skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that "outside of the genes information" is not just the color or the shape of the house, it is _essential_ instruction on how to build the house. Without it, you will not get something that qualifies as "house".

In the analogy, it is not 2 teams that build houses that are very different, it is two teams that use the same blueprint and one ends up with a house, and the other one ends up with a car. In this case, it is then correct that the "blueprint" is in fact not a blueprint.

Or another way of seeing it, you have the blueprint of the house, then you rip it apart in small pieces. Some of these pieces are the genes, other of these pieces are "out of the genes", such that if you just have the genes pieces, you just don't have enough information to build something that qualifies as a house. (funnily enough, you can say that the house builder can "fill the gaps" with his own knowledge, which would be a good example of "out of the genes" instructions)

As for your software analogy, again, some software have flags to turn between databases or frontend. But the point of the article is to explain that it is demonstrable that genes don't correspond to that: genes in itself are not enough to make blood cells by just turning a flag on or off, the same way a piece of wood is not a blueprint of both a chair and a door and that the carpenter is just a simple flag that will turn the piece of wood into a chair or a door. In this software analogy, it's like if you have one script file that just contains one basic function that neither does a database or a frontend. If you combine this script with other software pieces, you can have a database, if you combine this script with other software pieces, you can have a frontend.
No, you are absolutely right. Episodic shows that call themselves “podcasts” are trying to capitalize on the popularity of podcasts as an open system while shirking the openness that makes them popular. We should refuse to call them podcasts, because they are not.
I think it’s smarter to just ban packaging that will be around 100+ years.
> This means that the largest alignment requirement of any basic type (max_align_t in C++, usually 4 bytes for 32-bit architectures and 8 bytes for 64-bit architectures) is suitable for every single type in the language.

Usually alignment is a bit larger, to accommodate SSE etc. which requires larger alignment.
Ive been using Simplelogin for a few years, and its totally fine.

Id just like it if Firefox Relay had these features.
I mean AWS optimization is a valid consultancy/self employment career; it's like tech debt in coding, you make it work first, prove that it works, get value from it, and only then look into optimizing.

Would these clients have been able to make the upfront investment to set up their own racks and hire / train the relevant staff? That's the sales pitch for AWS and other cloud providers, you can get started a lot faster, make money, only then look into optimizing.

Running your own servers is easy to underestimate. Running it with the reliability, backup and fallbacks that cloud providers offer is also easily overlooked. How much does it cost to set up a multi region cluster yourself?

That said, there are some real life examples of companies that moved away from AWS in favor of their own servers, like Dropbox which bootstrapped on AWS, then built their own eight years later (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...).
It’s amazing that laptops were the thing that introduced distraction to pupils in school. Not paper football. Not whispering. Not passing notes. Not staring out the window. Not sleeping. Not spending too much time in the bathroom.
They wanted to give them computer, but handed a data vacuum cleaner by ad company. Why not add a pack of cigarettes as well?
Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
> When Jobs acquired Apple, his vision of computing appliances was restarted - iPod, iPhone, et al. They have a lot more functionality, but the iOS walled garden keeps enough of the users happy - at least in the Silicon Valley/USA.

This sentence is backwards. About the only users not happy with the iPad as computing appliance are the ones in Silicon Valley USA or drinking its "car makers should design for garage mechanics not for driving" koolaid. (Commenters here, for instance.)

If you accept the premise the best tech disappears behind "the job to be done" for users, if you acknowledge driving is not about tinkering under the hood, to run an errand a driver shouldn't need to even know how it works under the hood, and most drivers are better off picking up groceries or kids or traveling, not ever opening the hood, then you will have a better time making cars for the drivers who buy Apple because it's an appliance farther along the novel engineering utility curve, where tinkerability is for engineers, utility is for users, and most users are not mechanics.

See also this, on Apple's "brand promise" and the EU's DMA:

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/215-buildi...
I'm not saying jQuery isn't great, but being entrenched and being great are two different things. It's not really saying anything to say things would break if you remove it.

The thing is for a certain time, jQuery was almost seen as inseparable from JS itself. Like the Python standard library is to Python. You can still find StackOverflow questions today asking to do something in JS and the answer is jQuery, and not just "here's how to do it in jQuery", just "here's what you asked for". That means it certainly got used in a lot of places where it wasn't really necessary.

