skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow look at the names on that list. None of them had a choice though since the decision was made unilaterally. They woke up one day and were told to hand over control of their boot, userspace, ssh auth, and dns to this new program with binary logs that speaks nonstandard binary protocols. Open source essentially boils down to free candy from strangers on the Internet, and the thing that's historically made that work is transparency. Without it, you've got a system that requires faith and is fueled by the fumes of trust painstakingly built by those before you. That's why the old guard is unhappy about it.
When I was in college, I used Grapher on Mac OS X to take all my math notes. It was very quick and used some LaTeX-like keyboard shortcuts. I'd copy the equations I generated into TextEdit (side note: I still miss the RTFD bundle format now that I use Windows and Linux). No doubt my professors thought I was just dicking around because I was the only person taking notes on a laptop but it was very nice and the results were much more legible than my handwritten notes.
Interestingly I have seen this on mm _Intel_ Macbook Pro - but _not_ on my M1 Macbook Air.

I've noticed worst applications for this are those built on the Electron framework (MS Teams, Slack, Evernote).
I'll second this. I am very familiar with latex. I have even done similar things to my neovim configuration (I use ultisnips) and have a few custom latex 'sty'les to include various commands to do stuff I do frequently but is a pain otherwise.

This however is and was for end-product stuff: my own personal collection of condensed notes, assignments that needed to be typed, and so on (I also use ultisnips for coding). I studied mathematics as a undergrad (I have a first class degree in Mathematics from a UK university) and I hand-wrote my lectures, and I know many mathematicians that are frankly much better than I am who find computers frankly difficult and avoided LaTeX as long as they possibly could.

What matters (if you are studying mathematics) is doing mathematics (exercises, experimentation, understanding proofs etc). There is no substitute. This is a nice to have, but will not make you a better mathematician. If you want to know how to be a good student, IMO this is a nice guide: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/study_pu...
That’s what `modulepreload` &co is for. It’s a shame HTTP Push is dead, it was a much more general solution. But specifically for web pages the solution is more or less the same + 1 round trip (you won’t get the benefits of “push” until you at least process all the head>meta tags).
Nice trolling. You almost got me there. You have my respect! ;-)
This talks a bunch about the "good run" of current scripting languages, including for example JavaScript.

But JavaScript, as an actual scripting language, has been pretty primitive. It is only now starting to become a real candidate for actual scripting. There's imo crufty not very great options like shelljs[1]. But by adding a tagged-template string for system() for calling things, and a little bit of standard library, the recent ZX has made JS a much more interesting & competent scripting language[2].

I like the idea of the topic, exploring it. But the author feels off in a number of places.

> What TypeScript showed is that you could join together the idea of a flexible lightweight (and optional!) type system onto an existing programming language, and do so successfully. . . .The question then is - what if you created a programming language from the start to have this kind of support?

Personally I just don't think languages matter very much. They're very similar, by & large. They have different tooling, packaging, somewhat different looks/feels for executing code, and their standard libraries are different. But TypeScript is popular & fast at least 90% because it is JS, because it works with JS things. Arguing that we should try to recreate TypeScript apart from JS sounds like a mind blowing waste of time. Also, Deno has good integrated TypeScript support.

On the topic of easy parallelism, JavaScript promises are imo quite easy to stitch together & use & quite available.

One of the main issues I see with easy-parallelism is that it's too easy: there's too many cases for uncontrolled parallelism. Throwing tarn.js or other worker-pools at problems seems all too common. But one is still left stitching together each pool/stage of work. I'd like to see SEDA[3] like architectures emerge, and perhaps get added to something like ZX standard library.

[1] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs

[2] https://github.com/google/zx

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_event-driven_architectu...
Why is it his job to debug the issue? Raising awareness so that Apple prioritizes it is useful too.
I don’t know what you’re doing on a 4GB machine but I promise most workloads that create significant memory pressure would start creating problems for you, just like on macOS.

I use a dual xeon, 64GB Linux desktop which performs reasonably well.

A colleague runs a Linux machine with 16GB of ram. Compiling the same project can cause OOM issues for him and the kernel starts whacking processes.

Even if he closes all non-essential processes, his builds run 10x as long as mine due to memory constraints.

My main point here - let’s not pretend your 4GB machine is being used to do any intense local work.

The inverse of this is seen on my Intel MacBook Air and my colleague’s M1 MacBook Air. The compilation time for our code is 35 minutes or more on my machine and only 3 minutes on the M1.
I understand your point of view, but I'm the sort of person that responds poorly to someone asserting too much authority. I've had issues with bad interviews before, where I've been rejected by someone, but then got the same job at the same firm, when interviewed by a different person.

Also, the lost earnings argument doesn't matter much if it comes at the cost of your mental health.

