skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust's Result type is way less verbose than Go's error handling though.

Checked exceptions would have been fine if they composed decently with rest of the language...
You can always still run you Pebble Time with Rebble [0] :) I still use mine to this day!

[0] https://rebble.io/
You don't need an app for window splitting. If you hold Option ⌥ key and hover over the green circle, there will be "Move Window to Left side of the screen" and "Move Window to Right side of the screen" options presented instead of "Tile Window to Left of Screen" and "Tile Window to Right of Screen" options. Those don't create a new virtual desktop.
The idea of "protect the rainforest" offsets, and "avoided emissions" offsets in general, is as follows:

1. Party A is planning some carbon-emitting activity, such as cutting down an acre of forest, or operating their diesel bus.

2. Party B is also planning some carbon-emitting activity, such as operating their cement plant.

3. Party B pays party A to halt / avoid their carbon-emitting activity.

Note that nowhere in this scenario is anyone removing any CO2 from the atmosphere; they're just jockeying over who gets to keep emitting.

If you're thinking, "but merely by existing, the rainforest is actively pulling carbon out of the atmosphere", then that's a separate, complicated topic and not what I'm trying to address here. If you prefer, strike out "preserve an acre of forest" and substitute "replace my diesel bus with an electric bus".

> what happens when all of the Amazon offsets have been sold and I still want to emit CO2?

Again, to avoid getting bogged down in complicated analysis of the carbon dynamics of forests, let's focus on the diesel-bus example. Each year, I can pay the bus owner to continue leasing an electric bus, rather than the diesel bus, for that year. I can keep "offsetting" my cement plant forever.
Gopro has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for many years now. Its stock fell from $87 in 2014 to $2 in 2020 (has recovered somewhat to $8 now). They started looking for buyers for the company in 2018 but still haven't found one. Hardly what I'd consider a major success.

iRobot has a somewhat better story, but is overall not worth too much more than Gopro (~$1.5B). It is also not a recent startup but has its roots in DARPA grants and defense contracts from the 90s.
And yet the theories of the free market, like many physical models, retain significant predictive power!
Tmux. No anything else. Just boot to CLI and tmux.
To reinforce giraffe_lady's point:

> Differences in world view are less significant when the bureaucrats and executives with power over your life live nearby instead of in another city and state.

That can happen. But what also did happen is that the bureaucrats and executives with power of your life were also very much under the influence (and in some cases, direct control) of local (and non-local) wealth. That influence/control can be very hard or impossible to tackle with only local politics (history has shown this to be clearly the case, many, many times).
Podcasts:

Knowledge Fight. Dan and JorDan listen to and talk about how crazy Alex Jones is.

Behind the Bastards. A history about people who broke the world. They just finished a six parter about Kissinger.
Are we talking about the SE?

If so, I have one too. Closest thing to the iPhone 4, which I consider the peak of the line.
If it makes you feel any better amazfit carry’s the torch now for long battery e-ink smartwatches, I still think the pebble did it better but at least there’s something out there.
At this point, my work is around tasks, not applications. I hardly ever need more than one window in the same application simultaneously. What I need is my browser open next to a document, or a spreadsheet open next to powerpoint.
Still wearing my Pebble Time Round every day. The form factor is unmatched by any other smartwatch before or since. I don't think anyone else is even trying to make a watch this thin and it's a damn shame.
> > The post is from someone new to Macs.

> No it’s from someone new to the MacOS GUI. That’s it.

I don't understand how these are meaningfully different. Is your objection that you expected the user to have previously been well-versed with macOS via a Hackintosh?

> This person is new to computers in general and maybe is a longtime windows-user but that’s all they are.

You have, in fact, iterated the opposite cases from being a first-time Mac user: either they are a first time computer user, or they are a long-time computer user, just with a different OS (likely Windows).
I and my entire family are buying minis. Just goes to show anecdotal evidence is utterly meaningless.
I liked my Microsoft Band 2 much better than my Apple Watch (it's been gathering dust for the past ~2 years, but even before than I rarely used it).

