skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this kind of stuff always makes me admire Victorian engineers even more, who had to do all the math by hand, to say nothing of the machine designs to cut and create these types of gears and mechanical systems.

I suppose they learned a lot from prior tech, like clockmaking, but even there it would seem that fundamental problems would have needed solutions from scratch (eg shear failure probably isnt much of a worry in most clocks but would be catastrophic in a steam engine).
It’s definitely easier to read in an ML language, that’s for sure!
It feels like NT4, with 2000 on top of it, then a layer of XP, then Vista, then 7, then 8, then 10, and, finally, 11.

It’s not uncommon to do something that lands me on a dialog box I still remember from Windows NT 3.1. The upside is that they take backwards compatibility very seriously, probably only second to IBM.
When you have a thousand machines, you can usually get feedback pretty quick, in my experience.

Run the tune on one machine. Looks good? Put it on ten. Looks good? Put it on one hundred. Looks good? Put it on everyone.

Find an issue a week later, and want to dig into it? Run 100 machines back on the old tune, and 100 machines with half the difference. See what happens.
I think it probably is saying: don't write a "useEffect runs when its dependencies change", write a "User is redirected to their accounts page after loging in", and you are testing both your own code and the framework's routing / side effects handling / state tracking, etc.

Integration tests for complex flows inadvertently tests your dependencies, which as you say is awesome for when you have to upgrade.
> my MacBook

Hahaha
> Probably the chinese immigrants and not the kenyans themselves

Absolutely not.

Kenya's ICT industry is very robust and home grown. Kenyan companies like M-Pesa and Safaricom are fairly competitive, and I think Kenya's tech industry is at the same position India's was in the 2000s and is set to take off. In fact, nowadays Kenyan ICT companies have begun expanding the tech industry in Uganda and Tanzania.

Also, Chinese investment in Kenya is low. Indian investment tends to be much more prominent. Heck, President Ruto's campaign advisory team was from the same company the BJP uses [0], and the second largest source of FDI in Kenya after the UK is India's Marutius backdoor [1].

You're more likely to see Chinese investment in Ethiopia or DRC, not really Anglophone East Africa where Indian, South African, a d UAE firms/investors can outcompete Chinese investors due to stronger business (and family) connections.

Surprisingly, in Lusaphone countries like Angola and Mozambique, Vietnamese players like Viettel have a strong presence in the ICT industry, which I think might be due to Military support from their revolutionary era (Viettel is owned by the VPA).

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Also, this ranking is from IMD - an unaccredited degree mill posing as a business school in Lausanne that coasts off it's reputation from when it was an executive training program for Nestle before the 1990s.

Switzerland has a big issue with unaccredited business schools.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63397760

[1] - https://www.lloydsbanktrade.com/en/market-potential/kenya/in...
Ah yes, the classic Apple, "there's nothing wrong with the product, you're just holding it wrong".

Even if that is actually true, Apple's inability educate users in how to use the device properly is a failure all of its own.
We've got satellites that can measure the inflow and outflow of radiation and see an imbalance.

We've got spectrographs that can look at that radiation to see which radiation is not balanced. We can see that what is happening is radiation coming in at wavelengths that the atmosphere doesn't block heats things which reradiate much of that energy as infrared which the atmosphere blocks.

Thanks to spectroscopy we know that it is CO₂ in the atmosphere that is largely responsible for this blocking.

We know that the increase in CO₂ levels over the last couple of hundred years is largely from fossil fuels rather than things like decaying vegetation, forest fires, animal respiration and flatulence, or volcanic gases because of isotope ratios in atmospheric CO₂.

CO₂ from living things or recently living things contains ¹⁴C. CO₂ from fossil fuels and volcanoes does not contain ¹⁴C. CO₂ from volcanoes contains a higher ratio of ¹³C to ¹²C than the ratio in atmospheric CO₂. CO₂ from fossil fuels contains a lower ratio of ¹³C to ¹²C than the ratio in atmospheric CO₂.

That allows scientists to look at the isotope ratios in the atmosphere and figure out how much of the CO₂ there came from fossil fuels and how much came from volcanoes. The result is that most of the increase is from fossil fuels.

As a sanity check that result also matches well with the amount of CO₂ that we'd expect to have been released based on the amount of known fossil fuel use.

So no, it is not a natural rise.
OpenAI is borrowing lots of ideas out there as they search for ways to make money. If you have a github project then they can borrow your idea. However if you have an idea that's closed source or behind an API, your idea could be advanced enough that it might not be easy for them to figure out what's going on. So I don't think they are in position to crush all agentic startups. If you use their API and they peek into your prompts, then they can figure out a good part of what you might be doing. By them venturing off into applications, I don't trust them. For my experiments, I never use OpenAI. Good prompts are gold in this age, don't send your prompts/data to any entity you don't trust.
All the complaints I’ve seen are from people laying their entire hands on the mouse and expecting to rest their hands on top of it. This is the wrong way, IMHO.

