skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who downvote Bostonian for his comment, how would you like it if that announcement, say, contained an abortion-related proclamation that you don't agree with?

"Share our food, Share our homes and Share our countries" is quite a big demand on everyone else. I am certainly not willing to do so without limit and without regard to context (e.g. the Muslim gang war that flared up in Sweden).
> All Chromebook Plus laptops come with the the following guaranteed hardware specs:

> CPU: Intel Core i3 12th Gen or above, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 series or above

> RAM: 8GB+

> Storage: 128GB+

> Webcamera: 1080p+ with Temporal Noise Reduction

> Display: Full HD IPS or better display

It feels a little weird and sad that an i3 is the bar to make something "plus" in performance.
Bentley vs. Linux
Speed is not the only thing `emacsclient` addresses. When your $EDITOR is `emacsclient`, the newly spawned frame will share state (kill ring, buffer list etc.) with your Emacs server. This might be helpful e.g. when you (like me) are a heavy user of `dabbrev-expand`, and also with numerous other little things.
"The tiny spaces only fit one twin bed"

this reads like the beds aren't supplied, to me? I'm not sure which is worse.
The "more performance" is that the new line has newer hardware. It's not like the OS is doing something interesting or new - this is what you would expect when buying a new laptop versus an old laptop.

The OS features seem like fairly basic QOL wins, at best. I don't really care about a generative AI background for my video calls or whatever.

I guess if I were in the market for a new chromebook I'd say "oh, there are some new ones, I'll check those out" but that's kinda it.
it's not just tin-foil-hat loons, it's now also the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rishi-sunak-claims-15-minute-10263...
The Apple II (running DOS 3.3) is the last computer I can claim I completely understood.
Living on the edge: Supernova bubble expands in new Hubble time-lapse movie
Brazil is constantly destroying huge swaths of rainforest. Sure, destroying it gets you a lot of money, but NOT destroying it is completely free.

If that’s an example to follow, then we’re collectively fucked.
You don't need to "(...) have to copy the entire node_modules along (...)" when deploying, you can bundle backend code as well.
Yep, I've been interested lately in the story of how a lot of behavioral issues are passed on through both DNA sequence and methylation and how methylation, in addition to cultural transmission, is part of the story of trauma being passed on through generations.

For a long time the attachment theorists and social workers and remnants of the Freudians had convinced me that my parents must have done something wrong to explain the trouble I had in school and I looked desperately for some evidence that my mom had taught me how to be anxious but now I know that's "blaming the victim".
I find it helpful also not just because of the startup speed, but because I usually have one or more org buffers open taking notes on what I'm doing.
The new `type` statement with lazy evaluation looks interesting.

Wonder if it could be used to add lazy evaluation to other libraries, like numpy?
Aren't LCD's not emmisive unless you put in a backlight? I assume that is what the parent meant.
These things are a menace -- so many shady shops selling things so cheap knock off isn't the right word to describe them since there is no name brand they are aping. (No pun intended)

I had to call my local fire department when I had a similar issue.

I told them I'd placed it in a parking lot away from anything flammable, and they said they "couldn't advise me" -- I got the sense they were either being passive aggressive, or were encountering new issues similar to the lessons that had to be learned the hard way when lithium batteries became ubiquitous, then enlarged and put into cars.

(In that case, you don't put water on the fire, you have to use chemicals)

It's scary when folks withhold labor in contexts that you really shouldn't but that's why I put in to renew my US passport early -- if folks are unwelcoming, there's plenty of more sane places to live...

The internet is global, but in the American system I've lived in all my life of volunteer fire services, paired with militant libertarianism paired with militiaesque "Don't volunteer for anything" admonishments best reserved for actual soldiers sets the world ablaze, metaphorically.
Ruby can do this:

> puts “h#{”#{i}”}”

You “just” have to make your parser understand how to have all expressions or whatever inside braces. No idea how the python parser works but think about how you can nest json arbitrarily.
That's one of the many sad instances of roads not taken in computing.
Apple would still be able to do all of that.

