skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned programming as a kid from QBasic, which was included in DOS, and this tool was not kid specific (even though it came with some games and is a simple language, it was straight to the point and generally useful to anyone)

I would have found something dumbed down and kid specific uninteresting, the thing about QBasic that kept me interested was: included example games (gorillas and nibbles) whose code you could see and modify (I've had much laughs by changing radiuses of circles of how the gorillas were drawn), the ability to draw graphics (which is an interesting form of feedback to your code), the excellent documentation and ease of use (integrated good help text of every function and keyword), and the fact that you could use it to make anything including useful software which gave a good reason to want to learn it

I'd have seen something like logo with a turtle that moves around as a game instead of a tool, that would have kept me interested for maybe a few days max
Agreed. I wish there was a tax credit for farmers who don’t use fertilizer, even if that’s only imported, so as to encourage composting. Right now it’s pretty easy to externalize agricultural waste on the public’s dime or health. I’m thinking about the hog waste lagoons in NC for example. What if some portion of that vast expanse of pig shit could be reused?
If anything, Ukraine shows that civilization doesn't necessarily immediately collapse.

Despite the madness the only thing I learn about looting from Ukraine is:

- civilian would-be looters still getting punished

- Russian soldiers are looting

i.e. when your rations expired you get desperate and since the Russian army is armed and know they are an utter disgrace anyway this happens.
You can swipe down on the very bottom of the screen (bit awkward at first), but then you pull down the whole screen to reach the top parts easily. Helpful video: [0]. This way you can really do everything with 1 hand.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfwgKRkyWcQ
There are lots of things I could nitpick in this article such as the $40 increase in BOM ( No, just No ). But I have a hypothesis as to why only the iPhone Pro gets A16 (4nm).

The M2 will be using the same 4nm and uArch, GPU, NPU design from A16. ( I am hoping it would break the 2000 GB5 barrier ) And Apple will slowly rollout M2 on Mac over the course of next 18 months. Starting with Mac Pro first. The whole Mac Lineup are currently in huge demand, and if I remember correctly Tim Cook himself mentioned the Mac is breaking shipment record. One could extrapolate using sales data and I expect this to be something like 25M unit rather than the usual 18-20M unit. Apple wants to capture these market as soon as possible. Considering they could have lost a lot of Mac users over the last 3 - 4 years. ( They haven't updated the Active Mac user since 2018, some numbers just dont add up ).

Making sure they have enough capacity to feed whatever Mac sales they have. As some have reported they are still waiting for their October / November MacBook Pro Order.
> the West fails to understand that Russians are just incompetent

Why would we believe that?

No army has ever lost a war because they overestimated the strength of the enemy army.
>Ukraine doesn't have a lot of tanks that they actively use against the invasion ( tanks are of limites utility in pitched defensive battles), so i don't think javelin/nlaw and similar anti-tank weapons are what Russia needs.

throw into mix all APCs as well. Currently russia has only guided anti-tank weapons. shoot and forget easier, but not highest priority i guess

>Communication equipment would make sense, but can Russia really equip and start using it quickly and properly, especially the language barrier?

currently a lot of units either using baofeng radios. anything will be upgrade if it will come with a printed a4 cheat-sheet
In the US contracts aren't very common for average employees. I assume that executives and maybe upper management have contracts, but not the peons. Most of the US also has at-will employment so they don't _need_ a reason to fire you.
Interested to know this as well. I am not sure if pointing to a definition on Urban Dictionary with ~100 thumbs is enough to redefine a word let alone assume that the average person is using it as a dog whistle.
I don't think they would be able to buy the oil if they did not.
Anonymous message to Discord: “We demand you ban Russian Propaganda!” [video]
Past pandemics have taken 3 years to fully play out, we are just starting that third year.

China has a zero covid policy and quickly locks down. Expect this type of thing until they accept the endemic nature of the virus. Covid is forever now.

