skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.”

Never heard of UCSD Pascal?
One might think that sending Blackwater in Iraq was a test before deploying them in the US some day.
it sounds like if you don't have cholesterol issues there isn't an issue with cafestol, and potentially some benefits. Just drink filtered coffee if you're worried.
My main takeaway from ergonomics is that it's not so much that there is a purely better way about doing things, but that you need to change things up and do it somewhat frequently. You can have two different parts of your body that want the exact opposite thing.

For example, arm rests can be beneficial in helping someone with carpal tunnel issues, but at the same time, it can be detrimental to the ulnar nerve. Standing and sitting both have their own upsides and downsides. Your actions are probably more akin to rotating the tires on your car. It doesn't stop the wear from happening, but it does so more evenly and you'll get more mileage out of them by doing so.
Delete it is absolutely a solution. You may not like it, but it's a solution.

For some reason people here seem to think I'm precluding regulatory action against Facebook. I'm not. I just also think it's better not to use it.
And it managed to throw() itself out of the window.
Agreed. Everyone has different definitions of bad coffee.

Luckily, for me, my definition also coincides with the overpriced coffee.

In short: my version of bad coffee is burnt, over roasted stuff. Like Starbucks.

I'd rather have Maxwell House. Which thankfully for me is also cheap.
>I would imagine that those who actually spent some of their childhood in a war zone would have a very different perspective.

Not sure if it would imply less war. Around the Napoleonic wars, many officers started their careers as teenagers or pre-teens. Nelson joined the navy as about 12-year old, which wasn't unexceptional age during the Napoleonic times. Napoleon was 10 when he was enrolled in a military academy. He was admitted to Ecole Militaire around 15 years old, graduated in one year, and got a commission as 2nd lieutenant.
Unlikely.

I’m moving in the coming days and I couldn’t give away books that are 5 years or older. They ended up at Goodwill.

Some books age better but these are usually books on the fundamentals of CS or software engineering; not programming tutorials.
Wait, those thin metal with loops on one end? Those are street cleaner bristles?
Go for the 16"; the extra size gets you better cooling, screen real estate and battery life for roughly another $250 or less.
Admittedly I can only speak to the merits of Kumu. I was never really trained in system dynamics, more systems thinking, so that plus the wild expense of most SD software means that I have never really given them a chance.

The other reason I can't compare them is because once I tried Kumu, I never looked back. Kumu is wonderful. It looks simple enough, but once you dig into the advanced features and the extensive documentation, you can really learn to do amazing things with it. I've used it for many years now for many clients.

But see again point 1. It isn't made to be a systems dynamics modeling tool, so simulation and analysis features you might expect to find might be missing.

My suggestion is to choose a problem to work, create a free model, and start messing around. My guess is that you'll find Kumu great for initial sketches and non-dynamics models, but you'll probably want to go elsewhere for simulation work.
The Internet Archive fights back against major publishers
The free market already accounts for externalities by making other people pay for them.
Safari feels like what would happen if Playschool made a browser.

It's funny to me how many people give one tiny reason and are like... Nope goodbye forever.
Yep! Lifetime FF user and I switched to Brave a few weeks ago. It took a little while to get used to the interface but otherwise enjoying it.
Why is it insane? What's the harm in someone disposing what they have paid for?
that sounds like a modification of the graph laplacian;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplacian_matrix#Laplacian_mat...
I consulted Wikipedia and other sources and placed the term they used to categorize these languages beside the language name; it wasn't my bar - I use the collection of symbols I use in the positions I use because others chose to do so. I shared the trivial creation of type errors in Python to help you notice why others oppose your definition and wish you to adopt more precise terms. I don't disagree with you that there is imprecision - comparative language is always with respect to a reference and without a reference specification it is meaningless. The deeper point is that you can't complain about imprecision while failing to do contrast. It would be like complaining that weight 100 doesn't tell you whether someone has a weight. Of course it doesn't. Units needs to be included for measures for them to meaningful. That doesn't mean the concept of units is unsound. It means you need to specify weight more thoroughly to avoid ambiguity.

Really think about what you said and it compiles to something akin to:

type_strength(sample(python_programs, size=1, heuristic=representative_of_claim)) < undefined

In contrast my statement compiles to something like:

type_strength(sample(python_program, size=2, heuristic=represenative_of_claim_simple_programs_first) > type_strength(sample(javascript_program, size=2, heuristic=represenative_of_claim_simple_programs_first))

There are a bunch of problems with my approach. We can pick it apart endlessly. It is positivism. It is low sample size. The heuristic is biased. That I reported it was subject to bias. `type_strength` isn't well defined. Neither is `>`. It is terrible in so many respects.
I see something about using Caddy in the repo. Nice! That's a great solution for custom domain TLS.
Sorry, I didn't really assume you did anything, I was just speaking in general terms from my own experience being in the other side and was citing my friend's strategy.

