skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, when I first found that extension, I was pretty excited about it. But it ultimately is not a first class citizen in the way it is for R notebooks, so I simply don't feel as comfortable using this as I might otherwise have been.
Considering I was in the same position and recently switched to an 11 Pro, I now find the extra screen real estate to be nicer than the negatives of the notch. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the notch is a nice solution, but as it is either 1. part of the menu bar or 2. hidden in the black bars when watching 16:9 videos, it's not so bad.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14547063

Way back in 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399670
Adobe products were not written to take full advantage of high thread counts not GPU bound tasks. This is why their products run much better on Intel chips because they have higher single core speeds.
> ...understand legacy code, refactor long functions...

Wouldn't this invite consternation during code reviews because it doesn't have anything to do with the current feature? Or are you one of the lucky few who gets to exercise professional judgment when working?
Incident Management in the Age of DevOps and SRE
I tried that once a couple months ago. The drive pretty much came with a head crash preinstalled. I plugged it in and it sounded like it's shredding bricks in there.

I assume the seller just sources defective drives from somewhere and directly resells them as refurbished, letting the buyer do the actual testing. I assume this must work because some drives might erroneously been marked defective when it was really a sofstware issue, or other hw problem, like faulty sata cable, mainboard, loose connection, and then obviously there are drives with minor issues, like just a few reallocated sectors, that the naive buyer might not be aware of.
Heard loud and clear. You make good points, communicate them well, and I appreciate the satirical link about using cigarettes to enhance endurance training.

A++ exchange, would converse with again.
I have this for an old iPad 1 https://xaviesteve.com/pro/weather/

It tells the weather forecast and time for the next few days and at night it goes into 'dark mode' which is nice, have it in a corner in my living room.

Edit: forgot to mention that if you use it, remember to do the 'Add to Homescreen' so it displays in full screen.
It wasn't a Samsung SSD, I don't really buy Samsung since it seems overpriced and overhyped most of the time, unless I catch a sweet deal. I had bought a Sandisk that was actually more performant than I anticipated, it was noticeable immediately after installing Linux on it.
SHOW HN: The Shoot - a marketplace for booking local photographers in the UK
What if that's already happened?
Haha. Love it! The satire; not the fact that it's largely in alignment with my experience in enterprise...
In short, some software (Adobe included) makes use of features that are available on Intel processors but not on AMD. Whilst both AMD and Intel are x86-64 they do both have their own unique features. For example, on Intel you've got fast memset, which doesn't exist on AMD.
We probably just don't need as many nukes - the world will be much less populated with near-peer adversaries in 2040.

For example in 20 years time there will be as many Russian military-age males as in 1969, and as many Chinese as in 1973, and the populations will be declining continuously.
Is there much merrit here for action on a VPN for the phone, instead of actualy tyring to fight against the OS' iOS & Android etc, to bottle neck all traffic through VPN and filter out everything.. Even depending on the Android to allow self signed certs is too risky as they can flip descisions on a whim..

I know it's not the best solution as it requires some loe from the user but I have this configured and its just worth it. Because waiting on the vendors to clean up their act is futile given how much money is being made..
> One of the world's largest oil producers is moving away from fossil fuels

I mean, afaik, they're not moving away from generating oil and selling it. Arguably given the SWF is based on oil production/extraction revenues the obvious conclusion is that they were over exposed and this dis-investment is more like sensible diversification.

But maybe that's just cynicism
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Why should a given vaccine have more side effects than existing vaccines? It’s just broken up pieces of the virus. If produced properly and rendered inert Why should it trigger major side effects?
EC2 Instances 2.0 to Update Your Toolbox
> As for Krita, we’re using Qt 5.12 for our binaries because we carry a lot of patches that would need porting to Qt 5.13 or 5.14 and because Qt 5.13 turned out to be very, very buggy. For Krita, using a stable version of Qt that gets bug fixes is pretty important, and that will be a problem, because we will lose access to those versions.

https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-change...

You need a LTS of some kind if latest version is buggy as hell.
As a child I thought it would have been completely hilarious if the leaders of the free world solemnly decided to destroy it by a large scale nuclear exchange, only to find much to their surprise that none of the warheads functioned due to age and lack of testing.

I say leave the missiles and warheads exactly the way they are and let anyone with the temerity to order a first strike deal cognitively with the risk that the world might survive their decision.
The article has a sentence on the matter, but just to expand a bit more: Windows 7 is not a new piece of self-standing software. It includes past Windows releases, and future Windows releases include it. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to do this.

Besides, I don't see any person/people being able to understand such a complex feat of engineering (and legacy) sufficiently to maintain it for years to come.
I'm curious what you're actually using paracord for? Is it primarily nautical uses?

