skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing about this - if we assume for a moment that it is true, which I think it mostly is - is that it implies one of three things should be true.

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CASE 1: This gatekeeping is wrong, and is actually excluding a lot of good people and imposing a lot of arbitrary if not outright stupid requirements. In that case, there ought to be a huge market inefficiency. You should be able to build an elite university by finding all the smart people who didn't do a bunch of dumb signaling extracurriculars, or build a great company by hiring all the smart people who don't have great resumes, etc.

CASE 2: This gatekeeping would be wrong in isolation, but the smartest people mostly "play the game", and so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we collectively agreed that smart people spend six months when they're 16 hopping on one foot in a purple clown suit, then everyone smart would do that, and it would actually become a good signal of e.g. conscientiousness and class.

CASE 3: This gatekeeping is right even in isolation, and we've gotten to a point where we can, with some reasonable reliability, tell who really won't amount to anything. And if that's the case...is it really a matter of hard work or virtue if we can tell ahead of time what you will or won't succeed at? And if it isn't, is it just to leave you to suffer because you happen not to be gifted in particular ways, whether in intelligence or in motivation or in class signals?

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I'm not really sure which one of these is true, to be honest. I've got my chips on case 1 at the moment, but I have no idea whether I'm right. And I think it's a decent ethical test to ask yourself what you believe about "meritocracy" in each of those cases. Personally, I think:

- In case 1, we don't really run into a conflict, because the incentives run the right direction. The market is just being irrational right now, and you can make your fortune exploiting that irrationality. That would be great news! The problem in case 1 ought to solve itself, if perhaps only to create new variants of the same problem.

- In case 2, the problem is fundamentally one of class. Like a peacock's tail, we've effectively created a system that demands costly signals of ability, signals that are costly to everyone. If that's the case, we should figure out how to minimize the "peacock factor" as best we can, perhaps via some form of regulation, so that we're not wasting a bunch of resources on things that fundamentally don't matter.

- In case 3, the problem is fundamentally one of (somewhat indelible) inequality. Some people will be ahead, and others behind, and it's not a matter of their decisions, but of their personalities or natures or formative experiences or whatever. And in that case, I'm not sure the idea of competing for a place in the world has any ethical justification, because it effectively means we reward those whose lives will already be inherently better and punish those whose lives will already be worse. Case 3 would undermine the entire case for a competitive social system, really.
Having Halo as an exclusive was huge.
What is currently state-of-the-art when it comes to detetcting handwriting from photos?

Tracing strokes is nice but I would be more interested in converting my handtaken notes to markdown.
I'm not a tax lawyer, but as I understand it the 100% deduction is only for items accepted in lieu of inheritance tax, so not something you'll be rolling forward. The Cultural Gifts Scheme (which didn't exist at the time of the Sutton Hoo donation) does allow donations to be set against other taxes, but that is only to 30% of the value.
> There are right-wingers who read the NYT for Ross Douthat.

Sure. Shades of Tobias in Arrested Development, though; “there are dozens of us!”
>first-principles explanations: most people experience an “illusion of depth”, in that they believe they understand the causal mechanics of an area far better than they do. But in fact, they have learned only a superficial model of the area. Levine corrects this.

I've found almost the opposite. Many smart people see a new field and think "ah this can't be too hard if we just approach it from first principles" and then leave behind all of that field's accumulated knowledge. In finance, this is a well known trap for the unwary polymath.
> Flutter founder here.

Given that the literal founder of Flutter is in this thread using this introduction multiple times, it’s kinda hard to give you the benefit of the doubt that you honestly just meant “a founder using Flutter”.
Vascular Interventional Robot Navigated by Magnetic Sinusoidal Mechanism
Hey I've seen this one, this is a classic!
“Theories need to be considered for what they are, theories, and not dogmatically, for science to move forward.”

“Why can’t we extrapolate about the evolution of the theory of evolution then?”

