skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is tempting to blame the lack of funds for the problems in the US public infrastructure, but problematic management seems to play a much bigger role. Almost any public infrastructure project around me: paving local roads, repairing a bridge or doing the Big Dig takes much longer than planned and ends up with huge cost overruns. And is plagued by corruption, cronyism or incompetence (often, pick at least two).

Yes, we should rebuild the infrastructure. If more money is required we should find it. But we should find a way that holds the bureaucrats accountable on both the costs and the schedule; otherwise we will be throwing good money after the bad. My 2c.
Don't forget the S line of SoC's as well for the Apple Watch - which wiped the floor with the Qualcomm watch SoC.
And what if you had access to the iCloud servers, where Safari history is stored without end-to-end encryption (unlike Chrome sync which is encrypted end-to-end)?
Can be; more often it's destructive, and to what end?
Defunding the police is generally unpopular where I live. My big city is growing at about 22% decade over decade and will likely surpass San Jose in population over the next 10 years. It is also the lowest density big city in the US. In order to support the growing population the police force must continue to grow as well. The fastest growing area of the city is also the least policed. This not result of negligence from the city but just the geographic direction the city is growing towards and the funding limitations to meet the growing needs of the community. There are plans to put a precinct in my area of the city, which is strongly wanted, but it won’t happen if the police are defunded.
Why shouldn't old-but-capable hardware be able to run new software?
brightness slider! nice! was downloading menu tray plugins for that
See something, say something
Just about the very last thing I would do to a musician whom I admire would be to debase them like that.
The only thing I don't like about Twitch is they got rid of their Roku app. I assume it's Amazon's doing, but it still eliminates a large portion of users who want to watch gamers on Twitch.
Yes because moving oil by truck or rail is safer and environmentally sound? Pipelines are very green relative to the alternatives
Is it uncommon for folks to use a Linux desktop as their primary OS? I've been doing so for about 10 years and I've had no complaints. Whenever I need some specific software I boot to Windows or use Virtualbox. I also have a Macbook Pro 2015
Read the rest of the comment, which is the point you’re failing to realize. You’re judging without understanding the complete picture. So again read that comment again and read it from a logical standpoint instead of emotional. It literally says the next sentence they have value in some situation and your failure to understand that some poor bread maker can’t have anything valid to say when writing software or building a rocket. That’s my opinion, change it if you want with facts. Not everybody that disagrees with you is a right wing extremist. Some of us are capable of discussing actual facts and values. And you also pointed to a comment made after your comment so how this can be influential in your first comment suggests you have some ability to travel through time.
It's been shown to be less infectious. Mortality rates are the same for both strains.
Wait macOS 11, not 10.16.

I assume this is a breaking change then?
> I'd rather not use it and save myself the damage on my psyche and mental health

Scientific evidence on that is inconclusive and mixed. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11126-017-953...

> Other than the supposed potential dating benefits, having an actual active social life I don't get the appeal as I probably say I meet too many people for my own good

Then maybe it's not for you? I like to share things with my friends, see things they share, it's mildly entertaining and somewhat informative. If you don't enjoy those things, then you don't have to participate.

> leaking personal information I'd rather not be in the hands of the very companies building the Panopticon

In a practical sense, I have never encountered any downsides with supposed data leaking / personalized ads / strangers selling information about me. I have not lost money because of it, or lost friendships, or manipulated to do something I later regret.

But I have lost time and money because of wrong information shared by the credit bureaus, lost friends and messages because of a broken phone, misleading salesmen who convinced me to buy bad products at bad prices, insurance companies that didn't pay up, and landlords who scammed me. So after I finish dealing with and worrying about actual bad actors that harm me in direct ways, maybe I'll start worrying about the ghosts.
Foundation (Asimov)
Oh, that's a hard video to do. Johnny Depp plays such deep characters that it often takes me until the middle of the movie before I realize it's him.

