skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. )

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With Safari's switch to WebExtensions, I hope that the developer of OneTab (1) makes their extension available on Safari as well. I started using this extension on Firefox to get an additional layer of protection from an unexpected crash that corrupted tabs data. This was before the multiple backups approach that Firefox has adopted, which has all but eliminated tab data corruption. I continue using it because I like to see tabs in a list.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/?utm_s...
Thanks for replying, I'm very excited to hear it's in the works!
Totally agreed. There's always disasters.

I have a friend who effectively works on code quality at apple who's always talking about how seriously they take this kind of stuff... and yet, there are without fail always issues in their flagship OS releases. I don't get it.
I've tried something like that. Maybe it was OneTab, I don't remember.

Unfortunately I found bookmarks rather useless and switched back to using tabs. It's really unfortunate.
Interesting but perplexing: is this sort of an alternative to Darklang?
I feel like Apple exploded due to synergies between mac / ipod then iphone iwatch but now they're falling into the unified trap (a bit like MS did)
I seriously don't see it. I click around on the WEF site and it's just a bunch of hot air like you'd expect. These aren't lizard men, they're inconsequential bureaucrats.
Does it ARM? Apps that support Apple Silicon
I'd argue that fighting your tools is the _least_ acceptable in a professional setting.
Don't forget being able to get high priority in the backlog if you need a feature from another service in order to launch.

Former AWS engineer who launched a service here. That, access to source code and being able to setup an hour-long meeting with any engineer are the big points. Not that I think that lacking these is insurmountable, but they're very nice to have.
Sturzstrom
We thought that in the 1990s and a lot of VC money was spent on it. I'd like to see it happen for technical reasons, but still I wait to see it happen.
I should probably add that. I know I have had it at some point on a different computer.
I ran the beta over the summer and it was awful. I loved the changes but it was just unstable as hell. And people kept saying it was the most stable is yet, I don’t get it.
Inkplate[1] is an affordable E Ink picture frame, that uses an old Kindle display. Got mine for $99 at Crowdsupply[2].

[1]https://inkplate.io
[2]https://www.crowdsupply.com/search?q=inkplate
GateKeeper.
So Ken Thompson created go and gofmt so he wouldn't have to deal with that crap any more.
It takes courage. Think different.
> How can launching apps be depending on a cloud service being available...

It's not, per se. The apps will launch if you block the specific subdomain, or turn off internet. The problem is if the computer thinks it can connect and keeps trying.
That's pretty good. For geekbench we see:

* 3800XT = 1357 (100%)

* 4800H = 1094 (~80%)

* 4800U = 1033 (~76%)

I would expect a 5800U to score at best around 1500, but realistically closer to 1300-1450. That's still behind the M1, but pretty darn close for being behind a node (and will still probably be faster for applications that would require x86 translation).
Though only for consumer 4-party scheme cards.

If you have mostly EU customers, then it would make sense to switch the acquirer and probalby get an Interchange++ rate.

If you have customers from all over the world, using mostly business cards or cards from Amex, then the Stripe rate might be okay.
> Based on that platform, with a big contribution from third party developers, a virtual ecosystem has grown. Today, true value is in this whole ecosystem. And that is the point. Third party developers combined have probably contributed more man-hours/resources than Apple alone to increase the value of this ecosystem. Why should Apple have a total control of this ecosystem when they created only a part of it?

This sounds like a point that would come up often in critiques of capitalism.

> Software developers also don't have much choice. There are two platforms that control all the market share. They have to accept the rules given to them or leave the industry (one they helped create).

This is very true. Microsoft tried to turn the Apple/Google smartphone duopoly into a... triopoly? (Is that even a word?)
Both my Hackintosh and MBAir are on Catalina and have been freezing repeatedly for the last hour. Definitely is effecting Catalina.
Dude you work at Wix.
This makes no sense, other than maybe for preventing fires during earthquakes or creating a disincentive for developers to lobby the proliferation or expansion of existing gas lines?

Otherwise, not using natural gas for heating hot water, cooking or heating homes is moronic since it's one of the most energy efficient means of doing so. Electric stoves and water heaters are hilariously inefficient and still pale in comparison to electric furnaces. As an environmental measure this is almost as dumb as Dubai deciding to use monumentally sized heat pumps to chill their beaches... But seriously, this will just result in orders of magnitude of more electricity usage and waste.

Thank goodness I will never live in SF.
The problem is not that your premise is too complicated for others to understand, it's that the 'walled garden' is a trade-off which people disagree about.

Walled gardens are safer, and usually have some implicit or explicit quality guarantee (like the Nintendo seal of quality).

Open platforms allow for more flexibility and innovation by new entrants.

