skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a project where I launch something every week this year. Here's my process:

* Create a notepad in your phone and throw any and all ideas in there whenever they come up

* Choose one to work on this weekend - whichever excites you the most

* When working on the project, be careful of scope creep. Accept your project will do one thing, and one thing only. Also accept your project will probably be crap - that's ok, you just need to something to start with so you can begin building on top of it next weekend

* Start with technology you're very comfortable with - whatever that may be. Then learn whatever else you need to learn as you work on the project

* Reuse code from past projects

* Force yourself to launch by the end of the weekend. This restraint will force you to be creative with your approach to building, and launching is always a great morale boost
Easy comparison:

Level 1: dead from alcoholism before 40.
Level 2: share a "communal apartment" with 3 other families.
Level 3: work your way into being able to bribe someone to expedite your own apartment to only a 20 year wait. Still suffer shortages of food and basics, no hot water.
Level 4: emigrate to the West and exceed all that within 5 years, even though you started from zero

Very easily measurement
I finally made an account to post this comment. But, I love BYTE magazine! It was such an amazing resource during it's time. I first dug into them for a project I've been working on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m7vDhscGzU), and then I found myself looking at more. It truly captured something special. I wonder if there's anything that comes close these days.

If you spend the time to read through these older ones, you'll see they were doing something special. They'd often share programs and circuits in the magazine that others could recreate at home. I wonder how difficult it was to learn about computers, we have so many resources these days.
People need to see this play out again in order to rule out the possibility that the problems Twitter had and caused were just due to that particular platform, in that particular scenario. If Mastodon (or any of the other alternatives) go down the same road, they'll begin to wonder if the cause may be something deeper. But, they won't arrive at that conclusion by abstraction, or else they would have already.

Another possibility is it'll work out great.
Yeah, not as enthusiastic about OS X as I used to be, but I wish I had that kind of hardware in everything now.
Bruce Schneier once said something that really stuck with me. He was talking about the culture of the DHS I believe and how their mission was "Never Again" in the wake of 9/11. But never is basically an impossible standard to meet, and the result was that we get security theater instead. I would imagine you can also soak up a near infinite amount of money and effort trying to achieve never again. Zero Fail sounds like the same thing.
Does Apple even sell any product with a non-retina display any more?
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There is a lot more going on than just the radio communications. There are standard published approaches and departures that will generally be flown (once cleared). Flight plans are filed and clearance given before take-off, so ATC knows where everyone is going. At a large controlled airport, ATC is in control, so less needs to be communicated by the pilots. There are not generally aircraft flying circuits which is what required so much coordination in your example. Most aircraft at large airports are required to have ADS-B(1) which is transmitting aircraft position, altitude, heading, speed, et cetera to anyone who has a receiver, particularly ATC and other aircraft. If everything does go bad, large airliners have TCAS(2). There are also lots of different controllers and frequencies to handle different parts of the airspace: approach, departure, tower (take-off and landing). This is just what I can think of off the top of my head.

You can listen to what is actually going on at your favourite airport on www.liveatc.net.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
The solution is to be religious about testing and writing tests. If you've done it well, refactors are pretty safe and your objects are pretty well understood.
India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by government agencies
It seems like on Ubuntu it's called kwin-addons: https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/kwin-addons

EDIT: Also, why did you try installing by the name the package has in Arch? Arch isn't Ubuntu and Ubuntu isn't Arch.
Sounds a lot like Lightroom. Last time I used it (on Windows) it was a couple of years ago and while it was incredibly convenient for editing photos quickly, it was massively unoptimized. Drop a couple of pins and Lightroom starts hogging cycles and memory. I wouldn't even joke about running it with 8GB RAM let alone 4.

All that aside, it's borderline criminal any new computer is being sold with 8GB RAM. This is 2023 for crying out loud. Do you want a 56K modem to go along with your miniscule amount of memory?
Yeah, he pushed back hard against the Python 3 migration, by picking on a small number of trade-offs that he personally didn't like and using that to conclude that the entire endeavour was doomed. The Python 3 migration wasn't flawless by any means, but it was better than he made out.

I know his "criticism" also held back many from moving their libraries to Python 3 by sowing doubt in the community, and ultimately may have slowed down adoption overall.
> The issue is that Apple is integrating the RAM in the SoC

Aren't there legitimate technical reasons for including the RAM in the SoC such as better bandwidth?
Show HN: I rewrote my gatling gun turret code in Rust and got eaten by zombies while I was waiting for it to compile
To force myself “to figure out the code,” I typically do the tutorial in a different language. I wanted to get familiar with Java last year, but all the books/tutorials were boring to me. What I ended up doing was going through a book that showed how to write a backend in Go (which was also unfamiliar to me at the time) while simultaneously porting it to Java (using Vert.x). Probably sounds inefficient tackling two languages at once, but it was the only way I was able to stay engaged with the material. Of course I ended up with something unidiomatic in terms of Java, but the project works and I now have motivation for a proper refactor to keep the momentum going.
Expert's warning to US Navy on China: Bigger fleet almost always wins
Alteration of faecal microbiota balance related to long-term deep meditation
While not for beginners, if you'd like to learn rust I recently finished "Command line Rust" [1].