What kind of character can he be to make a PSA?
What the actual f*ck. Thanks for the link. Looks like I'll need Little Snitch...
Minorities are less comfortable calling the police in the first place.
GiveCampus (YC S15) is hiring senior software engineers to help schools
I'm also predicting there will be no difference in battery life.

If you check technical specifications on past MBP battery specification and battery life you can notice one thing: Watt/hour battery is always decreasing and battery life is always remaining constant (e.g., 10 hours of web scrolling).

Gain in power consumption allows to reduce component space which allows further slimmer designs.
> to create better experiences for our users

I do not fucking want an "experience", I want hypertext with some images.
Yes, but what about only 49% larger?
Are you sure? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1911109/ shows a 1458 point accepted answer with a 7764 point answer just below it.

The only time an accepted answer doesn't pin to the top is when it is when the accepted answer is one from the OP - in which case it doesn't get pinned and sorts by votes only.
Yes but "the law" cuts deals all the time to address bigger crimes. (for example)They let off a small time drug dealer with a couple months in jail for ratting out a hitman for the mafia. I think sometimes it takes lesser crimes to bring justice bigger crimes like police brutality and murders that go unprosecuted because cops/DAs protect one another. I think that might be the case here. Independent hacktivists can now comb through that data and find cops that have lots of repeats offenses that obviously show a pattern of abusing the system and citizens whereas before that couldn't happen because such information was hidden from the public.
My First Term on the AST Board of Directors
One neat way of retaining that control is running your own SOA(s), but getting robust secondaries and listing those in WHOIS so that they take all of the wild queries. Then you just work with your little SOA and everything just propagates as necessary and you don't get hammered.
Yes, academics should be asking questions about the ethics of their research. This is particularly when it is applied. Some of the research discussed in this article raises legitimate concerns regarding ethics that need to be addressed if it is going to be of benefit to society, and there are good reasons to believe that it can be a detriment to society regardless of how it is pursued.

That being said, I am tired of people vilifying the police and taking indiscriminate actions against them. The reality is that law enforcement performs a valuable role in society, yet it is also an institution that has serious issues to resolve. Those issues will be difficult to address with an antagonistic relationship. It creates barriers to questioning when the police are needed, what roles are better fulfilled by other institutions, and how we ensure that officers are accountable to the communities that they serve.

I suspect that it would be far more effective to place pressure on the government rather than the police simply because the scope of the problem is outside of the domain of the police. It is legislation that dictates what roles are taken by the police and which are taken up by other agencies (as well as how funding is allocated between those agencies). Legislation also determines the what and how of police accountability, which limits the consequences that officers face due to acts of negligence or malice.
This is a side-effect of employment and raises being dependent on launching new features instead of improving existing features. Something certainly not exclusive to Apple.
Apple Silicon, a custom, ARM-based processor, changes Mac forever
They talked about reducing "visual complexity" at some point in the video. Of course, if you make everything the same shape and the same color, it's visually much simpler. It's just more difficult to use ("design is how it works", anyone?) because you can't tell anything apart.
You would do well to understand that all of those mentioned were the 'winners' or 'victors', the US has statues of the losers. Statues of people who wanted to subjugate and own other people. There is no redeeming people who fought to retain the right to own other people.
App Clips seem yet another lock-in solution. They want devs to go through the app store so they get full control and revenue access.

Instead of downloading a 10mb App Clip you just go to a url that uses some standards to login/access-payments. Done.

What more do App Clips do that couldn't be done in a much more interoperable and standardized way?
Same. I’ve been on Pop OS on a System76 Darter for over a year. Very happy with the combination, and the price.
Excellent, I would be interested in your university.
What does that mean and what are you basing that on?
I found that work fascinating, and I’ve linked to it here before. Your summary of the finding is misleading.

