skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just in Thailand... where you can't drink the water. So you buy plastic water bottles constantly. All the rivers and waterways are just full of plastic bottles floating everywhere.
The original article is here: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-make-a-rog...

The author is the creator of the popular commercial roguelike, Cogmind.
Rarely have I seen a tool adopted so swiftly and at such scale. It eats the role of hundreds of other language & tool specific version managers, and whatever the secret sauce is, it's nicely fast & relatively low pain. Hats off to asdf. Major major delta in devs lives from this recent-ist new more-meta contender.
[Replaced the comment I had here earlier after thinking about it a bit more. I initially responded too reflexively.]

The comment you are criticizing above was not meant for you. It was to give a counterpoint to your dismissal so that other people wouldn't lose their chance to learn about this just because a few naysayers on HN think they know better.

My pointing out some of my past experiences with naysayers was not offered as proof of being right, since you are correct that it isn't. I was partly offering my personal experience that naysayers shouldn't be assumed to be right. They may be, but shouldn't be assumed to be. Prominent examples include famous dismissals on HN of the original iPod and of DropBox.

In fact, in my experience, the greatest opportunities are when the naysayers are rampant in response. It's related to the famous saying from Howard Aitken: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

Also, I do have a track record (not remotely as cherry-picked as you might want to assume it to be—in act I could give more supporting examples and I don't have many misses at this level). While it's not proof, it is evidence that some people (not you) might want to consider in judging whether they want to spend their time reading a paper like this, instead of rejecting it only because of comments from people who do not display any kind of relevant track records or any other basis for assuming their comments should be seriously considered.

I understand that you think you know better, and that's fine. I would have bet a substantial sum of money that my comment would have no influence on your dismissal. Still, as I said in my earlier response, I did learn something from your comment in terms of how some people might react to certain approaches, so, thank you.

I won't have any other comments in response to you in this thread, period. Life's too short.
I read through it at first and thought it was the docker desktop app rewritten in wasm instead of electron

I guess it’s a wasm runner
Yeah ME was awful, too. I thought 8.1 was actually OK.
You ended up with bad information. You can not run x86 VMs through Rosetta. They do support Linux ARM VMs running x86 Linux binaries within the VM.
For VR and games, Apple doesn’t compare to PCs for now until Apple Reality is released. Apple tolerates video games now because of the revenue, but they still don’t like them. The M2 is the most amazing Apple upgrade that I’ve ever had, but it’s an ecosystem that doesn’t garner enough support for non-mobile, non-iOS video games.
For how long? Over what type of terrain? How would it impact your stamina level? Could you fight with the backpack on? When you set it down to fight, could an opponent steal it?
From dictionary.com:
any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose.

Can you link me to where you’ve found that “pollutant” is defined as a nearly infinite group of compounds but explicitly excludes CO2? This is the first time I’ve heard this.
Performance is irrelevant depending on metrics.

If my new zCPU chip is 60% as fast as a Xeon at your task, that’s a problem.

If it can do it at 40% of the Xeon’s power, things get interesting.

I could use twice as many zCPUs, be 20% faster, and use 20% less power. That also means less cooling capacity in my DC.

Some tasks will always need the absolute best single threaded performance. But a lot don’t. And the Xeon’s power requirements leave a large opening we’re starting to see other companies poke at with things like Graviton.
Part of this is because without full-time pig herders, the pigs tend to go feral and cause a hell of a lot of damage. There are huge numbers of feral pigs in America. They can be quite dangerous:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/us/pigs-san-francisco-cal...
I am not a professional but as I understand APBs (and MDMA) have the same issue as Fen-Phen in that they are cardiotoxic and can cause heart valve issues due to high 5HT2b receptor affinity, which might be mitigated by combination with a 5HT2b antagonist such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-127445
In a world with 8 billion people and billions before you, if you have to ask “Am I the only one that _____”, just quietly whisper to yourself “no, I’m not”, and move along.
I guess i dodged a bullet by not getting a framework laptop and getting second hand thinkpad again. Oh well.
It's the same kernel driving the same hardware, why would it be any different?
I'm assuming I'm not understanding you properly, but are you suggesting that flashing a custom firmware is an easier solution than changing an option in the BIOS?
''"Spiritual enlightenment is attainable only via Apple subcription" -Gandhi'

-Steve Jobs ectoplasm'

-Tim Cook
Didn’t NT actually start on the Alpha and end up with x86 becoming a co-platform (and later main platform) during development?
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Encrypted sparse bundle disk images on macOS if I want something individually encrypted. Built-in full disk encryption too. No extra software needed.

On Linux, there's LUKS as mentioned already.
I was just coming here to write a comment that says I think the blog post is missing a section. Or it at least feels that way.

At the heading “How do I get the technical preview?” I was expecting a heading that says “What is Docker+WASM?”

