skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I find it hard to imagine how they must see the modern world. It must seem like magic!

> I think this is unnecessarily infantilizing. [...] people must employ abstractions [...]

"Magic" to me means "does not (appear to) obey laws of cause and effect".

When the phone doesn't work after you install App X, do you attempt to remove app X? Why would restarting the phone help the situation? If none of this is logical, you're just following the 16 step Apple Fixit Checklist, good luck... it might work... but if you miss something what happens? You're just back to the start and run the checklist again... or call the ~~witch doctor~~ knowledgable friend.

Now I won't say there's no magic in understanding computers. There certainly are cause and effect mechanisms that are too arcane for ordinary mortals to be familiar with (even like "don't build the project inside a directory that has a space in it" never mind "don't put a colon or slash in your filename").

The point is: "magic" does not have to mean infantilizing.
I thought exactly this when reading the article. I found this comment by searching for "Foundation" in the comments section.

Maybe humanity needs a real Foundation in these times.
Crypto-currency nonsense aside, the article clearly goes into DIDs which is on its way to becoming a standard.

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

> Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject.
It's still a year or two away for things to be ready to own an M1 for development with the types of topics listed above.
I wonder if tha’ts subject to criminal prosecution or merely civil remedies.
This was super interesting. Any book recs with a similar flavor?
It’s not triple anything if you’ve got a wife and 3 kids.
What if foreign power's soldiers board your ship? Acting like nothing's happening to not look "scared"?

I don't see how a possibly military vehicle entering space just over your military vehicle is much different than military personnel boarding your craft.

Detain humans, shoot drones down.
This is pretty interesting. When I was using Windows at work I made something like this with AutoHotKey. I’d highlight text, hit a button on my mouse, it would load that text into a GUI and give me a dozen options for what I wanted to do with it. Some options were basic, just appending it to a URL to do a search, while others were more involved, requiring some config setup in the GUI to open something in a native app. It was fantastic, and many people on my team started using it.

Since I moved to macOS at work all of that went away and I haven’t been able to find a good alternative to AutoHotKey for macOS. Although it’s hard to know if I can even attempt to run this at work with how locked down things have become.
Also, a fair amount of macros to make it build on different platforms with varying endianess, alignment needs, differently named syscalls/functions, and so on.
I used Atom for a long time after it was cool. I just loved the idea of an editor I could extend using the standard web tools and frameworks. Overall love this project, and still am a little miffed that VSCode ate their lunch. Best of luck on everything Nathan and the team do.
Not even the poorest?
Remember Apple cancelling their contract with Imagination (GPU) and hiring their employees to work on Apple's GPU?
> But for most consumers insuring against rate increases will be quite costly.

I’m not sure how you can make an argument that long and specific while completely ignoring the evidence to the south of you that contradicts it.
Looking at that source code for the website is fun it is own right. There is a whole JavaScript framework for simulating and displaying circuits. Each circuit is represented by a JSON file.
Interesting - in other words you are saying that message passing concurrency bugs tends to result in liveness violations whereas locking bugs tend to violate safety?
Biology is being automated by startups that are doing the experiments for you, AWS-style. Looks like software is going to be eating biology as well
They almost certainly have shotguns on board.
Steve was notoriously and sometimes arbitrarily cheap. Apple retains some of that.
It's going to take me a while to process this concept.

My first reaction is revulsion. Revulsion at posing corpses as though they were dolls. Revulsion at staying in physical contact with a corpse. A strong sense that it's incredibly disrespectful of the deceased.

I don't think the author is lying about it helping her and some others process their grief. But I have a hard time imagining it working that way for me. And it would take a lot to persuade me that this was okay even if the survivors did find it helpful.

Maybe I missed something redeeming when reading the story?
You can also allocate all this effort into preventing whatever apocalyptic scenario is likely to happen, but that's a lot less self-centered and forces you to accept uncomfortable truths about yourself and your place in society. It's much easier to daydream about being constrained by technical problems alone, and if you are realistic that's not going to be the biggest problem in any post-apocalyptic scenario. We'll still have toasters and solar panels, microscope slides and computers. That's not the problem. Even in that case, we won't have to reinvent the wheel.
Elon Musk Scam on National Television
The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk
There is a semi-practical use for this information: these are the absolute minimum tech trees required to spin off an independent off-planet habitat (whether in vacuum or on another planet).

