skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?
My XPS 15 was horrible under Windows, but it was fantastic running Linux. It would somehow get 2x the battery, and ran a lot faster... and once Proton hit, it wasn't half bad on gaming.
iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted, Messages isn't because Apple took the tradeoff of allowing people to keep their imessage history even upon a support-initiated account reset, which otherwise will wipe your entire iCloud Keychain.
Yes, but 100% more usable ones than before, if you factor in the new MagSafe. I'm still pissed I would have to spend $2,000 to get a Mac with more than 2 USB ports (or HDMI, SD, and other standard fare from MBAs of yore). But I'll put up with that limitation to get one of these new MBAs.

If someone came out with a nub-sized flash drive that sat nearly flush with the edge of the Mac, I'd definitely get one. I was really hoping the base MBP would be revamped, and I'd be able to get an SD card slot and avoid Apple's insane storage tax...
Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce
I hiked Sierra Negra in summer 2019, less than a year after the eruption.

Of course, it could be pure hindsight, but the tour guide said that the 2018 eruption was anticipated by observable signs, and that our group was safe because there would be many signs before the next eruption.

I wish I knew about this model at the time so I could have asked a question or two.
The Apple Pencil is the best stylus I’ve ever used. The 13” size is perfect (it’s basically an A4 page). The handwriting recognition on the iPad is amazing. But mostly, it’s the software. GoodNotes and Procreate are my two killer apps. There’s nothing as good on any other platform. For me, the iPad Pro I have is justified by those two apps alone.

Aside from an iPod a bunch of years ago, the iPad was my first Apple platform product. Last year I switched from a Google Pixel to an iPhone, so now I have two Apple products. The phone is fine but I was pretty happy on the Pixel too. The iPad though us my favorite computer to use.
Sure. We do. Lobbyists require registration and can be charged with a misdemeanor or felony for failing to do so. Lobbying is more tightly associated with political speech than owning a firearm.

It’s even more clearly legal with the 2nd amendment, as taxation is clearly associated with regulation and paying taxes is a long established and enumerated power of the US government.
The iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard weights more then the MacBook Air [1]. I want to say I once read it was thicker as well. It's also just as much money, if not more.

The benefit of the iPad is the touch screen, that's it. The size/weight argument is only valid for those who aren't loading it up with a keyboard cover. I assume everyone talking about coding on it are going to be using the Magic Keyboard.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21227741/apple-ipad-pro-m...
It’s a MacBook Air with a touchscreen and Apple Pencil that you can detach the keyboard and mouse from it. Some examples for things I can do better with my iPad: drawing with Procreate and viewing sheet music for my piano. My iPad can do that and it is as powerful as a MacBook Air for computing tasks
> it's hard to make any useful program if you don't have at least a clear conceptual understanding of what you're trying to do.

Completely - I've run into the exact issues you were talking about. Trying to really understand ML without some foundation in stats doesn't work well.

I was wondering about code examples, not as a copy/paste solution ala Stack Overflow, but to use as a Rosetta stone to aid in learning. I've seen something similar for physics equations and chunks of the Quantum wave formula and they were pretty enlightening. "Oh, that's what that means..."

I can follow the logic of a chunk of C pretty well, especially with decent variable names, but I would probably need a long time to catch-up on all the math, from both a syntax and conceptual perspective without some sort of crutch.
I think this is the point where we're getting too serious about the discipline. We need to be a little more grounded in reality. SRE is basically a highly polished, best-practice, telemetry-and-automation-focused sysadmin. And a sysadmin doesn't really have a say in the business. They can make suggestions, like error budgets. But what about sales contracts? The contracts define what kind of guarantees you have to give and on what timeline. And what about customer experience? How is SRE supposed to quantify if the users are happy if they can't tell the UX and customer support how to build the product to better collect user happiness? Or tell the devs how to design their apps to fail less often?

If you keep optimizing and focusing on all the ways to improve satisfaction, you literally end up an executive director of product. If we really want to make products that users are happy with, we need to teach executives how to achieve it, not SREs. SREs shouldn't be driving the bus from the back row. They should be rotating the tires and checking the fuel and oil gauges and telling the driver when to stop for gas. Let's teach executives how to set everyone up to succeed, and then SRE doesn't have to get all existential just to keep the bus running.
I'd have been just as happy if they'd given us another USB-C port. It was unacceptable that to get more than 2 free USB ports, you had to spend $2k on the 2021 MBP.
Firefox also acts as a password manager on iOS and supports the standard system-wide auto-fill APIs [0].

