skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://twitter.com/RDKLInc/status/1251533085734252549

Again, two MacBooks and not millions, as explained in the twitter thread. Again, not defective but locked by the previous owner. Not even remotely related to 'right to repair'.

As an owner, I want to be sure that when I lock a device, it's actually unusable to anyone else. So this is good (for me).
I've been happy with Wipr on macOS and 1Blocker on iOS for years. In fact I think you can just use 1Blocker in both platforms now. Neither is as "good" as uBlock Origin but I don't really care.
> Failure is costly and things like accelerated aging and burnout are real.

I can attest to the flipside of this argument - I am 39, for whatever reason have never overstressed or overexerted (took a relatively easy career, don't have a family etc.) and I, even with much less than perfect lifestyle habits, probably look 10 years younger than many people my age. I wonder how much of it is just genetics (plus not liking to be out in the sun) and how much is the life choices.
> The moment that Apple started soldering parts into place, I started looking elsewhere because it was a signal of the thought process.

Very true! The first thing I did after buying a Mac Mini was to upgrade the RAM and change the HDD to an SSD, and even added an extra HDD. The Apple options for the same were nearly triple the cost. Only an idiot would believe that having soldered CPUs, soldered RAM and now soldered SSDs is a good thing. It is a good thing only for Apple, and Samsung et. al bottomlines.

And with ARM processors, you can be sure you'll get a PC with locked bootloaders that won't allow you to even install other operating systems. And the offered OS will also be a dumbed down system like ios that will only allow you install from a locked app store. All the while leeching off your personal data to the cloud.

I too have started exploring other alternatives.
>> Tim Ferris said it well: "The point is this: you don’t need to do anything wrong to get death threats, rape threats, etc. You just need a big enough audience."

And that is why we need to abolish anonymity on the internet and ensure traceability. If people can trace threats and harassment, it either won't happen or can be reported.
The only time I've ever heard anyone assert this is in posts like this where you lambast everyone but yourself for being an idiot.
> An example of this is a police office in San Diego sexually assaulted (forced oral sex) 16 women after going to their house after they called the police to report a crime. That is so much worse than a stranger doing those things.

I’m the first to welcome enhanced penalties for officers committing crimes in their official capacity...but I find your words very disturbing.
It is collecting money with an expectation of additional content in the future. So it isn't just a purchase. A subscription is closer, but sponsor adds the implication that your sponsorship is what allows the content creator to keep doing it.

Also, one of the dictionary definitions for sponsor is: "provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out)."

So it seems accurate enough of a term to me.
Reminds me of sr.ht who just straight up make every link blue + underline, on the scale of design effectiveness it already beats 99% websites
> It only becomes "gray" areas when people think it is possible to have non-taxed revenue streams.

This may be true in some countries, but it's definitively not an universal truth. Some business models are not allowed even if you pay taxes on the income. This is what the user is describing, and reading the (English translation) of the text of the Act, I'd be worried too.
It's true that at my scale it would likely never be noticed. Personally I just don't like the risk even if small. But when looking at OP's case, that would absolutely be noticed by the tax authorities and they'd have to explain the nature of the income.
Have you ever seen the difference between a top notch sysadmin and the average one? There are lots of sysadmins who are interchangeable cogs, just as there are lots of developers who are just warm bodies.

But there are some that..aren't.

That said, the person that you describe sounds like a better fit for an E2 visa than an H1B. See https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat... for a description. Have you tried that option?
Yes, because your original argument was with someone who said their iPad was slower after a software update. This is evidence that hundreds of people had iOS devices slow down noticeably after an update and Apple decided to pay them to remove the case from court.

As a software developer I am aware of how adding features to an operating system to can indeed slow it down on existing hardware or raise the level of what the minimum specs are. Many of those issues would affect both iPads and iPhones.

I understand that you're trying to 'debunk' something here but the honest truth is that some people have had bad experiences with Apple products.
One third of all people killed by strangers, are killed by cops[0]

Cops take more in assets than robbers. [1]

[0] https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

Nota Bene: your down votes are from a lack of evidence combined with an aggressive demeanor. Neither are a good look.
Linux is great for development work and casual web browsing, but imo it doesn't feel polished enough for most people's personal stuff.