The backlash against it, though, is just your typical pendulum swing that seems so much an unfortunate part of human nature. It's like when CSS was in and table-based layouts were out. I saw developers trying to use CSS to render tables. Nuance is hard and people can't help going to extremes. jQuery is probably still a really useful tool. I've seen some jQuery expressions that are far more elegant and beautiful then a plain JS equivalent. Whether this matters for any particular project is completely up to you. I don't like the way it encourages tons of ad hoc JS snippets all over the place, but that's a fault of developers, not jQuery.
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What's the Point (In Polygon)?
Yeah, I'm with you, I thought this thing was just waiting for some "function colouring" behaviors to be ironed out in zig before it was to be polished. I guess comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991684 made me think this but it's good to have been informed that this in fact is not the case (and is closer to a com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer as a ref for us ole java folk)
For a dum dum like me who only dabbles in programming:

What would be a use case for this?
My tweet from 2015:

#pitchforkmedia... "now with more rap."

https://twitter.com/akaspick/status/606803688888377344

As a reader since the early 2000's, I noticed the shift pretty quick.
But does it taste like the real thing?
My kid had tablets in kindergarten that did the majority of the lessons. It's pretty horrifying in a lot of ways (way too much screen time), but has some advantages. If your kid learns well that way, they can move ahead at their own pace.

They do a lot of phonics in my kids class. She finished all her phonics lessons early in the year, so now she just uses that time to read a few chapter book chapters instead that I send with her to school, which is much more relevant than just doing extra phonics anyway (that's another story though).
It's fascinating that I have to pay to get my data removed from datasets into which they got without my consent (well, my consent "is not worth much" IMHO) and somebody else gets paid to put my data into this dataset.

So I need to pay to get something I never wanted in the first place.
No, definitely not everywhere. I had some bad experience that echo yours, as well as quite a few mostly positive ones.
Might it be easier to just add a `last_updated_by` column? Then passing the data to the db is as simple as adding it to the insert and it would be automatically stored in the history table as well without needing any special handling.
This headline is misleading. According to the article schools CAN still use Chromebooks but they cannot enable the tracking functionality on them.

"From 1 August 2024 onwards, Danish schools will no longer be allowed to enable Chromebooks and Google platforms to collect students' personal data for processing."
Good question. I saw the CentOS drama unfolding and Rocky was pitched as a replacement. They held the door so far :) (Hodor from Game of Thrones)
I don't think that is the point he is making.

More that lawyers will hoard contracts but there will be financial incentives to defect early (the idea being to sell your contracts while the price is high).

Then that lawyer's contracts will become the mass-produced "good enough" boilerplate and be used widely driving down the value of hoarding contracts at all.
You don’t even need python, RSS is just plain old (plaintext) human-readable XML, just follow the link and find the .mp3 url directly
The Amazon PAAPI is "interesting" because to even access it, you need to have 3 qualified sales. But... I wanted to use the API to create a website where I'd post the affiliate links on. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why I went with eBay.
I knew the people who made GrandCare. Its some non-invasive monitors in the house -- basically the point is if your mom fell down and can't get up -- it should detect it and alert you. I've not used it, but they've been in business for a while now so I assume its alright.
We absolutely let kids carry around chemicals all day to use however they want. Children carry water, which is a chemical. Children carry foods which contain chemicals. Children may carry a rescue inhaler, which contains chemicals. Hand sanitizer. Art supplies. Personal care products. Makeup.
Turns out 99% of the time you don't need to parse terabytes or have μs-response times. Meaning you should be programming just about 99% of your time in Python.

The Rust memory management puzzles are not really complicated. They just get in the way.

> they don't have basic language tools like proper sum types or traits that get things done

Sum types and traits are not getting things done.
> Most upstream developers will likely have their own infrastructure. So, the added value is dubious.

They could make it optional; but the artefacts of those who use it, would be more trustworthy, since flathub can guarantee their BOM. The same way, as you can trust binaries from F-Droid more, than from Google Play.
A Deep Dive into RSpec Tests in Ruby on Rails
I'm pulling the trigger and write a book in public in 2024.

What are your thoughts?
Yeah there are no such protections stateside. Consumer companies took one look at the pandemic and saw dollar signs. With big appliances you'll get a flat one year warranty pretty much across the board even with European brands like Bosch. Big box stores tightened up their return policies as well. You've now got 48 hours (down from a month or two prior) to return big appliances. Extended warranties with any purchase used to be a mainstay of American credit cards, and that's largely gone.
That does not represent a “triumph of […] tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company” though.

