skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the option to use secure booting stays user-configurable (even if it's opt-out), this sounds like a great way to for example do theft deterrent - if you can mark a specific macbook's serial number as stolen, and thus preventing internet recovery or reinstalls from external media, just like you can with iOS devices today via Find My iPhone, where Apple may deny granting a re-installation AP-ticket for the device's serial number, all the better.

If word gets out to every shady character that stolen macbooks are effectively bricks, perfect.
I’m a huge fan and every day user of tabs and split windows features in iTerm. Any performance hit for it for me has been negligible— save for one buggy update which was promptly fixed.

I use tmux coupled with that, btw.
My main reason is very simple, there is a setting to allow resizing the widow by pixel instead of but character, which means I can make the window fill all the available space on my desktop
My friend runs a great blog called Forgotten Galicia. Here’s a recent post including Jewish history in the region: https://forgottengalicia.com/vanished-world-galicias-jewish-...
>However, since the adult has this shifting narrative in her head about 'my parents don't treat me with respect', she immediately interpreted the simple request as proof or evidence that 'they are not treating me with respect' and emotionally reacted. Kind of like a vicious circle.

It's not what you say, but how you say it. If that woman knows her parents, which I suppose she does, she would have heuristics to derive the intentions of her parents from how they're saying it.

People who know each other just develop their own history of interaction and "hierarchy", and this can be weird if outsiders are involved who are much more "even" with that person.
I'd just disable them. Speed and lighterweight (on CPU) rendering are more important that ligatures and transparency, which are both gimmicky features.
Multi progress bar
I would recommend kitty[1] as well, it certainly has more features than alacritty, like opening links via keyboard using hints.

1. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
> expressive

It always feels constraining for me when I want to convey an emotion. For example, in English one would say "soft kitty" but in Russian you have at least 10 options: мягкая (simple "soft"), мягонькая (diminutive "soft") + кошечка, киса, кисонька, кисуля, кисулечка. Depending on the choice, you can sound tender or childish or like an old lady.

It's definitely not an exhaustive list of how you can call a cat, there are also funny augmentative options for male cats: кошак, котище, котяра, котофей. Spanish also feels amazing because of its extensive use of diminutives and augmentatives. But yes, English is the best language for technical or business purposes because it's so concise.
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>Alacritty is supposed to be fast, but then doesn’t support any scrolling, has a poor window resizing flow, and doesn’t have tabs. The suggestion is to use tmux for all that, but then Alacritty+tmux is slower than builtin.

Alacrity is just an experiment at the time.
One of my roommates used to accuse me of making them uncomfortable all the time because I never talked to them (for instance, when I would walk into the kitchen and quietly wait for them to get out of the way.)

It turned into an argument one day, and I just said "I hear what you're saying, but can't really change my behavior, because I just don't have anything to say to you and/or am thinking about something else." The absurd thing was that I wasn't doing anything noteworthy. Just in my head trying to map out what I wanted to do.

If you're the person who 'throws the first stone', then it's pretty easy to make it look like the other person is at fault. Maybe they were uncomfortable for reasons that have nothing to do with my behavior? Maybe they don't have any reason to try and force me to be on the defensive? That makes me uncomfortable, and surely if I were more engaged I could have found some way to blame them for being in my way all the time rather than just spending time in my own thoughts. But who really wants to turn something boring and innocent into an outright conflict?

People are fookn weird.
I have mixed feelings about this. Flux team did contribute to the popularization of this trick, and they were of much help to me for years. But really, inasmuch as this is useful at all, this must be an inbuilt OS feature, so their project is kind of doomed.
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The Jell-O Family Curse
Has anyone had performance issues with iTerm? What were you doing? I haven't had issues yet so I'm curious.
I'm not an expert, but somehow I doubt the strain your eyes feel is directly caused by the energy of a photon.
Is it? Playing around with the Metal renderer and FPS monitor, I rarely go above 30fps in day-to-day work, and most of the time I'm hitting 10-15fps. There's only certain use cases where you'll actually reach 60fps.
If I have local "dirty" state that I need to hold on to, I just hide it in a temp directory like this:

