skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last time I tied Solaris and Illumos/SmartOS at the hip in a comment someone from the Illumos camp responded adamantly that while they were based on Solaris, they were their own thing evolving their own direction.

That's fair.

I know that, after Oracle re-closed OpenSolaris, they can't (legally) incorporate the innovations happening in Illumos into Solaris proper, so the 2 siblings will continue to drift apart.

And it sounds like there was quite a lot of bad blood that proceeded the founding of Illumos (unsurprising when Oracle is involved), so I'm not super surprised that users would talk that way.
This is only my personal experience, but I agree with you, even with an optimal setup I still require ~5-10 minutes of breaks every couple hours when staring at my monitor.

With VR I could easily do (when I had the time) a full day (~12 hours), with only a single 15 minute food/washroom break in the middle and no signs of discomfort at all.
I'm slightly offended since I used to teach formal reasoning (and I always make a strong effort to avoid using it when constructing any arguments). You can always arbitrarily translate any parts of any phrase into any atomic sentence, and reframe certain claims as a series of propositions. None of your propositions that you claim I made are actually within the content of my argument. And especially for things that require historical, social, and political context to understands, it is completely useless to employ a system which pretends to be divorced from all those things. How are you supposed to evaluate a claim about the health effects of the industrial revolution using formal logic? How do you even know I was trying to use formal logic in my argument, or that I even cared if it made sense in a very particular logical system which has far more relevance for mathematics and computer programming than rhetoric and persuasion. I never made a single evidential claim nor could I, since this would be an area where empirical research is lacking. I was making an inference, which you made no attempt to directly engage with.
That's Google Registry.
Apple enforces the rules that applications must only harvest data in the ways that they describe. That's behind Facebook's tantrum about the App Store.

Google said it would introduce an equivalent policy, but then backed off, and does not enforce it.
The secondary barrier would have to be between the cabin and the lavatory, so that the pilot can go to from the cockpit to the lavatory on their side of the barrier. So I imagine that whenever the pilot is not about to or actively using the lavatory that barrier would be left open so that passengers can access it.

Some (all?) U.S. domestic airlines currently have this exact system in place, except with a flight attendant standing guard between the first row of seats and the galley/lavatory/cockpit, starting just before the pilot opens the cockpit door. I have no idea if this has been a regulation thing or just a thing I notice the airlines I fly do, but this physical barrier would probably follow the same usage pattern as the current meat-based barrier.
Wow props to System76 for coming clean about this despite the fear of a huge public shaming/backlash from a disclosure like this. Although they took a decision of switching from SSR to SSG as a result, they shouldn’t think that really fixes vulnerabilities in the future. I believe SSG is overall the ‘less secure’ of the two, but no tech stack is perfect and its mostly a matter of use case and performance, not security that should be the decisive factor. At least it wasn’t another Wordpress or PHP breach.
The top 1% pay 42.3 percent of federal income tax receipts.
> Soon enough the category will be a replacement for your home theater and/or your mobile entertainment device (i.e. tablet).

It will probably split in separate categories, the same way we currently have different PC categories ("windows", "gaming" and "macs", whatever people envision in these names).

Your mention of tablet is interesting, as the market is also split between iPad(android), chomebooks and windows tablets, but most people probably only think about the iPad as a "tablet" and the rest as "computers".
Did you read the Vision Pro thread in HackerNews? I think you might be mistaken - many of us are interested! Here's some choice quotes:

> I will happily go on the record as saying that this will be as revolutionary as the iPhone, perhaps even more so.

> But it's going to be a hit. HN is going to be swamped with "How I used Vision Pro to..." posts when it comes out.

> Well fuck me. This thing looks absolutely insane. It’s come in at $3499 and if it performs as good as those videos make out then, if anything, it’s a bargain.

> I think Apple designed an incredible piece of hardware here
All three use federated groups:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/groups-implementation/...

