skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pneumatic rockets that eject water? those are very cool, in case anyone is looking for a summer gift for a kid who likes rockets
"On October 9, 2009, a two-ton rocket smashed into the moon traveling at 9,000 kilometers per hour. As it exploded in a shower of dust and heated the lunar surface to hundreds of degrees, the jet-black crater into which it plummeted, called Cabeus, briefly filled with light for the first time in billions of years."

Presumably the rocket also came down at 90 degrees to the lunar surface, making another perfectly circular crater.
Works as usual for me (I am on a Mac). shift+up/down selects lines. shift+fn+right -- selects till the end of the line.
Isn't that a tautology? In a basket of goods there's almost certainly going to be something that's inflating above average. That means you'll always have some sector (that's inflating faster than general inflation) to blame for "greed".
Okay. Cool.

Again, 75 years is just a dumb calculation of the number of pages responsive to the FOIA request divided by their 'free capacity' to review 500 pages per month. They weren't suggesting to actually spend the next 75 years doing it, they were hoping the requester would narrow their request to something relevant.

You could just have congress authorize 10 more staff, increase their capacity to 50,000 pages/month and you'd have it in 9 months. There's no technical limitation, there's no conspiracy theory, it's just a question of staff time [they are legally obligated to process FOIAs, including all of the 'regular order' ones, so they can't just drop all of their other work to focus on this one request]
That wouldn't count against it, but it wouldn't count for it either.
Any mastodon client which is not based on those grostesquely and absurdely complex and massive google(blink/geeko) and apple based browsers?
Were the food producers not being greedy before those price increases as well? I don't understand.
I travel by motorcycle a lot - an average of 15,000km per year. That's roughly 3 months a year on the go. I carry a 15 inch MacBook, an iPad Mini (with pencil) and a Pixel 5.

The iPad is optional. It replaces my notebook for sketching and taking notes. It's also a great e-reader. It's otherwise disconnected from my online life and receives no notifications. I yet have to use it as an extra monitor.

The MacBook is too big, but it's the laptop I had. I'd get a smaller one. It's also sensitive to pressure against the screen, so it needs an armoured case to survive in my panniers. A tablet with a detachable keyboard would be perfect, but I hate Windows.

Airpod Pros and ear plugs are essential. Nomads don't always get to work in silent places.

USB-C is a game changer. I pack one type of cable, one type of charger. Everything is a power bank for everything else. I have tiny adapters for my airpods, my shaver and my motorcycle helmet. It saves a lot of weight and space.

Off the bike, I use a backpack that fully opens. It's great because you don't have to fish for stuff at the bottom of your bag.

That's pretty much it. The rest is more about limiting pack size for motorcycle travel. Packing light makes you more flexible.
I'm on oldbytes.space and find it pretty fun to get to know Mastodon's corner of the Fediverse so far. Hashtags are really important for discovery right now, but it looks like other discovery features are in the works.

I also gave SL and OpenSim a look, and OpenSim has been pretty fun to explore, even from the outside.

One example community: https://coopersville.mystrikingly.com/

- @marcolas@oldbytes.space
agree. GDP does not mean stock market gains. In fact, you can have strong shareholder returns even if the economy is not growing at all. If $1 billion company generates $100 million in net profit annually, this is $ that must go to shareholders regardless of GDP. This is the situation right now with the US...major companies are generating huge profits annually even if real GDP, productivity, and population growth is sluggish, which is why the stock market has done so well in spite of so many things seeming to be wrong..
If the devices are being embedded in consumer products like eink screens, is it really possible to treat the technology as a trade secret?
You are thinking I feel this way because you ask for a source.

It's not.

It's the condescending tone you display in every of your response, exactly like this one.
what does a digital nomad mean? A vagabond that writes some Javascript?
> Agreed, although it’s not always fire-and-forget (i.e. send a message and don’t wait for a response).

Sure, you can do async request/response in the actor model, but the low-level basic mechanism all communication is built on is send a message to an actor mailbox and keep going. Everything else is built in top of that.
A specific string of bits has zero entropy. It may be a sample from a distribution which has some entropy.

Unless you are selecting a random single bit from that string, in which the entropy of that selection process is -p1log p1 - p0log p0.
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> Screen real estate is limited, especially vertical real estate.

meh, my ide squashes short if `err != nil` clauses (goland, but I've seen other editors/ides/golang plugins do this as well ), also I run a vertical monitor. It's just not enough of an issue to care about. I've seen similar features for editors for other languages that have features or patterns that also create a lot of 'extra bullshit that takes up screen realestate'.
I mean, is 10 hours really that long? My SuperNote notebook lasts for days, my Kobo for weeks. I certainly have had flights longer than 10 hours. At least nowadays you sometimes have a USB-A charging port if you needed, or a 120V if you're lucky.
Yeah I've been to those, Long Point in particular is amazing.
> Sometimes I feel like they were just more impressive programmers back then.

