skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891538

You are neither funny nor witty with this.
What, what? I honestly don't understand why you wouldn't want home delivery?? Things arrive at your home, you don't need to go anywhere, I work from home so I'm here almost all the time anyway, Amazon gives you accurate timing for delivery time so no, I won't be accidentally in the shower, and porch pirates don't really exist in the UK - if I'm not at home(or don't answer the door) then the parcel goes back to the depot and I get it delivered the following day.

But yes, like others have mentioned - you can just pick an automated locker as delivery address if that's what you prefer.

Honestly, I'm so incredibly baffled by your comment it's crazy.
Four-day week trial with 70 UK firms: trial ends, some firms make it permanent
This article has it backwards.

> is why intellectual progress is stalling.

It's stalling specifically because of the "progress" we have made over the past 100 years. Welfare didn't exist back then. Government mandated schooling either.

These are the absolute reasons why we're getting dumber and dumber. You're a parrot at school, not thinking for yourself. You don't have to think or plan about food or housing, tomorrow or the next year - go and get a hand-out - free housing, free food.

Look at all the geniuses and their path to success. This is what we should be emulating. Obviously not all of us are geniuses, but continuing this path will ensure that none appear. UBI is only going to make it worse. Okay, that's my 2 minutes. I'm off, back to TikTok.
As a Linux user I've had many Thinkpads. X1 Carbon does have a great keyboard. But there's to my knowledge no other laptop with a display as good as a Macbook's retina. Look at any Thinkpad next to a retina display, it's night and day. That's why keep using a 2015 MBP with Linux as my daily driver. Looks like I might be able to upgrade soon thanks to Asahi.
“I don’t know, I can try and find out for you”

“I am not sure, maybe Sue (in same meeting) knows more about that area?”

Are valid replies. Armed with various get outs, if you can’t answer or only part answer or only probabilistically answer then you will be OK you can say these
with confidence.

And if you know you can answer with confidence.

And sometimes it is wise to say you are not sure even if you are (avoiding a promise that might get broken)
I think there are multiple layers behind why someone might find "they" inappropriate. I don't think they're necessarily all valid but I think they're understandable.

1) Gender is currently a political topic. The use of gender neutral pronouns is, rightly or wrongly, associated with holding certain political beliefs. People who do not hold these beliefs are likely to reject their use on that basis.

2) Gender is a matter of personal identity. A fairly common desire for people is to be "good" at the gender they identify as. A fundamental part of that is being recognised by others as that gender. Gender neutral pronouns refuse to provide that acknowledgement.

3) They can be unfamiliar. Ultimately pronouns are something that, until recently, most people never actively thought about. Some people will reactively reject them as it puts into question their understanding of the world.
I think lots of students get lost with different orders of infinity (countable, uncountable, etc.), so I think there is definitely a point beyond which you can't push the intuition behind infinite objects.
> Do you think it's more likely that Vitalik is mistaken that crypto is obviously useful for humanity, or that he knows it isn't and doesn't care, or that your assessment of crypto being useless is incorrect?

As the sibling comment says it, succinctly: "“I am smart in one area so I am therefore smart in everything” is the original sin of crypto"

Vitalik is very superficially smart in many areas. Refuting his oftentimes pseudo intellectual takes on what's happening takes too much time because "but he sounds so smart".

In this latest one the most obvious one is the entire "Hybrid applications" section. Which never worked, doesn't work and will never work the way he pretends blockchains will enable them to work. His statement "Voting is an excellent example" is patently, provably bullshit [1], but "he's smart so he's right" is hard to beat. Same goes for everything else he throws in there.

[1] To quote, not in full:

--- start quote ---

the purported advantages for a voting system in a weakly-governed country. “Keep your voting records in a tamper-proof repository not owned by anyone” sounds right — yet is your Afghan villager going to download the blockchain from a broadcast node and decrypt the Merkle root from his Linux command line to independently verify that his vote has been counted? Or will he rely on the mobile app of a trusted third party...

...Instead of relying on trust or regulation, in the blockchain world, individuals are on-purpose responsible for their own security precautions. And if the software they use is malicious or buggy, they should have read the software more carefully.

...

Blockchain systems do not magically make the data in them accurate or the people entering the data trustworthy, they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with. A person who sprayed pesticides on a mango can still enter onto a blockchain system that the mangoes were organic. A corrupt government can create a blockchain system to count the votes and just allocate an extra million addresses to their cronies.

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...

--- end quote ---

For government registries see this discussion about land registries from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564

And so on.
Chris Seaton has died
This seems like a reasonable response to unreasonable circumstances. I am not sure there are other options that allow folks to maintain their professionalism and to prevent management's intentional lack of planning from becoming a personal emergency.
Yeah that would be on top of it all. For the ATC to use Linux on something, there would have to be a competing application that runs on Linux, which has to be certified and then migrated towards. That could take a decade or two.
>guess any dev who can write Rust today is also a good C dev,

I'm sure they have the potential, but they might not want to learn/use C.

