skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently conceded to the argument that it's impossible to solve the problem without first defining the role and function of the companies. I believe that should be at the center of Senate questioning, not because it's comfortable, but because it is necessary.

I cooked eggs this morning. There is a diversity of wonderful eggs and even some bad eggs. Is the Twitter service a) the eggs, b) the pan, c) the stove, or d) the hen-to-table service of providing a delicious breakfast?
It didn’t solve the problem, meaning, unless you are willing to lock down indefinitely, the virus will come back. So in the pedantic sense you are right, lockdowns work, but clearly are not a solution.
Just as testimony, it probably doesn't mean much, but bakcwards compatibility you either have it or you don't, there's no middle ground

Apple is one of the most capitalistic companies out there, they want you to buy new stuff and they'll try everything they can to force users to upgrade sooner or later

The story is this: a friend of mine is a well respected illustrator and he has been a long time Mac user (at least since I remember)

Few days ago he asked me advices about a new laptop and he asked for a PC because "new Mac OS will not work with my Photoshop version"

He owns a license for Photoshop 6, payed for it and has no need to uograde, especially to the new subscription based licensing

MacOS Sierra doesn't even work with Photoshop CS6

The only option he had to keep using something he owned was to switch platform (Adobe allows platform change upon request)

End of story.

Backwards compatibility has no value until you need it.

Just like an ambulance or a pacemaker.
Oh, I see. It's still nevertheless likely that stronger chip packages will be bundled with more RAM.
I believe bannon came in after the experiment had already concluded.
Is HTTP (without the S) only risky if you're transmitting data, and not just browsing?
Personally I much perfer oat milk coffee than cow milk coffee, maybe depends on the brand? I'm using Karma brand from Switzerland's COOP.
Researchers Across U.K., Europe to Create Digital Library of Old European Smells
We spent a significant amount of effort in the last year and a half working on a redesigned modular/parallel layout subsystem.

The VR focus was because it was a good way to get servo out to end users early without needing to be fully web compat -- WebXR doesn't require complex layout. We didn't drop our focus on full web compat during this, but full web compat has always been a more long term goal given how complex the web platform is.
I'm also hoping for thinner bezels as the current models' ones are just huge compared to Dell's XPS line for example. It's slowly becoming obvious that the design has barely changed since 2016 or so. The 16" model was a step in the right direction, but it's still not even close to what Dell is delivering.

It'd be amazing if they managed to squeeze a 13" screen into the old 12" form factor - you'd still get great battery life thanks to the M1.
There may have been a typo though, I think "with all its quirks" would be more correct.
Idaho is currently sending it's overflow COVID patients to Washington state.

Idaho's state health authorities are blaming it on a mysterious epidemic that is definitely not COVID, and that social distancing, reduced capacity, and mask use is unnecessary.

> "Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'" he told the medical professionals who testified.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-idaho-kootenai-coun...
Your comment makes me think how WASM will go through this hype phase where people will think is a panacea to build things for the browser..
Hype gold rush all over again, but applications built on native or even javascript ones in the web or Electron will perform better in most cases. Of course companies will think its great for them to have only one codebase for every platform, but applications built with Javascript or Typescript for the web, with eventual WASM module here and there will be a better fit, so it will be risky to try to cut expenses and development there.

WASM will be awesome to bring great tech that is only available in native platform to the web, like FFMPEG, or to accelerate some code that uses a lot of math. But i think that people that are going way down into this WASM rabbit hole will have a wake-up call pretty soon.

WASM will open some blue-seas for sure, but they are limited to some niche scenarios and using WASM for application development for the web, desktop and mobile wont be one of them.
Early moon mission demonstrated that rock and feather fell at the same speed.

Ergo, ultra fine dust will fall to the moon's surface at the same rate as a boulder.

Dust will stick with static electricity however much better on the moon - so your point has an even better justification.
Seems to work in every other country with a modern medical industry.
Bisect is a debugging utility - it helps you do a binary search for the commit which introduced a bug by checking out code at certain commits, having you compile and run it, and tell git if the bug was there or not, and then going back or forward in history until you can identify the 1 commit that caused the bug to appear.

I've never used it, but it sounds like a nice tool of last resort.
>I feel kind of grossed out, as a developer (and tinkerer) by how locked down Mac products are

That's part of the value proposition (leave it or take it).
> The 3950X Hackintosh performed on par with the MBA.

