skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I remember there was a brief period when it was fashionable to hate on XP, which came on most new computers, but you could get Windows 2000 by special request on a ThinkPad.
Doing less work is pretty much the programmer creed. But that statement has several dimensions. Including having to do less configuration and tweaking work.

I think a modern lisp based editor, with concurrency/threading built in. With Racket/Clojure/CL backend with modern controls builtin would be all we need.

You still keep the emacs spirit, but with modern outlook.
Note: I made no mention of conspiracy, nor it being partisan.

Fact is both parties receive significant financial incentives aimed at privatizing the Post Office. There is no benefit to the American people down that path.

That analysis is incomplete and inaccurate. 3 is particularly egregious. Compute it prior to the act, and the arguments evaporate.

Another fact: That bill was, and remains unnecessary, and is intended to undermine an otherwise exemplary service.

I won't respond to this again.
In many places, paying cash is faster than paying by card. Before contactless, with optimized (rounded) pricing, you would often get 3x the throughput (nowdays less) and for small transactions the fees were ridiculous (smaller with contactless).
> Vast majority of users go back home and browse on their laptops because a big screen is better than a credit card

I used to think this, because I am like this, but living with my wife made me realize that for a lot of people, the phone is the primary internet device. Probably one factor is that she is a nurse, so she works on her feet. Also, she generally does not have a deep relationship with her machines, computers to her are strictly tools, so laptop is basically for word processing and storing photos when the phone gets full.

Another way to look at it is that it's not that browsing the internet is better for her on the phone, it's that sitting down with a laptop is a disruption in her routine that needs to be justified.
Thanks for the reply. I really like the authentic video emulation.

The game I tried was Boulder Dash. You need to press # to start I tried every key on the keyboard. Maybe shift-3 is mapped to # on the second emulated joystick? If you could point me to the correct file I could hack on it.

Or maybe I need to install a BIOS file somewhere?
The Chinese government moved in martial artists and elite alpine troops to the area. Shortly there after, a number of unarmed Indian soldiers end up dead in the same area.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-sent-marti...

This is small potatoes compared to the concentration camps and genocide and ethic cleansing being forced on Tibet and East Turkistan (what CCP calls Xinjiang). Or to the forced harvesting of organs from living political dissidents.

https://chinatribunal.com/

What will it take?
I remember when Alan Kay said "The computing revolution is Good Enough."

Business apps: do whatever, who cares. Social networking is its own hell and yeah, sandbox that stuff (for now - doesn't have to be that way).

Apps intended to be tools, to be vehicles for creation - well those are rarefied these days, huh!
Hayek deserves so much more recognition. Now more than ever - we need people to understand the fundamental inadequacy of central planning.
As someone who was born and lives in neither of these countries, both have conquer ambitions and a history of suppressing minorities.

The USA is just much better at pretending everything it does is rightful.
> 1) they weren’t there for free speech in the first place, just for indoctrination.

This is such a great point and to me rings absolutely true.
That’s just the RAM cost, though. The threadripper TRX40 platform supports 256GB max RAM, and the epyc you linked tops out at 1TB. Just finding a cpu and mobo that will host 1.5 TB is a multi-thousand dollar expense all on its own.
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Because there is no organization called the KKK.

It's a 100 organizations with 10-30 members who believe they're the true heirs to the KKK. It's be very similar to trying to arrest the head of the Nazi party. There really isn't one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Third_KKK
The username dance is why I often use a random string as a username. I was delighted to discover that my first name was an available username at my bank, until my login kept getting locked due to too many failed login attempts. I had a 15-character random password, so no danger there, but repeatedly calling to have my account unlocked was a pain. I changed my username to a different 15-character random string, no problems since.

Tangent: I signed up for a US TD account recently (in person). They had me write down the username I wanted, so I used LastPass on my phone to generate another random username. They obligingly made me an account with username "ajdgsbrjcobsdhfwvfk" - and password "tdbank123". Yes, I was required to change it on first login, but no, there was no attempt to verify that I was the one doing the changing (birthdate, SIN, etc).
Not always, depending on your timeframe. eg. if you look at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/United_S... there’s about 2 decades where the real wage went down.
I have never seen a product at Walmart advertising that you should buy the product online at another retailer to avoid the “Walmart tax”.
Gamework – Why Modern Games Blur the Lines Between “Work” and “Play”
There’s a lot of transaction costs to charging for parking. Maybe with technology it can be completely automated but historically that’s been a huge reason for free parking.
When I worked at Apple ~7 years ago on iOS I recall pulling up Console all the time. There are a lot more tools but not really for log analysis. Don’t know if that’s changed since but most of the internal tools were around really deep introspection (eg plotting power against various events on the system, etc) rather than logging itself
Anecdotally speaking, I would disagree and would argue that the social status of software developers is actually quite high, given two prerequisites

1: You must overcome the immediate uber-nerd stereotype by being in relatively good shape and having basic social skills (small talk)

2: You need to give people a minute to google "average software developer salary"

Sure, you won't have the social cache of a Doctor, but I'd say it puts you pretty high in the social hierarchy based on personal experience.
I would remind them that the conspiracy has no impact on their life and they are powerless to do anything about it, so why focus on it?

