skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think netbooks will be back. When you look at something like the Raspberry Pi 4, it's way more powerful than the old Eee 701 was and the Pi is a very small form factor. If a manufacturer thinks there is a market for it, they could encapsulate something like that in a keyboard and screen and give it Linux as an open OS. So why won't this happen you ask?

Roughly speaking, that is exactly how netbooks started and then they very quickly switched to Windows.

I don't know if it was consumer pressure or pressure from MS that caused this, but I do think it was Microsoft that pressured producers to switch.
+100

The fact that everyone I talk to agrees that this format sucks and then turns around and ask us to use yet another formatting tool (jupytext, nvcovert blah blah) is equally vexing.

Rmarkdown (+rstudio) has shown that one can have the cake and eat it too. Ironically, I prefer rstudio for doing exploratory coding with python. Hopefully their recent pivot to more-than-byond-R will save us from this .ipynb mess.
And in one of those three it resulted in an unprecedented growth and quality of life increase. Also North Korea is a monarchy, it’s only a “cultural communism”.
Surely you mean OAuth2? I really hope you mean OAuth2.
> All to run a deeply-annoying version of Windows

That’s only the later models based on 7 starter edition. My 1000H simply ran XP (maybe Home Edition, then replaced with Pro, but for most people that wouldn’t be a big difference).

As with most people here, it wasn’t a beefy machine, but in my university years I did _everything_ on it, including running virtual machines in VirtualPC and VMware Workstation and turning it into a Snow Leopard Hackintosh.
I had an interview with LINE that I really enjoyed. I prefer take home assignments, but their homework wasn't to code, it was an intentionally bad project. You could fix the problems and they would review your code or you could just state your findings.

I feel like it was the best of both styles of interviewing. People who hate in interviewing whiteboarding can show their skills on their own time, but if you're optimizing for packing in as many interviews in as possible you haven't written any unnecessary code.
When transparency is desirable, there's APNG, which is fairly widely supported but almost entirely unused.

https://caniuse.com/apng
> doesn't consume python3 type hints

Mypyc ships with mypy and does this. Mypy itself and Black are compiled with it.

https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
> Did anyone actually buy a netbook? The only people I ever met who had netbooks were other tech writers; at one memorable trade show my colleague Adi Robertson showed up with both a gigantic gaming laptop and a tiny netbook, two laptops both perfectly ill-suited for the tasks at hand.

The only people I knew who had them, bought them used. I don't think I know anyone who bought one new.
New OS for Commodore 64 Adds Modern Features
What does it mean for a browser to render a gif at 50Hz when almost all monitors have a 60Hz refresh rate?
This problem will only grow with increasing capitalism and climate change. The only way to turn it around is to come together and push for policys and technology that lowers the costs for food and housing. The rich can get their profits elsewhere than on our basic human needs.
We are democratic. I’m advocating for letting capital invest in politicians and advertise their positions freely. $20 donations from a widespread group of people can also make their opinions heard effectively.

If you seized all of Bill Gates’ wealth it would fund the USA for 3 months. Do you think making Gates a pauper to fund our profligate politicians is more effective than letting Gates keep his wealth and invest as he sees fit?

I would argue Bill Gates is 10000x a better allocator of resources than the government. So maybe let him keep his wealth considering the government prints his net worth every month.
Nationwide Veterinarian Shortage Has Bay Area Pet Owners Scrambling
It is ~literally~ the opposite. This is corporate welfare.

> "Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare
this is the premise of ascension. it was cancelled by netflix after 1 season
Is this something to be proud of at the peak of "the everything bubble"?
With observable notebooks you can install Sentry and run regular health checks. I recommend this as a step in productionization and made a notebook with embedded video on the topic https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/productionization?co...
Depends if the browser is based on Chrome, thus an extension of ChromeOS, or not.

https://web.dev/learn/pwa/windows

https://web.dev/app-like-pwas/

https://whatwebcando.today/
> the whole thing about meat having an unacceptable carbon footprint pisses me off to no end

What pisses me off is people complaining about my local, free-range meat consumption while chomping on fruit and grain grown in more temperate countries and flown here.

EDIT: But I have to admit, as a meat eater, I support the research into bugs for food. Because animal protein is unrivalled compared to vegetable protein. Although squeamish, I'd rather eat cricket flour than trying to make a vegan diet work.
Tiktok here does not force you to login for watching the videos (unless you want to like / comment / subscribe etc.. ). And also allows downloading the videos right from the app (if the creator has enabled download for the video), so I download the ones that are to be bookmarked.

This is in stark contrast to what the FB and Insta like companies do.

Since I don't login, I use multiple devices to access tiktok. And I noticed that the stream content is different on my phone (mostly used while traveling / outside home and contain news and semi serious random stuff), tab (mainly used in the bed and contain light funny contents) and computer (serious stuff - arts, tech etc..).

