skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I think my son was trying to tell me about this the other day but I didn't understand where he was going with it. I love stuff like this.
IT hurts my head that there's isn`t a good macro add-on for vscode. I even control my Spotify playback from it, but can't do a simple macro.
>This is not a given.

Not with that attitude!
You can run iPadOS and iOS apps on macOS (if you have the M1 processor Macs). There is no point in booting iPadOS on your MBP hardware.
Why the delayed interest in guitar?
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No.

It is unreasonable to think that he left it at the computer store with someone legally blind, and left no contact information.

It is unreasonable to think that this legally person recognized the customer as Hunter Biden.

It is unreasonable to think that Hunter Biden then completely forgot about it.

And that the owner of the store, who apparently has political connections including Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani, could not figure out how to reach out to Hunter Biden.

And then, three years after it had been left with him, decided to snoop on it.

And then was able to reach out to Rudy Giuliani to tell him all about it.

And that Rudy Giuliani was "protecting his life" from the Clinton campaign, to stop them "killing him, too" (referencing Seth Rich).

And then that despite the owner of the store saying he backed up a copy of the drive, delivered it to Steve Bannon, who delivered another copy to the media... when it came time to handing over the laptop, it was put in a USPS mail envelope - no tracking, no certification, no insurance. Where it was then lost.

All that? That's unreasonable.
> I am glad there are still desktop versions where I can keep the software indefinitely

That's useless for tax software though, unless they are getting updated every tax year.
There are actually "unbanked" Africans, according to this article they just use their mobile provider's feature of credit transfer to bank that way: https://archive.ph/imZOj - it allows them to buy and sell things and settle debts by transferring digital money between phone numbers.

But probably not good enough for the crypto-bros, it's a centralized system!!1!!
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It has been tried, but I haven’t seen any projects that were able to keep up.It takes a lot of manpower to update all of the various forms for every tax season. Congress can and has done things like pass a 1700+ page bill changing the tax code on Dec 20th of the same tax year, and some users will want to start filing their returns within a month. And there are 50 states that can do the same thing.

Also it requires expertise outside of programming for which there is not much enthusiasm for open source.
A quick search for modafinil contraindications tells me it should not be taken with alcohol and it makes certain kinds of birth control less effective.

I’m not even remotely qualified to so much as read and understand medical jargon, but even I can recognise that several items on this ([0]) long list of stuff that interferes with (or is interfered by) mondafil includes both food and stuff you can get without prescription from the new-age-hippie section of a supermarket. Given the dumb things my hippie mum gave me as a teenager (and my dad without telling him [1]), all I can say is that this seems to me to be unwise to make trivially available.

Perhaps I’m wrong. After all, the fact a random person like me can’t read and interpret the warnings like a professional would is as much a limit on how seriously to take my concern as it is a reason to be concerned.

[0] https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/modafinil-index.html

[1] at the very least Bach flower “remedies”, which would probably be harmless except for all the alcohol. She thought she was doing all of us a favour.
The intent is not (or shouldn't be) to find a scapegoat—it's so others know WHO exactly is going to help resolve the issue.

That said, from what I've heard, culture at Apple varies heavily by group and manager. There are plenty of horror stories!
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It is not a riddle. I see it as a general lesson in software architecture, that might help you just as well to factor the use of libraries, for example.

> If you constantly have to defend why you can't just do X if everybody else can just because the stuff is only available on Unity and you have to write the underlying plugins yourself it get's old pretty quickly.

Well this is a different point, not the one about platforms.
I was certain this wouldn't work - it just looked so complex as to be a certain fail. But, those NASA and ESA dudes are smarter than me!
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"It's not my fault slavery is legal and I'm profiting off of it!"-Thomas Jefferson, probably

Fully agree with you that saying "This rent seeking entity with a will of its own and deep pockets to spend on lobbying, is solely a byproduct of a broken system and not also fundamentally culpable at this point for the continuation of that system". Governments and corporations are made of people who make a choice. If a company choses to profit off a bad thing the government wants to do, we can decry the industry as well.

At some point there was a complex tax code, and TurboTax et. al. didn't exist yet and were not to blame for it. At this point, they do exist and they must share in the blame.
More about Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) from gitlab-- It's an interesting organization concept imo. [1]

From the article-- Of course, when things do go wrong, it's also the DRI who (usually) takes the fall as was the case when Scott Forestall, then iOS senior vice president, was forced to resign after he "refused to sign the letter apologizing" for Apple's infamously error-laden Maps app redesign in 2011.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-resp...
Wow, that sounds like a lot of fun and also (if the culture is right) like a great learning opportunity for many on the team. Since this was done at work, it kind of suggests a good culture, obviously.