A bit unrelated, but there's an old joke my boss once told me, highlighting how poor interview questions/criteria can be at assessing one's ability for a particular job:

A guy goes for an interview. The interviewer tells him "forget everything you learned in your degree, it won't be useful here". The guy says: "actually, I don't have a degree". The interviewer responds: "in that case, you're not qualified enough for this job"!
And it will climb even higher:

The city-state’s Ministry of Health reported last month that about 100,000 people aged 60 and above were yet to be vaccinated despite having been in the priority category.

There was a new daily high of 18 deaths in Singapore on Wednesday - as well as a near record 3862 new cases - and the unvaccinated elderly accounted for more than two-thirds of patients who had passed away from the virus or were in the ICU, Health Minister and fellow taskforce co-chair Ong Ye Kung said.

“For the unvaccinated seniors in their 60s, our data shows one in four will require oxygen, ICU care or will succumb,” he said.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/singapore-s-recovery-stall...
Yeah, I agree, despite being an advanced Python programmer and a fan of the language. Writing a production grade web app requires some proprietary boilerplate black magic that is quite difficult to get right at first, but once you get it right, it’s something you carry along with you across projects.

Declaring, managing, and providing a proper test fixture for the ‘app context’ in a Flask app can be rather hideous. Having said that, despite the poor aesthetics and contours, that black magic is incredibly reliable once you get it right.
I just played through the Legendary Edition and am going through Andromeda now. While I think ME1 is definitely the best, they all have really interesting mechanics that spice up each subsequent game in the series. I was presently surprised that Andromeda took a lot more risks that, imo, have been paying off so far.
Yeah, OP here, I'm with you, at least insofar as what I enjoy reading. I'm still buying all my books on paper, for example. And my experience with tracking these magazines down showed that some are still doing great on print (e.g. Weird NJ). I'd love to get more details on how Stripe Press faired and why exactly they're transitioning to something new.
To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
iPhone 13 FaceID restriction is good PR on Apple's part
Great work should be preserved even if the author wants it gone. I feel quite strongly about this.
What part of the contract states only selected address can sell? I don't understand.
No problems from me! My policy is generally live and let live. But once they invade my space I take measures.

Unfortunately, my wife is phobia level scared of spiders. So now if they bother her, by extension that is bothering me, and so I take measures to make sure they don't bother her.

But I motorbike commute every day with webs around my dash/handlebars. I wish my little spider bro good luck every ride.
It depends on your bundler and config. You might have “zero” dependencies, but depending on how the code is split you might end up with thousands of small imports nested quite deeply.
Here's an question I'd like answered during my lifetime: The moon surface is devoid of water, atmosphere, and life. However, there is water there, especially near the poles, and it is composed of the same elements as on earth. What will we find if we dig deep enough that the vacuum of space and monthly temperature swings becomes irrelevant, and the temperature becomes high enough that liquid water can flow?
The title, perhaps. The illustrated guide format is more _why's bag, right?

(Though the texts are so different in tone and style I always thought the comparison was a bit shallow.)
Yeah, some people are very much struggling to survive. They don't have it to spare.
> But, if you have no national culture which you find important (enough to defend), then another nation will take advantage of that fact.

Modern militaries don't defend cultures - fighting for "American ideals" or because "they hate our freedoms" is just propaganda. Militaries defend assets, territories and wage war for national interests, and their ability to do so is entirely orthogonal to their nation's sense of culture, or lack thereof.
Please drop the antisemitism
- I would often feel a ‘brain fog’.

- I would wake up with a headache which would continue through the day.

- I would drool a lot at night

- I would wake up several times during each night

- I would not have any dreams

- very low memory capacity (could not remember what I had been doing even a few days before)

- Just low motivation in general.

I don’t know how much it would cost, but if you can afford it I think you should do it. A few hundred dollars in my case was nothing compared to the cost of having my life sapped over the years by this illness. Best of luck to you.

EDIT: I think being a mouth-breather is a factor too.
I've actually used it to bypass inherent (imo) shortcomings in Firebase dynamic links. And add custom functionality, such as allowing for single-letter query strings to append utm parameters (?t -> utm_source twitter). I also didn't want the smart detection it tries to use for mobile devices with its JS-enabled page, so the worker scrapes the correct URL from the page as well
I didn't know about the cigarette smuggling convictions. Quite interesting.

Out of the more than $1billion fine, it would be interesting to see how and where the money was allotted.

A lot of ex-tobacco farms are now growing sweet potatoes for use in biofuel. I also saw ginseng, and I'm sure there are quite a few other crops they are working on.
Yeah i did, it’s clear you didn’t.
When i got vaccinated with Moderna vaccine i had weird heart flutters every 10 minutes or so (one day after 2nd dose - from noon until evening). It wasn't painful or anything but it was very weird, sometimes it felt like heart skipping a beat and sometimes like doing a double or triple beat. I did get checked out but by the time i got to the doctor the whole thing was almost over, they hooked me up to those heart monitors for 15 minutes but had no "flutters" during that time. Doc said im young and my heart is fine and that was that. Next day i had some more in the morning but everything was fine afterwards and i had no problems since. I don't know if it falls under Myocarditis or not but i'm sure noone reported it anywhere.

