skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably an unpopular opinion, but as an Apple user it is okay for me to pay 30% extra (which I often do instead of using Android and getting certain apps for free), so I avoid having to sideload Epic/Facebook/whatnot stuff from their own mandatory app store + having the hassle of figuring out if there's a subscription model and how difficult it is to terminate, how to handle refunds, what darkpattern analytics are included in the appstore binary etc. etc.

If you need certain amount of money per user for the product to be profitable, raise the price to account for Apple's cut. But please do not force me to install app stores from companies which have their lifeblood in data brokering my life. At least I have an understanding with Apple that if they go haywire with that stuff (like it was close with the whole CSAM scanning debacle which damaged my trust in Apple and I started considering alternatives) they will lose my hardware purchases as well.
This is the problem. How good is a model compared to reality.

I heard one argument against Climate Change being that it is 'just an estimate', that reality is more fine grained. How can you trust a model since the model is just an estimate of reality that leaves out a lot of details? They were calling into question all models, in order to debunk Climate Change. Not sure they realized how much of the technology is based on models.
It has been fashionable since 1992 to complain about OO programming and around that time hate for exceptions started to grow. Half of it was that exceptions had a broken implementation in C++, half of it was a reflexive rejection of anything having to do with Java. (Is it a lost opportunity that they didn’t fill Java up with really bad ideas to get them rejected by the community.)

In the 1980s I remember looking at good C code and thinking, gee, correct error handling bloats code by 2x or 3x and it is not the ceremony and superfluous agreement of Java which the compiler helps you maintain but instead it is devilishly complex and any mistake in it is likely to go untested. (e.g. and if you did actually write automated tests again you’d probably have to 2x or 3x the code again to get in mocks.)

I had an engineering manager who thought error handling in Scala was great with monads and also boasted that his team did rigorous code reviews but when I got my hands in the code I found it was like bad C code from the 1980s, the facilities to do error handling were there but people weren’t using them. Errors just got ignored, so our data analytics system would just give wrong answers.

Exceptions, in the other hand, do something sane automatically and don’t make your code unmaintainable by building an elaborate error handling machine that is closely interspersed with your code. It is such a terrible step backwards to give up on exceptions.
The merits are centered around the outcomes, which in this case are the consolidation of wealth by a few who don’t need it from the many who do. What other merits are more meaningful than the observable outcomes of the practice?
I liked it, have almost all published books, and enjoy that Swift, Java and C# have taken several ideas from it, even better now that AOT is finally part of the whole package instead of commercial offerings.

D as well, but nowadays they are fighting with a dwellig community.
Unlike a live usb, Qemu is (mostly?) hardware agnostic. The abstraction means you could run a VM image on a x86 based ThinkPad or an ARM based Mac.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/de...
Agreed, I only picked up reading again after finding Libby.

(A short story about how cheating the user with exorbitant prices results in the exit of your audience.)
>Trump derangement syndrome is real.

Clinton Crazies, Obama Derangement, Trump Derangement. Always a problem. Though not with biden? Democrats should work hard to understand why.

Personally, Trudeau derangement definitely a problem for me.

>That they do it in the name of protecting democracy is ironic, given the extent to which it violates democracy in spirit.

The Republicans would be so much less stressed out if they just let the democracts choose who runs against them... lol.

Anyway, not allowed to be republican on this website.
You're looking in the wrong place. Give someone $500 million to build a pizza-making robot and they'll build a company designed to justify spending $500 million. Give a bunch of top tier engineering/CS students some budget for printer filament and pizza toppings over the summer holidays and they'll probably build you a functional pizza robot.
Those artists learned the same way generative AI did, by ingesting copyrighted art. I couldn't care less about that unless the AI companies are somehow preventing people from purchasing from those artists or taking a cut out of their sales like Apple does with the app store.
Back in the day I was fond of ion3, which was a tiling wm that also let you tab windows together. Dunno why it never caught on.

I also recall another unpopular wm from around the same time that was a zoomable canvas. Implemented in Python I think. No idea what it was called.
Did he say he was using it on untrusted hardware he didn't own?

I saw it as something he can run wherever he wants without having to migrate configs and data. Like you are flying in a different country, go to a store, buy a computer, start an hypervisor and you are done.

I would still reinstall first that new computer with an OS of my choice, but an extension of his method could be to have that qemu image stored on a liveusb that already has qemu installed. Maybe that is what he does.
I have thinkpad, and fortunately they still make esc big enough, so that I was not compelled to rebind.

It is more like ... when I am writing I like to stay in insert mode as long as possible - and this is where I would put the 80% of the time in vim.

