skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that protecting sources and mandating some degree of truthfulness (like don't outright lie about verifiable facts, as some statements are not disprovable) are orthogonal to dictating the subject of the stories?

The AMA and bar associations are not without their issues either (they end up driving prices up since they have a monopoly on their service), but it seems to me that people don't have to worry about doctors doxxing their patients on social media or lawyers making deals behind a client's back as much. When it does happen, these professionals are usually ejected from their profession, which is a pretty big disincentive.
OS X was a marketing name and was dead for a while now.

Besides the CPU arch change and a slightly refined UI it is pretty much the same.
"I suspect that non-App Store apps for the Mac may be seeing the twilight."

What about MacOS 11 makes you think this? Literally almost nothing of consequence has changed since Catalina in OS security. Gatekeeper hasn't gotten tighter, you can still disable SIP, homebrew works great.
This along with antibiotic resistance, ocean acidification and others are silent civilization killers. Male fertility has been dropping for the past several decades and accumulation of microplastics has been suggested as a possible cause. Will the species become infertile because of this? Will we sterilize our oceans? Will we go back to the 1800s medically where invasive surgeries will be nearly impossible due to no working antibiotics? Few people are aware of these problems and even fewer are working on solutions.
I mean, I'm still on Yosemite, and I didn't even want to "upgrade" to that (but had to, to use the iPhone 8 I bought). I would rather have stuck with Mavericks. Every new macOS update seems to bring new freedom-limiting changes which I fundamentally disagree with, and it's getting harder and harder to justify using such a closed platform...

Stratechery's mention of what hackers/programmers move to as being an indicator of what's next is interesting, as currently it feels like these types of people are largely moving to more open platforms. I see it all over my social networks where super talented engineers are embracing not only open software, but open hardware, too... We shall see, I guess.
Apple is a huge Java shop. They're quite secretive but a very large portion (the great majority?) of their backend is Java.

OpenJDK has a Linux/AArch64 port, and it will have a macOS/AArch64 port, too.
A police officer's job is keeping order, and they're paid by the state, not directly by taxpayers. So they're enforcers for whatever order the state decides works for them. If left-wing groups paid police officers to run long-term private security, and infiltrated law enforcement, and did all the stuff right-wing groups did, police officers might start espousing more left-wing takes on matters like treating protesters with respect as fellow citizens.

I don't like how things are, and I don't agree with right-wing groups. I'm pointing out a hard truth. I think it's great that people are out on the streets asking for what they want, and that more and more people are listening to them. But I'm pessimistic that anybody in power will enact meaningful change, because the protesters don't act by the laws of power. That will become ever more important, and the failings ever clearer, the more and more people in power respect only power and not substantive public policy.
> I already explained in another comment why it's not accessible

You've explained why you don't like it, not why it's any less accessible by the definition that you're choosing to use.
The comment states the why clearly when read within the context of the article: "I'm clearly no longer the target demographic and their corporate goals aren't aligned with mine as a customer any more"
Isn't it more the web model?

I mean, the web is older, it's locked down, and browsers get more and more features.
Announcing Annoucements is all the rage right now...
Order in the English language began as a synonym for rank. Law and Order meant Law and Social Ranking. In set theory this is the same as the concept of ordinality.

The original Latin reflects the broader meaning of any pattern relationship, literally threads in a weave.
> They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000

This is just patently false.
Yep, unfortunatley.

I left feedback the moment it entered "feature preview", left feedback on all the accessibility it lacked (mainly reducing contrast everywhere), and well, looks like they just rolled it out anyways.

Really wish they would take things like people being able to see their product without difficulty seriously.
Same here. Although it will be 10.13 for me, which is the last version with a good subpixel hinting. The best possible font display is of utmost importance to me, and retina+subpixel rendering is optimal for now. I know that it is possible to re-enable it in 10.14, but it works only so-so. And with 10.15 its certainly gone.
Ask HN: Should I buy an Intel MacBook now, or wait for an ARM version?
I was about to buy a MacBook Pro 13" as my personal laptop, but I am confused after WWDC's announcements yesterday. I want to use this machine for ~5 years at least.

If I buy the Intel Mac, will it get obsolete after a year w.r.t. software? As in, will new software stop working on Intel machines within 1-2 years?

If I wait for the ARM Mac, I see 2 risks:

(a) Most software won't work (well) for a while unless Rosetta 2 works magically well (I am not optimistic).

(b) The first version of the hardware will probably be bad.
x86 is 70s technology: the 8086 came out in 1978, and it is an extension of the 8080 which came out in 1974, itself an extension of the 8008 from 1972.

Funny how the modern world runs on the descendants of an overgrown calculator chip.
No. Also, among other things you might in bad faith argue that I imply – but I do not – is that even if that was the case, killing him would've been OK.

