skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was Muggeridge in fact a former communist? He was an enthusiast of the Russian Revolution early on, and his parents and in-laws were socialists, but he was one of not many journalists who told the truth about the famine in the USSR in the 1930s. He worked for British intelligence during WW II, but hardly in deep cover--his Italian opposite number in his overseas posting (in Portuguese East Africa?) knew perfectly well who he was, and was apparently tempted to run him over.
Thanks, I spent many hours and late nights into early mornings playing this game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

Seriously, why bother commenting if you haven't got that far.
My transition to 11 has been mostly painless. Some weirdness I've experienced so far is a handful of default applications being changed (not Edge, surprisingly enough) and that since my default PDF reader is Okular all the icons for .pdf files are now a blank white rectangles instead of the nice white/blue okular icons they used to be. To be fair though, this could be some incompatibility with icon formats/sizes or something... I haven't looked into it.

My only real annoyance so far is that all my old context menu items are now tucked away into an additional context menu, such that I now have to right-click -> "Show more options" -> old context menu. A bit of an odd choice.
That's why the break timers have preference panes, I suspect. I find that having something go ding! every 5 minutes when I am on-task keeps me from getting distracted and reminds me to cut off any weird side quests earlier.
I don't think businesses care too much. LTSC is for when you need the system to not change over time, but still get some security updates, not simply business use - for that, there's the Enterprise edition of course.
Appreciated the effort! Love these tiny details. Edited the post.
After years of wrestling with configurations and dot files, I have finally realised that if you use a new tool, you should learn to use it properly and as intended by the author instead of trying to make it behave similar to some other tool you know well. At least for the first couple of years
Nah, clearly there are people at SpaceX who deserve the majority of the credit. Sure, he got the ball rolling but a lot of people are good at starting things. He's revealed himself to be petulant child with stunted, incel attitudes and he won't be able to get the stink off of him.
Is that true? I would be interested to see the numbers on that. I would have expected their spending to be on a similar-ish level to the US at the time (which while high, probably never crossed the 50% mark)
Very interesting slides. As someone not very acquainted with game programming it helped me better understand the logic behind it.

As a sidenote, I found funny his predictions for 2009, because they're not far off from what we currently are aiming for:
- 20+ cores
- 80+ hardware threads
- GPU's with general computing capabilities
A VPN service that doesn't log should reliable be expected to protect you from dragnet style surveillance that is initiated after the fact. If the government asks google for everyone who searched for a term in a range of dates will return a list of IPs and times. Comcast may choose to happily connect your real identity when asked but a VPN provider that didn't log can honestly answer that they have no way to establish that.

At another level a vpn provider that doesn't operate in country can reliably refuse orders to surveil you in the future wherein orders don't rise to the level of obtaining international cooperation AND don't meet standards higher than the nonsensically low standards in say the US.

This wont be enough to protect your international criminal empire but might well provide reasonable assurance of privacy to concerned individuals. I'm sure the google one is good for something....

Perhaps keeping your ISP from chiding or blocking you for pirating music until that hole is plugged...or keeping people who access http websites over coffee shop wifi safe?
> had they not bathed in natgas for tens of years (thanks Schröder!).

Schröder wasn't around in 1969 when the first contracts for russian gas have been closed.

> Heating could have been switched to heat pumps

We have 12 million gas boilers. Last year, we had an install capacity of 165k heat pumps. The government is trying to up that to 500k per year. Even in this (somewhat optimistic) scenario, that would be 24 years of work.

So yes, we need to start doing that. But until last year, we had 16 years of governments that did fuck-all for renewables.
Reading half of it I'm struggling to see why they chose the semantic 'false?'. How do you read it? It sounds like a question, why not just 'false'?
The politicians are definitely laughing at the workers. Panama Papers showed part of the politician's stash of corrupt funds.

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property."
I'm sorry that you experienced that! Would you happen to know what kind of injection you had? Was it subcutaneous, intradermal, or intramuscular? And what kind of vaccine was it?

I found a study addressing the pain and the authors theorized that the depth of the injection determined the pain experienced by the patients, https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0700182104

