skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works at a company with a web extension, one big thing I care about is automated deployment. We have automated releases with Chrome and Firefox (although it has to use Puppeteer). The new Edgium recently wanted to get us to publish but I found zero docs on potential automation so that's a blocker. Wonder what process Safari has to offer here?
Does anyone know how many health care personnel in percentage of f.ex nyc hospitals that have had the illness. I’ve been wondering if institutional immunity in centers of spread would slow down resurgence as hospitals and health care centers get more immune workers.
I don't think Apple has sold any AMD Macs, correct?

I understand your consternation, though. Dev docs shouldn't require dumbing things down.
I had to read that twice to figure out that I might agree with it.

Likely to be members of right-wing groups? No. More likely than they are to be members of, say, antifa? Probably yes.

I'm not sure I buy that that's why the police treat right-wing groups more leniently, though. But then, based on news reports over the last year or two, I'm not sure that the police treat right-wing groups more leniently than left-wing. It looks to me that the police are letting both proceed a fair distance past the point where I think they should be reined in. (But who knows how far you can trust the news reports about such events...)
I have a very similar situation: I loved using MacBook Pros as my work computer for over 10 years now, but while my job consists of 80% of cross-platform Java development stuff, it also includes working on and compiling various custom binaries (from big fat Chromium builds down to little system-level libraries and Linux kernel modules). All three major OSes are targets: MacOS, but most importantly Windows and Linux - especially Linux, because that's the main production environment on which our end products usually run, while the others are mostly needed to enable our devs to develop on their preferred platforms.

Windows and Linux MUST be x86_64, because that stuff needs to run on that arch eventually - it's of no use if it "works on my (ARM) machine". The Mac platform has, until now, been the ideal platform for my work, because it comes with by far the best OS on which I can be as productive as possible, while at the same time being able to execute all three targets within performant VM environments, greatly simplifying all the low-level development tasks as well as testing and experimentation. Even USB hardware could transparently be routed into the VMs - something that's also very important for me, as I often need to deal with weird and rather unusual periphery, and which is highly problematic when working on remotely hosted VMs, which I did try for a while back then when MacBooks had that RAM cap at 16GB in order to be able to utilize more memory.

I'm still good with my current MacBook Pro for about two years or so, which gets me well into the transition period. I know that I'll definitely be tempted to privately buy a replacement for an old 2011 MacBook Air, which I still use for light browsing tasks and stuff at home and which will be totally fine if it's ARM-based. If anyone happens to come around with some kind of VM emulation solution for actually virtualizing x86_64 OSes on the ARM-based Macs - there at least seems to be a demand, so I haven't lost hope that one of the likes of Parallels or VMware might take up that task - I'm going to give that a try and see whether it's a solution to my remaining 20%.

If that doesn't work out, I'll have to consider either switching to ARM Mac regardless and keeping the old machine (or another PC laptop or something) around as a second machine for the low-level Windows/Linux work, or ditching the Mac platform and moving to a Linux-based machine as my main computer, with Windows in a VM, and maybe getting a small ARM Mac as a "sidekick" for that bit of MacOS compilation and testing work. Either of those will be worse than my current, nearly-perfect setup, which was originally enabled only by the beauty of ISA compatibility between the Mac and PC platforms.
Ask HN: Post-Acquisition Depression?
Has anyone else experienced a deep depression or emptiness after being acquired? My company was acquired recently, and I know I shouldn't be complaining, because I made off very well, but I'm increasingly finding it difficult to stay motivated.

Pre-acquisition, it was my dream job, and I woke up each day excited to work on cool technical problems. Now I feel like I have exactly the sort of 9-5 office job I always promised myself I'd never take, and I'm finding it difficult to care about anything that I'm working on.

I know that things probably aren't as dismal as I feel they are, but it's just hard to accept that a product I cared about, and felt ownership over, is now just another checkbox on a large enterprise company's products page.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you get over those feelings? I know quitting is an option, but I'd really prefer to make the best of it, at least while the golden handcuffs are still on.
HTTPS is busted on this site, for me:

PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
Ulex: Open-Source Law for Non-Territorial Governance
That's what I was surprised the most about. 0% cut and they also mentioned a 5k match? What? How is that even viable for Microsoft?

That seems superior to basically every single platform out there. It's an instant win for GitHub Sponsors.
Even though the article was going to be positive

No. That's what the NYT said it was going to be.

Despite Professor Aaronson's assurances of the writer's good character and pure intentions in this case, Scott Alexander - apart from his duty of care to his clients - is wise to not take that for granted considering his open-minded approach to various subjects which is liable by certain elements of the Ctrl-Left to warrant a cancel-attack.
"Power user" may be as much as changing Windows Theme. Not much is allowed so bar is not high. Through the page again and again "users don't care".