What I actually implied was that I hardly think these two are very good examples of “average” persons, or “average” black persons, which should be taken into consideration in parent's logic.
Related (a proposed mechanism for this effect): Expecting Short Inferential Distances [1]

1: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-...
This is topical - I'm currently working on an uplift/erosion simulation with Unity/C#. I'll be curious to try this algorithm out. I'm using the Microsplat asset to set the terrain splats based on steepness and altitude.

I'm currently using diamond-square to generate the mountains, and it looks good, but my erosion algorithms tended to look off.

There's a fascinating world of compute shaders with Unity that would push this onto the GPU, but I don't know if I'll get that far with this project.

Thanks for sharing!
I second this. I was running antergos on my desktop for a while and it is a fantastic desktop OS, if you have time to deal with the inevitable boot failures.
The number of repositories is no longer displayed, or did I miss it?
It is a real usage recognized by various dictionaries (Merriam-Webster, Oxford, et. al). Doing a search will find said usage in the definition listings, and "a riot of color" seems to the typical example given by such. If I had a copy of the Shorter Oxford to hand, I'd be able to say which usage came first, and if one derived from a figurative use of the other, or if they both evolved from a common, now obsolete definition. But I don't have a copy of the Shorter Oxford to hand, so we'll just have to be happy that the definition itself is attested by various dictionaries.
Quick hack for Ublock Origin users to get everything lined up again (add this to your filters): github.com#$#body{ max-width: 1280px !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-left: auto !important; }
That's not how the industry works.

They have always multiple technologies in different stages of development.

Intel failed one major technology node and it will hit their profits hard,but anyone who thinks that it has any effect to their 7nm node don't know how this works.
By the logic presented earlier , it would only be fair if Americans could compete for jobs in foreign countries the same way their workers compete for jobs in ours .
I don't see why, Brew just uses the standard compilation tools any other software on OSX uses, so it'll work the way any other tool works

Brew either uses the system libraries (which still work) or compiles its own version (which is not affected by this)
I was bothered that they removed 32-bit support, so my desktop is still on Mojave. I suppose I can understand it. With the ARM transition, it certainly makes things simpler.
While RedHat's backporting might not be great, i believe that upstream would do good if they would change their mind about having or not a well defined vulnerability identification and notification system.

It's understandable that almost every piece of kernel code could potentially be a bad actor thus it would be tough to identify if every fix has security implications or not.

Still there must be a middle ground around common exploitation methods.
The patent royalties are fairly small compared to selling a full chip. They would still be feeling the pinch.

Of course even if Apple did start selling those chips (which they won't) they would charge an arm and a leg for them, because they could. They would only be used in the top of the line flagship phones. Apple has shown zero interest in competing with the bargain basement hardware producers.
Dip – A Programming Language for Beginners
Hello everyone!

Introducing Dip (Recursive acronym for Dip isn't python) - a programming language designed specifically for beginners. It aims to make programs natural to read and write.

Dip is easy to read and understand - and eliminates most of Python's issues while also being a lot faster. It tries to eliminate indentation errors and has friendly error messages. It also tries to provide the power of python.

I also made a website for Dip, where you can try Dip in your browser, post questions on the forum and install dip on your laptop. Look at it at http://www.dip-lang.org

The project took me around two months for the core language, and a couple of weeks for the website. I hope you find some value out of this project :)

Github repo (Spaghetti code - read with caution): https://github.com/raghavnautiyal/Dip
LLVM is known for trading developer time for run time speed (code runs fast, compiler doesn't). So this is generally the expected results as any decent LLVM based language should beat Go considering Go makes the opposite trade off.
> we shouldn't "expect" an increase in police violence in response to black criminality,

... It's not an increase. Police misconduct occurs in some percentage of interactions. More interactions = more police misconduct.

> If I blind fired my weapon onto the streets and bullets went into someone's home, I'd be arrested and charged.

And if you handcuffed someone and locked them in your basement you'd be arrested and charged.

It's hard to debate someone that doesn't understand basic concepts like this. Good luck to you.
Of course cases will go up as testing becomes more widespread. As you point out, headlines mention case numbers as those are the high, eye-catching numbers. The more important numbers to watch are positivity and hospitalization, which are starting to tick up after several flat weeks.
> I always thought, based on what I've read/heard, that one of the big reasons, maybe the biggest reason we're doing all this is to flatten the curb so hospitals don't get overwhelmed.

This was my understanding as well, and it is what is shown in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatten_the_curve

The bigger thing that I have chatted about with several other is that the area under the curve is the same, i.e. the same amount of inidividuals will still get sick.
Next up on nytimes.com:

Martin Luther King was an evil racist, tear down all statues of him and riot in streets named after him.
Maybe they're using a blockchain to distribute the font.

