skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm far more of a Mac user, but I use Windows, too, and I agree that the Finder is quite inferior to Win Explorer. The simplest, most obvious things, such as having 2 side-by-side trees for file organization, or right-click on anything and create a new folder there--things that are easy and obvious--are NEVER going to come to Finder, which occasionally adds trivial eye candy such as "album flow" views or colored "tags", but basic workaday functionality, no.

Yes, you can buy a 3rd party replacement with the hassle of deploying and maintaining on multiple machines, if you have them, but my main complaint is what decades of not caring about the most fundamental of all Mac apps (the only one you can't quit) implies about Apple's strategic attitude toward the Mac overall.

For those of us who find the Mac the best pro dev platform, the implications are not good, because what we tend to like about it (desktop unix where all the client stuff just works) is just a historical accident that Apple would not create again and does not intend to maintain longer than necessary.

Rather than make the Finder more powerful to make the Mac better for serious users, Jobs took the approach that people who couldn't understand the difference between a file and a folder were the real market for Apple, solving the problem by creating iOS with no user view of the file system at all.

This turn from computer company to fashion accessory for those who don't care about computers per se was so successful as a business strategy that I can hardly criticize it. It just bodes ill for those of us who like the Mac for features its only supplier wants to be rid of.

Each time Apple has an event where Cook pointedly emphasizes that the iPad is "what we at Apple see as the future of computing", I google for an update on the current state of "best desktop Linux distro".
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> (again downvoted by 4 :D :D What a coincidence :D :D guys, you are seriously having a problem :D :D :D)

Minus four is the minimum points, it doesn’t indicate exactly how many downvotes a comment has. My guess is to discourage people from attempting to get the “most negative” number of points for a post.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
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The redesign is user hostile.

- Infinite scroll without numbers to give you an idea of how far you've dug in.

- The titles now point to the comments rather than the articles.

- They took out the subreddit bar at the top of the page.

The general idea is that they want to control how you use the site.

And that's just for the desktop experience, and I didn't dig too far (a couple of hours). There may be other neat surprises lurking in there.

It looks like the muffins[0] grew shark teeth.

Edit: that snark may not be warranted... But at least, they grew too hungry for me as a user.

———

0. as Jessica Livingston used to call them when they were doing YC
Yes. I am finding it almost bemusing that people are dancing so delicately around the only rational possibility here: A semi-custom AMD-produced x86-64 CPU, very much like the Samsung-produced A-series ARM CPUs for their phones and tablets. I see zero reason that the next Axxxx chip cant be a rebranded Zen core with Vega GPU and custom Apple IP magic sprinkled in - https://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/semi-custom

Just because Apple says they are done with Intel and are making their own chips, does not preclude the possibility that they are simply working with a different x86 vendor on a custom/semi-custom design.

I see zero way Apple gets off the x86 architecture in the next few years, simply due to the tremendous software ecosystem that has grown up around the platform since the switch from PowerPC. They would have to offer a dual path for years to get their larger software partners prepared.
Obviously the quacks cannot figure things either. Otherwise they would have actionable evidence of good statiatical quality. Scientific method (esp. RCTs) provides actionable evidence.

Just be careful whom you call a quack... dietetics has way too many facets that are being analysed at the time.

We also have science that works quite well on unknown systems - epidemiology and statistics.

While it is not good enough to figure out causes, correlations are good enough in typical cases to be actionable.

The strongest one we have is "eating plenty of greens and raw vegetables will make you look like other healthy people". I haven't seem any contravening evidence to this very not ground-breaking conclusion.
The problem is that it flies in the face of 70 years of dietary recommendation (which was grains) and in the face of all the industry (because it is not shelf stable).

Exercise so far while improving health in the elderly has not been linked to persistent weight loss.

I could be more specific about thresholds there as well. (In terms of volume.) Butt what good does it do? These are fuzzy thresholds.

