skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
early unibody macbooks had a door built into the bottom. You had access to the battery and HD with no tools. Apple said they anticipated users would upgrade to SSDs in a few short years during that release keynote so they wanted to make it easy for their users (imagine apple saying something like that now!! the heavens would open up!!!) By the time the late 2012 unibody models were released, the door was removed and you had to remove the whole bottom case, but this wasn't so bad as it was only like 8 phillips head screws (merciful in a world of tri tip sandwiches and screwdrivers)
How to find a mentor and get started in open source
> There's something about Discourse that makes the messages feel transient, and I find unpleasant for an internet forum.

Wow, I've always been put off by Discourse forums and wasn't sure what the reason was. That's it!

Maybe it's the way they use tags to store/structure things rather than the folder structure used by other forum software.
> the tooling will automatically create a diff (PR) to remove the feature flag

That's pretty cool. It just occurred to me that something like this would be almost trivial in a Lisp.
I only started to disable JS in 2021, lol. Running arbitrary scripts from random sites on the Internet is not a good idea as there are many privacy and security risks. Browsing with JS disabled by default actually works pretty well, most of the sites are more or less readable. Of course if I was using Erlang and interested in this forum, I'd enable JS on it because it's probably fine (and open source?), but it's still disappointing that a programming forum is not at all readable without JS.
Wasn't Fukushima mostly a matter of short-term profit being prioritised higher than rule conformance by management and those managed? And then, when something random happened, the consequences were nuclear.
GP: "The amount of [..] anti-[..]white/male sentiments packed into such a small thread is incredible"

P: "you really only have to read the comments in pretty much every thread about her to figure that one out. I can't even imagine what her inbox must look like."

And to P I'd like to reply that I agree with GP: It appears to me that she has voluntarily joined fighting the anti- white/male fight.
Just get an Amazon Locker.

https://www.amazon.com/ulp/view/
Couldn't agree more (HN does not allow me to upvote more than once ;)

I wonder how far away we are from the point in time when someone "being a millionaire" doesn't really mean much any longer. It used to be that being a millionaire meant you made it and you were set for life. Like you say, that's not really true any longer. Even a regular house eats up a lot of that money and the rest (or even the 1 million) isn't enough to 'just retire' without ever having to worry again.
World Fund: New €350M climate VC fund incubated by green search engine Ecosia
It's similar for most older laptops too. I have a few older HP laptops, and on every one the battery just slides out if you pull it hard enough - no screws at all.
While sad as a whole, the responsiveness of evolution is beautiful in this case.

It also demonstrates that human efforts to stop poaching have not been successful (otherwise this evolution wouldn’t happen), but luckily, nature responds.
I've been doing this -- it's annoying for things like "ls -rt" and other commands that you may or may not use often.
Back in grad school I had a well-respected tenured prof point out that Wikipedia was great for looking up immutable and uncontroversial technical things (e.g., a list of refractive indices) and could even be good as a starting point for learning about a topic to research it. You just can't stop there.
Sourcegraph Search Tricks for Open Source Contributors and Maintainers
> This is pure speculation, ungrounded from any evidence.

It's not ungrounded from the anecdotal evidence that these changes are coming after Ive's departure.

> I have seen no evidence that Jony Ive was its patron, and no evidence that including it had anything to with making laptops expensive as a goal.

Holy, evidence Batman! Leadership 101: When your title is "Chief Design Officer", the design buck stops with you. When your company releases an updated design to an existing product, you had some kind of say in that design. Period. Even if your "say" was just that you were aware of it, and didn't veto it.
The guide is bullshit and what one would write if one wanted to minimize liability. A fishing line (or plastic spudger) will save those 2h.
That would be editorialising, since that's in the actual article.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I don't mind being downvoted, but I would really like to know why that's the case so I can improve how I contribute to the forum.
It does when you tersely react to other people’s comments stating they should follow “standards” (which you now finally agree are not a standard).

If your comment wasn’t so rude from the outset then I wouldn’t have nitpicked your statement. I think there’s some “law” people often quite about people who correct other people that applies to your post.
The only factor here is that the developer you were talking to here appears to be an idiot. They’d fuck it up in any stack. The technology is immaterial.
Such a non-sensical argument. Every technology humans wield has consequences. We should also count all the lives saved and the billions of people lifted out of abject poverty, largely due to a web of modernity built on fossil fuels.

Of course, we should be pushing for cleaner energy sources that pollute less than fossil fuels, but the headline makes it sound like an unmitigated disaster, which is not fair.
I love to visit famous studios, Stax in Memphis is amazing too.

Lots of great London Studios in UK, like Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill (Now SARM)

https://blackcablondon.net/2011/12/04/cabbies-curios-basing-...

So much incredible music was recorded here!
While Clozure CL is free to use, it has a group that offers commercial support.

mocl for android/iOS may still exist.