The first quote answers the second. The dogma usually blocks even questioning of evolution in research venues, liberal communities, etc. If one opens with evidence, they’re usually countered with dogma using argument from authority or mockery as if dissent equals stupidity. Also, major opponents are hitting it right at the roots which might make the other points moot until the roots are defended or improved.

For these reasons, we usually can’t make it that far even if we’d be willing to do it. Also, I don’t know the modern versions in that much depth compared to an actual biologist. We’d probably need qualified skeptics in here for accuracy on our own side if we got that deep. :)
how is this different from Posthog?
Win32 is the native GUI toolkit on Windows. Winforms is a .NET wrapper to it. There isn't any debate to be had there. Yes, the same vendor provides other toolkits.

Linux is a kernel project, and different distributions are for many purposes best considered to be different OS's. Desktops based on Linux mostly are either GTK or QT, and so the native toolkit depends on the desktop you are using.

Is this too much fragmentation for users on those platforms to realistically expect commercial software to support them natively? Yes, of course, but that doesn't mean there is any confusion about what it would mean to do so.
New Mac Minis are coming later on this week, apparently, and they will also have M4 CPUs.
That’s true in a zero gravity environment.
Really? My laptop has my national keyboard but I switch to USA for programming because of {} [] and all the other characters that can be typed with minimal use of extra keys. My fingers know the keys and the switch combination, maybe windows + space. I didn't expect Wayland not to have such basic functionality after so many years. But frames must be perfect, no tearing (is that the word?)
No, I'm pointing out your simplistic framing of what a newspaper does and asking you to defend reality instead of that simplistic framing.
Yes for sure. We intentionally designed Trench to be very unopinionated when it comes to the application. So you can use it to stream and query anything from page views, log traces to IoT object events.
I was precocious but programming BASIC at the age of 10, maybe Python would be equivalent today.
That's nice, I'll use that next time. Although it always feels kind of bad to write client side validation code because you're going to have to do the same checks on the server side anyway.
Yes. In the editorial sections, the paper's bias becomes more obvious. The reporting section is overseen by the same people, and the same bias is quite visible to the discerning reader.
If you all elect someone who vows retribution, then I suppose you all would just be proving Joseph de Maistre correct.

> Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite. —JMdM 18/30 Apr 1816

("every nation has the government it deserves")
This is the best steelmanning I've seen of the Magic Mouse charging port design; I'm surprised I never encountered it before. It actually makes a lot of sense considering how stiff the cables typically are, and it also then makes sense that the (immobile) Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad do have a charging port you can use while the device is in use.
There aren't so few. It's just that most don't have a big following. And every realm has its great teachers and authors.

I had a sixth grade teacher who was a brilliant and certified historian, and a former pilot who served in the Vietnam war. Yet he worked at an ugly, outdated elementary school in an exurb of greater Cleveland. He made school a delight and taught me more world history in one year than all of junior high and high school combined. Few have ever heard of him, yet I doubt any of his students will ever forget him or any of the things he taught us.
I don't think this is particularly pertinent to HTML validation. This is true of any type of validation. The same rule could have been applied on the server, and then you would have had no hope.
Chilling in Manhattan with his family
I'll bet a hidden factor here is development and testing.

They can probably develop for a car ethernet lan with a desktop pc and car "peripherals".

Not that there aren't canbus cards for pcs, but still.
NIMBY Rails – A development retrospective (2020)
I believe your account, and agree that this investment has turned out well for you. The last 11 years are not normal in my opinion, and I believe the time will come where policy changes will make this investment strategy much less desirable.
That sounds like Stan was rebasing someone else's work though?

And wait was Stan rebasing main?