Also, possibly new variant emerging in US/UK (Delticron or something like that, having genes in common with both delta and omicron)
I worked as VP of Engineering (we had no CTO) with a CISO at a hypergrowth unicorn startup. When I started we were 30 employees (series A), when I left we were 350+ (series D). He did many things well but the best thing he did was be pragmatic about what we can tackle today to move the needle.

He did not come out with a 70 page document saying this needs to get done period. He understood that product still needed to be built, and he understood what to attack first to satisfy auditors and B2B enterprise clients.

A shitty CISO would have collapsed under all that pressure. It was 14 months of hard work and living in god forsaken google docs of rules after rules after rules.
Brilliant insight.
Java doesn’t have union types
I was reminded of IBM trying to get them to show up and actually sell things. It is _bizarre_ that you have to hound sales people to actually make an effort — it really seemed like they assumed the Google brand was enough to guarantee buyers and were surprised that anyone would question whether their products were the best.

(This was also the first time I heard Reader mentioned at the C level as in “what will we do when you cancel it?”)
Right now we are planting them in controlled environments for further study or on land where other plants cannot grow well - such as abandoned minelands. Our goal is to draw down 1GT of carbon in lands where trees don’t currently thrive; therefore we’re working to restore ecosystems that have already faced the consequences of human intervention, rather than integrating our trees into already-thriving wild forests.
I kind of agree, but for different reasons.

C1 isn't for fast-but-low-quality. It's for instances where you have a detailed spec. Maybe there isn't much ambiguity. Maybe there is, but you're working with an iterative process or something where building the wrong thing right is ok.

In my experience though, there's a never enough C1 type of work to go around. C2 is always the bottleneck. Requirements, specs, stories or whatnot do not reliably make good sense at the point where someone is actually making thee thing.

So to OP's question, I'd take the C2. Not because you don't need C1s, because you probably already have enough.
Taking part in the "money rat race" isn't just about the Benjamins. It is about working for a company that explicitly values your contribution. That in itself helps with motivation.
> I can understand why Lithuania would want to be part of NATO, but I do not think it was wise or moral for the US to grant such a request.

> This is not a radical position

Maybe not; only a stupid and morally abhorrent one.

> and was held by many NATO members at the time. They required significant persuasion from the US to allow Lithuania entry to NATO.

Yeah, NATO member states are also capable of holding stupid and morally abhorrent positions.

> Similarly, France, Germany, and many NATO countries did not want to open the door to Georgia and Ukraine in 2008. They felt that it would lead to war in Europe.

We'll never know, though, will we? Since Georgia and Ukraine weren't admitted into NATO in (or soon after) 2008, I mean.

> Again they were overruled by the US and we got a war in Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the largest war in Europe since WW2 today.

Yup. Judging from the facts, all because Georgia and Ukraine weren't admitted into NATO in (or soon after) 2008. Well, because of that, and mainly because the Russian people keep clinging on to a fucking dictator who does shit like that, of course. Time for a fucking revolution, perhaps? I've heard you've tried one of those before. Pro tip: Try not to replace one fucking dictator with another this time.
Curious, are Americans also unaware of America's close relationship and propping up of Pakistan?
Too easy, needs more tanks. Excellent sound!
There's a problem with biomass approaches to either fuel production or carbon drawdown, namely the land/water/fertilizer problem.

Agriculture is a huge consumer of fresh water, and in many places drought is the new normal, so reserving agricultural land for food production makes sense in drier regions.

Similarly, achieving maximum growth rates for carbon-removing trees requires fertilizer application, which can have a lot of fossil fuel costs. Introducing industrial-scale non-fossil ammonia production (using water instead of natural gas as the hydrogen source to convert atmospheric N2 to ammonia/nitrate) could reduce demand for natural gas by something like 5% globally.

