skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t use that language exactly. I think they’ve set up a very effectively profitable relationship with the industry - part carrot and part stick. But I don’t think AWS usage would’ve exploded as it did if their clients truly felt both respected and understood.
s/smart people/computer programmers/g

I mean, that was his entire point about crypto- how it speed-ran the entire history of finance markets and discovered- in very painful and usually expensive ways- why each bit of market regulations exist.
That's not how entropy works.
One of the points in the article is that he made many bets, some of them panned out really well, others didn't, but on the whole he set Microsoft on a really good path.

Buying Yahoo would have been a bet that didn't work out, probably, but I don't think it goes against the point in the article.
Define "consumerism"
We allow wages you can't live on but then expect customers to randomly make up the difference but only for some jobs.

Make too little to afford an apartment, healthcare and food and you work in the food service industry? You deserve a tip. You work in a meatpacking plant? Oh, get screwed.
What Dan doesn't mention is that Steve was given the reins to a sinking ship if I recall.

The US Govt was just finishing it's trial on Microsoft & was watching them closely.

Tech bubble just burst.

On day 1 of the transition after Steve, the stock jumped like crazy & continued that momentum. The stock was, as Dan mentions, at an unfairly low p/e ratio too.

Idk if Steve was great but seems he was given the role of transition CEO. Plus did Bill ever really leave?

It'll be interesting to see how Satya finishes his career & the first few years after. Microsoft was making really good software the first few years after Satya took over & a lot of people were wanting to work there. Since Covid though, their software quality & updates have crashed imo.
Have you tried something like https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
FreeBSD no longer supports MIPS, I wrote NetBSD in my comment.

bootoctlinux is the command Cavium added to U-boot to boot an ELF kernel. You can alias it as something else if it makes you feel proud.
I am working on my Clojure book, trying to figure out what will be in its second edition https://clojure-book.gitlab.io/
Thanks, really nice point
Chinese plane designed to travel twice as fast as Concorde completes test flight
DMA: Litigation Against Apple
Azure launched as (and still is) a complete dumpster fire. Unless your company has business ties to MS (e.g. your usage is heavily subsidized, which is most of their large clients from what I understand), I would never in a million years use it over GCP or AWS.
Read this post again but take it as a response to someone claiming in 2020 that Roe V Wade could be overturned.
Why did you stupidly buy a product you KNEW would eventually land you in this situation?
It’s not just that. If I say something that people find derogatory, and they do not want to associate with me because of that, that’s THEIR first amendment right.

There can always be social consequences for speech that is legal under the first amendment.
But wouldn't it be even better if the farmer bought the tractor on a loan? Now the farmer keeps the entirety of his production and the guy that would have rented the tractor also has to work, further improving society.
Well said.

During Covid I learned a good amount of Chinese sitting home alone.

When I had the chance to sign up for an evening class, the rate of learning exploded.

When I finally had the chance to visit China, there was no comparison to the immersion.

"Learning things by yourself" is amazing when that is all you have.

It means you're never completely limited.

But it isn't a substitution for an immersive learning environment.
The first large title at apple.com right now is "Apple Intelligence is here". The last 10 or so Ads from Apple are all about Ai.

Which is not true, it is not here. The features are very limited, and there is not a lot of them, and a lot of people are getting on waitlist right now (based on the Reddit comments).

I really hope that there is going to be a class action lawsuit against Apple, as they are doing exactly what Elon Musk, Google and Microsoft liked to do for so long, trying to sell you something that does not exist.
Apple's on their fourth generation of in-house processors for Macs. By now, the pattern is quite clear: They have several tiers of processor. Not all products offer all tiers of chip. The iMac and MacBook Air have never been offered with anything other than the base M-whatever chip, and the Mac Studio has only been offered with the Max and Ultra processors.
Bro there's no "wait staff" involved in this transaction. He purchased an item, the person handed it to him. This is well outside the bounds of what should be tipped.
How does that differ from `gradle init`?
They can't correct for low IQ unfortunately
I use the compose key for compose stuff. It's a huge pain to actually write and install custom compositions so I don't bother anymore, just use the defaults (which is mostly annoying due to missing keypad variants, e.g. ± must be typed using the top of the keyboard).

