skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2018, I was studying Linux in school and I had enough space from my Pell Grant that I could consider a very high-quality laptop purchase for educational purposes.

I readily selected a ThinkPad T580. Lenovo has/had a whole line of ThinkPads which are certified for Linux, about half and half Red Hat and Ubuntu. Curiously, many of these certified machines shipped with Windows 10. I ordered from the manufacturer's website, and the really cool part was the versatile configurator which let me LEGO-together a machine exactly of my choosing, from many disparate but compatible options. It was assembled and shipped direct to me from China.

So I received my Red Hat-certified notebook, immediately deleted Windows 10 without activating it, and installed CentOS, which was crashy and buggy. I decided that a more cutting-edge approach might help, so installed Fedora, and it worked a treat! I ran Fedora until Christmas 2021, when I basically renounced Linux, since I had no more personal or professional need to run it on bare metal, and installed the OEM Windows 10.

But that T580 under Fedora was always rock-solid. All hardware fully supported, no ifs, ands or buts. No crashes or bugs or problems that would send me to Support. (One time I got ketchup in the spacebar, though.)

I don't doubt that the certified Ubuntu experience would be just as smooth, and so I have no hesitation recommending certified ThinkPads to Linux enthusiasts.
China’s Ambitious Plans in Antarctica Have Raised New Suspicions
>or writing assembly instead of c, even though they're both at pretty much the same level of abstraction

They aren't.
Connectix cameras were all CCD, BW ones used Texas Instruments TC255 http://wastelands-observatory.factspot.com/equipment/. This fabulously ungooglable DMS provider claims to have designed and manufactured it for Connectix https://www.odi.net/portfolio.html
Yes. It's like a pseudo-union. Collectively bad companies are avoided and good ones receive more interest. Low salaries and bad managers are put on display. Good ones are, too.

It's useful for the job seeker, and it's useful for society.
All software suffers from this. The whole point of programmable computers is allowing systems of unbounded complexity. Every tooling discussion degenerates into "it's a foot gun" vs "you're holding it wrong".

If you remove friction, people will build bigger foot guns. If you install too many guardrails, holding it right requires contortion.

The point is not which set of tools you use. There is no substitute for understanding the problem domain, the tools at hand and the labor market you have access to. Everything has a cost, you can't get free advantages from some technical insight or another.
External, non Elon fluffers, were posting YT videos stating these exact facts based on the grainy SpaceX video (and they were also pointing out how NASA was able to provide much higher definition video 2 decades ago) but were considered conspiracy theorists because Elon Musk was claiming the exact opposite at the same time.

In a shocking turn of events, the grifter extraordinaire, Mr Musk, turned out to be grifting.
RISC-V is taking over the world at quite the pace.

I doubt it won't be bigger than ARM ever was or ever will be; within just 3 years from now I expect it to be taking on x86.
Many of your points are unsubstantiated.
Looks like graph algorithms comes in handy at the end
Yes, the ecosystem definitely needs more attraction.

"People do not use it because the ecosystem sucks, and the ecosystem sucks because people do not use it."

That said, it is more than enough for many use-cases that are related to critical software.

Either way, what you should focus on is the cyber-security aspect of Ada/SPARK. It is actually the language and programming environment for secure/crticial software.
How about this scheme: a service that provides a hash of your {SSN, DOB, domain of a web site}, which allows anyone to cryptographically check that the domain is part of the hash, but not SSN or DOB, and which is required to create an account. This guarantees that any physical person can create one and only one account on that web site and also preserves anonymity.
[This library] makes it even harder to [do difficult thing] I will suffer you through it, at the end you will hate me, be more confused and have even less of an idea how to use [this library]
[Complicated thing] made more complicated and harder.
I will have you do many difficult things and remember them just to do [difficult thing].

Good luck, you are going to need it!
I don't understand that "behind parents back" bit.

My teen kids aren't on social. I know this because their dumb phones don't support it, and their computers are not permitted in their rooms (Kitchen table only).

