skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. My work job (i.e. infrastructure) is very different from my spare time hobby project (iOS and Metal/GPU).

Maybe it also helps that I've gotten good enough at the coding bit that it's not really the main bottleneck. For better and for worse, I'd have to contrive reasons to try out the fancy new features that just came out in Metal 3. I still haven't needed the fancy pipelining in Metal 2. I spend more time in Photoshop and Illustrator than I do in XCode. With that said, I think that Apple's done a really good job with Swift and Metal, which means I get to spend more time with content assets.

I think that at work, the bottleneck isn't really code either. We spend more time making decisions about the code than actually coding. So there's that.

Ultimately, the point isn't really to write more code. The point is to make more product.
that's a ridiculous cope, they rent the car they do not own it, the bank owns it
This may be a daft suggestion, but have you profiled yours?
It ultimately depends on how they're written. println! is a macro, and doesn't "break the tooling". on the other end of the spectrum, using a crate like demonstrate (unit testing) produces hard to understand errors and slows down the IDE.

I don't remember experiencing Rust Analyzer crashes for a long time, though (I do remember some in the past).
This is a terrible article. Besides the spelling errors and the repetition of "Excel and eighth grade level mathematics" 4 times in the first 4 paragraphs, it seems like a really really pure case of the author doing his best to rationalise an opinion that he's come to through intuition
I update my system when needed but I always have reasonable good hardware.

SSD/nvm are same defaults for me.

Memory I currently have 48gb in my desktop for running a VM properly.

My last CPU upgrade was necessary when I got a new camera and the raw files grinded Lightroom to a snail.

My keyboards are either full metal base with real cherry MX keys or a expensive ergonomic keyboard also with cherry MX keys.

I sit too long on my device every day to cheap out.

My displays always are at least IPS panels but my current display is already 6 years old. Still IPS with 27" and 1440 resolution.

I think it's good that you can work with your setup and your situation is a little bit harder I guess but make sure that you don't need to wait unreasonably long for your PC doing it's tasks.

And never use a HDD as your main hard disk!
Unfortunately it can’t be done even if you target an M1 iPad — virtualization is locked behind an entitlement that’s not publicly available on iOS.
not paying taxes on your property is different from not owning something and missing a recurring payment.
I'm in the same boat as you. Purchase an Apple One subscription, it'll give you another 2TB. I'm hoping Apple offers higher tiers before I use that all up.
It’s 2022. Buy a pair of AirPods.
Sadly, yes I believe the iPads are locked down and would require a jailbreak.
from the article:

Real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual camera injection. Created for performing penetration testing against e.g. identity verification and video conferencing systems, for the use by security analysts, Red Team members, and biometrics researchers.

Reminds one of the vulnerable world hypothesis. It's only a matter of time before a technology comes along that is both destructive and so simple any fool can use it.
That's not really a fair assessment of CDs. There were lots of advantages:

+ CD audio (this advantage cannot be overstated given the limitations of sound chips of that era

+ higher storage (cartridges were very limiting. It's why Sonic 3 was originally split over two carts (Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles)

+ Cheaper to produce

The issue wasn't that the world wasn't ready for CD-based consoles. The issue was that it was effectively buying a whole new console as an addon to an existing console. In fact the Sega CD had it's own RAM, CPU and graphics processor too. I cannot blame families for not buying the Sega CD because why would you when you already had the Mega Drive?

So the issue wasn't a lack of technical capabilities. It was just that it was an expense too many for most people.

As an aside, I do have a Mega CD (PAL) and a bunch of games hooked up in my games room. It's a great system. I love it. However I got it when it was cheap retro hardware (before the 16bit retro market exploded). I love collecting hardware and even I wouldn't have paid release prices for it at the time.
It makes sense. Why would they hurt a runner that has local and international press coverage, that would be idiotic and potentially bad for their business.
This really is quite funny. I'm calling it now: that mount is going to cost you as much as a decent 3rd party webcam.

This is the sort of product that I would've expected Apple to put out just around when they introduced the touchbar and removed every port off their laptops. They know their laptop camera is crap, but rather than fixing it, they've decided to build an entirely new, overpriced dongle to solve the problem they themselves created. It doesn't even pass the sniff test. "You can use your phone as your webcam!".... ok, now what happens when I'm on a meeting and need to look at my phone? "Well what we've got another dongle that projects your Apple Watch onto your macbook so you can use it as a phone!"
I was also really annoyed at the darker bits, so I wrote some custom css rules for the twitch site.
leases are of two kinds technically. operating and finance lease.

one gives you ownership at the start, the second one merely "rents" you the thing
That's a weird sentiment.

Without the investment of early adopters the hardware would not be as cheap or as good as it is right now.

