skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't disagree with your general statement, but you have no idea when OP worked there, you have no idea why they joined, and you have no idea why they left.

I already responded on another comment: it's not about the individual and it's not about wishing ill of anyone. Hate the sin, but love the sinner, and all that...

In any case, I knew that OP's name was familiar, so I went to look at his history. If you do the same, you will find a comment where he will talk about "being excluded from the banking system". [0] The part he doesn't say (here, but it is on his LinkedIn) is that he was "CTO" on xSigma, which is one of the many "revolutionary DeFI" projects that took a lot of money from gullible fools and now have nothing of value to show for it. Not only that, he also uses that same comment as an opportunity to shill for his next project.

IOW, even though I didn't enter the conversation to "pile on" against the individual, in this particular case the evidence is really stacked against him.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31861753
First of all, you don't wake up in the morning and have an idea that it would be great to have 5 nuclear reactors so that you don't freeze overnight. We more or less know how much energy we will need in 10 years. You just need to plan ahead.

Dams also need many years to build, but you won't say they are useless because of this...

Second, nuclear is price competitive with wind/solar. The way nuclear is competitive is because it allows removing dependency on fossil fuels and wind/solar do not. We can't afford using fossil fuels anymore because it does not matter if you get lower $/kWh if along we cause drastic climate changes.

Stop thinking in terms of $/kWh produced by the powerplant alone. To compare cost of nuclear vs solar/wind you would need to include humongous batteries that would be needed to smooth out output of solar/wind stations which nuclear powerplants do not need. We don't have the technology to build those batteries in sufficient capacity and so the price of solar/wind is currently very, very high (the price of us all cooking/freezing/suffocating/starving, etc.)
Hers is a good example. But realistically it’s important to be aware of differences in fundamental things like legal systems just like cultural differences when traveling or discussions like this about places expats like or don’t. You can just go on YouTube and hear accounts of this type of stuff and culture shock is real. It’s possible to get serious culture shock going from one US state to another (or town/city) so of course different countries are going to be consequential.
A traditional dehumidifier is more or less an air conditioner, where you run inside air over the cool side, so that humidity condenses and is collected, then the air exits over the warm side and into the room.

This device uses two chambers with a dessicant and alternates between running inside air through the chamber to adsorb humidity from the air into the dessicant and then using a vaccum to pull water vapor from the dessicant and pump it into the outside air.

There's no energy intensive phase change of the refrigerant, and if I understand it correctly, the adsorbtion and deadsorbtion of the water vapor into and out of the dessicant isn't very energy intensive either. Note that this system doesn't work without access to outside air to vent the water vapor, whereas a traditional dehumidifier runs within a space, although the condesate may drain to outside.

The effectiveness will likely depend on the humidity and temperature and the properties of the cooling system this device is paired with. An air conditioner will generally provide some dehumidificiation anyway (unless the cold side doesn't reach the dew point...) and maybe that's enough, in which case additional dehumidification isn't helpful. In some places, temperature reduction isn't needed and just dehumidification, this system could help reduce humidity without providing cooling.
> Dr. Cacioppo’s research found that being alone and loneliness are different but related. Social isolation is the objective physical separation from other people (living alone), while loneliness is the subjective distressed feeling of being alone or separated. It’s possible to feel lonely while among other people, and you can be alone yet not feel lonely.

Alone but not lonely, life hacked.
It's not quite peanuts: when I had been replacing my AC system I was quoted the single speed system at $X, dual speed at $1.5X and variable speed at $2X. You need two variable speed motors: in the compressor (which is the most expensive part) and in the air handler (it's low power compared to compressor) and you also probably want a variable furnace, which is can be way more expensive than a fixed power furnace as you cannot just throttle your gas line to get less heat: that will cause condensate in the heat exchange and quick end of the furnace.
any plans for an engineering blog? sounds like you and the team would have some interesting additions to the post!
I’m an Apple fan and let me roll my eyes. This is nonsense.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume Apple’s latest laptops have thoroughly wiped the floor against PCs.

