skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but having a corresponding billion years of experience with some other operating system doesn't make the comparison more fair.

Buy a cheap out of the box laptop with poor hardware and you are going to have to google error messages no matter what operating system you put on it. I've had enough of Windows laptops with flaky wifi or that doesn't resume from suspend properly, for example. Mac users like their boxes primarily, and rightly, because of the premium hardware.

The fact remains, that if you have a non-techie friend or relative that wants a computer that just works for surfing the web and writing documents, get them a decent Linux box. That might mean ChromeOS these days, or it might mean Fedora on a Thinkpad. As long as they don't stray into tweaking those weird settings, they're set for life (figurately speaking, of course).

Those of us who develops software, and especially for "the cloud" (i.e. Linux), we have our own choices to make. Just give up that old Linux-requires-tinkering narrative. That hasn't been true since the early 00s, when editing xorg.conf and manually setting IRQ lines was a thing (which was true of PC hardware mostly before the PCI Express era).
How to Make Rock Bottom Your Foundation for Success
In A/UX you could use both.
Perl and CPAN works well enough on windows :-)
Has anyone any idea what standards might apply to autonomous moving part inside a home ?

I am not sure that it actually exists, but at some point, someone is going to be crushed by its moving furniture or trapped in the sofa.
Sure... but that was then. I too had a real hard time learning Ruby back in the day. But now if you google any Ruby or Rails how-tos they will include a one-line Brew and RBENV install.

So I get what you are saying but I think we are in a new world here.
My anecdotal experience shows this policy is complete bullshit or not enforced at all. Last summer spent time using a Google Play game for kids ages 10+ - The ads we overtly sexual and completely inappropriate for kids under 18. I screenshotted and tweeted it at Google and ... crickets. The developer who made the game was Pixonic: https://pixonic.com
Hint, not every OS is an UNIX clone. Thankfully.
Wow! This is quite a gem, thanks! I can pinpoint exactly where on this list my physics knowledge drops off.

You should submit this to the main page.
Usually migration, or just because they got caught by the wind/hot air bubble. It's not like a fall from any height can harm them anyway.

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100204/full/news.2010.54.ht...

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/01/128389587/l...
Nearly everything about reality is a “distortion” because your brain writes the “perception.”
You shouldn't be dripping with sweat just from walking. I walked several miles yesterday, on a warm day, just for fun - not a drop of sweat left my brow. If you're overheating, wear less clothing. This notion "I need to be ferried around from air-conditioned box to air-conditioned box in yet another air-conditioned box so that I can obey my office's dress code in the height of summer" is not an attitude we can afford to keep, in the 21st century.

Not to say we should abolish all motorized transport. In any modern city there should be half a dozen ways of getting around that are all faster than cars. Light rail, buses, casual bicycles, and electric scooters spring to mind.
Perhaps the iPhone is scaling the image down so much you lose the thin outline around the foreground figure?

Try on a tablet or desktop.
Something tells me making their abuse department 24/7 won't help
I love DO but i had to make a support ticket recently and it took them about 2-3 days to respond.
With no consideration of the noise nuisance for those living in the flight path, presumably.

Uber is one giant externality wrapped in a bundle of media hype and VC money.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/traceygreenstein/2011/09/20/the-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/12/08/has-our-go...
This long talk goes at length on how to make your own keyboards and provides several resources too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNgy1pldtM&t=15s
Many of us speak about adverts that inform as being ethical. I consider this post one of them. I wish all ads were like this one, a story.
Italy was a much narrower front and thus a smaller and safer commitment, along with most of the rest of the fighting in the Mediterranean. Mostly Stalin wanted an invasion of France ASAP, Churchill wanted to be cautious, and FDR vacillated but eventually pushed the France invasion.
Same with the Freestyle Edge here, but I'm thinking of giving a chance to the Ergo-shaped ones...
This is one of the most self-righteous, narrow minded, inflexible, and delusional things I have read on this platform.

I invite you to walk at 1am, everyday, through the dodgy parts of London with your smartphone in your pocket. Please, report your mugged or stabbed rate in a year.
Fair point. It depends on what the project is.
It doesn't come with a stand, and isn't VESA compatible without an additional $200 adapter, and it's all proprietary.

It's just such a ridiculous thing to nickle and dime, or in this case, hundreds and hundrends and hundreds of dollars.

It's not justifiable and just looks like continued contempt for the consumer.

There's no way the stand costs $800 more than their VESA adapter, which means they're taking the piss. Most monitors include a stand and many include VESA functionality for free.

Apple have produced a monitor that places an arguably otherwise unobtainable level of capability within reach of a budget conscious Apple fan who would actually save up and buy this. One for whom it's not a mindless line item purchase. For whom it's a once-in-three-years or even once-in-a-decade purchase. It is a prosumer price. Brilliant.