I should have been clearer about that in my message, as I hate when people do that out of nowhere to me. Sorry.
And don't forget Knuth's "Literate Programming." I didn't agree with every stylistic decision Knuth made, but reading it led me to clarifing some of my own thoughts.

Let me +1 the previous SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and Mythical Man Month. I also like DeMarco's PeopleWare. And Loeliger's "Threaded Interpreted Languages." I bought a copy of Doug Kaye's "Loosely Coupled Systems" from bettereorldbooks.com and it looks like it was a library book that should never have been taken out of circulation. It discusses an important aspect of software design that gets little love in the mainstream. I also got a copy of Yourdon's "Structured Design," which was originally released just as OOP was getting big. But... it still contains numerous pearls of wisdom suitable for both OOP and Functional programmers.
Spam and bad stuff: we are seeing if it’ll ever get to the scale that it’ll be an issue. Our hunch is since you have to use terminal tools to publish that it’ll weed out a lot of nefarious activity.

Contacting users: this is a very interesting limitation that we want to see how far we can take it. Right now we have no way of contacting users and see that as a feature.

Having said that we have an official blog (https://hey.prose.sh) with an RSS feed to notify users of updates.
Towards a Serverless Actor Model
I'm obviously not saying that "Zero internet presence = not a real person" but more like "if 100% of the profiles featured on a marketing page for a product don't have any social media profiles, it's probably fake testimony"
Is a pack a day normal? During college I would feel bad that I had smoked three cigarettes a day. I've since switched to cigars, and have about one a month at most.
Since I'm using one desk for work and personal use, I stand during working hours and sit down the rest of the time. There's something psychologically satisfying about splitting it that way.
Out of curiosity, did you consider good old paper mail? That is what I switched to with my relatives, we just exchange letters once or twice a month. Sharing photos is easy, just put it into the envelope. Seems to work fine even with my grandparents (they seems to prefer it honestly, feels more personal they say).

I'm honestly curious if you considered this and why did you rule it out?
Or people drink fancy beer because it tastes good. Does "fancy" mean "not produced by a global corporation?" If High Life is your favorite, great, stroll down to the local brewery and buy their pale lager.
At this point it is barely possible to ignore Facebook (Twitter, Instagram etc. also). I'm a great proponent of the fediverse, but FB without regulation will simply eat all the ethical alternatives.
Well, I can tell you why I think my book is not good for that — it isn't designed to be that!

My book grew out of lecture notes that I wrote for my algorithms classes at Illinois. My students are almost exclusively juniors and seniors. In particular, they already have several semesters of programming experience, a full semester of discrete math, and a full semester of data structures (which includes things like sorting and searching and the basics of algorithm analysis). They are the audience I wrote the book for.

Equivalently, I have very little experience teaching those prerequisite classes, which makes me the wrong person to write a textbook about that more foundational material!

At a more basic level: Different people are going to find different sources more or less useful. Different authors are better matches for different readers' backgrounds, intuition, and needs. My book ain't gonna work for everyone, because no single book works for everyone.

I'm not familiar with Common Sense Guide — thanks for the suggestion! — but the other books listed above are all fantastic (for different reasons, and for different audiences).
> Firefox [...] has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket

"Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) :

> On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.
Great catch! We need to add this to the deny list. Thanks for your feedback!
Yes, this would have been more satisfying and faster to consume as a youtube video.
That was my thinking - I can't imagine anyone who takes their coffee seriously deciding Starbucks was a good place to work. But then again I live in a city of 5+ million people that until recently had almost no Starbucks at all (and still only has about 15 I think). I could care less for single-origin microplot hand-roasted beans, but there's still a world of difference between what you get at Starbucks and the typical cafe here.
I assume the OP is completely unaware of "head hunting" in professional sports. An awful practice still subtly used today.

Story Time:

I play beer league/pick-up hockey as an adult, and we once had a suspected thief that was stealing from others in the locker rooms during pick-up games. It was believed said thief would get dressed with everyone, and would then "accidentally forget something" before his shift was up, and he would then return to the locker rooms when the rooms were unattended and proceed to shift through people's belongings.

After some time and some mob mentality, people managed to figure out who the thief was. I heard numerous instances of all the various plots and methods other players were working on to ensure this guy would never be able to play again due to an unfortunate accident (i.e. premeditated and intentional permanent or long-term injuries).

