skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the Bad Times, when I was assigned to a MBP (2015 model - still the best apparently), all I ever wanted was the window buttons to be on the right, and a hash key.
I've used Cameo twice, both times for my wife. Both times were a big hit.

I suspect this is one of those startups/services that the HN crowd just doesn't get–but the average person probably thinks its pretty cool.
Yep. I don’t think they needed the Mac Pro as a prop though.
So you can have a completely open source version that is a pain in the ass and can’t run many Android apps. Congratulations?
Step 1: lots of us need to recognize there is a problem.

Honestly, I don't have much hope that we see significant improvement because the country has so many other fundamental problems (most of which apply to 100% of Americans, not just 13%).
Sorry I disagree. The decision to make it a temporary visa has to be based on the employer's decision to continue their employment and not some politician's whim. Going by your logic, no one should be optimistic in life because the government could do some random thing and ruin your life. Tomorrow, if Trump decides that the dollar is worthless, you'll not be saying that 'Ah well, I shouldn't have been too optimistic in life'.
Eh I don't see Apple selling their cheapest education MacBook for $600 instead of $900 simply because one of many components suddenly got significantly cheaper.
Keynesian beauty contest? A VC may personally appreciate a member of his portfolio showing weakness, but also assume that his peers won't.
Nothing. It’s just not “the height of desktop experience,” is all.
IIRC Tim said in today's keynote there are 23M Apple developers. Very roughly, 20% of macOS users are developers.
You don't have to quit. The goal is to smoker fewer cigarettes in any five year period.

Given very few quitters remain non-smokers for five years, if you can smoke about the same number of cigarettes as a cyclical quitter would in five years, you're as good.

So, I advocate for the use of multiple methods of nicotine intake. Wear patches / use gum / chewies, and if you feel like a cigarette, have one. Have ten! Rejoice!

Just smoke fewer.
It's a news headline. It's far more likely to be a mistake or a misinterpretation (either deliberate or accidental).
Well, I'm usually the person to quickly point out that HN is very conservative, and advocate the modern UI/tech stack that HN thinks is too flat or too bloated, etc... But as a long time macOS user, I can't say that the UI is good.

If I can fix one thing from the new UI, I think it should have borders or at least a different background color, like pre-iOS 13 with button shapes. The current iOS buttons (and the new macOS design) doesn't give any visual cue for the user to know whether this is an icon label or a button. That's a problem, and one that macOS has solved elegantly by having different textures (like the toolbar).

It's now... more like Windows 10 where everything is on a flat surface without any differences.
If you have tons of money and aren't obsessive about your spending, then this is a fun and funny way to spend some cash and entertain your friends.

If you're taking out loans and piling up credit card debt so the Soup Nazi can wish you a scripted "happy birthday", you may have a problem.

It reminds me of the episode of Community where Abed kept compulsively hiring celebrity look-a-likes for his own entertainment.

EDIT: After browsing the site, I totally see the appeal. Most of the actors cost around $100 or less and there are pages full of familiar faces, including some personal favorites. There is a 50% chance I end up buying this as a gift for someone!
Tell HN: Apple's Xcode 12 app is 23.46 GB
What on earth are they bundling with this thing? Is it iso's of every OS they've created since the 1970s? Somebody needs to call Guinness.
It depends on how the money gets allotted. The people to whom $5 is most useful are also the people that most advertisers are not interested in targeting in the first place. So if people are compensated according to their value as advertising targets, this seems like it'll be a rich-get-very- slightly-richer program.
Ask HN: Why does HN strip out “how” from the start of titles?
Every time I've tried to post a link with the title "How X", HN strips out the How and changes the title to "X".

Wondering why this is the case and if there is any planned fix. Thanks!
That's not a reason to not improve infrastructure anymore than "the more chocolate we produce the more people want to buy chocolate" is a reason not to make chocolate. It just shows you're ludicrously underserving demand.
Hey this is something I've been working on as a side project for the last 2 years. Using traffic cameras to detect the flows through intersections with the goal of providing better stats to governments and city planners.