However, these kinds of projects have potential for cleaning up brownfield zones, around mine sites, industrial sites etc. where metal tolerance is a useful trait. The atmospheric carbon reduction claims are not so plausible. The whole business of using forestry as an 'offset' to continue fossil fuel production has a very poor record (see Canadian forests, Alberta tar sands, and pine beetle outbreaks for example).
So even if it ‘works’ we’re fucked because they have a monopoly on creating our air supply.
Ask HN: Which Prebuilt Linux to Buy?
Hi,

I'm considering buying a pre-built Linux computer of some kind. Am I correct that Dell is the best option for this? I previously purchased a System76, but it was rather cheaply made and performance degraded heavily after ~2 years.

Open to either desktop or laptop.

edit: one other thing I should mention is that it would be great if it were well-suited for gaming.

Thanks
What a strange culture we've trapped ourselves in.
One of the interesting things about hiring in tech is that most companies when they try to hire will say it's very hard to hire someone. On the other side of that I see that the same company will get dozen to hundreds to resumes / cvs. Speaking to these candidates I see that many seemed competent enough to do the day to day work that most companies require from a dev.

The problem it seems it that to get candidates that are willing to complete your insane process not the lack of qualified people.
Nope, it's proof that their marketing team is doing a great job.
fear mongering about vegetarianism implies a distinct lack of food awareness
Thread on Twitter:

[0] https://twitter.com/LiteMods/status/1502998139061608452

[1] https://twitter.com/LiteMods/status/1503350422320336898

[2] https://twitter.com/LiteMods/status/1503351159133773826
Somewhat related to this, I’m planning a full switch away from Apple *OS to Linux this year, and am looking for a good replacement for my iPhone. I’m aware of the Pine Phone of course, but what other mobile phone players are in the market these days that are not android based? A robust, solid and stable Linux phone that can do at least the basics (calls, MMS, internet, Bluetooth audio, and camera) would be AWESOME.

I’d just like to know what my options are before settling on what to buy.
> I feel you'd get more global acceptance if you went down a selective breeding strategy, rather than biotech, but I get it.

This has really gotta change over time. They’re the same process, just one happens with the lights on.
Maybe they want to focus on compute and start pushing users out of storage.

I wonder if CF will be able to satisfy the storage demand once they release R2.
They're a tech company that makes actual technology. You're allowed to be excited. Better technology upstream has a habit of floating down the stack in some form or another, even when lawyers make it hard (ZFS was released under a GPL-incompatible license (some people will argue intentionally), yet has influenced over twenty years of filesystem design in the Linux ecosystem for things like btrfs, coincidentally also owned from an IP standpoint largely by Oracle, for example).

Who knows? In twenty years, we could see something cool come out of this, like better U-Boot tooling. Or maybe they'll be purchased by Oracle, which would if nothing else be funny this time.
Not to be a downer, but 53% seems too small to make a difference. If people are not planting trees now, why would a small percentage increase in carbon efficiency change this equation? It also doesn't seem like a good enough reason to prefer using a new "invasive" species over something more native for reforestation.
>So how would the Russian disinformation campaign unfold in a fully operational decentralised reputation world? Users would subscribe to trusted fact checkers’ reputation lists, which would decrease the rating of the bots and the fake content, leaving the disinformation alone in an echo chamber without an audience.

Sounds like a nightmare. I've seen a LOT of moderation overreach with the primary Matrix homeserver to begin with, and homeservers blocked from federation for seemingly little reason. I do not trust its administrators to 'fact check', nor do I trust its users to approve of it. I think these measures, in the long term, will create an iron hugbox where every lunatic in the asylum exists in his own bubble.

The Matrix network its self is still, as far as I know, still primarily exists within the official homeserver, which has the most users by far. I feel what happens there may have far-reaching consequences to the network, and it would be far better to keep things on a server by server basis rather than making it easier to close off.
Based on my experience func and ansible aren't very comparable and it's hard to call func a prototype for ansible. My recollection is that it was much more of a disruption to puppet, chef, and saltstack that had all become much more complicated and heavyweight by that time.

