skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Consider transitioning from Excel to LibreOffice or Google Sheets. On the surface it's the same, but doing advanced things requires considerable time investment and is very uncomfortable.

Silly hypothetical. I can't imagine a scenario where a company heavily utilizes advanced Excel, and then decides they want to use Google Sheets instead.

Besides, we're programmers, and learning new tools all the time. Things are deemed obsolete regularly.
This. My car (Porsche Panamera from 2013) runs QNX for its nav+soundsytem. I can stream from bluetooth or use a jack plug but I don't bother: the car's got its own storage for music and, notably, the system takes both .mp3 and .wav files, but not .flac files. So at home I play .flac files but for the car I convert my music to 320 kbps .mp3 (I think I can put about 5000 320 kbps .mp3 in the car). In 2013 Porsche was still putting HDD and not SSD in their cars: some people do the upgrade themselves to a SSD but in my case that would void my extended manufacturer warranty (which I plan to extend up until 15 years / 200 000 km).

Since then, for newer models, the manufacturer has moved the nav+infotainment to Apple's iOS CarPlay. I don't know if QNX is still used for other stuff (like reporting the oil level / warning messages etc.).
Finally someone who is not spitting things they have no clue about
a replacement for X, signals a Temp/emergency solution, not a new market, if that's the driver with Threads, they've lost it already.

tech-giants are so powerful, they don't have to move-fast-to-break-things, a small tantrum/jitter (e.g Musk-twitter, or rush-to-replace) can mess-up a considerable part of the ecosystem around them; including their own finances.

happy to try it, out of curiosity.
That's were going multi-planetary is attractive.
Because the reward is greater than risk.
Today they actually are, São Paulo is famous for it's street art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/world/americas/brazil-sao...
Nick Harkaway (world-class author, son of John Le Carre) explores this idea in his highly-entertaining, extremely well-written, and thought-provoking novel, Titanium Noir.
Highly recommended!
So interested in seeing some sources for “tragedies at schools causing death preventable by smartphone access during instruction”
Ask HN: How to reduce latency in modern day OSes?
7. Hiding torrent usage from my ISP so they don’t cut my service.
Toyota has actually pivoted and partnered with Mazada to share tech to fill watch other's gaps. Toyota is releasing a full electric car in about 12-15 months.
>Last I checked, they were asking for $20 / month for unlimited calling and texting. Do you consider that outrageous?

It's pretty outrageous if you already have a local sim, so you're basically paying google $20/month to only receive SMS messages.
I for one think that logic puzzles are a reasonable filter for many positions.

I used to be very good at logic puzzles and have steadily been getting worse. Yes I have wider perspective now, but my raw problem solving ability has deteriorated. I can understand if a company wants to maximize problem solving for certain roles.
If you have a friend with a Steam Deck, I highly recommend just giving it a shot.

I thought my Switch was too big and even got a Switch Lite, then when I got a Steam Deck (“worst case I’ll just dock it”) it was so much nicer. The grips cancel some of the size out, and it’s more comfortable (to me) than my (full size) Switch, despite the weight differences.

I wish there was a Switch Lite-sized one capable enough, though. But so far it’s all either: throttle, low battery life, no support, or extremely expensive (e.g.: the $1000+ ones).
Yeah but the situation isn't limited to deck, though deck makes it worse since the screen is smaller than average monitor.

Modern games without a big ass high res monitor will have text that's too small to be enjoyable.
On the bright side is there anything we can do to limit this loss of brain cells?

