skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any evidence suggesting that libraries are killing bookstores? If so, is this something we should be concerned about, or do the public benefits of libraries outweigh the reduced opportunities for booksellers?

Considering this was apparently the closing keynote at an academic library conference (CALM), is there any reason to believe that school libraries are a bad idea?
I don't think that's you. When I come home and eat stuff from my parents garden, the differences in some cases are massive. Carrots for example taste 10x more intense, even one that was taken from soil weeks ago.

And I am comparing to bio carrots we buy in Switzerland, so can't go much higher than that when shopping (apart from farmers markets maybe but that depends what kind of farm).

Maybe its about transport and premature harvest, like bananas - if you ever taste some in exotic locations where they harvest them in the morning, its hard to ever enjoy bleak taste of those available in western world.
How can you tell if someone’s vegan at a party? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

;)
The generated text is indistinguishable (to me) from a normal, if somewhat bland, toplevel HN comment on a Racket thread.
Same here. Although for some projects lately that needed quick a bit of docker infra running, I found battery life dropping to 7-9 hours for the m1 and then my x220 (which doesn’t notice docker much unlike the m1) performs better with it’s 11+ hours.
The racing game works on desktop Firefox on Ubuntu. Kind of. I get only jumpy spinning random frames once the car starts. Maybe it's https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game/issues/152

The space travel site works on desktop Firefox but I can only click and drag. I didn't find any way to zoom. Basically I'm stuck on the objects I can see: Earth, Moon and Mars. But I didn't even looked for help in the other comments. Got work to do now.

Thanks for answering :-)
It’s interesting to note that during college we live closely with lots of strangers in a big community, make lots of friends, and typically describe those days as some of the best of our lives in retrospect.

We then move away and live in increasingly isolated housing, typically long distances from our friends.

Modern life doesn’t make much sense in this way. We’re sociable chimps that need a group. I really love the idea of living in a street with friends nearby. Maybe I can make that happen.
Jesus fuck.

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There's a no-dig movement in organic farming that is based on the notion that tilling or otherwise disturbing soil is a bad thing because it disturbs the fungal ecosystem. Interesting if you are growing some stuff at home because practicing this actually means doing less work. Once established, a no-dig bed requires very little maintenance. You basically just leave it alone. You top it up with some compost once a year or so and you grow whatever you want. Even weeds stand less of a chance because those are what show up when you disturb the soil. So, if you don't do that, there are less weeds to deal with.

Sadly, I only have a balcony and no back yard but I try to grow lots of herbs there. Very tasty addition to my food. I have lots of Cilantro growing right now and my rosemary bushes are waking up from the winter as well. And I've planted out some basil cuttings from a cheap super market plant that in a few months will turn into a nice little basil jungle.
Mini doc on this guy: https://youtu.be/nJ-ehbVQYxI
Can't really cover the UK, only offering 20 days PTO without explanation is illegal in the UK, the minimum is 28 days (not including bank holidays). And it's very restrictive compared to most European countries anyway. Seems crazy that this is competitive in the US. Then again, salaries are much higher in the US.
If you're in Europe I'd wholeheartedly looking into becoming a freelance contractor. Companies regularly hire contractors at 50%-100% more than the equivalent payroll cost, meaning you can easily work less (I haven't worked a 40h week since 2018)
Me; I do not like trackpads; take up space and are not as efficient for me.
Not having good linux support is a deal breaker for me.
There's endless more stuff to read! I only made it through half of TGoA, and didn't know about TS. Thanks for the tip!
> I have no doubts most of my peers could write a fine custom framework, but it's going to take a whole team of them at least a year to come up with something decently ergonomic, tested and documented.

No, because they would not make a framework, it would not require all of this work, because it's not designed to be generic and reused by others.

Simply write a program. Not a framework. Has this idea been completely lost? Solve your own use cases only. Don't try to generalise it and optimise it for reuse by someone else.
Aegis/Domain OS. I would love to work again with such an OS.
You know, i support that you are able to say that. But i have also the right to say that bit:

You are an idiot.
This is a usually cited concern for so many people and I'm curious to know why because I rarely unplug my laptop, like most people I know.
Huh, I didn't know you could force to use discrete GPU only on the P15. I am considering switching to this laptop from T480, where this doesn't seem possible.
But do you get a reminder if you don't take holiday? In most of Europe, companies don't only have to offer a minimum of 4-5 weeks PTO per year, they also have to make sure employees take at least the majority of their vacation days.
It's not a crash it's a runtime state rollback.
> I quickly moved to the vectorial drawing tool I had handy: keynote. It’s really not made for that [...]

