skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you just work in one location only, sure. I work from home, the office, coffee shop. When Im at home I often like to code from the couch rather than the home office. Laptops add flexibility. I like their middle ground of flexibility and performance.

I’m also one of those “weird” people that don’t use an external monitor. And yet I’m still just as productive, probably more so, than most of my coworkers.
I think they're just full-on mistaken, and it is possible for the app to distinguish between access levels: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit/phauthori...
Different people are different, in spite of having similar backgrounds. I don't really know my own workings just as most people don't, all I know is that I'm horribly insecure about these sort of things and generally consider being paid above median (>~€40k) to be "lucky", whereas I see many others complain about their significantly higher salaries shrug.
I would have assumed it was on a Look East segment in about 1983 about a young boy who had made his own TV studio at home in Norwich.

Actually he was probably one of the presenters on the East Anglia week of Why Don’t You (Just Switch off your TV and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead)
Or (1) is: it’s impossible to create codified rules that have no false negatives and no false positives and we’re smart enough not to act like it’s possible.

You know, this is how almost every rule system on the planet operates. Ultimately there’s an arbiter whose job is to look at the totality of the case.
This is mostly it. Plus you have to remember all the documentation lies in a 30 year old system. A new hire isn’t going to be easily able to piece together all the details quickly. Then there is all the stuff that is documented or not in procedures manuals and standard practices that they won’t know. Add in actual missing documentation like order of operations and special considerations that have down steam effects and i guarantee you would still come out ahead even if you are paying retirees 2x as much. The parts are no doubt expensive and any single screw up would likely be at least worth of salary expenses.
It's just messed up now days. I am trying to find an old Nassim Taleb video (10 years+) where he was talking about the "Fooled by Randomnes" book.

He was interviewed by some journalist.

The problem is the you can't eve filter by time published now and there are alot of off topic videos in the search results. Along with trash YouTube Shorts videos.
To clarify for others, as I had no idea who this person was, apparently she is
"China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber
Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec"

And it seems like she got a visit from the government for saying something not acceptable to the party (?) and is unable to leave to preserve her free speech because her partner (?) cannot leave the country.

Another day in China.
Apple doesn't get to dictate what constitutes a good user experience. Especially for me - that is my prerogative and mine alone.

So yes, I will be extremely happy with it. This opens doors to all kinds of software that can compete with one another, and if I don't like it, I can simply uninstall it myself.
I swear executives think that employees are robots. It matters how much workers of all skill levels care about the company and what they're doing. Any developer who has worked with temporary contractors can see this.
When people stop caring it all falls apart, and no one is going to care about what you want them to if you threaten them and fire their friends.
Just being able to replace the battery is a huge win.
Just to add more context: Niklaus Wirth's foresight was to design Pascal's syntax to allow a single-pass compile. But it took more than 15 years until we actually had a blazingly fast single-pass compiler and that is totally Anders Hejlsberg's merit.
LunarVim inspired keybindings for keyboard driven workflow in VS Code
I had this exact same experience. I was happy to move to something good, but I couldn’t find a lot of benefit. Maybe I’m missing something, but the added complexity is not worth it to me for what it provides.
Maybe the median would make more sense? At least the 80-90th percentiles?

> cannibal warlords

I bet there used be a whole lot more of those (relatively) and in other countries than Liberia in the past too.
People talk about everything.
Ibiza should really be the new Silicon Valley if this was true, anecdotally.
I recall the same - the first and second gen airs were to me the epitome of what a laptop should be. Solid feature delivery in a portable light package that was still humming after a flight from LA to DFW.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in Python [pdf]
Logistically, it may be optimal. But from my perspective, it creates suboptimal conference experiences.

Large crowds. Everything hotel/conference room smells like smoke (terrible for asthmatics). Lots of distractions that are especially bad for those with addictions.

If I'm at an event for work, I don't want those things. I want an event that keeps me focused and engaged with the material and the connections.

When a conference is held in Vegas, I know it's going to be more of a party than an educational experience, so I tend to write it off simply because of the location choice.
So very not true. I would say 80% of managers in tech. Don't do anything essential. If the acquisition of the twitie bird didn't prove that to you. I don't know what will. Granted there was also a lot of developer role fluff there as well.
A lot of old Java people have recently got into Python, and enjoy the types of py3
Over time I've changed my mind regarding the GIL. Now I think it's existence actually is a good thing, since it makes a lot of things easy and robust by default.

The subinterpreters route sounds really promising since it strikes a good balance between allowing those that need same-process parallelization to be able to do so and keeping the status quo (like workers in Javascript).

