skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, this is exactly what I needed. I had my one liners in Notable to look them up but this is way more seamless AND it integrates great with Notable at the same time with the UAL folder in the Notable notes directory and a slightly more complex UAL "edit" to add the Notable metadata.
I'm not exactly sure what the point of VT-X would be in an emulated environment anyway, and it would be a waste to make Rosetta 2 that much more complicated for it.
Would you be willing to consider capping the per-subscription cost? For instance, "0.5% of your subscription price, at most $x/month/subscription"? That would keep it reasonable for low-cost subscriptions, and have high-cost subscriptions pay more, but the cap would make it feel much more reasonable to use Stripe Billing even for very large subscription costs.

With a structure like that, I'd want to use Stripe Billing for every customer, rather than considering any kind of special arrangements for high-value customers.
CSV of election data at the county level
What courts will need to decide is what constitutes a "market."

The arguments against Apple all seem to hinge on the market being "people who own iOS devices," while the argument in favor of Apple all seem to hinge on the market being "people who own a smartphone."

In one of those, Apple is a monopolist. In the other, Apple isn't even the biggest company.
Has there been any word on third-party OS support for the new AS macs? Not just so geeks can run Gentoo on them, but also for corporate customers to virtualize MacOS. I know some fellows who run ESXi/Vcenter on clusters of Minis to run multiple versions of MacOS for QA.
> when I see people using something in a way it wasn’t intended (...), my question is: how is this UI failing them?

This is a legitimate question, but not the only one in that situation. Another view, more in line with the unix philosophy, is that "using something in the intended way" is a meaningless concept. A tool must work always, no matter how it is used and abused.

Thus, instead of asking "how is this UI failing them?", you could be more pragmatic and ask "how can I optimize the UI so that this usage works correctly?"
Babylon.js 4.2
HIIT reduced risk by 1.7 percentage points, mortality down to 3% for the high intensity group, from 4.7% for the control group.

The percentage decrease was 37%: Percentage points are not percent!
Does the machine keep an image of the ballot? Is a hard copy of the ballot stored?

Does the Dominion Voting System provide a vote tally that is independently verifiable?
Hilarious. I wonder if any of the downvoters of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068229 now experience cognitive dissonance.
Trump Is Now Reportedly Gunning for Top Cybersecurity Officials
Ask HN: Which Devs to Follow on Twitter?
Hi HN, I am new on Twitter. Can you suggest which developers / computer scientists to follow?
>Catalina warning nags

I appreciate those nags. Those nags clued me into app behavior; I learned what apps are requesting keyboard access even when they're not in focus, for instance. Blindly trusting our apps to access our keyboards and not gradually become keyloggers is a recurring problem in our industry, it seems, so that was a very welcome change.
I did go from 0-100. Sorry - but I'm glad I caught your interest.

If we were on a desert island, and I were to ask you to give me 40% of your income/produce and take out loans from me to buy your hut and donkey, you would rightly refuse. If I and 5 others where to do the same, you might consent, but you wouldn't think it was right. The system we have though - that no one asked for or signed into - is a system people actually think this is right!! And they will fight to maintain it. It is a slavery system, where because the criminals are so far away, unperceived by most, and tv and schooling (owned by those criminals) tells them it is right, and everyone else is going along with the insanity, well, we say 'I guess that it is right, it's what humans are' etc. Justifying the unjustifiable.

'Self-sovereignty' to me, is being able to say that you are responsible for yourself, and to mean it. Try it in the mirror! If you are unconvinced, you are not sovereign. This is not to say you need to lord it over others - far from it. It's that you treat yourself as an individual, and are responsible for yourself and your actions. You get rid of the cognitive dissonance as you reason things out. But you need to go all the way.

Accepting the authority of any other over your own experience and judgement, is to have made a grave error of personal judgement. (I don't mean refusing to accept the worthy advise of your mechanic over what to do with your car btw.) I mean being told something and ignoring your own reasoning and accepting theirs. To a reasonable person, it should be possible for someone to share evidence and allow you to make up your mind and get your agreement if what is requested is reasonable. If it is unreasonable you should be able to refuse. But our system is entirely unreasonable. If you are in the US, did you agree to the constitution, to be an American citizen? Were you - a free man under God - invited to join this club? The system is about manipulation and covert use of force and fear. It has an appeal - it is comforting (and easier) to think that someone else has this - but in fact, only you do.

'Might makes right' in this system (a system I think it has been in place for 100s of years). At some point those with the might want not to fight, or be hassled, or even known. 'They' set up a system to train those it has subjugated that this situation is right (education). No, education is not about improving those that go through its system - as you may have noticed. It is about making the men that suit the system and play the game.