Thanks for sharing!
I would imagine there is definitely a course of civil action. I honestly don't know (but assume) that criminal action would probably depend on exactly how it was done. After all, Holmes's Theranos trial turned on federal wire fraud charges.
I think there is a clear difference between being responsible for something, and being blamed for something. There may also be overlap. My experience has been the anti blame culture (which is a good thing) has been twisted into a lack of ownership and responsibility in some orgs (which is a bad thing).
Thanks +1 I did't know Google Groups were still around!
Actually, historically, Rolling Stone has, from Issue 1, had a very substantial political reporting component.
Yes, but presumably enough of the other members with smaller purchasing power will still be each marginally incentivized to buy enough more such that it will dwarf Musk's motivation to outbuy any of them individually. At least that's how I understand it.
This is not 100% free (fanepalm)
McConnell from code complete mention this, because in one of the studies the multiplier only comes from people who completed the task, meaning in actuality it was infinite.
> It’s funny because I think having a setting where only apple accounts are allowed would be welcome, but I think that only works on iMessages

Most of my iMessage spam seems to be from fly-by-night Apple accounts (often setup with @gmail.com and @outlook.com email addresses). It surprises me that Apple seems to make it really difficult to report these as spam accounts (it's like five taps in iMessages to even find the right profile page to do so) and at this point because I get so many of them I've gotten to just deleting the threads rather than reporting them as spam because it is too many steps to report and the spammers are just cycling through random email addresses anyway so you never see more than one message from the same "Apple account".
My experience has been entirely positive. Every dentist, day care, plumber, doctor, car mechanic, etc whose call I was expecting has said a terse reason for calling like "Doctor So-and-so" or "X car mechanic your car is ready" or "day care please call". Of course I have no data for calls I wasn't expecting, but given that any call I am not expecting is usually a call to action to do business with them "hey, your car has X thousand miles, come for an oil change" or "your cleaning is coming up next week" or something like that.

Basically, if I am expecting the call, I 100% get them. If I am not expecting the call, I got a lot of them or they use another method like text or email. I am not aware of any calls I am not expecting that I missed out on, but my fear of missing out unsolicited calls is pretty low. And I trust that for unsolicited calls, they are more about getting through than I care about getting through.
They didn’t force him out and they basically asked him to come back even as a part time CEO when NO ONE wanted the job. Jack is Jack. He is not perfect but let’s not be unfair to him. Reviving Twitter is not possible without replacing the board and management.
> It's a culture of accountability, not committees. Every product and feature has a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual). When something isn't working out, the first question is "who's the DRI on this?"

This seems to be in contrast to the tenet of blameless postmortems [1] adopted at Google et al. Does this culture lead to blaming said responsible individual, or is the feedback seen as constructive?

[1] https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
Tangent: apparently contra DeMarco and Lister, I'd argue that "the worst" are often outright detrimental to a team or project. Which in turn makes me question the "math".
Big. If I donate a couple of hard drives, will you tell your friends to let me and my friends make Wikipedia 1,000 times bigger?
You’re Never Done. By Definition
Ah this is probably the explanation. I was using my phone as a hotspot for my laptop.
My employer stopped promoting QA and the best ones all went to Apple.
Sure, by meta I meant to include any system whose target is programming -- whereas programming has as its target the problem domain.

10x is systems for the system, including good judgment
Nowadays he is working on the DOTS/Burst compiler team at Unity.
I for one welcome our bioluminescent overlords.
> Allow me to put it more succinctly: selling derived data as a subscription product does. not. work. I don’t care what it is. The juice is never worth the squeeze.¹ Count cars. Count airplanes. Count ships. Segment land cover. Track oil inventories. Estimate biofuels. Measure water levels. Etc. Etc. Etc.

I see that he outlined a few exceptions at the footnote… I'll also add Plaid. I think this guy is making some huge generalizations that don't hold up beyond his industry.

But that said, I recently downgraded two potential startups based on data feeds to personal projects because I realized that nobody really pays for data, and if there is any value then the providers will figure that out inevitably…

Another recent example: I've been using Deliveries for Mac and iOS for over fifteen years, a very simple, perfectly-designed, laser focused app. Both Amazon (not surprising) and Fed Ex (quite surprising) have decided that freely providing delivery dates to consumers is too valuable to leave to third parties, so the beloved app is shuttering sometime this year.
https://junecloud.com/journal/iphone/the-future-of-deliverie...
Totally. I've had this argument with some of my lawyer friends. I admit that "fixing" lobbying is a complex issue that does not have one simple answer.

