skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was sort of my reaction to: "why yes, of course this unregulated market has bad actors ripping off other people". But consider the WSJ audience and the way cryptocurrency is increasingly being peddled as a legitimate investment. Insider trading steals money from end retail investors and gives it to powerful insiders. It is actively harmful to ordinary investors. Ultimately markets that tolerate this kind of fraud fail as people get mad about being the sucker who gets ripped off and refuse to participate.

Compared to the other kinds of fraud endemic to cryptocurrency, the risk of a corrupt market is a slow burn. Probably the Ponzi scheme will collapse or the rug will be pulled or the contract will be hacked long before the sheep realize they are being fleeced by insiders.
I've definitely felt like I've had to come up with clever ways of making sure my pages are the latest, especially after a user edits their page and expects to see it instantly updated. I've also had to remove thousands of pages from static generation, only to be generated on first load or else Vercel times out on the build and you'll be banging your head on the wall trying to figure out what is going wrong as their logs don't tell you. The number of pages you can get away with is way lower than you think it should be. I haven't tried the new on-demand revalidation yet.
Well, and fun on a windy country road is a heck of a lot less fun commuting in stop and go traffic.
>Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with

This is a gross over exaggeration.

I'd say about 50-60% of companies do a programming test.

Others are happy to look at your open source code and discuss it with you. They might pepper you with some programming language trivia questions.

That has been my experience.
The speeds to terminals were not great, and this is completely in contrast to how the terminals were meant to be used.

The big idea behind the 3270 architecture was to support things like CICS, where you could have tens of thousands of terminals attached to a single processor computer with 16 megabytes of memory, and then take individual requests from terminals, recover state, and render screens.
euthanasia?? thats my plan.
It doesn't adequately explain what it does before having you ruing your configuration nor should it really be part of this application. An informative message explaining that the application doesn't work on wayland, why, and a link to a page with solutions would have been much better and not placed the user at risk.
It's been terrible. Recently I had to reset my apple developer password, and they literally went "oh, you don't have any available apple hardware? Well.... We can still do it, but now it will take several days". And this is after 2FA through SMS. It's been a week now, and stil no update.

I honestly think apple and their excellent marketing and previous decent hardware alternatives, is one of the worst things to happen to consumer computing. It served the
"not Windows"-itch for a couple of decades, drawing driver and software manufacture towards a closed OS. Sometimes I think about what could have been. Hopefully getting there, just much more slowly.
Until I read this post I didn't even know my Vercel apps ran in multiple servers. I have to go check some things out I guess.
My brain is a very bad virtual machine and it's very bad at parsing diffs (even GitHub ones), so I like to check out the code under review locally, browse it and see what my IDE says about it (thank you JetBrains), run it, and run the tests while stepping through the code. Makes a big difference.
> The metaphorical tires are not welded on; you can keep an old phone going with a new battery.

The metaphorical tires are DRM'd on by a company that has been actively trying to prevent third party repair shops from being able to work on your car.

The doubt of Apple's intentions here is not happening in a vacuum, but against their consistent and ongoing efforts to make self-repair unnecessarily difficult.
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Having access to multiple keys per thumb really is a huge improvement over standard keyboards.

They are pretty expensive, but you can get a custom Dactyl Manuform made for about $400-500. I think there are some cheaper ways to get one. I made my own and its the best keyboard I've ever used. Before that I was using a different split keyboard (the ergodox-ex) and it was pretty good but the Dactyl is near perfect. I just wish they were popular enough for a large manufacturer to start making some non-3d printed cases for them.
Yes, I think they could. They have the best engineers in the world and incredible amounts of money. The regularly invent new manufacturing techniques to enable their new designs. They often invest heavily in their suppliers to enable them to make the parts they need.

If Apple wanted to they could make an iPhone that people love and has all the features they want and be much easier to repair then the current version.
Oh, agreed; it's why I don't call out specific benefits (since I know they have different rules and such). My intention there is to generalize to all of them.
That's fantastic! I swapped out pulseaudio for pipewire on my Arch installation and it immediately fixed all of my bluetooth issues. Everything just worked.
Artificial intelligence for structural glass engineering applications
I like the way it's done on HHKB layout keyboards: the \ and backspace key switch places and what's normally backspace is split in two so that the top-right key can be used for ~ without requiring any function layer [1].

[1] https://guillaumeplayground.net//wp-content/gallery/gh60_sat...
When I built Shopify sites for hire, I tried a version of this. I didn't write code or design stuff for free, but anyone could schedule a free 30 minute phone conversation. It was VERY successful and before long I was turning away new clients every day.