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...
Clothing most recently, I took about 5 articles of outdoor wear in for repair through a 3rd party and Patagonias service (Patagonia expensive, but I'd have had to pay almost $1000 to replace what they've fixed for me for free over the years)

Tech-wise, my "home server" is a business dell whatever bought second hand, main personal computer came from a startup liquidation, the computer that replaced went to a relative, and I've been able to re-home several routers/modems I saved from other folks apartment cleanouts (though the ones I have left are bumping against isp and speed limitations unfortunately).

I'm also looking forward to buying out my work MacBook for cheap when I get to 3 years, since it's rather beefy.

Also a swe, but in the US
The cursor on iPadOS is a game-changer and arguably one of the very few noteworthy UI/UX innovations of the last few years.

IMO it is incredibly well implemented and thought through. And it works amazingly well and serves a clear purpose for the medium which is iPadOS with all of its design details.

In the user interface/interaction world, I'd go as far as calling it genius.
> I’ll never understand why people don’t want choices and want their tech to be intentionally limited.

Because there's always a limitation. For instance, if I want to go to most websites with Javascript off, they just don't work. That's a limitation. Limiting my tech keeps bad actors from abusing it. Frankly, every feature has good and bad uses, and sometimes the bad outweighs the good. For instance, I have no real good use case for a website accessing my location, camera, motion sensors, etc.

Could some apps be developed and served via PWA this way? Sure. But is it far more likely to be used for ad-tech? Also sure.

And I say this as someone who made a PWA and cannot deploy it to my own phone because it needs features that aren't supported. A small price to help wall off bad actors. Even though my PWA is only deployed to machines I control and I am not a bad actor to myself.
My father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 (2015)
what has GDP done for me??
Software Foundations (https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/)
I have studied Prolog from time to time over the years and occasionally I run across problems where it strikes me Prolog would be useful but I've never been able to justify adding it.

Lately I've encountered more offline/batch processing problems and I am planning to work on some reimplementations of my solutions in our usual languages using Prolog (as soon as I have some free time, so none too soon).
In the software development space, primarily in the financial sector, I’ve always been surprised by the number of developers who didn’t understand basic concepts from math, like Boolean algebra (DeMorgan can certainly be useful), logarithms, exponential functions (e.g. compounded or continuous growth), etc. I would have preferred that programmers had more understanding rather than less. Can’t one do all this in Excel? Sure, but actually knowing what one is doing seems to be beneficial. The article reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation: use the machine but hope they never break.
Thousands of UK workers begin world’s biggest trial of four-day week
Really glad that dealers in Canada can't charge over MSRP for new vehicles.
That first part is literally how it works. If you have your Mac closed (so you can't access TouchID), it asks for your Mac password.
SEC Weighs Sending Retail Stock Orders to Auctions for Execution
This is what drove Apple to design their own processors. You were just unlucky enough to be on the trailing edge.
Here's a thought experiment: (assume 0% inflation to keep things simple)

What if I told you 50 years from now society would need to pay an extra $6-8k per year in transportation costs than necessary? In such a world, there are also a lot more negative externalities e.g. pollution, wealth inequality, quality of life, etc. Instead of being outraged, society would actually cheer for it and defend it. Pretty crazy huh?

Also I think the simplest theory on why some countries (Netherlands, China, Korea, Japan) invested heavily in public transportation while others (US/Canada) invested in suburbs/highways is because the former are ethnostates. Good luck trying to convince North America to use public transportation, no matter how luxurious, when the prevalent mindset at that time resulted in incidents like Rosa Parks.
I don’t mean to insinuate anything here, but have you checked the trackpad behaviour using the same trackpad settings?

I once thought the same thing only to realize my settings on the trackpad weren’t quite the same and somehow my brain just glitched and I glossed over that (important) detail.
Can you give examples of real world problems you have solved using what you learned from Seven Sketches?
This comment thread is the first time I hear about w3w. It hurts my brain trying to come up a reasoning how such concept is not some kind of parody one-off project intended to be posted on HN or reddit for the lolz. Instead, it is actually being used by the emergency service?

