skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically the Silvio Gesell argument. People don't hoard excessive amounts of potatoes, etc so in a barter economy there wouldn't be an absurd level of wealth inequality as there is a limit to how much wealth a single individual can store by themselves.

Meanwhile money doesn't spoil, takes up almost no space even if you hold it as cash, it is also risk free, it can be traded and turned into almost anything. There is no downside to having money, there is no upside to not having money, not having money is a terrible thing actually. So anytime you earn money, you just keep it until you die and then you give it to your children.

The fact that money is actually meant to be a medium of exchange, not a status symbol was completely forgotten.
Letting it go down to 20% before charging it back up means the battery has to cycle, and as I understand, that's what "ages" it. And managing that is on you, it's not Apple's fault that you won't (or can't) plug it in.

What can be Apple's fault is the battery going to 10% after using it for 3h, but I don't think that's the point here.
A very sweeping statement generalising a very broad set of people.

Have you ever helped a close loved one during their battle with depression? If you have some experience with this you'll know that a lot of your sweeping generalisation is easily falsifiable.
Selective quality. There were most-expensive-on-the-market-yet-worst-quality fraying cables that my 1$ usb cables from aliexpress could run circles around long after those were discarded (or not, my mother-in-law still carries one around, I guess to remind everyone how crappy engineering looks like). Bending phones (was it 6?). Also some nefarious moves like slowing down older phones.

Every manufacturer has these blops. Yet very few (more like none) have such fanatical crowd of followers who uncritically accept everything and keep peddling the same 'apple is quality, above others, better than google on privacy' and similar wishful thinking/lies. They just have better PR department is all I see, the rest is just another HW/SW company who charge premium.

Its nothing new, other businesses figured this long ago. You can have a normal decent handbag, or have louis vuitton / hermes one. It will cost you 10x (or 100x) more. Its often hand-made quality. Many women love them. Most guys are looking on this in same way we would look on... mentally underdeveloped. Yet the market exists and its booming. And nobody is arguing Hermes doesn't bring higher quality than regular brand.

Coming back to your claims, apple rarely truly innovates these days and technologically its behind most manufacturers (low res cameras producing pleasing but over-processed pics that have colors far from reality, battery charging on level of basic 2016 phones, screen is OK but definitely not top of the market, bluetooth implementation is beyond pathetic for such a manufacturer, literally everybody on the market has it better). They take over others ideas that work and improve them. Which is fine but not the stellar behavior I would expect from 3TN company having 1 centerpiece product.
But, but, but ... how is this possible?

How does this keep happening when blockchain is the bestest, most wonderful, most secure thing ever in the history of technology.

/sarcasm
I agree with everything you say but want to add a caveat to the "long descriptive names". I find that there must be a balance where names are clear and unique enough while not tiring the eyes too much by making them read long boring repetitive prefixes all the time. There is a fine art to creating words and also sentences (statements).

By now if a "module prefix" is bigger than say 4-5 characters, I get unhappy and know I need to improve, to find a short mnemnonic. Same goes for local variables names, which I try keep at 1-5, rarely they get 10+ characters long. There is always this tension between names being "self-documenting" and "just long enough to remind of the purpose that was explained in a not too distant context". Variables that are frequently used should be shorter. Variables that have a clear intuitive use (like "x" or "i" which most often have very clear meaning with only little context added) should be shorter. Module names should _always_ be very short because (I assume) there are only few modules, and it's better to remember the purposes of a few modules together with their abbreviated names, than to have to read a long repetitive module name each other line. Function name suffixes (without the module prefix) should often be long because there are many different functions and not all of them can be cached with their meanings in the programmer brain - so I allow function names to be a little self-documenting typically.

I agree that the names in POSIX and C are too short and cryptic but think they made more sense in the context of Unixes of the 1970s when projects weren't as big as today.

I still try to stay within 80 or 100 columns because line length a readability / eye strain concern as well, but given that I'm in the 8 spaces camp I don't freak out anymore if there is the occasional 140 characters line and I'm to lazy to trim it down. Judicious insertion of linebreaks is most often useless busywork. Then again, some function signatures take too many arguments (glVertexAttribPointer/glBufferData... or the Win32 API come to mind) and inserting linebreaks in calls can improve readability sometimes.
For me the battery was the least of concern - I am used to having my laptop plugged at all times. Any laptop I had wouldn't last more than an hour on battery after few months of use.

The selling point for me was silent operation and performance. For instance, my XPS 15 will wake up fans even after entering the BIOS and just opening a browser tab with a heavier website would make them fans spin like airplane blades.
It's so annoying that I dread everytime I have to work on it.
Yes, I would clean the fans regularly etc.

