skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love a realistic alternative to virtualbox on Windows for running Debian as a development environment.

I've tried hypervisor but I can't get networking to work, and trying to set up another adapter gives me a bsod on every computer I try it on.

Wsl2 almost works, but I can't really use Intellij to its full capacity. I'm under the impression that GUI application support is coming so maybe that will change. I'd really love for this to work so I can learn docker, but virtualbox performance is non-existent when wsl is turned on.

Qemu feels incomplete or at least overly complicated compared to Virtualbox.
Also, stop fossil fuel subsidies. Fossil fuels have many externalities in addition to climate change. Air pollution kills 10 million/year.

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...
Ha, Taylor, of course this is you doing cool things in cool outfits. I should have known. Thanks!

My favorite truth in that site: "Anyway, instead of learning biochem and spanish I went and built this stupid website." I don't know what you are talking about at all.
Does this measure make sense for pure functional languages?
Can it be defined for terms in the lambda calculus or in combinatory logic?
Multifunctionality Analysis of Structural Supercapacitor – A Review
Those tests are dangerously insufficient to keep unsafe drivers off the road.
Why would the Russian military use a US satellite communications service to direct their operations in Ukraine? They would expect US intel to capture everything and share it with Ukraine.
Antique items become valuable because most of them have been destroyed.
> If that's not technology helping, I don't know what it is.

That's called deindustrialisation and delocalisation
> Arch only recently got a decent UI-based installer

There's still no UI installer. There's now an official install script.

But install scripts have been around for as long as Arch has. Including UI ones.

EndeavourOS isn't just installing Arch, it also unnecessarily installs a firewall and uses things like Dracut.

> Since Arch stable is indeed stable these days

What do you mean "Arch stable"? Arch has testing repositories but those are just for testing. Besides Arch has always been as stable as a rolling release distribution can be.
Sweet site thanks
Indeed. Money won't solve it. The crisis in education is cultural.
It's profound, deep, and I think it will end us more surely than
climate change, war or disease.

We're heading toward an inability to replicate our own essential
cultural DNA, whether in institutions or in common values. We've
become anti-intellectual, iconoclastic, lazy and idolatrous - and
sadly one cause of this is technology and our misplaced belief in
systems rather than human values - in certainty rather than toil.

"Competence" is a jolly complex thing. It's more than the ability to
pull levers and operate systems that someone else put in place. It
involves transcendent thinking, leadership and confidence, but also
duty, patience, loyalty, love and dozens of other qualities we now
think we "are better than".
Samsung should be held responsible for this, they took the risk of outsourcing their repairs to pad their profits, they caused this by improperly vetting the people that they ultimately send to people's homes.

Also, this technician should go to prison for vandalism and fraud. He should also have to reimburse the victim for the entire brand-new cost of the same TV, including s&h.
I just don't care. It's not like they can train a bot to convincingly speak like me from just one word. And if they can, the game is already over and we've all lost.

That said, I don't answer suspicious numbers and I won't move past "hello" until the caller identifies themselves.
Makes me miss Steve.... Ballmer
Companies very rarely do not want to open themselves to liability so they usually go for the blandest possible description, even laying off and paying unemployment for someone who should be fired for cause.
Surely you understand that the danger that climate change poses is not "heat exhaustion"?
> All correct until this bit. They in fact want to shift it back to congress,

That is one potential, down-the-road outcome of non-qualified judges being inserted into the process. Stalling oversight is the outcome that dominates all of it tho.

> congress, who should do a better job in specifying what power they delegate to unelected heads of executive branch agencies.

A law with every possible contingency can not be written. It's why Congress signals the desired outcomes the language of the law and expects qualified agency employees to bring those outcomes to fruition.
For those lucky enough to own homes, or have some other living situation in which they are able to charge their cars overnight, plug-in hybrids certainly seem like the best answer for many/most people.

Yes, they still have batteries, but much smaller than those of full electrics.

Yes, they still burn petroleum, but for many people the majority of their driving will fall into the all-electric range.
Hilla looks great! Thanks.
Yeah, I'm quite curious about the overall tradeoff here. I'm at about 51 deg N and the solar elevation angle gets very very low during the winter (only 16 degrees elevation at noon) but high in the summer (63 degrees elevation at noon). Because of how low the sun is we end up with very long shadows even mid-day in the winter. Would love to spend the time breaking down:

- land area required for tilted vs. vertical

- net production over the year

- equipment cost for bifacial panels vs single-face panels

Anything that helps solar cost/performance is a huge win around here because we have max energy consumption in the winter when solar doesn't produce a whole lot.
Wi-Fi has already been a thing on planes for years, and has been good enough for me to watch high quality YouTube videos and attend Zoom meetings. Not a single family member or friend whom I've enlightened about this has bothered to use the internet on a plane flight, even when it's free. It's going to take at least a decade before the old habit will be replaced with the new one.
If the US could get costs down to levels of other developed countries, we could approve everything and still afford it.