I feel that way often. I definitely stand on the shoulders of giants to do my silly web app job.

But then again no one has ever hired me to do anything wild like fitting a game into 8mb on a hardware cartridge. I've never been in a group of other smart people trying to accomplish it, or mentored towards accomplishing something like that. Maybe I could if I had to.

I have the education for it, in theory.

I often wonder what line of work I would be in if I hadn't grown up with computers though. Would I have still tried to go into it as a profession because I'm good at math? Or would I be off working as an electrician or something else.
We will desalinate in CA before we’ll come for the Great Lakes but if we came (and the United States must have ended) then that would be a petty resistance. Pipelines can’t be defended but canals are harder to break and then, once the pipeline is over friendly soil, breaking it will still only shed water into the West.
These are the authors stated motives:

>I saw many opportunities, especially abroad, that were out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers. I felt ready for graduate school but couldn’t get admitted. I had to work harder to prove myself to employers.
I immediately thought of Unseen Academicals.
If you zoom out on that graph, housing starts were well-below average for over a decade and were actually trending down even before 08: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

Decreased supply along with increasing population(demand) generally yields a shortage and increased prices.
But when you want to combine A and B and start to work in a logic that is the union of their logics you end up doing a proof in a logic that often loses all the nice properties that were essential to the theorem proving being reasonable. This works if combining A and B is the entire proof, but how do you handle searching for good next steps in the new logic that lacks those properties if there are other pieces of the proof to be done still?
It's fair to say most people, the casual reader glancing a headline, would "commonly" define nuclear waste as barrels of used Uranium.

http://thedailychrenk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/simptox...
5. Sometimes you don't need an operating system, but a decent editor and that's where Nano come in :)
Interesting book review. Bizarre title choice. Not only clickbaity, but doesn’t capture any point present in any part of the review. It doesn’t go into who don’t admit, or why, why it’s the best novel and according to whom (the author only go as far as saying “very good”), what is the contention point about being about football.
I suspect there are people who earn this. I doubt any of them are the traditional definition of "employee" though.

Consultant/Contractor might be the closest.
It's weird that it has been in both directions, with some accounts losing large numbers of followers but others making sudden large gains.
Brave search introduced a related feature recently. They have a 'Discussions' section in the search results page where they pull results from online forums (it seems like it's all Reddit for now).
I really enjoy Jon Bois' work and what his influence on SB Nation/Secret Base turned into. Their content now is really great even if he himself has taken a backseat to the newer creators.
Wouldn't take people 75 years to do that, lawyers did discovery before computers and it didn't take them 75 years to do it.
Distribute a library by uploading to pypi, and/or cloning from version control. Setup.py still works.
Fediverse: a bunch of software waiting idle in the hope that a hero will arrive to make significant and lasting changes to copyright and fair use in order for any of it to be useful.

Ooh, this decentralized beebob could be a great place to discover and distribute Scihub content.

Ooh, I can sure imagine myself watching a sci-fi movie that's old enough to vote and buy alcohol on "Framatube."

Ooh, a filesystem suitable for multiple planets, IFF planet #2 is filled only with Pirate Party members with their force shields turned on and on constant watch for slow blades.

Ooh, a user-writable international encyclopedia that isn't... oh yeah, that actually exists because you can't copyright fucking facts. At least there's that, twenty-first century!

Edit: clarification to make exclamation even sadder
I would also recommend Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Which is playable on the web and also has been ported to various platforms.
Yeah I'm sure it can be brutal when a giant comes in to overshadow your brand.
If anyone here likes this book I highly recommend his documentary series, Fighting In The Age of Loneliness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3FHjiwb_8)
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook...

Start here...
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In that case we could objectively say that one value of S does not yield F for that system (given that F is defined as a maximum), but this would not resolve the general question of subjectivity.
Yea, we are already seeing glimpses of it. The last two years have been an exuberant time for cheap money, i think we will soon see an employer market, which might mean bad things for WFH.
I think the idea parent comment had is to use the rollable technology from the article so that it only overlays when not in use.
> I think severe taxes for unoccupied homes is a better solution than bumping rates though

99% of homes are not vacant. The vacancy rate of housing is not significantly different from the past, in fact its actually lower than it was a few years ago. While I don't really mind the idea of taxing long-vacant properties to encourage use and discourage pure speculation, I don't think it'll make that much of a different in residential property valuations.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtabs.html
>The question is whether their profit margins are up? I don't know.