> Motivated by the limitations of injections, needle-free liquid jet injectors were invented more than 50 years ago (4) and have been used for delivering several vaccines and protein drugs. More recently, a number of other technologies have also been proposed to deliver proteins across the skin without using needles (5–13). These technologies are at varying degrees of development. As of today, however, liquid jet injectors comprise the only needle-free tool in the hands of clinicians for delivery of proteins and other macromolecules. Commercially available liquid jet injectors use compressed gas or a spring to create high-pressure jets of drug solutions that deliver drugs in the s.c. or i.m. region (14, 15). Despite their long history, needle-free liquid jet injectors have been met with disappointing acceptance as a result of frequent bruising and pain (4), which immediately offset their advantages against needles. We hypothesized that pain and bruising originate from deep penetration of jets into skin leading to their interactions with nerves and blood capillaries. This issue could potentially be addressed by minimizing the penetration depth of jets into the skin; however, attempts to reduce the penetration depth have led to a concurrent loss of delivery efficiency (16). Decoupling penetration depth and delivery efficiency has been difficult as a result of the very design of conventional jet injectors. We overcame this issue by adopting a new strategy of jet injection, pulsed microjets. We propose the use of high-velocity microjets (v >100 m/s) to ensure skin penetration but small jet diameters (50–100 μm) and extremely small volumes (a few nanoliters) to limit the penetration depth. We describe a microjet device that meets these criteria and demonstrate its capabilities by using insulin as a model drug.
I really like my Model Y but I'm starting to regret buying it because of his behavior.
He was pro-communist until he went to live in the USSR in the early 30s and saw what it was like. Thereafter, he was anti-communist.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this improved the level of commit messages overall.
DVHS?
We bought a really large storage box with wheels to use as a laundry basket, in dark green with red covers from The Container Store a while ago, when we moved to a new house and our kids were just toddlers. They were very curious about what that big thing was and since it was right before holidays, we called the box "Merry Christmas"! They rode around in it quite a bit, fun to be on top of clothes and be pushed by your sibling.

It's been 13 years and it is still going strong, even after heavy riding sessions of yesteryears.

And to put something in laundry in our house is pronounced as "go put your dirty clothes into merry christmas"
This is likely true, but I wonder if he's just another person driven mad by the internet. There's a lot of that going around. The recent stories about how TikTok is upping the incidence of mental illness is an example of how "viral" content infects people.

Of course, there are examples of genius engineers going mad without the internet. See Howard Hughes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
Or, if you're concerned with the climate impact of using fossil fuels, you can consider the economics of shifting to a technology that cab use the energy more directly; I.e, replacing aviation with electric railways.
What makes him think Texas won't be similar?

I mean from what I know of Texas it won't, but from what I know of tax systems it will.

Honestly, everywhere I've done business I've had similar issues. And the general advice is you do your best to work honestly and hope if a mistake is identified you don't have too big a punitive component.
You're either doing a startup or a show, not both. It's different types of businesses.

It may still be a great show to watch, why you need a platform? You can easily MVP it on youtube/twitch.
For better or worse, those tricks disappeared with the P6, where they decided the prefetch queue length shouldn't affect SMC semantics.
This is fantastic! Great write up. A question: any idea what sort of accuracy you’re getting at the end of the process with respect to things like carriageway widths? As you allude to in the article, this could be a great tool for advocacy groups to identify where a road is wide enough to accommodate cycle lanes, or where footpath widths are substandard. I was just wondering if it’s possible to get the +/- 10cm accuracy that’d be ideal for doing this sort of work. Thanks!
How is this surprising? The IPad Pro has a much higher end screen with touch.

In addition the comparison is between an entry level apple laptop vs the highest end ipad. High end always has much larger margins.
I thought I had tried all the linux DAWs, but I haven't tried Bitwig; thanks for mentioning it, I'll try it out this week.
That's Italy!
What's your prefixed prompt? It does not reflect current thinking on dreams being forced replay of avoidant thoughts. I'd try something like:

> Understanding that dreams reflect fears we are trying not to think about and our subconscious is forcing us to rehearse, analyze the following dream.
Thank you for sharing this story!
Do you think it was able to answer jefftk's questions, especially

* What problem were you solving?

* Why this way and not other ways you might have solved the problem?

Or do you think those aren't usually needed for a very good commit message?
worse than short sighted, it may be technically optimal but is hardly fair.
When Trump says "we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers", I'd be smirking, too.

(and check the videos: they only started laughing once he got past that sentence)
Missed the point by a mile.
I normally despise scroll hijacking and immediately close that page. But this page hooked me, because it was so well done and i stayed till the end.

Im thinking about chatgpt (yes again this topic), will it also have problems like this algorithm? Will it also steer into one direction when it gets trained on the WWW again after every page has been flooded with chatgpt replies? Or will this be feathered by the user up-/downvoting responses and giving feedback?
The Falcon 9 is ~500 tons of propellant for 25 tons to LEO. An A380 carries ~250 tons of fuel. In the Falcon 9 number the liquid oxygen is included. The RP-1 is a pretty much a cleaner diesel or jet fuel.

The cost is like $1500 to $2000 per ton so like $500 000 to $1 000 000 in fuel costs for a launch.