Also their page is missing a whitepaper.
Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack
Murder by Craigslist (2013)
I think it can be difficult to appreciate the problem that 'gate all around' transistors solves. For all their "layers" semiconductor devices have been essentially stuck in 2 dimensions[1] since the beginning of time.

This is the key point (from the article) : One of the key benefits of these GAA transistors is that the transistor can be specifically tailored to the operational requirements.

Basically, in the "way back" times there was exactly one type of transistor characterized for the whole process, so you got to use the "P" version or the "N" version but always the same transistor. This got upgraded a bit when companies figured out how to mix more than two (I've seen up to seven) types of transistors in the mix so that you could have "drive" transistors for I/O, and "internal" transistors (for logic) and "buffer" transistors that would move clock signals further on the chip or with a sharper turn on or turn off characteristic.

If you can create a process where the GAA transistor is parameterized in the process (by which I mean the circuit designer can say "I want this parameter to be X, this other to by Y, and this third parameter to be Z all at frequency Q" for each and every transistor in the part, that is huge. I would guess that conservatively that adds 30% to your scaling efficiency.

Mask tweaks would be harder but at these scales I don't know that anyone is going in and "fixing up" problems with an e-beam on die these days.

Anyway, the result is going to be some pretty amazing parts when this stuff is integrated into the pipeline, especially mixed signal parts (some analog / some digital) because that is an area that can really benefit from a bunch of different transistor sizes.

[1] EDIT: Referring here to device geometry in the X and Y dimensions. While these determine some parameters, typically such transistors were all of a very similar size (back when the process node name like "1 micron" was equated to the transistor feature size, unlike today where its more of a measurement of something such that the fabs can brag about how small it is)
> I think the reason police treat right-wing groups far more leniently than left-wing groups is because right-wing groups are much more likely to be armed and resist violently

I think the reason police treat right-wing groups more leniently is that police officers, at all ranks from cadets through chiefs, and the prosecutors with whom they work, are more likely themselves to be members of right-wing groups.
I think the confusion in this thread is that (in most of Western Europe) you automatically become a business (or even company) by the sole act of doing "business" (enterprise with the purpose of earning money), and once you cross some (small) threshold you have to register in some capacity. That can be a ~$20 bureaucratic act, compared to the ~$500 act of setting up a proper company. But of course at that point it varies wildly by country.
Homebrew packages work fine, you can still disable SIP, Gatekeeper hasn't gotten tighter. Everything is almost exactly the same as Catalina. There's really no substance whatsoever to the claims that MacOS 11 is locking the OS down. You could make this claim for Catalina, but Big Sur isn't changing anything of consequence at all.
Dyson's tool (which is more like an art asset) is pretty much Photoshop only, which is prohibitive to some. I signed up for their Patreon when they first previewed it, thinking I could use it with Affinity Photo. There's some layer combination features missing that means it's PS only.
Interesting read as always!

Small typo, I believe the link in the sentence Tangentially, we were surprised to discover that Redis Enterprise’s claim of “full ACID compliance”... was copy/pasted incorrectly
Not sure what "walking catalogue of locally available illicit substances" is a reference to, as that describes none of the recent police murders AFAIK.

Also FYI, in the case of Rayshard Brooks (the victim who took the officer's Taser), the District Attorney said that the Taser "had already been fired twice and was thus empty and no longer a threat". https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-atlanta-ra...
What is it with this dictionary language policing?

How about you actually discuss the topic instead of trying to make this an issue about dictionary definitions.

You seem to be smart enough to realize that I'm not referring to disability accessibility, so why don't you focus on the actual topic instead of definitions?

Tell me why the new design is better when I can't see the repository languages without additional input and mental effort, if you want to contribute to the discussion.
The move towards "iOSing" the OS.

It won't be GateKeeper. It will be policies. They won't make it obvious at all, because they know how unpopular it will be.

Let's see what the future brings. I'm not thrilled with it (for example, I have one app that I've written, that uses ffmpeg[0], and ffmpeg no likee sandbox).

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_MediaServer
I think so.

OSX was bought, NT was bought, Android was bought.

Which big OS vendor build their own OS? Maybe Google with Fuchsia?
1.1.1.1 is Cloudflare.
8.8.8.8 is Google
9.9.9.9 is PCH/IBM as Quad 9.
They all also offer IPv6.
A few others are CSS Grid Garden [0] and Flexbox Froggy [1], both multi-level games that teach CSS grid and flexbox techniques with one new concept per level. There's also Flexbox Zombies [2] which requires signup but is still fun and free.

0: https://cssgridgarden.com/

1: https://flexboxfroggy.com/

2: https://geddski.teachable.com/p/flexbox-zombies
It's unbelievable how hard to grasp distributed systems are. I recently implemented Paxos in Rust and at certain points I literally thought I was losing my mind.

