skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t have gun control when your neighbor sells it at gas stations and the border is very porous.
Parsec is way better than VNC/NX/X11/etc.

You aren't going to get better than streaming compressed video with any modern toolkit, since the rendering happens in the app and it's just about moving pixels going over the network.
Gpt4 writes mine.
Hate that bullshit
A friend explained to me that the real benefit of foss is the community building huge things together, faster and better than any individual. So, you don’t make your game foss, but rather, you build a set of foss tools for everyone to benefit from, and the community eventually begins to contribute back, and you end up with a huge machine that does really cool things. Everybody then uses these tools to make amazing things, yourself included. It’s win win. He’s had some cool experience with this stuff, mostly outside of gaming.

But pure source code dumps, besides being valuable to students, usually isn’t that worthwhile. It’s a lot less win-win as well
Well for Google specifically isn’t your ranking severely impacted if you don’t include them? In that case it’s hardly a choice.
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post and read the code a bit.

Also fuck the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for telling auto makers to ignore a very well intentioned state law.
Free.

That word does not appear at all in TFA.

In the IBM/RH blog post it references[1] the word appears once, disparagingly, in the gratis sense.

I appreciate the beer / speech distinction can get tiring to explain repeatedly, but it feels like the move to distance themselves from the deeper implications & obligations of free is, shall we say, very carefully calculated.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-sour...
That's funny. It compiles so fast for a laptop that your break times are shorter. Bosses are happy. You're not.
Which brands did you try and how much did you try them?
yeah I agree. you don't need to code locally.

basically any device can code. an ipad is definitely capable of that entry level definition of programming, there is definitely many workspaces like yours that mostly have cloud infrastructure and don't have any codebases small enough to fit on basically any laptop or desktop pc.

yes it would be nice if there were larger screen ipads, but also I think ipads are capable of some kind of escape hatch mode where they run macos locally. all of the woes of the iPad are caused by running iOS, not being too weak or made with bad hardware.
> It is ideal for creating product or API documentation, tutorials, course materials or anything that requires a clean, easily navigable and customizable presentation.

Markdown is really crap for any of that.

Any real writer knows that the best way to communicate an idea quickly and effectively is to present it the right way. Markdown does not have good presentation. It was not designed for good presentation. It was designed to write an incredibly basic-looking document, such that the plaintext and rendered document look similar.

I know this is going to be a shock to everyone. But it turns out that ASCII isn't the best way to encode presentation. On behalf of the poor SOBs that have to read what you churn out: Please stop subjecting people to your shitty presentation and get a real document format. Thanks.
> You know what rich college students don't have a lot of? "fear, social anxiety, and trauma".

Good lord, what a statement.
Why? I'm mystified as to why there are vanishingly few VIEWERS for Markdown. One open-source project after another offers up .md files for documentation, but have you ever tried to find a plain VIEWER for Markdown?
For me, after doing a bunch of evaluation I went with buying an old (and very cheap) 2nd hard Surface Pro 3 on Ebay to see if that could possibly do the job.

... and yep, it does even with just Windows on it. Technically Linux can be loaded onto these things, and apparently works pretty well. But, I never got around to trying that out.

About a year later I dropped the damn thing and completely shattered the screen. Still haven't replaced it, but mean to at some point. Again, not with an iPad, but probably a newer generation Surface Pro. And I'll put Linux on it this time. :)
I'm reading this through a smear on my screen which is the result of a spider that crawled across my face.
A Harvard education is not the textbooks nor the lectures, but the name and connections afforded to an alumni.
They definitely aren’t. It’s subtle, but I find the m2 airs to be maddening to type on, and I miss keystrokes all the time, but the 14 inch pros are really nice to type on. Unless the m2 airs I typed on were duds /from a factory that messed up the spec
new kind of first world problem just dropped: code compiles too fast
If I were there plantation owner, I would definitely consider the above a punishment.
Rename TypeScript to LintScript
> No, alcohol exists for a very simple reason: Clean and sanitary beverage.

That’s why distillation was developed: to separate alcohol from water via evaporation and condensation and get a super-clean and super-sanitary beverage - with as little water as possible.
I assume it's similar to the system of "minorities quotas" for admission into Romanian universities in Transylvania. The region has a significant number of Hungarian ethnics and used to have Germans too but now they're rather vanished.

Anyhow, from the total number of seats per year, a larger number is allocated to Hungarians and a smaller one to Germans. The caveat being you don't have to be ethically German, only to speak it. In the wake of the new woke movement I can see a radical version of affirmative action where you don't have to be black as long as you identify as one ;) ;) ;)

So with Hungarian they fill those places with what I estimate to be 100% ethnic Hungarians. With Germans however, they're like 99% Romanians and Hungarians who take the hit of having to learn / speak German for the advantage of having fewer competition. Like mainstream (Romanian, Hungarian) computer science can have 10 candidates per seat, the German line has 1.5 or so: much easier to get in. I know a guy who couldn't code a FOP loop (with the typo of P instead of R) out of a paper bag but completed the German computer science line.
What if the app is closed source
This question becomes more relevant when you consider the vision pro is essentially a head-mounted iPad.