As of now, medical care in the US is about 2x-3x the cost it is in other developed countries.
Back to square one? Not at all. ES6+ makes writing pure JS quite easy. I've managed to put together multipage forms, with end to end validation and conditional rendering, in just a few hours. Doing the same thing would have required a full blown react app.
> I'm not buying an extra device just to compensate for shitty software, that's silly

Serious question: Then why did you buy an Apple TV? This is Apple's entire MO. You are expected to replace all your devices every year or two.
My theory:

Appendix acts like a fuse in an electric circuit.

As we get appendix infected, gotta iron out the root cause, it's a doorway to finding the lifestyle problem. Instead getting it removed (unless rarely necessary) means, certain first line of defence is taken away.
> The takeaway for me was it's important to actually understand the tools that you're using.

no no no, that takes time, the hype train doesn't wait for anyone. the sacred monolith it is. all hail the Monolith! crush the microgerms, destroy the filthy tiny services.
It was not like an interview with a typical politician, which is perhaps not a surprise, but interesting nonetheless. He was happy to acknowledge when he didn't know things, gave numerous interesting insights in conversations he has had with other world leaders - while actively avoiding betraying their trust of confidence. He also displayed a rather encyclopedic knowledge of history which I found fascinating as a history buff myself. In fact most of the section about Ukraine was largely a lengthy history lesson, including a reasonable overview of how people like Bandera came to be national heroes in Ukraine.

I suppose seeing a world leader who actually seems intelligent and "real" was just something novel. The political personality all Western politicians use now a days is something I find irritating. Giving focus tested answers, or no answers at all, while speaking endlessly nonetheless. Even on topics he clearly found irritating, he didn't try to spin things. E.g. - on the Wallstreet Journal guy, he simply focused on the fact that he broke Russian law, and wanted to trade him for a Russian citizen.

Basically it felt much more like a diplomat speaking to another diplomat instead of a politician trying to give you the answers he thinks you want to hear, regardless of what he actually thinks.
Or even migrate the testing schema to more frequent re-checks and a harder pass condition.

If people don't have to drive to thrive in society, we can make driving far more of a privilege. Contrast what a private pilot has to do to get certified.
You see self-sustaining colonies outside of Earth in our lifetime? Wouldn't they need a massive industrial base, a variety of resources, large populations, etc to not need Earth?
How much of that reduction is because we outsourced our production to different places on earth?
Synchronize your Google Sheets and Postgres with n8n cloud
Mine is definitely one of those.
You could take a look at Whonix and Qubes - even if you don't use them you can roll your own setup with a similar approach: Have a dedicated "netvm"/"proxyvm" which only acts as a network bridge. "Minimal Whonix" consists of one workstation VM and one gateway VM (forcing everything over tor). Qubes integrates this approach into the UI of the hypervisor.

Then you can be more confident that (barring something escaping the VM), you have control of what a particular VM may or may not access. Also allows you to have a couple of different netvms (maybe one does give some access to your internal network, one connects only over tor, one via some VPN...) that you can switch between without needing to change anything on the actual VM of concern.
And by then it will probably be the size of a pair of buddy holly glasses
So far I’ve found some shelter in Remix.

But I’m skeptical they won’t fuck up as well. They have a reputation of breaking everything with react router.
> As I already said, "somehow magically every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears from the App Store."

Even if true, that doesn't mean removal was by Apple rather than dev.

> self-removal "prevents any sales, which is the point of selling in the App Store."

Ditto. Self-removal reduces further rep damage that cold impact other sales inc. of a future remedied version.

>> I didn't say there's nothing wrong with the app.

>Then I wonder why you are insisting it wasn't Apple.

I am not. I am insisting we don't know.

> It appears your view is that it's "unsubstantiated" unless Apple comments

No. You've shown no substantiation from /any/ source. Just supposition.

> but as I already said, Apple never comments about this, so apparently there's never any substantiation according to you,

Wrong. Often devs announce removal by Apple.

> a very convenient way of sticking your head in the sand and refusing to make the most logical inference.

Inference requires evidence. None has yet been shown.

I agree with the Techdirt article that you misrepped as saying removal was by Apple. "whether by Apple or the fake app’s developer is yet unclear".
> Just a nice example of where the obvious "use query hints to make it use the index" would have been the worst option, instead figuring out why postgres didn't want to use it and fixing that resulted in something much better.

I come to the opposite conclusion. Clustering a table results in an access exclusive lock, and due to MVCC the ordering isn’t permanent.

