skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I almost never work without an external monitor (or two), so the laptop screen is really just for chat and email for me. Honestly anything below 20 inches is too small to be usable for serious work in my opinion. Hunched over a little screen is unergonomic and tiring.
The 16” is only $200 more than the 14”, I think, for comparable hardware setups, so probably just go with the 16”.
I don't know about yours, but mine just requires a human as a bed and mice to murder. She's a cheap date.
Exactly - the margin of error for any of these stats could be 99% or 1% and we just don't have a good way to parse it. A lot is self report surveys, or dodgy guesstimates from activists from either side, so yeah - sensible discussion is difficult. I find it useful to look at it from a min max perspective - given an extreme from either end, what is reasonable in protecting safety, liberty, and other interests, and what would a proactive vs reactive policy look like, and so on.

If situation A,B,C...Z, what does the range of appropriate policies look like, and how can you translate that to different regions, cultures, population densities. One size doesn't fit all, but maybe there's a broad, dynamic way to work with these things that is really boring and sensible that won't leave people feeling their rights or safety are being trampled.
Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” is a mind-expanding read on this.

She traces the history of photography and how it changed people. Suddenly with portable cameras, vacations became more about taking photos, which meant prioritizing places that looked good in photographs. It also meant thinking about and prioritizing being photographed.

Some of the essays are basically about Instagram and its effects on society…she just happened to have written them in the 1970s.
The "(no dead keys)" variant to US-International solves that problem.
Windows unfortunately doesn't have it out of the box (Ubuntu does). But you can make your own layout with "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator".

And plenty of people have already made "United States-International (no dead keys)" for Windows, so if you don't want to figure out the MS tool, you can just download+install a layout from GitHub.
Some banks charge "maintenance" fees monthly, usually some cents, afaik. But there are also banks that don't charge anything at all. Fact of the matter is that banks don't make their money on your account maintenance fees or sign-up fees, they make their money by investing YOUR money, so effectively the balance you see on your account might not actually be there, and is allocated for you only when you withdraw. That's how banks work, afaik. That being said, money transfer as such from one EU bank to another doesn't cost anything at all.

Also, opening bank accounts these days is done entirely online and usually you get approved within an hour or so. Apart from having to scan my ID with my phone's camera, I don't remember any bureaucracy.
Just another you're doing it wrong because I say so article. You don't even need to read it, there is a guy who was put in jail by a corrupt judge because he successfully sued a gas company in South America for billions, and it has been protested by international courts to no affect, but yeah the Atlantic wants to cover why it's bad everything is better.... Jesus Christ.
I'm not sure if any liberal thinker would label policies such as fixed exchange rates, constant deficit funded by foreign borrowing, military dictatorships, as "liberal".
Fuchsia and QNX provide a lot of what you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)

https://lobste.rs/s/p8bizb/getting_know_fuchsia_google_s_ope...
"We have not yet changed the definition of 'fully vaccinated.' ... We may need to update our definition of 'fully vaccinated' in the future", CDC director Rochelle Walensky.

The intention might be good, but these dubious tactics of constantly moving the goal post and shameless propaganda is working against them. Easy to see why people are hesitant.

Call me old fashioned, but I remember a time where this thing called "people's freedom" was a thing. Nobody tasked the Gov, CDC, WHO and others to "save the world".

Live and let live. If people are willing to take the 99,98% chance of surviving a virus, respect their choice. The rest can wear as many masks, surrender as many freedoms to their gov and take as many shots as they want. Their choice is also respected.
I've used a Macbook Pro several times while daily driving a Windows PC and Linux occasionally, and I have to say that I didn't like it in the slightest. Not only did the model I use have two design flaws (flexgate and butterfly switch issues) and the whole device weirdly buzzed and vibrated, but the OS in general felt like a supervised playsession at times, e. g. not allowing for portable apps and making sideloading hard. It only having usb c ports made everything even worse. Being forced to use a dongle or hub each time I want to connect an external harddrive is just awful (the alternative being not using the included cables and buying a seperate one for everything).
> Like cursors, PgUp, PgDown, Home, End etc?

This is a valid complaint for developer laptops (which this obviously is), but for general laptops I'd guess most users never touch PgUp, PgDown, Home, End, and probably couldn't even tell you what they do.
It also skews whats viewed as "normal". Its a lot easier to reconcile you are overweight when you appear to be the same weight as everyone else
> Mining rewards are incentive to secure the network. Security increases the net welfare of the system.

Only to a point. That's the problem, Bitcoin does not and cannot have a negative feedback cycle. It's got the 50 seatbelts problem. If you keep adding seatbelts at some point you're so far beyond safe that any additional incremental seatbelts are simply waste. If you're already consuming 10x as many resources as anyone can possibly muster to attack the network, then any incremental expenditure is simply waste, not added value, not security.