I suppose they could get on, through a friends smart-phone, but that would be limited to the time they spend on the bus to/from school.
How do you water cool a steel plate under a rocket without the coolant instantly vaporizing and blowing up the plate?
Some historical context:

> In 1960, New York City prohibited the sale of paint with high levels of lead for residential use, New York state imposed a state-wide ban in 1970, and the federal government banned lead in paint in 1978.

You seem to think the danger from lead was obvious to all yet NYC was decades ahead of other places where the paint industry prevented or repealed actions to even label lead paint as poisonous.
I'm curious, what's American to you in their reply?
Even the definition of success is a contradictory lie from the conception cited definition of success that was created right after the launch blew up.

At the time they said it was successful because the launch was successful. But as we now know, and Elon has admitted as quoted in the article, the launch wasn’t successful. Way more shit blew up than planned.

He redefines success as learning a lot. Which would have been the case in any launch, except, ironically, a launch that was actually successful.
The report[0] is short and we'll written. What I like are the disagreements from the reviewers. I write a lot of Fortran[1] and I tend to agree with most of the points. Even the disagreements are all good because they take different but also raisonnable views at the problem.

[0]: https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lar...

[1]: you can hire me if needed ;-)
About 10 years before this one, there was a similar fraud, National Student Marketing Corporation, that was similarly successful based on a similar foundation. My recollection is that it also attributed its (temporary) success partly to rapid growth of a cleaning service (for offices) business. That one was somewhat overshadowed in the business fraud section of the papers by the coincidental bursting billion-dollar bubble around the same time of an equally fraudulent NYSE-listed go-go financial services firm that had similarly been acquiring companies hoping that the acquisitions would somehow allow them to unwind their Ponzi operation.
Unlike recommended in the article, I started to enable -Wsign-conversion on my own code. At first it's very annoying because it's noisy and full of false positives (where the implicit sign conversion definitely can't cause any trouble), but it's definitely a good thing for becoming aware of places where integer promotion kicks in and might potentially cause unexpected results.
Starship and superheavy are fairly important for NASA and various components of the US military, so don't expect regulatory hurdles.

I have heard the project described as NASA skunkworks with fairly experienced engineers and scientists from the public sector available for consultation without barriers.
Wording is one thing, but what is always annoying moving to a new library or language is the tacit knowledge the docs assume.

It's a fine line, one can assumes a certain knowledge to even be functional, but in doubt I think it's better to be extra verbose.

Few examples:
- JS libraries not showing how to import the modules used in code examples.
- Everything in the kubernetes docs
- In Xcode explanations often it just mentioned: go the "build settings", etc. In beginning it's extremely confusing to find anything in that program.
> mycoolsite.com is the same as mycoolsite.com/api/bb8d4cc4-1453-473b-8594-95db0f41877d/3c9242b8-2394-48c1-9643-618ca38eb13d for which you'll also need these dozen parameters and custom headers for, which there is no public documentation for

Whoo whoo, go easy on the straw man, man.
What state doesn't produce electricity using fossil fuels? At midnight last night, which wasn't atypical, California was 50% natural gas and the total CO2 emitting is even greater due to imports and CO2 emitting renewables.
I believe that in the case with Doom, and many other games that released there code as open source; the game assets are not in public domain and remain closed.
Much better than the "war on drugs".
It's depressing how poor most of the ratings are. Landlords really don't have to put any effort in at all.
I don't understand why Elon insists on re-inventing the wheel when we know how to deal with rockets this size. The Saturn V was similar in size and power, the launch pad at Cape Canaveral is still standing, just build a copy.
In 2022-23 several hundred billion USD of investment in new battery production capacity in the USA and Europe was announced in multiple announcements. (Source: cleantechnica, or batteriesnews, or energy-storage.news, or maybe industry weekly; I'll try to find it again. In the mean time, there's this[1]. Edit: and this: battery-news.de[2].)

