skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree. Not just iPhones either but the Mac too.

I have a Dell Latitude laptop with a 3rd gen Intel i5, 8GB RAM and a 500GB SATA SSD that runs Fedora (any other other Linux) perfectly as well as Windows 10 (and 11 even though it apparently doesn't meet the new requirements). Sadly a Mac from 2011 cannot run Big Sur. Sure it is slow for heavy, modern development but for a lot of things it is just fine (well except that 768p screen oof)

Even more annoying is how cut throat Apple are with removing old technologies. It is a small pain point for me that I cannot run Plants vs Zombies on my Mac anymore because it is a 32bit program and Apple removed 32bit support a couple of years ago.

I understand why Apple does it but I also dislike it a lot. No system is perfect but Apple go out of their way to make things harder imho. Even more so with how frustrating it is to virtualise macOS and get performance anywhere close to what we can get with Windows or Linux in a VM.

It is a sad fact that I don't look at macOS nor iOS as some kind of long term investment. I use them for what they are right now and nothing more. I ensure I am not dependent on Apple's systems and services. I use them because right now they give me the least hassle (they work well, have good app support, etc) but I would happily switch away in the blink of an eye to something else should it come along. I have no loyalty to Apple. I use them because they are convenient to me, the moment they no longer are I will move on.
Looking at

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries...

someone did volunteer to maintain cgi and cgitb.

But nonetheless those modules remained listed in the PEP.
Entire companies like Uber and DoorDash are built upon drivers being distracted by mobile devices while driving. As dysfunction and advertising proliferates apps more and combined with autonomous and software-driven vehicles, we're all going to be in for a wild ride. (unintentional pun)
From WP:

> SoundBite was developed and marketed by Sonitus Medical, Inc. The company filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, January 15, 2015,[1] as a result of the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' decision not to cover the device.[2]

:(
That's very cool, as I mentioned in another comment I also tried doing something similar!
Someone with an extensive education should be able to decide which information can be considered good. If not, then maybe we should stop testing memorization and focus on ability to solve problems using ALL tools available.
Melt: Backup and restore Ed25519 SSH keys with seed words
The Chinese Student Crisis
Swift 5.6 Released
> VR synthetic reality. [Already here and super fun and useful]

Is it though?
The simple counter example is how many people phone and drive when they were able to abstain during the test.
This is an interesting issue, and often a great example of using statistics to mislead. "Stop arbitrarily shooting people" is a tragic thing to have to ask a police force; any loss of life is tragic. But I find that many communications about the numbers involved to be somewhat manipulative. Chiefly, the numbers of people being shot (or choked or beaten to death or otherwise killed). A few sources put that number at around 1000 people per year in the US. Which is terrible [0]. However, filtering that data to just "unarmed" people reduces it to around 54 [1]. Filtering again by race shows 12 unarmed black men dead in 2019 by police killings. USA Today [2] reports that Mapping Police Violence records 25 such killings, but I couldn't find any way to filter their site by unarmed cases.

These are still tragedies, certainly. The police should not cause any innocent to fear for their life. But compare these numbers with the homicide rate in Seattle alone [3]. There were as many murders per year there as there as total unjustified police killings in the entire country. Much of which, historically, has been black-on-black violence. It is in the top 90th percentile for crime in the USA. Those numbers actually climbed to 53 and 40 in 2020 and 2021 respectively according to the report in the GP's article!

I am reminded of the polls going around, when Defund the Police was in full swing, that indicated that most people - even black people in high-crime areas who were most likely, statistically, to be shot - actually wanted greater police presence, not less. Because the issue with many high-crime areas is that when the police leave, violent crimes go up, not down. For illumination [4]: "In the end, the homicide rate in the CHAZ turned out to be 1,216 per 100,000—nearly 50 times greater than Chicago’s." Every victim there, let's not forget, was black.

edit: removed a duplication in sources.

[0]: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...

[2]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fac...

[3]: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Seattle-Washington.htm...

[4]: https://www.city-journal.org/end-of-chaz
If been in a clinic where after describing my symptoms the doctor opened the computer and typed them into a search engine. I asked her if she was googling it and she said "sort of". She started telling me about a search tool doctor's use which is much more professionally focused than Google (who diagnoses everyone with cancer) and I was very impressed both with her honesty and that this existed.

It's been a few years since so I don't remember if it was a windows app or a website but it did have a very 90s looking interface.
Well, America can set the dollar printer on a higher RPM and give relief, but not all countries around the globe are that irresponsible!
>The part that is missing is the personal responsibility.

