skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite true, but that's not something unique to Asimov. Applied Phlebotinum [1] is a common device in Science Fiction whenever the science can't support a plot device required by the fiction (SF narratives are stories in the first place, after all). There's even a trope specifically for how hyperspace and subspace are used in that way.[2]

[1] https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Applied_Phlebotinu...

[2] https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Subspace_or_Hyperspace
I was hoping so much for:

- Mac Pro.

- New XDR Display.

- More M2 product upgrades.

No new professional gear for devs at a developer conference :(
Monetization is an extra constraint that makes software worse :(
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If feral dogs are obtaining and donning football jerseys of famous international teams to solicit food donations from loyal tourists, then I have severely underestimated canine intelligence.
I assume by November/December 2022. I think they meant 2 years from the release of the first Apple silicon Macs which was in November 2020.
I refuse to learn these numbers, they are outdated so fast. Are they still relevant today? One would spend quite some time figuring that out instead of optimizing his own code/architecture... For which there's always good discounts to get!
Some courts seem to disagree, wasn't there a verdict in a federal (?) court calling voter ID requirements in some state to target with "surgical precision" a certain demographic?
Relevant to the flashlight you mean?
> justifying increasing the CEO's compensation to match what other companies were paying.

which is what market rate means right? If a good CEO is poached to a competitor, the company will lose out.
I don’t know a whole lot about fusions latest and greatest. Thanks for putting it into context.

So could we have had a working fusion machine with infinite money and political will?
Also what is your prognosis of the next 5 or 10 years?
My favorite style of interviewing is through reviewing existing codebase, then ask question on it. Then i'll ask candidates how to improve their codebase (or someone else code).

If possible, i'll let them code some small functions and ask them how they gonna do the unit test.

To me, refactoring skills is a must, as most of engineering work is on refactoring.
> Ah yes, the training on what to do if the computer suddenly decides to crash your airplane out of the blue.

My expectations might be too high, but yes I expect their training to include something along those lines. Perhaps not "computer is trying to kill you" specifically, but "computer is off or malfunctioning". And I would expect the airplane to have a secondary/backup computer at minimum, these systems are supposed to be heavily redundant after all).
> Compared to what? We've destroyed the vast majority of nature in the name of progress,

What? Since when? Most of the land of the world is still occupied by nature, and with cities expanding and remote villages disappearing the trend is not going against nature as much as you think.
it's an older code sir, but it checks out
Oh, is there any new information regarding that?

The one ~9 months ago was a speculation that was later denied by the developers (https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/poyqir/comme...)
Anyone using a Mac for tech related jobs has a high probability of using brew. That includes a lot of googlers
Is there a reason for the use of system() here?
https://github.com/pyston/pyston/blob/69b190003f14dfd2f6d276...

Seems easier to use the C functions to do this, rather than rely on system commands.
Well until they actually do move on to 'defamatory content' or they start to block things like YouTube that are only vaguely associated with piracy I do not think there is too much to worry about. Free internet would be nice but as with everything the law has to be maintained and users need to be protected from very easily breaking the law and opening themselves up to severe consequences. People could be getting a record for clicking on the wrong link if ISPs are like 'yeah, do whatever you like'.
I think maybe this could be workable if an OpenBSD developer were to visit you in person to verify your existence and thereby transitively verify the existence of the claimed "visited airport".
For anyone reading this for the first time, well worth the watch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
No strong feelings about which cable type is used. Only wished Apple would standardise on one type so I don’t need to remember to bring both usb-c and lighting cables to the office
When Is a Bumblebee a Fish? When a California Court Says So
I'm planning to move to 24GB Macbook Air M2 from 16GB Macbook Pro (2019) 16" purely because I think the machine can be easily handle web development (Rails + ESBuild + Chrome + iTerm2 + Discord) workflow.

I want to move to a machine which is not over optimised for my workflow and easier to carry around. I'm waiting for the reviews to pour in before taking the call.
I’n trying it with F36. One of my biggest complaints (and it is very minor one) is the need to reboot after rpm-ostree upgrade. There is an experimental option, that attempts to bypass the reboot, but so far hasn’t worked. I have yet to try it on the mistake laptop with nvidia graphics. I worry about that. I don’t have the best experience with standard F36 workstation.
I don't think there's much difference in perception. bbc.co.uk is a perfectly ordinary domain, for instance.
> When I was on the market, a couple of companies actually gave me a variety of options, which I appreciated. I don't want to spend hours on a take-home and I also don't want to do leetcode, but an open question/answer plus some code review and live debugging was an acceptable combination for me.

That sounds excellent!

This would allow the company to determine what the applicant believes is their strongest suit.