That should probably be put the other way around. It gives the impression that the MBA was the incumbent.
But on the other hand there is always an omelette to whisk.
I don't see any irony there; people care about firefox, and there is literally no way to donate money to develop firefox. Maybe donating to the foundation sorta indirectly helps firefox, but a reasonable person could easily view them as mostly unrelated.
Bootcamp has always run fine for me. I've never tried to install Linux on my Macs.
Well, start with this:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/politics/mask-mandate-fact-ch...
CSS is not turing-complete - it is as turing-complete as a simple TXT file.
Deciding whether some sequence of bytes resembles a CSS file is very possible.
Deciding whether a stylesheet can be successfully applied to a website is also decidable.
Of course, it is undecidable whether a certain pattern emerges if a stylesheet is applied to an infinitely large HTML file.
But then, it is also undecidable whether some TXT file appears in an infinitely large HTML file.
Administration rushes to auction off rights to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
With 9,036 pieces, Lego’s Roman Colosseum set is its largest ever
My thermostat still works fine, it seems. The App doesn't work, but it's back to being a "dumb" thermonstat.
Oh my yes. Some years ago, I did not realize this. My mental model of Git had it de-duplicating common text between commits, but this is not the case. I learned the truth the hard way when I wrote a commit hook that automatically appended about a hundred lines to a text file with every commit. It worked fine at first, but eventually `git fetch` started failing.
These are impressive performance stats and, given that I'm working from home all the time nowadays and with much less of a need for a laptop, the Mac Mini is actually a fairly attractive option.

Except for one thing: it's maxxed out at 16GB of unified RAM. 16GB. In 2020 (nearly 2021). FFS.

Come on Apple: get your act together. The 16GB limit was frustrating as hell when I bought my last MBP in 2015: now it's absolutely unforgiveable.

(The iMac obviously goes way beyond 16GB but isn't yet available with Apple silicon, and obviously the attraction with the Mini is the relatively ludicrous performance of that Apple silicon.)
No, of course not. I'm just pointing out that the issue is not simply "stupid people exist."
At some point it is easier to have something sitting in a rack somewhere. That way you dont have to cook your ultrabook to run that stuff.
The fundamental truth of ML at the moment seems to be that gathering data takes at least as much effort and infrastructure (and often much more) than actually training the models.
The whole concept of the machine is to be bought and optimized for running macOS.
Right, but Apple isn’t using the adid to track anyone (other than traffic to its own sites). So the gdpr aspects apply to sites, not the phone maker.
Do you think we will see devices with multiple M1 chips? I’m not familiar with the barriers to that sort of computing model
Honestly Remarkable is a great device and plus I love how the community has played a huge role in providing with tools
So, the problem is a 64 bit int only gives you ~500 years around the epoch at nanosecond resolution. That's sufficient for timestamping, but not great for a general purpose time library where even ordinary civil calculations might exceed that range, particularly in intermediate arithmetic.

Since larger than 64 bit ints are a disaster for portability, the reasonable solution is to go with a 64 bit signed seconds, 32 bit nano offset field. A lot of language std libs have adopted something along these lines.

DJB was advocating for everything to be in a format like this, referenced to TAI (UTC without leap seconds, basically). Sadly that didn't get any traction.
I have built a similar tool to help me edit my PhD thesis a few years back: https://expresso-app.org/. It helped me improve my writing but was also picked up by some English teachers to use as a scalable way for providing initial feedback to students, so they can later focus on deeper feedback in their own grading. So I now keep the tool running for the small community.
> No local access and/or physical control => don't buy it. No exceptions.

Are there any thermostats like that? The only mass market product like that that I know of like is Philips Hue lights (their base stations have a local REST API, or at least they did last time I really used them).

My "don't buy it" threshold is unnecessarily cloud-only features or mandatory cloud integration. I should be able to take full advantage of the product's features without that extra dependency.
Welcome to Michigan!
> I have to laugh when you say its replacing email.

Laugh all you like, but kids and the interns I've chatted with see email as something akin to how I feel about fax machines: not something they'd use by choice, but necessary for historical reasons. When I've been at organizations during a Slack adoption, email volume drops hugely; 50-80%, I'd guess. I've closed most of the mailing lists I used to run because they shifted to mediums better suited. Just this morning I had to FB message a few friends to get their current email addresses, which tells me a lot about who's winning.

Yes, I agree there are times you don't want things unsent. And there are times you do. There are a variety of ways to balance these concerns. But exactly none of them involves saying, "Lo it was handed down to us by Postel the Wise, and none shall tamper with His choices."

Asking to unsend an email is a reasonable request. The answer could be yes or no given the circumstances, but it's only an absurd question to people who have taken a 1980s technological choice and treat it as some sort of unalterable gospel. It reminds me of this Douglas Adams quote:

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

Sure, I get that a lot of people were born after RFC 822, so it seems like the natural order. But the people who wrote the early RFCs weren't thinking that way, and neither should we.
In this situation, NZ has unique geographical advantages. Others that have tried similar measures without those advantages haven't found the same success. I think most European and North American nations recognized very early on that NZ-style elimination was not a viable choice for them.

