skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, Facebook is just forcing views by showing a live stream on people's feed. This alone makes it grow exponentially. It also solves the biggest problem Twitch has at the moment: not being able to promote lesser known streamers. I've see plenty of unknown people streaming on Facebook with 100+ viewers. This is actually good for streamers.
We've already started geo-engineering, just not intentionally.
The more individual developer stories I look into on Sponsors or Patreon or wherever, the more I see a recurring pattern. The vast majority of developers don't make any significant money. The outliers that do use the platform as a general-purpose payment processor. They take donations, but they also sell things. The line between isn't terribly clear.

The platforms help style all the payments as "donations" or "sponsorships" or "patronage". That avoids harshing the project vibe with overtly commercial overtones that turn off the financially immature and preternaturally entitled. But in reality, they're often really payments for products, services, access, and so on. Some people do simply donate, usually small dollars, and don't receive or care about "perks". Others buy the perks on offer specifically, as a simple exchange. Somewhere in between, people and companies may be inspired by donation-like feelings, but use the benefits to get their payments approved and expensed.

It's hard to draw any broad conclusion from outliers. But it all points to there being strange value in muddying the concept of paying developers with a lot of ambiguity, on both the buy side and the sell side. It's like one of those statues that looks like one thing from one angle, and something completely different from another.
I am advocating for data and accountability over agreement and hysteria. It appears, to me, you are equating my lack of immediate agreement to bad faith.
Only certain spouses of H1-B visas holders can get work permits, the idea of the H1-B visa program is to hire the best and brightest where the spouse wouldn't need to work.

Can you find any apartments in the Cambridge area for less than 3k a month, I picked that number because of was incredibly low? If it is so easy can't you find actual show proof. Don't even get started with finders fees for many apartments/rentals. Housing in the Greater Boston Area is a huge game.

The median household income in the US is around 60k, and many have households have spouses that do not work (or part time), and are in areas of low cost of living. There is no way to compare the wage you need in Rural America vs the coasts. Most of the H1B-Visas are in companies in the high cost areas of the nation that haven't correctly scaled over the years.
10.16.

However, it is clear that Apple wants to move everything to 11. Xcode also says 10.16, but Apple Developer Docs say 11. My suspicion is just that the developers of Xcode and other parts of the OS weren't aware of the switch yet.
"Doing support" gives you a very obvious selection bias: The people who come to you are the people who need help. The people who don't need help don't come to you and go unnoticed. I strongly encourage you to reflect on this and rethink your misanthropic attitude.

If you like car analogies so much, the car equivalent of bookmarks is programming the radio's bookmark buttons to tune your favorite stations. I am not a car mechanic, but I sure as shit can do that much. For that matter, I also know that my car doesn't have a carburetor but has a spare 'donut' tire in the trunk. You too probably know these things of your own car. Again, I am not a car mechanic and neither am I some sort of polymath genius with advanced general knowledge across a broad number of domains. Cars interest me about as much as American football, which is to say not even remotely. I'm just a regular Joe who's not a complete imbecile.
When it comes to violet criminals you can filter down a fair bit by age and gender.
If everyone gets vaccinated a year from now, the total area under the curve will be lower if it's spread out over a long time than if everyone got sick before the vaccine became available.
Thanks for the advice, I am already looking for a new job.
Likely a bug (that they may have already fixed). Here's what I get in MacOS Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/3SFp2KU.png
Do you have any collectible limited edition bytes?
"The move towards "iOSing" the OS."

People have been claiming this for literally a decade+ now. The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.
Alternate title:

Intel to use 10nm process 'five years ago'
I would not go that far. Security changes. iOS integration with AirDrop and Messages. Laptop trackpad gestures.

But note what I'm highlighting for the most part: mobile features. They've added good stuff for laptops, and for interfacing with iOS devices. But for desktops, and laptops living on a desk? Not so much. If you're using a full keyboard and a mouse, sans trackpad, I can't think of a lot of real UI enhancements since 10.6.

(Which makes total since, given they sell so, so many more laptops than desktops. But still. I get it.)
> One reason to just dlopen() rather than stat() and dlopen() is the race-condition

But dlopen() implies code execution all the time, and stat() does not.

A good way to close this race condition, by the way, is to have a dlopen-by-fd API [FreeBSD has fdlopen], and a single call to open(2) resolves the race condition inherent in referencing the filename multiple times.

