skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you start looking into them, "simple" things like adjusting volume and organizing monitors turn out to be more complicated that one would think. Proprietary OSs like MacOS and Windows put enormous effort into hiding these complexities and figuring out sane defaults. They make it look easy, but it's not.

Coming from i3, transitioning to Sway was easy. Previously, I'd transferred from Xfce to i3, and more recently I transitioned from ALSA to Pipewire. Each of these transitions took some effort, say an hour or two initially, and then another hour or two spread over a few weeks to work out edge cases. But the thing is, once I've worked out the edge cases, my desktop is rock solid. I don't cringe when I run a system update, I'm confident it will work. And if an update were to cause Sway to break (which hasn't happened to me yet), Sway's internals are accessible enough that I'm confident I'd be able to quickly resolve the issue.

This is quite the opposite of my experience with GNOME or KDE. These DEs make an attempt to match the accessibility and intuitiveness of proprietary interfaces, but in my experience they lack the resources. The inherent complexity is papered over and becomes exposed as soon as you try to do something even slightly off the beaten path. And if something does happen to break (which happened to me frequently when running GNOME), fixing the issue is a deep rabbit hole of undocumented or semi-documented options and bugzilla reports.

Having said that, I'm open to the notion that one or both of them have improved a lot since then. I really hope they have because running a minimalist desktop like Sway isn't for everyone.
Mono-cultures do suck. They lead to groupthink, where nuance, alternative viewpoints/actions, and growth are shunned. Groupthink leads to stagnation, which has been shown time and time again. groupthink is what convinced Putin that he could easily waltz into Ukraine, and "liberate" them from the "Nazis" running the country. There was no dissenting viewpoint allowed by Putin, only groupthink.
I consider it a memetic inoculation - certain things, like newspeak and erasing the past, just stand out as warning signs when one has read 1984 when otherwise one just thinks, "that's kinda weird".
Windows needs a good stackexchange forum where one can find all kinds of workarounds for its shortcomings. Otherwise it will stay unusable.
One thing I'd like to point out - carefully consider whether having friends and family in the area is actually what you want.

Going to university should be all about new experiences, and those can often be quite limited by your previous connections. Meeting an entirely new group of people, having to be more independent (in terms of living, socially and work), and a "blank slate" are all really important for growing as a person.
Do you dislike C syntax?

Because PHP is basically C with dollar sign $variables.
I faced a somewhat similar choice when I was accepted to colleges about 20 years ago. I was waitlisted at the most prestigious one (The other "institute of technology"), and thought I might have some chance of getting in, yet it would have been very expensive and I was offered a full ride at one of my lower choices (a good UC but not Berkeley or LA). I took the full ride and had a great time and learned a huge amount. I was one stronger students there so I took lots and lots of interesting classes, didn't stress too much, got two majors and a minor, met lots of people (including my life partner), had no problem getting whatever research experience I wanted. I ended up getting my PhD from that prestigious school I was waitlisted at. Many of the other students in my full ride program did similarly. So, if Z has good faculty/research (and many big US schools do) that will let you get the research experience and letters of rec to give you a shot of getting into MIT as a grad student, seems like a reasonable strategy. Another observation I had when I saw the undergrads at the prestigious school, and met a lot of grad students who had come from MIT, is that there is very specific culture associated with undergrads from those places. That is on the one hand a huge bonus - you're in an exclusive club with brilliant people, and they did some super fun hacks. On the other hand, if for whatever reason you don't fit into that culture (and its toxic elements like "overloading" on courses), then there aren't as many other options - at the big school, you can pick and choose from a much wider range of identities and groups of friends. Good luck! Don't stress too much - those are both great options and either way you will grow a lot from the experience.
Personally I haven't seen "well looked after" Confluence spaces. I have experience with 4 different companies that used Confluence for their infra, and in my experience it has always been a mess. The reason I advocated for ranking by popularity is that those messy Confluence pages are filled to the brim with obsolete outdated articles that nobody intentionally visits. For example, in many firms people post meeting notes to Confluence. So you have 10 000 pages of quality "notes from project abc weekly meeting 5.4.2014". Now, imagine yourself searching a Confluence space like that. You type in a particular phrase, and there is a perfect match in meeting notes from 2017, a perfect match from preliminary design document from 2013, etc. These results constantly drown out the actual pages you are searching for, which are typically more actively-updated, more recent pages. It would be a huge improvement to rank these pages higher purely based on their popularity.
Nickel is a conflict material now too.
I’ve learned a TON from the [okhttp3](https://square.github.io/okhttp/) codebase, highly recommend studying it.
This was the bane of my existence for a few months. Tried it on several different systems and the best I could ever do was getting a single TPU to show up.

