skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the Hyper Key (additional layer/modifier) on hold and Esc on tap on my Caps Lock. Enables me to have vi-style arrows on home row and window management shortcuts easily.
I burn 4,600kcal/day being sedentary
seems way too high
Hate to see this downvoted because I have personally lost files to ZFS on failing non-ECC memory. It was all my most-used stuff too because those were the files I was actually accessing, then it would compare checksum in memory to checksum on disk and decide disk was the one that was wrong. I noticed via audible blips appearing in my FLACs and verified with `flac -t <bad_flac>`.
There was a thread about it three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660270
Keep in mind, the "hole" takes ChatGPT and Copilot/Gemini/etc into account at a rate of $5-10B per product. The remainder of $500B is about the size of the global cell phone market. Where will it come from?
just using it to dynamically run a multi-monitor battlestation at the local cafe for now
It’s just too expensive for many to have an opinion on it.
I bought and returned mine. Without decent window management integration in OSX it feels limited to only "fun" use cases. If it were able to pair with a Bluetooth keyboard and sync to my MacBook with many screens... I would buy one again immediately.
they stole the idea from antz
The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)
I am interested in people’s responses but I do not own one.

The market much be quite small, even within the HN audience.
Teensy 4.1 uses an imxrt MCU - a crossover chip that is considerably fast. The ESP32 is slow in comparison, more aligned with IoT applications than realtime processing.
Book learning is pre-internet era. Things change so fast and books cannot catch up. Books do not interactively test the readers (even with CDs it is not enough).

Also as much as I don't like the current state of Ai assisted programming, they are superior to any book out there.

Once in a while I buy bunch of books to see what the new books everybody is talking about and end up getting frustrated after realizing important parts are either skipped or explained without details. In my opinion, book learning (especially programming or other IT related stuff) is dead. I have so many books collecting dust and even the latest ones won't be relevant in 3-4 years.
I use it as a fancy monitor that I can strap to my face and fits in a suitcase. sometimes I want to work lying down and it's great for that. It being based on ipados makes it kinda useless aside from the display.
I was jealous of my CS classmates touch typing when I got into uni 10 years ago. I was the same as you. I took the hard and weird road of learning to touch type Dvorak instead. Took me 6 months of on and off until I switched full-time. Forces me to not look at the keyboard. Works pretty well for me until now.

The most helpful tool was https://learn.dvorak.nl.
Huge VR fan here. I tried the demo in the Apple Store. It was cool and all, but nothing game changing. From a company like Apple - somewhat disappointing even. The technology just isn't there yet for a compelling product.

Apple should wait until they have this in a glasses form factor before hyping it up any more.
How’s Forklift 4?

I have a paid Forklift 3, and it’s nagging me to upgrade and pay for next version.

I mostly went back to Finder for now, as I remember having some kind of issues with Forklift3 not being performant, though I don’t remember the details.
I lived there 2012 to 2021, and left my heart there. I'd likely still live there if I felt it were a better place to raise kids.

In the treaty between China and the UK handing over HK, the people were promised eventual universal suffrage for the Chief Executive (governor/mayor). The elections for Chief Executive are held every 5 years, and there are protests every 5 years asking for universal suffrage. In 2014, there were tents on the main roads, and students making makeshift barricades, a small number of people being beaten and/or pepper sprayed by police.

The protests in 2019 were very different. It looked crazy on television, but in person it actually wasn't very scary. I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of immigrants from Fujian province who got in a big brawl with protesters half a block from my flat. Unfortunately, some subway stations and a few shops were burned, but it wasn't random arson. The subway company is majority-owned by the government, and police were using stations as makeshift police stations. The businesses that got burned had owners with large business interests in the mainland and had spoken out against protesters. That's not to say the arson was justified, but I was never worried someone would torch my building.

Though, as an obvious Westerner, any protester would have assumed that I supported at least peaceful protest for democracy. On the other hand, with all of the propaganda/rumors saying all of the protesters were organized and paid by the CIA, I was careful not to do anything that would feed into that. I had a strong sense that as long as I minded my own business, both the police and the protesters would likely leave me alone.

In 2019, a journalist was charged with misuse of a police database because they looked up the license plate of a van that dropped off a bunch of triad thugs to beat up protesters in a subway station. The journalist discovered the van belonged to a pro-mainland politician.

Also, sometime around the 2019 protests (a bit earlier, if I remember), there was a dual-citizen bookstore owner in Causeway Bay who published a book about Xi's mistresses . He disappeared. His wife didn't know where he was. The Hong Kong government had no record of his having crossed passport control at any airport, pier, or land crossing with mainland China. A bit later, he showed up in the mainland to give a televised statement that he had gone to the mainland of his own free will to confess to a DUI case several years prior, and asking his second country (Sweden or Switzerland, I forget) to stop investigating his disappearance. Absolutely nothing fishy about that. (As I remember, the bookstore had 5 owners, and at least 4 of them had similar legal troubles. I believe only the one had an unexplainable border crossing into the mainland.)

