skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is a messy place, having simple examples in a "perfect" scenario does help understanding basic concepts, which then can be applied in more complex scenarios as you build upon that knowledge. It is however important (in my opinion) to explain the drawbacks and benefits of the methodology used early on.
Taiwan to move away from zero-Covid strategy
I suppose you are not familiar with his early career as a physicist, publishing in the field since he was 15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Early_career
> They are kept afloat by government subsidies

Most media (that's not already state owned) in France is the same
My favorite part of Apple Music has been the ability to share playlists through iMessage to my friends and family although I don't do that enough.

Then, I love the Essentials playlists, basically, if you search for any large enough artist they'll have a curated playlist always called Essentials which makes it easy to find. The curation is usually spot on although there's been one or two that felt like misses out of maybe fifteen or twenty that I've tried.

Finally, the Apple premium plan for 30 bucks a month, five members, 1TB online storage, Apple Music and TV (couldn't really care less about sharing my workouts or Arcade, but those are there too) is a pretty sweet deal for my family and I.

Dunno if Spotify or Tidal have things similar. And there is some funkiness around sharing occasionally as I'm not sure if my dad ever got access to Music, his account may have been in a weird state since he already had a subscription, unsure, will ask later.

My dad likes that for his own music that Apple doesn't have, if he imports it to his Music app on his computer, Apple will auto upload to the cloud so he can stream it from other devices. I haven't used this much but it sounds pretty neat.
Have you tried using Wine?

I've an architect friend who wanted to ditch Windows - except for his cad software - which we run in a VM on the home server so can access anywhere.
Fox and Fox News are two different channels.

https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/08/the_20_greatest_shows_c...

But yes, I would also judge someone who considered Taco Bell "good" food (by any metric). "Cheap" I'd accept.
Discussing the pointlessness of fields like marketing and advertising is catnip on HN.
The FFA also tells me that because I took an low dose antidepressant in my teens for anxiety, I can't get a private pilot's license without either lying or paying tens of thousands of dollars in fees to prove that I am not suicidal. So not the most up to date organization.
Zuck bucks is quite obviously not what the virtual coin will be called when it's released.
> Screw you software, I’m in charge, not you.

This is exactly my reaction: I don't understand how people can be Ok with this.
I remember seeing this more than ten years ago already: you demand your computer to shut down (maybe you're done with your work, and you need to catch a train, and your laptop needs to shut down _right now_) and it replies with a command: "Do not shut down the computer". WHAT? Why is my computer not doing what I ask it to do? I don't think it's healthy to tolerate this kind of behavior.
That doesn't change what the parent post said. Apps still have to explicitly support that xrm flag. Some apps just don't support it.
That’s just the video channels niche - they do documentary style short vids.

There is a bit about sponsorship towards the end. Basically some of the footage is from a stock media company.

Seems like a reasonable thing to me
Leaving California? A 2022 guide to what state is best to move to
Canadian here. People over ~60 are more familiar with miles, ounces and gallons. Two generations ago was the last time they were mainstream. They tore down all the signs demarcated in miles in the 1970s. I know what they are, of course -- both the historical British Imperial units used here, and the American units. (They're different for volume! A Canadian or British gallon is about 4.1 litres, an American gallon about 3.8. So much for universal.)

I never use these units, other than in fixed expressions like "it goes on for miles". I think exclusively in metres for attempting to measure the length of anything, especially if I'm trying to be exact. Millimetres to metres to kilometres is all automatic. I don't actually know how big a yard is, other than knowing it's very slightly shorter than a metre. A foot is about 30 cm, that's how I know how big a foot is. I'd need to look at a conversion chart to tell you whether I need a t-shirt or a light jacket for 76 °F. I just know it's somewhere vaguely above freezing but not intolerably hot.

For my generation the units still in use are mostly limited to pounds (mostly for people's weight and produce), feet and inches (particularly for people's height), and cups, Farenheit and tablespoons in recipes. I've noticed even those are disappearing slowly. After a long period of dual labelling with $ per lb being larger on the sign, some stores now have $ per kg larger than the $ per lb. My mother was quite consternated when she first encountered packaging only in $ per kg a few years ago. Her generation was raised on the traditional units and switched in their teens and 20s and have been, understandably, confused by the metric units ever since. To her, a metre is thought of in terms like slightly longer than a yard. The metric units are alien and unnatural to her in the same way the traditional ones are to me.

