skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have few "made in CCCP" things at home. All of them were unbelievably shit compared to their western not-competition at the time of manufacture. Especially computers, while the west already had Windows and internet and 3.5" floppies, 8bits with tapes were just getting started here - and of course it all was a copy of western designs.

And most of it was made outside Russia anyways - e. g. they used Czechoslovak factories a lot because the quality was and is like from another dimension; our army refused Soviet tanks because of the shit quality and instead made our own based on the same design.

That was when they were "self-reliant" for decades. After the fall, they switched to globalized manufacturing completely. And now you're saying they will be able to switch back in months, with much worse economy and nobody willing to help them? I'm laughing very loudly.
Ask HN: Is the web even browsable anymore?
A few others commented on a recent thread [0] mentioning that they no longer browse the the internet, and that the internet "forgot how to let itself become browsed".

This really got me thinking about this whole phenomenon. Of proliferation of "walled-gardens", of search engines like Chrome becoming less effective due to SEO optimization and thus users having to look elsewhere, whether that's Reddit, Quora, HN, etc.

Obviously, we all still occasionally browse the web, but it really doesn't compare to back in the days, at least for me.

What's happened to the web??? How much is because of shifts in technology, and how much is because of a cultural shift, of how we use the web, of the type of information we seek (eg preferring people-mediated information like Reddit/Quora/HN, rather than static information sources like a website dedicated to a topic)?

Maybe this isn't necessary bad thing? Or is it? If we could dream up a different search environment and different technologies surrounding the internet and the WWW, what would it be?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31111394#31114748
I have a Chromebook with a m3-8100y, and it is pretty good for general surfing and video. Not the fastest chip, but does the trick. I find it a big slower in RDP, but otherwise no complaints.
I'm interested whether it would be a good idea to implement a Vulkan driver for such GPU via emulating TMUs and ROPs in software, and it might not even matter that much since modern rendering pipelines are more and more compute reliant anyways(UE5 Nanite barely uses hardware rasterizers, latest idTech uses software rasterization as well). The only problem I see lies is with raytracing since it is pretty reliant on fixed function units.
This - bought an Amber Lake-Y Core-i5 based MacBook Air (True Tone. 2019 - A1932) and returned it, as the fan noise was frequent and ridiculous. (I've heard that the Ice Lake-based sucessor was worse.)
Why does it not seem like reasonable confidence?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_device_radiation_and_...
Some weapons are GPS guided
One can often read that Qt/C++ aren't productive yet such hyper-featureful apps are proof that it's a combo that works and works well
This very much reminds one of the contemporary crusades against The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. One of the characters, a run-away slave by the name of [pejorative] Jim, is actively railed against by much of society for being an imbecile, uneducated, and so on.

Yet throughout the story Huck runs into all sorts of people who are mostly acting like great people on the outside, yet invariably turn out to be horrible people on the inside (even including Huck himself). The one exception is Jim who actually ends up being a selfless and good person, inside out, from the start to the end.

The whole story is a reminder that what people pretend to be, and what they are - often have a rather strong disconnect. That many schools have successfully banned the book from the classroom because of the pejorative used, is perhaps one of the clearest reflections of the state of contemporary education. It'd be like if Germany had chosen to ban Schindler's List because the lead character is a Nazi.
Sheila Heti on Love and Delusion in Annie Hall
I've bought the license years ago and have got every major update for free since then.

While it's not guaranteed to be this way forever, it's the way it is for now.
I mean, the GUI object with its reference to the network request should never be detached like that. The network request handle should be moved to something else that takes care of it, if the GUI object can't, and it should not be calling a callback tied in a strong way to the GUI object's existence. Granted, I wasn't there when you had this, and I'm not saying there's an easy solution. What I am basically saying is there should be a chain of ownership to some local variable on the stack somewhere, instead of a detached GUI view. I'd view the resource leak you describe as hacky, and a class of design decision that has caused me a lot of pain in gui software. Well, maybe I had to be there.
Always appreciate their free version. It is like the best oasis in desert. With efforts put in this sophisticated software that benefits students, new creators, and others, I love this company. Also Blackmagic pocket's color space doesn't really have direct competitor, there should have more company like this.
Indeed, if your a fighting a near-peer adversary they can shoot d9wn what are probably fantastically expenaive space assets.

And if you are fighting guerilla fighters it does not matter that you saved 5% of your logistics
Yeah I think PowerShell has a perfect balance there. Of course they were able to do so by taking lessons learned from 30 years and didn't have any legacy baggage.

Piping structured objects between apps without having to parse output is amazing. I hope Linux will come up with something similar. Of course PowerShell is open source but I don't trust MS enough to adopt it privately. I do use it at work though which makes sense as we're a MS shop.
> how can we do away with our existing systems for mediating disputes, determining intent etc?