2024 is another election year. I worry a bit what will happen, but I get the feeling the government has finally broken the will of the protesters.
Do you own any Class 3 items?

Because that is not how I would describe the experience. Especially for registered machine guns. Also, it’s $200 except for AOW which is $5.

- Live in a Class 3 friendly state (so no living in California and then flying to Alaska for a trip)

- Form the gun trust (good idea).

- get yourself and any other controlling parties fingerprinted (the special way the ATF wants)

- get passport photos of yourself and any other controlling parties

- fill out the form 4 just right in the esoteric way they need

- then submit it all and wait 6 months to a year for them to return the stamped paperwork so you can actually possess the item. If you did everything right.

- if you messed something up, either redo it and go back to the front of the line, or (if you’re lucky) amend it ASAP when the examiner reaches out to you randomly when they find the problem.

Oh and a beat up but transferable M16 is what, $20-30k right now? More if in better condition?

That may not seem like a lot of paperwork to you, but for most Americans it definitely is. Oh, and you need to carry the stamped form 4 with you in the field, in case a cop runs across you and wants to be sure it’s legal.

Also, way outside the actual use case here, which is something to drag around in wilderness conditions that will make an angry polar bear stop trying to eat you at a moments notice. Preferably that can be abused and mistreated without causing problems too.

Which a $500 pump 12 gauge shotgun you can buy over the counter at any gun store is quite capable of doing very well with decent ammo.

And won’t require a 5320.20 be submitted (and take a month or more to get back to you) if you want to cross state lines.

Also, Canada is generally okay with pump shotguns, not with machine guns (registered in the US or not), and a lot of folks going to Alaska want to be able to drive over the border at some point.

I’m really curious what the odds would be of anyone making a fuss in legit polar bear territory though, hah.

(Apparently, yes I am that kind of nerd too)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424939 (415 points | 7 months ago | 99 comments)
Battlestation?
Command + O to open files/folders in Finder was a bit challenging to remember since Enter/Return just works in Explorer

...and in Finder, Enter is rename, which is a lot more puzzling, so much that many others have commented on the same and some even tried to justify it:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6727/why-does-the-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16hxjrn/why_is_the_d...
I sent it back before the return deadline, would have considered keeping it if it had supported showing more than one display of my MacBook. I know by now they've released some sort of a "very wide display" in a VisionOS update, but back then it didn't really make sense. I thought, ok, I'll just try using one Mac desktop and all the other apps, messages & browser would be the Vision OS native ones open side by side. Then it turned out I had to connect my bluetooth mouse/keyboard to the Vision device instead (if I wanted to type something into the browser/Messages) and it was too much friction.

I did like the brief period of working (or just browsing stuff) while lying on the couch, but I knew from the beginning that I didn't need an even lazier position for staring at a screen all day.
I thought hopes of a warp drive were dashed last year by the discovery that antimatter doesn't fall up: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/warp-drives-best-hop...
Southwest Airlines adopts 'poison pill' to fend off activist Elliott Management
How to Stop Child Marriage? Punish Husbands, Parents and Wedding Guests
I’m curious what HN thinks of poison pills. Are they a good thing? Or something done in bad faith? Should they be illegal?
Sorry a noob here, is there sth can strip the Youtube videos voice talking, but leave everything else 100% untouched? I dunnon what this thing called, or is it exactly the same thing I was looking for?
Yes using it regularly multiple times a week.

I watch tons of media on it. My background was in film production and I firmly believe this is the best current way to watch films at home , as long as you don’t mind doing so alone.

The only better experience visually is a laser projector with active shutter glasses. I literally exclaimed out loud when I saw some of my shots on here for the first time. Depth for stereo movies adds so much, but you lose so much vibrancy and light with passive glasses. This solves both issues. I get why James Cameron said it was a religious experience. For fellow film makers, this is the highest quality way that I’ve experienced my own work.

It also is probably the only place at home to experience these movies at that quality. Nobody else has 4k 3D HDR with HFR. Nobody.

So as a previous film buff, it’s worth it alone for me for that.

However I also use it for work regularly. I join industry meetings with it, I multitask regularly. I spend more time on the couch working off my laptop with this as my screen now.

The passthrough and eyesight features have been surprisingly great for being with my family. While people think it’s sad that I’m doing my own thing in the headset, the reality is that we all do our own hobbies in the evening after work. I can now spend that time with my partner and interact with them while they do their thing.