If you're a hecto-billionaire / trillionaire however, this is also the information you'd want to be assured you can try whatever harebrained scheme you want and if it breaks the world, you externalize all that harm and "reboot" the world in your own image with this information. It would be bad if someone really buys that line; I don't think it is possible without a lot of testing on a vast scale, aka trying it out for real in say, space. Good thing the only working example we have of this kind of "booting" is history, and it seems to take way more than a $trillion to run the "bootstrap firmware" to a self-sustaining civilization at around say, 1940's tech tree level. I estimate around 70-100M people+children at the beginning, 30-40 years before you're out of bootstrap phase.
> the last thing I need is users

The Window Manager in the Glade? https://jaracimrman.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pub-in-the-g...

> The lawyer explained that my grandfather had been a notorious loner. He steered clear of everyone and couldn’t stand being near people. But as far back as anyone could remember he’d always longed to have his own pub. At first he opened a pub by the road to Písek. But people showed up. Then he rented a place on the square in Opočna, but they showed up there, too. And so he built this place.
From Anandtech's deep dive into the performance and efficiency cores in the A15, which are reused here in the M2.

Performance Cores:

>Apple A15 performance cores are extremely impressive here – usually increases in performance always come with some sort of deficit in efficiency, or at least flat efficiency. Apple here instead has managed to reduce power whilst increasing performance, meaning energy efficiency is improved by 17% on the peak performance states versus the A14. If we had been able to measure both SoCs at the same performance level, this efficiency advantage of the A15 would grow even larger. In our initial coverage of Apple’s announcement, we theorised that the company might possibly invested into energy efficiency rather than performance increases this year, and I’m glad to see that seemingly this is exactly what has happened, explaining some of the more conservative (at least for Apple) performance improvements.

Efficiency Cores:

>The A15’s efficiency cores are also massively impressive – at peak performance, efficiency is flat, but they’re also +28% faster.

The comparison against the little Cortex-A55 cores is more absurd though, as the A15’s E-core is 3.5x faster on average, yet only consuming 32% more power, so energy efficiency is 60% better.

Conclusions:

>In our extensive testing, we’re elated to see that it was actually mostly an efficiency focus this year, with the new performance cores showcasing adequate performance improvements, while at the same time reducing power consumption, as well as significantly improving energy efficiency.

The efficiency cores of the A15 have also seen massive gains, this time around with Apple mostly investing them back into performance, with the new cores showcasing +23-28% absolute performance improvements, something that isn’t easily identified by popular benchmarking. This large performance increase further helps the SoC improve energy efficiency, and our initial battery life figures of the new 13 series showcase that the chip has a very large part into the vastly longer longevity of the new devices.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...
The Great Indian Edtech Reckoning
Hovering above is not the same as just looking.
What happens in Nevada is a domestic matter. Other countries don't care about it, and the US government can plausibly claim it has a legal basis for its actions.

There are no such things as "unauthorized" flybys in international waters. There are no laws or international customs against approaching foreign warships, as long as that does not endanger the ship. How the warship chooses to respond is a matter of foreign policy and best left to civilians.

Escalation often leads to further escalation. There is a similar situation in the South China Sea, where China claims sovereignty over some areas. The US disagrees and frequently patrols the area. If the US shoots down a Chinese drone in international waters, China may consider that shooting at an American plane or a warship there would be a proportional response. That could turn very bad very quickly. Unless the US deliberately wants to escalate, it may be a better policy to ignore Chinese provocations with drones.
The US Had Only 1 Wrench for 3 Nuclear Bases (2014)
> Thanks for voicing your opinion. That said, I don't see constructive criticism here. From what I gather I was basically at fault for daring to somewhat disagree with burntsushi.

I don't think it's so much "what you said" or even "who you said it to" but "how you said it". Most of us are coming to this thread specifically because we _don't_ already have specialized knowledge in this area, and we were hoping to learn something. It's totally reasonable not to have time to explain something this complicated, but it comes across as a bit disingenuous when followed by many additional comments in the thread continuing to debate in what looks to be close to real time. I think in this case, people are downvoting more for a breach of "decorum" than for anything else; you might very well be correct in your assertions about regexes, but it's impossible for any non-experts to tell, so we end up seeing (fairly or not) picture of someone who is more interesting in spending time arguing that they're right than actually demonstrating it.
Literally Urbit.
Tech journalism needs a dramatic story. So every product is either world changing or a complete failure.
Memory safe, excellent tooling, excellent base std library, no manual memory management, static binaries, trivial cross compilation, trivial concurrent programming etc. These advantages are still not inconsiderable over C, although not C++. Yes, however, it is not as "safe" as Rust. But downside is C++ & Rust are harder to design for upfront.
Do you have any tips on how to go about this disentanglement? I spent the last 15 years focused solely on work. After a re-org I’m left on a team responsible for work I hate and want no part of. I find myself rather lost, but with the current economic situation I do like the stability of the job.
For how long would cars really be practical in a "down in the bunker"-scenario, though? There wouldn't be any more fuel produced, probably, and cars require a fairly high standard of roads which also would be lost after not too long.

