skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used IntelliJ for a decade (including several hours today) and it's never very seamless. The sync features are hit or miss, especially across platforms -- I've used it on various Windowses, Linuxes, and macOS. The hotkeys aren't the same, the interpreters aren't the same, the containers (Docker or Python) don't function the same, the linters don't present the same, the NPM modules don't always compile on different architectures (sigh, M1), the memory settings don't always persist, some are synced to Jetbrains and others are stored per-repo... it's a nightmare to untangle. The syncing is there, sort of, but it's far from seamless. There is still a lot of complexity and points of failure between the bare metal and my code (whether it's PHP or Python or Javascript). And if you can't afford IntelliJ ultimate and use separate products (like PyCharm and PHPStorm), the integrations are even worse, along with trying to figure out which product offers which feature (like Javascript support, or SQL).

What I'm hoping for is an easily reproducible dev environments with common-sense images that can be maintained and edited in the cloud, almost like Docker images, with all that stuff preconfigured... the latest interpreters, node, yarn, xdebug, webpack, blah blah all just preconfigured and ready to go. Next.js does some of that, the dev tool Lando tries to do that (but is pretty buggy), but all of it still requires a lot of manual configuration. And coding across platforms (like Windows desktop + Mac laptop) is still a huge PITA even though it all gets deployed to bog-standard LEMP stacks in the end.

It's just such a far cry from, say, being able to seamlessly use the Adobe Suite or Slack or Zoom or Microsoft Office across platforms and projects. I guess it's a bit unfair to compare first-party vendor software to messy open-source ecosystems, but that's what I'm ultimately griping about... I don't want to spend time doing devops instead of coding visitor-facing features. Some companies have dedicated people for that; our org can't afford that, so I just have to figure it out as I go, doing a piss-poor job most of the time. Wish there was a vendor + service to take care of that, and present just a usable IDE in the end, with all the internals abstracted away and maintained in the cloud. Ideally it would be a thin local client with native GUI but offloaded processing, vs a laggy screenshare.

I haven't tried Cloud9 in particular but have tried other cloud IDEs, which just felt like remote desktops running on someone else's machine that I still have to do all the same tooling and maintenance for myself. If Cloud9 or others DOES do what I want and I just missed it, please let me know.

shrug Maybe I'm just getting too old for this stuff. I miss the simple jQuery days when there was the DOM and that was it, not a bazillion layers of tooling and the super complex packagers and containers and other enterprise tech required to support them.
There were a lot of people saying things like this after the M1 too. I'm not expecting another huge leap with whatever comes next in the M-series, but I won't be surprised if there is one either.
If you simply assume as a given that "violence against minorities" is inextricably baked into the culture of policing in general in the USA, then it makes obvious sense that as you ramp up police activity, you therefore also ramp up violence against minorities. Whether or not that assumption is true is up for debate, but if it is, it simplifies the equation.
Corne-Ish Zen
Please, though, do swipe at the Hill
> I'm sure its nice to have that glue code written for you

I think you answered your own question there. There aren't any rules dictating how many lines of code must be written before it counts as "creating something".
Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust
That's already the case, though. The battery life difference using Safari versus Firefox/Chrome is staggering. Sure, you don't have an option to buy a FF/Chrome mac atm, but you've definitely bought one where safari is the only decently efficient browser.
I would recommend the following:

https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/wiki/Useful-Links-for-Research
The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367659247
Production chains would get a whole darn lot shorter if they didn't have to machine everything to spider thinness from exotic metals and build it to fold inside a thimble.
Would it make sense to mine BTC with it?
SXML (the scheme tooling around a certain form of s-expression XML) is by far my most favourite way of working with XML.
Short answer no, longer answer, LPGL is generally fine its a library license intended to enable usage, where only direct modifications to the underlying library need to be conveyed (triggered on distribution). Its not the same as GPL, AGPL where distribution are considered via aggregate work or access vectors respectively. IANAL, but I’ve spent plenty of time educating them ;-)
You realized his 501c3 gives back less than 1% back to the country that birthed, and coddled him.

As to his contribution to computing--I have no idea other than an added cost (practically a tax) on every PC I bought.
2020/21 Global chip shortage
After using them for simple domain name registration, I can't imagine using them for something more complex, like hosting.

The UI is so bad that just figuring out how the contact info they collect in multiple places is used is near-impossible.
A good base to develop an RTOS[0] for example with RTKernel[1] on some hardware.

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS/D...

