skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. The Surface line, which came out in 2012 and has been continuously refined each year after, are some really beautiful, inventive, and highly technical pieces of hardware. The hinge on the Surface Book especially generated a bit of buzz when it came out, and the rest of their lineup is quite solid.

To say this also ignores the XBox and its controller, which often trades places with the modern PlayStation controllers for what is considered best-in-class.

Microsoft has plenty of hardware design capabilities.
"I'd be curious what you're working on, or if you have any links that are shareable."

Not yet, but soon I publish. Maybe some screenshots I could do till then. From what you wrote above, it sounds like it might interest you, though. Basically, I compile code into flow graphs and blocks, that are navigable with mouse/keyboard - and every element can be edited visually, but also as code. So you still code as you are used to - but also get the visualisations automatically for free. It works, but only with simple code.
> But if you could eliminate fossil fuel burning and use processes like this to reduce the amount of CO2 already emitted (a big "if" because you have to concentrate it somehow) it could be useful.

It could be useful if we 'just' greatly reduce fossil fuel burning for electricity, even if we don't eliminate it and even if we still use fossil fuels for other things.
Apple Cracked the Indian Market
Looks like this was partly successful against Sony but it took six years in court and people didn't get the whole price back when they removed Linux support from the PS3:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-r...

Litigation is expensive, pretty much the only way it can be done in the US is as a class action where the number of people ripped off is large.
I like your taxonomy. But just to clarify: is the cruise control on my car "artificial intelligence?" Because a lot of dumb 15-year-old teenagers don't know they have to increase power while going up a hill, while my cruise control algorithm does.
Any good source to learn what M-Pesa is ?
What would a car-free Berlin look like?
> Actions can and should be banned depending on their motivations

Really? That requires mind reading.

Do you mean "...depending on their effects"?
Central business district neighborhoods are generally wealthy and they tend to have some of the highest property crime rates outside of low-income neighborhoods. And it’s not because CBD’s are poor. Professional criminals understand it’s most profitable to steal where the money is.
It’ll still be a while. Xbox still is in such a distant spot everywhere outside America. Europe and rest of Asia for sure. I’m not considering Japan in this. It’s fine that Xbox will never sell there. I think you’re right they’ll climb back. It’s just such an uphill battle.

Edit: Hah okay yeah the PS3 and hubris…does mean things could change pretty quickly and world wide (outside Japan and maybe a few other East Asian countries), Xbox could be neck and neck if not winning out again. I’d rather not have either win out. Sega was never going to survive, we don’t have another gaming console company in sight unless Steam Deck counts, so the relative parity of Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox is nice. Throw in Valve for now too.

Things can change so who knows. I don’t enjoy casual mobile games. I do enjoy the Quest 2. I can only imagine how great VR gaming will be by the end of this decade. Then we have Roblox, a single game [platform], valued at roughly the same price as Activision without the acquisition margin.
If energy efficient CO2 to carbon conversion was possible, wouldn't we just use it for energy production instead of carbon capture?
Winter Olympics: Athletes advised to use burner phones in Beijing
I'm morbidly curious to see if there will be any footage of the big eruption. Everything I've seen so far appears to be from the previous eruptions in Dec and Jan. I'm sure many of them aren't visible but lightining detectors counted 5-6k strikes per minute for the first few minutes. ~190k total. I can't imagine.
but the tonga explosion doesn't release radioactive fallout - just ash fallout which disappear after a "while".

So nuclear weapons are still worse.
Oh, that picture brings back memories...
I'm not sure why we need to quantify the harm, but even if we did, how does that harm change? Why is it illegal to lie about an individual but it is legal to make that exact same lie about the group in which that individual belongs? Wouldn't you be equally harmed if I said "ForgotMyPwOops drinks the blood of babies" compared to if I said "Everyone of ForgotMyPwOops's ethnic group drinks the blood of babies"?

Also we could just limit this to protected groups as they are currently defined for discrimination. That solves your problem with anti-war speech or generic political views.
> Do you care to back up that assertion with some reasoning?

I already did.

> Narrowly focusing on one specific issue is naive. the US doesn't exist in a single-issue bubble, it exists in a complex web of political and practical (not to mention entirely unpredictable) needs which all have to be balanced simultaneously. If you want to pretend legislators can snap their fingers and make any individual issue "just happen" that's fine, but it's not reflective of reality on any level. You will continue to be confused and disappointed if you decide to live that way.

What's more interesting is why you'd claim I hadn't, when I very clearly did.

