skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about this. SSD leads to impressively fast boot/early load times, and it might help if you have to run workloads that stress both RAM and I/O, but other than that it doesn't really matter if you're running a proper OS. And you can put a swap file/partition on a spinning disk without worrying about endurance or having less space for files. So the performance argument goes both ways, and the extra storage space of spinning rust is very convenient.
For some two-way wireless protocols (like wifi) you have to take into account the guard interval, slot times and interframe spacing which are all values set in time (~1-50us). For long distance transmissions your speed-of-light limited signal propagation time can exceed these values.

In terms of size usually guard interval < slot size < inter-frame space. If propagation exceeds guard interval AND have a channel with lots of echo any communication will be difficult. If propagation exceeds slot timing then coordination between more than 2 devices will be different (high retries/low throughput). If propagation exceeds interframe spacing a two-way wifi connection will not be possible as both stations will think every frame timed out waiting for an ACK.

More info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_interval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_coordination_funct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Interframe_Space
> If you're a webdev or hipster programmer chasing the most lucrative Web3 gigs, sure, buying a Macbook is probably the kind of status symbol your peers will respect you for. At the end of the day though, they're all just tools with different uses. If you can use an ARM laptop for day-to-day work, then don't let anyone stop you from doing it.

That’s a bit reductive. Macs are solid native mobile dev machines as well, with a good number of even Android-only devs using them. Lots of dev houses in the US use them for backend work (including Docker, despite the performance penalty), and the FreeBSD devs have been known to use them too.
Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUT36YGOh8

It's the building top right: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/7716419dfc4ab383.png

Firefighters are almost there, looks like from the live stream, but there's still shooting towards the building going on, so they're waiting... and they've just turned around and went away from the camera.
> A good rule to live by is to ask "what would happen if everyone did X?"

This is an awful rule to live by. There are very few things in the world that _everyone_ would actually do.
If the people have national identity you cannot win. They have the time on their side, they can fight a guerilla war for generations.

Maybe China and India can win such wars with their huge populations that would allow them to completely alter the demographics of a country.
> Last year I splurged on a PinePhone (around AUD300 including dock and shipping) which I hope will last me for the next decade.

I’m admittedly a pessimist but I’d personally be quite shocked if that happened. I simply lack faith that a small company can make a phone form factor device that can last / survive with that kind of lifetime.

Building devices of this complexity that can actually last seems quite hard.

Happy to be proven wrong!
You just gave me an idea because I like ancient history. I'll pretend I'm a freshman and actually write an essay on one of those books. I was never able to do it and failed the class. I've always felt bad about it. Actually writing the essay might be a cathartic experience! I'm retired, I have the time.
How does quarkus compare to Spring Native?
It happens to me when I dream (during the night). Sometimes I read in my dream and the feeling is exactly the one you describe.
Hypothetically, genetic engineering seems to outperform in such a world.
Today on 1A (https://the1a.org/segments/russias-invasion-led-to-a-million...), Kurt Volker (U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations; former U.S. ambassador to NATO; former principal deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs) responded to a listener question about the US and allies providing an off ramp, a way to allow Putin to save face. Volker said that Putin has "dedicated himself to this military path." And that Putin is not interested in an off ramp. The question/answer can be found around 38:24.
Actually, this is horrifying to think about. I'll concede that JSON is the answer for most public HTTP APIs, but it's also used for tons of internal IPC. The energy that could be saved with more efficient alternatives is likely substantial.
> I enjoy working within the Chromium ecosystem

Curious what you mean by this. If you're talking about devtools, Firefox dev tools are also great, although there's nothing to say you couldn't use Firefox as a daily driver and pop open Chrome for developer work to avoid learning a new set of browser devtools.
And he has the wealth to keep stacking passports. He was born German.
Russian troops shelling nuclear power station
Except you also have to pickup all the other cards placed, as well, which could be a huge stack. Also, you still have to get rid of the cards you have, which you might not end up needing to place.

There is no perfect strategy in this game.
Exactly. All that energy and time and money to "cultivate" gifted individuals only for them to crawl into that black pit. And the irony is that this education only helps them make that choice with self-awareness of how absurd and culturally destructive it is. But it is where the rewards are, and so that's where they go.

To quote Colacho again "Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few." Then perhaps we might have some hope.
As an update, after ditching the project/build tooling setup that Nesper required, I got Nim working wonderfully (with Nesper's library itself as a dependency) within PlatformIO and ESP-IDF on an ESP32 :)

I even have hardware UART support and have a working SIM7000 modem connection going (though only with AT commands, not PPPoS yet, though I'm planning on that next).

Nim is the future of firmware development, of that I am sure.
At my current gig, we are doing TS development exclusively (frontend) and it's great. Lots of libraries come with types, the community has supplied many more.