Thankfully, the police got ahold of the thief before any of the psychopaths managed to ruin the life of the thief and their own lives. I am also thankful that I was a goalie, so that I was never encouraged to participate in such barbarianism. I value the safety of another person more than a wallet full of replaceable items.

Still, there have been instances where police have been called due to unruly players and/or unruly parents of children players, refs being assaulted by players/parents, etc..
Look spoiled Millennial, Gen Z is young and exploitable. Why can't you be the same?
Nothing stops you from giving your tethered vehicle an emergency surfacing mechanism. :)
Zone 2 training repairs mitochondrial disfunction and burns fat. An explainer here: https://maxapps.info/zone2training.html
This study began in April 2021 and the paper was published in July 2022.

Presuming that the amount of time spent was necessary to thoroughly gather, review and document the findings, what would you have wanted done differently?
> Otherwise someone could throw up a build of "Rust" that does bad things to compile products and they would have no legal recourse to shut that down.

If someone is distributing malicious software, 1) I don’t think they care about whether anyone has legal recourse to stop them, partly because 2) they’ve already taken steps to become anonymous and resist takedowns.
I'm glad if it helped you to take a look from another angle.

Then probably this would be helpful too - try to imagine why the most popular Linux based user facing systems - Android and Chrome OS, are not any kind of "traditional" Linux desktop distribution alike. Does it says something on users?

What wonders me as well - when Linux desktops start to finally use telemetry and stop being blind on real user cases, not on the imaginary nerds needs. It will give great productivity boost. Microsoft has it and they know their auditorium. The techies who knows in person how logging is important on fixing bugs - has no such logs! Ridiculous to me.
I got used to starbucks coffee but it is definitely a strong flavour. The coffee I mentioned before Nabob Full City Dark (Which might just be a thing in Canada only?) is a dark roasted coffee but when I drink it I get caramel overtones and not 'burned', but others might think it tastes burned.

I wish I could justify drinking nothing but blue mountain but that has to be reserved for when people I know go to jamaica and get some because the prices have reached insanity levels here - $50-100/lb.
Unfortunately Mozilla needs money.
My experience with a 16" M1 MacBook Pro is that the fans don't come on unless I'm running games anyway.

You could likely achieve an essentially "fanless" experience on the 14" M1 Macbook Pro as on the Air.
Love him (I suspect this won't last long on the HN front page, alas).

He does both physical and verbal. If you ever watch Mr. Bean, it's entirely physical, and, in Blackadder, he almost never shuts up (but there's still plenty of physical humor).
If their checks clear, it's a good place to work.
Those little stove-top espresso makers that Italians use make the best espresso.

Apparently they're called Moka Pots, never knew that.
Why would that change how you felt toward buying ethically-grown coffee?
I enjoyed reading this.

Spoiler alert: it is not really about the coffee.
You're correct that British made factory goods would have been good for China, specifically the Chinese poor, as it would have enabled them to have many low quality goods rather than a few higher quality goods.

The issue is that when you present goods like mass produced clay teapots, cotton textiles, etc to the customs agents of the country which invented fine china, and silk, you're not going to impress them.

And yes, Britain coveted China. As did Japan, Russia, Germany, The United States, France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. Even after they won the opium wars and got their favorable trades, they continued to work to overthrow or minimize the Qing dynasty and take political power. The Qing ended up sputtering out a few years before it became unfashionable to be a colonialist, so China dissolved into rule by warlords, then conquered by Japan, then the communists won and the rest is history.
Well bitcoin's distribution in the early days also relied on faucets, which were susceptible to sibyl attacks
I only have cable for internet. But then a couple things like disney plus. Amazon Prime is there as a side effect :-) Since I need to update my mobile phone I'm thinking about using it as a hotspot at home as skipping cable entirely. Not sure how viable that is.
Just for your first point: fascism also see the nation-state as a living organism, and push a lot of metaphoric stuff on this. You have this idea of internal and external ennemies, and one of the language marker i feel represent fascists quite easily is the usage of the word "cancer" when talking about an other person.
We have heard this a couple of times and read you loud and clear. We would price the blog to pay for its costs. Join #pico.sh on libera or sub to https://hey.prose.sh to get updates
Laser-Guided Lightning
I love mine. It’s actually not that much bigger than the new M2 Air and weight is negligible for me (although difference is there). It’s the perfect form factor for the times you want to code away from your desk.
I was surprised how much attention faculties reading requires once I started back up. I even read articles again instead of just the comments section.
I didn’t realize how much I lost until I had to work to recover it.