BTW - I am only a tiktok consumer and not creator.
My blunt review of Godot after using it for about 3 weeks, it's the community's Unity.

But it's just not there yet, things which take seconds in Unity take minutes in Godot. Or are just impossible.

It's not done yet, it's going to probably be done in either late 2023 or 2024. Godot 4 needs to come out, and they need to add mono. I've never been more frustrated with a programming language before I found Godot script, just why.

Why not use Python, why, why not use? I don't know, haxe.

Even Godot's creator tried to calm everybody down, you're comparing what's basically a souped-up hobbyist project by maybe two or 300 volunteers to professional products by multi-billion dollar companies of tens of thousands of people.

All that said, I am fighting through Godot right now and I'm having the most fun with game development I've had in years. I try to armory as well, which is not nearly as advanced as Godot, but has the most welcoming community I've ever seen.

I Feel like, back when I first learned a program when I work with Godot. With mono, which is on 3.5 which is very nice.

Too long. Read, if you want to make a commercial product, you're still stuck using Unity or Unreal,

However, if you want to just make games for the sake of making games.

Godot.
I used to have my phone unlocked before it was even out of my pocket. FaceID at its fastest (I have a 13 Pro) feels slow.

I haven't had a TouchID phone since 2018 and I still miss it. It never made me wait.
SaaS tools for Tech Founders at –$1.2k/month
$SPX 2000 and 2008 declines compared to, per Bloomberg
Well, it's not really a decision of the modern web… it's a decision of the primordial one which has stuck around.

Did you know pretty much all modern browsers support <marquee>?
There is no real cross platform, either the apps are native and take advantage of all the benefits or they are cross-platform and only represent what is possible on all systems, usually with poor performance and more space consumption.

For years I've been hearing about better frameworks and better tools for web development, but then when I open a website on the go, there are very often issues with rendering ot performance not to mention that a simple website consumes a large portion of my data bandwidth.
This also happens with native apps but more often with web apps.
Could you please elaborate, What is the state of using postgresql extensions and PL UDF in EdgeDB?
Is it on the roadmap?
I'll add that!
Britain will soon have a glut of cheap power,world-leading batteries to store it
https://archive.ph/bDpml
It's easy to blame the user for what the algorithm selects, but unless you go search for eg "math", it's difficult for the algorithm to decide you want to view any of the content that's harder to digest than the trivial dance videos. Given the app's roots, it's not surprising it see's dances as the primary content to start surfacing to new accounts to start engagement.
And also that 169g constitutes a "lightweight design".

That same iPhone 5 clocked in at just 112g. This phone is a full 50% heavier.
Details are scarce so I'm speculating, but it's likely configurable so you can set it to unlock only if actually pressed/clicked rather than just touched, which should solve the problem.

While the phone is on, the power/fingerprint button "also acts as an extra input, allowing you to pull down the notification shade by swiping across the button – or set it to refresh a page, scroll to the top, or control media playback if you prefer." [1]

[1] -
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techadvisor.com/article/805...
> [...] ask us to use yet another formatting tool (jupytext [...]

Heh. Notice that jupytext is not merely a file format converter. It is a plugin to jupyter that allows it to treat python and markdown files as notebooks. This works both for input and output, with transparent and idempotent round-trips. Once you have this plugin you don't see ipynb files ever again (unless for some bizarre reason you specifically save your notebooks into this format).
Without reading the article, likely not as software engineering is business activity and most software isn't high quality.
China tried it and failed in several cases, but succeeded in a couple of cities.
The real question is why it takes 85,000 employees to make Facebook do so little.
Would you say the same I’d it was Chinese government instead of American?
Regarding 1., Forms, WPF, Qt, VCL, FireMonkey,.....

Being doing desktop development since 1990 and Webdev since 1998.

If anything I guess it is the failure of the Year of Desktop Linux, that made many startups adopt Electron, because that is the only way for them to target the Linux "desktop" with low effort.
I never really understood this. Sure, changing the version in one place would be better and I would do that if it was possible with the current Python tools. But I have seen insane setups to achieve this, parsing __init__.py with regex from setup.py, using third-party dependencies that do only that, sometimes scripts with hundreds of lines included in the distribution to support it.

Is changing the number 2 places really that big of a deal?

