skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socrates, a world-renown authority on rationality, wasn't that bullish on rational politics -- long before social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
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Parent comment possibly meant "10^25 neutrinos with an energy level indicating they were produced by the CNO process".
Got it, thanks for the explanation. I clearly see the use-case, just need to review cgroup specs (specifically cpuset) to fully understand if what you mention is already supported (which i believe it is).
How could a typical citizen of the united states ever compete with Fa Loon Gong billionaire aristocrats sending fake newspapers to my literal physical mailbox and bombarding me and my neighbors' Youtube and Facebook with news flavored ads? The marketplace of ideas is locked in Facebook and to a lesser extent tiny ad slots on TV, Youtube, or any media you have enough money to sponsor.

I'm just a guy who doesn't want to go to war to help a bunch of scumbags how am I allowed to refute these peoples disingenuous saber rattling? I cant so we banned them from at least facebook (for now).
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Game theoretic ‘Tragedy of the Commons’, if its not yours, you treat it like dirt and therefore investment efficiency lowers.
There's a lot of much lower hanging fruit. As you state: there is no reason the source has to be parsed from scratch every single time. A little memo-ization of intermediate data structures when the underlying source has not changed could go a long way.

AFAIK Microsoft's toolchains do this but they don't do it well. It's a frequent source of headaches.
Those both seem like bad lenses. A more positive approach is that it's not just about what you say, it's about what you do. People working at a powerful company shouldn't advocate doing things to crush competitors, not only for legal reasons, but because it's not right. And that's why there are laws.

As the comic says, with great power comes great responsibility.

But focusing on specific words adds concreteness for literal-minded folks who might otherwise talk that way out of habit.
> But if Hey Email or ClassPass or anyone else doesn't like Apples offerings, they can go to a 3rd party store and be available there.

I absolutely do not want that to happen. This is no way is an actual benefit to anyone. If Hey or ClassPass was relegated to some other app store on iOS, it may as well not exist.
BetterTouchTool uses enough consistent cpu usage even with almost no settings enabled that I stopped using it. I’ve had inconsistent personal luck with computers after 5 years. I’ve just past that point with my MacBook.

I understand it needs to be doing some things in the background, but on the other hand, Hammerspoon and Karabiner don’t use much cpu usage.

I could be doing it wrong. Not knowing how to better manage apps, cpu usage, and so on
A guy in the mechkeys discord posted a clip of his 3D printed mech switches yesterday as well. I believe he is using reed switches instead of a 3d printed leaf but its pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRfQ3p_jFo
Seeking feedback on first coding project
Hi everyone, I'm seeking feedback on my first coding project. I taught myself to code from scratch during COVID and built a book recommendation site to test what I've learned. It's been an incredible (read exhausting) journey going from learning to print "Hello World!" to launching www.greatbooks.io two months later.

Would welcome your thoughts on the site: https://www.greatbooks.io

Btw, here are Paul Graham's book recommendations: https://www.greatbooks.io/people/paul-graham

Thanks so much!
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One of the discussions on Juliacon was exactly this! How to index various things. This was one of the documents produced during the discussion :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1imBX3k0EEejauWVyXONZDRj8...
"Fund social services" does.

You've either been deceived, or are consciously playing the game: Abolish the police means exactly what they want it to mean: no more police.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16181/black-lives-matter

They want to replace the police with militias they control.
If what3words wants anyone to bother using it they need to make it an open standard. They have very tight control over the trademark and usage of it.

This PR puff piece didn't even address the issue even though the BBC wrote about it a few months ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49754820

EDIT: I didn't realize this article is from 2019—a month before the mildly critical article.

more required reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183533
Nope, matches on my end as well in case another data point helps.
You make a very fair point and raise a reasonable concern. We do participate in external security audits, and will be having Cure53 do an in-depth one of 1Password for Linux. https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/
I think this post: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ presents the aims of the Julia project at a high level quite well. That post was partly aspirational at the time, and partly already achieved.

Now, 8 years later, I'd say essentially everything there has been achieved. The most important difference between Julia now and Julia then is the gigantic, vibrant and interacting ecosystem that's sprung up (though share are other important technical differences too!)

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Here's the pitch I'd give:

Julia's value proposition is mostly geared towards people trying to do things that are just too difficult, awkward or slow in other languages. It's not just about speed, dynamism and friendly syntax. It's also about solving the expression problem and providing unprecedented composability.

So while it may not necessarily have great appeal to 'end users' (who are people just calling numpy/scipy/pandas/whatever functions the way they were meant to be called by the library writers), it does appeal to people who make the sort of things end users want so the community is currently swelling with very talented people making state of the art research libraries. The language is designed for 'composability', so that it's very easy to combine packages together in ways the authors didn't necessarily intend or forsee.