I would naturally expect companies to hold larger profit margins when there is instability. Setting up a business with low profit margin in a volatile business environment would be like building a house on a concrete slab right next to a river that often overflows its banks.
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That's a pretty unecsscesary footnote
> those messages go into the actor’s mailbox, and then the actor processes them synchronously

Not trying to be pedantic, but that's technically not true of the Actor formalism [0]. Quoting wikipedia:

> an actor can designate the behavior to be used to process the next message, and then in fact begin processing another message M2 before it has finished processing M1.

Available implementations (such as Erlang, Akka, Pony) do not support that pipelining so are single threaded per actor as you state though. As an aside, the behaviour you describe is part of the CSP formalism [1] - a related but different approach to concurrent systems.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Inherently_concurr...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...
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A lot of the criticism is fair but not the part about runtime os detection. It is vastly preferable over conditional compilation since it is much easier to test. With conditional compilation you introduce code paths that are only traversed on, say, Windows. If most developers use, say, Linux you will introduce difficult-to-debug system-dependent bugs. This goes for similar things like SIMD-extensions too. If possible, use runtime checking over conditional compilation.
I use privacy.com quite often. It's a useful and good service.

But some sites that you would want to use this service for explicitly block it (e.g, Bloomberg seems to do this). There's also a small number of other sites that I've had problems with.

Sometimes the customer support is mediocre.
Very few companies have a legitimate “parallel but equal” tech track for IC’s that remains IC all the way up. At some point on the totem pole you end up managing. All roads upward point to it. I currently work for a company that has a robust stack of levels for software engineers, but nobody at the “director equivalent” tech level is an actual IC.

I love the concept of having VP-level IC “wizard” roles who don’t have to manage, but have never seen it in practice.
The best book about sport is Fever Pitch, not a novel but stories of Nick Hornby's own football fandom as he grew up. I don't even like sport and I loved it. He then peaked when he wrote Hi Fidelity, a fantastic novel about relationships and music.
You're naming tech companies. We're talking about heavily regulated banks.
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For Debian it's more than just that the code isn't ready, the debconf guys and the design guys disagree and both consider the merge something that can decide about within the project. And to a certain extend, they're both right, which makes it even worse.

My understanding is that the Debian people tried to get a merged /usr going without consulting the packaging people. The packaging people not only ran into technical issues, they also disagreed with the decision itself. Eventually some patches were made to make it sort of work, but also with a warning that merged /usr is basically unsupported and can lead to breakage (which is technically correct). Then someone else tried to remove the warning because it made the entire project look bad with all those warnings everywhere, and at this point it's just egos and politics from all sides of the argument.

I don't think there are that many actually maintained packages that will break in a merged environment. It's more about the theoretical issue and about principles than anything.

It started out as a technical issue (the invalidation of some core assumptions about the file system in critical packaging infrastructure), but it's so much more than that now. I think the conflict will blow over, but just like people are still advocating for the death of systemd it'll take many years.

I don't think this has caused as much tech debt as it all seems from the aggressive discussions. It's a problem with some packages and some very exotic system configurations (embedded stuff is great at creating those "technically correct and supported but we really shouldn't have encouraged this" edge cases) but for the vast majority of the users and maintainers the whole thing is in the past now.

In the Linux space there are so many things that actually matter, like the 5 second Firefox startup delay caused by Snap and the fact that GTK still lacks a proper thumb grid view after it's been a meme for so many years. This whole issue is kind of a useless thing to put so much energy into.
Would this be avoided if the employee was kept on 1099 instead of switching to W-2?
From what I understand, Hatch fixes a core failure of Poetry & PDM: if you have a tool that is not a library (say Black), it should not be able to collide with another tool you are using (say TensorFlow). For a while, black and TensorFlow could not be installed in the same environment due to bad upper caps (In Python, never upper cap without proof it fails or will fail, see https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/) - and that's fine, TensorFlow and Black don't use each other. But Poetry/PDM will fail (and this is why Poetry's solve times can be insane). Hypermodern-python still tries to jam everything into a massive Poetry dev environment, which can create multi-hour solves if you add things like TensorFlow.

Today we've been "fixing" this by using nox or tox, and avoiding adding everything into a big "dev" environment. But the draw of Poetry/PDM was supposed to be "A single tool". Very excited to see where this goes! I've already enjoyed hatchling, which can be used on it's own with other systems. :) (Except Poetry, which doesn't play well with standards or anyone else).
On my phone running LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11) I have the following on/off options for every app: Allow network access, Wi-Fi data, Mobile data, Background data, VPN data, Unrestricted data usage (even when data saver is on)
I don't think it was ever meant to be a measure of well being.
> With that kind of money, you can buy three small companies in Germany, or stop worrying about retirement, etc.

