skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t believe they didn’t update the USB location on the Magic Mouse. Still on the bottom. Unbelievable.
This is HR speak and from my experience, "technical" people talking about these topics tend to be overcompensating for lack of competency, or interest, in their domain. Its objectively easier to talk about this stuff all day vs coding or being knee deep in the guts of systems. My last job was big on this and many engineers with high "EQ" were rapidly promoted into middle management roles. Lets just say, the promotions were short lived because a "reduction in force" followed. This isn't an excuse to be a jerk, but the industry has over indexed on HR/psychology talk and real hardcore technologists don't give a shit. Fortunately many of these firms are super upfront about these things, like on their career page, or if you feel inclined, look at their leaders/manages on linkedin - they put this stuff on blast all over their profiles. A little research goes a long way.
Accelerometer on my phone is reading f(a), not a. Unlike with e.g. old-school scales, there's layers of digital electronics and software between the measuring device and measurement being displayed. For all I know, if it's saying -9.8m/s^2, it may be because there's a `value = rawMeasurement - v3(0, 0, 9.81)` line somewhere in the code, because that's the value the designers wanted to report.

I mentioned old-school scales, truth be told, they do this thing too: they're measuring weight, but reporting it as mass, with 1/9.81 factor baked into the scale label directly.

Point being, I'm less interested in what some app tells me - you should always assume apps have assumptions and massage their numbers. I'm interested in whether the measuring device can actually tell the difference, which in case of forces perfectly cancelling out, it should not.
In rust: `cargo publish` after making an account on crates.io
I don't disagree with as your points, but I also think a structure made of spikes and points is inherently more evil feeling than something round or oval. Also, religious structures and religion veer towards the dark and ominous. Catholics and christians depict a guy nailed to a cross with a crown of thorns on his head in their cathedrals so that doesn't help.
If you're trying to get into a semantic argument about the meaning of "CPU package," I'm not interested, thanks!
Tape machines predate GPS.

A metaphor should be referring to something common, not something that can be made in theory to fit a different set of requirements, but does not really exist.
Analogy was between market making (buying and selling the item in Runescape with a spread) and second hand book sellers (having a buy/sell price that's not equal to each other for a second hand book). Citadel Securities does not do naked shorting and does not fail to deliver - they make markets by taking position both on long and short side of the market with a spread in between. Some of the short positions they take may not have an immediate backing - but they make up for that by offering more more and attractive prices for bids making up the shortfall within a matter of milliseconds.
So it sounds like the patriarchy's got this one all sewn up!
> If you're a mid-level grunt who yolos something and it's a disaster, you risk losing your job.

This plays into concepts like privilege as well. If you are a trust fund kid with very high financial security, or have a spouse willing to let you become unemployed who can pay the bills, or a family willing to take you back home if you run out of money, or any number of other safety nets, then you can afford to be a middle manager yoloing decisions that fail once in a while in the effort to fast track your career

Having safety nets that do not rely on yourself to be successful is a huge component of Psychological Safety that lets people take risks
It's the computer equivalent of a fleet car.
> Companies could set the rates at a level that would generate the same amount of revenue.

With the number of people paying for subscriptions they don't use (or underuse), I wonder how expensive it would have to be to generate the same amount.
How much does it cost you to buy a GPU with 128GB of RAM on it?
Some ideas:

Parents are being cautious with their (statistically fewer) children.

Prevalence of CCTV and panopticon theory making risky behavior seem impossible.

Disappearance of third spaces.

Crazy homeless druggies everywhere. Consequences of abuse are far more obvious.
> The primary selling point is what makes Node.js take over half the world: it's async architecture.

It is the availability of the developers who know the language (JavaScript) (aka cheaper available workforce).
Putting the plug on the bottom is an intentional choice by Apple. It's because they don't want you to plug it in to charge, then never remember to unplug it. Mandatory wirelessness.
Highly unlikely. HTTP latency is going to matter 1000x more than React. If anything you'd expect to see them sponsoring WebSocket libraries or something.
How we can tell what?

That they sell a lot of stock MacBook Airs? They do. I don't find the topic interesting enough to find a link, but I'm pretty confident on this one.

> a lot of people use their Macs as they would an iPad

A lot of people have pretty undemanding requirements in a laptop, yes. 8GiB is more than enough for some web browsing and light document editing, a bit of photo retouching, that kind of thing. There are many Chromebooks on the market right now with 4 GiB and they sell in numbers.

The HN tilt trends toward systematically overestimating system requirements because development is fairly demanding of them.
Hope you get it sorted. I have seen relatives struggle through it and it is a challenge
I think I've seen the sex thing attributed to the "loneliness epidemic" and internet use that comes up alot.