Either way, i'm still gonna go for the booster shot soon since i'm scared of Covid more than the vaccine, but just wanted to point out it's not so black and white, the side effects are likely under reported since the incentive is to get as many people vaccinated as possible. Doing large scale analysis on faulty data is just as accurate as anecdotal evidence.
> anarcho-capitalists are not pro social hierarchy

Are you sure about that? I mean, I believe they don't explicitly argue for it. But the ones I've come across seem to be practically in favor of the sort of wealth concentration and freedom of the rich to do as they please that they seem to be effectively in favor of strong social hierarchy.
'Epigrams on Programming' (Alan J. Perlis, 1982)
Started to read, was interesting, but then I scrolled, and the whole page seems broken. Life's too short to deal with that nonsense.
Pretty sure that‘s a joke.
I'm actually in Vancouver (and moved from germany). It got a bit of a boost in the last years, and currently seems between the two. For the big tech companies I don't think 3x is true here, it's maybe somewhere between 1.6x and 2x. And it's easily more than 2x than what is paid in germany.
I just spent several minutes trying to solve that resistor problem (or a simplified version with adjacent nodes) before giving up and deciding I’ll look up other people’s analyses when I get the time. Definitely a good example.
Can we next do Falsehoods web developers believe about there being any benefit to hijacking the native scroll functionality, and use this website as an example?
You don’t need to store an IP in a different table as ID/IP, IP can be represented as 128 bit integer. A small “mistake” I’ve made before that makes some things a little more annoying - not that it’s particularly important
I needed to plot something real quick to see if I’m picking correct function. I had don’t remember how many data points but no much, under 200 I believe. W.A. told me to piss off and pay for it. So obviously I went and spent an hour more to learn how to do that with Gnuplot and did it with Gnuplot. Now I always go for Gnuplot right away.
> the soft dash characters inserted between every syllable

What CMS or editor outputs that? It's insane. I tried copying the text into a text editor and it displayed all the dashes: "math-e-mat-ics".
Seems like it's pretty easy to blow your mind. I recommend expanding it by thinking and reading more.
In what sense is Japan "internationalist"? Their culture is nationalist, and more closed to foreigners compared to other countries.

In their relatively recent past they were outright xenophobic. It is my (possibly outdated) understanding that even today they make distinction between descendants of Japanese born abroad and the "true" Japanese, to the point they have different words to tell them apart.
Some systems even have to handle not-yet-borns. An example I have seen is that when pregnant in France, you might have to pre-register your future child for one reason or another (a common one is waiting lists for childcare, but some paperwork requires it in other situations). Ours had “À naître” [to be born] as a first name, as the forms did not accept no first name.
This implements a variant of BB84 quantum key distribution protocol. As Bernstein wrote in 2016, quantum key distribution is a security fraud. No doubt physics is genuine, but that is different from security of protocol.

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160516-quantum.html
> The question now is for how long we will need to keep prevent weakimmune people.

Why must a timeline be put on it? The people asking "how long do we need to do this" kind of remind me of the kids in the back seat on a long trip asking every 10 minutes "are we there yet?"

It's a global pandemic the likes the which no living generation has witnessed before. No one can tell you the future. Anyone putting a timeline on it is giving you their best guess, not a guarantee.

I understand that is mentally and emotionally tough to deal with for a lot of people, but that's the sober reality of our current situation.

We have vaccines (miraculously) but only a partially vaccinated planet. We have promising therapeutics on the horizon (see last week's news about Pfizer's new drug), but we are many months or years away from them being available as ubiquitously as we need them to be.

> Didn't they have this exact problem before covid with 1000 other diseases?

That were as 1) widespread, 2) severe and 3) as contagious as COVID-19? I can't think of any.
I used to have similar problems. It turned out to be Bluetooth congestion. When I relocated to an office away from a window that faced a public street, the problems went away.
“Mom, don’t pick up the phone!”
The type inference of Dart 2 pretty much gets out of your way. Dart is very much a joy to use.

For scripting, a shout out to Dart CLI:

https://pub.dev/packages/dcli
I think it's pretty obvious given how popular these types of threads are that Twitter does provide a mean to present them in chronological order.