I guess my grand parents suggestion of eating almonds isn’t viable..
I think when you're trying to be convincing of a counter intuitive or controversial point, it helps to start with less objectionable parts of the argument first. If an argument involves several steps, A to B to C ending in D, but D is wildly counter intuitive, some audiences, hearing D first will reduce their likelihood of actually integrating the consequences of A and so on. Maybe someone who's done more research on the psychology of priming would know?
That sounds like a bold statement. I would imagine the large majority of players of any mass-market title don’t know about or use any non-built-in mods.
Sourcegraph explanation for the change: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu...
If we look at the current situation on Twitter, a lot of content that gets pushed by the algo is dumpster fire. Not sure how that benefits society
The you’ll see wealth inequality skyrocket as rich people enjoy wealth compounding for an additional X years.
I’m curious to know, have you tried their dedicated search site? cs.github.com

Their default search still sucks, IMO. But the one I mentioned is comparable to Google’s internal CS.
In theory it doesn't matter, but in practice there are issues. On other distros like stock Ubuntu you won't have Flatpak out of the box and would need to set that up. Likewise on some distros you would have to worry about alternative repos or package architectures.
I'm talking about the billboards and other outdoor ads as referenced in the article. What are you talking about?

> In September 2006, the mayor of São Paulo passed the so-called “Clean City Law" that outlawed the use of all outdoor advertisements, including on billboards, transit, and in front of stores. Within a year, 15,000 billboards were taken down and store signs had to be shrunk so as not to violate the new law. Outdoor video screens and ads on buses were stripped. Even pamphleteering in public spaces has been made illegal. Nearly $8 million in fines were issued to cleanse São Paulo of the blight on its landscape. Seven years on, the world's fourth-largest metropolis and South America’s most important city remains free of visual clutter and eye sore that plagues the majority of cities around the world.

You're right though. Uninformed people who don't read the article are annoying. I'm not even for ads. It's simply that there's a way to do outdoor ads that doesn't ruin the city.
> In my experience Linux has been pretty awful at this.

isn't the problem these days just crappy random hardware more than anything else; Linux itself, especially with rt patches, together with jack should have good enough rt perf for audio use. I've seen reports of <5ms roundtrip audio latency on linux even with usb hardware.
Yeah, Machato is great and the rate that you update it with new features is impressive. Keep up the good work! Hopefully some Mac app dev can chime in on what may be causing the performance issues. :)
They think it'll be another goldrush and want to be the one with the killer app before the novelty wears off and the shovelware takes over.
> Both consoles get about as hot

The problem specific to the Ally right now is that it seems to get too hot where the SD card reader is, causing SD cards to fry for some users: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/asus-rog-ally-has-a-bizarre-ove... . I'm sure this will be fixed in a future hardware revision, but for now it seems worth waiting on the Ally for them to hammer out the first-generation kinks.

Still, I'm happy that the Ally exists, both as competition for Valve and to help prove that this PC form factor has legs.
Thank you for this. I did try to look for some psychiatric help, but it wasn't easy. Many of them are younger than me so they don't understand and/or cannot empathize.

It is a long road indeed. Physically my mother seems extraordinarily healthy for her age. Inputs like yours do help in finding my way.
The Perfectionist's Script for Self-defeat (Psychology Today, 1980) [pdf]
There's never going to be a single treatment for aging, but there's an intervention everyone knows theycan take to slow down the inevitable decline until medicine improves to the point it can aid in in slowing and then reversing the decline.

Mostly, it involves exercise of various kinds.
Git repo of user filters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33365189) seems inevitable
And that's why I believe that requesting a mandatory CLA should drive contributions down in OSS projects. Otherwise, you're basically providing free labor without the counterpart's promise of keeping the code free, which is (should?) be the reason one is making their contributions to start with.
Can't you find a cheap prepaid provider that has roaming access? Since you're not going to be making calls, the balance drain should be minimial, although you still have to top up a certain amount (depends on the carrier) to keep the sim active.
Even if you have zero mobile use cases, it’s a comfy way to lay back on the couch and stream games from your PC. The controls are very nice and some games feel nicer in a small form factor embedded thing than desktop/TV gaming.
Exactly this. Hydrogen is like crypto. It has just enough interesting tech to attract (using D&D terminology here) high INT, low WIS people.

Hydrogen will probably never work unless someone comes up with a stable molecule that includes hydrogen, is large enough to not move through solid objects, and still retains enough chemical energy to be useful. Ammonium is one option, but it is highly toxic. Only really practical in cargo ships.