Them we have evidence that high fat diets are effective at weight loss (about the same as low fat diets) but some that they have no other health effects that are not really explained by weight change.
Thus the diets are not specifically recommended, one over another. Even the high fat diets resulted in caloric restriction.

The long term analysis gives slight but existent increase in all cause mortality that is not explained by CVD mortality nor cancer. Thus we do not know the cause. Quacks like to tell that they know the causes.

Or other that any kind of diet is somewhat effective so the right placebo in weight studies is regular weight monitoring. Not no diet.

And a lot of evidence that people cannot really self regulate to health with bad substrates.
They sold to Microsoft. My guess is Microsoft is going to kill it.
Nobody wants to use Android or W10.
On the immaturity of tokenized value capture mechanisms
I'm British and been in and around Asia about 18 months now. I agree with the article's sentiment. I might even take it a step further to say that such tourism is a metaphor for the West's relationship with Asia. I'm currently in China where the majority of my, and I suspect your, material possessions where manafactured. It is such an alien culture to me yet it is fundamental to how I live my daily life no matter where I reside. This disparity reminds me of the article's distaste for Westerners mindlessly enjoying SE Asia. Perhaps in a way it's as if the entirety of the West is having a "holiday" in China?
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Since SINTEF is based in Norway, it's certainly possible that my profile picture is somewhere in there, and that really pisses me off. I'm out and have no problem with people knowing that I'm gay, but I shouldn't have to deal with "researchers" pulling this type of crap.
What is this based on? Are you Muslim or do you have direct experience with the practice of Islam in India?

We just read about false information being spread about religions, and about Islam in particular. Let's be careful to back up what we say.
>>Here in India the top body of Muslims (AIMPLB) is now fighting a revision to the law that delegitimizes it (the right to have four wives).

Polygamy is common is all major religions in India. Also it can be argued in most Indian cases having a mistress is polygamy too.

You will also be a tad little surprised to know Muslims are the least polygamous community in India.

https://scroll.in/article/669083/muslim-women-and-the-surpri...

>>The strangest thing is that there's a sizable number of women who support the law in its current form.

Polygamy has/had its uses across history. Also if you don't mass murder girls like they do in India, you inevitably come up with use cases for things like these.

>>Religion is difficult to comprehend.

Its isn't. Religion is social evolution. That a few things don't apply to one person, doesn't mean they don't apply to billions of people.
I stuck to netbooks/sublaptops before and it kinda worked for me, last one was a Lenovo Ideapad. Was eyeing 13" MBPs for quite some time but they are really much more in weight/bulk. But last year went for 12" Mac with RAM maxed to 16gb, couldn't be happier. Almost netbook like outer dimensions: still comfortable to use on the bus/plane. Same weight and thinner, usable keyboard. Great battery life, and enough horsepower even with the m3 cpu. Fanless, just like my Ideapad was!
And that in turn also doesn't mean that the majority preferred Unity, it's simply the same phenomenons again: people tend to dislike change, and only the people who dislike the change let themselves be heard.
Looks good, I will give it a try.
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I don’t believe you. There must be something pathological with your SSD or something else in your system.

SSDs have an order of magnitude faster random access performance (both read & write) and you can measure that. NVMe drives additionally increase parallelism by a significant margin. Typical workloads are very sensitive to this metric. At least at cold boot you should see significant improvement in performance.

Font rendering, likewise, you can just see[1]. See the full page[2] for more examples.

If you have good eyesight, you will see a difference. I could see how 4K to “retina” (>260 PPI) might not be worth paying extra to some (though I personally want the highest PPI I can afford), but 96 PPI to ~185 PPI is a world of difference. It goes from blurry to sharp.

That’s not all—because LoDPI text rendering often involves subpixel rendering techniques, HiDPI also brings significant improvement in contrast.