It was my first introduction to rust and the book was quite enjoyable. It starts off with teaching you the very basics of a command line (what it means to exit, true, or false, etc) and each chapter has you recreate a popular command line tool (like grep, cal, tail, wc) while introducing a new rust concept.

The book also does TDD, test driven design, by first teaching you how to create these tests then in subsequent chapters having the tests prewritten for you.

It's definitely worth a look, the author has a great writing style as well that isn't as monotonous as most programming books I've read.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/command-line-rust/97810...
Or carry the 60W charger and turbocharge the phone, agreed it's not as portable as the brick.
Biggest things for me
- I've never found a good WM that can replace what bspwm can do.
- Something as useful as pacman, brew is no where near as good.
- Full control over my system.
Plus I can run my set up on a £30 chromebook and be nearly as efficient as my ~£1800 Work laptop.
This is not a new story -- it's from July 2021 -- but what a searing indictment of the leftist elite in New York!

Can you be a conservative and yet totally condemn the atrocities of January 6th? Yes, you can -- and I do.

Can you as a sane liberal condemn the abuses described in this article? Yes, you can and you should -- though indeed the price will be higher because the left has much more societal power than the right and metes out its punishment mercilessly. But if we all stand up to this evil tide we may just cause it to recede.

The path forward is NOT to "flag" this article or my comment. It is to let ideas flow.
Those things are crazy compact. I have a tiny Anker 30W single USB-C charger for my M2 Macbook Air and iPhone for when I don't expect to need a charger and it's hard to not lose it because it's so lightweight and small. The cable is a lot heavier and bulkier and I already bought the lightest one I could find.
They built an institution and it got marched through
Now I'm wondering what it would be like if the model were strictly trained on text that Conservapedia might approve of.
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I don’t see why it’s a conservative issue only. AI bias could just as easily go either direction.

Just because it’s going in your favor now doesn’t mean it always will.
For me, the biggest benefit of commit messages is for myself, dealing with my own code, to be able to revisit a change that caused a new problem.

I also like having the story id as part of the commit message so merge requests can be connected to stories. It gives a better overall picture of what took place.
It was available on the Intel Mac Minis, nice to see it making a comeback.
+1 This is one of my favorite programming books. It's a very rewarding-feeling experience to build something so capable so quickly.
Who cares?

The perennial mistake is believing that if any of these guys get capped, it's some irreparable loss to society. It's not.

Let them play the odds of life like the rest of us do. A society that depends on strongmen isn't a free society.
I understand what you're saying, but I have to say that Stable Diffusion (and other competitors) struggles with hands, feet, and to a lesser extent faces. Those are the same things that human artists struggle with. It's not a technological brain, but IMO it's the closest we've come.

While the models themselves don't become inspired, you tell it what to take inspiration from in the same way that you'd decide "I want to make a drawing/photograph like ____ but different by doing ____."
I don't quite understand your point. Electricity is commonly produced by carbon neutral processes. Propane is (approximately) never.

So to compare steel+concrete to batteries feels like a non sequitur to me.
As far as I am aware, the vast majority of politicians in the US do not receive Secret Service protection.

"every one of them needs multimillion dollars worth of protecting" is a straw man. Of course the vast majority of politicians, which includes a lot of city council members of tiny towns and so forth, do not need a 24hr security detail. And they don't have them either.

It happens for the handful, not the majority. Which seems to be what you want, but your tone is frustrated or angry.
> advantage of the dotnet compiler optimizations

That's mostly constant folding and a bit of peephole optimization; the CLI JIT or AOT compilers do most optimizations on the CIL level.

> so compiler would still be the most accurate word to describe it

Well, you do a source-to-source translation from Cobol to C#. The terminology is fuzzy, but usually we call it a transpiler if the output is yet another high-level programming language. But who cares.
16KB ? You were lucky! (channeling my best Monty Python impression)

My first computer was a NASCOM-1 with 1KB available to the user, and didn't even have an assembler. You programmed it by entering hex op codes directly into memory! And we liked it that way!

