skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho this is not a useful categorization.

You can learn by doing, or by theory and then doing. The point of the theory is to take a compressible space of learnings and compress+cache them. A principle or law or whatever is just a cached compression of a model of reality.

It has all the benefits of compression: you acquire the knowledge faster.

It has all the disadvantages of caching: your knowledge may be out of date.

There is nothing inherently valuable about a "conceptual" understanding or understanding the "fundamental principles" of something. All the value comes from the fact that the alternative is you can slowly build your model by experiencing reality bit by bit, constantly trading off use of your knowledge for building more knowledge. Or you can accelerate that process by downloading precomputed indexes from other people: what we call "concepts" or "principles".

With this model of knowledge, you can see that so long as you can extract commonalities from experiences (using your inductive reasoning faculty to generalize from small samples) you will capture "conceptual" models. This model also permits you to choose when you should choose to learn "concepts" and when you should choose to acquire the raw uncompressed experience: prioritize the compressed cache when it is likely to not be stale and it is likely to cover a wide knowledge space.

A heuristic for this is for fields that haven't changed very much in a long time. e.g. basic Physics has not changed in a long time. Reading the compressed model is superior. On the other hand, cross-platform UI development is a new field. You will be better served by trying something.

Another heuristic is the search cost. Using your inductive reasoning requires some examples. Areas where these are hard to acquire should move you to acquire through reading the compressed model. e.g. studying epidemiology is better served by reading through the state of the art in the field. On the other hand, you don't need to study principle to determine if one way to play a level in a videogame is superior.

A third heuristic is how large the search space is. e.g. Your musical tastes are constantly changing, and it's trivial to play the piano. However, the space of notes that sound pleasing to you are likely a small fraction of the space of notes that you can play on the piano. Here you will be better served learning some principles to cut the search space down.

P.S. By the way, to the author, you may benefit from running your posts by some English-fluent friends to proof-read. It is unlikely you meant to use "gives more inside".
There was plenty of inexpensive hosting when Facebook launched. You could run several tiny PHP/MySQL web apps on a single shared hosting account for <$10/mo, and Linode had recently launched, offering a VPS starting at $20/mo.

I recently migrated a little web app that has been online since before Facebook existed, away from the $5/mo shared hosting it had lived on since 2006.

My family’s dialup connection even came with free web hosting that ran Perl back in the 90s!

http://web.archive.org/web/20040612195543/http://www.linode....
> The problem is not the food. The problem is obesity.

Junk food corporations make profit by selling food, and they are extremely good at this. They rely on intense advertising, making the food addictive, targeting children. As a side effect, people get obese since they consume more calories that what they need.

I don't know about GLP-1, but my intuition tells me that no drug is going to make eating Mac Donald's and drink Coke healthy, even if it doesn't make you obese.
IMHO if you can position yourself in a relatively niche domain, you may actually get more value than by creating weekend projects.

In your shoes, I would actually try to get hired now. Probably lots of companies, see e.g. Who is hiring / Who wants to be hired threads, would extend you an offer straight away.
In countries where Facebook is banned, there are local alternatives. So maybe regulations are the way to go.
> Almost every day, there are new technologies to learn, new frameworks, new programming languages, new requirements

fire that asshole.
For the first chapter, sure.
We might just not know what we are missing. I used to think that video calls is a solved problem until I saw Google's Project Starline [0]. Video calls in AR could be vastly better, not just a little bit, but basically a completely different experience/relationship.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13CishCKXY
Personally I’ve been using a similar approach for over a decade where I have 9 desktops on my Mac most of which have fixed windows on them eg 1 for a file explorer, 2 for mail, 3 for browser, 4 and 5 for IDEs, 6 for related tooling, 7 for notes and maybe another browser window, 8 for music, and 9 for chat windows and I switch between them with Ctrl+<number>. On top of all of them desktops I can Ctrl+Space the terminal (Quake style, Warp now, used to be iTerm) and Alt+Space for Raycast (used to be Alfred). This was I rarely if ever need to Cmd+Tab since everything is fixed in place most of the time.
You’re straw-manning ads against personalised ads. There’s nothing stopping sites from targeting ads in ways that don’t require the processing of personal information (as your example, HN, already does).
Because it's pointless!
This is a very wonky comparison.

Just because the malware has been removed (or not), does not mean the problem was resolved.

If a keylogger already got your passwords and you'll never find that out then the fact it's no longer logging keystrokes is not much comfort to you as a victim.
Potentiometers – Modifying Taper
> I don’t know if high school bands are still out there with all the tech now?

