skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The remoting extensions for remoting over SSH, into Docker, and into WSL are really killer features. Nothing else has the same workflow and ease of use or even comes close, to my knowledge.

The other thing is that Visual Studio Code generally just works and gets me to writing code without issues. I came to it after trying to give Emacs a try after multiple times of doing so. I could sort of wrangle Emacs to do what I needed it to do, but I was having to write code for Emacs and search forums and poor documentation on how to do so, and even then, it was buggy. Switching to Visual Studio Code took just a few minutes of installing a couple of extensions, and then I was off writing code.

It is a little bit slow and sluggish at times, but it isn't an issue at the moment.

The .devcontainer integration is also pretty slick. Pull a repository, open Visual Studio Code, and it will open up in a Docker container with your environment all configured and ready to go.
For up to 50 players: Roll 2d10 for a number 0-99. Ignore top 100 mod p (reroll). Otherwise
chosen player is r mod p. r is result, p is number of players.
What would mucus even look like in a turd?
>but if you're just quoting blunt facts, a primary source is preferable, no?

At least in theory, no it's not, per Wikipedia policy. Now, in practice, if you reference some government dataset for a non-controversial fact like the area of a state, only the most procedural whackjob admin is going to flag it. But, in general, you're not supposed to use primary sources.
Not to mention it's an American space program and an American mission. It should probably be understandable to Americans.
Yea, I was expecting a general-purpose model or dataset to train a model. The idea is great, but - as it currently stands - of no use to most people.
Doom is truly an amazing showcase of engineering achievements and going the extra mile for optimizations.

Games these days just depend on raw hardware and optimization takes a back seat. Games like Plague Tale Requiem, while look fantastic, are equally bad at the engineering part. How is an RTX 3080 the minimum recommended spec for 1080@60fps, is beyond me. Sadly, people these days do not care about software optimization and those who do are bombarded with comments like "Get better hardware".
Scotland only removed the last bits of feudalism in 2000

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/5/notes/division/1/2...

"Vassals will become owners and superiors will disappear."
How would any of those teams provide a path to 10x revenue?
But if Automattic holds out a few years, maybe they can buy the whole thing for 0.3% of what Elon paid.
When I walk in to a public men’s bathroom I hear a lot of noises I don’t hear in my own house, I often wonder what’s going on with other peoples bodies given I only know my own experience, clearly we’re all very different ;-)
The U.S. Needs More Housing Than Almost Anyone Can Imagine
The H-1B visa has problems, but it's not hurting U.S. workers
One issue that I really don't understand is why the onboard cameras are so bad and are badly positioned.

A huge part of this program is to generate buzz and interest in the public about the human space program. A large part of that is pretty pictures, to be honest.

The onboard video quality looks like 720p at best and the exposure is for the Orion vehicle, not Earth or the moon. And the video seems horizontally distorted.

I'd have to look, but I'm guessing this is an engineering camera meant to primarily view the physical state of the craft.

That being said, after billions of dollars to get this thing into space, they should have accounted for the need and benefits of better footage.
You're the one saying it's desirable to make it illegal for car companies to have their own brick and mortar stores.

If you were consistent, then you would support making it illegal for Apple too.
The sheer amount of money involved is corrupting everything.
In my experiencing greenwashing is just as likely to be used to shame normal consumer behavior into reducing costs for businesses (do you really want those plastic utensils with your takeout? Do you really need to use that much water in your hotel room? Do you really need fresh towels every day?) as it is to actually help the environment.

Most of the time corporations claim to be doing something in a carbon-neutral way it's because they are purchasing offsets where you just have to believe that they are actually computing the carbon costs appropriately and the offsets are "real" anyway.
I see it, I still thing other Similarly interesting interpretations can be made. Suggestions?
There are promoted apps in the app store, ads within news articles in the News and Stocks apps, and Apple also advertises their own services like Apple Music and Apple News and Apple Arcade etc. in some places, particularly on first use of some apps. Nowhere near as egregious as Windows, but still a bit disappointing.
Here are the ones I can count (off the top of my head):

- "Try the new Safari!" advertisement spam

- Settings menu advertises iCloud

- Apple Music activates every time you put on your headphones, treating you to a pop-up ad

- App Store searches always return promoted content before actual results

There are supposedly others in the News/Stock apps but I avoid Apple's first-party clients wherever possible.
I came to say exactly this: in my opinion the site's choice was very obviously wrong.
The vast majority of people are not the vast majority of new car buyers.
If you want to avoid it, get a german toilet[1]. Depending on your opinion on stool inspection, it’s either the best thing ever or the opposite.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=german+toilet
The telemetry can be turned off.
Like Qatar?
"A good chance" doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Do we really function so differently? How? (sleep/work/activities habits margins are kind of a small detail)
Windows 11 feels like a more invasive, user-hostile, worse performing Chromebook.
I installed Ubuntu with my last laptop for home and I'm not looking back. Thanks, Microsoft for turning me to Linux
Definitely depends on the size of your party. We were a group of five, split between three cabins on different floors of the ship. With how tremendously huge modern cruise liners are and how crowded cruises can be, I found it was invaluable. For example, being able to quickly message "I went back to the cabin" or "I'm on deck 6 at the table at the far back" or "meet you at the dining hall at 5pm" was very helpful.
A lot of hate here but I think this thing kicks ass.