I mean yeah, in that case it's definitely, definitely wrong to use rebase. In general though I always rebase my feature branch and only then merge it into main. Because it's rebased onto the head of main and thus a linear series of commits, there's no merge conflicts to fix.
I agree. While there was a depth to the analysis in this post that I somewhat enjoyed (though at times it felt a bit like a "why the joke is funny" explanation...) to me the primary reason that I like Matt Levine is just that I find his writing to be amazingly great. And not just his overall content and analysis (which I'm still often awed by), but I find his knack for putting words together in uniquely insightful, clear and often hilarious ways to be uniquely brilliant.

Some people are just really, really good.
Wikipedia puts the average distance between 'roids at about 600,000 miles, so I'm going with no. Also mentioned is the estimate that the mass of the entire belt is thought to be 3% of weight of the moon. That's crazy tiny, considering how much space it is spread out over.

It would been like seeing an object 1/3000 the size of our moon at twice the distance away.
Note that the person you replied to did not say it was a negative change; they said they're adopting more conservative attitudes. I don't think what you said actually disagrees with them. While niches like straightedge exist, at least in the US today, the vibe I get is that things like temperance/abstinence and self-improvement (especially of one's body) are usually conservative-coded in the mainstream.
The entire organization is very small. The work is complex, yes. They get to work early on their new platforms, which is great planning and prioritization. All great stuff.

But if it took an organization 1,500 people strong, like Maps and Siri did, I’m not so sure the Apple of today would do it.

The praise goes first to the hard working engineers and managers who deeply care about this stuff, and second to management is all I’m saying.

For context, I built the Shortcuts app!

(edit: AX is also a much broader effort, because it improves usability for everyone on the ability spectrum, and it digs into design, too. So I do think it does have a more foundational role because Apple is still at its core a design-driven company. I think of all of the effort to make the apps usable at all text sizes, for example. The easier to use the products are for more people, the more people will buy them. There are less inherent trade-offs in AX than with the environment/carbon, where selling fewer devices is in direct conflict with sustainability goals.)
For the most part we don’t- we typically just go to bed at dusk. The earliest it gets totally dark in the winter is about 6pm. We do sometimes read for a while after dusk but usually with an incandescent bulb dimmed to the brightness and color of a candle.

Mostly it works great, but can be awkward spending time with friends and family whose schedules may be as much as 6 hours later than ours.
Do you make your users do a server round-trip to see what's wrong? To have good UX, you kind of have to do both.
I don't know why, but I like your idea
Why should we talk about "same enzymes"? There's a 50% chance to have "other enzymes" working for the other orientation, whenever we find life similar to ours (which it doesn't have to be). Or is there any reason why other orientation cannot exist?
I hope it goes full circle into "btw I use arch" levels of parody
That isn't good design, it's a bandaid on bad design.
It’s more difficult to distinguish if an app is Flutter or some other cross platform framework, but “native or not” is very easy on iOS. Even React Native, which is the least foreign, has tells.

On Android it’s more difficult, partially because it’s kind of like Windows where Google/Microsoft uses 50 separate reimplementations of Material/Fluent and there’s no consistency to be found anywhere.
They’re not poor, they’re dead from suicide.
Cindy Gallop begs to differ; she delivered the "no, I do not want you to come on my face" Ted Talk (Make Love Not Porn)
https://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
I wonder how much NYT is paying Douthat? I doubt he's struggling.

And they've been doing so for about 15 years now.

NYT wouldn't be paying him if they didn't think he was attracting readers.
To clarify, the "human labor no longer exists in a meaningful way" thing depends (as far as I can tell) on "robots are able to perform all human labor", so their yacht would be cleaned by robots. Though I imagine they might hire humans anyway, as some kind of status symbol! (Artisanal, like hand-crafted items today.)
care to define "improve"...?
Detectorists is filmed in Suffolk, but it's set in Essex. Not that that makes the accents any more appropriate. Mackenzie Crook is just using his natural accent though, which is Kentish.
the first 5k imac was actually a 2014 release. i got mine used much later, and eventually gave it away to a friend a couple months ago this year. i was pretty frustrated by the limitation and did research on converting it, before the kits were widely available.