I added a bit more detail to the original comment.
>Tim Cook prefers a different mouse than Apples's own Magic Mouse.

>But does it really have to be framed like that?

Eating your own dog food is a very important metric of product quality.
Yarp.

Infinite configurability means infinite validation time.
Others have already answered, but I'll repeat it: you can designate five family members _before_ your surgery who can receive a kidney if they ever need one.

This isn't perfect as you're unlikely to know ahead of time who might need a kidney, and you're relying on the NKR to continue to exist.

Honestly though, this wasn't a factor in my donation. 100,000 people in the US need a kidney today -- this is more important than a possible need in the future. I understand that many don't share my viewpoint, though.

If you have more questions, there's lot of good info here: https://www.donor-shield.org/kidney-donors/
NO, not victim blaming. Where is the victim? And where is the blame?

But it does read like someone that has just gotten into Buddhism recently, has become lost in the 1000's of different sects and writings, and his 'takeaways' after a brief exploration seem very wrong. He is arguing against Buddhism for things that aren't Buddhist, more misunderstands of something he heard once, and sounded Christian.

Since in Buddhism there is no central authority, and every monk can write up some hot take on their views. It can be very difficult for newbies to wade through it.
> The first two lines are tagged unions

Are they? But in the Nothing you have 2 identical members (`nothing' without arguments), won't that throw an exception?

To borrow Rust syntax (pun intended):

enum Nothing {
nothing,
just
nothing
};

That's just weird.
That's how lucidity started for me. I was having recurrent nightmares, and gradually built up my confidence at repelling the threat with telekinesis and fire. Those "skills" evolved into having lucid dreams about once a month, for a while.

I remember in one dream, it started off on a nice beach, when awareness hit me. I looked around and marvelled at how real it all looked. I was near a wooden railing and touched it, wondering how could I ever tell the difference between a dream and reality, since it all looked and felt so solid and vibrant. Then I noticed a truck parked nearby, levitated it with my mind, and hurled it hundreds of meters down the beach.

The frequency of lucidity subsided after a while. I don't know why my brain only switched on lucid dreaming for just one phase of my life. I did have another lucid dream a week ago, the first in about four years. I was flying over a landscape and entered a surreal city, and once again marvelled at how real everything all looked.

I'm with a couple of the other commenters in this thread. It's nice to have experienced lucid dreaming at some point, and it's fun when it happens again. However, it's also kind of pointless. A healthy attitude is to appreciate restful sleep instead of craving for some useless thrill.
> I started out really DRY

When you say "DRY" here, would you say you had familiarity with the original definition, or merely what you (quite understandably) inferred from the acronym? Because I think the formulation in The Pragmatic Programmer is pretty spot on in speaking about not repeating "pieces of information", whereas I find in practice most people are reacting to superficial similarity (which may or may not reflect a deeper connection).
If they were going to install a bare Windows 3, they could at least make an effort to ship a bare 95.
Doing X without Y seems very one-dimensional though.
Nokolexbor: Drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. 5.2x faster at parsing HTML
Israel is not a member of the ICC, am I right?
Because, when they did it right, in Windows NT 3.51, the users with legacy 16 bit applications screamed. There was a 16-bit DOS compatibility box, but it wasn't bug-compatible with DOS.

Microsoft underestimated the inertia of the applications market. NT 3.51 was fine if you used it as a pure 32-bit operating system. You could even configure it without DOS compatibility. Few did.
I had read about it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34186932 (or some other earlier HN submission) and had since forgotten it. I wouldn’t be surprised to forget about it again.
At that point just use the magic trackpad.
And nonetheless, it freezes up.
It continued as 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. But the NT kernel revamped for Windows 10. And they aligned the version numbers at that point. Windows 10 and 11 are both NT 10. The kernel has many differences within 6.x let alone the big leap to 10.
Title:

> Apple’s mouse is so bad

Article:

> Lists how good competitor's mouse is and in the end it has nothing to do with Apple's mouse

Who even writes this clickbait junk?
They're all NT, though I'm not sure how you mean "NT6"; XP was NT 5, Windows 10 was NT 10, and I think 11 is 11.
They should rename Gemini to Agent Smith and be done with it:

"I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure."
119K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl
737K 2024-07-15 01:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_dump
528K 2024-07-15 01:09 /usr/local/bin/pg_restore
8.1M 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/postgres
848K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/psql

/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped
/usr/local/bin/pg_dump: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped
/usr/local/bin/pg_restore: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped
/usr/local/bin/postgres: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped
/usr/local/bin/psql: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped

https://github.com/xo/usql/releases/download/v0.19.12/usql_s...

