skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd do well providing some root causes for this blowout. "Core team won't take CoC" is a bit of a cop-out. If the conduct is legal, IMO people who contribute most of the code should have more weight when deciding moderation related issues (and people who contribute none should have no say at all).

Show me the transgressions that would require CoC to be enforced and then I'd be more sympathetic. As presented, this seems like political bullshit, and their efforts would be better spent overhauling Rust's unergonomic error handling.
Yea when they added that element I first assumed my Airpods were dying or Audible was broke. Really loved it in the end.
Why does it get worse for minorities and overpoliced groups? Because there's a backlash, and police need to "prove a point" or "demonstrate that they're in control"? Or because the police remain nerfed, and the majority population classifies every minority as a criminal, and conducts themselves accordingly?
That's one of the most annoying aspects of WebGL. My Android phone runs the demos at 60fps, my M1 Mac Mini is fine, and my top spec 2021 Intel Macbook Pro sounds like a jet engine.

It's mostly down to the browser and OS, and a function of screen resolution and GPU 'power', rather than anything to do with the framework or JS aspects.
IME, exception-handling works well as an error-handling mechanism where a very simple policy is being applied for a very wide range of error cases. Example: 0.0001% of the total data in this analysis pipeline is malformed for reasons a-z and A-K (and counting). Don't care; throw out that one datum and continue.

Some web request went badly. We're concerned about leaking internal details to the caller. So, you reply with a generic error code, log something about it for operator investigation, and make sure that any other state changes were rolled back along the way.

Condition systems invert that relationship. Its not just a failure to open a file, but a failure to open one specific file for a specific use case in the pipline out of several that are needed in total. In a condition system, the caller needs to set up a handler for each one of those use cases, and possibly bind some additional discriminating information to the arguments to disambiguate them on the way back up the stack.

If a reasonable fallback policy is available, I'd much rather partition the pipeline up such that the fallbacks are applied on a case-by-case basis in the control flow of the caller. Idiomatic Python code does this all the time with exceptions. Idiomatic code with Optional types does so, too. Both methods are well-suited to the task, and I have never found myself wishing for a condition system when using them.
I've bought Microsoft Office CDs and DVDs for a fixed, one-time price. No support contract needed. I mean what's changed in Excel or Word that affects the home user?

Same for Adobe Suite. Used to be available for a one-time fee.

That they have both shifted to subscription models suggests it's a move designed to please equity analysts rather than any kind of added value for the customer.
If we actually had a high speed rail network that linked the big European cities it would pay for itself like in Japan.
Tax kerosene and nobody would fly from Amsterdam to Berlin.
It seemed like the ideas from On Intelligence were ahead of their time. I'm surprised it never seemed to pan out into anything industry leading (at least as far as I can tell).

Did it just not get enough eyes and resources? Was it a flawed premise? I'd be curious to know more.
> The goals of the project are set by the core team; not by a moderation team enforcing some abitrary CoC.

It's dishonest to publish a CoC that -- silently -- doesn't apply to those with power. Why does that matter?

Don't forget that a language with a strong core team but no community of users, contributors, documenters, enthusiasts, etc., is hardly more than nothing -- people making specifications that aren't implemented and if implemented, not used.

The purpose of a CoC is to set ground rules to allow the community around the language -- the community that must exist for the language to have any real value or purpose -- to grow as strong as possible.

You're granting the core team all the power in rust, but they are kings of very little if people don't chose to adopt rust.

Some people or companies may choose to invest -- or not invest -- in rust based at least partially on the code of conduct.

Other people may choose to invest -- or not invest -- in rust based at least partially on their confidence in the long-term capability of the core team. Does "accountable to no one" instill that confidence?

Also: you really are misunderstanding what the mod team did here. Resigning is a single-shot ploy. There's literally nothing left that they can do. Whether this is a "bad look" for them is entirely irrelevant.

At this point the rust core team has to decide if they would prefer to more forward with or without a code of conduct, and whether they will be honest about it or not.

The rest of us can watch and decide if/how we'd like to continue to participate with rust. Those making long term plans should watch especially carefully.
Just use a custom domain. This is generally a good idea anyway; you can take your address to any email provider whenever you want.
I mean is it the Apollo program? The spend for Apollo was $285B - during the whole Apollo period the spend at nasa was $482B. Not even on the same order of magnitude.
Apple has had many years after Vulkan came out to support it alongside Metal or phase out Metal with MoltenVk but we all know that’s not going to happen.
So maybe something closer to an observable but sugar built into the language? I suppose it could be interesting if everything was an observable and you could implicitly chain observables through assignment.
I went the other way and I'm really happy I did. I use it for anything from thinking on paper to actual art. I'm in love with that device.
There's tons. Google domains, name.com, almost anyone but GoDaddy
Imagine how much better it will be with the native build: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-111-apple-silicon-suppo...
Well, you've done a nice job of restating the article, actually. It claims that all seemingly revolutionary businesses were not successful because of the things that change (like technology solutions e.g., "finding things", "communication", "compute infrastructure" etc) but on the same unchanging principles (e.g., business opportunities and strategies).