But to your larger point... It seems there is a crowd that will kneejerk dismiss any criticism as "it's for security". And any implementation bugs (such as introducing massive delays when executing programmatically-generated shell scripts because they need to be hashed and sent to a server, as was an HN headline a while ago) are also justified. I think there needs to be greater skepticism than this about how secure these efforts really makes the system, or if they are just throwing buggy stuff at a wall and applying post hoc justifications.
Agreed. This is a step in the right direction, but, "Firefox works on Mac", is still the easiest, most straightforward answer to anyone who's asking me, "how can I get a decent adblocker for the web?"

Having a shared API matters for extensions primarily because it makes it easier for a developer to say, "well, I might as well throw that on the Apple store as well." But if Safari literally can't do the things your extension needs it to do, then the API is kind of a secondary concern.
I would settle for Chrome OS-like touchpad smoothness and gestures in Linux. The out-of-the-box touchpad sensitivity and scroll smoothness in Chromebooks with outdated hardware and something as low-end and old as an a Celeron N2840 is incomparable to anything I've ever managed to configure in Linux, multifinger gestures included.
> People in comments sections (doesn’t matter which) don’t really “react to” or “engage with” the article very often. What they’re really doing is being reminded by the article of some thought that’s been affecting them in their own lives lately—which they then hold forth about.

Don't want to go off on a tangent, but HN trains its users to do that by posting one article after another that's behind a paywall. Of course there will be comments vaguely related to the article when you've created a culture of commenting without reading.
> unverified, as described in the article
Just some lighthearted fun poking at Intel :) They were market leader long enough they can beat a few jokes I think.

I do wonder though whether the fact Intel failed on 10nm means they're likely to fail on 7nm and below as a result of a failed culture? Certainly the technology looks very different for the next node (or so I assume) and maybe Intel just made a bad assumption/went down the wrong path that cost them many years for 10nm, but the fact they weren't able to insulate against the risk does seem somewhat worrying, right?
The entire field of design (not just web-design) has regressed after the golden era of design IMO - 1965-1990.
Still in development, basically. It's not used for full GUI apps necessarily, more like to run computations in the background that are then sent back to the HTML/CSS/JS based GUI.
> I expect soon it will reach GitLab "quality": unable to view source code without JavaScript enabled.

I also hate GitLab for this, but I learned today that they are actually working on fixing this, by shifting some components to server side rendering. Awkward for me if GitLab suddenly will become the better choice.
> we're doing all this is to flatten the curb

Different people have different goals.

One goal would be to reduce the rate of new infections to a level that hospitals can handle.

A different strategy is to reduce the rate of new infections to a much lower level, so that contact tracing and containment is possible, and then open things back up.

If a vaccine is available at some point in the next year, the latter strategy saves many lives. It requires a sharp, relatively short (4-6 weeks) shutdown. Afterwards, it requires a high level of testing, quarantine for infected people, widespread use of fever checks in public places, a ban on large events, and extensive contact tracing. Many countries have now successfully deployed this strategy.

The US is stuck in limbo. Some states locked down hard, others didn't lock down enough. Things opened up too quickly, without the systems in place to contain the epidemic, and people are largely acting as if SARS-CoV-2 didn't exist any more. The consequence is that new infections never went down to a level where contact tracing is possible, and the rate of new infections is on the rise again.
Then please provide a better definition.
No, no. the hills are there to keep the Dutch /in/ so they don't claim more of it.
"maintaining your own kernel" in this context means that you're bringing bugfixes (including security) independently from the mainline Linux kernel, which would usually involve cherry-picking commits from the mainline.

Archlinux doesn't do that, and straight merges Linux mainline.
It doesn't change mine! This came into vogue in the early 70s when they wanted to cut funding as much as possible to make the operation more efficient while still providing a high level of care, according to these "metrics" like QLAY, which are fundamentally broken (as are and have been all attempts to reduce to metrics). It managed to operate without them with a great deal of satisfaction from both the providers and the patients until this came in, and then things got really shitty while improving along the metrics so it was nobody's fault because it was just "science".
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It's not just a tiny C compiler - it's a compiler you can use as a static library that can compile your C code directly to memory. And then you can call into it, if you dare.

I used it as a scripting backend for a long time, but eventually you will realize that you are not the only one that could write scripts, but you also really need to have a trust boundary (or just a different address space), so that errors in the script don't drag the whole thing down.

That's where Lua and LuaJIT shines: It's simple, and it's sandboxed. However, there is still one thing missing. These days, several programming languages have several targets that they can compile to, and so imagine if you could emulate some platform at high performance with low overhead, in a sandbox. You would then be able to script in whatever language you so desire, provided it has that target.

Unfortunately, those languages tend to be system languages and not the absolute best for scripting. With one big exception: Compile-time programming support.
On point "a", Rosetta 2 will work perfectly if Rosetta 1 is any indication.