They are. I don't know about numbers but kids getting together and singing with a guitar, bass, drums and maybe a keyboard still happens.
The main problem with the Quest 1's (and Quest 2's) weight is that it's all in the front, making you feel top-heavy; you can actually make it feel "lighter" by adding weights to the back (commonly, external battery packs, but I literally strapped a ziplock bag of sand to the back and even that was an improvement)

The Quest Pro is a major improvement in this regard; despite being heavier on paper, it feels much lighter because of the weight distribution.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the waist-mounted battery pack is purely for auxiliary power for extended use, which makes sense.
I'm surprised at how expensive this is. The type of development I do doesn't have string processing in the hot path, so I've never benchmarked these sort of unicode operations, and I don't doubt that the bstr Rust library is reasonably well optimized.

But 1us/byte checking for word boundaries - that's on the order of 10k instructions per byte! I knew that unicode was more complex than ASCII but yikes!
> now they're slow rolling out fully electric by...2040

The MTA operates 5,800 buses [1]. At 525 kWh per bus [2], that’s 3 GwH of batteries fleetwide. Charging those daily is enough to keep a large power plant busy.

[1] https://new.mta.info/project/zero-emission-bus-fleet

[2] https://chargedevs.com/newswire/new-yorks-mta-orders-60-more...
I turned down an opportunity to see TC live...boring, TV etc.
A friend thtat went told me that the show 'started', Tommy came out - and for 20 minutes did nothing.
Nothing.
And the audience was howling, and crying, with laughter.
And then all night.

Friends comment: TV did not do any justice at all to to the man (except, the tv execs could see his genius), as everything was 'rushed'. When something went 'wrong', live, he had time to react to the situation. The reaction had people on the floor and unable to breathe - for minutes, and minutes, and minutes.

By the way - it took my friend about 20 minutes just to explain nothing happened for twenty minutes, he was laughing so hard.
Yeah. I evaluated a bunch of these static site tools for my blog and they were all complicated to install and manage in their own ways. It was much easier and more flexible to just write a shell script that runs all the markdown files through pandoc.
First of all we have both. Second of all we are a democracy, and I have never once in my entire life living here heard for anyone call for privatizing the Department of Sanitation. If anything I've heard for calls to take over private sanitation because it way more dangerous to pedestrians and workers
Oh, Netapp had a similar bug in ONTAP. If you had a nearly full (98%) filesystem, snapshots enabled, and somebody did an rm -rf <MYDIROFLOTSOFDATA>, the whole filer would stop responding to all users for half an hour or more.

Eventually we got a patch (custom for our enterprise) that limited the outage to anybody who had a current working directory that was the parent of the rm -rf'd dir. And we dropped NetApp shortly after.
It isn't revolutionary, but it is incompatible with the concept of human rights and proportionate punishment.
All the same arguments were said about cigarettes and yet in 2022 I almost never smell a cigarette burning outside and few young people smoke.

People complained about cigarette taxes wouldn’t be effective but they are.

The stock market didn’t crash either despite the multibillion dollar tobacco companies being affected.
It did to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I expected, just a few people seem especially upset about the upgrade breaking their scripts.
What's the point of having batteries on your head if they aren't being used.

Lightweight headset connected via Thunderbolt 5 to a combined battery/CPU pack or desktop Mac.
Agreed. Apple is one of the best companies (if not _the_ best) to be able to afford several iterations before reaching a wide adoption.
> No interface is running right now
Best thing I ever did for my musical avocation was to join a party band. Technically we sucked. But we gigged; we had fans who enjoyed our gigs; and while I had been in award-winning more classically-oriented formations, they didn't ever lead to international tours, nor did they never give the rush that an audience screaming for an encore does.

What's the difference between a squirrel and a french horn player in the back of a cab? The squirrel is probably going to a gig.

"Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head"
Do they also call the M1 'micro-crisps'?
In a way, maybe Gatorade is trying to be honest about lying. After all, a 20 oz bottle of Gatorade has 36 grams of sugar in it and would substantially contribute to type 2 diabetes. It would behoove them to fund a narrative that the product and the outcome associated with the product are indeed "fit" to maximize sales.

Of course, the wrinkle with approach is that that as you mention, the reality is that nothing could be furthest from the truth. Obesity is fastest growing and most deadly American chronic condition. The outsized impact of type 2 diabetes on payer spend, both medical and pharmacy, cannot be overstated.

And when you put that all together, it makes a commercial like the one you mentioned seem banal and sinister at the same time.
Twitter whistleblower Zatko (mudge) lands new job at Rapid7
> because persistent pooling has been a part of PHP (and advised) for years.