You should have a release checklist anyway, with steps like sending an announcement email or tweet etc. How much time does this really save, at the cost of so much complexity?
Steve Jobs was right about the size of the iPhone.
In both cases article means something like "an atom of content". In legalese each statement is a separate article, in other context an entire book can be an article.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/article
Doesn't mean it's not true. There's an argument that given the world's population today we should be churning out geniuses (of the caliber of Newton or Einstein or Beethoven etc,.) all the time now, but the fact we're not suggests there's something about the social environment we grow up in that strongly discourages the level of sustained commitment to a particular specialty neccessary for genius to develop. Having so many easily accessible forms of distraction on hand may well be part of the problem.
Will buy this purely for the fact that it has the 3.5mm jack and a separate finger print sensor. Sensor placement on the side is perfect, I've long been searching for a successor for my trusty S10e
Small in this context is not relative. What people generally mean is comfortable to use in one hand. Imo the 5.5 to 6.5 is pretty much the dead zone. You either get a phone small enough to use in one hand or get a phone that is as big as possible while still fitting reasonably in your pocket.
> Use custom elements.

That don't work without Javascript and that have multiple unsolved issues ranging from accessibility to not playing nice with SVGs.

No. Use divs and spans.
I'm on the same boat. I am considering getting the 13 mini though since this seems like the last of this form factor for a while.
> This article may be affected by a current event

It is affected by the current event which according to the symbolic manipulators isn't even happening.
If you have a structure like this:

<div class=article-section>
<div>Hammer</div>
<div>
Buy this and everything will start to look like a nail
</div>
</div>
<div class=price>123.45</div>
</div>

How would you use XPath, and how would it be more rubust than '.price'?
Now I'm feeling nostalgic. My main laptop in high school was a tiny Eee netbook (don't remember the model) running CrunchBang. I ended up using it as a headless server for a makeshift home lab during my freshman year in college.
The methane argument is idiotic.

The methane a cow farts is not ex novo, but was part (albeit transformed) of the ecosystem already. It's like complaining about cows wasting water. And if we were not eating meat, these cows would still eat grass and fart methane.

Methane is bad when it's added to the natural ecosystem, like extracting petroleum from a hole underground and burning it.
I took an intro course at uni in digital circuit design, which was part of the core CS courses. We used logism for the pre-labs, and then implemented the circuits on bread-boards

It ended up being one of my favourite courses of all my undergrad courses
This is actually a really smart idea... and it's how I gauge how good a developer is on my own team anyways...

A junior/intern can barely understand the code, has little to no knowledge of the complexities of the code-base, and can barely produce a function that will not have an unintended side-effect elsewhere...

A mid-level developer or one with a cursory understanding of the code-base/domain will grasp the general concepts and have some idea of what to fix.

The senior level developer barely needs to read the code anymore, but they can ingest the code-base quickly and understand and explain the whole code-base to e.g. a junior/mid-level effectively. They are likely to immediately know the fix, and how it will likely effect multiple downstream projects.

OFC skill can push a developer between these categories - a low-skilled senior may be closer to an upper-range mid-level developer, and a highly skilled junior may be closer to a mid-level developer, but this is how experience seems to tend to affect a developer's efficacy in my experience.
In my experience, FB and others moved away from being about your friends to become content sharing machines long time ago. It’s like reddit but without sub separation + influencer glamour.

Tiktok on the other hand came from purely creative angle. It’s not about your friends, it’s about using creative tools to express something. That’s why TikTok dominated the original new content market. TikTok’s editing tools are phenomenal and people are using them so creatively.

IMHO, the traditional social media giants optimized for profit only, destroyed any potential competitors and up until TikTok we have been left to terrible state of the social media.

If you recall, FB and others were involved in political manipulations and accused of spreading extremism.

It might seem like long time ago but American-made social media was riddled with conspiracy theorist and white supremacists and the tech giants were blamed for spreading that in the name of engagement. At some point the place has become so horrible that they started blocking prominent accounts, including the American President.
"almost five times larger than France and Sweden" - the UK population is almost 7 times that of Sweden, so that's quite flattering. But what are the reasons for France's relatively small tech industry?
IIRC <article> should essentially be what you would keep in reader mode.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. It will be installed in the virtual environment just the same. There is no mechanism for it to "only be visible inside other packages configured with poetry".
Here's a typical news report which appears approximately yearly: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/10/20...

To wit,

> F-22 Raptors from the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, intercepted a group of Russian aircraft in international airspace near Alaska Monday night.

> In a series of tweets early Tuesday morning, NORAD said the Raptors intercepted a pair of Russian Tu-95 “Bear” bombers escorted by Su-35 fighters. NORAD said it also identified a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft supporting the other Russian planes that “loitered” in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone and came within 30 nautical miles of Alaska’s shore.

> NORAD said that all Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and at no time entered U.S. or Canadian airspace.

Another example, from 2015: https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/politics/russian-bombers-u-s-...

> The U.S. military performed two intercepts of Russians aircraft, though they never entered U.S. airspace, according to a U.S. military official.

> In Alaska, F-22s took off to identify and track two TU-95 Bear bombers near the Southern coast. The two bombers were followed until they turned around.

