skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this reads to me as a rant of someone who just finished their undergrad degree in sociology and wants to show it.
some specifics aside, the same article might as well been a topic some 10, 30, 60 years ago. re-packaging an old opinion that our society is degenerating for whatever contemporary reasons without actually providing any constructive solutions does not feel very productive to me. ironic that the not very fitting metaphor of anorexia is used here.
Hence the quote:

"There are white lies, damned lies and statistics"

Funny that all the major ML marvels are also built on statistical foundations - a tool used as much as abused.
Might even make sense in-orbit, for sending probes, further out, giving them initial boost. Wouldn't need to be so powerful either. Just small initial boost could do wonders.

Problem (for both lunar or in orbit idea) is getting the heavy motors off earth.
Wat?

Rust has been a very stable language since Rust 1.0. They have a stellar record of keeping things working - with most code breaking being due to said code invoking UB. The edition system is a brilliant invention that allows evolving the language _without_ causing an ecosystem split. Thanks to this, Rust ends up having a much better stability story than even C++ (for whom you can't really mix and match different C++ versions).

The bootstrapping situation is really not that bad? We have mrustc (A C++ rust->C transpiler) which allows compiling modern versions of rustc (latest supported rustc version being 1.54), which we can then iteratively bootstrap from up to the latest version. And things are getting better, with gccrs[0] in particular promising a rust frontend for GCC, written in C.

As for the "curl something|bash", I suppose you're talking about rustup. You're free to download the script, and review it before installing it. And rust is also distributed many different ways. At least `curl something|bash` does not require root account, unlike `sudo apt install`, which can be very convenient. Like all things: Multiple options are generally better.

[0] https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
A serious, non-trolling question to all. I've not had a TV for decades and for me that's a good thing. I've watched TVs in pubs (I'm in the uk) and round my mates' houses so it's not become some strange alien thing, and I'm still happy to be without it (that is, on balance; there are good things about broadcast TV and some bad, and the latter outweighs the former for me).

In your opinion, is there actual overall value to still having a TV any more or is it just a habit? The number of ultra cheap space-filler productions (reality TV about police chases being one, but how many cookery programmes are there now?)seem to have diluted everything worth watching to almost zero.

(I do watch DVDs on computer BTW)
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> "I wonder if they've thought of this yet?"

The comment doesn't say that.

> never occurred to them to investigate your reason?

The comment doesn't say that.
With inanimate objects the same happens if you consider humans doing maintenance as part of the system: if some part gets damaged all the time because it's too weak we strengthen it or replace it with a stronger version.
Everything in OCaml, a blog generated and served in OCaml using MirageOS
anyhow is for careless error propagation, where you know you won't do elaborate handling and just bubble it up to the user. It's suitable for (some) applications, but not for libraries, and a kernel falls on the "library" side of that divide. Errors should be handled by the kernel itself or reported carefully to userspace. anyhow is not built for that. (It also puts its errors on the heap—what do you do if memory allocation fails when reporting an error?)

Linux has its own UUID infrastructure, so it seems weird to pull in a whole parallel implementation. At the very least you'd want to disable all the generation code, and it's unclear to me if the uuid crate supports that.

rand is large. Does Linux need all the probability distributions it supports? (ripgrepping for "Bernoulli" only turns up the name of a floppy disk system, so probably not.) Doesn't it already have an implementation for the ones it does need?
Lots of reasons. If you’re a gamer with a shiny new PS5 or Xbox then you’ll want the various updates for things like VRR and tweaks to the HDR performance. There are often other fixes and new features too that relate to image or audio quality.

