skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Safari is extremely inaccessible software for most people

How the hell is it "extremely inaccessible" for "most" people?

It's Chrome that has an weirdass non-standard UI (the practice of showing app preferences/dialogs in a webpage needs to burn in the flames of Hades) and other niggles, not to mention being a privacy black hole.

If they weren't told to use Chrome (i.e. Google didn't nag people to use Chrome when they're trying to use Search etc.) "most" Mac users wouldn't give a fuck about Chrome.
Why not fork it? The usual reason to upstream patches (aside from charity) is to offload the work of integrating them with future upstream changes. If upstream is not making changes anymore, what’s the problem?
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai and the Danger of Data Charlatans
> Taking 60,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity. This level is many times higher than the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for most adults of 600 IU of vitamin D a day.

Well of course, drinking 100x times the recommended amount of water would be even worse.
Looking at the website, I cannot fully understand how it works. Is it somewhere between BitTorrnet (peer2peer content sharing) and Mastodon (decentralized social network)? How does monetization work?
Standard issue "rationalist" flex: pick a controversial topic, take a contrarian (or at least apparently contrarian) position, argue it in some creative way.

Bonus points if it treads close to some socially or politically taboo topic while avoiding anything that goes directly for it. Being overtly inflammatory and divisive is for low-brow YouTubers. High brow rationalists only hint at the possible controversial implications.

* Also YouTuber could be translated as "you are a potato."
Fact: More than one person may be registered to vote with the same name. Names aren’t globally unique.
> Well there's all the companies that were built around 2006-2015 with Ruby, when Rails was hot stuff. Many of them can't afford migrating to a new stack, or want to.

Right, so either you're working for a struggling company, or you're working on the old stack while things are gradually being migrated and most new stuff is being done in a different stack. Maybe you'd find a company that is sticking with Ruby because they like it, but that's pretty rare, and probably means that company hasn't scaled past a certain point.

> A byproduct of that is way more people learn Python / Java as a first language, so you also perhaps need to think if being a Python guy gives you any edge when you turn 45-50 as hordes of young people learn it as we speak. Outsourcing a Python project is gonna be way easier 10 years from now than doing the same with Ruby.

Well if it's hard to replace you in your current position then that cuts both ways. So you might be able to find a comfortable position, but there won't be much opportunity for growth.
What exactly are you thinking? Is your point that it couldn't possibly apply to a romantic relationship, or are you thinking it could?
I'd say stability. The various checks and balances make it difficult for any radical change from getting through, even if the majority wants it.
Alright Apple crossed waaaay over the line here. I think i'm done.
There’s no need to compromise. When it comes to making elections trustworthy, we should pull out all the stops, even if it’s slightly inconvenient to make the software open source.
wow in california this will bump you into the next tier.

if you had only these panels in your house, no other electrical use, you would pay:

# | monthly
-----------------------
1 | $108
2 | $238
3 | $371
4 | $530
5 | $689

[ pg&e: 0-300kwh @ .24, 300-1200kwh @ .31, 1200kwh+ @ .38 ]
it gets pricier with time of use + summer up to .48/kwh
Investigating Learning in Deep Neural Networks Using Layer-Wise Weight Change
Sorry no, my college only publishes Master's and PhD level thesis.
Strongly disagree, software engineering is nothing like factory work, or rather, companies who view it as such and only have "predictable, maintainable error free software" as their objective will have their lunch eaten by disruptive companies who understand software is a creative tool to deliver value and should be treated as such.

You should read

https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engin...

> Applying replication management techniques to creative work is a systemic mistake that actually disadvantages companies that are developing software – this is because the skills, workflows and founding principles for discovering new value are almost entirely different from those needed to efficiently replicate value.

> It should be clear that not having an effective creative management system is a huge gap in the value fulfillment cycle. If this gap remains unaddressed, the market will solve the problem by investors, over time, moving their money to entities that are discovering new value at higher rates. So, if you have this kind of systemic void, it’s really in your best interest to address the gap as soon as possible, and I would encourage you to give some serious consideration to empowering an effective creative management system.
As far as I’m concerned, they can continue to stay away from putting their typical Microsoft touches on Ruby.. NT ENTERPRISE, FOR BUSINESS.
> Openness to diversity really meant openness to conforming to an existing culture before joining.

Why is this a problem? I've been progressing most of my life, but I came to software development relatively late in life. The culture was dramatically different from that of my prior profession.
Microsoft has had a Python tooling team in DevDiv for almost 10 years now. Originally, we were primarily working on Python support in Visual Studio proper. We also took the first crack at Node.js support in VS - also before VSCode was a thing.