Fuel costs are still trivial compared to building and operating the rocket and is where huge reductions are possible.
This memory goes back almost thirty years. In 1993, most products still shipped on floppy disks, and costs were increasing as products grew in size. Shrinking a popular product by even one disk could save over a million dollars. Publishers were using data compression but the tools were of the same class that were intended for regular users. That is, compression and decompression required roughly similar compute resources. I noted a few things:

1. Software products would be compressed just once but decompressed millions of times.

2. It should be possible to create an asymmetric codec that expended tremendous resources on compression but still kept decompression light.

3. Publishers didn't care how much compute compression would require as long as it was still tractable and would save them money. If they had to buy an expensive computer and let it run overnight it would be fine.

I didn't know anything about compression at the time but the premise seemed strong. I took unpaid time off to tackle this problem and in a few months (after a lot of trial-and-error learning) I began to have a workable product.

Borland, Novell, and Microsoft (for the .CAB files) were the first licensees. The compressor was called Quantum and was typically 20-30% better than PkZip. My sales technique was to take a product, recompress it with Quantum, and show the company how much money they could save. (As I recall, I was able to demonstrate reducing Windows for Workgroups by two disks.)
Can it drive external monitors? I'm not a software dev but I'm not interested in using rstudio on a tiny screen. I expect Excel users feel the same way and there are a lot of them.
Is this Poe's law at work? I can't tell if you're mocking the grandparent or actually have this deranged viewpoint.
Just today I had to turn on my windshield defogger while driving lest I be unable to see. Have you ever driven a car before?
I have the same sorts of gripes with VS Code; stubbornness from the people running the project at MS and refusal to listen to the userbase. It seems to be a pervasive trait at MS.
One critical point I forgot to include is that cognitive load of your team members should be treated as a precious resource. Whatever happens, you need to make sure you don't waste this resource on unneeded stuff -- cognitive load more than anything else will determine how quickly stuff can be changed.

Remember, if you introduce anything people will need to take time to learn, adjust and then understand. You can also count of experience at least temporary slowdown.

So don't waste time things that only marginally help with development. You definitely don't want to switch your project from Java to Kotlin if your goal is to get something done quickly! (Yeah, I have seen this happen in real time -- new guy came to a project and "listened" to devs and switched project from Java to Kotlin with predictable outcome that he was fired half a year later after disappointing progress on actual work).
I've to step in here, because also native Russians starved during the Holodomor. My grandmother saw half-starved people and corpses as a child in the city
This is not true. Applications only require network connectivity for the initial resources to be downloaded. After that they can be cached, service workers can also be used to provide for offline support. Plenty of applications can run only in the browser and don't need to have a constant connection to a back-end. I can think of a calculator app, where all of the application logic exists on the client in JavaScript, in this case a network connection is an unneeded dependency. But once you build it with a framework like liveview it cannot work without a constant connection.
Yeah considering the absolute pissbaby tantrum Windows 10/11 throws when you go to change the default browser in the first place there's effectively no difference.
Obviously permanently wasting memory on fragmentation is not an option on a device that typically has 24kb memory. Especially not just so you can specify long filenames for the shell, when the filesystem doesn’t even support those filenames.
It's cool to finally get some more details on this language. They showed some slides of it being used in Fortnite last year:

https://mobile.twitter.com/saji8k/status/1339709691564179464...

I believe it has roots in (but quite different from) Skookumscript

https://skookumscript.com/about/look/
As I mentioned in https://andregarzia.com/2022/06/about-ipads-and-developers.h..., iPads and more specifically iPadOS are not built for developers. If you want to be a developer and use a tablet, you should be looking elsewhere (err.. Surface).

The Pro monicker means nothing any more, but if it did it would be Apple gear that is targetting creative professionals. Think about it as focused products for digital artists.
For those wondering if there's actually something relevant to the Epic's approach to the metaverse: there's not beyond slide 3. Everything after slide 3 is a description of the semantics of a novel functional logic programming language, the sort of which you'd expect you'd get if you paid the world's premier Haskell core contributor a large sum to design a new language. Of course its intended audience is Haskell academics, so perhaps it would be weird to expect anything else.

Slide 61 and 63 hint at things that might actually be of consequence to real programmers making real software for a potentially real metaverse, such as the effect system for I/O, transactional memory and code organisation through classes and inheritance, but it gives no detail.

If you're interested how elegantly functions like head, tail, cons, snoc, append and map might be implemented, this presentation is for you. If you're more interested in how you might unpack a message from bytestring, model a state machine or coordinate a group of actors in a distributed system, then I guess you'll have to wait for the next presentation.
I struggle to see what part of social science is morales or quasi religious beliefs mascarading as science.

There is no cure.
> While I totally get that 100% coverage may be impractical for many projects, I’m also not seeing how less coverage would have improved things.