The main reason Windows sucks is that Windows sucks. No specialized hardware can change that. The second reason is that hardware manufacturers make shitty drivers; because it shouldn't be their job in the first place.

And why is OS X so good? They scrapped the original MacOS, and started fresh with a fork of BSD. None of that has anything to do with monopolizing hardware.

It's also absurd to compare Apple's limited selection of exclusively flagship devices against every existing Android device. Compare them with their direct competition, and your point is moot.

If Apple's hardware division was broken off into a separate company, Apple's software division would be able to do everything they do today as a customer of that hardware company. The only difference would be that everyone else could too.
I think that mainstream research in physics has lost a lot of credibility after spending decades pursuing things like string theories and super symmetry. Not that it was anything wrong with any of those at first, but they weren't presented as hypotheses, they dominated research way too much, and it took way to long to admit they were dead ends (most still haven't, but instead silently started working on different stuff).
When you add bots, it's way more than 5%.
And Van Halen's No Brown M&M's clause[0] in the contract for verifying.

"To ensure the promoter had read every single word in the contract, the band created the "no brown M&M's" clause. It was a canary in a coalmine to indicate that the promoter may have not paid attention to other more important parts of the rider, and that there could be other bigger problems at hand."

[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/no-brown-mms...
Whenever I get bubble tea they ask how much sugar you want. One place offers it as a percentage, going up to 50%! But you can order it with none at all.
> Again, why do I care why it happens. Your “open” standards leads to a shittier experience.

Again, why do you? Apple's products have worked just fine implimenting open standards (eg. HTML, TLS, AES, RSA, etc.). You could easily argue that the iPhone wouldn't be popular without open standards like Bluetooth and the Internet.

> It’s cute that you think politicians represent “the people”

Does the unregulated market represent it any better? I'd rather let gerrymandered electors regulate the market than allow the market to regulate itself.
that's not the issue

defaults matter

as in they should things you can just use by-default without thinking about it

as swift is deeply rooted in UI design having a default of glyphs make sense

and as rust is deeply rooted in unix server and system programming utf-8 bytes make a lot of sense

through the moment your language becomes more general purpose you could argue having a default in any way is wrong and it should have multiple more explicit methods.
Yes, they say it's scheduled for 3.13. But it seems not confirmed yet (probably still not ready for prime time).
Isn’t the non-specificity a good thing for a disease like COVID that attacks the whole body?
It doesn't necessary need to be sweet. Many bubble tea shops and chains in Taiwan gave the consumer the option to choose the sugar level. Most people probably choose some sugar but this was a nice surprise for me when I visited.
> After months of brainwashing

When you say stuff like this, it makes me think you have the wrong idea about who was the victim of brainwashing.
Ah, yes, alarm fatigue. I wonder what the affects are of alarm fatigue outside of work on safety-sensitive jobs that also have alarm fatigue of their own (i.e. medical/nursing tasks).
The expansion of the universe isn't really related to the formation of individual stars.
It's worth noting that what passes for milk tea is really tea with some kind of synthetic chemical creamer. If you want real milk you need to get "fresh milk tea". I suspect the addiction could be mediated by whatever chemicals are in these creamers, which have never seemed healthy. In the same vein the food science that created "hyper-palatable" addictive junk foods: https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/big-tobacco-created-our-junk-f...

Fresh milk plus regular tea does not seem like it could be significantly more addictive than tea.
Why can’t companies be honest with themselves. Nobody wants underpowered x86 laptops running a glorified thin client OS.
I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where it didn't and I had to follow other instructions.

For that I had to create a microsoft account. I could then create a local account, and delete the microsoft account.