Linux changes expectations. Everything is possible, there should be package for that, deconstruct, throw away, replace, and most of the time someone already did it.
Which is as easy as running one of a half dozen open source TLS proxies in front of your regular, unencrypted HTTP application port.
> For that matter, so do the killings of David Dorn and especially Dave Patrick Underwood.

Dorn's killing wasn't obviously connected to protests, and Underwood was killed by far-right "Boogaloo Boys"[0]. Who would be explicitly and vehemently unwelcome at most BLM protests. I'd once again ask you to take the time to re-examine your preconceptions here.

> So yes, I would say stealing weapons from a public agency and opening fire with those weapons is much closer to “insurrection” than peacefully carrying your own weapons.

You've missed the point. I'll reiterate in more detail. There's a respect given to white right-wing protestors carrying your own weapons, both by police and many people that isn't extended to the BLM protests.

For example, you claim that they were "peacefully carrying weapons". Let's ignore for a moment the question of whether "peacefully carrying weapons" is even possible[1], but instead focus on what that respect means.

Most importantly, police actively de-escalate when dealing with armed protestors, but actively escalated with BLM groups. If you take the time to watch videos, you'll see that the large protests are mostly peaceful and self-policing. It's only once police escalate, using weapons and force protestors to break up and lose the civility that was present.

At that point you no longer have a protest but a confused, scared mob. Your solution is to further escalate to requesting military intervention. Mine is to treat unarmed black protestors the same way you treat armed white ones: don't escalate in the first place. Let them protest, peacefully assemble, and leave. In locations where police have allowed that to happen, almost without fail protests have been peaceful, only escalating in direct response to new examples of police violence (Atlanta).

> If you were an elected official who represented the interests and attitudes of some broad group of constituents, I would find value in hearing what you had to say even if I found it reprehensible.

I'm not clear what the point of saying this is. I'm not saying anything about any representatives, not that they should be silenced. If anything, I'm suggesting you listen to even more people: directly listen to those who are oppressed and aren't represented. In the words of Dr. King, "A riot is the voice of the unheard." When you see one, take some time to listen. Not to the system which is clearly not doing a good job of listening, but directly to the people who felt the need to riot.

[0]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-17/far-righ...

[1]: Consider that brandishing is a crime in many jurisdictions and open carry isn't legal everywhere. Open carry is an implicit threat, and calling it "peaceful" implies that there's a sort of peaceful intimidation which seems like a questionable premise. Intimidation basically requires the threat of force or harm.
I....... have to disagree, though I'm not sure why, but that old one looks much better to me. Like it's simpler and more clear.
Segway ends production of its original scooter
The Go GC and the JVM GCs are built within very, very different constraints.

Since most short-lived allocations in Go are stack-allocated, the cost of adding a read-barrier and branching on every heap access is more expensive than the potential gain from bump-pointer allocation.
> You want to do the opposite, so that honest, careful, nuanced inquiry drowns out any attempt at subverting the discussion.

The problem with this crowd's writings is that they are overly verbose and unnecessary lengthy in some sort of war of attrition. And as the saying goes, it takes 10x more time to refute bullshit than to produce it.

> Politically homogenous, not really.

Just a quick very unscientific glance at twitter regarding this "attack" produces 10 right-wing types for every 1 centre-right, 0 remotely left. Even worse if we use the EU left-right spectrum. Being right or hard-right is not politically diverse even though this crowd seems to believe so.
I bet they don't. All the Mac Safari users I know also run Firefox because Safari's ad blocking sucks.

I only know of a few Mac users of Chrome.
Currently you could sideload it or work with the Oculus submission process to release it on their store. This article seems to suggest they will release another, frictionless avenue to make VR experiences accessible on Quest.
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery
It's a sad story of broken promises. Back when video == Flash, Google bought and opened VP8 codec and got a bunch of companies to promise support for VP8 video.

Back then it made a lot of sense to also have an image format based on exactly VP8 (despite it being a poor fit for still image format), since everyone promised to support it, including hardware acceleration.

But Adobe never added VP8 to Flash, hardware support was too little too late. VP8 died, and WebP is burdened with compatibility with a world that never materialized.
Also, does iOS have something similar to SELinux? I know it's not perfect, and there have been RCEs in Android as well. But I'm surprised there are still things out there like the original tiff jailbreak exploit that allows full root access to a person's device from just visiting a webpage.
case fatality rate is the observed death rate based on known cases

infection fatality rate is the observed death rate based on all (known+undetected) cases

the Swedish report indicates of infection fatality rate of 0.1%
There’s an unfortunate trend of journalists at large outlets gleefully throwing their weight around and being unnecessarily vicious in their treatment of smaller media entities and blogs they perceive as ideological opponents.