Do you really think that the person who made this does not understand that taste is subjective, rounded corners are not necessarily preferred etc? Do you think that they believe that there is only one right way to do things? Of course they don't. That's not the point of the game.

They are inviting you to participate in a subjectively chosen design system and see how quickly you can learn and adopt the rules of the game. In the process they are teaching you to pay attention to figures of merit and details that are subtle and foundational.

Put it this way - if someone can score highly on this game, I would be much more confident that they are technically competent enough (and thoughtful enough) as a designer to be able to go out and cook up something totally new and different, without rounded corners or whatever.

If someone is not able to calmly interpret the good intentions of the game, or if they are not able to quickly adopt the rules of the design system that is presented, then I would be more doubtful of their chances of cooking up great design themselves - although of course it is not at all out of the question.
RISC-V is just another flavor of processor architecture, like ARM and x86. You will have to spend approximately the same amount of time thinking about RISC-V support as you currently do about the other two.

Cheaper devices in general, yes, and eventually, cheaper computers.
Yes you do. It's in the form of "nudges" toward more Apple products - mostly iCloud ecosystem products.
Having a DVD library is tempting. Physical media that you own and is easy to rip digitally, etc. However I popped in a disc recently and was reminded of how bad the dvd experience was. It just stopped playing two scenes in. Took it out, the disk looked perfect. Tried again, stopped at the exact same moment. There goes that disk I guess, it was probably 20 years old to be fair but thats true for most dvds you’d find in the used bin.
Because it has handled anything I threw at it (platforms and languages) without missing a beat and free. Hard to imagine what would do better.
I also don't see any ads in my own Windows 11 installation start menu, just pinned apps and the latest files I have accessed [1]. Also, the start menu search functionality works flawlessly for me, always showing me the app or file I want. Hell, it even shows you power-user stuff really intuitively. Previously if you wanted to go into the windows registry editor, you had to know the right incantation, but now, all you have to do is hit the Windows/Meta key and type 'reg' and the registry editor already pups up as the first suggestion and hit enter. Lovely.

A lot of these blog posts (like many comments in this thread sadly) are low effort hate/FUD for farming clickbait/karma rather than objective analysis.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/VhkMeRr
too many to count.

Most recently,

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09505...
Maybe OP includes the startup of things like language servers in that time. In my experience VS code editor itself launches very quickly but that doesn't mean the full IDE is ready to be used. That said, I haven't experienced particularly long startup times either.
I mean, I think imaginary special blimps fit into the same space as non-existent fish; it's exactly the sort of thing that Wikipedia's defense mechanisms don't work for, largely due to lack of interest.

(I do find the concept of a venomous sole fascinating, though. How would that work? Would it _bite_ people? They're seabed-dwelling flatfish!)
Kmem_guard_t
My take on Douglas Murray, based on first paragraph of the Introduction of The War on the West: ... a cultural war, and it is being waged remorselessly ...

The man doesn't know the difference between "remorseless" and "relentless".
No. Tim did not miss an important point about trust.

You missed an important point about power.

Those large land owners do not give a fuck about your blockchain. They'll take the land and farm it anyways. You can "own" the virtual stake; they're happy to cede you cyber nonsense as long as they get to control who touches the actual grass.

The large land owners, who have local authorities in their pocket, would simply quote President Andrew Jackson's apocryphal opinion on blockchain: "The blockchain has made its decision; now let the blockchain's army and police enforce it!" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
They're saying don't write such a parser in C. Use something else (memory safe language, parser generator, whatever).
In my experience it depends on the product.

Rider and Pycharm work great for me but I can’t get Webstorm to work properly with my workplaces large Angular product, whereas VSCode handles it without issue.
Glad you appreciated it! Not many people knew it was there. I made a custom T shirt from some of the clipboard vector output.

FYI I've ported the emulator to C#, it runs in even higher resolutions than before. [1]

[1] https://github.com/manfreda-dot-org
„Woman“ in your mind is the only societal category which is completely devoid of external attributes.

I can not be a baseball player without playing baseball. I can not be German without being born in Germany. I can not be of color without the needed heritage or a certain amount of melanin in my skin. I can not choose to be tall. I can not choose to be male without being male.