Individually, people are lovely and cannot conceive of the breadth of the scam and lie that they are living. We are happy joyful creatures, but we have been turned inside out. And the loss of privacy is another example. They cannot conceive that education is 15 years of mind moulding, that the health industry is about making them unwell, that the media is about keeping them uninformed, that science is religion masquerading as reason, etc. But there it is. If you look and do your own research - and you have to do your own research - you will see what I mean.

All the best.
You can also use Qwant Lite, it's just like the HTML version of DDG: https://lite.qwant.com/

Edit: saw your other message, doesn't work in English because of a bug
Why we use YAML, not notebooks, for machine learning
I will take any discrete GPU that works stably on Linux and is 75W peak draw or under. I hear good things about the newer AMD lineup with the open-source AMD drivers, but even the most low-end of those all take an external power-connector, which puts them over 75W of peak draw.
I just ran "Check for Updates" and it gave me this remarkable message: "iTerm2 3.1.7 is currently the newest version available. (You are currently running version 3.3.12.)"

Wat?
> during the recent presentation, very few [Software ] companies highlighted and of those how many did you recognize?

I don't know if I'm an outlier but I recognized many of them. I have no idea if they (apart from some real biggies like MS or Adobe) have any Windows presence, and I know there are big Windows companies I don't know exist.
Wow, I have that Problem aswell
Ahhh, ok. Thanks for the info!
Bonkers! This is amazing!
"Not to mention making it impossible to create a local user account on Windows 10, unless you disconnect from the internet." This is false. I've done this a couple of times recently on Windows 10 and it's no problem at all - just requires clicking a link on the create user account page. In fact, I always prefer to create a local account first and then tie my MS account to it afterwards.
If I ever needed to summarize Hacker News into a single list, this would absolutely be it.
Exactly :) the request payload is hidden at the bottom of the Headers tab (yep...), you need to uncollapse it. I always forget where it is and confuse it with the response payload, which is really confusing when trying to debug what you send to a REST endpoint
AN elephant sat on the fiber line in New Delhi...
Anyone figure out how to resolve this?: "An error occurred while installing the selected updates".

I got to 100% downloaded and it got stuck and now anytime I attempt to install it I get that error immediately.
I wonder if them releasing it today is affecting developer.apple.com as it's timing out for me. Unfortunately, that means I can't be quite as productive as I'd to be right now.
A reminder that BigQuery (as used in the query in this link) is the best way to play with Hacker News data; don't scrape HN data manually!

The `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` table appears to be up to date with the most recent HN data as well (table last updated today).

However, I'm not 100% sure the query is correct for unilaterally getting all links, as running the query on the full dataset returns the same results as running it from 2006-2015. And I value my sanity enough to not fuss around with the regex.
This applies to every Mac, with or without an update.
Mozilla recent layoff could be th prelude for that on Rust. And is not the guy behind Swift and LLVM - I forgot his name - hopping around anyway :). And Zeev and Andi from PHP are also on the loose last time I read something. So :)
There's a fixed cost to put a transaction onto the card brand networks. Recurring includes dunning management which retries failed auths. If you rolled your own, you'd be paying for the declines.
You mean cognitive resonance?
> a blog post--which was on Hacker News--

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064841 This post with 8 votes? Did it come up anywhere that got actual discussion?
The tracking is not new, from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/gp52pe/apple_is_tra...
I love this release!
Kubernetes itself has been installable / running on ARM for years now (I remember getting it working on Pis back in 2016/2017 and have been running http://www.pidramble.com on K8s since then).

Many, many images are now multi-arch so I encounter failures to deploy things to the Pi much less frequently nowadays.
Using MobilityDB to Analyze GPS Trajectories with Postgres, PostGIS, & Citus
If you have to be alert to take over at short notice, is level 2. Tesla "Autopilot" falls into that category, as far as I know.

The categories are well defined (SAE J3016) and have legal implications. If the marketing department is tempted it'll have to go through the legal department.
Good job on this release
Are their update servers being slashdoted? Pardon for archaic language.

According to Squid logs the updater tries to pull from http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/50/49/001-79699-A_9... but a 403 (forbidden) error is returned and the following message appears on Software Update:

"An error occurred while installing the selected updates."

EDIT: as of now apparently there is an issue with the software update server.
The limit on “emulation and virtualization” just means Apple’s emulator software (Rosetta) doesn’t support x86 virtualization. Someone could write a different emulator that does support it.
Trains in Italy to be tracked and controlled via space
This wouldn't be an issue if Apple wasn't taking a flat cut of 30% off of everything. It doesn't matter what they provide. 30% is like a government level tax. That should just scream how much influence and power Apple has if they can charge something so egregious.
I've been pretty happy with https://www.runnaroo.com/ for the past months
You've got to be kidding me. When Apple's servers are down, all Macs worldwide start freezing randomly? My XCode is hanging during builds, is this why?