Them: “The earth is flat! They’re trying to hide it from us!”

Me: Okay. So what?

I wouldn’t try arguing with them. It’s usually futile and reinforces their sense of superiority they derive from knowing the “truth.”
To be fair - you end up with G Suite, Okta or O365 endpoints for B2B. Apple isn't even on the radar there.
> At the very least, the government should audit the algos and make sure China can’t arbitrarily alter ranking results.

Can we do the same for YouTube ?!
Someone created an account on GitHub to add hey.com to spam lists
Wow, it was really hard to find out what this software does. I finally found a demo at the end of an hour-long talk from 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/PlAU_da_U4s?t=2687

So it seems to have a bunch of scripts to import data into its database from a variety of sources (including cloud services), and provides a search interface to navigate that historical data. And it has a lot of under-the-hood stuff about replication, and it's entirely self-hosted.
Not a lot of people are going to order this machine and return for giggles, so I guess the standard return policy applies, 14 days very few questions asked.
I would probably use transparent and opaque.
If PWA support is so good on Android, there should be a lot of successful profitable PWA’s on Android. Chrome supports the Web Payments API that should make payments seamless in the browser.
It was terrifying to click this link and have it open up in the Apple Store app, with my payment info already available, and a big blue "Add to Bag" button under my thumb.
You link a package management solution that works for a single OS and wonder why programming language libraries don't just use that?

So, I have a useful library that I want to share with the world. I do what, exactly, so that other people across platforms can use it?
It has ecc memory, more memory, and the design allows for 4 stacked together, making it ideal for deep learning workflows.
Actually, NVIDIA driver for current version of macOS don’t exist.

Like, there are only two GPU manufacturers left in the world, and requisite macOS driver for the bigger and better one, flat out don’t exist.
Various whites had their cultures denied and destroyed as well. By your logic White should capitalized as well.
> I don't want to iron out differences with a person who thinks that jews, queers, women, people with dark skin, poor people, or any other category that isn't defined entirely by hatred of the other are less than. I think I'd rather throw that person into the ocean.

So try to throw them in the ocean. At least you're honest. But please, please don't say that you support freedom of expression. What you say, if you want to be honest, is, I support physically stopping these individuals. I want to stamp out these individuals. Not the ideas, the people. Be honest and say those things out loud. "I want to eliminate the evil people."

Of course, a rational person might respond and say, "Wait a second, who decides that this person said that <blank> are less than?" What if someone is interpreting it that way, only. The controversy is playing out at this very moment all over the place. We're accusing people who are saying ambiguous, or sometimes nuanced things. Sometimes you can go back and say, wait a second, I don't think this is what this person was trying to say at all. Other times you can say, I don't think, for example, JK Rowling was correct, but I don't think what she said was remotely hate speech at all.

>You absolutely do by shutting them down at every turn, because those ideas don't spawn en masse on their own. Those ideas are spread, and they only spread because people with libertarian "every voice is sacred" positions don't immediately stamp them out.

That's why, as a Left person who clings to classical Western ideals of liberty, I consider that your position is extreme and scary, and to be fought against in any way humanly possible. Sentences like that reek of a dangerous totalitarian impulse. "The end justifies the means."

> Let's see. So on one side you have people who are willing to get violent because they want within their lifetimes for everyone to have healthcare and a roof over their head and food to eat and equal pay and to not have to worry about nazis and they're angry that some people actively obstruct liberty, equality, and fraternity...and on the other side you have rampant ethnic, gender, or economic bigotry including real actual nazis...and your answer is "both sides". I mean...ok...that's one perspective.

I appreciate your honesty.

My only response is, I think you should read about Revolution and its excesses. I've just finished A Tale of Two Cities. It's about the Guillotine. There are many such tragic tales, and sane people don't want them repeated. No moral high ground is a justification for tyranny.

I feel your perspective is an invitation for tyranny.
They "still have unrevealed Intel Macs" as per the keynote; given that the 2013 iMac is still supported for Big Sur, we almost certainly still have 7 years of support for both architectures in MacOS.
The problem I have with your particular statement is that you seem to be using a conspicuous lack of central planning as evidence that it's completely ineffective while past episodes involving central planning applied to deal with somewhat similar circumstances have shown it to be effective in tackling issues like ebola outbreaks, swine flu or other pandemics that do not respect federalism, "local control" or pure ideology divorced from rational thought.
The cheapest Kia is less expensive than a BMW. They both take you from point A to point B.

