skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you didn't buy into Finder and other built-in apps on macOS, it can be easier to see less value, that is true, but effectually I feel like that dismisses perfectly reasonable expectations a macOS user has about using a platform. Frankly, Apple hasn't given as much love to macOS over the last 5-6 years in particular as they do their other platforms (in some ways, justifiable, otherwise, its frustrating) however, even with their basically trickle of updates to the desktop platform in that time, no other desktop platform could even match them on baseline functionality and user experience. Even though I'm certain Microsoft has more people working on Windows 10 than Apple has working on macOS. Even Ubuntu with its open source contributors likely dwarfs Apple's resources on this, yet nobody comes close to matching the user experience to me.

As for software, I miss Finder because I felt the interface was intuitive and I really liked the features Finder like tags, smart folders, and the way you could custom it with extensions and settings. I like the built in software, like Preview in particular.

I have yet to have anyone show me an OS that comes close to matching macOS out of the box. Even conceding customizations, they're just so lacking in comparison, to someone who 'clicked' with macOS.

Granted, not everyone likes macOS, and thats fine, but to come at it from a place that its so easy to migrate to another platform, ignores so many things about macOS that make it great to a macOS user.

My job requires Windows 10, thats how I ended up on the platform. I learned to get around and replicate as much of the features as I could, but so many are just fundamentally missing and even if I wanted to pay for the functionality (and for so much of it I would), the software doesn't even exist.
Many here are doing much better, because they invested in specific tech.
I feel that arguments along the lines of "why should we have governments protect consumers on 'x' if they willingly do 'y'" aren't really helpful, and feel akin to whataboutism.

For example, yes, I expect "The Government's OSHA" to enforce worker safety laws, even if "The Government's Police" later winds up brutalizing workers during a strike.

The Government isn't this unified entity, it's more a collection of disparate organizations often embroiled in disputes with each other, each representing various stakeholders who's interests are often in contradiction with one another.
>As a European I find this whole story very confusing. A president that can just force a specific company on very short notice to shut down operation, is very concerning.

How did you feel about the COVID shutdown? Millions of businesses were just forced by government on very short notice to shut down operation
I just bought an Ipad Pro for this purpose and I love it. I have tons of PDFs open for research and I can annotate super easily.

Plus, I can draw, animate, and watch youtube on the same device. It's been quite nice.

I was going to get the ReMarkable, but am very happy with my Ipad
While not quite as big as other pumped storage systems this is one system that is looking to avoid the exposed area and dependence on natural reservoirs: https://heindl-energy.com/
Rust doesn't have the stability yet that has been a bit of a double-edged sword for Go. And it's taken 5 years for Rust to get as far as it has. I'll be much more interested in using Rust in production when there's more of a "standard library" of options to start with. Right now it has the curse of being both unfamiliar to programmers and not having very many production-ready dependencies available in a larger ecosystem. It might be the "right choice" for the future, but if you don't already know you need Rust, I'm having trouble seeing how typical software can benefit today from Rust, etc., though I really do hope my answer changes over the next few years. :)

Swift is definitely something I'd like to explore more, but like Rust, it has few production-ready dependencies available. Kotlin or other Java derivatives on the other hand probably have too many -- if your code is written in Java, I've no idea if it will work great in Kubernetes or if it will expect OSGi or if it's a giant monolith. Which is to say, modern practices can make the JVM a surprisingly practical choice, but most software isn't really all that optimized -- slow and bloated legacy dependencies are both a problem in Java as in Node.js...

C# meanwhile can be efficient, but rarely is. And it has toolchain issues due to VS not being open source, and a very small ecosystem of dependencies, plus a history full of corporate rewrites of core functionality. It has a bright future, but its reliance on msbuild and Visual Studio limit it compared to Java. I'd like to suggest C++ but I've spent years learning it and find the complexity overwhelming in side projects. In practice, I think C++ is only appropriate for full-time projects with lots of engineers to validate correctness, etc. The exception I'd make is tiny C++ modules as glue code between languages, or to other existing C code.
If we're talking about population density in rural areas, then the poor countries of Africa (excluding Saharan desert) have a much higher rural population density than middle of USA, and there rolling out cell coverage is quite feasible, definitely more feasible than rolling out an electricity grid - there's already something like a hundred million people in sub-Saharan Africa who don't have electricity connections but do have mobile phones and coverage.
Inequality is a weird goal post to choose for demonstrating the philosophical failure of economists. If everyone gets richer and the cost of goods remains the same or goes down then why do you care so much about the distance between the poles? Often it's the economists who criticize feel-good policies that make life harder for the poor (zoning regulations, regressive taxes, etc.)
I agree 100% and wish there was a better mechanism to prove you're not an attacker, but it's hard to think of one that isn't annoying like a traditional CAPTCHA is.
Oh sure, you could run this in a chroot without a problem as long as you use the kernel with deferred-IO mode enabled. In fact, that's what I did when I posted on this on the /r/RemarkableTablet subreddit a few months ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/gkktxy/de...
obviously this varies country by country, and strongly depends on local climate.It's very poor argumentation in that sense. One should actually present numbers, not point fingers circumstantially.
I've heard these damage the pencil, is that not the case?
It kills the fewest number of people pre joule and the negative externalities are centralized, i.e., the people that made the mess need to pay to keep it stored safely. I fail to see how an underground bunker of radiation is dirtier than people literally breathing in toxic fumes. Coal even releases a ton of radiation per joule, so even the framing of radioactive vs non-radioactive is a subject of discussion.