Eventually I just sold it, and back when you could buy them, picked up a couple more USB Corals. Works well enough, but it’s ugly.
I have found using github's language search to be helpful for this sort of thing.

If you are using ruby, for instance, just search for https://github.com/search?q=language%3Aruby and look for popular codebases. You can decide which are beautiful for yourself.
As stupid as it sounds, I really think the name has a lot to do with it.
CSS flashlights with mix-blend-mode
I use tags and a query to view different groups of tasks

The tasks are generated as jobs come in, i.e. a checkbox line, I assigned ctrl+T to task edit, so I can add a due date. I make sure to add #freelance so it gets picked up by the query below, and displays in a list on my daily template (ctrl+shift+D for me) so whichever daily note I'm in I can see my tasks.

Then I have another for jobs to invoice, adding #inv to the line manually is simple because the tasks plugin lets you click through from the list, and another for "general" todos, which does accumulate, but not in a single file.

Example query (using community plugin "tasks"):

```tasks

not done

description includes #freelance

description does not include #inv

path includes journal

```
How does windows hello work?
You made a very dubious claim that college provides some magic that makes people who go to it betters "adults".

You don't define what adult means. You don't say or imply what ways college would help you become a better one.

For what I would define as "adult", which is understanding the realities of life outside the shelter of their family infrastructure, I would argue most colleges don't really further a student's self-reliance in that way.

If anything, they create another, different reality bubble which is again popped when they are dropped into to the actual real world, often with a mountain of debt. This is the point at which, in my opinion, where someone learns to become an adult.

Does learning new information and skills help one become a better functioning adults? Of course. But college doesn't have a monopoly on being the way to acquire information and skills.

As the price of education in the US continues to increase (for no good reason, other than people can get loans to pay it), college will increasingly fail the cost/benefit analysis for a lot occupations.

As an aside, your attitude seems to imply that you think people who have not gone to college are lesser in some way. I would apply some critical analysis to that.
This makes me sad. Horrible news.
To each it's own... I strongly prefer Windows (<=7) to MacOS UI.
>Ethereum is a single core global virtual computer with much less power than a typical Raspberry Pi that is available to anyone with access to an internet

All analogies are incomplete and imperfect but I'd say a more accurate mental model would be something like this:

Ethereum is like a global database _with_ stored procedures.

With this analogy, the database component would map to the blockchain : https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...

The stored procedure language would map to the Ethereum programming language Solidity.

Computers worldwide run stored procedures to decide how to write the next block(s) in the database. (Consensus.)

Embedded in the above is the collective psychology and incentives that attract humans to do the above activity. (aka Proof-of-Work).

To see how simple explanations of Ethereum can leave out the mass psychology aspect, consider another example of an incomplete analogy: The Reddit Place experiment of 2017 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_(Reddit) )

video of the pixels evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnRCZK3KjUY

We could say that Reddit Place 1000x1000 art canvas is a worldwide "Adobe Photoshop" that runs slower than a 1990s 486 computer ... which is sort of true... but doesn't really explain the whole phenomenon.
Like using AWS, but worse in every imaginable way!
But, what tech innovation DIDN’T start as something with limited applicability? The only way to know is to discuss the benefits and tradeoffs in something approaching social science.

But humans struggle with rigor, it’s much easier to brand and market something, or to buy in to brands. So “ideas” like microservices become brands. And they’re misunderstood and misapplied because people don’t read the copious literature that discusses the tradeoffs and variations. And they don’t practice it as a discipline with someone that has mastered the technique successfully: they do it blind.

Same goes for TDD or other XP practices that are often deride as cultish. being a discipline is even harder to adopt than a design philosophy like microservices. Disciplines are about consistent behaviour. To an outsider, it’s freaky. But calling it cultish as some do is like saying Karate or another martial art is a cult. From the outside it kind of looks like it, but discipline or kata (practice of form) is known to be a success multiplier for the sustained successful application of practices.

If you don’t have a dojo or a sensei, could you teach yourself such a set of martial arts to mastery? If not, why do we expect everyone to pick up TDD after reading a book?
>So what would macOS use to trigger when FaceID should be initiated?

The equivalent system on another OS? At least when talking Android that should be easy since accelerometer(/gyroscope w/o gravity) are already available from the OS side. When talking windows/linux that's arguably harder but not impossible. The only major caveat is required hardware for that. But this situation is somewhat similar to Microsoft Hello, except we're not talking entirely about cameras.

These are just wishful ideas though, and you are right: we know Apple will never open their face ID implementation ever, let alone give users outside their ecosystem the possibility of using Face ID for any of their services/products. To that end, I don't even know if there's a use case where someone could need Face ID on a non-Apple device.
Given a technology is necessarily the expression of a power differential on its subject, whether it's a stick being used as a lever or a GANN, it puts the pilot of it in a position where they must have an abstract understanding of consequences, and then actively articulate choices about how to apply it - yes, all tech is a forcing function for moral questions. Particularly, "should I?" and, "why?"