I think everyone in this conversation fully agrees on this point. As I said earlier, "I'm sure there are extremists that think smart contracts make law obsolete, but they are just wrong." We absolutely shouldn't do away with our existing systems for mediating disputes and determining intent.

I think perhaps the crux of the disagreement is that I think we need to apply those systems to smart contract systems in a sensible way and I take it that you think that the fact that we won't do away with our existing systems means there's no reason to use blockchain at all.
To my knowledge, Applesoft BASIC would have been written by Microsoft with some modifications done by Apple. On top of that, it is likely that TASC made calls directly to the BASIC ROM. Reimplementing bits of BASIC would have used already scarce RAM. Licensing probably made the most sense in this case since little (if any) of the original BASIC code would have been of value and it offered the developer the opportunity to sell their software without publishing it themselves or maintaining the software if they found someone to publish it.
Hardly seems like an unusual situation. I suspect most people never import photos from their iPhone, they might have quite a few if/when they eventually choose to do so.
This is a really helpful way of describing a solution.
DaVinci Resolve Studio has been one of my purchases that I think is worth every penny spent.

They keep improving it with dramatic updates every time. If anyone from the BMD team is reading this, thank you for the beautiful work!
I manage a team of 5 and our meetings are mainly driven by screen sharing.

When I’m sharing my screen I don’t see anyones face. When I’m looking at what someone else is sharing I want to see it full screen.

I’m not really looking at anyone unless we are speaking on a direct call.
Yeah, BMD together with the teams of Blender and Unreal Engine manage to get out really big changes in a fast fashion. It's really impressive to see, time and time again.
https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk (Written in Rust, Good fit if you use Gnome)
Why do you need Go on the system? Build a binary and install it… no need for Go on the target machine.
The only time I use shell is if I expect a pure list of commands with no loops or significant logic.

Actually, I'm not sure I've ever done a loop in bash at all.

The few times I've tried to write even trivial programs in bash resulted in me eventually encountering something ugly and unpleasant, then quitting and starting over in Python, and having a working solution extremely fast.
> the information is actually still preserved across the totality of the worlds

That may be correct if the “totality of the worlds” means one single “world” described by a wave function evolving unitarily - corresponding to what you call information. This “information” cannot be destroyed but it cannot be created either. It will always be the same “information” that was already there at the beginning of time.

What is unclear is the “many worlds” part. How are they defined?
Probably better to have it less personal, every time police comes into close contact with rioters bad stuff happens.
Can you share more how you hit 400k with 3 years of experience?

PhD?
I don't think people care enough about fanless laptops, of which there are a few. And companies seem to really love penny pinching when it comes to the heatsink, which would have to be way bigger and/or better designed - that's almost out of the realm of known physics when it comes to HP, Dell and Lenovo :D

You could go "fanless" on many laptops, though. You'll have to check beforehand, but all you need is TDP adjustment (and ideally, undervolting) support and the ability to turn off the fan or adjust the speed table with something like NotebookFanControl.

For TDP/TPL/voltage adjustments, use Throttlestop on Windows; Linux also has some tools or you can write to MSRs directly after a long night of figuring them out. AMD mobile chips can not be undervolted as of right now, btw, a real shame. But neither can Intel with Plundervolt mitigations, so that's a double real shame.

A Core i7 can go up to ~20W without turning the fan on, and higher with the fan at minimum (I doubt you'll hear it). The critical temperature (=fan at full speed, overriding settings) is usually over 80 degrees Celsius, which is high enough that it may never get there.

Using better thermal paste would be highly desirable, too.

The major disadvantage is obviously performance - you'd get half of whatever the chip offers, at best.
I remember clearly how postscript changed things for scientific work. Of course, it improved upon the daisy printers that we used for text. But the same language could also draw graphs, so it was a sort of all-in-one solution.

A limitation on the graph side of things was the requirement that any so-called "path" (to be drawn as a line or filled as a polygon) could hold at most 1500 elements. This limit was exceeded in a lot of work.

If the task was just to draw the line, the solution was simple: chop the path up into subpaths and draw each. (The transition point would be ugly due to line-ending issues, but the problem would be difficult to see on visual inspection).

This chopping method wasn't useful for polygons, though. So I came up with a scheme in which I examined each point with respect to it's two neighbours. If the point was within some distance of a line segment connecting the neighbours, then I omitted it. If the first pass got the number of points under 1500, I'd render them. Otherwise, I repeated the procedure, with wider tolerances. This was done in C, so it was not really too time-consuming. And it worked. The software is still in use today, many decades later.
I also when I setup an api like to create a zero API (with hardcoded answers) and deploy it to production if possible. That makes sure that flows are opened, everyone is clear with ci, ... then code the tests and the functions. That may raise earlier integration issues that will happen.
There is nothing inherently special about ARM that makes it use less power.