> Itunes, Mail, etc, none of the software shipping with MacOS is actually any good. I

It's better than the open source stuff on Linux. While it has gotten much better over the years, it's still not good enough for normal people like my parents or my sisters who are not techies. That's just reality for now at least. It's pointless as to whether or not you agree with it.
You can also just use a given distribution as-is, the major ones are usable out of the box just like macOS. Just because you _can_ spend a week tweaking every possible setting doesn't mean you have to.
Doesn't Apple's content blocking API limit the number of rules at 50,000 rules per extension? uBlock Origin uses 85,000 rules from EasyList alone. That's without country-specific and privacy rules. I have about 180,000 active rules at the moment.
been already discussed numerous times. But I never miss a chance to sing praises to Bellard. One of the very few real programming geniuses.
It's pretty easy to say when your stats are 10 times worse than a similar developed country and look more like a developing country where warlords are in charge

Or, in US police is at war

Which is equally bad

EDIT: to give more context

If poverty rate in US was worse than in Nigeria, people would say that something went horribly wrong

Homicide rate in US is actually 1.5 times worse than Nigeria and two times worse than Uganda and Congo
> Freedom isn't free. We pay for freedom of speech in whatever tragedy comes from spreading of "fake news" or whatever because society has generally agreed it's better than tyranny.

That isn't the cost of free speech. If it was, we wouldn't mind it if teachers taught kids kooky conspiracy theories in school.

Real free speech involves identifying the sources of lies and falsehoods and working to eliminate or minimize their effects.
The response to that would be that part of the reason you'll see UK police most of the time get people out of the way if they can, keep their distance and call for backup and be patient unless there are people in immediate danger.

Since UK police only exceptionally carry firearms, they have to play things safer. E.g. respond with more people. Keeping greater distance.

But lots of other police forces have - sometimes heavily - armed police with better results because they effectively act on the basis that using their weapon is an absolute last resort, and so you keep your distance if there's a risk they're armed, and call for backup rather than approach etc.
It reminds me of the (nearly cliche, but timeless) quote from MLK about riots:

"I think that we’ve got to see that a riot is the
language of the unheard"

I don't think anybody, even "cancellers," think it's a remotely ideal solution. But when groups go unheard, feel a system is unjust, and feel unable to change the system they understandably seek to go outside the system.

Please note that I have specifically used the term "understandably" above as opposed to, say, "justly." You may feel a particular instance is or isn't just, but even if one vehemently disagrees with the practice it is typically understandable.

Consider that "cancelling" is often invoked in response to acts (sexual assault, racism) that have been regarded as wrong and/or illegal for millennia. And yet, those acts persist. Clearly the current system doesn't do enough to prevent them. So folks feel the need to go outside the system. "Cancel culture" is best understood as a symptom and not the problem.
Design updates to repositories and GitHub UI
Agreement is not the goal of discussions or debate. Perhaps if you articulated your advocacy for data and accountability with a little more substance earlier on we would be enjoying a more productive debate about the issue.
I should note again that I'm excluding consultancy companies from the sample, as they are more "meat grinders" than tech corporations.
Covid-19: Economic recovery from 2020 to 2035
The data layout is indeed the same for both cases. We don't assemble row as such. In QuestDB row is a collection of data addresses, each of which is calculated lazily using row_id and bitshift
Yes, I agree with you on policy. I disagree on political strategy.

I think it's politically disastrous to go on using H1B how it's currently used.

We need to admit that there's a lot of low/midskill immigration happening using H1B and then fix it. If we don't, then we'll lose the H1B entirely. Already you see that the H1B is wildly unpopular because of a few large bad actors. So, we'll lose the baby with the bathwater. As we are now. If H1B were used how it's supposed to be used, then it'd be a lot easier to say "hey why are we kicking out our best scientists, our tippy-top engineers, and our surgeons? It's not like anyone loses by having these people here -- clearly none of us can even quality for those jobs". Right now, that's just not an argument I can use to convince my uncle or grandfather to support H1B visas. That's a problem. Now we're going to lose even skilled immigration because of a few big abusers.

Because of those politics, I would rather restrict H1B to its original intent and then have the debate about low/midskill immigration on its own terms.

My argument is that your political strategy is bad, not that your policy imperatives are wrong :)
> Soldering the SSD to the motherboard is an enormously horrible engineering decision

And a good sell-more-laptops business decision?
How are you managing to break apt not once, but "way too many times?"

I haven't used Linux as a main driver in a decade but I do use it very frequently and I am intrigued by all the many ways people online seem to be able to break it. I have never once run into a problem with apt.

It really makes me wonder how much time people who complain about Linux have really put into learning it. I'm not thinking you need to read a book on it, but after a few months of just using it I would think one would be reasonably proficient?

I understand the claims of needing proprietary software. I, too, with that the Office suite was a first class citizen. That said, it absolutely baffles me the amount of weird ways people have issues.
Why did the journalist search out the real name which is clearly difficult and then not talk to his interviewee about his name being released; because he knew it was immoral.
Credit Suisse Type

https://www.linotype.com/111515/credit-suisse-type-family.ht...
Or more likely, the newbies will solve the “unsolvable” problem by removing some of the constraints that the old guard was holding inviolable. The newbies crow about their success for a few years while everyone struggles to work around the constraint violations.