On top of this disagreement, we have the meta-issue of whether business model innovation should be allowed; the USA generally permits new business models, whereas European governments are more restrictive.
I deffo want to try this, but I'm torn because reddit enhancement suite is not supported
New right-to-repair bill foils Tesla’s monopoly over its vehicle data
I want the numbers for the flu. You claimed that the flu is worse for non high risk individuals.
Note that it's ocsp.apple.com, not oSCp.apple.com.
It works both ways though.

When the data presented to us suit our current view or agenda, we somehow feel that it's valid. I remember when discussions about "open plans" or "estimates" were still a thing, without fail "evidence based" works such as Peopleware or The Mythical Man Month would be mentioned.

If this book turned out to agree with the view that "scrum is not really more productive", or "less meetings means more productive", or "the interview process is broken", then we'd all be really glad to refer to its data.
Docker for Mac is a Linux VM with some tools to glue your Mac to that VM. It gives you the illusion that your Mac is running containers, but it's not -- Linux containers are a Linux thing. Some virtualization is going to be necessary unless your host OS is Linux. One could argue that maybe MacOS should somehow run the Linux kernel. Windows tried that as WSLv1 and it didn't work that well; WSLv2 just uses a VM.

The net impact of this is not particularly high. I always write my apps so that they can run on the local machine, and just have my CI system put them in Docker images for deployment. But, that does require some effort, and some language ecosystems or applications make this nearly impossible (relying on details like case-insensitive filenames, OS quirks, etc.)... so people just develop inside a container to work around that. (I would never tolerate it, but it can work OK for things like PHP where your edits take effect in the running container without having to rebuild anything.)
I've said this before in previous discussions of this case -

I don't think anyone is arguing that Apple shouldn't have the right to charge companies that take advantage of the products and services that they've built in their store

I think that problem is that Apple is arbitrarily denying the ability for any other company to provide a competing product. How can you honestly evaluate the value proposition of Apple's "great" store, if they've killed all the competition?

You can't. Which is the whole damn point, because Epic HAS a store that I'm sure they'd love to release on iOS but Apple prohibits it.

Basically - Apple is the bully who's now crying foul when the competition is actually trying to enter the game.

From a monetary standpoint, I understand why Apple is doing this. As a developer and distributor of software (my day job), I cannot express clearly enough how much I'd like to see Apple lose this case. As far as I'm concerned, they can fuck right off.

I'm firmly in the "Handle it like MS and IE" camp - I want a court ruling that not only prohibits Apple from stopping competition in their store space, I want a MANDATORY popup on first use that asks the user which store they'd like to use.
I didn't quite understand what the author meant when he said that VS Code was a 'lite' IDE. Any ideas?
AMD processors already have an ARM trustzone core. I think the official policy is use whatever hardware is suitable for the purposes and sometimes embedded ARM is the correct choice.

If they don't support ARM servers, they are done for in some cloud/supercomputer markets. Hence they will support it.
Macs Everywhere Aren't Working
Indeed. I’m trying to move from Google Authenticator to Authy for that reason - but the inability to backup/export from GA is a PITA... a cruel form of vendor lock-in.
I don't know about you, but hashes of the binaries I run don't exactly reveal any sensitive personal information about me. That said, obviously they should have much more graceful degradation in place for when something is wrong with the service.
Huh I had no idea $1/$2/etc worked as-is in an alias. The advice I learned years ago for dealing with any alias that needs to do something custom with parameters is to write it like

git config alias.foo '!f() { actual command goes here }; f'

as that will pass all the args to the shell function. But if git is already setting it up so the args work then suffixing the alias with ";:" seems simpler.
User authentication with Node.js (reading series part 2): MongoDB setup
Sad state of affairs that apps are slow because it can't phone home to a server to verify it's okay.
What is up with the back button after you go there?

1) goto website

2) click on logo

3) I think I am on a new page

4) click back

5) wtf?
Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977)
Why are people so sure? The Mac is a different sort of device with a different use case and people who use it don't have the same expectations about it that they, and others, have about phones.
Here's an idea: loop several thin wires around the carcass, connect them to a tractor and pull... Should break it down quite easily into several moveable chunks.
Again, it turns out that Stallman[1] and others[2] were prescient.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
But seriously, is there? A quick glance shows nothing
Is this the one-time signature checking that has been in place since Catalina, or is this something else? (And if so is there any information about it?)
Is this true or is it what Googlers who work on the low priority products that will inevitably be killed off after a few years tell themselves to feel better about working on what is essentially shovelware clones of the latest idea someone else is having some success with?