TFA / TL;DR:

In the last 100 years we’ve gone from horses to jets and mailing letters to Skype. But every sustainable business is accompanied by one of a handful of timeless strategies:

Lower prices.

Faster solutions to problems.

Greater control over your time.

More choices.

Added comfort.

Entertainment/curiosity.

Deeper human interactions.

Greater transparency.

Less collateral damage.

Higher social status.

Increased confidence/trust.
Bay Area third consecutive day of looting as 50-strong gang storms store
Definitely not wishful thinking. According to the creators on Twitter, it absolutely getting open-sourced today as MIT.

The "Remix v1" event starts at 1PM PST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsJaUjd1rUo

I'm excited to see some competition for Next.js, but I've been waiting for the Remix license change to get started.
Ok, I guess only time we'll have to wait and see then, I just don't see it being any time soon.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair

In particular, stare too hard at that viral page, realize how scummy that page is, and then spend the rest of a career at facebook trying to tear down the systems that made that the most viral page, are likely going to earn you enemies, and cause the company to lose money (in the short term, at least).
Sounds like a nightmare to me. Want to change browsers? Buy a new device with a different processor or suffer massive battery or performance penalties. Want to change media players? Buy a new device with a different processor or suffer massive battery or performance penalties.
They can't get that much bigger. The Max is already over 400mm^2. For comparison, the biggest chips are around 600. Apple can't realistically get much bigger than this since yield already drops off a cliff at 600. Getting bigger than that will be tough for them since it isn't clear that apple has put R&D into interconnect tech needed to make effective multi-chip modules.
Using node-usb which means all USB interaction happens with the main process of the electron app (node), not the renderer (chromium). It wasn’t easy or straightforward how to make it work seamlessly across Mac and windows.
The Intel MacBook Pros have a discrete GPU that's turned off most of the time, and only kicks in under certain circumstances (WebGL seems to be one of those). As soon as it turns on things get hot in my experience, even if it's not being pushed to capacity
How do you protect your private keys? I already have an yubikey but it still feels not great.
Was playing around with it just this weekend. It's... not there yet. It will be, but it's a work in progress.

You could run it today if you wanted to, but there are a bunch of things that are missing.
It will probably become an R&D campus more than anything.
I was going through goodreads yesterday and came across my review of The Martian there. I gave it 5 stars because I use what I understand is the Roger Ebert style of rating. The Martian is imperfect, pulpy and at times a bit over sentimental. But it succeeds at exactly what it sets out to achieve. It isn't Dostoevsky or Proust but it isn't trying to be. It made me laugh, kept me engaged and turning pages. It made me think, this situation is impossible but if it was possible then this is about as realistic as I could expect a novel to portray. In exchange for suspending my disbelief it gave me an enjoyable diversion.

All that to say, if Project Hail Mary is equivalent to that, it is going on my to read list.
I was reacting to OP's article

> China put a robot on the moon -> NASA put a helicopter on MARS [1]

And so did china! the west still haven't put anything on the far side of the moon

> so did the National Ignition Facility

20% weaker than Tokamak

> And so did the private startups Helion

on paper, without any proof, without stating for how long they kept it running

they are seeking for fundings, wich mean they are viable as of today

So the west is now playing catch-up that's nice to hear
OnePlus patents a Tri-Fold Foldable Device with an ultra-wide display
It's problematic to not distinguish between things you know and thing you just googled, regardless of which is more accurate.

The problem is similar to not looking and determining what the information of the article you Google is. This feeds into the now stereotype behavior of someone confusing a Google search with actual research. Google doesn't help with it's question-answer section, many of which are mis-categorized and from not-necessarily reliable sources.

Quantity has a quality all it's own.

A large quantity of poor quality of information is certainly not something that it would be useful to have automatically pouring through one's cranium, to say the least.
Meh, every OS has its problems. The issues I have had with Linux have been consistently more annoying than those I have had with MacOS. I'm sure it's the opposite for some people.
Alzheimer’s, Inc.: When a Hypothesis Becomes Too Big to Fail
Affiliate sites have ruined product search in the same way that Pinterest has ruined image search.

Video reviews/tutorials are often the way to go because they tend to be more up to date (you can't fiddle with the Youtube publish date the way you can with a blog site). Additionally, the tutorials can help demonstrate niche features and whether they function as expected.
Way to build online store without code
Wow, that's an impressive collection! Are there any that stood out to you?