Personally, I would probably bring the equivalent book on bicycles, which I speculate would be the vehicle of choice for the end of the world. If anyone knows the name of such a book, I would be happy to hear it!
Almost all “CS” / software programming jobs don’t require advanced CS skills and degrees, which is largely why people from other backgrounds easily transition into software programming.

In fact, one might argue that true mathematical CS degrees provide less preparation for many software jobs than a student with lab skills from a science degree like physics or biology, accounting and communication skills from business degrees, organizational and project skilss from an architectural degree, etc.
What if he does it without being detected?

There are probably a bunch of wallets from back in the day whose owner lost their key. Take some coin out of those. Then no one knows. Sell it. Move on.
>Completely uncontroversial, yet we don't have a metric and we haven't defined it precisely.

but we have witnessed countless infants grow up and qualify as what we consider to be 'conscious'.

we haven't yet seen that jump in AI, thus we have no way of knowing the distance to there from where we're at.
Openbox is not 'abandoned'. It is considered feature complete, bug free, and essentially a completed project[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/openbox/comments/ngqz4s/is_openbox_...
(: I guess you realized that they should have joined the nascent airforce— it was the last truish example of single combat between champions, one, ironically, enabled by technology—- the continental aristocrats did :) (eg Baron von R) (maybe they had a better-faith classical education, considering their generally more accurate transmission of the classic pronunciations)

BTw Kerala supposedly..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_combat

“ The Kerala practice was discontinued in the 19th century under the British Raj.”
The example did not even load for me in mobile and Brave staight up crashed
They lack a culture of advancing technology per se, as opposed to making use of it.
Weird that you think this is some sort of completion, weirder that you picked a side.
Their company code base for free? Whaaaaat?

Wannabe friends? Wink wink

Yeah I like to help people too but only through talking / drawing / explaining

Which is work too just that it is more chill I guess and I probably don’t do it as much as you
Sadly, people get rewarded for what they built (even if makes everyone's lives harder in the long run) than for exercising restraint and saying "no".
Scientists Discover New Molecule That Kills Hard-to-Treat Cancers
A data race and garbage collection are unrelated. A data race occurs when:

> two or more threads in a single process access the same memory location concurrently, and at least one of the accesses is for writing.

Rust provides compile time protection against data races with the borrow checker. Go provides good but imperfect runtime detection of data races with the race detector. Like most things in engineering, either approach requires a trade off involving language complexity, safety, compile time speed, runtime speed, and tooling.
I feel like you're intentionally playing semantic games, i.e. trolling, so let me tell you straight that I don't appreciate that.

The fact a central bank is a "human institution" is irrelevant. The fact blockchain is a "technology" is also in itself irrelevant. The point is that each concept necessitates characteristics that are irreconcilable. Most importantly a central bank can not function without central authority. The defining property of the blockchain is the decentralization of authority. Authority can not be simultaneously centralized and decentralized, and so the blockchain and the central bank are antithetical concepts.
Gecko (Firefox's native browser engine) is also a mobile browser engine, and Apple's anti-competitive WebKit requirement prevents browsers such as Gecko-based Firefox from being released on iOS. By forcing the use of WebKit, which is much more similar to Chrome's Blink than Gecko is, Apple is indeed limiting browser engine competition.
Magi SynthaVision Sampler (1974)
The 8GB M1 versions don't have enough RAM for a lot of dev work, doing pretty ordinary things created a lot of RAM pressure when I had one. I later bought Max with 64GB, and that has been brilliant. I gave up on the idea of using Docker almost immediately.

Early on there were major issues if you were targeting x86-64 systems code in C++. A lot of common tooling was broken for months on end. Time has solved some of these problems but ultimately I wrote code to support native ARM targets as first-class code citizens. There was a significant learning curve (I was not fluent in ARM64 ISA) but now that everything is ported, running native, and the tooling has finally started to catch up, it works pretty smoothly and I don't have much to complain about. The x86 emulation has limitations so native is the only way to go for many things, and you'll still want to test some code on real x86 server hardware.

That said, the latest OS on (at least) the M1 is noticeably buggy. Lots of behavioral artifacts that I wouldn't expect. Not sure if it is the hardware or the software, or both. Nothing catastrophic, just annoying.
This article led me to type “Thanatos Archive” into Google Image Search… And that wasn’t the best idea just before going to bed. As a parent these images of children are haunting and disturbing.

