skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! (kind of, I wish `nix install` was a thing)

# search for a package called `foo`
nix search nixpkgs foo
# install package foo, user-wide
nix-env -i foo

The CLI UX can get better, and I'm fairly sure folks are working on it.

You can also test-drive a package without committing to it, e.g. you want to try the program `cowsay` but only want to use it once:

nix-shell -p cowsay
cowsay
exit

This spawns a new shell with `cowsay` available, and after you exit it won't be cluttering your system packages.
Not all DOE national labs do weapons stuff. For example, Fermilab (FNAL) is pretty much all open science research. FNAL doesn't even have fences and the guard booth just checks to make sure you have a drivers license if you're driving. Argonne and Brookhaven are a bit more on the defensey side but not as much as say oak ridge or sandia.
A lot of orgs lock down access to cloud storage (eg only company managed OneDrive on company managed devices) to prevent these kinds of data leakage. So they’d block access to this tool too.
Interesting. I had a copper water block on a T-Bird.
If they need to run in order then they have a dependency on each other and you have to express that.
Tragically, one of the principals behind TruffleRuby (and researcher at Shopify) was Chris Eaton and he passed away a few months ago.

I'm not sure where this leaves TruffleRuby itself, or plans to implement it at Shopify.

(Rest in peace, Chris, and may your memory be a blessing to those who knew you)
> you could make the argument that late-stage capitalism and the emergence of neufeudalism

Just because someone made up some words doesn't mean you have to use them. There's nothing late about the capitalism (it's not going anywhere) nor neo about the feudalism (the UK's terrible land use policies are AFAIK all historical).

Although the opposition have now just announced they're going to make everyone poorer, which would be a weird policy and I suppose anti-capitalist, except it's already been happening since 2005-ish.

https://twitter.com/josiahmortimer/status/161536476319783731...
130 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903695
I work as a software engineer at the JHU applied physics lab and absolutely love my job.

* Pay is very comfortable to live on in the area

* The large majority of my teammates are self motivated and driven which keeps me motivated and on my toes

* I get to constantly experiment with new tech, work on prototypes, and pursue work I'm interested in.

* Almost all of my work is software development but it's rarely pure software work. I'm almost always working with other SMEs and helping them develop their ideas into code

If you're a curious, hard working person it (and I imagine other UARCs) are great places to be
Oh oh I know! 38% the US government, 36% individual donors (people like me), 16% private foundations, 5% other (not US) governments, 9% corporations and 1.5% "other"

https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...
- window management that is either sane (i.e. restores minimized windows when alt/cmd+tab'ed to) or can be customized

- desktop environment that is either sane (i.e. doesn't center align panels with variable number of controls like dock does) or can be customized

- keyboard without missing buttons, with actual button travel yet not touching the screen when closed

- option of a screen that doesn't double as mirror
sure, but I own macs, which I can find via "find my", I see no reason why I need also an iPhone to enroll my ear plugs in it.
Show HN: Easily Generate Sequential Barcodes
I've been scratching this itch for a while now. My wife needed a tool where she could generate lots of simple barcodes, that would automatically align for printing on label sheets. Luckily she married me, and here we are with version 0.0.1 of getbarcodes.online. Probably not the easiest barcode generator, but alas it's a side probject.
These are not similar cases at all. Any competent engineer can work through the iPhone bugs and fix them. That's well-trodden ground, the sort of thing thousands of engineers do each day. Fixing a self-driving neural network is a research topic. Even years later it's not a fully solved problem, and that should have been clear in 2016.
It's amazing. Except it has only two USB ports and can only support a single external monitor.
If you're happy with brew, by all means continue using it. If asdf is getting you all the languages and tools you need without issue, by all means continue using it. My comment is just adding some details to the parent comment about nix running well on macOS.

EDIT: I doubt your question is in good faith considering the 'cult' comment, but to answer your question at face value regarding benefit the first one that comes to mind is being able to have multiple versions of the same package and being able to rollback to previous versions if something breaks. This also means you can have package A depend on package B v1, and package C depend on package B v2, and both can coexist. If this is not something that's valuable to you, that's fine too. The other killer feature is being able to install dependencies for a project/repository if it uses nix - just clone, cd, and run `nix develop` and you'll have all the dependencies available.
Being able to debug through a simple curl or browser devtools is golden.

Also browser has JSON parsing built in. Less dependencies. Easier tooling overall.

In my experience people overuse protobuf. But I also worked at Google, where it's the hammer in constant search of any nail it can find.

At the very least, endpoints should provide the option to provide a JSON form through content representation negotiation.
So the outside air is more dangerous than second hand smoke?
Simon Shama showed me how to appreciated art by explaining what he sees in it. His feelings are entirely subjective, which means my experience of a work of art is no more or less valid than anyone else's, including the artists own. This liberated me to enjoy art by enjoying the feelings and thoughts that arose in me for certain works.