Which frankly is terrible. It has pushed me to now make Linux Mint my main personal OS. I've been using windows and been a fan of Visual Studio for decades.
Not everyone growing poor has the same experience. I also grew up much poorer than my peers, plus that was in a war torn country where we didn't even have electricity for several years. And it did not suck at all.

Your mistake is thinking that the goal of life is to minimize suffering. But that is completely wrong, only result that this goal can lead to is complete elimination of life.

The goal of life is maximizing complexity, divercity, and capacity of life.

The amount of suffering i had to experience was completly justified because i had a chance to grow up and improve the lives of others. I happened to be lucky enough to realize that chance, but my parents had no way to know beforehand if i would be successful or not, that's why they were right to try.
It's not supposed to test the other's loyalty, but if the other party is grounded to reality. It's potentially possible, but hard, time consuming, and thus expensive.

In the same spirit (but for another reason), the famous "Van Halen brown M&Ms clause" [1], which served as a proxy for how likely the venue also read & complied with the safety precautions for the concert.

[1] https://businessofsoftware.org/2013/08/the-truth-about-van-h...
11 cups of milk tea per day is pretty bad for your health - that's a lot of caffeine and a lot of sugar. Add that to a diet that includes a lot of white rice and I could see where it's a major problem. You would think the problem would be obesity and diabetes though, not suicides. But I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV.
That is ok though. He offset ( current magic word indicating its all good ).
I like how you get to read it in the direction you most agree with. Very politically balanced!
So you think tea itself is addicting? Milk tea is basically tea with some milk.
LOAD81 could probably use some eyeballs:

https://github.com/antirez/load81.git
A lot of people already disagreeing, but my two cents. Reading assembly is crucial. From smart contracts in crypto, to a detailed analysis of the algorithm (Knuth), to analyzing exploits, all requires assembly. It is really one of my weak points, and I noticed several times that I should be better in this. Basically as software engineers we constantly work with weak abstractions, constantly leaking.
Milk Tea has been consumed for a millennia in many countries with none of the harmful effects being mentioned in the study. I am not sure why this is suddenly an issue now among youngsters in China.
I wonder how practical (or not) would be to set it as your shell.

Not that much, as it is rather limited on the terminal.
I thought that quote was from the Buddha.

(Well, he said "Any sangha..." but still.)
> Presumable the content is actually produced at some specific physical location

Yeah and how to find that location? If you are opposed to any measure that compromises your digital privacy, physical surveillance is the only way

> The article is not talking about has matching, though

Sure. In context of this subthread you are correct. But remember when Apple tried to do it with hash matching? They published a white paper detailing their algorithm. Remember how everyone here instantly whined about total surveillance? It was just like last year. The sentiment is always the same "my privacy may not be compromised if it concerns safety of helpless victims whom I don't care about"
Vendor software is the result of hardware companies attempting vertical integration.

Get rid of vertical integration, and the software job will be given to someone capable.
Risk aversion?
That last bit isn’t correct, Jetstar itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas. There is a smaller and separate ‘Jetstar Japan’ (a bit more than a quarter of the fleet size) that is partly owned by Qantas along with JAL and some other groups (including Mitsubishi Corporation) but that airline only flies domestically in Japan and internationally to a few countries in the area (Hong Kong, Phillipines, China, Taiwan).
Thanks for the info! What system / DE do you intend on using? What type of work do you do on your computer?

I was thinking about getting a wireless keyboard+mice and attach RPi at the back of my monitor to have a clean and very low-power setup.
I design motherboards for network devices; I keep the internet going.

Routes are inaccessible without access to them. The underlying machine states to check for access to a route is algorithmically similar to the other checking for user access.

It’s unfortunate so many are allowed to work in IT with cliff notes level awareness of how technology works.

The layers of indirection you work with are the knobs and buttons people like me choose. You merely obfuscate with vacuous jargon to serve your career goals.
This probably isn't a good motivating example - my first thought was that this is an overcomplicated way to write

"This is the playlist: " + ", ".join([
'Take me back to Eden', # My, my, those eyes like fire
'Alkaline', # Not acid nor alkaline
'Ascensionism' # Take to the broken skies at last
])

Which is easier to read and exactly as long.

