skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most users are incapable, that’s why they’re buying and using other peoples software.
How much is your time worth? Apple does happen to capture the market of users that are able to pay more to save more time, though.
There are non-Amazon cards that will also give 5% at Amazon, but also at other online retailers. For example if you have at least $100k in BofA accounts their "Customized Cash Rewards" card gives you 5.25% in your chosen category [1].

At first that doesn't seem like a good deal. Who keeps $100k in their checking and savings accounts? But BofA owns Merrill and they include Merrill accounts in the total.

[1] Categories are online shopping, gas & EV charging, dining, drug stores, home improvement & furnishing, and travel. You can change categories once in each calendar month.
Swift is great, but the vast majority of apps really don't need to be lovingly hand-crafted for each platform, and Swift is (currently) a bad choice for anything non-Apple.

Personally if I were working on mobile stuff, I'd be looking at .NET MAUI.
How do I use a w4 to fix the social security problem without incurring underpayment of state and federal? Exemptions apply to all the taxes, no?
Plastic is about the best carbon sink you could imagine, locks up those Cs for hundreds of years, unless it gets combusted.
what is exactly the anglospheres obsession with trying to make their life more like that of people who live in squalor and possess nothing?
Great that you have all the answers.

Just one tip:

It’s not the worst thing to assume good faith when somebody asks a follow up question. Especially here.

You might even assume that the person asking might not know your pet peeve trigger subject too well.

There’s even a chance they were genuinely curious to understand your point of view — until, through a rude rant-reply, they realised they were speaking to a tormented Twitter chatbot and dropped the subject instead.
Funny - I’m right-handed, but my left hand also works most of the keyboard. I think it’s more because the modifier keys on the right are more natural for me to hit.

On thumb keyboards, it’s pretty similar too. My left thumb types as far to the right as U/G/B.
xcode is indeed the worst coding software I ever used, it looks like some kind of 90s software which got left rot since.

The whole thing takes 13GB to download where resuming fails, has an undocumented config format which doesn't work with git properly and is more sluggish than an Electron app.

The app upload process itself is so broken that even Apple had to release a third party tool to bypass it.

I refuse to believe they are using this thing internally, they must have some kind of special internal process to make this mess sort of work.

I could say similar things about appstoreconnect where even reordering app images is broken with a race condition if you click too quickly and you have to reload the page.
Also bummed but also couldn't have received anything. I have a decent HF homebrew antenna setup, but nothing that would work on UHF.

Very cool to see though.
This is fun on mobile, tested on ios; I had to close the “works on desktop only” popup (via a popup blocker), but then I could tap to move in that direction and I enjoyed playing this way.
Format with this integration: https://github.com/ruiaureliano/X-SwiftFormat

Then make CMD+s the shortcut.
"Compliance" is the other half of the US insurance nightmare with CPAP. Often insurers demand access to logs of the machine to verify you are actually using it before they will reimburse you. CPAP machines have an elaborate tamper-proof logging mechanism including a cellular modem for data uploads outside your control. Largely to enable surveillance by US insurance companies.

In addition to the surveillance being offensive and intrusive it also harms sleep apnea treatment. Some half of people who need a CPAP find they have a hard time learning to use it, difficulty sleeping with the mask on. It's mostly a psychological problem and one stressor for it is the fear that if they can't get it to work then they will be on the hook for $$$$. So they have a harder time sleeping and give up on the CPAP. It's hideous.

All that being said, CPAP can be life-changing if you have sleep apnea. If you suspect you have a problem breathing while you're asleep please talk to a doctor about it. CPAP works well for a lot of people but there are other treatment options too.
> This was some years ago

This is probably worse today, they're all the time throwing more roadblocks to avoid people to publish apps in their "ecosystem", except if you're a large US company that can easily handle the paperwork.
Yup and large corp/banker corruption and bribery happens only in netflix movies /s
VC usually means venture capital(ist) so the title is very confusing.
It would be quite amusing, but there's no reason in principle that it couldn't be done.

The user-facing APIs would be just as dangerous as ever, but the internal implementation-detail stuff - like this "__vsyslog_internal" - could presumably be made safer.
Overtaking doesn't happen as much on long haul stretches of highway, in accordance with what you'd assume. Mostly it's either passing a truck that's going under the limit, or because a truck is slower going up an incline. Once you're in a more occupied area though, a lot of overtaking is people going at the speed limit passing local traffic that's merging on/off the highway at lower speeds.
Those were 'dystopias'
I love how it has become a meme in Android developer circles that a "stable" Android Studio release always requires a fix release shortly thereafter.