I wish the author would say how they tried to get a working development environment. E.g.: VSCode Server?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server
Actually no. It should not go to a common fund. The bots read particular things and we know who wrote them. Those people should be able to claim money. No one else.

Large portions of Wikipedia were written by a small group of people. It is not right to take their work and distribute the benefits to anyone anymore than it's right for someone to be able to use it in an ai model for an unlicensed use.
> he mentioned that working in JSON seemed natural and comfortable

As opposed to?
Plenty of others to tickle the norms; eg two editions of, and commentary on:

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1975)

~ E.F. Schumacher

“Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies.

This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago.

Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way.

Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organisations and increased specialisation, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions.

Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialisation and proposes a system of Intermediate Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilising local labour and resources.”

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Small+is+Beautiful
> I think we're equivocating with kajecounterhack on what 'disadvantage' means, and they chose an unfortunate analogy to illustrate their idea of disadvantage that is perhaps more fundamental to the disadvantaged person than they were going for.

Yeah I do regret drawing this analogy even if I still think it's apt, since it's distracting from my point instead of reinforcing it.

> These opportunities exist for pretty much every black kid as long as they don't break the law and avoid addiction. They are in no way 'disabled' and have agency over their own destiny.

I wasn't saying black folks are disabled. I was trying to express that some folks have disadvantages in life that start from birth, and color qualifies as one of those because of the way society at large has and continues to discriminate against folks with darker skin. This particular discrimination deserves addressing through efforts like affirmative action because its impact on life outcomes is profound.

You could say that the ability to buy an SAT book is all it takes to get a degree, but this doesn't track with reality. Preparation for college education starts from youth, and in the US public school quality is related to where you live. The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow extend to where we live today. An emphasis on education as a means to better yourself is also commonly handed down by your family -- but what if your family traces back (it's not that far) to an era where black folks were discriminated against when it came to education?

There are other interesting ways to slice it (e.g. how many of your parents went to college is a predictor of whether you'll go to college and also whether you succeed if you go; being poor at harvard means you actually don't get the same experience as folks who are better off).

> They are in no way 'disabled' and have agency over their own destiny.

I 100% agree with this statement, I just think that agency can only get you so far. You need supporting infrastructure, otherwise in the aggregate we will continue to perpetuate inequities (which unfortunately also reinforce discriminatory viewpoints).
4:5 is a major third. "Perfect third" isn't really a thing in western music theory. Just found it odd the LLM didn't pick up on that.
It's been over 10 yrs since its introduction and it pretty much has the same utility as it had at the start. Coding on an iPad is just not part of Apple's plan for it. I don't expect it to be a good choice now or ever.
What is wrong with the Red Hat ecosystem, as long as we stick to the open source part of it? Red Hat's ecosystem has got some really neat pieces of software, such as Podman, Cockpit, virt-manager, Ansible, and more.
Why do you want a unibody? Isn't it better to open it up and and stick a multi TB ssd and 64GB RAM in, lioe I did with my EliteBook 840?
Any good material science VC reading to recommend by any chance? Blogs, books, success stories too look up? Individuals or firms you consider better than average?
Got mine for $799 at Costco
I use MacBook Pro for these reasons: a) Availability of high-quality native applications. b) I like macOS. Good GUI with a Unix underneath. (Installing Homebrew and GNU Coreutils makes it much fresher.) c) The hardware is really nice.

If I was a heavy gamer, perhaps I would consider Windows.

There’s one thing I miss from Linux though: Native support for cgroups. I can live without it, but it sure would be convenient.
I love the mini - and I'd say an iPad makes sense for consumption and pen use (handwriting notes)... but the 'Pro' is a waste of an M1/M2.

I would kill for a rebooted 12" Macbook with that same terrible keyboard if it at least had an M1 in it.
(and you're still probably better than ChatGPT?)
That seems to be just xwayland windows that you use. “Normal” wayland apps scale well even in fractions.
Surprise!!!!
Remember the 'What's a computer Ad' of iPad Pro from 2017?

I'm not saying that OP fell for that marketing and is gullible, but Apple marketed the iPad Pro as a replacement for a computer, so it may not be completely unreasonable to expect a reasonably similar experience on an iPad after 6 years and the n number of iPad generations that went by.
One of the mantras for Andrew Kelly has been "do not use Zig in production" until it hits 1.0.