I didn’t accept the various EULAs on my LG C1 TV. I’m able to update firmware but I don’t use any of its Apps. Instead I use an Apple TV for streaming and we don’t have a cable subscription. I haven’t checked how much data the LG is leaking (I really should turn off its Wi-Fi) and I trust Apple just enough to be less shady than LG.
The UN was always meant to be just a multilateral space where the players were diplomats who’s job is to cultivate and maintain alliances. If it had teeth (enforcement power) it would essentially be an unelected government and most sovereign nation would reject that. Compromise as a solution to conflict seems to be something we’re finding less palatable these days.
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter: Everything You Need to Know
I will say this about the world, though. (As someone who hasn't gone to an office job in 20 years).

* No one builds rapport through zoom meetings.

* People have forgotten how to handle chance encounters, and display a lot of signs of social discomfort now when they do have them.

* People also stopped taking care of themselves during the pandemic, at the same time everyone started working from home.

The world is realizing what offroad warrior freelancers like me realized a long time ago, but it takes time to realize it: It's actually hard to organize your time and take care of yourself in the absence of formal structure. I think it will take 20 years or so before a majority of people in white collar positions really adjust to creating their own work/life balance now that it's open to them to choose how to manage their geographic place and time. It's actually a lot of responsibility, and something a lot of people never asked for.
It can, but that would be slow and cost would be prohibitive.
There's so much focus on the UX here to alert you to a destructive action, but I haven't seen anyone mention this: why does Github even delete stars, and why on earth is it permanent?

It seems like a temporary UX hack put in place because some tricky implementation detail handling stars on private repos. Like they said "we'll fix that later" and then the warning message stayed.

In a well designed system, making a repo public/private would be a switch where full state is retained back and forth.

I mean, it's kinda hypothetical but stars aren't even completely useless in a private repo (for a sufficiently large set of users with access).

I'd go further and say that even the UX around the destructive act of deleting a repo shouldn't be necessary: that seems undo-able. Overwriting would still need a warning (creating a repo in a namespace that previously contained data) as would anything involving losing access (deleting an org, freeing it up to the community at large), but not needing it for repo deletion-a relatively common action-would go a long way toward reducing "autopilot".
And the whole Elon stuff? Compared to that even solar roadways are more realistic.

And here we are talking about spinlaunch.....
I don't know if I'm getting cynical or close-minded or just old but I'm very quick to roll my eyes at an article like this. I don't get the appeal.
I have to say I strongly disagree with this take. I hate it every time that I have to go through a thread that’s just comment under comment. It’s so hard to keep up with multiple conversations going around.
oh yeah, plus there's a whole FDA equivalent for homeopathic pharmaceuticals. On the other hand, at least here, when you buy a supplement, you are guaranteed that it contains the active ingredient as it says on the bottle.
Looks fantastic but I can't do 16:9 anymore.
All the comments are from new accounts created in the last 40 minutes + the OP is a new account too. Yeah not suspicious at all
Also on some Samsung tv: it needs to connect to download the Terms and Conditions, then it will prompt you to accept them and then it will work/remember last used input. The download happent overnight on very good net access, I guess because their servers are very busy.
It seems healthiest for companies and people to choose: have all-remote or all-in-person. It’s the muddled hybrid model that’s the worst of all worlds.
You probably have the previous generation, the one I got is a chromebox 3, link to picture of MB provided above, you can check the SSD spot, the stand-off for the mount can be moved to an alternate position for a longer SSD on that one.

Be very careful when moving that stand off so you don't damage the circuitry.
Demystifying iOS Code Signature
I don't find the "autocorrelation" explanation intuitive (although it may be equivalent to what I'm about to suggest). The way I think about it, is that it comes about because the y-axis is a percentile rank. How does it actually work for people to give unbiased estimates of their performance as percentiles? For the people at the 50th percentile in truth, they could give a symmetric range of 45-55 as their estimates, and it would be unbiased. But what about the people at the 99th percentile? They can't give a range of 94-104, the scale only goes as high as 100. So even if they are unbiased (whatever that means in this context), their range of estimates in percentile terms has to be asymmetrical, by construction. So, even if people are unbiased, if you were to plot true percentile vs subjective estimated percentile, the estimated scores would "pull toward" the centre. Then the only thing you need to replicate the Dunning-Kruger graph is to suppose that people have a uniform tendency to be overconfident, i.e. that people over-rate their abilities, but to an extent unrelated to their true level of skill. The estimated score at the left side of the graph goes higher, but it can't go as high on the right side of the graph because it butts up against the 100 percentile ceiling. Then you end up with a graph that looks like lower skilled people are more overconfident than higher skilled people are underconfident.
Required reading:

