skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iTunes doesn't even exist anymore on macOS.

> Try to rename iTunes, because that's the only way to keep it from opening every time you connect your non-Apple Bluetooth headphones (there's a convoluted procedure to do so)

Never happened once with any of my non-Apple Bluetooth headphones. What the ** are you talking about? Do you constantly hit the play button on the headphones when you connect them? That's the only time Apple Music or iTunes would launch without the user starting the app explicitly.

> due to poor resolution and text handling on macOS

Yeah. Apple has basically told everyone without a Retina display to go ** themselves. While Windows does handle those in-between resolutions much better.

>I don't know why Apple doesn't get the same hate as Windows, because my Macbook Pro constantly installs stuff all on its own

You can turn off auto-updates on the Mac. You do know that right?

> Macbook Pro with a discrete video card struggles to drive the monitor.

My guess is that you're using a 2016-2019 MBP. If so, try plugging in the dock/monitor to the right side Thunderbolt ports. For some ungodly reason MBPs tend to throttle if a dock is plugged in on the left side.
I didn't work them myself, but there are a lot of online options that look good. https://fullstackopen.com/en/ seems like a solid choice to me.
I use codemirror texteditor and haml so I can write stuff directly on the website. I have #hashtags to connect single sheets with each other but basicially its an outliner. Works pretty good for my needs.

https://i.imgur.com/C1wImlG.png
Sourcing: Sweet Maria's. Roasting: Follow their suggestions and buy an air popper at Goodwill. If you get a flimsy one, don't roast more than one batch in a row or the machine's innards will melt. The one caveat is you need somewhere outside where nobody will object to acrid smoke.
I worked at Intel in a very closely related area.

I quit after getting vaccinated for COVID, only stayed because of the pandemic.

The biggest problem was that Intel simply couldn't execute. They couldn't design and manufacture hardware in a timely manner without too many bugs. I think this was due to poor management practices. My direct manager was amazing, but my skiplevel was always dealing with fires. It felt like instead of the effort being orchestrated that someone approached a crowd of engineers and used a bullhorn to tell them the big goal and that was it. The left hand had no idea what the right hand was doing.

I often called Intel an 'ant hill', because the engineers would swarm a project just like ants do a meal. Some would get there and pull the project forward, some would get on top and uselessly pull upward, and more than I'd like would get behind the project and pull it backwards. Just a mindless swarm of effort, which generally inefficiently kinda did the right thing sometimes.

The inability to execute started to effect my work. When I got a ticket to complete something, I just wouldn't. There was a very good chance that I'd have an extra few weeks (due to slippage) or the task would never need to get done, because the hardware would never appear. Planning was impossible.

Conversely, sometimes hardware CAME OUT OF NOWHERE, not simple stuff, but stuff like laptops made by partners. Just randomly my manager would ask me to support a product we were told directly wouldn't exist, but now did. I needed to help our partner with support right now. Our partners were starting to hate us and it was palpable in meetings.

I'm so glad I quit, I was being worked to the bone on a project which will probably fail and be a massive liability. Even if the economy crashes, and I can't get a job for years, and end up broke, it'll still have been worth it. I also only made 110K/yr base.
thanks for sharing, thats pretty good data.

can't disagree with that. seems like even more reason to not use the land for things that can be grown vertically/hydroponically.

But definitely something i'll be reading more on, thanks for the resource.
Re-rethinking Databricks’ valuation in a more conservative startup market
That is 300,000 miles at $5/gallon. I don't know what gas prices will go to, but very few trucks go that far before they are scrapped - they absolutely can go a a lot more than that, but most do not.
It's against nuclear everything. The dominant anti-Diablo Canyon group is called Mothers For Peace, which really tells you everything you need to know.
And that's fine. Assume both are true and come up with a plan to mitigate the next pandemic.

Here's my bad idea: If China doesn't allow international monitoring of it's wet markets every person entering your country from China must quarantine for 14 days.

Any person traveling form a country that doesn't follow the above policy must quarantine for 14 days.
Thin Platforms
Is this an unusual year? It seems the small grain farmers I know make just ok money in the past. Certainly not enough to pay for benefits and stuff. Or maybe your small farm is much larger than the small farms I know (~100ac).
Habit, mostly.

I usually have the comments link hidden, because most of the time it's very biased in the direction opposite to my own, so that just causes my blood pressure to rise.

Lately it's not particularly interesting. A small cohort of blogs gets featured every week with fairly mundane posts.

Lots of mainstream publications pushing narratives.