You would be surprised at how many figures are drawn with PowerPoint on papers at top Machine Learning conferences.
Me; it's far superior to anything outside of a mouse.

And yes, I have a MacBook M1 (I didn't realize how poor the support was for Linux by the time the return window closed).
Yeah, I am getting there; I just like working under Linux more and mac OS X does a bit, but nothing is like Linux with i3 for me; it is so much more productive (for me).
You can't mention that DBZ story without a link.
In much of the world, "seasonal produce" in winter means essentially nothing fresh: everything had to be preserved from the earlier harvest, and the available methods of preservation were far more destructive (dry, pickle, etc) than today's frozen or canned options, never mind a cool chain than can effortlessly bring you a tropical banana for Christmas in Canada.
Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x
> Similarly to the Socratic principle, ancient counterpart of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I don't remember ever hearing of "the Socratic principle" – what do you mean by that?

I had a quick google. There are only 12 pages of results for the phrase, i.e. it's not commonly used, and every hit for "the Socratic principle" I find seems different. The first four I found: "Virtue is knowledge", "follow the argument wherever it leads", "Wherever a man posts himself on his own conviction that this is best or on orders from his commander, there, I do believe, he should remain", and "Whenever we must choose between exclusive and exhaustive alternatives which we have come to perceive as, respectively, just and unjust or, more generally, as virtuous and vicious, that very perception of them should decide our choice. Further deliberation would be useless, for none of the non-moral goods we might hope to gain, taken singly or in combination, could compensate us for the loss of a moral good." If I had to say what I thought Socrates' main principle was, it might be "study humans and ethics, not nature/physics or maths". It doesn't sound like you meant any of those, but I'm not sure.
T15G2 is another great machine if you want P15 but with consumer graphics and full kb.
That's a bad example because you can always switch to the powertool if needed without building your project from scratch.
True, but I'm not buying it. Visa interview and SAO problems are universal for all applicants, I believe. SAO is even more relevant for "semiconductors, space technology, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing and computing, nuclear engineering, artificial intelligence and missile propulsion" (quoting the article), if rumors are true.

The only specific relaxation the article mentions is:

> The legislation includes language that would permit technically qualified Russians with masters or doctoral degrees in a range of fields to immigrate to the US without the usual visa requirement that they have a job lined up in advance. They would have to pass a US security background check.

As I said, getting the offer is the easy part. Lifting that requirements does little. They even say explicitly that some kind of "security background check" is still necessary.

A random story: a friend of mine (Software Engineer, LGBTQ+, smart and sociable folk) has tried to relocate to the US for years. They even got multiple offers in the same year with multiple entries to the H1-B lottery to increase their chances. No luck. In the end they simply relocated to London instead.

Another one: Massachusetts (yes, a state, not the federal government) have established a Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program several years ago using a loophole in H1-B visas. Quoting https://vdc.umb.edu/2019/04/20/how-does-the-massachusetts-gl...

> To smooth the path, Massachusetts established the Global Entrepreneur in Residence (GEIR) program. By working part-time at the University of Massachusetts, entrepreneurs can obtain a cap-exempt H-1B visa anytime during the year, since universities are exempt from the annual H-1B quota. The program gives an entrepreneur time to master the company building process, and document their talent and ability, so that they can eventually obtain a visa independent of the University of Massachusetts.

Another one, but I haven't heard it first-hand: Google typically does not even bother with H1-B last years, so unreliable it is. So the default route for a person who is needed in the US is to work in a London/Zurich office for a year and then apply via L1-B.

Maybe the campaign is aimed at people like "Wernher von Braun and Kurt Debus, later the first director of the Kennedy Space Center". Again, I don't think getting an offer for such kind of people is hard in any way.

- Maybe the campaign is aimed at people working in universities, which are H1-B cap-exempt. In that case, the lottery is lifted, which does make the process easier. Still not as easy as with Germany or the UK.
Isn't this exactly the right use case for an NDA? Making sure everyone understands what's secret and what isn't?
I love the nipple. I'll take it over any touchpad and for some weird reason I end up faster with it when aiming for small elements, even though it's completely counterintuitive.
The West, particularly Europe, has an energy dependence problem. I think they might have to accept some things they don't want. Was nuclear power such a terrible option?
The only one I can think of that may be done with TDD is Uncle Bobs fitnesse: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse.

Another resource that takes you through a practical approach of TDD is the book “Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by tests”(https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#growing-object-orien...). It’s a great book and really helps to take the concepts of TDD into practice.
I have to ask, how are you getting 11+ hours with an x220?