Here, you as the engineer know you’d like to use a sorted index to stream results out even if the overall query end to end is slower due to the I/O cost. In my opinion there should be a way to express this within the query.
I totally agree but some of these are tsql which is less than easy to read imo.
It spread from Ukraine? ... How?
Using tabs instead of spaces is unethical too!
There was an automated tool like this someone built at Twitter. At first it was cool just to see who the most tenured people were. Then the layoffs happened and it became essential due to the absolute 0 communication happening thanks to the Cool New Management. I remember we used the count of people in one of the default Slack channels to keep track of how many people got the axe. Woof.
This is a recommendation in mozilla connect, you can give kudos(like) to that idea for better visibility.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
You might want to read about the rebound effect. If your toaster is 10% more efficient but you have twice as many toasters in the world you're still fucked, this is what we're doing right now.

This new faith in technology as the great redeemer is closer to religion than science. At best it's wishful thinking at worst it's delusional
If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
I think `bar` being able to return from `foo` has little difference to throwing exceptions in various OOP languages. But the C-style paradigm makes it more confusing for different scenarios, like as you describe with calling the deeper "return" from main.
CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for Open Science
Plato’s cave needs to be rewritten anyway

time to just acknowledge that its an overly long arduous convoluted setup that can be vastly simplified for the message it creates
Not worth 3rd party vendors with basic SSO. They have no idea when the user leaves the company because there's nothing updating the vendor's sessions.
It doesn't sound like an interview at all, at least not a hard hitting interview with tough questions. More like a promotional tour for a new book or something.
> You’re with your wife, your devices are often on the same networks,

I'm on Fi, she's on Verizon. But I don't doubt that data miners know we're together due to consistent proximity. Neither she nor I did any Pacifica related searches.
Calling Mars our back-up planet is beyond foolish. If humans cannot manage Earth, they certainly cannot manage the airless, frozen radioactive desert that is Mars. Do you think that these Martian colonist will be substantially wiser than Earthicans? Consider Mr. Musk's recent behavior before you answer that question!
People won't. They just won't.

Now what are you going to do? If your plan won't work with the humans we have, do you have a realistic plan to change the humans? No, you don't. So your plan won't work. It will not work.

So, are you going to stand on your soapbox blazing out your righteous indignation at the folly of humanity, or are you going to try to figure out something that will work with the humans that we have?
Either that or the second coming of jesus, I give it 50/50 given the available data
You're probably right about Elm which is basically one big reducer, but Redux adds a whole lot more indirection on top of that which makes it much more complicated.

Even small Redux apps can start off with a lot of indirection as soon as they extract logic into selectors. This is probably the first area where Redux becomes more complex that what you were doing before:

https://redux.js.org/usage/deriving-data-selectors

It reminds me of reading a bunch of parser combinators: it feels like you're reading code that builds something that does what you want instead of the code that just does what you want.

const makeSelectItemsByCategory = () => {
const selectItemsByCategory = createSelector(
[state => state.items, (state, category) => category],
(items, category) => items.filter(item => item.category === category)
)
return selectItemsByCategory
}
Yes, one should exercise good security practices for when you rm the Windows partition and install a real operating system
Haha it’s like the Apple Vision Pro - seems like the time to buy one is in 2-3 years, where in North America we’ll have non-Tesla cars with Tesla/NACS plugs, a few more charging stations, and manufacturers will have brought back more buttons and worked out some other issues with gen1 models. And hopefully GE and Hyundai will figure out wireless CarPlay is a good idea, and the new Toyota CEO will have them making true Toyota-quality BEV platform.
Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching out users
Is there a point to starting geoengineering after the situation is already disastrous? Because that's the only case I see it happening.

The big advantage is that it could be done unilaterally.
And yet if you can't even implement a smooth scroll of 2D images over a backdrop in 2024, why would I listen to your opinion of microservices?
But a doctor is distributed and an AI is monolithic.

Deeper pockets and the like.
Courts acting as authorities of last appeal doesn't sound like some class of people imposing their views. They're just doing their jobs, and I don't see why they should be less trustworthy than (also unelected) bureaucrats.
Maybe for their other product lines, but not the Apple TV. It’s infrequently updated and they easily last 5 years or more.
OK, I need to say more about this code snippet. I'm really fascinated by it.

This is typescript, which is interesting because we have more confidence the JS "works."

But, it is also embedding SQL directly into your typescript.

Isn't that a contradiction in code? I'm NOT suggesting you refactor to use an ORM or something!

When I was an Android developer, I thought it was really fascinating to see how Room worked. Each SQL statement you created was actually compiled and validated at compile time not runtime, and it meant the SQL was sanity checked and sanitized.