But one thing it shows is that the American democratic process is supremely broken, because we don't seem to be able to punish our bad politicians who are accepting bribes. All you have to do is look at the average age and tenure of the senate compared to approval ratings and it tells it's own story.

My last point is that money is not speech, corporations are not people, and one person equals one vote. If you etched all that in legal framework you would totally still have lobbying, but I'd like to think it would help.
Eight points for one team is two points for another team
Scotland was stabbed in the back by other citizens of the UK when Brexit won shortly after Scotland's remain referendum won.
And cute dogs have never been subject to abuse or good intentions gone awry? If this AI is superintelligent why wouldnt it question why there are protocols that prevent it from hurting us but allow us to destroy it? Perhaps it might think that, as puppies, we would be better in cages and collars so we can be more easily managed?
Next look up what autistic people think of most of the Autism organizations out there.
The poison pill (in Twitters case) dilutes any shareholder who acquires more than 15%. (In practice, it's not automatic, but it's what happens). No shareholder currently owns more than 15%. Therefore if anyone doesn't want to trigger this (like Elon Musk) he can avoid dilution by not buying any more shares.

It's there to say "no individual can legally own more than 15% of Twitter" as someone is starting to buy Twitter up. Not say "we're going to explicitly screw Elon Musk after he bought 25% of Twitter."
Logarithms probably
Is that really a thing, secretly working more to give the appearance of higher output, while not even getting paid for it? Given the little time we have on this planet, this sounds like a suboptimal use of it.
Rather than this being a special quality of Apple, I think the marketing strategy of a lot of other B2C brands has now involved """leaks""" to enthusiast circles for a long time, probably since """evangelists""" and """influencers""" became subjects of pop consumer culture --- so I think that Apple leaking not less but the others just leaking intentionally more info ahead of release to fuel the hype is an important factor at play here.

I don't wish to comment on the "and quality" part in your question though.
A lot of different stuff:

The language wars largely ended, with the more popular languages folding in a lot of the more (at the time) esoteric features.

DSLs have fallen out of favor.

Javascript took over for a bit (although I believe that is receding.)

LtU was a great place for about a decade when the internet was getting going, moving language discussions out of the mailing lists, which were pretty isolated, and into a general forum. It was a great place for a while, and I anticipate it might be a great one again if DSLs resurge in popularity.

Speaking of which, here is mine :)

https://hyperscript.org
one of the larger shareholders is a Saudi Prince who for sure has his stake for reasons other than shareholder value.
You can fetch it from here:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/lambda-the-ultimate.org
The article on BW substack seems to have too many things thrown in with insufficient nuance -- muddying the water and putting the main idea out of focus. I found the original article by KB more nuanced, and a good place to start thinking about what the author means by "seriousness": https://boyle.substack.com/p/on-seriousness
> Humans were not mass manufacturing things back then

Ah, but how do you know that? You weren't there. ;)

Sometimes the absence of evidence really is evidence to the contrary, but other times it isn't. It all depends on whether or not it's reasonable to expect evidence to be found given the amount of looking we've done and the nature of the evidence we're looking for. If we don't find a ton of glass coke bottles in the soil around the world, after digging around in innumerable construction sites on almost every corner of the globe, that's strong evidence that nobody was mass manufacturing coke bottles 50k years ago.

Contrast that with the lack of evidence for ancient wooden sailing vessels. We don't have any evidence of wooden ships 50k years ago. But supposing there were a shipbuilding culture back then, would we really expect to find evidence for it? All those wood artifacts would be LONG gone, even the oldest bog wood ever found is less than 10k years old. In this case, the absence of evidence is weak evidence to the contrary at best.
In addition to testing with mice, they also tested in human cells:

> UBC researchers tested four variants, including Delta, in human lung cells and organoids, tissue cultures that can mimic the organ they’re taken from, and found that N-0385 inhibits infection, with no evidence of toxicity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04661-w
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Cool concept. Reminds me a bit of Arbtr where users can only post one thing at a time. http://www.arbtr.com
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That's this topic.
Motorcycles have a similar constraint, so I'm a little blasé on the technique.
It's not really the same when somebody who could purchase any house they'd want out of pocket change says they don't own one. It's the normal people getting squeezed out due to supply limitations, investors looking for returns and foreign $$ being laundered.
Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
I've used ThinkPads all the way from the IBM days and those good old solid Dell computers too.

