skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the biggest limitation of Linux for the laptop world is the hardware. Apple hardware is superior, even if some choices to me are not great (for example having all type-C ports). Especially M1 architecture is great, consumes nothing of power, so it can run fanless, battery lasts longer, and it is nearly as powerful as an Intel machine.

Of course the reason is not Linux itself but hardware manufacturers, that focus only on Windows support (at least 99%) and don't care about other operating systems. Thus they make choices that make sense for Windows (such as using an x86_64 architecture, since Windows support for ARM is not great, or implementing things like modern standby) but that are not optimal for Linux. Also driver support is sometimes not the greatest.

Beside all these things, using both macOS and Linux (specifically ArchLinux with GNOME) I have to say that to me Linux works better.

Take for example the user experience of GNOME, to me is superior to the one of macOS. In macOS you lack of basic things that on Linux are present since forever, such as the ability to fix a window on top of all other windows. Or other nonsense things that hurt user experience, such as the inability to view hidden files from the Finder.

Another thing that I miss when I use a mac it's a good package manager. Homebrew works fairly well, but it's not integrated with the system. You have some software shipped with the operating system, some other installed with Homebrew, other installed from the App Store, other programs that are bundles (.app), other that have an installer (.pkg), and unlike Windows you don't even have an unified way to uninstall a program, you have most of the times remove them manually leaving a ton of stuff in the system that accumulates over the years. On Linux I type `pacman -Syu` and everything updates to the latest version. On Linux I don't fear installing a new program, since I'm 100% sure that uninstalling it will remove every trace of the program.

Finally, macOS is POSIX compatible but to me Linux is superior. GNU utilities are usually more feature rich and provide a better user experience than macOS ones (a stupid but essential things: the ability to put command line options after the positional arguments, how many times you do cp a b for it to fail because it's a directory, and then add -r at the end? On mac you can't and you have to add it before the first argument, annoying). Sure you can install GNU utilities on macOS, but it's not safe to add them to your path (I spent a day figuring out why a React build was failing only to know it was because I had GNU utilities in the path and a script did do something different), and you have to use the `g` prefix on anything.
The current standard is USB-C and there is a list of all device types that need to use the standard from now on. Afterwards, the European Commission shall do market research every 5 years and have the power to update the device type list and charging standard on its own.

Source: the text version of the adopted directive (with translations into all 24 official languages available in the top right corner) - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0338...
Yeah, but in the video on the website, it is not actually driving, nor have I found a video of it driving somewhere upon a second look.

But it is supposed to be only driving when the sun is shining, so maybe we have to wait till spring/summer?

I mean seriously? It surely is more efficient, to not waste solar energy by storing the energy in capacitors and not in batteries, but that means, it will stop whatever it is doing when a cloud comes and it will stay out and not make it to the shed again, when the sun does not come back.

I would rather have the solar panels somewhere else, or those on top of the rover just as a bonus and use batteries and focus on it to do useful things first.

edit: ok it is driving in the video at 8:25 for a few seconds
Maybe this is heresy, but I really have never understood the move to Docker in the context of development environment. You wanna use containers in production environments, great, go for it. I suppose someone will say that then necessitates Docker in dev because we want dev to mirror production in some form - but that's seldom a reality. Some talk too about how Docker made it easy to bring up new development environments / onboard new developers, but in practice I've never seen this as a "Docker" thing - there were plenty of other ways to accomplish this goal, and Docker in some of my experience just added yet another tool.

As for why I continue to use a Mac for development - it works, my fingers are mapped to the keyboard commands, and it's the best combo of hardware+software that I've found so far.
It is quite different.

To argue against a book, you really only need to argue against its central theme. To combat a dozen accusations, you need to reply to each and every one to avoid being wounded by them.
Also important to take into account for why this method is successful is that people write posts like this which make you really want to go check it out. Customers who are passionate about how your business is run.

Honestly, if I was more skeptical + motivated, I'd be looking into if this post was actually a paid ad because my reaction is "where is the closest Barnes and Noble?"
This reminded me of the time I wrote a mini-language for querying web server log files and generating reports (this was early 2000s) so you could answer questions like "how many users searched for 'cyprus flight' per day and went on to purchase a holiday?". With a nice web-based interface etc.

It was a disaster of course. The business people weren't programmers, had no understanding of programming, didn't want to learn programming even greatly simplified with docs and examples, and I ended up translating their queries into code anyway. So essentially I had written a DSL for myself.
The Sailor's Airbag (2007)
Very nice write-up and creative exploits.

> That got me thinking, maybe I could provide a scan configuration that instructs the Google Home to scan for itself

This was my favorite bit of creativity. Great work!
Stainless sucks at heat transfer, and has to be welded. Copper can be soldered (low temperature), or I believe refrigeration lines are commonly brazed (higher temperature).

