skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a die-hard iPad-for-coding user, but with the advent of the M1 MBAs I couldn't justify it anymore.

The thing that broke me was that if I wanted a remote development env (because at the end of the day you can't do development on an iPad without some remote computer running stuff for you) at the time you needed to a) provision on via safari manually b) have some kind of script or something on the iPad capable of doing that for you c) have a cheap/low-power computer always running to run the scripts. [This is assuming you don't have a remote computer already you can turn on. E.g. "only iPad + on-demand cloud resources"]

I eventually concluded the M1 MBA is a better option because of how heavy an iPad Pro 12" + Magic KB Case is in comparison.

I still *love* my iPad Pro. The screen is almost a good enough reason to use it. Also it had LTE which was very useful.

I still think it's possible to make the iPad do everything I wanted the M1 MBA to do without significantly changing how Apps are developed or restrictions on iPadOS (and apps like ShellFish, WorkingCopy, and Blink Shell are really my go-to examples of how that could have existed all this time), but while possible today it's just much higher friction and cost to use an iPad to do the same thing an entry-level M1 MBA could do.
> History is gone. Also it is likely, that there were times when those Savanne areas were covered with trees.
> There is no shortage of grasslands that are close of becoming desserts with one serious draught, but there is shortage of forests, that hold the moisture and prevent further desertification.

Well said. It makes one wonder how the Midwest Great Plains shelter belt and other regions like it will handle this current dry spell we're in globally.
My wife and I were both homeschooled and are homeschooling our children. Their opportunities are far more diverse than if they were in school most of the day. They don't have digital device addictions and play outside 10x most other kids. They are capable of engaging people across a wide range of ages, not just those within a year or two in age. When playing with similarly aged peers, they are consistently the leaders of play because they have more natural creativity, imagination, and, most importantly, initiative. They can fit into a system when needed, but they can also create systems on the fly because they haven't been trained to be cogs on a wheel.

As an evolutionary developmental biologist, I was trained that the key ingredient to adapting to changing environments is phenotypic diversity (diversity has to precede natural selection). If you think the current system of mass technology, mass corporations, and mass culture are sustainable and desirable, leave your children in a system originally created to meet the needs of the barons of the industrial revolution. They'll fit right in and never notice what they are missing.

Long-term, monocultures are rarely sustainable and generally quite boring. So, if you question the value of our current system (e.g., wealth/power distribution) or think it is unsustainable (e.g., global warming), you might want to raise your children outside of the system. They can always choose to conform later, but it is much harder to reacquire the true creativity that comes from not feeling the internal need to conform.

I was raised outside "the system", but entered the system to get a PhD in evolutionary computational biology and now work for a health related biotech. I got my position because I have a distinctively different approach to problems than most.
Go with SQL until you hit a wall (most likely you won’t).
> Tags are also artistic expression in the context of AO3.

Seems to be similar on Tumblr.
Surprised no one has nailed a use case for semantic tags and their associations. Python and snake doesn’t require hierarchies to differentiate from Python and coding. Why aren’t co-occurrences within and between content samples enough?
Where in the world did you get that number? The average 777 has a fuselage width of 20 ft, 4 in or 6.20 meters. Nearly twice as large. 3.7 meters is obviously wrong if you've ever so much as glanced at one of these planes in real life or even in a photo.
I think it changed recently, but you used to need a separate app like an HTML editor to view rendered HTML files on iOS. It used to be that if you opened an HTML file in Files, it would show it as if it were a text file and you couldn't open it in e.g., Safari.

It must have recently changed because it'll now render the HTML. Although links to other HTML documents don't work, links to inline anchors do, so a single-file HTML document would work.
Eve Online. Both the official API and a lot of the community made stuff for corps (guilds) like TEST, Brave or Goonswarm.
Still no NFC?
> that shouldn't make the public feel any better

The incident was reported to a federal agency. I’m not sure I’d want my medical history publicly aired if I were injured at work.
>3) it's frankly nobody else's business, seeing as it's a private business

It is however a private business taking public money. If a government was pumping millions of dollars into a company that was producing an unsafe work environment resulting in injury and death (not saying that is the case) but I think the public has a right to know.
Their roadmap document is the most enthusiastic thing I’ve read about Itanium in the last decade: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/collaterals/collateral.4aa3-9071.H...
> for example, through an instant rewiring of the brain that doesn't require any practice.

You might have an alien species that can copy the brain state of someone who already knows a task, or one that can gain skills extremely quickly through practice, but I don't think practice is going away. The fact that neural networks have been the only way we've been able to solve a lot of problems, which approximate the way that the human brain learns, is pretty strong evidence of this. You start out with some weights, you measure loss, you adjust weights, and then you try again.