The most powerful closing ever made by Simon Shama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rww2gsXc-xE
That’s an amazing story. Thank you for sharing!!
The only industry the UK government cares about is providing real estate and money-laundering services to Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern despots.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a life-changing classic. I made more progress in around 40 hours of work than I would have dreamed possible. Look at the reviews on Amazon; those are legit and consistent with my own experience. After spending a few weeks with this I literally see the world differently.
This idea of "more features, better deal" is a common thing people bring up. However, one of the stronger "features" that draws me to the Light Phone is that they are an opinionated company that designs their product specifically to prevent the distraction/engagement-seeking style of apps that are so prevalent in smartphone ecosystems.

Whether or not that's a feature that resonates with you is, of course, another story!

For me I have the money, would like to vote with it by supporting a company aligned with my interests, and don't mind paying that premium. You might have different finances and prefer the $60 EUR option, and that's fine too.

If you check out Jose's channel (from the article), he reviews tons of these phones and there's likely a sweet spot in there for most people that are curious.
An always relevant cartoon in serious need of adaptation to other countries beside the US.

https://teddit.net/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/5re9s1/how_w...
The dictionary definition of "accountable" is this: "required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible"
A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
Warning: Participating in life causes death.
That's fair. I don't even pre-order games so I can't get in the mindset of pre-ordering features. But from a cynical, capitalist viewpoint, it looks like Elon found a way to sell hype directly and his fans were happy to play along.
http://maettig.com/2020-09-16-revisiting-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

Nearly every point in the original blog shown to be solved here.
This looks like an excuse to be able to beat into submission foreign "evil" tech companies thanks to an intentionally vague and arbitrary law.

Every time I read something about the UK these days it feels like I need to fact check it because it always sounds like something conspiracy theorists here in America would say. And it's almost always real.

I'm still surprised how almost 250 years of separate history shaped radically different nations. And I'm not sure which one is best; but maybe the huge number of Britons here in America should be an indicator of that.
Alcohol was probably the only safe beverage to drink, as the alcohol would kill pathogens. Even safer than water.
I was always ~1 middle mouse spin years old on any age gates.

For the anonymity problem there's nothing really requiring that accounts are 1-1 permanently linked with their identities much less publicly linked to them. Just that they're validated as being >=XX years old right?
This seems cool at first glance... but will users understand that this tool basically hijacks your user session to refresh the screenshots? In other words, this tool can only update a google analytics chart if you give it access to your gmail? That's scary.

It also circumvents 2fa, because sessions are leaked to Plus after you've used your TOTP code or Yubi key. How can any business be OK with this??
I was looking for golang in this thread and this is the only reference I found. Would you mind linking the Go book you reference? Thanks
So gas stoves being fingered as the cause of 20% of all american children asthma cases is a "manufactured issue" now? You can buy an air sensor for $300 and confirm this issue yourself. I've never bought into the "gas stoves are better for cooking" nonsense that people always spout. I think they just fail to try and learn how an electric cooktop works, and just assume their way is the best way.

I'm expecting commercial kitchens to make the move to induction, though I'm interested in hearing why that might not happen.
I've also tripped on a magsafe cord and watched my 2011 air fly off the table and bounce+flip on my wood floor, so it's not a panacea. I think the right-angle ones were more prone to yanking your machine off the table, especially if pulled perpendicular to the magnetic connection.

Thankfully, the computer was perfectly fine.
Strong emphasis on "little". If you're married with kids, it can be great. Much harder for single young adults, especially men since the gender ratio at the lab is unbalanced. Most people in town are employed by the lab or contractors for the lab.
Glitching attacks are very cool, and I've never seen formal security research explaining how to defend against them.

Has anyone?
Indeed, and said feature allowed me to open and edit 70MB photoshop files on a Pentium 75 with 4MB of RAM back in the late 90's. Albeit pretty slowly.
In those applications you're likely to be limited by raster performance, and I can't find any metrics for that. TFlop for TFlop, the 780M which is the main competitor should be within 10-30%, but that is not relevant for this application.

The only other application where this could be relevant would be 3D rendering, where the 780M would win by a large margin due to RT acceleration.
Is using flatbuffers as the on-disk storage format for an application a hare-brained idea?

If yes, is it a less hare-brained idea than using the ctypes Python module to mmap a file as a C struct? That's what I'm currently doing to get 10x speedup relative to SQLite for an application bottlenecked on disk bandwidth, but it's unergonomic to say the least.