Raw material cost doesn't tell the whole story. Stainless is harder to work with, therefore costs more to manufacture. And even if it ended up being less expensive in the long run, there would a lot of capital investment to recover.
give them to homeless shelters, or any charity, maybe someone will get interested and you'll change a life, even if the book is outdated

the main reason I'm where I am today is the 2 programming books I got as a birthday gift at 10 yo
Freelancing since 2020, most often working on foo bar baz…
> Relativity is a real formula

Relativity is a real formula and the classical limit is a real phenomenon, but there's no formula for when a relativistic situation "becomes classical".

> you just say that decoherence seems to correlate with entropy and then gave a formula for entropy

If the observed system and the observer/external universe are fully entangled (i.e. their entropy of entanglement is maximal) then decoherence has occurred and all observations of the observed system by that observer will be indistinguishable from if the system were not in superposition. That is a mathematical fact that falls right out of the equations. So I don't know what else you're asking for.
They most likely would have become insular like china and stagnated similarly. Best scenario would be something like a south vs north dual empire constellation, locked into a cold war that eggs them ever onward.

But we will never know, because they did not produce a culture that could compete. Even with time to prepare, alot of these cultures abandoned advanced tech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_of_Japan) and supressed the "foreign" as the local elites felt there oligarchies threatened by those strange foreigners. I guess the usual attempts were made to encooperate the threat, by offering small kingdoms, slaves and positions within the ruling religion. It did not really work out, as disease crumbled the civilizations to dust.

The other "prepared" culture (north american indians who met the vikings) did not take any lesson from that encounter either, because the tales of strange boats with christian raiders were not kept in writing and information was not exchanged with neighbors, with which they were locked in ritualistic inter-tribal warfare. Which is the main problem. The lack of information storage and exchange, due to a missing central culture.

Africa had the longest time to acclimate to western intrusion, and did so by selling its own people as goods. The few things they did take over were weapons (used for slave trading and inter tribal warfare), the only candidates for organized resistance was the islamic world (who had writtings, a specialized labour system (industrial precursors) and centralized structures), but they were & are locked in by thee own cultural problems. Only exception were the persians, which were and are the france/us of the region.

The chinese almost colonized africa, but then gave it up as a foolish endeavor, due to internal problems (starvation caused unrest) which was mostly due to there industrial revolution never reaching critical mass, which was mostly due to centralized culture/geography preventing technological competition aka harmony).

There is good fiction on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt, but you need basically a geographical reactor europes eternal boiling empire pot, with a progress state saving device attached (netherlands and england, some italian states were the scientists fled towards and from), to reach the critical mass. The ingredients were omnipresent, but the permanence of the societal reaction was hard to get critical.
Especially because I have at least 4 shib's in my neighborhood that are on the regular dog walking circuit and from what I can tell they're all nearly identical. Some are fatter, longer, or shorter but not much else is different.
I see it all the time in computer science. People become programmers because the pay is good. But without a love for the craft, they end up either hating life or being mediocre or both. It really does help to love what you do.
My point was that the Gauls, who were much closer to us than 10k years ago, have been replaced too.
Using she is male erasure and non binary exclusive…

It’s actually worse than using he since he is almost unanimously used as gender neutral in internal language models
Only if you're then also willing to go up a size in vehicle. You can still choose more or less safe vehicles from within the same class. A 2022 Corolla is way safer than a 1998 Corolla, that 1998 Corolla is safer than a 1966 Corolla, etc.
Nim has a result variable, it's very handy.
TheMarginalian is my favorite piece of the internet. So much beauty.
"The goal was to see how similar code is, and how little it matters which language you pick."

I think this thinking is a mistake. If you learn languages superficially, you will end up writing the same code just with slightly different syntax. It can take a long time to really understand a language and ecosystem and use its capabilities.
Thanks for clarifying the issue!

I consider this a bug in Podcasts then since a refresh can be very CPU intensive and the user would naturally quit the app to reduce CPU usage but doing that surprisingly doesn't work.
In Japan people wear masks when they have a cold, out of kindness towards others. Being kind to others is certainly something we should strive for.
Presentation description:

> "Ten years ago, only Linux kernel committers and other early adopters used Git. Almost everyone else used Subversion. Ten years later, Git is the most popular product. Which makes me wonder: what will we use another ten years from now? And what features would YOU want from your version control software in 2032? No history rewrites? Faster? No merge conflicts ever?"

Here's an high-level overview. There's more detail in the video.

Why is Git so popular?

