skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech companies have complained about poorly sourced stories. I know that I’ve posted many times my confusion in cases where I could have been a primary source for stories that I knew were wrong —— not just wrong spelling (something fact-checkers always get right) but a company was accused of doing something wrong where they spend time and capital to be leading doing the right thing.

I’m curious if leaking easy-to-disprove stories in order to discredit journals are going to be common, either from frustrated employees or from teams that had deniable relations with the PR team. I can’t exclude that journalists make certain things up, but I have no experience of them doing that. I (and many HN readers) do have experience with the frustration of seeing our own work just denied publicly and people telling me that I’m lying because “they read something about it” online.
I live in Atlanta and literally cannot think of a single car trip I've taken in the past two years that has not encountered traffic.
> refuse to add functionality to the OS and keep it overly crippled/restricted.

Is this your opinion or was there any feedback from those 5 users?
For CLI usage I found that the best option was instead of watching my source directory just to watch a magic file. Then I configured my editor to touch that file when saving. This has a few benefits:

1. No need to worry about which files to watch or ignoring build outputs.

2. Works with every project with no setup.

3. Easy to trigger a re-run without actually changing a file.

4. Always runs after all files are saved instead of starting after the first file is saved and racing the rest.

5. Infinitely scalable.
Yes, you’re correct trend is the wrong term. Was that an aggressive statement? It wasn’t intended to be.

I find the statements around unsafe in Rust to generally be incorrect though, from what I can tell, it’s only ever used in quite narrow cases and not generally across the vast majority of Rust software.
The problem with shared bathrooms & kitchens is that no single person is responsible for cleaning them and as a result they end up being messes. It can work (in theory), but in practice it ends up getting ruined by lazy jerks.
I have 2 perfectly working iPads except that they stopped getting OS updates, so are now basically electronic trash. I find myself becoming reluctant to support an ecosystem that generates such waste. I stopped purchasing MacBooks when they started gluing the battery.
> No I can't, because lots of restaurants don't bother to put all possible options and their descriptions or even just a list of non-alcoholic beverages there.

> An average kiosk answers all these questions because it _has to_ have buttons for these options.

So a restaurant which cant be bothered to list everything in a printed menu is going to list everything in a kiosk? Did you really type all this without thinking?
I have three dead Apple Pencils that, I guess, died because I let them sit in a drawer for a year or so. Use them or lose them?

I suppose there's no reason at this point not to try opening one up and have a go at replacing the battery.
I haven't tried other browsers lately. I agree that FF is less snappy compared to Chrome, for example, but I have a fast phone. I haven't experienced those issues you talk about - maybe it's just my luck! I particularly like the ad-blocking abilities of FF.
For the use case of this post, revision/version control of notes (markdown/text), I recently started using Fossil [0].

I've wanted a reason to use Fossil for quite some time, and this is perfect since I'm the only user for this repository; Fossil is ideal for small groups of people and git is ideal for projects with thousands of contributors.

I'm just using VS Code with a Fossil extension and storing the notes as .md files in the repo. You could use the built-in wiki to store them, but that would give you less flexibility and less of the features of a source control.

Although I'm not yet, I could integrate some other features into my workflow like bug tracking, forum (to talk to myself and hold conversations over time to center myself where I left off), and technotes. I love the web-interface.

The only configuration I needed from stock was to turn on the search feature, change the home page to be my root document (README.md) and set it up to run as a daemon with systemd.

[0] - https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Who said there was a biological cause to turning in papers late? Seems much more a learned difference to me.
Ridiculously rare? That's why CDs, DVDs, blurays, caches, SSDs, spinning rust, etc all have ECC, right? Even ancient file transfer protocols like xmodem and zmodem has error correction.

Bitflips aren't uncommon, it's just compression makes them much more noticeable. Without compression users might just see an occasional application crash, and just relaunch the proces.s Seems common for people collecting photos, music, etc for years go back and find some corrupted. It's hard to say exactly what happened, but with compression a bit flip it turned into a seriously corrupted file.

Keep in mind that, radiation caused bit flips are rare, some failure in the chip, pin, dimm, dimm connector, motherboard, CPU pin, CPU are much more common. It's MUCH nicer to see "error on dim X, row Y, column Z" then a randomly crashing machine. Even Linus sounds like he spent hours tracking it down, and thought he was hitting a kernel bug.

Isn't it worth 1/9th more memory chips to make the system robust in the face of wide variety of errors that can corrupt memory, which can lead to corrupted storage?
I suggest reading the book Boys Adrift (https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Adrift-Epidemic-Unmotivated-Unde...). It speaks to exactly this topic.
> Is the right to life no longer a human right?