Also Gradle breaking the DSL all the time has become such a pain, that eventually they had to create an upgrade wizard, as if debugging performance issues with the build wasn't fun enough.
Oh, most of them are dunking on it because it's ai "art".
The one where Ricky replaces the towel holder in a lady's bathroom is pretty great also.
Could they also have genetic differences in their temperament that makes them slower to anger naturally?
I have been witness of spreadsheets passed through email, whatsapp, etc from one sector to another to initiate payments. It's all about trust perception. That is one of the weak links.
I'm anti-corporations who exploit every artist on the internet.
Not if the CFO and the other most senior executives all order you to do so on a video call… hence the article.
I think they're only ballot box poison in western Canada, which is not going to vote for anything other than conservative MPs regardless.

Having grown up in Western Canada, no one does more whinging and complaining than Albertans. Every little thing, from taxes to masks, is a huge imposition. But the whinging is then rationalized as "defending freedom".
I’ve been going through a career crisis of sorts lately, and this is exactly where I landed. It’s fine to try to rise or make something out of a career, but you have to be so careful to decouple your success in that from your self worth.

The big machine is fickle and unfair. Loyalty and becoming a corporate cheerleader may feel like it gets you ahead for a while. But when shareholders demand budget cuts, or you go through a hard time in your personal life and don’t quite perform the same, they will not remember your loyalty or enthusiasm. You will be surgically excised and replaced.

Or, sometimes worse, you will be shown a carrot you will never reach and be cheerfully told you’re almost there. It can be yours. If you only give just a little more.
This can't be a commercial activity. It has to be the Wikipedia model. If it supposed to make a profit, all that baggage comes into play.

Imagine if your local library was run by entrepreneurs.
Moats are gonna do what moats are designed to do.
The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is Kitchen Timers
Chat is minimum-viable anything
At the rate of his quality, hope google does right and just buys his app out instead.
> The "practical" reasons all favour the 60-bit word. The advantages of the 64-bit word are of the kind that appear more fundamental. The best that can be said of the 64-bit word is that "practical" considerations have a habit of disappearing in time.

Interesting, in long lived cases this could be considered another form of "technical debt", or "impedance mismatch", but due to ephemeral requirements.
Congratulations Jakob on your Liberation Day :)

Are you saying the UI is your fault ;-)

Serious question though: how come over the last 15 to 20 years UI's have got considerably worse?
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet: you should either rename your product, or make it abundantly clear that this is not affiliated with, or in any way related to, Sketch, the popular vector design software [0].

I was trying to find some official statement from Sketch about this product and it took far too long for me to realize they are not related.

[0] https://www.sketch.com/
I don't think it's degradation any more than my skills at golf or basketball degrade in the 6 months between times I play either of them. I'm the baseline level of good enough that I'm competent, but I definitely don't have the skills of someone who practices either daily.
It is a bias that many people with only a passing interest in history sadly have: that the more far back you go the dumber/less sophisticated people were.

The more you look at historical evidence the more you see that, quite logically, people were very much like us. Complaining about the same stuff ("kids these days...") and so on. Sure a 12th century European farmer would probably struggle with a bit with a smartphone (same as many of our grandparents), but had likely a huge understanding of what plant required what environment to thrive, their growth cycles, what was edible and how to safely prepare it, how to do manual labor while keeping your clothes impeccable etc.
>it was a matter of time before this occurred.

I would assume the matter of time for it occurring has elapsed a while ago, and now we are in the place where it's not only being detected, but further, actually revealed, regardless of how embarassing that is.
The options on the table is a) be petrified of the water, or b) risk falling into ice cold water, and option a) is the one that actually keeps your children alive.

I wonder if storytelling is effective due to an evolutionary pressure that leads kids who don't learn from storytelling to succumb to the dangers warned against by children's stories. I mean, there's a recurring theme in children's stories which is the character who didn't listened is also the character who falls victim and serves as a cautionary tale.
what does it mean here?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/world/reusable-grocery-ba...

> According to one eye-popping estimate, a cotton bag should be used at least 7,100 times to make it a truly environmentally friendly alternative to a conventional plastic bag.
I'm usually using conda (mamba) nowadays as it also has binary support so I can use cuda etc. easily for deep learning purposes. Is this something Rye can also do?
Related:

The Really Teensy Linux ELF Executables Essays

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
Same, though the "biodegradable" plastic bags stores tended to use lately would end up completely teared apart after a single use.