What are the closing costs of purchasing a whole company? How much would you pay for an accountant to go over the books and a lawyer to go over the forms?

I don't know how much homes cost in Germany, but surely if people have 600k to spend, they would buy companies too, would they not? Why do they buy homes instead?
Conspiracy theory: it's because e-ink technology has military (stealth / penaid) applications. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=499TkWOl4PM; then picture a "chameleon jet-fighter" that syncs its color to the surrounding sky; or better yet, a chameleon missile. Without losing range due to needing to power active panels.)

I don't necessarily mean to imply that the military is restricting the tech for competitive reasons; but rather just that E Ink Corporation might be price-anchoring relative to what their biggest customer is willing to pay.

(See also: why "holographic glitter" is so expensive, compared to other metallic glitters. Holo-glitter paint is an effective radar diffuser; and, more obviously, the glitter itself is literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure) !)
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I am neutral on the idea of criminal prosecution here (for the individual, I absolutely thing there should be accountability for the organization). I am generally opposed to criminal prosecution for medical errors, but it's hard to overstate how outlier this series of mistakes was in terms of the severity of the outcome and the degree of negligence demonstrated.

I think the question of "should we put this person in prison for these actions" is equivalent to any other criminal act (which isn't a clear cut answer either, in my opinion).
That sounds like you've got some scheduled task firing too frequently. These commands may help diagnose the system wakes:

- powercfg/lastwake (report what event/device last woke the system)
- powercfg/waketimers (tasks set to wake the system)

If those don't report the culprit, it could also be a hardware device:

- powercfg -devicequery wake_armed (enumerate devices able to wake the system)
Currently, it is harder to hire outside the US due to legality issues such as taxes, the gov. designed it so for US workers to remain "competitive".

It is apparent that if these regulations were irrelevant, the market will become more fair and corporations won't be able to secretly discriminate by location.
Go look at HCQ/Ivermectin/Cryptocurrency for examples of such brigadiering.
yes and more. Not only form, but also content.
The water is so unbelievably clear. And believably cold.
Soo... when people tell me EU is an evil behemoth ran by a grey mass of Eurocrats in Brussels, delivering no value but complications... erm no, I don't think so.
Maybe not an overwhelming majority, but my anecdotal experience is that many people do think this way
Well polished indeed!
Is this really unique to California? He had 100% of his employees in California. (100% of 1, but still.) I'm having a hard time imagining that no other state in America would consider that "doing business in the state."
> Rust has its warts as well and the language spec is already starting to become somewhat... large

It doesn't have a spec, so we don't know how gigantic it would be.
Rocket mortgage is a Fannie/Freddie mortgage mill. If the mortgage doesn't tick all the conventional mortgage boxes and can't be instantly sold the government, they won't write it. You're much better off working with local banks or credit unions, who may be willing to keep the loan on their books.
I will say it's more like statically typed Ruby. It has many frameworks for building web applications of which the most popular seems to be Amber.

Unfortunately it has a small community. For instance in my opinion one would rather build a web application using ruby than crystal. The only ruby-like language that has gained some level of success and popularity is elixir.
I tried daily-driving my 8GB pi 4, coming from a ~2014 i7 laptop with 16 GB of RAM (with all Spectre mitigations disabled).

I loaded up Manjaro ARM on a Crucial NVMe, attached using a UASP-capable USB3 case.
I used Sway and the new, FOSS GPU drivers, and enabled hardware acceleration in chromium and vscode.

To my surprise, the browsing experience was absolutely OK, I couldn't notice any lag on most websites, including hw-accelerated YouTube, with the only exception being gitlab.

All other apps (mainly Telegram Desktop, zutty) worked absolutely fine, no difference at all from my daily driver.

Rust compilation also felt normal, it actually felt weird not hearing any fans with 100% CPU usage :)

The only minor disappointment was vscode: for some reason, even when using the same acceleration flags used in chromium, switching files took ~500 ms, which was the main dealbreaker for me (and for some reason the acceleration flags slowed down everything even more, or simply had no effect, quite the opposite of chromium).

I briefly considered learning vim, since it has LSP integration I could keep using all the language servers I used in vscode, but in the end switched back to my laptop after lasting two days (and I probably would've switched back anyway, since I usually work outside with my laptop in spring).
Growing up I'd go sailing on the great lakes, and occasionally a storm swell would kick up and cause a 25ft sailboat to buck like a bronco. The lakes sure felt like seas then.