skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
16 years ago, I switched from Windows XP to SUSE Linux as my desktop OS. The desktop manager was KDE. (I think I had a choice between Gnome and KDE at that time, and KDE was the more-supported option).

It worked great. I managed to keep it as my primary OS for a couple years until I got an iMac.

Just this year I installed Ubuntu on an Intel NUC, and was flabbergasted at how spartan the new Gnome is. KDE a long time ago was more polished and exposed more settings to me than this abomination almost 2 decades later.

Maybe it's nostalgia or something, but I just can't shake the feeling that to "solve" problems, desktop environment providers just rip features out. UIs keep sacrificing functionality on the alter of simplicity, to the point where I'm not sure what the point of a desktop environment is anymore. Might as well go bare-bones window manager and control my system exclusively through the terminal.
If you go to AT&T and say "I want 10,000 SIMs that'll let me use a few kilobytes of data a day, with enterprise management features", they either won't sell them to you or will sell them at prices comparable to Twilio (except they won't work when out of range of an AT&T tower, and certainly won't work overseas). Their minimum pay-as-you-go plan that includes any data at all seems to be about $30/mo - if you're using maybe 10 kilobytes a day, that's not feasible.
All iPhones are ARM based chips for a long time already, so it's not something that's completely new to them and by the number of devices it can probably be called a current industry standard too.
I find LinkedIn immensely useful for finding out who works in certain roles at certain companies, then reaching out to them directly, say on Twitter, to report a bug in their software.

It's been a proven strategy that works time and time again compared to the void that eats up bugs reported to large companies (if you can even figure out how to report one).
I'd recommend Linklater's Slacker over Waking Life... I liked the former way, way more than the latter. Waking Life did have some amateur philosophizing in it, and maybe had some PKD influence to it, but at best it was PKD-lite.. I found it more annoying than anything, due to the endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound, but they're really not.

Slacker doesn't take itself nearly as seriously, so is much more successful with its own cast of weird characters.
How are Linux, Windows or even macOS walled gardens?
Probably, but it could also be a positive as it is not beholden to one of the major tech companies.
Yeah Lesswrong has gotten good again; the coronavirus discussion has stood out. They don’t really do politics but as an old user one could probably force a discussion through.
Represent for all the gangstas all across the world.
Did you figure out why half of Shervin’s audio was empty? I would hesitate to recommend this if there’s still a chance half of the data isn’t usable after recording.
I should have made it clear. I trust the scientific method. I don't trust that that method is being rigorously applied by social scientists seeking tenure.
You make your own future. Doesn't matter what everyone else does, what the norm is.
ya that's a good point that I didn't even realize, my messaging was more geared towards people who are in no danger of starving/poverty but who still live unhealthy, unfulfilling lives. I didn't even stop to think that there are people who don't have the ability to lives of excess, let alone needing to actively work on not living this way.
Just open an anonymous session with your browser and get passed the wall.
There's an interesting duality here. Sure in the short term it hurts the stock price, but in the long term it could save the company and raise stock price. Maybe Robinhood investors are super forward-thinking. (Unless it gets delisted.)
> a large percentage of those Asian women in the US...

I think he literally means foreign. Like not in the US.
Awesome read!!
I'm ok with him promoting his work, not sure why that's bad for you. It's a great resource for learning.
Ed: after reading the article, I guess it's safe to say that everything below is false :)

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I'd guess the c++ event loop is more important than the jit?

Maybe a better comparison is quart (with eg uvicorn)

https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/

https://www.uvicorn.org/

Or Sanic / uvloop?

https://sanicframework.org/

https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop
if we’re ranking stuff, Ubik is definitely in the top 3. I was strictly talking about the 2 3 74 phase and all the works that came from that. In a pure PKD fashion the Three Stigmata was written way before that.
You mean like this?

https://twitter.com/disneyplus/status/1254772307941191686
I don't know why you are being down-voted. I think you make a good point here.

If we were real engineers; not just by pretension; maybe we would have to abide to a minimal set of rules that respect our users and theirs wallet.
I am alive and you are dead. Classic PKD
Ratio meaning more comments that points?

This post has been killed and unkilled, downweighted by flagging and then unweighted by mods, then after a front page surge now downweighted because it has more comments than points.
> because if you succeed, you ruin bitcoin and your equipment value becomes 0 with your attack.

This would be a feature not a bug if you are the government trying to undermine bitcoin.
One day it'll dawn on people that we should provide infrastructure that guarantees safety and freedom, not walled gardens that provide safety and freedom only if it also happens to be profitable for somebody.

There seem to be enough people who don't see this as self evident and are motivated to try and create their own walled gardens in the hopes of becoming the next rent seeker overlord.