Then, when it comes time to sit down as a team, and review all the "top shelf" applicants, people can decide, based on a number of criteria.

If an applicant avoided technical challenges, but spoke well, then some managers might like that, but others, might not be comfortable. Maybe they might devise a technical challenge, customized to the applicant, and using real-world problems.

The main deal, is that the vetting has been done. The chaff has been filtered out, so more attention can be paid to the wheat.

At my old corporation, headcount was something I had to fight like crazy to get (I was a manager). We seldom hired, so it was well worth it to spend a great deal of time on each candidate, as they would be responsible for important work, and would have a great effect on the corporate bottom line.

That sounds like a lot of small startups, to me. BigCorp (MAANG, et al) hires thousands of engineers per year. They need to have a cookie cutter system. Smaller companies do it, simply because they want to be like the Big Boys.

Also, and this is neither here, nor there, but binary tree tests are a great "young-pass filter."
no i complained about the poor value.

i mean the OS are only changed every year to give people a reason to buy new hardware. there are so many regressions in the OS over the years too. why does the appearance of finder have to change every year...

i bought ipad mini to find the OS no longer has a UI zoom feature which was there on the previous iPad OS, just totally deprecated = of course returned it
That’s kind of what I was getting at, my hope is for the ATX standard to evolve to better fit modern hardware so users can enjoy many of the benefits of some of the better current non-ATX arrangements while also having a broad selection of parts available.
Just like beaches still look awesome when you build concrete resorts with no end on the coast?
For what it's worth I believe Windows licensing works on this basis.
Isn't the Mac Studio sort of the replacement for the Mac Pro? The branding is different, but it's certainly the beefier Mac you can get at the moment.
Watch your memory pressure in Activity Monitor.

Mine's typically orange/green during web dev and works fine, but if I open too many electron apps it'll go red and the laptop grinds to a halt.
Well in an automotive install you'd have a shutoff valve at the tank multivalve that you can physically screw shut, and a solenoid valve to allow fuel out to the line. Then up front there will be a filter and safety valve with another solenoid valve, and finally a solenoid on the vapouriser too. If I want to take a vapouriser off I'd just unplug the solenoid for the safety valve, start the engine, let it cut out, and then unscrew the pipe. Similarly if I wanted to work on the safety valve, I'd shut the tank off and let it empty the line running to the back of the car.

The gas lines we use now are thin nylon with a tough PVC jacket over them, about as thick as a pencil (6mm inside bore) and flexible enough to tie your boots with ;-) It's a long way from stiff fragile copper line.
Still more of a fan of the ol' SMF, vBulletin, IPB, phpbb style forums. Probably just nostalgia.
> It's mobius bagels all the way down.

Now that's a fun phrase!
> The speed at which things move through space means even the smallest particles can impart a lot of energy when colliding with another object. Webb has now been hit five times with this latest event being the most significant.

> Webb has an open design; its mirrors are not guarded by the kind of tubular baffle seen on other space telescopes, such as Hubble.

So previous telescopes did have more protection against this kind of events.

The good part is:

> The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in the observatory's data but is not expected to limit the mission's overall performance.
I would suggest getting someone to proofread your website for grammatical errors and clunky phrasing, especially since this software is being sold as a tool that can fix grammar mistakes.
Show HN: Python Live GUI – A Hybrid of Dear ImGUI and Phoenix LiveView
All of these supposed "flaws" of leetcode are by design. Big companies want people who are smart enough to do the work, but obedient enough to put up with all the bullshit that comes with working at a big company. What person better matches that than someone who's able and willing to study for and pass a tech version of the SAT? Every anti-leetcode article I read is some version of "leetcode is bad because it measures the wrong things." No, we all know it measures those things, and those are exactly the things the measurers want to measure.

You might ask, so why do startups do leetcode too? I heard startups are supposed to be, uh, innovating, developing new technology, and working on hard, meaningful problems? Shouldn't they want brilliant, super effective people, instead of smart-enough, obedient workers? Apparently not. Apparently they want the same workers bigcos want. The implication of this is left as an exercise to the reader.
One of the co-maintainers here. Ory Kratos has been in development since 2018 and is finally out of beta! If you have any questions about the project, tech, flows, or Ory as a whole I’m here to help :)
There’s a lot of things wrong with the article, but that’s not really one. A connection is started by binding a local port. You can’t receive the SYN-ACK if there’s no open socket to receive it.
An iPad can work as a digital journal pretty well. With the Pencil you can handwrite on the days you want to handwrite and you can sketch. The days you want to type, you can do that as well. You can also paste in images, videos, sound recordings, or just about anything.
> Is there a central catalogue of all Ancient Greek texts

Yes, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae:
http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu
Hi, Privacy Badger dev here. Here are a couple of links to answers to start:

- https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...