It's almost like you're not even reading what I'm writing...
That's bullshit. Name it something accurate. Don't give it a name that is an outright lie and then correct yourself in the fine print.
You're spot-on, the bootstrapping is exactly why the outage took so long to recover: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileo-accident/
Show HN: Reverse SSH – Multiplexed Reverse Shell Catcher That Uses SSH
Maybe, but how do you get the C# programmers to give up their intellectual capital and switch to Java, or the reverse? If two languages are similar, it makes sense to learn only one of them thoroughly, but that makes it difficult for you to compare them objectively.
And that might take centuries to do, so we'll probably end up doing some kind of geo-engineering to interrupt the buildup of heat to give us time to extract the carbon.
Pete actually was a great pick. And he was on paternity leave for two months.
If you like the taste but don't want the negative parts, or if you don't want alcohol but want to feel "included" ( e.g. muslims, recovering alcoholics or just people who don't like getting "buzzed").
Trying to crowdfunding my startup on Indigogo, failing. Any advice welcome
Other commenters are brushing this advice aside on the grounds that it’s isn’t universally applicable. But, if we accept that it requires some discernment, I think it’s pretty sound, particularly in cases where it’s important to be authoritative.

I’m reminded of the English crown’s unofficial motto: “don’t complain; don’t explain”.
largest for bomber delivery? I would think that ICBM delivered payloads would be higher. did a quick search, but wiki's article only gave numbers on range distances. I didn't see any megaton ratings in the time willing to spend on it.

edit: i realize now that the numbers floating around in cavity between my ears was in kilotons. that's why the megaton numbers seemd low to me.
the study of computer science is as much about computers as the study of astronomy is about telescopes.

computers (and telescopes) are one of the available tools used to do the studying; not themselves the subject of study.
I've heard some crazy things about myself over the years, but this might just take the cake! As I have said before[0], Oracle gave me many, many reasons to leave -- none of which had anything to do with the way they were dealing with me personally. If you don't mind me asking (and just because I'm so mesmerized that someone could come away with something so wildly wrong): where did you get this notion?! Did someone tell you this? Did you come up with it on your own?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s
> Modern AAA franchises do not innovate. They are just shinier.

> There's still artistic and interesting things being created, just not by AAA studios :)

I guess that's my point and I didn't write it very well. AAA publishing/production has become a low-risk money-machine that feeds a very large audience occasionally surprising but increasingly bland content, while making small formulaic incremental changes year-on-year e.g. next-gen textures, bigger maps, more multiplayer servers and modes. Unfortunately a large proportion of players are happy with just that model as evidenced by the revenue derived from it.
I'm a mechanical engineer, not software, but a few years back I was feeling pretty burnt out from a high stress job so I took a much easier though less fulfilling gig with the plan to get back to interesting stuff when I'd recovered from the burnout. It didn't work out great. Yeah the job was a lot less stressful and I liked my new coworkers, but job difficulty was only one factor in my burnout and it took me a lot longer to recover than I'd expected, and meanwhile there were new sources of stress. My pay wasn't bad for what I was doing but it was still objectively low compared to what I needed to maintain my standard of living and I definitely wasn't padding my saving account. A lot of stress inducing parts of the job like the commute don't scale with pay; I could put up with things like this when I was making good money and working on interesting projects, but I don't want to sit in traffic for an hour just to sit in an office and be bored. Even though the stakes were lower, I was still heavily involved in a lot of projects and my coworkers depended on me, so even after I was ready to go back into "real" engineering, I still dragged my feat for a while as it never really felt like the right time. Looking back on it, I'd much rather have just taken 6 months off from working entirely and either worked on personal projects or travelled than wind up spending about 3 years spinning my wheels with little to show for it.
Multiple such blasts, potentially.
D.B. Cooper Mystery Solved?
Or, pessimistically, we’ll do the geo-engineering step without ever reigning in the new emissions and call it done.
those huge multi-decile megaton bombs are probably less useful than the same amount of materials made into many more smaller bombs.

Megaton bombs are really only useful in bombing civilian targets tbh. Military targets tend to be small, and spread out over a large area, and smaller bombs makes more sense for those targets.
just to point out, the Araucaria Araucana gives "piñón" (a type of pine nut, but not the same). they can be made into flour or be eaten after boiling.
Human computers were automated by computers and created the programming jobs. But we have many more of those than ever and it seems to increase even more.

There are types of jobs that don’t necessarily get reduced even though productivity is increased.

For example the number of military soldiers is mostly a political decision. Managers, lawyers and other bureaucrats are increasing in numbers and power despite having better educated workers and more sophisticated tools.

The economic and political games we play are not aligning with reducing work time to pre industrial levels. Technological progress cannot be thought of as independent of societal factors.
At one point, in my home land (Aotearoa) it was considered perfectly reasonable by the majority to bring teams of white South Africans into the country to play games. They were whit South Africans because they would not allow black South Africans in their teams.

The minority here fought long and hard to stop it, lost the battle (the team came and played their games against our local teams) but now are recognised as heros.

No. It is not the majority who decides what is right and wrong.
> We need state power and willingness to forcibly commit heroin/meth addicts and mentally deranged people to institutions.

