skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you format the FAT32 partition using Windows 10, or execute BOOTSECT.EXE /nt60 on the partition, it writes an NT6 bootsector to the partition which seeks & loads BOOTMGR.

When you format the FAT32 partition using DOS, or execute SYS.COM on the partition, that would write a DOS bootsector to the partition which seeks & loads IO.SYS.

When you SYSLINUX the target FAT32 partition using either Windows or Linux, that writes a Syslinux bootsector to the partition (also writes ldlinux.sys & ldlinux.c32 files) which seeks & loads ldlinux.sys (and ldlinux.c32). Which then searches for the syslinux folder and a syslinux.cfg file inside. Also ldlinux.c32 and any .C32 files in the syslinux folder need to be the same version that you SYSLINUX'ed the partition bootsector with.

With the full fileset of the live Linux distribution copied to the bootable Syslinux'ed FAT32 USB drive, change the name of the isolinux folder to syslinux and inside your new syslinux folder, change the name of isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg.

A good live distribution will then boot from a Syslinux'ed USB FAT32 partition using a syslinux folder, instead of from a DVD using an isolinux folder.
It's a highly one-sided version from people who rightly IMO lost their case and had their patent invalidated.

The show left out Keyhole, which actually wrote Google Earth before Google bought them. It was written 100% from scratch and based on different and better technology.

https://avibarzeev.medium.com/was-google-earth-stolen-7d1b82...
If it's possible for the galaxy to expand faster than light it's likely possible that we can also go faster than light eventually.
> If you think a book review takes too long to get to the point, do I have some bad news for you about books....

It's 2021, could you summarize it in a tweet for me? /s
I don't know much about this but I'd be keen to hear what alternatives to rockets there would be on the moon to get off the rock? Are you implying one-off ballistic shots?
> like an insulated label.

I've had beer cans in the US that used these. They feel really, really weird. Can's been in the fridge for three hours, but feels barely under room temp (because you're touching the insulated label, not the metal)
The docs talk about that a little [1], with the answer boiling down to "Yes, the necessary hooks are there, but no, you don't want to use this particular engine for fluid dynamics."

The docs are definitely a strong point, nicely written and presented.

1: https://mujoco.readthedocs.io/en/latest/computation.html# , about 1/4 of the way down the page
The last enemy to be defeated will be entropy
Claiming that such a notice is marketing email sounds illegal. Changing pricing silently without notice or consent sounds a lot like fraud.
They are as big as pre notch. It's just now the toolbar has moved in to a space which was once black bezel. Full screen is still useful for hiding the toolbar for a distraction free view.
That is so fascinating. I know a few people that have said their dreams have become stranger over the pandemic and the idea it’s because there’s less stimuli and the brain is trying to avoid overfitting like a neural network is so damn cool.
How do you consider half-in-ear earphones with ANC fetures?
Quick approximations: cross section of 20cm², cylinder length of 2m (probably about right for 26″ mountain bike wheels), that’s about 4L; the stuff is generally somewhat denser than water, assume something like 1.25kg/L and this tube of yours is now 5kg. Much heavier than is desirable (especially for rotating weight: gyroscope effects will make it harder to handle), without stopping to consider its shock-absorption and road-holding properties.
You can save a click by clicking on Threads at the top of the screen; goes to the same place.
I wonder if this is one aspect of The Great Filter that keeps aliens from contacting each other. 6% is still a lot to work with but shaving off 19 out of 20 galaxies sure helps explain a lot.
if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light why can't we harness that power and travel that fast?
Calling a function like this “ensureUser” is pretty idiomatic and useful, in lisp-style code bases. I think it’s a pattern related to “parse, don’t validate” in static-type lands: rather than _checking_ what the type is and throwing an error, you define a function that knows how to turn various representations of your type into its canonical shape.
From the picture, it looks about the same. The top bezel is huge on the 2020 macbook.
Funny, all these years I've been wondering how they possibly packed so many "cores" into those things.
Terrible, broken title that confused me too. They meant to suggest something last like “ people who lived a part of the world which is now called Austria”.
Taxation, I guess?
When you're writing code, you have your problem, and you're trying to figure out how to make the computer solve it for you. When you're reading code, you have the detailed computer steps and you need to figure out what the problem was in the first place. Two very different tasks. Self-documenting code helps you with that by encoding natural language explanations directly in the code by naming things appropriately. But to explain to other developers and your future self how you got there then you need comments. A sort of map of all the paths your mind went though to solve the problem, why the obvious solution was in fact a dead end, why you did or didn't take a shortcut and so on.
> With drugs you get two choices: ineffective or potentially dangerous, often both.

What type of drugs? Pharmaceutical or recreational? Natural or man-made? Taken to escape or numb, or with respect and gratitude? Abused or moderated?