> If you're including mining rewards in the cost for a bitcoin transaction, you should also includes Wells Fargo's payroll in the costs for a "free" ACH

Wells Fargo provides far, far more services than simply facilitating interbank transfers.

ACHs aren't exactly free but they're close, it's like 3/10th of a cent in volume. Low enough that banks are willing to eat it to keep you as a customer. This is actually enough to cover all the costs associated with operating the network, including payroll, as it operates on a cost recovery basis. Because they're not setting fire to all the world's coal to achieve their security model, and a few server racks at the NACHA just aren't that expensive.
Depending on frequency, the vaccumum of space is close enough to a vaccum. If the light needs to travel through something opaque, you generally just don't see it (although it may illuminate the dust)

We have measured the relative speed of gravity and light. The difference is constrained to be no more that about 10^-15 times the speed of light. This us based on a signal that travelled 130 million light years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW170817
Almost everything you do involves some amount of risk to others.
If you read just one article on web3, let it be this one.
It does but in the same way it's true that Jupiter's gravity affects you, personally. For all practical purposes GR has no effect on our planet, fun observations of Mercury's perihelion and GPS signal-beaming satellites aside. GR matters a tiny little bit for certain specialized engineering problems like doing precise inter-planetary transits. It matters a bit more for long-term position prediction of highly eccentric bodies, and really only starts to really matter at the cosmological scale.

It's a matter of perspective. Our Solar System's mass is 98% in the Sun. Earth is tiny and small and, as a GR object, is moving very slowly, and that only according to how its particles were set in motion at the beginning of time.

As others have said, gravitational lensing is a real thing, but that is a cosmological effect, and we are completely at the whim of the Initial Conditions for these opportunities.

(If there are real engineering applications for GR, especially in optics, I would be delighted and grateful to learn more!)
I don't disagree with you on readability being important or on the value of developer time. It's just that the marginal costs of `memo`, `useMemo`, and `useCallback` are quite low. They don't add cyclomatic complexity, they don't increase coupling, they can be added to code essentially mechanically and don't carry a large cognitive overhead to figure out how to use, etc.

The main downsides are that they take slightly longer to type and slightly decrease the succinctness of the code. And then there are a few React-specific complexities they add (maintaining the deps arrays and being sure not to use them conditionally) but these should be checked by lint rules to relieve developer cognitive load.

Of course I'd rather not have these downsides, but in the end, it's still much less developer overhead than having to constantly profile a large application to try and figure out the trouble spots and correctly test and fix them post-hoc. And it means users are much more likely to get an application that feels snappier, doesn't drain as much battery, and just provides a more pleasant experience overall, which is worth it imo.
I don't see what the problem is here. For students, the only cost associated with Lambda is the opportunity cost.

The terms of the ISA are five years, and they don’t just apply to coding jobs. You could conceivably go back to school for a degree after the program fails, get a job without any of their help, and still get your wages garnished. They just have to say you learned something in the program that helped you get your job.

Another scenario: you’re making slightly below $50k, you get a promotion to $50k in the middle of the program. The promotion had nothing to do with what you learned in the program, but it’s up to you to argue otherwise.

Students have brought up both of these things in the official subreddit, but I can’t link to them since they set it to private after last year’s major backlash.

I'll also add that while most students opt for the ISA, some students pay the up-front price. That's because the ISA historically attached a premium e.g. $20k pay up front or go with an ISA with a $30k cap. If you were sold on their claimed 86% placement rate, who needs that insurance?
Every experiment so far has detected gravitational waves a tiny bit before they detected light based evidence. Consistent with the light being slowed by the refraction in that very small amount of matter that exists in the interstellar medium and gravity passing through that dust more or less unaffected.

Of course going faster than light which is being slowed by absorption and re-emission isn't the same as breaking the speed of light since light itself is going slower than the speed of light in this case.

So yes you're right that it isn't exactly the same arrival time but we're not talking about curvature differences here, we're talking about physical interactions that the light undergoes that gravity doesn't.
> I don't expect the M1 Pro to have very good double-precision GPU-speeds.

Compared to what? There are no laptops quite like these new Apple laptops. Anything with faster graphics also uses LOADS more power and runs WAY hotter.
Cats are quieter and less needy than dogs. They take care of themselves and don't bark at neighbors. How are you supposed to start a new company with a dog pawing at you?
Or re-allocating existing spending based on more rational priorities.

