanderbilt)). Who is right? I fear only time will only tell.

I do think more steps need to be taken to make sports safer. Whether or not CTE, concussions, head trauma, etc. is as bad the media claims is debatable, but I cannot see any of it being a "good" thing either.

[1] https://www.bu.edu/cte/about/frequently-asked-questions/

[2] https://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/Fulltext/2014/01000/Is_Ch...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30169776/

[4] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620153548.h...
Well, taken to the extreme, and from what I can tell, that's the truth for any field.

If you roll everything, financial incentives, emotional readiness, support and preparation, etc, into 'opportunity' then yeah, I believe it.
You're still forced into buying an intel chip now. I'm holding out for an AMD with frame.work before purchasing. Hopefully they will come out with one before I purchase a M1 macbook air.
This has helped me form my view PFOF is not as bad as it sounds.

https://a16z.com/2021/02/17/payment-for-order-flow/
The US Nuclear Navy Force has logged over 5,400 reactor years of accident-free operations, as far as they are willing to tell the public.

What would be an accident in the civilian space would be a state secret in the military.
This is so very true. I've learned to take statements like "xxx works flawlessly" with a massive grain of salt
Honestly it does seem that a halo tax like Apple’s is already being added.
Fair enough. Although my comment is probably tangential to the topic, I intended it as related and relevant.
But how without cigarettes?
Earthquake -and- Sorry I (nearly) Got You Fired (2020)
One big failing of American worker unions (not all but increasing in numbers) was when they agreed to two-tier systems for pay and benefits. Such unions basically compromised new hires benefits and pay to continue high pay and benefits for tenured union workers.
I work remotely and love. I name my fee and if you can't pay...sorry for you.
I just don't know what to do once I feel I've figured out their unmet needs and it's something they shouldn't need...
dummies, should've invented the Internet and Search Engines
What is K supposed to do other than a manual lookup? That’s what it does in vim and neovim.
Maybe an earthquake moved his body to one side of the tomb?
Hah, tell me about it. We were unable to give them more money (buy more seats), and our urgent support request was open for a week. Turns out (from a moment's console snooping) it was a straightforward REST call that was missing a body parameter, so a simple 'curl' fixed the issue for us. But I wonder... how long they were actively hurting their business? And how did a serious bug like that get into production? What does that say about their systems?
>musicians don't know the notes other people are playing like that! How they manage so well that you can't tell they don't, I'm not sure.

Instrument familiarity can really help people overcome different limitations.

Every instrument only has so many notes it can play.

There's a centuries-old Spanish guitar exercise for students where every note (within reach) is played one at a time up the neck on each string. Simple and not an actual musical exercise.

It's expected to be performed starting with the earliest beginners before they even have much musical material under their belt to even practice or rehearse.

If you are not already playing every note of your instrument every day, doing so will make you more familiar with all the notes. This can be especially helpful for the notes you have been missing.

They've been missing you.
That is a cool idea. Also, posting it there is going to jack your hosting costs immediately, haha. But why not post it - what's the worst they can do, ban you for posting something useful?
Don't delete it. Deleting an article has the lowest effort:effect ratio, so lots of automatic policies are in place to speedily allow an author to restore a page that's been deleted.

If the article itself shouldn't exist, mark it with {{qd|spam}} . `qd` is quick deletion.

If the article should still exist but has substantial content that's advertising, mark it {{npov}}

In both cases someone else will come along and fix it. If the author who put the ads up in the first place removes your template, just put it back up.
I’ll briefly share the link to much more detailed system documentation. Including tear down/repair instructions:

https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/pang11/README.html
> Having separate module interface and module body files, as in Ada or Modula-2/3, is a great idea that sadly a lot of people are burnt out on because C and C++ do this in a very unprincipled way.
> Having a terse little file where I can scan the interface of a module, rather than having to scroll through the implementation and see which declarations have `public` in front of them, is a great way to quickly refresh your mental model of a module's API.

Then there's the other-way of doing it: imagine a language with a database/browser (e.g. smalltalk), where the implementation is just linked and can be accessed in the-same/an-other window.

This sort of system could also have documentation-comments attached to the interface (e.g. for usage), and the implementation (e.g. for maintenance logging, rationale, etc).
If you live someplace where it rains fairly frequently but usually not too heavily (Seattle, for example [1]) a hat can be quite useful.

The rain here in the Puget Sound area is usual light enough that I'm not going to get too wet when outside for short periods such as going between my car and indoors, taking out the trash, etc except for my glasses.

An umbrella would deal with that but an umbrella occupies a hand.

The rain is usually close enough to vertical that a hat with a brim that is a 1.5 to 2 inches is sufficient to keep the rain off my glasses.

If there is enough wind to make the rain come at an angle, or to threaten to blow off the hat, I have another hat with a chin strap and a wider brim.