For crying out loud, some people even get headaches from the blurry subpixel rendering! [3]

[1] https://www.eizo.be/eizo-pixeldichte-im-zeitalter-von-4k-e5....

[2] https://www.eizo.be/knowledge/monitor-expertise/understandin...

[3] https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/p7.html
One where you only visit their website, and only through their app.
Are you speaking as an informed and responsible user? If so, then you disqualify. A more appropriate outlook to the situation would be to imagine Facebook as the only options that young children have. It's not just about how you use it, it's also about how it indirectly affects the people around you because of the pervasive lack of due diligence. Facebook as the only option might offer some boons, but is it worth it? I think most of us would agree that if we objectively weighed the pros and cons of the "real" Internet some solid arguments could be made that its more positive sides make up for its darker corners in spades. Could Facebook pass a similar test?
Every religious scripture has many things that are barbaric by modern standards. This comment really is out of place.
We do it to make products worse over time, to make room for new competitors. That'd explain a lot about the Web so far...
I'd be amazed if you even managed to break networking after kernel upgrades in the recent 5 years.
This should be mentioned on the page, but isn’t for some reason. I stopped reading.
> such as predatory journals, where researchers who don't know better

Not so sure I want to read their research if they know so little about the literature they want to publish in?

How on earth can they know if it's old news?
How on earth can they know if it's plain wrong?
How on earth can they know basic standards to allow correct publishing of their data?
Can you give some examples you fail to find with Google?
Yeah for tools driven by webpack not having local development is really painful. I tried to make the pixel c my only device and got somewhat further thanks to tmux but ultimately not having chrome developmer tools in the browser made it not work for me.
Academic papers are written for an audience of experts. If you wish to understand them, you’ll need to be an expert in the field (you can sometimes get away with a bit less, depending on the topic). They are not intended for general dissemination.
In fact it is possible to rip SACD using some OPPO models, so no need for hard to get PS3 version [1]

[1] https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/28569-sacd-r...
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After living in Washington DC which was one of the first cities to successfully implement the bikeshare model, I honestly dont understand why cities still continue to push the dockless model. Capital BikeShare in DC worked for year, I didn't have a car and it was my primary means of transportation. There was a plethora of docks placed strategically throughout the city and I rarely had an issue finding a dock to park my bike. In the last year they are testing the dockless model and I now I see bikes thrown all over the street just as I have in other cities with dockless bikeshare. Why the push to continue for the dockless option?
What's ugly or laggy?

It's not like there is a defacto user interface but there are plenty of them that sure doesn't lag or look ugly!
Nice. A thorough read. I once realised a similar problem with feed. But had a slightly different perspective. Hope you can shed some light on these points as well.

https://medium.com/@husain_safdari/we-deserve-a-better-faceb...
This article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16739753 (which is linked from the top comment above) was posted 10 hours ago, is currently in position 11 with over 250 votes and 73 comments, and includes much of the same information, including screenshots.
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This did sound cool to me, at the beginning of the auto-scaling, image-based, cloud times...

But then I did realize a couple of things, that improve with meaningful names:

1) Alerts impact and scope. It's easy to know what are you seeing in your phone, if balancers, rds clusters, and instances have meaningful names.

2) Metrics visualization. Maybe the graph is the same, but a meaningful legend sometimes helps.

3) SSH connection. I like to auto-complete SSH, not to copy/paste ssh and write down extra parameters like different .pem files.

4) (Inter) team communication. The same that with graph legends, for humans, it's easier with names than with ids.

5) Custom commands parametrization. The same than ssh, I prefer to be able to write down the parameter (host name, service name) of my command, without getting out of the terminal, copy the ID or IP, get back, paste, verify...

6) Costs/Reports visualization.

7) Backup management. Let's say S3 parent for the backups of a instance/service. Backup reports too.

At the end, I think that I can have cattle mentality regarding Configuration Management, System patching, Version change, etc... BUT I still can get benefits from thinking a little bit element and service names.