Much of that should come online in 2025 - 28, if not canceled first.

Edit 2: there are several steps in the production chain beyond mining and initial refining. There is material production for anodes, cathodes, electrolytes, separators, and lithium; there is cell assembly, there is pack assembly, and there is production of electronics associated with cells and packs (charge controllers, pack management). Each of these has its own issues. It's not as "simple" as refining oil.

1. Chart 1: Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity Expected to Surge, FRB Dallas: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2022/1011

2. https://battery-news.de/index.php/2022/01/21/battery-project...
> And some assumptions about a product should hold true as well. E.g. the assumption should be that if I buy a desktop CPU today I should be able to use it for at least n years. Because how would you know this beforehand?

You ask the manufacturer, duh? If they lie, that's fraud. If you don't like the answer, you don't buy.

> If Intel made an optimization that turns out to be a security flaw, that is totally their fault and they should cover it. This is nothing any consumer could have known (and therefore avoided buying) beforehand. This is the cost of taking risks in business.

Customers and suppliers should be able to allocate such risks between themselves however they like.

You can fiddle with what the default should be, in case they haven't negotiated anything.

But if both customer and supplier agree, the customer should be allowed to bear such a risk.

> It seems to be a popular stance these days to shill for corporations and protect them from ever having their risks realized.

Why? I have nothing against any particular allocation of the risks, as long as all involved parties agree. (Otherwise, they just don't make a deal.)

> Gotcha, so you are also against electrical regulations like requirements to use tested insulators etc?

If you claim they are tested, you better not lie. Otherwise it's fraud and you should be held liable.

If a customer wants to buy untested insulators, who am I to keep them?

I mean, in the most extreme case, a customer can buy bread and try to use it as an insulator, if they really want to. There's nothing the supplier can do about that.
Yes I maintain two systems on the mainframe been doing it for 8 months feel free to ask questions
NY does get some amount of power from out of state while it having any coal plants in the state but - edit - it seems to be less than 1%. Now I actually wonder why NJ has so much coal power compared to ny.
DevOps threat matrix – Microsoft Security Blog
Exactly, turning on -Werror is good practice during development and when running CI, but not when building the source distribution of your code (because the user might have a slightly different version of the compiler which has different warnings).
“Even simple serverless apps have complex architecture diagrams”,so what? (2020)
“Superfast”, until you blow through your L1 cache, which happens pretty early on if you need 1 kB of table per byte in your key.

Even in the L1 cache, it's hard to beat the mul: A multiplication (which can hash multiple bytes in the case of Fibonacci hashing) has 3 cycles latency on modern x86. A single load, even from L1, is 5, I believe.
Yeah Apple presently dominate the upper income segment of the market but they’re starting to win the middle class too.
It was the exact advice given. Not all adverbs end in "-ly", either, and not all adverbs should be avoided in technical writing; that'd be impossible.

The rule states "-ly" words because those words are often cruft or crutch words that can be removed. If the sentence can't stand on its own without that word, then the sentence probably doesn't belong in the body of technical writing.

Compare this with time-related adverbs, which generally provide chronological structure. Those are more relevant for technical writing.

So yes, avoid "-ly" words. Not adverbs in general. That was the advice given.
This covers new buildings. All the old stoves and infrastructure stays and there is no need to replace the existing stoves.
I believe (dont remember fully, going back 30 years almost) that SCO or HP (or perhaps Sun?) shipped you the full set of these with a developer sdk license.

So, where I worked, as we had multiple licenses and we really only needed to keep one or sets around, teenage me got to take a set home. With that said, my memory is that a large chunk of them was mostly the man pages printed out.
Probably not. The meme of the "doped up women on prescription pills" has been a thing since probably the 50s.