Wonder why they killed that one...
Ukrainian Twitch Stars Are Streaming the War to Their Russian Audience
how can this be legal?
Thanks for linking that! There's a lot of good analysis in there, and it does indeed ameliorate my opinion somewhat.
> Is there a single startup success story in the consumer hardware space?

Epiphan Video ([1], [2])? They are fairly successful at selling their hardware to video streamers (both, b2c and b2b). They didn't do IPO as there was no pressure to do so - they primarily bootstrapped themselves. It's not a well-known story, but the market did allow them to exist & succeed.

1. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/epiphan-video

2. https://obj.ca/article/techopia/kanata-based-epiphan-videos-...
So I gave him a cheque for payment, but he never bothered to deposit it into his account.
The only way to make "pay for emissions" actually do what we want it to do without degenerating into countless scams and excess management wastage, is tax it at the literal coal face, and at the port. The market really will figure out who pays what share of the price increases, that's what markets a great at.

It needs to be done slowly, so that markets and stakeholders have time to adjust, and there are no great shocks that destroy otherwise-solvent businesses or industries, but it's the only way it can ever be done fairly.
Ironically when I tried to run that in vterm in emacs it triggered an Emacs command which failed.
Actually UTF-8 WITH BOM csv file also can be read/written like that since Excel 2016, but of course average users aren't knowledgeable as like programmers.
Of course! You can check out the demo code here: https://github.com/supabase/realtime/tree/multiplayer.
Some of my cherry picked across genres
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7IpVRpcBuVMXDoEGvcIhcL?si=...

Blog article explaining

https://rohitjha.com/blog/podcasts-i-like/
> Tear gas is a great way to safely control crowds without firing gunshots. I've been subjected to it myself and while it's not pleasant, no lasting damage results from it.

It’s literally banned in warfare. Sorry but this is ridiculous.

No, running people over is never a proper response to violence. They’re policemen. They should disengage. Not plow into literal citizens of the country they’re supposed to be protecting. (Anyway, the videos did not show anyone trying to get inside the car — the protesters were behind barricades. Try watching them.)

Again, you haven’t given any actual evidence this is happening. The single piece of evidence you gave is still a case of clear cut brutality, you admitted it yourself.

Finally, again, even if they are “a few bad apples”, they not get punished. And their supposedly valiant comrades don’t stop them from doing these things. The system is corrupt.
> Falling implies downward velocity. Free-fall is a different term that implies downward acceleration.

The GGP didn't say zero-g "is" falling. They said it's "the same as" falling. Which, for purposes of this discussion, it is, for the reason I gave--the key common property is being weightless, i.e., free falling.

Note, btw, that "free-fall" does not necessarily imply "downward acceleration". It just means "weightless". You could be weightless, in free fall, far out in deep space well away from all gravitating bodies, so that there is no well-defined notion of "downward acceleration" in your vicinity.
> natural fit for how my brain works

and that is a perfectly sensible way of looking at this (and many other) fanboi discussions over the decades.

But then again, if such sensibility ever took hold in the majority of humans, it would be the end of social media as we know it :-)
...and it did
The problem with the country is that the bulk of it has retreated into paranoid fantasies.
Huh. People actually use window snapping? Interesting. Never seen anyone use it myself.
For anyone doing this, just keep in mind that chucking on a LIMIT 1 can give you a false sense of security. For example, say you want to drop a single row but forget the WHERE. A LIMIT 1 will return "yep, deleted one row" but it's not the one you wanted (instead, it's whatever row came up first). Better to do the operation in a transaction that you can rollback - that way, you can better validate the results of your operation before committing.
Apologies, it's a bit complicated to get the demo server up and running. I'll put together the instructions and link it here.
I wonder would Norway change their country code to avoid confusing "No"
PDF for [2] at https://info-gap.net.technion.ac.il/files/2018/05/mil-eff006...

