skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "How many times do you just wish a man page just had an example that you tinker with to get what you want? With powershell, you get that"

Two sentences ago you said helping people was dumbing down for low skill users. Hmm.

> "Another thing going for powershell on windows ecosystem is that microsoft is tying powershell with their servers to make administration simpler and easier."

They have been untying PowerShell from their servers for 7 years. PowerShell current version doesn't ship with Windows and does run on macOS and Linux.

> But powershell certainly isn't python

PowerShell has a good interactive shell, better/more convenient introspection/reflection, integrates more thoroughly with its underlying language (C#), has more humane defaults (case insensitivity).
I can’t imagine any reasonable argument that would make Apple be a target for an anti-trust action for _Macs_.

I understand skepticism and not always giving corporations the benefit of the doubt, but they _clearly_ spent a lot of time and resources to make third-party OSes viable on Apple Sillicon Macs.
> Transunion can't do shit

They can but they don't. There being no framework for prosecution doesn't mean it's impossible to not hand out data to anybody that asks with minimal info provided.
Right, so I guess I’m wondering, out in the real world, who has an example of this and other factors contributing to excessive latency?

Are there people dealing with multiple-second latency daily? What are some example latency figures?
> What is clear is that invading another country is a morally evil act and that it has essentially never prevented more suffering than it has caused on balance, even in some of the most benevolent scenarios (like Kosovo).

Well that seems utterly absurd. The Allies invasion of Nazi Germany is an enormously clear example to the contrary.
Of course, spying on Americans is only bad when the scary CCP does it.
> I would never use an iPhone for certain software and UX related issues (biggest is the missing back gesture/button)

Um, swiping from the left edge takes you back on iPhone and iPad. Not sure how long ago did you last test the "missing back gesture" theory. Been using an iPhone for 3 years and has always been this way.
I think they should focus more on signing structured data and indexes so people can just exchange IA content however they like and know it hasn't been tampered with. There's not much a state will be able to do as long as they rotate keys, etc, so there are just state demanded revocations which can be ignored.
Yes but optimally there would be at least some proliferation in index funds, and they would index differently.

There are 2 top funds that invest in the same 500 companies. Many in the US who earns well is sending x% of their income to these funds without forethought. It's far too much mindless capital concentration.

Even without the index funds, the S&P 500 is used as a base reference in many investment contexts.

When everyone blindly accepts a truth in investing, it's worth keeping an careful eye on it to make sure it stays true.
Strong +1 for the Waking Up app. (I also ready the Waking Up book, and found it to be quite hit-or-miss for me. But the app is just wonderful.)
This is well-established in peer reviewed research, it's not just something I read.
The article author does not know that abbreviations must be explained on first use.

RSV == Respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory virus that causes cold-like symptoms in children and adults.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_syncytial_virus
Westerners are also experts in using language like an expert musician can play an instrument, always impressive to watch.
Make no mistake - western governments are envious of the spying tools that China has. Our freedoms are in spite of central government and thanks to an independent judiciary and wise founders. Some like Trudeau have even explicitly expressed admiration for the flexibility of the Chinese dictatorship. FBI, CIA, etc. would never decline to use the types of tools that China has.
I'm not sure what you are saying, can you ask a less loaded question?
KPIs are very useful: if you find yourself working for an organization that begins to them, they indicate that you should leave. If you interview at an organization that uses them, you know not to take a job there.
LPG is a gas, and it is heavier than air.

In case of a leak there is a risk in case of a not-ventilated enough underground garage it is possible that the gas accumulates in the lower parts before it can be sensed/sniffed, and a mix of just 2.1% with air is already at risk of explosion if a spark is generated.

Security norms changed in the EU around 2001, the norm is the ECE/ONU 67-01 (though different countries may have implemented differently in the local Law) and LPG powered cars conforming to that standard are allowed (generally) to be parked in underground garages BUT only on the first underground floor and only if the garage is conforming to some (earlier) ventilation standards.

AFAIK cases of explosions/fires related to LPG car tanks are extremely rare (thanks also to the added safety measures mandated by ECE/ONU 67-01), whilst fires/explosions originated by domestic LPG use, while not common, are more common than what they should be (the tanks in themselves are generally safe, but the - often underground - pipings often are not).
I didn’t downvote you, and I understood your meaning clearly. I think people might read “why is ___ missing?” and skip over the rest, assuming the question represents an expectation.
Very well said. It also feels really good to get rid of small things that annoy you every day by creating your own solutions, cf.:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/10/controlling-your-e...
A flake.nix file is somewhat comparable to a package.json file in a NodeJS project.

Similar to how package-lock.json records the exact version of packages used to build a nodejs project, a flake lockfile will record the exact version of nixpkgs (and other nix dependencies) the flake uses.