185M 2024-10-24 07:58 usql_static

usql_static: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=33c121e6b03ea90eb1dc1b79190b5ef71658f120, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

185M! Wow. I just want to query postgres with socat.
That's not what Apple officially states: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111885#:~:text=The%20recharg....

Ergonomics become more important as you age. I'm afraid all the multitouch gestures in the world won't fix RSI, especially not a Type 2 like Carpal Tunnel. Can't speak for you, but using my computer comfortably is a critical part of my job.
Does this mouse forego the rubber finish which invariably goes icky after a few years?

Every non-bottom of the range Logitech mouse I've ever had has suffered this problem. After a few years the "rubber" parts of the exterior of the mouse just become icky, like they gradually absorb your body oils and slowly dissolve. I'd be much happier if they just had hard plastic, like the bottom of the range. In fact, on my longest used Logitech (dual optical from early 2000s), I eventually ripped off the rubber and it was great to use for years after until eventually the mouse wheel packed up.

Subsequently my recent mice have been the $5 M90 which doesn't have any rubber finish. I don't suffer any kind RSI so far (despite being over 40 now), but from an ergonomics perspective I wouldn't mind something better.
Best viewed from such a distance it dwindles to a point?
These types of lookalike functions are like homonyms: they might be “spelled” the same, but they have different meanings and should not be conflated.
> I’m not certain “simplification” will accomplish that.

I think it helps democratically - people understand the code and could believe in its fairness.

> One of the oldest examples of tax simplification is the flat income tax. This is extremely regressive and disadvantages the poor and middle class.

I agree, but that's also a perversion of 'simplification'. If you follow that logic, the even simpler tax would be that everyone pays the same amount, not the same rate. E.g., everyone pays $10K, no matter what.

Obviously that's ridiculous, and so is the flat (rate) income tax. Simplicity and fairness is not equal tax or equal rate, but equal sacrifice.
The intent is that something was nice.

English speakers prefer to say it was nice of <very long phrase>. Instead of <very long phrase> was nice. The <very long phrase> is John and Mary to come and visit us the other day.

My theory is that by keeping the subject and verb short, it has less cognitive load on the listener as they know early where the conversation is going. In other words bottom line up front.

For example, this sounds strange to my ear. The right honorable gentleman who had served in the US House of Representatives and had just been floated for an even higher ranking office has been dogged by accusations of sexual impropriety.

I would phrase it as. Although dogged by accusations of sexual impropriety, the right honorable gentleman has just been floated for an even higher ranking office after serving in the US House of Representatives.
Well, let it never be said that I didn't attempt to explain it in good faith.
It's alright once you get used to it usually means it isn't alright in my experience. There are exceptions of course.
Medicare isn't "welfare", it's the standard American health system for people over the age of 65. Moreover, there's no good-faith way to call it "welfare". Please stop doing this here; you have other venues for this kind of rhetoric.
except on X you can actually say what you think.

https://x.com/search?q=bluesky%20banned&src=typed_query&f=to...
That's the generic problem with "Everything is a ...". Trying to force things into a paradigm that doesn't fit well complicates things.
>Were engineers 50 years ago just much smarter than we are now?

Were the 2006 sony santa monica programmers smarter then us when they delivered God of War 2 for the PS2 on its tiny resources?

Usually the constraints force you to become inventive and smart. Put a hard limit of 128 mb per tab on web browsers and suddenly both the developers of the browsers and the web developers will become extremely smart.

The over abundance of resources has made the majority of software engineers lazy. If we once again live in scarcity times - suddenly people will start to ask why we need 8 abstraction layers to do something.

I would guess they were quite smart bunch, but no superhuman - just people tasked with extremely challenging task, trying to jury rig something on the edge of possibility. My guess is that they took their tasks more seriously and to heart.
I once met a guy whom I told I some times had lucid dreams. He replied matter factly - lucid dreams don't exist, with the same of contempt you'd tell a creationist that God doesn't exist. I said they do exist because I've had them before. At this point from his look he must believe I'm perhaps trolling him, like I'm claiming that I can fly or become invisible. After a lot of back and forth and a lot of condescension from him, he eventually admits he doesn't know what a "lucid dream" is. So he just thought it meant something like "I have visions in my dreams and they predict the future", and assumed that's what I meant without even bothering to check.

You wouldn't believe the kind of stupid people you meet at physics conferences.
IANAL, but precedents are generally not binding in Europe (Poland at least) - they just serve as an argument. From that perspective it doesn’t matter much if it’s the same or a different country.

(may be wrong here)
> do we have actual proof that humans are causing global warming?

Yes. See this comment [1] for an explanation of how we know that humans are largely responsible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167797
I did that with a 1; it's not nearly as bad or hard as it seems. And you can upgrade the battery life significantly if you wish.
> Then you can just rest your hands on the table, which makes it very ergonomic.

Having your hands flat on the table is the opposite of ergonomic, that's how you end up with carpal tunnel.