It looks like the default en_US.UTF-8/Compose includes mappings of the form:

<dead_greek> <a> : "α"

but to use that I'd have to figure out how to map a key to `<dead_greek>`, and keyboard mappings that aren't in the standard checkboxes are such a pain.
At least reverse battery protection is pretty standard these days.

Doesn't make things work when they are plugged into the wrong connector, but they should still work once the connections are straightened out.
> Sure, but you don’t really have read/write capability

Not sure what you mean. You can use any DB you like.

There are even storage services like CF Workers KV if you don't need relations etc.
Cash was often the fastest way to pay back then.
seems overkill... for a bunch of reasons tbh. I guess the golden sledgehammer is just too tempting.

taking photos of notes is a weird compromise that nobody really wants... we need better tools not better post processing
Tipping for a convenience item at the till really really sucks. Am I the only one sane on this? Best regards Norway
Take it one step at a time and make it fun. Little lessons when they're in a good mood. You'll figure it out.

I'd start with little text games in something like basic where you go over things like if statements, for loops, arrays...etc. Maybe start with figuring out a very bare bones game and figure out what the core components are. Maybe it involves accepting a string argument from the user, then has some if statements or something. Teach those components one at a time over a week. Then show how it can be combined in a simple text/console game.

There are people on here that will say not to teach something like CS at this age. My daughter is in that 6-10 age group and we went over some econ books for kids and she hasn't stopped talking about econ with me almost daily for the past year and can understand a lot of the basic concepts from a high level. It's just stuff we talk about before bedtime and in the car. CS should be no different.
How cruel can one be to try to come up with such a "line"? In my mind it goes like this:

If you're served by a human and tips are not included in normal pay by law, you tip.

If it's a country where people can't live with just the one job, you tip a lot.
A heuristic is a heuristic, and we can do some of our own research too. I was just defending the OP.

As for my personal position, I remember looking into things a while back and just coming away with the conclusion that nobody really seemed to know. If there's a truth here, it's either considerably more complex than "SFA good" / "SFA bad" (all these interacting pathways, man), or it just makes little enough difference not to matter at all in a way that we can meaningfully measure above the noise.

It seemed clear SFA are clearly not that deadly. Whether you'd be more healthy or live slightly longer if you chose to consume less of them, I have absolutely no clue.
They are built to last. I'm typing this comment on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
Single individuals are often just single individuals. We might never have had open source without the few people who championed copyleft. No other industry but us does.

It also means you can make a change in the world.
Rackspace increases cloud rates by 22%
I haven't seen anything in the news or online, but I noticed our invoices were noticeably higher lately. I did a comparison with 2 months ago:

| SERVICE | NAME | UNIT | BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
|----------------------|-----------------------------|----------|---------:|----------:|---------|
| Cloud Bandwidth | Load Balancer Bandwidth Out | GB | 0.12 | 0.1464 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Bandwidth | NG Server Bandwidth Out | GB | 0.12 | 0.1464 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Block Storage | CBS Volume | GB_HRS | 0.000164 | 0.0002 | +21.95% |
| Cloud CDN Bandwidth | Files CDN Bandwidth | GB | 0.12 | 0.1464 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Database | Database Compute | HOURS | 0.12 | 0.1464 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Database | Database Storage | GB_HRS | 0.001027 | 0.0012529 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Files | Files Storage | GB | 0.1 | 0.122 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Load Balancers | Load Balancer Connections | CONN_HRS | 0.015 | 0.0183 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Load Balancers | LoadBalancer Uptime | HOURS | 0.015 | 0.0183 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Servers | Server Image | GB | 0.1 | 0.122 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Servers | (server type 1) | HOURS | 0.16 | 0.1952 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Servers | (server type 2) | HOURS | 0.04 | 0.0488 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Servers | (server type 3) | HOURS | 0.08 | 0.0976 | +22.00% |
| Cloud Servers | (server type 4) | HOURS | 0.384 | 0.46848 | +22.00% |
>trust in news organizations is at all-time lows.

