skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding quickly scrolling around in a large document, there is also scroll wheel acceleration, i.e. the users finger scroll speed is not just a linear function mapped onto the software scroll speed but rather it can accelerate.

MacOS, iOS and Android have this anyway, and a few custom software as well.

I implemented a cross platform user-space variant of this, to get mouse scroll wheel acceleration. You can even use this in addition to the native scroll wheel acceleration on MacOS.

https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...
Close, EMF's are a major cause of tinnitus but without even going to a conspiracy thinking, it's just that the number of devices used has gone up the roof these last years, everything is emitting weird, unnatural and above average electromagnetic fields, it disturbs the nervous system.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657824/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S180886941...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24238486_Associatio...

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/48/5/1567/5532178

https://www.centerforbrain.com/tinnitus-anxiety-panic-depres...

Advices, use ethernet cables when working for long periods, don't put computer, phone, tablets on your body, async communication and airplane mode, go to nature, cut electricity from circuit breaker in your room during night to avoid EMFs.
I am thinking about getting an M2 with 32GB RAM.

On a side note for back pain - have you tried acupuncture?
Scrollbars getting smaller was something I was noticing subconsciously, but was happening slowly enough that I was getting frog-boiled. Now they're annoying me even more than usual :^).
So 24x7 surveillance with anything gathered visible to anyone for any person working there on this stuff? Would anyone take such jobs?
A Picture Book of Some of the Apps on Mobile Linux
You’re in the wrong thread. Search for “U.S. meat processors” or “baby formula” or “fiber to the home.”
Apple was already punished for this behavior in Italy[1], but of course they still don't care about it elsewhere. I had to deal with it again in the UK and they had to "research" the subject before getting back to me on the phone. I had to send them a link to their own apple.com site.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/27/2663489/apple-fined-1-2m-in-italy-for-misleading-warranty-claims
Not if you have a good microphone and the sound is loud
Ask HN: Do you remember this story?
I have spent most of my morning looking up a story that was shared a few months ago on this site; it goes like this:

An alien was using a piece of wood to summarise human knowledge on this wood by making minor cuts small enough to represent binary. I remember it was primarily about flawed assumptions and compression algorithms (or the lack of).

Does anybody know the story I'm talking about?
> With more than $1 billion in net cash, following this change, Flexport is now in a great position to take advantage of the opportunities in front of us to return to profitability as soon as the end of next year.

This feels like a tone-deaf statement to make in an email laying off 1 in 5 of your company.

"We're letting you go, but look how much cash we have!"
> Fixing hardware isn't that different from fixing software.

It absolutely is different. How do you propose even changing the software when there is an interlock preventing access?

Should Apple also be responsible for people who enable FileVault, set a 50 character password of random characters, and then not write it down? How would you fix that software problem without introducing glaring vulnerabilities?

Software is scalable in ways that hardware simply is not. It presents vastly different challenges than swapping out standardized pluggable components. It’s incredibly difficult to change a complicated software system without introducing side effects. Comparing an operating system to a bicycle is absurd.
I have a 16" 32 GB Macbook M2 and I generally feel 32 GB is too little for development tasks.

M2 chip itself is very, very fast and requires little power (and thus is cool), so I don't think performance or cooling will be an issue.

YMMV.
If I were a 'General System Vehicle' of the 'Culture' and permanently hosting human guests, I would call myself 'GSV Rodent Habitat John Calhoun' just to make fun of them and offend my fellow minds.
What's your dev stack?

I have the M1 Air 16GB, and if I'm bimbling around in NodeJS and VSCode it runs fine, but if I need to do mobile work, the Xcode UI previews and Jetbrains IDEs cause it to run warm and throttle.

It's not slowing me down, but it does make it a bit uncomfortable to use on my lap.
Feedback/Ideas welcome since these will (soon) be released as open source projects.

https://subatic.com : Cheap/Sustainable open-source youtube alternative. Video hosting on cloudflare R2. (0.36$ / million segments or 2.3 million hours of watch-time per 1$). Transcoding pipeline built in bash/python+ffmpeg.

No ads but business model revolves around arbitraging sponsored segments in videos, which can be targeted to countries and can be rotated as needed.

Other business model is providing hosting/maintaining solution for businesses.

Currently random videos are uploaded but it does showcase different resolutions and the speed to access videos.

Quit/Laxed on this since I achieved my engineering goal of making it end to end work (upload->transcoding->cheap hosting->scalable architecture).

https://app.exam.cafe : OpenAI + Deepgram based instant language evaluation.

Built this for myself when going through IELTS exam. All other online sites wanted me to go through a human and pay for each response. While a human evaluation is desired for judging accents/pronunciation , this tool can judge your content/body.
The punk pioneer (AI mockumentary) [video]
The message is for the stock market, they're talking past the laid off people. I hope the have a more appropriate message for them.
I've used an M1 Air with 16GB for over a year and had absolutely no issues whatsoever. I've never hit any noticeable throttling limit. It simply does not need active cooling, ever, IME. It's a wonderful machine.
If those excluded kids are just moved from selective charter schools to non-selective public schools then, by the same argument, they'll be reducing the outcomes of the non-disruptive kids who don't have parents involved enough to take advantage of the system.

So unless these charter schools have a side business selling Soylent Green made from disruptive pupils and those with learning disabilities, they're not actually improving overall results.
I don’t think this contributes to the conversation. There is clearly social context to this situation and copy pasting a machine-generated summary is no more helpful than reading the article at face value.
On Linux (e.g. KDE), you can simply Ctrl + mouse drag the window, and then click anywhere you want. This makes it even much simpler than the need of clicking on the border, even with larger borders. You actually don't need any window border at all then, or it can be full of other utilities.

There is also some software for Windows to do the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRexHDwfds

Unreal good.
When I took my bricked MacBook Pro (Sonoma update defect) to the store today, the Apple rep independently mentioned that he’s seeing a lot of fucked-up AirPods.

Earbuds and Bluetooth suck. Never let Apple off the hook for deleting the headphone jack.
Burried in Petersons mail is one nugget every B2B start-up needs to take to heart:

>> It's clear that our customers want us to be a profitable company they can rely on to solve important problems in their supply chain.

An endless stream of VC money allowing you to sell dollars for dimes does not achieve that.

Also, I had a feeling that Flexport might run into problems one day, when Softbank invested, Softbank being such a harbinger of problems its only saving grace is setting Saudi money on fire. Also also, Flexport is the most impressive comoany coming out of YC if you ask me. All they have to do, is to aim being the next Schenker, Kühne & Nagel, XPO... instead of being the "global trade disruting tech thing" and they'll be fine.
It can be turned off, but it can't be turned off. It's still there, lurking just around the corner, and still showing up in some dialogs.

And I think this is exactly what many people's complaints are in this thread: an interface that is faulty out of the box that needs to be "tuned" in order to change it from an entertainer back into a workstation.

I haven't played with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 in a while, but I remember all sorts of "improvements" over Windows 95, such as sliding menus, "shiny" icons that draw attention to themselves, "shiny" gradient title bars, and so on.
I do all these on a 24GB M2 Air, have no problem
I'm guessing... you take two post-it notes, and fence them on either side of the headers.

For april that means you wrap it around at the 3rd (Thursday) to the 4th (Friday...)
The Java Applet was this.

Flash also was this.

Now the browser is just a bloated pile of crap.
The intent is for your entire computer to work that way eventually. If they can get gaming to work under that model, everything else will work too.
Isn't .NET Core pretty much what you're describing at this point?
Businesses have an incentive to bring down consumer surplus (or "convert" it into intangibles on the consumer side). Optimizing pricing (willingness to pay, etc.) is in that direction. And once companies focus on profit not revenue, the equilibra forming could well show pricing more like in an oligo- or monopoly than a competitive market.
> Today there are a ton of cheap 2nd hand console available on different markets, and much thanks to hard-copies they still bring plenty of enjoyment for a cheap coin.

You're missing the point of the parent comment. They aren't saying they had access to no games at all, but rather that they couldn't afford to play the latest games.

Nvidia's cloud gaming service costs $10/month, compared to $10 a month just for multiplayer access on an Xbox or PlayStation plus the $300-$500 upfront cost of buying the console itself.

So there's no doubt that even with the savings of a used last generation console, you would still save a lot of money with cloud gaming.

Just for clarity, I'm not necessarily saying I like cloud gaming. I think if you can afford the hardware to do local gaming, it's a better experience. But it's way more expensive to render everything locally for obvious reasons. Even just the electricity needed to power a gaming PC is expensive.
https://quixical.com/: Discuss your flight and potential routes, with other travellers, in real-time.

More info and some tech notes here: https://raskie.com/post/how-was-your-flight
Loop 2023: Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB [video]
> it could literally be the default way to play games in 20 years.

No it couldn't. Its fundamentally inferior to local hardware and no amount of wishful thinking will change the laws of physics.
It may be part of the zeitgeist, but it is also a meme.

The subtle hidden message is that rich people are idiots who misattribute their success to factors like dropping out of college or getting up at 6am.
Ubuntu wouldn't be the first product to change their versioning system for releases. I don't think we need to get too worried about what will happen in 76 years from now.
I have the same laptop, and while the BIOS/UEFI indeed doesn't activate any external monitors, Linux does it during boot before LUKS password prompt for me… not sure what the difference is? I'm on kernel 6.4.

There's also a firmware upgrade (the kind in /lib/firmware, not the kind in flash memory on the card) for the QCNFA765 wifi card that you have to install, which fixes both a lot (probably not all) of the s2idle issues, and gives a little bit of battery life. I found this out with some s0ix test tool that I now can't find… anyway, it should say in dmesg:

ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: fw_version 0x110b196e fw_build_timestamp 2022-12-22 12:54 fw_build_id WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.23

Also, as some siblings already posted, Insert is on Fn+F10, which does indeed suck… but funnily enough it is also (undocumented?) on Fn+E, where it was on previous HP Elitebooks. I find that slightly more useful due to being reachable one-handed…
I have the 15" M2 with 24GB. It's fantastic. I'm mostly doing web dev, and was thinking I'd use GitHub Codespaces if local Docker didn't work out (either because of performance or because of arm vs intel issues), but turns out that Docker runs very well on the M2. So well in fact that it's pretty nice to do dev work locally again (I used to do my work on the dreaded 2016 MBP, butterfly keys and all).

So I can recommend the M2. The things I miss are more than 2 USB ports and to a little extent an HDR screen (the screen is good, but it's not as good as, say, an iPhone Pro or the MacBook Pro). I also haven't tried using it with more than one monitor, and I've heard that's not possible. I'm also not a fan of magsafe and would have much rather been given a USB-C cable to charge. I hope the new EU legislation kills magsafe but I doubt it (hot take, I know).

If you're looking at the 16" MBP, then you should probably go to an Apple Store and just try lifting it up first. It's super heavy. I wouldn't want to carry that thing around.
While working in the Netherlands I often filled out timesheets which our company presented as R&D, even though it was actual production work.
No need to guess, the very first header is 'How It Works'..
I think the GP meant that in theory someone could break into a Bluetooth connection and snoop on your phone calls. But with a wired headset, there's nothing to break into. "Unbreakable encryption" is a bit tongue-in-cheek, there.
I used an M1 Air with 16 GBs without issue for everything from Unity3D to multiple IntelliJ products without issue

I did eventually move to an M1 Max MBP with 64 GB of RAM, but that was mostly from severely underestimating the uselessness (for my purposes) of locally hosted LLMs: as you said, 24 GBs is plenty for most usecases
A side note, the author (Paul) is one of the nicest people I knew in Tokyo. Sorry about your laptop buddy.
Back pain is the important topic here.
Regular cycling will help a lot.
Used to love this genre. I have fond memories of a copy of EGA Trek bought for like $10 on a floppy at a bookstore or similar. There was also a text-mode trek-like called BEGIN that was great.

I wrote a TI calculator version that was a fun distraction, and started in on a 486/pentium caliber trek clone, incorporating more of the Berman era Trek themes but never made it too far.
Optimising Raspberry Pi 5's software environment [video]
Read as: "My ears happen to be of the right size that AirPods fit inside them without falling out, and if your ears don't conform in that way, you must be a broken human."
> Android has had built in OCR for a few releases. You can copy and paste text from any image/app you can display on the screen.

AFAIK this is a feature only available on Google Pixel devices. so not on 'Android' in general.

For one, my Oppo device running Android 12 doesn't have it.

Yes, Android fragmentation sucks.
I'm using a Macbook Air M2 mit 24GB for freelance SRE some and lightweight software engineering work as well. I'm also playing around with local LLMs, Stable Diffusion, some virtual machines, Kubernetes/k3s, docker-compose and I sometimes build go software. Haven't had it struggle even once, battery easily lasts all day and some more. It's the best laptop I ever owned.
Every US government office - at both the state and federal - levels has records keeping requirements. It’s the reason we can submit FOIA requests that return with data from the 30s.
that's probably just MSFT's lackluster design of a chat application, though.
They don't list the 2023 version on their webpage, but it is located here: https://jonathanbrochu.com/thumb-cals/tc-2023_en-us.pdf
and
https://jonathanbrochu.com/thumb-cals/tc-2023_en-us_extra-wd...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37863776
Bogus analogy. That is more like "Child burnt rice once, yet did not give up on cooking and we might wonder why".
'eldak' is a (rude) slang word for dick—this is the plural (i.e. dicks). Otherwise, Google's got the translation correct here.
laminarmq: https://github.com/arindas/laminarmq

I am building a message queue from scratch in Rust. It is intended to be a resource efficient alternative to Apache Kafka. (It does not rely on any Kafka libraries.)

It has similar concepts like topics and partitions. It is intended to be distributed in nature, with no reliance on any third party component.

Currently it only provides a segmented log implementation which can be used on it's own if necessary. We support both persistent and in-memory storage.

It is still very much in a nascent stage as there are no message queue level APIs or Web endpoints yet.

I tried to keep it as decoupled from different Rust async runtimes as possible to make it easier to integrate to different ecosystems. It currently supports tokio and glommio.

There is also an example to show how the segmented log might be used in a server:

https://github.com/arindas/laminarmq/tree/examples/laminarmq...

Next steps would be to design the message queue level APIs and gradually implement the distributed components.

This is the first time I am implementing something at this scale so any feedback or advice would be great.
The ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 2 is lighter (960 grams), and I now often use one for developing when traveling that I had originally intended for giving external presentations (when not traveling, logging in to our 2 TB RAM group server is more fun).

I would say the MacBook Air M2 is superior to the X1 Nano in most categories, except (1) weight (it's lighter than my iPad, which since I got the Nano leave at home) and (2) keyboard quality (which is very important to me for working longer periods).

Macs cases and screens look more sturdy but when dropped seem to break more easily than the Lenovo cases and screens, despite the latter being made from plastic (sadly, this is reporting from personal experience, sample size N=3).
You can use usbc to charge, as well as MagSafe.
Most of the world relies on a growth economy, so human society.
On trimming fat:

It’s bullshit.

There’s ~300.000 professional game developers in the industry (not including Indy).

They make revenue of approx 350 billion USD. That’s big tech revenue per employee. Profit probably about 450k USD per employee.

The average salary in the industry is somewhere around 50k usd!

The top 10% compensation outside of corporate execs is less than the profit per employee - and barely that of a mid range FAANG engineer.

I switched from senior tech director - top 5 people compensation in a big studio - in games to Mid level manager in big tech at a 5x in TC over 4 years to 8x at Director level over 6.

Yes the industry is extremely lo sided in profitability and risk, but people are not the problem.

In case of unity, insane ad tech plans and complete failure to predict the market are the problem.

Just like with the big tech layoffs, the “cut the fat” and “lazy employees aren’t working hard enough and coasting” narratives exist to absolve senior executives of their failure to adequately plan, manage and control costs and new initiatives or L&D spend. Nothing mid level controls or approves.

In public companies, the senior management and shareholders get to use employees (and game developers) to pay for their i’ll fated bets and mistakes. Rarely, like in this case, there are consequences.

We are on track to lay off 3-5% of games this year, in an industry where on average every employee is vastly profitable. Talent that’s desperately needed and hard to train.

Games is the story of what happens when you don’t have unions and regulation forcing fair distribution of value - massive profits with lobsided distribution that makes many studios only operate with tax credits and at the constant edge of layoffs.
I am using the Pro version, "MacBook Pro M2 24GB 13-inch 2022". Backend and frontend mostly, several docker containers running constantly, several chrome and firefox instances with about 10s of tabs opened, DB tools (pgAdmin etc). All of this works great, battery life ~5 hours when doing heavy work, fans very very rarerly turning on, maybe few times over the last 10 months I was using it.

One issue I experience is that "Virtual Machine Service for Docker" is consistently sitting at 6gb ram. I am running in "linux/amd64" mode as I had some compatibility issues.

Another issue is that for some reason WebStorm sometimes works much worse than on linux which I used before the mac. As if WebStorm completely turns off some features (highlight, typechecking...) from time to time.
It’s easy to swap the bottom. It’s also easy to search for a similar model brick the device, swap bottom with the serials, and send that.

You can also reprogram the serial with the right equipment but that is a much harder task
As someone playing non-dnd games, I have to recognize that the market share for DnD 5e is so big that it make sense to target that even with DnD beyond. It's like wondering if you are making a gaming platform whether you should target linux since windows is covered by steam. The answer is: you should still target windows.

The other option is to make it game agnostic and focus only on the map part.
Totally agree with what's at the very end of the article - tgat monimaps are supercool.

IIRC, Sublime got them first. One of the reasons I still use it...
> Yeah. Those screws are tiny. I was lucky in that I bought a set of screwdrivers especially for dealing with small electronics. Unfortunately I was unlucky in that my two machines only had three screws left between them!

Sadly one was rusty and two were already stripped. I could get one out and I tried to drill out the other ones with a tiny drill bit but it didn't work.

> If you let me know which hinges are broken I may have a spare I can send you.

When I say hinge sadly it's more like the lid... https://imgur.com/a/QoMCN7r

> The battery corrosion can be cleaned off. It takes patience and isopropyl alcohol.

In my case the copper contacts for the battery were almost rusted through, so there wasn't much I could do.

Also I replaced the CMOS and standby batteries but weirdly it still complained in boot. (I checked the polarity).
If you later recover an item that you've successfully claimed an insurance claim against, you would just have to hand over the item to your insurance company (who might not even want it at that point). And you should have been able to successfully claim the laptop since at the airport, it was most definitely lost and/or stolen.

Also, how can you even assess that the laptop has no physical damage? They can't boot into the OS and can't see that the laptop is in fact completely physically intact. What if the other party broke the webcam or one of the USB ports?
It's rather overpowered for anything but games and video production.
Yes, I agree. Something that has been increasingly bothering me: how hard it is often getting to see the scrollbar, or grab it if you can find it. It's being hidden and minimised. Firefox is quite bad here, and some GTK apps. Frustrating.
I don't think AirPods are bad, but Apple's mindshare and consumers' lack of awareness towards other options certainly contributes a lot to their popularity.

A few years back when I was looking at it, compared to the Base AirPods (2 maybe?), the Huawei FreeBuds 4i had about twice the in ear battery life, ANC / transparency, perfectly okay sound quality and comparable / better splash resistance. And all that for like half the price or less. I don't know what the options look like today. Airpods do have the auto switching thingy, but most people only have iPhones here, so that shouldn't matter.
Is every conversation in a rest room recorded and available?

If you don't trust people creating cryptography standards you cannot really leave gaps, can you?