Glad I am not the only one
Missing downpayment % or amount.
https://youtu.be/WyK7lX4sk0c

I can definitely recommend the music, very atmospheric, very alien.
The answer is simple but impractical:

Grossly overbuild the structure, so that it is lightly stressed. Don't use any reinforcing material within the concrete (much of the damage that happens to a modern reinforced concrete structure is the result of the internal reinforcement swelling due to corrosion). Ensure that the structure doesn't freeze (water that penetrates the concrete and freezes will cause cracking).

Note that following these limitations would rule out the vast majority of modern concrete structures.
>Child protection agencies are not a movement.

I agree.
You're correctly pointing to some hypocritical subtext, but to be fair to the author, they explain the reason for their ambivalence: it's because there's such a contrast between hardware and software.

This is nothing new really, but then that goes to the heart of why people "love to hate the Mac". It's not that they love to hate it, it's that the hardware is so great, but then you have this kind of increasingly corporate consumer-hostile stuff that gets thrown on top of it (in the past it was just plain bloated inefficiency, like early iTunes).

So let's say you are in the author's position: what do you do? Regardless of whether it's Linux or Windows, you're going to go onto other hardware systems. Many of the options are pretty nice and underrated in "Mac faithful" communities. But really, they're probably not quite what Apple offers, if not in quality, than in selling points.

Recently this has been exacerbated because Apple is putting out an ARM chip that's pretty powerful but also power-efficient. Add nice trackpads, nice monitors, great battery life, and so forth, and it's hard to leave even if you are frustrated with the software. What other high-performing consumer ARM/RISC power efficient laptop are you going to find?

A lot of people (I'm in this boat now) would love to see the ability to buy Apple hardware and slap Linux on it seamlessly, but it's not quite there yet. Asahi Linux is incredibly impressive in how fast its grown but it's not actually ready for primetime: last time I looked at the status notes, you were at risk of literally blowing up your speakers by doing much with them.

So then the ambivalence goes around and around.
I probably wouldn't. It looks pretty old, uses a fucky bespoke KDF for passwords (I'm looking at the 3.16 source code), has file metadata that doesn't appear to be authenticated, and does a weird dance of including the PID and time in the IVs for what looks like CBC mode?

You could build something more secure using the hello-world code for Go's Seal/Unseal crypto/ libraries, or Rust's Ring crate.
This was an excellent post, learned a lot, thanks for linking it!
From what I've read on here, you're not missing out on anything great anyway. The money is good, that's about it.
Imagine the wonders we could build if we could justify the investment based on the lifetime of the structure.

Actually, you don't have to imagine it. Go watch the show, "Peripheral". This idea of long-lasting concrete was actually what I found myself thinking about just last night watching it, in the scenes of future London.
> In large part, that's due to the fact that China stopped importing plastic waste back in 2018, causing a massive pile up in western countries.

I don't think so, I've seen reports that most plastic waste sent to China wound up in landfills or incinerators too. So it's actually probably a net improvement to not spend all that energy sending it 7000 miles to China to put it in a landfill.

It's been a fiction all along, we just paid China to make it easier for us to pull the wool over our own eyes. Or, even more cycnically, to get it into their landfills or incinerated air pollution instead of ours.
These benchmarks seem off the charts. How is this accomplished?
That interpretation makes a lot of sense
This is so disheartening. I subscribed to and helped perpetuate The Lie. Damn.

While we're on this topic, does anyone have info regarding what happens to the plastic bags I return to my local (CA, US) grocery store collection bin? Are they part of a separate stream?

I add all sorts of used plastic bags to that bin (thin produce bags, the more heavy-duty grocery bags, Amazon padded shipping envelopes, deflated shipping air bags, clean zip lock bags, etc.). I also wonder if I'm gumming up the works by putting different types of plastic bags in the bin because most bags don't have recycle markings/numbers.
Product manufacturers should have to bear the cost of disposing the products/packaging they ship. It would be great if every product came stamped with some manufacturer ID code or something, and when you throw it away, the waste management company eventually scans it all and each manufacturer got billed based on material/weight/etc.
It sounds like you're running Windows?

On Windows I just use the built-in Bitlocker encryption.

It is a bit annoying understanding what this means between Windows Home and Pro editions though.

On Home, it's not technically 'Bitlocker' - it's Device Encryption - hit Windows key & type 'device encryption' - if you see 'Device Encryption Settings', you should have it available. If you do not, it's probably not available on your device e.g. maybe you don't have a TPM, although I've had Windows machines that showed it as not available but then I was able to get it running with a bit of messing around and registry hacking.

It is still Bitlocker under the hood, but it's missing some features. You can get some of them by logging into your machine with a Microsoft account, but if you're running a local account (like I am) you get a more budget experience (e.g. I don't think there's an easy way to get the Bitlocker encryption key or have it backed up online).