These types of posts never end - it's as if people refuse to let go of their naive belief that Apple or some other entity is fundamentally good, but just needs to be pleaded with a little more, to begin to act righteously. It reminds me of children who beg their parents into buying them a toy they want. It makes me sad for both the child to be stooping to such a level but even more so for the parent, for letting the child end up in such a situation in the first place.

I don't know, is begging trillion dollar companies to provide basic functionality not in conflict with having an iota of dignity?
Just gonna put this here for people who might be wondering. Not too many block-level replication implementations exist.

https://www.linbit.com/drbd/

NB: It is Free software, don't be alarmed by the domain name.
Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens-Coronavirus(January, Nassim Taleb) [pdf]
Adding significant BOM cost, growing physical volume, reducing battery life, creating lots of complexity to get certain apps to run on one CPU or the other and the associated cache coherency issues? So that iOS developers can test their apps on a native CPU (But still plenty of differences like screen size, no cell radio, no GPS, accelerometers, etc) Seems dubious.
Aside from the HL2 leak and CSGO skin trading sites, Valve has been very liberal with their IP.

They generally don't care.
the fact that it’s based on Bishop Pike is indeed one hook. This is where I have first learned about John Allegro and his wild theories on Christianity. These theory fascinate me to this day.
I Abolished and Rebuilt the Police. The United States Can Do the Same
Incidentally, an (analog) toaster should have no problem boiling water if turned on and dropped into a bucket. The heating element lifespan would probably be short and it would be tremendously unsafe, but it's just a resistive heater.

You may need to cut the ground wire to the toaster if the circuit has a ground fault circuit interrupter, though.
The Culture of Leadership
a bike without steering is "unrideable" by definiton, actually quite an interesting rabbit hole: =)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-mass-skate_bicycle
At bigco, management track goes:

Manager -> director - > VP - > C-level

There are often levels in between, such as senior director or senior VP, but that is the rough hierarchy.
That transition was greatly assisted by the huge performance difference between Intel and PowerPC especially for the laptop chips that most users were using.

It took developers a long time to have stuff fully ported, but it wasn't a huge deal - if you switch to a chip that's twice as fast and take a 50% hit on the emulation layer, you haven't lost much.

I'm very curious to see stuff that isn't first- or second-party already-natively-recompiled stuff works. There's a lot of quality-of-life Mac native apps that I like, that aren't backed by a bunch of dev resources.
"Receive suggestions from Tractific's AI to improve your metrics"

How do those suggestions look like? Can you give some examples?
Yeah I didn’t know about the bugs.. still, the idea / design is good. Hopefully they get it sorted out
Wouldn't "using maps in business" be subject to precisely the points of this article? How then is this a "better" resource, rather than a tangentially related one?
First, wouldn't everything you said about men also apply to women? How is it different?

Second, there are a lot of other traits that aren't inherently good or bad; things like "do you like going out on the weekends or staying in" and "does your communication style work with mine?" and "are the things you are good at complimentary to the things I am good at?"

My best friend and his wife get along great, but both my wife and I can't imagine living our lives like they do. I am sure they feel the same about us.
Hey, good job. That seems cool. We also built something like this. It's called PainWorth. We launched the start of our beta last year in fall 2019 and have had a bunch of lawyers really demonstrate excellent lift. One case was closed 30x faster than average. Anyway, we're pretty passionate about this space too. We have api's for everything so maybe we can help you open other states up faster :)

Feel free to hit me up if you want to learn more or just want to share stories. I know a few other founders in the injury space too so I'd be happy to intro you as well.

Cheers
it depends. It captures really well the experience of a bad trip (spoiler alert: I don’t think that anything that happens after Leo meets Palmer actually happens and it’s just Leo tripping hard)
> This article is describing a very obviously risky investment as some sort of "dastardly" plot.

It's worse than that. This article is using terminology that all but accuses Hertz of doing something illegal while offering no proof whatsoever:

> Multiple media reports have linked Hertz pumping stock to Robinhood traders, a group now notorious for short-term, speculative trading.

Is Hertz "pumping" stock to Robinhood traders? Or is it simply recognizing that a ridiculous situation exists and attempting to use the situation advantageously? Seriously, we've all been told that the share price represents the consensus view of future company performance. A 900% gain and a 3x increase in shareholder count is potentially evidence that the market believes that Hertz will emerge from bankruptcy without wiping out shareholders and will become profitable. That's an argument in favor of issuing new shares rather than taking on new debt.
The Wokeness Religion
This is true! It does take up a lot of time. If you are a decent looking, interesting guy and want to get dates, take up dancing and go to a lot of dances. I recently stopped going dancing because I got too busy with more important stuff.
Extraordinary single-particle quantum coherence lengths in metal PdCoO2
Apple isn't the only company pushing ARM - Microsoft already released Surface Book Pro, AWS has ARM instances, doubt it will take long for Google and Microsoft to add their own ARM flavored CPUs.
I strongly urge you to become familiar with the fighter-jet-seat problem if you're working with humans and applying averages.