I'd certainly be much more likely to look at kernel dev if I can use rust than if I have to use C.
> mAh is perfectly fine for a first-order comparison of two competing batteries

And yet it’s still dumb, because the actual energy density would let you make the exact same comparison anyway, and it would allow for easier comparison with other battery types or contexts.

> If I need a phone with a large battery, and all phones are 3.8 volts (yes, I do mean 3.7-4.2) then comparing mAh is useful

It’s not, there’s a >10% difference between the top and the bottom of the range.

Just give actual energy values, it’s strictly more useful.
I typically work on a 30" Ultrasharp 2560x1600. It's pretty great for media at a distance and physical screen space, but it's so refreshing when I sit down with any of my MacBooks and use theirs for a smaller task. I'd really like a good 5k 30"+ IPS (not 27) but that's just a dream
Someone working on the re effort mentioned how Apple runs their own testing on those machines on Linux while macos support is being developed. I don't know where they got the information from. (It was posted on Twitter, but can't dig out the link now)
Oh, I finally have something of value to add to a HN thread!

I was always bothered by this and managed to fix it a few months ago. I had grounded my power-plug-box to the central heating system with some copper (don’t ask), but was wondering why I still got those vibrations whenever I was charging the MacBook.

Turns out, charging through just the monitor (via Thunderbolt) solved this: the monitor was grounded.
The default MacBook charger (EU) plug just has just two prongs; a third one for grounding exists, but has to be attached separately.

Edit: indeed, this was on a 14” 2021 MBP. They definitely still get the vibrations when connected to a power source without grounding.
Rust can do that through build.rs, no?
Same, I am certainly NOT going to give a phone number for this free service.
Does she know how to search through a webpage of frequently asked questions?
Nice! The caveat being that this assumes we have little to no shot noise I guess? Since that is where lossy codecs typically beat lossless.
> how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software?

That depends on the definition of non-standard I guess. If I want to quickly throw together a proof of concept product I might need to grab node/npm/postgres/ for example. Waiting even a half day for approval is too much in that scenario I think. So it's problematic in some situations to have an approval process.
But in a typical month I'd say it's around once or twice that I need to run new software.

Some times I feel that we should just take the opposite approach. Don't trust employee machines! In my work I just commit code to a repo that isn't on a company machine anyway (github/azure devops etc). I don't use documents/network shares/databases/vpns whatever that is on a company network.
I could work on my personal machine and no one would notice.

The threat model for a laptop connected to a private github repo is what? a) that a compromised machine can be used in a supply chain attack, and b) that a compromised machine could be used to read secrets/IP from the private repo. That's it. I wonder whether that threat, for normal "low risk" development work is worth the hassle of even bothering with locked down machines?

In some situations I have resorted to running tools inside a VM on my dev machine, where I can play god if I need to.
But really this isn't any different from the above. There is a machine where you can do anything, and which hasn't got access to anything sensitive.
I used to sell store locator software and this is always a problem. We worked on allowing “masks” over water that basically added a penalty for any vector that passed over the mask. It’s a hard problem at any kind of scale though and even this solution wasn’t perfect (imagine a river with no bridges or ferries only)
Yes. VAT typically applies to any transaction where a business sells something.
It seems this technique is getting more pervasive. With such interviews, I always got the feeling these people are talking to a machine. Now that I learned about the Interrotron, I know they are talking to a machine.
Another topic constantly seeing scorn is Kubernetes. This place has been over negative towards k8s since I have known about it, and yet it is getting bigger and better. The same reasons apply, we don't know it get it outta here.
Hey guys, I found the outsider!
DE Reichsbürger are continental analogues of US SovCits; from the relative timing I'm guessing the former (even if unaware of it) are derivative of the latter.

Anyone know the etymology of this memetic complex?

(farthest back I have been able to trace has been the US during the late Warren Court period)
There isn't one. The idea batteries are getting 'safer' is not true and is not nearly an urgent enough issue.
I wonder how ChatGPT3 would respond to this?

If they crawled /r/programming and hackernews, it should be annoyed and come up with something along the lines of "fork it and write in in Rust yourself", "C++ has lots of inertia", "his main stack is C/C++", etc
Actually my 2019 13" is still pretty good, but the new 16" M1 pro, though huge, puts it to shame in all of those dimensions.
Yes, that's one possible solution to the issue of out-of-print works. Compulsory licensing or royalty payments for these works could provide a way for them to be republished and made available to the public again. This would create value by ensuring that these works remain accessible, and by providing a financial incentive for publishers to republish them.
Dr. Cambdell got Youtube Warning for this.
(3 warnings and you are out).

