skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's usually the other group that's doing a Motte and bailey here. The billionaires were and are actually quite specific and up-front with their space ideas. It's the media (traditional and social) that invents fantasies here, either to sell or discredit the ideas, depending on which way the wind is blowing.

(As is the case here. We're in the middle of "let's tear down Elon Musk" phase right now, so the strawmen are getting impressively absurd.)
Why after 5 years if it's still working fine?
Oh my, the nostalgia...

I remember pecking out Wu anti-aliased line drawing routines in asm in DOS Debug from out of the Black Book on a PCjr. Those were the days. (Just kidding. These are the days.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Wu%27s_line_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_debug

https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr
What a benchmark
I did submit a request for review last week, but no feedback since then.
I had an ASUS that was only marginally thicker than a MPB with upgradable ram and storage (which puts it miles ahead of the MBA I ran out of both on immediately despite using it for almost nothing). The battery was likely also replacable, I just never tried.
Don't count on it.

The premise is very incorrect. Latin America has a dearth of educated workers. It's why their societies' infrastructure is barely functional.

I've spent 1.5 years living in Mexico. During that time, I met one electrical engineer, one software engineer, and one digital marketer (Mexican citizens). I am sure I would meet more if I spent more time in Guadalajara or Mexico City. But, I wouldn't expect to replace a labor force in any useful amount.

95% of people I met didn't seem to be very skilled at reading or writing, as though they barely had middle-school level education. I expect the same is true for most Latin American countries except Chile & Costa Rica, which have higher rates of human development.

Notice there is not much data in this article. It's just a qualitative description of one person's experiences in hiring. And discusses a survey of 18 companies trying to hire in Latin America.
If already you use make, I don't see a reason to also use just, since you can just do what just does with make.
Which is a stupid idea to begin with. If you have equally qualified people, fine, pick by gender, but don't make gender the primary criterion. But they thought this through as well as the train wreck that gender neutral language is.
Prepare for it now and everyday. Maybe it won’t be as terrifying when it comes.
SPME: A Marketing Habit for Solopreneurs
You can criticize all you want, but I notice you neglected to share any of that actual criticism in your comment. Closing a bug as wontfix isn't an insult, please stop taking that personally. All open source projects reject bugs sometimes. Every project gets to determine their own threshold for what features they remove and what bugs they close as wontfix. All projects reject bugs. There's a comment from down thread about KDE developers doing exactly the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395682

But you also have to make sure your criticism is good. Just complaining that a feature was removed "because I was using it" is not a useful criticism. I learn nothing from reading that. You have to actually explain why you needed the feature, how you were using it, and why the newer options don't work for you.

>Mostly the gnome supporters imply that the complainers are just plain stupid

I don't see the author claiming anyone's stupid in that article. This is what the author says:

>it is just bad file organisation coupled with a bunch of old bad habits

And maybe on that note, you could consider that designers know a lot more about the habits of users than a random drive-by commenter, considering they study it for a living?
I don't know, but my guess from their stated mid-term goals [1] would be that they're funding this themselves, in the hope of being hired for consultancy/feature development jobs on Servo once it gets used in small embedded devices, similar to how they get paid for contributing to other browser engines.

Edit: I also imagine most of the answer to "Who is funding Igalia?" in the FAQ of a similarly Igalia-led project, Wolvic, is relevant here [2]:

> Generally speaking, Igalia is funded by a wide variety clients. Some of our contracts allow or encourage us to discuss the work; others do not.

> Igalia works on a lot of things, from graphic drivers to multimedia, as well as the web platform. Igalia’s model expands the ability for investment into the web platform and web engines. We think that is not only good for businesses, developers, and users, but fundamentally useful to the long term health of the Web.

> Igalia itself re-invests in things we feel are important, but that we think under-served or else very, very interesting. Very often we are able to find good alignments with client work. Igalia is also the maintainer of a few official WebKit ports, including WPEWebkit, which powers millions of devices. We are able to do this and build a team around a diverse combination of investments, which in turn makes WebKit better and helps the larger web ecosystem remain healthier. Our ideas around XR are not dissimilar.

[1] https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/...

[2] https://wolvic.com/en/faq/#who-is-funding-igalia%3F
In last 2 years developer pool has increased a lot on Toptal. There are not enough jobs there now.
Absolutely the best, I use my phone these days as I have it on me but replaced the Sansa with another as I couldn't find anything as good even after it was discontinued.
> if you want to create a tree or a graph for graph algorithms like bfs or dfs on top of a non graph database then ORMs are literally the main abstraction to use. That's it. This is rare

You said it yourself, if you want to store a graph (in memory object instancss referring to each other by reference) in a non-graph database (say postgres or mysql) then an ORM is the thing to use.