I can't justify one, but a couple of my photography buddies could. It'll sting them, and they'll have to skimp and save for a while, and it won't be at launch, but give it a year or so of saving hard...

Except it's pretty useless without either a stand or a mount. And instead of including a stand one for free like everyone else, the price is eye watering to anyone who actually cares about price.

And by doing so, they've made the monitor pricing look like bullshit because it's effectively unusable without overpriced proprietary bullshit.

And if you were to sum up what emotion "effectively unusable without overpriced proprietary bullshit" is going to make someone feel...
> ...is just a distinction without a difference. You see the exact same mentality, the exact same sorts of arguments.

Sure, but it's important to realize that this is true about any supremacist ideology. There's nothing exclusive about either Nazism or white supremacism. ISIL's Islamofascism is the same old crap for example, and it too has a line of historical descent from, e.g. early-20th-c. anti-Semitism. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a raging anti-Semite who met Adolf Hitler and ardently supported his most heinous atrocities.
Getting the Startup Help You Need vs. the Help You Want
> They really should be considered the aggressor in WW2, not savior.

One doesn't exclude the other.
I am using WSL more and more often nowadays and it's really good now, it works just like you'd expect Ubuntu (or other distro you choose) to work. The only thing I've had to do is turning off anti-virus real-time protection for linux subsystem.

Hell, not only VSC supports WSL. RubyMine can manage rbenv/rvm on WSL and more https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/RUBYDEV/How+to+add+...
You usually prove something with formal verification, and it fails when the assumptions of the underlying model are wrong.

Take the axioms with a grain of salt.
> You are using users in plural.

Because I am talking about people who use Macs in general?

> Macs are not typically used as multi user machines. Certainly not by developers.

There are developers who share Macs: not everyone can afford to have a computer to themself. But that's still beside the point: regardless of the number of humans using the computer, Macs still have multiple permission levels, and there is always a "root" with more permissions than you.

> configure it to install stuff elsewhere

Yeah, this tends to break if you actually try this. Homebrew explicitly tells you that this is not well supported.

> Also, /usr/local is completely empty on a fresh OSX installation and the whole point of homebrew is to have the stuff you install with it on the path.

Yes, but there are better, and more secure ways to do this. What you should be doing is require sudo to install to a directory that is global and automatically on $PATH, or install locally to ~/bin (for example) and then put that on your $PATH. The way Homebrew does it, where it changes the permissions of /usr/local's folders, is bad because it opens the door to attacks when system software running as root picks up binaries from $PATH (which you have now changed ownership and permissions of to be writable by your user) making any code execution bug instantly become a privilege escalation attack. This isn't the first time I've had this discussion, so I have more detailed explanation which links to an actual example of this being exploited in practice: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-pack...

> The only vulnerability is the single user of the laptop being an idiot.

Aside from the fact that the security hole exists regardless of me doing something stupid, I'd like my software to work as well as possible in the face of me being an idiot ;)
They always use Norwegian place names for their beds.
Just because I put myself in harms way, I can't claim to be a hero after I get myself out safely.
Why would it need to be robotic? If the friction on those tracks is low enough, then it should be possible to move the whole setup by hand.
If I'm someone who works in actual life and death related matters and on a regular on-call schedule, I need to be able to

1) Still continue to have a life

2) Not have my phone completely disabled just because I went to see a comedy gig.

Having to leave the comedy gig when my phone starts vibrating in the bag is a good compromise, as is wearing a smart watch that can notify me exactly what the call or message is about before I do.

The selling point is to reduce visual / audible recordings of the performance, allowing artists to say or do things that may be problematic when taken out of context.
In Stockholm and other cities in Europe, people are more than happy to live in tiny apartments around 30sqm that look like the one in the video. Examples in the best areas of Stockholm downtown: https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=925970&loc...
Please re-read your parent's point. By your own logic, if no.(users) > no.(devs), then it makes sense to prioritise freedoms(users) > freedoms(devs), which is precisely what the AGPL does.
I more or less agree with all of that, but at this stage Elm's BDFL has earned my trust, and he is well within his rights to do whatever he wants with his own creation.
The Russians bring unique three strategic assets to the table, men, space and winter. The Russians knew this. The Germans knew this. Everyone knew this.