Vaccine Safety Rule : "content alleging that vaccines cause chronic side effects,
outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities."

There should be even smoother transfer to Rumble. Especially if you have lots of videos. Rumble channel should be identical to Youtube and videos should be links until all transfer is done.
What are you on about?

Apple locking down their platform is their prerogative. If it comes to that and the Asahi team cannot continue their reverse-engineering efforts then they'll stop.

Consider why they began in the first place. The M1 and their subsequent M2 and future chips are amazing. The M1 was such a huge leap in performance per watt that it wow'd everyone. In fact it's a huge testament to the hardware team at Apple for creating such an amazing bit of kit that a team of Linux hackers wanted to work on porting Linux to it. This rebellious striving for freedom is refreshing and amazing. They're going to get Linux working on the M1/2... hardware working under Linux and it'll be even more performant than under MacOS. That's huge.

But now folks are saying why Apple? Because nobody has a chip that rivals the M1. Why would you settle for worse performance? Why would you settle for build quality from a lesser hardware manufacturer? Qualcomm and others don't have chips that are as performant. They might in the future but by then the M3 or M4 will likely be out.

Why are we punishing hackers -- in teh purest sense of the word -- for opening up a platform that is superior (hardware wise) to any of the other offerings from all the other deep pocketed ARM laptop/desktop manufacturers? Oh, right, because of tribal hate of Apple. Smh.

If the other manufacturers get off their butts and pour billions into chip design and process and can get laptops out with similar or better performance characteristics then perhaps other teams will attempt what Asahi is doing, and if these same manufacturers wanted to release the specs or work with the upstream Linux community and release drivers themselves that'd be even better. Until then I will continue to support the Asahi team and champion their efforts in every ear that will hear me because I am just so astounded by what they've accomplished so far.

I say all of this as a former Apple-stan. I had macbooks every year since college until now. That's some 15 years. I've since gone full time on Fedora and Thinkpads (currently a P14s but maybe an X1 Carbon in the future).

Edit: I don't think there will be a huge wave of sales because of this for Apple but it will mean that i can get a used M1 and run my favorite distro of Linux because the Asahi team is working with upstream to get their changes up-streamed -- they're amazing like that. It really is how open source work thrives.
Of course. Very few people get paid hacking - nevermind generally for things they enjoy.
This article and the comments remind me of what I used to think as a sheltered teenager before I actually got to hang out with women and realized they're just other humans.

I'd venture to say that what women are looking for is defined much more by their environment than their biology. And that it's wildly different for each of them.

Now if someone wants to try to understand what motivates women they're welcome to do it. I never said it wasn't acceptable to do so. It's going to be hard though, because there are a lot of women out there with a lot of different motivations.

But this just looks like someone trying to explain why "smart/nice" guys can't get laid, wrapped in a pseudo scientific method.
Toyota Hydrogen-Powered Pickup a Testbed for Sustainable Future Trucks
99% of the time but Rust also has build.rs as an escape hatch which lets you run your own code at build time (eg code generator like grpc). The sane part is that you do all this in the same language.
Not twitch.
Why not just x/2 + y/2 ?
utilising teledildonics to cheat at chess is the most cyberpunk thing I have ever seen on HN.
What a bizarre hobby
I got my telegram alt account by signing up for a free esim trial.
they could ... but doing so would likely cost far too many billions even for Apple. Maybe they could justify it by saying instead of paying AWS and GCP and Azure for services they could just do it all in house on Apple hardware -- and boy howdy that'd be really cool -- I don't think they REALLY think that is a useful use of their time and resources and would rather instead focus on devices and services.
I guess ThinkPads are pretty in the same way an old Quattro or Golf are, generously, but to me it's a real reach to call them prettier.
Except I don't quite buy that it has actually been done, the post reads more like somebody's fantasy.
I believe these follow from the definition of twos complement addition. Times 2 is just a left shift. So it's like a carry bit.
The Ford Falcon was a very decent smaller car. The Falcon station wagon I drove one year to high school got around 20 mpg in light traffic.

I will add that it wasn't just Detroit that had problems in the 1970s. I remember the Volkswagen Rabbit as a pretty terrible follow-up to the Beetle.
Ya, bicycle theft is why I don’t get a nice e-bike at the moment. I don’t have an enclosed garage, so nowhere to keep it safe. I might get a foldable bike for some bike trips with my 6 year old this summer, but an e bike will have to wait until the current crime wave in Seattle subsides or I have a real plan for keeping it safe.
>Does the US have more deceit than other governments?

Absolutely it does. The annual budget for the CIA alone is $100 billion dollars, and we have more than 20 civilian 3-letter agencies including the NSA, DIA, ect, ect before even considering the "intel" branches of the military. The combined annual budget of our intelligence agencies exceeds the entire budget of many countries.
Give it three years max and it will be on the back of the new iphone
I can see motorized pen device that fakes handwritten messages. Will sell well, until people get sick of it
Then you didn't read my comment as a said I would even pay for the feature not to have home delivery, if I had the option.