Justice as an emotion might go away or exist in a different form, but the underlying reason why humans have a sense of justice is evolutionary psychology / game theory. Probably any life form which is shaped by evolutionary forces would have some similar instinct. (Certainly not all possible intelligent life forms though, I'd agree.)
In the United States, the charge of treason only has meaning within the context of a declared war (due to it's specific definition within the constitution). Given that wars are no longer declared, I don't foresee even literal traitors being charged with treason until either a law is passed creating a different charge with different criteria, or Congress decides to check the Executive regarding the declaration of war. No reason to believe either are on the horizon; it's entirely possible no one will ever be charged with treason in the United States ever again.
People that buy brand new electric cars or put solar roofs are more often than not well off
But very few apps built to work files/folders.

Image files?.... they obviously want to be mixed in with your photos!

Media files?.... you don't want those!, would you like to subscribe to Apple Music?
Do you have a citation for that? My understanding is he went to boarding school in France at the age of 9 and then directly entered the French military academy. The hero of his youth, Pasquale Paoli, was in exile in England for much of that time and so maybe he wanted to join him until the revolution happened and Napoleon no longer supported Corsican independence.
If China and the United States are in a full-on shooting war, the last thing I'm going to be worried about is what country 5nm chip fabs are based in. It's a complete and utter failure state of civilization, and is one hot-headed decision away from going nuclear.

If chip fabs are at the top list of your worries, your perspective of war is probably overly informed by being on the side that undertakes imperial adventures against people who can't shoot back. Direct war against an actual superpower is horrific.
If you're still using SSH to access your GitHub repos, please consider using HTTPS access tokens instead. The security is much more granular, they're easier to revoke and rotate, easier to generate and use safely, they work over HTTP proxies, you can specify a different user in the URL (https://myuser@github.com/....) allowing for easier use of multiple accounts, and of course, you can use them for the GitHub API too. Security-wise, most people don't use SSH securely and may fall victim to MITM.
First XFCE releases were not free as in freedom, but free, and they were literal CDE copycats made in XForms.

Then XFCE 4.2 happened, they switched to GTK2 and killed XFFM for thunar in some release. XFFM was much better than Thunar.
How am I supposed to read this if it’s behind a paywall?
> Their immunisation rates are low

I'm not sure that is true in general, but it is unfortunately true for the elderly in China - precisely the population they want to protect. They've sort of screwed themselves by not vaxxing the elderly at high rates.
I just gave up and mimicked tags with symlinks and subfolders. ie "foo" is tagged "todo" if there's a symlink to it in "Tags/todo/".

It works surprisingly well, since I can manage it with standard shell scripting.
They changed the UI to get younger people.

Yeah, do they realize people in college like me don't use jet brains because it's not free.
I'm only using vscode bc its FREE.I actually don't care for the default ui.
@cperciva

> The FreeBSD kernel now handles such duplicate environment variables by appending suffixes, so that we end up with virtio_mmio.device, virtio_mmio.device_1, virtio_mmio.device_2, et cetera,

Was there any discussion of a cleaner alternative to this, perhaps extending the existing APIs with the ability to retrieve multiple values for one key (without breaking backwards compatibility, obviously) or concatenating the values with some sort of delimiter (colon, literal new line, ascii RS, or even null)?
Doing anything remotely perceived as treasonous seems dumb. More than likely they are acting closer to spies for the US (against SA) in these positions.
The AT Protocol
To me this difference is to be expected.

When things were device-oriented whoever had the better devices naturally got easy footholds in every country. Since any country that tries to outcompete the world leading products would have needed to invest vast sums of money. And even then 90% of the supply chain would still be in the typical locations.

It simply made sense for everyone to leave the multi-billion dollar investments to a few multinationals, at least for consumer products.

The only real exception being Japan pre-iPhone, when they had the manufacturing diversity to make nearly everything domestically and enough wealthy consumers who also didn't care much for international interoperability. And even then the major Japanese firms were making very slim profits.

Whereas since the entry bar for creating competitive software is so much lower, many countries can afford to nurture genuinely homegrown products, and have a reasonable expectation that they will be competitive.
When the topic is crypto it's valid to bring up relevant crisism.

I'm also advocating for more green energy.

And no just because some people like the advantage of crypto doesn't make crisism invalid. To bring up an extreme example for simplicity: smoker like smoking. Heroin addict likes heroin. Fast car driver likes to drive fast.

And yes to finish this: this is a comment from me which states my viewpoint of it. My perceived morality is exactly what I'm commenting with together with arguments. That's the point of a discussion or comments.
SCNR has this guy never heard of https?
That's not what simultaneous dual-band means.[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=simultaneous+dual+band
Yes, the H-1B is dual intent. Actually people can start the green card process sooner than 6 years. Yes, the H-1B is usually valid up to 6 years but there can be AC21 extensions if you reach certain milestones in the green card process. The wait times for people who have to go in the category of people born in India or China could potentially be many decades.
SetFit: Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts
> Most game dev has to be c/c++

There are certainly a number of high-quality C libraries hanging around (SQLite, libcurl, etc) that might be used, but I don't think anyone's doing serious game dev in C these days. It really is all about C++, and C# for Unity.
>I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically...

