skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that's what they said but they were also on the hook for rents or big real estate assets collecting dust.
The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
> I want accounts that arent linked to my hotmail so fully offline accounts should be the default, zero ads to buy office. Zero preinstalled garbage apps. Let me buy a Windows Pro for Devs license that comes super stripped down, even Cortana is fully removed. I want no distractions from my work with preinstalled garbage.

A version of Windows like that exists, but you can’t buy it.

It’s called Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 (21H2).

Howver, there’s a free evaluation version available from MS. If you’re really that interested in it, I’m sure you’ll figure out how to promote that “evaluation” version to “retail” and then kms activate it.

I’m daily driving it. And loving it.
Orbiting astronaut oversees robot team on Earth
Actually the older version from Apple was NeXT's original manual, which isn't on those links, rebraded for Apple.

It was almost page for page identical, minus branding.

Sadly those PDFs are no longer available for download.
Wacky question but does anyone know if this is a paid placement? The last three paragraphs seem to be soliciting investors for some random company I haven’t heard of, but most media declares something is paid. It’s yahoo so nothing surprises me but between the obvious sales tone and the fact an article this low quality front paged has me feeling marketed to.
> If everything was cheaply, easily available, piracy would exist at similar numbers.

This contradicts all the research that shows that piracy went down when cheap, easy and reliable music services were available that let you access content how you want, eg. time shifted, different devices, not region restricted, etc. And piracy went up when they tried to lock that stuff down again.

Piracy will never fall to zero, but it's not worth fighting below a certain point.
I'm not sure I'd go this far. Think of the advice that PG gives, which is along the lines of: make something people want, get it in front of those people, and work very hard.

This is very useful advice to someone who has never heard it (though the last one is very obvious), and it doesn't really take away anything from PG to say it loudly. He is especially unlikely to care if people use his advice to get rich, since he is himself already very very rich. But even someone who was not rich wouldn't really care unless there is a good likelihood that he is giving his competitors a leg up by sharing this advice.

And for someone like PG, there's a net benefit to giving this advice because (1) it will lead to more people who are willing to work hard becoming successful (which will lead to useful products/services being available in the world — including to PG), and it helps to build PG's brand.

The thing you do have to worry about is when there's a potential conflict between (1) what they did to become successful and (2) what they want people to think they did to become successful. That's what this article is about. People want you to think they got ripped by lifting a ton — not by using steroids.
Do you mean ideally? Because obviously modern science and academia is mostly steered by external interests and public opinion. I know many scientists who entertain research projects from companies only because they're fully paid for, meanwhile they struggle with funding and publishing projects they want to do because there's so few opportunities available for funding. To then conclude that companies or government entities may want to do certain research according to what best serves them is not too hard of a stretch to make. It's happened numerous times before, especially within climate science, medicine, and tobacco.

I'm not saying one should distrust science, especially papers published by reputable sources, done by reputable labs, or otherwise have good methods and sensible conclusions. But that's the problem, right? One has to contend with what's "sensible". If someone published a paper tomorrow actually showing a strong causal effect between consuming fluoridated water and the calcification of the pineal gland, not only would it be seen by no one except weird fringe communities, but the scientists involved would be ridiculed. The area has been politicized, and in that case it's hard to see how it couldn't be, it's a ridiculous idea, but it does make a clear example of this politicization if you understand the context. Something similar happened with the origins of SARS-CoV-2, where the assumption is (from my personal experience) that only certain political machinations could convince someone to come to conclusions that SARS-CoV-2 origin could be a lab leak. Now maybe this isn't the case anymore. I haven't thought about this in like... a year, nor looked at public discourse for about that long either. But regardless I feel like public opinion is still largely the same, and judging by the article, the politicization of the topic is still in full swing. Thus, we're not only dealing with reality, but a manufactured reality as well.
Shame to see what happened to Z-Library. I used it a lot, I even donated a few times. The way I used it was to weed out the rubbish. Amazon used to offer x amount of pages to read for free, so now I have to pirate a digital copy to see if it's any good before I buy it. In most cases it isn't. I don't know what happened in the last 10-15 years but the majority of books (both fiction and non-fiction) are complete garbage, especially true for tech books while they still cost a lot. Reviews are of course complete junk so can't rely on those, enter Z-Library. This is just my 2c for those who think that pirating is all about not paying money. That's not true. I will happily pay, but the process of buying books needs to be improved. If you buy a lawnmower and it start and cuts the grass then all is well, if you buy a non-fiction book promising something and it doesn't deliver you can't return in (and if you do with Amazon for example, after a few times they'll essentially tell you to f off). Give us a free view of 10% pages excluding the list of contents and there won't be any need for Z-Library.
> Lea became very slow in recent Intel cpus? News to me.