Also no one throws older hardware away.
True, in the German store it says "Wähle deine Konfiguration beim nächsten Schritt."

> how would you know that ram is confugurable?

2 options:

- Scroll down a little, and under "Gemeinsamer Arbeitsspeicher" it says:

"Der M2 hat einen schnelleren Arbeits­speicher als der M1, mit 50 Prozent mehr Speicher­bandbreite. Er kann mit bis zu 24 GB konfiguriert werden – 8 GB mehr als beim M1 – für flüssigeres Multitasking und einfaches Arbeiten mit großen Dateien."

- Click on the "Wählen" button under the chosen model. It's very obvious in the next screen that you can configure RAM.
You alright Eeyore?
Germany. All land belongs to the state, save for some historical claims held by the Catholic church and (I think) former aristocracy.

Note that private property rights still exist on top of that but this is why the state can decide that e.g. an energy company's interest in your land is more beneficial to the people than yours. You'll still get reimbursed although legally speaking I'm not sure the state would have to do that in order to seize it. The difference is that they couldn't do this for land owned by the Catholic church for example.

As a caveat note that not all land used by the Catholic church in Germany is owned by the Catholic church, this really only applies to historical claims and contracts the state decided to uphold.
It's pretty clear that the combination of having little social life and being single gives you more time to explore programming in your spare time.

Either one of those things can be very detrimental to programming outside of work. Not saying this is all romantic relationships, but it's very common for a partner to have an expectation that you spend a significant portion of your outside-work time with them. And single people who have a social life also can let socializing monopolize their outside-work time (though of course there are also people who may only talk to friends once or twice a week).

For many (including myself) it's really hard to balance relationships with solitary hobbies.
I think one of the underrated things that Apple has done is has been to de-stigmatize accessibility technologies and make the value of accessibility obvious to both the impaired and non-impaired.
Different is the laugh, when slapstick occurs on a stage, versus when your doctor had bad ideas.

This stresses the call for humans not to be lightminded and decadent: new instruments are around, and they require to be managed competently and properly.
You might be describing forms of OCD too. Sometimes the "engineering-smart" thing to do is to not look into it. There's only so much time.
Have you read his hardware specs?

I do a lot of things which just wouldn't be possible on his setup at all.
I mainly use Bitwarden for my passwords, but for things I usually open in Safari (for example food ordering sites which accept Apple Pay) I also save the password in Keychain so it's easier / faster to log in (in case Bitwarden is locked and I would have to unlock it (Face ID) with the app instead of the extension).
Replace annealing with backprop / sgd, integrate over the loss function with a nn and you'd arrive at something like the many ai palette generators that swarm the web. I suppose the takeaway here is designing a loss function that suits your aesthetic goals.
Key substance for life found in Japan probe's asteroid samples
FYI, I am running Arch on a Macbook Air 2011 and it handles Teams OK ;-)
When I coded for money, I never managed to enjoy coding in the evenings. My personal projects quickly fell apart. As soon as I switched to a different role, my passion returned.
If they will own it at the end of the payments (what we call Hire Purchase in UK) then yes, I’d regard it as their car. If they making monthly payments over certain amount of time and after that time they need to give the car back then no - they just renting it.
Make your Churnees your north star
One of the most important and biggest mantras in the startup world is user-centricity. "be close to the user, develop solutions for problems people have, product market fit is all about the user's needs". This is all true and should definitely be cultivated, because one of the many advantages of a startup compared to larger companies is its massive flexibility - and that includes the ability to work close to the user and make decisions quickly. Of course, I'm only talking about product development here.

Why do so many startups decide to prioritize the user's basic needs lower once the supposed PMF is reached? Because the solution obviously meets what the user needs (because, by definition, product market fit can only be achieved when the solution provided meets the requirements). However, there is a problem with this: users change their needs from time to time.

This happens slowly but steadily, of course. Like the frog that is slowly boiled and doesn't notice because the temperature barely rises noticeably, it is important for companies to keep a constant eye on the thermometer. Even the biggest companies in the world with the most established products lose their relevance as soon as they stop evolving.

In the early stages of a startup, it is en vouge to talk to your customers and find out in close interviews exactly what needs exist. Customer support and sales then do this in later stages as they work closely with the customer, but product development often forgets to build clear structures into their work that allow them to record and analyze the customer voice.

Reading the customer's mind is also important for vertical product development. But it's also exhausting and doesn't bring any money directly into the bank. Listening is one thing, recognizing patterns and taking action is another.

I very often made the mistake of developing products that no one needed and working on features that were based on assumptions. So often that I now hold lectures in universities on how to work closer to the customer and validate needs.

Because this is not enough for me and I have seen many great founders fail, I decided to found Watchwork.