mkdir temp
echo '*' >temp/.gitignore

Quick, dirty, effective. :)
Doesn't Bezos already have a seat at the Pentagon? I thought he was locked in. Maybe that was the CIA I'm thinking of.
Not surprised! Check out this overtly sexist recruiting video by Alibaba:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005795093/chines...
Microsoft does not require the key loading for its windows 10 compatibility certification. So firmware like this is the result (intentional or not).
An app that shows the most demanded technologies for a lot of different IT careers: https://skills.technology/software-developer
Steven Pinker’s case for optimism
Yep, sorry they got sherlocked but at least it's built-in to both iOS and macOS now :)
I switched back to Terminal.app due to performance issues earlier this year. Things were just feeling laggy and slow, especially with Tmux.
I kind of like that this feels like a vanilla JS, simple version of components. Any reasoning behind by this was created? I read the about but it was limited.
I just hate when the web browsers renders differently depending on if you have a line break between certain elements. Line breaks in HTML source code should not matter!
I'm confused. The article states that "JEDI is broader and bigger, seeking a vendor to provide cloud services for all branches of the military" but you seem to be saying it's not for the military.
I disagree that ligatures are gimmicky in a general sense, but they definitely don't seem necessary for a terminal window. And doubly so if they impact performance.
> Can your tell me why it isn't a big deal without framing it wrt to "trump supporters".

Can you tell me why you believe it should be a bigger deal than it was? Numerous articles were written about it, someone lost their job, what else do you believe should happen?

Can you tell me why you started this non-sequitur thread to begin with? TFA isn't about Hillary Clinton's campaign or the scandal surrounding her having been given advance notice of questions, so why bring it up?

>Surely its possible to look at this without partisan lens.

It is possible, but partisan politics is inextricably linked to the subject at hand, and the only people still bringing it up are people with a partisan agenda.
Is there a place with a one slide, single demo, "type this, observe this, now type this, so you understand ZZZ"?
And it sounds like they wouldn't, and that their priorities are different than yours.
Well said.

I'll go further and suggest that their clone of the EpiPen is ingenious, and entirely without moral concern. If the available commodity technology makes it this easy, we're stupid to not take advantage of it. It can't violate patents of the EpiPen since that's all expired.

With developmental drugs like cabotegravir, the patent question comes into play. But also, there is basically zero enforcement requested by these drug companies for the online distribution of unauthorized Chinese and Indian suppliers of thousands of pre-approval experimental drugs. Literally nobody cares.
The one feature I miss most in Terminal.app is smart selection and automatic copy on double-click.

For example, on double click the Terminal.app will select `path.txt` from `some/long/path.txt`. iTerm will select the whole thing and copy it to the clipboard.
Could you explain this and why it requires --force?

(One of the features of git that I struggle to understand isn't a deal-killer for its adoption is the lack of repo access control; if you want this you have to implement it manually through PRs)
Alacritty are developing a scrolling feature. Should land soon ish.
>It is, though, a termination of business.

A promise to not renew a contract is not even the same as not renewing the contract. For all we know, Google might renew it anyways. Either way, Google is doing what they were paid to do for the period they were paid to do it. The DoD has no reason to have sour grapes with that. Other government agencies absolutely have no reason to.

>I also never said or implied that. I have worked all over the country and a few times out of the country. Only in the bay area and Seattle are people so social engrossed with intermingling their personal politics with their work. Most other locations, both inside and outside the US, would consider this ethically collusive. Whether or not that hurts peoples' "feewings" (as you put it) is up to the individuals involved.

I don't know what you're getting at, I've worked across the country as well (though not out of it.) The consensus among workers is different because the power dynamics are different. When I was working in the midwest, tech jobs were rare and most people did not want to put their jobs in jeopardy.

Employees at Google just feel that they have job security, because they do. Not just those in the Bay Area, but certainly those in Pittsburgh, or New York City, as well. The proof is in the pudding: to the best of my knowledge, Google employees were not fired for protesting Project Maven.

But of course people in the Bay Area feel especially safe in their endeavors. Again, they are. If a Google employee gets fired for protesting, plenty of other bay area companies will be eager to sweep them up. Some will even throw in a sweet signing bonus to welcome them in.

I don't have strong opinions about whether or not these protests are good or bad, but plenty of people across the world would love to be able to speak their mind at their job without it putting their career in jeopardy.

The Bay Area is really just the perfect place for this because it is a highly liberal area (in some aspects, anyways) and people feel extremely safe. So you get these sorts of liberal protests. I'm sure it would play out the same anywhere if this set of conditions were true regardless of political leanings.
He wasn’t sexually assaulting people he just dated someone at work. The article acts like if you break the workplace dating policy you should never work again or have to come crawling back. Would view this as a standard firing for him breaking the rules not really a #MeToo where he’s supposed to go into exile on MeToo island
The investors should care, if not for human decency, then for their bottom line. Litigating or settling sexual harassment is very expensive - and being the cause of one is a demonstration of exceedingly poor judgement.
I get 60 FPS when scrolling.
Skimming through the article I noticed that the author uses imperial measures instead of metric. In the scientific world, that's a sign of a poor work.
Productive procrastination
> He wasn’t sexually assaulting people he just dated someone at work.

You can date people at work, but you cannot date people in your reporting chain.