The other thing a flake.nix file provides is a consistent entrypoint to a codebase. Previously, by convention, projects might have a `default.nix`, but one default.nix might be a different form than another default.nix.

The consistent entrypoint allows for a really nice UX for both referring to other nix codebases, as well as a Docker-like UX for running code which has a flake.nix.
Considering governments murdered literally a million times more people than civilizations over the past hundred years, it's ironic they alone get the models without safeguards in place.
Do we know that there aren't some iterations of the hardware that lack the shuffle instruction? It seems a bit odd that the official compiler fails to emit the instruction.
How to Plan a Sustainable Funeral
Using amazon.com after download limit without adblock be like 7mins latency. I just ate my meal and wait for images to pop up.
Can you use Windows drivers for your GPU on Linux?
Nonetheless, that's quite a bit. Why would I want to pay that when I can plow my car into a gore point for free?
Could decriminalisation solve Scotland's drug problem?
Personally I consider IA having all the eggs in basket unreasonably risky move. If IA did the basic sane segregation, the legitimate and truly valuable parts would not be facing such high existential risks. For example one way of dividing would be 1) wayback machine 2) public domain collections 3) non-pd collections 4) user-provided content. Having those firewalled into separate services and separate legal entities would protect 1) and 2) when its 3) and 4) that are drawing these attacks.

This lack of separation is also hurting IA in other ways; I think Wayback Machine and PD archives are really important and valuable, but right now I can not support or even endorse IA because their poor leadership playing with fire and putting those services under unnecessary risk.
Device manufacturers can engineer for longer useful lifespan by oversizing the battery, can't they? Do they all do that to the same extent?
I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) (2010)
AI startups: Sell work, not software
> What it really needs is full blown SQL with REPL output so the users can see the effects of their SQL.

FWIW, I built a version of this at $DAYJOB. You can get REPL-like access and export to Excel using a tool like this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/data-studio

Non-software engineers looked me like I had ten heads for suggesting that people would need to learn a modicum T-SQL to make use of it. I even volunteered to write all the views for them! The lesson learned for me is that horrible expensive ERPs/ETLs tools are never going to be replaced with Excel + a database because even the (non-software) engineers at a large company are not interested to learn how to write basic SQL statements.
> With a value of 2.00¢ per Chase point

It's very unclear how you've obtained this value and it absolutely does not match my actual experience.

I've exceeded 2 cents historically with a small number of redemptions (generally UR->Hyatt for particular properties during high demand), but on average I've done nowhere near 2 cents a point. Even 1.5 cents with CSR is dubious, since their booking portal almost never offers the best deal.

All anyone ought to care about is the average redemption value, in which case 2 cents is obviously wrong.

There's a lot of "point value" claims floating around the internet but it would be really nice to see something data driven based on actual user redemptions.
What power does MS have over high performance computing? Perhaps some fields use Windows specific applications, but most high performance computing I see uses Linux by default, with WSL for the Windows equivalent.

I use Chrome as a fallback too when the measures I've taken to protect my privacy break websites I can't get around, but in most cases websites just work in my experience. Almost all of the issues I run into are caused by addons messing with websites, like content blockers.
Compare that page and how you get to that page to Chromium's profiles UI and you'll understand what the problem is.
Does not factor out data breaches. And "our business is based on trust" also has the caveat of "for now". What if they're bought out?
I fail to see anything that doesn't apply equally to the rocks.
Medium's gone the way of Quora for me; the domain has negative associative value meaning I skip anything linking there.

Let me explain the negative association:

* Popups and other pleas to make an account.

* Half hearted articles much of the time, linked to.

* Seeming a platform for self promoters with much noise but little original substance.

* That drags everything else down.

That said, I never did see it as much. I'm not much attracted to substack unless very specifically linked from another source, My association there's with people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox; people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox are also often more focused on 'readership' than sharing deeper stuff - deep is by definition harder to cognitively access than surface.

From sighting a URL I'm far more likely to go with a url I've never heard of than Medium/Substack/et al. While firstname_lastname.tld is very often a sign of quality, in my book giraffepoop.wtf is still > Medium/etc.
I believe since Maharshi was a practitioner of hinduism for him "the self" (what they call Atman) was to be seen in all things, and the same everywhere.

So anything transient cannot be the self, hence is an illusion, or false.

But yes i also believe it's quite wrong ^^
Probably the closest option to M1 on build quality and battery will be the AMD version of the Framework laptop... if you want can run Windows or Linux without issue. Will probably go that direction on my next purchase. Later this year and next year AMD are releasing new laptop CPU/APU that will absolutely kill on performance:watt, while they're a bit ahead of Intel at the moment, they're going to leap a bit further ahead if GPU perf matters to you. Not that Intel is asleep, just behind.