Still, at least the NASCOM-1 had a keyboard, not like MIT's Altair 8800 of a few years prior where you only had binary toggle switches to setup the address and data bus to program each byte!
That registration and the reference to cell phones not being available at that time puts the timeline somewhere between 1977 and 1987 or maybe 1990.
Hell, they mark as spam my colleagues’ Google Docs share notifications sent within our own paid Google Apps (Google Suite? Google Workspace?) domain.
Your experience will vary strongly depending on which PI you work for.

Expect a very different work culture. If academia is cozy to you, you'll fit in fine.
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Unfortunately, that is increasingly changing. The covid pandemic, for example, has led to a massive increase in threats to everyone advocating for containment measures, and so do the advocates of other political issues impacted by conspiracy myth spreaders and/or the far-right (e.g. 5G rollouts, single-payer healthcare, gun control, immigration).

Having been the target of about five dozen death threats myself as a political commentator/activist here in Germany, I can tell you the political climate drastically devolved over the last seven years, and police is nowhere near the security system it should be. In my case it took over four years until the main perpetrator was identified, arrested and subsequently sentenced to almost six years in prison[1]. And for what it's worth, it's not limited to politicians, journalists and activists - even ordinary doctors can be driven to suicide [2], or YouTube streamers such as the infamous Drachenlord [3].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_2.0

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa-Maria_Kellermayr

[3] https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/kommentar-wer-dem-d...
Most politicians do not get secret service protection. Only those in the line of succesion, former presidents and family of the above.

The handful of congresspeople in leadership get special protection from capital police. Most elected congress people only get special protection if there is a specific concern.

https://www.secretservice.gov/about/faq/general
Yeah. The ads had a different feel, because things were moving so fast. The ads (often) were telling you something new was available, or something improved was available, or something was less expensive. They (often) weren't just trying to manipulate you into buying the same old stuff that you didn't need.

I remember looking through the latest issue, and at least once or twice an issue thinking "Huh, I never even thought of trying to have a computer do that." Issue after issue, month after month, there was brand new stuff that exceeded what I thought computers could do. I read the ads to learn what was happening.
We would also sometimes buy our propane for future delivery months ahead of time.
"The United Kingdom wants to become the safest place for children to grow up online" is the first line of this article. Not presented as a quote, or a claim made by a source in the article. Just a fact.

From that point it just gets worse. There's basically no description of what terms like "protecting kids online" actually means.

The actual description of the law is extremely vague and doesn't answer basic questions about how the law would work. Would it only involve social media (published) content, or would it cover private text messages as well? Can providers simply ban children from using their platform, or will the law hold them accountable even for unauthorized users?

These are the details one might expect answers to in a reasonable article, but I'm not sure if this is a journalistic exercise or some sort of PR puff piece.
An architect that will do field supervision on a 1,000 sq. ft. house is going to be quite rare. You're more or less relegated to a freshly-minted architect, who may or may not be qualified (not enough experience) to do the kind of double-checking needed.

Of course, paying more money could certainly help, but now you're paying 2,500 sq. ft. prices for a 1,000 sq. ft. house.

There's not really a replacement for doing daily or at least twice-weekly inspections yourself. The architect may catch some things but miss a completely botched plumbing job. And just for fun, every issue you catch will become a fight with the sub-contractor.
I'm wondering about what impact would this have in Basecamp's hosting bills...
Not just one — two release cycles focused solely on bugs & performance are really in order. The sheer amount of change, necessary and otherwise, that has been dropped on the macOS in recent years has left things a right mess under the hood. Shoot, one release cycle alone should be focused on fixing/reversing the attempts to iOSify the Mac. The controls are wrong, the spacing is wrong, the appearance is wrong. Things are not consistent, and they do not work as the rest of the OS gives reason to expect.
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If you need to interact with connected peripherals from the linux environment a VM is still usually a much less productive experience. I do a lot of embedded development, and while it is often possible to do USB passthrough to connected boards, lots of things don't work the same as they do when running Linux natively, and I have never found it to be a seamless experience (on VirtualBox or VMWare)
>I know some geochemists who would love a portable mass spec

They sell those already. They cost around $30,000 per unit.
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You’re right in that TSMC / Samsung were for many years behind the state of the art, and by extension so was the technology that Apple was using. Apple’s CPUs defined the state of the art for mobile though.

And now of course TSMC / Apple haven’t caught up, they have surpassed comparable offerings from Intel.
I am just pointing out that it is all relative. My friend is a doctor who makes 500k+ and dropping to a lowly 120k would make him miserable. I also have friends who make 25/hr and are fairly content, they don't need drugs to fend off suicide like you implied.