No so fast Hitler Jr.
You think he's not busy? There are simply more pressing matters. The clogged up ports, the trucking shortage, the fact that everything is understaffed due to omicron. Not to mention administering hundreds of billions in new grants for infrastructure projects.
Suggestion 1: ask your 399 hobbyist friends what they are going to do with it
We could do that, but that would hide the big picture. As Phil himself said, it's not yet profitable. It's a loss leader. True cost of ownership!
If we manage to not kill ourselves, we will ultimately advance into a type 2 civ (and higher), and harnessing enormous amounts of destructive energy for useful work will probably be par for the course.
It cut transcontinental mail and news delivery from months to days. Regardless of its longevity it revolutionized American communications the the point that investing in the telegraph became a no-brainer.

A business startup changing the paradigm despite not being a long-term viable operation is a long tradition.
it has always been on the table.
People can be subject to pre-trial detention. Violent offenders are sometimes denied bail, entirely, if they are determined to be a a safety threat to the public. There exists precedence to detain people prior to trial. If the situation gets to the point where crime becomes de-facto legal then this precedent should be used to curb repeat offenses.

Would it hold up to constitutional scrutiny? Who knows. But interpretations of the Constitution change. A hundred years ago people would probably be baffled that the Constitution was used to justify gay marriage and abortion - interpretations change and adapt to new ideals and values. As people say "the Constitution is not a suicide pact."
I've done it on and off. Lower paid jobs are often highly correlated with bad jobs though. The people are more toxic, lazier, less intelligent. It can end up more stressful, because you're used to doing things faster and more efficiently, and then just end up with people problems.

FAANG is probably less likely to face this, but if it's a step down from where you are, there's probably reasons why it's that way.

You're also going to deal with shittier code. It doesn't matter how good you are; shitty code hurts. A problem with smarter companies is they have more educated people who don't know what they're doing. Optimizing underengineered code is easy. It's harder to merge overengineered code - often new programming languages, compilers, code being on the wrong abstraction layer. Often people argue that overengineered code is just merging, but it's usually merging things that are built in such a tightly coupled way that it can't be merged. Long build times are a frequent side effect too.

Also don't stick around too long. When I go in, there's some admiration and even a little skepticism why I chose to join. After a few months, you get treated as just another person on that rank, even if you were CTO-tier. I ended up staying longer than I should have because the engineering was fun and there was some desire to prove that I wasn't there for just a vacation.

I did manage to sit around and learn a lot more, but it's slower than learning from a better group. I spent so much time putting out fires that there was rarely ever any time to really learn something. It didn't exactly hurt my career, though, just gave me more drive not to do it again.
If they keep buying stuff, they're not gonna make any money. It is thus a loss leader, as Phil indicated.
Somebody edited an existing letter to make this, for whatever reason.
It worked fine till omicron. It was totally fine and kicked delta ass. But there are limits how much you could beat out of the immune system with the same vaccine. It is completely surprising we even got this far but delta was not that much different virus, just had higher viral load. Omicron is totally different https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/the-case-fo...

The fact that we can limits its transmission and reduce illness is a gift but really expecting current vaccines to do more is just too greedy.
Private religious organisation != the state of Israel.

While we are on the subject, did you know that it's illegal for an Arab in the self-governed parts of West Bank to sell land to a Jew? And that the official penalty for doing so is death?

Also, take a look at the awful governments in West Bank and Gaza and how they abuse their citizens. You don't see hordes of opressed Israeli Arabs fleeing to the Gaza Strip do you?
maybe you're talking about account issues, but I find that the battle.net launcher has been pretty great.
Not if it is indexed to inflation...eventually a steady state will be reached.
Nice to see this has an advertised Nix build!

I hope to return to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366 at some point, so all arches can be built similarly!
Crime is not the same as morality. A starving, homeless resident stealing a sandwich from the corner store might be theft. But I think most people wouldn’t say that that particular theft was immoral.

Of course the people stealing from the railroad aren’t necessarily pilfering items to meet an immediate human need. But according to reporting this weekend from the LA Times, some of the thieves do indeed live in camps near the railroad. And who knows why they’re stealing — maybe one needs cash for insulin and another is fueling a drug addiction.

In either case (and this is a hot take) I’d still argue these acts aren’t necessarily immoral. Addiction is a powerful force, perhaps more so than urges of hunger and thirst. And of course no one wants to die of uncontrolled diabetes!
Hey, this seems really nice.

I've been using Obsidian to keep my Japanese dictionary clip, so I did a quick test.

The import feature is working well, the .md renders perfectly.

But somehow, pasting is not working normally:

- Pasting into empty note is not working at all.

- If I type anything, then select it then paste, I can paste my clipboard into it, but urls are missing.