>for every investigation over a white cop shooting a black person allegedly

This is false. Fryer saw the effect when investigations were in response to social media outrage. In fact, he called out that the effect is not seen when investigation are started in response to complaints through the regular channels.
we need to get rid of the executive order or at least severely limit its scope. both Obama and Trump have abused it -- presidents should not be able to hand down sweeping regulatory change like this at the drop of a hat without going through the legislature.
Why does it need to be compared to any OS? One of the reasons I switched to Mac was the OS X was far more stable than Windows. I still want a stable OS.
What do you want someone else to build?
During lockdown, we wanted to start a business and didn't know what idea to start with. The result: we made a site dedicated to crowdsourcing ideas for entrepreneurs who want to build them.

What ideas do you wish were built? What problems do you need to be solved?
Ahrens' writing is amazingly dense. I don't think I've read a book that's that heavy to read apart from Aristoteles.
Opting out would then require trusting an organization who is incentivized to collect data to not collect it. That can't be the solution.
okay, will try to see what that gives. I'm curious as to why it would be slower (when taking into account that an equivalent docker container, say running debian stable, but with the same architecture as the host, runs in more-or-less the same time as building directly with my host's GCC)
I think it will work out fine.

Apple has an absolutely top-shelf team, designing chips.

By hand (Qualifier: Not sure if they still do, but they did, while everyone else was using automation).

They also have a great deal of experience in repaving the highway while traffic is running at capacity. They mentioned it in their keynote. They've done it three times. I have been there, for each of those times.

I was also there for the one time they completely pooched it (Can anyone say "Copeland"? Drop and give me twenty!).

It will be moderately painful. Not too bad. Quite manageable, and it will take at least a couple of years to transition.

I am in no hurry for one of those dev kits, though. They will be quite rough, and I have no compelling reason to use them.

I am looking forward to an entirely new Xcode. The current one is getting crashier every day. I'd also like to have one that can run on my iPad.
Can you tell me more about these American workers being displaced by IT consulting shops?
The freeze is pretty wide ranging and will apply to a number of other visas as well:

- H1-B - Specialty occupations

- H4 - Immediate family members of the H-1B visa holders

- L - Intracompany transferees from oversees

- J - Work-and study-based exchange

- H2-B - Temporary non-agricultural workers
Apple Silicon Changes Mac Forever
Can you drop the 60FPS to 30FPS ? That would cut the bandwidth requirement in half.
can't speak about the very recent updates, but windows have been consistent and adamant on keeping the backward compatibility. they still use reserved file names for io devices so that 30+ year old printers can still work, and you can still open a 2000s doc file in office 365. (I'm looking at you Apple, who made many of the 32 bit apps I loved useless)

relevant video: https://youtu.be/bC6tngl0PTI (Tom Scott: Why you can't use CON as filename in windows)
Trump to suspend entry of certain foreign workers despite business opposition
I think mentioning Linux in a VM is their way of telling you that Microsoft Windows will no longer be supported on the new hardware.
Search engine that prioritizes pages with no JS and minimal CSS would help.

JS requires audit - even small script can game rank by encoding JS and CSS in other resources to pretend there is not much of it. Audit requires reproducible response, can be gamed, requires web of trust.

In the end it is all about goodwill, which may be hard to find in spyware ridden web.
Great question. Next to Uptime monitoring we also monitor your website Speed performance and Health performance.

Every week we scan your website for 404 errors and mixed content violations and SSL Health.

Every week we monitor your Google Page Speed score and Server ping times and store historical data.

We also build a very powerful, but simple to use notification system. For example, we gave you the option to receive an email when your website assets (css, js, images e.t.c) exceeds a certain limit. Or when your Google page speed score is lower or higher than x.

And we think that it doesn’t hurt to invest some love in great UI ;-)
The richest man in the world is still bald.
Ok, the lack of commas made it seem to me you were only talking about legacy software.
To Catch A Predator guy saying almost anything for $50 sounds like the greatest service ever.
I know this answer is "buy something else to make your life eaiser" but hear me out - either a USB-C monitor, or a thunderbolt dock.

