skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do i need 2 clicks on win to open the file save dialog ? If the program is behaving "like before" why do they change it every couple of months ?
Pity there is no brew package.
I am a little dissapointed was hoping for a bit more in terms of an aggregation of all the disparate geospatial agency's datasets!

It would be great to have a centralised place instead of having to go through the Irish geoportal, then navigate Bavaria's own series of portals, so on and so for for each country and sub-state (and even city).

Something like New Zealand has https://data.linz.govt.nz/data/
Easy, just like Windows nowadays, because Aix uses COFF not ELF, and you also get private by default and description files listing which symbols are public.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/xl-c-and-cpp-aix/16.1?topic=libr...

CreateExportList is somehow similar to creating an import library in Windows,

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/xl-c-and-cpp-aix/16.1?topic=libr...

Here are all details, https://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/aix/e...
Another Awful Amazon Interview Experince – Arrogant bar raiser on third round
I hate talking about it, so here is the link where I explained my awful experience with Amazon interview!

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1476594/Amazon-or-SDE-2-or-Hyderabad-India-or-Arrogant-bar-raiser-on-third-round
I suspect a significant portion of Apple's customers fall into that category.

Existing customers, yes. Apple are probably trying to grow their market share though, which means they also need to consider those people who have usb cables too.
Selling the charger separated from the device is also part of the proposal.
Apple is a little bit like Oracle, in that, they think the world thinks as they do. EG, employees are a bit zealous.

So I suggest

4. They think lightning may become a real standard, everyone will adopt it, with licensing fees.
That's why the EU back then banged the heads of the manufacturers together to force them to come up with a common standard, instead of picking one and forcing it down their throat.
Where reason 2 and 3 are specifically why I understand why any regulatory body would do something about it.

Reason 1 I can kind of understand (if valid).
iPhones are already compatible with iQ charging, the dominant standard for this kind of thing.
Oh they targeted plastic bags already. The food industry will get their blast, but their problem is harder to solve than chargers.
off the cuff claims made by executives, like "there will never be a need for more than, like, 5 computers in the whole world" are different from calculated engineering limits though. While faster-than-light travel may be possible someday, it's beyond our current technology (though there are some interesting theories at the edge of physics). Fundamental engineering limits tend to be harder to work around. eg despite all our scientific advances, cars engines are still lmited by the Carnot cycle. Moving to electric cars doesn't get rid of that limitation, just makes us subject to other limitations (currently, battery technology).
Confirmed source from Valve said 'soon'
I also prefer Lightning. The central pin of USB-C being in the device's port rather than the charger seems like a bad idea to me. Lightning is the opposite.
Hey EU!

I already have a common charger. In fact I have three! They are all USB-C Power Delivery devices: small lightweight charger, large powerful charger, and a battery pack.

I also have special cables for different devices, but it’s hardly onerous.

Please go back and rewrite your cookie law to be implemented in HTTP / some wire protocol so that I can use browser whitelisting.

Ambivalence,

gorgoiler
Normal USB A ports have that little notch on the inside too. For all the years I've lived on this planet I've never broken a USB port. USB C is perfectly fine.

The worst part of lightning is how flimsy it feels once it's been worn in.

Plus having the connectors inside with something to line it up seems like a battle hardened design choice now. Unless you're an idiot, you're not gonna break anything.
Serious critics of solar (and wind) power where never about price[1], they were about about availability and, as expected, with the growing share of wind and solar in the electricity mix the grid is getting more and more disturbed when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine for a few days.

[1] in fact, price is a terrible metric when talking about electricity because you can't (realistically) store it, even today. Price only make sense when you have a bunch of fossil fuel power plant sitting idle, waiting for the break-even price to happen before adding their power to the grid.
So we’ll be unable to ever improve on usb-c? How’s that good for anybody?
It was done years ago and that's partially how we got microusb charging to be so common in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Thing is, cool as this box is, this outputs analog and has DAC inside it. One of the key reasons that people wouldn't use Alexa input, Muso Cobblestone (these were pretty great in all fairness), etcetera long term is that the internal DACs were not even remotely "audiophile" quality.

If these devices had some sort of digital output so we could attach our own DACs, it would be much nicer.
Given that Switzerland has a world class chemical engineering and pharmaceutical industry and production facilities already, hypothetical lab-grown meat from Switzerland will probably among the cheaper high quality lab-grown meat in the world.
You got that backwards. Lying, cheating and stealing with impunity is how you signal being a superpower.
Extremely interesting trend in cyclomatic complexity increasing then dropping in what looks like all systems and programs analyzed.