This used to be a site that had interesting and niche content, now it's just bland corpo circlejerk 98% of the time...
It means that people in society are being exposed to things that they wouldn't have been in the past because the ways we communicate changes with regards to faster and more available means of communication, and that our perceptions and reality are different. In reference to their past perception when unaware of this, it would seem that society in contrast is collapsing, even when the state of society has not changed. If we collectively become more aware as a society of an issue, then it's revealed to society in a way it has not been in the past despite no or limited actual deterioration.
Let me know if you need the source for QMODEM, I know a guy :)
Love Fork! Switched to it after I got sick of how slow and buggy SourceTree was.
> I wonder how do people come to a decision that it's a good idea to start their own text editor when vim and emacs exist.

Vim/Emacs have a huge community and ecosystem, but they aren't exactly perfect. I don't see anything weird about people writing their own editor.

I'd personally love to have a Python-programmable editor a la Emacs, and if I ever write a text editor, it's gonna be like that.
Good luck. If you decide to work on something in the real estate space, give me a shout ;)
Ok, we've changed to that from https://thenewstack.io/what-made-golang-so-popular-the-langu.... Thanks!

Related:

The Go Programming Language and Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31173395 - April 2022 (40 comments)
Hello HN

I’m an industrial design student who recently completed a senior capstone project (the largest and final project of our program).

Through individual research and consultation with professors and doctors employed at my school (Thomas Jefferson University), we developed a focus on light therapy. Our product evolved through the semesters to its final version, a readily deployable, hygienic light therapy device for assisting athletic trainers in treating knee trauma.

Our school was bought a few years ago by Thomas Jefferson University and the result has been an increased focus on the medical collaboration utilizing internal connections.

To the scientific plausibility of such a device: I can link to research we used specifically though there is plenty out there. The majority of this project was completed under the assumption that certain wavelengths of light can speed up recovery of tendons and muscles.

Our specific implementation targets the knee due to frequency of injury and the specificity helped guide the project along. Using medical grade silicone as a sort of shell, they sandwich a plastic substructure which supports the flex circuits containing an LED array. These LEDs are a combination of red and infrared each of a specific wavelength range. Powered through a removable battery pack which is also a controller. Sadly the focus is on industrial design so developing a gui and prototyping that further was a very low priority though I’d hope to sometime flesh out more in the future.

Ask any questions as i have loads of information not in the final presentation and can offer some context for those unfamiliar with the topic.

Thanks for viewing!!!
You also can't buy Audible books through the Audible app. I get that Google wants their cut and Amazon doesn't want to give it, but come on.
Okay, yeah you're right. I am not gonna become fullstack right away, but this course will at least provide me a descend knowledge about web-dev. And this way I can build portfolio which will be helpful to get me at least junior position, because, see I am completely new in the field.
You'll need to consider that the truck uses a different battery chemistry than home battery backup solutions intended for a different use case. The truck isn't intended to power your entire home and you'll likely have to use a manual disconnect from the grid.

Also it sounds like you'd still need solar panels and a backup generator.
I guess it depends how "embedded" the target is, I guess. I'd rather write an xmodem implementation in assembler than I would zmodem. I'm envisioning that you're using xmodem to transfer "brain-stem" type firmware where you're talking to a very constrained system. (I know I've sent firmware to Ethernet switch bootloaders via xmodem over serial. Presumably I was very, very close to the metal in that case.)
Thanks for the empathetic response. It's nice to know that I'm not alone or simply 'afflicted' as many of other comments suggest.
Can you clarify what you mean by scanning receipts?

Do you scan (presumably photo with phone?) and then autodetermine the cost and maybe even some sub-category breakouts?
And the government would then cap the amount that universities get per student, and it would allow poor people to go to college as well. Everyone winds up paying tuition via taxes over time.
Hear hear. I really don't care about the source of the feature I'm looking to implement, when I'm programming, per se. As long as I get to use the most modern tools and have a motivating reason _at_all_, I tend to program every day within my free time.
I’m not the GP. I don’t like subscriptions and looked at Fork after your comment. I couldn’t find the policy on versions and upgrades. Is it a one time purchase with updates for major versions or for a period of time (after which updates wouldn’t be available) or a one time purchase forever (how would the developers and the product survive)? The purchase page says one license is for up to three computers. It doesn’t explain it there is some activation process (in which case there needs to be a way to deactivate and reassign).
Looking at my last two (non notebook) motherboards (neither of them being particularly new) one of them has a pin header where a serial port could be attached, the other only has some contacts on the board without even pins. Neither of them had a proper port.

So even if they could offer these ports and Linux reports them, they might not be usable without special work.
I'm not an attorney, but I've litigated almost a hundred cases without a lawyer.

Question: sometimes I'll have attorneys approach me at court when I'm on a case that's an obvious winner (and has statutory legal fees, which I can't claim because I'm not represented) and offer to take the case on so they'll get the fees, and then split the fees with me (and let me keep the damages).