With watchwork, companies can make their customers (and churnees) their north star. Smart feedback flows paired with analytics help founders, product developers and also other teams like marketing and co to constantly keep an eye on the needs of their customers.

So far, I'm working on the product in a closed beta - after all, I don't want to just preach, I want to practice.

In doing so, I am clearly focusing on three points:
- User centricity
- Clear design systems for intuitive handling and better scalability
- Small and fast iterations for hypothesis validation

So far so good. Now it's time to talk to customers!

- Gabriel
It seems more likely to be a result of consolidation on the manufacturing side and the monopolizers paying their competitors to stay out of the market (or to just resell the main brand which subsequently rations the supply).

Shire pulled this trick with Adderall XR: they signed a deal (can't recall who it was, Teva maybe?) to provide the actual drug that the generic maker stamped with their name. When Shire (bought by Takeda) was getting ready to release Vyvanse they suddenly cancelled the contract and stopped providing the XR to Teva. There was a US-wide shortage for almost a year, during which many patients scrambled to find alternatives... some of them ended up with Vyvanse prescriptions as designed.

I don't want to discount what you are saying though: the generic process should be streamlined. For Schedule II medications the extra regulatory burden definitely makes these schemes more profitable. You need a special DEA license to make them and the DEA sets quotas so even if you have a facility certified to make Schedule II drugs you need DEA permission to increase the supply. When Shire pulled the rug out from under everyone it took time for competitors like Teva to start production, get DEA approval, then get approval to manufacture in enough quantity to replace what Shire stopped making.

This was well known at the time. To my knowledge no investigation was done whatsoever. The government simply allows companies to manipulate the market as they please. No wonder they have gotten bolder and bolder.

I was not shocked in the least when Hedge Fund parasites like Martin Shkreli started looking for drug companies to buy to snap up the rights to single-source or low-volume generics to jack up the price. If a huge manufacturer can commit open market manipulation to the point that millions of people can't get an RX filled _anywhere_ to push them onto a newer expensive drug and the government doesn't even bother pretending to investigate... well there's lots of rent to be extracted!
I've got the exact same issue. I'd love to do more coding on private projects, but it's always bits and pieces. I can never commit sufficiently to actually finish them.

Having kids doesn't help, although recently I've been thinking if maybe I should do a coding project with my son. A game, probably.
I agree that this project is needlessly hamstrung by having nthe colours be the same as Stripe's, but then again limiting yourself creatively can lead to solutions you'd otherwise not think about / you're forced to think creatively
From mine it isn't.
Very likely referring to “satoshis” which is a small amount of bitcoin.
If it's not broken, my stuff goes to ebay.

An advantage to buying better hardware in the first place: it will still be worth enough for someone else to buy it from me.

I sometimes also donate my stuff and repairing issues before. Like my two last laptops
Sadly not - it was a longer post than that, but that's an interesting one nonetheless - thanks!

BUT, it's linked from the page you linked (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/) - success! Thanks so much.
I do 1hr a day before breakfast. The idea is to do as much as possible in this relatively short timeframe. I find i get a lot done.

I am a morning person though.
I'm glad I went to the university and learned about how to do things like lexing and parsing from my professors. I feel for people who have to substitute their education with blog posts and Rob Pike talks.

Those people wil get things done, but often in a roundabout way, reinventing the wheel multiple times along the way. Meanwhile the fortunate ones, like you, will pick the right tool, apply it, get state of the art results on their first try and move on.
I wouldn't mind them building it if they just used their own money. Spinoff cern companies have earned a $trillion or more revenue and probably a hundred billions profit from things like medical imaging gear. They could well afford to fund themselves and a new collider without begging the public for money.

Cern really should be investigated and audited publicly, but it would take Delloites and PWC to follow that paper trail and audit hundreds of companies going back 25-30 years. I've always said it, cern is a scam, they take public money to fund product research, and then spin off separate companies to cream off the profits. Then they act broke and beg us for more money.

Edit: There is very little public information on this. The company accounts may be public, but like I said, there are hundreds of them going back 30 years, and no-one is motivated to do that kind of research. There is a recent study here[0] which looks at the economic benefit to companies that help build the research equipment. Obviously a lot of tech has to be invented just to build systems like this. But I haven't seen a similar study of the cern spin-off companies, or KT (Knowledge Transfer) partners in cern nomenclature, and that is where the real meat is.

I don't see why it would be so controversial for cern to retain some share in those KT companies and use that money to be self sufficient. That seems like a win for science.

[0] https://cds.cern.ch/record/2632083/files/CERN-ACC-2018-0022....

Further reading:

https://kt.cern/success-stories/fostering-culture-entreprene...

https://kt.cern/success-stories/managing-cern-intellectual-p...