Hopefully I can have the poc going in the next month. A city wide integration with something like AB street would be really cool and was phase 2 for this project. Phase 3 being an optimised citywide traffic control.
I wouldnt hold my breath, these types are widely distributed
I was perhaps a bit unclear in my post - I use Cinnamon and am thankful to those who made it, however I don't think that or XFCE or MATE or KDE are the "height of desktop experience", they get the job done.

In my opinion height of desktop experience was Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - I still miss workspaces, and TotalSpaces2 is a valiant effort but less likely to work with each new update.
As an installer program, like on Windows. Or as an installable package (Mac OS should have an integrated package management system like Homebrew).
Ah yep, I glossed over that somehow.

My point stands, though - despite the misusage of the word anonymous there's a real difference between how facebook treats identity and how reddit does. And it massively affects how communities in both interact.
Woah, the data comes from OpenStreetMap!

Is it possible to create a map with one click for a new city?

I read through https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/blob/master/docs/art... but I can't tell if this must be manually followed.
Less breaking than going from 10.14 to 10.15, but they did drop support for my laptop (although I think the usual pattern is another year or two of security updates, so I guess I'll see when I'm replacing it).
It's actually the other way around. The pre-sliced or non-fresh durian tends to have lost a lot of the odour.

Hotels and public transport in Thailand don't ban it for no reason.
Is a H-1B holder already in USA allowed to travel out side the country and comeback?
Young people don't spend money on streamers like lonely men do.

"The Youth" are on twitch to burn mom or dad's free amazon prime sub, per month.. another reason twitches numbers are "high" compared to others.

Xbox could have spent that shroud and ninja money on free subs for Xbox gold holders.. and deliver more value, like the bezos-twitch prime sub shell game
It's literally in the presentation.
Justin.tv offered pro accounts for preferred data transfers, as it would lag just watching a stream at 360p at best (not that they had quality options back in the day). I know I paid for it, just so that I could watch illegal cough Simpsons streams.

Justin.tv/Twitch.tv wasn't first though. Livestream and Ustream, for instance, were relevant before Justin.tv. It's just that they messed up along the way and people always migrated to the next service. When people did so from Ustream to Justin.tv, the latter never really did and as such, people never really left. However, they had a competitor in the form of own3d.tv for a good amount of time....but own3d.tv lost the holding-the-breath battle, as I don't think they really had financial backing unlike Twitch.tv then. If any larger company had paid attention back then (around 2012), the international streaming space might have looked different.
https://www.streamhatchet.com/pdf/report2019.pdf

Some 2019 streaming numbers from pre-Corona era which I found interesting at that time.
Mixer declined in hours watched after summer of 2019.
Also interesting to see that Facebook "Gaming"'s top games only feature mobile games.
Being a gamer myself I therefore find it difficult to really view them as a serious competitor to the game streaming market of YouTube and Twitch. Maybe this will change with Mixer's user base.
It's beautiful, I love the blur effect and the colors and the rounding it's all gorgeous.
I actually feel like I have even more precision on a touchpad because I'm not sliding around a weighted object
How about the non-modifiable hidden system partition? Inability to create directories under /

That alone has stopped me moving my Macs to the latest OS after testing.
Holy shit, it only took almost 40 years of personal computing for "human interface guidelines" to stick. I have begun believing boomers who tell me how much Microsoft fucked their business, by forcing them to use shitty software.
Does it happen with anything besides how? So when you post something like "How to bake a potato", does it translate to "To bake a potato"?
This is a bit off topic but in regards to contrast, I’ve been using Apple’s Music program lately and I absolutely cannot tell the difference between shuffle/repeat on or off. It is the lowest amount of contrast I have ever seen on a toggled button.

I figure it must be something with my machine but haven’t really delved too deeply and couldn’t find much when I looked.