- https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/discussions/2786#dis...
From a TekSavvy lawyer: https://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/1534662222810468352
On both my laptop and my phone I'm seeing a monospace font in addition to the backticks.
Hey all, author here.

I had some time off last week so I built a little tool I've been planning on using for a while now.

Thought I'd just comment on my motivations for building this.

I bought a little chromebook tablet to take on holidays. I've been enjoying the experience of using a remote IDE to code on my personal server.

I thought it would be neat if I could quickly make myself GUIs for other utilities on my remote server that get rendered on my chromebook. Doing this like being able to run bash scripts remotely.

I start utility scripts with this tool and then just use ssh port forwarding to view it locally.

The fun bit is the application itself is then just written in python.

There are some similar alternatives[1] but I wanted to be able to write GUI elements like ImGUI so I decided to build my own tool in the end.

I just wrote it in python because that's what I've been using at work lately.

[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews#python
It strikes me as misleading at best even regarding HTTP/1.1, which was of course still capable of transferring binary files. just text might be taken to indicate that it just supports text.
real question: we are assuming the value of the gold is market price by weight, but would people really melt this down? i think the value of the coins could be quite different than just the materials they are made of (maybe that sets the floor value)
Google is a great name -- easily the best name among the top 5 tech companies. It's unique, short, can be "verbed" and is easy to memorize and pronounce for English speakers and many non English speakers alike.
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
There's a picture at [1] but its hard to know what the scale is

[1] https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2009/05/ESA_built-...
>Blocking illegal content isn't censorship

That's a nonsense statement. Declaring something illegal is how governments censor.
Sounds like web proxy services have an opportunity to make a comeback. I already read most of my news via archive.org.
Firefox has this feature natively, no need for an add-on.

In Privacy & Security settings set it to clear all browsing data when Firefox closes, and simply add exceptions for whichever domains you want. This also has the advantage of clearing some things CAD is unable to due to limite of the WebExtension APIs.
There's quite the distance between FizzBuzz and LeetCode medium/hard questions. If you want to filter out candidates that barely can't code, just have them walk you through a small code-base containing bugs.

What does the code do? Does it work? How would you get it working? How do you test it? What is the complexity? etc.
In Canada, I can't even buy the NHL's own product to watch hockey games! They black out their own local games because they've sold the rights to someone else. The NHL wants me to buy cable, then get not one, but four channels in order to watch one team (since RDS split the rights with TVA Sports and they are both specialty channels, that you must subscribe to their parent channels to get, or in case of RDS it _is_ the parent channel, but _must_ come with their child channels). Thanks but no thanks.

The NHL is 100% the cause of NHL piracy. I have the money, give me an option that isn't retarded.
The Hard Problem of forum software is how to prevent spam bots and drive-by exploits. It's what killed the previous generation of forums. Reddit usually gets the blame, but that is only true in that they had the economies of scale to survive the increasingly hostile internet ecosystem.

I'm curious how Flarum approaches this.
I agree. You would expect that from a bachelor or master degree. But nowadays you have a lot of people coming out of coding bootcamps, and their level can vary a lot.

A hole in the market!
> Typically, only half of the French reactors are operating.

You're going to need some serious citation for that.
And the Netherlands
Thanks. This comment prompted a discussion on how to improve the initial developer experience. The readme definitely needs a tidy up. We tend to assume that anyone interested in building it will be a moderately experienced Unity developer - but I think it's worth reexamining this assumption.

(It's a brave soul who tackles a codebase of this complexity as their first Unity project! But it was my first big Unity codebase and it was a great way to get myself out of the training pool)
Interesting, the text on those scans is selectable, can anyone share how this is done is it a custom font? It does not seem so as the same letter appears to be rendered differently showing printing/scan artifacts. Maybe some styling?
Trust us. This is for your own good.
More like a tiny crater or pockmark, although they don’t say exactly how large the meteoroid was or how much damage it caused. Apparently “micrometeoroid” refers to objects with less than a gram of mass, although I assume that this one was likely significantly less heavy than a gram, which is the case for most.
I sure do spend more than 6% of my time in maintenance (“groom,” “scratch,” “defecate,” “drink,” “sniff garbage,” etc.)
I find that many iphone people have a misconception that Android is locked down too. It's extraordinarily common and I don't know why. I use the non play store install feature for a few things.

For example, I go to Telegram's site and download an APK of it because it lets me look at channels that are explicitly censored by versions downloaded from the Google Play and Apple App store. I do this all on stock, non-root Android.
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Pretty frustrating when 2 years ago you're solving leetcode problems with GPT-3, and can demonstrate it inside a facebook interview but the interview process doesn't factor in the 10x programmer, and doesn't recognise any TRULY out of the box thinking. Leetcode was dead when GPT-3 came out
I enabled TOTP on 23 websites, so it would be annoying to log in and enter a temporary code every time I need to access my account there.
Can you expand what you mean? IME self documenting code is a myth.
I think it’s a software company (apple) making changes to the ui to sell more hardware (apple). In a predictable coordinated fashion.