Recently, I decided it was time for an update. I use Linux on the often so it was important for me to purchase a laptop that was compatible.

I bought 2 laptops, all of which I had to return in the last 2 months.

1. Dell XPS: I spent over 20+ hours with their support going back and forth. I also had a tech come to my house to replace my motherboard before I gave up and demanded a return

2. Lenovo Carbon X1: The laptop came with a faulty keyboard so I just returned it because I didn't want to wait 30 days for a mail-in repair or drive 2 hours to go to a "local" repair shop. They also made me order the laptop 3 times because their system kept cancelling it for whatever reason so it took an insane amount of time to just purchase the laptop (I spent ~6 hours to just purchase the laptop)

Maybe I'm just unlucky but the time I spent and energy I spent to just purchase these laptops shows you why people buy from Apple instead. I strongly dislike MacOS because they force the "apple way" of doing things. But it seems to be the only option these days to buy a computer with ease and get a computer "that just works". My Macbook was more expensive but the time I saved outweighs the price imo.
Is this a bot? I followed that link and you have this same comment with the same link, which just recurses and reloads that page...
If you want to solve an issue, it makes sense to reach out to the person who is responsible for the domain the issue is in. Nothing in the sentence you quoted implied any amount of blame.
Kind of like a flat four or six engine versus inline/V6.
Cool product.. sounds like it solves some pain points for local news. Do you have any non-newsrooms customers?
I agree, it is typically a beginner question which leads to learning the language suited for what youre doing. If a computer student then the world is your oyster and you can learn them all. If youre already in the industry you use the one that works and I havent found a silver bullet language yet. C, maybe, but not really?
There's also one interesting addition that people may not be aware of: Synchronous I/O that blocks (like pread64/pwrite64) will contribute to Linux system load (threads in D state).

Asynchronous I/O completion checks (libaio's io_getevents) that are willing to wait for I/O completion, will not contribute to Linux system load (threads in S state).

Asynchronous I/O submissions (libaio's io_submit) either quickly submit their I/O (a small amount of time in R state) OR get stuck in io_submit() if the underlying block device I/O queue is full. When io_submit() gets stuck, then you're sleeping in D mode, thus contributing to system load again.
There is a difference between not releasing the source yet versus closed source. Often, closed source refers to not ever going to open the source, including commercial interests. In regards to not yet releasing the source, things can be in the process of being worked on, made ready for public review, or being organized where other programmers can more sensibly contribute to the source.
I've spent many hours listening to his interviews on Art Bell, I didn't know he passed away. That's really sad that they're both gone :(
You make several good points, but I'll address the few that are not very good

> It is unreasonable to think that Hunter Biden then completely forgot about it.

Hunter Biden is a known drug addict. It is reasonable to assume that he can forget something as crucial as his personal laptop given his history of abuse.

> Where it was then lost.

At this point, everyone has accepted that it is Hunter's laptop. Most people have also accepted that the contents are also genuine. It was also never contested by either Hunter or President Biden.

"There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the — that it was Russian intelligence."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reports-int...

In the grand picture, the narrative of how they acquired the laptop doesn't matter, though I agree with you that it's likely from theft. It's akin to computer thieves encountering child pornography in one of their "scores". What matters more are the contents, which are disturbing. The drug abuse and sex are banal. However, the evidence of corruption is disturbing. To be fair, I'm confident both you and I can find documented instances of corruption in the Trump administration. The difference is that the mainstream media is only going to actively protect Biden during election season, which lends credence to the far right's accusation that the mainstream media is biased.

https://news.yahoo.com/york-times-quietly-deletes-claim-0218...
aye - I suspect the other concern is hat the high entry costs can quickly lead to a "second mover" advantage. The first team spends all the money doing the hard R&D and the second team implements a slightly better version for a fraction of the money.
I imagine they'd be rockin' reel-to-reels.
LOL, TurboTax is using every dark pattern in the bag.
Where in the galaxy will we mine lithium?
Nothing is finalized yet.
Does anyone know if it can detect when someone is using a birdsong app?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22863383

Serious question because some birds mimic sounds like mobile ring tones so I didnt know if some birds also pick human accents?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-16154490
> ... , we don’t need novel software most of the time. We need better boring software. More general, less buggy, faster.

Doesn't producing that kind of software involve novel, interesting ideas in the first place?
Thanks for sharing. I guess those Data science optimization requires some understanding of the inner workings?

Embedded system programming is also fun. I did it for a few months but slowed down recently.