skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electronics don’t fail reliably though. The vast majority of electronic failures are due to excessive mechanical stress that varies from user to user.

The failures we can predict (like batteries) have gotten more attention, admittedly, but by and large it’s my experience that the actual electronic components don’t fail. The only wear part in most modern devices is the battery.
Agree that documentation could be better, but as someone who has spent reading a lot of it I was still left with a sense of “how are things really glued together here in this nix project?”
That sounds a lot like Factorio, a game. It even has simple logic gates that can be generated by verilog or something like it.
Both? Can she work better in a social setting? Nothing wrong with that.
The CHIPS act, while promoted as an effort against China, is very much about moving the advanced chip fabrication away from Taiwan and onto US soil.

If it is successful Taiwan is left with a hole to fill as its economy is completely dominated by its semiconductor industry.
I’ve heard guix uses scheme, so I’m not sure I understand how it can be friendly (you (see (what (I (mean))))))
Italy is footing the bill (40%), Intel can use its own money to do what it wants. But what it wants is stock buybacks and dividends, so they have no money left for R&D.
Also the first thing on my mind. Reading the article I see that Zeno
Rocha's article is about functional versus non-functional qualities,
whereas Pirsig's philosophy is about static versus dynamic forms of
quality.
If you like that, then can I interest you in some crack, it's amazing compared to sobriety. Whenever I have to engage with people, all I am ever thinking is, "this is rubbish, I have some crack in my pocket, what am I doing here?" How can people be expected to compare with crack? It's ridiculous :)
And, again, journalists writing about crypto should avoid doing that until there is an actual “etf for crypto”.
Could thrust vectoring have saved the day, could eg. a Su-35S recover from a similar situation?
Who really cares - 100 years ago you might as well have moaned about people living through books. We have to live and learn 2nd hand because:

* Learning some things 1st hand has a high chance of being fatal

* We cannot afford to live all possible lives but we do have to be able to understand each other and each other's motives to be able to get along - this means we have to imagine what it's like to be someone else.

The internet is just the latest way to communicate and learn things from/about other people.
Digits of pi are a conceptual illusion.

These digits represent points of precision on the circumference of a circle, nothing more. As precision increases infinitely, so too there are more imaginary numbers to append.

There are a finite product of English literature, no matter how vast.

It would be different to ask “sensible arrangement of English words vs. the digits of pi.” Of which, words describing the digits of pi are as infinite as the digits themselves.

Also, I wish modern information theory would redefine entropy as “the distribution of potential over negative potential.” Which I believe a more concise and sensible definition.
Honestly I’ve done enough scheme to understand that I wouldn’t touch anything related with scheme in a million years. People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

The nix language is pretty nice on the other hand. The only thing I’m missing is a language server protocol thing so I can go to definition
You effectively can by investing in solar funds. I'm planning on moving house so that's what I've done. It's not quite the same but it's pretty close.
Ask HN: Expert Advices for New Learners in Android Kotlin Development?
As an expert or an experienced developer in Android App Development with Koltin, what are your advices for new learners?

Are there best practices and things we should or should not do?
Not at all the same thing, but I was briefly capable of speaking enough Chinese to just barely make it around rural China for two weeks, and I attribute it to a tutor I had who was a musician and taught me to literally sing the tones.

What I observe about most native English speakers who try to learn a tonal language is that they don’t really do the tones, but it isn’t because they aren’t capable. It’s because it feels silly or wrong to sing when you’re supposed to be talking.

I’ve also noticed I have friends with, for example, an Italian accent who can mimic my English pronunciation pretty closely if they want to mock me.

I think many people are pretty good at mimicry, but they probably keep their accent because doing it differently feels like they are being someone else, or they just feel silly or wrong doing it.

So I guess I say, tutors are great. Also maybe just mess around with mimicking speakers you want to sound like and put aside whatever identity you have subconsciously tied to how you currently speak? Especially try not to think about how words are spelled. Just mimic the sounds.
Maybe I’m just projecting my own childhood as a universal case, but for a computer passionate teenager, Turbo Pascal was pretty much the sweet spot between kids tools like Basic (particularly pre qbasic if my memory serves) and C which I admit was still inscrutable to me. I’m trying to teach my middle school kids the fun side of programming and 35 years later I can’t find an IDE as perfectly integrated for debugging as I had in Turbo Pascal 5.