There is a wide spectrum of outcomes when consuming any substance. Many more than two.

> They can give people religion, and without direction they can turn people into troubling zealots for just about anything (and often the drug itself)

Religion, politics, or any belief system can breed this without drugs. Selling salvation or enlightenment by taking a substance attracts the emotionally vulnerable. And wouldn't that actually decrease if they could be taken by anyone in a safe and controlled environment alongside a licenced therapist, instead of underground?

What are you advocating for or against? I'm genuinely interested, I sense fear and worry in what you wrote but don't really understand the point you are trying to make.
I worry that this is NIDA-funded. That institution has history of commissioning nonsense studies to maintain prohibitions. [1]
They're also probably responsible for a series of (failed) propaganda pieces focused on maintaining an arbitrarily anti-drug culture [2]

1 http://www.ukcia.org/research/gettman.htm
2 https://slate.com/technology/2006/09/a-white-house-drug-deal...
They didn't pull out, they used to provide a php windows build which is now handled by the community instead on azure resources donated by Microsoft
The keyboard though… can you actually type on it like the 2015 MBP? Or is it still a variant of the fragile butterfly switch mess?
> except the one we're currently in

You keep repeating that part as if it made any visible difference to the number...
This assumes that we're "truly" sentient, and on top of that, that we have actual free will. Both seem unlikely if things are actually simulated.
Redis Anti-Patterns
Obligatory reminder that Apple killed the miniDIN-8 and ADB ports on the original iMac before almost anyone had ever seen a USB cable in real life.

They sold the notion of charging off your monitor cable pretty hard, there’s no way they could go back on that.
They've also discovered neolithic villages that were along the shores of lakes in the alps in present day Switzerland that have been dated to as far back as 1,000 BC. They were already living in post and beam homes on stilts, herding animals, making pottery, and probably living a pretty nice life.
The orders don’t have to be visible; invisible orders have been around for a long time.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I have about 7 containers running the full work app and I can't hear any fan noise and the laptop is running cold.

This thing is running Rails, mysql, elastic search, redis, mongodb, and workers inside docker. As well as nodejs, vscode, a handful of electron apps all at the same time and the laptop is cold.
It’s literally AP style.

And never made any sense to me.
I can't get your link to work, but which bird?
Say you're teaching a robot to walk, but the joint constraints in the simulator aren't quite right. It would be possible for the policy to exert more torque on the joint than it's supposed to be able to in real life. Take that policy and put it on a real robot and it won't work.
> at least until fingerprint readers under the screen are 100% reliable

I am using a $200 Oppo with screen fingerprint reader, never had any issues.
I always like minimal software like this.

I've been making and using my own music player for 8 years. And my player still a single html file under 300 loc. I also stick with nginx autoindex_format json so I don't need to run a backend server.
For searching I put all music files in one single folder so I can just use the "Find in page" in Chrome.
https://github.com/soruly/music/

You may also take a look at MediaSession. You can have media controls with CD covers on mobile lockscreen/notification center in just 20 lines of code.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSessio...
It is a valid regex aside from this bit [::]
Mathematical models for bridge design rest on the rubble of extensive destructive testing and past collapsed bridges.
Just wanted to pipe in here: I quit smoking tobacco in 1995 due to the influence of psilocybin. We knew back then it worked. I think you need a lot more than just psychedelics to quit smoking, however. The first week was easy. The next 11 months were hard. After a year, I never wanted a cigarette ever again.
Very interesting read. Thanks.

It would be interesting to see whether Humans could realistically live in a thin box in space, having a solid ground underneath, no matter how unfriendly it ends up being, might still be needed deeply for our mental wellness.

Maybe this is why we're more likely to colonise the moon and Mars, before orbital Neptune? Beyond the romanticism of being on a planet, there might be the need to have a "horizon" to keep mentally stable.
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If you have a device that wants 20W as 9V/2.22A , your 30W charger may not support that specific combination and will charge much slower than a 20W charger that does.

Such a charger would be not specifications compliant. Don't blame the specs for what the manufacturers did with it.

Oh and don't get me wrong: there are a lot of problems with USB C mostly with the complete impossibility of knowing what the heck a USB C port is actually capable of. Is it Thunderbolt capable? if not, DisplayPort alternate mode capable? Can you charge the device over it? If yes, what's the maximum wattage.

This will ease finally because Microsoft will require PCIe tunneling on all C ports for the device to be Windows 11 certified so there won't really be different USB 4 ports -- except for charging wattage... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/t...
Yeah people shit on recommended videos a lot but I’ve found a couple real interesting gems in there. The most recent one is finding the video channel for the Battleship New Jersey museum ship. Their curator climbs all over the ship making videos about the engineering, construction and history of the ship. Admittedly I t’s often a lot of videos I’ve rewatched multiple times but I do enjoy them so it’s not wrong that I might like to watch them again.