This approach is really starting to bear fruit. Our package ecosystem has some real, state of the art stuff not easily available in other languages, and it's often built in less time and with less resources. For 'end users', whether or not Julia makes sense for them really just depends on if the things they need are already available.

Another huge advantage is that even if you're not some super researcher developer, Julia substantially lowers the bar for mere mortals such as myself to do package development. The composability I mentioned above means that I can stand on the shoulders of giants as I implement my own stuff, plus the fact that the majority of libraries are written in pure julia means that I can easily "peek under the hood" to figure out how they work and learn from them. This is really special and can't be replicated in python, because 'peeking under the hood' invariably means reading very specialized C code, rather than Python code.

I think Julia will someday eat Python for scientific computing, but it may be a while before that becomes obvious to Python users. In the meantime, we have an excellent package for calling and running Python code from withing Julia, called PyCall.jl [1], so that can make the burden of switching even easier.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl
> It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems.

You only think that because you're used to macos shortcuts.

> There absolutely has been some people there who deeply care and think long and hard about how experts use their systems even if the actual main company doesn't care so much about that segment anymore.

Do any macbooks have a numpad? Lack of a numpad is the opposite of 'thinking long and hard about how experts use their systems'.

> Everything just makes sense logically and mnemonically like using shift to invert actions like cmd+z and cmd+shift+z rather than having ctrl+z and ctrl+y for undo/redo.

ctrl+z/ctrl+shift+z, tab/shift+tab, etc, is how my fairly default linux system works.

> Then add to this the ability to rebind any shortcuts in any app at an OS level.

You can do this on pretty much any operating system.

> were some way to actually achieve this level of coherence across the whole system on Linux.

What level of coherence? All you said is you prefer macos default shortcuts...? If we're talking about support for customisation then macos is laughably far behind linux in every single respect.

My own experience, being forced to work with macos for the last few years has been quite annoying. The UI is very buggy, the app bar auto-hide constantly breaks, windows randomly disappear, macos has it's own weird (coherent?) set of shortcuts different from every other operating system, there is an insane amount of popups and notifications, maximising/fullscreening a window creates a new workspace which complicates quickly switching between windows, etc. Ability to customize the system is okay... still far behind linux. I literally do not see a single benefit of macos over linux.
The phrase “debt bomb” fees hyperbolic because it suggests our national spending is about to have some kind unpredictable/explosive problem. We have had persistently low inflation despite significant money creation since 2008. Inflation is typically the reason we avoid creating money to fund national level spending. If someone who knows better wants to breaks down the scenario for me, please do - but as is, calling short term emergency spending a debt bomb seems overblown.
Come now. "Very dangerous to think the way you do?" That's tantamount to wrongthink, and not very pro free-speech of you.
That is quite literally censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

You seem to be confused and think that censorship has to come from government or some other orgs? You’re suppressing political topics (e.g. all of migration policy is racist by definition), which lands squarely in the censorship camp. It’s not any less censorship if your users agree with it.
The difference is that a game is executable code and a streaming video is not.

If Apple allows this store within a store then everyone will have one and use it to run arbitrary unreviewed / unsigned code and Apple's ability to defend platform security and user privacy would be seriously compromised. As a user, my privacy and device security is much more important than allowing a new gaming service.
> I really appreciate having the MacOS app store as a sort of "trusted" alternative to downloading off the web.

But it's not, the Mac App Store is a dumpster fire.
Along the same vein then they would need to remove any remote desktop apps, of which there are many.
That doesn't affect the balance of the equation much. The same analysis applies even if customer service cost more.
> Supporters of open standards criticise the what3words system for being controlled by a private business and the software for being patented and not freely usable.[26] That similar addresses are purposely far away from each other is also seen by some as a disadvantage.
> The company has pursued an assertive policy of issuing copyright claims against individuals and organisations that have hosted or published files of the what3words algorithm or reverse-engineered source code that replicates the service's functionality, such as WhatFreeWords. This has extended to removing comments on social media which refer to unauthorised versions.

