skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Eee PC 701 was amazing. It was really good for students who needed something small and light that they could take to the library, etc. The alternative back then was a heavy power-hungry full-size laptop. This is before all the stuff we take for granted today like tablets, etc.

The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was the next really good netbook.

After those, Apple introduced the Macbook Air which came in a 11.6" size. Even Linus Torvalds owned one.

Chromebooks have now taken over the small and light segment replacing tablets as well, but they're locked down and all-in on Google compared to the old netbooks which let you run anything, so they're not an ideal replacement.

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? It's a tough call because the competition for netbooks is actually smartphones. A student writing a paper, all they need is just a bluetooth keyboard and something to lean their 6.7" phone or tablet against.
- cares about SW updates
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Yes, hiding extensions is indeed really stupid. That's one of the first things I turn off when installing Windows.

Meanwhile Mac does user-hostile things like hides scrollbars by default (so you don't even know something is scrollable) and also scrolls backwards by default (scroll up to scroll something down, scroll down to scroll something up). Those are a couple of the first settings I fix when I setup a new Mac. To this day I've never figured out how to get the edit keys (home, end, pgup, pgdn, insert, delete) to work properly. Those are all things that Windows does get right by default.

Also Windows has window management built-in by default without needing a 3rd-party app, unlike Mac. For a windowed GUI-based operating system, that's a pretty big deal.
The issue is battery life degradation and 3rd party software aims for newer devices.
Egress (primarily) and also S3 costs are the primary reason we look away from AWS for alternative.
I think you're missing a big one that applies to most people I know:

- Locked into two year contracts where a phone upgrade is "free" every two years, but they are spending $100+ per month for that "free" phone

As a Canadian, I have a $50 plan with 12 gb of data (pretty good deal for here). If I wanted to get a new iPhone 13, I'd have to spend $300 up front (would be offset if i had an old device to trade in), plus an additional $33/month for two years, plus choose a plan that was at least $60 base. So I'd get a "free" phone every two years (as long as I had an old device to trade in every two years, and paid twice as much per month).

I won't do these things, so I have just replaced my $300 all-in phone from 4 years ago with a $400 all-in phone.
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iCloud is very nice if you’re in the Apple ecosystem.
Yep because it is true. Microservices is just the latest "Silver Bullet" that inexperienced developers think will save themselves from doing bad work. The reality is that microservices is inherently more complex than monoliths. So the more you can discourage developers from making that mistake the better.
I knew the answer, but that's because I learned it as a kid. I've never seen bits or bytes mentioned in resources for learning high level languages, nor has the topic ever come up in a professional setting.

For a professional dev in a high level language, this basically is a useless piece of trivia. It doesn't hint at trouble, because my code runs on machines that measure memory in gigabytes or at least hundreds of megabytes. Gatekeeping.
> generally speaking

> its merchant account will have been obtained with the understanding

> if it wants to sell those things, it needs to accept payment through some other means

So it's not part of the general business, but it is the business doing the sale, and such a thing was not part of the merchant account negotiation.

...I don't see a single thing you actually disagree with me over?
> there is a difference between government providing access to services which citizens can choose to avail themselves of, and government legislating reproduction directly.

Yes, and between those two extremes is the more modest approach of the government providing incentives for certain outcomes, while neither mandating nor preventing any particular actions by its citizens.

> the government banning gay marriage in the interest of "producing children,"

I don't know if anyone is suggesting that the government should "ban[] gay marriage", but some people think that the government shouldn't grant extra benefits to same-sex couples who declare themselves married in some ceremony.

As you point out, such a distinction made by a government is a very ineffective way to stimulate the production of children (indirectly through encouraging people into opposite-sex relationships), just as rewarding opposite-sex marriage doesn't guarantee the production of children, but a more rational set of policies (perhaps rewarding couples of any gender combination for cohabiting during the raising of children, whether naturally conceived or adopted) is more complicated to define and balance and integrate into the culture.