Also, I highly doubt that if humanity makes it even a thousand more years that we'll have trouble finding a productive use for depleted uranium or other spent fissile fuels. They have many interesting properties.
Since NIC is used to encrypt the traffic, it can purposefully have vulnerability that NSA knows about?

Fixing NIC is not as easy as fixing software.
Ruby, Python and .NET are being contributed by the community.
Try /r/VPN, /r/privacy, and search into HN posts over the past year related to endpoint security (start with anything that has 'security' in the title and filter from there.)

Securing your devices is one thing, security your connectivity and communication channels is another, and opsec as it relates to social media is another. There are better forums for this and most of the data is already out there if you look for it.
Yeah, I said already in the post that I did this, thanks anyhow
You know what a credit is?
Politicians and legislation are purchased on the free market through lobbying. And then subsidies are merely a return on a smart investment.

I'm not actually sure if what I just wrote is parody or not. Arguments about "free markets" are always weird like that, since everybody seems to work with a different definition and they don't really seem to exist
You do know that they designed the NN they trained as well as collected the data set, right?

We aren't to the place where a single individual with enough compute resources could feasibly replicate google translate.
You can buy half a million sheets of paper for this price.
If you fully recycle the nuclear waste, the radioactivity drops to that of natural uranium ore in about 500 years: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
Two cents:

Subsidies for fossile fuels do not make them cheap. They might make some local form competitive to the international market, but their inherent value comes from simple physics. Fossile fuels are simply much more effective than renewables. This does not mean that we cannot change it, but we need a compelling alternative. Slavery, for instance, was the most efficient means of agriculture for thousands of years. We changed it, somewhat ironically, by replacing it with mechanisation, driven by fossile fuels.

Externalities are extremely hard to give a fair price. We could have a limited CO2 Budget, but that limit would be artificial. Think of a CO2 Credit currency: Who would not be tempted to increase the limit ever so slightly to generate the credits for a new school/hospital/anti-terror-drone?

So, no, I do not think markets offer a solution here. They could help, of course, but the real solution is the introduction of effectively free energy with massive-scale photovoltaics. One barrel Crude oil has an energy of around 1.8MWh and costs between $20 and $70 to produce. Thus, to overcome oil, one needs to get the price per kWh solar down between four and one dollar cent. We are about to reach that point rather soon. From there on it is game over for big oil.
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is an excellent and renewable answer to this problem in tons of areas, has high efficiency (above 70%) and is already in use in a number of areas.
I was curious so I looked up some data: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality, sorting by the deaths/100k people, the US is below Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy and Sweden (in addition to some others). That data seems to support the situation in the US isn't exceptionally different than the situation in the EU.
This phenomenon is certainly not limited to China. Elizabeth Warren is the public example who comes to mind, although I suspect that many of us know people who claim particular backgrounds for their personal advantage.
> But after using nim i'm convinced that macros make even more sense for systems programming.

Macros are controversial. I love them in Scheme and Clojure, but I wouldn't want them in any language aimed at a larger, more mainstream crowd. At the very least, macros introduce another meta-language to know (and if they're in a language with a complex type-level language like Rust or Haskell then they're a third language within the language), but I think it's a matter of personal aesthetic preference.

> But i vaguely recall already discussing this distinction with you so i don't want to rehash it.

Maybe we did. :)
Never heard a single story about setting up a home lab that isn’t wholesome!

Got to be one of the least offensive hobbies going.
The upside of RSA is that we'll likely have evidence of ed25519 being breakable (~1500 qubits) before breaking RSA 4096 is possible (~8000 qubits). [https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/35137/how-many-qu...]