"no-one is average" is more than technically correct. If your scientific analysis is missing this key point about humans, then it's basically worthless because it doesn't apply to real humans. This is what the US Air Force found: you have to personalise. You can never apply a generic result to an individual and have a good outcome.
I wish it would be normal and accepted for adults to play too. You can still be a responsible and grown-up person.
Language implementation has never been easier with Earley parsing.

Your users still have to learn your new language. That’s the part designers are trying to avoid.
People pay for games on console and the PC, mobile didn't have to be this way.

In the early days of the app store getting high download counts was one of the only ways to get visibility. Which pushed the race to the bottom on pricing.

Once the big F2P players established themselves, they sucked all the air out of the ecosystem.

Arcade is, among other things, Apple's attempt to fix this. We will see how it turns out.
It's too bad Templates got flooded with junk back in the Windows 95 days and so people stopped using and Developers stopped creating Templates. OS/2's heartier version of Templates, I recall being extremely useful. Windows' Templates seem derelict and forgotten ruins of the ancients in Windows today.
For my work, macs have never been really useful to develop on without additions. The whole "I can run virtualbox" and having a good out-of-the-box unixy setup is what has kept me coming back. Linux/others are not a realistic option as a daily driver for what I do.

No x86, no virtualbox. No virtualbox and I'd rather just get (with much sighing, complaining, and general ill will) a windows laptop. I mean, the terminal is becoming slightly more useable in windows, right? And sometimes you just need to run a windows VM, so you need x86 virtualization.

There are downstream effects to losing the "nerd" base and I suspect this move is a bad idea, but apple has a track record of pulling rabbits out of hats and knowing what really matters. Maybe this customer segment just doesn't matter.
“Hertz looks at the market and sees there is a group of irrational traders who are buying the stock, and the response to that is to seek to sell stock to these people in hopes of raising some amounts of money to fund their restructuring,” University of California law professor Jared Ellias told reporters.

Sounds like Jared is miffed that he didn't cash in. The fact that Hertz is up like 200% since the beginning of the month means that the traders are, in fact, rational.

What's great about the market is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're wrong, and everyone else wrong, you all become wrong. The only way to, in fact, be wrong, is if everyone else disagrees with you. So what makes your decision wrong is the fact that you were the only one to make it.

I applaud these Hertz traders and feel a little disappointed that I didn't jump in on it. Man, I bet Icahnn is pissed. He could have made one the biggest killing the Street has seen in a long time! Of course, according to our friend Jared, he's the rational one in all of this.
Some traits will be clearly desirable, but so many aren't. Introvert/extrovert, opinions on how to raise kids, family goals, what sort of place you like to live (rural/urban), political views, conversation style, etc. Those are going to vary greatly amongst people.
in Valis terms: The Empire Never Ended
Pursue art if anything. It will reset your psychological clock back a few decades and you will be able to do an activity with younger people without coming across as weird.

If anything, a well rounded worldview brought upon by age is conducive to making art that has a grander, more truthful (not necessarily more factual) statement.
I found once I dropped certain stoic, masculine behaviours I felt expected from society I became more productive and a better person. There are a lot of people who show subtle hostility to me now (both men and women) but it's honestly not worth worrying what other people think. I'm way too relieved most days.
I guess you mean this one? https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/f...

If so, it is not "rideable" because you cannot steer it.
That's exactly the difference - iPhones define the industry (co-)standard. Macs do not. They simply don't have the market share.
or, better, don't build a non-adjustable cockpit
>Allow us to charge a nominal fee to for major upgrades to our apps. Right now new versions either have to be made into all-new apps, or we have to give away all new versions for free. There’s no way to charge an upgrade free. If I buy a Mac or iPhone from Apple I can trade it in towards a new one when I upgrade, but users can’t do the same thing for software. All the developers I know are suffering right now because Apple has prevented us from offering special upgrade pricing. It’s completely unsustainable to ask developers to continue supporting their apps but also to forbid them from charging for upgrades.

I don't understand. Aren't freemium apps allowed on AppStore? There are lots of apps with in-app purchase upgrades.
Oh I see now that I read your parent comment completely wrong, you are right. Sorry, thanks for the citation!
I think so, except when it’s a position that does actually require one to be in a lab or manufacturing plant or similar. It will take a lawsuit to actually establish this but I imagine a law firm would take a case like this on contingency against a big company.
I am not looking forward to having my neighbors starting their noisy washing machines at 03:30 am.

My dishwasher can control me over the internet.
I can give it access to my Wifi. Then it will talk to
https://www.home-connect.com/ . I can then install an app so it can tell me to buy more dishwasher tabs for it. Not going to happen.