Aside from that, Microsoft also owns the VSCode extension for Go, so there's that team, as well.
There was a thread on here the other month about a chronically ill person who was accidentally overdosing on Vitamin D. I believe the conclusion of the piece was don't take copious amounts of Vitamin D and assume no side effects.
> The real reason is that Google would prefer to kill the service than have it continue with another owner which would compete with other Google offerings. And compared to Google's overall value, they don't particularly need the sale price.

The other problem is that if it's a dead or dead-end service then who would buy it? Maybe VC is easier than I thought... Perhaps Google values services more than most. They certainly spend a lot when acquiring other companies. Who would pay $2B for Google Reader or Daydream?

I think the other thing that was unstated in my last comment is that a lot of Google products are not much more than a veneer over material design and a bigtable or spanner backend. What is there to sell aside from the concept, glue code, and design work? The data? Now there's something that would really get people up in arms.

If you want to argue that the data Google has is very valuable then I agree wholeheartedly. It's also not going to sell that data which would be suicide from a privacy perspective. Letting new products use existing data is also pretty valuable, but doesn't make the resulting product as useful to anyone else.
OT, but im curious if one could design a system that had multiple kinds of processors? like for instance an x86 and as well as an ARM? I'm imagining the OS would use one or the other but it could use the right processor based on the kind of application being executed, but also choose to use one that is under utilized through emulation if necessary. I suppose we do something like this when it comes to CPUs and GPUs already.
I also struggle with weak(er) typing in Python, compared to strong(er) typing in C++, Java, or C# -- or even VBA(!).

Frustrated like you, I wrote my own open source type checking library for Python. You might be interested to read about it here: https://github.com/kevinarpe/kevinarpe-rambutan3/blob/master...

I have used that library on multiple projects for my job. It makes the code run about 50% slower, on average, because all the type checking is done at run-time. I am OK with the slow down because I don't use Python when I need speed. My "developer speed" was greatly improved with stricter types.

Finally, this isn't the first time I wrote a type checking library/framework. I did the same for Perl more than 10yrs ago. Unfortunately, that code is proprietary, so not open source. :( The abstract ideas were very similar. Our team was so frustrated with legacy Perl code, so I wrote a type checking library, and we slowly applied it to the code base. About two years later, it was much less painful!
In a recent Swedish study 78% of pregnant non-European migrants had very low Vitamin D levels, vs 31% for white women:

https://vitamindwiki.com/78+percent+of+pregnant+immigrants+i...

Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy contribute to schizophrenia and learning difficulties, amongst other health impacts.

I wonder if the higher rate of violent crime and terrorism seen amongst Middle Eastern and African migrants in Europe, even after a second generation, is partly caused by insufficient Vitamin D levels.

We should consider whether it is sensible offering refuge in northern European countries to people from these regions when they will need lifelong Vitamin D supplementation.
Any resources on Level 1 decryption?
My last endodontist thoroughly explained everything, made a root canal as comfortable as possible and saved me a bit of money.

He also had bad teeth.
This is _why_ we go to school. I would advocate that school needs integrated therapy components too more than we have.
> Are you equating being suspended off Twitter to being thrown in Jail? For the record, people commonly do get suspended for harassments for sending death threats to public figures.

My point here is that people on one end of the political spectrum are given the benefit of the doubt when they make statements like this that they are not meant to be taken literally. Meanwhile, people on the other end of the political spectrum are treated as though they actually intend to carry them out.
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> they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"

That switch was toggled with Big Sur and Apple silicon: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/08/19/apple-silicon-macs-to-req...
Extreme case: PhD.
Repository mirror: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...
> If the secretary of state confirms that the four votes were cast in the names of dead people, it will hardly be enough to overcome Joe Biden’s 14,000 vote lead in Georgia.
Level 1 means everything is done in a secure enclave from what i understand.

I wonder if google does something similar to bluray AACS where if a level 1 device is compromised they can revoke just that device (or manufacturer's key). If not, i wonder why they don't.

(To clarify my curiosity is in an abstract way, i am ideologically opposed to DRM)
If only there is something like this to “fix” my printer to print black and white when cyan color is out.
Tangential:

This is the 2nd time ADOM is mentioned in last 7 days by co-incidence on HN. It just makes me happy and I think it is heavily underrated game.
Traditionally most cg rendering systems use an idealized lens to simplify the math. Matrix projection transformations simulate a pinhole lens.