Once I put on my edit/refactor hat, that is where normal-mode shines :)

And of course, special shout out to visual-selection mode.
I'm a Ventoy user but missed this feature. Does anyone knows how it works? Are they packaging one or more hyoervisors together with Ventoy?
Nitpick: Epstein's book is called "Range: _Why_ Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World", not "Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World"

[0]: https://a.co/d/g0y80gW
But that’s pretty much what the cloud and distributed computing has been about for three decades. I was launching netbatch jobs in 1995 and never knew if they were running on HPUX, AIX, or SunOS. The OP has added an enormous amount of risk to their workflow by relying on incredibly unreliable flash storage. I wouldn’t touch this strategy with a ten foot pole. I can be hardware agnostic with five nines redundancy with cloud services.
Yes, an upgrade path to a quality commerical tool is certainly an advantage.
Quick Tips to Write Effectively, from a Staff Engineer who writes a lot
I like writing, it's one of my strengths as a Staff Engineer.

I've read too many books on how to write well.

Here is a list of the best 13 quick fixes you can apply instantly to make your writing more effective at work.

TLDR
Good writing is when you respect your reader.

Please let me know if you have any other techniques that have helped you!
I hear you, that's the #1 issue people have with ueli. Even though it's electron based, I feel like at least it's properly made performance wise. Bringing it up and the listing is both instant. I also really like that it does fuzzy search, and a ton of plugins by default (windows 10 settings, currency converter, etc).
Yeah, and I presume this is one of the reasons they've chosen LEO. To cut costs of the experiment.
Human rights abuses in mining related to battery mining is its own problem to be dealt with on its own terms. This is a good solution to that problem, not a 1% solution or virtue signaling.
I don't know how it works in USA but here in Poland you earn like 4 times more as a developer compared to a computer science PhD at an university. The incentives aren't exactly healthy. And the programming culture is basically - learn it yourself, go to university so you have a paper proving you can do it.
It makes from the sense Robert Griesemer decided to influence Go's design based on his ETHZ experience while working in Oberon ecosystem.
The rationale is that Boeing got an exception from best practices, so they should revert to best practices.
Can you guys explain? I've read a lot of Murakami and not familiar with the screen saver joke.
> But some people are just unable to do enough mental abstract processing to do the second part.

Even accepting that this is true, not teaching it because some people may not be able to learn it and instead leaving everybody to figure it out for themselves, some of whom might have figured it out with help, is really fucking shitty gatekeeping behaviour and you should be embarrassed for defending it.
The IKEA implementation is very close to ideal. An actual handheld barcode scanner attached to a long cable that you can move around as needed. Virtually no delay when scanning things. No need to place items on a scale. No need to pick each item up to pass it over an awkward fixed scanning surface. No problem if you want to use your own bags. No problem if you run out of space and need to move items back to the trolley. It's like they actually thought about the user.
There's plenty of good reasons to charge different amounts for the same services. There's nothing immoral about that. People can simply say no to making the purchase for the price offered to them. Again, this is completely besides the point of the Apple case.

In Apple's case there are no reasonable alternatives and no practical way to say "no" to the service if you want any business at all. That and that alone should be the issue at hand. What Apple is doing should not be legal on that ground. Either they allow third party stores, or they adjust their cut to a level that can reasonably argued is aligned with the value they're adding to the publisher of that app or service. Now they're in "we can charge whatever because we're the only route to getting your product on Apple products" land, and that's just not where we want to be.
> Enjoy your homogenous, high trust society

"Homogeneous" in what way?

Because in my experience the sort of "homogeneity" that leads to high trust is that of wealth/income, and it requires a generous social net.
Also in Italian. "Mezzogiorno" both means noon and south.
well for Windows specifically I think it's rather a managerial issue, some managers want to leave their mark, and 10% done is good enough to get promoted to other pastures and the the missing 90% become someone else's problem...
> Device Trees [...] are absolutely horrid especially in comparison.

Care to elaborate? I only have a passing interest in the ACPI / UEFI / Open Firmware / device trees / etc. story, but I haven’t encountered anything particularly awful about device trees, or (until you) anybody saying there was.
Bad actors seem to hardcode IP addresses.
This is my only gripe as compared to AdGuard Home.

However, Technitium is miles ahead in terms of raw customization. One such example is synchronizing DNS servers. Unlike AdGuard Home you have to resort to an additional app [1], with technitium you do proper NS transfer [2].

[2] https://github.com/bakito/adguardhome-sync

[1] https://reddit.com/comments/s91oo5/comment/htk9jnt
Jobs was deeply cynical about ebooks, claiming early on that Kindle would fail because “people don’t read anymore”[0].

There’s some level of irony in the fact that the most successful product from the guy who wanted to build a “bicycle of the mind”[1] ended up being something more like the floating chairs in Wall E.