What I took away from this article is that an expert in that space (DeHaan) knew there was a gap and opportunity in this area, and the point of this article is that because he was able to capitalize on that opportunity because of his existing expertise and familiarity.

It's an interesting view compared to some interpretations of lean startups.
The best trees and plants are simply local trees & plants, they are resistant and well-adapted. It's often counter-productive to bring new species, but you can always make small adjustments (crafting, or bring species from similar climate)
This is quite a myth. Maybe these prices are low compared to US salaries, but in India or Romania or other big outsourcing places, salaries in the 4-5k EUR/month (48-60k EUR/year) are the norm, and it's easy to get even higher bills from cloud services if you're not very careful, even from testing and dev activities.
I highly doubt any carrier would offer this, especially with the current adoption being where it's at. You'd be better off using your phone's capabilities to restrict calls to only your contacts.
So wait, what are things like in America?
What's the TL;DR on fertilizer market? Is it a function of lack of access to Potash deposits in the US vs demand?
Famously you can solve all problems that way, except the problem of having too many layers of indirection.
This is just an article by a guy with bad opinions upset others don't agree with his bad opinions.
Click-jacking seems like the correct term. Not sure what the word would be for the keyboard type of click-jacking though, where you unexpectedly present a dialog while the user is typing and they accidentally accept it by pressing certain characters...
You’ve got to be kidding. The state of the art for the vast majority of desktop computer users was classic Mac OS and Windows 9x. Did you never see the BeOS demos where they yanked the plug out of the wall while doing heavy filesystem operations and booted straight back up without significant data loss? I don’t remember if NTFS existed back then, but most people wouldn’t use NT and successors until the turn of the century.

There were gaping holes in functionality, but BeOS was a revelation at the time.
Because carriers are arcane companies that have a monopoly on a swath of infrastructure and have little care or perspective on what products and consumer experience amounts to.

They buy and install equipment and sell out the voice/data.

They actively oppose, thwart any kind of thoughtful innovation, competition etc. on anything relating to their networks, because they believe they 'own' the network and therefore 'own' everything going on on top of it.

Remember the 10-cent 'WAP' pages? Tiny, crappy, useless little mobile web pages? And they wanted 10-cents each?

Carriers would originally not sell BlackBerry service. They thought it was stupid to have 'email' on their networks. BlackBerry had to buy data and then sell to the C-suite.

Then, BlackBerry literally became the reason that people wanted to buy data. The carriers then said - you can't buy network and resell it, you must sell your products through us.

Imagine if some private companies controlled all of the roads. Any and business wanting to put a car on the road had to pay a toll, and the owners could decide which kinds of cars, when, and for what reason and intervene. They tried to provide the ambulance and transport for everyone and keep messing it up.

It's also an artefact of human organization, even a fairly enlightened community/government body would have difficulty setting clear and appropriate guidance.

The issue becomes problematic when there is a control of a scarce resource.

In truth, it's absurd that people should be able to easily fake 'from' numbers, we should have fixed that a decade ago.
It almost looks like a minimalist wolverine! [1]

[1]: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/e7/cb/2be7cb420de47ac68e1345f4a...
Personally I advise against the Chinese devices as they often are GPL infringers (Boox for sure is). Also I don't consider running android as a plus, it's just another layer of cruft that lowers the overall performance of the device. I think Kobo's OS is largely fine and Sage has a pretty good specs: 300PPI, quad core 1.8GHz processor, and stylus support.
There's pressure to over-spend on everything. HN will justify it for some classes of products and complain about it for others.

The one guy who moves heaven and earth to live in a "good neighborhood" that's normally a tad much for his income would get accolades around here. The guy who lives in a trailer park but and expends the same effort to drive a nice car gets derided. I don't see the big difference between them. They're both just going "all in" in different aspects of their lives.
Logic check: grandparent's observation, if verified, disproves a universal claim that vegan/vegetarian is healthier.