during design and manufacturing of the initial 2014 release, there wasn't any off-the-shelf control board capable of driving the display. so internally, there's a customized controller with a specialized 5k mode that appears as two hardware displays, using two displayport channels for interlaced lines. a custom driver presents it as a single logical display to the OS (this is why windows support required a custom driver, and linux still has no support).

so i think primarily the reason they didn't set up target display mode is that they barely got it to work on its own. target display mode would have required significantly more development.

consider that DP didn't even announce protocol specs that could support the 5k resolution or tiled displays until a month before the imac release.

5k imac release, oct 16: https://web.archive.org/web/20171205093037/https://www.apple...

vesa dp1.3 announced, sept 15: https://www.displayport.org/pr/vesa-releases-displayport-1-3...

but yes, disappointingly, later 5k imac releases didn't restore the feature. at this point they have 'sidecar' and i guess they consider that a solution.
I think that this assumes a uniform distribution of "interestingness" in the competing posts across all of those dimensions and I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't the case
I would agree with you, but you seem to forget the concept of "cohorts" applied to this.

You could have people from age 20 to 40 working for everyone else; and people from 40 onwards to live on passive income. You would still have ~60% of the current workforce. Not impossible.
C64 Game Uses a Datassette as a Controller [video]
I first posted without mentioning "marmite" neither "Rust", then a friend reminded me that both things would engage. People are very triggered by those words.
Seems not tinfoil and rather plausibly a pragmatic decision by the prosecution.
You don't need an M2 for this, an M1 will do just fine. Nor do you need the one with maxed-out SSD, which jacks up the price considerably. Finding a brand new M1 Ultra for $4K or less right now is pretty easy. When I got mine, about a year ago, $3K was the best deal I could find.
When you do deal with them as a corporate customer, you really get the feeling that they understand the way things work in a big corp IT department and will be reliable and predictable.

Just got done negotiating our E5 license last year and omfg is this laugh-out-loud untrue. Don't even get me started on how we have to check the Azure websites before every meeting with our M$ counterparts to figure out what Azure services they've changed the name of since the last call.

But yes, completely agree it's the corporate customers that are the wind beneath their sales. But it's because they understand that for almost any large corp IT department on the planet, telling the 85% of their employees who don't give a steaming crap what the nerds think about Windows or Ballmer, "you have to dump Excel & Word and learn something else"[1] is not a hill any of them are willing to die on. We have people that won't use Excel on a Mac because once they found a place where it didn't work exactly like the Windows version.

[1] No. LibreOffice is not the answer.
There is a comment above that shows the founding former didn’t want to fix tests in his PR. Flutter is massive and it’s critical infrastructure. The tests are critical to up-keep. The tests are probably a majority of the work. Which makes sense for something that has such a large surface area.

I think this is an emotional reaction from someone has never managed a large project. Merging PRs and releasing them isn’t the problem. I hope they understand that.

Flutter is amazing. Web, desktop and mobile that actually work is nearly magical. Yes there are priorities. Yes the desktop isn’t as high priority of web. It does work. Hell. Collect money and fund Hixie or others to prioritize patches community feel should go in. That is constructive and methodical/reproducible.

Forking a massive code base, applying PR and not conforming to the source repo standards (tests whether that is golden or not) - just seems not well thought out.

I think community could fund a well known developer to fix desktop issues and have PR adhere to Flutter standards. It’s a ton of work. But seems like it’s a money/dev/process issue. Not a PR merging exercise.
A conspiracy? Not at all, conservatives love to talk about cutting the budget and privatized industries like private schools. They fight public services practically every chance they get.
100k seems more reasonable.
I think you are still taking issue with the severity of penalties, not legal immunity.