The issue here is apple will always be the bad guy since they are seen doing all of this in a coordinated attempt to sell more stuff. Dell on the other hand only sells more stuff either when the software landscape, that they don’t control, has moved too far for the legacy hardware to keep up. Or they innovated on the hardware and show enough value for you to change hardware independent from software. Dell will almost never be the bad guy here unless they make subpar machines. The XPS and precision laptops are far from subpar.

So you get guys like the parent that prefer dell since it seems more natural and not like they are being played.
There are many people that say that OSX doesn't have memory pressure and that Linux vm suffers so horribly in comparison. I have seen the same behavior as you describe.

I find that almost any system fails under memory pressure, they just fail differnetly.
You can use something like Hugo and host it on Github Pages. For a blog you don't need a backend framework like Django.
Considering the normalization of spending hundreds of hours grinding LC questions and the industry built around whiteboard interview preparation, my (n=1) conclusion is that LC interviews is not about technical assessment at all.

It's an assessment that's designed to find people who are ready to submit to an endless grind with little to no skepticism. Developers who question the technical usefulness of LC interviews are simply not the target audience anymore. The target audience seems to be potential employees that are hungry and without leverage.
I think this is about to change. Robotics will be solved.
> We don't even start by teaching car mechanics about that fuel injection cycles, we start with "take the wheels off and put them back on again".

I imagine that changes depending on whether you're training to be a car mechanic, or studying to be a mechanical engineer.

Similarly some people have learned to program by starting out with assembly, although this approach isn't common today.
Comprehensive is an accurate adjective. I occasionally try out different WM / DEs and always end up back at enlightenment. There are plenty on the list I've missed before. When I had a 3D monitor, I wanted to try a 3D WM. I didn't in getting one to run.
How can it be mitigated? I can't think of a single idea. For future missions, sure, but this one?
GPT has to figure out which of the tasks they advertise it's supposed to do right now. Should it fix your grammar mistakes or convert it into an excel formula?

I imagine they did some prompt-engineering to get OpenAI to give good results for their use cases, pattern match your input to find a good prompt from that list and prefix your input with it.
From memeory - it's the lack of a working Linux plugin for Unity's XR plugin framework. We used to use SteamVR on Linux but that's not currently working with the new framework and we need to move to that to support a wide range of hardware.

I'm sure it will get fixed - if not by Valve then by Monado who are doing great stuff for open source XR support.

https://monado.dev/

(some of the above might be inaccurate. I haven't had much involvement with the Linux side of things)
I think you should clarify your goal.
If you want to learn coding and specifically Django then this is a good project.
If you just want a blog there are other tools that are easier like
Jekyl and Hugo
> Yes, but a lot of utilities give that functionality

This does not excuse core OS functionality being left to rot.

> That's false, maybe you refer to containerization? Apple provides APIs to virtualize a system in 10 lines of code

And not well.

> That's up to MS

Given the software story for the Mac is imploding, it is Apple's problem too. Apple could introduce a Proton-esque translation layer if they wanted to and make Macs significantly more useful machine at a stroke.

> Absolutely false. It's just that the base models are differentiated this way

This is unambiguously true - the M2 still cannot use multiple monitors correctly.

> Yes but where do you find small puddings? It is a global design fad and even Linux distros adhered to this fashion

Apple own their UI, Linux distro designers are not holding them at gunpoint.

> Macs are not marketed to gamers

They literally spent ten minutes of the keynote trying to market Macs to gamers.
I've experienced severe slowdowns with any 16GB models. That's why I systematically max out the memory on my Macs now (64/128GB). Come at a premium, but the peace of mind of not having to care about memory usage is worth it tenfold.
Should've paid the extra billion for the wiper blade package
Infinite money is a weird concept. It doesn't matter how much money humans print, what matters is what humans can accomplish. If we eliminated the concept of money we still would not be able to power mankind on 100 meter tall machines because we don't have the resources to build them quickly. There are sound practical and theoretical reasons for keeping "minimize the levelized cost of electricity" be the first goal of any alternate power source.

My prognosis is that CFS is on a good track and that their state goals are achievable. There's going to be some big headlines in a few years. If other startups also hit their goals we'll likely see a race with private investment. Public interest and government funding will likely lag the private progress by a few years.
Yeah, like >>409 an account with this email already exists<<
Actually best thing happened to you evading the work under this CTO