Apple simply invested a huge amount of resources and had the benefit of optimising the SOC specifically for the OS.
One of those recent Windows netbooks? How are you finding it?

(I got one and Linuxed it. The wifi was so crappy I had to compile a driver from source, for an authentic early-2000s Linux experience. Need to test 22.04. https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/608064.html Love it for writing on, not so great as an actual netbook.)
"packages in nixpkgs often have known vulnerabilities for months"

Garbage in, garbage out.

It would be nice if Nix could make vulns go away entirely, but you can't keep people from creating buggy packages.
You have not explained how the state enforces property rights on a blockchain. Consider this scenario: you forget your keys at a restaurant, where a stranger finds them and uses them to transfer your funds to their address. Since the transaction was not authorised by the rightful owner of the funds (you), the transaction isn't lawful. It violates your property rights as the owner of the funds. However there's nothing the state can do to reverse the transaction. Explain how the government enforces your property rights in these circumstances.
1 watt = ~3.4 btu

The more power any electronic device uses, the more heat it produces.
I find it funny the right has so much fear that whats happened to the left for generations will begin happening to them.
That's a pretty neat looking missile with the four nose antennas.

It was also interesting, given how modern it looked to me, to read that

> Talos was the end product of Operation Bumblebee, the Navy's 16-year surface-to-air missile development program for protection against guided anti-ship missiles like Henschel Hs 293 glide bombs, Fritz X, and kamikaze aircraft.[1]

So it was designed based on WWII concerns...I hadn't read about the HS 293 in quite a long time, and didn't expect to see a ramjet missile developed in response...
I switched recently, from an iPhone 7 to a Ulefone Power Amor 13, cost me $440 delivered from Hong Kong to Tasmania. Or $780 from an Aussie vendor, who must comply with our consumer protection laws, so warranty for replacement or refund, or parts to repair. But I figured at $440 if it breaks during the regular warranty period, I can just buy another, or similarly priced device.

I definitely miss frequent OS and security updates, but I wasn't prepared to spend a similar amount on a slightly newer secondhand iPhone, or three times the amount or more on a new iPhone, which still won't have as good a battery as the Ulefone Power Amor 13, the thing weighs in at a little over 1 pound, just under half a kilogram, and requires recharging so infrequently I forget to, versus having an iPhone charge cable every couple metres at home and work.

Another added benefit of having a phone that is mostly battery and weights over a pound it that I rarely drop it, because you certainly know you've got hold of it!

If Apple did an iPhone that had a huge battery, and was ruggedized for us in the trades, and others who work in dusty / greasy environments, I'd be straight on to it.

If my only choice was between a flagship Android from any manufacturer or an iPhone, it'd be the iPhone.

Fortunately they aren't the only two options, and Android doesn't feel disappointing below about the $500 mark.
I wonder if there is a lesson for big tech companies here. Spending a bit of money on manual long tail edge cases might lead to more reliability and trusted services.
Well indigenous use of grains and legumes involves fermentation (eg sourdough, fermented tofu, miso), which are mostly no longer done at scale. Bread that uses yeast instead of sourdough starter is often not fermented long enough to get rid of most FODMAPs (4h fermentation seems to be recommended, but this is reduced for cost reasons).
Gesturing towards an IIS bug discovered twenty years ago does not bolster your argument.
This is the "your example is invalid, therefore your argument is invalid" fallacy.
It's because most people are trained to prefer larger numbers (which aren't always useful) to peace and quiet.

People preferring fanless/quiet devices are a minority and devices made for them won't sell enough to justify the design costs.

Also, latest Intel CPUs can eat up to 300W for some reason.
Unless you need something today, I'd wait for the rumored AMD Phoenix-based laptops that are purported to be shipping late this year (2022) or early next year (2023); the integrated graphics are said to be pretty knockout in terms of performance, which bodes well for fanless or infrequently-running fanned designs (NVIDIA discrete graphics being a contraindication for quiet operation).

I don't have any first-hand experience with this (yet), mind you, and am unable to comment on other features :)
Within software I interpreted it to mean a few things:

* Physically clean desk and laptop.

* Commit old code changes before working on new ones.

* Main branch is pulled.

* Fix the build before writing more code.

* Set up tmux or whatever so every terminal is in a convenient place.

* Check that the failing test fails as expected.

* Set up text editor/IDE to have easy access to relevant files and browser to have access to e.g. the relevant JIRA.

* Close irrelevant browser windows and applications.

etc.

Dont think it means "do the easy tasks first", just "prep the environment".
I got my Resolve Studio for free from my BMPCC 4K (for those who don't know, it's an incredibly affordable cinema camera designed for hobbyists/amateurs/semi-pros)that easily competes with cameras 3-4 times the price range).

Over the past couple years, Resovle has continuously been updated with incredible features.

NO subscription.

NO upgrade fees (buy once, lifetime updates).