Working on a Mac M1 is a pure bliss. It feels next level in every aspect and the battery life is outstanding. The fact that I can run the laptop in low power mode and it is still much more performant than my XPS is mindblowing.
What a racist article. This person gets into an environment of serious people who are at Harvard to achieve their goals and is outraged the entire culture of the place doesn’t change to their preference? Perhaps the people that made it there on merit take the opportunity seriously and want to go to bed early to be well rested and want it quiet so they can focus on their studies.

It’s amazing how casual racism is today and justified as “not racist because power structures” coming from a person who went to the most elite university and writes in one of the elite journals.
I just don’t believe how that would be possible considering they both require holding the same corner just one pressing harder.

I just want a way to completely remove it for the majority of us who are not wandering around in pitch black.
I would like a $55 board that turns a RPi into an Arduino. In the sense that: I 'flash' some code to it, then when I plug it in it powers on and just 'works' (per my code), and when I unplug it it does not self destruct, and can be plugged in again (and again) without issue.

Bonus points for powering from whatever the display connector is.

(Portenta H7 is getting there coming from the Arduino end, but still woeful cpu capacity, and the one I got had display issues)
See https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... and the "cividis" colour palette for one approach to colour blindness friendly colour scheme.
The DevOps handbook is great and explains both the why and includes plenty of practical case studies.
"He was so set up that he concluded to make a speech -- of course a humorous speech. I think I never heard so many old played-out jokes strung together in my life. He was worse than the minstrels, worse than the clown in the circus. It seemed peculiarly sad to sit here, thirteen hundred years before I was born, and listen again to poor, flat, worm-eaten jokes that had given me the dry gripes when I was a boy thirteen hundred years afterwards. It about convinced me that there isn't any such thing as a new joke possible. Everybody laughed at these antiquities -- but then they always do; I had noticed that, centuries later."

Sir Dinadan The Humorist - from A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain

https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/A_Connecticut_Yan...
Detroit Industry Murals
> draw your own conclusions.

Sounds like the QAnon mantra "do your own research".
Except that projects are namespaced under their owner, so you'd need to hijack the owner's account. They don't appear to have been proposing deleting users (or groups), just projects.

Other than that, you can fork whatever you want today...
Curious, why do you think all those great guests come to his podcasts? Wouldn't they politely decline if they thought he's not a very smart guy and a terrible host? I really think John Carmack, Mark Zuckerberg or Kevin Systrom don't need the publicity via his podcast, so what other reason would they heave?
Honestly I don't get the hate. I would love this form factor. I used a Surface Pro for years and loved it. This looks to be superiour in every way.
I'm not sure you can really avoid any sort of gentrification, even if the same people would stay and no one moved away. Guess it's more about the speed and the actual breadth of the income band, or it's the vanishing middle class, when before your kids would maybe move up one notch or two if they got a good job, now it's either "the amount of money feels rich, but still can't buy a house" or continued descent into low income...
You might decide to go to "cash in the mattress" if you realized how much of our modern banking system runs on excel.

Except for the back-end, which is COBOL.
The innovations in this area are incremental so you won't get the best out of it now. Investment into bending oled already went into smartphones so migrating it to laptops doest require signifiant capital. I would take this over a new set of "emoji innovation" and new OS skin/theme anytime.

I must confess that I like bending/folding screens and "rolling screens" even more (i.e. for TVs). I would fold my iphone if I could(assuming that the screen would not get worse) and I would love to double the screensize of my macbook air or shink it into an ipad.
yeah, to clarify also textually the "has the effect of" applies to all witnesses, including those that are concurrent. So if r executes after w1 or w2 then r must see that w1 applies before w2, since w1 "has the effect of" applying before w2, whether or not r is concurrent with them.
it's free and open-source.

it has been translated to EN, ES, DE, NL, IT and UA

it's available for AsciiDoc, Markdown, docx, textile, Confluence and numerous other technical formats.

many examples, hints and tips on https://docs.arc42.org
You believe nobody lives a life that the normal emotional reaction would be depression like?
Fun fact. We could fit the entire world population in a mega city the size of Texas.
I've use this book countless times.
This can't be quite true. In Berlin smoking is prohibited in public buildings, public transportation including nearly 100% of all train stations (the exception being designated smoker areas of ~20m² on open-air platforms), shops, bars and inside restaurants. Many places offer open-air seating (they call it Terrasse but it's the sidewalk); there, being outside smoking is not prohibited. There's an exception for small-ish bars which are clearly marked as being smokers' places and for adults only (>18yrs). So I'd say you've got a good chance of not getting smoke blown into your face.