Are you arguing that Kia is also a luxury brand? Or are you arguing that luxury brands aren't a thing? I honestly can't tell.
That's a very idealistic opinion.

People don't care about usernames and other crap. They want an easy option - enter email, communicate over email and be found using email. This isn't their banking app or anything that important.
The stats are all over the place. This report says Amex + Discover is ~11% of US purchase volume in 2019. https://nilsonreport.com/publication_chart_and_graphs_archiv...
"Other apps you have installed" is also extremely revealing about the user's interests and thus very valuable for ad serving. And equally privacy invasive. Think about pregnancy tracker or religious scripture apps. The OS should not expose this data within the sandbox of other apps by a different developer.
First scenario that comes to mind, because someone mentioned the probably replaced SSD, is that there was an issue suspected with the machine when it was new, and Apple replaced it with a new one right away and did diagnostics after.
I still think Apple should have kept it in the Store. If somebody is willing to spend the money, then dammit, let them spend the money. It said exactly what it was and who it was for, so you couldn’t even call it fraudulent.
You can create an iCloud account with your own email address. That avoids getting another email address.

When using Apple login, Apple offers the choice of providing an anonymous email to the third party or your actual email. It's up to you. Its about user choice. More privacy or less. Apple wants you to have a choice. Use it or not.
Time and value are not "technical", though they can be measured.

Technically you can build an app that's purely a AR sticky notes specifically on your fridge... but the value of that app is approximately 0.
How the “Breaking Glass” Sound Was Designed in the Last of Us Part II
> I think a modern lisp based editor, with concurrency/threading built in. With Racket/Clojure/CL backend with modern controls builtin would be all we need.

Sure, but it's the same as the "replace (La)TeX" problem: part of the value of the ecosystem is the huge collection of packages/extensions.

But if there was a reasonable way of porting packages over to a CL/Scheme new editor base, I agree that would be good.

> Including having to do less configuration and tweaking work.

Sure, but a bad, unconfigurable tool is more work.
Charging a subscription for curated YouTube content is literally the business that Nebula [1] and Floatplane [2] is in. It's just not a $1.75B business or anything close to it.

[1] https://watchnebula.com/
[2] https://www.floatplane.com/
It was a painful year that taught me a lesson. Looking at how fiscally responsible I have become, I really have no complains.
Most likely. Never underestimate the power of defaults
I get your use case.

But in this case the company is someone who claims to be "The best way to create and share a grocery shopping list and organize your recipes."

Sharing is part of the deal with them and a sign in process that from the start complicates it is understandably a no go / introduces all sorts of complications that they detail in the article.
Setting up proper backups for my systems has been on my list for like 25 years at this point... A few months ago I found the backup I had set up hadn't run in 18 months (luckily, before it was needed).
Not really. You've said that because the difference between the intergenerational harm caused by "other crappy things" and 400 years' worth of racism is only quantitative, the intergenerational effects of "other crappy things" ought to be considered systemic. Your logic implies that because driving your car at 5mph and 100mph is only a quantitative difference, driving at 5mph ought to be considered "speeding." Or because the difference between heating cold water 1 degree and 100 degrees is only quantitative, cold water heated 1 degree ought to be considered "steam." Quantitative differences eventually become qualitative differences; that much should be trivially obvious.
Definitely picked up the same intentions from the post.

Seems out of place to complain about not having email addresses for "support" reasons.

If they truly cannot help users without asking for their email address, maybe they should not have users (login) then.
This seems dubious. What in world would be the mechanism?

On the other hand, I don't see the harm in doing this and it seems easy to replicate. Hopefully others will quickly try to replicate it, and if they do, try to figure out why.
It is decidedly not "static content browsing." It's aggressively loading and unloading content as you scroll. This in turn breaks basic interactions like Find.

Frankly Twitter is borderline unusable except for "see what's new," which is by design. A native app designed to empower users is a threat, which is why Twitter decided to kill them.
> Another poster defended the original post and claimed that Marxists are the reason for the decline of America.

> That's essentially propaganda and an unfounded conspiracy theory with no backing

It's a position. There are plenty of legitimate critiques of Marxism, this debate is not new in America, and was once taken much more seriously by people in positions of power. It's still a legitimate topic of conversation.

If you want backing, if you genuinely want to know why someone thinks that, get into it with them. If you disagree, or don't care, you downvote/hide and move on. Appealing to a moderator or banning people outright leads you into your own echo chamber.

> And it conveniently creates an "other" to hate

Every group always creates an outgroup enemy to hate. You should think about who your own might be.

> America's decline started the day it decided to spend trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by trillions more on bailouts in 2008.