https://zenodo.org/record/6412487/files/Report%20on%20the%20...
I freelance full time. Sign up for TopTal or Gun.io - if you're good you'll get work immediately. The rate is up to you but likely somewhere between $50-$100/hr. I'm on both platforms and see jobs every week for React. Some are full time, others are 10-20hrs / week. You can even continue on the side once you get a full time job. I get LinkedIn recruiter messages every week and most of the time the rates are terrible, so haven't had much luck there. HN seeking freelancer also has contract / part time gigs occasionally.
A shield for the Arduino Mega that can back up video game cartridges
This kind of reductive ad nauseum accounting is why nothing ever gets done in the west anymore.
But consumers would buy dumb TVs with dongles if that’s what they made. We used to buy digital set top boxes. Antennas. VCRs. DVD players.

Manufacturers definitely jumped on the chance to add software and an internet connection to TVs. Why sell a product once, when you can do that and then sell your customers to ad agencies?
Thanks for the rec. It doesn't have to be a lisp, but if I'm switching from Ruby I wanted to get something much more major in return, and the REPL features fit the bill. The reason is that when scripting, I often need to debug and explore the problem while the script is running, and most languages don't make that easy. Ruby's debugger (and formerly, pry) is pretty useful, but a full fat REPL would make the experience far more joyful.

As for that line, maybe it's my Ruby heritage, but I didn't find it particularly unreadable! Chaining messages is pretty tight and very useful for one liners.
No worries! I think it'll be most fair if I just let you know when these are fixed, and you can properly use them, performantly, with a sane output option (that's not stream native, but something like JSON). I.e. LIMIT won't work with stream_output.

If you want to add it to the first one, I won't oppose, but don't feel pressured to do it. Especially the third query does highlight a very realistict limitation of OctoSQL as it works right now, so it's only fair as it is.
Showdead is useful. There are so few dead posts that not turning it on is foolish, at least game theoretically if not pragmatically.
> And yes, sometimes it is important to expect humans to not make mistakes. For example, at railway crossings. Even if you drove over it 100 times and no train came, the 101th time you may still die if you don't check for a train before crossing.

For somebody going through a railway crossing, yes, they shouldn't allow themselves to be prone any mistakes there. However, for the people involved in the construction of the railway crossing, they should certainly expect everyone to screw up and scrutinize the safety. We don't want to leave anything affecting livelihoods to chance.

"On average, each year around 400 people in the European Union and over 300 in the United States are killed in level crossing accidents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossing#Safety
Across my house, cars, and personal tech, I don’t have to squint too hard to see a never-ending stream of repairs, renovation, and replacement.
Yeah it's like an inflatable dinghy. You have it around in storage until you need it. Germany at the moment has just declared they will inflate their military.
> They do some things better than Framework such as supporting Ryzen processors

For some weird reason if you pick a non-english keyboard you can only pick the i7-1165G7 (which IMHO is the worst proposal of the three available if you pick an english keyboard).
69.4201337 to be exact
> And, I'm pretty sure this is true everywhere.
In a highly competitve place (mostly due to population), they'll say something like, "he's from the janitor class, but thats okay, because he's a doctor" to justify marrying outside the caste.

Well, I don't think there is a concept of "janitor class" "everywhere"...