Aside from the screen, battery life and difficulties finding quality battery replacements are among the main reasons why switched to an M1 from an x220.
*T15p G2
That's the modern Turing test: how bland is it?

I am deathly afraid of the day an AI can be witty and invent something like Prison Lisp.
> For developers, going with Intel only (no Nvidia discrete card) is the most sensible choice.

Seems a right shame it lock you out of the 4K display though.
I didn’t make connections of the sort you’re describing at university, instead I did so when I moved to Cambridge for my first job. I guess my university wasn’t nerdy enough for me?
The ‘Ghost of Kyiv,’ Who Was Never Real, Just Got Killed in the Press
I'm not sure if "visa situation keeps their hands tied" is correct. Its certainly more paperwork sure, but given the current job market its quite easy to switch jobs on H1B or even OPT.
There are a bunch of studies that show that populations with the highest life expectancies tend to be those that not only benefit from high quality diets (usually seafood), in sunny areas, but also have strong family ties and sometimes live in multi-generational homes (Southern Italy, Spain, Okinawa).
Europe will keep buying Russian gas.
Ha ha! No lol. Actually Fathom is totally different from Plausible. I don't like Fathom way to showing metrics so I reverse engineered ( so many people are saying cloned ) the plausible frontend.
I just switched the other way from an older gen P1. I got maybe 1-2 hours battery out of the P1. I could barely go to one meeting without a charger. The M1 macbook lasted several days on one charge. I’m mind blown, having used wintel laptops for years.
I tried it but it only semi-worked. The label moves with the arrow, but if I move one side of the arrow (by moving the box it is attached to) the label does not move. (Note: I want the label on the arrow, not on its endpoints).
I have a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 1 and the trackpad works great in Manjaro and Windows. I donno what the post is complaining about.
It also spies on you.
It is the norm to work fewer hours in many sectors, especially if you're a government worker, but in tech it hasn't been my experience (as an expat in NL). If you don't have kids it seems to be 40+ hrs or nothing and requesting anything below full time is "unfair to other colleagues" or "signals a lack of commitment".
The 555 is the peek of the cells that provide vision.

The circadian sensor is separate from vision, it receives light that comes from top, its range goes beyond vision range into ultraviolet, its sensitivity goes up with the light frequency.

The recommendation to go for a walk outside in the morning to fix the circadian rythm is basically to get ultraviolet coming from the top to your eyes, as that is most effective.
In the evening any required lighting should be dim, red and coming from bottom.

Blue light screen filters do help somewhat but the sum of the remaining lower bands still has the potentiall to mess up the circadian.

source: Andrew Huberman podcasts on sleep
Unbelievable.

The GP was answering a general-interest question of the estimated market value of wormhole.com. They then gave an excellent response. You missed a post in the thread, didn’t notice, and insulted GP (for no reason, I might add).
Dey took er jerbs!
> It's one of the most reliable and useful pieces of software, and it seems to be doing just fine. Most efforts at modernization focus on extension, either with packages, other languages, GUIs, etc.

I love LaTeX and use it everyday, and in particular I have no gripes with compile time, but honestly it's only doing just fine (in terms of usage) because there's no alternative, not due to its own merits. Because the UX is ridiculously outdated.

- Needing to compile 2 or 3 times to get the document right (and not having an option of doing it automatically or been warned about it).

- Need to include an unusual Unicode character? Good luck navigating the different packages for character encodings, font encodings, etc. A couple of days ago we needed to include Қ (Tajik/Uzbek/Kazakh character) and after a few hours of googling and desperately trying several solutions that in theory should work, we ended up including a vector image of the character created in Inkscape (funnily enough the workaround is less bad than it sounds, because the Inkscape image actually has the character as a character, and latex is smart enough to make it copy-pastable as any other text character). Honestly in 2022 any software should Just Work(tm) with Unicode, period. It's trivial to write Қ in a modern browser and have it appear in HN, for example.

- Interactions between packages making a mess, so when you want to pitch your paper to a new journal and adopt their template, multiple errors start to come up, and after trying to decipher some cryptic messages, you find the hard way that some table package you're using is incompatible with the journal template.

- Related to the previous... error messages are sometimes extremely cryptic. Especially when something you do causes an error to be caught inside a package you're using, and you get pointed to a line that doesn't even relate to your code at hand.

- There is nothing to ease the learning curve, so entire scientific fields won't touch it. Why can't we have something that is as simple as Markdown if you just want to create a simple document with headers and lists, and where complexity is added as you need it?