We already consult tech for decisions with moral consequences when we google it. We also test ideas using tech by seeing whether they align with popular narratives by posting them on social media. I'd even say most educated people under the age of 40 are already entirely dependent on social media for moral guidance and approval. "Do it for the 'gram," summarizes it well. However, TV was the same way. When most of the reference relationships you have a mediated by tech, your reference point is going to be an artifact of that tech. Then as now, the medium is the message.

The other piece is Clarke's addage about sufficiently advanced tech being indistinguishable from magic becomes newly interesting when you see the effect of powerful tech causing people to optimize their lives and moral choices to curry favour with it - in effect, worshiping the magic. In this context, social media may just be another form of primitive magical worship that subordinates the human spirit to bargaining with flighty and mercurial gods, with superstitions about its workings in the place of a coherent ethical framework.

I think this is what Gaiman's "American Gods" was about.
Are you sure? On GNOME on Wayland? It works with Sway because of https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/blob/master/docs/... but last I heard GNOME refuses to implement this.
I believe that asking for 3DS offloads liability regardless of whether the bank actually supports it.
> Will it happen some day?

It doesn't happen all at once, it's a transition. There are billions staked in ETH2 already.

> But we don't know how PoS will go for ETH once it has moved.

There's quite a few PoS coins that are working well, Algorand comes to mind.

> Besides, there are many other negative exernalities that the move to PoS won't get rid of.

Such as?
I agree, but college just wasn't that for me and I don't think it could have been. It was more about exploration. I didn't have the drive and focus I have now. I didn't really get that until mid 20s, about 5 years after I graduated.
Can you provide any citations for this? I don't think it's the case for MIT
I don't always write the tests first, I do what seems practical and feasible. Sometimes it feels more natural to write some code to understand the problem I'm solving.

That said - there is a problem with writing tests last: You don't actually know if your tests are going to fail when they should, because you haven't run them on a code-base that isn't fully implemented.

You can deal with this by stashing the implementation changes and running the tests to confirm they fail where expected, but sometimes this is very challenging because you need a partial implementation to reach some of the failed assertions. This requires thoughtfulness and discipline and so it is hard to maintain this consistently across a team. It isn't possible in a code review to confirm if people have done this, and often it isn't practical to do it yourself as part of reviewing code.
According to this Carl guy[1] POS eth will consume 2.62MW (or 22.9512GWh annualized) which is better, but still quite a lot of power for a single core raspberry pi.

[1]: https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/
What I've heard is that the M1 Ultra has to be all contiguous to exist. The interconnact cannot be assembled later. All those M1 Ultra chips are indeed 64 cores and the IO on the same die. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210217702A1/en?oq=2021...
Then you missed the point of my post entirely. "Virtue Signaling" isn't about what good deeds you do or don't do. It is about intent and what you do "around" those deeds. You can do real good and still be virtue signaling, because virtue signaling is the advertising aspect of it. Two people do the same deed, one won't shut up about it. One is virtue signaling, the other is just a good person.
Now if only the portable fuel cans I'm able to buy were this good. Instead, they have nozzles that require a third hand to operate and they don't have breather tubes (by law these days, I think), so they make a mess every time. Filling my wood chipper's tank is frustrating.
If it were me I'd go to Z, and then apply to MIT for grad school. Your undergrad school doesn't matter as much as some people like to think it does.

Why? Cost is a factor, but there are other things to consider:

Will your professors actually be interested in teaching undergrad, or is it something they do because they have to? For undergrad, favor the school where the professors will be more interested in you. (Unless you're planning on getting involved in graduate-level projects as an undergrad.)

What kind of reputation do undergrad graduates of the schools have? My first internship was very close to MIT, and I didn't hear very nice things about their BS graduates. (But that was one datapoint.)

A few other things:

UMass Amherst has an awesome CS program. It's ranked close to MIT and costs a lot less. It's also about 90 minutes from Boston.

I learned so much more about tech outside of school than inside school. Yes, you can meet some truly awesome people at MIT. You can also meet truly awesome people anywhere, it all comes down to your ability to judge others' character and motivations.
Hahaha. As a Mexican, I find the American focus on racism so simultaneously hilarious and unnecessary.

In Mexico, we don't have clean water in our faucets. Electricity and the internet shuts off, randomly due to infrastructure problems or maintenance. And yet, we are humorous. We make fun of each other. And yes, this includes racial and cultural differences which we laugh at, in poking fun at each other, together. In England they might call it "taking the piss out of you". In Mexico, it's normal.