[1] Seattle only gets 2 or 3 times as much rain as Los Angeles, and much less than many big eastern or midwestern cities. Seattle's reputation as a rainy city comes from its rain is more uniform than that of cities like Los Angeles--LA gets its rain in a small number of heavy rain events where Seattles has light rain spread out over many many more days, and those eastern cities all get a lot of things that are much worse than rain so it doesn't even occur to people that they are also rainy cities whereas in Seattle rain is about the limit of "bad" weather.
> Religion never left - it merely have new names like "science"

What is your definition of "religion"?
This question would benefit from some empirical data.

Arguing from definitions won't help us. (Keep in mind that 'middle class' doesn't mean 'median income' or something statistically simple like that.)
HN often hosts discussions on things that happened long enough ago that they wouldn't fit the usual definition of news. This fact isn't news, or a problem.
> moratorium on foreclosures and evictions

That only applies to some areas of the country, and I believe the supreme court just struck it down.

So as of now, applies no where iirc.
It reads to me the same as "is deprecated" or neovim's claim of "literally the future of vim": it makes bold claims about consensus with no support
I don't buy what's presented without evidence. But just curious, in your opinion more competition is bad?
> The concept of opportunity cost is completely lost on a lot of business leaders.

A lot of it is that opportunity cost really isn't the problem of many business units. I spent a week building a crappy version of codecov for our few repos.

Dev won't get in trouble for that because opportunity cost isn't a thing for us as a cost centre.
Some tooling is for managing the complexity caused by complexity of the site/app.

Some tooling is managing the complexity of managing component-centered design (particularly scoping); it's a very positive approach to design but it's not without its problems.

Some tooling is to help developers avoid having to actually learn the CSS language well and/or to force it into JavaScript.

> CSS is essentially platform-specific due to differences between chrome, safari and firefox.

That's an exaggeration. Consistency of implementations between browsers is better than its every been. There are still some vendor-prefixed properties to care about, especially if one is generous in one's support for older browsers, but that's another reason CSS tooling exists, to write only standard CSS and let the tool fill in the older variants.
Agreed. Excel is an interesting case. Most of the power and expressiveness was added to support professional use cases but because it's bundled with MS Office it's available to novices as well.

At least in my experience, making products for non-professional power users presents a few challenges. First off, you can't charge much for a product that isn't a professional tool. At the same time, power users are (initially) a niche segment so in order to support a development team you probably need something that will appeal to a broad audience. But designing a product that works well for a broad audience and for power users is harder (=more expensive) than focusing on one or the other. It doesn't help that power users can be more demanding in terms of support and feature requests than average users.

My experience is that power-user features often get nixed not because any one stakeholder doesn't like them -- often internal folks are themselves power users and think it would be pretty cool -- but because it's often harder to make a good ROI argument for building and supporting power-user features compared to features for the average user.
You are way ahead of the crowd, take care.
If you want to keep doing this, it’ll save you a whole lot of heartache if you also wholesale prevent margin collapsing. In fact, some people recommended that as a baseline default (I personally find it great for layout but surprisingly mixed for typography).
>There isn't any tension between the black people and asian populations either

>one event in Crown Heights, both 30 years ago

I thought (I just googled it to check) that was West Indians and Lubavitch Hasidim. Which are you calling Asians?
+1 for measuring temp. I recommend everyone to buy $10 IR thermometer from AliExpress, despite it's not absolutely accurate, it's very helpful to measure and see changing temperature.
Probably, but they are much more annoying.
+1 for the book. There are too many things in this always-on world to give a f..k about. I've been trying to enjoy smaller things in life more and do not react to all the shif..ry that always seems to be going on around my immediate world. Much better state of mind.
And well upwards of 95% of all Web users (and I'm willing to bet closer to 99%) ... will not or can not use such tools.

(I support several. Tuning sites where uMatrix or even uBlock breaks stuff is a constant chore.)
> Initial should be used if meant to "disable" it.

`initial` isn’t any better than 0 for this sort of purpose. `unset` and `revert` are probably less bad; I’d tend to choose `unset`.
The work is ongoing, it might take until the next release:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot...
Clever and logical. It reminds me of when John Carmack used a precomputed table of Sine values for fast lookup in Quake, rather than running the actual function on the CPU.
> On the other hand, he seems to contradict that point at the end:
"Yes, speech can be harmful, which is why journalists like me have always welcomed libel and incitement laws and myriad other restrictions, and why new rules will probably have to be concocted for some of the unique problems of the Internet age"

I don’t think this is a contradiction, but see below.