Christopher Lawrence took over after Dupuy. He explains the current state of their project in War by Numbers (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32824088-war-by-numbers). He brings this methodology to bear on some recent conflicts in America's Modern Wars (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22224145-america-s-moder...). Reviews have been very skeptical.[1,2]

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0968344517747141k

[2] https://www.miwsr.com/2016/downloads/2016-039.pdf [PDF]
I had a similar experience: I was semi-forced to use a Mac for over a decade due to how much of my iOS-focused development work started to rely on tooling people only made for macOS, but when the pandemic started (due to being stuck at a desk all the time)--and now mostly working on non-"mobile" software-- I switched back to Windows and it was relieving.
A 100% competitive free market is the analogue to a frictionless vacuum in physics. It's a convenient model for academic purposes, but it's not something that really exists.
Agree. And to add another huge risk factor into the mix, how do you know that the offsets will last through the impacts of climate change? What if a company emits CO2 today, and purchases offsets which invest in the growth of a forest somewhere. In X years, that forest experiences the most intense wildfire season on record and all the carbon they paid to sequester go up in flames. Their offset is worth nothing, yet they already cashed out. Nobody wins, except the polluter who is strangely not liable to keep up their end of the bargain.
"I want the benefits of people serving me, but it's awkward to actually interact with them"
It's just the difference between a depth=2 tree and a flat list. What's better depends on your access patterns, but at least semantically, the tree makes a lot more sense to me.
This reminds me of Dan Luu post about outages and post-mortems [1]:

> For more on this, Ding Yuan et al. have a great paper and talk: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems. The paper is basically what it says on the tin. The authors define a critical failure as something that can take down a whole cluster or cause data corruption, and then look at a couple hundred bugs in Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, and Redis, to find 48 critical failures. They then look at the causes of those failures and find that most bugs were due to bad error handling. 92% of those failures are actually from errors that are handled incorrectly.

[1] https://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/
Sounds like Anchor Bay's DVDO iScan VP50 Video Processor from the old times:

https://atlona.com/pdf/DVDO_iScan_VP50_PRO.pdf
Abseil flag library has --help and --helpfull flag.

For a code base as large as Google's, using --helpfull to output every single flag that is defined in the libraries you depend on will output a huge wall of text and often not very useful.

I always had an idea to write a --helpful flag that will pipe --helpfull output to $PAGER. That's definitely more helpful than --helpfull.

https://abseil.io/docs/python/guides/flags#special-flags
This is absolutely PR speak that fails to address the real issue.

Which is that the airline pays peanuts and nobody wants to fly for it.

It's the same shit as the grocery up the street having a sign in their window asking everyone to bear with them because of staffing shortages. The sign's been up there for almost two years. They aren't fooling anybody.
The tech community likes to imagine that Pebble would still be going strong if they stuck to their early product vision, but I'm not so sure that would have helped:

> Sales for our version 2.0 (Pebble Time) in 2015 didn’t hit forecasts and the oversupply in inventory put us into a major cash crunch (targeted ~$100m in sales, we did $82m).

That $82m in sales is still 8X higher than their 1st kickstarter sales and 4X higher than the 2nd kickstarter. They actually did ramp up sales and sell a lot, but they built and spent as if they were going to sell even more than they actually did.

The unclear half-pivot into different spaces didn't help, but I don't see how they would have done better if they had ignored the fitness space altogether. The market for people who want lo-fidelity hackable wristwatches is going to saturate quickly.
>I can't say I feel much sympathy towards the Iraqis here, but it does seem a tad bit vindictive.

they could have always surrender and become POW.
do you want to go back to "mom and pops" shops in lieu of supermarket chains? I don't.
I would like supermarket chains to treat their employees better and I'm willing to pay 10% more for it.
Institutions are error correction. If more than a certain threshold percentage of the population is straight up violently racist, no amount of quality institutions can recover signal from that noise.