When you read Paxos Made Simple it really all seems so, well, simple. But then you get inconsistent commits and look at the traces of what happened and just go "How?!"
Your logic implies it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional
What does it say if you run:

sw_vers -productVersion
It was a lot easier a long time ago when less was known about the various different disciplines.

Today it seems impossible. Though, with the right head start of a highly privileged birth, perfect timing of the right mentors, winning the genetic lottery, and other uncountable factors, you might get one or two a century. Of course, depending on the breadth of your definition.
They were more honest back when they called it movable property. As in, a peasant's movable property is taxed while a lord's immovable property is not. It's easier to tax things that can be picked up and taken if the tax is not paid.
Since some projects use their github README as a landing page and the rise of termux, yeah I think it is important.
I'm sorry that happened to your friend. Unless I've only seen the tip of the iceberg, I didn't think vice was that bad? Not always substantiative, and definitely a ways left of center, but I wouldn't stick it in the same vein as something like Infowars or breitbart.
Sure, but version names are hard to order: was Catalina before or after X? who will remember? (maybe if it at least was like Ubuntu with names following alphabetic order)
https://cravecookie.com

Most of the code is on the admin side. I've basically been building something akin to shopify but for managing local orders and delivery logistics.
I have quite a bit of faith in numbers related to deaths. There is a lot of paperwork involved, a body (with bullet holes), perhaps a 911 call, often a medical examiner or coroner's report, potentially lawsuits, funerals, etc. And now there are cameras a lot of places.

I guess there could be outright premeditated cold-blooded murders that are disguised as suicides, but I can't imagine that's very common. I mean, you can't bring a body in with a zillion bullet holes and tell the coroner it was suicide. And, as you point out, a noose is going to (hopefully) generate a lot of suspicion and a thorough investigation.

The main area of uncertainty is not the number of police killings, but the number of justified versus unjustified killings.
Then those users mess up dependencies, or simply forget to update the package for a few years.

Then open source maintainers get spammed with angry users because of a poor user experience they can't control.
That has to be illegal, even in the US?
Congratulations! That's great! How long have you been doing the open source work and what industry does it serve?
To the right side of the code between "About" and "Contributors".
Yes for FP. It seems that when I join OOP complex projects/systems it is much harder to grok the codebase if the original creator isn't around to tell me how it works and explain the intricacies. FP on the other hand makes that part a whole lot more easier to digest.
Very bimodal range of responses! People are either loving this or are having the worst experiences of their lives. Seems that the key driver of whether people are enjoying this or not is 1. whether they are still employed and 2. whether they have a life outside of work. The people whose only friends are co-workers and who wrap their entire identity up in their work are probably in a pretty bad place right now.

Personally, I'm in the "love" camp. I have gotten ~5 hours of my each day back due to not having to commute, which is 5 more hours for my family, my hobbies, outdoor activity, etc. It's great. I'm getting so many things done and fixed around the house. Making a lot of progress on wood working and metal working hobbies. Taking time to exercise and get outside more. My work schedule has remained pretty much the same but minus the commute it's like I have a second life to fill with things to do! I'm an extrovert, so I thought WFH would be a real bummer and drag, but the benefits are vastly outweighing the drawbacks of fewer human interactions.
Everyone seems to think about cost and speed all the time.

I think that's only part of the story, which also needs to include the ability to add features and control the entire feature set across chips on all of their devices.

Encryption, ML, graphics, power management, security, etc. are all things that Apple can now add or remove as needed.

The level of optimization they can do is now well beyond just speed and price.
I’ve been unhappy with macOS and Apple for the past few years and in January switched back to developing on a windows PC. I could not be happier with that decision and with the “roadmap” Apple provided yesterday, I expect it will be a long time before I go back to macOS, if ever.
Would be wild to be inside an elevator during a remote "alarm button" test! :O
Excepting a minor detail - NextStep brought Jobs to Apple rather than vice versa. Gil Amelio chose NextStep rather than Apple's own Copeland as the successor to System 7, bought NeXT, and never knew what hit him.
I think your chronology is correct, yes. The family tree in the article is not a chronology, I think, so your chronology augments it with useful information.
I think a JIT compiler is basically required to run Javascript at an acceptable speed on a mobile device. The world has moved on from the time when you could get away with an interpreted Javascript engine.
This is a very common hatching style that I have seen countless times.
What’s interesting is that Google’s Lighthouse tool for measuring site speed pushes for “Next Gen” image formats like WebP. But I often find that WebP files are larger than jpg, too. Yet Lighthouse recommends it. And, of course it’s a great idea to follow Google’s advice since they include the Lighthouse score in their ranking algorithm.
I would be willing to bet Goldman spent way more than $50k creating this font. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if just the website showcasing the font cost more than that.