Obviously rope is super useful for sailing and rock climbing, but as I said previously, I've only ever needed cord for hanging bear bags when hiking.
Sure, KX is somewhat 'better' in some ways than it was a while back, and I'm not against development per se (I used to note your observation when I worked in Camden and realised each generation down there would rue the loss of whatever version of 'old Camden' it was they held dear) - what I'm concerned about is the sudden comprehensive change of an entire area. I'm generally suspicious of inorganic large developments as they tend to crowd out smaller businesses and encourage more chains of widespread consumer outlets, as they're the only ones who can afford to sign up 'off plan'.

Coal drops yard and the new St Martins are very pretty, and certainly striking and elegant but I do worry that they're quite synthetic and sterile and what impact that will have on the students.

Whether or not the future students of St Martins will be any better or more successful than the ones who studied at that cold building in Holborn, I don't know.

- ed typos
Makes the test a hell of a lot easier and more robust as well.
> I think it's a positive thing that one of the world's largest oil producers is moving away from fossil fuels and that they're being vocal about it.

That would be a positive thing indeed. However from all I can tell this is not at all what's happening:
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/11/14/norway-oil-c...
https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/article/140747...
https://bellona.org/news/fossil-fuels/2018-01-norways-new-oi...
> Oh, and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make?

I've heard people say this before, as if there's no way to use anything but your permanent dock apps in split screen. But if it's not in the Dock, you launch it, and now it's in the dock. That's why the recent items section on the right side exists.

My personal gripe with iOS multitasking is that it's easy to make a second instance of an app by dragging and dropping (such as Safari tabs to split screen), but then it's not as easy to close the second copy when you're done with it. When split screen was a special implementation within Safari, dragging the last tab from one side to the other would automatically collapse that side and bring the remaining one back to full screen. Now it leaves an empty Safari window hanging around.

If you want to close that, you have to make one side or the other full screen, open the app switcher, and swipe the empty one up off the top.
The same reason I tell people to stop running PHP 5.6:

If a security vulnerability is discovered, you always want to be on the latest version.

If updating requires a lot of effort and risks, the solution isn't "don't update". The solution is "fix those problems".
Are You Good Enough at Paperwork to Be a Poor American?
Huge respect for your work, and that of the entire team end to end. The internet archive is deeply important.

What do you think of the proposition that people should put important content on the archive on day one? ( Comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21843987 )

Also: Also thanks for the pennies a couple decades ago
If we are going to list our own scam experiences here: a company asks for $15mm on a $30mm pre.

You better have sales, I say. They do they say. $1 Billion worth!

What are your margins? 30% they say!

Uh, so why don't you go to a bank? Well, you know banks charge an arm and a leg.

At this point, I don't believe anything but I ask for the contracts or the POs from the companies (GE! Honeywell!) thinking I would verify them later.

I get identical looking POs, adding up to a few hundred thousand, all from unheard of companies.
When pits degrade, what is happening? Is it merely a function of the radioactive isotopes decaying below the point at which they'll detonate in a big ol' fireball?
UK faces choice on Huawei with global implications
> But Microsoft is unlikely to cave into the Windows 7 demands that FSF outlined in a petition launched last week

There should be an award for understatement of the month.

This petition[0] is more about making a point than any realistic expectation of open sourcing Windows 7.

[0]: https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7
Postcard Marketing Ideas Based on Real-Time Triggers and Events
> (with articles being pdf and unhyperlinkable)

I'm not sure to what extent this helps, but it's at least possible to hyperlink to an individual page in a PDF.

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf#page=2
That’s not what I suggested. There is one processor and RAM setup across all (current model) iPads Pro. There are multiple processors and RAM configurations on the various MacBooks Pro (ugh, that sounds terrible to me — I much prefer MacBook Pros). So if the iPad Pro processor (or whatever metric he was referring to) is faster than all the MacBook Pro processors, then it would be perfectly normal to say the one singular is faster than the other plural.

It would be like saying the iPhone 11 Pro has a better camera than all the iMacs (which vary by model, but none are as good as the iPhone).
Another head-scratcher with the Pencil 2 is that Apple doesn't sell a first-party case with a retaining flap for it.

The magnets are strong enough to keep it in place during normal use, but there's no way to put it in a bag and retrieve it without the Pencil flying off.

I eventually got a third-party case that does the right thing, it's just a strange oversight.
Even if they wanted to, I doubt they could do so given all the third-party software they must have incorporated inside Windows. Perhaps it is possible to strip those out but still am sure MS doesn't want the entire world looking at their code, given that parts of the kernel of Windows 7 are probably functionally the same under Windows 10, so you'll essentially enable everyone to try and find bugs in the system without having to reverse engineer.
Right, but the idea is that a lot more people might use this if more sites offered it and it was a built in feature of the device.
I used WindowMaker for years and liked it too, but to be fair, pretty much all decent WMs of the 1990s could implement a custom menu in the way you describe. It wasn't unique to wmaker.