Interesting that Linux kernel is unusually low, about 4.5 while all the others (except gnu coreutils) are around 6.
I have quite a few branded ones from companies giving them away at conferences. They work well enough.
Bioreactors is good environment for bacteria and viruses because they don't provide same level defense as immune system in living organisms.
what happens when you write code that segfaults?
Why do you think it can't be changed to something else in the future?
That's the theory with all charging, isn't it? But I'm talking about while travelling or all those unexpected circumstances when you find yourself needing a charge when you're not at home.

One night recently, I managed to get locked out of my flat, after midnight, with nothing but my phone in my pocket. On about 15% charge! Thankfully that was enough to book a hotel and buy a lightning cable (and a toothbrush) at a 24-hour convenience store using Apple Pay, enabling me to recharge the phone on the hotel's USB charging sockets. If I'd needed to find a wireless charger I would have been totally screwed!

I suppose wireless chargers will become similarly ubiquitous if they're the only way to charge phones. If you can expect to find wireless charging in every hotel room and every train seat then it's not a problem. But I suspect that's a long way off.
Might sound like a good idea but might also leave us stuck with usb-c for decades.
Web3 and Tokenization in Vast Fictional Narratives
I agree in principle, but that doesn't change the fact that such kind of code might land on an application I depend on for some reason.

Hence why I always advocate for better industry regulation, as I get to see how the sausage is made, and would like everyone gets more healthier.

Most managements don't care about diligent programmers, only delivery.
The lightning connector is a more physically robust one than USB-C.

The male lightning connector is a single flat piece; the female connector is a hole with the contacts on the top + bottom of the port.

Compare to USB-C, which has an exposed "tab" in the middle of the female connector, and the male connector has a matching "hole" in the middle.

This makes USB-C more vulnerable to e.g. dust collecting, and damage of the exposed tab. Unlike lightning, which can collect dust in the female port, but it's easily cleaned out using a paperclip or SIM card removal tool.
Would it be possible for EU to select a standard, and request each member state to tax non-standard products sold at an increasing YOY rate. This would give some time to Apple to figure it out while putting the words in action now without punishing consumers from day one. Also, making some money on the back of a GAFA.
I have like 3 lightning cables, apple deprecating lightning would account to me throwing these cables away and buying usb-c. I suppose other apple users would have to do the same. Not to mention other lightning accessories, headphones and such. Lightning is still included on airpods (pro and max).

Furthermore, usb-c is younger than lightning. And lightning was arguably superior to previous usbs (more durable).

So while unification sounds nice, net gain would be actually close to nothing, it would be a change for the sake of change, and would probably annoy as much people as it would please.
I think most iPhones on offer are a fair bit thicker than their Android counterparts. Specifically, most Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones are smaller than all but the Mini iPhones.
We use Laravel Livewire (inspired by LiveView).

It's been amazing to work with.

Thanks LiveView for inspiring Livewire!

It saves development time and solves lots of other problems along the way. I think it makes better web apps just by the way it works.

We are been using it on all our projects the past year.

Alpine js is a great compliment to Livewire.

They call it the TALL stack. Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire.

The performance is as good or even better than vue apps.
Swindling is part of the game at all levels. Personally, I feel good about it even at 35 as long as I followed the rules.

I remember a kid changing the colour of his bishop by 'misplacing' it on a different colour square to get the same colour in a bishop-pawn endgame. That was not OK.
I wholeheartedly agree. Lightning, as a connecor, is really superior to USB-C : solid, stable, simple and compact.

Too bad Apple didn't wanted to give this one to the USB consortium and we'll now be stuck with USB-C (and don't get me wrong : as much as i love the lightning connector, I vastly prefer a standard connector for everything, so USB-C it'll be).
Isn't the idea behind cloud storage to be able no to buy the actual physical storage?
Wireless charging is terrible from an energy efficiency standpoint.
Considering that the standardization effort is supposed to be for the environment, and that includes energy efficiency requirements for chargers, I don't think switching to a less efficient charging method will be looked over kindly.

But it is Apple, who knows what they are going to do to avoid regulation.
See other thread. If the industry wants it, it is highly effective in influencing legislators. It is called lobbyism and typically we complain about it but sometimes it is also good.
I am not an English native speaker, but I think when you learn you become wiser, not "more clever*.

There are things that can increase your "cleverness" like deliberate practice (of mental calculations, of memorization), meditation or deleting social media to increase your attention, or using drugs. I would not call that "learning".

Learning is similar to "installing new software on existing hardware". Becoming more clever is similar to "installing new hardware".
The EU very recently banned a lot of single-use plastics[1], so it's not like they're just targeting a random small problem here.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/topics/plastics/single-use-...
>So of course, for an alternative to displace it, it would also have to work at unfathomable scales too.

The alternative is already there, vegetarianism. It's not unhealthy either, much more thermodynamically and land mass efficient, even cruelty free if you believe in that.

It's just that the almost only meat diet has taken over the planet.