Someone wouldn't spend 30 years working retail in utter misery the entire time, these are intelligent people who have agency. I spent ten years working these jobs and the people who were there for life were relatively content.
I worked for Sandia. Pay is pretty good by almost any standards except FAANG. The glory days where every staff member got a real office with a real door are over (shared offices are the norm) but it's still a pretty decent work environment.

Things don't move fast, as another commenter said. In my area of work, projects tended to last 1-3 years and you'd be on several projects at any given time. In general, it is ICs rather than managers who run the projects. Your manager might say "Bob over in 9876 has a neat project that could use somebody like you, send him an email if you're interested".

You have to acknowledge that the core mission of the DOE National Labs is nuclear weapons. You might not ever come in contact with the mission, but it is there. They have strong HPC programs--because HPC as we know it is basically driven by the need to simulate nuclear weapons. Some people have moral objections to this, and that's fine!

I thought it was a good place to work, all in all.

Edit: I'd like to stress that probably the biggest advantage of the labs is the opportunity for self-directed work. If you can convince somebody (external sponsors, internal R&D funding committees) to give you money, you can work on just about anything. If you can't get funding of your own, you are still more or less able to choose what you work on.

Your work environment will depend highly on which group you're in. Some groups look like a university department without the students: you work in the unclassified area, you publish papers, you can even open-source software (with some effort). Other people spend their whole day in a windowless SCIF working on very sensitive stuff which they can never, ever discuss outside of a SCIF -- but while their public visibility is nil, their impact is arguably greater.
Nowhere near as large, or influential, as the Secret Service. If you’ve ever had to commute near airport, and the POTUS is flying in or out, you’re essentially screwed, for potentially hours.

Musk or Bezos could request a place deny entry to other customers while they shop or eat. Secret Service can demand. It’s a whole different beast altogether.
Just have a NAS serve the files. I keep about 1/2 a 1TB collection of personal pictures and videos. When I add new folders for an event I rsync them to by NAS. If I need to I will rsync folders to my windows machine for editing (have a new 16 core 7950x I’m playing with).
I feel that everyone should follow God on mastodon - quite refreshing!
Agreed, some of the more-minor things they diverged on just make absolutely no sense at all. I understand the TV adaptation isn't going to be a 1:1 but some things were changes just to be changed it felt like...

Book spoilers ahead:

Look, I get that Loial can't be as big/tall for obvious reasons (budget, that CGI would be heavy) and I get that we skipped Caemlyn for casting reasons (can't really have Elayne/Gawyn/Galad/Morgase/etc show up now only to disappear for a season or two) but the whole "any of them could be the dragon" or "they could all collectively be the dragon" was annoying. Look, I'll be the first to point out the sexism in the books, the women fawning over men they have met 1-2 times, acting like love-sick puppies, etc but I'm not really sure that pretending one of them could have been the dragon is the way to right that wrong, if that was even the intention (also, to my understanding, the dragon is always male because of Saidin. I was also under the impression there has only been 1 previous "Dragon", Lews Therin Telamon, but the show acts like there have been many?).

The waygates really made me angry, where is the leaf of Avendesora? Literally every time they go into Ways we get a few lines to a paragraph describing the door and how it's opened but in the show you have to use the power to open it? How the heck is Loial supposed to open it when he, Perrin, Faile, Gaul, Chiad, and Bain supposed to travel back to the Two Rivers seeing how none of them can channel?
Many planes take off northwards, and immediately bank to follow the river.

Famously, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
I should note that I consider this is one of the biggest flaws with MacOS. It really should not require someone to pick together disparate pieces of software to come to a state of usability.

It's like using Arch Linux, except the software costs money, is proprietary, and people choose Arch because they would prefer their own config over the comforts and defaults provided by other distros.

Configuring a MacOS machine might require spending over $100 on usability software, providing personal information to a myriad of companies (Tools like IINA or iTerm2 are the exception and not the default.), and even after all that you still have a variety of unfixable usability issues.

KeyboardMaestro is $36 and BetterTouchTool is $22. With KeyboardMaestro, it's not clear what the license is (which makes it concerning for use in the workplace.)

> For almost every missing feature or annoyance in Macos, someone else has had the same thought and developed a solution.

I do appreciate the effort, but this isn't true. You can no longer disable blocking animations in MacOS, there is no Spaces API for instantly moving a window from one desktop to another, etc. And any of this can break with a MacOS update, and there's no easy way to automatically configure a fresh install. (IME, MacOS users use Time Machine backups rather than a fresh-install bash script.)

From someone used to the comforts of Linux, MacOS takes a huge amount of effort and expenditure to only get 20% of the way there.
Thanks for that explanation. So the "thermal conductivities" I quoted above, if they don't take account of convection, are perhaps not even particularly relevant. The advantage of argon over nitrogen might be greater than those numbers suggest?