That means that if you're the CEO, you cannot date people at work. Tough shit, there's 7 billion other people in the world.
Nah, just build it. A VC would cause the resulting service to end up very poor due to money pressure.
Sure, the victims in Rotherham can't actually amplify it themselves, but typically, it's the media, who amplify such causes, not the victims. Consider the pedophilia plague in the Catholic church, that absolutely did not become world famous due to Twitter. The left notably also justifiably kicks up a ruckus over less, but were oddly silent on the rape gangs, as documented by a leftist himself here:

https://medium.com/@TheWakeful/the-uk-street-grooming-scanda...
We don't even understand the implementation of those things in humans.

And we don't have to, unless you're insisting on something that might be referred to more aptly as "Artificial Human Intelligence". Generally speaking though, in the AI field, there's no particular belief that AI must work the same way human intelligence works. If AI research leads to discoveries that help us better understand human intelligence, that's a nice perk, but nobody treats that as the ultimate goal.

That said, of course it makes sense to try and model after human intelligence to the extent we can, since we are currently the best example of intelligence we have available to use as a template.

It is ignorant conceit to think we will just magically stumble upon the answer with zeitgeist machine learning techniques.

Who is out there suggesting that we will "just magically stumble upon the answer with zeitgeist machine learning techniques"? From where I sit, it seems that most contemporary researchers who are focused on Deep Learning / Deep Reinforcement Learning / etc. are not talking much at all about "Artificial Intelligence" in the general sense. And the people out there talking specifically about "Artificial General Intelligence" (Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Pei Wang, etc.) certainly aren't claiming that all we need is the currently faddish ML techniques. See, for reference:

http://agi-conf.org/2017/?page_id=20

http://agi-conf.org/2016/schedule/

http://agi-conf.org/2015/schedule/

etc..
> You're unlikely to get impartial information from the people making flux.

Why not? They spent years of their lives making a not-very-lucrative career choice because they believed in the importance of their cause. I would expect them to be better read and more up to date on the relevant scientific research than anyone working for the phone vendors.
Not everyone needs the features iTerm provides. I used to use Terminal for a long time, but now I use iTerm because it gives me nice things like shell integration and notifications when jobs finish.
Glad you liked it. If you read some of the original Moon articles (“Introducing Moon”) you’ll find that I was frustrated with other libraries and strived to create a smaller and faster alternative.

Now I have worked on designing a new structure for web applications that I’m planning on writing further about. The view API of components in Moon closely models my vision for the future of the web. Moon’s philosophy is to have a consistent API in order to create views to display data.
I'm not sure how that would work in Scala.js without redesigning the library to have an async API, at which point it's not really the same library anyway. The author said that sync API was a major feature of this lib.
I found this to be a great intro to the ideas of lisp. He covers macros, the Y Combinator, the meta-circular evaluator, and even a 62-line implementation of lisp in lisp. I’ve read about these ideas separately but had never seen them all together in one presentation, with examples. https://youtu.be/FRaNUsiD_BA
Looks great! Going to install on those servers I can't connect to our Prometheus system.
Funnny how I hesitated clicking the link because part of my brain insisted that whitespace in HTML was "boring". Not worth of consideration. I'm glad I did click in the end becaus this article summarily answered a host of questions I'd collected over the years. I have a much clearer model now.
Any idea how it affects battery usage on a laptop with an integrated GPU?
This isn't really true. Child separations on the US border got a lot more play than Rotherham, any of the other towns affected, or the current scandal in Telford.
I'm Addicted to Silent Meditation and I've Never Felt Better
A calculator made from rollercoasters in Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
While it is a taboo among most Kenyan people to eat donkey meat, it is not uncommon to hear of stories where unscrupulous business people clandestinely slaughtering donkeys and selling the same. Now, some truly entrepreneurial types have taken the business a notch higher - export to China(1).

Too bad for the Venezuelans though.

1: https://qz.com/1062794/as-other-african-countries-ban-donkey...
Retinal degeneration patients are all advised to avoid blue light exposure for this reason. Not only is there a great deal of research to back it up, but subjectively blue light also makes the photopsias and afterimages worse.
No, the “white balance” isn’t sufficient. Spectral power distribution is what might as well be an infinite dimensional space, whereas trichromatic vision is (in a simplified model anyway) 3-dimensional.

You can see the difference between lights if you look through a diffraction grating, though.

There are light sources with very dramatically different spectral power distributions which appear to have the same color if you look directly at the light. These can have substantially different impact on circadian rhythms, brightness adaptation, etc.