That's not what "the right to life" means. There are lots of policy decisions which have tradeoffs that result in more or less life lost. For example, the government could require that all car engines have a maximum speed of 25 MPH. That would empirically reduce the # of lives lost in automobile accidents, but society has judged the tradeoff (in terms of convenience, transportation time/cost, etc.) to not be worth it -- and that tradeoff does not constitute "violating the right to life".
Is it a technical feat to install code someone else wrote on a computer and click RUN?
> At the price point of the iPad pro with a keyboard and touch-pad.. why not just buy a laptop like the MacBook Air?

1. cellular + eSIM, missing from Air (WHY, Apple, why?)

2. detaches into perfect touchscreen tablet, Air doesn't

3. Apple Pencil (requires "Paperlike" for texture): https://paperlike.com

4. it's a great second screen in either extend desktop or keyboard/mouse mode

> Hauling around an iPad pro with a touchpad.. and an external keyboard

No, the keyboard is the case, you have no sense of carrying a second thing. In fact, it's a magnetic dock, you USB-C charge through a port in the hinge, iPad pops on and off mag-safe style.
The following worked for me on macOS. Found it at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions

firefox -private-window https://google.com/
Yeah, I've seen several people trying to say this is related to the iPad Air, but... other than some similar design aesthetics, this device does not appear to be related to the iPad Air at all. The exterior dimensions are all different, and this new iPad is missing several important features from the iPad Air. The screen doesn't even support the P3 gamut that the 2020 iPad Air supported.
It's a bit tart but it isn't actually saying "We know better than you. Shut up and do what you're told."

What it is saying is that if you don't want to be a part of a community then that community has every right to make decisions without you. You can want to stroll in once a week to the Mega-Mart on a 45-mph six-lane road through the center of town, and the people who live in the town can want to walk safely, breathe clean air, and live close enough together to foster a sense of community with their neighbors.

You're free to live in the sticks but when it comes down to it you are a visitor who isn't invested in the wellbeing of the community and that should be reflected in how much political capital you wield there.
Because most of the wealthy people are not physically tied to any state for residency purposes, and most of them don't run CA-only based businesses, and because property tax is a smaller expense than income tax.
> You can look at a number of different countries in Europe to see how even small towns can still be built with a natural density curve to allow choice rather than the car-centric sprawl that we have here.

I think this is the model American urbanists need to take. Move to small towns where they can have more influence, and they don't have to try to force their preferences on existing large communities.

Get involved with development of a small town, guide it into these mixed use styles and attract like minded people. It would be significantly less of an uphill battle, and wouldn't anger all of the people who like the ways things already are in their large cities.
Or could cause it to happen. There's still a decent chance the original covid wouldn't have happened if people weren't doing this type of research.
I like the flame animation when clearing the browser history. Is that Lottie based animation?
When I started playing around with square/triangle waves, I couldn't help but hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMKWJ5e1kg
> Are they culling microsoft teams?

Pun intended?
forgot "written in C++" .. unless you're trying to get views, better to leave that part out.
> According to logic that humans have developed, there is such thing as a "shape"

There is such a thing as "structure", of which "shape" is an instance, yes.

> "Shape" and "logic" are both human constructs articulating "structure", another human construct.

Structure is not a human concept. We have particular conceptions of structure, but structure exists, period. 0 != 1, they have different structure. This is indisputable.

> A shapeless creature doesn't need to be "logically coherent" to exhibit intelligence

If you think that reality does not have to be logically coherent, or that that does not necessarily imply that any creatures within reality have to have a logically coherent description consistent with coherent natural laws, then you're talking about a fantasy world of your imagination and I don't think there's anything further to discuss.
iPad Pro is amazing for audio, photography, and of course art creation. I am just starting to dip my toes into the audio world and the number and quality of soft synths, sequencers, effects, mixers, etc. is actually breathtaking. The ipad is especially useful when used in conjunction with physical instruments and live performance. A regular laptop isn’t nearly as nice to use in the moment. Suzanne Ciani uses the Animoog Z app on her ipad along with her $20k+ Buchla Modular synthesizer rig during live performances. I have also been enjoying live streams from Pittsburgh Modular. He uses an ipad for sequencing and effects along with the hardware synths.

Having a more powerful ipad allows more and more sophisticated tools to be made for it. Apple brings the capability and developers take advantage.
Spyware and spying in general can help the regime to pick their targets, so it's indeed very scary.
> If it was a medical procedure it wouldn’t make the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure.

Would you consider donating a kidney to be a medical procedure?

> And abortion is not a complex issue.