I think it’ll take a while for Apple and the app developers to really get into the swing of things, but it’s been a huge, positive change for me.
Probably in the /r/battlestations/ sense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/
GraphToy: Graphing mathematical functions, useful during procedural programming
Home Assistant + plugins/extensions ~might be the easiest. Unsure about the VPN part. If you want to tinker and do some sysadmin work, then go install Proxmox and have separate containers for each as you wish.
computer desk
No, Kevin Roberts. Did he say this?

> "In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back," Roberts said. "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be."

The quote speaks for itself (and for the Republican party) regardless of who has the byline.
Your CPU will be in the data path there. Switches do their packet switching on ASIC rather than CPU. So it depends how good your CPU is, and generally that's not an effective use of whatever compute power you've got.
If you learn to turn a lathe then work in standard corporation (a dictatorship, military-like organization that produces profits by extracting surplus value from labor) that's not a democratically controlled workplace, hence the workers having skills does not make for socialism. For that matter, only having democratic control of a single workplace (a worker cooperative) does not make for socialism either as you will still have to extract surplus labor to compete in an unplanned marketplace.
Truly, just too many other things I would rather spend $4000 on than a first generation Apple product. Hopefully the next revision can start at $2000, more palatable.

Something like the Quest link cable and SteamVR support would also be tremendous, but I'm not holding my breath on that.
Thank you for Glider! I enjoyed it immensely as a kid.
Wife killed her expensive laptop that ran Debian by spilling a glass of wine over it, and then continuing to use it and not tell me until it died. In the end I replaced it with a Chromebook, mostly because I wanted to see if crostini worked as advertised.

It does work. Sometimes it's failed to start and required a reboot, but nothing more than that. crostini comes standard (enabling it is just a setting). It is a Debian install in an LXD container running XWayland, so transferring her Firefox tabs and logins, thunderbird email and Libre Office documents was just an rsync. It worked perfectly, despite the old machine being amd64 and the new one being aarch64. The Linux GUI programs even appear in ChromeOS's launcher, so it's pretty seemless even for my wife. For her the only confusing aspect is the native file system and the Linux one are different trees. But that's not a problem for me, so software wise no complaints.

On the hardware side, positives are Google demands Chromebooks have 8 years of software upgrades, and I think a minimum of 10 hours of battery. My wife's gets 12 hours. The hardware is typically targeted at schools, which means robust with some models having a water proof keyboard. The negatives are you really need to spec it the same as a laptop, so min 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD, but models with those specs are rare.

If I could easily get one with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD it would be very attractive, but there is literally nothing like that available new were I like. And while the lower speced Chromebooks targeting education sector are remarkably cheap, the same can't be said for the higher end models when new. Second hand is a different matter - the one I did get was 8GB/128GB and cost $300. It feels a little sluggish (usable, just not snappy), and possibly it running out of resources is why it hang during installs. Or maybe that's the ARM CPU. An i3 or even N100 seems like it would be better. A Snapdragon X might even provide a mac like experience when the time comes.
It does pair with a Bluetooth keyboard and VisionOS 2 introduces an ultrawide monitor mode that’s equivalent to two displays, fwiw.
From the article, the Cause:

The reason for the change in color was as alarming as its hue: The waters are rusting. As permafrost melts, long-stored acids and metals—including iron—are released into rivers, where they interact with oxygen, turning the water from clear blue to a milky orange, according to new research in the journal Communications: Earth and Environment.

The impact:

That cost goes deeper than the rivers’ orange, turbid surface. The contaminated waters aren’t healthy for fish and the aquatic insects they eat, which threatens fisheries that local communities and wildlife rely on.

So we are seeing more and more of the outcomes of the climate catastrophe. I don't know what it will take for regulators to make the climate change impact their primary priority. At what point will the frog know that the water is hot enough.
I hope Apple makes a comparison product to Meta Ray Bans which i use daily. Though today using my Ray Bans and asking it questions got tedious and annoying as the reliability of "Hey Meta," working is 60 to 65 percent of the time. I did wish for a display to get the info (use a ring on my finger to control what I see ... the swiping UX on the glasses is clumsy..it needs more tactile type buttons) instead of having to ask questions and intently listen.

Though overall i love my Meta Ray Bans .. i feel they are a no brainer purchase for people who wear sunglasses and take pics with their phone. Meta Ray Bans are only $300.
Discussion (20 points, 15 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40865497
> One metadata and one the file contents.

I’d say this is not the right way to describe a resource fork. Instead, think of it as two sets of file contents—one called "data" and one called "rsrc". On-disk, they are both just bytestreams.