Article is from 2014. The "recent" CPUs they are discussing is the Sandy Bridge architecture launched in 2011.

See this discussion about the performance impact of LEA in Sandy Bridge: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/6125#issuecomment-4729...
Vim goes back to 1988, publicly released in 1991.

I've been using it for 29 years now.

The last 20 years don't mean anything; the Vim codebase is too much of a dumpster fire for anything significant to happen in that time span.

They had to fork an entire parallel command set to implement "location lists" (new in Vim 7, I think) which are exactly like the "quickfix list". Most of the difference are that location list commands start with l, wheras quickfix list commands start with c. Your keybinding to go to the next quickfix item doesn't work in a location list because it uses :cn^M, but the location list wants :ln^M or whatever. The only explanation for this ridiculous state of affairs must be that it was too difficult to extend quickfix lists to do the things that location lists do. Once you get into the Vim codebase, that will not be surprising.

Vim's visual editing semantics assumes that you have a block cursor, and that that the character covered by the cursor is included in a visual selection. This is not so nice when you switch your terminal to an I-beam (or vertical line) cursor, which references between characters. If the cursor is to the left of the selection start, it includes the character to the left of the cursor too. I-beam semantics allows for a zero-length selection, whereas in block semantics, there is always at least one character in the selection, which is the one under the cursor. I-beam semantics is virtually what pretty much all GUI editors do, including the text widget in Firefox I'm using now to type this.

A bunch of years ago I looked into what it would take to have a flag in Vim to flip to I-beam semantics for selection. Gack! I estimated a month of full time work. Numerous places in the code would have to change in ways where you're not sure what side effect they will have elsewhere.
That is still work in progress.
Surveys were obtained July 1-31, 2023 with a representative sample of n=1,279 respondents. By implementation of a full probability design via Address-Based Sampling (ABS), U.S. households were randomly selected to participate and were first reached via mail. Adults ages 18 or older completed the survey via web (n=1160) or phone (n=119). The margin of sampling error for total respondents is +/- 3.7 at the 95% confidence level. The design effect is 1.81. For results among the n=1,047 registered voters, the margin of sampling error is +/- 4.1
> A company may allow WFH but still prefer people with legal right to work, no language or cultural barriers, no timezone hassles, no tax and accounting complications.

If there's a demand, I was wondering if companies will eventually figure out a cheap-enough way to hire remote talent. Besides, even within the US, the income of the engineers in the Bay Area can shrink due to additional supply from other areas. As for outsourcing, could it be due to the explosive growth in IT industry in the past 20 years or so outstripping the supply from outsourcing?
The implied theory in the paraphrased quotes is that Black people are not successful in part because they have learned a framing where success requires acting like a slave owner, or acting white. That is, behaviors that correlate with success are tainted with being the way (oppressive) white people act.
oooof I'm imagining having to drive east on 90 to cross the Columbia at Vantage just to drive from Seattle to Portland...

(many bridges would have to go down for this to be the only way, of course)
How is it a tragedy if everyone is using the food stamps? That means they find value in them. So they're paying for them in taxes, then spending them. Where I come from that's called getting what you pay for.

That's no more a tragedy than everyone paying for then using the highway. We don't really means test the highway right? Why shouldn't the rich have to pay for their own roads? ;)
For me, being able to go straight from a selection in a code file to a log of all changes to that specific code, which I can then filter further, is what gets the strongest reactions from my coworkers.
Deuterium costs several thousand dollars/kilogram. But even though it is just one part in several thousand of the hydrogen in water, there's enough deuterium in your morning shower to provide all your energy needs for a year.[1] Cost of deuterium is definitely insignificant.

Helion's other fuel is helium-3 which they'll make themselves by fusing deuterium. So the helium-3 cost will directly depend on the capital cost of the reactor producing it.

(This may be the same reactor, both generating electricity and breeding He3. Or they may use dedicated He3 breeders, and minimize the D-D reactions in the generators.)

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/
Would Asahi linux on an apple laptop be the best Linux laptop experience these days for someone who prioritizes fanlessness?

It seems the other ARM option is the ThinkPad X13s, which presumably has lower performance.

Anyone have experience running linux on these machines and can compare the experience and hardware compatibility?
The state file is more than a cache. If it was just a cache, it wouldn't be problematic.
Metal is written in Objective-C, with Swift bindings.
I’m not sure context helps him with his other outbursts.