0 - https://www.wired.com/2008/01/steve-jobs-peop/

1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8
Nobody wants to spend their time micromanaging their electricity usage to such a point. Such a scheme to all users will never pass. Lack of day-ahead means it's impossible to plan anything.
That doesn't work for in-app purchases, which is almost certainly the majority of revenue.
Alternatives: zoxide, autojump, fasd, and probably couple other
I do this with every phone. However, some things to keep in mind...

There isn't any deletion occuring; rather a disabling. You'll still see much of what you remove listed as Not Installed For This User, but it's there.

Some things can't be disabled, eg the embedded crapware in Google Play Services; Exposure matching, Personal safety, etc. Some things can be temporarily disabled through/DeveloperOptions/RunningServices, but not only will this only last one boot cycle, some services will respawn autonomously - notably Exposure Matching Services.

Making a list of everything disabled is important, especially if taking the scorched earth approach.

With each Android update, I notice reduced control. Many background services and unnecessary system apps increasingly have immutable permissions. And permissions... This seems more convoluted and crippled with every update.

Android is pretty sleazy. But I suppose the bulk of the tech paradigm is too.
I have noticed that data structures are foreign to many less experienced developers with a computer science education. That blows my mind, but then I am self taught.

For example consider the following:

var1[var2[index][index1]][0]

It’s just a combination arrays and objects, but may as well be its own language. The practical problem then is that many developers cannot navigate larger structures that come over a network, cannot recursively walk a file system, cannot traverse a DOM, and cannot do so much more. To me, the person without the computer science education, it looks like their education was a waste of time and money. Understanding data structures is among the most important of all skills in programming.
Because humans tend to be cruel when the target is perceived as one deserving cruelty.

It makes people feel really good about themselves to step over members of the "other" group. We will never overcome our natural tendency to tribalism.
Apple created a minimal bootloader for their Apple Silicon machines, seems to be working great.
It depends on how you're measuring nutrition. They also used lard, butter, etc. They ate cured and canned foods. You should look up some of the old depression and war time ration recipes. Many are loaded with fat and sugar because you needed the calories. But you are right that it wasn't an overabundance, but in some cases it ended up essentially as malnutrition.

They also were much more physical since this is the time before machines that did everything for us and people walked most places. Many of the weak died young with the state od medicine at the time. So there are many potential changes.
> JS engines (which are descendants of the Self engine) are still significanly faster than Cog/OpenSmalltalk.

This is almost entirely a function of effort expended.

Several trillion dollar companies have large teams working on JavaScript engines, usually multiple engines each. The OpenSmalltalk VM is a volunteer effort of a very small community, with the main JIT produced primarily by a single person.

"The F4 Phantom...America's proof to the world that with a big enough engine, even a brick can fly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqUgUgiToNs

Fabio Niephaus hooked up Squeak to the GraalVM.

https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak

Takes a while for the optimizer to reach a steady-state, but does it ever fly when it does. The Bouncing Atoms demo reaches around 10x the frame rate of the OpenSmalltalk VM.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336086216_GraalSque...
If that messaging is allowed, it is a huge change from before, where external links for taking payment was not allowed at all within an app. A lot of users will probably opt for the 27% discount if given the choice.
I used kdenlive recently and it worked very well! Clipchamp charges for 4K export which seriously annoys me given we all know that’s just arbitrary, but kdenlive handled it just fine and was actually faster to use anyways
>Epstein's book is called "Range: _Why_ Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World", not "Range: How

It looks like the blog author remembered the older title that had the word "How" but linked the url for the newer title that changed it to "Why". Previous title with "_How_" : https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
Pretty sure that Epic will sue again over this, and quite easily win. If Apple has to allow you to advertise that things can be bought from somewhere else, it doesn't seem plausible they can mandate how exactly you advertise this.
OSTree only covers the OS.

Nix covers not only that but all user-installed libs, apps, etc.

Less is not more in this case. It’s like Mongo vs. Postgres where there are things you can do with Postgres that are either impossible or highly complicated to do in Mongo… due to the lack of a relational engine and JOINs.

The fact that people don’t want to understand JOINs should not be an argument for MongoDB!

It’s just the functional declarative paradigm as applied to package management, going all the way to the metal. This paradigm has succeeded better than the procedural/OOP paradigm in just about every realm of computing where it’s been applied, other than 3-D graphics processing. (Example: All of Whatsapp is run off a single server and 20 engineers. Erlang/BEAM stack.) If you can’t see, or aren’t on board with the latter, then you won’t understand or see the former.