In any case, my point is still that governments have a legitimate interest to legislate policies that encourage an increase in the birth rate, even if they haven't found (or aren't even looking for) an optimal way to do that.
It is so realistic too. I know a Prior (similar to an Abbot) who speaks exactly like this at times.
I think that using the word "stupid" instead of "wild" would be more accurate.
I love how the criticisms about this app are the same criticisms against Duolingo, which also has arbitrary choices that it tries to classically condition you with, while providing you no rhyme, reason, or context as to why a rule would be the way it is, something an actual class would do and to the benefit of people actually trying to learn something.
> mean amount of 28.75 ± 139.07 micrograms per bill"

Can I get the one with the negative 110 micrograms in it?
Exactly. "Social engineering" implies he did something to make his happen. He didn't do any social engineering, it's just that nobody cared.
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Even better, Kalman Filter is just a moving average when model is identity and noise is identical.
For a while I did web backend development on my Eee PC, I used it as a hackintosh and modded a minipci 3g module on it. I actually got used to it for a while until I used o normal laptop again and noticed just how incredibly slow those Atom CPUs were.
People who buy the products. Not the entire population.
For my tastes, it's not a matter of the biggest scope or the most obsessively detailed world history.

What I appreciate about Tolkien's world is the sense of wonder I felt when reading LOTR. He explained soo many details of that world but just as crucially he was very artful about what he chose not to explain. Adding to that, Tolkien and the characters themselves seemed to share this sense of wonder. Gandalf, who knew more about the world than even the Elves, never lost his sense of wonder and reverence for things.

GRRM's fantasy world is, well... more realistic, that's for sure. Characters are mostly just trying to be king, or to fuck, or get money, or simply survive. I like those books too. And GRRM has said of course that he was explicitly trying to create something like an anti-LOTR that showed the lives of people who weren't necessarily heroes or even good people.

I like the GRRM novels but I still prefer LOTR's sense of wonder. But, nobody's wrong if they have the opposite opinion. Or if they hate both. :)
Problem-solving: Custom React Hook for outside click events
6 months seems like too much. You're sacrificing long-term market returns that could be invested.
That's completely incorrect. Where did you get that information from?

A regular POSIX shell will simply call the `exec` syscall on the path provided. It may set up some environment variables or parse some arguments, but it will not actually read the file. In fact you can have a file with executable permissions, but not read permissions.

The kernel determines how to execute the file based on its Magic Numbers, which are the first few bytes in certain file formats that will specify what type of file it is. It just so happens that the one for scripts are `#!`.
Mother sauces are "French cuisine 101", but not "cooking 101." A very large number of "regular" American home cooks have never made a Béchamel sauce.
I am just a regular (free-)user in VRChat, and have never seen a "NSFW"-tag or any kind of rating on avatars, so I thought there were no such thing. I wonder how it is used then.
Photo or video? I heard that there are many competitive devices for photo, but iPhone is seems to the best for video.
Huh. Fascinating, honestly.
GC was also MacCready:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCready_Gossamer_Condor>

I also remember when these flights were made. Part of the reason why TFA is having such a strong impression on me.

Also MacCready was the Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8WFmpEmmzOU
Absolutely! And thank you for saying so. (To be clear, the answer to the question posed in the title was never intended to be yes. The answer was intended to be sometimes.)

In one of my other articles where I applied the Kalman filter to a more complex system, a frequency-domain filter would have failed. But in this article I tried to stick to the simplest possible system, so that the math wouldn't get in the way of illustrating the way in which Kalman and Wiener filters relate to each other, since it's an interesting connection that doesn't get much attention.
Great recommendation overall. I love his stuff.

I’m not in the extreme thrift camp but we have no debt aside from mortgage and aren’t into conspicuous consumption. Our van is an 03.
Damn it, Google.
Looks like development was suspended back in 2014. There seems to be a recently maintained fork: https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
Those tools are there to be used or abused... sadly. It goes both ways. Having these frameworks makes it a LOT easier for your average dev or low-skilled dev-designer hybrid (like me) to put together something quite a bit more usable than I would've been able to create a decade ago. It's a huge improvement from, say, WinForms controls with a bunch of human interaction guidelines. Most of the engineers and devs I've met are not good with UX and UI at all, and in that sense Material is a huge upgrade for them.

But yes, its ease of composition also facilitates dark patterns and the gamification of addiction, etc.

I don't know that is really Material's fault, though, or that iOS design guidelines would magically protect the user from user-hostile business decisions. Those are made long before questions of IA or "which UI widget do I use" come into play, popularized by evil advertising companies (yes, Google is one of them) and lootbox vendors and free-to-play-for-like-5-min-and-then-it-costs-a-limb pricing models.

FWIW, I'm not a diehard adherent of Material or anything. At work, I'm currently pushing for our company to NOT use Material for our iOS app, even though it'd be a lot more work, and even though I kinda like Material myself. It just doesn't seem like the right thing to force upon our iOS users.

