skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be that even-numbered releases fixed bugs and stabilized the OS, with notable features coming in odd-numbered releases. Now they don’t care. Unifying iOS and macOS has become the goal, and probably some PMs are getting nice promotions thanks to that. The golden stability of macOS (a la Snow Leopard) is gone. Now I get random reboots every other week, so I keep a tight Time Machine schedule.
Using Firefox for android.

That link is about 6 seconds for me. Its still quick, but a good chunk off 2 seconds
Its rare that we read a piece of content on the internet from 1994! Thanks for sharing this, its older than me.
Yes, they have to price greater than what they pay, but they have limited ability to raise prices in terms of demand.

This conversation is a bit ironic, considering the number of politicians that use gas prices as a talking point (and their followers who parrot those points)
CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms
Hahaha same here with the .com and .exe files. I had forgotten about that lol.
Differences between countries, cultures and people do exist. These differences will manifest themselves as variations in productivity, ultimately leading to unequal growth rates.
I guess it's one of the usual numbers games in everything related to climate.

"Each day, our trains pull x MWh of energy from the grid and we're paying renewable energy providers for y >= x MWh - therefore we can say our trains run on 100% renewable power."

Whether or not some of the electron domino that finds its end in a train's motor coils happen to have started in a coal plant doesn't matter for this calculation.

You can like this or not, but I guess there aren't a lot of better options as long as renewable and fossil power sources are both supplying the same grid and energy is effectively fungible.
I think our observations are consistent: I would say that candidates ability to solve leetcode-style problem during an interview reveals very little of their ability to code in the small or in the large. "Algorithms during code interview" is a completely separate genre to what's discussed in the article.

To give a positive example here: when someone sends a 1k lines PR implementing a new big feature, how well a body of a single function is implemented is often a good predictor of whether the whole PR makes sense.
Your comment makes it sound like volunteers have a great degree of freedom and that's not the case because, obviously, in these organisations you will be shown the door if you don't do what others tell you to do.
No, I mean societally it's unaffordable. The government will eventually need to raise taxes significantly or begin means testing it. The current system is mathematically unsustainable
Medieval, say wind :)
Correct, though at the same time, those with more sunlight tend to have higher electricity usage during the sunniest months.
Disappointed with Lenovo's decision to enable PSB on my T14, having previously hoped one day I'd run coreboot on it, I decided to write a checker and crowdsource a list of PSB-enabled devices so that others may avoid buying hardware that disallows custom firmware.
Where all investors demand free money from the Fed and a vastly underpaid and overworked workforce.
The standard of evolving standard. Those looking take note, don’t rush to standardize something when the tech itself is still being tweaked and iterated on. Let it iterate, document it, but don’t put standards in place when you clearly can’t track or regulate it. You just look like that boomer who just now got their Windows 10 Upgrade CD to work.

The reality is that with variable and programmable power supplies, it’s now up to the device to draw power at a balanced rate from the supply, instead of the “supply” pushing power in. Modern tech has allowed us to have supplies between 3V-48V, 500ma to 10A. All with a usbc head.
There is a video on YouTube where you can see more about the new trains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZU5a10FKQ
> there are tons of medium and small sized companies that could use their help

Yeah, but how many can pay something equivalent to the big boys?

A friend's father retired from the Navy as a former boomer captain and went into industry as an inspector for power plants, working for one of the large insurers. Not a job that's going away, not a small company that might or might not make it. Just steady employment for the next 15 years or so (which, given how long ago it was, he's well beyond) until he wants to retire for good.
The best thing they could do is to open source it. I could use it in my projects and I don’t want to start from scratch. Anyone happens to know Jamboard product managers? What do they think about open sourcing it?
I really don't know if it is:

1) Average people are really bad at separating signals and noises.

2) Quora is actually good but I somehow have been using it wrong

3) I'm old and grumpy and don't understand how the internet works anymore.

How could not Quora have a super high bounce rate and get punished by Google? It's almost impossible to find any useful information there.
Well, yeah, obviously it won't be an IA64 (which is the Itanium arch)

But AMD64 yeah
So, a big fat scam. No thanks.
Debian could be great except for driver support which they only tacitly acknowledge:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/paxj85/why_debian_w...

"We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software."

I had it running on a couple of my machines about 1 or 2 years ago and an update came in for WiFi that bricked them. I started looking into rolling back or whatever and just decided to switch those to Ubuntu (or Kubuntu actually) and they work great and have has no issues.
20% more electricity generation for 100% EV adoption in the US is a figure I've seen quoted before.

We need to "electrify everything" and for that (including home heating and industry) I've seen figures around doubling our electricity needs (while lowering our energy needs overall since burning stuff is so inefficient).