[1] http://www.on-time.com/rtkernel-dos.htm
Australian Army Has Started Transferring Covid Positive to Concentration Camps
What the fuck is going on in Australia? This is entirely fucked up.
Crowdfunding's Secret Enemy Is PayPal
Is it quieter? Serious question.
Thanks, interesting counter-points.

I agree that it's unlike the actual Cold War in several important ways:

- The two sides aren't engaging each other via proxy wars, e.g. Vietnam.

- The two sides haven't formed clear multi-national alliances, i.e. NATO vs. Warsaw.

Things that do strike me as similarities:

- Like the USSR, China's mood appears expansionistic. E.g., South China Sea, Taiwan, and (arguably?) Tibet.

- Like the USSR, Russia also seems expansionstic. E.g., Georgia and (maybe) Ukraine.

- Maybe less relevant, but China and Russia are to some extent authoritarian (removal of presidential term limits) and seemingly use state-sanctioned violence to suppress political opposition. So as with the Cold War, there's some degree of ideological divide between the two sides.
Even before 2012, the OpenGL version included in MacOS was always like 4-5 years old.

I don't think Nvidia had anything to do with that.
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

Incredible work for those interested in "how we know"
This is.. a weird spin. Kodak is a great long-term success story. Businesses aren't forever.

If Kodak was in the "business of capturing memories", what would they have done differently?
I think you are just missing the backstory. Of course if you are approaching what Facebook does with naivety you end up sounding.. naive.

The whole reason this report was put out by Facebook in the first place is because people used their own tool Crowdtangle to point out how the most popular pages of all were pushing political and medical misinformation to billions and were run by foreign spam mills. So they gutted Crowdtangle and published this report cleansed of any reference to "questionable" pages. But as a previous submission [1] showed, the numbers they state don't add up. And as this submission shows, if you dig into what Facebook wants to tell you is popular, it's all still the most garbage, devoid of value scam content - and it is their algorithm that is promoting it above all.

1: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2021/08/18/facebooks-new-transpar...
Remarkable2 Hacks
These "flash robs" have been a thing (in the US, at least) since at least 2011: https://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142780596/flash-robs-worry-re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rob
Most neighborhoods in SF have very little crime and homeless. Look at the Sunset and Richmond districts, Seacliff, Presidio Heights, Marina and Pac Heights (some of these might/will be prohibitively expensive because they're extremely nice), Forest Hill, Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Glen Park, Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, Parkside, Sunnyside and Portola if you don't mind being a little further south.

Basically just avoid SoMA, Civic Center, Financial District, Tenderloin, and any immediate surrounding areas. I also avoid the Mission but some people like it.
Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun
I am not sure if this is related.

It isn't the access of information ( Internet or not ) that is a problem. It is the access to "answer" that is the problem. Or more precisely access to answer without explanation why this is an answer. People no longer "think" if this answer is correct or not ( misinformation ), but presume it to be true. And then they built up a mental model using that information. Which leads to all sort of wrong conclusion. In the old days access to information ( library ) tends to be much better because quality of information is likely millions times higher.

This leads to "way" less thinking. And "thinking", the process to digest information is critical to gain knowledge. The more access you have to answers, the less thinking you have to do. Which ends in a negative feedback loop.

I have been teaching kids these days and making this point extremely clear. It is not the answer that matters, it is how you arrive at the answer that is the most important. Especially in the day of Google. But generally speaking they do ask a hell of a lot "why" :) Part of the joy of working with kids.
They didn't really improve the M1 with the Pro and Max chips though. They really just added more cores to the SIP, which doesn't necessarily improve performance so much as it makes more performance available.
I found this to be one of the most annoying features ever implemented in Google Maps. I was traveling across Colorado last summer and the persistent, annoying, inaccurate, irrelevant, and useless wildfire alerts made us switch to Apple maps, which has a whole slew of legit complaints and missing features. There wasn't a single scenario where this provided any value and only stood to make get vital information harder. To make things worse, like most things from Silicon Valley, there was no way to opt out, as ego reigns supreme.
Along similar lines, from my skim of the README, it also seems like deallocated things are not actually released until the return from the nearest autorelease block, which is not exactly convenient for Rust (and it's not properly safe either without at least an extra retain). I always imagined that when you call through Swift it's a more native memory management interface, but perhaps it's also the same Obj-C layer under the hood.
Why would it happen if Metal is meant to support optimal performance on Apple hardware?

I say that bearing in mind we're talking about battery powered hardware, which can not spend any extra cpu cycles on anything, period, without being berated in the press for short battery life compared to some competitor.
I have a multiplayer game client using Svelte for the UI [1]. Svelte Cubed looks awesome for this, but...