I don't see how this is germane to the conversation, but it's a position, and I'm certainly in massive agreement that almost all of the foreign wars America has fought have been a massive waste of work, wealth, and life. I'm certainly in favour of fighting fewer of them. It's a pity that neither American party agrees on that account.

> Dick Cheney and Wall Street would find that very convenient!

Who is it that you suppose still likes Dick Cheney? Do you think that the same people who decry Marxist central control of the economy like the Fed and big banks having central control of the economy? There's more nuance to it than that, surely.

If only there was a place to talk about these things and openly and honestly learn new facets about them without being banned for questioning the wrong thing.
What other types of violence are there?
The Dell was the only 5K IPS DCI-P3 monitor I could find. That's why. DCI-P3 was new to consumer space. 5K was new to consumer space. IPS further limited the the ability to find a comparable screen.
If we're going for comparisons, the $43k+ refurb Mac Pro linked at the top of this page still has 50% more RAM than that PC does.

I think the video's conclusion is spot on -- blindly comparing specs isn't really helpful for judging real world usability of hardware that is this high end. You should get the specific resources matched to your workload. That might be a Mac Pro, it might be a server in a closet with a TB of RAM, or it might be a PC with a couple of Quadros in it. Or maybe it's just a netbook with a Celeron :)
> "Other apps you have installed" is also extremely revealing about the user's interests

Yes, ads SDK across different apps can provide detailed aggregated information. Also apps promote each other, the "channel distribution" is huge business and relies on apps acknowledge each other.

I highly doubt many of the Tiktok reverse-engineering result may turn out to be some thirdparty ads or anti-fraud SDKs which Chinese companies use often.
My experience with " no code" reinforces the issues raised in ex other comments, with a little emphasis to add:

If you never learned your times tables, then used a calculator, imbedded calculation loops are tricky to troubleshoot .

" no code" layers this more deeply, creating a very large number of programming code lines, function calls and subroutines on interpreted code that runs slow anyway. It can be difficult to untangle when things just don't work right.

Interpreted code always runs slower that code compiled into machine code. Maybe adding in AI and machine learning will eventually be able to take this first-rev , " no code " prototyping and optimize it into an efficient, effective, fast system that is bullet proof, and intellectually protected.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed reading that, in a memory lane sort of way.

I haven’t used Java in a long while and I haven’t updated my book “Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” in many years. I decided to rewrite rather than stop distributing the book. I started the rewrite about three weeks ago. First step was tossing out about 1/3 of the material, stressing machine learning, adding probabilistic programming, and updating the semantic web material.

After taking a whole day getting my head back into coding in Java, I am actually enjoying it. I still like Common Lisp and Haskell a lot more.
I'm curious; I've played with OpenSCAD a little, which uses CGAL, and found it to be painfully slow (with no particular point of comparison). Do you think you have a way to do similar CSG calculations faster, or at least trade speed for accuracy or something?
Is Dell a luxury brand?

I have never thought that. I would expect better parts from MSI.
Eagerly awaiting the next-gen. "ApplePi" with ARM macOS on a raspberry pi 5. :)
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This a thousand times over! WTH is a Quibi and why should I care? That's the question I always asked after one of those commercials. It was like watching someone trying to sell a blank notebook with a fancy cover that wouldn't take ink ...
> They threw a silly amount of RAM in it, so ended up using one of the AMD server CPUs/mainboards rather than a threadripper, since the threadripper could only leverage 256G of RAM. $1200 a stick... woof.

Are you arguing that no one needs >256G of memory? Or are you arguing that no one needs ECC memory? Or are you arguing that server chips and motherboards shouldn't exist? Or is your complaint that Apple sells a workstation? Or maybe you think workstations should be illegal?

Should car makers only sell cars that you, personally, would like to buy? Should all manufacturers only sell things that you personally find useful? And if you don't find this computer useful how valuable is it for 100 people to chime in to say that? (IMHO opinion polls are better suited to that level of commentary.)

> I doubt the workload they put on things used that much memory

All anecdata to the contrary some workloads do in fact benefit from obscene amounts of memory. And if you've ever looked into it supporting >1TB of memory requires expensive dense memory modules because there are only so many memory busses on the chip and only so many sockets you can put on a bus.
I just gotta say I both love and hate the Neil Young archives. I hate them because the website is genuinely awful, and a chore to navigate around. However, I love that I have access to a load of stuff I haven't heard before.

At any rate, thanks for the hard work you put into it and I've used this site a lot.
I have Phillips Hue and turn them 100% red at night as we're going to bed, sometimes for a few hours, no idea if it's helping my eyesight though. Been doing it for a few years.
Which system did you switch to?
Facebook introducing a new feature in Messenger
I haven't used this myself, but I seem to keep hearing about it, from many quarters, and how extremely useful it is. It's hard to get this kind of work funded, so it's more important than usual for individuals to help if they're in a position to do so.