The customer saw the free half hour as a way to find out what I know and what I would do specifically for their project, like free lawyer advice. I saw the time as a sales call people had invited themselves to! I made sure that by the end of the call the customer was pumped and wanting more. I made the calls fun and funny and informative.

The time given away was well worth the advertising investment. After all, the customers who hired me already knew my personality and work style and they knew I wasn't full of BS. That's a great way to start a professional relationship and to build trust before you ask for money.
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A watch mechanism is (typically) circular, ideal for devices that need to be opened and closed frequently. And the mechanism is a much smaller percentage of a watch's overall volume; much more of its volume is enclosure material.
Nice list, CharlesW. I appreciate the disambiguation between FOSS and proprietary.
According to its release notes, 1.4.1 was released this month and "is an extensive overhaul of the underlying code, modernising and converting most of the codebase to Swift."

That doesn't sound like maintenance mode to me. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/release-notes?os=...
Totally get it. I guess I’m saying that there’s a parenthetical “in my experience” attached to everything I say. I do not believe being a parent is right for everyone or in all situations. I’m just saying that even though it’s hard, if you want to do it, it’s worth it (in my experience)
Maybe. 15% sounds about right to me. Back in 1990 computers were expensive, bulky devices, required specialized knowledge to operate (Apple's ad copy notwithstanding), and had limited use outside of a few specific domains.
I found out about a WSL feature specific to Windows 11 today, after exporting an image from my Windows 11 laptop to my Windows 10 desktop.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#boot...

There's a few more on that page. I would not be surprised if more appeared over time.
In terms of radio waves, besides intended emissions like WiFi, well designed modern circuits release little spurious electromagnetic radiation. There's a whole field of engineering that goes into this, called electromagnetic compatibility. Basically the layout of the board feature ground planes and return vias that improve signal integrity while reducing any unwanted emissions.

Avoiding interference is not just altruistic due to the reciprocal property of electromagnetism: a design that does not accidentally create antennas and emit junk, is less susceptible to receiving interference from external sources
I'm a bit older (35) and what I've come to view about my earlier relationships is that I didn't invest much in them. Didn't share my feelings, didn't make myself vulnerable. At the time I thought I just wasn't meeting the right person, now I feel there were probably a dozen women I went out with that could have been terrific partners.

This is not to criticize embracing being single at 25. It's a good opportunity to figure out who you are and what you like. But the empty "a way to not be alone" relationships also happens in short term relationships and casual dating. You get what you put in.

> I haven't found ultimate happiness

You will not find this, it does not exist, and it is certainly not obtained by catching some mythical "the one." Unreasonable expectations will doom any relationship.
caching is temporary storage, and as shown elsewhere, they're serving up the site on http with other user's data visible through guessing.
It’s not really much of a debate.

If I like the thing then it definitely belongs in the category I like. If I don’t like the thing then it definitely belongs in the category I don’t like.
I'm in a post-sov country that is strongly supporting Ukraine publicly and where no one is fearing persecution or bullying for taking in refugees. Nevertheless, there are always (33 years and counting) vocal minority voices that parrot Russian narratives.

I strongly believe there are several key factors to this: a similar cultural experience and societal identity for people over 50[1] and a strong influence stemming from the combination of only knowing Russian as their single foreign language and the prevalence of Russian TV channels in the 90s/00s as well as Russian YouTube channels more recently. The 90s were hard in post-soviet countries, many people got disillusioned, some never really got back on their feet.

In terms of misremembering the occupation: cognitive biases and flaws[2], nostalgia, regressively conservative, hyper nationalistic, as well as anti-US/Western sentiments, etc. are all abused by Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. Some narratives are really textbook political myths[3] about the Savior, the Golden Age (I guess the US got a real taste of this one with the MAGA movement). Much like a significant number of Trump supporters in the US, supporters or Russia in my country are more likely to believe in chemtrails, sovereign citizen claims, global pedophile conspiracies, anti-LGBTQ narratives, etc.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Sovieticus
2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_Effect
3- http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/pas/pas201201/pas2012-08.pdf
I'm looking for this too(random forum posts and reddit comments don't count), wasn't even aware there was an alternative for pulseaudio...
In my experience the high end backpacking gear metal of choice is titanium.
Threatening with conventional arms is not the same as threatening to use nuclear arms. Many countries threaten to use their military - yet Russia is going as far to threaten the offensive use of nukes. I’m discussing the reality of now not some theoretical future/parallel universe as what’s the point? Russia is doing what Russia is now and that’s the problem.
I'm 15+ years of experience, I funded a few high level projects for corps and a few startups including hiring my teams. I was always conducting my interviews by making some work with the candidate and I found it best approach.