With a little elbow grease you can set your backend to generate types for your api requests. This gives you a huge degree of certainty to develop against.
Emails from the Apple vs. Epic trial (2021)
I thank your English teachers too because your book is one of my favorite books and an example for me of excellent writing. You told a good story and to me that is the most important thing.
Yes, there is strategy in the game. But other players can counter strategy.

That is the whole point of a good game. Strategy, but no perfect strategy.
>This avenue of passing information appears to be closed for now

Google, it is your time.
My rights, including free speech, are not a contract. My rights were endowed by my creator.
> Like I said - you can ban none, some, or all Russian participants.

I can understand sanctions, they specifically target the country.
I can understand sanctions against individuals who are supporting Putin like the oligarchs.
I can understand cutting financial, business ties as they specifically target the country.

It starts to get difficult based on the criteria of nationality, there are a variety of reasons to ban people from Israel, Iran, Saudi, United States, and a bucket full of others. Many countries are involved in human rights abuses, military occupation, questionable politics etc. Should all their citizens suffer because of what their country's are involved in.

I applaud your stance, I don't discount it as being objective. But Alexander Grischuk, he is not Russia and we should think about the motives and reasons why such bans should be in place and just because their "homeland" is doing something doesn't mean they are. Imagine carte blanche banning people like Yeonmi Park from events because she is from North Korea.

Here's a bit of irony, Russian athletes are banned from competing in the Winter Paralympics which is based in a country know for it questionable human rights abuses and political stances including that against Taiwan and Hong Kong. It is a very difficult situation with Ukraine and I feel this fits into a situation where there are no correct answers.

There are reasons to ban then, but is it the right thing to do.
The author cites Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve (1994), but does not really address the elephant in the room: why are so few blacks in gifted programs and selective schools that admit based on IQ tests or other exams?

The standard deviation of IQ is 15, and a typical IQ threshold for a gifted program is 130, about 2 SD above the mean. Given that average IQs for whites and blacks in the U.S. are about 100 and 85, blacks will be quite under-represented in any merit-based admissions system. Similar white-black gaps are found in other tests such as SAT, ACT, and NAEP. Do we ignore that fact or give up on merit whenever it causes unequal outcomes?
> Interesting you say that since US has played a big role in crushing democracies here and there

There was no internet during these periods and the media was either complicit in omission or narrative (they were BAD democracies corrupted by the drug cartels!) so the outrage was limited. Again, this isn't some mystery to ponder. Tribalism is alive and well and the narratives do their job.

> Also what's happening there is not important just because "Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil."

I didn't say anything about importance. Please don't misquote me to push your agenda.
Thanks for the info. Would there likely be a downside to saying "if you want to use the precompiled packages, you need to be on macOS 11+ (but feel free to DIY if you're stuck on an older version)"?
A history of releasing projects where actual successful adoption of the product wasn't the real goal isn't the defense you think it is.
So no part of buddhism is about healthy re-integration into society? That seems troubling.
If Russia actually took Trump seriously as a smart adversary who could threaten their power they wouldn't have tried to put get him elected and tried again to keep him in power [0,1]. I don't believe Trump was a Russian agent per se, although it is odd how Trump's connections with Russian business (and potential to be compromised) didn't raise any eyebrows among the set still screaming about Hunter Biden. It's obvious Russia supported Trump for the same reason many Americans did - as a "bull in the china shop of the establishment."

Russia probably wouldn't have succeeded in sabotaging American politics or sewing so much discord via Trump just being himself if half the country didn't happen to also want to see the system burn, albeit to a different end (an alt-right, anti progressive populist revolution.)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

[1]https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977958302/intelligence-report...
Whenever I know I'm dealing with a large array of objects (and still want them to be user readable/editable) I typically choose to represent them in CSV format, sometimes with a special separation character.

Is there an advantage besides convenience where one would use JSON? JSON requires far more bytes per row to represent large arrays of objects.
Don't try to gaslight me that Oracle is some benevolent company and the BEA / etc product suite of Oracle was some grandiose idealistic movement of software.

IBM and Oracle have a history of acquiring companies to acquire customers.

The difference between the two is that Oracle acquires software so it can sue them. IBM just wants to sell hardware and licenses. Um, yeah, I'll take IBM.

Oracle of course jumped on Java. What was the alternative? IBM had DB/2 at the time. Microsoft had SQLServer. That's not some great vision or buy-in with the Java ecosystem, it was just economic calculation.

And why did Oracle acquire Java? Oh that's right, they only cared about suing google. There are numerous stories of Oracle asking Sun officials specifically about that potential avenue of litigation, almost to the exclusion of any technical merits or other value to the Java assets.

Oracle bundled Ask.com toolbar. End of story.