Flatbuffers look like a way to get the same performance with better ergonomics, but maybe there's a catch. (E.g. I thought the same thing about Apache Arrow before, but then I realized it's basically read-only. I don't expect to need to resize my tables often, but I do need to be able to twiddle individual values inside the file.)
I'm just saying that this study doesn't necessarily validate the proposed labeling.
A stronger/faster Tor network.
Without Apple removing MagSafe, we wouldn’t have had USB-C charging on MacBooks.
One advantage that I have with the M1 Pro 32 GB RAM over my gaming desktop is that I'm able to run large ML models such as Bloom, Whisper, and Stable Diffusion with reasonable performance.
> This is pretty normal in marketing demos.

This was my thought, isn't this stand operating procedure for pretty much all companies? How is this news?
Sorta. You have to mess with the DLLs and Proton settings to make multiplayer work, and even then it's laggy. It also works in Wine on Mac in some cases, but for me it always had problems.
>"We're disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies that will do nothing to advance cybersecurity in their states and are based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok," spokesperson Jamal Brown wrote. "We're especially sorry to see the unintended consequences of these rushed policies beginning to impact universities' ability to share information, recruit students, and build communities around athletic teams, student groups, campus publications, and more."

Jamal Brown has quite the resume. Revolving door and all of that.

https://twitter.com/JTOBrown
Does sentience necessarily mean having the ability to feel pain and have emotions?

Anyway, the slaughter of actual sentient beings like billions of cows every year proves that a large percentage of humanity is quite okay with it.
Ask HN: Has anyone worked at research institutes like Simons or Allen?
There's a thread about national labs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527

But I feel like there's more options out there besides NLs and FAANG. I wonder if anyone here has worked at some sort of private research institute and could essentially compare & contrast it to FAANG, as OP requested in the linked thread?
Not OP, but I'm going to guess because it's an added dependency in your client library, and even worse, it includes some code generation in each client's build.
idk why you're being downvoted, it did read like an insidious content marketing piece. At least there was a disclosure.

With that said, I've been trying to lock down my smartphone to offline-only apps + text + calls,
totally agree with the mission, I've felt so much more distractable of late
One thing that I was shocked by is how mentally taxing it is to sit down and draw for X minutes.

It's like meditation. Extremely hard work. Makes you appreciate an artist that can draw / paint a subject for hours at a time.

The book I linked was technically what I read after DOTRSOTB, but I found it to be similar nonetheless.
Not just crashed, but also:

Q. And isn't it true that during the various
attempts to generate the video, there were instances
in which the person sitting in the seat had to intervene?
A. Yes.
That just makes it a factor which long term diminishes the labs abilities and people. Consequences priced-in as it were.

But the grocery stores and surrounding supportive industries like medical/dental are also going to reflect the towns population.

I do love Los Alamos but knowing what a large city is capable of helps, too.
Apple's CPUs do very well in sustained performance. They fit 8 high-performance CPUs and 2 efficiency cores into a 40w peak power envelope while hitting peak clockspeeds (that 40w includes all the IO, mostly idling GPU, idling NPU, SSD controller, etc). Based on M2, their new chip should be 3.4-3.5GHz with 4 efficiency cores that get 30-40% better IPC all within that same power envelope.

AMD puts 96 cores into a 360w TDP (not counting spikes that go higher than that) at 3.6GHz. Apple could most likely fit 72 high-performance cores and 36 more efficiency cores into that same 360w TDP.

Given that AMD's chips require much higher clockspeeds to hit the same total performance (nearly 5GHz for Zen 3 to match a 3.2GHz M1), the final product from AMD would likely be quite a bit slower overall.

I believe the real reason for the Mac Pro not hitting the market is their insistence on unified memory. At that size, unified memory and controlling latencies explodes in complexity.

Even worse, the Mac Studio already appeals to most of the higher-end market meaning this $20-50k system probably doesn't have very many buyers either. They could sell such a product in the server market, but they left that market years ago and the reinvestment costs would be massive and very high-risk.
A bit tongue in cheek, but I'm just referring to Rob Pike et al., exceptions, and C++. And I must clarify that by "fail spectacularly" I mean solely from the POV of the aspiring language designer, not necessarily from other language users. People enjoy C++ exceptions now, it seems, in combination with RAII, but back then it was probably a different story.
If you're interested in creating and, specifically, drawing, I cannot recommend https://drawabox.com/ highly enough. I would describe it as a "Learn X the Hard Way" programming book, but for drawing. If you say "I can't even draw a straight line," you're in luck because it starts with exercises around drawing a straight line. If you want, there's a reddit community where you can get feedback on your from either the crowd or the creator of drawabox, but that's totally optional.

About 5 years ago I was looking to get back into drawing - a hobby I'd enjoyed in grade school, but more or less dropped for a decade and a half. I tried the "just start sketching" advice a few times, but my lack of skill made it less than fun: the results were so bad that it discouraged me. Working through Drawabox got me over that skill hump where I could draw things that I considered at least ok. That made me enjoy drawing things enough to keep doing it for fun and, as a result, keep improving.
Those are confounding factors. If you made any other product with the same goals, but faster parsing and better schema syntax, probably by integrating the two, then you'd still end up with the same mess because defining a language is worrying about a million corner cases and not being able to fix more than half of them once they ship.