- Git in 2010 = 25% usage

- Git in 2021 = 75% usage

Fossil:

- Distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki, forum

- Contributions from a team of 4 vs Git with 5000+ contributions

- Written in C and SQL - supports SQLite version control

- Website: https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Pijul:

- Distributed version control, sound theory of patches

- Focus on changes, instead of differences between snapshots (i.e. Git commits)

- Written in Rust, bootstrapped in 2017

- Website: https://pijul.org/
Wholly off-topic.
I initially built a system for web scraping but was constantly running into issues of getting blocked, even when using good quality residential proxies. I had to constantly investigate why I'm getting blocked and update tools. Sometimes the effort was significant when I had to switch to a different framework which was giving me a better success rate.

Then, I switched to web scraping API (I'm using https://scrapingfish.com as they have convenient pricing for my use case, but there are other alternatives). Now I only have to maintain parsing logic in scrapers. It also actually reduced my costs of scraping since I no longer pay for proxies which are more expensive for my scale than a web scraping API.
It's very hard to contract out the management part of a job. Even Instacart isn't a pure buy-vs-DIY decision. It's amazing how many questions the desire for a tomato can generate.
They had the same computer related problem and mass cancellations in 2016.
Yup, all true, we did Unix ports for both Sun and AT&T, at the time I think we referred to the target of that other Apple port as "the file server"
There's something magical about a single-purpose device.

There is no web browser, Discord, Spotify, IRC or anything. Just you and a thousand games you promised yourself you'd finish some day =)
?? because halt catch fire is copyrighted ??
The binding of books makes them hard to recycle and usually they just get trashed.

Don’t waste charity shop time, if you have technical books that are of no historical interest and are long irrelevant with expired technologies, just trash them, they served their purpose.

Ask yourself if there is a practical chance that a particular book would be able to get into the hands of someone who would actually value the information inside. If not, garbage.
Apple makes perfectly decent devices, but I’d be shocked if there was a metric, maybe other than CPU power with good efficiency inside the envelope that they target, where one couldn’t find something where non-Mac laptops “can’t compete” with a Mac.

The XDR display is nice I’m sure, but there are laptops out there with 4K OLED displays…

I dunno. From what I’ve observed, Apple products are mostly nice due to the attention to detail and the fact that the purchaser can be pretty sure that nothing will be truly deficient. Other than that one time with the MacBook keyboards.

So many products are like: fantastic but here‘s some crippling issue. Apple skips that.
This seems incredibly nit picky. My summary of a few points below:

#1: Walker claims sleep deprivation decreases life span, but so does sleeping too much.

#2: Walker says sleep deprivation is always bad, but sometimes it helps people with depression.

#3: Walker says that lack of sleep alone may kill you because it does for people who get "fatal familial insomnia" (FFI), but insomnia is a symptom and not the root cause of FFI.

#4: Walker says the WHO claims we have a "sleep epidemic", but Walker's citation does not actually show that and there is conflicting research showing we may actually be sleeping more.

#5: Walker said the WHO recommends 8 hours of sleep, but it's actually the National Sleep Foundation and they recommend 7-9

Here's Walker's response to some of this: https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...

EDIT: I added points #3 and #4 after just to be more charitable and give a full summary instead of just the ones I felt were most nit picky.
> So they are blaming SkySolver software. The article says it is off-the-shelf software?

The article actually says "SkySolver, an off-the-shelf piece of software that Southwest has customized and updated".
The other side of this is that I've met several people over the years who were true world class experts in their fields (one literally wrote the book, the other had her phd in that niche, the third was employee #5 at the company, etc...) where suddenly those entire fields went poof as technology changed. So this is the tradeoff - do you specialize and potentially then have to shift in some new direction as the world change, or do you remain more generalized and thus sometimes have a harder time selling yourself?
Important advice. As a person who has PVCs and PACs I would say avoid anything that isn't medical grade and advised by your cardiologist/specialist doctor.
Best way to do this for startups who want to reach product market fit ASAP is Sparrow (https://sparrowstartup.com/).

Many YC founders have used them before. It works because all of their mentors/coaches have built 7-8 figure businesses themselves.
Stutters on my old gaming PC on Firefox as well, but runs smooth on chrome.
> I have teenagers around, and the effect of woke movement seems excessive on some of them.

Chances are that they view you similarly. Times are changing, you change with them or you will become obsolete a bit faster than you have to. If I look back across the last 50 years or so that I remember consciously a lot of the stuff that was socially acceptable in the past is no longer socially acceptable, and for very good reasons. I recognize that some of my conditioning can't be undone and realize that future generations will use this new base as their jump-off point. In the beginning, your kids can learn from you. But later on you can learn from your kids.
Not love, but have natural inclination towards it. That drives a sense of wonder to learn more.