Last I knew, Scieneer (HPC variant of CMUCL) was also commercial (no idea if they're still around though).
Still Going Viral – Watch This Until the End
Starting with November 15, it will be illegal to employ unvaccinated people.

They already can't enter supermarkets or access any "non-essential" services.

"simple health measure", you literally need that + a form of ID to leave the home. And I cannot support that.
>Perhaps a level of professionalism that you would expect from someone working at a fast food restaurant?

Uh, no. That's why I disagreed initially... I certainly don't have the same expectation of professionalism from someone handing me a burger and fries as compared with someone taking care of my kids for hours everyday (or multiple days a week).

>The fact that fast food restaurants can require less and pay more than ECE makes it sound exactly like a licensing problem.

Uh, also no? The article discusses this... Removing licensing requirements generally drives down wages... And, since wages are the primary problem already, how could this possibly be a licensing problem?

>As a father of 4, I think a person cannot possibly be professional enough to be super effective at teaching anything to 30 kids at a time, but anyone with a bit of diligence and a few basic techniques can teach something to a handful of kids at a time, so I'd lean towards getting a lot more people into the field while relaxing education/licensing requirements.

Even ignoring education, I expect more from simply an interaction and safety perspective for those that would care for my kids than from, for example, a fast food restaurant worker.

>But besides that, it sounds like there are just a lot more people who are attracted to ECE as a career, so the powers that be can pay less while demanding more education. That's a harder problem to solve.

Well the actual problem is that there is an enormous ECE worker shortage... Because of wages (and that it's a relatively difficult job compared with, for example, working in fast food)... Which is the entire problem... Which isn't going to be solved by removing licensing requirements (i.e. wages are not going to go up with fewer/no licensing requirements)...
Genetically engineered ultratrees in the Sahara! Of course this would have impacts on rainfall patterns in Europe and South America and might backfire (the large amounts of Saharan dust apparently helps form raindrops and new soil in both places)
>a 1/4 lb burger

What is a "lb burger"?
The important part is the isolation. The fact that it also transfers to local power is important to the user, irrelevant to the power company. The power company only cares that there no failure mode that can cause local generation to feed back onto the line.

Whether it's a transfer switch, a local inverter that requires line power to operate or some other such system is irrelevant to them.
> This proposition is coming on top of that: it will block sellers from artificially discounting books by subsidizing shipping cost. It is basically closing a loophole that still allowed Amazon to have lower prices than others.

So you are basically not allowed to pass the savings to your customers if you manage to innovate with your supply chain... That's interesting.
People are living longer and age is a dominant risk factor for cancer. In a world where cancer care wasn't improving, we'd expect to see massive increases in deaths due to cancer. What's also not captured by that number are the years of life after cancer diagnosis, which for many cancers has gone up dramatically. It's a tough problem, but the curves are bending in the right direction.

If you want a more punctuated example, how about gene therapy, which is doing things like restoring (partial) vision to the blind. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-gene-therapy-p... Early days still, but we've laid the foundation for a really exciting next decade or so in genomic medicine.
Setback for Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid as EU regulators open probe
Best thing to do is give them non-threatening names like Beige Team or Fanny Pack.
Seems promising although I don't know if consumers will like the compromised storage space and the design. GM had an opportunity to really outshine after the v1 Bolt but it seems like they took an incremental approach to the v2 Bolt. It is a potentially competitive vehicle assuming they didn't cut corners like they did with the first Bolt such as using the worst seats in the GM parts bin. I guess many will ignore these issues but I wonder how many potential sales are lost due to the LG battery fires in the Gen v1 Bolt.
I have this computer too and I recommend the replacement sold on BH photo video. I just put it in and I can somehow get like 7 hours plus of use from this computer doing very light stuff (like reading hn). Impressive for a computer so old. Still very performant for me imo with 16gb of ram and an SSD upgrade under the hood. I was looking at the m1 but I'll hold off, nothing pushing me away from this device currently and it seems like I will have software compatibility issues on ARM until they refine rosetta or offer bootcamp again.
House Intelligence Committee Has Called for Dr. Fauci’s Arrest
i have the 2019 mbp, bought reluctantly earlier this year after my 2015 went wonky. based on what i’d heard, i wasn’t expecting much, but it was clearly an improvement, even if it was incremental (touch id, bigger/brighter screen, better sound). the biggest obvious lack in the upgrade was the performance-battery life tradeoff, which is entirely on intel stagnating for over a decade. apple addressed these most glaring issues via the combo of m1 and more battery in the 2021. usb-c or touch bar were minor issues in comparison (that notch tho…).
Get em!
That's what I'm saying, it seems like a smart TV is cheaper even if you use it as a dumb TV.