The catch is that you usually store a specific structure in the resource fork—smaller chunks of data indexed by 4-byte type codes and 2-byte integer IDs. Applications on the 68K normally stored everything in the resource fork. Code, menus, dialog boxes, pictures, icons, strings, and whatever else. If you copy an old Mac application to a PC or Unix system without translation, what you got was an empty file. This meant that Mac applications had to be encoded into a single stream to be sent over the network… early on, that meant BinHex .hqx or MacBinary .bin, and later on you saw Stuffit .sit archives.

That’s why these structures don’t fit into an inode—it’s like you’re trying to cram a whole goddamn file in there. The resource fork structure had internal limits that capped it at 16 MB, but you could also just treat it as a separate stream of data and make it as big as you want.
For all the people laughing at the Vision Pro and saying it's useless, just remember that when the first iPhone came out people were saying the same thing. It's often the second or third generation of a product where it really starts to shine.
Unless I'm missing something, these sounds only occur inside the car. Can you explain how that affects you?
I went to see the Dead there and it was fantastic. The sound was excellent and they used the beam-forming to have the vocals sound like they were coming from the stage below, while the instruments seemed non-directional. The haptic chairs were killer fun for Drums and Space. The Dead usually do about 10 minutes of improvisational percussion (Drums) and about 10 minutes of sonic exploration (Space). Watching Mickey Hart play the Sphere (seats, visuals reacting to his sounds, and of course the sound itself) was the coolest part.

The visuals were so engaging that I had to look away to avoid motion sickness once or twice. My brain got used to it quickly. Totally worth the trip and fantastic. One complaint was the lack of bathrooms.
I was confused as to why a compiler might do that.

Surely a jump to register would always be faster than writing it out to memory.

Then I remembered we are probably talking about 16bit code (for Win16), and that far pointers were a major thing. And turns out there is no "far jump to register" instruction in x86. The far jump instruction requires the 32bit pointer to be in memory. I guess some clever compiler engineer came up with a trick to use two pushes and a far return instruction to avoid needing to allocate a temporary 32bit variable on the stack.

But that raises a deeper question: Why is this compiler using this clever "far jump to value in register" trick for virtual method dispatch? The full 32bit far pointer should already be sitting in the vtable, presumably it just loaded it from there? It would be a lot faster to just use the proper far jump instruction directly on the value in the vtable rather than loading it and writing it back out to the stack.

I suspect this compiler was deficient, and missing the optimisation that would avoid the need for this "clever trick" most of the time.
> the flying just stops working

That's hilarious. I always come back down slowly unless I make an effort to fly up again.
Optimistic Locking with StampedLock in Java
> The two states are much different in their politics!

Are they? Sounds like they're both swing states, pretty close to 50-50, so which state you're from doesn't have a big effect on what your politics are likely to be. Which is exactly what the R^2 tells us. Where's the paradox?
Good job! Exposing state could make any async function 'pure'. All the user needs to do is push the state machine to the next state. I have tried to bind OpenSSL to async Rust before, its async API follows a similar design.
Yes. That's what Carmack said when he quit Oculus. The headgear has to get down to swim goggle size to get any traction, and eyeglass size to go mainstream.

Apple got it down from a brick on your head to a half-brick, but that's not good enough.
Enough to teach people to use a global git core.excludesfile, IMO.

Same place you should put rules for Emacs / Vim swap files.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870645.
It isn't exactly what you are asking for but could be adapted to do that: https://github.com/dryark/curl_progress
Greece starts six-day working week for some industries
This is a sink for five eyes data, this is most likely because of existing five eyes AWS contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
> thought hopes of a warp drive were dashed last year

Requiring “negative mass/energy” only applies to superluminal warp drives. Those hopes were dashed long before. That article simply rejects one hypothetical approach to negative energy via antimatter.
Any thoughts on this 60 minutes piece with circumstantial evidence that this is a GRU driven program using an ultrasonic system of some kind: https://youtu.be/JdPSD1SUYCY?si=DQNJ6EwFbwbPiDS1
Same but for computers. As a child I got the engineering books for the 6502 from my father ( he was a power engineer).and they were like a foreign language. But I persisted and read them over and over like I was trying to decode an ancient cipher. And like you, eventually they became clearer and my understanding flourished. Such a cool experience.
Yeah that's an obnoxious take. Having a film about human climate impact in an air-conditioned desert venue is ironic and worth calling out. But not everything ought to be viewed through the lens of "colonialism = evil". It's a big screen.
All of the engineering companies I’ve worked for have not paid for IEEE or any journals. I have to go to the library and maintain membership for IEEE myself then request reimbursement.

The schools I’ve worked with have access to everything I’ve needed. They didn’t advertise it but it’s also free for students.
That’s a great insight.

I have the Vision Pro and do like the quality and sound from my Sony a90j and Sonos system a bit more, but the size of the screen in the Vision Pro is amazing