I am super pro-choice, but this is a silly statement. Just go ask a bunch of pro-choice people at what point they believe abortion is wrong and you'll get a whole bunch of different answers.
Huh what? The entire entertainment industry (which includes food services) contributes just over $100 billion to California's $3.3 trillion GDP. I think California can recover from the film industry leaving town.
This is the default on most iPhone apps. May be an OS feature, not sure. It's the main reason I still double space on iOS.
Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017)
Yeah, insane choice. Here’s a visual from Twitter:

https://twitter.com/_alexguyot/status/1582405085484953601
False. The city has too many McDonald's quality apartments at luxury prices. More supply solves this.
Is it possible to run virtualized linux on these and have all hardware stuff working?
This looks incredibly good. How's the typing latency & bash completion? Thanks for sharing a photo - gives much richer perspective.
I recommend Stephen Guyenet, especially his neuroscience book Hungry Brain
I think they mean the Smart Cover option.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ4L2ZM/A/ipad-smart-cove...

Magnetically attached to an edge, only covers the front when "closed", the back when open, or can be folded up to provide a stand.
> Really, cars are not even close being the main culprit in terms of carbon emissions globally speaking

There are a lot of contributors, so you have to tackle a lot of them. Transport is one of the biggies.

> And at this time we should think if it wouldn't be cheaper and more realistic to invest in mitigation for a slightly warmer climate.

I despair that this idea keeps coming up, even on forums such as this. It's not like this is an original idea. There have been a bunch of studies that blow this concept out of the water. It's far more expensive to deal with the results of climate change than to avert it.

There's also the huge human cost of not dealing with it, and the issue that you don't fix something by kicking the can down the road. The problem is only going to get worse the longer you leave it. It's like dealing with your house being on fire by taking your jacket off.
> but refuse to add functionality to the OS and keep it overly crippled/restricted

What would the point of "adding functionality to the OS" be? If they wanted to put macOS on iPads, they'd just put macOS on iPads.

My understanding at Apple's strategy here is that they're simultaneously exploring two different GUI paradigms — almost pitting them against one-another to see which wins (or, if you like, making a hedged bet):

• macOS, for building "Unix pipeline-like" workflows where you point different programs-as-tools at the same document or take one program's output as another's input. Apple encourages macOS developers to make this kind of app.

• iPadOS, for building "all-in-one silo" workflows (think: Photoshop, Garage Band, XCode), where the developer intends to solve fully for a use-case, such that people with that use-case can get by using only their app. In these cases, rather than interacting with other apps, a siloed app will embed whatever other accessory workflows a user might need, either directly (e.g. XCode embedding a terminal console) or through plugins (Photoshop plugins, Garage Band VST support.) The user might use other apps at the same time as this app, but not in a way where the apps are sharing data or interacting in any way; rather merely using each app to "do what it does" — e.g. referencing a design diagram in Miro while implementing that design in XCode, and writing down reminders in some reminders app. (Thus, the iPadOS 16's Stage Manager, which assumes you want several apps on screen at once, but doesn't implement drag-and-drop between apps or any other kind of useful inter-app interaction.)

As a user, as long as each user-story you have has been perfectly addressed by some particular siloed iPadOS app, then iPadOS should work for you. (And there are a lot of people whose user-stories have all been perfectly addressed by these siloed iPadOS apps — mostly, people with boring, predictable, traditional workflows. Novelists; illustrators; business executives; possibly salespeople.)

However, if your workflow is niche or "constantly reinventing itself" enough that nobody's ever going to make a siloed app specifically for your needs, and so you expect to get things done by throwing files between various different tools all day — then iPadOS is never going to work for you. You need a desktop OS designed around that kind of thing.
I would not say that “people aren’t great at using full fledged operating systems” but that fully fledged operating systems aren’t great at accommodating people.
It looks like the finally moved the camera to be on "top" when the device is in landscape orientation.
Thanks for your comment. I was just about to waste time researching Procreate under the false impression it was vector.

By the way, if anyone is interested in a vector drawing app, I highly recommend Concepts.
That would mean that Co-pilot is, or at least in big part, a front, a false flag operation to test the legal system's tolerance of what they are doing, to determine whether they can get away with what they are doing, right?
A very long time ago, Mozilla decided it was too difficult to keep Firefox’s engine API stable and said it’s more important that we have developer velocity than we have other people releasing software based on our rendering engine.

A decade or so later they kinda backtracked on that stance with boot to gecko and FirefoxOS but it is my understanding that they never took that momentum to make gecko into something that can be used for electron like platforms or indeed a new browser.

Bottom line is that WebKit/blink gives you better website compatibility (because major parts of the web is only tested against chrome) and is easier to use as a library than trying to wrap something around Gecko.

