skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you are a dev (or at least dev-adjacent), so this isn't about you. You will, most likely, always prefer multiple monitors, beefy desktop, etc., regardless of your generation.

We are talking about gen pop here. I am a late millenial, and back in my teens, if you wanted to access internet, do social media, listen to non-physical format music, etc., you pretty much had to own a PC/laptop. Almost everyone back then had access to it at their home.

In present day, most people have no need for that. Social media, music, internet, etc., is all done on smartphones. I see less and less gen pop interest and need in PCs as the time goes.

My grandparents learned to use PC just so they could check out news and talk to me on skype (we live in different countries now). Over time, they switched to smartphones, as they found the ease of use and pretty much a complete lack of the need for troubleshooting very appealing. Years later, they are happy with that decision.

That doesnt mean that PCs are gonna die or dwindle, quite the opposite. For work, smartphones are suboptimal, and thus PCs will stay around for work, for the enthusiast crowd (which would include gaming), and for a bunch of other hobbies/niche used (like music production, etc.). I don't foresee PCs and multimonitor setups ever going out of my life either, aside from the form factors of some of them slightly changing (e.g., a virtual multimonitor AR setup instead of a physical multimonitor setup).
Yeah, I see now what you wrote. My coffeeless brain must have just seen "total ... of bytes". Carry on...
Yes. But in our experience to date, this is less common than people say it is, and there are strategies for dealing with it. One such strategy is https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... (sorry I don't have time to explain this, as I'm about to go offline - but the key word is 'primarily'.) No strategy works in all cases though.
Incentives. For the past couple of decades the deal has been "mom and pop have it all figured out, so get out of the way and we'll buy you off with some cheap toys". So yeah, we have a generation that knows how to throw a perfect tantrum to get their next Lego set and expects the store to somehow never run out of them.
> keybase.io has been great

> Crypto thing they attempted

well...
You're right, the people who are generally attracted to Bogleheads in the first place, and furthermore the people who are able to participate there without getting removed, are probably quite civil under their FB/Twitter/Reddit handles too. Or they're people who won't go anywhere near FB/Twitter/Reddit.

What's obviously very hard is allowing discussion of politics, macroeconomics, religion, race, etc. without it getting heated. Bogleheads doesn't even try.
I'm not sold on using automount to reduce the time spent with the filesystems mounted. Unless I've missed something, having a filesystem mounted doesn't make it any more susceptible to damage; being "mounted" just means that the kernel populates its data structures in memory and adds it to the VFS, it doesn't incur any ongoing r/w access. What risks corruption is writing data... which this doesn't stop, because the moment anything tries to access it the OS will helpfully mount the filesystem again.
What sort of engineer are you and how many years of experience?
Who needs to eat or sleep, it just hurts productivity.
bit like seeing someone jump into an active volcano, really
It may be adequate for you, but I don't have a 4k screen to watch low quality content, unless the content I want to watch cannot be had in a reasonable quality.

If you are watching it on your phone, then I completely agree with you, but I don't do that.
So this is a division of spacex? Since that's where there "careers" page goes right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...

This is (most of) the source code for Axiom. The code is extracted from the latex for these pdfs.
There are plenty of right wing / politically conservative subs.
Why not apply a creditor's default to enforce the debt anyway?
MIT's Battlecode [1] is a perfect example of an automated RTS. I only competed once back in graduate school, but it was incredibly fun. The only downside I'd say is most systems don't have terribly intricate solutions, mostly because of the amount of logic needed. If I recall correctly, the year I competed, the winning team's strategy was "just spam cannons (the heaviest damage dealers)". It might be a little more complex now after a decade of learning, but it might be what you;re looking for.

[1] https://battlecode.org/
> As a longtime working journalist, longtime check-haver, and someone who knows lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of media professionals I can promise you that working journalists derive zero value, social status, or self-esteem from this.

Blatantly false, as the childish histrionics over the new verification system from many journalists this past week have shown. A lot of journalists' entire self worth seems wrapped up in their twitter audience frankly.
I don't do interesting stuff.
Google Open Source Casebook
Or just spin off the browser to technically-focused (cf policy focused) group that does not have any connection to management and staff who get paid from deals with "tech" companies.

Mozilla could be releasing multiple "experimental" browsers for people to play with. Trimmed down versions of Firefox with "features" removed that anyone can compile on a low resource computer. Browsers not designed for advertising. Browsers designed for commerce. For banking. Browsers designed for fast information retrieval. "Secure" browsers with tiny attack surfaces. And so on. Specialised browsers.
All that Mozilla code should be useful to more than just "tech" companies. For the avoidance of doubt, the idea of the web browser should not be solely a neverending popularity contest to crown one program that will obviate all others. There should also be (more) unpopular, boring browsers for doing routine, boring web-based things.