I think that they are selling them at reduced margins or even as a loss leader in order to get you to pay them for the smart features.
This is false. It has nothing to do with pushing pixels. Else it should be easily be able to handle 4 Full HD monitors instead of a single 4k monitor.
If

1) just one person posts it, and

2) it is displayed in a literal reverse-chronological timeline, and

3) displayed only to the people who directly follow them,

then yes.

But, as soon as FB starts analyzing it, curating it, and using their humans or algorithms to promote, amplify, or extend the spread of it, FB becomes responsible.

That item has been selected, curated, approved, and amplified by FB, by their criteria, whoever first posted it (whether the post was from a truly organic FB member, a RUS dezinformatsiya shop, a FB employee, or some other source is irrelevant at that point).

This is no less responsibility than a news editor choosing which of their reporters' stories, or newswire stories to publish on the front vs 17th page, or run at the head of the national news, or just send to the local stations to run as they please.

The editors didn't write the content, but they DID curate, select, and selectively amplify (or de-amplify) it.

FB has the freedom to curate and amplify what they choose for their own purposes.

It is long past time for FB to live up to, and be held to, the responsibilities of their editorial actions (regardless of the level of automation - it's FB's algos, not the users').

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No it's that if they leave the Amish they lose their community.

I realize it's cool to fetishize them but think of them like the Jehovah's witnesses.
I don't really like the way attribution for these sorts of things happens. Conspiracy theories aside, we do have a history of questionable attribution (Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq WMD to name two). So a rational mind is right to be skeptical and ask for evidence before accepting a narrative whole cloth.

Instead, we are rarely given any evidence at all. In the article cited, we're just supposed to trust that Microsoft knows it's Russian government and can prove it. When we _are_ given some explanation, it's usually pretty weak: IP addresses are from XYZ country, metadata in a word doc is ABC language, etc. Add to that you have criminal elements that may or may not be controlled by their government.

...and then when you do question, you're downvoted, accused of being a shill, etc. I understand this sort of thing can rarely be proven 100%, and there is a need to protect intelligence sources and methods, but given that we should stop speaking and behaving as though things are 100% certain. Personally I'd like to see articles present more evidence and/or summarize into a percentage. "We rate the likelihood this is XYZ branch of Russian government at 60% due to the following factors: ...."
I currently use Fira Code, and I tried to focus on the text comparisons without consideration of the font names.

I ended up picking Noto Sans Mono by a very slim margin over Fira Code. Interesting...
Another way to look at it: burning a gallon of gasoline emits about 20 pounds of CO2, or a hundredth of a ton. So at $100/ton, charging purchasers to clean up their emissions would cost a dollar a gallon.

If we were to charge that, then many people would likely find it more efficient to switch to electric cars and so on. But for those applications where it's very expensive or infeasible to cut emissions (e.g. long-haul jets), having tech like this available makes net-zero feasible anyway.

Besides, at this point we're going to need to actually reduce atmospheric CO2, and as you point out it's a hard problem, so we'd best start scaling the tech for it now.
Hosted demo, "Logic puzzle" example:
"On a shelf, there are five books: a gray book, a red book, a purple book, a blue book, and a black book.
The red book is to the right of the gray book. The black book is to the left of the blue book. The blue book is to the left of the gray book. The purple book is the second from the right.

Which book is the leftmost book?"

Answer:
> The black book

Same puzzle with the question "Which book is the rightmost book?"

Answer:
> The black book

I tried to ask GPT-3 and Codex this problem, they could not solve it either.
Probably requires the technology to reach some tipping point. It was the same with VR and motion tracking. We've been able to do those things for nearly half a century, but it hasn't been anywhere near commercially viable until recently.
You should not trust even paper certs. At least in Russia, too many of them are bought by anti-vaxxers. I.e., some doctors responsible for vaccination, given some extra money, do everything they need to do, except the actual injection.

P.S. My re-vaccination attempt failed on October 22nd. 270 people in the queue before me, some are sneezing, no social distancing at all, so I decided not to risk. I still have a valid certificate from March 18th.
> I'm sorry if I'm being combative

No worries. We've built Kit55 for us and we think some other people might find it useful.
Coming from C learn Go.
It's more similar than say Python and has ridiculously high earning power for it's short learning curve right now.
Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript (2019)
…out of my answers there grew new questions, inquiries, conjectures, probabilities — until at length I had a country of my own, a soil of my own, an entire discrete, thriving, flourishing world, like a secret garden the existence of which no one suspected. — Oh how fortunate we are, we men of knowledge, provided only that we know now to keep silent long enough!” (Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Preface, section 3)
Short answer: use mypy
My assertion, broadly, is that GraphQL is incidental to the good things that have grown up in its ecosystem, that GraphQL is per se not especially good or interesting, and that attempting to replace a traditional REST interface with it, without also bringing in a large stack of supporting tech that you didn't need before, is almost certainly a bad idea that will end in tears, because it is heavily dependent on those things to not-suck. Nonetheless, the hype has companies burning money on it, as is always the way with hype.