I use LaTeX because all alternatives I know are worse but to me, it's a clear example of a local minimum where we are stuck. It would take a lot of effort to create something better so no one does it, and as a result we have to do with an UX from the 80s. I just wish people wouldn't act as if it were the bee's knees every time its obvious aging is mentioned.
I sorely miss it since switching from ThinkPad to MS Surface a few years ago. I almost always use a mouse, even on the go, as TrackPads just don't work for me, the need to keep my fingers raised produces discomfort quite quickly. The TrackPoint is one of the reasons I'm considering a ThinkPad again.
I don't mind spinners except those ugly 5fps Microsoft "bullets" spinners that I find extremely annoying to watch.
I have one of these with a Nvidia GPU and my complaint is that the fan runs hard all the time while driving a pair of 4K displays (one HDMI and one USBC.) Drives me nuts.
This is totally opposite to my experience. I’m Russian living in bay area and people often ask how my family back at home. I never had even a slight negativity towards me based on nationality.
I came to exactly post this. I previously had a HP ZBook with Nvidia Quadro inside and although I managed to get it running nicely I recently bought an LG Gram with integrated graphics and I'm not looking back. Both came with a Windows which I immediatly changed to Linux.

If you are not into gaming you can save big bucks and weight buying a laptop with integrated graphics. If you need a GPU for work you most probably need one with >8GB anyway.

PD: Why do so many laptops come with crapware instead of vanilla Windows? Why??? Why do laptop manufacturers tarnish their product so much? It remembers me so much of Android phones.
Right, So is that why Discord was successful in using 'React Native' (RN) and also was able to implement the same features (Stage Channels) faster than Clubhouse (iOS only in early 2021) did for their Android users at the time?

Or is that why Coinbase announced a successful transition to RN [0] given the metrics they outlined in their blogpost? Perhaps is that also why when it comes to needing high performance, the largest stock broker in India (Zerodha) went from Native to RN and settled on using Flutter? [1]

Why didn't they go back to native then? The problem with this article is that it is from an unrealistic and absolutist perspective. Just look at this nonsense:

> And if you ever need to share code between your iOS and Android apps, you can always use C++; which was the solution adopted by Dropbox for almost a decade.

And a decade later, is even Dropbox using their own solution today? Why is it archived then? [2] When they needed to share code between their native iOS and Android, apps why did they go back to native? [3]

The author is not being realistic. His suggestions are more of an expensive solution that gets your greenfield project to market at a slower rate as demonstrated by Clubhouse. Is that what you want?

[0] https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbases-successful-tr...

[1] https://zerodha.tech/blog/from-native-to-react-native-to-flu...

[2] https://github.com/dropbox/djinni

[3] https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/03/dropbox-android-kotlin/
> We pump our systems full of caffeine and alcohol

At least these drugs are for recreation. Worse is people taking Adderall and co. Taking drugs to perform better? I am happy with performing worse then and I haven't really seen it working anyway.

Even kids free time is extremely scheduled so no wonder parents don't get sleep. Their childless counterparts don't have it much better since they are expected to work more.

But perhaps it is still the same fear as before. We believe if we don't work as much we would get left behind.

But an obvious advantage for humans needing less sleep is probably nutrition.
I suspect many potential visitors would appreciate the need to maintain secrecy, but not appreciate just how much needs to be made secret. For example - the article refers to food. This may seem like an innocuous detail, but could allow an adversary to poison the food before its delivered to the bunker. The NDA servers to spell out exactly how little a visitor should tell the outside world.
Last I checked it was pretty slow, performance and use in production was not its main focus.

I'd like that, I absolutely adore this language.
This mindset is similar to what people with wired headphones think of Airpods et al. It's not an apparent benefit when you're in the bubble of thinking it's normal to have a wire going across your torso all day and hearing the thuds and bumps propagate through the wire to your ears. But when you buy a pair of wireless buds and have them for a week - you don't go back. You've discovered freedom.

Likewise, with battery, you don't think it's an issue now because you know your laptop's limitations and therefore rarely unplug it. But when you get the ability to do so - you'll start to adapt to your new freedoms.
As someone who started coding cross-platform C/C++ stuff in the mid-90's with Windows being the main platform, I never understood the appeal of autotools. Trying to compile any C/C++ project which used autotools+make on Windows never worked out of the box, best one could was trying to generate a Makefile (and config headers) on a Linux system and hope that it works on Windows (which it actually did surprisingly often because most C/C++ code was portable enough to not actually need any system-specific configuration).

Later it dawned on me that autotools did actually make sense at one time, when there have been dozens of competing UNIX implementations which hadn't been standardized yet. But that time is long gone, autotools no longer has a purpose, just let it rest.