Where is that missing? It is there today. The fact is that society bears the financial burden of someone spending a life in prison (and also the emotional/financial/physical burden of the person's actual crimes). You seem to be dismissing that to make an ideological stance.
D-H3 and H-B fusion release their energy in a form that can be extracted electromagnetically, with no detour through heat and turbines, so at least in principle could be cheaper to use than fission, unlike the D-T fusion that ITER etc. target.

There are projects working on these. They have much higher activation energy, so are harder to make happen -- for hydrogen-boron fusion, much, much harder. Helium-3 is scarce, effectively available only from decay of tritium, all of which has to be synthesized, then it needs to decay, with a half-life of 12 years.
I just wish there was a way to disable that integration. I have to go out of my way to avoid using it and go directly to the restaurant site to place the order.
We can fix this in decentralized manner, but we won't. Require signed application in front of notary. Lie to notary while presenting fake ID can bring real charges.

There will be a few edge cases (disabled), though after a few prosecutions the fraud will mostly stop.
Actual title: "How The “Uber Economy” Is Killing Innovation, Prosperity And Entrepreneurship"

This article isn't about disruption, this article is about the gig economy.
Were they alleged by anyone with a shred of credibility? Natural News is somewhere below the late, lamented Weekly World News in terms of being a news source you should take seriously.
Pentium Pro (Now Xeon?) probably put the pro adjective into high gear. Maybe it has predecessors in the OPE world.
I mean please tell me where to go on this phone to find them, and I will check right this second.
Proof of Self Care
It’s quite rare that a customer knows exactly what they need; often, if they do, they build it.

The wins happen when a customer knows what problems they have, and you can present a solution that solves them better than they could otherwise get elsewhere.

Otherwise, as you say, they will build it or buy it elsewhere.
This is very cool. I love this kind of stuff. I built a web player to view 360 streaming videos using VR: https://meshvue.com/, but it hasn't caught on.

If you think it might help, I'd be keen to chat.

(It works best on desktop, but it does work on the Quest too. But because the texture sizes the Quest supports are quite small, it's resolution is bad currently)
I'm pretty sure Microsoft is operating under the assumption that everyone who could quit Windows has done so already. Sadly most of the world lacks the technical knowledge (for Linux) or money (for Mac) to make a switch, and on the corporate side Windows is pretty much a mandate, so what can the end user even do?
They weren't exactly as small and subtle as a false tooth: https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sonitus.p... and http://rolandocabral.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/soundbit...
Amazing to think that this speaker, which has never and will never say literally anything other than "BEEP" and "WALK", in fact reaches out across the internet every day to fetch that message.

What a world we have built.
Hold on, they said in the announcement that some customers could see a price decrease. Do you mean to imply that Google used vague and imprecise language to hide substantial price increases? If so, color me shocked!
hard not to be flippant, but <10% of the market share going to MacOS does not make it a "serious" competitor, especially not in business where it's probably closer to ~5% if even that.
I wrote that in reference to "if I [grew up] homeless and poor". You're making a straw-man argument against two unrelated statements I wrote about different things.

"I grew up pretty privileged and never felt the need to steal things and steal them. However, I can easily determine that if I was homeless and poor I absolutely would have. There's no question. You do what you need to do to survive." I wasn't talking about Andre.
When was the last time someone’s life depended on you recalling the syntax for a two dimensional array within the next few seconds?

I think it’s OK to hold medical professionals to a higher standard.
If you guessed "programming" ...

I had one "normal" parent, in the sense of having a home and a stable job, living in a decent community. I was just persona-non-grata in that household by middle school age, as there were some issues with an abusive live-in-boyfriend of my mothers. So I had a stable schooling, and if I needed something like a TI-83 for school I would be furnished it. I wasn't truly destitute, but at the same time had an unstable living arrangement and frequently had to be used as some sort of sympathy bait in the second-hand bread line.

I befriended a student fiddling with a hex editor and a NES ROM in a typing class and that was a bridge into programming for me. Got into a mess of languages and systems (Java, PHP, Javascript, graphic design, etc.) Met some more classmates that were of good means, and of similar interests and so I just sort-of aped their bleeding-edge interests, whether it was PHP, Web 2.0 CSS / jQuery wizardry, or general systems administration.

Following high school, I landed a job out of high school as an intern programmer for $10 / hour on a 1099, getting some number of promotions and raises to $75K full-time with benefits with a little over two years. From there, I'm pretty much just any other programmer.

I told my father if he ever wanted to get his shit together, to reach out and we'd figure it out... but that has never happened. I have some contacts that through their daily lives end up keeping tabs on him, he still scrapes by living his itinerant life.
Absolutely. It's a world-wide epidemic. Even software driven vehicles introduce several new distractions into the process of driving.