This is literally what everyone uses them for. You defined their use, and that's what we're all doing with them and finding immense value from them doing it simply.

It isn't rare. It is literally the common case in every web app everywhere. There are more examples of an ORM being good and providing value, in the real world than not.

I'll just carry on using them and finding them valuable, and in the rare corner case their limit is exceeded then take the harder or more complex option.

Best tool for the job.
I remember the last one for me, it might've also been the first. It's longer than this but had me tearing up intermittently for at least 6 weeks.

What Happened to Lee

April 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878136
It's amazingly true. And it's not 2x, it's 3-5x depending on workload.

I've got an i9 MBP, and I've been using an M1 MBP for the last year for work. The M1 I don't even need to plug in, I can work with it for 2-3 days on a single charge, the i9 I essentially run plugged in all the time.

Also the fans never even start on the M1. They run a LOT on the i9 and it throttles and gets very hot often due to my workloads.

Apple may have a history, as you say, and I wish they'd publish more quantitative metrics -- but this thing really works. It's life changing.
Thanks!

That is definitely a big part of it, getting to use copilot style answers without having to install any plugins to the IDE (so getting to use this in colab or jupyter notebooks directly feels great).

That said, I use both copilot and sketch in my VScode notebooks, and find that they have slightly different feelings to the iteration loop.

Sketch offers a more "local" data context (pinning the text/prompt to the specific dataframe) which increases the quality of the suggestions (since more relevant information is within the token limit).
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

https://i.imgur.com/hINj1xf.jpg
Presumably the precedent they're claiming is "venues can decline entry to any customer for any reason, so long as there's small print somewhere saying so"

In my country, the jargon for this is 'right of admission reserved'
Your comment is unclear. Which one is different?
There is one savant that can do crazy math but is otherwise normal. Afgter an epileptic fit.

His system is base 10000, he can add any two numbers below 5000 and come up with a single digit response in one loop. Then covert to base10 for the rest of us.
Each digit in his base 10000 system has a different visual representation, like we have 0-9.

It's integer accurate so I don't think it uses sine wave approximations.
Guy can remember pi for 24 hours.

I don't think the boffins or he himself got close to understanding what is going on in his head.
> That's a process that involves drawing ions through solution towards a cathode and anode. A direct beam won't do.

OK, thanks for the info. Can you go into more depth about this specific part, or is this a thing where I need to do the whole degree to understand the answer?
That’s a lot of meanness just to refute a detail that was never asserted.
It's not a Google-specific feature; it's part of the email spec (albeit an optional one). iCloud email supports them too, and I've been using them on both my Gmail and iCloud emails for a while now.
I have no reason to believe my current M1 MBP won’t last as long as my 2012 MBP that’s still running. Why, do you suspect a MacBook isn’t going to last as long as a Dell laptop? I’d love to hear the reasoning for that one.
While I agree with the dystopic projection, I strongly disagree with your notion that the AI image gens are not creative. I've used them for more than 6 months and am amazed every day I use them what creativity they display. I don't do anything generic, I usually push them to do odd things and I can guarantee they are not doing copies or amalgamations. They do understand the gist of most styles and objects and can combine everything in novel ways just like a human artist would.

People who claim they copy/paste stuff and can't be creative have clearly not used them very much.
Repeated additions may be hard, but computing a*b as exp(log(a)+log(b)) should be learnable.
The fact that she never got around to learning the ranks of the soldiers in the army didn't help either. It looked like she didn't really care and would rather be doing something else.
Oh, you want to gamify managing your money?

1- Install GnuCash.

2- Import your checking account into it.

3- Another account will automatically be created called "imbalance" with the opposite balance. The goal of the game is to manipulate other accounts so that the imbalance account eventually reaches 0.

4- did you have fun and want to keep playing? Import more accounts. Your credit card account, your mortgage account, your brokerage account, etc.

5- You can play in different difficulties. Do you have a tax account? Is it broken down into federal and state taxes? If so, does it match what the state/IRS thinks you paid?

Keep doing this and you'll become as good as any accountant.

Did you enjoy the game? Support the developers at gnucash.org/donate.phtml (no affiliation, just a happy gamer)
This is strange, ( Taliban spokesperson using Twitter )
Joel Spolsky has a good article about this [1], where he discusses apparent cleanliness versus actual cleanliness in the context of a bakery. I agree that, at least on the surface, a warehouse or commercial kitchen may be quite messy. But there has to be an underlying order, otherwise the system just doesn't function like it ought to.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
Hegemony shapes discourse in its image. I believe the issue is not which ideology ‘truly’ affirms some self evident notion of self interest, but which ideology can successfully assert its own notion of self interest as self evident.
Sometimes people really are the best, and for a moment I get to feel immensely grateful and proud to be part of humanity.
Getting an M1 MacBook has been a game changer. Rarely do I have battery anxiety! I just wish I would have got the higher ram in retrospect.
Major differences are that (1) Homerow does not show search results in a command palette fashion. YMMV but I prefer the UI to be minimalist. (2) you can disable search and have it work almost exactly like Vimium.