The number of usable qubits in a single computation is expensive and has been growing slowly and until that changes I figure it's more likely to be surprised by a break of ed25519 but not RSA 4096 than to be surprised by a break of both.
Not sure why it being version 1.XX is a factor here. Actually that's one of Go's features- compatibility.
>However it is by far dirtier than any other generation method,

Where do you think the fancy chemicals in the fiberglass turbines or the exotic metals in the solar panels comes from?

>We are still struggling store industrial chemicals for mere half dozen years without it causing tragic accident

Oh boy are you going to love the high tech chemical industry that underpins the manufacture of wind turbines and solar panels.

All these things are dirty if you don't clean up after them. Nuclear is pretty clean just by virtue of how little material you need to process per kilowatt. A kilo of uranium gets you a lot more energy than a kilo of turbine or a kilo of solar panel.

They're all better than fossil fuels because they don't crap byproducts into the atmosphere but you need to have so much less underlying industry per energy generated with nuclear that it's just inherently cleaner than anything else. This is assuming that you're cleaning up after whichever one you choose.
This is true. However, don't forget subscribing to the rest of the automobile culture: license, car, registration, driving to the store, parking, tickets, fuel, etc. These are really costs born by the consumer. Now they are also asking you to bring your own bags, pack your own bags, subscribe as a member to "save" (be monitored), and in some cases shop in specific hours to avoid the elderly due to COVID.

One of the most interesting things about living outside of western societies has been wet markets with zero accessibility for cars but great accessibility for walking, cycling and motorbikes. They are much friendlier and tend to have more stores with the same produce but different supply chains, which leads to more competition, greater variety and friendly personal service.
Maybe the confounding factor here is that the term "load balance" could be extremely unsuitable for onlyfans' processing logic; e.g. they might preferentially route the risky transactions to one or two processors that won't get too agitated/punitive.
SDMA isn't related to networking. As I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294868

The device is exposed over USB as a composite device, consisting of a virtual Ethernet port and a virtual serial port. Network communications may happen over that link, as well as SSH/SCP'ing files.

It also supports USB OTG, so one could plug in a libre-compatible Wi-Fi card and use that.
Most fields are now installed with a battery system on site. They are largely buried, so unless you watched construction, a field may have a large storage capacity without obvious infrastructure.
Historically the "current generation" of e-ink displays are notoriously annoying to hack on with devkits being expensive and waveforms being available only under NDA. This was true 5 years ago, not sure if it's still true.
Nuclear is carbon clean yes, However it is by far dirtier than any other generation method, if we stop the coal plants today, in few hundred years CO2 levels will revert back and temperatures will normalize. The half life of the radioactive waste is in ten of thousands of years.

If the world continues on a high-emissions trajectory, and people do not later pursue active remediation measures to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, it will take hundreds of thousands of years for natural silicate weathering to draw down atmospheric concentrations to preindustrial levels. More than half will be removed by faster processes, within 1000 years, but a significant minority of the excess will go away over the course of ~400,000 years:

https://www.nature.com/articles/climate.2008.122/figures/1

This is actually longer than the time it will take for the majority of fission products and actinides generated in nuclear fuel to decay. The waste CO2 problem is also distributed over the whole globe rather than easily confined to storage casks like spent nuclear fuel is.
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Hydroelectric has two issues: you have to have access to appropriate rivers, and those rivers tend to be major parts of the ecosystem in their own right.

For example, Seattle is largely hydroelectric powered. The city's public utility even owns the dams, so whatever energy that isn't used in Seattle they sell to California at market rates, which makes energy conservation a profit center for them. Washington also has major mountain ranges plus the Columbia river. Kansas, on the other hand, is short on anywhere to get falling water.

On the other hand, salmon are a crucial species to the ecosystem out here. They're the primary food source of the local orca population. They're a major commercial fishery. They're one of the major sources of nutrients along the rivers going into the interior. Isotope analysis of trees along the rivers out here shows that a large amount of their growth is driven by decaying salmon.

Ross Dam and its kin that Seattle's power comes from are high enough up where we don't think there was historically much salmon run. There's a study going on now rechecking that. We've removed the Elwa River dam on the Olympic Peninsula, though. It was egregious: the requirements for salmon access were already in place when it was built, and they just ignored it and then refused to pay the fines. The Snake River dams up the Columbia are similarly problematic, and need to be removed.

This is different from, say, Switzerland, where their high dams like Grande Dixence don't have a comparable environmental effect.
It's not emacs, but I've been enjoying iVim (1) on my iPad Pro. With `:idocuments` I can edit files in Working Copy (it opens the Files picker).

I also copied my plugins (Goyo for focus, etc) and config from my linux box.