This code signing enforcement stuff has gone way too far. Heads should roll for this.
I agree name change was necessary, but "Angular" was a bad pick because of search index collisions with previous generation. Should have chosen a name that would not have caused search collisions.
Can apple not use security certificates to verify publishers ? why does it need to go to their servers ?
Over the years I've been trying different editors but they're either overly complex to configure (yes I'm aware of the irony here) or I just can't make them work the way I want. I always fall back to vim, but I never top giving them a chance.
This is brutal.

I've found a work around for now.

* Turn off wifi

* Reboot

* Open everything you need

* Turn wifi back on
This is good to know. I should jump into the book. I may have gotten the wrong impression from the summary -- the quotes that I shared. I think a scientific effort to look at the many practices that are currently in vogue is very much needed. So many are taken as gospel truths and lorded over people in the name of science-- but they really aren't supported by any rigorous science at all. If this book points that out, than I am all for it.

Especially if the book has more a system thinking approach. Many studies isolate one practice (pair programming, code reviews, etc..) and can show benefits, but they ignore the systems they function in. Apparently opposite approaches, supported by the right personalities and environments can often be equally effective. From your comment, it looks like there may be some analysis like that too.
Adding:
0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com
to /private/etc/hosts solves it.

Can't believe Big Sur is somehow affecting my Mohave Mac! Yikes!
Cmd allows you to close the tab without activating it.
The case you cite was from July 2020 and has been fixed [1]:

> It does appear to the case, however, that a motorcyclist who was killed in a traffic accident also tested positive for COVID-19, and was initially listed among Florida’s COVID-19-related deaths. But officials from the Florida Department of Health said that person has since been removed from the count.

I can't read the paywall'd Telegraph article but I think this [2] is the same:

> The ONS looked at nearly 4,000 deaths during March in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate. In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems. The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness. On average, people dying also had roughly three other health conditions.

So basically -- people's other health problems cause them to be more severely affected by a respiratory disease that has also been shown to affect the heart and brain [3]. That seems like an intuitive result, and the study backs it up.

> It's really only excess mortality we can count on right now.

The excess mortality will certainly show the bigger impact in the long term, but to imply COVID-19 death numbers are being artificially inflated or so grossly inaccurate that they're useless is irrational.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-motorcyclist-covid...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52308783

[3] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
AWS biggest advantage is in the enterprise space.

Which is that companies do not procure individual AWS services but rather AWS itself. Meaning that whenever AWS releases a new tool it is instantly approved and available for use across the company (baring internal processes e.g. security hardening).

Compare this with a startup which has to go through a 6 month long procurement process complete with vendor bake-offs in order to sell their similar tool.

If AWS continues to move into the application space they will surely dominate the enterprise because of this.
Interesting! Thanks for digging up the code.
I share your experience, but it should only be a matter of time until the vim LSP clients[1] mature.

One notable exception is Go with its [vim-go](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) plugin, which feels very mature to me as someone new to the language.

[1]: https://langserver.org/
I tell everyone who will listen that the people you work with are more important than the business space. One of my happiest jobs was writing software to process insurance claims. My most miserable job was working on interesting mathematical models for a web company that was disrupting the industry.

I love writing code so I don't need to be motivated by the end product. That might make me different from others.
If it makes you feel better, you're not alone - middle eastern is never broken out either. In fact - we're grouped with white people. Some of us are white passing - some of us are very much not. Fun article about it... https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no...

I can tell ya - after 9/11 - being middle eastern sure didn't feel like being white!
I've been holding off upgrading because I didn't want to let go of Adobe Fireworks :(

I guess it's time to upgrade to Catalina.
Thought I'd weigh in here, since we moved from heroku to ec2 to aurora to RDS postgres, so I can probably speak to this a little more.

* ec2 self managed is easily the cheapest, we had a solid setup, with continuous backups and a read replica, if cost is a factor, it's easily a winner. However, there is a _lot_ of knowledge that goes with it. When it comes down to it, you can pay someone else to handle that. This isn't just the setup cost, you need to factor in ongoing maintenance (the number of people at my company that could have done complicated things with the instance was probably me and another engineer, and we didn't want to be permanently on call for this) and general risk.

* EC2 did probably work out to between 1/2 to 3/4 (probably 2/3) the price of the equivalent RDS (tough to say exactly, as I'd need to factor in all the ancillary costs that are more "bundled together" in RDS)

* RDS was much cheaper than aurora for our workload. (almost 1/2 the price).