We're spending the equivalent of 40%+ of our economy on government (federal + state + local). How does our return on investment look the past 20 years during the great spending growth bonanza (which, amusingly, George W Bush & Co. ushered in)? Extraordinarily poor.

The US spends like it's a Scandinavian nation, without the positive outcome. We have so little to show for our government spending it's quite grotesque.
There were a handful of firms and people that looked at television and recognized the immense educational potential of an immersive audio-visual broadcast media.

I've seen inklings of this in VR but nothing I'd call on the scale of an Electric Company, Sesame St, Mister Rogers Neighborhood, or 321-Contact yet.
There is a legitimate fear of employees overengineering.

If a candidate spins an AWS service for something a simple Python script could do, I too would not hire.
I'll just leave it here for anyone interested in the topic.
https://translate.yandex.ru/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhabr...
One of the ideas in vehicle automation that's been bandied around for at least as long as I've paid attention to it (end of the 90s, early 00s) has been vehicle-to-vehicle communication. This would be for things like cars in the same area to communicate [0] their status to other vehicles: I'm going 65mph in this direction, I'm slowing down, I'm stopped, I'm signaling for a turn (which doesn't guarantee it is turning if it's just what the human operator triggered). Then other vehicles could respond based on this kind of information (by informing the driver or actively intervening). If things had gone, or eventually do go, in this direction it could be sensible to incorporate phones into that process for other kinds of traffic (pedestrian, bicycle, etc.). However, cars are still as dumb as ever and aren't actively coordinating with each other when there is any notion of automation. So this is probably still a long way off from happening.

[0] Using a mesh network in many examples at that point in time, cellular data not being what it is today and still not truly ubiquitous.
This feels like whataboutism to me.

Ultimately cars kill more people than all other forms of transport combined.

Just because there are other things killing more people doesn’t mean cars get a free pass.

We should absolutely do something about the obesity epidemic, but in addition to, not at the expense of, doing something about cars.
>> test the fitness of more, and more diverse life algorithms

WTF is that even supposed to mean? 4chan commentors aren't some cabal of underground philosophy bad-boys, trying to carve out a New Enlightenment. The only "life algorithm" they seem interested in testing is anti-semetism. They're just assholes.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05833

> On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated GW170817) with merger time 12:41:04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor independently detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) with a time delay of ∼1.7 s with respect to the merger time.

So there is a delay between arrival of gravitational waves and accompanying gamma ray burst, but I couldn't tell you if that's purely because light travels slower than it would in a perfect vacuum, because the gravitational waves are generated before the gamma ray burst, or a bit of both. The GRB being less than two seconds long, I would guess they both happened at close to the same time, and it does have a speed difference.

Coming from an object 130 million light years away, 1.7 seconds is a very small difference in speed.
Milton Friedman of all people actually had a really clever solution for this all back in the day:

> …the abolition of the corporate income tax, … with the requirement that corporations be required to attribute their income to stockholders, and that stockholders be required to include such sums on their tax returns.

Basically treat all corporate income as pass-through income to shareholders. So if Acme Co has 1 million shareholders and they generate $100 million in revenue, each shareholder adds $100 in income to their personal income taxes next year. If corporations want to keep shareholders, they will need to pay out dividends at least enough to cover the tax bill. But that's between shareholders and corporations.
Yeah, western governments (US, UK, EU) like to rahrah about democracy and the rule of law, but in reality they're fucking jokers. I'm quite left, but I don't wonder that rightwing populists are gaining in popularity when the citizenry can see how hypocritical their governments are.

There are dozens of examples, obviously. Like the treatment of Assange by British kangaroo courts, EU nepotism and corruption (like tax-haven-Juncker or inept van der Leyen getting top EU jobs), EU basically paying Erdogan, Libya, and building a military border to prevent refugees from reaching their shores...

As Louis Brandeis said:

> Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
Is a big concurrent sharded DB necessarily a "harder problem" when it's provided to you by another team at the company to use?

The skills you need just seem different to me.

In the large case, the more important skills are going to be the higher level reasoning of what is a good shard size, how do we avoid hotspotting, what is an appropriate way to partition for the set of queries we want to run. None of those really help you solve the smaller problem. You're also going to likely be relying on infrastructure-provided solutions like automatic backups.