From wikipedia. Unfortunately this isn't something you can really ever use in your own code.
I have kids, and one of my primary difficulties is limiting their screen time, and to a lesser extent, content. I appreciate having Apple as one gatekeeper that I can trust and learn to operate. I don't want a Wild West, and I consider these restrictions one of the reasons I pay Apple's premium.
I just bought a oneplus pro 7 with lineage and microg and i love it !
BBC's doing advertorials now? Bummer.
How do you get to things not in the menubar? For example, with Zoom you can’t disconnect audio via menu bar. Only connect and mute or unmute. Disconnecting only works via the GUI of Zoom.
> as a user I don't want 20 goddamn app stores on my device

Nobody would force anyone to install alternate stores.
Scientific consensus is the worst possible system for determining the truth, except for all of the others.
Once a program is purchased from a store, it doesn't need to be launched from that store. GOG Galaxy 2 accumulates the storefronts into one launcher, where you can search, install, and launch any game that you've purchased on any of the platforms. This wouldn't even be possible on an iOS device. I'm in favor of openness and interconnectivity over uniformity.
You think Apple could make Adobe, Autodesk, and countless others go through the Mac App Store?
Why not leave it up to the authors of a site to decide if it needs to be rebuilt in a new system. That people's daily usage of the web is different today does render content written for the older paradigm valueless.

Google's misson is "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful". Dropping sites on the cutting room floor because information in them isn't in a convenient format does not make that information accessible or useful.
for anyone who has ever gotten the surprise O($10,000) PACER monthly bill, this is a no-brainer. not just lawyers who get these bills btw.
Most vaccines come with an 'adjuvant' [1] that activates the immune system in order to encourage the development of antibodies.

Sometimes these are chunks of toxins that your body recognizes a toxic, but without the actual part of the toxin that causes the toxicity. A kind of flag but without the army behind it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjuvant
Apple does not use the same set of guidelines.
This is also why they drag their heels supporting MSE in mobile Safari. They want control.

Technological possibilities be damned. Apple doesn’t give a shit about moving the world forward, they give a shit about moving Apple stock upward.
Most games except the ones you listed are available across multiple stores, and websites like humble bundle. Typically the only limitation is that most stores do not allow publishers to advertise that an item is available on another store. For example, Halo can be picked up on Steam or Windows Store these days. Microsoft realised that people preferred certain stores over others. So much so that Epic is still giving away multiple games every week trying to build up it's user base.
Is this a paid ad on the BBC? If What3Words was an open database, it would be a decent system. But it's a proprietary database on top of GPS controlled by a company that aggressively uses the DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words#Criticism

The BBC article doesn't explain why this is better than lat/lon other than a quote saying "I tried to get people to use longitude and latitude but that never caught on," by the company's founder.
There have been mitigation efforts such as RECAP [1] (and Court Listener [2]), where documents are shuffled off to the Internet Archive when you're using PACER with a browser extension installed, but this is welcome news as this data should be freely available considering the costs involved. Tremendous win for open data advocacy, but there is still work to be done.

> Thanks to our users and our data consulting projects, the RECAP Archive contains tens of millions of PACER documents, including every free opinion in PACER. Everything in the archive is fully searchable, including millions of pages that were originally scanned PDFs. Everything that is in the RECAP Archive is also regularly uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it has a lasting home. This amounts to thousands of liberated documents daily. Finally, we make the RECAP Archive available via an API or as bulk data for journalists, researchers, startups, and developers.

My hope is that one day everything in PACER has been retrieved out for storage in the Internet Archive, and the ongoing costs for keeping the collection up to date are trivial. The user fee waiver per quarter has been raised to $30; please consider using RECAP if you're a PACER user!

[1] https://free.law/recap/

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/
This is the least of the problems of trying to earn money on the App Store.
You can also create a keyboard shortcut for any menu item with Keysmith [0].

(Not just menu items, but any series of actions involving mouse clicks and keystrokes.)

[0] https://keysmith.app

Disclaimer: I made this, haven't officially launched but I thought you might find it useful. If you do check it out, I'd love to hear your feedback (especially things that aren't clear, or objections to trying it based on the website) and would be happy to gift you a license if you'd like.
Is this just wrapping the torch kernels or the entire torch API? I was under the impression it was the latter.
Can you expand on that for me, please?
It was a different time man.
But we didn't have any option to use UDP from the web stack prior to Data Channels.

I guess worries about security trump "make the web stack do everything" though.
I switched to https://contexts.co/ after many years with Witch. Have never looked back. Contexts is much better in my opinion.
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> It's broken, and the government is going to slap the shit out of Apple.

I doubt it. Apple would get out it like they got out of their European Tax-ish.
You'll find that a number of HNers, including a number of high profile ones are against any form for advertising.

Personally I am against tracking and unethical ads[0] but I think purely contextual ads can be OK:

- ycombinator ads on news.ycombinator.com: OK with me even if they blend in, it is part of what I want to see when I am here

- Webstorm/IntelliJ/upcoming programming conference ads on developer blogs: Smashing

- "Sponsored by" ads on Open Source projects (as long as they aren't bad[1]): fine with me

[0][1]: like pushing payday loans to poor, gambling to addicts, cheating sites etc
If Amazon were willing to pay 30% on every book purchased, do you think Apple would still refuse to let customers purchase books through the Kindle app?