I agree with everything you say about Canada, which is another reason why I wouldn't put it in the same category as NZ.
Are you talking about this one:

https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee

Or you know another one? Did you manage to conntect it with Mac?
Right now with a split Congress, no legislation is getting passed if it is in any way controversial. Lack of progress has little to do with technology awareness and much to do with partisanship, e.g. "not wanting to give the other side a win".
Ok, so you don't need to know git stash (good) but you need to know that autostash exists and how to configure it, so you still don't get away without an extra concept. I suppose the nice part about autostash is that it's easier for someone to just give you a .gitconfig with it, and not have to teach you how to use git stash.
https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/info.html

Dunno how often this class runs, and if it was just for one semester or more than that.
English is my only language. Its spelling is still terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_pronunciation even has "Antarctica" on its list of examples.

"The words Arctic, Antarctic and Antarctica were originally pronounced without the first /k/, but the spelling pronunciation has become very common. The first "c" was originally added to the spelling for etymological reasons and was then misunderstood as not being silent."
Microsoft developing ‘Pluton’ security chip for Windows
> Let me tell you I was in back-country Oregon recently, some of the MOST republican places within Oregon, not going to name drop the county.

Not sure the name drop matters given the other information you shared ;) I won't name drop it either but for future curious readers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Oregon
I worked with a guy named Danny many years ago. He was one of the smartest programmers I'd ever met. Not only did he write great code, but he also always maintained an excellent connection to the his customers who would use the programs he wrote. This was in a hospital.

Personally, he was kind, generous, excellent family man. He never really talked too much about politics, didn't care too much for it. He also helped me order the parts for and showed me how to assemble my first intel based desktop computer, an amazing 486-DX2-66!

It's been years but I recently communicated with him, and we had a great e-mail exchange, caught up. He was surprised and pleased that since I left I'd not only gotten married but now have an adult son. Surprised because back >25 years ago when we hung out I was very much not a "family man" kind of person.

I asked him in passing how he'd been holding up with the pandemic, and suddenly, there it was.

Covid19 was a hoax perpetrated by China to help Joe Biden get elected.

It broke my heart. A smart, good, kind man that I knew had been brain damaged. Like some kind of fucking psychological cancer.

As the old saying goes, There but for the grace of God, go I.

You and I can't imagine falling prey to such a thing, but I can assure you that my old friend Danny had and has the same mental facilities as you and I.

He caught this particular cancer, and you and I didn't.

What's worse? He doesn't even know he has and is subject to this psychological malignancy.

I wonder if there are any psychological cancers you and I are subject to, right now, that we don't even know about or suspect?
yes! having the option to run android apps is why I am leaning towards something like the boox. im thinking of a setup where i would have the help manual for whatever open on the ereader when im doing programming stuff, and to be able to select some text on my laptop and have it search that on the ereader using tasker and also autoinput to control the app. dunno how well all that will work though
Time will tell how this compares to other pharmacies. Big savings off MSRP are common.
> My wife and I know good, honest and smart people who are fully convinced that Covid19 isn't that dangerous, that it's a hoax, etc.

I'm not saying "smart" lightly.

If they have a Ph.D in theoretical physics but think COVID is a hoax they're still dumb, sorry.
Lol, I joined Twitter around 2013 because it seemed like everyone in tech was there and it'd be a good way to keep up.

Then I saw cross talk between radical Left Twitter and people I followed in tech. Uh oh. I got into exactly one political argument and realised that with my ADHD impulse control, my career, and my belief that homo sapiens is sexually dimorphic, I should not be on that site of I valued eating.

I deleted the account. Now I read Twitter, but I will not log in. Ever. I also deleted my Facebook account around that time.

Nowadays, I only use my real identity with people I know in private groups on self hosted servers. Even commenting here with a pseudonym gives me pause; every opinionated post is a liability if you get doxxed.
I have some LIFX lights and they seem to be like this too. The responsiveness of the app is brutal. Sometimes I swear the sliders for dimming are going out to the cloud and back. Have you ever used a high latency slider?

I don't know if I should call it the worst app I've ever used or the worst app I've ever used on a daily basis, but it's definitely one of the worst apps I've ever touched.
Hmm that's probably enough to justify editing the title as misleading. I've done so above.
Seems like we should outlaw or severely limit one of those business models.
I don't know about the Linux foundation, but the Apache Foundation is where a lot of code goes to die...
People often blame git for being hard, but did they actually learn git at some point, or do they just monkey-type commands hoping for it to make sense?

Since I read the git book, I never once had to rm -rf + git clone, and I've never been stuck in any situation.

