skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they lost interest in it. They didn't actually kill off Apple Java until the Oracle Thing happened, and they weren't alone there; a lot of companies backed slowly away from Sun stuff after its acquisition (remember when MacOS was going to have ZFS support any day now?)
https://www.sightseeingtoursitaly.com/tips-articles/why-was-...

"The construction had a much larger part to play in the Flavian political governance of Rome than just a place for entertainment. In Vespasian’s mind, it would help consolidate the Flavian dynasty. He began construction of the Flavian Amphitheatre as part of a widespread propaganda campaign."

"... The most notable construction of course being the completion of the Colosseum. It instantly became a triumphal monument that promoted the Flavian reign by commemorating the family’s military achievements during the Jewish War."

"The Flavian success in the Jewish War was important as many historians believe that Titus brought over Jewish prisoners of war to contribute to the workforce needed for the construction of the amphitheatre. This very much kept with the Roman practice of humiliating their defeated enemies further, and as a way of demonstrating their power. In addition, the placement of the amphitheatre is often assumed a deliberate move by Vespasian who built the Colosseum on the land which previously held Nero, his predecessor’s, palace."

A lot of fantastic historical feats of engineering were built from the blood of the conquered. Even the street of the city where I am is built by captured prisoners of war that were put to work as slaves.
> Here is more viable freelancing

Implying his approach is not viable is weird, given that what he's doing is demonstrably working (at least at the moment). He's making free software and then selling subscriptions to training content, which is where he seems to be making something like 80% of his revenue. It's like Railscast, Laracast, Egghead.io (originally just angular tutorials!) etc.

The main difference to railscast, egghead.io etc. is that he's using Github as a payment processor & to manage subscriptions.
Open Source Alternatives to vs Code
This seems very wrong.

Looking at life as a massive state machine, I think it’s clear that some parts of the state machine are much more beneficial than others. Luck often pushes people into a bad area or good area, and it can be quite difficult to transition out of that area of the state machine, for better or worse.

Competency and hard work are obviously very important, but luck is an enormous factor as well. And luck, along with its compounding effects, is not uniformly distributed across all individuals.
The NYT has previously respected the anonymity of others, including an ISIS fighter[0]. That the NYT has a blanket policy about publishing real names is possible, but certainly suspicious.

> 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."

True, but a big part of why Scott has such a big audience is his willingness to write about the problems of cancel culture, and cancel culture would almost certainly come after him if he is doxxed.

[0]https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1275446136375898114
The case for taking more risks. A review of Crawford's Why We Drive
Another nice aspect of this gesture that is easy to overlook is used in the scenario where you have two workspaces available but you are trying to eg. swipe left (to move right) when you are already on the rightmost workspace.

The contents of the screen will slide a few hundred pixels left, but since there is no workspace on the right to take their place, what slides in is just empty black space - which then immediately bounces back out and returns you to your screen.

The existence of this behavior very clearly communicates to the user that their gesture was received correctly but cannot be successful for some reason - far more eloquent than any dialog box with printed words or any sound effect.
Aha so that is what it’s all about. That makes so much more sense now, and a very reasonable explanation.

Does this also apply to jailbroken iOS devices? I can imagine that it’s fairly difficult to disable a security feature such as this in the kernel?
> can we train a model on only famous people, weighted by their relative famousness?

Well, yes, but why would you want to?
As a white parent with a non-white son, I get both worries!

I 100% agree with your comment.

I cannot believe how many people I see here saying (in other places, not in the comments in this story) "see, this is proof that systemic racism is gone" ... just blows my mind.
> Climate models have a well-understood track record.

Disease vectors and management are less well understood, or better? I would argue, they are better understood and the understanding is deeper (to the core of the physics). Climate modeling relies on large forces that vary a bit, but have not had to withstand any variability at the scales predicted by climate change alarmists (ie hocket stick off the charts) enough to understand how most aspects of the environment will resolve over time, imo.

Climate and medicine is not comparable at a predictive level.
Not every security fix is known to be a security fix at the time. If such a system existed, people would be overconfident in it and this would happen even more.
Gitlab salary calculator for various countries and regions
Yes, flatten the curve is to prevent chaos. In that context, total cases is close to meaningless. Active case would be a far better metric. Cases that have "completed the process" have no value - other than fear-mongering.

Then you break active cases down by area (read: hospital) and carrier profile (e.g., age, pre-existing conditions, etc.). The point is, not everyone who tests positive is high risk. Not everyone who shows symptons will end up at hospital. Not everyone who ends up at hospital will need a ventilator. And so on.

As it is, this whole event has been a text book case of how not to use data and statistics properly.
As happymellon noted, I just use /opt when I need to.