I'd love to hear Apple explain what the worst case scenario is for consumers if they were to let Netflix customers sign up the app, let Amazon customers buy books in the app, or play streaming games?

Apple is the most valuable company in the world and there's only one way for them to go from here.
When I started working in Real Estate, it blew me away that our company reviewed listing comments looking for, among other things, "man cave", because it could demonstrate a bias towards selling it to a man. Bias is a very real problem, I just hadn't thought about "has a man cave" in that light before.
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We seem to be angrily agreeing.
It's a travesty that we have to pay for this information at all!
But it also blocks access to justice. Just pulling the docket and a few related small filings for a case can cost $50+.

It (and this is a stretch) essentially disenfranchises poorer members of society by limiting their access to justice and information.
Unfortunately, it would only get you down ~10^-8, which is still 5 orders of magnitude off (38-8=30>25).

Earth is ~12,700km diameter while the Sun is ~690,000km or a ratio of ~50x. The Sun appears as ~0.5deg from here so the Earth should be ~0.01deg from there.

A steradian is ~3300deg^2 so we're looking at ~3*10^-8 steradians subtended by earth and roughly that fraction of total neutrinos. Closer, but no cigar.
But the games aren't installed, just streamed.
This matches my experience: Linux is very good at maximizing throughput, even when significantly over-subscribed.

Two broad gotchas:

- If the "task workflow" of an application involves a pipeline of N threads performing logically connected operations in sequence, the direct and indirect cost of N context switches is going to put a lower bound on latency and resource consumption for each task. This gets worse if the N threads aren't all in the same process, and TLB flushes enter the picture.

- Without careful priority tuning, at high levels of over-subscription, latency becomes highly variable, as you saw in an interactive shell. There's no free lunch; if you want predictable latency you need to reserve cycles that would otherwise be available to maximize throughput.
I love this SMBC comic that describes the story arc of the acceptance of any radically new idea.
I think the government is indeed massive with a diverse set of goals, but I think employees at Facebook may see their workplace the same way:

- They could work on something “good”, like trust and safety, community moderation tools, emergency response, etc.

- They could work on something user-driven or “neutral”, like Events or Groups which are used to organize anything from BLM protests to Trump rallies.

If they’re not actively designing privacy anti-patterns or trying to make the news feed more addictive, quitting would not really affect those problem areas.

I think organizing at the workplace is a great idea, and the threat of work stoppage could be a very real one if enough employees organize. But the idea of telling people to quit their jobs and distance themselves from the problem is very different from telling them to start organizing to fix the problem.
UIs that changed the way we design
you can't really stop a desktop computer from running arbitrary software. If users can install compilers (which you pretty much have to allow), then all you can do is make them go through extra steps.
The need to filter out content seems orthogonal to Apple not allowing certain content in the first place.
Enough research is showing that aerosol covid is a major risk. If they weren’t wearing N95 masks...
It wasn't like this a few years ago. Outraged responses are a feature of outrage culture, which is pretty recent. Media have been pushing it to drive clicks, and sell ads on cable TV, for years. Grifters push their instagrams, their vlogs, their books.

I think the decline started when University produced generation after generation of supposedly educated people that had no skill other than fanning the flames.

And social media has been the A-bomb against rational, paused discourse.
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ Is an open source alternative with thumbnails. I don’t care about them so I stick with Contexts.co, but this is my back up
Goldman Sachs may soon introduce its own stablecoin
The biggest value prop for me is when you need something done fast that’s not already in scipy etc. In python you will need to write a C extension or fumble with numba / cython / whatever, in Julia you just write it.

I also think writing out math is much more concise in Julia, no more np.whatever(np.sin(x.detach()) + cos(np.sqrt(y)).mean().
Flagged for being obvious content marketing.
In theory you wouldn't worry about idiosyncrasies of specific component libraries if they are based on web components because they would provide only a single interface: properties go in (as in customElement.myCustomProp = <some-value>), events go out (as in customElement.attachEventListener(<some-custom-event>, (e) => <do something in your callback>)).

This is definitely true for "dumb" components aka leaf components such as labels, footers, links, basic inputs. However, since you need more (for example, data-binding and reactivity), this may become a question of interoperability, and I don't really know how that plays out in the real world.

> I'm not a very smart person, thanks again to you and everyone else jumping on my thread to take the time to explain :

No stupid questions, right? :) And the whole web components discussion is extremely muddied. Mostly because people expect you to already know what they are about, and talk about and use libraries on top of them: lit-html, stencil etc.