Then Bezos steps up to the plate and single-handedly makes it worse than it was just yesterday.

Worse than being an absentee owner.

People have seen things like this before. Turning into an annoying micromanager at that scale reveals a deeper defect than from a lesser line manager.

You just can't paint a pretty picture now.
I saw one city park where they took this one step farther. They had a small wooden structure (I think the cover to a water valve, from years ago when they used to set up an ice skating rink). The open it so rarely they don't even padlock it - they just bend open an S shaped link of chain, put that where the lock would go, and bend it shut. When someone needs to access it, they cut the one link of chain with a pair of bolt cutters, and then put on a new one.
Tipping is a fundamentally flawed and exploitative system
Journalists barely exist any more. To be a good journalist you have to know the subject matter well. If journalists are paid so little you might as well work in the industry directly. With AI its only going to get worse.
It was about $250 all said and done. I got lucky and got the iMac for free, though even if I had purchased the Mac it would still be more affordable than Apple's Studio Display.
It's not the end users that care about the uniformity but the fact the corporate design team wants there to be uniformity across all their platforms they support. This is part of branding and user experience. I'm not arguing for or against, just stating that is where the push for this comes from. It would make support, for example, easier, if all versions of your app user experience were similar.
2020 was far from an exception.

https://www.thoughtco.com/government-financial-bailout-histo...

Push comes to shove, the only question about whether or not a bailout will happen (since there is no technical hurdle to issuing more money, just changing numbers in a database) is are the parties receiving a bailout sufficiently influential.

And I argue that people exposed to SP500, whether it be by holding it directly or facing the prospects of higher taxes because the government pension fund holding SP500 is not meeting its returns, are now sufficiently influential that it is a given that leaders won’t allow the broad market to be negative for more than a couple years.

2020 isn’t even the most recent one. Here’s a multi employer pension fund bailout from Mar 2021:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/dealbook/bailout...

As an aside, the irony of this specific bailout is the main beneficiary, Teamsters’ union, came out in support of Trump after Democrats saved them.
Yes it's weird. It's basically charity re-framed as capitalism. As if it's the waiter's performance which determines their tip as opposed to just blind luck.

If each waiter could provide their own menu on which they could set their own prices individually and take their own hidden cut, then that would be fair capitalism.

They'd make a lot more money because consumers would be too lazy or too embarrassed to ask a different waiter for their version of the menu...

That would be a much better culture for workers.

Unfortunately the current system is set up to make every form of payment for labor into a charity. So workers are always in the position of begging their boss or customers and they are never in the position of intermediating transactions.
Disappointed that you haven’t sent me my money for being parent to my comment. Do you need ETH address to tip to?
Literally every comment is nerds complaining
Like I said, I have an iPhone 13 Mini and have never had the problems being described and thus far nobody can point me to a site that would allow me to replicate it.
> The example you gave about health insurance is implausible [...]

See [1].

From [1]:
> GINA focuses only on one line of insurance—health; it does not prohibit other insurances—life , disability, long-term care (LTC), auto, or property—from using genetic information [...] in 2020, [...] Florida became the first US state to prohibit life, LTC, and disability insurers from using genetic test results to set premiums or to cancel, limit, or deny coverage

To me that means you are not safe.

> and there's something bad in it

This is just gambling. If enough peoples' DNA is out there, you will see the whole-population rate for conditions. You might consider it OK to be unexpectedly unable to buy long-term disability insurance because you have a 50x greater risk for YYYY than the general population.