If that is true, makes sense for the same cause to apply to smoking and drinking. Drinking beers by yourself as a teen is weird, you generally at least start that stuff with friends.
The Rip in the World
I kind of got back to looking at my newsbetting app called Rashomon. I posted about it on here a few weeks ago to no attention.

Basically you get untitled articles and have to bet whether they are from far left, left, center, right or far right sources. The idea was to maek readers aware of their biases. I wrote my findings here:
https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/projects/Rashomon.htm...

You can demo the site here:
https://www.rashomonnews.com
> There's no good reason to pick C/C++ over Rust in most of these cases...

What leads you to believe in that?
I have often thought that programmers can actually just choose to make Rust easy by using a cyclic garbage collector such as Samsara. [1] If cyclic GC in Rust works as well as I think it can, it should be the best option for the majority of high level projects that need fast development with a trade-off of slightly lower efficiency. I suspect we'll see a "hockey stick" adoption curve once everyone figures this out.

[1] https://github.com/chc4/samsara
You realize AlphaFold was trained on thousands of protein sequences generated via (I'd guess) tens of millions of hours of human labor.
I am male, so I am speaking from that perspective, but I have never been sold on the idea of having/raising kids, especially after I became educated - education (generally) affords more opportunities, kids, especially for women, only limits them. I can take a job across the country suddenly with little thought, work or do hobbies for long hours without worry of depriving my dependents. I can think about the future on my own terms, not hazy ones based on offspring that may/may not be on the same page about said future.

The tradeoffs presented to me don't appear appealing. "Who will take care of you when you're old?" Well, myself, presumably. That isn't a very strong argument, especially when considering the massive sacrifice and loss of freedom that comes with procreation. I know everyone says it is worth it, but I find little appealing to it. What's more, is society sees this as some sort of fundamental character flaw or moral failing rather than a rational decision based on my values.

Even beyond that, on a philosophical/ethical level, I believe bringing children into a world of such uncertainty and possible collapse is not really that appealing either, whether or not that is realistic. The anxiety I'd feel about such conditions the world is currently in would be orders of magnitude higher if I had children.
SFO is still about a half hour drive in decent traffic for most of San Francisco. I've only flown in once, but it took like 40+min in traffic for me to go from there to Moscone. Meanwhile the train station is an 18min walk from Moscone.

LAX, sure, it is mostly surrounded by the city on three sides, but the sprawl there means the vast majority of the city sees 30+min traffic. Meanwhile Union Station there is right downtown and far more central.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iKfLwgvCpapoCA6R8

It's incredible how your first two examples are such massive swings and misses at naming cities which have airports more convenient for their city than their train stations. In both the train station is more central to the actual city with a lot of people having a shorter walk to the station than most would have as a drive to the airport. About the first city in that list where the airport is actually more conveniently located is Las Vegas but largely because Amtrack just doesn't serve Vegas by train at all. Sounds like you didn't bother actually researching the list at all and just put down some cities that came to mind. Did you bother actually looking where the train stations were in comparison to the airport?

Another example, New Orleans. It is a half hour drive to/from the French Quarter. It is like a half hour walk from the train station to the French Quarter. Assuming the train and the plane arrived at the same time one could walk there from the train station before you even left the parking lot of the rental car agency.

> My point is if you have a substantial sized city that does not already have a large train station in its center

Just continuing to ignore most historic US cites (and the vast majority of the large ones) do have train stations in the middle of the city

> in the same way that if your city doesn't have an airport that you've built up around, you aren't going to build it

Just continuing to ignore the massive difference in land use requirements for even a medium airport compared to a train station. Just look at those Maps links I shared earlier. Look at how much space Penn Station in Manhattan uses. Think we can build an airport like JFK or even La Guardia in that same footprint? How would they even take off/land? Its way easier for a city to build a train station in its core than to put a whole airport with multiple runways and taxiways and tons of hangars large enough to hold a 737. It's incredible you think they're on the same level of scale to build in terms of land use.
I guess I see this as an attempt or yearning to discredit him, but following in the work that sprung from Hayek and friends, the motivation for his work is clearly curiosity and wonder about how does anything get done in the world without coordination, never mind the wondrously complex things that are created nowadays.

His conclusion is that knowledge is dispersed, represented in prices that arise from markets which is simply understood as cooperation. Knowledge may frankly be expressed as whatever enables and motivates someone to offer something on the market. If that's too vague for your taste, too bad.

The wonder is that uncoordinated, independent cooperation gives rise to such abundant and sophisticated products. Not only that it's in a system that expresses everyone's individual preferences and competing interests. Central planning fails spectacularly to do this, and there's no reason to believe that it ever will even with fantastic computational power.
In the Netherlands, it used to be standard that you receive a free 2-factor device for online banking. It takes your smartcard and basically emulates a transaction to generate a signature, so they're also interchangeable between people (someone in class would always have one), it has all the safety of a normal transaction in the store (something you know + something you have), it's pretty neat besides being closed source.