On point "b", the "first version" of the hardware was over 10 years ago.
1Password.
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I think BPG should be standardized since it provides very good image compression better than Webp.
Ahh interesting! Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. It's 10.16 now, but I wouldn't be surprised if all of those version numbers will be updated to say 11.0 upon the final production release.
More like "Red Hat assigned a CVE to a security issue reported 17 months ago":

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708775

I don't see what the big news here is, it's merely identifying a vulnerability with a proper CVE ID, end of story. The issue itself does not even have a serious security impact so it will likely never be fixed in RHEL.
Here's a few...

* Even though there is tons of extra swap space, running too many apps at once causes the entire system to become unresponsive for ~20s at a time. Granted, I am using older hardware, but there should be some minimal amount of responsiveness allocated to indicate the system isn't just totally dead.

* Wifi GUI Gnome utility often ceases working and requires wifi to be turned off and on again. I got so fed up with this I just wrote a command to set Wifi to my credentials, and even then, I have to unplug/replug the wifi dongle frequently to get it to re-register with the system. On Arch Linux, this GUI utility doesn't even work at all. This has happened with multiple different makes of dongles.

* When I was using Ubuntu for work purposes (and Python / node / Docker stack), it would frequently run out of file descriptors. There was no solution other than to restart.

* Last night I started to encounter an issue where Ctrl-X would cut text successfully, but when I go to paste it, it will not be there. Possibly a bug with VSCode, not sure yet, but I haven't encountered it running VSCode on Mac at all.

* Something about programs being interrupted by context switches to other programs that are using large slices of CPU time leads to input being misinterpreted. If I am running a Rust compilation in one window, typing `hello` into an adjacent terminal window might show up as `hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo`. This happens in a wide variety of applications. I suspect the problem has to do with input library routines not receiving real time priority, or something like that. Weirdly enough, I saw the same issue on FreeBSD.
The area under the curve need not be the same though. There are many things that can change the area under the curve. A vaccine is an obvious one, once one hits the area doesn't change, so the less there is the better. (ecconmics can debate how much we should have reopened after that) the virus could also mutate and affect everyone again thus increasing the area.

I have never been able flattening the curve. If people would just stay home for a month and take precautions this would be over as it wouldn't spread and those who have it get over it. The details of living like that are tricky but too many people didn't try.
many Waterloo students work in the US during their internships
That statement is still basically meaningless. It’s a conclusion, not reasoning.
> The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.

The same for PowerPC processors, Intel processsors, and now ARM processors.

Remember when the first rumors of Apple switching to ARM surfaced? I think it was about five years ago.

To be fair, Apple has been on its "deathbed" a hundred times, in the last three decades. I have been programming Apple since 1986. I have seen quite a bit.
I really hope that Snapchat can build out this platform. I love their core services (chatting and stories), and would trust them significantly more as a sign-in partner compared to Facebook or Google.
Confirmed: Reuters closed their RSS down. Not a good look, imho.

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€45,000 does sound a bit low. I lived on €40,000 (after taxes, rent was only 8-10% of the yearly income) in Croatia and lived like a king (travelling, restaurants, buying stuff without worrying about the price, massive amounts of good quality food).

Moving to any other major European city would require me to at least double the income to maintain my standards.
Is the barrier to entry to be a web developer really that much lower than the barrier to being an author of a book?
This is a success story for GitHub sponsors and I hope it will eventually become the norm and not a unicorn example. We are nowhere near this level with OpenFaaS and with a high level of churn.

I also have a slight concern about the author’s sales tax liability in territories such as the US and the EU. Economic nexus is real, take a look at paddle.com if you want to know more. GitHub doesn’t collect sales tax - so you shouldn’t be selling any taxable benefits FWIW.

My strategy so far has to turn the program into a weekly Insiders Update on the OSS projects I maintain along with regular feature length content on the industry and software.

There’s around 130-140 individuals, I’d like to see that get to double the number. As for companies that use OpenFaaS in production, they do not pay any form of sponsorship or support.

https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis
Same here. Still in 10.14. Work machine is already on Linux. Personal one will be soon. Sad to lose some apps (e.g. Dash, Affinity, Alfred, Fantastical, Postbox, 1Password, ...) but in the end it will be more powerful and fast with Linux and i3 as I spend a lot of time inside the terminal and text editors. My 2014 MBP is slowly dying from hardware problems (screen goes blank at random, keyboard wears out, cursor jumps at random from time to time, ...). I am bored. Made a detour with Apple for a few years and it was fun (beautiful and Unix based) but I'm coming back to Linux with a minimal setup. When it comes to servers, I've never left Linux. And last but not least I prefer free software, open source, the mentality around it than closed proprietary stuff. I have a dying iPhone too.
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> It would be a sizable impact if they powered all their services with renewable sources, especially if they don't fall back on the grid (so building out storage for themselves).