Was hoping for a bit more out of Music. It’s decent, and certainly better than what iTunes had become. But sometimes I’m left wanting.

Although having my Pops be able to share a playlist over iMessage with me was a stellar experience in terms of how seamless it was and having it sync from my phone to my computer.
That sounded like such an unusual theme I had to go read up reviews :)
I think Ms Garten has petite wrists and has the series 5 44mm watch.

I have 55mm wide wrists, the 42mm case looked big on me.

Big watches are fashionable, perhaps Ms Garten prefers a bigger screen.

I have the chime app on my phone that beeps duo tones on the hour which is all I need.
This discussion on crow vocalizations linked in the blog post was a bit more interesting to me:
https://corvidresearch.blog/2019/03/14/crow-vocalizations-pa...

Demonstrates how little we know! Our inability to understand the relatively-simpler communication of other life on earth generally makes me think we would fail spectacularly if we ever meet aliens...
The inconvenience of having to open a KYC'd crypto exchange account to buy crypto and use it is way worse than finding a free torrent to download.

Not to mention the difference between paying for pirated content (or worse, selling it) and doing it for free.

Congratulations on reinventing a bad solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Several foundries are ramping up their new 5nm processes in the market, but now customers must decide whether to design their next chips around the current transistor type or move to a different one at 3nm and beyond https://semiengineering.com/5-3nm-wars-begin/
Hand layout is certainly impressive but also a very far cry from no automation. I'd also like to point out this was probably the result of a design problem that had to be fixed through sheer brute force rather than something to aspire to. The quoted part of the article sort of says as much, albeit in an oblique way.
Hey, thanks for your replies, and interesting project! Correct me if I'm wrong, but quirks mode applies when the doctype declaration is missing, right? I'm talking about modern, validated HTML documents that have no CSS. And I'm sorry to repeat myself if you go over my comment history, but the whole thing about having to specify all of a sudden in a proprietary tag that I suggest to use the device(-)width as the width... well, is my ultimate pet peeve. Again, I'm talking about valid documents that make no use of CSS at all, and that failing to include that render the text font microscopically. That would be my suggested point of departure for the improvements, and generally speaking I feel the overall default aesthetics could be improved without breaking anything.

Here is a relevant example. The very first website ever made [1] renders like this [2] without a viewport meta style on a current iPhone, but like [3] when you include this tag which made its debut decades later. Again, I believe way more could safely be done from the browser side, but this would be a sane start.

Edit: I realize I'm giving the oldest possible example, which necessarily triggers quirks mode, but the same can be said of any modern, proper HTML document without CSS.

[1] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[2] https://imgur.com/gallery/0THBhQ9

[3] https://imgur.com/gallery/HQkxXFF
Somebody will still collect all of that information. They will simply be outside of the jurisdiction of your laws.

The only way to stop others from collecting data on you is to not give it out in the first place. We need our computers, particularly browsers, to stop leaking so much information.

Edit: this is also the downfall of GDPR. An enterprising Chinese company could collect whatever data they want and then simply sell it to someone else who can use it to sell something to Europeans.
I would love to see a simulation system like this that also involved other "graph" components of city infrastructure -- like power, water, food, rail, air traffic, internet, mobile service etc. The ripple effects could be very hard to guess at, but could make for really interesting scenarios. Imagine trying to increase power when the only "lever" you can change is food prices!
JustWatch finds streaming Netflix movies you have to pay to rent elsewhere
Durian in Singapore is often sold packed in styrofoam containers, then wrapped with lots of cling wrap.

The smell still gets everywhere, and lingers for a bit.
They could just collect your data and not monetize it. If a paid user can decide whether or not they want those features. Facebook could easily monetize it anyway, but they could also monetize a paid user and day they aren't. Everything we are discussing is hypothetical anyway.
This needs clarification indeed. As I explain in the documentation, the aim of AlphaZero.jl is not to compete with hyper-specialized and hyper-optimized implementations such as LC0 or ELF OpenGO. These implementations are written in C++ with custom CUDA kernels and they are optimized for highly distributed computing environments. They are also very complex and therefore pretty inaccessible to students and researchers.