In the early 1930s the Russians were evaluating a lot of military stuff and basically settled on "well, given these advantages it makes the most sense to not try too hard to specifically prevent our territory from being invaded, just let it happen and then with the help of a winter unlike anything in most of Europe slowly crush them on our home turf with our manpower advantage." And that's exactly how WW2 turned out. Sure they botched the start of it and lost more men and territory than they were expecting but they basically did the obvious thing. Hitler just thought he would be able to take all the strategic assets in the West of Russia, capture Moscow and force surrender before that happened. He was wrong. Just like everyone else who's invaded Russia.
> Mere walking makes you sweat? Go see a doctor, that shouldn't happen

Or maybe it's 100'F and merely existing makes you sweat. Hello, large parts of the United States right now!
I've done this without being mugged, stabbed, robbed, etc. many times -but- I am a relatively big fella with what has been described as "resting murder face" which really renders my anecdotal experience fairly niche.
I guess it depends on the cat. I knew someone with a very territorial cat* that would run across the room to scratch/bite strangers ...or people it knew well. Walking past it? Expect a full claw swipe at the back of your legs.

The solution is to just put the cat outside or in another room for a bit not to mutilate it, IMHO.

*(What's funny to me is that I helped them choose the cat when it was a kitten because it was "a licker". I didn't realise at the time it was just making notes on us all to see how we tasted.)
Can anyone hypothesize why there's no sidewall on these? Anything I come up with in my own mind I end up defeating.

Unrelated:

> max load of 1102 pounds.

I have to assume this is per tire considering the Chevy Bolt weighs 3,600lbs but it's not clear from the article.
This is awesome.

Our van had a tire slashed at a church parking lot that was renting space to the high school under construction. It didn’t collapse until after a 5 minute drive was completed when it was (thankfully) at rest. Exploding tires on the highway at 70 MPH aren’t fun to think about.
never heard of it before thanks for educating us

wow the casualties over 2 months is just mind boggling
I invite you to try different climates around the world. It is not at all unusual to be drenched in sweat from just walking outdoors for most of the year in many parts of the world. I do agree with the rest of your comment, however.
I think you are forgetting the Manchurian operation and the impact it had on bringing down the Japanese war machine.
The reputation among FOSS devs sure.

I have been working in enterprise world since 1999, where most folks don't even know that HN exists.

They don't even think twice about buying something like Oracle.
Ergonomics is probably the number one thing that matters on the long run for computer languages.

Make the frequent things easy and safe. And this means syntax should be easy to read and write, documentation should be plentiful and easy to read, easy to start using, even if you are not expert in the area that that particular library covers, etc.

Rust also suffers a bit from this, as more and more libraries are just the generated docs. Here are these 30 structs and 100 impls, godspeed. Yeah, but what is this library, when I would use it? What's the most 100 common use cases?

And a 100 might seem like a lot, but people will chose that instantly works for them. And there are a lot of strange stacks out there. Sometimes people just want the low-level bits of your library. No docs/API for that? Damn. Sometimes people just want to use it as a one-liner, no config files, no import-server-deploy, no binary? Damn.
If anything, the 'distortion' of history is that only one brutal totalitarian regime was defeated and condemned, but not the other. It is often forgotten that the World War II was started by both the Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia [1][2].

This does not undermine the tremendous human sacrifice by the ordinary people on the Soviet/East side: it must be remembered and respected. However, the fact that the Soviet Union was on the winning side undermined the terror, repressions and immense suffering inflicted on millions of people, including their own people and the people of the countries they invaded [3][4][5][6]. The Soviet regime, as a political subject, should not be glorified; and they certainly should have had very little to complain about. Let alone the D-Day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_So...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupations_by_the_So...
I think you are oversimplifying things. I can tell you that merely walking in the sun when the temperature is in the high 30s (Celsius), makes me sweat, I hardly think that I should seek medical advice over this, to pick on one of your solutions.
Optionals are union types: Optional<A> is the union of Unit and A.
I’m guessing weight.

The added inertia would provide more shear stress in the rubber to get the tire accelerating. That could have a lifetime affect due to crazing in the polymer/fiber network (which can be especially prone to failure due to interfacial failure between the solid fibers and polymer matrix).
> Where did all of that wealth go?

According to "The secret history of lead" [1]:

> With a legal monopoly based on patents that would provide a royalty on practically every gallon of gasoline sold for the life of its patent, Ethyl promised to make GM shareholders–among whom the du Ponts, Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering were the largest–very rich. (...) In April 1923, (...) the General Motors Chemical Company was established to produce TEL, with Charles Kettering as president and Thomas Midgley as vice president.

So it seems most of it went to GM, Du-Pont, and Standard Oil. As for who inherited his personal fortune, he had a wife and two children [2].

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/

[2] https://www.nndb.com/people/727/000205112/
They did: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory
Usually AGPL products are dual licensed, allowing development of sustainable free software businesses, so I suspect the real reason is that companies simply don't want to pay for commercial licenses.
It absolutely could, but yikes... it's not necessary to put yourself through that these days.
Tell that the various libc maintainers. They are blocking the C11 Annex K (safe bounds checks) for over a decade now.