I would also like to note that the Shortcat dev plans on adding licensing. Homerow has licensing, but there's no blocks on features. So they are both "free" in the same way.
I don’t know why you think that the law must allow every technique, so long as a basic one is always functionally available. The right to own a small gun does not promote the right to own a howitzer.

(Put another way: it’s perfectly ordinary for the courts to rule on methods themselves.)
I am wandering if something like that exists but for text areas/boxes inside windows desktop applications.
No reason you can't have noise cancelling with wired earphones to the Sansa, Bose QC20s etc.

I assume also there are jack-to-bluetooth adapters for wireless.
MSG has a tax-free exemption in exchange for providing this venue to the enjoyment of all in New York. Therefore they should start paying full real estate taxes if they want to act like a private business picking and choosing which law abiding citizen is permitted to view the events. Even a small hint this status will be revoked will end the bullshit.
> I was surprised when I started playing around with Stable Diffusion a couple of weeks ago and it just kind of worked with ROCm.

Stable Diffusion is literally the single highest-profile application of machine learning. There has been extensive effort to make it work in all sorts of places. If it were the year 2000, someone would port it to a Beowulf cluster...

I'm more concerned about SpaCy, CuPy, the hundreds (thousands) of models on Hugging Face, etc. I do use a lot of that stuff. Buying a GPU or accelerator which only runs the high-profile stuff is a bad buy.
Mars has carbon in its atmosphere. I don't think we have the necessary data to say that Mars' lower gravity prevents long-term settlement. Mars has enough mass to keep an atmosphere for millions of years, but you probably want to mostly live underground for the foreseeable future.
I’ve read your HN comments before and replied to one within the last month. Glad you’re here, Jesus.
Absolutely love my (completely base model) M1 Air, and my M1 Pro MBP supplied by work. Both have shockingly amazing battery life.

My work one was replacing a 2016 Macbook Pro which struggled to last more than a couple of hours when I was doing dev work, all whilst trying to reach orbit with its fans. I've never heard the fans kick in on the new one.

As for the Air, I thought I'd be crippling myself a bit by only going fot the basic 8GB RAM model, and other than when I installed a copy of Premier Pro and tried rendering something it's been amazing - even then it rendered fine, just took a fair bit more time than on a pro.

I'm not sure I could go back to an overheating, crappy Intel "Mobile" based laptop - they shouldn't even be allowed to call those things mobile chips at this point, they're utterly shite.
Oil and gas rigs typically don't have to worry about intersecting other infrastructure.

Even then, things occasionally go awry.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur#Drilling_disaste...>

For an airport, the precision required both to not hit extant underground infrastructure and to know precisely where your newly deployed infrastructure is (for the next guy/gal to worry about) is probably a salient concern.

I'm not sure that horizontal drilling offers that degree of precision and assurance as opposed to rip-and-dig methods.
"not difficult" is a very different thing in your world than it is for nearly everyone else in the world.

For all intents and purposes, for basically everyone, memory and storage are non-upgradeable in the M1 Macs.
Apple does allow this. It’s just the issue of finding software to install.
> Creating a browser rendering engine with full feature parity is an absolutely gigantic project.

So? Gecko was a mess and they had something actually exciting on their hand which was mostly untainted by their branding. They could have bet on it rather than chose to die a slow death while their money trickles to their highly pay executive team.

> Of course Mozilla wanted a way to monetise Servo. R&D is great but they can't spend on R&D indefinitely.

If that’s what they were looking for, that’s retrospectively an extremely poor decision. There was no money in VR. The issue with Mozilla management is that they have been so consistently terrible you never know if they are genuinely malicious or just completely inept.

I generally feel little sympathy for Mozilla. They killed all their interesting projects, squandered money in dubious half-assed investments and managed to make themselves hard to deal with as a community member through a combination of weird rigidity and repeated communication mismanagement.

I would be very happy to see Servo find a new lease on life however. That’s what great R&D looks like.
I'd love something like a standalone SQL IDE where I can ask an AI to generate queries or migration scripts.

Sadly to be honest, I don't think I'd pay a subscription for such a service. I would prefer to pay a one time tooling fee and just run trained model in the IDE locally.
My wife and I have accumulated a few overall principles about money over the years. What's interesting is how they have played out over time. Here are a few of them:

1. Money and debt are amoral financial tools. It's important to be smart about how we use these tools, but neither money nor debt is evil or all that valuable in the moral sense. This is especially important for us, because our conservative background has pretty much taught us from childhood that money == good and debt == bad.