Hydrogen also can be useful for inherently expensive things like rockets and jet planes. But never cars.

It was never going to compete with electric. EVs have been slandered for so long that people just assumed we would come up with something better. But EVs are great. Driving an ICE car after being in a Tesla feels like playing a first-person shooter over dial-up.
I'd say human contributed greenhouse gas emissions are the main limiting factor for the earth's carrying capacity for human lives. We're already experiencing many more severe climate related weather events and the problem is only going to get worse each year.
Can't really blame anyone, nowadays monitor really ranged from small, deck sized to big, dual monitors sized with resolution ranged from 1200-ish for older or smaller monitor to 4k.

Without adjustable ui size the text will undoubtedly be small in some instances.
My wife is one of these people - an artistic ADHD type whose brain bounces around in a very non-linear way. The commands she speaks to Google leave me completely confused.
Besides the fact that people like Robert Solow say the same thing, I feel like this comment misses the point. It’s begging the question.

It’s like pointing to people who are constantly trying to increase their salary as evidence that increasing your salary is necessary. When the measure becomes the target it ceases to be a good measure.

To answer your question directly, Japan has had roughly the same GDP for nearly 30 years.
Sysadmin background is akin to first principles when it comes to Cloud.

I also have a sysadmin background and my journey to the cloud has been "I can learn new things that make things easier or just use some pretty standard Linux VMs at any time".

Most new entrants to cloud learn the following:

* an object storage system (GCS, S3)

* A functions as a Service system (Cloud functions, Lambda) -- if you are lucky, Cloud Run; since that also gives you Docker.

* Message systems (Pub/Sub, SQS)

* Maybe an orchestrator (GKE, ECS), but only surface level.

* Some very minor information on how to create and access VMs; but it's clumsy, since you have to also learn Linux, this is unused.

For me, I can always fall back to my foundational knowledge of DNS, Networking, Linux and the systems I used to run, like databases, app services, mail systems, queue systems etc;

For people who are trained only on FaaS and SQS they do not have foundational knowledge to fall back on. That's not to say they can't get it, but it's not helping them make money and it's usually not taught, and worse: it's not something you ever reach for- and people typically learn through failure or by doing.

For me: Cloud just makes my life easier.

But I can also use an iPad as a consumption device; if I was only ever given iPads I would not be able to write C++ or Perl. That's just the nature of exclusively using simplified tools and abstractions.
That's not even funny.

A lot of these systems are running actually on Windows, in version that aren't supported since years.
The article describes it working though. It was able to string along some salesman for 5 minutes, much longer than he would wait if someone picked up the phone and said nothing.
I’ll go against the grain and say I don’t actually like mine very much and here’s why. I’ll caveat it with saying I got it for trips.

- it’s underpowered. I knew that going in but so many games have to be played at either a really low setting or you chew through battery life quicker than i can manage.

- battery life is pretty poor. Most games give me an hour or two of use. While I rarely game that long in a stretch, it means that on a trip I’m always thinking about battery. The charging port is in a location that shifts the ballance in an unfortunate way.

- you can’t download while it’s asleep or in the background. So if a game needs to be downloaded or updated, you have to leave it lying there, turned on and doing nothing. You can opt to have it download while you play but it stutters a ton if you do so.

- screen is mediocre. I knew that going in but it’s really hard to appreciate how dim and dull it looks compared to my phone screen for example.

- it’s loud and hot. It’s not something I can play silently therefore. The fans are really working overtime to relieve that poor SoC

- the ergonomics are so so. This one is really subjective. It starts out feeling pretty good, but I find the weight distribution makes it really uncomfortable for me after a whole. I feel a lot more cramping in my fingers and wrists.

Now, it was relatively cheap so I don’t mind, but I find myself not wanting to use it unless I’m on a solo trip or my partner is using the TV.
I think this is similar to Costco minus the bulk. For me, most of the utility in Costco is that I trust the products they sell are fairly quality.