Now I haven't lived there in a few years and I've found that, in Germany, the bank asked me to pay some 35€ to get sent a customised device that only I can use so that I can log into the online banking. Seems pretty crazy if I'm going to subsequently loan them tens of thousands at zero interest nowadays, but okay that's the cost of privacy. They sent the wrong one initially (for someone else's account) but that got sorted in the end, but so this works not to need a banking app on my phone for authorising transactions

Perhaps you can check if your bank, or a different bank in your country, offers this as well?

While it is separate hardware and thus less convenient, I also find it much safer not to have something of this value accessible via my phone. The hardware device shows what transaction it is authorising so phishing cannot work (you'd see the amount and/or recipient doesn't match)
I feel like the solution to the paperwork issue is to improve the requirements for paperwork rather than getting an LLM to write it. You can only ever lose data from what was input to the LLM, so this is a strictly destructive process. Then an "AI-powered clinical support system" sounds positively dystopian.
> not upgradeable and not portable

your average user (aka not HN-er) doesn't upgrade their computer

an all-in-one solution is very attractive for families or situations where you don't need to tote around a laptop and you want a large screen
I definitely don't doubt that Recall would be useful to me, it actually seems like it adds an insane amount of user value. (Not just text, this is also capturing "context": "What was that purple slide that was on screen during that zoom call last month" etc.)

I just can't trust Microsoft to make anything I use willingly. Microsoft being associated with it, as well as them cranking up the tedium with every update to any software they make has entirely destroyed any benefit-of-the-doubt I would've given Recall.
Notice that his work on climate change is a terrible bunch of crap. Basically, the guy does the basic mistake of confusing weather and climate, and his conclusion goes along "most productive work in modern economies is done in offices and factories not exposed to weather, therefore are impervious to climate change". This is beyond belief really. Generally, the way mainstream economics treats climate change is just shameful.

If you want to learn more check Steve Keen's substack.
Definitely constrained by my 16gb, it's only 2 years old. Rubymine takes 4gb on it's own, Chrome eats a lot... I'm usually hovering around 10gb of swap.
My uncle is on his third iMac. He owns them for a decade at a time. When he sends emails, the subject is always "From <his name>" because he shared an email account with my aunt years ago and even though he no longer does, he still puts his name in the subject.

That's the target buyer.
Ah, fair. I was messing myself with the knowledge that you would be accelerating the whole fall. Easy to forget that we are always measuring proxies. (For example, speedometers aren't measuring how fast cars are moving.)

Edit: (I'm actually curious what I said is fully wrong, btw? Accelerometers measure how much an inner piece drifts to other things based on differential in acceleration, no?)

Edit2: I think you thought I was saying the accelerometer would not read zero in free fall? I meant more that you would continue accelerating, despite the reading being whatever it was.
Observed Gravitational-Wave Populations
Buy payphones and retire
> You can build PCs there are more powerful than that Mac, cheaper. And you can easily repair them

Why would anyone buy a Porsche? You can buy an F-150 with a >1 ton payload capacity, fit 6 people in it and if you get the EV version it might be even faster than the base config Porsche.

The PC will take up a lot of space, use a lot more power, be loud and be look ugly. Some people might care about these things even if you don't.
Most people I know who don't use laptop exclusively don't replace their monitors that often. My work docking station is still rocking 2017 4k monitors and my wife home setup is similar.
HP does HDMI-in in somo of its AIOs: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-eliteone-840-g9-all-in-...
I guess we find out tomorrow.
Out of the box, with no custom software installed, non-Apple mice (and even older Apple mice) will have extremely janky scrolling on modern versions of macOS.

Apparently, something internal to how the OS handles mouse scrolling was changed, and only the Magic Mouse gets a proper scrolling experience using built-in drivers. It is possible to fix this, but only with custom software (either drivers for specific mice or general tools for all mice).
I have one of these, they are great. For those taking their form study very seriously, they in particular can help you understand the relationship between form changes you make as they relate to spin, velocity, nose angle, and launch angle; these can be tricky to fully understand. There's a popular youtube channel (Overthrow disc golf) where they use these as part of their very thorough analyses.
I don't think it's the case, because all those schools of thought (your DRY, your SOLID, your DDD, etc) all have opposite schools of thought rife with other similarly popular mantras

the problems in engineering rarely stem from the lack of principles and have way more to do with mismanaged projects, arbitrary deadlines, shifting priorities, unreliable sources of data, misunderstood business logic and all those fancy acronyms, all the SCRUM and agile in the world will never make up for all that
Interesting connection here to modern creepy settings leaning on liminal spaces and run-down early 90s stuff in analog horror.