On the phone, I started with Android, so just kind of used to it... I've bought about every 2-3 generations for a while, currently on a Pixel 4a. I tend to avoid the high end, and find if you wait 3 months or so after a new release, the kinks are usually worked out by then.

As to the iPad, there really isn't a good alternative that I'm aware of... there are still a few Android options, none are great... the MS surface tablet and other convertable laptops are okay, but still not as nice a UX, it's not my thing so doesn't bother me, but can understand why if it works, it really works for you.

Watch is about on par, from what I understand.. again, not something I'm into personally.

I tend to take the Apple option for work (software dev, mostly web/svc oriented) only because corp Apple experience is generally better than corp windows.
Even if they aren't requiring effective masks, such a policy could well lead to more people wearing effective masks, both by reducing the marginal cost (have to wear a mask anyway, might as well pick a good one) and by providing social cover for people who might not want to seem nervous and/or leftish.

I acknowledge that I don't know how it works out in practice.
They also provide social security numbers.

What really sucks is you can't practice good hygiene and preemptively update your SSN periodically. You have to wait until your identity is stolen first.
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"Additional software is required for this extension to function, you will be prompted to install it after installing the extension."
1. Shooting someone is evil, if we remove all context. Killing is evil, if we remove all context. But that's the thing, it's all about the context.

> They do so because they believe this is a good way for them to get a TV (or the equivalent in money).

Well.. maybe. They are delusional about the gains it will give them though. A life of crime does not in fact pay. They might also be desperate, and in that case it's not much of an evil in the first place. That's the entire plot of Les Miserables :P
Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris: Programming with AI
I have an Apple laptop that is a few years old. It does not have shit battery life. Probably 90% of new.

Did you research this statement before making it?
> Did it go somewhere?

Lost it's ubiquity.

There was a period in which you could rely on almost everyone to have it, which made it an attractive, convenient and low friction way to share diagrams that people could edit and update.
You're violating the TOS for at least 3 of these sites...

And by not providing attribution information I'm pretty sure you're violating the licenses of most of the images you're retrieving, a number of which are uploaded to specific sites and are therefore subject to the TOS and licenses provided on those sites, which your CMS/API whatever doesn't retrieve.

Note that the penalty for copyright violations is theoretically $75k per violation and when a copyright is violated it doesn't matter if the material is royalty free.
Shrug. It's certainly unusual by the standard of programmers-as-geeky-yet-professional-folks, which is what most people expect these days.

However, programming has, for most of the last 60 years, attracted many people from the weird, misfit, or cringe-du-jour segments of the population. This is nothing new; plenty of hackers in the '80s and '90s had public personas that were weirder than this.
Pretty much, yeah, with the priviso that "comfortable" is relative to the times. These days, "comfortable" would include a place to live that is clean and fairly safe, food that is more than just enough calories, ordinary medical care, and access to the Internet.

This is a lot more than a century ago, but they're widespread and cheap enough that we can easily afford to provide it for every (Western) citizen. It's costly, but we could provide it, and the super-wealthy could still be incredibly wealthy. Shy of that, there's going to be a lot of tension.

I can't predict what that will look like in the future, and I can't say what to do about the non-Western majority of the world who can't afford to do this. But at least for the here-and-near-future-now, it's something that would allow people to live without desperation. We now have so much unnecessary desperation, and that's what I find offensive.

We'll still be faced with problems of meaning, but at least we're avoiding the hypocrisy of wealthy people saying, "Go find your meaning by working for me, while I take the vast majority of the profits just because I'm already rich."
The intersection of seemingly disparate technologies is awesome. Such a cool way to bring AI to Postgres
> DetSys already provides their own Nix installer

That installer has actually been developed with community collaboration from outside DetSys from early on in its lifecycle via the Nix Installer Working Group¹, which includes stakeholders from other companies and whoever else volunteered to get involved.

I haven't followed it super closely recently, but to the best of my knowledge DetSys has done a good job with that project of orienting themselves towards the wider community and upstreaming that work.

FWIW, the maintainer of and chief contributor to that project is also extremely responsive to community activity on GitHub as well. I reported a few bugs the other day and was frankly delighted by how it went. It's being developed in the open, like proper open-source. The Determinate Nix Installer is not at all a 'let's do this in-house, behind closed doors, then throw it over the fence' kind of effort.

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1: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-installer-workgroup/21495/...
I used the present tense but this was actually quite a long time ago on another team at another company. Please consider it anecdotal.

As a child, I worked at a large popular fast food chain. Also measured by error metrics, the trainer showed me how to fry a frozen chicken sandwich. The meat spilled to the floor on accident. He said, "here's your first lesson: no one saw that!" Into the frier they went, metrics perfect.