The whole "web advocacy" schtick comes across as hollow when the company treats a web browser like some "holy" program that no one else can tinker with. That is exactly why we have the situation with Google. "Web protocols" are decided by whomever writes the browser, and according to Mozilla's view of the web, only a handful of people can write browsers. As it happens they work for advertising companies, companies that are becoming advertising companies or a company paid by advertising companies (Mozilla). The web is more than a f'ing advertising medium. It is a public resource. Mozilla just cannot get over itself and see how dysfunctional this has become. Mozilla thinks the web is dead without advertising. It is the other way around. The web is getting suffocated by the influence of browser-enabled advertising spend.

And then we have the obvious conflict of interest. Mozilla execs get paid from deals with "tech" companies. We are then asked to believe Mozilla is going to make these companies more "responsible". Difficult to see how that is going to work when those companies are the ones paying Mozilla. Maybe if Mozilla threatened to "democratise" the web browser so it was not the exclusive domain of "tech" companies. A web with many clients. Those companies have come to rely on the power over web users they have through controlling "the" browser.
I would say it is a range from 0.1-1.0,10

Companies need those 10xdevs because they are bloated with dead weight.

But office politics make it very hard to cut that dead weight.
The attitude of "If you don't like it, leave!" is allowing the bullies to win.

Minorities, both racial and gender, should be able to use social media without having vitriol spewed at them because they're guilty of being a minority.
huh? I lived in a subaru outback in the forest for some time. I bought the car for $1500. It lasted ~6 months, I spent a few hundred registering and bare-minimum insuring it and when it died I called a junkyard and they hauled it away and gave me $100. It's not like it cost anything to park it in national forest.

When I was homeless in North Dakota I met a guy with a Ford E350 ho bought for about the same price. He was handier than I was and as far as I can tell he could keep it running indefinitely from junkyard parts for almost nothing.

The grift is overselling what goes into the van, or a new and overbuilt van. The bigger issue is van-life dumps your externalities on everyone else -- you aren't paying property taxes but you probably still avail yourself of local public services and utilities as part of the cheap living. It doesn't scale.
RV interiors are not built for full-time living and will quickly fall apart if you use them that way. They are built for being used a few times a year.
You don't need to look back to 2003; you can find a direct analogue of that war in the social discourse today.
I don't mean persuade them out of their opinions on $topic! I mean persuade them to express their opinions in a thoughtful, curious way that doesn't break the site guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
People do care. If you openly associate your brand with strong support for a pro pedophile or pro rape position customers will care about that.

The idea that they won't seems pretty ridiculous.
Absolutely. The airlines do it all the time with pilots via furloughs during downturns.
The parent didn't suggest cutting off food, housing, or other essentials.
Take a look at Tikzit a gui for tikz. GUIs have their downsides but they make a lot of sense for graphical output.
Your hardware can record many datapoints, and bundle them up together into one packet for transmission in one big bundle. If you are reading a float off a sensor, you can get nearly 1 data point per minute, transmitted hourly, with a very naive implementation.

Much more with compression specialized to your use case and clever packet design.
This* is a feature, not a bug for me – I use separate profiles in Chrome or Container Tabs in Firefox!

Edit: I realized you are talking about switching accounts twitter style. I don't mess with that - I use a separate Chrome profile. Also you are arguing for GCP, I thought you were arguing against it.

* Having separate accounts, not being able to have separate accounts - I know it's possible with AWS as AWS doesn't force you to use a single account.
Amazon and Google are always calling, even now I gets emails from both. Amazon recruiters just spam me.
Shoot your shot there if interested
You're already carrying around a device that monitors your location, what you are saying (and audio in the surrounding area), to some extent how you are moving (gyroscope), your data ingress and egress patterns and where you share virtually all your public thoughts (and most private thoughts).

Some people even connect their watches, which monitor (or will soon monitor) everything from their heart rate, sleep schedule, oxygen levels, BMI, etc.

I frankly don't think it can get much more intrusive.
The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril
It's a crisis of productivity that Brexit has made worse.