I would like to root my dishwasher.
I love it really, could benefit of being more explicit about thé purpose but it is really promisig. What's the stack behind ?
it's not a placebo if it actually affects your productivity
yes...

all this churn, and what do we get for it, we can loose our old apps, customers can get upset, devs large and small look for shortcuts because thier investment (obj-c, appkit, uikit, swift 1 - 4, 32-bit, etc etc) is obsoleted... it just reduces the number of viable apps... isnt the whole point of apis that they abstract the machine/os underneath so we dont have churn so much?

i know windows isnt the best thing ever, but lots of older apps just work, and i feel apple (and all of us) would be better served if they at least wrote better abstractions to support older apps (32bit runs in compatibility mode, etc)
After dating lots of people, one of the major factors in what made me decide to build a life with my wife was that I could count on her to be a reliable partner. That is soooo huge when choosing someone you are going to build a family with. It is way more important than any sort of animal sexual attraction.
iAd was shut down years ago. Tracking ads might not align with some of the values Apple espouses but it seems a bit of a stretch to say a company famous for its ads (and often lowbrow-dismissed as 'just marketing' entirely) and advertising are 'antithetical'.
That's a pretty accurate summary. Documents are very straightforward to reason about at a transactional level, particularly when handling unpredictable changes to data models.

Once documents are ingested into the EAV-like indexes you can query everything much the same as a typical graph database, because all the ID references within the documents translate into edges within a schemaless graph of entities.

Crux's native query language is a flavour of Datalog but we also have a SQL layer in the works using Apache Calcite, for a more traditional relational feel.
The state of the art is from 2017 https://paperswithcode.com/sota/optical-character-recognitio...
'Am I being detained, or can I go now?' is the only thing you say. Paperwork can be dealt later by the laywer.
I’d be interested in the software and an attachment to my 3D printer, but don’t have the space for such a rarely used item.
Here's where Amazon's reputation for cheap fakes is biting them - I'm not risking food from them, since I can't fully trust the integrity of their goods.

But Trader Joe's usually has them too. Safeway sometimes does.

It's not that it's impossible, it's just that they don't have the same "staples" status they have in Europe. Usually, you find raw nuts in the cooking/baking ingredients area, while salted & roasted are considered "party food". And they're more likely to not have the party food variety than the raw variety.
I'm sorry to hear about that. I hope you got the support you deserve.
It would have been more interesting a dichotomy if the "Folder view" was truly a spatial navigation system, which it seems like it wanted to be but never committed to.

It seems a shame that all OSes today seem to have given up on spatial navigation.
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same as QWERTY
( ) same finger as QWERTY

Final:

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[ ] same hand as QWERTY
< > other hand than QWERTY
There's a model for going free -> paid. There's no model for going App V1 -> V2 with payment.
I was curious about the arguments for not including upgrade pricing on the App Store. Apple maintains that upgrade pricing is a relic of shrink wrapped software and subscriptions are better.

I lean softly towards Apple on this one. A few reasons I can think of for why subscriptions are preferred over upgrade pricing:

- The app developer can keep making money over a longer period of time.

- Generally means somebody can try out software first before committing, whereas upgrade pricing implies you either have to commit before trying it or nothing -- there are no demos on the App Store.

- Subscriptions also mean a developer does not hold out new features or bug fixes for customers unless they upgrade -- it incentivizes developers to keep working on an app and maintain a relationship with customers. This is especially true as the app needs to be updated to be compatible with new devices and OS versions.

- Potentially lets customers choose feature sets in the app. This is a good thing as it means developers can broaden their market to customers who want to pay less for fewer features or more for more features. It doesn't lump everybody into the same bucket.
It all depends on what you lean by above. Going to management, at least for me, was a totally different job from coding (and I was not happy at it). It's 10% technical and 90% people management.

Architect is more technical but, still, I think there's a lot of people mgmt (explain X that he must code that way and not this way, and explain it again because he thinks he's smarter than you and know better, etc. this can easily happen twice a day :-( )

My solution, just for me, so far is to change skill set : going back to academia and learn ML/AI at top level. Big bonus : I got to learn again, math/algorithmic stuff, etc. which I love. And I'm not concerned too much about the pay (for example, a management job, super e,try level, paid 10% more but with at least 90% percent more stress for me, was absolutely not worth it)
You're assuming that just looking for the title is everything a search engine does when it's not.

It's easy to create and train a model to distinguish between brands and generic words by counting how many times a single word appears over app descriptions, for example - there are countless ways to do this. This, in turn, can neutralize the effect of naming your app after a generic word when it comes to search ranking.
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All Macs already have an ARM chip inside them in the form of the T2 chip.