That said though, for web especially, Material is a lot better than nothing at all, or vanilla Bootstrap for all but the simplest sites. Once you have to start designing custom data tables, autocomplete, chips, cards, etc., Material has put waaaaaaaaay more thought into them than your average team would be able to afford to. For small to medium businesses, it's a godsend... it's not usually a choice (for web) between Material and iOS design, it's just Material or some custom in-house thing that accounts for like 10% of the complexity. There are other web UI frameworks too, but not many are as feature-complete as Material.

If there were a similar framework from Apple, that isn't iOS/mobile-specific, I'd strongly consider that too (is there? did I just miss it?). Or even if you have specific examples of "Material says to do it this way, but Apple's way is better for the user because _____" I'd love to see those and learn.

And for Windows, ehhh... Microsoft gonna Microsoft, and the world will leave them behind. shrug
The amount that won't deforest the earth, fill the air with methane, and overflow rivers with cow shit.
Why should I be responsible for some other parent's kid committing a crime with my property? So the fact a kid commits a crime erases my rights?
I think the author does a pretty good job of describing the use case in the two articles.

If they’ve already decided to use a couple of well placed jumper cables, you’re past the point this is likely to be helpful. It seems the purpose of this is to avoid it getting to that point.

For me this is appealing going through airports and the like. The TSA is unlikely to jump straight to rubber hose analysis but, for a concrete real-world example, they will readily have the DEA intercept you on the way to your terminal if they suspect you’re carrying a financial instrument worth $10K+ on your person. And that’s just the US. As a US citizen traveling to China, there are plenty of use cases I could imagine for needing to move information that are only a problem once an official suspects you have something of value on the device. A concrete example that might resonate with the HN crowd: traveling between nation states with ssh credentials for your company’s infrastructure.

I can see this being useful against nation states if the goal is to avoid initial suspicion. If they’re already interested in you the game may very well already be up.
I think it's the opposite. Now that countries are spending more on their militaries there's more money in the budget for operating costs. The main benefit the Gripen has over the F-35, especially now when F-35s are getting cheaper to buy, is the lower operating cost. If that's not an issue then using the same platform as other NATO countries combined with scoring political points with the US makes it hard for others to compete. These huge military deals are never only about performance and matching the needs of the buyer, they're also political.

Gripen and its predecessors was developed precisely because Sweden was alliance free and needed to not be dependent on security guarantees from the US.
I’m awed by how many permutations of this comment are possible and how few of those permutations could be considered incorrect.
This has been a thought that has been kind of recurring for me the last few weeks.

I think the problem of bad architectural decisions has been understated, possibly since the dawn of computing.

An example of greatness is HTTP and SMTP. I'd argue most cases don't even need HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 -- getting rid of all the tracking/bloatware on the modern internet would deliver more value for the end-customer but that's not the direction we're going in. The industry has boomerang'd back to nearly static sites (I think there was progress made, IMO SSR is a local maximum), so honestly HTTP/1 is often good enough.

An example of sadness might be Bluetooth. Every time I sit down to look at some docs that involve it (mobile, otherwise) I am horrified anew.

Bad standards basically set the entire industry back person-decades.
I have seen it derived that it is equivalent to a matched filter, but I could not repeat said derivation.
What about other jobs, like firefighters?
Chris, I just want you to know that Fallout was the epitome of my entire gaming life, and one of the highlights of my teen years.

I played Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics with my now deceased sister's friends when I was way too young to appreciate half the humor. I cherish these memories.

... and sometimes when I end up in bad parts of various cities, certain dive bars, etc. I think about the "Cafe of Broken Dreams". :)
https://youtu.be/cH_vFJctl9I

Solar loitering for a few hundred bucks.
They obviously mean organisms that have notable numbers of proteins with virtually no sequence identity. The difference is only germane to the conversation if you're looking for something to nitpick. The only point of bringing it up was that they encounter non-trivial numbers of really weird proteins.
Not a single example here is just. In every case someone has committed a crime. Stealing a running car is grand theft auto (assuming the car is worth the minimum). Even if I left it running, the thief alone committed a crime.
> economic conditions dictate that within a few decade, there will be no restaurants in major cities.

No. Restaurants will continue to exist. Sit down in particular. In cases where you are paying for an experience; the economics will get worse, but they will continue to exist.

Fast food restaurants will even continue to exist. But the latter only with substantial automation. This has already happened at the front of the house -- kiosks and apps are the "happy path" ordering interfaces at every McD's in a major city. I'm merely projecting that the most cost-sensitive segment of the food services industry will push that automation into the kitchen, the checkout line, and a lot of the administrative work that happens at branches.
I think that falls squarely under “married to the software”? At least it was part of the spirit of I intended.
I held off taking notes for many years because of this line of thinking.