> [...]

> Similarly off the coast of California, F-15s tracked two other TU-95s that had been detected near the coast of San Francisco. The incident in California was a rarity, because Russian forces don’t generally travel that far South. However, this was reminiscent of a similar flight Russia performed off the West coast on July 4 three years prior.

If anything, their frequency is less than yearly, at least off the U.S. coast, especially before 2015 (and within the range of internet memory). They seem far more common (and aggressive) in Europe, which I expected. And I can't find one example where the Russian aircraft breached U.S. territorial airspace. Sincere question: can you provide examples?

EDIT: Here's a 2008 story addressing Sarah Palin's claims about "incursions": https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-palins-inter...

> The air-defense identification zone, almost completely over water, extends 12 miles past the perimeter of the United States. Most nations have similar areas.

> However, no Russian military planes have been flying into that zone, said Maj. Allen Herritage, a spokesman for the Alaska region of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage.

> “To be very clear, there has not been any incursion in U.S. airspace in recent years,” Herritage said.

> What Palin might have been referring to was a buffer zone of airspace that extends beyond the 12-mile strip. Although not recognized internationally as the United States’ to protect, the military watches it.

> That zone is where there has been increased Russian bomber exercises, about 20 in the past two years. When Russian bombers enter that expanded area, sometimes called the outer air-defense identification zone by the military, U.S. or Canadian fighter jets are dispatched to check them, Herritage said.
Possibly naive question, but why does accrued PTO count as money owed? You were going to have to pay salary if the person worked. If they leave/are exited, you were going to pay them notice which presumably is more than the amount of PTO they would have accrued.
GANWarping: Rewriting Geometric Rules of a GAN
Thanks for the tip on a holy grail cable. I have a few just like that but am always annoyed at their max 60W PD and USB 2.0 speeds. Still, the adapters are configured the same and it's totally worth it to be able to always connect anything to anything.
Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging
That phone came out a year ago, it hasn’t even had time to prove it’s supported. Check back with us in 5 years.
I have a similar outlook, in that I'll upgrade when forced. Even now I sometimes encounter apps that won't run on the phone, but they're yet to be so essential to warrant an upgrade.
WebAuthn security keys.
Less access to capital, engineers still considered glorified blue-collars.
That's true, but it doesn't mean C++ is harder to learn. Rust has a broader and more novel conceptual surface area than C++. This is what influences difficulty, not memory safety guarantees.
>- are instantly usable just by following a link

Depends on the size of the web app and by data bandwith

>- people can share with others, without needing to install anything, by just sending a link

true, as long as the web page still exists.

>- work equally well on all major mobile, desktop and tablet platforms

I wish, most of the time web apps are either optimized for mobile phone, tablet or desktop not all three of them.

>- don't require any sort of app store or gatekeeper to distribute or use

The app can therefore change without your knowledge and execute malicious code the next time it is called.

https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...

Not to mention that the web app is gone when the site no longer exists.
> No one seems to know how to get interviews right.

Plenty of people do, but good interview processes are highly context-dependent and not trivially transferable.

And most companies just cargo-cult something associated with a name brand, then tweak it to something they're personally comfortable conducting.

I'll quote myself from an old comment:

> Every time one of these interviewing posts bubbles up I skim it to see if the author mentions things like: company size, team composition, the nature of the work the team is doing, the nature of the industry the company exists in, the way hiring decisions are made, the desired properties of their hiring process, their offer rate, acceptance rate, turnover rate, the amount of time positions tend to stay open for, or really just anything that would offer some context on what, specifically, their interview process is optimized for or achieving.

> Nine times out of ten that stuff is absent and the post is just a bunch of opinion and conjecture.

This post is more of the same.
FTC Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta
I am using a phone I bought almost 4 years ago for exactly 400 USD (thanks, Gmail, for great search feature). I am looking for a reason to buy a new one, but cannot imagine anything except for slightly degraded battery. I am well off financially, but just can't imagine a reason to buy a phone for $1000, not to mention rumored $1200 for iPhone 14 (yes, I am aware of USD inflation for last 4 years).

Ah, and it is a flagship Xiaomi, with great AMOLED display, enough RAM and storage and best (for the time) Snapdragon SoC.
You can mostly just put wheels and source dists on any HTTP server with directory listing enabled and have it work (with --extra-index-url). Use a subdirectory per package.

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/hosting-your-o...
It’s a huge pain in the ass. Usually trips up the android safteynet drm and doesn’t give kernel updates because no one has access to the proprietary driver blobs which no longer work with new kernels.

You can often get android api updates like this but not any real security updates.
ROG phones are quite a bit faster than iPhones, not only in gaming but other software tasks as well [0], at least on the Android side

[0] https://youtu.be/uWzwovY9u-E