> [...] and I for some reason won’t have a job that gives me health insurance anyway

This is an extremely privileged attitude. This part seems to me that if you get very ill you *must* continue to work in order to maintain your coverage. Even a highly paid SWE can be laid low by carpal tunnel syndrome.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9165621/
I don't like having to position my Raspberry Pi near my router just for an Ethernet connection. I recently started using a USB 3 Cytrence Kiwi KVM. It’s not an IP KVM, but it handles my Raspberry Pi and NUC beautifully. It's really nice to finally free up some desk space by getting rid of the extra keyboard and mouse
> There's so many variables here that it's really not worth discussing.

Fair enough. I only want to clarify what you wrote: "the average retiree should not hold stocks." To be crystal clear:

1. don't go out and buy individual stocks on a lark (good advice)

2. get all worried because your 401k is a conservative mix of mutual funds (hopefully index funds, probably managed mutual funds) and bonds (bad advice)

> Plenty of American retirees (maybe even a majority) own little to no stocks and live on a fixed income

The logically necessary flip-side is all I'm addressing: plenty of American retirees hold stocks in a 401k. To them I reiterate: don't fuss around with your target retirement fund.
> available in fresh colors

Is this really so important that it needs to be in the title? We are talking about computers here, not a clothing brand!
His "using you're types good" talk being censored is my go-to example for how "cancel culture" and "wokeness" has gone too far, a good useful talk not meant to be harmful to anybody, with no evidence that anybody was hurt by it, is removed from the world for the far reaching fear that one day some person might not be happy about it.

The fact that years later people still want to learn from it and nobody has every talked about it being an issue shows we have gone too far as a society on the side of caution and never doing anything that wouldn't stand up to a fortune 10 HR exec panel.
Canonical gave an update on Flutter desktop last weekend at their Ubuntu Summit: https://events.canonical.com/event/51/contributions/533/
> You never add abstractions until you can’t avoid them.

What would be a case where you would _have_ to add an abstraction? I'd say you probably never have to, but things will get start getting complex.
They missed the mark on mobile oses and appstores.
Its a prequel to the novel actually. But I don't think the advertising makes that apparent enough.

Its a walking simulator for the most part. (For those that know what that means) Think of it as a journey you take part it. But there are a few choices you can make to change a bit of who dies, and a affect a slight change in the ending.

I enjoyed it thorougly. And felt it was a great representation of the retrofuturistic world the book presented, and stayed mostly in the style of that era.
The first comment by suhastech is priceless:

> This isn't really about the floppy disks; it's about the installation of a new signalling system but it does make a good headline.
I think what actually convinces me more than tone is nuance. If you can fairly assess arguments on both sides, recognize when either side makes a good point, and mention when you're confused about your conclusion, or when some point of evidence doesn't mesh with the theory. Things that are all one-sided are usually wrong (though I suppose there are cases where the truth is indeed one-sided, it's just pretty rare, and less likely to be things that people that you otherwise consider serious would argue about).

Even that attitude can be weaponized I suppose, if nuance convinced more people, than more people would learn to fake nuance to push their favorite outcome. Though I'd like to think that the process would change them a little bit for the better too.
Why would you be surprised that sending postcards is still possible?
Absolutely. I hope the tip screen on tablets goes away soon.
Weir doesn’t write characters, or dialog to speak of, but he writes decent prose and well thought out engineering puzzles. I enjoy his books for the imaginative exercise.
Cruel?

There are a set of pretty arbitrary customs about where you tip and where you don't tip. You would be considered a weirdo if you tipped at the grocery store. In the US, you have to tip at sit-down restaurants.

Traditionally, in the US, people rarely tipped when they had to go to the counter to order and pick up food.