There was lots of over-prescription targeting "house-wives" before the opioid crisis e.g. diet pills, sleeping pills and tranquillizers. Your 80s doctor would ply you with all sorts of amphetamines, barbiturates, quaaludes etc. Lots of these have since been withdrawn due to causing medical problems. Marilyn Monroe dying from a barbiturate overdose in the 60s.
The article is about strength training in general. If you haven't read Starting Strength, then maybe the idea is foreign to you. Suffice it to say that lifting heavy with progressively overloaded weight is the only way to build strength.

That said, to your First point, if you live in America, you might be aware that cycling anywhere is dangerous for your health. I myself have ridden my bike many miles through dense traffic in order to get to closed roads to do fun rides and crits, but I would never give this advice to anyone in the general case! Bike infrastructure is a joke in the United States and if you're not a freak with a preternatural sense of spatial awareness, the reflexes of a cat, and a half-serious death wish then quite frankly you are only endangering your own life putting yourself next to 4000-lb vehicles driven by teenagers and distracted adults texting and changing their playlist while driving. As an avid bike rider who logs over 1500 miles a year on the bike I recommending cycling in traffic to NOBODY.
The rule of thumb is that it takes 4 weeks for a concrete driveway to fully cure.

I admit I've never built a launchpad for the world's biggest rocket, but I'd wave my hands to say it might take a bit longer for that concrete, and it won't get poured immediately.
I am not advocating to remove the foundations. My stance is that it shouldn’t be the first exposure to programming.
I am all for covering foundations in later courses.
zig cc has great defaults, which includes UB sanitizers. Quite a few projects had bugs found and fixed just by compiling them with zig cc instead of gcc or clang.
They'll be like hotel ratings. A bunch of 1 star reviews complaining the breakfast buffet closed at 10am and they wouldn't extend the hours for them personally.
18 for 99% of stuff is honestly fine with me.
I currently use `--analyze -Xanalyzer -analyzer-opt-analyze-headers` for checking my header-only libs in clang, but AFAIK the recommended workflow is to use clang-tidy which is better configurable than calling clang directly.

If you're on Mac with Xcode, the static analyzer and the sanitizers ASAN, UBSAN and TSAN are simple UI checkboxes.
I did a summer program at MIT around then and remember a program that let you send popup messages in xwindows to other users or to a channel. You could subscribe to any channel and use wild cards. I remember being hacked by someone to subscribe "*" and being unable to use my terminal for a while until i figured out how to unsubscribe without being able to see what i was typing under the wall of messages. I thought it was called zyphermail but the interent seems to have no memory of this.
Most people don’t care and definitely don’t pay nearly as close attention as should be required to have the right to vote, let alone those who are payed massive amounts of money to manipulate corrupted politicians. Corruption is now or at the very least is well on its way to becoming systemic.
Starship is all about finding ways to whittle down margins from the status quo
A moral argument can be offered, sure.

However, there is copious cause/effect data showing that non-sobriety is expensive in terms of health- and societal repercussions.
If you went to the store and instead of looking at your ID, the scanned it and posted it on their website, would you agree? Would you be okay asking a 14 year old to post their ID online? I suspect your answer would be no to both.

Don't think for a second you scanning your ID and providing it to facebook/twitter/youtube would be at all safe.
Has there been a commodity that has spiked in price due to true lack of supply and non new supplies were found? From peak oil, to copper , lithium and rare earth minerals predictions of we will run out during a price shock always seem to turn into a price collapse.
I built the "Harry Potter clock", a screen that shows the location of each family member. It's just and old monitor on the kitchen wall + raspberry pi + zigbee 220V plug to switch it off at night.

I worked beautifully for a few years displaying Apple's "Find My" via a Chromium browser in kiosk mode. However, Apple closed off web access to Find My, so I've now redone it via Google Maps. The Google Maps version doesn't work nearly as well and the maps are cluttered with lot's of stuff you don't want to see, so I'm currently looking at redoing it again by using the Home Assistant app and API.
>How do New Yorkers feel about unelected parties writing their laws?