NBC was the main entity prodding Google to deplatform Zero Hedge and The Federalist. Similarly there was CNN’s threatened doxxing of meme makers that targeted the brand, and how unified large media were in supporting the internet-wide deplatforming of Alex Jones.
Yeah, and if the piece is neutral those are quite persuasive. But if it is partisan, those facts could be carefully selected to be highly misleading. It is easy to lie with true statistics. Every group of loons has a set of favoured statistics that they can trot out.

Hypothetically, if it was decided in 1975 that there was going to be a transition from Federal to State management of water then the last two points would be evidence of a system working as intended. It isn't a fundamental truth that the US Federal government in particular has to be the body that regulates and funds water infrastructure. After reading the article I doubt there was such a deal but that is assuming the article is neutral despite a signal that I usually assume shows strong bias.

It would be absolutely routine for a partisan to assume that their pet issue requires national funding by the Federal government. Happens in every country on every topic and it is often a stupid assumption.
...at an 8% conversion rate, plus a $4.50 fee. Not really appealing unless you're moving large quantities of drugs.
It is creepy and a valid cause for concern. However, one of the redeeming features of a hardware token (vs. a phone app) for contact tracing is that eventually, the battery goes dead and the token is useless. So even if you forget to deactivate the token after the 'all-clear', within a matter of months the entire network goes dark.

To clarify, it'll probably be a small miracle if the 1000mAh battery in the token lasts a full year...probably more like 6 months is a realistic lifespan for the token absent a battery replacement.
I agree. I bought a Go on Black Friday for under $100 and it impressed me so much for such a low cost that I’m looking for a “real” VR headset. Unfortunately it seems I started looking just as companies stopped making any affordable 6dof headsets and the jump from $100 for the Go to $1000 for the only currently available VR headset is just too much for me so I’ll be waiting a bit longer. But dipping my toes in the water definitely whetted my appetite for more.
The Apple chip doesn't have all big cores and only 6 total cores in the A12, Intel or AMD (CCX) have 8 big cores with SMT. Apple's multithread performance is accordingly slower. Once you account for these two big omissions, you'll likely find Apple take as much or more die area than AMD's Zen2 CCX for similar MT performance.

It'll probably be more die area for equivalent performance, which for Apple might not be an issue given it's margins. Of all the ARM designs we've seen, cache is by far the unique factor in Apple's design, so comparing die size with equivalent cores+features makes complete sense.

Like others have mentioned, maybe Apple will just focus on implementing new instructions, but at that point, they will likely diverge enough from the ARM ecosystem that developers and users should be somewhat worried.
> It litterally comes down to that. The more fun name.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I switched from MacPorts to Homebrew, after having previously switched from Fink to MacPorts many years ago despite not only being told but having actually experienced that Homebrew was slower and more fragile. And the reason was not "the more fun name." The reason was that both MacPorts and Fink were incredibly slow at expanding and updating their ports tree. Stuff that I knew from my Linux and FreeBSD days, or cool stuff that I read about on weblogs or in places like Slashdot and HN, was nearly always right there in a current or new-current version in Homebrew. That was rarely true of MacPorts: often it wasn't there at all, and if it was, it was often several minor or even a full major version behind.

This may have changed since then -- I hope it has, since I suspect it's been over a decade at this point -- but IIRC, the last straw was trying to install the terminal version of a program (either Emacs or Vim, I think) that also had a GUI version available and, after going to make coffee and coming back to the computer, discovering MacPorts (a) didn't care that I had explicitly asked for the terminal version, it was going to install the GUI version for me anyway, and (b) because of MacPorts' aggressive "never depend on the system version of anything no way no how", it was building a new version of the entire bleeping XFree86 from source for me. Yes, I understand why MacPorts takes that "no system dependencies" approach; yes, I get that was probably a badly-specified port file. But I ripped it out and never looked back.

Well, I take that back. I think I looked back once, about four years ago, to see if everything that I had installed under Homebrew on a machine could be installed with MacPorts, because maybe it was time to give it another chance. The answer was no, everything could not be installed. So the answer was no, it was not time to go back.

I don't care that Homebrew has a fun name. I care that it has the stuff that I want kept reasonably current with upstream versions. Homebrew has, as far as I can tell, gotten a lot better over the years at not being fragile. It's still no speed demon, but the truth is that I don't actually run it that often. If a more native macOS package for a given piece of software is available, I'll install that in preference.
I took it to mean that most music venues are managed by people who don't know or care much about the music they book; however the best ones are run by competent people who are also passionate about the music.