It's less about the format, and more about discoverability.
Please note that the problem was not the lack of frequent saving per se, which was done. The problem was that it took just one corrupted save (the last one) to destroy the benefit of all previous saves. Unless you meant save in different files, which would become cumbersome very quickly.
I agree that good cheap chromebooks exist - however what I want doesn't really fall under the "business notebook", "gaming notebook" or "good cheap chromebook" category. I prefer what would typically be offered in a macbook or surface laptop form factor. While I can install linux on a macbook, razer, or surface laptop - it's not exactly a "clean" experience.

In fact, even on an expensive "linux" laptop from dell I'm likely to still have a windows key! or non-functional windows hello sensors. Why shouldn't there be built for linux machines? Why should linux users need a tutorial to get their os running?
The problem with her point is that it doesn't go anywhere. Mentorship is obviously good and ageism is obviously bad, and she doesn't have specific suggestions on how to solve any of the problems, so the hook is the most substantial thing to talk about.
But from my perspective, playing someone who's in the mindset of punishing my awful opening sounds exciting!

If you measure exclusively against the metric of "how to max out your rating", then yeah, weird openings aren't very helpful. But if your metric is "how to dredge wild tactical games out of opponents, even if I lose more often", then weird openings are generally superior.

Of course the better way to neutralize opening prep and experience more wild games is just to play more Chess 960.
Slightly related, I think it would be useful to be able to force your program onto p-cores if it uses AVX512, as that is noticeably absent on e-cores.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17047/the-intel-12th-gen-core...
Huh? What point are you trying to make? I don't care how well macOS runs on my machine. I care how well any given computer gets out of the way and lets me get my work done. Today that means intellij, the rust compiler, firefox and nodejs. I want to spend my day working. Not futzing around with HP bloatware. Not rebooting due to apple memory leaks. And not guessing why my keyboard needs to be reconnected.
Is their much evidence for your view of MBAs? I understand that's their self-myth, of course. But I don't see much of that in practice. And MBAs play a big role in the more predatory reaches of corporate America. E.g.: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/buyout-firms-profite...
Amazing and completely new way to think about the world or the universe! I got a really good name for this ultra new concept! We should call it "peer pressure"!!

Honestly reading this twitter I just rolled my eyes. He discovered peer pressure and gave it a pretentious name. This is nothing new, people have been talking about the emptiness of modern society and climbing the endless corporate ladder for decades and decades.

Let me tell you the real answer and this is literally the biggest joke ever: You are not designed to be happy. You are designed to be continuously unsatisfied always seeking to fulfill something that can never be fulfilled until you grow old and die. Why are we like this? Natural Selection.

A perfectly content human does not take the actions necessary to aid in survival. A content human does not work or compete. Thus the humans that survived the filter of natural selection are all humans that have some sort of innate desire to never be satisfied to always want more. One of the ways we unconsciously create voids we need to fill is to compare ourselves with our peers.
While we're at it, go beyond overwriting a single content stream per name. VMS had ;version numbered suffixes for versions of each file. Git follows a model where each unique content item is a blob and there are references to it from different names and versions. Lots of 'filesystems' didn't have directories, or did have them but were implemented in a flat structure: mainframe OSes and LAN filesystems like Novell, which I discovered one time when an entire drive got all it's files deleted by some bug. It was possible to undelete them from the LAN 'trash' where all the dir/file names were in a very long flat list.
Same here. My 16-inch M1 has been a dream so far.
That's the first time I've heard of a company being worried that their product is too good.
For Those Leaving California, Concern About Non-Competes?
With the movement of more tech companies from California to Texas, Florida, etc., are developers at all concerned about non-competes being enforceable in those jurisdictions?
Again, you're really undercutting yourself by trying to make San Francisco your example. The average Supervisor campaign spend is in the high five digits, and in some races over $100,000. The races are contentious, because SF Supervisor is often a stepping stone to a larger state office.

But San Francisco is a very unique system, so if you live literally anywhere else the barrier to credibly run is much lower.
Sadly, Luster project is either on hold or completely abandoned. I tried to use it, it's interesting concept but right now of no use at all.
Helium has built the largest contiguous wireless network using a crypto incentive model. They have started with LoRaWAN and are moving into 5G neutral hosting using CBRS spectrum.

Helium effectively solves the chicken and egg problem in wireless network infra. The protocol pays users for providing provably useful wireless coverage, allowing time for demand to catch up and eventually fund the operation of nodes.
Translational research is its own subfield in biotech too. And it's plausibly one key place where a lot of low-hanging fruit might still be hidden, both in biotech and in the harder sciences. In general, it would be nice if academia did its part as an alternate, fully formalized source of what's usually left to tacit "folk" know-how in all sorts of industry-relevant pursuits.
Random message boards like this were my favourite thing of the early 2000s. The personalities that appeared on random forums were hilarious, I looked forward to reading and posting as it was genuine and great.

Reddit took over most of this, and it was okay for a time. I still love HN for the stories and the insightful and unique comments like the one you left.