The philosophy of AlphaZero.jl is to provide an implementation of AlphaZero that is simple enough to be widely accessible for students and researchers, while also being sufficiently powerful and fast to enable meaningful experiments on limited computing resources. It has the simplicity of the many existing python implementations, while being consistently between one and two orders of magnitude faster.

More generally, the AlphaZero algorithm is extremely general and I think it can find applications in many research domains (including automated theorem proving, which is my own research area). I have been surprised to see that, despite the general excitement around AlphaZero, very few people actually tried to build on it. One explanation, I think, is the lack of accessible open-source implementations. I am trying to bridge this gap with AlphaZero.jl.
So discoverability is finally replaced by the "Ahhh" paradigm?
Thanks for the examples.

BYW There is also a reply in this thread from a GitLab UX team-member who responds to a comment about the thumbs up/down and report abuse buttons https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23606854
Budget AWS sells you slices of CPU performance rather than leasing you hours of access to a physical chip. They gain/lose on efficiency in that context.
Frederik Pohl's Gateway – Retro game review
Well, if it isn't my old favorites: low contrast, no affordances, junk in the title bars and so little difference between active and inactive windows it's nigh impossible to spot.

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't that every sucker and his dog will take this as definitive proof that all the bad UI fads of late are actually good.
I've always wondered if there's a probabilistic argument to show just how biased of policing there is by quantitating somehow the arrests made on a given subpopulation and somehow show how improbable it would be to randomly achieve a given arrest disparity to another subpopulation under the presumption of equal offending by those subpopulations. Is there any math to explore such a thing, sort of like flipping a quarter and hitting heads 5x in a row, that sort of thing.

To use a less charged example say I have three populations of fish, and all swallow coins in the same proportion as each other. In this universe sharks make up 10% of the fish population, sea-bass 30% and rockfish 60%. Exactly 5% of each fish type has a coin in their belly at any given time.

So if we have a world of 1000 fish, then we're talking 100 sharks, 300 sea-bass, and 600 rockfish. Of those 5 sharks, 15 sea-bass, and 30 rockfish have coins in their belly. To measure anything other than those counts of 5% per subpopulation, is there a way to measure how improbable that would be with random selection and subsampling and what not? Does this question even make sense and is well defined enough? My stats strengths aren't the keenest.
Defence Procurement Organizations Worldwide: A Comparison
> and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context”

When you factor in their ML prowess [i] it's not hard to imagine that every photo you submit w̶i̶l̶l̶ is getting automagically tagged with an astonishing amount of context: who, what, when, and where (why too since they have all of your chats/messages too).

[i] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2
macOS installers exist; I think they were used more commonly before the .app format, but that's how you get the Windows situation where the "uninstall" operation is a crapshoot because relevant files are scattered across your system.

I don't know the exact purpose behind the "mount a virtual drive to install an app" model, but it seems far too deliberate to not have a purpose.
And just like that, I've already bought my last Apple product.
WWDC30: “We are switching to the RISCV on all our platforms!”
You wouldn't, because other people wouldn't pay for it. The value proposition of Facebook comes from other people. If there aren't enough other people then you wouldn't want to use it.
So, why are we spending so much for so little?

Inefficiencies or corruption when building new things?

Pension benefits for an aging workforce?

Pure incompetence at the top or pure incompetence at the bottom of the org chart?
This is the compressed app pkg or the uncompressed app after install?