It's a hard problem. Probably the hardest.
Let's see what actions they take in the coming years, instead of just words.
He was talking about burning man specifically, I believe.
"Give me a child until he is 4 and I will have him for the rest of his life." - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

EDIT:

"I am the walrus" - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
A plan to turn blood into human eggs (2021)
FSD does way more than glorified lane centering. It legitimately drives the car through city streets. It doesn't do it reliably enough that you can just set it and forget it but it's still a legit accomplishment.
What quality employers? Tech, which we now see has been built on ZIRP for the past decade plus, overhired for the past three years and is on the verge of mass layoffs and hiring freezes. If an industry, which was seen as not only stable but lucrative for decades, is actually just one big bubble profiting off of past monetary policy, doesn't that just make one feel a little economically nihilistic?
What is the mechanism by which you think that'd happen? My understanding is that if you did that, the macbook would stay 80% charged and would use the power supply directly to power itself.

So the battery stays about 80% charged and gets topped up to 80% intermittently when it naturally discharges. Is that not basically they optimum case for battery longevity?
It has two USB-Cs and magsafe on the left side, audio jack on the right side. I wish it had an HDMI too. I might buy a USB-C-HDMI cable at some point.
Maybe, but pilots are also taught to “fly the autopilot.” https://www.nxaviation.com/post/the-autopilot-s-impact-on-av...
I know someone who works at LLNL and it sounds pretty typical but he has to go on trips every so often that can span anywhere from a week to a month for testing their designs and such.
This comment prompted me to actually look up "late stage capitalism".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

> In modern usage, late capitalism often refers to a new mix of high-tech advances, the concentration of (speculative) financial capital, post-Fordism, and a growing income inequality.

I think that definition is at least meaningful, and seems to align with how I've heard people use the phrase.
Because texting on a Nokia touchpad is terrible plus I'd like to have driving directions and prompts.
Except the mac will be faster and feel much snappier every day
> We're frequently reminded growing up in Canada that despite what we'd gather from the tv/film we consume, we don't have the same freedom of speech laws that our friends in the south do.

Why not simply get those rights? Looking at the brain flow to and from the US, there are a lot of Canadians voting with their feet...

Americans did about 250 years ago.

To me, the Canadian political system has always been a source of amazement and quite an enigma. The constitution of that country simply wasn't signed by a third of the population, and this is considered normal over there. Could anyone here in America imagine that?
> Tesla is playing a different game than the rest of the auto industry - it's playing against a different set of customer values (electric might be part of it, but only part). In this way it is similar to the iPhone coming in and basically killing Nokia, Motorola and Blackberry.

Can you expand on this?

When the iPhone came out there was literally nothing like it on the market. It genuinely redefined what could be done with a phone, and it doing so, completely changed the category.

Nothing that Tesla is doing rises to that level of disruption/innovation, at least as far as I can tell.

What, exactly, are they doing that brings you to this conclusion?

> But I guess only time will tell.

I find this so strange.

Tesla has been around for... let's see... 20 years. The S is over 10 years old now (production started in late 2010).

The iPhone came out in 2007. A blink of the eye later and the smartphone was ubiquitous.

You say "time will tell", but... how much more time, exactly?
No one has a total claim on truth; worse than that, people who have wildly diverging opinions from truth are more likely to hold them very strongly and will be upset when the model tells them they're wrong.
something like https://playwright.dev/ might fit your needs.
Setting up TLS in gRPC is annoying if the alternative is using an already-existing HTTPS endpoint.
This turns any phone into a dumb phone for free :)

https://specialprojects.studio/project/envelope/
DisplayLink is a daily source of frustration for me. If I disconnect my DisplayLink hub, and then plug it back in... I have to open and close my 13" M1 MacBook Pro a few times; restart the DisplayLink software; and sometimes reboot my computer before it will work again. For some reason, Zoom will just _hang_ after all of this. I just keep repeating the above until Zoom works again.

This is my employer provided MacBook Pro. I hate the experience so much that when it's time for a laptop refresh, I'm going to ask for the Windows option if they haven't upgraded their Mac offering to one that supports two monitors.

I love Apple products -- but I never understood how they could release a "Pro" laptop that supported only one external monitor.
Yes cars like the Honda Fit are only for people who cannot afford a nicer, bigger car. Very few people actually prefer them. Their advantages are low cost and high fuel economy, which are the biggest factors forthe bottom end of the market.
> It's REALLY important to stack a bunch of upvotes right at midnight PST

Do you mean imply fake votes? Paid votes? Powerful friends?

It was alleged in the past that producthunt was gamed to such an extent that it wasn't worth using, and your commentary reminds me of that.