There are certainly many decisions Apple makes that I don't like and I am always keeping my eye on Linux in case I really feel the need to pull the rip cord. But for me, this is just not a hill of sufficient size to die on. "Apple now mounts the system partition as read-only" just doesn't feel like a slippery slope that leads inexorably to... well, I'm not really sure where people imagine it's going. "This is something I used to be able to do and now I can't and soon that means I won't be able to open a shell!" I mean, maybe, but... probably not. If I had to choose whether "Macs in five years will only be able to install programs from the Mac App Store" or "iPads in five years will be able to install programs from places other than the iOS App Store" is more likely, I'd honestly go with the latter.

> I don't understand why people would ask "why would you want to do that?"

I guess I don't understand why asking the question is controversial; I'm not trying to lead anyone into a rhetorical trap that forces them to admit only axe murderers would ever use this functionality. :) It's simply that in what I'm pretty sure is over a quarter-century of Unix use on my part I don't recall ever putting anything in the root directory of any of my systems except by mistake.

As for "defending the ability to only resize windows from the bottom right corner until a few versions ago," your memory of this is different from mine, I suppose. I recall a lot of Mac users thinking that Apple's one-corner-only approach was a bad leftover from the pre-OS X days that needed to change!
Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/ Firefox extension, standalone desktop app, CLI. Could be self-hosted (third-party). Most of it is Open Source.
One of the big turndowns from Apple for me was when they did not give me a choice but to upgrade an Ipad 2 i had loaded with cool music apps. The ipad was 1 instrument more un my studio, could trigger MIDi or have good apps. I can remember why i had to upgrade, but waited as long as i could. After the upgrade the ipad became unresponsive, they slowed down the processor but it did not came out untill they got sued. I gave the ipad to my mother and never again bought one.
I still use a Mac pro in the studio. I run El capitan, with newish protools and Ableton, and have another partition with 10.6 with legacy Pro Tools and a ton of nice plugins. But when i need to do office or programming i boot in Linux. I have also and old macbook air that is in the process of be turned into Linux. For music it was and it is amazing to be able to run withouth trouble, it was always a hassle to update as music software was a year behind at least. Apple was cool, now is just another big corporation.
Thanks for responding directly. I had the same question in mind as the post you replied to, so I'm happy to hear the right goal is being set.
Laughing with Kafka (1998, Pdf)
I personally think that the MacBook Pro 16 inch is the world’s best laptop, and look forward to see what the next generations can do.

But the whole point has been MacOS. I’m not sure what to think of the changes. If they stabilize the mess that was Catalina, then they’re doing the right things, even with the increased iOS-ification of the Mac. If they just slap more Windows 8 style touch gloss on deep and unresolvable system level issues, then Apple has reverted to all the reasons that Classic MacOS was so unstable.

That said, after 20 years with the Mac I recently added an Alienware Aurora R9 desktop to my life. Wanted to PC game again, and use VR. Also wanted to catch up with Windows, as I hadn’t really used it regularly for 10 years. Early Windows 10 did not impress me.

I have been surprisingly really happy with Windows 10 build 2004 and Windows Subsystem for Linux v2. To the point it’s my main dev box now. (With COVID there’s less need for a laptop!).

Some weirdness with cut and paste, but file system sharing and networking has mostly been smoothed from what I remember. Docker runs well integrated, as does Kubernetes. Everything is blazing fast. The main thing I miss is Spotlight search, but there are third party replacements for that.

I really can’t see myself moving back to Linux, which was my go to prior to the Mac from 1995-1999. I tend to follow the JWZ adage, Linux is only free if your time has no value. I use it as a server OS plenty, but don’t really need it on my desktop.
yeah , like look at iPad OS.. its now iPadOS 14 :|
I’m not a parent, but as a white person: the police have scared me much more than random people on the street for my entire adult life.
Seems like docker solves all those issues
Let's not compare fear of cops to fear of criminals just based on stats -- there are qualitative differences that matter too. For example, when criminals target you, you have recourse: calling the cops. Having that option can assuage fear.

However, when you learn through experience that cops themselves seek to harm you, then what? There is no recourse! Who will try the cops? If you do fight back publicly, who will stop them from endlessly patrolling outside your house seeking some minor infraction? Who will stop them from burying you in fines? Your elected representatives are your only option and good luck with that. I'll assert that in human psychology this helplessness reasonably magnifies fear beyond the statistics.

In fact, when you come through experience to fear the cops it also makes the _criminals_ more terrifying -- calling the cops becomes like running to the lions because you are being chased by wolves. So you just give up and let the wolves consume you.

And pure conjecture here maybe criminals know that, which emboldens them to preferentially predate upon black people thereby producing your original murder statistic.
Want to "skip" the compile step?