Google are big enough and generate enough profit that they can afford to have entire divisions of developers who are kept around in case they're needed one day. That doesn't make those people good developers though. Obviously there are some very capable people on those teams, but if they're genuinely talented why aren't they working on Search or Ads? That's what makes Google money, so that's why the best people end up, not on little side projects.
DG1 sounds ideal for this but you can't buy it.
Apple is experiencing an outage taking down Macs
Potential fix for the slowness here: https://twitter.com/stauffermatt/status/1326996782665052162
What can I say, I use the mouse a lot. Despite using i3 I still rarely use shortcut keys to change focus. Then again, I shouldn't be apologetic for being a mouse user. It's just another tool.

I find moving around tmux panes kind of annoying and scrolling them even more annoying, but that's probably more of a lack of comfortability with it than anything else.
> The first is: "You will own nothing. And you'll be happy"[1]. My questions - who does the "owning" and does this apply to the "elites" that attend Davos?

Well, I suppose that could work out if we have a communist revolution in 2025, and we introduce the backs of those elites to various walls.

Otherwise, fuck that noise.
Franz Brentano, who taught Freud and Husserl
If a bank proposes something, it's safe to say it's not socialism.
My guess is that no one had a solution, so the problem fell through to the first person with an idea.
I'm quite surprised #3 has only been mentioned 197 times (well, a few more after this thread) in 14 years.
Databricks launches SQL Analytics service to run SQL queries on data lakes
Marginal Revolution is a lot more mainstream than Gwern or Slate Star Codex. Tyler Cowen is one of the most influential economists today. His Bloomberg column might have more reach than the MR blog though. So the topics are really different - MR will discuss many issues that are central to the current “national conversation”, with more of a broad-based style of reasoning, whereas Gwern and SSC will go much more into detail on a small set of topics, with more of a “rationalist” style of reasoning. I wouldn’t say they are “seen to be similar”.

Personally, I rate MR quite highly. I just think the reasoning is better-argued and the topics are more often something I’m interested in, compared to basically any other blog. Gwern and SSC are great too though.
That level of baseline activity could explain why the MICT actually increased the all-cause-mortality risks. It appears the the mixed control group means that the MICT was actually reducing the average exercise intensity from the norm. What a frickin' overachieving set of septuagenarians (reminds me of Mr. Awesome in Chuck)! I'd assume if there were more "no/low" exercise group the MICT would appear much better. Tantalizing results though.
> A bespoke license is indeed required if you need to do something more advanced.

Are you a lawyer, or have you had a lawyer review your bespoke licence?
Big Sur Upgrades on Pause
Your comment is hopelessly naive. There will always be grifters, conmen, thieves, etc and anarchy only empowers them.

Every nice place in the world is one with a well functioning , transparent and accountable hierarchy.

Your "solution" doesn't scale to millions of people.
Chris Lattner?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116.
In this case, isn't the hash of the binary consistent across all devices, so Apples can in fact derive exactly which binary you're running (assuming they have a large database of application binary and hashes)?
> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session.

Honestly, if you like to live on the edge, you have to except some accidents.
It reveals how often I am running new software, it reveals what time of day I run new software, it reveals what networks I connect from
>Your point of view is extremely US-centered. I would be shocked, for example, to hear an European to hold such a view.

Which Europeans believe that you work for the government, not the government works for you?
Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?
Dan Abramov
Pinned tabs in safari are brilliant.
This. The amount of times I've truly needed more then a couple of hours of battery life are rare. I think most people think they want more battery life when they really don't need it. Just add more cooling to stop those processors from throttling all the time.
I am 100% ok with a CEO cashing out on top of a success.

Anything else effectively makes them a lower-class shareholder.

Pfizer is a huge, multi-billion dollar business. The CEO making $5M off a stock sale is relatively minuscule, especially after delivering such a massive win for shareholders.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your information, but Python itself is quite slow (100-1000X slower than Go or Java) and it’s only “fast” when it’s dispatching to C or Rust or FORTRAN, and even then (to your point about nuance) these optimizations are only feasible sometimes; namely, when the cost of serializing is lower than the efficiencies gained by the optimizations available in the target language. This is all pretty widely discussed, including here on this very forum.

No doubt that Python is sometimes fast enough (e.g., vanilla CRUD apps that do all of the heavy lifting in Postgres), but sometimes it’s not and you’re left with really crumby optimization options. And since we rarely can know with certainty on the outset of a project whether or not the bottlenecks will be amenable to the optimizations afforded by Python, it’s a dangerous game. I would even go so far as to say that other languages have become quite good at many of the things that Python is good at (namely pace of development) while being much better at the things that it’s not good at (performance, package management, etc), so I actually wouldn’t recommend starting new projects in Python except for certain niches, like scientific computing (and who knows if Python will even retain its dominance there).
OCSP is Online Certificate Status Protocol. The connection to ocsp.apple.com is checking the status of the certificate used to code sign the launching app.