Of course social classes exist everywhere, but I think your example just shows what a caste system is : if a son-of-janitor becomes a doctor the in-laws in most modern societies will see a doctor, whereas in a caste system they will see a (son-of-) janitor.
I would imagine the kernel would use cargo vendor, or similar, to lock all dependencies into their chosen source control and quality requirements.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-vendor.html
The total "active troops prepared for deployment and sustained operations" in Europe is less than 40k [1]. That's at least 3x fewer than Russia has committed to this war. That's less than Ukraine's deployed military before the war.

> Russia is no longer an existential threat to Europe.

If only I ever said anywhere whether I thought Russia was an existential threat to Europe. Stop. Re-evaluate. There's a specific point I was replying to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...
Rithmomachy – The Philosophers' Board Game
Amazon is still very much customer obsessed. The problem is that you are no longer the customer; their customers are the millions of scammy businesses that sell on their site.
he means in the context of a kernel developer. im sure there is some nerd who would rewrite stuff to prove to themselves and shutup their inner imposter syndrome. but mostly its quite accurate.
To make the point a little clearer - natural gas is an important resource for the chemical industry, for example input to the Haber-Bosch synthesis of Ammonia. The Hydrogen used is mostly gained from methane, that is natural gas. Ammonia is fundamental in producing fertilizer - cutting of natural gas could severely reduce fertilizer production, at a time when two of the largest grain exporters are at war and unlikely to produce much in terms of exports.

It’s possible to produce the required hydrogen using electricity and electrolysis, but not at a moments notice. You can’t just easily replace gas in electricity production by using nuclear- gas power plants are used for peak load, nuclear power plants for base load.
I find it disappointing that non US/UK keyboard layout adds 200€ to the price. Surely the extra cost they have is a small fraction of that.
You're not getting any TV "signal" without a modern OS. Not even ATSC
In my experience you can build rapport through video calls. For certain not in meetings with groups, but on 1:1s it's doable. You have to be conscious about it and put more effort. But it's not impossible. In fact, for me it's easier because it's not by chance, I can put myself in the right mindset to have meaningful conversations rather than bumping into random people when solving a problem in my mind.

I do agree it's a lot of responsibility, but life changes that way. Horse breeders didn't ask for the Model T and so on...
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psyql is amazing, it's readme helped me to quickly grasping its value proposition and usage. immediately recommended to a colleague who is an SQL and CLI aficionado. the psyql repo and matplotcli should have many more github stars.
200k reservists cannot join Ukrainian army because of lack of equipment and money. I have no truck, for example, so I cannot move a few tonnes of communication equipment rapidly, so my combat-readiness is low.
I don’t follow - I’m saying the cargo.lock isn’t read unless you specify —locked - I’m not talking about when it gets refreshed?
This article, despite all of its words, says nothing of value.
A few years after Fukushima we had a even large evacuation done in California, 180,000 people (and the relocation of a fish hatchery) compared to 150,000 people in Japan. It did not make international news, the death toll was not estimated, and things went back to normal fairly fast.

Large evacuations are rare but they aren't that uncommon. It just doesn't get the news attention. It is a bit like traffic deaths, which might also be a significant portion of the deaths caused by the evacuation. Force 180,000 to take to the road and some will not return back alive.

Living downstream of a hydro power dam is actually more dangerous than living near a nuclear plant. The destructive forces of a dam is barely being maintained by a thin layer of concrete, and it only takes a bit of human mistakes and bad weather to cause mayhem and death.
I already loathe the fact that I need Perl to compile the kernel just because people are too lazy to rewrite a few parsing scripts in C. The moment Rust is introduced in Linux without being a complete replacement is the day I leave for greener pastures
In this particular case it's rather simple to define who is an expert: if you want to challenge government report, you have to understand the challenged topics very well, have to have a lot of factual information about the state of the German nuclear industry and have to understand how possible solutions will work.
why do we have to have soooo many package managers? makes me cry inside a bit.
Without a TV I'd miss the ability to "turn something on without being paralysed by choice". Usually mealtimes or when very tired, I just want to turn on the TV and flick through a handful of channels and just watch whatever there is on.