Luckily, wind and solar are incredibly cheap sources of electricity and not burning fuel in inefficient cars (or home boilers) frees up a whole lot of fossil fuels for other tasks.
I appreciate the background, but I'm not aware of any usage of "X a la Y" that implies "Y is the first ever instance of X".
It’s nice they doubled the speed of SD controller but I still wish they just gave us some eMMC for the system.
Better than government banning flights all up.
The second comments section, could have been all from today. Nothing about hiring has changed in 5 years lol
Not directly related to this case, but the book Math on trial by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez covers several examples of misapplied statistics in court: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_on_Trial
Doing that means you used to get the medieval and renaissance guild systems.

However, we already have countries that ignore copyright/patent/trademark (China). The new solution is to remove features from devices, and to tie them into some cloudshit.

We get some dog-and-pony show that cloud means we get new features, but in reality, it's just an anti-cloning tactic.
> You are not treated like a criminal before you can board a train.

Is this a reference to airport security?

Edit: not sure why I was downvoted -- I genuinely don't understand this statement.
I use exactly that. It's fine for me and I'm very much a terminal first person.

Maybe people have extremely fancy shell setups? Perhaps it's a font thing that slows it down? Can you demonstrate?

I'm usual a tmux/zsh/vim user (although I've promised to switch to emacs for years :( )

I just timed my xterm. I'm displaying about 2.3MB/s of characters.

Basically here was my test

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=10M count=1 | hexdump -C > /tmp/test
$ ls -l /tmp/test
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 51773449 Oct 8 09:32 /tmp/test
$ time cat /tmp/test

... wait wait wait ....

51773449 / (total time) / (2^20)

Now this of course depends on the size of the window. I'm on a 4320x3840 dual 4k monitor and the window geometry was 1334x928 for this test.

I acknowledge this computer (i7-8650U ~ 2018 thinkpad with a boring UHD Graphics 620) is capable of faster output but the xterm featureset is vaaassstt (albeit extremely complicated) and I've found the other terminals to be lacking.

My only faithless move away from xterm was probably 17 or so years ago with rxvt when I was on a laptop with ballpark 16MB of memory. It's memory footprint and startup time was way smaller probably for its total lack of features and unicode support. That made a difference on my Toshiba Protege 120mhz pentium I was using at the time.

When I was a macOS and a Windows developer, slow terminals were definitely a problem though
> I can use the same modifier-key commands to select and manipulate text that I'm used to, which feels super nice.

I know this is not a complete solution, but just in case you weren’t aware, the keybindings in GNU Readline are nearly entirely configurable[1]. Getting some of the keybindings to work could require digging into serial terminal arcana[2], unfortunately, but here a terminal emulator that supports either the Kitty keyboard protocol[3] or the (venerable if impressively badly documented) modifyOtherKeys feature[4] could make things easier (messing with the serial driver[2] seems an overreaction to me, and you can’t get acceptable Ctrl-C behaviour that way anyway). The “new” terminal emulators mentioned in this thread (alacritty, contour, kitty, wezterm) should be able to do the trick, and of course xterm as well (probably rxvt too?); tmux compat needs help, though[5].

[1] https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#Bin...

[2] https://susam.net/blog/from-xon-xoff-to-forward-incremental-...

[3] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

[4] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/modified-keys.html

[5] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3335
Google doesn’t run on Kubernetee.
Scientifically this has been proven quite well, and people who aren't dumb notice as much - posh-er neighborhoods have terrible air quality in fall/winter evenings because they all fire up their cozy fireplaces. If you can smell it on the street... well, that's ground level. Open windows and ventilation inlets are higher up and more affected.

The thing is more that people don't want to hear it, like at all. These fireplaces are a big status symbol and considered totally green and environment-friendly because it's wood, right, so it's renewable, so has to be good. That they have no filters and terrible firing, resulting in exhaust that would make an 80s diesel tractor blush in shame, nobody cares. It's natural, so it's eco, so it's green, so it's good and it's cozy. So fuck off.
Elon is well-known for firing or sidelining technical staff with whom his intuition disagrees, regardless of his own technical depth in any of those matters. His companies have a lot of success for reasons other than his making the wisest technical and programmatic decisions. He sets his own standard for what he considers acceptable, even if those standards fly in the face of existing norms. That's not unalloyed awesomeness - there are sacrifices.

The author, in an admittedly ranty way, levels basic criticisms that are hard to individually disqualify. With the truck, it seems like Elon did Elon things, and his team is struggling to make his vision real in a mass-producible design with acceptable quality.
The points are valid, but I don't think this needs much of a technological leap.

The sticker price is dominated by the battery prices, which appear to be currently limited by resource supply rather by the energy requirements of turning rocks into batteries; the range follows from the battery price; cold weather issues that I'm aware of are also fixed by a bigger battery pack.

