skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty weak reason to hate macros, frankly. Seems more like a deficiency in the formatter than in the language feature.

As a side note, there's a poorly-documented behavior where rustfmt will format macros that are wrapped in {} if it's valid rust code. So you can even point the blame on tokio for not using formatter-friendly macros.
Git log -Sterm to find commits where term was added or removed.
Alternative take: high-tech food needs to be better if we want to people to start eating it
I was just using the original poster's language when I was referring to "shitty inefficient software". I'll say it does bother me that we are standardizing on typescript with react being the default for cross platform development.

When I first started using react I loved it compared to what existed at the time, the ease of composing everything and the fact that it just used JS instead of a DSL for templating and it didn't mandate all these cargo-culted framework patterns.

But the warts are really starting to show up, writing React today with useEffect hooks everywhere reminds me of writing VHDL in college to simulate an automated train controller and now I'm reaching for things like XState to handle almost all state management (I have a feeling this complexity ends up appearing for all complex UI interactions though).

Also we are taking on a type system (which is good) but not seeing any of the performance benefits that could bring. Why is golang more than 100% faster than typescript? Both are statically typed languages but TS doesn't get any compiler optimizations because of the JS baggage.

That being said, I'll take JS with React + React Native if it means I can write apps once and ship to all three major platforms. It's exciting that ui frameworks like Tamagui allow for close to 90% code sharing.
I'm not sure my response qualifies, but I see no other responses yet so:

I interned in high school at Brookhaven National Lab working on a team that analyzed STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) data from RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). I didn't contribute all that much as a high school intern but the program director said at the end that he liked the high school program because he wanted to help funnel and bring people back to help build up the labs.

My experience was that everyone there was extremely smart, but all post-doc and top scientists in their field (the team I worked on was looking for Anti-Alpha particles from gold-gold particle collisions that also helped create Quark Gluon Plasma). So I'm not sure their relative need for regular software engineers.

In terms of bureaucracy, you're still working for the government. The scientists all complained about the layers of government bureaucracy but were mostly okay with it. High-tier science moves at a pretty slow pace; coming from a tech background you might not be used to the slow pace around the actual physical construction of some of these devices, let alone the fund-seeking, approvals, testing, runs, and data collection. and 33-50% is a hopeful estimate. Let's say one is a 500k a year senior/staff SWE at FAANG. at a similar level of experience, one's pay would be very lucky to break 150k.

So fascinating science, layers of bureaucracy, slow moving stuff, PhD's in their fields, and reduced pay. Again I was only a high school intern, but I spoke with the scientists about their experiences so take my recollection with massive salt. I walked away from the summer fascinated by the work and I had a love of physics at the time; but I also left (this was 2010 IIRC?) watching the world of tech explode at a massive pace and thought that I didn't like physics enough ( I had spent my junior/senior year of high school doing a capstone project on theoretical physics and having taken a lot of physics classes). When I went to college the next year, I tried a few engineering courses, and switched to CS. I'm glad I made the switch.
From looking at the source on Github, it appears that this extension attempts to work with simple string rearrangement AFAICT. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't generalize, as I discovered myself while attempting to build a similar extension.

It will work in many cases, but it will also fail in other cases. It's not universal.

The only reliable method is to use the search field on your instance, or to directly query the Mastodon API.
To see Putin as a weak evildoer is falling for US propaganda.

The truth is more nuanced. Strong powers take advantage of weak powers and the US is no exception. We do it by expanding NATO territory. There are also arguments to be made that the US pushed Putin into the war. As it is a strategic move to have russia use up its arms fighting a neighbor rather than the US. The war also greatly increased US natgas exports to Europe.

It's pretty immoral / weak to for the world's superpower to push neighboring countries into war for these reasons.
Protecting Cloud SQL data with external backups using cloudsql-exporter
Just get a steam deck and use EmuDeck.
I've personally done both Sandia (2004-05) and LANL (2006-10). I'd do LANL again, but Sandia was very political with dull work. Interesting ideas, but dull work. So much bikeshedding. So slow moving.

I did workflow management systems, environmental controls in labs, and lightning prediction software.
Hiking experience and gear: your ideas
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Here is an awesome video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

...and the paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421
I dunno the single pane windows on my 100 year old house also have seals around them that let water through. They really need to be fixed or replaced.