I also understand they were taken because the 19th century parents simply had no other photos by which to remember the lost children. I’m just not sure we should be looking at them.
> "Oh, data race freedom isn't such a big deal, if you really need it, a garbage collected language like Java will give you that guarantee."

Java programs aren't guaranteed to be free of data race. Java spec guarantees that if that happens, there will be no undefined behavior (like in C++).
Written a lot of Java, Python, and Go in my career... every single time I see someone take a hardline stance against Java it's always because they had one particular bad experience with it 15-20 years ago and couldn't bend it to their will like Python or Lisp. Or they fought Maven, or some other ancillary tool. Or they rail on the generics and yet the use-cases they come up with for true reified generics are generally niche.

Java's got problems. The biggest one is the framework laden ecosystem and that some of the frameworks are all or nothing. But the language and runtime are rock solid. I don't get the hate.
Nobody gives a shit if your name is Steve Irving. They care if you're wanted in three extradition-treaty countries or on an Interpol list. Federated identities mean you can have five of them and none of them are counterfeit, which is exactly the opposite of what they want to let you into a country, out of a country, to take out a loan, or to be sitting in a jail cell.

There was a time that having multiple identities online was a sensible thing to do, and many in the privacy community wanted this, but now that State actors are fucking with elections, that use case is in serious jeopardy.
My comment might be tangent, but I just love Cloudflare Workers. I have a side project which needed an API w/o any db access (for now) so I just moved my API to CF Workers and been using their free tier ever since. I'm still nowhere near capping my limit but using CF definitely cut down my cost of buying a VPS and setting everything up.
Depends now how actually talented the raw talent is.

Tom Brady, Wayne Gretsky, Michael Jordon, Larry Bird, Kobe Bryant, Joe Montana, LaBron James. Actual top-of-the-line talent drives everything. Sure, Kobe Bryant would not win against another team if he was the only person on his side - 5 against 1, but that is not the case. While total talent is great in all positions, the super talented can't be over-estimated. Mozart. Beethoven, Einstein. Raw talent is not nothing.
This is a really great article from Anandtech with benchmarks and analysis, it explained a lot of things.

> The overall performance gains are quite disappointing when you factor in the raw cost increase that comes with this new M2 and the fact that it has been nearly 2 years since the M1’s introduction.

Also the logic of article in the title is little weird to me. M1 was introduced in the same year as A14, they use the same core; while M2 uses the same core as A15, which introduced 1 year after M1. So technically M2 increased the performance by 18% in one year, not two years.

Though I'm curious why Apple didn't use A16's core in M2.
Don't take me seriously: I heard people both saying Golang is a better C/Golang is a worse C
Why not have a reasonable, minimum threshold that selects a significant group of students that are at least capable of a decent level of success in school and randomly select from that pool (eg lottery)? Stop all the nonsense of trying to write a perfect essay and have a perfect score on the admissions test. Just do good enough and enjoy being a kid and let a fair system randomly select from a qualified pool.
The market has spoken. If you don't have a credit card and a smartphone you're not a real customer. (Better keep that phone charged and within range of a cell tower).
I’m a mobile dev, and all my jobs I have landed are via LinkedIn..
That just sounds like they're strawmanning web3 to try and differentiate themselves. If that's their marketing angle then sure, but to everybody else they're web3
Roll a Lisp in C – Environments
He’s the guy that convinced me
The smile: a history
> Despite being oft-repeated, that educational claim isn't really true.

I agree with this, it’s been my experience that most of the most intelligent and highly educated people I know are solidly GOP…except those who work in higher education. Although…some of them in higher education I know vote GOP, but claim they don’t, or don’t disclose it publicly.
I haven't tried Shotcut yet, but I can definitely vouch for Kdenlive. Been using it on and off for a few years now and is still the best and stable option for video editing in the FOSS space
Biochemist here: yes, wooden chopsticks are probably hygienic enough for all intents and purposes. However, metal chopsticks have a smoother, non-porous surface, and therefore will be inherently a less friendly environment for bacteria. Some metals further have antibacterial properties.
So, statistically, how many more years will it take for me to be hit again? Writing something less useless and and more frequently would probably decrease that epoch.

On the lightning itself: Some of the consulting offers I got in response to the post on dev hiring strategies were... interesting. I didn't pursue any of them, but they showed the world is a weirder place than our whitewashed walled gardens make it out to be.

I'd certainly agree that the most "professional" (polished? well-written? organized?) writing I read these days is on Substack. In five more years, that writing will inevitably be found on a new platform that displaced Substack which bumped Medium, which ate Blogger, etc. Any bets that Evan William's next business will also involve publishing people shaking their fist at clouds?