It’s just companies being nice, because the incentives to not be nice haven’t showed up yet.
Too bad I don't live in Europe, what can I do? (shrug)
Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible
I Am the Magpie River: How a Quebec river became a person under local law
https://archive.is/mBH2q
Containerized database operator, 1 for all, rel. 0.8.0
They are correct.

> Functions that shrink the size of a slice (Delete, DeleteFunc, Compact, CompactFunc, and Replace) now zero the elements between the new length and the old length.
> Sweden is rolling back[1]large parts of the digitalization at schools

I hope this becomes a trend! I’ve always hated the idea of being dependent on electronic devices during school.
I meant in the practical senses:

- learn to make your arguments in terms that appeal to the sensibilities of bean counters, not engineers

- learn to manipulate documentation so they’re forced to record overriding good engineering in a way that’s discoverable

- learn to identify key political players and address their desires, rather than appealing to “doing the right thing”

Etc.

All things that I’ve done poorly at various stages of my career — and seen other engineers struggle with as well. Much like being a manager requires training and education, so does being an effective advocate for engineering to the wider organization.

Or to borrow your analogy, if every engineer is afraid of boxing, then can we be surprised their views go unheard?
Foreign keys / references; you query one history table at timestamp X, then the joined history table with a "where start > X and end < X" to get the foreign key's data at timestamp X.
Nobody is arguing that they shouldn't teach tech at all. When they're talking about bans, they're likely referring to for general classes (math, English, science...etc) and would of course be happy with a computer class that teaches typing, Excel, PPT, and some actual computer/STEM stuff like basic programming. It may sound old fashioned, but books work just as well for most classes with a lot less distraction. Assuming you let your kid watch a little TV or play video games...they're no longer getting 1-2 hours of screen time per day like we did, but rather more like 5-6 hours per day which is likely not healthy.

(Story Time) I had a crazy woman teach a computer elective in highschool, but she made sure everyone left the class typing efficiently without looking and we all knew how to use Excel and PPT. It really helped in college engineering and of course in the work force knowing a little Excel. The ppt stuff sounds ludicrous, but I use it a LOT at work as research and analysis is often summarized and presented to less technical stakeholders in that format. TBH, she basically made sure we were experts in the blue collar aspects of computing that office workers everywhere use. She also taught some history of computing and made sure we all knew common computer terminology like what OS, GUI, DOS, RAM, ROM...etc all meant. In hindsight it was a pretty useful class. The weirdest thing in the class...the teacher had a question on the final that asked which book of the Bible was most like the history of computing. All of us 8th-10th graders were absolutely dumbfounded where this bizzare question came from. Apparently the answer was Exodus, but she couldn't explain to us why and indicated it should be obvious if we had seen Pirates of Silicon Valley.
PyPy exposes a subset of the CPython C API, which is good enough for many C extensions, and some others can be ported with little effort.

Most other Python implementations don't provide any way to use CPython C extensions.

There is also the HPy API and ABI, which some C extensions target and multiple Python implementations can compile or load.
I could be wrong but my guess is the Higgs is just the Higgs and precision measurements won’t give much insight. On the other hand, the mass of the neutrino really is AWOL and that possibly is a key to darkons, why antiprotons are rare, etc. Muon accelerators would be great neutrino sources.
I agree that with enough wealth, we can reverse the climate change we're causing via greenhouse emissions, but the mechanism is anything but easy.

Every study I've read that examines activities companies undertake in order to become "carbon neutral" has found that the results aren't actually environmentally neutral. A panda refuge, for example, requires a climate without too much warming, but it doesn't result in one. Bold geo-engineering would definitely convert dollars into a cooler world, but with undesirable and not fully understood side-effects.

FWIW, I don't like the jet tracking (for Taylor or Elon or anyone), but for different reasons. Transparency on climate emissions is fine, but disclosing the location of vehicles of famous people in real time is real security threat. If Jack Sweeney just delayed his posts by a week, they'd be pretty much indefensible. That wouldn't grow his following on X as fast, though...
Robot can figure out how to open almost any door on its own
Measurements of rare Higgs boson decay may show cracks in physics theory
I have had to do the same to fix Youtube progress reporting, but not much more. That is one of few things the PiHole has ever broken for me (that I know of...). I agree that a problem with PiHole is that if something is not working and I disable uBlock as a debugging step, then I have to also browse and login to 2 different PiHole GUIs and temporarily disable it. Without knowing if PiHole actually blocked anything. It is especially inconvenient when on the phone. I have not looked if it already exist, but I would want a nice little app I can open and just click "disable for X time" which would disable the blocking on all my PiHoles at once. Also syncing all settings from a "master" instance would be great. Maybe the default lists should contain some of the whitelis domains or something aswell.