In several provinces, they teach the American units to students as part of the curriculum. Again. After systematically excising every mention of traditional units 40 years ago. Being familiar with American units helps with trade and understanding American literature. That wasn't necessary for my generation (I could just ask my parents or an older coworker what a quart was!) but it might be now.
I think XResources are great. As a programmer you don't have to design a new configuration language and write a parser for it for every new program. However, what makes XResources better than all other configuration systems out there is the wildcard operator (e.g. Want all programs to have black background? simply do "*background: #000") and the fact that remotely forwarded programs also use your local configuration values automatically by default.
Testing in general is overrated :)
What workflow do you use to target Windows builds from Linux? For myself I've used mingw64 to compile, then NSIS as an installer. Only problem is that quite a few Windows anti-malware systems automatically flag NSIS compiled based packages as suspicious.

Also, any good guides for targeting Windows APIs for Linux programmers?
Wow. Thank you for highlighting and sharing this.
I do wonder if this was done because Apple noticed people change Album artwork more than any other metadata, and wanted to leave room so such an action would generally be quick, even on slower drives.
The role of single-board computers in engineering and computer science education
> The same is true for many other rebound effects

I use my 2.5W LED light bulbs for 2-4x the length of time as the 100W bulbs they replaced. The energy usage is night and day different (pun intended)
A couple of notes from a Windows user:

Your powershell profile script path is also available using `$Profile`. You can access a clipboard history by pressing Win + V.
What do you mean there's no point? No point in ads - yeah. No point in article - they stated that ads are not universally working. Sometimes you don't need groundbreaking results to make an interesting article.
"The RTK GPS board provides both coarse GPS location data, along with a correction stream (RTK) which sharpens the accuracy from meters to centimeters.

This last component is crucial, as it allows the OpenMower to do away with the clunky perimeter wire and know precisely where it is within the lawn, supporting multiple mowing areas and moving back and forth in a regular pattern instead of randomly turning.
"
Er... sure there is. There's a whole 'lessons learned' section with a list of points.
> First identify what people actually want, then create that.

In practice, identifying what people want is the least simplest thing. Building software is generally easy, but discovering product-market fit is the hard part.

You start with your own problems because it is likely other people face the same problems as you. Even obscure problems have may have profitable, sizable markets. But if you try imagining problems that other people have but that you don't have, then you may be too distant from the problem to adequately find a fit.

ie. building an instagram marketing SaaS tool when you've never done instagram marketing

Identifying what people want is a process, and the highest probability of success is starting with some problem you are close to.
I've done so at two companies (without naming names). Not entirely, but enough to have a bargaining chip with AWS. At the largest company, our monthly bill was at least $1M at AWS, so the savings more than made up for the engineering time.

Also, in both cases, it was moving from AWS to GCP, and in both cases we were using Kubernetes and not really using much of the provided services of the platforms. I suspect this is the biggest reason for Google to push Kubernetes; abstract away compute so it's easier to switch.
It's not useless, it's predatory, deceiving, and outright hostile. I literally have to screen my entire network to avoid being tracked by it within my own home. I don't answer phone calls because of it. I have to screen media for my children so they're not manipulated by it.
> It feels like more of our government is broken or perverted than is actually functioning correctly and beneficially.

Yes. It’s my understanding the goal of the US government is to maintain the status quo. It doesn’t much matter that the status quo is a Kafka-esque dystopian nightmare. It’s working as intended.

In other words: I’m closing this bug report; working as intended
RL4ReAl: Reinforcement Learning for Register Allocation
What can you do in bash that can't be done in PowerShell? To me, it always felt like there is a lot more stuff you can do in PowerShell. For example, it's easy to read the registry, create COM objects, etc...
I use Ubuntu & Mint as my daily driver. I have relegated Windows to a VM (Windows 8.1) and need it for iTunes (which has no Linux alternative). I also have an old version of Photoshop installed in the VM which I use a lot. I don't connect the VM to the Internet for security (what if I get a rogue .DOCX or Excel macro script trying to download malware?).
The points about non-composable software and paths is why I try to keep all of my development work when using Windows relegated to WSL2. I have no interest in dealing with Windows paths and figuring out syntax for PowerShell when I will never actually interact with a Windows Server in my life.
Is HashiCorp Nomad a Better Kubernetes?
Addressing issues by installing a complete different OS sounds very similar to just giving up.
You can, by pointing your windows to a WSUS for updates. That WSUS doesn't have to really exist.
"..you misunderstand..."

Hey, I even quoted the interpretation you explain to me here further down in the post I wrote.

What I was arguing about was whether the specific phrase "change the value of zero" makes sense to describe inflation.
I'm personally getting kind of sick of "it's not practical" as an excuse for why the general population has to suffer being poisoned and having their environment destroyed. Maybe we just don't need so many pilots and planes if it is so impractical to train and fly them?
IMO all of the comments about Wolfram as a topic are low quality, including this one.