This does mean that all images are perfectly sharp however, so for depth-of-field, bokeh, and other realistic lens blurring effects the position of the idealized lens (i.e. virtual pinhole) is varied over samples creating a sort of fuzzy pinhole.
System76 just rebadges Clevo laptops. You may as well just go directly to Clevo.

I use a Dell xps13 (several years old now) for work, and it's fine. I have no complaints except that the aging battery is not what it used to be (I'd normally be due for a replacement system this year, but we're limping along on old hardware due to the recession).

I can't understand how picky people seem to be about things like the MacBook touchpad. Since my last Apple computer purchase was well over a decade ago, maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but the touchpad on the Dell seems to control my pointer well enough.
Take a step closer to Idiocracy then.
Actually, you're replying to me. Check the usernames.

You can't run Windows on these things, and Rosetta 2 doesn't fully support kexts, VMs, or certain instruction sets. It's a translator and it's going to be imperfect in practice. That's why it's not intended to supplant development with native instructions.

Your other comment is a tweet regarding one function that is speculatively faster, but tells me nothing about real-world performance -- nor whether the tools I use for my business are going to be supported by Apple Silicon in the next few months.
Uhhhh.... Not at this scale. Thats what I thought about one of my previous open source projects. I was a naive highschool kid back then I thought open source is great. Let anyone use it. Yay! The one fine day someone raised a PR (this was back in 2012 when CI was not very common). It looked OK and I merged it. The following weeks had me battling issues with people using the library. Eventually I abandoned the project cause I didn't have the time/funds/motivation to continue working on it and there were better solutions available on the market.
To me it’s wild that anyone would want voting to be anything but universal. Shouldn’t they send ballots to every person legally allowed to vote?
Thank you, this looks incredibly close to what I want! Definitely testing this tomorrow, thanks again.
Show HN: C++ zip, The curious case of the zip in the night-time
Better than taking some Hacker News rando's blanket dismissal of the work of thousands of poll workers across the country.
This issue is clearly a bug. It is an accidental denial of service attack on the client.

It will get fixed pretty easily: Apple will add some combination of a timeout and a request back-off to their client, to properly handle the situation of a server that is reachable but not sufficiently responsive.

Apple clearly does not mean to make their devices unresponsive if the server is offline, because pointing requests at localhost resolves the issue.
> Do we all really believe that Bannon was actually, literally saying he would be-head these people and put their heads on spikes...

I believe Bannon was genuinely attempting to fuel the escalation of both disorganized and, through normalization, top-down political violence and intimidation against people insufficiently adherent to his vision; I don't think the statement had either literal or figurative, hyperbolic or otherwise, meaning beyond that intended effect.

Discussing “meaning” of a speech act assumes that the acts intended to operate on a certain rational level, which I don't think actually applies here. But, inasmuch as an interpretation of the intended effect centered around meaning is appropriate at all, I think the literal meaning is the closest.

> How many times have you said something along the lines of "I will kill you if you put that picture of me on Instagram!"

That's not even remotely analogous to what Bannon did here. He wasn't personally and privately addressing the person who was the subject in a context (whether immediate or through a preexisting relationship) that undermined the literal meaning of the expression. His act differed on literally every meaningful aspect from that.
The main design fuck-up is that instead of independed Personal Computers we have terminals connected to one huge server which violates the whole idea and meaning of Personal Computer and what the word "Personal" should mean.
The problem with IronPython, and really most other alternative implementations of Python, is their inability to reuse native code packages, because CPython extension API is so low-level and tied to the VM's implementation details (and that cannot be easily changed now for backwards compatibility reasons). Such packages are fairly common, and if you take them all out, it significantly reduces the value of Python as an ecosystem.
Recurring billing is not trivial, but it's not performing open heart surgery either.

The big time waster these days, at least for those of us around Europe, is the tax and regulatory hassles. But Stripe and other payment services following similar models offer limited help with a lot of that stuff anyway.
Absolutely it's the people that are the most important.

One of the best jobs I ever had was early in my career during a bit of a bubble period where there was such a scarcity of workers that the company was desperate enough to fill the roles with misfit weirdos (coincidentally why I was hired). It was amazing fun.