If that’s the case, Apple’s computers are in a completely different class. You now have ARM machines that run macOS and x86 machines that run any other operating system.

Thus, if you’re looking for an x86 machine, you’re not buying an Apple product.

This isn’t some inconvenient truth. If you include macs in a PC review… there isn’t any point. You’d be comparing apples with oranges.

Yes. I wrote this entire comment to make that joke. :)
Why am I getting CORBA PTSD reading this?
Most people prefer to buy Wintel not because of religious or philosophical reasons of "closed" vs "open". Most people buy Wintel for the simple fact that most of the world aren't rich western countries, when they need computing devices, they buy the cheaper ones, which are Wintel.

For "computer enthusiasts", all they care about is games. If macOS could play the full Steam catalog, they would all flock to the Mac.
They are not reviews, they are literally ads disguised as reviews

They probably have signed some juicy sponsorships with the Intel PCs and none from Apple

Their links says it all

To me personally, it's clear that Apple made every Intel/AMD laptop companies out of business, they are stuck since 2 decades ago

Apple with ARM and specialy their care with performance/watt and focus on energy efficiency changed the game
I wonder if the non-portable linux openat2 with RESOLVE_BENEATH could help with this problem. The documentation suggests that it should prevent escaping the intended location via ".." components literally or in symlinks.
The only true form of green energy other than geothermal.

fission, solar, wind, waterfall energy all have their own negative environmental impacts
Ask HN: Best experience learning a skill online?
Is there a skill that you learned online (work skill, leisure skill, etc) that you thought was an exceptional experience? What was it?
That lack of bathroom breaks really hurt Amazon's reputation
This is what kills me about Apple right now. I want MacOS on the iPad so badly and I know I'm not the only one. They've kinda painted themselves into a corner as the iPads now run basically the same silicon as the MacBooks with such a stripped down OS. Having the option to run MacOS on the iPad would be incredible, but it would also likely cannibalize their market.
I think there’s a real risk of that. I see friends in the LGBTQ+ community who are extremely sensitive to public health messaging directed at us. Most aren’t, but some are.

On the bright side, I’d say that gay men in major cities who are probably most at risk of contracting monkeypox are increasingly savvy and willing to seek out a vaccine or treatment in situations like this. I know few people in my friend group who aren’t on PreP to prevent HIV, and equally few who didn’t rush to get a monkeypox vaccine as soon as the information on where to get one became available.
The reason for exclusion of Apple products might have something to do with how the Apple Affiliate program ( https://www.apple.com/shop/performance-partners ) functions. Wirecutter doesn't seem to list products without strong affiliate programs. See previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31541669
So CICO, but make sure to eat "clean" and a variety?
Why does Gruber refuse to have a mobile friendly website? It's 2022.
D is garbage collected and requires a runtime.

Object pascal appears to be pascal with classes.

Both of them have exceptions and operator overloading.

Zig is smaller than object pascal or D, and closer to the metal than D, it's arguably simpler than C as it's more regular, has no hidden control flow and has no separate preprocessor.

The unique things it's attempting to do are manual memory management with handrails (not dissimilar to pascal, but maybe with a few more handrails like testing allocator), error handling with better erganomics than go, rust, or unchecked exceptions (but slightly less power), and comptime which afaik is unique and is where it provides much of the power to do things like generics, many kinds of composition, or even implement a borrow checker and lifetimes as user code (with terrible erganomics and poor performance, but it's illustrative of its power).

The thing it stands on for mass appeal is trivial interop with C and the zig compiler is a functional, statically linked C toolchain out of the box and is easier for a beginner to do things like cross compile on than gcc or clang msvcc or similar. Additionally it has the power and simplicity of C with fewer footguns (ie. it attempts to cover some of pascal's strengths, but on the balance I like pascal more as a teaching language). It also shares some of nim's goals like fast compilation and hot code reloading.