The topic of the post is the "Wolfram Institute". I'm happy to see more investment in R&D, period. Good on Wolfram.

I will probably never seek out a job at the Wolfram Institute because I believe the title is true -- there is an abundance of scientific opportunity. Working on Wolfram's agenda would not be the best use of my time, in part because the Wolfram Institute likely won't have the resources or interest to exploit the scientific opportunities about which I'm most excited.

This is less a reflection on Wolfram than on the state of the world. Theoretical Physics of the sort Wolfram was imbued in his early career had its moment half a century ago, but has not produced fruit in a long time. I doubt that will change -- in part because even if all the stated problems were solved... so what? Similarly, computation systems seem to have hit a fevered pitch in the 2010s and are now approaching a plateau.

There are exciting opportunities in the life sciences, in robotics, and in AI. But the Wolfram Institute would be a bad place to work on those things, and in particular likely does not have the funding or expertise to do ground-breaking work in the life sciences.

I'm sure there are many who disagree with me, and I hope they find the Wolfram Institute to be a happy and productive place to do meaningful work.
This article just comes across in bad taste, or lacking a bit of self awareness. Linux is not really a viable alternative for most mainstream non technical users.

I really really don't see how you can take holier than thou view of installing software on Windows vs Linux when it seems half the packages I install on Linux never even start!

Windows is built around legacy support. They're spinning a lot of plates, which is why it feels and looks the way it does to some extent.
I believe some locales allow for water to be added to the milk, typically a very small percentage upto the volume of the lost cream. Not sure if that's true or not.

Believe it or not, the best major milk I've had is Walmart's great value brand organic. It's not as good as many of the independent dairies, but definitely the best major I've had. It comes in plastic and I believe it's UHT. I don't like to buy stuff in the paper cartons because it's usually not actual wax but PTFE/PFOA based coatings.
Very well put. You can replace Wolfram with Elon Musk and the same comment applies beautifully
The wildcard operator is probably the worst part, because it makes it impossible to know whether any given setting is going to affect any given program. The only way to know is to restart the program and check if something changed or not. It's also impossible to have a reliable way to edit those wildcard properties from a configuration GUI, for the same reason.

The better way is to just have an intentional global setting if that's what you're trying to do. On modern Linux those too can be remote forwarded over D-Bus or with any number of other mechanisms. A configuration system based on wildcard or regex matching is always going to be fragile and hard to use.
If any students are reading this and are a bit short on money, the thing that I tried was asking at the University the person that's responsible for maintaining the microscopes if they've got any old ones that are no longer in the system / written out. They might be old and maybe have some things broken, but it's much better then not having a microscope at all!

When I tried this I got a very old german one, which still works perfectly, the only real issue with it is that it no longer has a light, but I fixed that by simply using my phone's flash and covering the flash with a piece of paper so that the light is diffused.

I think this option is really good for beginners because essentially you're getting a professional grade microscope and because it might be broken here and there you won't feel that bad tinkering with it, which will in the end just result in you knowing your microscope much better!

Also many things are standard, so you might be able to just get replacement parts if needed.

Just an option, that you might want to check out ^^

This doesn't apply only for microscope, but for pretty much anything, many universities and companies have old gear that's no longer in use and is just sitting in storage, written out, that they'll happily give away. Including books! Especially at the university's library where they might be space constrained, they often just give old books away! At my unversity they have two tables infront of the library and on it they put books that you can take and keep.

When I got my microscope, as a thanks I gave the professor an orchid and a black chocolate ^^
Now I'm going to be "that guy" who buys Pop Tarts on eBay to get the right flavor. Thanks! (said with equal parts sarcasm and gratitude)
nb: pushed my way through the French version. it sparkles. night and day.

https://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-passe-a-table/article/2022/0...
Then we read different articles. Window arrangement, multi-monitor mode, depth of the Windows Store, and automatic rebooting are still bothersome after tuning a perfect WSL.
Interesting to hear. A friend also had a lot of trouble with Linode reliability and moved to a bigcorp after that. Running a multiplayer game, even turn-based, had huge hiccups and the problem simply didn't reproduce on the new systems. Iirc support couldn't do anything but I'd have to ask for the details.

He spent a lot of time debugging it with a minimal example to rule out other causes, iirc a websocket pinging every few seconds on their kubernetes offering (again, I'd have to ask for the details), and it reproduced on Linode but not on the platform they were considering moving to (with a similar hosted kubernetes offering).
That's a good maxim for dealing with people you meet in real life. It's a useless maxim for dealing with trillion dollar multinationals.
Both Windows and OS X have become utterly unreliable for my professional and increasingly personal use.