NoSQL is the biggest example of this. Ignore everything we learned about ACID and just use key-value stores with no transactions or relations. People can build their own if they need them, right? And duplicating data to work around missing relationships is not a problem because storage is cheap? Then we get an explosion of new databases, each of which solve a subset of the missing functionally problems, with varying degrees of success.

I suspect this came across as more snide than I meant it. Sometimes holding a treasured constraint is the wrong thing and the old guard of experts failed to understand that not every business problem needed the full solution. But it annoys me for some reason the attitude of “we just solved this problem that experts could not solve for decades” when the nuance is that only a subset of the problem was solved, with potentially extraordinary effort required to re-introduce those missing constraints.
Ask HN: Best environmental monitoring front end for large lab, small datacenter?
We have about 3000 physical servers in our R&D lab. We have various environmental sensors (server temps, rack temps, room temp, humidity, HVAC statuses, etc) already accessible behind disparate portals.

I'm moving all these to one frontend. Are there some solutions for this that people here like? I'd love to be able to share all the dashboards with the rest of my team, send out emails automatically when things break, and also send emails when they appear fixed.

Obviously it's not too hard to do this from scratch, but figured it might make sense not to reinvent the wheel if there's something excellent available.
The thing about gifts is that the person wishing to give one needs to ask proactively how to do it and then you can give e.g. your bank account details to that person only. You cannot put your bank account or instructions how to ask publicly available. Years ago we asked about this from the authorities when I was in a non-profit and this was the answer.
> maybe Intel just made a bad assumption/went down the wrong path that cost them many years for 10nm

That's exactly what happened. They scaled it at over 2x density (I'm not expert, but apparently it was usual to aim between 30 and 40% increase), being confident that they had such a lead they could go for such an ambitious goal. That failed miserably. That is the "botched" 10nm node that never came to be. The current "10nm+"or "10nm++" process is a sensible fix over that, which should put them on par with TSMCs 7nm (actually slightly ahead, but it´s within 5%, see [0]). But having botched it in the first place made Intel take far longer, and TSMCs not only caught up, but surpassed them.

And yes, Intels 7nm node is independent from that (though they say they've learned the lesson from 10nm and have taken safeguard measures should problems with a new node arise again). There's very little information around it, so can't tell much. But if it's on track, it should arrive close to TSMCs 5nm and be a contender to it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#7_nm_process_node...
> hardware drivers on Mac just work

Same for GNU/Linux if you choose the hardware for it (or buy preinstalled).
Interesting. This little bug comes up a lot on HN and is usually just that -- a bug. In this case, it seems that the "breaking" of the back button here was intentional based on the line comment[0]. What was the initial reasoning for that?

[0] https://github.com/questdb/questdb/pull/434/files#diff-c9ec3...
Not everyone lives in California! :)

Even at FAANGS, the salary for the same role at the same level can be significantly lower outside of California ... not just a couple of percent, but I've heard reports of 60% difference between e.g. San Francisco and London for just someone moving offices.
Have you used Windows lately? It's going downhill.

Ads everywhere, surprise "you don't have a choice" updates, and just the other day after an update it locked the screen to force me through a slideshow that tried repeatedly to coerce me into using Edge ("let's import your bookmarks / contacts / whatever" and the "please not now" button was de-emphasized and kept changing names and moving between slides).
I just opened up my new O. Quest last night...and I'm blown away. This is the future.
I have an example of my npm install logs being spammed by someone trying.
This is Chinese characters mixed with Korean characters and this is pretty much never done by humans. It is analogous to mixing English and Heiroglyphics and typing out some gibberish with both.

The author might as well have included the rest of the Unicode range including Arabic, Emoji, and math symbols.
Whether or not Apple "forces" users to update, on current iOS they will prompt users to update on a daily basis and there is no way to turn off those notifications. There is also no way to prevent the automatic downloading of updates unless you block them at a firewall level or have limited free storage space on your device.
> I shouldn’t have to reinstall my stuff after having my files deleted with no warning every couple weeks.

iSH shouldn't really be doing this. Do you have any more details?
Mixer was also a comparable "second place" to Twitch at the time of purchase. Microsoft didn't anticipated YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming and couldn't compete with YouTube and Facebook for network effects, hence Mixer dropping to a far behind fourth place.
I need to collaborate with other people and because of COVID we are doing everything remote. Also modifications would be hard and time consuming with pencil and paper.
Yes.

However, it cannot stop as long as a large segment of the people in power do with abandon whatever they feel like, without any repercussion.

