skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Mac, Ctrl+A goes to the beginning of the line

huh TIL! and Ctrl+E goes to the end. amazing thanks
Fun fact: The current theory is that the appendix isn't useless as previously thought but actually functions as a safe house for beneficial bacteria to repopulate the body after illness. If I remember correctly they've done studies and found people who have had their appendixes removed have weakened immune systems and take longer to recover than those who haven't had it removed.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109162333.h...
Yes, It's Time to Ditch LastPass
Sounds interesting; whats your shell library? Also, do you know of editors that make use of the separators?
> huge stroke of luck, or something else .. Tsushima

This is very much underselling how outclassed the Russians were on every level of this engagement, except in terms of sheer number of ships (they had more), and technology, which was roughly on par.

I think the 'isolation' was pretty advantageous in the sense that they managed to preserve their governmental and cultural structures for a very long time without the disruptive influence of western money and might. I imagine if they had let the Europeans in, the eventual fall of the Shogunate, partly caused by a proxy war between the French and the British (who supported different Daimyo), partly caused by public dissatisfaction about foreign incursion, would have been much earlier.

That would have put them in a much less coherent and consequently weaker postion to resist European colonization efforts in the modern era.
On a long enough time scale - all of my decisions to reuse vs reinvent were wrong. At a given point in time though they all seemed fine.
I loved Three Body Problems as well.

What are your other favorite sci-fi novels, and books in general?

(Send some general fiction recs on my way if you feel like it.)
Truthfully it's both. The first 2 seasons I would say you can easily 'casually enjoy it'; but the 3rd season takes on a new dimension of complexity that requires, or rather demands for some, a much deeper dive. I ended up watching/reading numerous reviews of each episode from Season 3, along with rewatching nearly every episode a 2nd time after my research to fully get it. The 3rd season is just a stunning achievement in storytelling that I don't think the art world fully grasps just yet.
Uh... doesn't the EU have the same life+70 terms the US has? In fact, weren't they the reason that Disney was able to get their term extension in the US?
I found it so painful that I just use a docker context targeting a remote docker instance running on a linux machine. Works well enough for my needs, but certainly isn't a solution for everyone.
Smooth on a 12 year old Mac Mini with Safari - hooked to the living room stereo and powering a little retro party right now. Love it!
It’s like asking why someone paying $10 for a slice of cake gets more than someone who paid $1 for cake.
Such is the way with many crimes, yet they still happen. If your model of human behavior assumes rationality and intelligence, then you have a huge blind-spot.
I'm replying to someone who says the EU is too diverse for it to be worth spammers' effort. If it's worth their time to spam people with northern California area codes in Chinese that makes no sense. Calling people in Germany in German, for example, would be much more reliable.
> The year after April 2020 was a booming job market for SWEs.

Did we know that at the time, though? From what I remember, it was all doom and gloom: public markets were trending downward, people were talking about recession and corporate belt-tightening, and the assumption was that we'd see a lot of layoffs, and the labor market would get tight.

True, that's not what happened (at least in the case of knowledge workers) -- in most cases it was the opposite -- but I don't think we had that foresight back in April 2020.
My Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G2 ARE (Ryzen 7 4700U) does exactly the same. Close the lid, wait two days, open the lid - the battery is drained about 10% and... Magic.

This is on Linux, and the only reason for reboot is if there is an updated kernel. I once postponed the reboot for more than 3 months.
That's up to the developers, graphics settings should not be synced. Unfortunately some games just dump all settings in there.

Steam Cloud docs explicitely mention this:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloud#1

> Avoid machine specific configurations such as video settings.
I can finally retire the "Sherlock Holmes' emotions are still copyrighted" legal argument that I used to use for explaining the penumbra of the public domain.
InnoDB is similar to SQLite all tables are clustered indexes, if you don't have suitable primary key it creates a hidden one similar to rowid in SQLite.