Suppose x% of people will vote to convict a black man no matter the evidence, and the remaining 1-x% have a y% chance of erroneously voting to convict irrespective of race. At what value of x do you expect 2/3rds of wrongful convictions to be black?
I have one of these and highly recommend it. Do note it is expressly for converting older digital signals to HDMI though. MDA and CGA are really difficult to find displays for these days, since even old CRT monitors have trouble with vsyncs lower than what VGA uses. And of those, the ones still in working order are exceptionally rare.
Unfortunately, the limited training data makes the results here substantially less impressive or interesting compared to the original DALL-E. Shame that the original model wasn’t released.

DALL-E 2 is in a whole ‘nother universe.
Are you able to say where? You've piqued my curiosity.
> Over the next few years, we sold 2 million watches and did over $230m in sales.

According to Wikipedia: The Apple Watch was released in April 2015 and quickly became the best-selling wearable device: 4.2 million were sold in the second quarter of fiscal 2015.

In a single quarter, Apple sold twice as many watches as Pebble did in total. Pebble was doomed once Apple entered the market to be anything but a niche product.
I thought the Gulf Stream only traveled west to east, but I’m sure there are other prevailing winds that blimps could take advantage of if they were designed to use them? I honestly have never thought about this before, so thanks for that food for thought.

How much faster could blimps travel in these air currents?
A leisurely 6% of C!
No doubt that multiplexing is useful, and macOS is NOT as good as something like BSPWM or EXWM. I didn’t mean that multiplexing/tiling/snapping is not useful. I meant that I don’t know why windows makes you multiplex over your desktop. It just clutters things. I know there’s Win+d to get to desktop (or something), but it just feels wrong to have many layers. It’s like a pile of junk. I consider it to be a real desktop in this sense. A window is a piece of paper, something on the desktop is an appliance (clock, pen, whatever). I wouldn’t want 5-10 pieces of paper laying on top of all my appliances. I want them spread out in separate spaces on the desk.
Apparently less than a third.

Beyond that, even if that was theoretically possible, the empirical outcome seems to suggest it's not working, and another pathway isn't a bad idea.
1. CMD-tab to application with minimized window.

2. Ctrl-down for "Mission Control > Application windows"

3. Down arrow to select minimized

4. Enter

This even works when all windows of application are minimized.

It's a tradeoff: takes more keypresses to access the minimized window, but prevents the minimized window from getting in the way most of the time. Which is what you want if you've minimized it.
> I get that listening to me repetitously work out a song or musical phrase for an hour might not be pleasant... but is it really as bad as noise from motorcycles, lawnmowers, and car alarms?

At equal volume, it's actually worse. Music is harder to tune out than mechanical noise.

> For those who enjoy hearing their own music but still feel this way: how do you expect new musicians to come into existence, new music to be made? Is it not a racket worth its trouble? Is there any solace in knowing that the person making such noise is doing so with the specific goal of creating enjoyable noise in the future?

No.
I partially agree, sure all countries use some sort of espionage and non-fair game, but difference in share of these activities from all.

- For soviet/communists, espionage and non-fair game are primary activities, because they absolutely avoid very normal for human exchange relations, more known as trade, which are primary for democracy countries.
What I would consider "free software" is beside the point. I'm not trying to propose a new definition of "free software" or argue for some particular way of labeling projects as "free software". I'm just pointing out that if a project author decides to provide anything more in relation to their project than their source code for free online, they are taking on a potential burden in time and effort, and if the burden becomes too much for them to provide for free, they will either need to start charging for it, or stop doing it. The SSLPing project has taken option number two.
You're not including all the hours that you spend waiting without getting paid for it. For every hour you are flying, you'll spend another waiting at the airport.

Other airlines pay for this time, Alaska does not. Which is why they can't find pilots. Their overall pay is crap.
This is very silly and I urge you to rethink this position. The software is free, it contains a very explicit warranty disclaimer, and the implicit social contract is that nobody owes anyone anything. There is no fraud here.

If you download the code I posted to my GitHub account and try to do something with it, and it doesn’t work or you don’t understand it or I didn’t bother writing docs, that is in fact very much on you.