A trick I’ve found is being careful about not ‘poisoning’ your recommended videos. There are some topics that are really bad about taking over your recommendations (though liberal use of the “show me less like this” and “don’t recommend channel” options have pruned some of that out) so sometimes watching a video in incognito helps.
Yeah copying files from there just crashes out on my pc.
I rewatched it and have to confirm what you wrote, unfortunately. It was just a rumor, sorry.
It's pretty similar though - instead of SD card into computer, it's SD card into reader into computer. Have to do this for micro SD cards in some way/shape/form anyways.

This may be a, "everything is amazing and no one is happy" sort of situation. I think all my cameras connect wirelessly to my Mac and my iPhone anyways. I can copy/paste text/images/whatever across the two as well and that's just magic when it comes to casual content creation.
From the iOS app page, yes, it supports manual caching of a song, a folder and a playlist.
Jabra 85h can charge over USB C and play over Bluetooth at the same time.
The GEGL graph will be exposed to GIMP users any year now...
I really like this documented type ignore strategy and will start incorporating it in our codebase. Thanks for sharing.
I wouldn't say I've learned it, but I have learned some useful tricks - enough to say it was worthwhile.

It's really as simple as using it. Both vim and i3 seemed insurmountable at first, but after I dove in; I realized things weren't so scary.

Doing things and thinking about it is practice, with that comes muscle memory.

You can honestly get to the point of unconsciously doing a series of events across applications/files. Just don't try too hard, it comes with time.
Backblaze Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
I wonder if that will make enough money to be successful or if it’s just going to keep burning VC cash to attract creators like Uber does.
Here is an example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821976
The idea pad? Is it your main computer? I have an S10-2 I bought for installing a transflective display, and I can’t imagine using it for much more than noodling around with. I just wish it was just slightly larger to accommodate a decent keyboard and a slim battery.
My point is, the physics also apply to a smaller scale.

According to this image: https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/In-enough-Ti...

When you stand next to somebody and you look at this person, through the expansion of the universe and the amount of time the light needs to travel from the surface of that person, to your eyes; means that when you see this person in the original distance, you do not see that person at the actual distance. It's not possible to share a contemporary timeline with other persons, everything is a few nano seconds delayed, you are existing in everybody else's past.

Of course practically this doesn't matter.
This makes me curious wether you have used a FaceID device or not. I remember saying the same thing but now I kind of “hate” using a TouchID device.
Me too, but maybe their lack of profitability and my happiness is correlated.
As far as inheritance goes, nowadays inheritance will actually concentrate wealth as rich people tend to only have one kid.
Expanding on the subject of prior art for a navigable 3D globe: A family member used to work in the weather graphics department at a TV station in the late 90s or very early 2000s. During a tour I got to try something very similar to Google Earth that ran on IRIX (but without access to terrain imagery IIRC, just weather imagery) that they used for doing weather animations.
Polishing for a Price
Does it really only work with Apple headphones?

That's terrible. I like Apple products but I hate the way they push to make things proprietary that could be open standard.

I guess that makes services "sticky" for a lot of people but it pushes me away from the ecosystem,
>That extra RAM costs, what $50? The extra SSD space is maybe another $100?

I have had this told to me endlessly. And then I see the laptops these people buy and its the cheapest machine with the highest numbers on the sales page. The laptops are abysmal quality and fail in every single metric not directly listed on the spec sheet.

There is so much more to an SSD than capacity. Along with every other component. Also take in to consideration that these components are all on the same chip which makes them significantly faster and harder to produce than the average m.2 drive as the more components on the same chip, the more likely there will be errors so those top spec chips are the top of the production batch.
While not that big of difference, the 14" is a little cheaper:

* The 14" MBP with M1 Max 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 32gb memory is $2,900

* The 14" MBP with M1 Max 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 32gb memory is $3,100.