Trying to google with the query "what3words explained site:reddit.com" gave me this r/911dispatchers post as the first result: [What3Words and why it's trash.](https://www.reddit.com/r/911dispatchers/comments/olcxdv/what...)

(Amusingly, this 10 months old post was last edited 2 days ago.)
Is it finally time for the backpack tax?
Ahh darnit I had convinced myself this wouldn’t matter to me, and now you’re convincing me it would.
> When was the last time you gave something extra life instead of throwing it away?

I appreciate your story and wish more people would take it to heart. I almost always just resurrect hand-me-downs from family and friends (I know enough people with more money than sense so it's pretty easy for me to pull off).
>Imperial japan is what I consider the worst by barbarity.

On the other hand, the United States committed genocide against an entire continent, was the only nation to drop atomic bombs in warfare (and did so against civilians) continued Nazi and Japanese human experimentation and bioweapons research going under MKULTRA and other secret programs (as well as recruited Nazi scientists for their space program,) raped, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Vietnam and Korea (and used Agent Orange), and went on a 20 year temper tantrum of violence and war crimes across Iraq for no discernable reason other than Afghanistan not being enough to satisfy their post 9/11 bloodlust.

Not to excuse Imperial Japan or the Nazis or anyone else but ranking evil against evil is always a matter of perspective, and it's often less about which evil is greater than which evils you're willing to excuse and which not. A similar list of sins could be made about the Soviet Union, China, Britain, or just about any nation or empire in history. Humans are bastards everywhere.
I have an M1 Pro 14" and ethernet is literally 9-10x faster than Wi-Fi using speed tests.
Cool story, but this is going to be the main tool for your craft. You should buy a modern set as soon as you can afford it. You've earned it :)
If you're speaking about the existing technique MS has developed to run MS SQL on Linux, it doesn't work on M1s in Docker under Qemu user emulation: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/668

That's 2019. I haven't tested 2017 or 2022, but I assume they don't work either. AFAIK the official advice is to use Azure SQL Edge instead.
>> The specific techniques we used (a variant of the transformer architecture behind most large language models) means, among other things, that you can ask the model questions, and get answers about what the model "knows" in return.

You know, for me it is clear that the ability to retrieve information is not the same as the ability to understand the retrieved information.

For example, you could store a corpus of scientific texts in a database and then retrieve pieces of it with a query, but that doesn't say the database understands the corpus.

And this is relevant to your comment because with transformers we still have essentially databases of information that can only be retrieved by the right query, where the information is stored as weights in the trained model and the query is a suitable prompt. In fact, prompts to transformers are so finicky and must be tailored so carefully to retrieve the desired piece of information that they are not very different than a SQL query, albeit one in natural language.

I'm offering this as a counterpoint to your assertion that "the model has learned drug biochemistry at some significant level". What I understand from your comment is that your model has learned to represent a body of text, nothing more, nothing less.
The cartel just reassessed their output as a result of the continuing war and decided to increase output.

And OPEC cares a lot about externalities. They know that pushing oil prices high enough will cause a recession which leads to less money for them. (They learned this in 1979). So they try to maintain a healthy but not runiously shortsighted profit.
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>In older societies it was common to view women as playing a central role in bringing great ruin or great fortune to men, and by extension "their" empires, for this very reason.

Honestly, even if we don't talk about it, it still is this way. If you want to achieve success, the single most important decision you make is who you marry.
Funny how I skim the page for eight seconds, see a ton of marketing fluff, and immediately back out and come to the comments section here for real info.
No Media Source Extension for iOS; long live with HLS
Galois Theory lessons from a Fields Medal winner
The signal given by articles that make it to the top of news aggregators would be even stronger if they were all paid content. No one is going to post or upvote something they didn’t like and lost money on. It also sounds like it would be a healthy limit on your media consumption if you’re reading 160 articles per day right now.
I don’t understand this part

> The remaining steps required to activate Rosetta in a Linux guest aren’t commands that your app can execute or that you can script from inside your application to a Linux VM; the user must perform them either interactively or as part of a script while logged in to the Linux guest. You must communicate these requirements to the user of your app.