Also it seems like every store around only has non machine-washable reusable bags. Any meat or vegetable leaks in there and they'll quickly become disgusting.
Cotton bags must be used 7100 times to be less environmentally impactful than single use thin plastic bags. Organic cotton bags 20,000 times.

Source: https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

(First time I've posted hoping I'm wrong and get down voted and yelled at for spreading FUD, haha. But I've seen this figure a lot)
I use the disposable plastic bags as insulation for the windows in my apartment. I use them for trash bin bags. I use them for catching the hair when I save. Etc, etc. I'd be sad to see them go but find it very doubtful they'll ever be banned in my US state.
As C++ advocate on C vs C++ flamewars, I already find quite ironic that GCC, clang, clang's libc and Windows Universal C Runtime are all written in C++.

All those C users hatting on C++, while being forced to use tooling that has dropped C for C++.
The redox impl is here: https://github.com/redox-os/relibc

Apparently it also supports linux!
Easy and Entrepreneurship don't go together. Serious comment. But let's bite.

- Easy to "register" a business at least in USA ? Very easy. Could be done in 30 mins depending on the state you register in.

- Easy to "build" a product or service ? May be. If you have tons of experience in that product/service already. Usually not. In software world, I will concede that it is relatively easier to build things these days because of the ecosystem of libraries/open source/frameworks/tutorial/youtbe etc but easy doesn't mean simple and no guarantee for success.

- Easy to "sell" the product/service ? Very hard.

- Easy to "operate" the business ? people/customers/issues/tickets/hiring/legal/tax/accounting/ops/conflicts/lawsuits/contracts/govt bullshit blah blah. Not even close.

- Easy to "sustain" the business over a period of years ? (Read 7-10 years for anything real). hahahhah.
Some would say the posses all that matters.
You can change the level under Menu > Setting
"At its inception, fork was hailed as an efficient system call
due to its use of copy-on-write on memory shared between
parent and child processes"

That is incorrect. Unix v6 code is available, and a fork definitely copies the parent's entire address space. COW in forks didn't happen until the late 80s-early 90s. To reinforce this, note that BSD added a "vfork" system call that did not copy the parent address space, and blocked the parent process until the child exec'ed because of this.

Fork/exec has always been controversial. One of the main knocks is the inefficiency of a fork throwing away an entire address space.

The rest of the paper may be okay, but the beginning is sloppy.
Looking at Alipay I can find 256TB drives to the tune of 26 USD. If I needed 3 of them for some reliability and change them every ten months, I still have a cost of ~ USD 0.03/TB/month. Why is offline storage still so expensive nowadays? Is it all simply the network costs?

(Apologies for promoting this advertisement thread unintentionally; the real question is for S3, Backblaze and the like.)
I've been using rye for all of my python projects and it has generally been great. There's a slightly annoying piece at the beginning when you first set up a project because "rye init" doesn't actually produce a valid empty project - you have to add a few lines to pyproject.toml, but it certainly beats a lot of the other things I've used.
"So people can state absolute absurdities and have people agree"

That Reddit mission statement.
A caption in the article says “A lot has changed in the Arctic since the Canadian government forced Inuit families to settle in towns. But the community is trying to preserve traditional parenting practices.” (and earlier the article says “Elders I spoke with say intense colonization over the past century is damaging these traditions.”) — what is this referring to? What did the Canadian government do?
Germane. And this is still a disengenuous argument wherever someone is making it. We should not defend corporate exploitation of millions of people by citing how human beings do things. Making it harder for artists to make a living by beating them over the head with their own work does not "enable way more creative expression". Writing a prompt hardly counts as "creative".
It would have to be extremely better too, or people wouldn't notice the difference. Socially computing has changed so much, with mobile and everything, so it's hard to imagine what a spiritual successor to an Amiga would be today.

It was also very simple to understand and well documented, and small and responsive. I think if a computer was made today where everything was treated with the utmost care for latency, that could make a difference.

Imagine a user interface which had effectively zero latency, and no loading times at all.
I definitely err on the side of cynicism but jeez, this is pretty out there.
I think it means “Billions of plastic bags were avoided in the US alone,” but that’s just me reading the headline.
the replacement bags are usually made out of another type of plastic that needs to be reused 100+ times minimum to make the trade off worthwhile, which is rarely the case.

This is what superficial activism looks like.
Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
So you’re saying that collecting garbage enabled you to learn about garbage collection?
They don't develop those APIs out of the goodness of their heart - it's a lock in strategy.