Still, these problems are so small compared to the value I get out of my PiHoles. Blocking ads for years on end while having troubles maybe 3-4 times in total. All the other time it just works.
Funny.

The question asks "what is the best fruit?" - but the answers only show you what the most widely available fruits are.

Anything that's lesser known or more expensive to mass produce or harder to ship fresh - is a complete non-starter to begin with, regardless of how good it is.
The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
> AWS is NOT cheap.

I've realised that cloud costs are a "wave". (App is app/service/business)

- cheap to run as a small app

- costly to run as a bigger app, cheaper to self-host

- cheaper than running all infra for a much bigger app

- extremely costly compared to running all infra for a much-much bigger app

- probably on par with running your own infra (but then you're getting into tens/hundreds of millions of customers)
The problem I have with this, is if I reduce the choices to the more popular ones I always get people complaining like "How come dragon fruit isn't on there?!"

But I agree that for questions like this where there are a lot of potential answers, then it can be overwhelming.
Try Telegram. Best of both and more.
This is a brief summary of this report:

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/european-electri...

That page also links out to other coverage at Reuters and others.
Then they got a larger issue
To be fair, it sounds like you are saying WeWork would have succeeded if only it had done things it didn't and not done things it did.

That is different than saying that WeWork was successful.
Surely your laptop and smartphone have several 32-bit microprocessors in them.
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book. I was intrigued to learn it's also one of the top recommended books by Tim Ferris guests. I wonder how many separate reasons there were for that.
I did have tech in school in the 80s. I also did fine. Maybe it’s the school district and the parents and the community not a single tool.
I'd say the only "generational" part is that in this example the question has made it to the web. Who wouldn't wonder, when first leaning about two's complement, if unsigned plus sign (one's complement) might be preferable? I'd rather question the mind of people who never went through that phase. And the people who, in the early days, opted for one's complement for the hardware they designed certainly did not do so because of being too far from the metal. Both representations coexisted for a while, sometimes within the same system.
So soft updates and kqueue? :)
I don't think it destroy diversity, people can still choose what they want. It's just a fun way to see how your choices would compare to the masses.

Also for what it's worth my top 3 were Mango, Gooseberry and Tayberry
This list of fruits includes avocados, but not olives - both are arguably fruits. There are more: https://www.treehugger.com/vegetables-are-actually-fruits-48...
I recall of epic battles with pens turned into blowguns. Making lessons interesting is a lost art, and uninterested pupils will always find a way to distract themselves with what they have at hand, laptops or not.
They don't provide binaries, so I don't think there is a risk of having users.

Is it really important to answer this question? A lot of widely used software started as "just for fun", e.g. Linux or OpenSSL.

I think tempering our expectations should be the default for Open Source software.
Well, that's the same thing they did with the "Topics" thing in Chrome -- “we can track you and figure out what you like and send that information to other websites, but they can't do that directly. You are safe in our hands. Don't you see that's better?“
Yep. If it were a service done by Mozilla I could trust it. But this way, what is it besides a referral program for some company I've never heard of?

Plus the 'It's just a Starbucks latte' pricing...
Without those Apple 2 donations, I would not be providing for my family in the way I am now.
2022 MBP with a M1 Pro chip. Beautiful product.

Runs Baldur's Gate 3 on high settings without any lag, though a lot of heat. Also builds Android Studio quicker than most other laptops. Those are my benchmarks, and I'm satisfied.
The amount of damage and breakages to these laptops has to be insane. Teenagers yeet their bags, mess with each other's tech, etc. As a school you can't make the parents responsible for damages, because a lot simply cannot afford replacements or repairs.

While IT skills are important and should be taught at schools, please do it in the traditional fashion; have a computer lab, make everything abuse resistant, and get a favorable repair / maintenance contract.

We have a 15 year old that managed to destroy 3 or 4 laptops and four phones in the span of five years.
Proposing things is free after all, and few of the politicians of 2024 will be there in 2040 to be called about it, and even if they are, they can blame it on previous office holders and whatever...

This is as "trustworthy" as the "Only sell EVs by 2035" EUs proposal, and Musk's mission to Mars.
None of this matters in real life.
Better source

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/shrinking-moon-may-be-gene...