It seems like a pretty good analogy to me. A lot of UI redesigns (including this one) seem like they were approved by people who liked the look of some static mock-ups, but weren't regular users of the site. Lots of layouts look great in a demo but are awful to use.
I rarely found the list of languages useful, and never really appreciated the description and the "stats" bumping down the list of files and readme, which are arguably much more important than the former. I think moving the secondary information to the side is a bit better use of space and visual hierarchy.
Not for me. I'm in the United States in an urban area and mobile data is 1 cent per megabyte (my provider is Google Fi). Decoding is nearly pretty fast for me, but the time for page elements to download is in the seconds (not even milliseconds). And if there's any low signal (wifi or mobile data), then over 10 seconds is not uncommon.
I hope so. I just noticed their beta period ended.

I am not sure if they changed anything from how it was previously in the beta.

I don't think the new design is bad, it's just different. It's fine tbh, but these top bars are pretty bad on a big screen.

Hopefully they'll change that soon enough.
The methods that are used right now are KNOWN to do not work.

When there is a protest, having the police to show up in large numbers riot gear is just going to escalate the tensions and increase the chances of violence.

(I am not saying that there is no need for riot gear .. if anything the boogaloos could use some violence applied to them)

US Police should have a lot more incentive to do not resort to violence for every situation. As well as ending qualified immunity and not having cops investigate cops when there is abuse.

to do not work if the objective is to avoid violence and riots. Sadly it seems that this is not the objective of many police departments
I guess the upshot of GitHub burning their design advantage is that I no longer have to justify that when using GitLab. As a relatively long-time GitLab user, my feedback every time they change the design (often for the worse, in the same way as GitHub has now done) has been “make it more like GitHub”. Now what do I point at? SourceHut?

I guess it is SourceHut actually; I think it could use a bit more texture/skeumorph on things like tabs and buttons, but it is so clean, especially since it uses my default sans serif font (which is condensed). There's just so much to do right, see: https://qui.suis.je/drop/sourcehut.png
> I ABHOR structure in my life, but I also very much need it.

This hits the nail on the head.

Someone on Reddit suggested like... basically doing as much cleaning as you can in five minutes. The lack of need to be perfect at it really helps hide the work, and I've been doing it every six or so hours awake. This isn't my first bout of depression and the slog to get out is real. The biggest difference this time around is I don't feel hopeless. I'm tired, I'm cramped in but I'm confident this will end.
I'm curious, what exactly has broken in your workflow? The biggest issue I see is that you are unable to see build status on a commit (above the file list), but otherwise nothing really has changed too much in my opinion.
I'll take a nibble just for taste.
For everyone saying Quest, how safe of a bet is it to support Star Wars Squadrons?

I was thinking about eventually getting a Vive rig, but never felt there was a killer app just quite yet. Squadrons got my attention.
> If it hasn't passed CI and status checks, it shouldn't be in your default branch

The number of broken master branches I’ve seen on Github is astounding. So I find the CI status indicator to be very useful.
You don't need to "implement the crypto algorithms" unless you're reinventing the wheel. You just need to get the private key and certificate (run certbot) and configure your server software (change your settings).
You’re asking for the release cycle of a console like the Switch. I’m curious what people think is the timeline before that happens?
> Isn't it obvious that the upcoming NYT articles is going to be a hit piece with the goal of ruining his personal credibility and professional career.

I suppose if i had and axe to grind against NYT it might be "obvious". Even the blog author mentions it would be a "mostly positive piece". Where are you getting your information from?
That assertion seems rather at odds with "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name", doesn't it?

Again, the idea that journalists routinely burn their sources as a matter of course is clearly wrong. Source anonymity is inviolate, especially at the level of papers like the Times. They just don't do what is being alleged here.

If they want to tell us who he is, it's because his identity IS the story.
Wow, that's pretty bad. Logical consistency was clearly not a guiding principle of this redesign.
To paraphrase, we want a way you can distribute crappy games but no way they’re going in our store.
yeah, that's what stripe says :). We deliver a lot of cookies! I used to have our revenue public on IndieHackers but took it down after we hit $200k/mo.
Except for fractional scaling if you use the proprietary NVIDIA driver. This was an issue on the latest LTS release.
I think it's just about to take off. Browser support across the board is coming by the end of the year. PNG also took a while to become fully supported, so we just need some patience.
What flavor or unix if I may ask? Do you have driver issues?TIA! Cheers.