At the beginning (of the cloud concept), I did read pet Vs cattle, and I did think IDs were the thing. Now I think that to scale to many customers or many environments, it's better with previous thinking. Being the little string of the alert in the phone, the biggest winer.
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This article is just cherry-picking examples of specific tech companies and trying to make the point that SOX is onerous on that basis.

If instead, you look at NASDAQ's own website of recent IPOs[1] and look at the market cap of those companies there's plenty of smaller companies to be found.

E.g. BWB went public less than a month ago and has a market cap of ~300M, meanwhile that Vox article is claiming Netscape's IPO of 2B would be impossible today. AIHS is hovering at ~150M and DNJR at ~60M, both companies public in the last month.

Again, maybe it's true, but given all that I'm more willing to believe that the tech sector in particular just has more access to private equity than it did 20 years ago, and thus there's less pressure to go public. It's more of a hassle to be public, and that applied before SOX, at the very least you need to deal with nosy shareholders wondering how their money's being used.

1. https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/activity.aspx?tab=pricin...
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/89adwf/why_i_moved_ba...
In today’s software development life cycle, test automation frameworks are an essential part of the testing process. The ability to integrate within the build-test-deploy pipeline is mandatory and running the tests on a developer’s machine to confirm a failure or extend the test suite, should be done with minimum configuration. So, how do you assure the quality of complex distributed systems? Which are the key elements to speed up testing that Adaptive’s QA experts use?
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Look nice. Do you support recurring tests? Say if we release code every Friday and would like it tested after? If not might be something to think about.
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>Did you read it?

Yes, the problem is that I read it.

It indeed attributed the possibility, but at least from the article alone, the supporting evidence is incredibly weak. at the end of the study, a group of 20 people who quit had larger erections than a group of 40 who didn't.

Were they larger before the study too? Unstated.

Were they significantly larger? By how much? Unstated.

Were all of them larger, or did a few just skew the average? Unstated.

Was the quitting group larger than before they quit? Unstated.

All we have is that, in the end, the quitters had the larger, presumably average, erections. On a sample size of 20, and 40.

And of course, knowing that the article's headline is bullshit (claimed on results the writer himself acknowledges as statistically insignificant), it's probably likely that any other interpretation the author so freely takes is also bullshit.

That article isn't the gold standard of proof; its not even bronze. It goes very close to blatantly lying with its headline, and I think its safe to assume that out of everyone involved in determining those results, only the article's author would be so confident about it (at least, as much as he is).

If you're going to cite things, then use things worth citing. In the worst case, read the study itself. But don't go around feeding others such low quality summaries.
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The titles linking to the comments just reflects reality, most people don't follow the links but go to the comments immediately; then if the discussion is good they maybe go to the article in question.
> run the human architecture on an AGI at a billion operations per second

Maybe a single human, but can you run an entire world civilization and it's environment (basically Earth) in a sped up manner? Because one super fast human-level intelligence is still constrained in a way that all of civilization is not. What is one human sped up a billion times? Is that 1 billion humans? We already have several of those units operating around the clock. And those units have access to the world's resources, whereas one sped-up mind will not, unless it can gain control of the world.
How small can we go? Busybox + SSH running on a wifi-enabled watch or earring?
The way the concrete is laid there gives mis-clues.

I had a funny brain-wobble whilst watching the video, playing “hunt for the lane”.

I guess the car decided on the wrong one, with fatal consequences.
I don't want to use reddit's own app, why would I use a third-party app? I want a proper unhindered mobile web experience :)
All the redesigns look Facebook-ish. Which make me wonder... Do the designers understand what people love about Reddit? The new interface looks void of information and way too distracting...
I am no FB User. Never was. Never seemed to me interesting enough to join.

When I read these kind of articles I am always amused with which kind of problems your live is enriched when you are.

Not to mention the occasional article about how much your live improved after stop using FB.

Fascinating.