These days it seems like people are coming up not realizing that X desktops can be anything else than what Ubuntu gives on a default install, as if a full DE is mandatory. They don't know about launching a simple wm from ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc or editing the menus in such a WM.
We already have sufficient models for how these warheads will perform if they work. The question at hand is whether they work - an underground test would give a measure of yield.
Another similarity to creative writing is this; you're not done when there's nothing left to add, you're done when there's nothing left to remove.
Can we not simulate these weapons, instead of actually blowing them up?

The physics seems to be pretty well understood, is this just impossible with current tech? Doesn't the US government have access to some pretty amazing supercomputers?
This is also the solution for nuclear waste: Just send it on a direct course to the sun and the problem will solve itself. But getting it reliably on that route is the (still) problematic thing.
I left my cozy consulting job and 2 hrs commute to redesign my life
Coronavirus: First cases of human to human transmission confirmed
Camera is true. Speaking for myself, I’m a hopeless photographer and the iPhone X’ camera won’t save me.
Long touch the space bar in the keyboard to get the trackpad-like functionality back.
An open-source version of the last good Windows, I'd like that.
Win7 won't be open sourced for the same reason that makes nearly any large closed-source software project nearly impossible to re-license: it's packed full of licensed code and libraries that don't belong to MS.
A “mean” profitable customer would be misleading. You could see that 99% of your customers lose money for you, while 1% earn all the profit (aka fat tail)

The point is you should be careful about reducing huge swaths of data to one datum. It often hides the more interesting insights.
Using Biopython. Note that the search query that I am using currently returns 70605 results, so you might want to tweak it fit your needs.

from Bio import Entrez
import time
from urllib.error import HTTPError

DB = 'nucleotide'
QUERY = '("pneumoviridae"[Organism] OR "Coronaviridae"[Organism])'

Entrez.email = 'your.email@provider.com'
handle = Entrez.esearch(db=DB, term=QUERY, rettype='fasta')
record = Entrez.read(handle)

handle = Entrez.esearch(db=DB, term=QUERY, retmax=count, rettype='fasta')
record = Entrez.read(handle)

id_list = record['IdList']
count = len(id_list)
post_xml = Entrez.epost(DB, id=",".join(id_list))
search_results = Entrez.read(post_xml)

webenv = search_results['WebEnv']
query_key = search_results['QueryKey']

batch_size = 200
with open('viruses.fasta', 'w') as out_handle:
for start in range(0, count, batch_size):
end = min(count, start+batch_size)
print(f"Going to download record {start+1} to {end}")
attempt = 0
success = False
while attempt < 3 and not success:
attempt += 1
try:
fetch_handle = Entrez.efetch(db=DB, rettype='fasta',
retstart=start, retmax=batch_size,
webenv=webenv, query_key=query_key)
success = True
except HTTPError as err:
if 500 <= err.code <= 599:
print(f"Received error from server {err}")
print("Attempt {attempt} of 3")
time.sleep(15)
else:
raise
data = fetch_handle.read()
fetch_handle.close()
out_handle.write(data)
That's not job hopping, that's a promotion.
Awkwardly turns 10? Poor title choice!

Every household in USA has one ipad or wants to have one. (360million total sold in usa - so 1.1 ipad per person).

360,000,000 ipads x $400 (example average price) = $144B in sales !!!

There is nothing Awkward about that. They crushed it!

ongrats to Apple for making a great product for media consumers!
”throw in they just give a modern and sleek vibe to any organization employing them versus pen and paper”

There likely is a good cost saving there, removing the need to transcribe handwritten forms and archive them in cases where the customers signed them.

It also easily gives you some tracking info, even if you only let it send location info when the service person uses it. That can give you the data to inform other customers on that service person’s route about arrival times.
This this this this.
As nice as the idea is, it just wont happen.
Thanks! With this app, we just wanted to build something really basic that does its job with as little friction as possible, so glad you pointed that out.
This falls apart when computation is a factor, though. You can't recompute the whole notebook on every commit when there are 30 cells that each take 2-8 seconds to complete.
I’ve had an iPad for over a month now and still can’t figure out how to close the second app when I am in split screen.
I have a question. How in the world do VC's ever fall for this bullshit? I mean in most situations they have made enough money on their own to invest, so they aren't stupid right?
This isn't marxian and nowhere did i mention his name or philosophy. I don't agree with him much either.

This is a basic understanding of how the world works. It is clearly impossible for an employee to be making more than they bring money into the business. Otherwise the business wouldn't exist.
I would say that AWS infrastructure is a fart in the wind as far as the fossil fuel industry goes given they seem to have done just fine for most of their history without it.