The folks I always had mad respect for were those who could write in assembly on their Commodores, etc… I never had one of those machines but I still bow my head to those who could write anything meaningful in pure assembly as a teenager in the pre internet era when you had to figure out so much more on your own.
Just out of curiosity, how much does such service cost hourly? So I did A quick google search returned group training begins at about $40 an hour per person, and individual training at $100 an hour, with additional fees for materials.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/business/worldbusiness/05...
Oooh, that's nice. It looks like a good design team took Emacs' org-babel and really polished it.
Those cases are eerily similar in how both pilots immediately selected full afterburner before ultimately ejecting (or being ejected). Hultgreen just did not survive the ejection.
You lose on port if you only charge.
The sad part is that Gnome 2 had a whole ecosystem of third party software that integrated with it. Just a few of that got ported over to Mate (usually just s/GNOME/MATE/g) but it never gained the same traction.
Is there an actual tutorial on how to use the nix command? All the official docs for Nix seem to be slightly discouraging it as not ready where they do mention it.

It's one where the community is pretty clear don't use nix-env etc. but the tutorials only explain nix-env, with the only details of the new commands being the CLI reference manual which doesn't cover workflows.
Yesterday was about to install CudaText, but as usually with such software, before jumping to anything started to read about your project and you and accidentally got to that quote mentioned above. I must admit, it got me spooked. I have a lot of respect to people who do contribute to open source so I do to you, but in current situation my concern is actually safety and trust.

For example I don't think I can give you a trust to binary packages, like in this case:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cudatext-gtk2-bin

Even if they are not containing anything malicious at this moment, it can happen at any time later, especially after gaining a trust of significant amount of devs. And even with your best intentions I can clearly see a scenario where it will happen against your will or even without your knowledge. You know - it is different thing to trust you, and different thing to trust your state...

Anyway, hope this whole war madness (or "special operation" as you're allowed to call it) will end soon.
I wonder, if the lack of capital letters is a part of the message.
I think there's a straw-man there: "why build a workplace with rules that prevent work?"

Personally, I'd find a workplace with a library area great. But I wouldn't want or prescribe a workplace that is entirely a library.
Do you want an English accent, or a particular American accent?
Creating Terraform-like configuration languages with HCL and Go
Do you have any examples from that blog? I started reading, and while it is very interesting, there are a lot of articles, and I have trouble finding the ones implied in your comment.
I'm struggling with this currently. My partner spends 3+ hours a day scrolling Instagram (I know, I checked it in her Apple phone metrics).

When we watch movies, it's me watching it and her scrolling. When we're in the car listening to music, it's just me listening to music and her scrolling. I'm starting to struggle initiating conversations because she's simply not paying attention. Whenever we're out, half her time is spent through the lense of her phone so she can take photos for her story.

She refuses to admit its a problem, disregards any argument I put forward about how it's disrupting her life, and when I really sit down with her and tell her how it makes me feels, she attacks me about the time I spend at my laptop (which I track meticulously and know its at most an hour outside of work, so she is simply using it as a defense).

I've dated girls with drug addictions before, and it was easier than this because they at least admitted it was a problem. I feel like I can't even initiate the first step with her. It's crushing, because besides this issue, she's pretty much perfect.
Tclkit 8.6.12
Advice to nix devs: do a nixbyexample website. These are what attract the most people to a language. See

https://o1-labs.github.io/ocamlbyexample/

https://gobyexample.com/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/

Also if it’s not on learnXinYminutes it should be
TypeScript all-in-one: Monorepo with its pains and gains
I need something that works with vscode
Seems the complaint is not actually against e-bikes, but people breaking the law on e-bikes, like going the wrong way in a one-way street ("the e-bike rider was going the wrong way on a one-way street") or riders using sidewalks instead of the actual street ("The idea of normalizing any vehicle zipping along any and all sidewalks"), then goes on to claim "In the grander catalogue of neighborhood dangers, getting hit by an e-bike is far from the deadliest" which is outright ridiculous, do these neighborhoods not have cars, that are way more dangerous?

Instead of putting the blame on e-bikes, blame your local city government for not providing the right infrastructure for bikers in general, because they should not travel on the same "road" as pedestrians.
Isn't the car industry consolidated to 4 or 5 big groups? It's just a Zoom call or a small table in a Davos chalet to have the entire industry making the same decision, no conspiracy required.
There are many makers here in East Asia as well. Hope we can order stuff from framework soooonn
Three updates since those pictures have been taken. The State of Michigan has poured tens of millions into Belle Isle (an island in the Detroit River that's a park) and that includes the aquarium.

Ford bought Michigan Central Depot and is pouring a couple of hundred million restoring it and two nearby buildings. It will be the headquarters for their self driving team and other car related tech. The first floor will be rented to merchants. The old General Motors building was like that. You could eat, buy a suit or see the dentist all without leaving the building. You think Silicon Valley invented that sort of thing?