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivim/id1266544660
I’m looking at the pages linked from https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/08/new-case-studies-a..., which seems to be about Google’s use of Go.
Some observations:

- I'm surprised they could find controls who had never received antibiotics. I assume this over some time period and not lifetime

- For each exposure to antibiotics, there was a stepwise increase in risk from 1.11 to 1.38 to 1.55

- When they matched them to siblings, the risk went down (1.35 versus 1.88) suggesting a genetic component to the overall risk
You need to look at per capita numbers.
iPad multitasking modes are like that. Easy to trigger, impossible to get away from without a Google search.
Its an observation that comparing vastly different technologies using just a single metric produces mostly misleading asinine statements that aren't sufficient to influence any meaningful policy or engineering decisions without additional supporting explanation and justification.
I wanted to try this app. My iPhone firewall (lockdown.com) showed a bunch of tracking apps all ”calling home” to I uninstalled it without trying.
Ask HN: What if music and food were switched, in terms of limits to consumption?
Ask HN: What if music and food were switched, in terms of limits to consumption? Would you take that choice ?
i.e you can eat any amount of food(also assume food supply is no problem) without any ill effects, but you can only listen to music a similar duration to what you eat, like max 2hrs, etc. anymore could cause ill effects similiar to eating too much food
Backing you up here. There is a clearregime change in the data before and after the advent of central banking. Recessions and financial panics are less frequent, and less severe. Just looking at the US, there were ~15 recessions since the adoption of central banking in the 1910's. In the same time period during the 1800s there were >25 recessions, and that's not even comparing for severity. You can see the Wiki[1] for an overview.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
I do a lot of astrophotography as a hobby and for visual/infrared images, these satellites are a non-issue and extremely easy to deal with by simple outlier rejection techinques. One of the most basic techniques is sigma clipping, in which you stack a bunch of sky-tracked images, and for each pixel, you throw away data points that are more than a sigma or two away from the mean before actually averaging.

I already have to do this for aircraft, and aircraft do a LOT more photobombing than satellites.

The satellite trail images people post all over the internet to fear monger the public are actually processed exactly the OPPOSITE way that astrophotographers would process an image stack. They are processed by taking the max at each pixel stack to emphasizing the outliers in the stack instead of eliminating the outliers and averaging the rest. No astronomer would ever do that.

I can imagine they might be a bigger threat to radio astronomy, though.
Using hydrogen as intermediate storage is interesting because it is a pattern that can be reused in many places. For example, I know of semi-experimental Chinese nuclear reactor that is used for making hydrogen rather than electricity. That could give you easily dispatchable nuclear power, which is much better, carbon-wise, than gas peakers would be. I don't know anything aboutthe efficiency and economics of such setup though.

There's however a possible political trap to fall into - most of hydrogen humanity uses
cones from oil processing. So going there has not obly geopolitical ramifications, but we might also end upin a place where we're greenwashing oil to "clean hydrogen".
Sure. But Intel 7nm isn’t TSMC 5nm ... and Intel isn’t at 7nm yet.
Web inspectors are showing a representation of the DOM, they are not showing the raw source. Netscape and IE used to have "Show Source" functions that literally showed just the page source.

Inspectors will do things like display colors as their RGB triples i.e. rgb(x, y, z) in computed styles when a color has been defined in the HTML like in a body tag or table cell's bgcolor attribute.
Radioactive waste with half lives of tens of thousands of years is by definition not particularly radioactive. It is however reasonably well contained; roughly a truck load in a year. Where as CO2 is defused through the atmosphere in a way which makes it very difficult to recapture.
For me, with Firefox on Android, it delivered what appeared to be a desktop site (tiny text, clearly non-mobile layout). I almost never encounter that on websites, so the problem is not with me nor my phone. My phone is a Note 8 (still reasonably high performance and with a very large screen).

It's nice that it works for you, and sure I could try reader mode, but I should not have to switch to reader mode to view a website.
What are you trying to say?

Go is at my employer's (one of the top 3 car companies world wide) techradar the number one to adopt. New stuff of all kind is done in Go.

So, Go is a huge success outside of Google as well.

Not saying that I'm of any importance for Go, but I'm using Go for personal projects, at work for CLIs and standard backend stuff (APIs + DB, Redis, etc.) with great success.
Version numbers are fairly arbitrary. I use a lot of 0.x software that is basically run as a production release.
It's been verified that the ReMarkable 2 is just as open as the 1?
"no evidence that battery storage can scale"

Obviously laws of physics do not bar it from scaling, the question is around cost.
But most of this is already being done with existing satellite services. Starlink is cool and better than existing providers in many respects, but it's not a total game changer.