The thing I'm personally interested in is the type system and semantics of comptime seem to have all the ingredients required for formal verification with no additions to the language, translations to a prover, or annotations (but it would require extending the compiler's abilities considerably). This is unique if true (but I will lack the skills to find out if it is true for a while yet, and the people closer to it are busy with other things).

Whether it will succeed, or the comptime concept is fatally flawed in some way is as yet unknown, but it does fill out a currently empty niche as a simpler C, it is not trying to be yet another more complex C.

I think its main competitor if it is successful will be go. Go is slightly higher level, arguably marginally simpler and considerably less powerful out of the box (at least last time I looked before the latest generics stuff). The last two are arguably in its favour for being a better C.
Congrats on shipping!

Do you use linear programming / some other optimization algorithm to hit targets, or is it more like a deficit tracker where you tell it what you ate and it tells you that you need 8 more mcg of zink or whatever?
> Yes I am basically saying people object to it. And in a democracy that’s a fairly important detail that you can’t just write off as a “non issue”.

We do this all the time.

People object to living next to the airport. They object to new roads. They object to schools being built, rail lines, bus stops, even hospitals.

Yet, we weigh the pros for society against the cons for specific people. That's why we have a country with any infrastructure. If we simply gave in whenever someone said no, we would all be dead in an empty field.
I'd agree on maybe, but it likely depends on what the Twitter board knew. If the Twitter board knew about it, and thought it had material impact on their company but did not disclose it, it could be considered at least part of the evidence for must saying the board is not being truthful or forthcoming.
I mean, it's been pretty continuous? Dreamweaver to Hugo to Next/SvelteKit/etc. is a pretty straight line.

The inability to have interactive data-based content in static sites is why I went away from them, but the ability to progressively enhance a Next or (especially) SvelteKit site with data-y bits when it makes sense has gotten me in the habit of using them. Kind of a fan.
If the reason it doesn’t make sense to include the (faster, more power efficient) MacBooks in reviews is that windows users would have to see way higher value before they’d even consider switching… then shouldn’t that just be stated in the review? That the purpose of the review is to compare x86 laptops?

If a review is looking at hardware, and MacBooks are out there, shouldn’t they be included for the benefit of people who are actually trying to understand their purchase options?
OK, but that's like saying there's no reason to watch your alcohol intake unless it's on par with a raging alcoholic.
Agreed on the impressive quality and timeliness of the subway trains. Seen homeless in Tokyo (not on the subway or at least it wasn't apparent) and it was a culture shock to see that those roughing it still took their shoes off and left them outside of their sleeping areas, and kept their areas neat/didn't obstruct space outside of what they needed.

My point was private companies/fares won't prevent homeless people from staying off the subways or other unexpected results that are assumed to come with "free". MTA is a perfect example of that.
Yep, I'm a fan of Bootstrap Studio, if for nothing else than the fact that it's not a subscription product.
At slower speeds, enough that depending on what you're doing, it's not usable.

And it's not guaranteed to work anyway. We had some processes which I guess were compiled to use instructions that qemu wasn't emulating, so they would crash with illegal instruction errors.

Another annoyance is that your package repo may not actually publish arm versions of packages you use. This is usually the case for older stuff, e.g. MySQL 5.x was not released for arm and won't compile without backports. So, to fix the performance issues with emulation you may need to build some things yourself. Not a big deal, but also not an out of the box experience.
Google search has been in decline for at least the past decade, and been surpassed easily for at least the past 5 years. Try running a local instance of a meta-search engine like https://github.com/searx/searx - you'll never want to go back.
yes, but at the cost of giving up a lot of that perfomance benefit. Rosetta is acceptable performance usually, not good performance.
Neither of those are Mac applications. One is an Electron pile of ass and the other is a Java pile of ass.

See Xcode or Nova for examples of real Mac IDEs/editors.