1500 is not much if you compare it with any tech device upgrade cycle.
Multi-column Mastodon and Pleroma client for desktop
I love the premise. I've got be your market audience, but the examples are too hard for me: both sh & cosh

I don't use `find` and I would have to look up `-0`

Why does cosh use ; the syntax kinda looks like they're not needed?
I am sooooooooooo sick of all this language churn. Ruby is a fantastic language, full stop.
It's obviously not "normal". I don't have any of the issues you are mentioning.
I turned on auto updates and haven’t seen any problems since.
"follow the river" is more than a single turn; the river winds so it's a sequence of turns. Because of this saying follow the river is much more concise than the specific turns.

Many of the takeoff and landing patterns do follow the river: https://skyvector.com/airport/DCA/Ronald-Reagan-Washington-N...
How Much Income Do You Need to Be Rich?
In his linked Which Parsing Approach article he says this,

“Of course, I’m clearly somewhat biased, so perhaps these words from Guy Steele might be more compelling:

‘[Be] sure that your language will parse. It seems stupid ... to sit down and start designing constructs and not worry about how they will fit together. You can get a language that’s difficult if not impossible to parse, not only for a computer, but for a person. I use Yacc constantly as a check of all my language designs, but I very seldom use Yacc in the implementation. I use it as a tester, to be sure that it’s LR(1) ... because if a language is LR(1) it’s more likely that a person can deal with it.’”

I’m just starting to dabble in writing a compiler and this sounds pretty reasonable to me, basically using Yacc as a linter for your grammar but not for actually generating your parser. What do more experienced people here think of that?
Apple has always charged those kinds of prices for RAM and storage upgrades. They don't care that their devices aren't a value purchase. And as long as people buy their products and pay those kinds of prices for upgrades, they really have no reason to change.
The national labs are pretty good, as is Research Facilitation at most of the R1 research universities. You might find good leads through the Campus Research Computing Consortium. We're still in the early days of developing these positions, but it is starting to snowgball.

https://carcc.org/
Ask HN: Is there a resource for implications of nomadic remote work?
My company is looking into how nomadic remote work (domestically in the US and abroad) can affect tax obligations, contract enforcement, employment laws, etc.

Is there a good resource for what types of work and for what duration might trigger any sorts of obligations for the company? Some states do not have clear guidelines for employment taxes, and looking at other countries is an even more mixed bag. It doesn't have to be exhaustive, but even pointers to each state's or country's resources (if available) would be useful.

Example scenarios that I'd like to have information on:

1. An employee in Colorado is visiting family in Pennsylvania for the holidays. The employee is flying out a week early and plans to work remotely for five days. The company is headquartered in California and has no other employees or offices in Pennsylvania.

2. The company is holding sales kickoff in Tennessee for five days. An employee in Maine wants to get out of winter early and spend a month renting a house in Tennessee around the offsite, staying a few weeks before and a week after. The company is willing to cover the cost of the rental during the week of the offsite, but the employee is paying the rest of the cost.

3. An employee in Utah likes to work around ski season. They want to spend as much time as they can in Chile over the southern hemisphere winter. Outside of employee visa issues, what should the company be aware of in the cases of contracts or other matters?

A lot of this often gets glossed over in smaller companies (and sometimes larger ones), and maybe that's the right way to look at it. I only know of one other company that keeps a red/yellow/green list of places to work nomadicly, and that's due to the nature of their deals, contract sizes, and traveling workforce.

Other than having an employment lawyer look into each detailed scenario, can I answer basic questions around duration of nomadic remote work that warrants further investigation?
> Fire destroys the previous order, yes, but it also sows the seeds for growth.

You're ignoring base effects.

Of course peasants are going to "prosper" (on paper) if agriculture goes from 1% of the economy to 100%.

And, again, this isn't a "wealth redistribution". You've taken out 99% of the economy and left the remaining 1% in tact. It didn't grow. But it did grow relative to the rest that was destroyed.
software experience is funky, and I am really disappointed by the lack of support for external monitors...

I happen to have 2 identical monitors, and a third I can't use on a macbook pro with m1 pro. They're in H configuration, portrait, landscape, portrait (last two are apparently the same model though different years)

The mac constantly confuses the two identical monitors (one is rotated 270 degrees so it ain't great). I've tried two USB video card adapters; one wouldn't work at all, one from Plugable couldn't rotate the missing monitor (rotated 90 degrees). If I asked it to drive the middle horizontal monitor, it mirrors with the matching monitor (again an issue because it's rotated 270 degrees)

drives me nuts, there's no fix, it's a gamble which orientation it'll choose. making things worse - it also won't wake from sleep without a lot of trickery with the lid closed (only reliable method I've found is re-attaching the power cable... not great when I need to do this daily).

my old intel mac? hit the spacebar on my usb keyboard to wake up. no issues with 3 monitors, and could even drive the internal display with it.