I'd actually veto PEP 703 at this point, since the Python optimization team is making good progress, and this could actually take them back a bit, while diverting too much energy into a low-reward avenue.
You can sell your mac every year then upgrade don't cost full price
I’ve used this before. Anyone know how is iVentoy different from netboot?
They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.
Marketing VP to CEO:

"Hey boss, I spent $40 milion on a targeted ad campaign with this fancy new agency. They sent us a report showing 2.5% uplift, but I ran it by our in-house stat nerds and they say it's bogus."

vs.

"Hey boss, I spent $40 million on a targeted ad campaign. The agency proves we got a 2.5% uplift. That's $300 million! Ain't I terrific!? Where's my bonus?"

Edit: and...

CEO to board: "We tried a new targetted ad campaign but it didn't make any difference."

vs.

CEO to board: "Last quarter the industry suffered increased competition, and our uptake through traditional advertising channels suffered. Fortunately I had the forsight to direct Marketting to open up to new, inovative methods. I'm pleased to report that it paid off, to the tune of $300 MM, completely offseting the drop from traditional campaigns."
The high quality screen is so important. Every time I go looking for cheap laptops, it's the screen that steers me towards higher prices.
Many people using Delphi back in the day will probably already know Lazarus, which is essentially an Open Source recreation which runs and compiles natively pretty much everywhere, Raspberry PI and similar ARM boards included.
Installing libraries however can be tedious, therefore FpcUp and later FpcUpDeluxe were created to automate the task of installing the IDE along with other modules and some quite interesting addons.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe

Here's a quick&dirty instrument panel widgets demo I just put together using some free widgets available with FpcUpDeluxe.

https://ibb.co/9bchx7T

FpcUpDeluxe does work also under Alpine Linux (get the musl version on the releases page), which opens possibilities for adding instrumentation panels to very small systems. All code is compiled native on various platforms, and runs fast: no interpreters, no web browsers etc.
I thought some like

t ::= x (variable)
| \x:T,t (abstraction)
| t t (application)
| true (constant true)
| false (constant false)
| if t then t else t (conditional)

Was simpler.
It's also worth including https://support.apple.com/guide/adguide/welcome/icloud.
People forget that it is not just the processor that consumes power. The reason the new MacBooks are so efficient is not just because they are ARM-based, it is also because they have incredibly energy efficient screens, WiFi, RAM, SSDs, etc. They can achieve this through their sophisticated manufacturing process, with highly integrated components directly soldered onto the board, a fact that is widely (and correctly) criticized for making repairs and expansion nigh impossible, but it is also true that this is much more power efficient than what you can achieve with a more modular design.
I have a Thinkpad L14 AMD, it consumes well below 10W for casual browsing/reading mails under Linux. I would wager that maybe 1/3 of that is consumed by the CPU. So even if you had a CPU with 0W consumption, I would just increase my battery life by a third, at least for that kind of usage.
You're disrespecting the art of haruspicy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex
Too good quote :)
As another commenter pointed out NetBoot.xyz is open source
Background on the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
>No, ownership over a device should be a human right

I'm really tired of the trend of people declaring whatever policy they want enacted as being "a human right". Yes, having control over the devices you own is something we should push for, but it's nowhere important to be called a human right.
Have you tried a standard VM? It sucks that WSL2 isn't working right yet, but IntelliJ has some pretty extensive tooling for working over a (virtual) network. It's possible that the sleep issue plagues normal VMs as well, but maybe it's worth a shot?

You'd lose out on things like hardware accelerated graphics but reading your description it sounds like that's not really something you rely on anyway.
How do you think Apple got the 3 trillion??

Spoiler: it's not because privacy or moral that they sell on their marketing. it's because of the lack of those.
I had to add Selection bias afterwards, because I had thought it was bleeding obvious but user li_am made a snarky remark so I made the comment clearer.: I just don’t understand how you and li_am could totally miss the point, The 98% pass rate shows it so clearly. Note: I am not from the USA but I know this shit.
I don't know why your being down voted but this is actually very useful
If you value yourself you don't hesitate to train yourself up for another sector or pivot into a different kind of role that is in more demand.

What's meaningless is to expect a company to help you transition, or not realise they conveniently benefit from your lack of fitness for a position. They say they care but it's too much to handle, easier to just hire someone who even just seem qualified.

I have interviewed for a role beneath my experience and skillset, and was thrown at questions and comments on my last interview just to hit my confidence and in attempt to reverse who's got leverage at offer time.