But note that my post was not just talking about development tools. I get work done on my Macs, but I also handle finances, play games, study, write documents, and shitpost on HN. All of those things (with the exception of the "play games" part sometimes) I find more pleasant to do in the familiar environment of a Mac.
Exactly. It is rare, not the norm. But Gruber rarely goes outside of Apple circle so he doesn't know any of these. I cant count how many times he got things factually wrong. ( And rarely correct himself )

I mean when certain things on PC were actually better, did Gruber ever mentions it as an inconvenient truth?

Those rare reviews included MacBook when it could run Bootcamp ( Windows ). From a comparative point of view at least that make sense. Buyer aren't looking for Hardware differences, if nerds want to pinpoint that with GB5 they would have known.

And it is not like these site completely ignore Apple products either. They are just done in a separate article.
> How do you know how people are using your services if nobody is scanning tickets any more?

The light tram I use often (https://www.vltrio.com.br/) has a sensor above each door which counts how many passengers get in and out of the vehicle at each stop (the payment is done within the vehicle through NFC card readers near each door; the count from the door sensors allows estimating the amount of fare evasion). So these kinds of sensor do exist, and don't need facial recognition to do their job (this particular one wouldn't be able to do facial recognition even if it wanted to, due to its placement looking straight down).

(The presence of these sensors on that particular tram line isn't well known, so it's a bit hard to find more information; a quick web search found https://www.semanadetecnologia.com.br/25semana/wp-content/up... which has on its page 4 some sample images from these sensors, plus photos of the NFC readers).
Both excel and sheets already do this. connected data in sheets, power query in excel.

so a less mature version of Excel to push a feature that already exists among the behemoths?
Is this ^^^ grey cause it's wrong or cause it silly?
> risk using a machine outside of its warranty period.

For a Mac, I'm pretty comfortable using the machine outside of its warranty period compared to a PC.
Fusion will not produce "almost free" power.
Hopefully “for sale”, not “on sale”
I seem to recall that it was removed, then reluctantly added back, and the then-new CEO said "Don't be evil." was childish.

(which sentiment I'm biased to interpret as "I want to be allowed to be evil, so I'm going to belittle and/or remove anything that gets in my way.".)
I recently switched, from using Gnome for the most of my life, to KDE when I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04. I think the thing that pushed me to the other side was an article shared here on HN about Gnome File Manager and the broken toilet. It's been wonderful for the most part. I hadn't realised how restrictive Gnome's hamburger menus, full screen app launcher..etc., were until I switched.

As fate may have it, I have the version with an wierd Qt bug that doesn't let me install any extension or theme directly from the desktop. I have to download from the web, unzip into specific location..etc., after trying it a couple of times, I have settled on the default Breeze theme. It seems to work fine.
Feel exactly the same. I have an M1 16” MBP from work. At first it felt way too big, now I love it.

My personal machine is an XPS 13” on ubuntu, which is old now, and feels old (slow).

But it’s the touchpad, screen, keyboard and battery that make it so hard to swap between.
The non-pro/max/ultra M1 and M2 chips do not support more than two monitors. Which on a laptop means you get one external monitor.

This makes me reasonably angry, because I use dual 4K displays.
If nuclear fusion were ever developed, I imagine the government would seek to seize its patent protection under the Invention Secrecy Act.
In New York, the Staten Island Ferry is free, but you still pass through turnstiles to enter. I assume that that is how they get usage data even though no one needs to buy tickets.
I would rather use a Linux machine but I have generally been using Windows due to the general lack of support for Linux. There are a variety of things Windows and Apple simply don't support, and the list of things Apple doesn't support is longer.

There are some old games I enjoy playing with friend and they simply don't run on a Mac, for example. So it doesn't matter how fast the Mac is, I can't alt-tab over to the game then alt-tab back to my terminal and do something real quick, I need an entirely separate Apple machine if I want the terminal to be "fast."