That's just the custom, though it seems to be rapidly changing, so that basically any food or drink service now involves tipping.
Or, to take an even nearer example: consider alcohol. It's heavily regulated and taxed in the US, but what little bootlegging exists does so mostly as a curiosity, not as a way of getting cheaper booze.
BlueSky’s big selling point is no algorithm by default. It’s default timeline is users you follow in descending chronological order. You can use an algorithm (called a feed) if you like. They provide a few, but also are open about their protocol and allow anyone who wants to write an algorithm to do so, and any user who wants to opt in to using it can.
iterative recursion does not use stack frames in languages that support TCO.
CAN to PC adapters are a few hundred dollars, it isn't causing much friction.
I haven't played the game because my 11th-gen Intel Framework 13 isn't that fast for running newer games, but I love the story - here's an excerpt from one of my favorite scenes in the book, the battle between the Invincible's Cyclops and the dark cloud of nano-machines:

> In principle it was not used on the surface of a planet, and the truth was that the Invincible had never once mobilized its Cyclops. Situations that called for such an eventuality, even on a scale of the entire tonnage of the space base, could be counted on the fingers of one hand. In the jargon used on board, sending out the Cyclops for some task meant the same certainty as entrusting it to the Devil himself. No one had ever heard of any Cyclops failing.

> the black scrub on the slopes began to smoke and set off in waves toward the vehicle from Earth, coming on with such vehemence that in the first instant the Cyclops disappeared completely, concealed by what looked like a cape of tarry smoke flung from above. At once, however, a ragged flash lit up the entire breadth of the attacking cloud. This was not the Cyclops using its terrible weaponry, merely the cloud’s energy fields striking against the force field.

> Out of the corner of his eye, Rohan saw the commander open his mouth to ask the Chief Engineer standing next to him if the field would hold out—but the words didn’t come. He didn’t have time.

> The black whirlwind, the walls of the ravine, the bushes—all of it disappeared in a split second. It looked as if a volcano breathing fire had opened up in a fissure in the rock. A column of smoke and frothing lava, shattered rocks, and finally, immense white billows of steam that probably came from the boiling waters of the stream, soared a mile into the air to where the TV relay was hovering. The Cyclops had activated its antimatter cannon.
Check out Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Then why get upset about it?
Nah as someone that learnt it for 3 years, did a 6 month exchange and then stopped after that I totally disagree.

Not only are kanji needlessly complex because of history, there's also extra work like stroke order (another needlessly "important" thing).

Hira/kata is so much easier, but I ended up giving up the language after I both realised that I wouldn't live there and that they're just romanising so much anyways.
By your own logic, do you tip every grocery store cashier? Do you tip your landlord? Do you tip the toll collector on the highway?

Tipping everybody who you hand cash to is crazy. And the US is the only place where you have to do it for a large percentage of that population.
No, I'm genuinely confused by your claim that in order for Chinese to be similar to English in this manner, it would be "somehow unique among all human languages." These are contradictory ideas. That's why I was asking for clarity.

> I'm objecting to your argument that Chinese would be an incomprehensible mess if written alphabetically.

That's fine, but it runs directly counter to your initial comment. If a phonetic transcription would make Chinese just as easy to understand as it is written now, it would be quite different from English, and almost every other written language, all of which include non-phonetic elements in order to facilitate reading.
Also, the amount we spend on food isn't a 1:1 comparison because compared to the 1920s etc we buy much more 'processed food' (e.g. pre-peeled potatoes), which saves labor in the kitchen but is more expensive.
It does suck.

But in this culture that Steve exists within, those positions are paid mostly by tips. He certainly could afford to help out the people that prepared his iced tea ritual for him in a timely manner, but he did not.
> USB-C HDMI adapters are all DisplayPort adapters that additionally tunnel DVI traffic

Not tunnel, convert: these are active adapters that take in a DisplayPort signal from the computer and re-encode it as a DVI/HDMI output signal. The computer doesn't need to know or care that there's HDMI happening downstream, because it's still just outputting DisplayPort signal. It's not like Thunderbolt where DisplayPort traffic is tunneled inside a different signalling mode that the host machine supports.

This is why USB-C to HDMI adapters are unidirectional (at least, all the mainstream commodity ones). You'd need a different converter chip to do the conversion in the other direction.