The accident rate may change in other areas due to lesser driving habits, or better road markings, but the issues of distracted driving are beginning to show and it can't simply be fixed by speed cameras and tickets, it's something that needs to be addressed with mobile phone makers, car makers, and software companies.
As much as I prefer Google Maps's routing functionality, this is one thing that admittedly Apple Maps gets right in its UI; when you open it, there's a map, a search box, and my search history.

Google Maps used to be that, until PMs took over pushing random new features. No, Google, I did not open your maps app so I could see "what's new", and have no desire to do that. Even the search history is broken -- it now uses some inscrutable logic to decide whether or not a previous search is worthy of inclusion into the past searches list.
> maybe it is a strong hint to keep backwards compatibility in Python proper.

Or.. or, just consider that the community looked at the relevant trade offs and decided what it decided.

If someone wants an old built-in module they can use an old python version.
Oh interesting. I only saw their videos a few times a while ago and my Christian-radar def went off.
While I agree with this on principle, I feel this project is taking it in the wrong direction. Pretty much all of the languages in use today were designed without human factors in mind, especially the big, standardized ones that were actually based on some research. As it turned out, the most successful beginner languages, like Javascript and Python, are more dynamic and expressive - they were also designed, as far as I know, with no thought of existing research. The paucity of research around this, as mentioned in this article, should indicate how nebulous and hard to quantify the knowledge about this is. New efforts should be asking questions about why this is. The best way is to watch someone try to program and take notes of where they get hung up, as in [0].

As for where I would point to regarding sensible language design, read http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ and the book recommended within, Mindstorms. I believe programming has the potential to be the emancipatory medium of thought in the coming century, but only if we can rethink what programming really is.

[0] https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/Six_Learning_Barriers_in_En...
Time for exams that test your understanding of the field instead of just test whether you have crammed a lot of unrelated facts into your brain.
There are multiple ways to solve the bootloader issue, but the easiest is putting your Linux drive ahead of your Windows drive in firmware settings, during installation.
Sometimes memorization itself is important to a role. How would you test for that, if not an exam that tests memorized facts?

From recent personal experience: pilots need to know certain information so that it can be employed on a whim to help solve time-critical problems. The written exam (which precedes a practical exam) definitely requires memorization.
You left out that the one development may not be one-bedroom apartments and that one-bedroom apartments can easily hold 2-4 people. I also think expecting an ROI in 4 years is very aggressive. The housing can easily last decades, and the upkeep costs combined with the depreciated costs should be quite affordable compared to incarceration.
When did the word “update” in a product announcement become a euphemism for bad news?
> It seems after this entire process not enough people need them in the standard library.

I'm reminded of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard."
Stroke Rates Are Increasing Among Young People
Cheating in a medical exam can get an unqualified person licensed as a doctor. It can have serious consequences and kill lots of people. In a regular college exam I think criminal charges are a bit much but for a public safety related exam like doctor, pilot, etc. I think it's appropriate.
> How, then, would you define "homeless"?

If someone has no secure[1] residence[2] that they rely on as their own.

[1] Secure is a relative term, uniquely attributed to individuals

[2] This is necessarily one legal residence, but practically may be a set of locations.
Also a full body CT scan in case the device is self-contained.
And what does SpaceX has more than Roscosmos? The crazy idea to colonize Mars and turn into the same shithole Earth is today?! We couldn't procure enough N95 masks for months during COVID-19, and you're talking about terraforming planets! Get real!
Presumably, doctors would have access to better information than the layperson, and know how to sift through it. I know the person you replied to said "Google", but that's been a fairly overloaded term for decades now.

Personally, I would like to see a doctor searching a site made for doctors. Seeing one just do an actual generic online search would not give me much confidence.
And you think Americans would consume less if only they procreated more?
The massive irony is that the rice-engraving artist may well have then stood the chance to get a decent head start in medicine. I've long theorized that copying/transcribing information can be a great way to meditate in a way conducive to retaining and learning new data.

Depends on their skill level, and how much focus there was on the process of engraving vs temporarily memorizing the next block of info to transcribe.
::Emperor Palpatine Voice::
“Do it!!”
Just double the worst-case project ?

Firstly, the plant above has costed more than 3x projected time or money, so doubling is not going to solve anything.

Secondly, forget civic planning, could you or I go to our companies and say just double by budget because we don't know how to plan well ? What is the guarantee our plan is at least 50% accurate ? i.e. only 2x is enough ?