MSSQL and Oracle give you a choice for table storage to either have unordered heaps or ordered b-trees, depending on whether a clustered index is defined.

PG only has unordered heaps, indexes are always secondary data structures. PG could really use true clustered indexes as an option.
Since everyone here seems to misunderstand how collusion works: Monitoring your competitor‘s prices to undercut them is the opposite of collusion - that‘s how competition is supposed to work, everyone trying to give the better price!

It is similar to a prisoner‘s dilemma, with a Nash equilibrium at consumer-friendly prices.
Tacit collusion, on the other hand, makes use of the iterated nature of the "game“, and utilizes a tit-for-tat strategy: If you undercut me, I‘ll set prices even lower at uneconomical levels for some time, to punish you for it. If you take the hint and set a high price, I‘ll reward you by matching it and we both rake in that sweet margin.

Of course, a real-world tacit collusion strategy is more complex, and algorithmic pricing certainly helps with implementing it - especially as it makes it easier to commit to a strategy ahead of time, which is very useful from a game theoretic standpoint.
I feel like you missed or avoided the really obvious question.
I have to say I still haven’t really figured out how TeX works, despite using latex for years. I can’t even do a for loop or simple arithmetic or find the size of an array, let alone implement complete algorithms. Is there anyway I can learn this?
Apple Launching All-New CarPlay Experience in 2023
For linux users there's a approximation of this idea - speedcrunch
Teach Yourself Racket (A Flânerie by Prabhakar Ragde)
There are many, like GDP for countries. Temperature for your body. Etc.

They are not perfect, but without them it is virtually impossible to know what is going on.
I just switched back to Linux. The main reason was the arm arch software headaches and my heavy use of docker, but it didn't hurt that I got something that costs half the price of a similarly spec'd MacBook. I almost got the M2 Air until I saw the surprising pricing.

My main headaches have been quick to get over, mostly around keyboard shortcuts and clipboard behavior, but the only really concerning one is the laptop trying to cook itself during sleep. This has happened maybe 3 or 4 times in a few months of regular use. Kernel updates and bios settings have made no difference yet.

After stepping away from Linux for about 5 years I'm mostly pleasantly surprised with the progress though. It's really not far from there being no reason to even consider wasting money on a Mac unless you have some very specific creative software needs (or you need mega battery life, which is never fully utilized for me).
The only way politicians (the president) can intervene is by pardon. Why would they pardon this guy?
Building a VC Podcast with 100M downloads at 18
Sure, but "Of devs who answer StackOverflow surveys, most use Linux" is just wrong. To prove it, add up some top IDEs used that don't even run on Linux [0]:

+ Visual Studio (32.15%)

+ Notepad++ (27.71%)

+ Xcode (10.53%)

= 70.39%

That leaves only 29% left for Linux, but they claim Linux usage is 40% [1].

Unfortunately, Linux is still 3rd in primary OS usage and this survey question is flawed.

[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...
"Columbus bad" isn't really a "thesis", it's a fact.

But yeah, it's against the evidence to think native american societies could have posed any meaningful defense or offense against old world countries.

Have you read 1491 and 1493. I have, and they are a couple of the most eye-opening books I have read.
Well for the record, this has been standard functionality for mobile consoles in the past - both Playstation Vita and Nintendo Switch have the same instant suspend mechanics. Not sure about the TV-connected consoles as I never had one.
https://archive.ph/WH7FP
it's good advice to tell yourself that "I'm the kind of person who does X." We can shift/expand our identities about ourselves to build better habits. It's like, to quit smoking, we must remind ourselves that "I'm not a smoker/ a person who smokes anymore."
I would guess that most of the sustained price of houses just comes from people trading their existing house which also tripled in value for another one, above a certain cost in markets with very little comparable income earners willing to spend on it.

The house I live in the basement of is valued at $2m, but was $700k a few years ago. Everything in my neighborhood is around the same, and it's otherwise a neighborhood of not super rich people. Who's buying them? It's either going to be newly extremely wealthy people or people who just sold their $2m house.