I got a USB-C monitor last time I upgraded (LG 27" 4K) and having a single cable to plug in, which not only carries the display signal, but also charges my MBP, AND carries the USB signal so that I can plug wired keyboard and anything else into the hub in the monitor still feels ridiculously futuristic to me.
You would think that, and you'd be wrong. Many streamers dislike Twitch, in the same way many YouTubers dislike YouTube for their policies. Most stick around, because they saw what happened to Ninja, and he represented the best of what could be possible; your viewers by-and-large wont follow you, your community is on Twitch, they're not your community, they're Twitch's community.

Twitch could be a lot worse, and they'll probably get a lot worse now losing their only decent competition. The general murmur around the Twitch exclusivity deals was that they 10x'd in value and quantity after Microsoft put a price on Ninja. Unless YouTube gets serious, the same level of serious that Twitch and Mixer were, Twitch has no reason to add value to these streamers. The streamers wont leave; they can't.

And we all know YouTube won't do the right thing by their content creators, because they already don't.

This is a very dark day for content creators. Mixer failed, but it at least represented literally the only threat on Twitch's radar; there was always the question of "well what if Mixer blows up" guiding biz-dev at Twitch. Unless streamers band together and unionize, Amazon is going to crush them.
Some people are terrible with money. Nic Cage spends money as fast as earns it which is why he's in so many terrible low budget movies despite being an A list actor. Seems like the kind of guy who'd make a killing on Cameo too.
For being "one of the most important thinkers in our time", I would argue it needs to be relatively original thought.

He's obviously important in general - I just think there's probably a better label thank thinker. Evangelist, maybe?
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Yeah. Tell that to my son who had a Moto G before he “upgraded” to my old iPhone 6s (introduced 2015) that was 3 years older. The Moto 3 was always touted as a good midrange phone. It might have felt better “feature wise” if he had toyed with it, but Android hardware just doesn’t age well. I can’t imagine burdening it with more features from third parties.

Btw, the iPhone 6s is still running the latest iOS version.
I normally use twitch but with fb mixer news I decided to take a look into fb gaming. I was able to create a page named "namrog84" and then comment on someone's stream and all they saw was namrog84.

I'm sure it might be possible to figure out which facebook real name made and owns that page. But at face value I was able to stream and comment under my alternate persona. namrog84. Without having to make a new Facebook account. They have a drop down in streamer chat if you want to use your real name or a name of a page.

With that said, I'm very hesitant of fb gaming streaming and this is my first ever time really looking at it.
Does more information means better security?
I have been pro-lockdowns and have not indulged in any conspiratorial nonsense. But at a certain point, if states and localities don't accept the mounting evidence that outdoor transmission is not a significant threat, it will start to feel a little tyrannical.
While I do wholeheartedly agree that your online self should be an alternate, detached persona, for someone underaged, falsifying information on an account on FB is against their TOS. Their entire business model is selling data about the "real you."

I don't have children, and as a 20-something I know the struggle and seeming impossibility of avoiding FB products, but I try to avoid pouring my whole identity into them. It's rough when the social culture is rapidly shifting to "unless you put everything online you're not worth my time" or makes you one of those "privacy nuts."
And what information does Google surface to third parties besides the tracking ID (which can also be reset easily on Android)?
I didn't switch to Mac until about halfway through Snow Leopard's lifespan. I'm aware of the big data loss bug—and that's serious for sure—but if you weren't one of the very unlucky few (relatively) to run into it, was 10.6.0 buggy in other ways?
Do you have any data to back up that claim, other than anecdotal "evidence"?

Here's some real data:
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rpa11.pdf

Across all races and Hispanic origin, American Indians and Alaska Natives (15%) and persons of two or more races (15%) had the highest rates of reporting crime or neighborhood disturbances to the police. No statistical difference was observed between the percentage of white (9%) and black (7%) persons reporting a crime or neighborhood disturbance to police in 2011.