The new scary settings are run down Chuck E. Cheese’s and empty office buildings.
Rural areas tend to have strong social communities, though, despite all of those same, if not exacerbated, conditions.

Based on several adjacent discussions it seems not that the suburbs cause isolation, but that those who prefer to live in isolation are more likely to choose to live in the suburbs – presumably because it offers the isolation they seek. Even if an individual in the suburbs does not wish for isolation, if everyone else there does that limits the social possibilities.
We have Electron and we don't get rid of it for a decade, at least.
That's the trick. You publish the source code. And it's still faster to build all dependencies from source than maven / gradle manages to resolve and download the binary dependencies ;)
I guess it is just me, but I cannot stand working on small screens on the desktop. I will accept a small screen on a laptop because it is inconvenient carrying around something larger, but on a desktop, there is no reason to compromise.

I use a 48" OLED with my MacBook Air M3 and for me that is a near ultimate web development experience both on desktop and when travelling: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social/post/3l7li...
You see a similar trend again with "abandoned mental hospitals" as settings for horror in TV and movies. The trend of "deinstitutionalization" started in the 50s and 60s, meant that by the 80s and 90s many psychiatric hospitals had been defunded and shut down. As a result, it was a surprisingly common childhood experience for people of a certain age to have an "old abandoned mental hospital two towns over". Every kid "knew someone who knew someone with an older brother who had spent all night in one", and there were a ton of them around to use as settings.

Maybe in 30 years, all horror movies will be set in abandoned cup cake stores.
Just flag the obvious troll comment and move on.
H, V/B, LL/Y are problematic in Spanish and you have to memorize how each word is wrote down.
> You seem to be focusing on the most obtuse possible way of structuring descriptive test names for rhetorical purposes.

No, I'm focusing on the most realistic and common ways this kind of pattern actually exists (based on my experience).

> If you name tests according to business domain concepts rather than tying it to individual parameters through some formulaic rubric,

While you say I'm focusing on 'the most obtuse possible way...', this kind of comment makes it seem like you haven't focused on any actual way at all. You're speaking in very ambiguous and vague terms, which actually can't be applied and enforced in practice. If you're actually trying to write a suite of unit tests around, say a function, with 3 parameters and multiple possible outcome states - you can't name your function the same for the different combinations of inputs/outputs, and you can't just handwave a 'business domain concepts' name into existence to cover each case - that just turns into an exercise of finding synonyms, abbreviations, and vague generalizations - it doesn't solve the fact that you still need all of the same test cases and they all still need to have unique function names.

You haven't actually thought through what you're proposing here.
I replace my computers before I ever feel a need to upgrade them. Computers are fast and performant for a long time now (4+ years, especially for non-professional use).

And as someone who works with computers all day long, I never ever want to open one up unless I build one from scratch and want a personal project.
Greenhouse gas concentrations surge again to new record in 2023
You probably know this but it’s possible to buy a controller card for the panel on Ali Express and retro-fit into the case and use as a monitor if you are ready to retire the computer itself.

I’m contemplating doing this myself at some point but my maxed out 2019 iMac upgraded to 128GB ram and extra SSD is still plenty fast for me, actually feels subjectively quicker than my M2 Pro MacBook Pro with significantly less ram feel. I was a bit surprised as I had read all the hype of the responsiveness of the Apple M-machines.
Funny you say that. I always describe my job as fun. Just have to have the main product manager in your corner.
EU to Apple: "Let Users Choose Their Software"; Apple: "Nah"
> unearned sense of moral superiority

I don't think prioritizing democracy is more moral, but evidently you do. I am not responsible for your own shame. This has consistently been my experience with extremist conservatives: they are riddled with shame about their own beliefs they choose to have. They often lie about what they believe, excluding huge amounts of information, to try to paint what they think will be a more pleasant picture of their beliefs. It's rather sad in my opinion.

> malicious intent and/or ideological blindness, rather than from genuine differences in opinion

I'm "assuming" this because you haven't actually shared any opinion. You, and others, haven't demonstrated what good will come from allowing corporations more direct influence over elections.

Because, presumably, you understand nothing good will come of it. If you did, I would hope such a silver bullet would be the first words out of your mouth in an argument. But they are inexplicably missing.

> silence dissent

Again, there's no dissent for me to silence.

> It's authoritarian extremism

I'm a person, not an authoritarian. Perhaps if you want a more equal argumentative battlefield, you can create a multi-billion dollar corporation and steer democracy to your liking?

I have no obligation to give your arguments equal weight, particularly when you are too cowardly to even articulate your arguments. If you don't even believe yourself then obviously I don't either.

If you could articulate how giving the ultra-wealthy and ultra-powerful even greater influence over elections than they already have is somehow a good thing for democracy and voters like you or I, then I will listen. Until then there's simply nothing for me to listen to.