There are groups on Mastodon that you can join and follow.
It is scorched Earth mixed with an incredible sense of political and emotional bias. Shame really. Not moderate in either sense of the word.
Da Fucking Plot. Nice.
~80% of Singapore citizens live in subsidized government owned housing, with rent control, etc. They also require each neighborhood to meet quotas of the different ethnic groups to ensure there are no single race enclaves.

But yeah, keep pretending the solution to crime is hard-line policing, and not public policy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
Sure, I can buy the remote use case. But it’s still not going to replace my home theatre setup I use with people I live with.
which has interesting implications, legally, when that doorstep is a tent.
> our work

A lot to unpack here.
> It's a false dichotomy

You keep saying this. Do you have any actual evidence?
Aren't they a bit older? Time let's these numbers stack. Maybe percent alive to dead is the metric?
Thankfully Apple only sends tasteful ads, like the pop-up Apple Music modal when you put on headphones or that friendly perennial reminder to Try The New Safari. Then there's the total non-advertisement at the top of Settings encouraging you to try iCloud, along with the native and beautiful builtins like Apple News and TV+ that totally don't exist to upsell you on more services.

> Because for Meta at least it literally cost them $10b in revenue each year.

Is there any reason to believe Apple cannot stop them at an OS-level rather than a store-level?
Nope. It happens in every single sub-reddit. It's just whether you're on the side that's targeted or not as to whether you feel it.
Good _design_ improves long term maintainability. Design Patterns (in the GoF sense) are basically orthogonal to good design.

Besides, Peter Norvig, even as of 1996, is not not the sort of neophyte you’re referring to.
> And no, I have no difficulties understanding this sentence.

This is what calls my attention most. During your language acquisition process, your brains may develop some specialized connections to handle such sentences. In Portuguese (and probably in most languages) it is possible to build such monstrosities -- and there are concrete examples which I won't recall now. However, one does that for literaly reasons, to sound overly sophisticated or intentionally difficult etc. It's definitely not a natural way to write, and it probably never happens spontaneously on spoken language. I can, very sporadically, grasp such long sentences in my language at the first pass, but it's always difficult and, even then, I usually reread just to make sure I really understood it.
> When users join a sub it's because they like the content and tacitly approve of the moderation.

I disagree, I see tons of people blaming admins for moderation actions and vice-versa.
It’s pretty crazy that you can’t setup a custom 3rd party name server. I can’t even transfer my domain from one Cloudflare account to another without transferring my domain to another registrar…
Capabilities wise it seems to be about the same as a MOS6507 like you would find in an ATARI 2600, save for the fact that it's clocked at around 1/5 the speed of that budget priced and somewhat anemic chip. Being launched 2 years later it is not a big surprise it struggled to find a market in the US.
0.5C in 40 years sounds like a lot.
People often compare sword with handguns. Handguns nowadays are deadly weapons, but they are not used in war, where people use assault rifles instead, or other heavier weapons. Swords were sidearms. Warriors carried them around every day, they could be used for self defense (in those times there was not police or law enforcement). Or they could be used for intimidating opponents, and if needed, for chopping someone's head or limb.

In combat though, spears were much, much more effective.

With one exception. As far as I can tell only one exception, but a big one. The Romans have figured out that all other people are quite bad at close quarters combat. Since soldiers were used to using spears, very few soldiers knew what to do if someone got in a close range than the length of a spear. The Romans then would bull-rush the enemy using their shield, and when close they would use their (quite short) swords. Without training, their opponents didn't stand a chance. Of course, this type of battle tactic required an enormous amount of training. The Romans did that because they were a very war-oriented society. Others couldn't match their level of training.