Should someone go to jail for HIV deaths in Africa, or heart attacks from McDonalds? I dont think the comparison to individuals is as clear as you make it out to be. We dont charge surgeons

This is beside really besides the point tho when it comes to elections. Corporations are made up of people. If you restrict them, you are also restricting the individuals. Maybe we should- A lot of countries do! I just dont get why people get into all this complex theory about corporate personhood instead of just making that claim. If you dont like corporate donations, are you really OK with Gates or whoever making a $100M donation? do you really think corporate donations are somehow worse?
Well, it was 90% written on Arch :(
I think Derek Guy (@dieworkwear and "the Twitter menswear guy") is a decent "Matt Levine" for the menswear space, as much as there can be one for a subjective subject.

He focuses on the clothes first and never his personal celebrity, although he uses his Twitter platform to promote the desire for affordable housing and respect for immigrants fairly frequently. I don't think there is a picture of him anywhere on the internet. He violently rejects all paid content opportunities. Instead, he focuses on the aspects of good tailoring, "shape and drape", and the history of many menswear items. His bug thing is that "clothing is a cultural language" that all speak.

* putthison.com (he is among the writers, but the big itself is mostly dead now-a-days)

* dieworkwear.com (his personal, infrequent blog)

* styleforum.net (a forum where he used to participate a lot)

I wish his (substantial) Twitter activity was available elsewhere.
I found this post by Carlos really interesting. Seeing the file size of the data for the whole world is kind of like seeing the size of all of wikipedia compressed, it fills me with amazement. Much of the things that have been built is in that data. It piqued my interest and got me looking into the OSM data model.

Also, NIMBY Rails is great for train nerds like me, y'all might like it too if you dont already.
Yes, as patio11
Perhaps, but you can also gather data on usage, which suggests [1] the % of Americans using marijuana is close to flat after a brief bump in usage during COVID (which would make sense - people were home more, had less to do, and were pretty stressed out). It's also a lot lower than I'd have thought; after living in Berkeley for a few years 13% seems awfully low <.<

Note that marijuana has become legal in a LOT more jurisdictions during the timeframe of this chart: it was illegal in every state at the start of that graph, and is now legal for recreational use in 24 states, including many of the largest. So this is despite it becoming much more available and much less risky to use.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/284135/percentage-americans-smo...
I think I'll spare everyone from yet another Trump vs Harris debate.
Sounds like a great manager. Though I'm pretty shocked to see a disclaimer that avoiding belittling or yelling at coworkers at all could be considered "lovey-dovey". I've only seen that type of behavior at one company I worked with briefly, have I just been lucky/careful?
The first (and only) time I read ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ was in graphic novel form, and I’m sure that I would not have understood some of the humour if I had read it as a novel.
Flutter web publicly launched with a NYT prototype https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/new-york-times
I actually was just having breakfast with a Marmite toast, trying to come with a name for MARkdown related project.

Never thought about how the name would trigger people haha, I love Marmite BTW.
And support is almost non-existent
To be honest I'm kind of surprised by the low number. Though I guess each connector has two sides, and they can have tens of pins per connector on the bigger ones.
I wonder how many offended Apple employees and dedicated fans hang around this article, but seeing the number of grey comments being a bit sceptical about the overall efficiency of Apple environmentalism there most be more than one. ; )
But maybe still less than the number of electronics mass produced, sparing no efforts and resources, to supply mass(es of) consumers, the world!
I hear you; I just think he's far more risk averse than most people. He sets a high, conservative bar for his readers and himself that, at the risk of being overkill, almost guarantees success. Given finance, like tech, is not a field you can easily return to after leaving, I think the conservatism is merited.
How much of an advantage is this over a mini or studio with an external display?
Yakiv Pavlenko has passed away
Right. And these words can have bizarre meaning in legal terms. For instance, in Illinois law the word "shall" does not mean something is mandatory. Most of the time it should be read as simply "may".

https://www.isba.org/committees/governmentlawyers/newsletter...
It may not be even, but I don't think interestingness is correlated with time of day. But I could be wrong!