I wrote an article about this a couple weeks ago because of the temporary revocation of HP's signing cert for printer drivers on the Mac:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/revocation.html
Hopefully he is going to make a really good port of Python to .Net.
Over many years, models, and indirectly hundreds of laptops (buying for teams, not myself) I'm pretty confident that Dells have a higher failure rate than many alternatives, but if you buy the higher tier support they are also more responsive than most. NB if you fall back on out of warranty and/or lower tier from them, support is not good.
> Wait for at least one week and check out other people's experiences first.

Of course if everyone does this, there is no experience upon which to draw.

Furthermore, the title is straight up wrong: this is not related to Big Sur and is in fact also affecting other versions with Gatekeeper.
Problems with Apple's infrastructure: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Just a case of waiting unfortunately...
>but the overall effect is small.

quibble: non significant, wide confidence doesn't mean "small", it means _unknown_. It means the data is too sparse and/or too noisy to tell.
Man, there's so much stuff I want to do but don't have time for. I can't imagine retirement being so dull that I would go back to corporate work.
"Hey Siri, select every Tor Browser user in America for additional screening."
> Here comes P#, I'm seeing myself out as well.

I tried to convince Guido to do a P# April Fool's (I think in 2005 or 2006), but he disliked the idea so much I didn't do it myself either.
I think the really cool thing is that this would theoretically rank the M1 as #1 on the Geekbench Single Core leaderboard, above both AMD and Intel's latest offerings!
Is it possible that we (the internet) don't understand this properly because by this logic, the apps shouldn't run when there is no internet connection. I don't believe that is the case.
Right, lots of confusion in this thread.

A12Z/DTK: HW does not support virtualization at all.

Apple M1 / New Apple Products: HW does support virtualization for ARM64 guests (both windows and linux demonstrated).

What about x86 software in the guestOS? Not with Rosetta. Instead, the guest OS will have to provide its own translation (such as windows/arm's current x86->arm64 or upcoming x86_64->arm64 feature). I'm not familiar if there is any usable high performance x86_64->arm translation available for linux.

Docker w/ arm images: needs some work to be able to work on mac/arm virtualization, but it's coming.

Docker w/ arm linux kernel + x86 userland images: Any translation solution would be found within the linux guestOS, not macOS. I don't know if any candidates exist. Maybe qemu?

Docker w/ full x86 image (incl. kernel): I don't think this is possible?
I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something.

And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% constantly. Next thing, I reboot into a laggy system. macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... it's basically an abusive relationship at this point.
RT-PCR
Wait what happens if you don't have an internet connection? Can Macs not be used offline any more, surely that's still a relatively common use case for a laptop even today in a lot of places?
Thanks for a fantastic app that makes working on macOS a smooth experience.
Wipr does a brilliant job.
Totally agree. We're new on the block so it might take some time.
Discussion [1] indicates that the control group were energised into exercising about as much as the "moderate" (not HIIT) intervention group. This is not an uncommon problem in intervention trials in this area.

Something is better than nothing. More is better than less.

[1] (audio and transcript) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/m...
Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds
This isn’t true. Chrome on macOS will literally stop showing you new tabs altogether once you have too many which is the worst solution I can think of.

One of the best trade-offs is to stop shrinking tabs at some point and let you scroll them.
I’ve been running it as a daily driver since the first day of the developer betas and have found it to be vastly more stable than the previous version, with basically no issues before this.

I don’t know what to tell you, beyond the fact that all use cases are not the same, apparently.
You don't happen to have anywhere I could read about Stallman potentially joining Microsoft? I find it hard to believe he would.
It's a rental market.
Update: DigitalOcean sent a thoughtful apology and is willing to continue sponsoring RailsCasts. While I do appreciate their years of sponsorship in the past, I have no plans to go back.
SHapley Additive ExPlanations
"They found that the reptiles and mammals had two patches of activity, one on either side of the developing nasal cavity. Birds, on the hand, had a much larger single patch spanning the front of the face. The researchers reasoned that the alligator pattern could serve as a proxy for that of dinosaurs, given that they have similar snouts and premaxillary bones. The researchers then undid a bird-specific pattern of gene expression in chicken embryos using chemicals to block the genes in the middle of the face. (For ethical reasons, they did not allow the chickens to hatch.)

The result: The treated embryos developed a more dinosaurlike face. “They basically grew a bird embryo back into something that looked more like the morphology of extinct dinosaurs,” said Timothy Rowe, a paleontologist at the University of Texas, Austin, who has previously collaborated with Abzhanov."
Has anyone confirmed if this outside the error-reporting agreement step?
It's as if Comcast tried charging web businesses for the privilege to serve their customers.

Wait until you hear about intentional congestion, paid peering, and Netflix. https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...