In the world of AI spam and Amazon rip off, this quality moderation will become more valuable
I'm from Florianópolis and everyone I know hates that stupid billboard - it goes against the natural vibe of the city. In person it's an eye sore from kilometers away.
Boca Raton doesn't allow billboards, car dealerships, or Walmarts. We don't normally notice it, but these things jar us as soon as we go to neighboring towns. It's a subtle improvement of outdoor experience (more architecture and green spaces) that percolates into quality of life. A good analogy of this may be browsing the web with ad blockers--pages with ads are busier, noisier, and load more slowly; yes, if the page content is bland, removing the ads will make it blander.
In French, the wire-like tool used by plumbers to unclog pipes is called a furet (ferret). Although it is not the proper term, cable pullers, used by electricians to pull wires into ducts may also be called furet.

Maybe a French physicist took the term literally.
> Who needs analytics? I'm confused.

SEO and Marketing Dept. of any company.
It's an astonishing achievement from Valve. The plug-and-play nature is truly miraculous...I expected to have to do a ton of hackery to make games work but the vast majority of things I want to play work great out of the box. I'm a very happy Deck owner from day one, despite having a relatively powerful gaming PC and a Switch.

As a dad with two very young kids I don't get much time for gaming, but the Deck helps me find that time and I am loving playing through some of my backlog of controller-friendly games.

Also a plug for https://www.protondb.com/ which has thousands of user-submitted reviews and optimization fixes/tweaks for playing games on the Steam Deck.
> When having multiple instances of an app, the doc adds a "dot" by the app icon.

That's simply not the case.

The dock adds a dot to the application icon if the application is running.

If you have multiple instance of the application running, there will be multiple icons (each with a dot) in the dock. This is fairly difficult to do, the only way I know how is by starting the application again from the command line. Well, or when you're running an application you are developing from Xcode.

So not 100% sure what you mean with "multiple instances", but almost certainly not actual multiple instances. I am guessing you mean an application with multiple documents open.

So basically, what you regard as "bad UX" is simply you trying to map assumptions from one environment onto a different environment, and finding that your assumptions don't reflect reality.

And yes, the application will be running (showing a dot) whenever you have 1 or more documents open in the app.

To switch between documents of an application, you can either go to the application's "Window" menu and chose one from there, or to the dock icon and choose one from there.
Location: Taiwan

Remote: Yes. Also open to on site in Taiwan but that is rare to find here.

Willing to Relocate: No. I've been learning Mandarin for the past three years, moving to Taiwan is the next big step.

Technologies: Java(Spring, Akka, GraphQl), TDD(JUnit 5), JavaScript(React, Angular), SQL, Kubernetes, CI/CD(Jenkins), C, Python(DSP), Rust(Systems, Asynchronous Programming, Graphics), Cloud(Azure), LLM(ChatGPT), Penetration Testing, Networking, Vulnerability Management, API design, Software Architecture.

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uxl0SQ1l2UjLHnO97Zf5NwfG...

Email: SimonHCadge@gmail.com

I’m Simon, a full-stack Engineer with three years experience at JPMorgan Chase working in Java, JavaScript, Cloud, Security and DevOps. I worked with globally distributed teams to promote best practices such as Cloud adoption, ensure auditing standards were met, and coordinate the bank’s OSS security initiative. I worked remotely with clients throughout the whole SDLC process from requirement gathering to testing and operations, and once the app was operational I leveraged it to work alongside teams that we identified as most vulnerable to help them mitigate their security flaws. Our stack was a highly scalable web app with a Java Microservices backend and an Angular JavaScript frontend, deployed across multiple kubernetes clusters by way of a fully automated CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins).

Outside of work I have been studying Mandarin for the past 2.5 years. I left JPMorgan in September of last year to head to Taiwan for a 6 month language course, and now I'm looking for fully remote dev jobs that can facilitate me basing myself in Taiwan long term. Ideally looking for full time work, GMT+8, but open to discussion about being flexible with the time zone.