That means Docker cannot do it magically for me?
So what you do when your users have 20+ tabs open to the same service? Have each tab keep just itself up to date?
> Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge.

Cool. So remind me how anyone can survive creating high quality content online?

Ads? Nope. Privacy nightmare.

Subscriptions? Nope. "Offensive".

What next? Tips? Please. We already know most people won't pay for content if they don't have to.

Micropayments? Just tips dressed up as technology.

What's left? Patronage of the rich?
> It’s doing an AOT translation of x86-64 opcodes to ARM64 equivalents. There isn’t really any back and forth, it just digests the binary all at once.

No it's not. Apple is not immune from fundamental computer science principles whatever their marketing team says, and even the original keynote acknowledged that Rosetta 2 emulates some instructions at runtime.

Imagine you're running Python under Rosetta. The original Python interpeter takes Python code, translates it into x86 assembly, and runs that x86 assembly. Those x86 instructions did not exist prior to execution! Even if Rosetta could translate the entire interpreter into ARM code, the interpreter would still be producing x86 assembly.

Other types of programs produce code at runtime as well. Rosetta 2 is able to cache a very impressive amount of instructions ahead of time, but it's still doing emulation.
I’ve lived in Japan—in and near Tokyo—for four decades, and on the trips I’ve made to Seoul I’ve enjoyed observing similarities and differences between the two cities. One of the differences was uniformed soldiers riding the subway in Seoul, something I’ve never seen in Tokyo. Another was what looked like emergency supplies stored on subway platforms; I’m guessing they were there in case the subways had to be used as bomb shelters. (I can’t read Korean, so I might have misidentified the items or their purpose.)

Postwar Japan has done a lot of preparation for natural disasters but has had essentially no civil defense measures against military threats. That might be changing, though. Just a couple of weeks ago, for the first time, the city of Tokyo designated 105 subway stations as emergency evacuation sites in case of missile attacks [1, in Japanese]. This was prompted not only by the continued threat from North Korea but also by what has been happening in Ukraine.

[1] https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/34fd48f39ee9b8a78197f350e8...
A good read but a lot of topics in that book apply to google scale companies only.

95% of companies will never reach that scale or deal with those issues.
Ask HN: How do I find my next job?
I am a fairly recently-minted senior engineer at a MAANG company (3+ YOE). I think it is time for me to move on as morale is low, my compensation has dropped significantly recently, and I no longer really feel motivated to work there. I am trying to figure out where to go next.

I went to this company because I believed it would be a good career builder, providing me with good experience and pay as my first job. I think it did both for a while, but I don’t really want to grind here anymore. The WLB and months-long timeline to do anything of significant value is too much.

I’m not sure if another MMANG company is for me right now. I think a small to mid-sized company where I believe in the mission and that can really utilize my distributed systems experience and directional skills would be much better for me right now.

However, I don’t really know how to find companies that would fit well. Can anyone offer ideas or resources for doing so?
I feel like a bank implementing this before they did Oauth (the proper way for those sorts of services like Plaud) would be kinda strange.
You can get a Kindle Fire tablet for under $100. If you're just streaming video, absolutely anything with work.
I don't ever think Python has lived up to that tenet. If they did, then there wouldn't be a million pull requests with comments saying something to the effect of "the pythonic way to do this is..." or "pipXYZ says you should/shouldn't..."
Both of these pretty much make my point. To the first complaint, no iPad specific improvements: here we are 8 years later, 3 years into enough iPad specific improvements to rename the OS, and with enough computational resources to make use of them without buying a new device.

To the second, poor multitasking - this has been constantly improved since the days of iOS 8 and again, due to the spec of the device, those software improvements are available with no waste or additional purchase needed.

I’m not sure what alternative you would want here - a device half the initial cost that you have to replace 2-3 times between 2014 and now to use the same software updates? Or is the argument just that 2022 software should’ve already existed in 2014?
Why does HTTP3 still support server push? When Chrome dropped it from their HTTP/2 implementation, I thought it was dead.

Cloudflare has also said they’re not implementing server push in their HTTP/3 support and will instead encourage Early Hints.
Recreational and unsupervised brain rewiring doesn’t seem like a great idea
I think you mean chrome is way ahead and supporting standards.
I addressed it in a parallel thread - there is lag and the overall markets are pretty illiquid in real estate which makes it worse.