Google uses Tomorrow's ElectricityMap [1] engine and forecasting to schedule and stage workloads based on clean energy availability [2] [3]. I am curious if Amazon would consider doing the same for themselves (and tangentially related, Microsoft as well), but also expose AWS clients to pricing signals to shift client workloads to "cleaner" locations. It would be carbon tax of sorts, but mandated by technology providers instead of government.

For example, if you were so inclined, you'd want to run your workloads during the day in AWS' west coast datacenters (as California generates an enormous amount of energy during the day from solar, and electricity in the PNW is primarily hydro), or Texas when there's a large amount of wind power on the ERCOT grid. You would not want to run your workloads anywhere where coal and natural gas were the primary sources of power.

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...

[2] https://www.tmrow.com/blog/announcing-our-partnership-with-g...

[3] https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-center...
On the other hand, what a modern desktop is sorely lacking right now is protecting users and developers from themselves. Whenever I run "npm install" I have to close my eyes and ignore the chills down my spine thinking about how a thousand random npmjs.org account holders just ran their postinstall scripts on my computer with full access to ~/Documents/. The traditional multi-user Unix permission system is no longer appropriate for the modern waterhole malware world. Nobody cares if you break root and hack system binaries, they can always be restored. The gold is in the user's content. We need a system where regular users don't need to worry about defending against software developers who don't carry the user's best interest in mind, and we need a system where even the cowboy I-know-what-I'm-doing developer doesn't point a gun at their foot, while still providing the freedom to tinker and share.
What I think a lot of us programmers miss is the experience of the end-users who are likely to buy a Mac.

The fact of the matter is, 99.9% of people who buy a Mac are not going to know what subpixel hinting is. Or care too much that they can't delete Chess.app. To them, the Mac is nicer looking and easier to use than ever.

Will iOS devs care? Not at all - developing for the Mac has become easier with Catalyst. It's easy and cheap to get a new audience for your apps. Will web devs care? Not while homebrew and all of the packages in it still work fine. I, as a web dev, have everything working great on the Big Sur beta already.

And as for some saying that MacOS is becoming more iOS like: Yes, it's been happening since Mac OS X Lion with the fullscreen Launchpad. Nothing has changed.
Yes, qualified data is essential because the goal is accountability, but that still doesn’t answer my original question.
> to try their best to guess

Or perhaps ask for clarification.
> Please stop spreading nonsense.

This attitude is exactly part of the problem

> Also, you can see the full bodycam footage and UK peoples take on this stop at https://old.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/hbbhkb/a_calm_col....

The bodycam footage is in the article I linked too, thank you, and the comments on that sub are disgusting examples of exactly the lack of understanding I described.

> Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (illegally) tinted front windows.

It was established in court that the windows were not illegally tinted.

Stop spreading nonsense.

> All in all, she seems like someone who is ingesting too much American culture, most noticable in her saying: "You are killing black people" - what??

And it's this kind of dismissal of peoples fears that are propagating this problem.
May be they should just stick a static HTML page? No javascript should be necessary for displaying type, am I wrong? Why do we need animations? Why do we need this presentation hoohaa?
That looks so interesting, thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love Tasks.org especially since it now supports end-to-end encryption using EteSync (which I created)!

Glad to see it getting love here!
> reeks of “enterprise”

you made my day! thanks
Study: 20 Largest US police forces not compliant with international rights laws
If you are interested in Newgrange, and ancient Irish history in general, the Mythical Ireland Facebook page is doing nightly video podcasts that may be of interest: https://www.facebook.com/mythicalireland/videos/116891482346...

It is run by Anthony Murphy who lives near Newgrange and is a real font of information on such matters.
Other people read books to signal, but Talib has enough cloud to just say shit instead of signaling. Arguably, this is why he has the reputation of being a jerk or putting his foot in his mouth.
wow - this is so cool!
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Yeap. He/she did miss the point current population does include immigrants.

With those fertility rate I would expect be around 1.2,1.3 for us which far far below replacement rate (let alone population growth).
I see some smart decisions here then. They don't have to admit to the issues with the changes they made last time. Apple would probably argue that developers haven't moved quickly enough in the right direction while those outside would argue differently.

It'll be interesting to see what things look like later since this architecture transition will weed out some problems Apple see, but in a different way. On the other side of the transition they can make further changes to lock down the OS with fewer issues. This has to be Apple's ultimate goal because it's what serves their needs best from many perspectives. I wouldn't suggest it serves the needs of many devs though.