If you only want to run local accounts, the easier and probably safer solution is to shell out for Windows Pro and take advantage of the full Bitlocker experience.
People usually blame the manufacturer they paid the money to. In this case Framework could have chosen AMD or tested with Linux or stated that Linux is unsupported on 12th gen Intel or... There are so many possibilities.
Rubbish. You think that having no numbering is better? The numbered markings are necessary to enable recycling.

The real problem is that trashing waste is often the least worst solution for our environment. Expensive “green” packaging and recycling, are too often actually worse for the environment. Feel good movements that kill the planet quicker. Often sold to us via industry propaganda but we childishly are willing recipients for mistruth: we collectively want an anodyne panacea where we can continue to consume without consequences, a convenient lie, a palatable excuse.

To fix the actual problem requires giving up our nice things, giving up on our wants, reducing our spending, or reducing population. We cannot accept those requirements, so we all merrily go along with greenwashing denialism.

The two best indicators for your environmental impact are: (1) your income, and (2) your country. I’m guessing you are a well off US citizen: you are the problem. Not some evil corporation.
Plus it seems like I hear Zoomer/Doomer used interchangeably so I'm not even sure everyone agrees on the stupid labels.
> It has kind of surprised me that Excel doesn't seem to have copied the multiplayer aspects of Google Sheets (or if it has, it doesn't seem to have taken off).

It did and it has.

All documents stored in Microsoft cloud can be edited by multiple people at once including excel spreadsheets and now that most company documents live in Teams, it’s very common to edit them at the same time.
OH, for sure. I agree. But that is what most people tend to do when they do this sort of thing. Even the 'furnace' they had was just a bonfire essentially in a enclosed can with vents. And that was specially bought from a company that sold it for that purpose. I forget the name though, sorry.
Any one here able to offer a comparative on Framework versus System76?

I pulled the trigger on a system 76 and I've been disappointed. I really want to support this Linux first movement, but I need something that's a daily driver that just works.

Has any one used both?
The EPA has an action to ban asbestos more completely. https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/epa-actions-protect-public-expo...
I once read about a medieval case where a sow and her piglets attacked and killed a random villager. The medieval court sentenced the mother to death but concluded that the offspring were too young to know right from wrong and were acting under the influence of their mother, ruling them innocent.
rvault for small documents: https://github.com/rmind/rvault

It uses envelope encryption with one-time password (OTP) authentication. I like to store data on the systems I own and just run backups regularly.
As an in-house lawyer, preserving the why is basically my job. I write up 'memos' in which we examine a problem, arrive at a solution and recommendation, and make the recommendation. Often times the team that makes the recommendation doesn't do a great job documenting the 'why' in its Jira ticket and so their organization can tend to forget why something is done. I try to make sure that doesn't happen, when it comes to important things. Unfortunately we aren't always certain of what is important and what deserves a detailed writeup.
Building products that last as long as possible is a sure fire way to destroy your market.

You can't both build things that can be infinitely fixable and sell a steady stream of them.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... for a list of estimated development and marketing costs for various AAA games.
A naive interpretation of the statistical analysis, ironically, in fact suggests that we could do better at investigating this crime by simply sampling iid for CPS checks :-\
> Apple TV+ is home to an extensive selection of award-winning and broadly acclaimed series, feature films, documentaries, and kids and family entertainment

It certainly is not. Or, at least, not in Canada. There might be as many as three dozen shows. An order of magnitude fewer offerings than the competition.
Kind of the point, though. To the extent those other issues are competing for attention and willpower with carbon emissions in public and political consciousness, we should pretty much ignore them until the climate situation is resolved.

A turtle occasionally eating a plastic bag for breakfast is a bad thing, but the turtles wouldn't be happy if they knew they're about to die off because we're distracting ourselves with bans on single-use bags and plastic straws.
fwiw, I have a 12th Gen running Nix and I don't have any of these problems (well the brightness keys don't work but at least the sound/volume keys do - this is probably a DE issue).

Sleep/resume work, but I haven't tried to get hibernate working. I don't use the fingerprint reader. And I am connected pretty much full time to power (I did set the max charge to 60% in the bios) so battery life is not such a deal breaker for me

I DID see the stuttering/laggy issue in X11 but the fix I found for that worked like a charm (note I only saw this issue after a few days of playing/switching DEs). Currently running Cinnamon but also tried Plasma and Pantheon.

I do wish the palm rejection was better on the touch pad. I have lazy fingers/thumbs that hover over the touch pad and I get a ton of spurious clicks which is driving me crazy.
Apple's decision to keep the A15 in the lower-tier 14 models shows that they did not expect everyone else (Qualcomm) to stop innovating on performance.
There's a sizeable part of the environmental movement (collapsik / degrowthers) that like to create and spread this kind of FUD and propaganda, which is a shame because environmental issues are very real / important, and we don't need idiots making up anything to support the cause.