If you’ve ever preferred to style HTML using CSS instead of JavaScript, then you’re starting to see it.
Definitely a good question, and one I wondered a lot when I worked in the field. There's probably something satisfying to certain teachers watching a bunch of reasonably smart kids fail, especially the ones who used to skate through with intuitive understanding of everything until they get to that one class where they might have to apply themselves. There is also a type of student that traditionally tries all combinations of tricks they learned until something gets the green light and these students are probably annoying in office hours, where the TA or professor has to try to understand a very foreign way of approaching problems to tell the student what's wrong, just for the student to add something to their bag of tricks instead of learning the more general principle they are missing. Those students often fail weed-out classes. There may be some students who cannot learn to generalize properly, I do not know.

I like what is being asked by the OP. Why do we see it as a benefit to gatekeep and weed out rather than educate? If you get to first year CS or EE without a complete understanding of basic algebra, or first year creative writing without comma-use skills, you have been failed in your previous education. A remedial approach will hopefully get a bunch of students back on level. However, if you get through CS without debugging skills or creative writing without being able to edit and improve piece, then your university failed you. Even those educated with a focus on getting it right the first time will still produce products that need debugging or editing.
First polar bear to die of bird flu – what are the implications?
Sure, as I live in such a place myself, and I got the contract last year. Since then housing prices have fallen in Seoul.

- Random building here https://fin.land.naver.com/articles/2402864693
Last March, 2 contracts at
2,000/63 and 2,000/80 respectively.

Still too high of a deposit? https://fin.land.naver.com/articles/2402982978 @ 1,000/90, building is less than 2 years old.

Need 2 bedrooms? Here: https://fin.land.naver.com/articles/2356138769
German firm starts remote-driving car service in Las Vegas
Kdenlive has been my best FOSS NLE experience
I agree, and said as much in the second part of my comment.
Elon Musk seeks greater share of Tesla before pushing AI ambitions
No - anaerobic digestion produces more methane; aerobic digestion (lots of air mixed in) favors more CO2 and less methane. Typically, if you have a deliberately anaerobic industrial composting operation, you capture the methane and produce a small amount of power from it. But aerobic digestion is faster and is what I believe most big facilities use. There's still some methane but much less than if you threw the stuff in a landfill.
There was a major collapse in North America before the arrival of the Europeans. Cahokia, for example, was abandoned before Columbus ever set sail.

The diseases hit an already traumatized population.
Fair, I think what makes this case interesting is that he wasn't an athletic outlier for most of his life, so the question on how many dormant athletes are out there remains. Maybe the distribution is not as skew as one might initially think
I’m not sure about his insistence on teaching comme rule in class. I don’t think knowing comma rule is fundamental. And anyone who wants to learn grammar can look it up. The information is freely available online.

But I agree that education is not about teching it’s about creating jobs for academic professionals. Money is the most fundamental topic in our society. But I don’t remember ever being in a classroom where how money works was explained.
the presence of a paid search API should be enough of a hint that a $10 account trying to read back the entire index is not going to be tolerated.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/search.html

though the lack of alerting and the lack of consideration for bad actors in general (just look for the kagi feedback thread on suicide results, you can kagi it) seems pretty consistent
> People here are of the curious kind. The kind that likes to learn, likes to know when they are wrong, likes to put themselves into other perspectives, figure things out etc.

That's very charitable. I find this a community of people that think very highly of themselves, and that outside of very narrow technical topics, is prone to speak with a lot of false authority of things they understand very little about.

"Those other people do it wrong. But not us, we do it right".
Worth mentioning that many studies have shown a reliable decrease in overall nutrient content of most fruits and vegetables over the last century: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...

Personally this is convincing enough to me to take a multivitamin.
I chuckled reading this… would restarting the Mac re-enable the Bluetooth?
No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways
What would possess people to journal using big tech tools.
Not sure on that episode specifically. If you have two hours (or want to skip around to the good parts), this youtube video goes in depth on the records of Tommy Tallarico and his videogame-related records: https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI?si=dgBVx1osuCsDpaaZ It seems that, originally, Guinness just took his word for it and printed it as fact, but to your point eventually they renamed his record so it was more accurate.

(warning:language)
If you don't trust encryption, I'm honestly curious to hear how you handle your sensitive data. My own opinion is that you're being too paranoid, but it would be interesting to hear back from you.
Interesting. What makes this project more undetectable than other approaches? Will this bypass Cloudflare security checks? Can it screenshot? Can it close pop-up dialogues (sign in, sign up, cookies) before screenshoting?
I shop at Sprouts and they don’t require weight checks. You can scan same item twice (rarely causing mistakes). The item lookup is easy and effective. Whole thing works great, I use it all the time.
KDP from Amazon will always take a 30% or greater cut.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210