>>Who gets to decide what makes the discourse healthy?
>Authority. The same institutions that get to decide anything else. What I'm arguing is that, if you are okay with say, the police limiting freedom of association in the public space to ensure the safety of a community, you ought to be okay with limits on freedom of speech for that same reason. There's nothing mystical about it, nothing extra, nothing that warrants dogmatic defense. The reason why people hesitate with this is, as I said in the first post, that regulating speech amounts to acknowledging that this sort of rationalist individualism is a myth.

I think this conclusion is flawed. Free speech isn’t held as valuable for its own sake, but because the suppression idea exchange; lack of discourse on unpopular topics; and generally taking an unpopular position; all put the society at risk of becoming stunted or extremely oppressive.

So authority can decide some speech is harmful and offers no real benefit. However, this no way implies that society absolutely knows what sorts of speech are actually beneficial.
Apparently you didn't actually read what I wrote:

> Yes I'm well aware that you can still transmit the virus if you're vaccinated...
The fact that desktop Linux systems mostly run systemd is (unfortunately) a reason to run a Linux distro that also runs systemd on new embedded projects (for large values of embedded. Storage is cheap these days, as is a CPU with an MMU).
I think that’s normal. You eventually get enough experience you can’t be bullshitted much anymore and bullshit is everywhere it turns out.
> You've made a business from renting people property.

Right. And this business allows for the removal or tenants if they stop paying their rent. And the Supreme Court has ruled that President Biden has acted illegally in stopping evictions.
Not OP, but at least for me it's the deliberate act of not reacting to shit always. Still enjoy a bowl of pasta at my favorite restaurant or a piece of dark chocolate.still joyful seeing the full moon or the occasional mars in the sky!
I’d claim there’s a good chance that mass evictions would lend themselves to lower property values and rental incomes which would also lead to an unsuccessful business strategy and a similar outcome. Whether or not this is preferable would then be a separate conversation of hypotheticals.
The reason the business is no longer viable is because the government basically seized it and gave the products away for free.
so as an end user I have to pay 30% more because YOU want that convenience?

sorry, but you should be the one paying for that convenience.
I don't disagree with you on the potential financial burdens faced by PhD students but, in this case, and if I haven't missed anything, the infrastructural barrier is not high:

> All experi-ments use a single thread on a Macbook Pro with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-4960HQ processor. Unless stated otherwise, all timing results use five trials, with each trial reporting the fastest among 20 executions.

It may also be worth nothing that, even as a hobby, one can actually do a lot with modern hardware if you scope your project well. There is also a lot of free resources such as CoLab available to those who have very limited computing power at home/work.

Last but not least, there is also nothing stopping you from announcing your results on arXiv and, if you can be bothered (as a hobbyist), get it published in a peer-reviewed journal.

So if you still have ideas, I encourage you to go ahead and try them! :)
chrome == "the browser" ? lol.
You can buy a usb numpad for blender. I did this to save money on a mechanical keyboard.
How do you know? I don't mean this in a challenging way. Just that I'm completely ignorant to how one would even test these things.
RPI also sells modules for commercial products, so anything you play with RPI can be used on products too.
> It is kind of selfish to be raised by past generation but not paying it back by raising the next generation.

What would you say to those who consider having children the selfish decision?
Bill de Blasio should be made to provide accomodations for her in his own home.
This is a very interesting take that I have not considered. I think you are right about this though. Thank you for sharing.
This is a case where build tools surprisingly shine. Example: if you use Fela (CSS-in-JS atomic style library), but build statically, it has all the context it needs to determine optimal order of rules and which rules are actually in use… but you can pipe the styles wherever you want at build time and eliminate the runtime for anything static.

(I use this on my site. It’s suboptimal for build and could use a mountain of refactor. But the source is up on my GH if anyone’s curious)
People do run in on tablets. OK, maybe not tablets like the iPad, but many people, including me, has 2-in-1 devices, where you laptop has a touch screen and where you use the device like it was a tablet.
This seems like the worst system. Now if you want a domain, you have to broadcast your intent before you get it. So scalpers can watch all domains being put up for auction and buy it before you. Vs the current system where you just look for one that is free and can grab it immediately.
Someone should make a video game of Extreme Ironing - distributed only on Steam.
Dockeralternative.com: Searching for an Alternative to Docker?
The biggest blocker for me is usually working out how I can implement a given idea without either writing a bunch of code (I'll get bored) or trying to verify if the paper even works for my use case without doing the aforementioned. One field I pay attention to with this problem seems to be abstract interpretation, with my background at least, the methods are very theoretically clean and impressive but actually implementing these as code and knowing how to write good implementations seems to be quite obtuse.

I genuinely don't understand why we allow papers to be published on computer science, with graphs plotted of the supposed efficacy of research (i.e. not just a theoretical paper), with no code attached.
I'm surprised Socratica didn't merit a mention.

https://www.socratica.com/
what's the usage of memory/storage comparing to buildroot for similar functionalities? I would expect something like 10x larger but I never measured it.
The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China