Question for software engineers in the UK: how good are companies these days at training up junior engineers? One of the starkest differences I saw on leaving London for Silicon Valley was how much better SV is at training up young engineers. But I left a decade ago (in what was, in retrospect, a high watermark for the UK); perhaps matters have improved?
It's not censorship, it's about optimizing for advertisers instead of users. Which means users can't have too much control. But since users won't pay advertising is the only business model that works.
I'm willing to be neutral about this as long as zero (0) executives from Mozilla take jobs at these "responsible tech companies." Otherwise, imo it's just people setting up their next gig with google's money laundered through Mozilla.
It's important to understand that growing companies are not laying off because they have 'nothing for staff to do'.

This isn't likely a situation of 'Ford Motorcars had a bad 3 quarters, and sales forecasts are way down, we have to close two plants'.

They are laying off to improve efficiencies on paper, capture some excess value created by those staffers (hey - you built that thing, great, bye, don't need you! For now ...), and likely to bulk up the balance sheet before a transaction, like an IPO etc. - and as an excuse to get rid of what they perceive to be lower performing staff (who may or may not be adding value).

It's a supposed 'optimization' not a 'necessary' thing.

I suggest that in these scenarios, that there could be better alternatives, if we put our heads together and thought about it a bit.
Depends a bit what is meant by embedded.

On the higher levels of embedded Linux there can be a grain of truth in this (especially wrt asynchronous model).

But the lower levels of embedded (both on bare metal MCUs) and on the lower level parts of embedded Linux require hardware skills without a web equivalent. While embedded software developers aren't normally expected to actually design boards they do have to be able read a schematic and review it concerning the software aspects (eg are the components used already well supported in software, are the right debug ports available etc). And quite often you have to debug with an osciloscape or logic analyser. Basic soldering to build cables etc is also very useful.

Also a lot of embedded requires understanding and modifying large codebases (eg the Linux kernel) whereas in web development its more about using existing libraries and frameworks more or less as is.
I didn't claim that it was (or wasn't) a free speech issue. What I said is that "if it is not your server you don't get to complaint" is an overly simplistic (and untrue) take on this issue.

In fact there is already some amount of legislation on this, for example in the EU.
Interesting to see that Infiniband is still kicking
All of that might be true. All generalizations are sometimes untrue.

> spend their time doing things other people don't regard as valuable...

Sprig is an educational project, shepherded by adults affiliated with big name institutions like MIT and Google. They are extremely conventionally successful smart people who think "nurturing programming talent" is valuable. What are we even talking about? These things don't happen in a vacuum.
Not to mention that people could have internet connected crap without even knowing it. No way to block it using PiHole, pfsense or other local routers and access points.
Nope. There's been abuse in text-only environments online since forever. And lots of people have left (or rarely post on) HN because of complaints about the enviroment here.
Same way anyone with a platform product makes money: premium tiers or paid extensions.
this article makes me sad ... a neural network can be also a network of biological neurons, the author means artificial neural network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network
the Wikipedia article even goes into the differences, so why did we need a study for that?

A study urges caution comparing Jellyfish to Jelley ... tasters found they are not the same (even though I hear that fried jellyfish taste nice...)

study urges caution comparing the model to the real thing, as the model has some generalizations the real thing does not ...
Photography is not just about the camera
Potatoes have gotten an undeserved bad reputation. Boiled potatoes can be as 58. Especially if you cool and reheat. Mashed or fried is over 100.
My mom still has a land-line. She gets multiple calls a day, robots trying to steal an old lady's money. For this we invented the telephone? the transistor?
Mastodon Gains 200k New Users After Musk Completes Twitter Takeover
> I can't believe that my iphone doesn't have a built-in setting to cap charging at 80%

They have a "smart charging" setting which is poorly defined. It says it limits charging to 80% sometimes using AI. I think the idea is it charges to 100% overnight, and 80% the rest of the time.

But i agree, it would be nice if it had a selector switch. Some laptops have a "aim for 60%, 80% or 100% battery charge" option.
An organization with no slack can’t respond to emergencies in an effective way.
I was part of lay offs some years ago. Managers didn’t know until the day of, and it wasn’t based on performance. All the performance reviews were already done months before. Some people were even due for promotions.
There are so many heuristics like that, and I fear making the guidelines so long that no one will read them.

I want to compound a bunch of those explanations into a sort of concordance or whatever the right bibliographic word is for explaining and adding to what's written else where (so, not concordance!)
Because it's the only major platform with a robust API.

In 2022 I don't think any other major service has a public API that lets you perform as many actions as the official website or app.

> Adjacently, why don't they allow non-first-party apps?