Worked there 2 days and quit. In the exact same sector, same skillset, I could be taking home 1/3 of my current income had I stayed. Not meaningless, and if more did the same, if everyone valued themselves, none of us would ever have to waste our time with exploiters.
Future of deep-sea mining hangs in balance as opposition grows
It is not unreasonalble, I agree! I just haven’t gotten around it. You can get past it by chosing either chapter (by clicking on the left and right sides of the screen to move in the UI), then choosing it (by pressing on both sides of the screen at the same time).
- no struct/record type

- call by name instead of call by reference

- no bitwise operators

- probably a lot more, I'm not too familiar with the language

The quote may have been closer to the truth at some point, but certainly not today. And while begin/end syntax may be a matter of taste I don't think it's coincidence it's not very common anymore.
It’s not 100% true. It depends on how well the code was written and documented. When we see patterns or complex code which are different from what we are used to, it takes some amount of effort to understand and to make changes.

code that is simple, documented and well written is best thing any developer can inherit.
It is easy for me, personally, to just...Not Talk About Politics. But I'm also a white cis het man. For me, "politics" isn't an actual physical - sometimes mortal - threat.

But the very least I can do is recognize that for many, many people "politics" is a literal matter of life and death. Can you blame them for recognizing and voicing that?
There are also dedicated backpack PCs that are designed to run in the backpack, usually for virtual reality. I think those are super expensive though... (search "VR backpack")

Also they probably take up the whole backpack instead of being "backpackable". And they might be built like laptops (proprietary form factor, mobile/ultrabook CPU, etc.) depending on the model.
The context here is government spying on its own citizens. Not sure how that warrants starting with benign explanations.
There’s no clear date when even iOS will get it. It took years and years to get wasm simd on mobile safari
Do you know 80% of managers in all of tech? Seems like a grandiose claim to make without any solid backing.

Twitter is not all of tech.
Where does this bullshit come from, and what are the principles behind the redirection of its flow? Is there a theory of bullshit dynamics that would allow us to design a better manager?
The author helped write the law.

> Brian Deese was the director of the National Economic Council for the first two years of the Biden administration and helped shape the Inflation Reduction Act.

I broadly agree with the article but didn't feel that was sufficiently flagged up before I read it.
> Google will fully cooperate with any government.

I'll remind you that on previous MacOS versions (8 years ago?) researchers had discovered that the Mac laptop's integrated webcam could be turned on without the green LED turning on. So basically: the webcam turning on without the user knowing it. And way weirder: some random company somehow had the rights to sign code using that "feature".

The story got pretty much killed.

I'm sure if some digging had been done, you'd have found some three letter agency behind the shell company enjoying the very strange right to turn the webcam on on MacOS devices without the LED turning on.

For everybody out there: rest assured though, Apple are the good guys and there's no way they have the ability to turn on the webcam of your Mac laptop today without you knowing about it. [1]

[1] yes, this is sarcasm
Coming from a frontend background this reminds me a lot of the frontend situation some years ago when it was super common to npm install the stupidest pointless packages.

Of course some people still do, but hard lessons were learned and all experienced people I know are a lot more mindful and cautious what dependencies they add.

It seems to me that this space, and maybe data science more broadly, is currently in that situation. Maybe it's the lack of coding skills, maybe it's the transition from one-off research notebooks to production applications, or maybe it's just the norm to have big do it all libraries (like pandas, scikit etc), idk, but I expect the same lessons will be learned.

For Langchain I wonder how they will keep up with changes in all the things they have their abstractions on. I guess having a huge community helps, but that doesn't help you with compatibility. It would not surprise me if that will get really ugly.
As per the parent comment, they're free to move into rehab if they so choose. They're not forced to live in misery.
No, the whole point of the original post is that a lot of users see (and use) the option, so that the app's database of personal data is full of rubbish.

I don't think the GP's scenario is realistic. A user would see that their location on the map is wrong before they even get a chance to begin navigation.

Besides, Google Maps already sometimes tells people to drive through roadblocks and locked gates and such (which it isn't aware of), so it already requires the driver to think for themselves to some extent.
Thank god, there is someone else who feels the same way. There are tons of modules and none of them is production ready.

It feels good for hobby / college projects, but would not use it for production.

The pace at which they release features is also scary.
I think that is more of an issue with the manufacturer.

Apple supports their phones for a very long time. They updated iOS 12 this year with security fixes, so that covers iPhone 6 and up.

https://www.macworld.com/article/675021/how-long-does-apple-...
Wouldn't one normally require that kind of analysis before embracing some design pattern, rather than dismissing it?

I'm just saying what my prior is, I'm not saying I won't change my mind, but you seem to suggesting I should require less evidence to accept the option I'm least sure about.