It just doesn‘t make sense. If the category is that loose, then why have it at all?
Adoption and change is a major problem exacerbated by the many protocol options. Once you get people on Signal, it will be more difficult to get many to change again to something anonymous and decentralized when situations or threat models change.
One big refactor paid for mine in saved time...

Would be silly for corpo to not buy it for developers
Doesn't have all the feature of msvc for C++, or it requires integration.
Why is it critical that intelligent life on earth survives?
> Getting VSCode to equivalent functionality takes hours

Do you have an elaboration here? This in no way matches with my experience, and I'm not sure I understand how this could be the case.
Confusingly, the people in this story are named Adam, Alan, and Alex.

Alex did the first actual edit.
I think what’s really happening is transformation of everything into a micro transaction enabled timeline social media. Soon everything will be $3.99 opportunity for experience, from turning in essay assignments to fixing oxygen generators on actual space ships at this rate.
Canadians find new ways to fight climate change
Asp.net Core Identity Considered Harmful
See it the other way around: how many maladaptive behaviours have you absorbed since childhood?
> Even though these "financial primitives" on the blockchain are neat from a technical standpoint, they tend to blow up precisely because the markets are not liquid enough (so second-order effects are amplified).

I would rephrase this to say that the less liquid state of blockchain markets limits the available set of financial primitives which are resistant to manipulation.

It’s true, but if liquidity is the only hurdle — I think you’ve more or less ceded that blockchain provides value. It just needs wider adoption. (Probably a stronger support of blockchain than I would personally offer.)
Slush revokes $1M pitch prize from Russian founders after industry outcry
Ok, what is DnI? I spent way too long searching for a def'n.
You might like Watchy https://github.com/sqfmi/Watchy
> Didn't those come from X11

Almost. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_betwee...

I remember, way back when some of hadn't been born and the web was new and exciting, noticing the difference in greys when using the same colour names in a desktop tool's output and it's HTML documentation.
Presumably because somebody pointed to an asteroid somewhere and calculated that it contains a volume of platinum/gold/unobtanium that would be worth a hundred zillion kajillion trillion dollars, without taking into account that if you actually brought that much of a given precious metal into the market the price would crash to zero and we'd all be drinking Coke out of disposable platinum cans.
Right, but you do have the option of writing that parser in a language other than C. And given how often severe security issues are caused by such parsers written in C, one probably ought to choose a different language, or at least use C functions and string types that store a length rather than relying on null termination.
Okay, think about it this way: you've got a designer who is turning in their work, and your job is to review it before releasing it to the customer. Typical frontend workflow. The quiz is about catching the sorts of things that many, many, many people wouldn't notice, but might still be unsettling in some vague way. The icons aren't evenly distributed, spacing is too tight or too loose. Things that look different from every other app running on the same phone.

Daring to be different sounds noble in an after-school special, but putting out a mobile app with conflicting call to action or icons that don't line up isn't brave and safe.
And lose a chunk of people that only enjoy Java edition specifically because it's Java edition.
They think I’m going to feed this chicken breast to… birds in my backyard?
Mistakes in proofs are just as probable as mistakes in exhaustive tests.

An exhaustive test is just one type of a machine verified proof.
The one that everyone and their grandmother uses to pick screen colors: 8bits per channel, integer.
More people voluntarily separated than Musk planned. He had to call a few "flight risks" and urge them to keep working at Twitter. [1]

>Earlier Thursday, as Musk's deadline drew near and so few people were signing up, he and other company leaders asked team managers for lists of people they thought were "critical" to their work and Twitter's future but deemed "a flight risk," one of the people familiar said. Lists in hand Thursday, vice presidents and even Musk himself made calls to some engineers who didn't sign up to continue working.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-elon-musk-half-worki...
Hacking a weird TV censoring device [video]
For sure. My next car will be an EV. Maybe a model X if I am financially able.
I switched from W10+wsl on my personal desktop to Linux with my most recent upgrade. There were some issues to debug, but it's just been nice to have the OS play nicely in the background and not compete for my attention with ads, service upsells, and account nonsense.

I've considered going back for certain programs, but thinking about windows now gives me the same sort of mental hesitation that I get from gas stations with those horrible video ads. It's not a dealbreaker per se, but I would go far out of my way to avoid it.
The fact that Kotlin was created by JetBrains and appears to require their IDE to be productive is the reason I have no interest in it. I'm totally blind and while JetBrains IDE's are technically accessible with my screen reading software they are difficult to use unlike VSCode which makes an effort to be plesent to use with screen reader software not just technically possible to use.
> 5. It is fast for you.

This.

Compared to Java based IDEs specifically: whenever a Java person tells me any Java app is fast, I try it, and I can feel the latency. It's been this way for 20 years now.
It will save you time, not allow to magically be better at coding...