Is there any reason why this would not be legal? I've not done it yet simply because I like to litigate everything myself to make a point that it's possible, but sometimes you get a judge that really hates unrepresented people and a lawyer would change the game.
I do think there is something like the uncanny valley effect. The distinction is likely "no design"/minimalism vs "bad design".

Some pages show very clearly that the focus was not on designing a good looking appealing page, either minimal on purpose, or just a bit dated (like hackernews, or old reddit). Not bad, it's familiar, functional, fine.

Other pages are designed to do other things; for example evoke desire, excitement and/or delight (like Apple, Stripe).

Then there are pages that want to be Apple, but don't quite succeed. A lot of websites that use Bootstrap or material design are like that. It's superficial design, they have some of the styles, but it's very clear there is a lack of design, lack of storytelling, lack of substance. It's a bit cringy to look at, it evokes negative feelings.

That doesn't mean all is lost, even experienced designers often go through that phase in the design process, they just are unlikely to release it haha. Keep asking yourself questions; What do I want it to do? Why isn't it doing it right now? Why does it look off? Look at examples that do achieve what you want, what exactly is it that is different? Etc etc. And then iterate, iterate, iterate.

Design often looks simple/obvious, but it takes a lot of practice, perseverance and struggle to get good at it.
Very cool. Was cost a consideration when evaluating your options? I don't know how much CF workers cost vs. any of the GCP offerings, but that would be a cool thing to see if you have the data on hand
The mistake is in step 7.

You cannot calculate the expected value (of the envelope you get, when you pick one randomly and then swap) like that, as A is not a constant and actually depends on if you took the less or more valuable envelope initially.

If you use A1=X in case you took the less valuable envelope initially and A2=2X in the other case, the expected value is
(1/2)*(2*A1) + (1/2)*(A2/2) = 1.5X

and if you don't swap, you get:
(1/2)*A1 + (1/2)*A2 = 1.5X

... which makes sense.

If you change the experiment so that the value of the second envelope does not depend on the first one (if you first chose and only then the value of the other envelope is randomly either double or half), A is constant and you actually should swap.
Yeah, I think we agree. The military spending is absurd and also extremely wasteful. However, I don’t think it is “buying votes”. Its more akin to this terrible system where senators pork bills and make trades. Paying people (or forgiving a big debt) directly before an election is buying votes. The other examples you said are just political ineptitude, horse trading and a broken governmental system.

My first pass on fixing education is that we should remove the non-discharge of student loan debt. Gen-Z could boycott this system by declaring bankruptcy immediately after graduation which would have relatively minimal affects on their lives relative to the debt and schools would be forced to lower costs
great comment. The term is used these days just to shut down conversation, and somehow avoid dealing with often self evident hypocrisy.
My experience has been exact opposite. SourceTree has been regressing since going Atlassian and Fork has been rock solid for years, especially for large repos.
I don't see how you can possibly call it racist. What is your basis for that claim?

They're doing the dig in coordination with the Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage in Duhok, which is in the officially recognized Kurdistan Region, the local archeologists are all Kurdish. The site, Kemune, is also in the Kurdistan region. Dr. Hasan Ahmed Qasim is also the chairman of the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization. It doesn't seem odd to use the word "Kurdish" a paltry 3 times in the article. It seems like specificity that adds clarity rather than anything else.
(Submitted title was "What made Golang so popular? The language’s creators look back". We changed the title when we changed the URL - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31571574)
Controlling 130kw is a big ask for current automotive-grade software. Insurance companies will argue for replacement parts to be OEM or risk of dropping your fire coverage.
unrelated: I used steampipe to easily automate some compliance audits on AWS, was great to do be able to look at all s3 buckets and make sure they're encrypted.
It wouldn't be particularly nutritionally useful, and you'd be able to grow grain for a couple of years before your soil turned into dust.

That's why America starved in the 1930s.
keyword is affordable housing. Mansions/million-dollar condos are still being developed.
You mean https://app.diagrams.net/
>Mac laptop hardware is still better than Linux laptop hardware. As someone who's considering my first Linux laptop, I need to balance the inconveniences of Linux hardware now with the likely fact I can probably use that laptop significantly longer than current Mac. Somebody has to pay for all those convenient Mac support folks.

The funny thing about that is that it's only with the Apple Silicon Macs that's true. The 2016-2020 Intel MacBooks were a garbage fire.
I wrote a zmodem-like protocol many years ago called "sixpack" that worked through anything; I used it through two nested telnet connections going through two terminal servers (serial lines). Sixpack's wire format packs data into six bits, similarly to base64.

This was in 1996. In a fit of amazing fortuitousness, a fellow in Japan, almost exactly at the same time, developed a program called Modemu. It is still out there and has not been maintained since. What Modemu does is creaete a pseudo-tty device in your system that you can use in a program like Minicom. This pseudo-TTY device accepts AT commands to "dial" remote hosts and connect to them.