Even for the Romans though, who were regularly using swords, the choice of bronze versus iron would have made little difference. Although bronze is a bit more brittle than iron, and a bronze sword is more likely to break when it strikes a hard object, the Romans were trained to thrust the sword, not to use slashing moves. Thrusting is much more deadly, but less instinctive. It's another thing that requires extensive training, which the Romans were great at. For thrusting, I think a bronze and an iron sword do equally well.
Kagi is great. I've had to find some obscure things recently and it was fantastic. No ads, no irrelevant garbage designed to make money for the search engine. Instead my interests and that of kagi are aligned - find the best search result - and it is great.
I'm feeling better about being a Gandi customer now, huehuehue
alpine.js is pretty clean, but every time I've been tempted to use it, I'm reminded that we have to load jquery because many pages are heavily dependent on datatables.net. And there is no way we are dropping datatables.net.
Contrast, sure, but pixel response time is so slow it can barely compete with a modern e-ink display.
The same day oil companies will go through the middle man and own the gas stations?
The Beehaw “about us” page is amazing. They elevate their favored ideology to “just being a good person”. Such self-blindness is quite entertaining.

… but also kinda creepy.
If space is not an issue used Optiplexes or ThinkCentres are extremely useful for similar use cases

$30-150 AUD

The only concern I have is power consumption being orders of magnitude higher than modern SoCs
two years is really nothing. you'll have to charge the battery and change the fuel, put air in the tyres, but it'll probably ride
> We are building Sydney Opera Houses.

Sorry, this made me laugh. I know there are software engineers which build clean and polished beautiful mega structures. I _aspire_ to that. Yet that is a niche market.

In reality, most devs are making unique family Vilas at best.

I wish I could ever say I feel like I contributed to an equivalent of 'Sydney Opera House'.
Does your manager expect you to obtain your estimate using a machine learning approach from a research paper?
> people actually used their devices all the time,

No, not really. Like Steve Jobs said, smartphones weren't very "smart". Most people did not have blackberries (those that did have Blackberries, were mostly business users). The rest of us that were technically savvy were playing some crappy java games(the ones allowed by mobile carrier stores), and browsing the web with WAP browsers in our flip phones. Most people were not even doing any of that. And why would they? The experience was terrible.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...

Using the same metric, people already use VR headsets, and just "want them to be better". Sure, the marketshare is a fraction of phone marketshare(https://www.statista.com/statistics/677096/vr-headsets-world...). But we can argue that most headsets are tethered to high end PCs, Meta's version is one of the few decent standalone versions.

Apple's device has lots of potential. It's all about the execution now, and subsequent devices.
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Oh I've confirmed this. Back in the NetworkSolutions days I saw multiple examples of their bot parking a domain I had searched for the previous day.
Maybe they don't want to be a single community equal to all of Reddit. The goal is to be a way to host the equivalent of a subreddit, which is not the same as a place for that. There are many places, and many - including me - believe that's how it should be.

Also, blocking nodes in a distributed social network is neither new nor unhealthy. Usenet has killfiles. IRC has k-lines. Far from being injurious in themselves, they're essential tools to prevent some rando from setting up a bogus instance and using it to spray garbage all over everything. I already had to block one obvious ex-Redditor who had done exactly that on Mastodon, shitting all over a thread that had been going well until then. I was utterly unsurprised to see that they got defederated shortly afterward. That's what should happen when people can't stop misbehaving.

Do I wish that the fediverse had better moderation tools, both separate from defederation and for coordinating defederation decisions? Of course I do. AIUI coordination is done now - when it's done at all - with an ad hoc system based on tags, of all things, and that's a bit absurd. I have some ideas about how a better system might look or be implemented, but I certainly don't fault anyone for using the tools they have during a period of such rapid growth.
I'm reminded of the aquarium thermometer used to launch an attach on a casino. <https://mashable.com/article/casino-smart-thermometer-hacked>

I have a couple Raspberry Pi Zeroes that monitor aquarium temperature. I keep them updated.
It only takes a couple of minutes to educate yourself on this topic. After reading it, let me know if you still think they don't want to compromise.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214235
You can't remotely compare how hard it is to get some things on apple hardware vs pretty much anything else. You can get emulators for pretty much everything on android, the same doesn't exist on iPhone.