This is what I paste: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/nuhavenuge.md

BTW, I'm wondering how well does the graph view performs when there are, like, 1000+ notes?
Great comment.

Seems tech people love them some memorizing. Live a memorable moment, load it into an Anki deck, then review memorable moments for the remainder of your days. Do one last review right before you check out.
We do this with plenty of crimes. Murdering your spouse to collect their life insurance policy is punished harsher than murdering your spouse after you come home to find them having an affair. Motivations and intent matter.
I'd also say a part of this I think is the end result of cash bail reform initiatives from 3 years ago. And the moving fast and break things when it comes to removing legacy code/public policy and rewriting from scratch.

This Vox video is probably the type of thought piece that spurned the populist cash bail reform initiatives that California embarked on 3 years ago.

Why fixing the US bail system is tricky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mhwDSHKEyM

I think the challenging part is that if you just listen to the Vox which provides no rebuttal to itself, it all seems logical?

But that's because it doesn't present the alternate reality that there do exist actual bad actors in real life who can thrive in causing societal level nuisances when there is a revolving door which we are seeing playing out right now.
Back to the Future: Autonomous Driving in 1995
Why would you count Bethesda? I don’t understand the rationale. It isn’t even like they are the same revenue stream.

The article you linked does not say anything while adding up its word count. It’s common knowledge gaming companies say consoles never make a profit (except Nintendo). Game Pass is a fledgling growing SaaS. Of course sustainable is the right term. Nothing News worthy.
Monday Microcontroller: Adafruit Clue
It had been erupting since December, including an explosive one two days earlier (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/459572/underwater-volcano...) that prompted a tsunami alert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunga_Tonga#December_2021%E2%8...
My "10x" thing was designing efficient architecture, to the point the code was little different to pseudocode. I could work solo on jobs that need 4 or more people on other teams. At some point, expectations went up, and I was then the lead FE developer and UI/UX designer at no extra salary.

But when I join different teams or different codebases, I go back down to 1x status or so.
Almost all volcanoes erupt because sea water hits magma.
At this scale, it looks like it.

I haven’t been able to find any examples that compare to this one, but I admit that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I am not certain, but I think they can’t. I think those critical functions cannot have foreign owners or officers if they want to sell to the government.
An additionnal improbability is, from all the millions of patents, why one from MODERNA ?
But they would decay, unless something is done to sequester enough of the wood, and release much of it back into atmosphere, right?
Yes - this. Building my first web site (we didn't call them apps back then) and wrangling with Apache and OpenSSL to enable encryption was ... not fun.
The really big weapons come from an era when delivery systems were really inaccurate and so you'd drop an absurdly big explosion somewhere near your target. Once you can hit your target reliably you go with a smaller explosion that's still sufficient to destroy it when dropped on top of it and you stick multiple independent warheads on the same missile.
That is not a fundamental question. Everybody agrees that people should be generally allowed to take risks. However, we also constrain those risks in all sorts of ways so that we can run a reasonably safe and effective society. The eternal questions are which risks lead to generally positive-sum activity and which tend to be dangerously opaque, negative-sum, or with strong negative externalities. You can see this is almost any serious activity. Not just investment. Think of food, or transport, or construction.
lol welcome to capitalism 101. you are a servant paid to do work no one else wants to do. your feeling is called alienation.

> I love to start with that blank canvas and through sheer will and dexterity forming it into something beautiful.

I have built many beautiful tools for clients, but there is extreme alienation when no one uses it, when you find out it's just a marketing gimmick.

love/passion is for projects you own.
Thanks! The article is open source, so feel free to submit a change directly: https://github.com/bcherny/bcherny.github.io/edit/main/_post...
Honestly, this "insurance will cover it" rationalision is something I saw directed at the looting that happened in the protests /riots last(?) year. It feels to be that a suitable chunk of people don't understand how insurance works, instead treating it like a magic money bin that pays out when bad things happen.
MzScheme hasn't be a name for Racket for at a decade+. Maybe the earliest Uncharteds? Racket now uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Scheme which vaguely rhymes but there's no relation.
One option is to never buy hardware where you haven't installed the OS/software yourself and therefore have control over updates. This is kind of limiting though since lots of hardware doesn't support installing your own OS and Linux/BSD/etc don't support various hardware.
Huh, thanks for the heads-up.

IIRC, when I settled on the 25s, they were a slightly better price/GB than the 100s. Maybe that's no longer true (or possibly never was).
Most desks have enough dust in certain areas or objects on them that you cannot see all the way across without an elevated vantage point.
1 - You haven't even checked the sequences, HIV doesn't have this exact sequence. The 2015 moderna patent does.
I call this automating feeding coal into a dumpster fire.

"Broken process vs broken execution?" is one of the first questions everyone should keep in mind during automation discovery. But it's (usually) a nuanced call.