Also, while you're right in that comparatively many people in Berlin are smokers (although that might be a commonality of cities as opposed to the countryside), they're still a minority of <30% [1], so more like 1/3 than 3/4 (it can feel like every second guy in the street though).

[1] https://www.abnr.de/tabakpraevention/daten-fuer-deutschland/...
Thank you, this was a very informative post
It is like solarized in the sense the colors have same luminance and are analogous. But it uses OKLab instead of CIELab.
Legend of the red dragon

http://lord.lordlegacy.com/
That's fine. You're checking the difference between the current state of master and the current state of the feature branch, not the difference between the old state of the feature branch and the current state of the feature branch.
An iPad have no moving mechanical parts, and are in an aluminum body that doesn't flex.
interracial marriage was illegal in many states up until the late 60's -hardly once upon a time- and i might add that republicans are known recently to say they are after interracial marriage as well [1]

[1]
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/braun-supreme-court-inter...
Because the 4:30 thing is so jarring for effect, it's easy to get caught up on the exact time, but what Jocko really pushes is having that purpose that gets you out of bed. It's finding time where you can be alert and focused with zero distractions. For some that's night time, but personally I've never been productive at night. For me, I wake up around 6am every morning and haven't used an alarm in years. I workout, and have a couple hours of mostly uninterrupted time to work on projects, go surf, or just sit and think.

One final note, even Jocko breaks his own rule when he's out late from traveling or doing events. That is the part where freedom comes out of discipline.
“You can sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with us and change the world” Jobs quote comes to mind.
Apple's built up an incredible lead right now (in quality and specs), but as the son of a of a macbook from a few years ago, the idea that Apple sells "quality" is mistaken, with the most obvious example being the butterfly keyboard, which would make your device unusable if you happened to say the wrong combination of words at the wrong time.

But generally Apple has a history of laptops that have design defects, which Apple does not acknowledge either for years after they stop selling the laptop, and/or are forced to by a lawsuit (which will usually complete years after they stop selling the laptop), at which point most people won't even be aware that Apple has instituted a replacement program and/or discarded their brick for parts on eBay.
I feel bad for people who live like ants crammed in small depressing apartments. I’m not in a rural area by any means but I have so much nature and wildlife around me I could never live in a concrete jungle.
What novelty features did Asus do? Apple did touchbar, the thinnest keyboard on earth, a super underpowered 12 inch MacBook, a screen with an iphone build in. And that is only the last few years.
I've been very happy with my Dell XPS 15 - 5 years old and still going strong albeit with reduced battery performance. Great Linux support and a nice screen.

Will probably upgrade in the next year or two primarily because replacing the battery and increasing the ram is pricey enough that I may as well buy a new machine.
Looked like it. PEM studs into plastic and an over-tensioned hinge. What did they think was going to happen? It sure was no X220.
Data Science Platforms
Some ideas of what a platform for data scientists could look like and how data science differs from software engineering.
Uperfect makes 4K ones. AFAIK Asus only goes to 1080p.
> there is no room for disagreement that neither party accepts election results.

Seems to me like you’re very clearly making an equivalence right there.

One party responded within the bounds of the law and exercised their rights, whereas the other broke the law and tried to overthrow democracy, yet you equate these two responses as “not accepting results”. This is very clearly a false equivalence. If these two responses are equivalent in your mind under the umbrella of election denial, it would seem to mean that no American has ever accepted an election, because one side is always sore about the outcome. You’ve effectively rendered the term election denial meaningless (which is the reason false equivalence is a logical fallacy), so what exactly is your point then?
The oil is injected separately from the gas. So only as much oil as is needed for the engine load and speed is injected, which allows varying the oil mix as low as even below 100:1 compared to normal pre-mix concentrations of 40:1 or 50:1. So the amount of oil burned is significantly less on the injected 2-strokes as it’s only injecting what the engine needs for lubricity and nothing more.
Why is it not possible for r to take a dependency on w2 and no dependency on w1?

w2 may hit different nodes than w1 in a sharded database?

Or is the leader-Paxos approach in Accord operate over all nodes in the database regardless of the shards the keys fall into? (I guess that is the only explanation.) But then scalability of these global transactions would be limited, no?

Thank you for your detailed explanations.
I'm from Germany and this is pretty unusual. There are very few pubs where smoking is kind-of tolerated and sometimes a drunk person will light a cigarette in a club, but it's really rare and absolutely a non-issue in my experience.
Thanks,
My question though is, do you personally desire to be in that position?
I am in Europe now using “orange holiday Europe” prepaid SIM card that had zero identification or registration requirements.