Spikier light spectra have an additional problem for color reproduction (unrelated to sleep) which is that they amplify differences in color vision between different observers; everyone’s vision is just slightly different, and if you use very spiky spectra for primaries, the result is that all of the color relationships (say of some photograph) end up looking at least slightly wrong for most people (where “wrong” here means different from what the creator of the image intended). The new phones are just getting toward a spectrum which is spiky enough where our simple models of color reproduction start breaking down; the next-generation gamuts specified for film etc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020) are beyond that point.

Personally I wish there was less of a rush toward the largest possible color gamut. In marketing and lay understanding larger color gamuts are strictly superior, but (like with many engineering decisions) there are actually serious tradeoffs involved.

see e.g. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ist/cic/2014/00002014...
It's doing 60 FPS; I just checked.
I started using mastodon after realising that SDF had set up an instance, and I only had to activate my SDF account.

So far, so good. Social stuff is neat again, I don't get my bandwidth wasted for ads and I can trust my provider.

Hopefully this becomes the norm!

This makes me realize that I got my SDF account in 2008 when I was 16, no questions asked, and I was unemployed. Now I've got a job and I can finally sign-up for a recurring payment/support account.
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In the UK the idea of a paid holiday is a new idea, up until 1938 working men had no entitlement to such a thing. The trade unions were responsible for getting the change although initially the entitlement was for just one week of paid holiday. Eventually two weeks became the norm and then the E.U. laws harmonised the rules to whatever we have today.

There was a need then for taking people's money off them to take them somewhere for this mandatory holiday fun. This provided quite a bonus to the railways and associated industries. Seaside towns in the UK are still littered with the leftover hotels and amusements that got borne into being before the airplane came along. Planes took the holidaymakers away to cheaper parts of the world where the strong pound meant that Spanish and Greek folk could wait on average Brits, accepting wages that nobody would work for in the UK. A lot of such tourism was living for cheap and having other people do the chores for you, not exactly the pinnacle of adventure.

So ingrained is the notion of holiday that it really is mandatory. To stay at home and enjoy the home you have been working fifty weeks of the year to secure is anathema, total crazy talk that would mark you out as eccentric. Just because some trade union people fought for the right for paid holidays in eighty years ago is forgotten and not known by the working man, yet just because of this legislation the act of going on holiday is deemed mandatory. It is a win for capitalism and it means nobody is truly getting off the hamster wheel and enjoying the art of doing nothing. Even in this article - albeit American - there is still a lot of emphasis on doing inane stuff, loitering around local shops, putting effort into doing holiday things but in your back yard. We still seem afraid of an open ended commitment to unstructured self development, taking time out to do nothing. Times of nothingness are great for original thinking, creativity and learning, maybe some people just can't do it.
iTerm actually disables the Metal rederer while on battery by default.
Sorry for being imprecise, when I refer to military I mean specifically warfare. As the Google letter notes:

> > We believe that Google should not be in the business of war. Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled, and that Google draft, publicize and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology.

So the issue is specifically warfare technology, not DoD/military bureaucracy in general.
Even when scrolling, I rarely hit 60. Most of the time, I'm staying in the 40 range and hit 60 for one or two frames.

The FPS meter only works with the Metal renderer, so I can't directly compare it and the CPU renderer, but just from a subjective perspective, I notice slightly worse performance from the CPU renderer while scrolling, but nothing major.

Beyond that, though, how often are you scrolling, and how buttery smooth does that have to be to be a good experience? While it does seem smoother side-by-side, I'm not blown away by the difference.
I don't know if they are really a risk but I know that there are a lot of them because I collected them as a child and they were not really hard to find after a maneuver, when they were sill shiny.

> Firefighters there have found their work hampered by explosions from munitions dating back to World War II, which were buried and had been undisturbed until the heat of the flames set them off.

My point was more that the explosions (blanks are loud) could have been caused by ammunition dropped long after WWII.
I would read Marty Cagan's blog https://svpg.com/articles/ many of his posts in the "Most Popular" section address the product manager + engineer relationship.
Git is based on a one-two of UX responsibility evasion:

1) there's a distinction between the "plumbing" and the "porcelain", and all problems are blamed on the (replaceable) porcelain. So if you don't like it, use different porcelain.

2) Canonical 'git' is the only viable porcelain and we will never fix it.
Regarding your texting example: I think we all do these double standards justifications to a certain extent and it takes effort and maturity to realize and correct for it.
That's a bullshit made-up rule, designed by corporate lawyers who want to remove any possibility of a lawsuit. There's nothing immoral about dating an employee; it's a risky situation because the employee can feel pressured and harassed, or it can lead to conflicts of interest, undeserved promotions or bonuses etc.

That being said, if both persons are mature and cautious, the sky will not fall.
How come it gets disabled when not charging/plugged in? Why not let me choose?

Especially when I would want to test it right now, sitting here on my bed. :)