Because if they are the only option, then people will only use their app, which means they can do whatever they want with it and people will still use it. Additionally, they no longer have to maintain or work on a public API.
Obviously here, animal means non-human animal. If, as Chompsky proposes, humans have evolved a unique structure for language processing that no other animal has, then it is irrelevant how closely or distantly related any other animal is to us. Relation would only be important if Chomsky is correct about the structure but wrong about it evolving in humans rather than in the pre-human evolutionary line.
FWIW, https://sile-typesetter.org/what-is-sile/ points out:

> one of the things that TeX can’t do particularly well is typesetting on a grid. This is something that people typesetting bibles really need to have. There are various hacks to try to make it happen, but they’re all horrible. In SILE, you can alter the behaviour of the typesetter and write a very short add-on package to enable grid typesetting."

Alas, I don't know what that means. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/latex-cookbook/97817843... appears to give a clue:

> For two-sided prints with very thin paper, matching base lines would look much better. Especially in two-column documents it may be desirable to have baselines of adjacent lines at exactly the same height.

but I don't have access to the full content.
Even then, in the U.S. less than 5% of mortgages are variable rate loans:

"The percentage of adjustable-rate mortgages to total loans shrank from a high of roughly 34% in 2005 to a low of under 5% in 2022. The decline began when the housing market peaked around 2006 and bottomed in 2009 at around 2.5%."

https://www.financialsamurai.com/adjustable-rate-mortgages-a...

Everyone is always fighting the last war. The real estate market may slow down here, maybe even prices decline in either real or nominal terms, but I don't think real estate is where the biggest risks lay, at least in the domestic US real estate market (can't say anything for China or AUS or other markets that seem primed for a dramatic bust).

I'm far more concerned about sovereign debt levels, which have absolutely ballooned over the past decade, and are even accelerating in growth in many cases.
> If we had quickly spun up a competent new plausibly democratic government without an insurgency

Well, yes, if we had done something magical and impossible, that would have distracted attention.

But even if the war hadn’t been a war of aggression based on lies led by people devoted to corrupt interests which shaped not only the decision to go to war but also the conduct of the occupation, that was never going to happen.

But if it wasn’t for those corrupt influences, which definitely contributed to how bad things actually went, we wouldn’t have gone to war in the first place. The problems with the outcomes were not unrelated to the bad motivations for war, they were tied to a common source.
It's sad. I'm using a USB-C to 4.5mm TRRS audio dongle, and if you can't get audio drivers, I fear my "exotic" setup is even less likely to be supported.

I've been wanting to try Windows 11 on ARM64 with a Microsoft or a Lenovo device, but nothing seems to have the basics I'm looking for like OLED for a laptop, or ECC (for both a laptop or a server)

If there were ARM64 options with ECC RAM, I'd buy that today and start deploying tomorrow.
Apparently it's not a layoff until the eighth paragraph.
The commentary is interesting, but it does unfortunately gloss over the very real issue of actually controversial topics. Most platforms don't typically set out to ban controversial stuff from what I can tell, but the forces that be (advertisers, government regulators, payment processors, service providers, etc.) tend to be quite a bit more invested in such topics. Naughty language on YouTube and porn on Twitter are some decent examples; these are not and never have been signal to noise ratio problems. While the media may be primarily interested in the problem of content moderation as it impacts political speech, I'd literally filter all vaguely politically charged speech (even at the cost of missing plenty of stuff I'd rather see) if given the option.

I think that the viewpoints re: moderation are very accurate and insightful, but I honestly have always felt that it's been more of a red herring for the actual scary censorship creep happening in the background. Go find the forum threads and IRC logs you have from the 2000s and think about them for a little while. I think that there are many ways in which I'd happily admit the internet has improved, but looking back, I think that a lot of what was discussed and how it was discussed would not be tolerated on many of the most popular avenues for discourse today—even though there's really nothing particularly egregious about them.

I think this is the PoV that one has as a platform owner, but unfortunately it's not the part that I think is interesting. The really interesting parts are always off on the fringes.
I would attribute to malice things like active attempts to destroy the very forum - spamming is a form of "malice of the commons".

You will know when you encounter malice because nothing will de-malice the poster.

But if it is not malice; you can even take what they said and rewrite it for them in a way that would pass muster. In debate this is called steelmanning - and it's a very powerful persuasion method.
To save you a click,

> What's happened is that they have mistaken their own resentment at journalists' unearned checkmark privilege for something that journalists themselves care deeply about and are either willing to pay for or are mad that other people will be able to buy.

Basically he's arguing Musk's $8-check decision comes from a misunderstanding of the journalism industry. His point is only marginally related to NYT's coverage of tech.