The argument is generally that language-level correctness would achieve more than emphasising test coverage so heavily.
Just on the face of it, Twitter seems like a horrendous source of training data for a language model.
Just release MacOS on the Pro line already. I think they should aim for iPad Pro + Mac Pro bundling for developers.
Two things I observed while slowly getting better at English.

First, the "sophistication" can backfire. There're a lot of comments about reading here, but there're very fine lines between

- "simple English", think a stereotypical ESL speaker

- "well educated" English, think a native posh college alumni

- "colloquially broken" English, the way native speakers speak to their friends

- "out-of-place highfalutin" English, a hallmark of someone who didn't have a chance to experience the variety of contexts growing up in an English speaking country.

It's quite hard to balance those, but I guess it just comes with time and practice while being mindful of it. For me personally it worked in waves, from unnaturally-broken to too-correct to feeling comfortable enough to break the grammar in natural ways to noticing more unnaturalness to… you got the idea.

Second, and I'm forever grateful to the person who first introduced me to this idea, is realising that high level language acquisition can only come with a new personality attached. It's very weird and disorienting if you're not aware of it happening, but it's a natural and necessary part of it. You need to grow a personality to feel in your second/third/etc language, to react to jokes on the spot, to make friends, to dream, to live in that language context. It often differs from one's identity/personality in the first language, and that's fine, it's just as valid. Embracing the process and the difference makes things easier.

I don't think it's possible to do that through learning though.
You’ll never out-wage bringing value to the market in terms of making money. I have no idea how side-hustles are “defeatist”, when almost no one has the privilege of just “not accepting” to make money in lieu of some wishful thinking to somehow strong-arm companies into giving more money to people.
There is an app my friend uses called Co-Star. It's very popular, and advertises itself as an AI-personalized horoscope app.
D2's a new diagramming language just added sequence diagrams too: https://d2lang.com/tour/sequence-diagrams. (disclaimer: i work on this)
My experience is that many changes span several blocks of code in a repo, so there's not always one single location to put the comment. There's also a blessing in that git commits don't need to be maintained like comments. Comments can drift if not maintained. A commit is only observed in-context.

Most developers seem to be poor "commit historians" by default, I'll admit. If you have the energy and consistency to enforce good history, it eventually becomes self-sustaining.
The short term problem is kicking him would make Tesla a more normally valued car company, which would destroy shareholder value. I really think most of Tesla's value comes from a belief in Elon the individual delivering his endless escalating promises. Much bigger car manufacturers are worth a small fraction of Tesla and are starting to chip away at it's EV market share. That will probably accelerate as Tesla now comes across as a political statement to some.

Keeping him is probably worse for the actual bottom line with the brand damage and all the liabilities he piles on the future like FSD and preselling vehicles that don't get made, but causing the crash in prices is bad for the current investors.
Maybe never heard of systemd
Yes it can. Note that sometimes you won't be able to play video from streaming apps on the monitor due to DRM.
In this case, there does exist a comparable product for the technically-literate, price insensitive market. It’s sold side-by-side with the “subscription supported” product, by the same manufacturer.

Case in point:

Subscription supported. Requires internet, app + account, first party toner. Costs $120 at time of writing, with a bonus 6 month supply of toner free.
https://smile.amazon.com/HP-LaserJet-M234dwe-Wireless-6GW99E...

Equivalent hardware. No internet or account required. (Unclear on first party toner req.) Costs $150 more.
https://smile.amazon.com/HP-LaserJet-M234dwe-Wireless-6GW99E...

I wouldn’t call their marketing “clear”, which inevitably leads most consumers to ask “why would I pay more for the same thing?”, but it’s also unfair to say that HP is turning their entire product line into a bait-and-switch gambit (which is the general subtext of this whole conversation).

HP is running a business. Ink and toner are great long-term revenue streams, but they aren’t guaranteed. So HP sells one SKU that (probably) covers the cost of production, and hopes that they get some fraction of that long tail (if only in brand familiarity/loyalty), and because the printer market is so driven by negative margin hardware, they have a second SKU for a subsidized printer with an implicit contract, guaranteeing ink revenues for longer.

Could they do a better job of clarifying the options? Absolutely.

Is what they’re doing “shady”, “dirty”, or borderline illegal? Probably not.

Could a lot of this confusion be cleared up by just saying it’s a subsidized purchase? I expect you’d have to ask the wireless telcos about that…
It's more you have to realise that the way things were structured there was never an honest count. As an anecdotal example my father in-law was chief eng. at Kharkov factory that was producing Nuclear Missile guidance systems and other high end mil. parts. Factory had 10,000 employees yet officially it was producing electric razors and things like this were the norm.