Google would have simply outsourced everything. Win win win.
If this holds true, this is not a good development at all. I hope no one gets too emotional now.

> That is, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in fact, has already begun a nuclear war, which the West was so afraid of. Now the latter should finally start to act.

This is not a valid statement and I would like to ask you to remove it.
I fear their incompetence almost more than their malevolence. This is dangerous, but they cannot be stopped. This situation will just keep escalating unfortunately.
You do realise that Grischuk is a Ukranian surname, don't you? As well as the fact that Grischuk's first wife was Ukranian and his current wife is of the half-Russian, half-Ukranian descent?
Go get the laws changed then, not sure what to tell you if you don’t agree that there are significant differences between the state and private business - free speech as defined by our constitution is rather specific. Complaining about it on the internet won’t change that.
I have had to support clients iOS apps and absolutely want nothing to do with the Apple eco system. We created dev accounts and bought a physical iPhone for the devs which we shared amongst everyon. An emulator would have been perfect in fact.
Well CSV only has one datatype: string. JSON has a few more.
While true, that isn't the point of the rule. The meaning is that _if_ everyone did what you do, what _would_ happen. The practi alities of that are irrelevant. It's really about asking yourself if your actions are sustainable or damaging by scaling them up.
Back in 2007 or so I wrote an AppleScript that would iterate through every email I had ever sent or received, find every properly formed email address, go to the Facebook website, and attempt to add that person as my friend.

At the time I was a publicist in the entertainment business so this was a lot of people. Was a fun way to kill an afternoon, and I still have about 5,000 “friends” on Facebook, many of whom I don’t know super well. So I’ve got that going for me.

AppleScript was cool.
People think theft is liberation, which is… a problematic notion. “Everybody should have rights to enjoy / read…”
Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
This is a well established philosophical concept referred as Kant universality laws. It is a good rule to live by. Makes it obvious that cutting in line is immoral because lines could not exist if everybody did it.
I also had the same problem (can't believe Chrome apparently doesn't have any UI solution for this natively), but reading your comment made me wonder if Vimium could be a solution to this. And yeah, pressing T and typing part of the title makes it much easier to select a tab when you have many. Only useful if you're already using Vimium or are ready to switch of course, but improves the usability of Brave a lot for me.
Mozilla and the EFF publish letter about the danger of Article 45.2
The variant of this game I have always played allows for playing multiple cards on your turn as part of a set, so 3 queens for example.

We also played with the general rule that you can do anything outside the rules and as long as you can get through your turn without anyone calling you out in it you're in the clear. Playing more cards than you call is a pretty common cheat and it's always pure chaos when it happens and gets called out.

It can be a real friendship stressor so you have to have the right group of players for it, but it's always fun sharing the stupid cheats that people pulled off afterwards.
If there's any reason armed UN/OSCE/NATO forces need to get envolved, there's nothing more important than this. At least closing off air space above all NPPs as a neutral power. (Note, I do realize that NATO intervention is not realistic, I unfortunately agree that it must be avoided to prevent a global war conflict escalation.)
Yes, this is a huge problem with the data for 2012 onwards. See: https://github.com/colin-scott/interactive_latencies/issues/....
Is there a layman explanation of what this about? Improved Digital focusing??
You're totally ignoring my point, though - bans and boycotts make sense. I fully agreed with that. Targeting you, specifically, even if you protested against the war, does not. You're pointing out the immense suffering of the Ukrainians, which I think everyone here agrees with, but then you're using it to avoid the question of why their suffering makes it appropriate to punish someone whose actions (speaking out against the war) are beneficial to them.

Also, it's not reasonable to compare the culpability of an American, who lives in a democracy and can choose to spend their time and effort protesting the country's leadership and trying to oust it in the next election, to someone living in a dictatorship who cannot reasonably do those things.
Nintendo have the right to protect their IP and revenue. They have made some iconic games and characters that I would argue are as culturely significant as anything made by Disney. I would like them to be able to keep funding creative people.

However their revenues almost entirely comes from the new and not the old. Games don't go into syndication and get tv reruns. They are kept alive by the emulation community and I would argue it builds support for Nintendo's IP rather than do them damage. I have a kid whose first exposure to Metroid was Metroid Dread which he loved. We have a Wii but it is struggling a bit and he is playing through the Prime trilogy on Dolphin. No question he is going to go nuts when Nintendo release Prime 4. Cheap marketing.

I have been tempted to rip our Switch games to run on Yuzu but to be honest the Switch (we have 3 in the house) is just an ideal platform for these games and playing on a PC is going to be a worse experience in almost every way. The story is very different with older platforms. These will be history soon without emulation.
It looks like that because an inaccurate projection from 2012 has been made by the tool. See https://github.com/colin-scott/interactive_latencies/issues/....
Do it right if you’re gonna do it and write it at midnight with an alarm set for 7am the next day.
If you're looking for something actually quite similar to those old games, try Prodeus. It's on PC Game Pass. And it's a blast.