One example company (out of hundreds):

UK firm buys cancer-zapping spin-off from CERN collider
"The spin-off, known as Adam, was established in 2007 by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to build low-cost innovative accelerators for proton beam therapy (PBT) and conventional radiotherapy. Advanced Oncotherapy will pay for Adam in shares, giving CERN scientist Alberto Colussi, who founded the CERN business, a continuing stake in the technology."

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-cancer-cern-advancedoncot...

https://www.avoplc.com/en-gb/Investors/Share-Price-Informati...
The N+1 Dilemma – Bullet or Prosopite?
There is plenty of criticism of these companies on HN. Thoughtful criticism is usually upvoted. But much of it has no more substance than yelling "Booo!", which gets appropriately downvoted or flagged.
What about Rider from JetBrains?
SGML (the markup meta-language once used for describing HTML) has that, but as we're talking the verdict is still out whether that's actually easier [1] ;) But anyway, SGML gives you HTML-aware, context-dependent, injection-free templating (even with hard support for sanitizing user content) in a content authoring workflow independent from a hosting programming language so is in a different ball park.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31637910
Sure but don't pay your property tax and let me know what happens there.
Scrolling with the trackpad is working fine for me (I’m on a M1 iPad Pro on iPadOS 15.4), at least on the ~7000-line package-lock.json I just tested. The app does have some quirks, mind you, like the native scrollbar obscuring the VS Code scrollbar.
You still had to load assets into memory even on cartridge based systems. And before that you had even less memory and assets being loaded from cassette (or floppy disk, if you had cash) so it's not as if developers had to learn how to load assets from slower storage for the first time when CDs came along. In fact the Famicom (what is effectively the Japanese NES) also had a floppy disk drive. I've got it and games play fine on it.

Also streaming assets from the optical drive on demand is doable too. Plenty of games (old and new) have employed this kind of hack.

Lastly you haven't even got your estimations of memory right. The Sega CD had a few megabytes of dedicated RAM [edit: sorry, megabits. Still more than your estimations though]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_CD#Technical_specificatio...

I was around at that time, buying hardware, playing games and even writing my own games too. While your arguments here and your post before sound informed I'm sorry to say they're completely unfounded.
It already has, and companies have based business models on it, which has led to consoles being more affordable in exchange for restrictions on what you can do with it.

It's hard to rely on the argument that 'the market decides the price of goods' if you would like to restrict what companies are allowed to offer for purchase.
> being able to build whatever, whenever

If persuading people to adopt such zoning in your area matters to you, then you probably want to describe this more accurately as "zoning that blocks nuisances but does not micromanage"

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Yeah, no. Only LHC can generate particle events in a highly controllable environment with enough energy. In physics there are energy thresholds. Below a certain level of energy a certain event just never happens.

The low hanging fruit of discovering new physics looks like this. Build a bigger machine to collide particles with even more energy. Observe what comes out. It's a clear direction. Just throw money at the problem and get a result.
If you are under 30 and live in a major city with access to public transport, you might not be able to afford the downpayment for a house while never needing to buy a car, the other big ticket item. (And usually other appliances/toys are cheaper than Apple products, be it bikes, TVs, game consoles etc).
While teams is super inefficient, 10 years ago no one was casually streaming 4k with a webcam feed in a remote team session with 2-10 people.
In addition to what others have said there is no "chaos". American cities are chaos, not because of the building code but the massively failed social policies. Saying Seoul or Tokyo are chaotic compared to the likes of NYC and LA is like comparing Oslo to Mogadishu and saying the latter is less chaotic.
> There is no reason a scheme like this can't simply be a standard from some appropriate body, and a few open source reference implementations.

Yet no-one did this and I think that's the point here.

World is full of rent seeking in the form of stuff that is dead simple to do but no-one does without a financial incentive.

In w3w the hard part is not the system itself, but getting people to use it, which must be done because the value of the system comes from the network effect.
I predict Kitboga will have a lot of fun with this one...
For the cost though, you should probably fund a lot of other science. Climate change mitigation perhaps?
Don’t forget to calculate into the picture all the companies that can’t even emerge due to Apple being there. What if down the road Apple Home start to suck for anything more than the most basic usage. There is no way to compete with it on merits base, as integration is essential for such a domain and apple would not let it not due to having a better product but due to simply owning the platform.
Considering my reply was to foogazi and not yourself, you seem to be pretty presumptive regarding my desire for your 'attention' on this comment.
See DEC's FX!32 (running x86 WinNT 3.51 binaries on WinNT 3.51 workstations with Alpha AXP CPUs) and HP's Project Dynamo. There are probably even earlier examples, but FX!32 was roughly equivalent to Rosetta, and shipping production code in the 1990s.