And quite recently I sat on another end of hiring table. I'm good at algorithmic challenges like letcode or hackerrank, I always liked puzzles like this. And yet, last interview I failed. Purely because I got a bit nervous and did not manage to deliver fully working solution in 15 minutes in front of interviewer. And that after passing their hackerranks and answering their general system questions. I guess their approach was all or nothing. Is it good or bad, I don't know. But from hearing their problems I knew their problems is something I eat for breakfast :)
The counter argument is the Western elite are thinking the world has changed while every other country including Russia are still playing by 20th century Sphere of Influence geopolitics.

The US invaded Cuba when the Russians installed missiles, so is it surprising in the least that Russia is intervening when NATO moves up to their border?
That's not even close to a true statement, Australia can trust USA far more than they can trust China. Its not binary.
when I went to school, each school usually had only one or 2 apple ][s -- but we had a whole classroom of PETs in 7th grade that got replaced by a classroom of C64 in 8th grade. I saved up and bought a TRS-80 CoCo 2, otherwise there would not have been a computer in our house.
Requirements change over time, unfortunately.

The initial realization of the inevitability of bit-rot as the world changes over time was pretty frustrating for me.
Yeah I just started getting back to trying at friends and relationships again after the pandemic and I’m about ready to return to being a hermit because these people are pissing me off, as I’m sure I am them.
> it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool

Is it? Solar panels without any buffer battery should be a cheap energy source for an AC.

There's also the possibility of using an air-to-air heat pump that warms in winter and cools in summer. Coupled with solar energy that should work quite well in Texas.
I'm Ukrainian and I do not want this. "the strictness of the laws is offset by the non-binding nature of their enforcement" is more preferable to me.
This looks really great and I'm definitely giving it a try.

I often find myself opening up TextEdit windows to do basic transformations manually.

A really common I case I have is changing indent levels. For example, adding 4 spaces to paste a code snippet somewhere that takes Markdown (but not code fences). This looks possible via the "Append Lines With..." command.

One thing I'm not immediately finding is a way to decrease indent levels.

For example, if I have an indented block of code like this:

function blah() {
if (foo) {
baz
}
}

How do I decrease the indentation by 4 spaces, but preserve the interior indentation?
Love your comment!
I'm so grateful my father (RIP) came home with a Commodore VIC-20 from Sears in 1983.

We were incredibly poor, so my mother nearly killed him, but he insisted that personal computers were here to stay, and that his children needed to become acquainted.

Nearly 40 years later, he was right. I have made, and continue to make, a great living on these crazy machines.
> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool.

This really depends on what two places we are comparing. It’s definitely cheaper to heat your house in Bay Area than to cool it in Texas, but the story becomes different when you compare Texas with, say, Minnesota.
Huh? Heating from 0 to 22 seems more energy intensive than cooling from 35 to that same number. Not to mention most heating is done through the equivalent of resistive heat, while ACs are overwhelmingly heat pumps.
> Another key to employee retention is creating company values. We have six values at Meetup, and we use them for recruiting, performance reviews, and a lot of different areas.

Shouldn't you "use" values for making decisions? These "values" are clearly manipulative fabrications, possibly well-meaning but clearly intended to pressure employees into compliance.

> People who don’t have personal connections to their colleagues are more likely to leave your company. They’re just sitting in front of their laptop, not going out for drinks after work, not going for coffee or lunch during the day, and not feeling the same energy and connection during collaborative work. This is why I’m not a fan of fully remote teams.

If they don't go out for drinks after work, maybe it's because they have a private life. If they don't go out for lunch, maybe they have too much urgent work every day. If they don't overflow with "connection" with the "team" maybe it's because they have a family.

I think I would find this sort of environment very oppressive and distracting; micromanagement (of the thought police variety) seems prevalent.

> At Meetup, we currently have people come to the office two days a week, unless they have special circumstances, like caring for an elderly person, health issues, etc.

This phrase is worded like a territorial concession in a treaty between Meetup and "people": two days are better than nothing, but not enough for our enforced socialization attitude. If two days were in some sense the right amount of work at the office, there would be some explanation of the reasons; a bare number seems only an undesirable compromise with the job market.
Your DNA does the same. It tries to reduce "mistakes" and the mistakes are the evolution. And it's generally a very slow process.
I repaired my washing machine this last week. An unbalanced load had caused some sort of break on one of the wire harness connectors.

I found what I thought was the problem, I bought the service manual off a third party site, and found a replacement wire harness on eBay. It was a bit of work, but after getting it all finished, I ran the self-diagnostics and calibration, and we’re washing clothes again.

I feel like the article is pretty disingenuous, but never really gets to the point of what right to repair is. It’s being able to get the components you need - not just modules. It’s about flexibility in how you care for your property (including its future). It’s about honesty of what really needs to be fixed/replaced/addressed.
> Why has no one done this before Kotlin?