This is the only way it is possible for many people to get anything remotely resembling justice (although often it's revenge). As long as we don't fundamentally address inequality and deeply unjust systems, I don't think it will stop.
That's a lot of trust in the government. It's also the exact opposite of what the whole blog post is about, preserving anonymity.
I think the idea is "if you're going to break compatibility, might as well make all the improvements at once".
I just don't get it.

The number of unarmed black men shot by police across the entire US in 2019 was 14. [0]
How does such a small number spark this level of fear and protest?

Also, do people actually think the police generally and on average does more harm than good as to request abolishing it?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...
Better performance-per-watt.
Skull from perplexing ritual site reconstructed
Could you explain, maybe with a few examples, how they are doing illegal things with this behavior?
When I first read about Dweck’s work on mindset, I thought I had finally found the perfect description of my struggles in childhood. I was like a textbook case of fixed mindset.

But after a while I realized that the abstraction of “mindset” isn’t actually much help in changing your behavior. It’s more like mindset is a label you apply to a set of behaviors after the fact rather than some principle that drives the behavior in the first place. In other words, if you want to have a “growth mindset” then you behave in a way that people with such a mindset behave. That is obviously completely useless advice—so what you’re really digging for is what drives the behavior that Dweck calls fixed mindset.

For me, those behaviors are driven by fear. I suspect that I have a heightened physiological fear response compared to the average person, and fixed mindset behavior is just how I coped with that as a child. There’s really only a handful of ways to deal with that, the most effective of which is basically exposure therapy: engage in low-stakes activities that make you afraid, as often as possible. Frequently taking up new hobbies with a social element is a pretty easy way to accomplish this.
If people die young they don't get to live enough to become old
Cool I didn't know that. It does say that it's not for business purposes or accumulating "wealth" of a person but it's nice to learn.
Segway ending production of namesake vehicle
It should be noted here that "culture war topics" that are banned means literal white supremacists, nazis and their ilk.

You are acting as if it is a great injustice done to the man that he was forced to do the absolute bare minimum to stop giving nazis a forum.
So if you end up being famous and talked about a lot on Wikipedia, your name will compress better?

The impact of bias in training data is interesting in general here. What's the impact on Wikipedia's article biases? That's probably one of the main corpuses used.
I guess we'll find out a couple of weeks once the DTKs ship.
You may want to try some more functional languages to complement your experience: Reason/OCaml/F#/Haskel/Elm/PureScript or even the more OO ones that copy some features over: Rust or Kotlin.

React is not a language. TypeScript is very close to PHP, both in imperativeness, in OO-ness, in did-not-initially-support-it-but-sometimes-added-it-later-but-now-its-a-mess-ness, in BW-compatible-ness, in quirkiness.
Rupert Murdoch is on the cusp of his biggest win yet in his war against Google
Not sure what you're getting at. Could you elaborate?
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
I think the useful similarity between the web and iOS is that neither a rogue app nor a rogue website can access your documents without asking you.
I'm imagining you'll just have a direct link to your app in the store that you can use e.g. on your website or submit to SideQuest. Your app won't be findable on the Quest store otherwise. Why is that hard to believe?
oh this is so much fun! It's like tuning an old radio and suddenly hearing speech amid the static. A tiny nudge on the dial and it's a different accent/topic/language altogether.
Ask HN: I have no friends. How do I fix myself?
I have no friends and that bothers me to the point of depression (in the colloquial sense). I am considered "difficult" to deal with and my few, past friends were almost as "difficult". The loss of my last such friend was the tipping point at which I decided to look for help. So here I am, stuck, looking for advice, literature and maybe online support groups. I want to understand what is going on with me, where I am on the mental map and what my options are before I dump all my money on psychotherapy (with no social network my savings is my only security).

My background: I am cis male, mid 40s, the oldest child, mixed ethnic background, long-term single and currently work in strategy for a large IT company. My parents kept relocating throughout my early childhood which, I read, are the formative years of social skills. As a child I withdrew to books and other solitary activities. In school I was bullied a lot and found "Ender's Game"-style violence to be an answer. Relations with my parents are complicated; we can't find ways to express our love. I don't talk to my syblings. I find small talk excruciating and have low tolerance for anything I can't find purpose in. I enjoy tet-a-tetes but hate groups. My place is a mess which I do not mind. I work out a lot and am health-conscious. I have no patience for details. I am a serial job hopper because after a few months I end up having poisoned both my social and professional context beyond repair. Finding employment used to be easy because I mastered the interview game. I enjoy the thrill of interviewing, the validation of receiving an offer, handing in my resignation, moving to a new place and starting a new life. But lately I am becoming sloppy in interviews, making mistakes, being too sure of myself and consequently not getting offers. The realisation creeps up my spine that I am losing the one game I was good at, which was my escape from reality and that I might be stuck here forever.