(I'm especially interested in new memory management techniques)
Brain scans look stunning, but what do they actually mean?
The SF Chronicle[0] seems to have a bunch of information about this. Including arrests of some of the alleged miscreants.

I don't live in the Bay area, but I'd imagine that a local outlet like the Chronicle would be better situated to report on this than a Washington, DC based outlet focused on government/politics.

That's not a swipe at The Hill at all, just that local news organizations likely have more boots on the ground, and better access to local officials/law enforcement.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Dozens-of-robbers-...
They work fine for me on iOS Safari (iPhone XS, iOS 15.1)

Edit: The home page animation works fine (30+ FPS), but the ones listed under the actual Examples tab are blank white pages
The data is age stratified. Wrt different levels of health, yes, but there's some good analysis of this that shows it looks like the least healthy aren't vaccinated at all (probably because they're already dying) and this creates an artificial boost to the vaccines effectiveness against death. In the UK at least.
Good to see a detailed benchmark. I’m pretty impressed by the performance in real-world applications as well - the machine is easily 2.5—3x as fast at running various builds and processing jobs as my 15” from 2018 was, and it’s cool and quiet while doing it.

The performance claims have been a bit overblown in some quarters - it’s not going to replace a 5950X with a big GPU, and some of the rhetoric is a bit silly. But it’s surprisingly close - watching a silent laptop rip through a build faster than the 125W TDP i9-10900K we have in the office is pretty cool!
The UK government’s plan to reform data-protection laws are terrifying
I agree. It's the worst decision so far that they've done. OpenGL may not be perfect, but it worked well everywhere. And what about all the thousands of programs that uses OpenGL? Even future programs may use OpenGL - it is not a legacy API.
Pixel 3XL, Android 12, Chrome. Home page and demos work great.
Well, you just leave your "password" on the device ;)
New York City solved this about 30 years ago. From rampant crime, scary sidewalks; to family walkable streets. Surely San Francisco could do it too? (and Portland.)
Yeah, Sears had a catalog business for like a century. Whatever went wrong a Sears, it wasn't that they had a corporate culture that taught them people only want to buy things at your physical store.
The most important feature Tutanota lacks is offline usage, IMHO. You can't access your email if you have a poor or nonexistent connection.
Running macOS in a VM is okay for testing purposes, but in my experience it's not a great experience for productive work. There are a lot of graphics glitches because macOS assumes that you have hardware graphics acceleration, but no VM that I know supports that for macOS guests.
No, I'm stating that fingerprints to not have the same security and privacy properties as usernames. Therefore they are not equivalent to usernames.

* Usernames can be changed. Fingerprints can't.

* Usernames can be denied. Fingerprints can't.

* Usernames are zero effort to copy. Fingerprints require some skill and effort (if you have a decent fingerprint reader).

* People are happy to share usernames online. Fingerprints are considered much more private.
He did not just "do important work". He discovered and described the CRISPR mechanism. Without CRISPR, there is no CRISPR-cas9.

> showed how to use it as a DNA editing tool

Don't we care about basic research anymore?
Sure as hell don't want Android near a car.
This library is header-only, and should have the same binary compatibility as using the Objective C framework directly.
Still curious to hear that quote. Good day to you too ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Yeah, that definitely sounds like something that I may be equipped to do, especially black-box. black-box is even analogous to how I first got online at home in 1995, here's a disk from the ISP now figure out setting it up and actually using eudora/mirc/etc where I literally just tried every option to see what the software would do while trying to figure out what it was for/why it did not produce the desired result.
Collect data
Yes, and I actually meant to include them in my comment but for some reason didn't.
Musk has a track record of over-promising and under-delivering both on time and product, but deliver he does. And the over-promise is usually so bonkers ridiculous, that when you scale it back it's only somewhat ridiculous and a lot more than the people who were predicting complete failure.
Since Steve is on the core team, this certainly puts "I refuse to let Amazon define Rust" in a whole new light.

Maybe the problem wasn't Amazon, and HN shouldn't have jumped to conclusions so quickly...
As a psychiatrist I diagnose mental illness. Also I help spot demonic possession
This feels like a big turn to me. This just feels super significant, super different than where we were.

I also feel like there's way less discussion around this topic than most topics. I find myself with almost nothing to say about this. What it means, what it indicates, what we do, how to feel about it... I got nothing. This feels unknown, less clear to me, than the regular stream of current events that break across this planet & the west in specific.
Emily Compagno: Rittenhouse does have a case for defamation
Didn't say anything about Russia, but certainly they did - competitors emulate.