We just need to make meat cost prohibitive enough to force the majority of people to eat the majority of their meals vegetarian.
AS they say play stupid games win stupid prizes
> Now that Qt is becoming more and more hostile

Can you please elaborate on that? I thought the free edition of Qt was open enough to be the right choice for writing fast multiplatform code. Did they change anything wrt licensing, or there are technical issues?

> although it seems there's still no Linux support in the free edition.

And the insane price tag of the other editions wouldn't help either.
Anyway, Lazarus may be far from being the same thing feature-wise, still it's worth of consideration for Linux development. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
it is, as mentioned both in the article and the list excerpt in the pdf linked above.

313 "台独万岁" “Long live Taiwan’s independence”
> People always say things like this until they are forced to, and somehow find a way.

That is one of two possible outcomes. The other is that the sector just dies off and relocates to another place on earth, where externalities don't have to be considered, maybe for strategic reason. This has happened many times.
Well, once you have deployed it it can be used countless times for a much lower fee
Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
No point in me adding anything to this. You've described the article perfectly.
for perspective thats 500B less than war in Afghanistan.
We do not need updates forever.

Updates become scary because you never know what BS they decided to add that I never needed which will break things that I did need.

We do not need updates forever. We need quality and respect.

We need something that 'just works' in the first place and the source code to fix it when it doesn't or when the company isn't there anymore.

We need control over our own devices because they become more and more extension of the mind and just like your mind should be protected the extension of it should be protected too.

Which means complete control over updates and what they contain. It means full control over each aspect of the device whether it is hardware or software.

Updates have became another form of control over your device and your workflow and your life eventually. They have become a tool to push into your throat something you never wanted. They have become a tool to disrespect your choices.

If you reject updates they bombard you with endless messages and warnings that jump up in the middle of your work sometimes even breaking your work. Talk about user hostility.

Apple for instance abuses even your internet traffic and simply downloads updates without asking and there is no way to turn it off. It is especially "useful" during the travel when you share connection from one device with another and another "thinks" it is wifi so it downloads 5gb of update leaving you without internet access when you need it the most not mentioning the cost. Thanks Apple. You simply cannot turn it off.

This is a clear example of disrespect to people and their choices. Asking on their support forum didn't help. Well guess what dear Apple, ignoring people and their requests would not help either. We would bombard you with messages and demands until you start respecting our choices and as long as you bombard us with "invitations to update" without option to turn them off. I think Apple and many others do not realize that pushing something "through the throat" tactic would not work in a long run.

We need full control over our devices and the sooner they understand it the better.
Metamask works with Avalanche, not sure about the others.
How can this work, then?

https://www.kerrygoldusa.com/irishgrassfed/
Yeah, I used to use Spotify for discovery when the radio function acted like...radio. Now it's just a 30 track playlist on loop generated based on things you have liked. So absolutely fucking pointless for discovery.

I am SCREAMING OUT for a service that was like the old Spotify radio.

Currently just going to gigs again and finding bands through bandcamp the organic way is what I'm doing.

Also, here is a script I wrote to download and extract a Bandcamp download link and import it with the beet CLI music library manager:

https://github.com/radiosilence/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh.d/...

I then use Navidrome (modern Subsonic replacement) to serve it up:

https://www.navidrome.org/
Possibly off topic, but does anyone experience major issues with Spotify Connect? Maybe its just Sonos devices but it rarely works well.
Industrial farming is a real problem, for the environment, for the animals, for the climate and for us consumers.
No problems whatsoever with Ubuntu based distros (like Mint) with Nvidia whatsoever. If you want to install the newest Mesa from a PPA, one of them has instructions for Mint. I'd recommend openSUSE over Fedora, less Gnome focused, more pragmatic than laboratory to push the boundaries and rolling release in case of Tumbleweed. Instructions for Nvidia drivers are here [0]. Just saw a guide to Setting up MicroOS as a desktop OS (their equivalent to Fedora Silverblue, immutable OS). Might try that one on the machine i still have to migrate from a Cinnamon/KDE-FrankenMint to Tumbleweed.

[0] https://opensuse.github.io/openSUSE-docs-revamped-temp/insta...
Not surprising she bit. It's the next step after the PV road debacles.
Microsoft and an army of tiny telecoms are part of a plan to wire rural America
I wonder how many of the challenges here apply to things like Solein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods
That's only around $17k. Much lower than what I expected.
There is a time to figure it out. The whole thing is discussed for years. Apple must have seen it coming. In addition the legaslative process isn't finished, yet. And then the final legislative measure will have a grace period and only affect new products.
Thanks you very much, good to know.
> I would have appreciated that global warming was a thing that needs to be researched, since the phenomenon has only been discovered relatively late (in terms of the entire span of human civilization).