Poor planning cannot be solved by increasing budget (time or money), even in non public projects, work has tendency to get expanded to meet the budget, basically if Norway had thought 2x the $3B and actually budgeted $6B, they would likely have spent $20B in the end.

All this is only for operational life of the plant, it does not even include long term costs of waste storage because no one can even model that well enough or budget for it today.

I am not saying we shouldn't do nuclear, we really should, but truly commercial plans are meaningless unless we can handle costs better, We should invest more on that, there is encouraging work in SMRs(Small Modular Reactors) that could potentially address these concerns, until then most plants are experimental high risk projects from a public plan perspective.
Yes, I check traffic much often than looking for Food/Hotels/Groceries, but somehow the toggle for traffic is hidden behind a small layer icon, while Food/Hotels/Groceries occupy the top of the screen.
Because a very large percentage of the population wants housing to be solved for the minimum number of people necessary, instead of for everyone.
> They'll let you go and try to find a replacement.

This is an oft-repeated trope, but it has little basis in reality.

Engineering managers have trouble convincing their managers / HR to provide market raises, because most of them are stuck in their own little bubble where the current salaries are "market value." They buy salary information from companies who tell them what they want to hear, that the company's below market salaries are inline with the market.

Wanna prove HR wrong? The only way to do that is to walk in with an offer letter. At that point, HR will look at the reliable salary reports and determine if that's viable.

You aren't getting fired by negotiating for a market raise via offer letter. Also, good luck finding a replacement for less anyway.
You forget one critical thing, there is vast difference between stock and Commodity trading which is 100% speculation based vs Physical goods pricing which is not.

The idea that business are adjusting their physical goods sold pricing based on news events is laughable, I know of ZERO businesses that do that.
On topic https://youtu.be/tv-_1er1mWI
Try Nitter instead

https://nitter.net/flobo09/status/1502645866204704773

No need to login either.

I have seen

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

linked here so I use it.
My personal preference would be to put each candidate on multiple 3 to 4 hour long-form podcast interviews so we can get some idea of what they are like.
I suspect there's very little overlap between users of development software and participants in the bureaucracy that designs the software. The requisite personality types are very different.
Walgreens, drug stores, and grocery stores continue to exist in your city. People continue to open new businesses. People and their families remain in your downtown areas, etc etc.
Good luck if they happen to use VR at all. Even Valve isn't doing a great job there.
May I kindly ask what distro you last tried?

I ask mainly because I came to a realization not too long ago that I stopped using Windows back when 7 was released. It's been a bumpy road, but my last few installs in the past half-decade were more for fun (spring cleaning) or trying out a new distro, and not because I borked my system running errant commands.

Especially if you're not using bleeding edge hardware, almost all things just work.

I know you'll bring up the usual refrains of "hey how about that hibernate function in linux?" or "how are your video drivers lately?", and while they're all legitimate points, Windows has got its own fair share of "wtfs" that Windows users are all too quick to gloss over.

Maybe I'm being a bit of an old man here (mid-30s), but I remember booting into a fresh XP install and having nothing work properly. No video drivers, no ethernet, no wifi, no sound... it usually led to a full day of installing drivers. You'll probably say Windows is better now, and it probably is. Again, I just haven't used Windows in over a decade.

I don't remember the last time I logged into a fresh linux install and didn't have ethernet.
Their definition of "terrorism" includes "calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based".
There is precedent for this; it's called "active placebo." For example, I think some of the psilocybin trials used methylphenidate as an active placebo comparison condition.
> If you had to feed 100M people with a nutritionally complete diet forever, how small of an area could you manage to generate the food?

I don't know the answer for centralized food production, but for local food production based on what I know about self-sufficiency and homesteading, my back of the napkin math goes like this:

Minimum food production area for family of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) based on diet:

1/2 acre for vegetables/chickens

2-3 acres for dairy products

5 acres for grains/nuts

10 acres for meat

Plus 2-3 acres timber for heating

That's ~ 20 acres per family, working all day, almost every day to produce food and heat.

That is still assuming you would be able to use modern technology (tractors/implements etc.) instead of manual labor and do this in a moderate hardiness zone, probably 5-9. There is a reason in the 1800s homestead land grants were up to 160 acres.

From a US perspective: The US has roughly 900 million acres of farm land. If everyone would homestead (unrealistic), and every family would be relocated to a productive area (unrealistic), this land could support 45 million homesteads.

> and leaving ethics off the table (Soylent Green, etc)?

I expect this to be an unrealistic scenario as well. IMHO people will start roaming for food and stealing from those who produce it, instead of patiently waiting for their government handout of whatever astronaut food was stored.