I don't get the point you make about data retention. On android.i can install myriad blockers, browsers and apps to protect myself.on iPhone, I get whatever apple has deigned to grant their users.
"Pay in $10k a year for 40 years, get paid $40k a year for 10 years" isn't a pyramid scheme.

You can go buy life annuities at your will, and they're pretty close in function and clearly not schemes.
But it would be very simple for Reddit to require ads to be served in Apollo. They could say that in order to view a feed of posts at scale, you'll have to include ads that are injected into the feed. They could revoke the API token for any clients which don't do that. In fact, there are plenty of ways for Reddit to get their money back.

Simply put, the Reddit CEO definitely wants to kill 3rd party apps. He just knows that saying it out loud would have an even bigger backlash. With the current approach, he can pretend to care about 3rd party apps, but do everything to make it financially impossible to run one.
I feel the analogy comparisons are not about the device type or use cases for them, rather its about the potential for it to be a paradigm shift in device categories. To me it feels more like the shift that the original Mac introduced to the public at large, from command line based computing to GUI computing, and the potential for new categories of app interactivity.
It all boils down to responsibility and let's call it the "metaego": the trappings of childhood are immaterial and orthogonal to the balancing of priorities. An adult will do what's best to ensure their future, while a kidult will avoid making hard choices and opt for what's fun or pleasurable. OTOH if one becomes a dead, loveless, overly-serious robot in their quest for adulting, then they've also failed at life. A responsible adult thinks for themselves and constructs an internal leader who observes, plans, and executes at higher levels of abstraction than does a child.
Ask HN: Validation of a Thought(LLM -> LISP -> Transpile)
I'm trying out a code generation problem using open-source transformer models. With almost all of the models, the context window size seems to be a problem.

I had a thought that, instead of generating the code for the target language directly, what if we can generate a concise code and transpile it? In that approach, I feel generation could be in some LISP dialect and from there transpilation could be to any language. Of course APL can be an intermediate language here but that has other challanges like learning, custom keyboard, etc.

Does this approach seems viable?
>But Apollo can offer a better experience because they don't have to sell ads

Apollo can offer a better experience because they don't have to constantly push recommendations and test new features to boost engagement metrics. If every 10th post on Apollo was an ad it would still be an improvement over the Reddit app.
> they probably use Mac or iOS simply because it's the best hardware/software suited their needs

Funny thing is I don't even disagree with them. The M1 Macs are amazing and if Asahi project is any indication it will have good Linux support soon. Apple makes great hardware and I absolutely want to buy their stuff... Provided I can actually own the device I'm paying lots of money for. Shame the iPhone isn't in that category. It's annoying and sad that we even have to argue that it should be.
Curtain would be simpler to hide if the door is open. Door movement noise could be faked/randomized with a speaker.
I haven't worked with enough discount shops to really know how well they can work. Biggest complaint I have with most that I have dealt with, is that they don't have the tools/information necessary to work on the modern vehicles, either. Frustrating, as I don't think it is a negative of the shop, necessarily.

That all said, interesting to read your perspective and how different our "priors/expectations" are. Would love to see some collected data to know how well this plays out.

In the vein of "car guys," I'm also curious if it conveys information to see clearly restoration vehicles near local shops. Just this AM, I noticed a classic mustang next to the main shop we use. I know they have fun working on some older vehicles.
> Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t an iPhone moment, or at least, not exactly. At $3,500, it’s very expensive in the context of today’s consumer electrics market, where the iPhone launched for $600 (without subsidy, and then rapidly switched for $200 at retail with an operator subsidy)

This doesn't sit right with me. The iPhone launched at $600 into a market where most consumers were paying between $0 and $35 for a dumbphone. So while the absolute prices are different, the orders-of-magnitude difference between "what the typical consumer pays for a product in this category" and "what Apple is charging for their radical entry" is about the same.