Nobody's been left holding the bag yet.
Unless non-US numbers skew it more than I think, I suspect a whole lot of those respondents had a choice between honestly answering one of two operating systems, given the wording of the question, and picked Linux over the other one for whatever reason, despite not running it on their workstation. I'd be shocked if figures for the US, at least, were over 10% Linux, as far as what developers use on their main pays-the-bills workstation. Students might skew as high as 25% (though that's still higher than I'd expect) but I don't think SO selection-biases so strongly toward students that it'd be enough to push the figure that high all on its own.
Pretty broad definition of evolution in the article
I don’t see how the trajectory of emissions can differ from the trajectory of fossil fuel consumption.

Yes electricity generation accounts for roughly a quarter of emissions - very roughly the other quarters are due to transport, domestic heating/cooking and industrial. Hence the decarbonization of electricity generation is being pursued along with the electrification of the latter sources of emissions.

Given the trends,
I’m quite confident we’ll be successful lowering emissions. I’m less confident that it won’t be too late to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Colin Furze Digs a Tunnel
Yes. I know. :)
The chart doesn’t even show the top 10%; they intentionally exclude data above $150k annually after 2003, which is 82nd percentile in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Transaction fees.

If you traded for USD to BTC to USD under normal circumstances, you've got:

1. Alice wants to buy something from Bob.

2. Alice buys BTC for USD, incurring one TX fee.

3. Alice pays BTC / mining costs to transfer BTC to Bob, a 2nd TX Fee.

4. Bob transfers BTC to an exchange for USD, a 3rd Tx fee.

------------

Now lets say everything were centralized.

1. Alice opens an account at FTX. She buys "virtual BTC" (just an account at FTX, not a real wallet transaction).

2. Alice transfers money to Bob, possibly through FTX.

3. Bob sells this "virtual BTC" back for dollars.

4. Note that unlike the first example, this transaction is instantaneous. The first example requires waiting for confirmation at each transaction. Confirmations nominally happen every 10 minutes, but there have been times when the wait has been days (remember when Steam adopted BTC and the network couldn't handle the load? I remember)

FTX can charge a transaction fee at #1 and #3, and still the whole process will be cheaper than the 3x transaction fees incurred over decentralized methodologies. Of course, when FTX collapses, everybody's money is gone.
Yea I would say the main set of tricks related to using cells, working with large text files, and working with things like meshgrid as a few examples. Super easy to get confused even with good documentation and examples. Matlab benefits from the various people who work at mathworks who fix things and communicate with customers when you find odd issues.
"pa" would be pronounced between these two, depending on speaker:

/pɑː/ — if I had to use "normal person's IPA", "pah" would be my attempt. This, to me, is the more common pronunciation. Should rhyme with "bra" … assuming you pronounce that like I do.

/pɔː/ — like "paw" or "awe". This is a region-specific dialect, to me. This appears to be the one you're familiar with.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English for a chart.
What are some ways the robotics field / industry quantifies degrees of freedom?
Same.

I constantly use iTerm (or even just the regular MacOS Terminal).

It's easy to have it take up the whole screen and the most "MacOS UI" I'll ever see is the title bar for the window, which yeah can be ugly to look at but really isn't something that keeps me from working or anything.

I guess IDE's use a ton of UI, but I wouldn't say that's MacOS cruft on its own.
I've been using Rancher desktop and it seems to work fine for me. I don't notice anything being particularly slow and no lockups or anything. If Mac wasn't an option I really don't know if I'd try using Linux on the desktop vs Windows with WSL.

I have nothing but horrible memories when I had to use Linux on the desktop.
> Edit: Oh and 2 Gb of samples.

You're just pulling this out of your ass. There are no samples. All the sounds are actually generated by the 19kb of JS + the dittytoy API which provides a pretty low-level set of helpers to build synths and sequence notes.