They've made it practically impossible to write native cross platform code that runs on IOS, and they've everything they can (within political limits) to prevent web apps from being able to compete with native apps.
I totally agree and I don't understand why everyone isn't on board with this vision. Sometimes I look around and think "this can't be the end of the story, there has to be a better way to run society".

What's interesting are the libertarian types who want the opposite. You don't get anything by default, you have to fight for everything. All I can think of is 1) why? and 2) is that really their vision of the future? Like in 100 years we'll still have to work meaningless jobs just to put food on our table? Is that really the future we want?
> Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

That is the actual title of the linked article.
Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever
Writing for the web would be great if you didn't have to learn a new framework every six weeks because people will not stop coming with new ways to do the same thing over and over again.
> A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt.
I like the author's healthy attitude towards large corporations - basic modern survival skill.

If I had my way, I would not have to install any apps on my iPhone or iPads but platform limitations make this a requirement. I noticed that on Safari, the X/Twitter web app is not playing videos, even after I turned off Lockdown Mode for X. Is this Apple's fault for a platform inconsistency or X trying to force users to install their app? I would like to know.

I specialize in deep learning and LLMs, but I have also always enjoyed web development. What holds me back is how complex the tooling is. That said, someone I know has been writing a lot about ClojureScript + Dart so maybe I will give that a try. I would like to find a simple stack for web apps that I could learn in a few days and that was well supported. Any suggestions?
I have never understood how Apple gets away with it and even more than that gets a huge amount of love. Whereas, if Microsoft just looks at you wrong, pitchforks are out. I'm not cheerleading any company here, but it has been frustrating in my career where people absolutely refuse to touch or even consider anything Microsoft related but love their Apple computer. Apple is probably hundreds of times more agressive, more stubborn, and moat building than Microsoft. Microsoft's dev tools are some of the most open in the world for a big company, certainly more so than Apple and Google.
Yeah it would. There are a few attempts, such as C-gull (https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward/tree/main/c-gull#readm...).

> c-gull is a libc implementation. It is an implementation of the ABI described by the libc crate.

> Currently it only supports --linux-gnu ABIs, though other ABIs could be added in the future. And currently this mostly focused on features needed by Rust programs, so it doesn't have all the C-idiomatic things like qsort yet, but they could be added in the future.
For the first few dozen times sure, but after the hundredth or so report of a scam call associated with a spoofed number, the VoIP provider should be blocked by the telco. That is if they were allowed to do so.
The average person is a financial train wreck of dumpster fires.
Correct, and probably how things end up based on birth rates alone. What is a problem however is the wording:

> An unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop.

> Folks [...] of European descent [...] will be in an absolute minority in the United States of America, absolute minority. [...] That's not a bad thing. That's a source of our strength

It can be interpreted as the nonstop immigration is a tool with the goal of changing the demographics. Why? What's so important and why do they put a value on proportions of race?

Just now in Texas you have federal and state employees fighting against each other, the former to let as many as possible in, the latter to prevent it. What is the goal here?

My take on not just this example but the race discussions in general are to divide and keep us busy fighting over useless issues to distract us from the corruption. Same with the east vs west endless war, we need an external enemy to be outraged against so we can ignore the enemies within. Otherwise we might be able to put the differences aside and collaborate to achieve something useful as a planet, but how would that help the elite to keep living like gods?
I think you mean 256 Gb
It's still the same, I had some error loop on the iPhone when setting up a developer account and their support just didn't understand what's going on until something like 6 months after, it somehow worked suddenly.

It's as random as ever, it might work straight away or you are unlucky and hit some of the random bug in this process and it'll fail for a long time
Compared to one that pays well and treats people humanely.

It's not like that in order to suggest that something is bad there must be an existing better version. The suggestion can be about creating that better version.

That of course is a general answer to your asking for a comparison, as if lack of one would refute the point.

Some country first abolished child labour, even when all others still had it. Where the people who advocated for that misguided, since they didn't have a better example to "compare" to?

These are of course also concrete answers to your question, like many EU countries where the vacation period is one month, where there are better employee protections, where there is less discrimination, where overtime is frowned upon and the work culture is not the US "grind", where waiters don't have to make do on tipping, and so on.

They don't have to be perfect in everything either (because an easy knee jerk critique would immediately point to some other shortcomings in their work arrangements). For the point of the suggestion, it's enough that they have better aspects than some country like the US could also adopt.
You know, or not.

"This shift from plastic film to alternative bags resulted in a nearly 3x increase in plastic consumption for bags, which is not widely recycled."

https://www.freedoniagroup.com/press-releases/freedonia-repo...