Which, you know, seems like a bad idea.
Well in 5 years I expect most dev work will be done in VR collaboratively with remote teams, w multiple virtual screens and AI assistance. Another world. Laptops and cell phones will be gathering dust with the desktops. Things change fast.
Remember the world without the iPhone? That was 16 years ago.
So when you talk about using a 5 year old laptop to save a few dollars it just doesn’t make sense. You can listen to music on a CD player, sounds great, doesn’t make sense. Using a heavy hot i7 MBP w 6 hours battery life from 2017 also doesn’t make sense, to save what $1200 rather than buying a 15 inch MBA. Not today - this machine is your everything. Spend some money already
The same way anyone makes with ads, you charge people to show them to others. Apple's ads division alone has revenue in the same ballpark as Netflix. And now that they're cracking down so that first party is the only way to go, they will do really well.
The US doesn’t have the legal power to ban films due to the First Amendment, but there are definitely ideas that are so politically radioactive that any sort of veiled allusion to them (a common term is “dogwhistle”) can create massive backlash. So much so that even giving a concrete example would risk causing a massive tangential flame war, so I won’t risk it.
What if we make it not simple, but "simply" exclude just one solution - lifetime punishment (prison + 40,000 collateral consequences, life imprisonment, or a death penalty) - directed against the persons with the problem, from the mix, and leave everything else as wide open as ever for consideration?
Python 2 and Python 3 were inherently incompatible for various reasons (good and bad ones).

There were compatibility wrappers for porting Python 2 code to Python 3 but in some instances that was just never going to happen.
My first project as a freshman in university was an elevator simulator (with text graphics) in Pascal. I enjoyed the language, there's something elegant about it when compared to C-like languages. This is the reason I'm enjoying Nim nowadays, which afaik is inspired by Wirthian languages (Pascal, Modula 3, Oberon, Delphi), in addition to Ada and Python.
What model do you use for this?
> Meanwhile, WhatsApp still "punishes" users for denying contacts access by hiding everyone's names

Huh, had no idea that's why I only see numbers.

If I do allow contacts, does it show the name from contacts, rather than whatever display name
they chose?

If so then I guess that's kind of a "technically we need contacts to display names, which are resolved locally" deal. But Apple could push back "you're big enough to plumb a display name through, not just resolve
locally, and deal with spam implications" if they wanted to take a hard stand.
I can't stand these arguments. It's like "well maybe we did violate the first amendment but you can't sue us for it." As far as I'm concerned the government should have a special status that basically anyone can sue them for violating the constitution as that damages everyone. We need to make it easier to hold the government to account, not harder.
The same reasoning applies to cars even more.
I once got out of bed at 11pm to go out and ask the occupants of a car to turn off the engine, the low rumbling noise was irritating me a lot. Was told they were waiting for their SO to come back from the pizzeria with pizzas. I later learned about misophonia but I still hate it when people leave their engines on more than three minutes before leaving.
I bought my Bose qc35 4-5 years ago used. Still running fine and I’d probably replace the battery if needed. I did go through a pair of ear pads but otherwise still going strong. Before that I had some cheaper phones that failed at the interface to the headphone cable so it’s not like corded is immune to failure
Imagine if you walk down 1 block of a street and there's 3 people smoking crack. They aren't sleeping on the street, or breaking any other law, but they are high on crack.

Do you think people feel safe on this street? Just because you personally may feel safe, consider that you may be personally blessed with youth and health. Does an elderly woman with a cane and a purse feel safe?

People high on crack are unpredictable. They may try to rob you because that was the last crack rock they had, and they are also out of money.

And if people don't feel safe on the street, then people who can start to move away. Then you have a 'drain' problem on a societal level.
That does not make it social.

By your definition ecstasy is a social drug or any drug at a rave is social (Note I have never seen MDMA turn anti-social).

In my experience most drugs are “social” - the heroin users I knew were a tight crowd! Weed is definitely social for those that partake.

Serve cocaine, MDMA and meth at a wedding and everybody will have a social blast too.
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I agree, I really don’t like LangChain abstractions, the chains they say are “composable” are not really, you spend more time trying to figure out langchain than actually building things with it, and it seems it’s not just me after talking to many people

Their code seems all rushed, and seems it worked out for initial popularity, but with their current abstractions I personally don’t think it’s a good long term framework to learn and adopt

That’s why I built my own alternative to it, I call it LiteChain, where the chains are actual composable monads, the code is async streamed by default not ducktaped, it’s very bare bones yet but I’m really putting effort on building a solid foundation first, and having a final simple abstractions for users that don’t get in the way, check it out:

https://github.com/rogeriochaves/litechain