(No, I'm not trying to say that Vision Pro is the iPhone moment for VR/AR — I agree that it's probably not. I just don't agree with this particular argument.)
Few remain, but they do exist.

I once had a drain blockage that my guy kept messing with and couldn't get out. He called a friend with a bigger jetter. When that didn't break it out, and after about 3 days of futzing around with their ideas, they called this other guy. He was the good plumber.

He showed up, and without getting his hands dirty, diagnosed the problem, collected a fee, and left in about an hour. (Some crew had laid fiber cable, drilled through the drain pipe, and created a blockage. The good plumber called the company who did it, who got their own crew to fix it.)

So I guess the moral of my story is yeah, ask a plumber for a good plumber.
Totally reasonable response, and thanks for taking the criticism well - I hope it didn't come off as too harsh. I mostly agree with everything you wrote, just one thing I'd say:

Designers may be used to visual tools, but IMO it's a hangup. It's like someone telling you that they find it easier to click File > Copy > File > Paste because they're not used to typing "ctrl c > ctrl v". I get the psychology of it, but it's objectively wrong - a keyboard shortcut will always be more efficient and everyone who learns them is better off for it. Code is like that but on steroids. If there's an efficiency gap then it's an issue with dev tooling (which IMO is 100% true in lots of cases), not inherently with code.
It wasn't a "google scale" product. That's how FANG thinks
When you examine the most common deaths for Americans, it's either the Hamburglar or cars
They did for many, many years. And the result soured many devs and companies on Python. And many libraries have not been migrated.

But yes, I'm very glad they've been cut off now. It does eventually shift to just the new stuff.
Er... Windows PC says hello?

Arguably Microsoft isn't "fully" open but Windows PC gaming is as open as it gets, and for all the complaints it is glorious compared to almost all other alternatives, if we're honest.
More junk is fine. Here we are having a great discussion on the most permissive platform of all time. In spite of the amount of junk on the web, I wouldn't trade it for anything else. Sifting through "junk" is just a search and curation problem, and those problems have been solved for decades. Using multiple stores is no worse than using 15 different messaging apps, which we all seem to have no problem with, in spite of the walled garden utopian paradise imagined by some folks.
Scientists are baffled why the oceans are warming so fast
The Vision Pro doesn’t need to be light as a feather to succeed like what Ben Evans seem to suggest. It needs to be light enough, but it will likely be the new entertainment experiences that will give it massive traction. Apple isn’t gonna go Alphabet on this thing and axe it 12 months in. When the price/size comes down to iPhone territory and power/features keeps ramping up, it isn’t hard to see this as a must have entertainment device at least, plus it can do work.
No. And the guy in Rome is correctly asking "wtf are you saying" lol.

Of you want to speak latin, go inside Vatican, you'll find somebody that understands you
Just start reading & commenting on other people's posts. Don't be an asshole. You'll get more comfortable over time.
In Germany all major power providers have their own charging networks and they all suck and are very expensive.

You cannot roll up to a charger and pay, no, you need an app and an account for each charging network. Then there are multiple kinds of subscriptions where each kWh costs more or less depending on the base fee and much more.

All those charging network owners threw a fit when German legislation started requiring new stations to be equipped with a card reader to accept digital payments without apps from July 2023 onwards by the way...
Realtors are often good sources of info on contractors and trades
240x320 display, no keyboard. This is no Personal Computer.
Good old Windows Cement. https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRB...
Most of them still run, though. Either directly on modern Windows or with something like ReactOS. You can't keep using Inbox once it's shut down.
> in software you are always doing something new

Yes, and invariably anything that comes up and wasn't accounted for in the estimate will take more time, not less.
Thanks! This was a great answer.

> Python? Rules? Unheard of.

OK, since it's Christmas, I'd like to be able to write

Module MyModule
a = 42
b = 37