2. Treat money like it belongs to someone else (in our case, as Christians, we acknowledge it, like everything, belongs to God, and we try to spend in a way that honors the responsibility he's given us).

3. Always pay off the credit card at the end of the month. When we got married, I got my first credit card and set the automatic payment to 100%. I only made $40k/year back then, but we have the same rule today, even though our spending power is 5x what it was.

4. Retirement savings. This one's obvious, but most couples can save a combined $13k per year in Roth accounts that can grow tax free for your lifetime. Maximizing this as early as possible in life is extremely important. As your income grows, your next goal is to maximize other vehicles like a 401k. Don't make your kids take care of you financially later in life.

5. Your kids won't be around forever. This doesn't sound like a financial principle until you start thinking about all the trade-offs having kids presents you with. For instance, we're more likely at this point (with 4 kids 6-13 years old) to put in a pool than we are to redo our kitchen. And we're more likely to take on some manageable debt in order to make improvements to our home or give our kids experiences that normally we would take the time to save up for.

Edit: forgot an important one

6. Spend more to buy things that last. Especially if you live in a wet climate. I live in Florida, where everything rusts and rots. 4-5 years ago, instead of buying another gas grill that'll just rust in a year, I bought a Kamado-style grill. It's still in perfect shape, and I use it more often as a result. When we bought patio furniture in 2020, we spent extra to avoid natural wood, which takes regular upkeep and, again, eventually rots anyway. It's still in perfect shape. When we replaced our rotting exterior doors/doorframes, we went with an industrial PVC material. I'll never have to worry about any of those things again.
It is more the wow and flutter and the quality of the gears and belt. They could either spend the time and money creating quality parts that they might not sell or they could keep pumping out the same crap that is already selling.
> This is really a non issue to start with - once space settlement really gets going, we will spawn many more spacies, as the various groups go farther apart and evolve/modify themselves and all the life they took with them.

I'm unconvinced. We are firmly in the realm of thought experiments, of course, but I think all this would do is produce changes within local maxima, the reason being that even while adapting to new living conditions, evolution only has so much to "work with" from within the local maximum given by the existing human body.

In contrast, a mass extinction event looks closer to pushing a big reset button, radically shaking up existing lifeforms and giving other struggling species their chance at the limelight. Maybe even species that right now are microbes or invertebrates, but that -- should mankind, mammals and birds go extinct -- would evolve into dominant lifeforms, filling the vacated niches in the ecosystem.

Maybe the species which by our continuing existence we are potentially preventing from becoming dominant is the species that would have successfully colonized the solar system and beyond, instead of us. Not a variation of humans under new conditions, but a radically new species unrelated to us.
> requires shared resources and has knock-on effects

> It's their money, not ours

No? Does not compute: its our resources and we are the recipient of knock-on effects, not 'they'. For example: if India will decide to geo-engineer their way out of the climate crisis (a bargain, really), I imagine most countries would rather appreciate a consultation _before_ launching the stuff in the sky. Even if its their stuff.

So go spend your billions on porn and perfume, but don't act surprised when people protest as you are about to possibly destroy their world.
"They were a brilliant system" yes. They were great at getting people to buy new laptops when their old ones broke.
Designing and building my own Lego set
Building my own set of legos
My grandfather was a taxi cab driver in New York City during the 60s and 70s. After his third mugging, he changed jobs. I guess we each get different experiences.
I agree. There was something magical about these especially how good the sound quality is for its size and portability. I use mine at the gym and when running since you can barely feel it. It has a nice selection of apps too.

I've collected 3 over the years in case any of them die off. While the battery life is still good I should probably get around to researching replacement batteries/cells while I still can.
For me this is a perfect example of one of the drawbacks of the ministerial approach to governance.

Electing your representatives is great but then expecting those representatives to actually run the government leads to bad situations like this. Imagine if all of the C level positions in a company had to be filled from the board.
This article is full of strawman arguments. I'm not aware of anyone who's arguing for moving billions of humans to another planet or for dedicating the resources of Earth to terraform Mars. It's not like Mars colonization proponents are keeping their plans secret - the authors could easily have googled what the actual propositions are, to wit:

- Use current or near-current tech to send human missions to Mars

- Use existing resources on Mars to the extent possible to support a research station

- Let the settlement grow organically. It will be science-focused at first but may develop economic value over time (Robert Zubrin suggests asteroid mining or deuterium harvesting)

Terraforming, if it happens at all, will be a centuries-long process by the Mars inhabitants, largely using resources available on that planet. No one's suggesting strip-mining Earth to make Mars habitable.

I don't know why some people think that human missions to Mars are incompatible with fixing Earth's problems. We have the resources to do both.