Also, perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but Appendix Table 4 suggests that minorities are much more satisfied with police response than the average.
The reason it looks natural is because it's new. If it gets popular, it'll be commodified and it'll be the same "radio station bumper" sound you've always heard. As your wedding DJs plays the Brad Pitt, "I heartily congratulate you on your celebration or achievement. Congratulations[static] Wanda and Billy" generic message they sit down once a month to hammer out 300 of.
> I hope the privacy respecting apps and services you use can guarantee that either via technology (encryption, open source, reproducible builds)

This is what the F-Droid repository is all about. But again, Google has insisted on changes to AOSP that will shortly make it much more difficult for ordinary users (i.e. those who cannot use the command line) to make use of such free and libre offerings.
Considering xbox is 1/4 the price, it's not saying much about it. On the contrary.
I wonder why keep the naming scheme if numbering is changed.
Much as an argument confusing World War II Germany with the Holy Roman Empire might be called 'well-said.' You're confusing the early web era with the dot-com boost/bust period.

The early web were the era of dozens, perhaps hundreds of competing web browsers which were made possible by simple, well-engineered web standards. Pages were served statically, or with CGI scripts. You had a whole swarm of generic spiders, crawlers, and bots which automated things on the web for you. Anyone could write a web browser, so many people did.

The dot-com boom/bust had companies doubling in size every few months, people who could barely code HTML making 6-figure salaries, Netscape imploding, early JavaScript (which, at the time, looked like a high schooler's attempt at a programming language), and web standards with every conceivable ill-thought-out idea grafted in.

If one of the first programs you ever wrote was a scraper for an ASPX site, you never saw the elegance of the early days. ASPX came out not just after HTML3, but after HTML4.
Hot take: Dark matter is space whales.
It seems very busy. I wonder what the average ago of a macbook user is.
Holy smokes, that Z3 prover for Nim programs with inline invariant conditions is mindblowing, thank you for sharing this.

Also, your username looked familiar -- you're the creator of Arraymancer and Laser!!

You wrote the most performant, memory-efficient fast-math libs in existence currently (as far as I know) and your work on data-parallel operations is super fascinating.
The Mac is the Mac. Apple Silicon doesn’t change that. You can set boot args, disable security, and other things the Mac has historically supported. In fact these things are required to develop 3rd-party kernel extensions which are still supported on Apple Silicon.
Oh, OK, I wasn't aware, sorry. Thanks for the explanation!
Apple is known for throwing the towel early in backwards compatibility though.
Right but if you can get priority downloads on torrents, access to early releases or use the currency for other things (eg a VPN) Then you don’t need to cash out at all
It seems (wasn't really that clear?) that Maya was running emulation? (as in, x64 binary). I don't think Maya's viewport on MacOS actually runs with Metal (it's still OpenGL), so I doubt it's a native port.

Did it do any CPU-intensive stuff (skinning, deformation), or was it just GPU-intensive viewing?

High-end VFX will be interesting for this with Apple (Maya, Houdini, Nuke) - already there was quite a lot of anger at OpenGL being deprecated and Vulcan not being officially supported. Another instruction set into the mix for highly-optimised apps (lots of SIMD code) is going to be quite annoying, especially for the CPU renderers (Arnold, Renderman, etc)...
I've been umm-ing and ahh-ing about making the switch to a linux laptop full time.

Currently have my work desktop (linux + windows for gaming :D) at home for lockdown and a file share/media server (linux) hooked up to the tele. All seems to work. Even my firewire audio interface is more stable on my linux work desktop (it's not supported on Windows 10 > 1903 / OSX > 10.13).

The one thing that is keeping me switching is Apple Music w/ the iCloud Music Library syncing. Legit the only reason I haven't ditched my 10 year old macbook pro yet.
Perhaps obstructionism and attacks on government as the problem -- instead of clearheaded, reasonable governance -- has destroyed the ability for government to provide solutions.