>Example: without Intellij, you deploy some back end code interacting with an OCR solution.

> Example: with Intellij, you can build the whole OCR solution yourself.

How did IntelliJ taught you how to make OCR ? Or the example is completely out of your wild imagination ?
Or seen the other way around. By applying fuzzing to find the “silly” type of bugs, you can spend your artistic efforts on finding the other bugs.
I’m with you.

Sure there are compromises I have to make, but being Free, unmonitored, not treated like a resource to be extracted, and feeling like my computer is mine is worth more than the any of the issues I encounter.
Yeah, and even the relative bump in Q1 2021 was due to backlogged sales from 2020 supply interruptions. A more recent release of the same periodic data indicates that:

"""The total video disc market is still clearly in decline in the US (and globally) and does not appear to be recovering after the Covid 19 delays of new disc releases due to theatrical releases being postponed or moved to streaming. In the US, video disc sales fell 25.5% from $3.29 billion in 2019 to $2.45 billion in 2020 and an additional 20% to $1.97 billion in 2021. In the first quarter of 2022, video disc sales continued their decline with an additional 19% drop year-over-year."""
> GBTC’s central problem is that it has been superseded by the advent of better vehicles for holding bitcoin.

This really has nothing to do with FTX in the way anyone would assume from this headline; at best "the value of crypto generally went down a bit, so anything tied to the value of crypto would go down a bit"... but it isn't like this product now has some fundamental predictable negative change in its value proposition due to some form of financial contagion from FTX.

The core problem is this fund never made sense to begin with: it is a share in a company that itself owns Bitcoin, and so one might naively assume the share is going to be priced as "amount of bitcoin owned divided by number of shares"... but if you own a share of a company you can't ever get your share of the assets of that company so the share price is going to be worth a lot less than that and it is ridiculously naive to believe that you can value a stock like that.

> The underlying problem is that — unlike for ETFs — there is no arbitrage mechanism to bring supply and demand back into balance.

Essentially, the value of these shares were then entirely defined by what amounts to a prediction market on whether the people who created the product were going to manage to pull off getting it converted into a form of regulated entity where the value of the shares would work like that, and, so far, the SEC hasn't let them.

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https://www.ft.com/content/29a2f96f-6d9b-4593-abdf-ffaadc502...

> “It’s highly disappointing that the SEC continues allowing any retail investor to access this fund, yet they won’t approve a spot bitcoin ETF which would solve the discount problem. This is yet another example of the absurd regulatory dysfunction around the entire crypto ecosystem right now,” Geraci added.

I've even heard the conspiracy theory before that this is some kind of plot by the SEC to help drive people to centralized exchanges that they are connected with (as Gary Gensler might be with FTX) or that they expect to fail (in an attempt to kill cryptocurrencies). But like, FTX now having failed frankly would seem to only bolster the argument that a clean regulated ETF would be much saner than all of this exchange mess.

> Moreover, Geraci believed the FTX debacle has bolstered the case for regulatory oversight of crypto exchanges, “theoretically accelerating the timeline for spot bitcoin ETF approval”.
The irony of comparing Andreeson and Buffet and claiming they have completely opposing investment theses is pretty hilarious.

They both have the exact same approach, which is to seek companies that have or will create monopoly effects in their markets, using dominance of a market segment to raise prices and extract rents.

Same investment strategy that’s made basically every vast fortune since we invented the cotton gin.
... and yet no one is going to do anything about it.

People who love Windows are still going to use, no matter how anti-consumer it becomes. The never ending battle Windows users are willing to go through, against their own OS each day, to make the UX less painful is amusing to say the least.

First they put spyware, then bloatware, then adware, then they disabled local account, now they're even trying to make sure your machines can't run Linux properly.

What's next? Subscription to use your own computer?

Windows is not going to change. Windows' users are not going to change. It's only going to get worse so I think even discussing why Windows is introducing all these horrible 'features' is almost pointless because we do this ritual almost every month.
The customer is no longer right. Software is a zero-margin product (Stallman was right!) and monetizing it effectively means creating artificial friction for the user. All of the fatalist 90s predictions surrounding software licensing are coming true...
Carbon capture cannot be any kind of solution to excess carbon emission rate.

However, after carbon emissions has been substantially curtailed, we will need to capture the carbon already exhausted, because otherwise it hangs about for many decades, doing harm the entire time.
$80M per year on ads is a medium-sized company now?
I mean... in theory? But see the history of social media privacy scandals.

Really, Mastodon shouldn't call the feature DM at all, IMO. It's effectively just a normal message with special visibility rule.
I like it for its flexibility and relatively light weight comparing to an IDE. Only complain is that I wish I don't have to learn js/ts to develop plugins.