Oh no, not the gdpr again?
Your comment is way off the mark. The debris is covering around 1km² of area with lots of both sizable chunks of metal and concrete littering the landscape and the bottom of the nearby sea. SpaceX has signed an agreement with the responsible agency to meticulously clean each and every bit of junk they put into the environment, explicitly by hand, on foot, no vehicles allowed. I can recommend the latest video by Common Sense Skeptic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDuVomNd9M) for lots of details; environmental impact is at length being shown in the second half of it.
> I have not seen any necessary gambling in my years in manufacturing.

You need to manufacture a widget and it must cost no more than $5. You have a few inputs to your widget, some made with steel and some with plastic. If steel and plastic prices increase, your inputs cost more than $5 and you’re making a loss on every widget you sell.

So you go to the futures market and take a bet that the input prices will increase. If you’re right, you win $, which makes your widget manufacturing profitable and you’re still in business. If prices fall you lose the bet, your profits are lower. But hey, at least you’re still in business.

A responsible, well run manufacturing business benefits from the existence of such a market because it allows them to de-risk.
This is like saying any engineer would like it to be illegal to have people paid to write documentation. There's an art to communication, especially in niche area like getting the ear of the right legislators and translating a topic in terms they will understand. Louis Rossman hired lobbyists to get right to repair legislation passed. If hiring a lobbyist is illegal it wouldn't prevent lobbying, it will keep occuring just in wink wink nudge nudge smoke filled back room quid pro quo sort of channels and less accessibly.
Definitely seems nebulous, but I would consider myself not a music listener. Outside of it being paired with a movie/game/video/etc, I practically never listen to music just to listen to music.
And Chile government is making moves towards being more involved in new deals. Not quite nationalization, but...
Meta build systems like cmake allow defining different build types with their own compile settings. I wouldn't recommend using 'raw' Makefiles directly for C/C++ development.
Isn't it obvious that we've just been through this exact same conversation for climate change, renewables, EVs, heat pumps?

It follows the exact same format of FUD, JAQ-ing, denial, illogic, intentional misunderstanding and avoidance of factual information.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Start what is effectively a religion to defend the financial interests of those burning fossil fuels at the expense of everyone else, shame on you even more.
I use YouTube for entertainment and personalities. It puzzles me when people use YouTube for learning. I'm not saying that high-quality educational content doesn't exists on YouTube, but in my experience, it's rare to find a video that explains a concept better than a book or docs. Most videos tend to be padded with irrelevant information, which often leaves me feeling like I've wasted 15-20 minutes for minimal substance. However, once I started viewing YouTube as an entertainment platform rather than a learning resource, I stopped feeling frustrated about wasted time and began enjoying the content for what it is. For any real learning use books and other reference materials.
Super Heavy has more than double the thrust of Saturn V, how is that similar?
>"We're going to putting down a lot of steel" under the launch tower before the next Starship flight.

I understand that Starship needs the ability to operate in places where launch infrastructure can't exist. But that's a problem for another day. Put in a flame trench + water suppression system and get the thing to orbit.
Two factors matter in these scenarios: identifying the reviewer and proving it.

Employees can maintain anonymity by avoiding specific work anecdotes ("My manager A did B"), using ChatGPT for rephrasing, and delaying their review (a few months after the experience).

Employers must prove the reviewer's identity for legal remedy, but Glassdoor may issue damning alerts about employers who do so. Even then, using Tor and temporary emails with fake names offers protection to the employee.

By making it difficult to both figure out who wrote the review and prove it, I think employees are safe posting their genuine exp online.

I also believe it's totally morally fine if the reviews are accurate. It may break the ToS of Glassdoor to use a fake name, for example, but an authentic peek into what's going on in corps benefits both society and Glassdoor itself.
PEP 668 – Marking Python base environments as “externally managed”
I mean challenging the “well known” engineering orthodoxies like rockets landing being almost impossible and not worth doing seem to have worked out ok for him?

I love it when people take one small issue and point out how stupid he’s being, yet ignore how by challenging every point of engineering on rockets he’s almost at the point of making a mars transportation system possible.