I just popped it in when I landed and had a working +33 number and 4G. Free roaming all over Europe.

Recommended.
Hm, I'm suprised too, where I live it doesn't happen. Perhaps Berlin is different.
Yeah, this had been the case for me.

Throw in a feature like epics or roadmaps and some CI time for $5/mo and I would have been on it, but $20/mo is too much for how few of the premium features I'd use. I'd just always assumed this tier didn't exist because the opportunity lost with long tail consumers was weighed up against the possible of business users downgrading to a lower tier. But then they could just go with the jetbrains model, and have the exact same tier have two different prices depending on whether the buyer is an individual or a business, if they're worried about that. Call it Gitlab Premium Personal or something.

That said, the youtube-dl github drama did push me into self hosting my private projects and mirrors of at-risk projects on Gitea, so that window has closed now. Also Gitea is a lot nicer than Gogs was the previous time I compared gitlab against other options. But gitlab is still for now my host for public projects.
Luckily there is a type of seat you can get on a flight for such business travel! Even better, just get the train where appropriate.

I'm pretty sure coaches are a pretty popular form of transport as well.
> Say goodbye to your flow state

I see what you mean here, but am not so sure about that to be honest. We just haven't seen much innovation here IMO. It could specifically optimize for flow, somewhat reminiscent of Github Copilot and the suggestions in phone keyboards.

For example I am wondering how a keyboard could adapt in a spreadsheet application if you focus on a non-empty cell. Depending on what's already there, there might be a predictable set of options on what is likely to be done next. (without limiting free form either).

I don't have good examples, because I simply don't know what could be done. But I am convinced that something that statically mimics a physical keyboard can be improved upon.
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>actual innovation … is not actually encouraged in societies with a confucian view of the workplace.

How does this follow? If the implication is that collectivist societies frown upon excelling relative to one’s peers (which is not true, BTW), then wouldn’t the exact same logic apply to novelty or cuteness?

No, this is the result of corporate bean counters thinking they should maximize short term profit with a splashy product, rather than maximize long term profit with high quality and reliability, which take more time for the market to recognize.
I'd just wish for an arm64 laptop that isn't made by Apple.

Software development is getting more and more relevant on arm, and using native tools is way better than cross-compiling.

OLED is pretty cool though.
I too enjoy the removal of innovation and excellence in the quest for equality comrade
Deep commentary. Appreciated. Accepted and Agreed.
Wait- your argument that a cashless society can work well is that debit cards can be distributed to everyone, and debit cards limit bank risk?

which boils down to: "a cashless society can work well because we can use tech to make society cashless."

this is not a substantive argument.
You do realistically need a kind of name mangling yes, if you want to keep using [a-zA-Z0-9_] as the set of characters in symbol names. But without overloading or other fancy stuff, you could have a super simple name mangling scheme: separate the names by a double underscore "__".
Also a recurring theme in Ubik!

And Second Variety

And Total Recall (We Can Remember It for You Wholesale)

And The Father Thing
Exercise did not help me feel that life was worth living. SSRIs did.
im getting into python this week after lots of years of doing other stuff and i appriciated how little code there was and how it was simple enough to get my head around quickly. thanks for sharing stranger.
The issue is that we've screwed with the water systems in the region so much, that when there is a flood event in areas that have had their natural water flows completely altered, nutrients that have built up in the system that would normally 'trickle-release' slowly are instead dumped en mass into our ocean. Don't forget that for 9 months of the year, the ocean water currents draw waters from the southern coast towards the north... reversing during summer (drought), but when the rainy season hits, and washes the stored nutrients out, the currents pull that artificially nutrient-rich waters directly onto the reef.

Its a mess of epic proportions, but unfortunately the cotton profits are too damned high.
Just checked a short video of Word Flow. Isn't it the same as Gboard or Microsoft Swiftkey?
Who out there has a version of stack checking that doesn't actually check the stack…? If it doesn't check by default, as C doesn't, then it's not "as long as".
I don't disagree but the headline is calling out the $55.
Sure, I have an Innocn PU15-PRE. Just to reiterate that a 15.6” 4K is definitely the way to go. I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down. Even moreso if you’re doing anything graphically intensive - you’ll want to use non-native scaling on a 14” 4K which is expensive for the GPU. The 15.6” panel doesn’t have this problem because the “effective 1080p resolution” divides cleanly into the native 4K panel resolution.

I spent ages working through this.
I've been setting DDG as my default search engine on all browsers for at least 4 or 5 years.

Sometimes I get terrible results and add a !g to my search query to see if le gouglè gives me something better. Almost every time it's just as bad. Usually because of SEO crap.