I now abhor cheap entertainment for that.
Conversely, can you make a graph that sounds like the song "happy birthday", and would the graph suffer from copyright claims?
It sounds like you'd be better served by caffeine pills then. No need to bother with a delivery mechanism you don't enjoy when there are easier solutions out there!
I certainly like instant coffee and prefer it over many other types I have tried. It took a few tries to find a good one, however. Perhaps it's because I mostly like coffee quite milky, which might cover over any quality issues.

Developing a taste for good coffee (or wine, etc) doesn't seem attractive to me. You end up needing more and more equipment. You need expensive high quality beans. It's typically messy, time consuming, takes up valuable kitchen space and expensive. I'd rather something ok, which is quick, cheap and convenient.
Abstract:

Here we present the first demonstration that filaments formed by short and intense laser pulses can guide lightning discharges over considerable distances. We believe that this experimental breakthrough will lead to progress in lightning protection and lightning physics. An experimental campaign was carried out on the Säntis Mountain in Northeastern Switzerland during the Summer of 2021 with a high repetition rate terawatt laser. The guiding of an upward negative lightning leader over a distance of 50 m was recorded by two separate high-speed cameras. The guiding of negative lightning leaders by laser filaments was corroborated in three other instances by VHF interferometric measurements, and the number of X-ray bursts detected during guided lightning events was significantly increased. While this research field has been very active for more than 20 years with many research groups around the world working to achieve this goal, this result demonstrates lightning guiding by lasers, which may lead to the development of a laser lightning rod. This work paves the way for new atmospheric applications of ultrashort lasers and represents a significant step forward in the development of a laser based lightning protection for airports, launchpads or large infrastructures.
Technically not espresso, they operate at a relatively low pressure
I thought I was clear stating that the fundamentals are the same for programming languages and frameworks.

Someone can learn Python syntax in a short time. That’s not the hard part of programming, though. It takes considerably more time to learn how to solve real problems with code, to understand and implement requirements, to work with a team, to learn any database. No company needs someone to write 2,000 more lines of Python.

The OP is asking the wrong question, probably with good intentions. Carpenters need to know how to use a saw and a hammer, but that’s just the beginning, and which brand of hammer and saw makes no difference because those are necessary but not sufficient skills.
What exactly do you mean by "pay so much"? E.g. I could buy a KG of single origin that I'd call "fairly good" for about $33 bucks - which recently would've been like 28 Euros though it's about 1-to-1 now - is that what you mean? Or are you meaning much more than that? Like comparing to retail "fancy coffee shop" US drink price?

(There's a lot of range in what one person might call fairly good compared to the next, too, of course.)
I completely agree. I'm promoting a concept called TACE to get back to the principles of the web that were being promoted between 2000-2010. I've realized that a lot of web developers these days don't understand the basic principles of HTML, CSS, and JS because they initially learned web development using a Javascript framework.

https://www.agraddy.com/introducing-tace
I stand for meetings, that’s a forcing function that prompts me to switch.
In terms of cpu it’d still be gross overkill for the application.
So those are the least guilty of the examples I gave :-)
>IIRC

Is there a more common or obvious trap of reasoning? If 'IIRC' worked, we wouldn't have needed the Enlightenment, science, or the JWST to learn about the universe.
Signing up for a facebook account takes less than a minute to do. Not having an account is a tiny hurdle to get over.
Robocop was part of a unparalelled series of action films that came out in the mid-80's. The sequence started with Aliens, then the next year we had Predator and Robocop and then finally Die Hard. They're still making the sequels to these films in one way or another today. The sequence has never been equaled, though I really wish it were.
I do a heck of a lot more with my internet connection than just streaming – there was a night-and-day improvement when stepping up from my previous 150 Mbps coax connection. It’s not just “large game downloads”, but moving many gigs of data to remote servers daily as part of my job while both my wife and I are in video calls, while also etc etc. Fast symmetrical fiber is a godsend.

But whether or not these speeds would be meaningfully useful to you personally, the real observation here is just that GP is paying ~4.7x as much on a Megabit per second per month basis – your 20Mbps “I just stream” connection should cost hardly anything, a bad deal however you slice it.

(As an aside: yearly phone replacement?? I buy hardware to last on a much longer timeframe, so it more than balances out)

edit: back of the envelope network stat math – the 7.5TB I moved last month (up+down) would have completely saturated a 20Mbps connection for more than the month (34 consecutive days), assuming it was symmetrical (which a connection like that probably isn’t).
I remember visiting Canada, in the 1970s, and cigarettes were about $4 a pack. Everyone used to buy big cans of Export tobacco, and roll their own. Apparently. pre-rolled cigarettes were taxed heavily, but loose tobacco was not. I think this is still the case, in many nations. I have a friend from UK, who is always smoking hand-rolled "fags."