(In fact, without 3.12-compatible syntax highlighting, my first intuition upon reading the first line would be to suspect the code of having a typo.)
That is quite something.

Add a chatGPT like interface where you can communicate by sentences, sprinkle in a bit of speech recognition. And you have computers from 90s sci fi movies. "Computer, give this cat an hawaiian shirt, and make it surf."

The future is now.
> So your solution to making sure that you get the most compatibility is to buy Apple cables for Apple devices…meet the new boss.

I was hoping you'd bite the hook, but not like this...

Intel actually designed the spec, drivers and IC controllers for Thunderbolt. Apple consulted on it with USB-IF, but they don't own the spec like they do with Lightning. They're less of a new boss, and more subsuming their rightful position as a valued consultant on a shared standard. It's a good (albeit old) example of Apple doing the right thing through the right channels.
Vaccines, however, are usually not that profitable. If anything, I'd expect more conspiracy theories about pharma companies suppressing vaccines on the grounds that, while prevention may be better than cure, it's generally less profitable.
I think most people know but don't care. Their search history, photos, and email are knowingly stored by Google, but it doesn't impact them.

You would need a rogue employee or a massive breach to make people care, I think.
you can't not handle devanagari, tamil (or like half the scripts across the Indian subcontinent and oceania) or hangul. even the IPA, used by linguists every day, would be particularly bad to deal with if we couldn't write things like /á̤/, and some languages already don't have the precomposed diacritics for all letters (like ǿ), so the idea of a world with only precomposed letter forms is more of a exponential explosion in the character set
As someone who only cares about v4, I periodically wonder why don't I just use fully random 128-bit identifiers instead (without the version information).
> Practically, as "English-World" was not available in the past (and still wasn't available on platforms other than Windows the last time I checked), I have always been setting the locale to En-US even though I have never been to America. This leads to a number of annoyances though. E.g. LibreOffice always creates new documents for the Letter paper format and I have to switch it to A4 manually every time. It's even worse on Linux where locales appear to be less easy to customize than in Windows. Windows always offered a handy configuration dialog to granulatly tweak your locale choosing what measures system you prefer, whether your weeks begin on sundays or mondays and even define your preferred date-time format templates fully manually.

There's the English (Denmark) locale for that on some platfoms.
OpenBSD: OpenBGPD 8.2 Released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681004
I think it would be kind of cool to do a command line terminal type laptop with e-ink. I feel like most of the drawbacks of e-ink would go away in a terminal. B&W? Totally fine. Slow refresh? Who cares, it is probabky going to have less latency than my ssh connection, and maybe i misunderstand but i think e-ink can go faster if it doesn't have to redraw the whole screen.
Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize
Parent comment was referring to vaccines not lockdowns.
When the training data is essentially "all written text I can get my hands on", can't say you've made much in the way of conscious choice here.

If the objective function is so vague that it allows you to complete any task then claiming conscious design also makes little sense.

"I'm consciously designing you to do whatever you want!". Oh gee, that just makes everything so much better for some reason.
https://archive.ph/NhnVB
You really can't see the parallels? An aggressive, unilateral land invasion of an Eastern European country? Really, zero parallels there? OK! Doesn't seem like you're debating in good faith but that tends to be the case with Russia sympthasizers.