It's mainly a UX thing. There's just more friction with TV apps even if they do have a "watch live" option. Channel hopping is just much harder.
I come from one state in India were caste isnt anywhere front and center. I would have loved to say that caste is irrelevant here, its almost true. From following your posts I think our states are on the east and the west of an international boundary.

Anyhow, being raised in a caste-agnostic surroundings I was quite underexposed to all this. Much later, I get into a premier institute in Kanpur and a senior grad student introduces himself to me thus, "Hi I am <insert name>. I am a high caste Rajput".

This is the first time I am meeting him and not even a minute had elapsed since our first eye contact. I am so dumbfounded by this I literally stand there at a loss for words. Finally I mumble "Congratulations" as I had no idea or prior exposure on how to react to such a situation.
This can be done with conventional rockets too, where the payload is fuel to be used by other craft.

I assume there are some reasons this isn't done, like the rocket equation persisting outside of Earth's atmosphere and gravity well, ie. you still have to accelerate the fuel mass if you intend on taking it with you, but taking it from launch obviates the needed complexity to rendezvous with an orbital gas station.
> corporate culture is often a culture of distraction

My job is to somehow be productive despite the best efforts of management to interfere. Being remote has greatly helped that.
I agree about the fragile frameworks but not the rest.

In this case I'd say that "simple" is a product of familiarity, manual steps, and future maintenance. "Get a VM" also means "install stuff on a VM", "secure a VM", "monitor load, memory, disk space on a VM" and "manage a VM into the future, upgrading the host OS and fixing whatever breaks". Is rsync easier than git? Maybe, but it doesn't have version control (which is nice to have). I think the git suggestions are based on the assumption that only a tiny number of people could do VM setup, webserver config, rsync etc but couldn't do git add, commit and push.

Personally, I use Cloudflare because it handles DNS, CDN and is basically hands-off after setup.
> Rust has been designed in the internet era and leverages dependencies for things older languages would ship with (rand!)

Weird justification for missing an extremely central and extraordinarily important feature…

How does rand being a crate make Rust ”internet era“ in any way?
Yes, and as Don Norman puts it, Design is mostly on how to make errors non-catastrophic. No design nor training ever will abolish them.

Humans err.
With no nuclear weapons program there is not enough national impetus to maintain a reactor program, especially in face of determined Green opposition. I think only Japan has a large civilian nuclear capability without dual use.
Where can I tick this as the correct answer :)
> There are options, but guides on this front will usually shovel you toward computer monitors (too pricey at large sizes)

I have the feeling that "smart" tvs are cheaper because (like the laptops with windows preinstalled) they are filled to the brim with adware and spyware.
If it's one of those clear umbrellas, it's borrowing from the common pool :)

More seriously, yes umbrellas definitely disappear very quickly, I have however noticed that the more intricate an umbrella is, the less likely it is stolen.
I agree on the Perl requirement bit but see Rust as a complete replacement for C or at least great alternative in systems engineering domain in the long term.
"No Javascript? You must be one of them Luddites. Well, have I got the machine for you..."
> Also, as a curiosity, why is every thread related to a X86 news, need to bring in the Apple M1 fan army and bang their drums?

Because this thread isn't about x86 news; it's about a laptop. And Apple makes laptops, which have the M1 chip in them. It's completely fair to discuss them, especially because one of the selling points of TFA is that it supports coreboot.
Interesting. Which of his books do you refer here to?
> It's the antidote to urbanization

Unclear that's a particularly worthy goal. I enjoy the rural life as much as anyone, but it's hard to argue that a "liveable city" (dense, planned, walkable/bikeable, work near to where you live, etc) isn't a more efficient use of society's resources than the automobile-centric suburban sprawl that much of the US is subjected to.