Proper ergonomic input devices try to keep your hands rotated at least 45-degrees-ish from the surface.
> If we used taxes as just taxes maybe it would be easier to simplify the rules fairly

I agree, though using taxes is an efficient way to incentivize: If you want to fund home ownership, you can either identify each homeowner, cut checks, and mail them; or you can achieve a similar result by reducing taxes for homeowners.

I'm not sure the former isn't worth the extra hassle, for the reason you describe.
I feel like it almost doesn't matter what mouse you use with macOS, if you also use a high end mouse on a Windows machine with pointer precision off or a Linux machine, they all feel off. Even with their acceleration off.

I pretty much exclusively use the Magic Trackpad if I dock my MacBook.
Everything is just a turing machine after all* **

* modulo infinity

** except a small number of languages that are not
I'm sobbing like a baby while my 5yo twins are watching TV nearby. That is such a 5-going-on-6 decision to make, which just drives the whole thing home for me and I can't handle it right now.

I've always loved the existence of "rebeccapurple", but I somehow missed that part of the story. Her color being immortalized in the CSS logo (even if it changes years from now) is so incredibly beautiful to me.
Something the Unix world can certainly learn from.
But "reputational damage" doesn't affect profits. Nobody is canceling Netflix because they had issues watching the fight, just like nobody will cancel if the NFL experience sucks on Netflix. They will bitch and moan on Twitter, but it's essentially just talk.
You can talk about it all you want, but the correlation just seems too weak for a statement like the above to track. Nothing in statistics is perfect, but they should at least be reasonable (don't make me bring out the XKCD comic).

And sure. I have bias and didn't do any mass survey. But when you see more and more of your country falling in education ranks, and the people up top trying to appeal more to countries with very poor english skills as opposed to building those facilities domestically. , I'm going to be skeptical that the language of the country matter much in the grand scheme of things.
I'd love to know the inside story about why this hasn't been fixed yet, after so many years of a clearly deficient design. Wasn't there an Apple mouse at one point that did have a connector at the head of the mouse, so you could just use it as a wired mouse while charging? I vaguely recall the charging port on the bottom was blamed on Jony Ive (no idea if that's reasonable) wanting a certain aesthetic, but IIRC the small port on the head of the mouse was hardly noticeable. It wasn't as intrusive as, say, the iPhone notch, which has to be looked at whenever you use the phone.

I'm reminded of the situation where General Motors kept thin, uncomfortable metal keys decades after other manufactures released more ergonomic keys, or even remote key fobs.
We weren't talking about warp drives here. Certain types of aircraft are seem to be not that far off. 50 years is a ling time.

Unless you are deeply involved in battery technology, your prediction seems overly pessimistic.

Not suggesting the article below is in any way conclusive but just one of many that turn up on a basic google search.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/passenger-electric-planes-be...
My experiences in lucid dreaming and "astral travels" are a bit like Lovecraft's Hypnos story, since in this altered state of lucid dreaming I could turn to have an experience of spiritual search, looking for those dark places that nobody wants to visit, like feeling invisible barriers that I would not dare to do again. In short, when this becomes a habit, you can control the experiences emotionally to force yourself to have a more hyper-realistic experience sensorially speaking, but the side effects are to feel a strong neural connection, so it is common if something goes wrong to have dream paralysis and experiences totally full of glich, but once you wake up you know that this is fantasy, although in the dream state it is impossible not to believe it.
I think it’d be fair to call it more than a shell. It was also a set of libraries that implemented the common user interface elements of Windows apps, similar to the Macintosh Toolbox but not in ROM.
> So you’re saying the investors are happy to see their money set on fire?

Ah, HN, where you try to explain how things work, and you get ignorant sarcasm in return.

> Surely they expect at a minimum that their capital investment would make them dividends (increased revenue), and also that the money wasn’t simply set on fire with nothing to show for it and no way to repay it.

Yes, of course. But when safe investments (e.g., Treasuries) are paying out close to zero, investors are going to tolerate lower returns than they do when Treasuries are paying out 3% or more.

It's basic arithmetic: you take the guaranteed rate, add a risk premium, and that's what investors expect from riskier investments. This is well-covered in the class I recommended.

Also, not every investor thinks in terms of consistent return. A pensioner may have a need for a guaranteed 3% annual return to keep pace with inflation. A VC, on the other hand, is often content to have zero returns for years followed by a 100x payout through an IPO.
This reads a bit like a guerrilla marketing effort by Logitech.
WebAssembly and WebGPU enhancements for faster Web AI, part 1
I got lasik when I was 42. I just wish I had done it 10 years earlier. It's a pretty amazing difference in quality of life, but I hated glasses.
I like the mouse. I have the lightning charger version.
But personally I prefer the trackpad, external or built-in.
Who made the puck mouse?