So at the time I was able to install my Sixpack commands (sps, spr) into Minicom, and then telnet out using Modemu: ATD<host-namne>, then transfer files to the remote hosts.

I would install the receive program by uuencoding it, and then just doing piece by piece copy and paste into the remote session to recover the binary.
Iran was known as Persian until 1935. “Iran” is the Persian word for the country, “Persia” comes to us via Greek.

For some further context: “Persian” is the preferred term in English for the language spoken by most of the people of Iran. “Farsi” is the name of that language in that language.

There is a language institute that manages formal rules (like French) and they prefer to keep the long association in western sources with the name “Persia” over a more native name — “farsi” is the Arabized form of the older “parsi”. This change is due to Arabic not having a p sound.
I'll bite! There's a reimplementation called Qodem, but it would be great to see the actual QModem source since AFAIK it has never been released.
Huh I've never hit rate limiting on GET with AWS, could just be my luck. This also might not be the answer for every problem, but could be nice for some
I know I should get this view, it seems a much healthier way to live. I just find it so overwhelmingly sad how much time and effort in the world is wasted on things like marketing. And it's gotten to the point at my job where it's a struggle to get the will to do anything knowing that at the end of the day it really doesn't matter.

Several of my friends just got jobs at Google/Amazon/Microsoft recently and it's such a weird feeling being both very happy for them, knowing they're making the right choice, knowing I should be too, and this feeling of despair like I'm losing them forever to some horrible pit.

& yeah feel that too. I've been idly working on my fun cute little website for a while now but it's hard to be motivated when at best it might amuse a few people for a few minutes. Still net positive but eeeeeh code enough at work already :p
Compare this with CPU operations per second per dollar and it paints a totally different story
Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow with Space Lasers
It's not an article, but there's always the front page for the supercomputer (includes some limited specs):

https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/

There's also detailed architecture specs on Crusher, an identical (but smaller) system:

https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/crusher_quick_start_guide...
You can run many programs on one supercomputer simultaneously, yes. Check out XSEDE. Cost-wise one big is going to be cheaper than 8 small due to infrastructure issues - cooling, maintenance, space, etc.
Related:

The Two Envelopes Problem: the most boring paradox in the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6388645 - Sept 2013 (12 comments)

Two envelopes problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387044 - Sept 2013 (88 comments)

Two Envelopes Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582219 - Aug 2010 (88 comments)
My hope that 'things will get better' is lost.

I do think that things are getting better, only it doesn't happen where we're looking at, but elsewhere.

And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.

I believe we've been confusing consensus with propaganda (from every side) for decades. I don't think that's sustainable, except in periods of strong growth, when consquences can be covered.

Crisis are times to understand.

I've also learned to be humble. To first try to fix my life, before thinking about fixing the world.

I'm here to observe, not to judge.
works through as many levels of ssh as you want, and much more convenient that having to open another terminal, figure out the cwd and run the command

years ago a load of GUI clients used to have a right click menu to send/receive files that used zmodem (sadly putty wasn't one of them)
"Participants are expected to have good programming skills, basic knowledge of web programming and databases, and to know the basics of working with the Git version-control system." that's where I am not compatible. I know little bit of HTML and css, that's it.
My guess is : Google lawyers already thought of this.
> after that I got wiser, and took pictures of everything before actually moving in. Better yet, with the landlord or representative as witness.

I manage a property in a college town. Most of my tenants are first time renters just moving out of the dorms, so they've never learned these hard lessons before. I try to help them out by telling them about how they can get screwed on deposits, and tell them to take pictures of any damage they find and print it out so I can sign it.

I just hope they take that lesson with them after they leave my place.

Also I remind them that they have a right to a walk through at the end of the lease and never charge an item on a deposit that I haven't discussed with them first. I always give them a chance to fix it first. Usually they just say "bill me" (probably because it's their parents money) but sometimes they will fix it or they will help me fix it. It's a lot more work on my part, but on the flip side I'll have tenants messaging me a decade later thanking me for being honest and kind. So I guess it's all worth it.
I think child mortality is counted as deaths before age five; I think it's lower if you count survival to adulthood and then having children. For population to remain constant each couple has to have two children survive to that point (on average; if some people have larger families and some have none it would balance out). Regardless, having half your children die as the norm is a pretty unpleasant reality.
What’s the background? The article only states the desire, but does it in some way reflect better it’s native spelling? It doesn’t seem to change its pronunciation.
To learn.

I interview a lot of engineers and one of my questions is: "how do you keep up to date with technology?"

I want to hear about the forums they visit (ie, HN!), youtube channels, peers, heck even magazines, radio or TV. Unfortunately most of them don't have an answer for this. One day, maybe I'll find another HN'er...