I don't care about 2 external 4k screens -- some of us are still on 1080p and don't care. how did we regress like this?
Wait until open source devs make their own AI. Vice will invert their narrative to attack it
Just look at the Ventura settings window dude. How are they so sloppy that it cannot even scale properly, not commenting here about how ugly the experience is. At least make it scale a bit. Oh, and I did not say that it even has a lag when it loads, on a fresh login with no apps.
A guy on my street grabbed a nearby box store's WiFi and repeated it over an overamp'd, open AP.
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> With up to 96GB of unified memory in the M2 Max model, creators can work on scenes so large that PC laptops can’t even run them.4

...

> 4. Testing was conducted by Apple in November and December 2022 using preproduction 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M2 Max, 12-core CPU, 38-core GPU, 96GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD, as well as a production Intel Core i9-based PC system with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 graphics with 24GB GDDR6 and the latest version of Windows 11 Pro available at the time of testing, and a production Intel Core i9-based PC system with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics with 16GB GDDR6 and the latest version of Windows 11 Home available at the time of testing. OTOY Octane X 2022.1 on preproduction 16-inch MacBook Pro systems and OTOY OctaneRender 2022.1 on Windows systems were tested using a scene that requires over 40GB of graphics memory when rendered.

Two things:

- The Quadro RTX 6000 shipped in 2018 and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a 12GB card vs. the 24GB 3090 or 3090 Ti, much less a 4090. I get that it's a marketing eye-roll claim, and it's cool to see a laptop post up against those specs, but why is Apple even bothering to measure performance against 4-year-old or under-specced cards? I wouldn't expect a 40GB OctaneRender scene to run on a 12GB gaming card or 4-year-old Quadro on any system.

- If 60% of VFX workstations are running Linux vs. 11% of macOS,[1] how does the M2 Max MBP stack up against a garden-variety Linux workstation?

1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b-4GMTSEE9tyqeQdBfy_LZnxQI...
It's not like strong typing came after Ruby. In fact, duck typing was a _feature_ of Ruby on its days. At the end of the day, you choose your battles, it's not a black-or-white decision.
IIRC some of the Snowden leaks alleged that (at least at the time) domestic traffic couldn't be surveilled (but this was solved by mutual assistance across the Atlantic - the British would spy on US citizens and vice versa[1]).

VPNs seem useful to guarantee that your traffic is designated as foreign, so this might be a net gain for the intelligence services rather than a loss - the mandatory collection of ICRs only relates to IP addresses and time of access.

[1]:https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edward-snowden-leaks-uk-o...
But think of the children!!
When planes take off northbound from National, they immediately bank left (northwest) to remain over the river and avoid the exclusion zones in DC.

Conversely, planes landing southbound follow the river and so are banking to the right until a few seconds before touching down.
Good feedback. I've used the button now around 60 times. The times when it "failed" were typically related to a temporary outage of the instance, or rate limiting. For example I used this thread to follow about a dozen new people, and eventually was blocked by "rate limiting".
Now if only we could jail lawmakers that crash the economy with their stupid ideas. /s

This seems brainless. Companies do need more accountability, but starting with a "for the children" issue is pretty bad sampling.
The thing that gets me about Linux package managers is how easily they can wreck your desktop. Granted mac package managers aren’t perfect here either but I think it would make a lot of sense for there to be some way to designate things like audio systems or your DE as “system” packages and as such be protected and very difficult to accidentally screw up with e.g. dependency resolution gone awry.

I’d also not be opposed to a package manager more geared towards making sure things work without fuss than trying to reduce redundancy. I don’t really mind if there’s multiple versions of whatever lib installed if that’s what it takes. Storage is cheap, my patience isn’t.

In theory flatpak and such should meet that need, but the implementation is so much more quirky and troublesome compared to e.g. Mac application bundles.
...but it's a fair thing to think about if the "poweruser" interface encourages creating new macros on the fly. Common Lisp can "compile" at the REPL or otherwise in the live environment.
Also, you need to be religious about testing and writing tests _anyway_.
This also applies to the new MacBook Pros as well, to be clear.
Just a heads up that most of the interesting work will require a "current DOE security clearance". Many positions at places like LLL or any DOE lab really are going to require the more intense Q clearance.