The thread gives more context. I am as baffled that home delivery is the default by many services.
That doesn't work when both are odd. For example, for x=1 and y=3 this gives 1 instead of 2.
I'm sold. Where can I buy Moonball swag?
Does it really matter? If it eventually gets basic logic right and can do research/correction of it's own mistakes - it'll be insanely valuable tool even if it doesn't have consciousness as we do.
that makes the things spiciers
Living without a bank account ('IBAN') in the EU would be hard today. Living without a debit card is still doable, but becoming less and less practical. Living without a credit card is completely normal, many people do not own one, including me.
Because this isn't inherently a technological problem, it's a loneliness and emotional vulnerability problem.

I guarantee you that scammers will find ways to convince their victims regardless of photos being verified or not.
It doesn't have to prevent it from being waterproof, see for example Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro which has removable battery and IP68 rating.

I really wish phone manufacturers started making flagship-like phones with a removable battery.
Who is Lina? :-)

Edit: honest question...
It's already there. you ask it to write an article and interject an ad about squarespace.
For those who enjoyed this thorough summation of the state of the art, you may find the following forum interesting: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1597/is-it-im...

It’s a well organized discussion of the philosophical viewpoints surrounding piracy. I felt a compulsion to share based on the parent’s use of “where none should exist” (which borders on opinion).
Plexure are only used in select McDonald's markets. Almost all Hacker News readers are in markets where the McDonald's app is developed in-house by McDonald's.
Because division is a slow operation. Even (x + y)/2 would be quicker
The first one is just the binary sum without carry (x xor y) and then adding the carries of that sum (x&y) shifted by 1 bit (2*(x&y)), still the addition of the carries can in turn produce carries, but that is taken care of by the normal "+" which is addition with carry.
Nonsense, hornets eat yellow jackets as snacks.
When doing my PhD library genesis and archive.org made all the difference in the world, I think it would take decades doing it via libraries ...
It is not critical but I think it is interesting.

For example, I've read Code Complete 2, and while browsing online I found that some of the claims in the book was not solid.

- https://www.sicpers.info/2012/09/an-apology-to-readers-of-te...

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ACmfJkXQxkYacdLt/diseased-d...

The point made in the above links are interesting but, because I remember reading this particular book, they are sticking more deeply in me.

Also it probably depends heavily on the topic.

For example in economic or philosophy, there are different schools of thoughts and I think it is valuable to know from which school a "fact" is attached to. And before learning about every school, it is probably easier to just remember where you first read it.

This is not critical, but maybe having this information can help you create new insights.
>The "HiDdEn FrOm ThE pUbLiC" documents amount to fractions of a percent of the total that have already been released.

Has it occurred to you that the small fraction of documents they refuse to release 70 years after the assassination haven't been released because they are the most incriminating?
I have similar thoughts, but closer to having a decent keyboard than having another computer. My idea is to fit the keyboard into a pair of gloves, which can either serve as a normal wireless keyboard for a device with a screen, or a wired keyboard for a computer tucked away somewhere in a pocket with headphones instead of a screen. From a previous discussion, I was told that Johnny Mnemonic had such gloves, but I did not see their work on the video.

I appreciate author's thoughts on how our screens are shaping us as computer users, and I think an audio interface will make our computing experience feel more like intimacy: most people are fine with 20% of the screen offering you adware (because the rest of the screen still serves on purpose), but no one will listen to even one second of adware for 59 seconds of content.

This is how I see the future of portable computers: the keyboard or brain implant as the main input source, sound or another brain implant as the main output source, the FLOSS operating system, and the ability to be the keyboard for an unlimited number of computers with or without a screen.
If you are a developer using VS, your org most likely has to make an exception for VS for this very reason.

Then you realize that Visual Studio has a menu where you can launch a command prompt which will inherit the privileges the IDE was started with...
Dividing by two is just a right shift.
Computers are consumption devices because of the internet, not because of screens or bad keyboards. For what it's worth, I think modern keyboards and screens are fantastic for creative work, but to each their own. A chunky keyboard can easily contain a raspberry pi, a computer good enough to last a lifetime.

Much of modern tech is bloated ad-infested garbage, but you can just opt out. You don't have to spend your life consuming content and gluing libraries together.
One opinion I have is that it seems like if it scores a relation between two things high enough it will just say the two are causally related. I asked whether fluoroquinolone antibiotics caused various things that are potentially associated in research, and it said yes for all of them. Then I asked some things where it was like people that don't know biology might associate the two (like them causing fluoride poisoning), and it also said yes. So that kinda just threw all of that potential in the trash it felt like.