Now I view taking notes as active learning. Highly recommend the book “how to take smart notes”
TIL about user-select:none;

That's useful, I hate copying code snippets alongside line numbers and other weirdness
I have 15+ years of management experience and I have never ever had a problem managing developers at all skill level. You can't solve management issues with technology. You solve it with people skills. I sincerely hope you are not and have never been a manager. There are already enough arrogant and incompetent managers out there.
I wonder if part of the problem is the always new technologies used. Maybe if the world had stuck with some sort of improved version of C and got really good at it, with all kinds of great tools and techniques, we might be able to deliver code efficiently.
> Blaming someone because their car or gun was stolen sounds a lot like victim blaming to me.

This is punishing one of the victims.
That's amazing, thank you for creating that. Some of my favorite parts of the Fallout series were the little slices of frozen catastrophe hidden off in corners, piles of bones and old clothing and a suitcase full of items that told half a story. I read that book after I had played Fallout and it felt so familiar because of it.
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Why outside the house? Store in a place where the average joe wouldn't think to look for.
This is one of those theories that can't really be disproven (like the many eyeroll-inducing theories about the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction) but it also makes little to no sense and is clearly not what the author intended.

Consider:

Perhaps Tom Bombadil represents Santa Claus? After all, Santa Claus has magical powers that utterly transcend what mortal humans can even comprehend. And yet the remains detached from worldly events, never taking a side in wars, never helping human beings during crises that could clearly benefit from his powers, etc.

The truth is that, characters like Tom (and Santa Claus -- if they are indeed not the same person) are fairly common throughout fiction and mythology.

After all, if you invent a character with absolutely transcendental superpowers, you need to explain why the character has chosen not to use those powers to i.e. cure world hunger, or end war, or whatever.

You can see this in... well, any major world religion. Notice how God never directly intervenes in the New Testament, even though he clearly could? Yeah, it's explained.

Broadly speaking Tom Bombadil is like that.
I think this is a pretty silly argument, considering how many taxes don't apply to poor people at large.
Section and article makes sense as "parts of a book". However, unlike HTML, article is always hierarchy bellow section, it is actually bellow paragraphs. This schema is common in legal texts in many languages, I don't know if this is the case in EUA.

The hgroup elements also seems to be related to this.
Generating random values is live now :)
Google civil asset forfeiture. It is absolutely nuts.
Firmware updates on hardware have a very very low update rate outside of professional datacenters.
@pj_mukh I agree.
That definitely feels like it falls under the spending too much category, but I’ve only once financed a phone (should be mine pretty soon I think!) and hope I never need to again.
It's strange, you rarely hear it mentioned in the same breath as other post-apocalyptic literature like A Boy and His Dog or I Am Legend. I was only made aware of it while reading an article about the making of Fallout.

So, thanks for the indirect recommendation!
> Debug Node.js applications natively using Firefox DevTools

Awesome. Been waiting for this
It’s enough of an inconvenience that I don’t have one. And I have a cushy job!
Can't you use the same lens to focus the propulsion laser?
Thanks, yes. That's the "weeks or months" I was talking about.

I'd be interested in knowing what its flight profile looks like. The Solar Impulse manned solar-powered aircraft that flew around the world (though with stops) performed energy potential banking by climbing over the course of the day, then descending through the night. Altitude was thus a large part of the "battery" storage system, banking energy received during the day.

Article below describes the aircraft, if not the energy management element.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar...
I don’t know what any of those things are, but this idea is both years old and already implemented by several companies (e.g. MS Copilot). Bury your head in the sand based on the signaling of elites all you want. Or you could add the Copilot configuration to your .vimrc and see for yourself…
Thanks, and I broadly agree with what you say. It's only under specific conditions (system dynamics, process covariance, measurement matrices, and measurement covariance are all static) that the Kalman filter converges to the Wiener filter, as Kálmán says in his paper.

I would contest that the reason a frequency filter doesn't work on a gyroscope is not because it's a MIMO system (which frequency domain techniques can generalize to; you just end up with n x m transfer functions) but because the system is not static, so it doesn't satisfy the conditions that would cause the Kalman filter to converge to a fixed-coefficient filter.
USPS will always deliver mail, but you can refuse to accept it. If your mail carrier doesn't follow procedure, then... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...

I agree with your other points. Stop the subsidies. I'm not sure why spam makes me so irrationally angry, but it does.