Here's the smell test:

If I stop working on something and go to the shop, or to sleep, or say "It's 8pm on Friday, I can pick this back up on Monday", can I reliably walk away and have my stuff (apps, sessions, etc.) where I left it when I come back?

Not. A. Hope.

I've done all the regedit hacks, the group policy changes, the mouse jiggler, but it's never enough.

Your computer shouldn't fight you. Homeservers have uptimes measured in weeks or months, that's what I need my desktop to be like.
Unit tests are essential. I've developed some devops code around self-healing where the degrading signals were not reproducible. We knew they occurred because we lost a non-trivial number of nodes a day. A weird set of bugs between Linux, Kubernetes & Docker. The problem was we could recognize the signals and take action. The entire daemon I created to trap and execute on these was built and deployed on unit tests. In fact, I had more lines of unit test code than actual functional code because I had to mock the hell out of what the actual system would look like.

Another situation - where my wife used to work in medical devices. Feature development velocity was a problem because there was a queue on the very limited set of devices (CT scanners, PET scanners, etc.) that the team could use for testing. Debugging was very hard. Fixing bugs was hard because to debug you needed a device. With unit testing and mocks they made a lot of contention on the devices go away.

Write your unit tests. It will help you and the people coming in after you to maintain the code.
ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile
The FAA is among many federal agencies that are the result of delegated authority from Congress. They have been (so far) unsuccessfully argued to be unconstitutional, the argument is that the constitution doesn't give Congress the power to delegate their authority. These agencies are quasi-legislative, they make their own regulations both applied internally but on the public; for the FAA these are the Federal Aviation Regulations or FARs. They are quasi-judicial, they have their own enforcement. Pilots, manufacturers, flight schools - anyone and anything regulated by the FAA caught violating FARs are subject to enforcement action by the FAA, they don't go before a judge or a jury. And they are also quasi-executive, because they enforce their own regulations.

If you've heard of separation of powers, three branches of government, this regulatory arrangement is the exact opposite. While you get all kinds of specialization within these different departments, they're also sufficiently divorced from accountability that they aren't really accountable, except by budgeting. Congress can and frequently does just decide to defund specific projects within departments.

Quite a lot of this bureaucracy is by design though, Congress is highly incentivized to spend more time campaigning/taking legalized bribes, and less time making laws and keeping track of where all the money is spent, and if it's spent effectively and per the law - hence another department that specializes in that so Congress doesn't do it unless there's a TV reason (raise money) to do it. That'd be the GAO.

So it all comes back to money and not civic duty.

But this kind of government is exactly what we get in a culture that values entertainment over facts, spectator sports over citizenry, the incivility of outrage politics over civility, illiberalism over liberalism. And the impatience of people over due process does incentivize the desire for personalities who can break through the log jam, maybe even violate the law, and force bureaucrats to do their job - autocracy all very appealing to the weak minded, and there's a lot of that.

If the society were more on the same page than not, we'd stand a better chance of amending the constitution and get money out of politics. But we're not, so oh well.
There are certain classes of work that are completely ignored by most companies such as build, automation, developer tooling and infrastructure cost cutting. These are not flashy features that you can show off to customers but they can pay in dividends year over year.

(Personally, I have saved millions a year in infrastructure costs and my promotions/compensation were not close to what a sales person would get if they brought in millions of recurring revenue)
And cigarette ads on TV, designed for children, etc.
The author says right in the article that paid search is valuable for bootstrapping when you have no or few users, which suggests that the author does not think they would have reached their current profitability without some paid search early on.
Life is a musical thing, per Alan Watts:

https://youtu.be/ERbvKrH-GC4
> But these chiplet chips can only be properly tested when all the chiplets have been assembled into a package

Why is that, though? Could you have a physical test harness for a chiplet that mocks out the others, sends input to your chiplet, and make sure it's operating correctly? Maybe that's harder than it sounds, I'm coming at this from a software perspective.
Part of it is that his writing is unclear. Not the technical parts, but generally. It's long and full of clauses and often a few sentence fragments shoved together with dashes. It's just taxing to read his prose.

Combined with some bravado and deep technical jargon, the reader is forgivably resentful of the entire experience.
Some of the best products don't need advertising at all. Raspberry Pis for example, I actually cannot recall ever seeing an ad for a Raspberry Pi. Word of mouth, seeing examples of it in use - now you might call a Youtube video on how to set up a Pi as a headless server on your local network 'guerrilla marketing' or something, but I rather doubt that was paid for, people just like showing off their little Pi projects.
Another conclusion could be that he was doing bad advertising, and should have improved it.