The David Whitney building has been completely restored and is now a five star hotel. There has been so much demand for hotel apartments that they're converting I think the two top floors.

https://historicdetroit.org/galleries/david-whitney-building...
You can tweak a laptop’s energy settings so that it has comparable battery life whether it’s running windows or Linux. But no, a laptop that has 8h of runtime in windows won’t magically get 20h in Linux.
Stock docker puts entries in your iptables which usually fully bypasses your firewall. try installing docker on stock Ubuntu, run a container with an exposed port, put ifw up blocking all traffic, and the container is still going to be reachable.
Do you have any source? Is this something you heard, or an interpretation of your own? (I’m not being hostile, I’d just like to know.)

For that matter, have you any definite knowledge that YouTube uses encrypted sequential identifiers for its URLs? Looking from the outside, there’s no visible difference between this approach and something based on randomness, save that something random is likely to be longer because that approach is normally paired with statistical collision avoidance rather than checked collision avoidance.

The reason you increase the sparsity of an ID space is because you have discovered a weakness in the generation scheme (which allows faster guessing of valid IDs), faster testing has become possible than you planned for, or occupation has exceeded what you deem to be acceptable probabilities (which could be that occupation has been increasing, or that it was constant but you’ve changed your opinion on acceptable probabilities). If you’re worried about key leaks, merely changing keys gets you only a brief respite for an already-leaked key.

In this instance, they gave one month’s notice of a change, and the underlying ID scheme change had clearly occurred about six months earlier. This suggests to me that they did not know of any immediate threat, but were being cautious in just the way they described, for the second or third reason.

If they did know of a leaked key, I would expect them to state the consequences more forthrightly in the announcement, and have made the change rather more rapidly than they did.
These days everyone spends their in-office time on zoom calls with their coworkers, and no amount of blankets dividing the workspace is able to absorb the constant "You're on mute Bob" that fills the office air.
Super creepy
How much did you pay?
Thanks for the offer, but I live in Slovenia (:
You can try listing it on some flea-market websites, perhaps you may get some money, though it's a question if it's really worth it, but maybe I'd be of good use to someone.
> You missed the part where our brain is much better prepared to deal with visual complexity than textual.

Citation needed.

Text is also a visual representation of language. If you want symbols instead of letters to represent logic you basically end up with hieroglyph like system, a logographic one.
Thanks for bringing this up. I had fixed this on the website version [0] as well as the code, as you mention. I thought I had reported this to NSP, but can't find an email, so I'll let them know so they can add it to the errata.

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/0...
The way I like to think about it is that lots of people or places might be responsible: society, big industry, governments failure to regulate, so on and so forth. Those are interesting academic, or political discussions if we're talking about collective political actions that we might take.

On the other hand, understanding that you are addicted, and why, are the first steps towards individuals feeling empowered to quit. Which, in many, if not almost all, cases - they absolutely are able to do. And it certainly improves their odds if they have a network of supportive friends, family, and the like.

For someone who isn't an addict, taking a non judgemental and understanding approach to get the addict to ask him or herself those questions or set themselves on the path to recovery may be a way to meaningfully help them. But it can only really work if they're already open and receptive to that. And that depends, to a great extent, on what your relationship is with them and how much they trust you.
> These are what attract the most people to a language

You got any hard data to back this up? None of the things I've personally picked up, have been because of the existence of such websites, but instead because of practical reasons, being able to do new things other languages couldn't (as easily).
While not necessarily planned, electronics often fail too soon. Sometimes they just wear out.

Just this weekend my five year old NAS died because of a CPU flaw. AV receivers seem to last about 6 years before something fails (usually the HDMI board seems to fail). Wireless access points get worse after 4 or 5 years of use (I’ve been told the amplifiers wear out). It’s frustrating.
I think JetBrains have something where you can do something like what you’re looking for.
https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
> the ergonomics on a laptop are terrible

Agreed. Honestly if I had a way to comfortably write software on my phone I don't think I'd ever use my laptop ever again. Phones are simply too comfortable.

Unfortunately the vast majority of them are consumer devices: unlike real computers they don't come with the tools used to program them. I can't make a new app on my phone and run it.
> It’s like “Everyone is using Toyota to carry children to schools in underdeveloped countries” so let’s put seatbelts, you know, even if it’s not the intended usage.

WTF? Are you saying Toyota don't normally put seatbelts in their cars? Like... what???
Thanks for [ncdu]. I like it and had not heard of it.

I see no mention of [KDirStat] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ of which, the much more famous, but later, [WinDirStat], is a clone.
It’s available on the iPhone App Store for me!
The problem with Nix is that it doesn't properly encapsulate imperative behavior (read: most existing software).