Love comes and goes. Wonder is forever.
Also sounds like a case of not throwing enough adversarial data at the system - you can't just code coverage your code, you can't even establish KPIs, you have to establish its performance under system failure (does it freeze or gracefully shut down, does it persist to disk, what happens when the disk is yanked out of the system), etc.

Very few software shops I am aware of that do anything like this.
Docker Desktop uses QEMU when building an x86 container on an M-series mac.
This is hilarious.

In my experience writing novels with ChatGPT, it starts to break down after a long running thread before eventually becoming almost useless. I wind up needing to remind it what it’s doing over and over.

That is likely by virtue of its limit on tokens, but I think also because the weight each token has reduces as the conversation continues.

I wonder if users would slowly watch the website go insane after using over X interactions.
Smalltalk-80 on Alto had no icons, or desktop metaphor. We didn't get that until the Star (Xerox Dandelion) and the Lisa.

I had always assumed the Lisa folks took that from the Star, but seeing this paper I'm wondering if that assumption is not fully correct.

The Alto was a beautiful machine, but the software that ran on it doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to a Mac or Lisa or even the Star. Fire up the classic Smalltalk-80 interface on Squeak and you'll see what I mean. It's a brilliant system, but in the end it's an IDE written in Smalltalk for writing more Smalltalk programs. There's not a lot of "end user" there. Other software that ran on the Alto wasn't much different.
What’s the bit about the Aztec and Mayans not having Markets?
FBI's ten most wanted fugitives
I'll be happy to bet that there were quite a few ordinary employees of Paypal that had more of a positive effect on that outcome than Elon but that were compensated to a very small fraction for their efforts.
Interesting insight and speculation from the comment section of the article:

>Jane Friedman

>Speaking as a publishing industry reporter & observer, I couldn't agree more with your assessment of James Daunt's leadership and business strategy. Unfortunately, the picture isn't quite as bright for B&N as those numbers would have you believe. B&N stores were once quite large (e.g., 25,000 square feet); the new stores opening are less than half that in some cases. And they're largely re-opening stores that closed during the pandemic.

>It's also concerning that during a record two years for book sales (the pandemic was great for book sales of all kinds), Barnes & Noble didn't see the same percentage increase, indicating they've lost market share. Some industry insiders believe the current private equity owner is trying to position the company favorably for sale.
Go see a doctor and/or professional.
That's odd to me to hear when on Linux half the updates crash the entire window manager, and once crashed, the only way to fix is to dig deep into CLI because that's the only thing you can even see anymore. Not to mention if you install a wrong GPU driver, which is much easier to do on Linux that one would want, same happens. There's no defaulting back to fallback when a failure occurs. Nothing. Just death. Not to mention the infinite problems with Nvidia GPU's, Wayland-specific issues, or X11 specific issues. Makes it seem as if there's no hardware that fully supports Linux. You have to be a Linux expert to use Linux even remotely well. And that's pretty stupid if you ask me.
How is it sillier that any someone can use Mickey Mouse for whatever than that someone can use Mickey Mouse to create cartoons, but only some random people who happen to be hired by a specific giant corporation?
I love Mazda for resisting the touchscreen-everything car interior. Everything in my 2021 CX-5 is physical buttons and knobs. The design and ergonomics are just fantastically nice and usable.

Like you said, the infotainment is also not a touchscreen and is rotary control only. While not as immediately intuitive as a touchscreen, once you get the hang of it it is much safer and more accurate to use while driving. Trying to use a touchscreen while moving is just awful.

And I don't think it is wise to optimize short term intuitiveness over long term safety and usability for a vehicle I will own for several years.
A friend of mine wrote on this topic today as well.

https://www.seat31b.com/2022/12/the-great-southwest-meltdown...
I'm not sure that's correct. I think your 'Evil Sherlock' is a perfect example of what is now allowed without copyright protections.

I believe a trademark just prevents you from releasing a new Sherlock narrative that misleads the public that it's a legitimate story from the original collection.
Are there even heat pumps where efficiency goes down when the delta-T decreases?
Serious question: how many products on Amazon aren’t rated at least 4.0. Even the crappiest Chinese alphabet brand products are typically rated like 4.3-4.5.
I wish there was a book store with a great and relatively up to date technical book section. I would spend a lot of time there.

I’m not even talking up to date with the latest ChatGPT hotness, but any serious programming books written in the last 7 years - especially timeless classics that matter regardless of the technology. Rather that the same Sam’s Learn C++ book that’s been gathering dust for 20 years.

I suspect there actually is a market there, but the problem is you need a very particular book store manager that can curate this well. I guess it would have to be a labor of love, as financially the people who would do this well are busy making much more money as developers.
> It would be nice to have an elegant way to reach the front button, a problem I haven't yet solved to my satisfaction.

Drilling a paperclip-sized hole into the frame over the home button?