Not on Windows, so it doesn't affect me. But I agree with you. One of my major annoyances is having to go preference diving becasue some application which I've just updated has added a new 'feature' [which I don't want] and has enabled it by default --instead of asking me "XXX can now do YYY. Do you want to enable this?"

Strangely enough, browsers seem particularly prone to doing this.
I recently switched to Samsung Galaxy A10 and the experience is jerkier and slower compared to iPhone 6s.

Something's gone wrong.
I think humans prefer to live on autopilot. Life is easier when you are familiar with your surroundings, things are predictable and you have developed habits that work well enough.

When you introduce change, you force others to re-evaluate the new situation and to establish new habits. That requires active thinking, choices. Those take energy, and you feel more drained afterwards.

I believe that we optimize for stability and not change, because we aim to spend as little energy as possible on getting through our day.
I don't know if you know the concept of degrowth

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Degrowth-Giorgos-Kallis/dp/15095...
> The question is: do people get discouraged from seeing few people like them doing something?

that's a good question and the answer is not definitively yes.

For a number of reasons.

First of all, there's the outlier and there are the pioneers.

Columbus was a pioneer (among others), not just an outlier.

Secondly, we don't have the data.

From my anecdotal experience as a long time tech worker, women are hired in greater numbers compared to the number of applications.

From my anecdotal experience and context (Europe, Italy) it's much harder to find them than men.

But when companies find them, they have no bigger problems than men to get the job.

I would say that if there are ten open positions and 20 men apply, 8 get the job, for the same job 3 women apply and 2 of them get the job.

I've been interviewing for the company I work for and I've adviced them to hire all the women that applied, not so much for men, approximately 1 in 2 is coming to the interview either under prepared or to test how much more they could ask to their actual employer.

> if you're a kid looking at a whole bunch of basketball players that are very differently shaped than you

There's a good chance that you are not fit for basketball.

Listen, I understand your point, I was a volleyball player in my teen years, I was good, not great, but I was shorter than most of the other players.

Turns out that's important to succeed as a professional player because other teams will get the tallest player they can find to win.

You are actively encouraged to persist if you're taller than average and discouraged if you're not and I think it's completely normal (of course there are exceptions, but the Karch Kiraly(s) don't grow on trees)

I did not succeed and that's ok. I wasn't crushed by that discovery, I just understood I wasn't playing in the same league of professionals.

It's nobody's fault.

In the same ballpark there's the fact that I probably succeeded as a programmer because I wasn't fit for volleyball and computers were much more satisfying.

If I was born 2 meters tall, maybe I would have abandoned CS for volleyball, who knows.

Maybe it's the same for other people too, they get more satisfaction from other jobs than science and choose them.
> The fact that neural networks have been the only way we've been able to solve a lot of problems, which approximate the way that the human brain learns, is pretty strong evidence of this.

Chances are a lot of machine learning implementations can be replaced with just "boring" statistical models and achieve more power.

OTOH plenty of creatures don't need to learn. Does a mosquito need to learn? No, it spawns thousands of offspring and doesn't live very long. The high spawn rate means you have a wide variety of natural mutations in your offspring, meaning one or a few of them are likely to have higher fitness in a given niche. It doesn't matter if most die if a few go on to survive. This is the strategy many organisms use to dominate the world in far greater numbers than our own species.
I can whip out my iPad when I'm on the train to work and watch streamed or locally downloaded stuff, a laptop is way too cumbersome for that even on a semi-crowded train.

With a keyboard cover I can actually use it for messaging, emails, IM and maybe light writing. Using a stylus, I can either take freeform notes or draw stuff faster than I can with a mouse or touchpad.

And in the pre-M1 days an iPad smoked pretty much every laptop in battery performance.
My experience with the Steam Deck seems to indicate that almost everything I've wanted to play runs fine on Linux. It's not quite perfect, but I've been surprised how few titles fail to run reasonably well.