In the small case, you're going to need to worry about things like those backups. Then there's the skill mentioned in the interview -- it seems like this person had never had to actually think through how much space N rows of a particular schema were going to take up in memory, or how much order of magnitude QPS you can get out of (e.g.) a MySQL server. You're also going to be optimizing to different peculiarities of what is fast to do on this different database technology, which sometimes does not translate directly. In a smaller company (more so in older days, but still in some places) you may also need to deal with the operational challenges of buying and installing a bigger box if it's called for.
I have never had anxiety in my life and being on camera every day for hours has gotten me most of the way there.
Well, Apple did go out of their way to invent the new power profiles - they just did it via the USB-IF.
Other than that stupid notch it looks pretty good.
And, like I wrote above, literally the 'Inspired by' section itself was stolen from the original website. I'm sorry for repeating myself, but I'm in awe of how brazen this guy is.
In this thread: Facebook employees desperately trying to shape the narrative

Look, I'd be as happy as anyone if this all did turn out to be 'nothing'. It would be a much more pleasant world. But it's kind of obvious that with this crowd, the tech entrepreneur crowd, it's a terrible website to have certain discussions about, because industry folks will defend industry no matter what (which is not to say this always happens, there are appropriately critical comments, but come on)
Why have zero politicians suggested unifying our income tax with qualified dividends/capital gains? It seems like such an obvious move that I must be missing something...
> IMHO It wasn't a design decision but a business one and I think the removal of mag-safe is a giveaway. Every little thing that they add makes the thing more complicated to manufacture, thus more expensive. Every non-off-the-shelf piece puts multiple teams in to work in multiple continents and this costs money. I think they aimed for the simplicity at management level and not at design level. They did some calculation based on how well people are locked in and how many will buy a new mac and went with the most profitable option up until the time for the great transition comes.

The touch bar invalidates a lot of these assumptions.

My personal opinion is that Ive's vision for Apple's design future was of ever slimmer and slicker pieces of hardware, USB-C helped a lot this vision to simplify design lines, streamline the ports layout and so on. The simplicity take goes away when you consider that supporting 4 USB-C ports that behave differently due to limitations on power envelope and Thunderbolt chipset doesn't really simplify the design for cost-cutting.
We invest billions in automotive safety every year.
The most striking benchmark for me as a developer is the disk read/write speed. Wonder why Apple didn't highlight that. Nearly 2x as fast as last year's M1 Air or Intel macs - that sounds amazing to me. As a simple web dev, I thought I would never use any of the extra power available in an M1 Pro/Max, as I never do anything GPU-intensive. However, disk speed is a noticeable factor in day-to-day workloads, even when I'm running an IDE like IntelliJ and indexing a large repo.

Interesting because Apple chose to focus on the 200 vs. 400 "memory bandwidth" figure in their marketing to differentiate between the M1 Pro and Max, but as this review suggests, the 400 GB/s rate cannot be reached even in theoretical workloads, so it might as well be meaningless. Disk speed seems more important. Can anyone comment?

1) https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
That is fascinating – thank you. I always wondered why my first names got truncated on the driving license despite there being space – now I know.
I think a study of bipolar individuals would yield similar results. I still wouldn't like to be bipolar or have toxoplasmosis.
Adding tests when code has database or HTTP calls
And it's portable with a high dpi screen and 120hz refresh.
It's a mindset as there's a hundred decisions you make without even thinking deeply about it. Startups need to build just enough to survive but no more since budget (money, time, etc.) is limited. So if you make decisions that are too scalable then you're likely spending "budget" inefficiently.
Is adblocking as we know it on the way out?
I run Linux, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, and ClearURLs. I also use a Pi-hole. I primarily use Chromium, but also Chrome and Firefox on occasion. In the last week or so, I've noticed a severe uptick in the amount of ads slipping through the cracks. I've verfied uBlock is working, up to date, and verified my traffic is passing through the Pi-hole. I've ensured the Pi-hole is working as regards FTL, blocklist subs up to date. I use Cloudflare for DNS so I don't think there are any DNS injections. Is Manifest V3 the culprit? At first I thought it was, but Firefox is seeing the same results. Any ideas?
You’re not alone. I may not love “maintenance”; but, I do love resolving performance issues and shoring and standardizing existing stuff a lot. I think I most like a balance.
Sometimes a pervasive truth is often tacitly accepted and never uttered? Conjecture of course.
Story's crap, see my post about the exact same piece, above. TL;DR the actual story is "EPA spent about $600 per employee per year on office furniture and moving and storage expenses related to office furniture, over 10 years" which is... not a story.
In reflecting on life, I'd say a good percentage of the most enjoyable, worthwhile and meaningful things in life usually don't start with a "sound rational basis."

This is not to say that everyone should YOLO their way through life but if you always think something through to the nth degree and wait for it to make complete sense, a lot of life will pass you by.
middle class buys a 500k house, which is more than they have.
wealthy people buy a house but it is only a fraction of their wealth.
Proportions are different
Simple thing as food too, they might eat more expensive but if you look at it they only buy food for 0.01% of their wealth and middle class 10%. (fictional numbers but roughly this is how it is)