Perhaps my software project has lots of docs and I’m super helpful to users, and it is therefore more likely to be popular, or perhaps it does not have those properties and will stay obscure, but either way it is your job to decide what free software to use, not mine to make it up to your standards.

I have never seen paywalled OSS docs and it seems like a silly idea, but that doesn’t make it fraudulent or even bad. It just makes it perhaps inadvisable to use. Which again is on you.
Just another example of Silicon Valley being ahead of its time: The Winchester House is pretty much exactly this. It used to be 5 stories, too, until the 1906 quake gave it a haircut.
I view the "independent" label to actually just mean "my party isn't part of my identity." Most "independents" consistently vote for one party, they just aren't married to it in principle.
You have to look outside of mass-market consumer products.

The problem with mainstream tech is that it's a race to the bottom. Consumers have extremely high expectations for both the product and the ongoing support. Only the biggest companies can afford to amortize the R&D costs across enough units to compete.

Step into niche hardware and hobbyist domains and there are small companies everywhere. The smaller markets are too small for big companies to play in and the users are savvy enough that they're willing to pay for high margin products instead of picking whatever is cheapest at Best Buy.
I'm curious to hear what you think the reason was that Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Oh, absolutely that's true; even with privacy-focused, hosted systems like Proton or FastMail there's always that tiny shadow of doubt that they're doing what they're saying they do.
I live in Berlin, but I am not from Germany, nor from Europe. I never understand the complains on the quality of trains (or the public transport in general) in Berlin at least. And I am from Buenos Aires, where we have great transport system (subway, buses, trains). Still, Berlins is much better.
> We honestly thought that smartwatches were about to be a big thing for a lot of people

I think you were right.

I remember when my Time2 Kickstarter refund came, I was seriously considering using that money to buy an Apple Watch. But I didn't like the plasticy look/feel of the base models, and wasn't prepared to spend twice as much to get one with the nice metal mesh strap. I then spent about half that money on three 2nd hand Russian mechanical watches on eBay, and that was the start of a small but very enjoyable collection and hobby.

Now I'd guess 70% of my friends have a modern smart watch on their wrist, while I'm usually rocking my (poorly faked) Yuri Gagarin Sturmanskie replica, or my Raketa Big Zero, or my Amphibia. And I've got half a dozen eBay alerts waiting for a few interesting mechanical watches I want to add to my collection...
What if your C compiler fills up your negative dentry cache during, say, a kernel compile, because it's looking for a huge number of include files that don't exist, since the C preprocessor uses a very simplistic algorithm to decide where it needs to look for include files? (This is one of the examples in the paragraph in the article that I referred to.)
How do you reconcile a strong federal government with the fugitive slave act, the Dred Scott decision or the Patriot Act? The federal government is just as capable of making terrible policy as the states. But whereas a person can easily escape a state whose policies they find to be reprehensible, (you could literally move to a new state over a weekend) escaping the USA is not really an option for most.
I have been wondering similar to you as to where the cut off is for "fine woodworking".

In my view, go to town! Craftsmen in the past might have done a lot by hand but they used every tool they could!

But I understand other opinions may differ.
Tongue in cheek: at what point is it cheaper to send three sizes (exact and +1/-1)?
Peloton and Roku come to mind. But yeah, most seem to be acquired at some point, if successful.
Unless you like shimmer inks, which will clog your nice Metropolitan or Safari. A quill pen works just fine there, if you like taking the time to DIY. More people choose glass dip pens instead.

But me, yes I'll stick to my TWSBI Eco, Pilot Custom Urushi, and Lamy 2000, with a nice Blue-Black instead.
People do not understand what democracy is.

A lot of people confuse democracy and elections.

Voting can be used as a democratic mechanism, but it can also be an instrument of oppression.
The keyboard shortcut to switch to them in ctrl-down (or whatever you have set to "Application windows") and then arrow keys.
- Oculus

- Fitbit

- Raspberry Pi (I suppose this is not really consumer)

- Withings

- Peloton

- Tonal

But the biggest success is definitely Oculus. Definitely a hard thing to get right.