Is declarative easier to reason about for complex projects, or does it become necessary to go imperative? I can imagine the advantage of imperative is being able to use normal engineering practices, but this isn't something I've thought about before.

Are there examples where a declarative approach was phased out as complexity grew? The only example I can think of is when a company I worked for tried to use Flex (declarative Flash), which we later converted into pure ActionScript for larger projects.

1: https://github.com/Suncapped/babs
Because laziness, frankly. I'm just too jaded to care about optimizing the toolchain anymore, when more often than not it results in 30% more performance, one cool new feature, and ten new bugs.

If you enjoy that sort of tinkering, more power to you... you're probably a better dev & devops person than I am.
The reporting on this study has been terrible. It was a really small study of female teenage Instagram users who reported having various problems. Of them, 13% blamed Instagram for making things worse, which was actually less than the number that said Instagram made things better. And this is all based on self-reported data anyway, so none of us should be taking it very seriously.
Are lithium batteries becoming cheaper than lead batteries?

I was under the impression that lead was the leader for fixed installations (like solar) because weight isn't much of an issue if it doesn't have to move.

Is there a different reason why lithium is preferable to lead for these sorts of applications?
I think of it as my own RAM. Search used to be quite slow and you had to have knowledge stored in your RAM to be proficient. Memory was valued but you also had to deal with human limitations.

Fast forward to today and search can be done quite a bit faster. And your internal RAM effectively multiplied or perhaps your storage (SSD) became faster and bigger. In that sense what’s become more valuable is not necessarily how much information you can physically retain in your brain/memory but how FAST and EFFECTIVELY you can look up things.
Ask HN: How to Slow Things Down?
Do you feel like time is flying fast for you? I do a lot of stuff through the day, atleast I think so but at the end when I think I see I have achieved nothing. How to slow things down?
If the implication is that POWER is somehow new, I first used it when it was RS/6000 and introduced FMA. There was subsequently a rather large installation at my lab. Firefox without the JIT is only a problem with the "modern" web, and I default to turning off Javascript anyway, and I guess someone uses it to make it worth porting.
Deer suffering makes you laugh?
"Oh, and check it out: I'm a bloody genius now! Estás usando este software de traducción in forma incorrecta. Por favor, consultar el manual. I... don't even know what I just said, but I can find out!" --Wheatley, Portal 2
i get that.

my consideration list was:

- asknoam.com
- askchomsky.com
- digitalnoam.com
- digitalchomsky.com
- asknoamchomsky.com
- whatwouldchomskysay.com

i figured, the name only matters if it's good -- that is, if people use it and find it useful. and if that happens, and the name sucks, we'll just change the name.
Yes.

Which means it works for 99% of employees in tech and most other sectors and the other 1% are easily spotted.
Us greybeards have been around long enough to experience several of these bad/evil domain registrars. One common path I see has been:

Network Solutions -> GoDaddy -> Namecheap -> Google Domains OR CloudFlare Domains

Seriously, if anyone is still using Netsol or Godaddy, there are much better alternatives, and it's very easy to make the transition- I've helped a good handful of friends.
The big problem with fingerprint is you may void your 5th amendment right
I would love something like the old SK-6000 keyboard ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/264750292234 ), maybe without the numpad, but with all other keys, and possibly mechanical (silent) switches.

It seems that nowadays we get either extremely peculiar split keyboards (without F-Keys, PgUp/PgDown) or something just doesn't feel right (PgUp/PgDown keys aligned vertically instead of horizontally, cursor keys with strange alignments and positioning, et cetera). I think that a "normal keyboard just with a certain angle in the middle" would be simple enough and great.
To be fair, I think just about everyone that has done any OpenGL programming absolutely hates it. It uses ancient paradigms that are confusing for neophytes and completely out of sync with modern programming practices. It's also essentially impossible to do multithreaded rendering.
That sounds like low-key elitism to support your point.

My point is that arxiv papers (like most papers) come with an abstract to set the stage and have references to other papers cited therein.
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/a-psychiatrist...
Lots of audio / music production software is on sale.
Kredis: Higher-level data structures built on Redis
The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
It would enough if facebook would not favour misinformation. The core of the problem is ranking post to maximize profit. Misinformation is only dangerous due to its amplification.
The same mod team member is strongly implying elsewhere that such a potential violation did occur:

>burntsushi ripgrep · rust 31 points 2 hours ago

>If we had an answer to your implied question it will necessarily reveal things (via obvious logical inferences) that we carefully avoided revealing in our statement.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...
I liked a lot of the ideas in PHM. I found the protagonist insufferable throughout, though. Perhaps Weir was going for a more flawed character after Watney? (Never read Artemis, so I can't comment there.)