It's all the same bad faith. Managers put odometers on every interface, workers spend their time developing odometer foulers. I could never own a business I wasn't the sole worker at.
When I tested it, at Asahi Fedora at M1 Air, Extreme Tux Racer runs very smooth.

Godot 3 and Godot 4 did not recognize this OpenGL ES 3.1.

Wishing for Godot compatible support and external monitor support for M1 Air.
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Also, in most other countries the government provides identity verification.

In the form of government issued IDs and lately some governments even provide something digital.

The US government doesn't provide that.
Where can one download the improved Compuserve 7, compatible with XP? I'd like to try it.
Sustainably focused on-demand clothing delivery comes to London
Vite London’s has announced its London launch as a sustainably focused B2B2C on-demand clothing delivery & rental platform, connecting time-scarce consumers with inventory local to them.
MRI scanning could lead to major cut in prostate cancer deaths, UK study
Link wasn’t working for me, here’s the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU
Bacteria that ‘eats’ methane could slow global heating, study finds
What does the prevailing anti-semitism at the time have to do with anything?

Let me restate: Hitler would have been wrong about genocide even if it had led to a German utopia. It didn't, but even if it had, genocide is still wrong. There is no world where gassing children, or shooting women holding their kids, is justifiable. Even if this somehow magically leads to an utopia. Some means can never be justified; this is one of them.

Hitler's error wasn't that he underestimated the Soviet Union or that Germany ended up in ruins and he had to commit suicide: his error was conducting genocide.
An article about diagrams that doesn’t show a single one. Huh.
So far I haven't run into a case where I forgot to add something to my impermanence config, so you may be right: it might not be necessary. However, just knowing that I could fix it if I forget something (for example when setting up a new service) somewhere down the line just gives me peace of mind.
Do you mean Turkish speakers? It is true the Turkish is part of a group of languages from Central Asia that would not have been present in Anatolia 5000 years ago.
Since no one read the flame-bait article, the company is asking people who sit near coworkers who tested positive to self-test and wear masks near exposed coworkers.

It’s not company wide. It’s in direct response to actual cases, not some political stunt.
Speaking for myself, I just didn’t know how minds work. Iow, I didn’t see it and there was no good source suggested by anyone to learn from. Ironically, the solution to job-related anxiety turned out to be somewhat incompatible with “having a job” (in a sense I always had of it, not in general).

You’re right from the general point of view, from overlook. The thing I’d add is that self-development may and often is completely out of your scope, according to my observations at least. It’s akin to a businessman asking poor what the hell they’re struggling with when the world is full of opportunities. Well, they look and can’t see it. They struggle in a wrong direction (added:) and it consumes all their attention.
I just posted a reply on Discourse (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044/14?...) but for posterity:

I’m sorry some folks aren’t excited about FlakeHub, but that is okay. We’ve made it because it solves real problems we’ve experienced, and I think it is going to make a big difference in the community. We’re all contributing to the project in the ways we want to, and this is an example of that.

We see flakes as the future of Nix, and we’re unabashedly working to make that true. One way we’re doing that is using flakes extensively every day and exposing ourselves to the bugs, papercuts, and pain points. We often deeply research and resolve these problems upstream, without fanfare or posting on Discourse.

I think we have the common goal of growing and improving Nix, and we’re glad to be doing it together. We would love to see a continuation of RFC-144 accepted into Nix upstream. The version resolving feature of FlakeHub is a bandaid that works until the upstream project has a comparable feature. In my opinion, it is a good thing to do experiments like this without committing the entire project to it.
Same with the Pexels API. Their Terms & Conditions help page [1] and license page [2] state:

> The Pexels License does not include:
>
> • the right to compile any Pexels Content to replicate a similar or competing Service;

and

> Don't redistribute or sell the photos and videos on other stock photo or wallpaper platforms.

[1] https://help.pexels.com/hc/en-us/articles/900005880463-What-...

[2] https://www.pexels.com/license/
The parent post had said there were two types of determinism and that they were not compatible.

I was just saying, a computer could be made to model a human and appear to have free will. And that would indicate that both types of determinism are the same.

Personally, I agree, a computer can be made to exhibit those properties.

I just take it further, since a human also has those properties, and can 'appear to have free will'. That any outside observer will have to accept that both have free will, or neither does.

There is no extra 'mystical essence' that gives a human agency, we are following our own programming. We need to eat, mate, get triggered, thoughts come un-bidden.
Or another way, to your point, there are chaotic or stochastic systems at play, but those are not 'agency'. Somewhere in a human, maybe there is chaos, but that doesn't translate into a 'agency'.
(upon further investigation that's what the cited "bucket sort" is actually)