At this stage in my career I still consider myself something of a generalist. I have played around with a lot of languages and frameworks in my free time and have enjoyed pretty much all of them, so I'm open to whatever you might have to offer as long as there is room to challenge myself and keep learning. Not interested in Crypto.
There's a book called "Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" that is an excellent read on the science behind learning for lay-people (like myself) who want practical tips based in actual science.

It also argues that easier/faster learning is often worse. Harder learning lasts longer, and a big part of it is what they refer to as finding ways to "interrupt the natural process of forgetting". With this in mind, interleaved/ varied practice, spaced repetition, reflection, are all techniques that both lead to deeper understanding and better retention.
I cant imagine something pulled by such a small animal can seal well enough to trap all the debris. The pigging method uses compressed air to generate a much higher force so a very tight seal can be made to ensure a clean scrub of the walls.
I doubt that Threads will be free from the political flamewars that engulfed Twitter.

It's inherent in the content type.

It's just hard to argue with photos, but it's the default with text, especially given the propensity for some people to interpret everything in the worst possible light.
I want to fix what you're talking about, but I was not able to reproduce the bug. Can you please tell me how you got the menu to not close, for instance? Also, clicking on the menu items clearly opens the page they're linked to. I couldn't get it to not do that.
> A good analogy of this may be browsing the web with ad blockers--pages with ads are busier, noisier, and load more slowly; yes, if the page content is bland, removing the ads will make it blander.

A great example. If there were no ads, the web, and this site, wouldn't exist. Moderation in general is key. This site for example has a single advert which is the top banner, as well as job postings. Subtle and allows the site to fulfill its purpose commercially and create a venue for discussion.

Banning this site (which is really an ad, by the way) would benefit no one.
I think that shows him in a positive/neutral light rather than in a bad light.
This is a non-story. Look at the actual changes. Nothing fundamentally new was added, but the language was broadened slightly in a completely unsurprising way.

Language model -> AI model
features -> product and features

It just looks like their lawyers tidying up the words but the intention is unchanged.
Why would you expect for profit business to do all the testing for you?
Ha ha. In fact I started out building my game for three platforms (MacOS, Windows, Linux). I have a CMake file and all was good.

But after CLion's free period ended and they wanted to charge me, I started just testing my Windows build on the Steam Deck and was surprised at how seamless their Proton layer was. I ended up not shipping a Linux-only version of the game.

Honestly too, even supporting the two platforms is a bit of a pain — a third would be unwelcome.
I have the 'higher' version and I was frankly astonished at how well it handled Kingdom Come. Absolutely ridiculous. Yes, it does get hot when I do that. Normally, I use it to play path of exile when I am down.
> Of course servers have the option to do whatever they want, which is great, but that doesn't mean they can't be criticized.

It's just that to a lot of us, that isn't a thing that makes much sense to be criticized. Like complaining that there's no lovely exhaust smell from an electric car.

To a lot of us it not being a massive central server that is instantly viable for everyone on the planet is the good thing.

Many of us don't want everyone on the Fedi. We want people interested in the premise of what the Fedi gives. Which inherently is tied to being okay with uninterested people not joining.

I've been on Mastodon for ~8 months (or w/e). Back in November, all the people claiming it was just a fad, that it would never exceed Twitter, were doom saying all through Jan/etc when the flood didn't cripple Mastodon. Yet there i and everyone i knew on it was, just using it.

The only interesting/concerning thing here is just having Facebook on ActivityPub.
I’m still not sure if the OP was joking.
Apple Is Reportedly Scaling Back Production Plans of Its Vision Pro
So any safety concerns that would lead to slower development should be cast aside because your life is more important than future lives?
I'll give it a watch! Thank you
Agreed, these are two brilliant games from Playdead. Apparently they've been hard at work and are hiring for their 3rd title, which I personally can't wait! Definitely worth a buy/play.