For that reason I've been super tempted to jump ship to Linux on my gaming PC (my non-gaming work is on macOS). The one thing keeping me back is the status of bluetooth peripherals, namely controllers; I've heard this can be a problem even today. My PC is hooked up to my big living room OLED so wires would be fairly inconvenient.
I work daily on a java 8 project with about 3k files, about 5k classes. Small in comparison.
When I have to rebuild indexes it takes about 10 minutes on a intel 12th gen w/ 32GB RAM, I configured Idea jvm to use 8GB RAM.
It happens quite often when I have to add a dependency, somehow Idea project file get out of sync and doesn't update anymore.
When opening the project it takes about 1 minutes before being usable. Every time. I basically keep the project opened just in case.
I use Idea every day for about 60 different projects on java, kotlin, python, typescript, groovy... Idea is great, its features are much better than Eclipse or vscode, but with the latter I wouldn't have to wait so long when opening projects.
Jetbrains want to change UI? Fine, but as a paying customer I would like other things fixed, people working on UI is not working on other fixes to do.
They kept rebooting the development experience, naturally even the more passionate Windows developers gave up.
What's wrong with folks who live in "the roughest neighborhoods" being "in charge of precision assembly of human transport?"
AKA algorithmic black boxes that have the last word without human intervention. Welcome to Skynet
What? They absolutely can, and it can be employee supported - I know this because I actually started this. While in the insanely long backlog you can get your h1b extended beyond the six year limit as well.

I had got married by and had a green card through that before the backlog and what not would have got through on the h1b path, but if I hadn’t met my person I would have still ended up a permanent resident.
When I last tried to implement this, by far the toughest part was making sure the file that’s been newly detected is done being written to. On ntfs I couldn’t find a good technique, even last modified time was not reliable. I had to watch it for changes myself.
This is an interesting case, making chimeras can always be thought of as "gain-of-function" research because you really only know if you succeeded after you've created and tested the new organism, and there might be failures along the way if indeed creating a more lethal organism is your goal.

In this case there is some handwaving about 80% mortality vs 100% mortality in a mouse host about it technically not being more lethal than the original. But what if the testing revealed 100% mortality plus some other metric of increased transmissibility or something similar after the fact. It would've been unknown to the researchers at the time of synthesis and fit every definition of "gain-of-function" research.

I think in light of this inability to know apriori if a virus is going to be more/less lethal we're splitting hairs when we say this is not technically "gain-of-function" research.
I've found that so much of what I used to have centered around Google has moved over to Micrsoft for me. I don't pay for anything (or very little) Google wise but pay for Office monthly. If Microsoft had a GOOD Google voice competitor, well ...
You are the one trying to force your partisan view on the volunteers who didn't want to risk their health for an event that probably wouldn't be fun anyway due to likely COVID restrictions.
> if the claim is that the space industry is unnecessarily unsafe then I'm not sure that's convincing.

The claim is that it's necessarily unsafe. You even quoted that part.
What's the main point of this article? It seems like it's to question if we should go to space, but it uses a few examples of injury or death. How doe the accident rates compare to other things? Without that, it seems like there's nothing here.

"SpaceX has made no announcement to the public or to its workers about his status"

HIPAA and other legal compliance?
I did a fun experiment in my yard, I took a small mixture of grass seeds (store bought bird seed) and planted them in various places in the yard (after sprouting). It was amazing to see what did and did not thrive in various places due to sun, water and soil.

One place supported all 4 kinds, the other three only supported 1 or 2 kinds of grasses.

I would think reforesting a barren land might have to take multiple phases of growth to prepare the soil, ability to hold water, fungal colonies to extract nutrients, etc.
Isn't that the real problem here? Yellow is evolutionarily a "high emphasis" color. The perceptual color contrast between yellow and black is one of the highest ratios in human vision (more generally, in mammalian vision). It's among the reasons that bumblebees, bananas, dandelions, and yellowjackets co-evolved their colors.

If you don't want the weird perceptual emphasis inversions of yellow, maybe don't use yellow?

The article points out the commonly held reason to use it is the "traffic color patterns", but it is easy to forget that early traffic lights intentionally put the highest emphasis/most "alert" color in the middle, because that is the shortest and most dangerous phase and needs the most attention. Plus, as other comments keep pointing out even modern traffic lights in most countries today think yellow is too strong an emphasis color and have shifted towards amber/orange.
Oh they do get a great payday, but that does not necessarily mean that they cut informal ties with the Pentagon or do things against the wishes of the Pentagon.

In this case, the US and the Saudis have been 'tight' for 70 years so one can imagine it is all very friendly...
Those who end up amassing fortunes have often ruthlessly exploited the loopholes of unwritten rules - Peter Thiel taking advantage of Roth IRA, Uber and AirBnB dumping the externalities of unregulated taxis and hotels on the wider society, Walmart putting its lowest paid staff on medicaid etc. Just look at Panama papers to see how the rich exploit all the loopholes to save on taxes.
This is incredibly sad, but accidents happen. This is a good example of the type of incident which leads to procedures and reforms which will erode the agility of the organization. It's entropy, and it happens to every org. This is a big reason why NASA has a hard time executing compared to spacex.

I really see this as part of the natural cycle of any org. Nimble companies grow, incidents happen, corruption happens, safeguards are put in place to prevent issues from recurring and before you know it, the company is no longer nimble.