There's plenty of evidence everywhere, though not all of it supports their Neo-Malthusian impulse, which is their true pain and cause.
APA position ECT:

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective evidence-based medical treatment. ECT is endorsed by the APA when administered by properly qualified psychiatrists for appropriately selected patients.

https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/About-APA/Organiza...

You’re welcome to disagree with the APA, or point out that the APA only represents a small fraction of psychologists, or question whether this is really a consensus opinion.

The APA isn’t god.

But I don’t think you can say things like “No, not even close” and expect to be taken seriously.
I guess there is a misunderstanding here.

Yes, if I own the VPN in question and no one else has any access to it, or maintains it; then there is no issue.

But I was talking about paid service VPNs. The kind you see being advertised on YouTube and etc. I don't trust those one bit.
I own M1 MBP16. While closed laptop technically works... One nasty bug makes it unusable. I can't reliably switch keyboard layouts using globe button. This bug is absolutely weird and ridiculous and I have no idea how it's even possible. When laptop is opened, I press globe button and my keyboard layout is switched. Actually it does not work 100% reliably, but it's OK. With laptop closed it works like 20% of time.

Have no idea about ventura, will not update before first patch, I guess.
Transitioning Mac to ARM consisted of redesigning a half-dozen products to work with a single SOC. Transitioning Windows to ARM would require hundreds of manufacturers to work together for the same level of integration, which is ultimately more restrictive than the now-license-free x86. Microsoft is probably hoping that Windows On Arm will appease their business-class users until a truly killer RISC ISA like RISC-V is primed to hit the market.
Our brains might use quantum computation
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> They just consume a lot more power

This is the thing I’m stuck on. Computers are all roughly the same speed, for the point of this discussion.

But there is no contest in power. If you’re in the Windows world you have no good choices. Fast and hot to very slow and cool.

Where is the “pretty fast and nicely cool” choice? Someone proved it can exist.

But it’s not there and people don’t seem to be very upset about that. And I’m surprised.
I hope they gave everyone radium for their health afterwards! :P
I just upgraded my Mac and holy cow, is the new System Settings app buggy... and it's also fixed-width for whatever reason.

Also, it seems to think - for a few moments after every restart - that my Wifi connection is to a hidden network, when it actually isn't. Welp.
Aluminum is worth recycling, but post-consumer paper and card is a nightmare to recycle because of all the contaminants. Food scraps. Staples and other bits of metal. Plastic tapes. Labels. China clay coatings for the printed surfaces. (Looking at you, Apple.) Best to just burn it in high-temperature furnaces as bio-energy.
Then I don't get your concern.

To wit: by the time that CPS agencies are co-opted, the revolution has already happened (and then some).
I wonder if it's to increase the chance of hearing an unexpected/out of sync footstep or other noise.

I used to do this when sneaking up on people, as a kid.
You realize Heroku runs on AWS right?

And no, most organizations are not using K8s and never will.

Docker is not a magic bullet.
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. My point is that sharing salary band info is orthogonal to wage fixing (which you seem to agree with)

> If everyone brings their salary info to a secret meeting and writes it in a chalkboard and then uses that chalkboard to set their salaries it’s obviously collusion, and cases like that have plenty of legal precedent.

The how of "set their salaries" is the difference between wage fixing or not. ie a company sharing / receiving of salary info (aka getting market reference points) and deciding that it wants to be at the Nth percentile is not wage-fixing. Wage-fixing would be if that company got together with another company (or companies) and agreed to stay at the Nth percentile.
They have fixed date to release. They can't postpone release because of bugs they don't consider critical. Any mature and big project has thousands of known bugs which will never be fixed as it makes no financial sense. Sad but true.

Some bugs probably will be fixed in the upcoming patches. Some will not.
Gemino: Practical and Robust Neural Compression for Video Conferencing
This seems like the best reason to use WebAssembly. The benefit is for the system integrator / platform and the value prop is clear vs. any other technology out there
> I don't know any dev looking for this or having a problem solved by it.

Judging by the reception at KubeCon & elsewhere today, we think at least some folks are excited by it. But it’s still early, and who knows, you may be right in the end. We launched this as a technical preview to test a hypothesis and learn from it, and so far the interactions from this HN thread alone have been greatly helpful.
No, it says Safari 16.1 for macOS.

Web Push won't come to iOS until a mid-cycle release, probably by March, maybe a bit sooner.

Personally I hope they have some sort of scoring to alert people if they are subscribed to notifications that others have reported as being scammy. They hopefully learned from the Calendar spam problems.

It's listed on this page (search for "2023"): https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/