//usr/bin/tcc -run $0; exit
main() { printf("Hello\n"); return 0; }

Just `chmod +x` and run it...
https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-... is always worth a read. And it's where i got this little snippet, of course.
As someone using sway on Arch, is there a way to get these gestures? Or is it something specific to Fedora?
this is not upsampling
> This attitude is exactly part of the problem

No, it's reallt not. The continued projection of American racial and socio-economic issues in to other English speaking countries by dimwits is the issue.

If you actually watched the (heavily edited by the guardian) video, you would see the cop was calm and polite the entire duration.

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

Yes, and the cops would have determined that within 5 minutes if she had complied and let them test them.

Playing the race card in a country where there really is not systemic racism in the police force is disgusting.

> And it's this kind of dismissal of peoples fears that are propagating this problem.

What problem. You don't think her statement of "you're killing black people" is silly. John Boyega was struggling in his BLM UK speech so much that he had to give Mark Duggan killing (2011) as an example(which, surprise was a justified killing as he did have a gun in his car and was on the way to kill someone). Also, a nice little reminder that the guardian left the fact he had a gun in his car out of their reporting at the time so as to not give their readers the full picture.

Selfish arseholes playing the race card when they're stopped/caught doing something wrong just makes the rest of us angry as it undermines actual racism when it happens.
Surprised that P.Z. Myers is such a critic of SSC

https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/1275381580182073346
POSIX awk supports user-defined functions. I'm surprised Solaris' default awk doesn't, but /usr/xpg4/bin/awk does support user-defined functions. (I just confirmed both behaviors on Solaris 11.4.)
You need to install Arch Linux. There's nothing that compares to it, and it's nonsensical to not just go down The Route. Nothing can compare to Arch, in any way, so you are only stalling your time by not learning the simple steps to get a perfect system. Use Arch. Install Arch. There's just no other options. See you in ArchLand. I tried to help you, but, the choice is yours. Arch or nothing. So go Arch my dudes. It's the future for sure. pacman it up and just go Arch my fellows. All the other options are crap in comparison.
You think Google told the reason beyond "it was a boo-boo"? Highly doubtful.
>Companies do a font fork to stop paying for the royalties for the most famous ones. Millions of pages for an unlimited amount of time adds up to more than the cost to create a shiny new font

It's cheaper to make a new font than it is to get a perpetual license for an existing font? This (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23618289) seems more plausible to me.
Checks for Less – It Also Helps with Personal Budgeting
That is general problem with Open Source - people expect product and authors provide tools.

Free as "paid by data collection and advertisement" really messed peoples mind. Walking around, thinking "I am a product, my data is valuable". Not for me. The whole story is unfortunate. But there is also Pulse Audio and systemd with toxic responses on real problems, hard not to become angry.
Every time there’s a new Apple announcement, I’m happier and happier that I switched to Linux a couple of years ago.

Power users want freedom and control of their own machines and hardware. The moment that Apple started soldering parts into place, I started looking elsewhere because it was a signal of the thought process.
Wait. Do we have actual numbers of police shootings? Aren't these things self-reported and under-reported?
> But do the devices running Android generally operate with the same requirements as the servers running RHEL?

I guess it depends on the device and the business.

How many days of downtime on Amazon.com is the cost of bricking 1M phones? Or 100M?
In other news, Ampere [1] expect to launch their 128 Core ARM Chip by the end of this year.

I know nothing has really happened yet but I am already feeling a little sorry for Intel.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15871/amperes-product-list-80...
Was the C Raft implementation in use a pre-existing library, or was it developed specifically for Redis-Raft?
Twitter Censors Trump Tweet
Countries like Ireland, Germany, and co are already doing that. Obviously 2 issues: tech scenes aren't as big and neither are salaries...

It's certainly a better opportunity for Canada on the other hand. Canada is the country that will profit from all this the most.
I wouldn't call the Web "locked down." Maybe to JS coders, but it's a real leaky bucket.
That's misleading to the point of lying. The "already" here means the split second between Brooks firing it at the officer and the officer shooting him.
BeOS lives on in Haiku (https://www.haiku-os.org/) which is both still alive, and blows most "light Linux window managers" out of the water in UI speed. :)
Night mode, in-built tracking prevention, Firefox sync - which makes it my go-to to transfer links from my linux desktop to iphone

Why do you say it's the worst browser after Opera?
How does this differ from ngrok?
And we have made strides in the decade towards that then in the years prior.

Sip and custom delivery of software are increasingly difficult.
Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations [pdf]
It's a marketing number, just like System 7.7 got renamed to Mac OS 8 at the last minute so that Jobs could weasel out of System 7 contracts.
The flip side is that Linux can leverage a lot of Apple's research into what works. We don't need to do usability studies, we already know what we want.
"I suspect that non-App Store apps for the Mac may be seeing the twilight."