In any case you've seized upon this point so you could (weakly) invoke Godwin's law and failed to address any of the other points I made, which stand regardless of any comparison to WW2. But again, I prefer debating those who do so in good faith and at least take it as a premise of their arguments that 1) Western, liberal democracy, though imperfect, is better than other forms of government, and way better than the rule-by-mafia that exists in Russia 2) it is better for more countries to be liberal democracies than for fewer to be, and if Russia's invasion of Ukraine succeeds, fewer will be

It seems like you don't accept those points so there's very little for us to discuss
Well it already is. You get to pick which direction you agree with.
https://archive.ph/mY6ba
What I described is what dithering always means in the context of audio applications.
Critical bug in WS_FTP (40M users) allows for RCE
In fairness, a 12th Gen i3 is not massively far from an M1. The iX branding has become a little silly lately as a user who is not hardcore pushing the system could not possibly tell the difference between a 1215u and a 1235u.
> Maybe I'm just in the wrong bubble, but I've never seen that.

Maybe not everybody is flexing but at least people are not complaining about that, like for this web browser.

> Japanese games are often notorious bad on the technical details. Their focus is on the gaming part. Though, it has become a bit better in the last years, but usually because Japanese Companies have diversified into international teams.

So when it's technically bad, it's because the company doesn't have foreigners, when it's good it's because non-Japanese people are working there. Noted.
I don't think this is a political advocacy. It's just a personal expression about a social issue. I found the way it was written quite thoughtful, actually, which I respect (though I don't like in its entirety).

But I upvoted your comment because I don't think there's a reason for people to downvote your comment.

It's absolutely acceptable that someone dislikes the poem and wants to express it here.

People confuse the purpose of "downvote". It's not for disagreement. Downvoting buries a comment. We shouldn't bury something just because we disagree with it. That's against one of the most basic human freedom value. If it's just a disagreement, reply to it expressing your view.
Which would mean people should be addicted to milk in general and not necessarily to milk tea only. Chain of causation might be inverted here as parent suggests.
Since it currently lacks any way to transfer objects between interpreters other than pickling, does it offer any advantage over the multiprocessing module?
given the rate of publishing climate models, each predicting a certain temperature, one will eventually hit the right point. it's as inevitable as carpet bombing, and it doesn't prove anything.
I would wonder how many people are here who have never seen Tengwar. I would bet that's a minuscule minority.
Per day? I intrpreted the number as 6–11 cups “in the last year”.
To be fair, at this rate, there probably is no tomorrow...
This sounds a lot nicer than the Hacker House I stayed at in San Francisco. It was more than $1000 for a bunk in a 25 bunk dorm with no privacy.
Funny you bring up Charles Darwin, since Darwin was never an academic.
I dunno man, seems like there's more GILs than ever before now you can have one per interpreter. . .
I think climate anxiety has a lot to do with continued spending. People aren't having kids, or having much long-term goals, _because_ they don't know how the society and the world would look like in 50 years. So why not just live in the moment?
This is a classic example of the way conspiracy theorists shift goal posts and demand more and more evidence, while waving away any evidence provided. It's _boring_ to engage with people like you. You have no idea what you're talking about, and demand that people who _do_ know what they're talking about give you an education that you don't actually want. You're just _performing_, you aren't having a genuine conversation with people.
Yes but they mostly direct stuff and wouldn’t know how to calibrate a pipette if their life depended on it
I made the comment — and find yours interesting — because the usual criticism is CT is the opposite, that it provides new language for accomplishments in other fields of mathematics but offers little in the way of novel results itself: a great quote I heard once is that ‘category theory is great for telling you what you've done’ :)

So I'm curious as to how exactly you disagree: the existence of connections between CT and other fields are objectively and verifiably well established (just read a randomly-selected CT paper!) but perhaps you feel like the categorifications of other fields are incomplete or unrepresentative? Or that the connections are in some sense forced or unnatural?
My mom actually really likes her Chromebook Pixel and I'm not sure what to replace it with now that it isn't supported.

For a lot of users the browser is the whole computer anyway. Windows is now full of ads and User Engagement popups.

It's tough to find an Apple-hardware-level device in the Chromebook space though. There are a few, but this new Chromebook Plus spec seems more like a bare minimum than a premium segment.
If they didn't both manufacture spyware for the NSA already, they might be more willing to act out.