I can't figure out how big/small the dittytoy API is but 40MB or 2GB are both ridiculous.
An update on Snaps resource usage at boot
I'm also more familiar with the excellent XYplorer.

I could not find any in depth comparison with Directory Opus. These two have accumulated so much features over the years, it became a kind of expertise to know them in detail.

The chance of a dual-expert willing to clearly expand on his experience is small. I wish more tech journalism was on this level. Instead, the verge had (at least) 4 articles in 2022 on windows explorer getting... tabs.
Well, yes. I was just matching the wording of the comment I was replying to.
Dude I was saving that for another post
I chose M4 for $WORK to use in a context where we had config files with templated environment values and we didn't want to depend on a programming language for those templates. Since the configs were created and placed on container start, M4 came with the base image and was easy to use just to set a few values in the template that depended on the container environment.

The whole thing works with having a "template file" which looks mostly like the config with a couple M4 macros to source envars. Envar sourcing logic came from a base M4 file we included in each template at the top. There were a couple sharp edges with escaping but the obviousness of the whole setup made M4 fine. If M4 was a bit easier to work with I'd love to use it for something more complicated, but for our purposes it was fine.
Explore the Fediverse, but use block like a machine gun in a zombie apocalypse
This strikes me as such an obviously stupid, self-defeating design that I have to be missing something.

Why would the Docker developers do this? Did doing it locally not work well? Is all that just to 'spare' Linux developers from actually installing Docker on their machines?
> Ask me anything!

Did you get caught taking the fractions of pennies that normally get rounded off on every transaction?
This is correct and the list of private federal detention centers is very small and often only used as hubs during transit or court. The most popular one I knew of being Pahrump in Nevada.

Unlike public facilities the food there is much worse, but the guards are paid much lower and have significantly less training. The result is that they more-or-less don't want to get involved in anything and the facility as a whole goes out of their way to keep inmates occupied with things. The result is that they have up-to-date gaming consoles like Playstation 4 with a decent selection of games and because their guard staff is underpaid a much larger amount of drugs make it into the prison on a regular basis. The story from most who rotated through these facilities told me it was more or less just a "party pod".
No problems here with Docker and macOS. Docker and Windows works too. We have a ratio of about 97% developers on macOS, 2% on windows and 1% on 'else' which is mostly Linux and a single BSD user.

This includes multiple editors and IDEs used, multiple languages and multiple frameworks, also multiple types of development (from common devops facilities development to front-end simulation, on-prem and cloud, C#, Python, Java, Go, Rust, Swift, Objective-C, C++, TypeScript, Scala, T-SQL, PL/SQL (yep, RDBMS with on-DB applications), some on plain docker, some on Podman some on local Kubernetes clusters, all using wired and wireless connections (or both), one or more VPN connections), and nobody is having any issues with macOS and Docker on Intel or ARM. The only non-ARM OS we have around is Windows because we can't legally get it. Everything else is multi-arch, except for some legacy Oracle and IBM applications that are being phased out and have been handed off to a third party to maintain while we rip them out.

We have the luxury of not really doing and foreign architecture compilation because you can develop locally and CI will do matrix builds so we can run on a mixed spot fleet on AWS. We used to build for POWER8 too (before we handed off the IBM nonsense). Some people do it anyway, especially those who want to test binary protocols (a very small percentage) when they write applications that do IT<-->OT communication and want to make sure that the architecture on the IT side doesn't mess up binary payloads that the OT side won't know what to do with. This is usually done with k3s and skaffold where we attach and 2nd node to a Rancher Desktop instance that runs pure x86 instead of x86-in-ARM via Rosetta. We also have 1 Linux user who does this, but she's just using plain qemu emulation for ARM-on-x86 (instead of the other way around on M1/M2 Macs).

So all in all, I think the problem is still valid, but your experience is not really representative it seems. Keep in mind that happy people tend to not go on the internet and tell everyone about all the problems they don't have ;-) So most reports we'll see will be from people having issues with something.