I still think it's a good book, and well worth the read. But man did that character grate on my nerves.
Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
I'm looking to build a new app with a frontend, rest API, and server-side rendering. I'd prefer a single batteried framework supporting all of these out of the box.

It's been a while since I can develop from a clean slate and I was hoping web dev in 2021 would be much simpler than what I am used to. However, I spent this entire morning looking at modern frameworks (not going to name them to avoid turning this into a different kind of discussion) and I'm kinda disappointed. They all look complicated and require lots of configs and plumbing to get started.

Any stack/framework that you find simple and joyful to develop with?
Which is why intellectual property rights are time-limited? One can make a strong argument those rights are protected for _too much_ time, and the length of that restriction can be attributed to regulatory capture. But the remedy is shorter copyright terms and patent exclusivity periods, or higher costs to maintain protections (like property taxes on real property), not abolition of intellectual property as a concept.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Cost
Now I gotta somehow try that with a gamepad. Driving simulation, coming to your desktop. Traverse the lands of hyperlinks, deliver files from window to window.
>Seems like a strange place to vent arguments for an unrelated discussion, then.

Sort of. But all the examples I gave were mainstream comments on HN. And in many cases I would argue they are the only allowed views on HN judging from downvotes. ( Along with the rest of the internet )
My sincere hope is that this is what is blocking support for parallels/M1 Mac VMs.

Insider builds are already giving excellent performance in VM on last year’s M1. Proper licensing would open up possibilities for businesses and people who need the rare Windows app to make the jump.
MacOS ended on OpenGL 4.1, which was formally spec'd in 2010 but wasn't widely-implemented until 2011 and later (because there's implementation time after the spec is produced).

This means that around 2012, Apple would have been most likely working on OpenGL 4.2 (possibly with NVIDIA, and maybe even with NVIDIA's source code) but that's the year their relationship soured. However, depending on the source you read, there are reports their relationship was souring as early as 2009.
I might be wrong but it looks like neither of those are classified as a Lithium Metal Battery and are still a form of Lithium Ion.

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

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-titanate_battery

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

and here's an article about using pure lithium metal as the anode

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/11/lithium-metal-hybrid-ba...

You seem to be well informed, is this just hype?
I’m not trying to achieve zen. If I was I’d advise quitting tech, and going to a monastery.

Becoming a zen master is definitely a PC move. It’s just not mine (or isn’t currently, losing all my stuff and sleeping on a sleeping bag definitely raised my awareness of how irrelevant stuff is)

Teams generally like me, I’m always pushing boundaries and always willing to provide paperwork for them to CYA and blame it on me should it blow up.
But there absolutely are clinical trials on humans. It's just the humans generally have to volunteer.
It's not just about optimizing Unicode access. It's also because system libraries on many common platforms (Windows, macOS) use UTF-16, so if you always store in UTF-8 internally, you have to convert back and forth every time you cross that boundary.
> They've already built or bought gigantic office buildings and campuses across the US, so what do they do with them? Turn them into warehouses? Just let them sit at <50% capacity?

Convert them back from open spaces to proper offices? This would make them close to 100% capacity and also reward people who are willing to work in person.
Why are the vast majority of Rust devs furries?

Showcasing your sexual kinks wrt a project that has nothing to do with sex is pretty off-putting to begin with but the fact that most furries are also pedophiles makes it insane that any self-respecting company wants to be associated with Rust.
A static password is fine if you have a good strength and rate limiting or other ways to prevent brute forcing
Ignore strategies and tactics for the future. Employ techniques in the present...
The React version is react-three-fiber which is also a cool project.

- https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

- https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp...
Abstract quantities, even positive integers, don't exist in reality. Heck, even "objects" don't really exist, because "boundaries between things" don't concretely exist except in our perception and imagination.

If there is any primal, axiomatic concept, it is "object"/"thing". From object you can derive quantity (many objects), from quantity you can derive quality (two objects are different), and so on and so forth.
Show HN: Piece – Floating note-taking app for your temporary thoughts
The poster gains by getting a large amount of interaction with their page, which is certainly a ranking factor for future posts. e.g. SocialMediaCompany will say "This new post by Poster will get higher placement because their previous posts were enjoyed (interacted with) by many people, and therefore Poster must be producing good content."
There's also WebGPU. wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) is really nice.