And talking about performance With good compilers my secure memcpy_s is actually faster than the glibc or BSD libc memcpy, with compile-time constexpr.
If you've come to the comments before reading the article, please do observe the URL before clicking on it. The page (because of the title) might be flagged by keyword filters in workplace proxies.
I use a 27" 4K screen and it gives the same feeling as a retina display. Same for a 2K 15" Windows Laptop screen.

I don't think retina feeling at 31" with 4K is possible, we'll probably have to wait for affordable 8K screens to get that.
Bazel Stability and Semantic Versioning
Have you tried any of the more modern split keyboards? I use an ErgoDox at work and it's fantastic.
I'm not sure why you've linked this, what I'm supposed to see here.

Can you elaborate on that?
For horse racing and football, Smarkets usually is better choice than Betfair. Especially when it comes to reliability and commission rates.
Have you actually read the conditions of the premium charge?

Spanky would not come close.
I really dislike the internet circle jerk about blowouts. It's not quite "making a mountain out of a mole hill" but it's definitely in the "making a mountain out of a dirt pile" ballpark.

Been there. Done that. Getting a flat tire sucks but blowouts aren't thaaaaat much worse. It's basically just an instant flat tire. It's not any worse than sidewall failure. I personally prefer rear over front (usually less crap for the tire to destroy out back) and I'd take a blowout over tread separation (which tends to fling around a bunch of rubber destroying anything in its path) any day of the week.

Just don't be an idiots and respond with massive steering/brake inputs and a blowout, like any other flat, will be fine. If they were really that dangerous there wouldn't be all sorts of youtube videos where they are intentionally created in order to show how possible it is handle them and that normal people (i.e. not professionals) can be expected to handle them safely.
I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly.

I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished.

I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much space it took (I live in a single room in a shared appartment). Now my smallish room seems so much bigger, I literally can't even use all that space efficiently (I live quite minimalistic).

Sure, this isn't for everyone, but overall I can't stop thinking that something I took for granted (everyone needs a bed, right?) is in fact nothing but an accessoire that, in retrospect, even decresed my quality of sleep, therefore even my quality of life.
i don't know why, but adding a wall seems like stiffening the whole wheel. secondly, manufacturing the same thing with walls seem kind of impossible.
Look... I hear this argument a lot and I've used it myself.

But after a few days of considering it, I do think the general consensus is correct. The price is completely bonkers.

I haven't read the article BTW.

But it's not correct that production houses are so minted they don't care and just soak up the costs (I work in marketing, I work with these people). Margins can be thin and equipment costs matter.

A grand for a stand is mental and will be questioned on the PO when it goes past the CFO or the person signing the cheques.

This was a weird move by Apple and totally tone deaf for the market the audience at the event.

And the WWDC event is important. They should have known better... the fact they didn't predict the reaction to this speaks volumes. The multi millionaire and billionaire senior management are massively out of touch in some ways.

In other ways they got it right: They actually spoke to the people who wanted this Mac and they got it right.

But WWDC is their premier public international marketing stunt of the year. The grand for a stand is a bad look and just reinforces Apple as a brand for elitists when that is the last thing they need globally.
Even with low friction, you probably need to apply brakes at rest to avoid having it to move uncontrollably at the wrong time. But certainly it could be manual.

By using a motorized motion, you have more freedom in the design, and you can likely move heavier load. Not everyone is necessarily fit enough to push, squat, or reach some part.

But this is a good point and I hope you can use the system without power, because it would suck to sleep on the ground because you have a power outage.
Exactly, the array offset rules are missing important parts. Not just bounds checks, but also offsets larger than a page table need to be forbidden. (Spectre).
IMHO arrays should be forbidden at all, replaced by a secure hash map, with a max size.
At first glance I can’t tell how this overcomes the problems of the “Tweel” because it looks just like it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel). Also made by Michelin, Tweels are really loud at high speed and they easily pick up stuff in their open sidewall structure leading to out of balance issues at speed-vibration. So they’ve mostly been deployed in low-speed, low-debris environments, like on forklifts in warehouses.

This looks like a different structural fin design, so maybe they’ve fixed the noise issue, but you still have an open sidewall to fill with mud, ice, rocks, etc...
The irony here is if you have enough money to afford this sort of thing, why would you live in a small space?
i am the only one that keeps using sticky notes on windows and google keep? do people take that many notes that they need to invest in such a fancy tool?
In the South they find secret locations like your window seal[1], door frame, or house siding only to come out in the hundreds when the time is right. They used to infest the schools I went to.

Some people even put them into their garden to kill bugs. The article said they love aphids.

[1]https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ladybird-ladybug-nest-on-w...
> struct layouts and sizes

To be fair, this is less an an issue with non-fragile ivars in Objective-C.