“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the (expletive) away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-...

“The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.”

https://ew.com/article/2011/03/30/dilbert-scott-adams-femini...

Trump is like the founding fathers and Jesus.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-creator-on-how-trump-i...

There is a bit of coverage in the wiki. He writes a good cartoon but he is radioactive in his views.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
Adventures in Performance
Mostly true, except for Metal.
Dell Inc.: A Masterclass in Capital Management
How could we remove the temptation to squeeze every last dollar from a company, even if it crushes society in the process?

What if the market leader in an industry was taxed such that there was no incentive to make more money than the 2nd or 3rd place company in the market? This would encourage competition, and also remove many of the perverse incentives when a single company is dominant.
Is there a citation for this? This article appears on dozens of low-quality chumbucket news sites, but the only citation I can see after looking at a handful are other sites on which the same paraphrased article appears.

This seems sort of out-of-character for Jobs, who had a reputation of being sort of an intense, uptight weirdo.
> In the movies and TV space, all the studios found out that exclusive licensing makes more money because you can drag viewers from one subscription service to another.

That's exactly the kind of shit that drives people to piracy. Then they try to recoup their falling revenue with litigation. It's stupid.

I also don't believe streaming has been that bad for revenue. The financial shenanigans they go through to avoid paying artists, writers and more are insane. It's part of the whole impetus behind the current strikes.
I wonder where they would go for the beer. BJs, perhaps?
> Gates and his then-wife Melinda took a decisive step by limiting screen time to 45 minutes for games, with an additional hour allowed on weekends. This was in addition to the time required for homework.

Bit of a misleading title. Not really banned, limited use, which should the case with consumption of any of these technologies anyways.
Wondering if anyone knows did Steve Jobs consumed alcohol in any form?

We all know he did do acid.
Using GUI doesn't mean not using CLI.
Static analysis is useless unless run , and most developers won’t run it because it’s not the default (so they have to go out of their way to do it) and/or because they believe they are above needing it.

Pretty much every analysis of modern languages with compile time default analysis has shown that ultimately defaults matter.
>Well, considering Apple’s place in the world and our lives today, it seems like his interviewing process and ‘beer test’ was pretty successful.

Or just that once someone has gotten through the level of screening needed to get 1:1 time with Jobs, the "beer test" is mostly a sanity check.
>They did not transmit sound through a vacuum, they transmitted radio.

That's an interesting observation -- and that may in fact be true -- although more experimentation might be needed to confirm that as an absolute, irrepudiable fact...

Now, if that is indeed true -- then that would create a link between radio waves on the macro scale and Quantum/Electric/Electronic tunneling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling) on the micro scale...

In other words, if that were the case, then we'd be several steps away from proving that Quantum Tunneling -- is the exact same phenomena as Radio Waves, just at a smaller scale...

Or that Radio Waves -- are the exact same phenomena as Quantum Tunneling, just at a larger scale...

Also, if we think about it -- we realize that both sound waves and radio waves -- are both sub-categories of vibratory/oscillatory/frequency phenomena... that is, they are both forms of vibration...

Anyway, a very interesting observation!
One entity provides advice, a different one applies it.

Cargo cult: The advice is applied incorrectly.

Carrot problem: The advice is provided incorrectly.

How to distinguish the two, without understanding the details? Looking at what worked doesn't help. Checking the motivation for providing the advice is asymmetric. Any other ideas?
Yes, Men Do Wear Spanx. Here’s Why
interested to hear what other hners think about this. anybody did this for interviewing before? i myself had a beer with my phd supervisor as our first meeting, not sure this really help knowing whether we'd get along because turns out we didn't
This is all very well, but not providing us with the details of why the bull was dead is just plain mean.
I think this part clarifies it:

>The most damaging reframe in American history is that using the universal tools for success is “acting white.”

If you are not American it may not be clear. One specific example of a "universal tool for success" being marred in this way is that black kids who are successful academically are sometimes bullied for "acting white." I've intentionally found a left leaning source discussing this phenomenon. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/acting-whi...
IMHO, the key thing that we need to do is to teach our kids how to create "things" instead of just "consuming". This is important no matter which era you are in, but the average 15th century kid didn't have that many stuffs laying around for him to just consume. This problem is suddenly in our face now and we are scrambling around to try and keep our children away from the cacophony of information, but the better thing to do is to teach kids to see computers or phones as tools, and they are there for them to wield and command.