The biggest issue we used to have was the AUFS support, but even that was mostly a painpoint for those who could not auto build from the ide or didn't have things like Jib. That has been resolved for over 5 years tho.
I wonder about the financials on something like DOPUS. They've always been high quality, never bloated, easy on the license. Is that actually a valid businessmodel?
GptHidra – Ghidra plugin that asks OpenAI Chat GPT to explain functions
> Graeber, as well as being a horrible human being

Whenever I hear or see such descriptions, I start discounting the opinions of those who made them, because they're often hyperbolic. I'd put someone like Genghis Khan at the level of being a "horrible human being," not some random author, because it indeed is a very high insult to levy against someone. That, or the person is just engaging in semantic drift [0].

Anyway, why was he a "horrible human being?" I couldn't find any controversy regarding his views or actions that would classify him as "horrible," at least in my limited search.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
How come? Assuming multiple people have had access to the keys, it's hardly a given that you'd be caught.

Just use Tails or similar to transfer the money to a wallet you control, and don't touch it until many years later when you've moved to another country.

The $ figure where it starts to make sense for a FBI agent to flee to China or Russia probably isn't all that high. You could even pick from a much longer list of countries if you were patient enough to wait until you gain citizenship, many countries won't extradite their nationals.
FWIW, I'm building a simple 32-bit computer system based on Prof. Wirth's Oberon RISC CPU and a simple language called Joy that combines the best parts of Forth and Lisp.

The primary motivation is to avoid unnecessary complexity. But there's also a Permacomputing angle.

Permaculture is a school of thought about what might be called the art and science of applied ecology.

From that POV the main concerns of ecology in re: computers would be efficiency and reducing environmental load of making chips, etc.

The other common theme seems to be a kind of post-apocalypse computing (e.g. Collapse OS).

I don't really know where I'm going with this... Simpler computers would presumable be more efficient and easier to make?

- - - -

Really, the crucial thing from my personal POV is the reduction of complexity. I'm pretty sure that that's the primary measure of the durability of our large global interconnected economies: "Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler." :)
Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (2012)
You can't add %'s like that - the question allowed users to select multiple values.
Wow. I just told this joke to my girlfriend literally this morning since we were talking about billable time (she's a consultant).

Only in the version I know it was a plumber in New York who was called to a fancy restaurant to fix a problem with the water which had stopped in the middle of dinner. The plumber takes out a small hammer, taps a random pipe and all the water starts flowing again.

$1001 bill. $1 for tapping the pipe. $1000 for knowing where to tap it.

I was surprised she hadn't heard it before as it's a classic, especially for anyone who bills for their time.
If you're gonna use an enum for a true/false field, you might as well timestamp it. If you need enums, you changed the game.
I just had the fourth layoff of my career earlier this month.

It doesn’t get easier per se, but you do start to develop a process, and having a process makes the whole ordeal a lot less daunting.

Perhaps the most daunting part for me right now is that I’ve spent the better part of a decade getting hired by people I worked with before, and this is the first time no one in my immediate network has a req open. Still, the value of a network is paramount: To paraphrase another comment here, do good work and be good to work with, and you will have people out there looking for a reason to get you in the door.
US to require travelers from China to show negative Covid-19 test before flight
-Demon Haunted World A Candle In The Dark - Carl Sagan
I enjoy his writing in general, but this one talks a lot about being a skeptic and critical thinking which is paraphrasing strongly.

-The Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett. Could not stop thinking about it when I wasn't reading it and was pretty bummed when it was over. Its about a cathedral being built in the 1100's. My most favorite book this year and probably ever.

-The Knowledge - Lewis Dartnell If all people were to suddenly disappear leaving the current world infrastructure still in place, how you could go about restarting civilization. Its more a manual than a story, but I enjoyed learning how so many different things work.

-Alas Babylon Pat Frank - A story about a family and some friends and how they survive in Florida after a nuclear attack on the US.