It's the same thing as people blaming regexes or CSS for being hard without reading full courses.
As a millennial whose only chatting activities are confined to irc and doesn’t really get emojis — could someone please articulate this phenomenon in terms that would be meaningful to me?

I’ve seen sentences sometimes where words are actually replaced with emojis... is this how some subset of people actually communicate online or that’s just for some effect of irony?
> MacBooks infamously have cooling problems and macOS is precisely balanced for battery life on Apple hardware

Mac Pros are not "precisely balanced for battery life", that's just nonsense.
Thank you. I had a lot of early influence from the old English textbooks from the 80s that have more formal style and reading technical documentation. Until I started watching movies without dub, all English I studied was quite far from the real-life use of language. My peers who did more listening than reading have a more natural style.
Is it though? A "Pro" laptop has, by the very name, an implication of performance.

I don't know many professionals in any industry that are constrained so heavily by power - generally when you're doing professional work, you're not far from an outlet, save some rare use cases like on-location shoots for film and television.
1. You sound like an asshole, who probably doesn't tip his waitstaff if they don't kiss your ass all night.

2. Door Dash drivers are not employees of Door Dash, and thus are working a precarious "job" with no health coverage. You should expect poorer service - you get what you pay for. As these gig companies continue to squeeze out more margin from their contractors expect service to get worse.
> I think Rust genuinely has a shot here.

People proposing every other language that tried to replace C thought the same. Only time will tell, of course, but I wouldn't bet on it. Nowadays C++ is seen by many as a "garbage pile", the same can happen to rust.
Absolutely not. We need more competition because the #1 reason we got to this situation is mono culture and a single platform (x86). We need Apple to succeed of creating an alternative ARM based desktop/laptop platform and for more competition we could add in Mips64 from China to the mix. I am really hoping that by 2025 we are going to have 3 major platforms available for end customers, so that there is real competition.
Lots of options for interaction gives less repetitive movements.
I don’t know if I’d call it a total failure. There’s a pretty cool documentary about it an Apple TV+. I think if they had communicated the caveats better and more honestly then it would have been a success on the grounds of being a baby step towards the direction of the more ultimate case. I’d say the biggest success was showing that even with all the resources on earth available, this problem is non-trivial.
Huh, I didn't know about those. I've been using euro-style « and » though, to be able to copy-paste things that already include " and ', and still delimit what I am quoting.
> The newborn phase was really hard for me

So many people led me to believe that I would fall in love with my kid the instant I first laid eyes on her, and it simply wasn't the case. I love her so much now, but it definitely wasn't the immediate flip of a switch that some may believe
Does Firefox have any Rust component at all if Servo is not apparently used at all by it, currently?

People have been claiming Firefox components were written in Rust for ages, usually meaning Servo, but it seems now that those claims were just misleading.
I like it. And in general, I like skeumorphism in design.
> Why do I have to transmit my requests from my phone to the cloud and then have it come back down to the device in my home?

Because otherwise you wouldn't be paying an advertising company to have access to the inside of your home.
>There is some cost/effort to building a better browser engine. They might believe that the same cost/effort would better benefit the business if put elsewhere.

Yes, because all those years the Mozilla executive team has proved that they have a good grasp of where the cost/effort optimum lies... /s
How do you square minimizing the threat of COVID with the news recently that some hospitals are running out of beds, getting mobile mourges, and running their staff to the point of exhaustion and breakdown?
The "we have to" is because all the game development middleware is written in C++ (and sometimes C), the same way you "have to" use Javascript for writing web applications (even though WASM is beginning to change that, but it took 25 years to get there).

Actually, only half of the universe is using C++ to write games, the other half is using Unity and writes their game code in C#.

If language interopability would be dramatically better, this "lock-in" into a specific programming language wouldn't be half as bad as it currently is, and it would be much easier and less risky to use "fringe languages" for game development.
The iMac will be replaced with a custom-built PC.

The MacBook Pros are another story. I don't know. I can't see me buying any new Intel Macs since they'll be phased out at some point.

I've never had much luck with the Dell XPSes. I may give ThinkPads a look (I have a P50 at my current job which has been fine (if not for all the corporate antimalware slowing it to a crawl.))
It uses a simple algorithm to detect passives: be + past participle. It can't detect passives that don't follow that pattern, such as prepositional passives and get passives, and it labels some clauses as passive when they aren't.

Ironically, if you chose a random passage from Hemingway instead of Lincoln, it would litter that with spurious warnings too.
Anecdotally, all of my father friends felt the exact same way.
That's not how taxes on RSUs work (at least federally in the US). Nothing happens when RSUs are granted because they have no value until they vest. Once the RSUs vest, you are taxed based on the cost basis of $0 (since you pay nothing for RSUs).

Options on the other hand are a different beast.