It may be advised, but I can assure you that it's not very common! I would guess that the vast, vast majority of PHP applications are _not_ pooling their connections. Especially when it comes to PHP hosted on Lambda, which is surprisingly a non-trivial amount of applications at this point.
I got to the point where I lost my cravings; it took less than a week for them to come back when I reintroduced them in small amounts though.
Agreed, great book. Anyone who enjoys thinking about the extremes of possible life might also enjoy Blindsight by Peter Watts. It blew my mind about the nature of thought and consciousness in the same way dragon's egg blew my mind about the nature of time and consciousness.
I think it would be most accurate to say that people's bodies have a natural size given a particular food and social environment. That's a crucial bit of context that's very often neglected. Resisting one's environment is very difficult - it often requires you to have money, time, medicine, workout obsessed friends, or all of the above. Given changes in the environment in western countries over the last 50 years or so, weights are rising to their new "natural" levels as a consequence.
Settings > Malware Remediation > Notify on Detection?

Settings > Malware Remediation > Events

Not a complicated UI to design.

I suspect the other reply that pointed to Apple wanting to sweep Mac malware under the rug is far more likely.
That clearly isn't true because companies will routinely spend thousands of dollars flying employees across the world to talk to each other in person.

If (and I accept this is a big if) these headsets can reproduce the experience of meeting someone face to face then $3k is great value for money.
To be fair, the EPA changed the way they calculate mileage ratings in 2006 (affecting window stickers in 2008), so the 2012 Civic is a valid-ish comparison. Also, I chose the most efficient Civic available, which was the hybrid model.

I do wholeheartedly agree with you, though. Even when cherry picking data (highway mpg's, ignoring miles driven in EV mode, choosing the most efficient Civic) and ignoring other factors (larger, safer, lower emissions), the Prius Prime is much more efficient. I think plugin hybrids have their place.
I learned a lot of low level things starting out. As the abstractions piled on it became clearer and clearer that I had mechanical sympathy that other people did not, but the world changes underneath you, especially when it's all abstracted away anyway (how would you know if the foundations have been swapped out underneath you?). I got a refresher course about ten years ago working on embedded software, and I'm overdue for a booster.

I'm kind of hoping that IoT or open source firmware for SOCs and BMCs will give people some more fodder for learning systems thinking concepts that are currently being buried behind giant frameworks and stackoverflow.
> scientific measurement shows that wild animals are getting bigger too which suggests that pervasive presence of endocrine disrupting agents in the environment may be involved

Do you have a good source for this?
The most successful headset will be one that is powerful and lightweight. Right now we seem to only be able to make one of those things. If it's powerful, then it's a heavy, bulky brick strapped to your head. If it's lightweight, then it's laggy and nauseating.

Moving some of the heft to a separate module is one way to cheat and get both of those things. It's a 3rd tradeoff.

When you used wired VR in the past, was it tethered to a stationary computer? If so, then this is different at least because you're not tied to any specific spot in the room.

All that said, I agree that it's very "un-Apple-like" to have a clunky two-piece solution. But it might be a stepping stone solution to show what's possible with a lithe-but-powerful headset.
I would think you're completely wrong. The green revolution was the first time in history that we were able to continually produce excess food for (excluding distribution issues) the entire earths population. Even more so, the new foods we are able to supply via processing are highly calorically dense.

Simply put if you take mammalian models and allow them to eat all they want they blow up like little balloons. This is no different from bears feasting on salmon for the last millions of years. Creatures are designed to overconsume because the ones that didn't in the past didn't make it thru the lean times.
ArchLinux wiki is great but manpages really only answer "what does this command/syscall/etc. do and what are all the options I have when calling it?". People Google stuff and copypasta from StackOverflow because these answers are to questions they actually have like "how do I integrate $x with $y?". The answers may not be good but they are at least to questions that real people have.
Wires by themselves are not evil, the annoying thing about what we consider "wired VR" is that the wires are attached to some fixed point in space (the computer), so you need to dedicate some spatial awareness to where the wires are and periodically untangle yourself or whatever.

In contrast, a wire between two parts of the body that don't move that much in normal operation is basically effortless, and besides the knee-jerk perception "eww wires" isn't a real issue. (By "don't move that much" I mean that the movement range of the spine, the longest section of body that the wire would span, is much more limited than, say, the arms. Controllers wired to a headset would be supreme chaos, but headset wired to a belt piece is not nearly as bad)

I tried the Magic Leap at work, and the computing and battery is off-headset, attached to your pants or something with a simple wire. It did not impair usage nearly as much as, say, my HTC Vive, which has a long wire to my computer I must take care not to step on or tangle myself.

On the other hand, when going out with VR friends, the Quest users are always the first to head off, due to their batteries running low, even though the humans would be comfortable continuing to use it. So I guess a place to put more battery, or even more computing power, (though that is rather more complicated) would not be a bad idea at all.
Thought experiment: A drug* that reduces people's weight and massively boosts physical fitness with no negative side effects is discovered. The discoverer of that drug declines to patent it, making it a cheap generic available everywhere. What would your reaction be?

Take a moment to consider what your reaction is before continuing.

...