I think this has been one of Mozilla’s worst decisions.
Except it's not a simulation, it is causing it to "really happen". The only difference hinges on the ability of human institutions to keep it contained, which at the very least we have reason to be concerned about.
You should look into what the California legislature is doing to tackle the housing crisis because it's actually a lot, probably more than any other state by a mile.

All California municipalities have to have what is called a Housing Element, which is a plan with the state for how they're going to build more housing. Many (rich) towns have fought this on the grounds of it "ruining the character" (which is just NIMBY code for being exclusionary).

But not having one has real consequences as Santa Monica recently found out [1] where ~4,000 new units (20% affordable) got court approval and the city can't say no.

Likewise there are other laws that are abolishing mandatory parking minimums, which goes to your point of California being a car-dependent hellhole (which it is, much like most of the US).

Another example: bypass zoning and planning for building residential property above commercial property if the road it is attached to is a sufficient width. This will allow the building of mixed commercial and residential (which most cities forbid) without lengthy and expensive planning.

But there are a whole host of other bills that have been passed to make building cheaper and easier. Hopefully this will culminate in the Holy Grail of zoning in most municipalities making anything about building anything other than single-family homes illegal (which it is in most of the US).

[1]: https://smdp.com/2022/10/12/new-15-story-project-automatical...
It doesn't have to be a metropolis, the US just needs to fix their damn zoning laws. It's crazy that in most American cities, you have to have a car to get anywhere. Zoning in most places make it impossible to do things like walk to the grocery store or let you kids walk to school.

The only time we think of walkability is in big cities but what if suburbs proposed this radical idea of building services that people use closer to where those people actually live. If your day to day is dropping your kids off at school, going to the grocery store and gym, and then work, why in the hell did we decide that your home, work, grocery store and gym should all be in segregated parts of town where the only way to get from one place to another is an expensive hunk of metal.
Are you comparing it to KDE as in the software ecosystem / integrated desktop experience? "Fully" would be a misleading way to compare in that case. Someone who lives in a given text editor and needs a pleasant, lightweight host with extra nostalgia built in may really love it. Grass-is-greener holistic consumer software critics probably not so much.
You might want to check up on California's electric subsidies...
Is everything they do web-based? Or did they just not know that it won't run any desktop software and that even if there is an app-store version it's usually cut down to half the features of the desktop version?
It's a browser with a bunch of privacy features, just like Brave but with a more opinionated design and subtle differences. It caters to people who don't want to configure a thousand things before they use their browser, which is the only unique selling point of this that I'm aware of.
I have the 11" and like it specifically because it's small. Perfect for working on the couch
There are a few other nice things that you get with the new 10th Gen iPad... Namely, a landscape front-facing camera and newer Magic Keyboard Folio.

https://twitter.com/viticci/status/1582392074275819520
Of course this only taxes the w2/1099 suckers, while all the supporters are driving their income through trusts, capital gains and corporations.
Give me XCode and Preview (I use the pdf page-re-arranging/deleting/etc a lot) and finally put a fucking calculator on iPad OS and I can stop using macbooks at all. I mean for personal devices, at least, I'd still use one for work since they give me one anyway.
it seems to be an m2 feature only
To be fair, both are pretty bad solutions.
I used the iPad Pro for about 2 years for nothing but productivity apps and it was overall pretty great.

It wasn't without issue though, here's what I ran into:

1. I didn't run any dev tools on the iPad. That's insane. I used a laptop running macOS for that.

2. Google Docs updates would always ship with weird bugs, like if I'm editing a cell in a Google Sheet and hit space, the space wouldn't insert.

3. There's loads of issues with drag and drop in most apps. Dragging and dropping a picture from Photos into a document is the most common flow which works in some apps, but not in others.

The plus sides:

1. The built-in cellular connection is amazing. I wish MacBook Airs would ship with built-in cellular.

2. The Apple Pencil (2nd gen) is great if you design software or UX.
Cloud Security: Integrating Trust into Every Chip
And Microsoft's take on this for Azure:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/delivering-consistenc...
I began designing a language that handled recursion and iteration as relations between variables which are topologically sorted to determine control flow.

Each function is a toplogical graph of stream functions so it is similar to a data flow language or reactive programming language. The goal is that you should express the critical insight of the algorithm to work out what to write and the code is not nested so there is very little tree structure.

Algebralang is rough notes on how it would appear.

https://github.com/samsquire/algebralang

Example programs in the repository are binary search, btrees, a* algorithm.

I wrote a multithreaded parallel actor interpreter in Java and it uses an invented assembly language which doesn't have a bytecode, it's just text.

https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

I like the ideas behind ani language
https://github.com/waves281/anic