Speed is just not that useful to me, I want a general-purpose computer and it's fine if some features perform at 1/5th the speed, the computer is mostly idle anyway and while instant is obviously better versatility is the primary virtue I'm looking for.
Right, so what happens if the concentration is too high in the intestines? What is the absorption rate compared to the concentration in coke zero?

Would it take slamming 6 coke zeros in a row on an empty stomach to hit concentrations that would be bad for the previously mentioned species?
No, it is a direct consequence of their recent immigration policy. How else do you explain that the Muslim population in France started growing [1] only after their colonial empire had almost vanished [2]?

This is a logic only ever applied to European empires, and to believe it, one must be entirely ignorant of the existence of other empires. Imperial Japan, the Mongolian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Muslim conquests in general (What is today called 'Europe' is mainly defined by what Muslims failed to conquer, or did conquer but subsequently lost, such as the entirety of Spain) managed to spread and take territory without their homelands turning multicultural. For example, Byzantium (now called Istanbul) used to be almost entirely Christian. And the colonization of much of Eastern Europe by the Ottomans was not accompanied by any growth of Christianity or East European populations in Turkey. Quite the opposite - it was the Muslim population in Eastern Europe that grew.

[1] The share of Arabic first names increased from 1% to 18% since the 1960s - https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/la-part-des-prenoms...

[2] By the 1960s, says Robert Aldrich, the last "vestiges of empire held little interest for the French. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire
> Better yet, why didn't Apple just let the iPad replace the Air if "all they need" is web browsing and office clients?

Well, they are. Remember apple's "what's a computer?" ads last year? And the higher end ipads cost more than the lowest priced macs.

They make different products for different use cases. Personally I do development on an macbook air, which is already so light I sometimes have to check my bag to make sure I haven't forgotten it.
Bullshit.

See https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856
I use the financial wellness and planning software that I built: https://www.wallet1000.com

Nothing beats the flexibility of a spreadsheet and I have nothing it respect for people who use one for budgeting. I’m general they seem to be more on top of their finances than anyone I come across.
A sly dig from literally a throwaway account! I'm mortality wounded, cut to the quick!

You're twice wrong - SSRIs treat depression, not insecurity. And dude you don't need to take SSRIs to understand if they work. You can see the effects on friends, relatives,coworkers or even those so habitually coarse as to use throwaway IDs.
I see this sort of complaint like RedLetterMedia making fun of Nerd podcasts [1] by satirizing how they are given gift bags, white glove early screenings, and emails with (marketing) executives but if you look at YouTube or most media there’s plenty of critique of superhero/‘capeshit’ movies.

We’re not all being forced to watch cable tv and read the same two local newspapers anymore.

Some people like lowest common denominator McDonalds-type corporate content. I don’t see that changing in the future (ie, some future where these people are better informed).

But maybe I’m just cynical.

[1] https://youtu.be/UCIYCaXNe88
Maybe a bit unorthodox, but I've been using SquashFS with xz for compression for long-term archival (I generally prefer zstd, but for long-term archival I don't mind waiting longer for better compression with xz).

SquashFS files have file-based deduplication, fast random access, and mountability, all of which are lacking from .tar.* archives without resorting to other indexing tools. And they're mountable on any Linux without installing anything.

Only downside is they're readonly (or more accurately append-only), but for my uses, that's totally fine.
This was explained well by early reviewers: the benchmarks are too different to compare at this point and a bit immature for Apples new architecture.

Some of the benchmarks only ran in Intel mode which puts Apple at an unfair disadvantage and might bias the results. Other benchmarks weren't designed for machines like the M1 Max and leave it well below 100% utilization even when natively compiled. A completely new cross platform benchmark is needed to do a proper comparison.

There are still some benchmarks on Ars comparing both architectures when applicable e.g when Intel launched the new CPUs and claimed they were faster than the M1 Ars ran the comparison to test that claim.
You gonna make it for him?