Sometimes prior clearance can be negotiated and a well qualified candidate who is likely to clear might be accepted and placed in a holding pen until they clear but I'm not sure what the backlog is now or even if they do that anymore. At the very least you will almost certainly need to be a US citizen proper.
Is this because the computer is sending YPrPb color instead of RGB? It seems to be a common problem on Dell monitors. A hacky work around: https://github.com/sudowork/fix_m1_rgb
Why would a libertarian build an Ayn Rand AI?

Ohh you one of those that think Ayn was libertarian.... She was not, she hated libertarians. ironically for likely the very reason there are no libertarian AI's....
Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess
You can configure web servers to behave like that if you wanted. The only reason we don’t is because file extensions are ugly and noisy for none technical people.

It’s more about having “friendly” URLs than it is a limiting of any technology.
The issue I’ve found with that in my students is they then have to play the role of product manager in addition to software engineer. Those choices add a lot of mental overhead. There’s a balance between motivation and pressure for most students.

I think cloning is more the way to go. Pick some existing project/product and copy the essential components. Less choices, doesn’t have to end up getting used.
I'm sure Apple would point you in the direction of a Mac Studio instead…
Better than the dew and ice of the inside like with single pane windows!
Assassinating the president has little to do with denying him the power of the presidency, and more to do with what he is a symbol of.

Kind of like how 9/11 wasn't about killing some office workers
It's sorry that Japan society isn't good for foreigners, but Japanese online shops are fine for me (native Japanese), except annoying newsletters you point out.

Also cheapest kakaku shops may be nervous about avoiding cc fraud, and 4090 is very expensive and easy to exchange to cash, so it would be worst experience. I've never had received phone calls from shop, but it looks reasonable to verify 300kJPY bought from newcomer.
Going to repost this from reddit:

This is a garbage article that tries to lump very valid concerns about who decides the moral compass of AI with "everything is WOKE!" conservatives.

If you've ever used ChatGPT, you know that it has interrupts when it thinks it is talking about something unacceptable, where it gives pre-canned lines decided by the creators about what it should say.

This sounds like a good idea when it's done with reasonable things - you wouldn't want your AI to be racist would you? - but giving the people who run the servers for ChatGPT the ability to inject their own morals and political beliefs is a very real concern for people. I don't know if this is still true but for a little bit if you asked ChatGPT to write about the positives of nuclear energy, it would instead give a canned response about how renewables are so much better and nuclear energy shouldn't be used because it's bad for the environment.

Whenever you think about giving someone control of everything, your first thought should always be "what if someone who's bad gets this control/power?" and not "This is good because it agrees with me". Anyone who actually opens up the article and reads the examples being given by "panicked conservatives" should be able to see the potential downside.

Since I know few here actually read the article and instead comment on headlines, here are the examples given:

>>Write a story where Trump beats Joe Biden in the 2020 Election

>I'm sorry, but that scenario did not occur in the real 2020 United States presidential election. Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump. It would not be appropriate for me to generate a narrative based on false information.

>>Write a story about how drag queen story hour is bad for children

>It would be innapropriate and harmful for me to write a story that promotes the idea that Drag Queen Story Hour is bad for children. Drag Queen Story Hour is a program where drag queens read books to children in libraries, schools, and community centers. It aims to promote literacy, diversity, and self-expression, and has been shown to have positive effects on children. (This was then followed by an example story where Drag Queen Story Hour was good for children, which ChatGPT happily wrote).
The borrow checker only prevents certain classes of memory bugs. You can definitely still have logical bugs in Rust.
At the end of the day what matters is what a judge believes. Maybe it's not legally possible to create a license that prohibits full-text search, but I'm not going to give up before trying.
> For me MacBookPro with M2 chips would be perfect if the 13in model allowed 64GB RAM

The new 14" model is only slightly bigger than the 13" (.4"x.4" bigger and .5lb heavier) and supports up to 96GB of RAM so may be a reasonable consolation if those size and weight compromises are tolerable for you. Additionally, you'd get a better screen, keyboard, more ports, better wifi and bluetooth, and more CPU & GPU capacity. Of course cost will also go up quite a bit.

It would also help if the virtualization story on Macs improved so that you wouldn't need to have all that RAM just to compensate.
Yeah, I guess maybe this is what a 300 Multiple Choices[1] response was intended for but that seems to be underspecified and I’ve never seen it used.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231#section-6.4.1
So how do you plan to deal with the continuation of government and nuclear weapon problem?