People know that, but it's difficult to avoid using it for real things once you've tried it and it works :D.

I haven't done that with Zig, but with Kotlin things like serialization/coroutines/kotest/KAPT (it was the same feeling: oh this stuff is "Experimental" but so cool, I can't do real Kotlin without them!!)... well yeah, I spent many hours rewriting stuff due to that, and totally acknowledge that was on me.
Isn't "simple smartwatch" a contradiction in terms?
IIRC, this platform uses CDN-hosted libraries rather than bundling/vendoring. As a result, users are exposed to not just outages of the CDNs but also the data collected by these servers. That’s a bummer.

…but it’s not the only bummer. The usage of Highlight.js + MathJax on the front-end is horribly wasteful. Why? It demands all clients parse & render the syntax/LaTeX which is not only taxing on CPUs and batteries, but this action is idempotent meaning every user agent on every page visit is going to do the same wasteful parsing to get the same result. There is no good reason that syntax highlighting shouldn’t be done at build time nor should it require JavaScript.
So an interesting note on fees:

These are a result of some jurisdictions, such as certain municipalities, having it within their bylaws/legislation that these fees must be applied and that they must appear as separate line items (like taxes). The result is the effect you see, where the displayed price does not include those fees due to the nature of the rest of the markets not having such fees and coding in those edge cases is like dealing with taxes... A near impossible task to keep up with.

The outcome is that the systems are built to allow such additional fees and by default (or exclusively) they are not included in the base price (which is generally the same across markets).

And thus we have what we have... And some abuse this to add even more fees of course.
> I didn’t realize rimworlds source was available.

It isn't, it's decompiled.
I really like Leo Tolstoy! Like Newton, he also devoted himself to studying Hebrew and the original Jewish texts to try to get at the root of his beliefs, and wound up questioning much. He worked alongside his own peasants (who at the time it was legal to own) and left the Russian orthodox church and ended up living basically in the woods. He was also a pacifist and refused to fight for the Tzar, citing scripture.

Centuries ago, another such interesting figure said similar things as you see here… Blaise Pascal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25483334
For a W west of the Mississippi a good example is WACO in Waco, Texas, which is also one of only 3 stations whose callsign is the name of their city. (The other two are WARE in Ware, Massachusetts, and WISE in Wise, Virginia).
I think I have the first or second gen ipad.
For some years now the OS and apps are frozen in time. I have basically some old games and the old safari browser.

The old safari is slow and, can you believe it, HN does not fully function!

Now, we all know the hardware is premium and this device would probably run linux very smoothly and the touch interface would be a dream.
But we can only dream right?

WTF? Apple won’t allow us to use another OS or open software on old non-supported devices?
What a waste of physical material!

What a waste of human creativity!
What a waste of my money!
What a waste of my time!
I don’t give a shit how its enabled the masses to be able to do selfies.

This also mostly applies to android devices as well - which is another shit show.

For fucks sake - its 2023 and occasionally we have HN posts that are announcing how we are getting closer to run linux on the latest macs with the new processors.
Holy shit! Even with more access and control to the apple macs we still don’t have full linux capability.

Apple has the best mathematicians to optimise for pure profit and as you can see they have done a great job.
Apple 1 - Rest of the world 0.

Woz, please have have a talk with Tim (Nice but dim) and tell him the wonders that can be unlocked by allowing apple devices to run linux natively without jailbreaks or hacks.
Don’t give me any shit they can’t do that by next month.
Until then I can only dream.

Thank god we have surplus machines (eg thinkpads XNNN) available that show us the light of truth.
Sigh.

Have you ever been in a boat or gone fishing?

Think harder .. why would there be interest in the surface level of water rising and falling (and taking all boats and bouys with it)?

This is not a difficult question.
The question is, why does a car have to at all? And no, the closest we are is a car that could share data with the OEM, if you wanted, and we don't. As long as possible, I'd pass hard on cars where you don't have that choice.
Machined unibody laptops aren't rugged hardware. They look nice, and are reasonably robust to minor wear and tear, but they definitely aren't "rugged". Put enough force info the body to bend it, and it's never the same again. A machined unibody like a MacBook offers no damping or shock protection to the boards inside.

Real ruggedized laptops, e.g. those sold by Panasonic or Dell, look very different. It's like the glass-versus-plastic question in phone screens. Glass looks nice, and withstands day-to-day abrasion better. But the stress necessary to shatter glass is way less than that of plastic.
Microsoft built their whole business on providing inferior copies of other products, they never cared and never will.
I got a surface a few months ago and have been impressed with build quality. I’ve actually never had problems with dell or Lenovo laptops either in terms of ruggedness however I don’t know that I’m actually properly testing that attribute. I don’t view any of my computer usage as rugged tbh.