This is general information.
Once it became a target, the precision of the term was at risk. Especially if you consider that the ability to redefine "what it means to be sustainable" is a means to greenlight high-value projects or grease the skids on large purchases of materials or services.
You've correctly pointed out that use of the term "sustainable" is not sustainable.
A15 did falter. Qualcomm just faltered more.
> Look, anyone who admits they’re working for fintech is fair-game

I'd love to take a few cracks at you! Nothing better than a good insult.

> punch-upwards jokes

> It’s only slightly less disgusting than admitting you work for the Trump Organisation or Scientology

Ah, damn, sorry. I understand your situation now. I won't make any jokes as that would be punching down. Morally, I simply can't.
I think you are mistaking me for someone else. I'm not American and I don't support America in their military actions in the middle east.

Out of military involvements I support only the one in former Yougoslavia because it prevented genocide and ended the hostilities.

When you are comparing Putin to someone you can compare him to Serbs. Because similarities are many. And current support of Putin comming from some Serbs only proves that they are spiritually similar in their nationalist ambitions towards their neighbors.

When it comes to everything else America did in middle east and elsewhere I think it had a huge negative effect. That it was unjustified, immoral and instigated just for the economic benefit of US military industrial complex under the false pretenses.

However since US military budget is what it is and there are other strong global players that might act up in the future (Russia, China) the countries of the world couldn't really seriously impact USA.

However USA deserved to loose every bit of global good will and moral standing that they lost due to their actions.

But nothing USA did puts Russia in any better light. Existance of one murderer doesn't make the other murderer less worthy of contempt and punitive action.

You may cry 'hypocrites' all you want but we live in the real world in which because we can't go after one murderer, because he's too powerful, doesn't mean we just let all the murderes free pass just to be consistent.

Be anti-american all you want. It doesn't mean you have to be pro Putin.

To be honest I myself would prefer Anerica sat this one out just because of their lack of moral standing and history of direct mythicized conflict with Soviet Union.

I think Europe should wipe Russian hardware from Ukraine using just European equipment.
> I can't deny that there's something there that makes [Scratch] more accessible than other platforms

Not for blind kids. Yes, maybe I bring up that kind of accessibility too often, but using the word "accessible" was just asking for it. :) And seriously, that matters in a public school environment.

Fortunately, using a haphazardly designed mainstream language like JavaScript isn't the only alternative. Check out Quorum: https://quorumlanguage.com/
I think this is a cynical take, and hear it a lot from management-types.

If I go through the trouble to share an offer with a willingness to stay, how exactly is that an ultimatum? Seems there is no avenue for an employee to try and stay except silently turn down offer and eat lower pay?
If avoiding sale-of-ownership to a capitalistic entity is a strategic goal, incorporating as a non-profit is one tactic. Among other protections, ownership of non-profits in the US (501c3) cannot be purchased by for-profit entities.

A 501c3 can be a parent company for a for-profit company (e.g. Mozilla-Co is owned by the Mozilla-Foundation), so it's still possible to operate a "normal" company within the IP-ownership structure of a a 501c3.

Edit: it's worth noting that family-owned businesses with a trust component have also done really well in the last 100 years. (see the NYT, which is governed by the Sulzberger family [126 years], and many others on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_family_bus...)
Could you give a simplified example of why a landowner partner with you? Let's say I just bought 30 acres of recently cut timberland, and I want to repopulate the forest just for my own enjoyment of nature alongside the cabin I'd build.

What would be my savings in the short term, vs what I could earn from carbon capture/timber if I paid for the planting myself?
US oil production peaked in 2019, and has declined due to Covid demand drop, and the Biden administration's push away from fossil fuel.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
>I see that new propaganda spin getting peddled by several pro-Russian "propagandons" like you.

Flinging accusation of being "pro-Russian" at people who acknowledge the fog of war and the indisputable fact that there is propaganda coming out from all sides of this war doesn't bolster your position.

>The propaganda comes only from Russia

The Ghost of Kiev begs to differ.