...in reference to nullable types being added

1. Languages generally release with this (ie Swift, PHP), rather than add it later

2. There is a risk that it won't be accepted because of bad assumptions that can either be technical or social. ie This feature exists and is criticized in other languages like PHP

3. There is no proof that it's any more important than any other feature being discussed.

4. There is work associated with doing it.

There ya go.
Consider also a couples therapist, all the same rationale applies.

In either case, read up on the process for finding one that works you (and maybe your partner). Make sure it's someone you respect. There's a wide variety in quality, and if it's someone who you do not take seriously it will not be a good use of time.

Good luck
A really good place to see old computer ads in context is on magazine archives.

Archive.org has the BYTE archives.

https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE

It is fun to go back and browse them.
That's probably part of the problem; I expect that refining is a bottleneck because of the legion of shutdowns that happened in 1q 2020.

I also suspect there's a lot of details that aren't mentioned in the article and we'll find out later. In particular I'd like to suggest that the pipeline network (or lack thereof) is functioning as a bottleneck in this case as it is in constricting new drilling.
> I believe Apple didn't set out to make it difficult to repair, it was just a side effect of not caring one way or the other and optimizing for the other aspects.

Apple's efforts with DRM and using IP law to restrict parts supply seem to clearly indicaye a desire and intent to limit the ability to self-repair. While there are legitimate trade-offs to make, it seems obvious to that Apple has made choices that unnecessarily reduced repairability.
Cough ... Algorand... cough
https://archive.ph/njixG
Please keep in mind that my comments come from someone who bought a Framework laptop precisely because of their right to repair stand. I've also experimented with alternate phones like the Pine Phone, looking for something that could be more open. However, like many criticisms of Apple's phone, this one is also largely bogus.

This person wants a phone that's less than 8mm thick, with a high resolution screen, high quality camera, holes for speakers, a hole for a charger, smooth and tight tolerances all the way around, etc., that can mostly be taken under-water. (I regularly forget I have my iPhone in my pocket when I get in the pool and never once put it in a bed of rice.). Then it's surprising that it has to be fixed or disassembled with machinery to ensure that it correctly seals, doesn't break, bend, or warp during disassembly or assembly? Or that maybe it requires some degree of training to develop the confidence to use correctly?

Could Apple design a phone that can be repaired at home with a hair dryer, plastic spudger, gasket kit, and a set of jeweler's screw drivers? Could Apple design a phone with an easily replaceable battery? Could it work with any PoS battery you order off Ali express because the Chinese knock-offs on Amazon are too expensive? Absolutely. It just wouldn't be 7mm this, largely water tight, non-exploding, etc. etc. And wouldn't be supported by the manufacturer for 5+ years. You would have something like my Pine phone. I can do anything I want to my Pine phone and that's what makes it cool. It's just not my "daily driver."

I like my iPhone. After learning how to make some of my own electronic stuff I recognize the engineering that goes into it a little better. I'll continue to use my Xr until Apple stops updating it, which based on their track record, will likely be around 2024. At that point I'll get an iPhone whatever. I'm hoping it's sealed even tighter, better screen, camera, etc. The USB-C would be nice, but not anything that I stress over. In fact, it would be nice if it were even more sealed up by only wireless charging.
How long until it's no longer a question on the screen but enforced vis software? This is the downside of OTA and permanently connected devices. It doesn't belong to you and features you purchased can be taken away from you.
This comment is delusional and in no way represents the history of the Soviet Union, nor the sentiment towards Ukrainians in post-soviet countries.
Commodities usually don’t make 0% return. The price of corn, gold, and gas have all gone up significantly over time (although sometimes not faster than inflation).
On the contrary, I believe MacBooks have continued to eat general market share since they switched to Apple Silicon, and they are by far the best built UNIX-based laptop you can get, and have by far the best battery life. There’s a reason so many devs (and scientists, like myself) use them.
2 acres was the total farmland, they would rotate which areas they used so on any given year only 30-40% of it was actually growing crops. They never sold anything that I can recall, but they loved being able to give extras away. Both of them grew up in the 50s on farms in the south. They both saw their dad have to transition away from full time farming and get a day job, but in both of their families the farm remained a big source of supplemental income that involved the whole family. Interestingly both of them were the first in their family to go to college because they didn't want to be trapped in the rural farming life. I guess they were still pretty fond of it though because after they married they decided that their dream home was a small farm, which is where I grew up.
> I don't mind that the people have access to that infrastructure if that's all they have, even if I don't personally need it.

You miss the point completely. You need it. You don’t drive but you consume services directly depending on this infrastructure.
Thanks a lot, it's fixed.