That leaves the fill-up time.

You would be right to say that reducing this to 5 minutes would need a technological leap, but I don't think it's truly necessary. First: it is easy to imagine a high-level government requirement that one-in-n street lights is retrofitted with a charging port for electric vehicles[0].

Second: PV cells are also getting cheaper, to the point that many EV makers are just slapping them on as afterthoughts. When this gets raised, the conversation diverges into two groups, those saying "that only gets you 8 miles per day, which is terrible" and those saying "that only gets you 8 miles per day, which is 80% of the average actual usage of a vehicle so this is good". In either case, trickle-charging even while you're driving will reduce both the degree to which you as a driver need the charging infrastructure and also the cost to the municipality of installing the kind of charging infrastructure I've described.

This doesn't reduce fill-up times, for which we would still need to think in terms of 30 minute breaks. This would definitely change the character of European petrol stations… though from what I remember of US gasoline stations on that one road trip I've been on from Davis CA to Salt Lake City, perhaps less so the American ones.

[0] or something along similar lines if my assumption that all residential areas have street lights is false
I would guess easy integration with Google's cloud services like Firebase and promotion of these services within Flutter's docs, brings more costumers these services.
It's also easier to spend the same money than to spend less money. Given two easy things, most people won't chose the hard thing most of the time.
Looks promising, but it's also a pretty different machine - I like the Pi Zero because it's cheap and just capable enough (basically I want a full OS, but I would never consider using a Zero as a desktop). The Radxa-s look quite a bit more powerful, but they're also twice the price, and once you're spending that much, the possible gotchas with software support make it a lot less enticing to me.
Yeah. I keep coming back to Debian after trying out another distro for a while.

There are some specific complaints I have about technical choices for Debian, like the way daemons autostart post install. But these complaints are outweighed by the benefits of using a distro with coherence across packages and upgrades.

Apt is also just such a phenomenal package manager. It is fast out of the box, and supports some relatively tricky scenarios—like using stable for your system, but a newer Nginx from backports. Feels like I can get the newer features for the one or two packages that I really care about, and then use something stable and boring for everything else.
There are more than a few books and tutorials on how to write parsers and compilers and PL theory, but I know of none on how to go about actually designing a language from scratch. Perhaps most new languages can be considered slight variations on earlier languages, so there's not much point when you're almost certainly using one of ~6 styles with slight modifications? I got started on my own little project by writing "ideal" programs and then working backwards and defining the syntax and vocabulary, then writing and reworking again ad nauseam.
That doesn't even make sense.

Neither does surrendering "legal tender" for money that is not.
... because the fridge (and the microwave) are the best pseudo-Faraday cages available to shield EM radiation in most domestic situations - and the microwave it tooo scary for a laptop.

... because the fridge is the last place most burglars look [citation needed].
I forget, does AWS let you use custom extensions from pgrx?
Some countries (China is the most notable example) have security checks prior to boarding a train comparable to flying.

In Poland, if you buy your ticket for an Intercity train online, the conductor will ask for your ID to ensure the names match. The state, or perhaps just the operator, seems to be concerned about who is paying and traveling in this case. One can still buy tickets with cash, though.
Well, yeah, I wrote the article nearly 20 years ago. I still think the fundamental forces at work are pretty similar though.

The economics of creating a programming language are similar to most other open source software economics, although even proprietary languages need a way to get an initial user base. In some cases that's easier, as a large company can force a language for some important environment like writing iOS apps.
Terraform already does a three way reconciliation at plan/apply time. It checks declared state (your code), known state (your statefile), and current state (api calls to your providers).

If you want to see this, just make a terraform apply. After it completes, go change something directly in your cloud provider and run another plan. The top section of your plan will highlight the changes that Terraform found remotely that don't match existing state.

So all this would do is remove known state, so you could do a 2-way reconciliation instead of a 3-way reconciliation. You would compare current-state with declared state. This is how Kubernetes works. But to be fair, Kubernetes actually works in a slightly more controlled environment than Terraform.
There are only 2 kinds of tools.

Tools people complain about
And tools nobody use.
> I'm running an unofficial port of Proxmox on my 8GB Pi 4...)

I’m doing the same with Proxmox Backup Server, Proxmox itself runs on a more powerful thin client ;)
Maybe they meant it's not a threat because people don't care about who they are following being revealed, since it used to be publicized on Twitter.

Though note that Twitter has a "list" feature that allows users to differentiate people they follow versus contents that they want to read[1], whereas Fediverse's "list" feature is more of a filter since users must follow an account first before it can be placed on a list[2]. I think the workaround for Mastodon would be to bookmark profile pages for people you want to check on but don't want to follow.