The Mac mini with the Max variant chip will certainly be more than $1,000. But I expect it will be more reasonable than the MBPs, maybe $2,100 for the 32-core GPU version with 32gb of memory. That's how much the currently available Intel 6-core i7 Mac mini with 32gb of memory and 1TB of storage costs.
An SD card reader is great, until you need a micro SD card reader and then, oh well. And advances will march on; ports on whatever I use will become outdated. Using an OG M1 Macbook Pro, it's not been a big problem. The dongle I have works great and has more useful ports than the Macbook it replaces.
The simpliest way is to play (stream) the music file using <audio> tag, the resource would be cached once you have completed the playback once. Then you can go offline and start looping.
If you want WYSIWYG take on opening plain text markdown files, I highly recommend checking https://bangle.io
We don’t love in a simulation. Get off the dumb rich guy juice.
Even when mobility just means flying to another state for a week, a laptop is still worth it. I would never switch to developing from a desktop now that laptops are so capable.
We don’t know what those tests are really measuring. Is it a game? Or some video production workflow? And what about features like ray tracing? Does the M1 Max support all the same technologies? Apple’s benchmarks seem purposely obfuscated.
We used to pay for Vimeo and were happy about it, but then the service got slower and the UI more cluttered and we were constantly nagged to move to a higher plan. Also, even with the paid plan there was a quite low weekly upload quota (5 GB IIRC). It made no sense.
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It would be really interesting to see some examples of the logic errors that were found that couldn't be found by tests. This seems to have been a very robust library. What kind of problems did you find? From what is mentioned in the article it really doesn't sound like the investment of hundreds of hours from multiple people has been actually worth it.
How did you ever think backing up 80TB for $60 a year was good for the company? You didn't need financial filings to know it wasn't.
The tech specs page only says 4K 60Hz HDR
>Counter point: It's a self correcting problem (on a long enough time horizon).

To point to someone who has done the research, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century', states that its not a self-correcting problem. Furthermore, I'd argue that index investing make it incredibly difficult for his heirs to lose their money. Anything short of a collapse American global hegemonic power means their wealth will be relatively safe. Furthermore, investing is not means of wealth redistribution. I can invest billions in Wal-Mart, but that will not motivate them to pay their cashiers a cent more. The compounding effect of the wealthy owning most of the industry through the stock market means their share of the ownership grows, leading to headlines like we see.
Believe me, I was as surprised as you were at how fast it happened.
> Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end...

Keep in mind that we don't really understand this stuff.

"Dark matter" isn't a weird phase of matter, it's the name of the Keleven inserted because our observations of the universe don't match up with the theory. Ditto "dark energy."

The expansion of the universe is accelerating and we don't know why. If we don't know why, we don't know it isn't going to stop tomorrow, or reverse, or happen differently based on where you are in the universe. The things we've already observed about relativity and quantum mechanics are very counter-intuitive.

But at the same time, "I don't want it to" doesn't mean it's not going to happen. The arrow of time goes in one direction. We don't know how it ends until we get there.
From experience in third world countries I'd say it's quite accurate, being poor in a country with ~3000$ GDP per capita is not that different from being very poor in America.
Regardless of one's opinion of him, it's pretty hard to say that a former president of the United States is outside the mainstream.
You also wouldn't want native mac containers. The idea is to run everywhere. Bundling linux in is an improvement for portability when the production for these containers will be linux.
I feel like the golden age of civilization was pre internet. Text based communication too easily devolves in to flame wars, but the time it took to receive, read, contemplate and respond to a letter seems to moderate tempers.
Same - I am quite glad I went for the Air
It's an allusion to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign slogan: "It's the economy, stupid." See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid
It looks like abolishing intellectual property and making all source code into a libre license, really.
Docker has worked almost flawlessly for me. I had a single container which did not run properly but I just rebuilt the image on my M1 mac and it worked fine.
Loved the plot from wikipedia. Never heard of this writer or this story before. Definitely makes you think. Whoever controls the narrative, controls the future.

I was surprised by this though...

Published in Playboy.

Is this correct?
I mean I paid probably 3-4x what you did for a similarly outclassed computer so IDK if it’s worse.
Really you mean tax capital. Saldy there is still the issue of control that capital would afford you in such a scenario.
My paper was an attempt to cast our "native common sense as practitioners of the art" into a legal framework that already exists. If a technique is "obvious to try" then you're not entitled to a patent for trying it.

You can laugh at "native common sense" as being meaningless when the law is involved, but actually it's not. In the right circumstances, the fact that most practitioners of the software art see things a certain way would be "dispositive" (as the lawyers like to put it). We haven't seen anyone create those circumstances.

I had a senior attorney review this paper for me, and he had a lot of interest in the concept. He called it a "toolkit" and found it intriguing that software engineers had a toolkit they applied to any problem. You know that we do.

The forces arrayed against this concept are formidable. Even Computer Science departments in universities aren't unified against software patents. I actually talked to some profs at Illinois, and one of them said "you're assuming that I agree with you!" He didn't. He had a startup company and the VCs had told him he had to have patents.
My country's national library used to provide a service in the 70s/80s where you could send a letter or telegram with a question, any question, and they'd do their best to answer it.

My Mum was a big fan of it, I've still got a copy of their telegram response to her question of "Why don't we see birds flying overhead with a penis flopping around?"

The answer was simple.

"Most birds don't have penises. They press cloaca to cloaca. Birds that do have penises store them in their bodies when not mating. Please stop sending questions about penises"

...it wasn't her first animal penis question submitted, and I'm assuming she'd developed a reputation.