AWS is really only good for projects where the importance of the compute is not quite enough to justify setting up your own infrastructure, but important enough to be willing to throw money at to make the location part of your system go away by throwing more OPS people at it.
Why the smartest AI is still dumber than a toddler – and how we can fix that
I'm not sure what we're talking about anymore to be honest. You are consistently avoiding the subject of this thread. Perhaps we can debate app store economics on some other occasion.
The effect would be a massive EMP damaging infrastructure over hundreds or thousands of miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
MAD is indeed an equilibrium. But it is an unstable one. That is the problem. So far the US-USSR/Russia detante has worked, but it might not work in other situations. India and Pakistan are a case in point. They have fought at least two limited conflicts (the most recent one being last year,) despite being declared nuclear weapons powers. The possibility of catastrophic miscalculation in the fog of war is very, very real.
Study finds most young people don't receive addiction treatment after opioid ODs
It is on iPad, two-finger touch the scroll bar and it does it.
sure, but they will have just as much land to distribute their launch sites across. part of why the US has so many missiles is to have a decent chance of hitting all enemy launch sites
> In fact, the “userspace” task switching GUI would read the kernel’s process table directly to make a list of running programs.

This is great. A perfect learning project is trying to build something yourself, then learning how other developers solved the problems or larger OSes handle it (or working backwards from that point and simplifying).

I noticed some "#ifdef FLASH4MB" in the linked source code, was it difficult to update it for 4mb or were similar constraints in place where it was basically the same with more memory?
I am not sure if that is really true. It might be cheaper to build, but it will probably not last as long as the 1980-product. We see this in refreshable braille displays too. The newish models tend to have about half the lifetime compared to pre-2000 models. Making things smaller and cheaper doesnt help if you are dealing with a shitload of moving parts. It is really sad to watch. While technology has clearly improved around us in the last 20 years, quality of refreshable braille display has gone down notably. I miss the times when I bought a $12k refreshable braille display with 80 cells and could be sure that it would last for at least 10 years. These days, you can be happy if you can still use it after 6 years.
As someone who used a real NeXT machine, I could never figure out the appeal of window managers like WindowMaker. It's like those Aqua 'themes' for Windows XP. It's superficially similar (more or less) but it's missing the guts. Window managers are an add-on, and consistency isn't something you can get with an add-on.
As one of the other 40%, I'd love to have fiber to my house. As you mention later in this thread, I pay Comcast more per month for a fraction of the speed and have no better options.

The vast majority of my personal (ie: not at work) computing is done at home. Whether I'm using my desktop workstation (wired), my laptop (either wired or wifi), or a tablet/phone (wifi), I would benefit if the WAN connection serving my home network offered gigabit speeds.

At work I already have fiber-level speeds. I don't need my phone to stream music faster in the car or pull up search results faster when I'm out at the store. LTE is more than sufficient for that stuff and I can buy a reasonable allotment of data (5GB) for $30 each month. At home I don't want my local network's connection to the outside world depending on signal strength, data caps, or the whims of cell-service-style billing practices.

And I don't care about TV packages or any of that. Between OTA (free), Netflix ($150/yr) Prime Video (included with $120/yr Amazon Prime), and whatever free stuff is on YouTube, PlutoTV, and news sites, I have plenty of stuff to look at when I feel like being a lump on the couch.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant:

1. It might be best not to specify what happens, because

2. if it were specified then people would rely on the specific order, which would be bad style because it would make code harder to read and be more liable to errors if anyone misremembers what order the iteration happens in.

(But it's true that people might rely on the observable behaviour even if it weren't officially specified, and that would be even worse. Which is why I said "should maybe be left unspecified"; it isn't obvious to me which way is better overall. If it's unspecified then fewer people will rely on it but the consequences each time will be worse.)
> Does it really have to do more?

It should do more to justify the price tag of the Pro model.

It should also do more simply because Apple's advertising for the product attempts very hard to push it into a productivity device angle, not a consumption one. Hence the "what is a computer?" debacle.
Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. I was just saying that those people would very easily find new employment, so saying that they're "risking their livelihood" is far-fetched to say the least.
Why are these patches not being upstreamed, though?
A blatant violation of European privacy law. I hope an ICO picks this up (I've filed a notice with mine).
2019 Website Threat Research Report [pdf]
Ah. I prefer my iPad over a laptop for most of my tasks that don’t involve programming.

Watching netflix, taking notes, even editing videos (holiday stuff for my own enjoyment), doodling, random browsing, planning trips, etc.

I consider its restrictions a feature.
Applications I've written using Qt twenty years ago still run with Qt 4.4 on all relevant platforms (Windows, Linux, even MacOS under Darwin) without any need for a change. As long as the old Qt version compiles on a specific OS version, there is no need to change and no one has to spend time for maintenance of the Qt version.
A Cinematic Shader Visualiser