BMD, thank you for making professional video editing available to the masses.
In that vein, I think one major bit of news is that you can finally buy a license online! For the longest time you could only buy it printed on a physical card that had to be shipped to you.
I won't switch to iPhone for two reasons.

1) I can't afford that shite.

2) I don't want control of my device taken from me.

On #1 - I buy a cellphone to be contactable, and to browse the web on the move with a reasonable modicum of speed. I rather dislike the whole "hey, our app is far better than our website" movement in the industry, because I know that "far better" means "far better for tracking and targeting you", based on my experience in adtech. And I don't need whatever bollocks tech (two cameras so your photos can do a little swoopy thing!) Apple is chucking in and charging big bucks for. I just need a smartphone that has enough CPU to run things okay.

But I get other people might want fancy camera stuff without forking out for a proper camera, all good.

And I find Android phones offer far more options at varying price points along the spectrum in this regard than Apple.

On #2 - I've never had to wait for someone to find a vulnerability in my phone before I can root it, and do whatever I like with it. I can easily install APKs from others or myself without going through an app store, or paying Apple for a developer licence to write code to run on my own frigging phone.

My non-technical wife can't grok Android, she's been on iOS since the earlier iPhones, so when her iPhone 5S' browser began to routinely crash when loading websites she read on the regular, I caved and got her an iPhone 13, at much expense, and she's generally unimpressed at the upgrade (she really misses that physical button). She doesn't care about any of the bollocks that they're advertising as a reason to upgrade - macro-photography, night photography, cinematic mode? She gives zero shits.

Having to Google how to restart her phone when an app wouldn't stop playing audio really pissed her off though, I will say.

The price of that thing was fucking ridiculous, but she can at least use it for the things that she always used her phone for, until something happened that caused the browser in her last iPhone to start shitting the bed - lack of browser upgrades? Bad browser upgrades? I'm unsure. I'm not a fan of Safari on any platform, so I'm just going to glare accusingly in that direction.

TL;DR - iPhones are pricey AF, glad you got the iPhone 12 for free, and I really dislike Apple's approach to letting me do stuff with the small computer I bought that can incidentally do phone calls.
I don't think it's very perfect at all. It clearly appeals strongly to people managing cloud servers because it's basically the same kind of technology as Ansible or the many alternatives. Makes sense to use the same kind of tech you know through and through on your desktop as well.

To me personally it doesn't really have much appeal.. Being able to replicate my desktop from scratch is not something I need often. And when I need to make a config change I don't want to bundle that with a package upgrade.

Even for my servers I don't subscribe to the "cattle not pets" ideology.

I just mean to say it's close to perfect for its target userbase. But different ones exist and this seems to often be forgotten by Nix evangelists. It's a good tool for some jobs but not for all.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I only appended it after another suggestion below.
Resolve is built by a fairly small team in s/Australia/Singapore. If you want the features in the Studio version, you just need to buy once, you get a lifetime of updates, no subscription.

Ideologically I love to use FOSS products too, but I also want to support commercial businesses that make software under customer-friendly and non-subscription licensing terms.
I made a guide for doing this with Signal using Frida if you can jailbreak. https://github.com/hsorbo/signal-backup-ios
I've talked now to another colleague of her. they do share the scepticism that it belongs into the DSM5 at all.

but they have a crazy case of a traumatized woman who has a cat as alter. miau. hard to detect any cheating, but they are trying
It doesn't even support mp4 on Linux if you pay. If you pay you just get the ability to decode H.264. You can't encode H.264, and AAC is completely unsupported.
That's cool. I'm curious how it differs from e.g. ABS...

https://www.abs-lang.org/

It was enjoyable to use for a project recently.
I don't do any video editing but I appreciate a top shelf commercial editor that's officially available for Linux. We need more commercial closed source software on Linux, I don't understand the "free software only" orthodoxy that many users push.
Some of the computers on that list do have fans though e.g. Dell XPS 9310.

Looks pretty untrustworthy in general.
They have it on the play store too, but if you actually go to telegram.org they give you the apk download front and center with a "More comfortable with installing apps
from the Google Play Store? Download Telegram from Google Play" link all the way at the bottom.
What is the Nix approach to config files?

I understand it allows for stable binaries, without dependency hell, easily installable, possibly multiple versions of the same package; and for easy rollback of the installations. Because code modules are versioned by hashes of their full dependency tree and build options.

But configuration files?

I once installed the Nix package manager on my Ubuntu, and installed some apps with it. Nothing worked. Because some files I have in /etc/ were not compatible with Nix versions of the applications. Those configs were about some deep mechanics of X-related libraries. I never edited them and I don't understand their function.

So, it was impossible to use Nix packages side by side with my Ubuntu. And I suspect the same can happen on plain Nix OS with multiple versions of one package.

Probably I am missing something, but that does not look perfect.