The comments I'm reading here are diverse and fascinating. Weight loss, diet, and fitness are almost quasi-religious issues that people tend to have strong and personal reactions to. The unfit are desperate for a solution, especially an easy one. The very fit subconsciously resent the notion that people could achieve, with a pill, what they have achieved through discipline and hard work (or genetic luck). Others are keen to point out diverse evils of modern society that they believe are the true culprits which must be tackled instead of masking their effect with a pill.

Nutrition and fitness are classic examples of pseudo-science. Studies that would meet the bare minimum standards of scientific rigour in any other field are practically impossible. Getting a statistically significant sample of people to go on special diets or exercise regimens long term is just not feasible. Whenever an "expert" makes a tentative statement on what they think might be the case, media picks it up and amplifies it. Butter is bad for you. Butter is good for you. Blueberries are superfood. Keto diets. Crossfit. etc. Countless "experts", often with no credentials and no compelling data, are happy to write best-selling self-improvement books. They assume that what works for them (or didn't work, but seems like it should have) will work for everyone. Everyone wants to know how to be healthy, fit, and happy, so there is insatiable demand for books that are, by scientific standards, pure spit-balling.

Then medicine and drug research, which are legally required to be at last somewhat scientific but are always profit-motivated, enter the fray. They can prove a drug meets safety standards and quantify certain specific effects, but interactions with the pseudo-science of the greater health industry eventually become unavoidable.

Perhaps the first step to becoming more objective about drugs like this is to recognize that we really aren't.

*a hypothetical one, not the one being discussed here
It's pretty clear by now that the intake of high amounts of fructose, refined carbohydrates and packaged foods has resulted in obesity. The much maligned fat in a healthy diet was never the culprit. The Chinese on a rice diet were never very obese until they became rich and started consuming packaged foods. Now their obesity rates rival the US's.

Uncontrolled insulin levels cause obesity because of insulin's dual role in fat storage. The key is to change one's diet such that insulin levels are lowered and the stored fat can be utilized for metabolic needs.

Exercise is important for general health but trying to lose weight by exercising doesn't work if the diet stays the same. Food is just too calorie rich and the body too calorie efficient. The adage 'get fit in the gym, get slim in the kitchen' applies.

Genetically, a small number of people might have metabolic issues causing obesity.Drugs might be the right choice for them but for the vast majority of us, we just need to take a hard look at our diet.
Roku Plans to Launch TV Line
> union pressure to slow the transition to electric vehicles, which is just a hop from fully autonomous city vehicles

Wouldn’t this incentivise earlier fleet turnover to electric? If you’ve just bought an electric fleet, it’s tougher to justify turning it over again for autonomous only.
Keyboard Maestro for macOS is great although it's not free like AHK.
Python has blocks, in the same way that Javascript has sentences even if you don't end all of them with semicolons.
I totally agree, I'm just pointing out that at $400/hr that's a huge discount on a "top tier" firm. I'm not at a biglaw firm and I'm an associate and my time is 50% more than that and I don't work for faangs!
Wonder if they rendered it primarily in Midjourney with some minor in-painting done by DALL-E.
In my view, 9 times out of 10, the best UX strategy for your application is to simply stick to the default native UI toolkit, set of controls, look&feel, and so on, and not try to re-invent or custom-style anything. As soon as you start designing, you're doing two bad things: 1. throwing away person-decades of UX research already done by platform vendors, which drove the defaults, and 2. throwing away any user customizations/preferences they have set up and expect to apply to their apps and web pages. There was a sub-thread in the recent BitTorrent article about what can go wrong when you as a developer start imposing your own color schemes and so on.
Tips for writing long running data processing scripts
For a variety of reasons.

* Many deployments are done via roles, not IAM users.
* That pesky "jenkins" user is not in fact "John Enkins" but is in fact a CI/CD system.
* The model breaks down entirely once you get past a certain level of complexity. Shared resources (CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail events, oh god the NAT gateways) get really hard to slice up in easily agreeable ways; cross-account access becomes a nightmare to track costs across.
* Most relevant of all: the system wasn't designed to do this from the start, and there's a mountain of technical debt to dig out from under before it could be done.
I answered that one with "no" :P
This is great to hear, congrats.

I took about 6.5 years to do that same journey (and having a kid), and one problem I had was that the goalposts kept shifting on me, partly because a slowly growing side-income is easy to get accustomed to so even when I got to where my startup was able to pay me as much as my day job, it felt more like I had doubled my salary, not replaced it. Did you struggle with that at all?
> specialization merely allows both implementations to coexist.

And both implementations coexisting allow for type-specific behavior in generic code
Nicely put.

But what is this "build-less front-end" you speak of? Surely there's build somewhere, you're just hiding it?
I looked for the video, but there's absolutely nothing on this site that shows how these elevators work.