In total contrast years later I worked for Electronic Arts and its highly corporate vibe and dull atmosphere lead me to bail as soon as my short contract was up.
Can mods ban submissions about vitamin D please? This forum has turned into infowars...
And as we all know time travel is a real thing and there is a real risk that he will send the world back in time 700 years.
It's probably kept under wraps by large scene groups, they don't want to show their methods and have them patched out.
See also: all electric vehicles (except a few very old designs).
Definitely Ubuntu LTS if you don't mind running an old distro. However, updating Ubuntu can be problematic so if you want to stay up-to-date I'd recommend Arch Linux. There can be some hassle setting it up initially and the community is very RTFMy, but other than that, it's a very smooth distro.
This view frustrates me because it ignores what the founders based the constitution on, namely, the history of governments across the world and philosophical underpinnings of the enlightenment and renaissance that enabled them. Madison in particular studied such a wide array of topics in his forumaltion of proposed systems that hardly anyone I know of even today could even come close in understanding the big picture view he did due to that study. Ask any modern politician about what philsopher was the main originator of the checks and balances system and I bet almost none of them would even know Montesquieu's name, much less have read him. The same for the people who then talk about the contitution as being some outdated document of rich slave owners that should be completely rewritten. It's just become a trope narrative to me that gets tiring to hear from those who love to pontificate on the subject without being more informed.

As for non-Americans, I think those foundational principles, if not the constitution itself, should be valued just as much elsewhere as they are in America (in theory at least). Perhaps I have a too naively positive a view of the extent of liberal education in Europe and elsewhere.

As Christopher Hitchens said: "The American Revolution, the one that says, build your public on individual rights, not group rights, have a bill of rights that inscribes these and makes theme legible to everybody, separate the church from the state, separate the executive from the judicial, and the political branch. Do all these things; It doesn't sound like much but it's really a very revolutionary idea. There is hardly a country in the world that wouldn't benefit from adopting those principles. I think that gives the United States a really good claim to be a revolutionary country as well as of course, paradoxically a very conservative one."
A few years ago I read a study about taxes and public services by country. The conclusion ending up being:

"If Americans knew what Europeans get for their tax dollars, they (Americans) would riot in the streets".

My google-fu fails me, and I've been unable to find it since. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?
I moved to Linux last month. I currently run Windows, Linux and MacOS VM on my machine.

From being a Windows guy through all the years, I've found myself increasingly using Linux in this span of time. The only thing preventing me from a complete switch is MS Office. I barely used MacOS, except to diagnose issues on MacOS and run XCode.
ML is a strongly typed language, so it's hard to compare it directly.

Scheme is a better comparison, but its lexical scoping requires all local variables to be explicitly declared. You can argue that it's a feature, but that's rather subjective - and if somebody wants the simplicity of assignment-is-local-declaration, how exactly would you do it differently than Python?
Exactly!

The intangible disruptions of a human society will indirectly cause eventual death due to the nuclear war. Think about it, just the COVID-19 lockdown of a few weeks can cause economy collapsed, people out of jobs, can't paid rent, utilities. A nuclear war will immediate cut off or contaminate essential human necessities, like food, water, shelters, electricity etc., so even without getting harmed by kinetic force, radiation, climate alteration, people still cannot survive long term.
It took almost 6 hrs to fully resolve:

macOS Software Update - Resolved Issue
Today, 10:00 AM - 5:15 PM
Some users were affected
Users may not have been able to download macOS Software Updates on Mac computers.
Whoa - thank you for sharing that.
> I failed two out of three questions in one of the interviews

Do you know for a fact that you failed them, or is that just your perception? Interview questions are typically a little more open-ended than you suspect, and not being able to deliver the full answer of what's being asked for isn't a failure when you've only got 30 minutes.
I believe they did. There is no unity in force. There is unity in cooperation and mutual agreement.

When 51% want something, it shouldn’t be so. It should necessarily require more buy in.

That’s precisely why the states were largely expected to govern themselves with federal power being less extreme. The divide that we see in the country today is caused by two sides trying to force their way on each other rather than allowing states to just...disagree.

We’d all be a lot better off if our states ran the way we wanted and simply turned our nose up and joked about the ones we didn’t agree with, than trying to constantly force those other states to do things our way.
Not only that but a long commute spikes your chances of divorce by double digits. Basically commuting sucks across the board and will ruin your life.
> Oh man, imagining a DDOS to fail that over.

That might be what we just saw happen.
http://hugunin.net/microsoft_farewell.html
Can someone ELI5 on the significance.
Perhaps the issue is, it didn't used to be like this.
I upvoted you, but one thing that is good about studies into stuff like this, is that they prove we aren’t imagining it. They are a good antidote against gaslighting.
talk about bullshit..