So in terms of your SpaceX comment: They are certainly pushing the frontier on the heavy lifting of the decades of research and projects from the national research labs and NASA. The US government doesn't (afaik) have a mission to populate and develop mars - so that opening is available for Elon to pursue.
One thing I don't see anyone mention is that the M1Max is the probably the cheapest GPU memory you can buy. The only other way to get >=64Gb GPU memory is with the A100 (?) which is like 20k by itself.

So this would be great specifically for finetuning large transformer models like GPT-J, which requires a lot of memory but not a lot of compute. Just hoping for pytorch support soon..
> Programming for Arduino in C/C++ has been the worst most unproductive endeavor I ever undertook as a software developer. I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems in this language.

It would be more straightforward to say "I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems."
... and cloudfare lost 25 days of precious user data. Censorship or surveillance is the same from an individual perspective.
For one, the law is ambiguous and seems to be written to cover the case that people are paid mostly hourly or in salary and requires numeric figures there but permits “general description” of bonuses, RSUs, and the like. If a company genuinely seeks to comply but their “general description” is later found to not be specific enough, are they on the hook for damages (or even defending against a frivolous lawsuit)? That one seems fixable by the CO legislature.

Two, whichever state pioneers here risks making it just risky, uncertain or a pain in the ass enough for companies to nope out of hiring in CO. This one isn’t easily fixable except by a many-state compact, but being first will hurt some of your state’s residents.

Three, what range would I post for lead singer of rock band? My high school buddies (also decidedly Not Sammy Hagar) play dive bars for $100, unlimited wings, and three buckets of beer, while Is Sammy Hagar commands significantly more. If I can post a range that’s wide enough to cover my expected range, which reflects the expected range of productivity of programmers, does it really tell anyone anything that they can’t get quicker from levels.fyi than from scanning my job listing? If the law changes to require me to post a tighter range per position, then I need to manage multiple listings and still nobody learns much of anything they don’t already know. (Assuming you think there’s at least a 2x spread from the least effective but employable SWE and the top SWE. I think it’s well over 5x, but surely at least 3x.)
yeah you’re looking at this wrong. this isn’t about building a successful bootstrapped company or being self fulfilled or being competent. this is about raising money. connections (network) matter and where you go to school (even in remote first covid world) matters more than being “best” or even great at the technical skills, because that is where it is exceedingly easy to build that network. not to mention being around like minded people, which goes a very long way.

if you just want to be merely good at a thing and successful in terms of career, then yeah optimize for where you can be at the top of the class. if you want to be an entrepreneur optimize for network
Convictional (YC W19) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Remote)
> The company is paying you the market rate, i.e as little as they can get away with, not how much value you create

"As little as they can get away with, not how much value you create" sounds like a recipe for exploitation and dissatisfied employees. Which I suppose is exactly what we have.

It would also seem to create a strange incentive for people to move to places where the cost of living is higher.
The previous article in the series (linked at the top of the article) discusses this. The author discusses the track record and suggests that while the system is not proven yet, there is a good chance it will succeed.

SpaceX has a good track record of success with their rockets and with this project in particular. They seem to have the skills and backing to make it work, and they aren't discouraged by setbacks. Of course it is not guaranteed to succeed, but it seemed clear to me that the point of this article was to explore what could be done with starship if it does succeed.
Show HN: Screegle free for Mac and Windows (clean and secure screen sharing)
Yet another article claiming that Facebook isn't censoring properly and needs to do more censoring. Because that's what it amounts to.

It's buried, of course, in concerns about things that Facebook actually does wrong. But the solution is never "Facebook's censoring is so blatantly inconsistent that we'd be better off if Facebook just didn't even try". It's always "Facebook claims to be battling misinformation and taking action against extremism, but they're not really doing it to well, so we had better make sure that they get rid of all that misinformnation and those extremists properly". The idea that Facebook shouldn't even be in the business of deciding what counts as misinformation occurs to nobody.
A Hotchpotch of Reduplication
Copy-pasting the if/else code (step 2) and then executing resulted in it spinning for about 20 seconds before I lost interest and killed it. The "Hello World" (step 1) did complete, after about 6 seconds.
Certainly. First things first. They have a year's worth of testing ahead of them just to make 100t to LEO reusable launch vehicle a thing. Once they've done that they'll be able to build a new stage zero, work on larger and smaller launch vehicles (smaller because why let others take the by then obsolete Falcon 9's business?) (larger only for large telescopes and such).
I have a Boox Note Air and frankly every review puts Remarkable above it ONLY on the writing experience.

For my use, I have had zero issues with the Boox pen or screen latency. Boox is superior on multiple fronts when it comes to overall usefulness, as it's running Android, so I can use exactly the file explorer I want (Solid Explorer). The PDF formatting options, such as increasing ink darkness and contrast levels make things like color magazines a lot easier to see and read.

The frontlit screen is such an obvious feature that I'm shocked that RM2 still does not have it. Boox does.
Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification!