skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English has the exact same problems as you’re mentioning, and an explanation using the English words would be much more relatable to readers of HN.
Epic has not admitted that 12% is unsustainable, and the suggestion that it has is so detached from reality that it colors the rest of your comment as being extremely unreliable.

You should double check your sources because you fell for low-effort low-intelligence fake journalism. What Sweeney said was that 12% was not viable in developing countries due to high finance costs. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/109102593910919987...

You dislike people who count private profit margins?

I dislike low-information consumers who simp for corporations based on literal fake news.

Be better, shame on you.
If YOU actually want to be pedantic, I was making the point that it's a North American thing, not a US thing.
Thanks. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39007778.

The first compiler which introduced the concepts later used in Java and JS was also an effort by only one or two people in an academic setting. Even the V8 in its initial version (which already did a tremendous speed-up of JS) was essentially the work of two people. Cog/OpenSmalltalk was supported by many PhD projects, so it's by far not only a single person. Apparently there was a need for a fast Smalltalk VM, as there is a need for a fast, compatible Python VM. As it seems it took 40 years of research to make Smalltalk fast; Python got a bit faster, but is still much slower than JS, even with Graal.
football (soccer) mainly
Sorry if I was dismissive. Yes, it's fascinating, it's something I've been following for years, so I figured it was common knowledge.

Much more will be coming in the next years with LIDAR tech becoming wide spread. All great river basins in the world sprouted civilizations, why wouldn't the greatest river of all? It's just that it's easier to spot ancient constructions in the desert than beneath the foliage of the densest forest in the world.
I'm from Spain. In lots of places you need a proper degree because of the accountability on civil causalitities.
Traditional checkout takes two peoples' time: one scanning and the other waiting. Self-checkout only takes one person's time.

So it'd have to be twice as fast to break even in terms of "time spent".
I am certain in some areas it has. but on the other hand in others it has damaged it- screentime is an awesome feature measuring "destroyed" productivity ;)
I misunderstood that part, sorry.
I've always considered JetBlue to be a value leader vs. low cost leader. They have nicer seats, in seat entertainment in all classes and have a pricing/refund/exchange policy that is more customer friendly than competitors. Spirit is just going for low cost. Southwest is in between where they want low cost but you have to fight for a seat and might needs to have 2 or 3 stops to cross the country depending on where you start.

I assume you're talking about JetBlue's Mint product which is all business class for some cross country flights and a few international. Again, I think they are trying to provide the best value for business class compared to the larger carriers.
I think device tree, as opposed to something that can enumerate whatever hardware is present, is part of the reason that you have separate ROMs for every single Android phone. (Whereas a single Linux ISO can run on just about any PC out there.)
Posting a list of apps to debloat on GitHub was a great idea. Hopefully a community built like adbock filters list will be around soon!
University provides much more than paper.

What many don't seem to understand is that it is the student's responsibility to learn. The best lecturer in the world can't teach you anything if you don't pay attention, or if you don't have the prerequisite knowledge and understanding. I could attend a lecture on advanced neuroscience and I would be left with pretty much nothing because I have no idea about any of that stuff. In order to gain from it I would need a solid base of knowledge on which the lecturer could build.

So university students fall on a spectrum. Some are really interested, they started writing code on their own before they even enrolled. They challenge themselves and do their own projects for fun and learning. Others don't care, they do as little as they can get away with.

A trick I picked up that I found very helpful was to study before each lecture. They would publish a list of all the lectures and which chapter the lecture was about, so I would study the chapter before the lecture. This allowed me to much better understand the lecture, and I felt like it really helped me gain value from the lectures and learn the material.

My point is nobody can put knowledge in your head but yourself. My experience was that the people complaining most about our studies and lecturers were the people who didn't take responsibility for their own learning. If a lecturer sucked I just skipped the lectures and read the book instead, I didn't care. I don't need a lecturer. Good lectures are just a bonus, they're not supposed to be your main source of learning. You're supposed to study on your own time, even when nobody has given you a specific task and deadline. If you do that, university is a great way to guide your learning and keep you going - and get a paper proving you have put the time in.
> What more vulnerabilities hides in the proprietary UEFI?

Most UEFI vulnerabilities seem to come from bugs in the open source reference implementation making it down to the proprietary firmware.

That said: as much as you would expect from any low-level C program. I hope that EDK will eventually find itself rewritten in a safer language to it easier to spot mistakes. I would say Rust would be the best fit, but I admit that it's not a perfect fit; sadly, we lack safe low-level languages.

As for running without UEFI/BIOS: most ARM devices have an alternate bootloader (usually uBoot with some proprietary magic) but I don't know if that's much better. This approach usually requires per-device support from the operating system you want to install.
Hah! Fun times. A prompt for 'N devices are paired, are you sure?' is a good idea

If their car is like mine, plug the laptop in there.

For some reason, plugging my phone in for Android Auto also forces my Bluetooth on.
Except the speaker screams at you, very loud.

The best ones I’ve used are at Rossmann. Completely silent, and don’t measure the weight of anything, so you never get to the “sorry, your shopping’s weight is off by 1g” part. The UI is also very efficient, where in Carrefour they seem to periodically add more popups to the process.
Just look at how treatment during a pandemic was communicated and evolved in realtime, the whole way we do science today interacts with learning from many people in a much faster and more efficient way.

Luckily these sort of nonsense one or the other positions don’t work in the real world. Clearly it would be much easier to recreate modern medicine with the Internet available than it would be to recreate the Internet if we just had medicine.
Can't wait for Google to suffer Altavista's fate and be replaced by something a generation ahead. I personally really miss Yahoo's human-moderated listings of the old days. I'd rather have a few high quality results than three pages of SEO spam.
> it would still be advantageous for authoritarian countries to produce kids in vitro and just assign them forcibly to parents

You do realize that while you can create primate clones in vitro, you still need to carry them to term the old-fashioned way?

Which, in your scenario, means you can't just drop a "child born in some lab" on a family. It means you forcibly impregnating a woman, have her birth the child and then raise it.

This is pretty far removed from "the usual standard" of coercion. I'd call it so absurdly dystopian, imagining it happening somewhere - on any significant scale - without immediate violent revolution seems unthinkable.
I actually thought the OP was about zoxide, as the latter also installs as z.
OneCourt's haptic mini-field lets blind fans follow the game by touch
The threshold is 10k€ in the EU. So, way less than 500k
This is a good description of what life is like working on almost any significant open source project. The only thing not included was the comments from overly entitled users that saps whatever morale and energy you have left. Probably best he did not include that though as that is what all discussion would be about.

I am not sure what to do about the burnout problem. The way he described it is very on point though. Since everyone working on the project is overloaded there is a great feeling of things only get done if you do them.

Most of my open source work was in the pre-GitHub days when we used mailing lists, not pull requests, to build community. I do think there was something better about that for the project itself as it encouraged a lot more discussion and community building. PR's and Issues become silos and are not great for general discussion. I think they also encourage drive-by contributions which honestly are intoxicating initially but once you see people are not coming back become defeating.
Surely, this computer must have come with a non-BT keyboard and/or mouse, though?
> the best way to help the project is to keep contributing for it for years. to do that, you have to avoid burning out, which means you have to treat yourself well.

When I was a schoolteacher, the way I expressed this is that you have to do the job in such a way today that you're capable of doing it again tomorrow. This did not go down well and I am no longer a teacher.
Smaller places in the USA will still bust out the carbon copy machine during outages, but they then have to bitch at the processor to get lower fees (often the fees are higher for non-instantly verified transactions).
It seems a bit far fetched.
Turns out there are some resource management problems even rustc can’t solve.
Is there any evidence that the fact that anyone could look at the genome increased the speed of vaccine delivery measurably and not rather changes in processes for testing and roll-out? The genome data was only needed by a few actors for the vaccine.
A win for the consumer is somehow also a loss for the consumer(according to HN commenters).
Why I Like Obsidian
See also: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ - a web browser for your terminal
Well if the other employees screw up they get a warning and maybe some direction. If you screw up at your job you'll get accused of shoplifting and maybe get the cops called.
I think not, because the difference between being an actual one and not it's to spend several years in jail (you and your employer) in case of life or health related damages and harms.
None of what you just described is medical research nor is any of it out of the question with normal inbred monkey lines. Not sure why cloning is the one thing that would make that possible instead of just breeding monkeys
Currently, yes, but research with regard to artificial wombs is well underway.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02901-1

It is well possible that by 2030 or 2035, the old-fashioned way will no longer be necessary.
The main person seeking her resignation was a major Democrat donor. The Jewish community generally votes Democrat. So labeling this as solely a right-wing campaign is denying the internal party struggle to deal with the issue and how this has created a fracture within the party.

If we had had a group of right wingers trying to climb over the whitehouse fence and had to evacuate staff, if would have been on the news on repeat, but because it looks bad to the 90% Democrat leaning media, it’s not.
> new contributors make PRs. they make silly simple mistakes due to lack of experience; you point them out and they get fixed. this can be fun, for a time. what it’s teaching you is that you personally are responsible for catching mistakes.

Every team I've worked with that was feeling exhausted about code contributions actually needed to focus on better documenting guidelines but most importantly, improve CI. Catching silly mistakes is the textbook definition where automating stuff can help the most. This should improve reviewer's peace of mind and speed things up because people will work by themselves to fix things before asking for a review.

I don't know what's the CI situation in the Rust project but if it's anything like what I'm used to, it probably needs improvement. Adding more human-hours to reviewing things isn't sustainable.
An endless crafting game with Llama 2
what was the problem? some leaking abstractions?
Not only open source. Also anyone taking ownership in companies end up like that. The difference is: The person gets paid and is ideally not emotional involved.
Ask HN: Is server-side rendering approach going to take over?
I remember back in the old days stacks like: php/ror+jquery, asp.net+contexts, asp.net core+knockoutjs. The speed of delivering new features was astonishing, because those stacks didn't cause much issues. One of the problems was that many didn't care much, or didn't have a good solution about how to structure JavaScript code in such setup, so it often turned into a mess after some months/years. This and some other reasons made this model of creating apps to go a bit out of control, giving space for JS frameworks like angular or later react, vue.

I don't know how to explain it, but when I first tried things like knockout or vue i was blown away. I loved the flexibility and operating straight on the DOM. JSON felt cool. Somehow I ignored the fact how many packages I had to install to make it working. People said it has to be like that, so I listened. And it was clearly a mistake.

The idea of server-side HTML generation was not fancy anymore. Modern software had to be on react or vue. And this stereotype slowed down development of all the server-side solutions that were great, they just missed something that dynamically can change the content of the page.

I don't exactly know what happened in 2021+, but clearly something has changed. People started to complain about react more and more. I started too. Writing code with react wasn't fun anymore, probably because of hooks.

Then frameworks like Turbo, HTMX, Livewire emerged and it seems they're gettting the attention now. I've made myself a framework (https://usehydro.dev) that allows creating server-side components that on the client side become interactive and stateful.

To me working with such model is wonderful, I'm focusing more on the back-end side and my views are tied to the way how back-end works. No more data synchronization. Just HTML partials exchange.

But what do you think, is server-side rendering approach with partial HTML synchronization the future or at least something that will stay for longer?
I use a lot of 10-20 years old computers and never experiencing those. Right now I am writing from single-core P4 and 2Gb RAM, of course it is 32-bit. I still can open any website from HN except of those requiring me to have a top-notch web-browser.

The only problem I have is that I can neither update Chrome to a modern version (understandable) nor downgrade it to the version with Adobe Flash support (not understandable). Not supporting Flash is kind of moronic despite of notoriously bugginess of Flash because if you (Google) don't support a browser for me anyway and my browser is buggy a-priori, why do you bother me with disallowing Adobe Flash?
On a trip to a sparsely populated part of Norway I hadn't been to before, I ran into my first unstaffed grocery store. You checked in with a bank card (they did that thing with reserving a 0.50 transcation) and it was self-service in there. Presumably someone would be in from time to time to restock the shelves.
Nice read, quite a well written essay. I like how two seemingly distinct subjects are organically knitted together to raise its arguments. What partly sounds like a (not so) hidden praise for creative commons remix culture may I add.

[edit] Also : https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4
To be honest it seems like what it is for the younger generation in life generally. A nice legacy from the boomers and unsurprisingly Apple is a very big boomer company.

I think many here do not see this since they earn enough that those considerations are kind of irrelevant, but I believe current Apple problems reveal a systemic problem across society.
Apple acts like an old entitled asshole who just want to capture value for not doing much because one day they did something good and I feel in general this is exactly what the current governing generation is doing...
CO Word of the Week #8
I see a trend in blogging to stop using capital letters - it makes it much harder to read. It's not even like they don't know how they work:

> rotate responsibilities. don’t have the same person assigned to the majority of PRs.
ShadeMap: Simulate sun shadows for any time and place on Earth
Thank you, according to it, absolute concentration grows ~0.6% a year, from 320 to 420. At what value the impact on living organisms or other processes becomes substantial?
Outages are short and rare enough that newer cashiers may never have seen the imprint machine (and the store, if it has one, it’s probably buried in customer service somewhere).

Where outages are more common it’s more likely people have workarounds - kind of like how when there was a power failure and the power company told the local store it would be 4+ hours to recovery they declared “discounted dairy”.
Battery price war: CATL, BYD pushing battery costs down further – CnEVPost
You have to enable remote SSH in the settings, first.
Yeah, as much as I like self-checkout it seems the bag logic is broken everywhere

I just scan everything and bag the stuff after payment
How about the safe code in avionics/nuclear sites, ADA/Spark, Misra C? Not magic or as safe-proof as a physical engineering where it's far easier to guess how a system will behave, OFC, but it's a good start.
Interesting. I tried it with a recent photo I converted to B&W. A sunrise scene over a river.

It coloured the sky bright blue with clouds and kept most of the buildings b&w.

The image looked nice, but not accurate - but I guess that doesn't really matter?
Perhaps. IIRC, if a Mac starts and no keyboard is attached or paired it will show a Bluetooth searching dialog box
That sure is a lot of single use NFC tags though.

These kinds of convenience features are almost never aligned with the strong passion many today have for reducing waste and helping lower our environmental impact.
It's not a mobile phone chip. But yeah the previous generation is on its way upstream, so probably some common content.

Maybe those oryon cores will end up in the next generation phone chip?
You don't need this in Python
Honestly this is the only thread of comments that really get to the meat and potatoes of why Apple can be evil although while making good product. Their evil must be curbed as they go out of their way with certain actions to completely punish their customers and partners.
Do other people react as strongly as I did to the lack of capitalisation at the start of sentences? The post is generally "well" written with good grammar and punctuation so I find it strange - it feels like a style choice. But the style choice just instinctively makes part of my brain feel like it's written by a child.
Whats the technology behind this? Is it spatial SQL or some other python-based spatial analysis? I suppose the map is either open layers or leaflet, but the other part is more interesting. Sorry, didn't find it on the page or here, please take excuse if already answered. Thanks
Copilot to open automatically upon Windows startup
And why would they need this plumber’s services once the robot learns from 8000 plumbing jobs database?
This website claims turning the computer off and on will prompt macOS to search for Bluetooth keyboard/mouse if there isn’t one connected.

https://macreports.com/how-to-turn-on-bluetooth-on-your-mac-...

I don’t understand how one is supposed to do this without a keyboard or mice though:

> If you are working on documents, save them, and close them.
Would connecting a phone via USB work? Is there an app that lets you use your phone as a mouse / keyboard via USB?
best self checkout is when the store gives you a handheld device to scan products right b4 you put them in bags in your cart. When you approach the cashier, they just scan your qr code and prompt you to pay. After that you just take your bags and go... Even faster if the bags are from bicycle and you just put them in the back and go...
They don't need to care about developers - they cannot leave.
If you don't get paid to do something it's not fun, how about you just stop doing it?
Great question. Something like, "This computer has no input devices. Check your keyboard and mouse." Seems like pretty important use case for a personal computer targeting people who may not have grown up around computers or even finished high school.

As a user of personal computers, I should be able to easily determine if my computer is configured for basic use.
Surely they charge the keyboard and mouse. Wouldn't at least one of them be charged via a USB cable? Plugging that to the computer would turn the peripheral into a wired USB one.
Yeah, I don't really have the patience to read through uncapitalised text for long. Enough blog posts around to skip some of them.
OK, I admit it. The conspiracy theorists were right
I learned debugging (with the VS IDE and .NET tools) on my first job. School never taught me anything about debugging. Certainly not how to use the tools, but more critically never taught me: how to use binary divide techniques to track down which change caused a bug, how to use deductive reasoning to narrow down what can't be the problem, and even how to carefully read error messages to pinpoint the issue.

Schools teach theory, and sometimes they teach some versions of practical job skills. But it's pretty hard for a for-profit educational institution to make good decisions regarding education when students are the product and for-profit businesses are the actual customers. You end up maximizing recruiters' ideas of what makes a good worker and makes them marketable products, rather than what other working people have experienced as being important job skills. People say software devs need stronger unions but what we really need is to bring back guilds.
Weird, it's never crashed on me and I use it extensively.
Both are true, #2 is huge. I would like to add:
3. Self-checkout displaces workers to the benefit of stores and the detriment of society at large.
> And even now, they still take any opportunity they can to make it look unattractive such as hiding the ability to install a PWA deep in a series of unrelated menus.

That isn’t true. It takes two taps. You tap the share button, then you tap Add to Home Screen. That’s it. That’s not “hidden deep in a series of unrelated menus”. It’s a top-level option.

And don’t complain about the “share” button – that’s just a bad name for what iOS users understand as the “Send/Put/Open this somewhere else” button. It makes total sense if you are an iOS user, don’t be misled by what people call it. People tap it when they want to “do something” with what they are looking at. It’s exactly the button you’d tap if you wanted to add a PWA to your home screen.
US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty
I recently used Shotcut and it did crash a few times, but both times it still had my changes after reopening.

Not being used to the concepts of video editing, I found it easy to find a workflow that worked for me (cutting out mistakes and stitching remaining ends).
This generalises to any idealism. You would not think veterinarians to be at elevated risk of suicide, but they are [0], and I think the reasons are similar: a moral dilemma caused by the mismatch between expectation and grim reality which ultimately leads to burnout and desperation.

The other extreme is a "bullshit job", work that you don't enjoy and which serves no meaningful purpose.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231010-the-acute-suic...