For example, running pip (python package manager) fails because it tries to change the current installation environment behind Nix's back. Instead, Nix should allow it to run, but monitor any changes it makes in a functional way. This may require running programs inside an emulation environment (catching all the kernel calls that make modifications), or perhaps use a specialized filesystem, which sucks, but you can't have a free lunch here.
Also sometimes accent shows because the speaker isn’t sure at real-time how the sentence is “supposed” to be said, and therefore falls back to the way that feels the most natural. So yeah, listen to more people speak, mimic them, and practice repeatedly so it comes through naturally when you need them.
Configure Arch Linux for Developing for KDE with Kdesrc-Build and Qt Creator
GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Looks like the magsafe patent will expire in 3 years: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en

Also lightning (the connector used in iphones starting in 2012) is different from magsafe (the connector used in macbooks starting in 2006).
Please stop lecturing me with your religion while announcing to other people what you imagine I think from single typos
I just checked the Firefox download page which doesn’t have any FreeBSD specific instructions (although it does for linux)

Glad to hear Firefox has up to date packages in FreeBSD though!
Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto
re: Needs versus wants

I didn't quite get that. Obviously there are many partitions on
"quality", Pirsig's is static versus dynamic, and what Zeno Rocha
seems to be outlining is functional versus non-functional, an ancient
distinction in engineering (SE).

But there's something deeper. The second type, "miryokuteki hinshitsu"
seems more akin to "Je ne sais quoi", the perhaps surprising quality
that is delightful, being neither something you needed or wanted but
something you didn't even know you'd like.

Toward the end of the essay he nails something darker too - the
misappropriation of that expectation that comes in the arrogance of
some designs to presume to know the users' "experience". That is the
sense in which I've sometimes found the concept of UX offensive. No
designer gets to reach into the realm of subjective experience. It's
something that Artists know, but where designers sometimes transgress.
"But it does work with vscode, check the README"

"I need something that does X"

"But it already does X"

"But what about Y?"

On a more serious note, the linked project really does work with Visual Studio Code, do check the README of the linked project and you'll see :)
Syncthing Anywhere with Tailscale
Professional actors rely on "dialogue coaches". Have you ever viewed "The King's Speech"? That seems like a parallel experience.

I haven't deliberately picked up new English accents, but I've taken formal classes in Spanish, making conscious efforts to imitate the phonemes of native speakers.

I would say that consistency will count for a lot in choosing your dialogue coach. Every year I had a new teacher; the first was Mexican, the second was American, and the third was from Barcelona! So, I was faced with deciding which accent(s) to learn and how to distinguish them and how to avoid mixing them all together. So, identify your target culture, and articulate that to your prospective coach so that you're on the same page, and try not to change coaches once you've settled into a relationship.

So you'll soon find out that there is not one "West Coast American accent", although there may be fewer of those than British English has produced. Growing up, I learned how to communicate with Valley Girls, surfers, CEOs, computer geeks, vatos, Crips, Bloods, goths, rivet-heads, Christians, pagans... well, you get the picture!

And before anyone objects and says those aren't accents, "surprising a native speaker" will involve vocabulary, grammar and syntax as much as the phonemes and inflection. So the OP has a broad definition of "accent" in mind.
Counterfactual Quantum Computation is Weird [video]
It depends on what you mean by "West Coast accent". Generally, the stereotypical Surfer Dude/Valley Girl accent is looked down upon in professional circles unless you live in Los Angeles or you're a Kardashian. If by "West Coast", you mean the relatively neutral accents of, say, Silicon Valley employees and CEOs, then you should look for American movies and shows featuring Brits imitating modern-day Americans (Christian Bale, Hugh Laurie, etc.) and compare those performances to the actors' original voices in order to get an idea of how they "translate" their accents. Cartoons are also helpful[1]. A British voice actress by the name of Theresa Gallagher does a nearly flawless "neutral" American accent as the mother of the titular character in The Amazing of Gumball.

An accent coach is certainly a good investment, but it helps to be specific about you're goals. Doing so will save you money in the long run. "Sounding native" depends on time, location, and association as much as it does on enunciation. You may know this already, but the West Coast is a big place. Just as the accents of most Englishman aren't solely split between the * Made in Chelsea* crowd and Sir Humphrey Appleby, there is no monolithic West Coast accent.

[1] Trivia: many cartoons are recorded and animated in and around Burbank
Yes, I think this is the least understood point about addictions. They kind of work. I mean, people do those behaviours because they are getting something out of it.
To Become Wise, Do Less
I never updated my setup, I'd need to manually compile the browser, since AFAIK kiwi browser doesn't ship stable binaries with telemetry disabled. I'll get around to doing it someday, but I found it quite struggling if not impossible to install android SDKs without android studio.

Kiwi source branch is Chromium 77.0 + Kiwi backported fixes, will show 88.0.4324.152 to websites for compatibility reasons (64-bit)