The new Doom games are their own thing. And if I was going to recommend either Doom (2016) or Doom Eternal, it'd be the former. Doom Eternal's game design is a bit bloated.
Ability to install a free software distribution, side-load software, run a plethora of Linux apps through Termux, fix the screen if you happen to break it without the thing complaining about "non-genuine parts", build, run and distribute software for the device without needing to pay a third party for the privilege of doing so, hook the thing up to a keyboard and display to use it for real work, install a full firewall blocking outgoing as well as incoming traffic...

Oh wait, those are all things you can not do with those iOS devices. Since these happen to be things I do it seems that iPhone won't be myPhone. Also, why don't these friggin' iOS devices support Ogg/Vorbis? I just added a transcoding option to Spodcast [1] to allow those poor souls using such devices to follow Spotify-hosted podcasts through RSS. None of my devices had any problems with Ogg/Vorbis but it turns out iOS simply does not support it. VLC on iOS does as do some other apps but those are not podcast players. Bad Apple.

[1] https://github.com/Yetangitu/Spodcast
> It's as if someone posted "Here's how you get Netflix for free", and Netflix filed a DMCA request against it. You can't call Netflix the bad guy here. Likewise Nintendo isn't monopolizing an essential service, you can enjoy other content. You just don't have a right to enjoy theirs without paying the entry fee.

Actually, taking the DMCA and Youtube policies out of the conversation for a moment—what is the legality of something like this? It's not illegal to share instructions on how to make a bomb, right?
We're talking about ideals not legality, what is and isn't censorship.

It's legal in Russia to do what Putin is doing, that doesn't make it not censorship.

But yes, we're working on it, it starts with public discussion and communicating with our representatives, which I and others do.
Interesting, largest nuclear power plant in Europe and 4th largest in the world. You can see a lot of the cars alarms are going off, I wonder what set them off.
Surprisingly, in my case it worked first try. It needed a compatible wireless card being present though - I think the Wi-Fi MAC is also used as some kind of identifier in addition to the serial number alone.
>> I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example

I've seen people playing ping pong during work hours in the office. They even have tournaments sometimes.

The horror.
“Should emphasize there's a LOT of safeguards in place that make a radiation leak unlikely. Still, doesn't seem very wise.”

https://twitter.com/inteldoge/status/1499542139155398659?s=2...
A lot of people are pointing out flaws like the difficulty in screwing it in - although the original patent includes the use of a post-hole digger as a pilot hole. Nobody has mentioned the fact that - in the video at least - the deceased's head would be in the above-ground portion. Entering a cemetery would expose you to a large field of head-boxes. The idea of this on a hot day also concerns me: hermetically sealed is one thing, but steam pressure is pretty intense.

I propose an alteration: the unit be built with a large slot in the top, instead of the current capstan device. Then you could use a standard gravestone as a screwdriver...
It's very important to realize that this tool makes inaccurate projections from 2012 data. It is not at all accurate for 2020.

See: https://github.com/colin-scott/interactive_latencies/issues/...
iMessage is entirely internet-based so cellular, if present, is only used as a data connection and otherwise plays no role.
Or with a fully automated systematic harassment.

We’re not too far away from these weaponised AIs.
TikTok wins by offering better format and lack of crap of Facebook/Instagram. Somehow they managed to better than Snapchat... in serving short content

But it's not invincible. It's very trigger happy at banning people, causing people to migrate to Instagram and even a light resurgence on YouTube.
Isn’t this how the market works? You don’t own the game - you own the game on the platform, for as long as it lasts. This is the base rule for console games. You kinda know the deal when you buy it.
> The quality requirements of the Nintendo's storefront are ridiculously low. I've seen footage of the Switch WWE game and frankly it should never have been allowed into any store front

Doesn't even look that bad to me compared to what Sony accepts, ranging from "life of black tiger" to Cyberpunk 2077's PS4 release.
you need a design partner, which is like a paid pilot customer that will pay a salary but let you keep the IP. do that for a year and if you have something, team, capital and goto market will fall into place and even if you don’t you still have a functioning business.
This was basically the same variant I played. The rules core rules were simple and basically anything that wasn't covered by those rules was allowed. Any kind of trickery or sleight of hand to dump your cards was completely fair game.

Dropping more cards than you called was common, but even secretly putting cards on the pile even when it wasn't your turn was common, if your sleight of hand was good enough and misdirection was good enough.

If you got up to go to the bathroom you could be certain that the remain players all put half their hands in the pile and covered for each other.

Very, very fun game.