What you should actually do varies based on your kids' preferences, your experiences. You can teach them to code, to do graphic design, write stuffs. Hell, if my child feel inclined I will allow them to learn to create TikTok video, but they have to actually *create* a piece of original content, instead of regurgitating other people's ideas.
And?

That argument is essentially: Workers should suffer so those who already were of means can profit more.

You can't open a restaurant unless you're already doing well, with large amounts of capital etc.

Drivers are generally living oatcheck to paycheck with zero available capital.

You do see why I feel zero sympathy, right?

And that's ignoring you're actually arguing for drivers to do more work for the same or even less pay....
you're actually blurring some of these images, huh? :D
> sources that require commitment to hiring plans

Are these local/provincial development funds that need to show job growth?

Any case where "we need to hire someone in the worst way" seems to deliver exactly that.
There can be friction scheduling and holding meetings, absolutely. Starting a meeting friction can be overcome through tools like Slack huddles which basically require one click to join if people are around fairly predictably, but scheduling friction can be reduced with some techniques.

Our remote-first company has a daily standup everyday which shifts everyone’s brain into talking/collaboration mode for that bit. If someone - especially newer or junior engineers - have a question, that is a great opportunity to either have an impromptu discussion, or to have scheduled a discussion about it the previous afternoon jf it wasn’t particularly urgent.
Thanks for the interesting context. I will have to read further on mandatory voting or mandatory ranking of all candidates, but as it is, first past the post in the USA always leads to voting for the lesser evil.

I never get to vote for the person representing the policies I want, but rather voting against the handful of policies I do not want.
While I appreciate the idea, and I generally don’t think it’s a bad one (personally I prefer maybe a coffee interview, some of the best jobs I have had had a more casual conversation like this).

I worry about the potential for figuring out someone’s age or just if someone doesn’t drink.

I will never forget being offered a beer in an interview before I was 21. I refused without stating my age (I still got the job) but it was a bit of an awkward situation. For the record this was a tech job.
> Not sure if it’s common elsewhere, but many gas stations around my area have screen on the pump that play obnoxiously loud ads while you’re pumping gas. Most of them have a mute button at least.

One of the many, MANY jarring things about going to the US. I jam my gas-gap filler cap in the handle and go check the oil so I can get as far away from that nonsense as possible.
I find it hard to imagine that it's possible to, in all likelihood, improve a too-technical leader problem from the individual team member position. There's only two ways through which that I can conceive it being solved:

1. Too-technical leader realizes they aren't fit for purpose, perhaps due to indicators like stress, missed targets, team morale, etc.

2. Higher-up leadership notices aforementioned issues and give them the ultimatum: leave or side-/demote to more technically-focused role.
Yes, this is no-cost but not necessarily open source. NASA open source software can be found at: https://code.nasa.gov/
the article offers a legal opinion that isn't a fact, just an opinion. Even between lawyers there will be differences of opinion on legal cases. Journalists and their opinions don't even enter the game here.

This isn't a case study, or an example from a textbook, its an ongoing situation. Conclusively saying that the raid was illegal isn't a fact, its just an opinion, and not even a credited one - it reads like the journalist's opinion.

So its one thing to report on a police raid, its another thing to offer a legal opinion and present it as fact without conditionals, or whose opinion it is.

What if they're wrong?
As a first generation immigrant to the US, the parent story struck a deep (dis) chord.

Your comment brought back memories of growing up in India.

The idea of a "Panchayat" was taught in schools as both an ancient form of local/self governance and a modern answer to effective governance in post partition India.
Even Gandhi promoted it as a pillar of India's self-rule.

Basically, village "elders" land up passing judgement on disputes. Most of these
people were "respected" but uneducated. Their world views were very narrow.

As can be expected, it wasn't uncommon for their biases to result in "justice"
that would be totally unacceptable when viewed through a broader lens.

After decades in the US, to discover that something like this can happen in
21st century USA is really unsettling. I'm having trouble explaining
(even to myself) the anguish I feel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati_raj
Ask HN: Imgur but for Text – But Indexed by Google?
I ask about Google indexing because Pastebin isn't indexed.

Suppose you wanted to just throw a random snippet of text on the web, have it indexed by google, and not have to create any kind of account to do it.

What's the simplest way?
This episode of the Jane Street podcast (Signals & Threads) discusses a recent optimization to the GC (pointer prefetching) that's had impressive results. Part of why it has worked so well is the pointer tagging/63-bit integers.

Great episode, I highly recommend it to all interested in language runtime design.

https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/episodes/memory-manag...