Obv someone doesn't shop on Steam.
Reasons I can think of include:

Not wanting to be tied to a kernel LTS release cycle you don't control.

The need to backport features and hardware enablement to the LTS kernel significantly offsets some of the benefits of using a LTS kernel.

The length of support for LTS kernels is significantly shorter than Redhat's length of support which means they would end up supporting it on their own for a significant timeframe anyways.
If you've never seen it, the movie "Hot Fuzz" is a brilliant piece of satire because it starts as a British cop drama and ends as an American cop drama.
Google and DeepMind Researchers Revamp ImageNet
To revise science and drop ideas not proven to work while adopting ideas proven to work can also be called "changing the goalposts" by people who simply don't understand how science works.
All the cool kids are designing web sites on retina Macs. They bump up the font sizes because Safari doesn't have sane default scaling.
When the ship is sinking anything goes, they also had sessions at CERN back in the day, but that was never a central role in Apple culture, nor its users for the most part.
Shouldn't those patents be expiring soon?

Edit: Did some more research and the patent risk appears to have passed as of 2016. Still nobody seems to have interest in JPEG2000.
It's hard to debate someone that doesn't understand basic concepts like this. Good luck to you.

I understand the concepts well, I just disagree with the premise as you've framed it, and I'd like to think I've done as much without making any insinuations about your intellect or ability to comprehend them or resorting any other form of red-herring personal attack.

Let's do better.
I can install it from Google Play, but F-Droid says “No version with compatible signature.” What does than mean, and what can I do?
Yes, I give him the benefit of the doubt, but at the time I wrote the comment NYC was barely awake yet and people were already cancelling their subscriptions and calling for the journalist to be fired.

To be honest, I was hoping NYT would have cleared things up by now, but I've been monitoring Twitter and haven't seen anything.
Also BPG predates HEIF.
A list of feedbacks on the new UI here: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/heknhd/some_real_fe...

Personally I would love to see some fixes to the project page where with the new Design you waste ton of space on the screen for things that you could see before just in a small row now they take 20/30% of the right part of the screen just if you don't scroll and if you scroll down you get 50% of the screen or more just white...
that’s how much the relocation cost for me 15 years ago. it’s basically bringing in all your stuff + paperwork + housing etc. i remember it because it was reported come tax time.

to be fair, this was Microsoft but still it was 50% of what my yearly base salary was at that time.
Pretty sure the majority of that plastic waste from those rivers is not those countries accepting plastic waste and then rerouting it to their rivers but if you have evidence to support the claim that it is please share.
Flash could do it
Benchmarks don't matter. It's 2020. We use Stock Price Driven Development now.

The main reason to use Swift is Apple created it.

The main reason to use Go is it's the first two letters of Google.

The main reason to use Python is Google hired GvR in the 2000s and created momentum.

The main reason to use Kotlin is Google announced at I/O 2017 its support in Android Studio.

Get with the times gramps.
That happened during Sun days still, and they keep using WebObjects among other Java stuff on their backends, as per job offers.
pledge(2) from OpenBSD pretty much solves this problem.
I'm not a huge Snapchat fanboy, but some of this doesn't make much sense.

>their ads seem to be even more noxious

I don't think I've ever seen an ad in Snapchat. It's all buried in the Discover page that nobody uses anyway. As opposed to, ahem, Insta which injects an ad into every story you view.

>They are extremely hostile to third-party developers with significant obfuscation efforts around their private API.

That's kinda, you know, the entire point of their app. It's all geared around ensuring the user's privacy -- ensuring snaps are ephemeral, not stealthily recorded or captured. Of course they're jumping through hoops to defend their private API.

>a risky position with regards to profitability

Is it? https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/us/snap_inc/SEC/sec-s...
I'd be interested in Linux were it not for the fact that I also want to be commercial applications, which are a major Linux blindspot.

I wonder if Windows has matured as a developer-friendly environment since I left with all of the WSL stuff that's been happening.
As does most other high end laptops....
> "But a lot of times in math and science I think we'd be much better off leading off with the problems, and giving the students time to grapple with the problems without the answers, because then the answers would stick."

i usually make this point this way: we're all experiential learners. experience is evolutionary pressure at work and is therefore the most reliable teacher. learning other ways relies heaviliy on our ability to simulate, be present in, and empathize with the problem, which is a larger ask of the learner, and why it's less successful (but not unsuccessful, as we have the capability).
Is this trolling? They want to fight the two main abusers of personal data by asking me to give them my personal data on a plate?

Not having any real contact info is not encouraging either.
I have fond memories of when the first OS X CDs arrived at our college computer lab, and we installed them on a PowerMac G4. The aqua UI felt so futuristic, and it matched the hardware!