I think the main thing to remember, is that ec2 is much cheaper than RDS, but RDS is cheaper than engineers. With that, while we didn't need to do anything complicated other than the migration, the risk and possible engineering time and bus factor didn't feel worth it to stay on ec2.
Omg, I keep rebooting in the last 20 minutes for no obvious reasons. Activity monitor just shows most of the apps as not responding.

Could it be because of this?
>Nothing scales well. scaling requires lots of effort. It doesn't matter what language you use, you'll rapidly find all its pain points.

This is very important. A lot of people think that just using go or rust or whatever other language is new fixes all of this. But with a big enough project, you'll find all the issues. It's just a matter of time.
Along with Evil, Emacs org-mode is the thing that eventually lures a number of people like you over from Vim. Evil makes editing in Emacs close enough (very close) to editing in Vim. Org-mode gives useful functionality that you can't get in Vim.
This review doesn't spend much time on the flying car question specifically. Most of it is devoted to saying that energy should be cheaper and that we should use more of it.

Let's imagine that the higher specific energy consumption and correspondingly higher fuel cost of flying cars is not a problem. For example, American households in the top income decile could quadruple their consumption of gasoline and it wouldn't be a financial hardship.

So why don't high income Americans have flying cars? Why are $100k+ cars from luxury brands still stubbornly earthbound?

Hall quotes a post on a message board suggesting that even if you had built a flying car and were ready to take to the air, you’d be shot down by the FAA, the mayor, the news media, the insurance company, and your neighbors.

I can easily imagine some objections from the FAA, insurance company, and neighbors. There's nary a word here attempting to rebut them. Nor to explain how cheaper energy would solve any of these problems.

It's nice to imagine that cheap energy would enable the dreams of science fiction authors circa 1970. In a few cases it would even be true. But probably not in most cases. There are already a few petro-states that have very cheap energy for all citizens. They don't have flying cars either.
You can also disable code signing enforcement and amfi by adding the following boot args:

cs_enforcement_disable=1 amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1
Not to mention the unknown long-term effects of having it, even asymptotically.
Same. I'm still on Mojave
Performance engineering requires stable benchmarks
The expectation that Subscriptions/Billing would be free forever is silly. The product offering is significantly more complex than the base Stripe offering. Additionally, the proposed rate of 0.5% is 1/10th what other repeatable billing providers are charging.

This is a win-win and I'll be moving my startup over to Stripe Billing in the near future.
Combination of depth-first browsing and FOMO. The one thing that's serendipitous about it is that you might just get to that article you opened up last week after all
Good god, I thought I was losing my mind. I've been debugging those hangs, but hadn't made the connection with the OS launch. You have helped to preserve my remaining sanity.
And I think this is clearly false.

Epic themselves have a distribution method that they've developed quite successfully on every platform except mobile, where they're not even allowed to compete because of the arbitrary restrictions Apple and Google have put in place on software distribution.

I think Apple's argument is incredibly disingenuous.
Sorry I made an edit to clarify what I meant as it was confusing.
About 30 minutes ago I ended up restarting because my computer was unusable, only to find the exact same behavior after logging back in... It seems to be getting better now but wow, there was about 40 minute where I could essentially not use my computer because Apple's infra was getting hammered.
Anyone have recommendations for vim simulator plugins?
+1 for Grand Perspective, already helped me lots of times
I'm in the same boat, is this offer open to anyone?
That's correct. AFAIK Catalina will check online for everything, even binaries you compile yourself.
They are checking for revoked certificates.
> downvoters of ...
Form factor is similar. Brightness is better as stated. I believe you get better speakers in the Pro, the charger is higher wattage and the GPU in the high end air and Pro is 8 cores while the GPU on the base Air is 7 cores.
Having this issue on a 13' MBP. Running this to append ocsp.apple.com to the hosts file did the trick:

echo '127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Currently there is an outage preventing users from downloading the update - also experiencing extreme slowness on all macs after having selected the update for download - even though the download has failed. Not a good sign of things to come.
This is the thought process I somewhat have of the issue as well. It's as if Comcast tried charging web businesses for the privilege to serve their customers. Meanwhile, they wouldn't be allowed to charge them if these sites didn't exist in the first place.

Apple made the platform, but they can't piss off the developers. Otherwise they're just going to alienate people and possibly major players to challenge them more or invest in other areas that don't take so much off of them. Apples Appstore becomes worthless the moment nobody supplies any worthwhile software...WHICH Apple needs.
Apple software quality and design is a joke.
This.

To save yourself the headaches and frustrations, wait for the bug fix releases and updates to come first before installing this very first new release.

It makes no sense to immediately update the system and then risk your computer being rendered unusable with such bugs and problems whilst having a deadline hanging over your head.
I would love to use safari, but I am a big fan of having separate chrome windows for different google accounts (personal vs work) and I don't think safari can handle this.