I just like using / writing code on macOS more than windows, not much else to it.
> I'm telling you that you’re perpetuating a racist worldview of victimhood in an effort to signal your guilt and remorse to random peers

I'm anon and not even white (my parents are immigrants) -- who am I signaling to or guilty about? The only effort being made is an effort to reason with other anons on the interwebs, so take it or leave it.

You can also keep calling me racist for pointing out systemic racial inequity but last I checked racism is a byproduct of ignorance, and I'm sensing a whole lot of that from you. So, right back at you.

> I fundamentally believe your worldview and savior complex do more harm to the very people you think need saving than good

I get that this is a difference between us. I fundamentally believe that your worldview is faulty because it turns a blind eye to how tilted the status quo is and doesn't consider the status quo to be unethical. Characterizing a desire to level the playing field as a "savior complex" is unfair -- it's not a savior complex to feel that something is wrong and want to fix it, it's just called being conscientious.

> I don’t feel one ounce of guilt over the history of slavery in the US.

Dude nobody cares if you feel guilt or not, you're missing the point. Guilt doesn't help anyone, systemic policy changes do. Why are you making it sound like anyone cares about what you feel as an individual?

> All I can do is treat people equally moving forward and help people in need.

You can also acknowledge the legacy of past inequities, how they persist in the systems we live in today, and work to remedy them. If you step into a colored person's shoes and think about what bullshit they STILL have to face today (which you don't have to, as a white person), you might begin to see the desire for reform less as "identity politics" and more just "advocating for equal ass treatment."
Hippie nonsense like an npm install not installing any keylogger with arbitrary internet access without even trying? Or multiple screens with different resolutions?
Some people have a preference for macOS and/or Macbook hardware.
Then haven't Catholics in general? Why limit it to Hispanics?
Switzerland has very liberal gun laws similar to the US but one of the lowest murder rates. It’s not just gun control.
don’t octopusses’ arms literally have a mind of their own? they all have an individual brain, right?
> How is it that where there is no vodka, wine or beer, we find opium, hashish, fly-agaric, and the like, and that tobacco is used everywhere?

Was "tobacco" at the time different from what it's now? I have been a smoker for years (stopped a long time ago) and in my experience, as well as others', tobacco does not stupefy, at all.

Is it possible that what Tolstoy called "tobacco" involved other substances as well?
Names and connections did matter before Internet. It is overrated these days for most people.

A knowledgeable specialist with experience will have strong local
connections and can have his name popularized globally on Internet, just by getting good visibility online projects/blogs/research/etc.

You dont need harvard connections to create value for the society.
This is an interesting question (which I don't know the answer to) because the Raspberry Pi hardware does not itself come with a license for Mathematica or the software in question. Rather, it's part of the Raspbian distribution. I think there's a decent chance that you agree to an EULA after installing the software that would prohibit running it on other hardware, but it would be interesting to hear something definite.
The next generation of Open Source and Free Software [pdf]
This in my opinion is what Open Source should have been.
Companies can’t ever admit mistakes. It dehumanises them.
Why should we imagine that?
Sway supports anything the kernel supports. The kernel supports any video card that implements their APIs. Nvidia doesn’t do the latter, so blame them.
I have what gets called ADD, and found at 17 that I was a much better programmer when hungover, keeping focus all day long and finishing a project. It is somewhat sad that when I excitedly told people about this the next day, that no-one spotted that this was a clear sign of ADD. The ensuing 28 years would probably have been simpler.
> *Note:* my complete disregard for <blockquote> semantics because I wanted to put a box around something, but my lightweight syntax doesn’t offer richer features

##### This

* is not a

* definition list
Not sure about that. On Windows, MFC was the peak IMHO. It was a beast to develop for, but the results were good. Everything .NET was already inferior.
ah yes, the e-waste conundrum when you run an OS that is completely user hostile
VSCode for the web has a built in tunneling service to connect to your desktop.

If you don’t want to use vscode there are of course many ssh terminals available in the app store for you to.. vim from? emacs with? idk, you do you.
Computers can be used for other things than coding. And I guess an iPad is a perfectly capable device for many of those tasks.
Of course it is covered. Or did you mean prohibited, illegal to own or some such?
I did not encounter this before also.

But this crowd believed it obviously. The chief perpetrators already left when I got there, so I could not ask directly. Zero tests, zero documentation and a coding style like somebody tried to write pure C in c#.
Are you really asking what's the points of making almost any book freely available online?

This is extremely valuable to anyone who ever needed a book but could not easily get it for whatever reason.

You're free to contact book clubs from all over the world to locate and trade paper ones with you if you're not in a hurry, but you obviously don't depend on getting the ressource fast, reliably or at all.