In terms of the entire span of human civilization, yes. But in terms of the age of our modern, industrial societies not so much. It was discussed by Fourier in the 1820, the greenhouse effect was well described by Tyndall in the 1860s (he knew about the effect of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapour), and its increase due to human activity was explored by Arrhenius in the 1890s.

Just a reminder that we did know about global warming. We've been knowing for a long time.
> I think that the concept of an NFT is quite a useful one

How so? Can you name a few useful applications? From my understanding NFTs are only as useful as "property titles", which means they have exactly one and only one application: speculation, which in my book is an absolute anti-feature.

> Instead of trusting a chain of certificate authorities you can trust a blockchain's consensus mechanism instead.

I think you meant registries, not CAs? How is "blockchain consensus" better, given all the blockchain failures we've witnessed so far with BTC/ETH and all the related hacks, monopolistic overreach from state-sponsored hardware vendors, and lack of consensus on the software leading to hard forks? Don't you think hard-wiring monetary incentives to something as basic as a naming scheme can only lead to bad outcomes (as ICANN gTLD programme has demonstrated)?

What's your take on the GNU Name System? Concerns about it being a GNU project aside ("it'll be ready when GNU/Hurd is ready"), what do you make of the features and threat model? Personal opinion: on paper, i find it's the least-worst naming system i've ever read about.
We don't really know that -- USB-C hasn't been out long enough. I can tell you that for durability I hate lightning, because it always seems to have connection problems after a while and the plug itself seems overly complex for what it does. I can't recall ever having any such connection problems with micro USB or USB A for example.

In general it's easy to see also that the lightning connector itself is far more exposed to the environment than any of the USB connectors which are largely enclosed.
This applies in theory but I see things happen differently in real life. I have got macbook 2016 usb c cable and that dust problem etc has never happened to me. And my android cable are pretty robust too. But the funny thing is I always need to put spring so that join don't gets damaged in iphone charger.
What's thermodynamically efficient? Do you mean energy efficient?
Spotify's discovery sucks. I can never ever find a favorite song in Spotify's suggestions. The experience is very similar to Youtube's echo chamber.
It wasn't a non-issue till the EU stepped in. Every manufacturer had their own plug and some (eg. Nokia) even had more than one, of course they were incompatible. I'm grateful that the EU stepped up here.

I feel for Apple's hurt pride here that they should adopt something they didn't invent, but since we are a mixed Android/Apple household, getting rid of Lightning will be nice.
Delphi, as technology, is amazing. But the company controlling it operates on the model of locking-in existing customers and ratcheting up prices. It's a bad deal for everyone not already stuck in the ecosystem with things they need to maintain. Look up Lazarus for the open source I-can't-believe-it's-not-Delphi
Even if you found a single snapshot of allegedly AIX or HPUX source code of unknown origin, you would have a problem with referencing to it so that your claim can be both trusted and verified. Moreover it would still be nowhere near the level of detail we have for systems with public source code, where you have snapshots of most versions, later on we have particular commits ...
Check out this great GDC talk by Sid and Bruce on the history of the development of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts&t=3s

They mention Empire as an influence, and there's a really nice modern implementation of Empire available for Windows and iOS.

http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/mother.html

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mother-of-all-battles/id425160...
Since it is not reachable, it is good for crashing opi. Hm.
Initial Litigation Offering (ILO) is a very useful idea, however it's coming to Avalanche, not Ethereum:

https://www.coinspeaker.com/guides/what-is-initial-litigatio...
or $0.70 per year at current energy prices.
I am experiencing some issues, especially when starting a session. It can help to have all the speakers connected via ethernet cable.
There is not really a limited supply of this old, cheap, generic medication that we routinely feed to livestock.

If you are concerned about wasting money, consider that for one dose of (also unproven!) medication like convalescent plasma you could buy about a thousand doses of generic, cheap drugs like ivermectin. And that has been tried about 500000 times, still is unproven but is not considered controversial.
I'll take your word on it that writing const str = []const u8; would be equivalent, however, I think that's already valuable to build in considering how much people use string literals.

You're correct that Rust has a bunch of actual type rules here to say that a str really is UTF-8 and not some random bytes -- and Zig presumably wouldn't do that, but by explicitly building in a named str type, rather than just shrugging and saying []const u8, there'd at least be a social convention that str is actually, you know, a UTF-8 string, not just some bytes.

And yes, obviously the memory managing high level String with features like concatenation and mutability is way more heavyweight and shouldn't be built-in to the language fundamentals of something like Zig, it's just the cheap "size + pointer" immutable string slice that I believe is worth building in explicitly now that I've seen Rust do it and after decades of experience noticing that software almost invariably has string literals representing human text (thus suitable for UTF-8) that we shouldn't muddle with slices of arbitrary bytes.