I mean, that seems huge either way, but they are supporting a large app ecosystem across different operating systems and devices and architectures.
0.5 exascale
EB1 is not a visa, but a category to get green card. It stands for employment based, priority 1. Irrespective of how your green card application will be prioritized, you still need a visa. Typically, people under L1A (intra company managers), O1 visa get to apply for green card under EB1 and rest under EB2 or EB3.
"social proof" is what you're looking for.
Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts?
When I'm in a discussion or commenting on an article, I always think to myself, I should write a blog post around this... but I never end up doing it. Does anyone have this problem? Any advice?
Thanks, I will raise this with our product team.
I wasn’t aware that broccoli aversion may be genetic, thanks!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/aversion-...
To distill your post-

-the CPU will be a lot more powerful and faster, but it isn't really faster because it's like an accelerator or something.

-if you actually use your computer get some vague "Linux desktop" or something (which is farcical and borders on parody, completely detached from actual reality). Because in the real world people actually doing stuff know that their CPU, and its work, is a significant contributor to power consumption, but if we just dismiss all of those people we can easily argue its irrelevance.

My standards for comments on HN regarding Apple events are very low, but today's posts really punch below that standard. It's armies of ignorant malcontents pissing in the wind. All meaningless, and they're spraying themselves with piss, but it always happens.

In the end this noise doesn't matter whatsoever.
The title "update your DNS" looks ambiguous
In this particular case, the new design is just trading element-internal padding for inter-element margin or element-group margin. The total space that each element-group takes up is the same. The only change is that more of the previously "dead space" around each element is now clickable, because it's now considered an internal part of the element.

It's a bit like making the UI into a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram — any area on the UI chrome becomes "associated" with the nearest interactive element.

Like I said, I don't see how that hinders anyone.
There's a wonderful initiative in Suffolk, East of England, run by somebody I knew many years ago.
Basically it's an educational club and community interest charity run/founded by a Matthew Applegate to teach kids and young people across Suffolk (I think there were also talks of expanding it to Norfolk.) all sorts of tech things like robotics, programming, game design electronics, and probably more now.

I don't know what it is about his style of teaching but he completely changed my view of IT and the IT industry. Before then, my main tech knowledge was from the at the time terrible exposure you got in rural schools back in the 2000s and taking electronics apart to try and see how they worked. I thought programming was way beyond me as I didn't do well at all in school and had major self esteem issues as a kid. Matt is one of the key reasons I gained a serious interest in technology and has helped probably thousands more like me. He showed me all it takes to learn anything is time, effort, and a healthy dose of curiousity.

Maybe other educators could reach out to him and ask how he does things differently? I'd love to see things like this crop up nationwide, I feel it'd seriously change the knowledge base of tech issues for future generations.

Relevant Links
https://twitter.com/CCCSuffolk
https://twitter.com/CCCCFSuffolk
https://twitter.com/Pixelh8 (Matt's Twitter.)
creativecomputingclub.com (Website appears down for maintenance time of writing.)
https://www.linkedin.com/organization-guest/company/creative...
I thought the “white everything” UI approach of metro apps under Windows 10 was bad enough but this is even worse with all the bluriness and similar colours. I am going to have to get another job soon else I’m going to go blind with all these “improvements”. I’m not joking.
My wife loves fruit and she's willing to put in the effort to eat fruit (peel, dig, carve, etc. etc.)

As for me, while there's certain fruit I do like a lot, I'm far less willing to put in the effort and often I just don't bother.
The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism
I never said to not be optimistic; I said to not be too optimistic. On personal level, immigration decisions and everything that comes after needs to be tied to reality and consider what could happen in the future, including all the nasty stuff. You need to consider all realistic scenarios, including all the political, financial and personal issues and shenanigans which can crop up. As the above poster said, none of this is new.

> has to be based on the employer's decision to continue their employment and not some politician's whim

While everyone here would love for this to happen, clearly nothing's working as it should be, or how we want it to be. It hasn't been, for quite a while. This is realpolitik.
Tip: Cmd + backtick cycles through windows within the current app. Once I learned this I much preferred the Mac's way of grouping windows by app.