I would agree that it's really, really easy to improve on JSON, which is a curse on our industry.

And yes, I have experience with GraphQL. I think it has very little useful or cost-justifiable place unless you buy in to a heavy and very capable 3rd party system to manage at least the server-side portions for you, automagically. It's similar to buying into Rails. Absent that, yes, it's very much comparable to letting browsers supply SQL queries to your server, in that only with incredible effort could you avoid creating a vulnerability gold mine when implementing such a thing, because you're starting at a scope of "everything" and narrowing it down, rather than starting at a scope of "nothing" and building up from there.

[EDIT] and on the topic of vulnerabilities, given what it does, it'd be a sucker's bet that several popular implementations aren't just waiting to be a key player in "someone downloaded the entire database of 100 major sites that use this library/framework" hacks in the not-so-distant future. It is very much a "use with care, only if you need it, and with both eyes wide open" sort of thing. Again, I agree that Hasura's temptingly-handy, and that JSON and other non-statically-typed boundary-crossing data structures are practically always god-awful.
Good article in general, except for the title. I know many people and see many people online who understand these truths.

The hard part is creating a viable alternative culture that can make collective choices about technology use.

It’s also worth noting that the Amish rely on the ‘English’ I.e. American legal system and military for their defense. Their way of life doesn’t stand alone outside of American society.
When I hear "replaceable battery", it makes me think of the days when packing a spare battery was a viable alternative to bringing a laptop charger with you (I don't think any MBPs were like this, but Powerbooks were). It's funny how the Overton window has shifted.

This procedure looks doable and relatively low risk for technical people, but it's not something that my mom can do while sitting at a Starbucks
It's the 2021 model. They were working on this in 2020 maybe even 2019, but it takes time to deploy. Not that they didn't think about it until 2021. </pedantic_mode>
Unless you’re talking 2009 only then no “early unibody” did no have a door, I have a 2010 on my desk.

Pre-unibody I can believe. I had a whitebook and the battery popped off and revealed the disk bay and RAM.
Apparently, the author (Paul Lutus) wrote the original Apple Writer [0] and "designed spacecraft components for the NASA Space Shuttle.[1]"

Neat!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

1. https://arachnoid.com/administration/index.html
> Multiple monitors, high res monitors, printers, gaming and Bluetooth come to mind.

I'm running Ubuntu with two 4k monitors, an HP printer, and a bluetooth mouse. All of this works perfectly without any fiddling. I've also played quite a few games on this machine thanks to Steam and Proton.
Is this Apple?

Well, maybe I'll consider one of these over a Framework. I'll lean strongly towards the Framework machine but at least Apple is reconsidering some of their design choices over the last decade.
> That's something the NPR journo could actually have assisted with.

That's not the job of the journalist! Are we to expect our journalists to solve the problems they report on? Should every story also turn the journalist into an advocate - be it legal, healthcare, employment, etc. - that works on their behalf?

I think there's room for critique here though the "assumption of bad faith" runs rampant in this discourse already. Yet critiquing the reporter for not acting as their personal local news network "Problem Solvers" segment isn't the real issue here.
Overview of companies currently hiring for DevOps, Cloud and SRE roles
No, it's digital money laundering
The implicit and generally overlooked actor of the REST based systems is the client. REST requires a semantic client that reads the provided resource lists. The germinal idea behind REST was an appreciation of WWW as an ad hoc distributed system resilient to various fault modalities where unknown clients collaborated with known servers, using only a hypertext protocol. How did this work and how can it be generalized? That is the REST dissertation.

A REST system for domain X naturally requires design for a finite state machine client that can infer semantics for the resources in domain X. In general WWW, the client is a browser + a human being that reads links. Once you remove the human semantic processor of this equations while retaining capability, the client rapidly increases in complexity, if at all possible.

Is it natural to think of ("mutating stateful!") systems? It is difficult and somewhat out of phase to be server centric. But if you think in terms of a smart client for domain X, map out the app's capabilities, and then map resources in domain X you need to fulfill capability C, then REST is a perfectly natural way to consider systems, in an end-user centric approach to system design, for a specific domain.
I have this problem. My team supports four different SDK's that are fairly parallel to the selection Oso has. Maintaining all of the core logic for each of these SDK's is really tiresome and not scalable as an organization grows.

I've been looking for ways to write the core client logic in one language, and have frontends in each of the languages we support. I've previously thought about WASM for this, but I haven't found any ways to embed a binary (like WASM) in a Go package. This post is a good update, showing it's possible even if complicated. If anyone has write ups on how, I'd love to read them.
According to ifixit, just 106 easy steps to replace and re-assemble! :)
You just said "it's not a standard, it is a standard".
De-facto vs formal body does not matter.
+1 very interested to hear this talk