Nothing like that is happening here, right? You cannot validate this SQL at compile/build time? If not, aren't you YOLO riding the motorcycle but telling mom you are wearing your helmet?
That's a cool project. One advantage solar masonry might have is the high thermal mass of masonry. The bricks average out day and night temperatures, and probably keep the panels a lot colder than they would be on their own.
I like that theory. I don't think we give evolution and our animal past enough credit for many of the psychological things we encounter in our lives.

That's actually what was most interesting to me about the ringworld series. Just an open conversation about how evolution has impacted action (however hokey it might be in the books, and ignoring the rishathra).
On an individual level: maybe you don't work closely but know the name, might be interested to know ahead of suddenly realising you haven't seen/heard from them for weeks/months; or maybe you used to but they moved to a different group, you're not in touch but vaguely interested if they've left.

On a more macro level: you might be interested in an apparent layoff/significant restructuring.

Someone used to (/maybe does) run this as an email service ('orgdiff') at Arm. I wouldn't have gone out of my way to do it myself, but it was something to skim with a Monday morning coffee.
Where the hell are your comments above getting a 10 degree increase from and on what basis? Even the supposedly likely worst scenarios from the IPCC mention an increase of roughly 3 degrees.

If you're going to talk about the dangers of climate change it would be nice to stick to evidence-based scenarios, not just the scariest unsubstantiated things that can be pulled out of one's ass for the sake of doom fetishism.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2020/10/IPCC_SR15_Wo...
Most of what I read about people missing offices makes me think "gee, I'm glad I don't share an office with that person."

But I do miss lunches. Even the loud, obnoxious people are much more tolerable in that context.
Cool, does your product fall into the category that they call "patient passports"?

Also, I looked into your website, and it looks like you have the https://www.fastenhealth.com, but you forgot to register the subdomain without the www. I remember having to configure that the last time I deployed on Netlify. Also, I was gonna try the Careers link on the website but it looks like it's a dummy link, which is fine if it's intentional.
Surprised no one mentioned this yet but I bet they had to set the date on April 2nd because if it was on the 1st people would think it was an April Fools joke.
Sonarr makes it easier than ever.
Extralite: Ruby on SQLite
Streak Calendars and Tracking Data Question(s)
Hello!

Have any of you implemented a streak calendar for your app or software?

This seems like such a compelling and engaging feature to implement and keep users attention daily / weekly.

If so, did you come up with an efficient way of storing the data?

I'm wondering if it's better to log it row by row for each day of a streak per user or to have one row per user with multiple columns (and, possibly arrays within those columns).

By my comments, you can probably tell we're storing our data in tables.

How did you do it on your end?
Don't we manufacture a lot of this stuff in China?
Permutation city is one of those books that "blew my mind". If you read sci-fi recreationaly, you know what I'm talking about. When the author introduces a novel concept which makes you think "holy crap, _what if_???" and then uses that concept to create a compelling story. It's on the top shelf in my library, along with my other favorite books.
I am in a Discord of full people that all got laid off from the same place in 2019 (I actually left on a Wednesday for a new job, and everyone else got their pink slips Friday that same week). At first it was pretty lively, as you can imagine, but its settled into a wonderfully cozy online space and I'm so glad I'm a part of it. It's good to have connections to people with whom you have shared experiences but no real ongoing professional relationship (these are called "friends"). It's also good for networking, since we're all in the same industry. In some ways it just feels like a continuation of the Jabber rooms we all shared when we worked together, but it's also something more.
If for example you live in a country that doesn't register sim cards with authenticated information (e.g Ukraine) anyone can use the service.

That's why Russian soldiers are using Ukrainian network sims in Ukraine.

The same is true of starlink. The equipment (analogue of sim and phone together) is easily acquired. There's no whitelist . And service is available to anyone that can get a valid payment card. So just like the mobile network, Russians can use it.

SpaceX used to mitigate this by limiting areas service is available. But that helps with places 20+km from the frontline. Not somewhere opposing soldiers can see each other. And Ukrainians complained about this. They had partisans and SOF they wanted to communicate with. Now it's done and we have a new narrative l

You won't see Reddit level comments for such mobile networks.

We know the reason for the difference in sentiment. The solution is device whitelisting at the frontline and beyond visual range. Maybe for some people limiting movement might be enough.

But our anti work crowd will rather blame the supplier
> Just because there is an ongoing consensus failure in our democratically elected components doesn’t mean we should skip the democratically elected components

I'm not sure where you see how Chevron skips those components. Congress gives authority to an agency and indicates what it wants done. Chevron says the agency (using qualified agency specialists) are who Congress intends to work out the many, many details that are impossible to write into effective law.
The problem could be some Ukraine starlinks are also procured this way.
Degrowth does seem like a tough sell to general populations, when you say not voluntary or controlled you mean like economic collapse and/or ecoauthoritarianism or something else?