And yet in the US, there's not these "third world problems",

So the aspect of "simultaneously hilarious and unnecessary" I mention is regarding how people in the US, since they don't have "third world problems", they make their own problems to create drama about... I suppose so that they can feel some sort of relevance of a struggle.

In doing so, they reduce the capacity of dialogue, and they ruin and potential existence of Humor in a conversation -- because people are expected to walk on egg shells on certain topics.

It really destroys the fun in conversations when you have to worry about "oh my goodness, I am risking talking about something that's not politically correct! Someone who isn't actually related to the conversation content might pretend to be offended for the sake of some other non-existing-in-the-conversation person to show off their virtuous nature".
I often use Iceland as my example, but same idea. I’m surprised WOW airlines failed though.

As much as people hate it (especially if someone else is paying the fare), I think long-haul’s days aren’t looking great. As fuel/biofuel becomes a bigger $ proportion of tickets, multiple medium-haul hops is going to become the way.
If you want a macOS-style application menu bar, though, you'll need to go over to Plasma. Latte Dock feels like a better replacement dock than GNOME's.
it was barely a valid arguement even on POW.
> This is an established standard.

Established doesn't mean it is understandable without documentation. Anyone who is not familiar with it doesn't know why it starts in 1970 and counts seconds. You need to actually open the documentation to know about that, and it's name (be it unix time, epoch, epoch time or whatever) doesn't help in understanding what it is and what unit it is using.
Can you explain what you're thinking?
That's because it had a very convoluted plastic surgery to make it so.
Obviously I don't mean it's a cell phone. Look at this thing, where do you put the sim card? I mean really powerful computer identical to one inside the iPhone 11 apparently.
The liability shield may have made better sense when corporations were actually given charters because they were expected to serve a public good. it doesn't seem to be the case where that is true any more. If it ever was? Now it seems that corporations only exist to make money. Public good be damned.
There is the full-on dataview plugin, lets you do anything in JS. I just use the tasks plugin query engine, which is plenty for me, but it sounds like you would need dataview. The forum has loads of very well developed examples.
> But probably is allowed (as you state) because until now nobody looked at it and then nobody took the time to inform the respective authorities.

Something illegal doesn't become illegal only after law enforcement is informed.

> So that I can send a complaint to my data protection agency in Schleswig-Holstein (German state I am residing in).

I wish you the best of luck and hope that your local DPA is much more competent than the UK one.
That has nothing to do with CRT.
So I'm a professional in this space and I don't have the mental energy to bother with counter-offering when I know a fair price for the thing. Two seconds of looking at the thing will verify that yes, it has under 300 shutter activations, and yes, the body, EVF, and sensor are in fine shape, and yes, it's coming with a lens (kit, so nothing special, but still worth a few bucks) when the body doesn't normally.

"$800 firm" means something. The alternative to "sell at a fair price on both sides" is "no sale", not "sell at a stupid price." I kept the camera and still use it instead. I was getting rid of it because it wasn't 100% what I wanted in my studio space, but it's fine (just not delightful) as a B or a C camera; 80% of what I could optimally do with a different model is worth way more than taking an extra $300 bath. Eventually I'll sell on eBay and get what I'm looking for that way--I didn't want to bother with shipping, but wasting my time with unserious offers makes that a lot more appealing.

(And we aren't even getting into the significant mental effort of engaging with the ridiculous set of scammers trying to get you to fall for their fake-Zelle-notification stuff.)
I have Thucydides and Herodotus, both are amazing. I don't know how I would read Thucydides any other way. There are so many place names and directions, you really need the maps these editions provide.
abs on machine-sized integers has another easy-to-make mistake: what's the absolute value of the signed byte -128?

You face some hard decisions on that one. None of the error handling paradigms are good at handling the class of numeric errors that people really, really want to pretend don't exist because no matter what kind of error they throw they're a major pain to deal with correctly.
Removing the "cross application snooping" is X11 is.. difficult. In a sense, that is equivalent to removing piping and redirection from shell -- "for security".

Now, many people don't mind, but I certainly mind. That is why I still use X11.
Definition of trust... you trust what you must. "Operating systems have to be less trusting". But my Operating System must trust me. I give it no choice in the matter. My Operating System must not override my Trust decisions.
XFCE. Don't be fooled by the apparent barebones aspect. It is very customizable. I have tiling WM settings, for example (stock XFCE).
At Red Hat, they give you a laptop with RHEL on it, then the other engineers tell you to blow it away and install Fedora, so there's a lot dogfooding going on. A buddy who works there got the latest Dell XPS (for more or less personal use) and was able to get the sound card driver merged into the next kernel release by knowing who to ask. I'm more of an Ubuntu user going back for over a decade, but he's got me looking at Fedora.
Use a rolling release distribution, or something like Debian unstable, if you want a better Wayland experience.
Make Калининград Königsberg Again.