[1] https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

[2] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/lists/#accounts-add
Online job platforms like Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. have changed things significantly. If you can apply in one click, or just a simple form, it's trivial to send out 50 applications a day. Those easy-apply jobs will of course get hundreds of applicants, requiring an even wider net to stand a statistical chance.

My job search looked a bit like that. Luckily, I had just a few connections from grad school, which of course immediately led to interviews and offers while my hundreds of one-click applications lead to form rejections or have been ghosted. But without those connections, I'm not sure what choice I would have.
I have pi4s I'm using that I'd love to swap out for something better. I'm sure many people feel the same
I've actually been using docker swarm for an odroid cluster that runs a lot of services in my house. I really like it- it's extremely low overhead and the network mesh works way better than I was expecting considering I put no effort into configuring it.

That said this is a three node cluster running a handful of containers, with services accessed by my wife and I. So not exactly a large scale production experience.
> Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke

Keep in mind that modern wood stoves have catalytic combustors that burn the wood, then the smoke, then usually the smoke again.

They extract vastly more heat from the wood, and they emit vastly less toxic gasses out the stovepipe.

Also note they are legally required in many, many places now.

(Older stoves and fireplaces are grandfathered in, but you can't install a new "old" stove in many towns around the world)
I currently use iTerm AND Alacritty. If the latter supported tabs, I'd use that exclusively.
> very old ovens

it's kinda fascinating, some of this ovens are older then 70 years, some where build in when this houses where build ~120 years ago (but update)

they also are all health hazards as in you manually have to control the exhausts when starting them and if you mess that up (e.g. fall asleep) CO will leak into you apartment and might silently kill you ....
Some of us don't have to imagine; your dream is our reality.

Plys, the US uses both systems. Imperial is just more practical for everyday use.

See your foot down there near the ground? Tada! You have a built-in measuring tool. How neat is that?
While we're doing that, can we please also ban 2-stroke engines used for landscaping.

The gasoline fumes mixed with small particles that get kicked up are absolutely noxious and can't possibly be good for you.

This is especially egregious in dense suburban areas, where there's landscaping going on _every_ single day of the growing season.
Packaging, and more importantly: package dependencies, are (imho) the essence of building a successful distro.

Get this wrong, stuff breaks regularly, and one ad-hoc fix follows another, forever.

Get this right, and everything Just Works™ (generally).

Debian is very good in this regard (along with the BSDs, I'd say).
This isn't an exception. Smell is smell not tase, and hundreds or even thousands is still nothing next to infinite. It is still a tiny finite alphabet, like the amino acids everything is built out of.

Yes when we eat something we are experiencing more than just tatse, but so what? The fact that our full perception of a strawberry includes smell is as irrelevant to the validity of the concept of "a few base tastes" as the fact that it also includes sight and texture and memories of that summer job you had picking strawberries one year when you were 12.

There is no Van Gogh sensor gene in your retina. There are just a very few types of light sensor, which all sight is composed of. Taste is the same. Smell is the same. Smell just has a bit larger alphabet, but it's still finite. The original comment questioned the validity of the very idea that there was any such finite alphabet. There is no possible question about that.
See who made pg_bm25 - vendor of database based on PostgreSQL. Most likely they would like offer that as hosted solution itself, so they attempt avoid Elasticsearch / Terraform-like drama using AGPL license from beginning.
Any idea if the cooling solution mentioned, either as heatsink or fan or both, significantly impacts the footprint of the unit? In terms of weight and also dimensions. Can you reasonably cool the unit under load with a fan that is almost not noticeable when it's attached to the board?

Really cool stuff in any case, glad to see this product continuing to get new features and spec bumps.
> the .deb ecosystem still feels like its stuck in the late 90s linux era to me.

Can you elaborate, please? What do you mean by this?
Eurostar also has airport-style security between London and continental Europe.
Yeah, it was annoying for a bit of time, but not anymore! I haven't had systemd installed in quite some time. sysvinit works without a hitch on bullseye and bookworm.

added:
Debian's (to me) about (among other things) technical superiority, a robust packaging system, as well as user freedom and choice. It's super easy to not use systemd these days, "what is debian" didn't change, there was just a slight delay in reality catching up to principles. :)
Full article is better https://markxu.com/three-bayes-learnings
There's a lot of talk about tipping, consumers, etc.

Being a Patron (which is what Patreon was trying to do) traditionally meant supporting someone, no matter what their output. If your tortured genius put out one work a year, so be it. If they popped out Sunflowers then even better!

There doesn't have to be any quid pro quo at all.

It's what we now call Basic Income financed by someone's surplus.

Don't overthink it. It's not a tip, it's a gift, an expression of support. It may be something more, but in the end you're giving money to someone, period.

As an aside, it's really unclear if Patreon payments should be considered income in the US. It's a gift, but it's up to the giver to handle that. I doubt creators would need a 1099 in that case either.