skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How do you save a search in a non-personally identifiable way?"

To a first approximation, you just... do it.

Granted, if you search "{jerf's realname here} {embarrassing disease} cure" or something, in the pathological case, you could at least guess that maybe it was me, though even then my real name is far from unique, and nothing stops anyone else from running such a search.

But otherwise, if all you have is a pile of a few billion searches, you don't have any information about any of the specific searchers. Even if you search for your own specific address, you don't really get anything out of it; there's no guarantee it was you, or a friend of yours, or an automated address scraper. There isn't much you can get out of a search string without more information connected to it.

The rest of your criticisms are too powerful for the topic at hand; they don't prove we shouldn't use DDG, they prove we shouldn't use the internet at all.
How cold is cold right now for you folks?
That is just an easy general policy to adopt, secret project or not. At this point I would call it as basic as using HTTPS, just a general good practice.
Sure but how does that work? If a cert-revoked app is allowed to run, the damage is already done.

I think perhaps a better tradeoff would be if a revocation list could be synced hourly or so and the app could be checked sync locally and then asyncronously on open. And of course, always give the power user an option to ignore things.
Observations on Typing from 136M Keystrokes (2018) [pdf]
I wonder if this could cause background tabs to develop a large queue of unprocessed events, thus making the tab unresponsive for a while when switching back to it. I used to see this happen on native apps on macOS with App Nap for a while but it seems better on recent versions of macOS.
I believe this is still an interframe approach, but something regarding the actual underlying code is different than a traditional implementation.

From an information theory perspective, you absolutely must have some way to pass intermediate frames around, otherwise you are just talking about some variant of an intraframe technique and all of the video efficiency losses that would go along with that (i.e. encoding each video frame as JPEG).
I mean, it's certainly not a plausible death threat. Steve Bannon isn't in charge of anything anymore, and I don't think he would be put in charge again, even if there was a second term.

It could be a non-plausible death threat though. And it's probably glorification of violence. I'd hate to be an arbiter of policies like this though. There's a line here between legally sanctionable speech (which I don't think this quote is), and what Twitter allows on its site.
Shredder on Grinder?

I’m going to burn for that one :)
Too much shit on the street, for starters, not to mention it's definitely more dangerous to walk, especially at night. Lived there for 15+ years. I had to move, the rent was not justifiable, and it was clear the problems were getting worse. shrugs
> I contend most people don't even speak to a pharmacist anymore.

While compounding pharmacists are still useful for those esoteric formularies, I would wager "normal" US pharmacists are still relied upon by the vast segment of the US population who are near-functionally illiterate and innumerate, on a big combination of drugs (don't get me started on how unhealthy swathes of the US population are), and cannot be bothered to work out for themselves drug interactions (much less how to get off of the drugs if possible). The disjointed nature of the US healthcare system promotes such inefficiencies.
Ryzen 2000 or Zen 2? The former is definitely more than an year old.
Chime is brilliant.
Right. When people talk about what percent of our electricity comes from where, its always gigawatts from the power plants, not BTUs of coal.
The hardware, which is not the main tool in his craft

He draws by hand on paper and the final preparation on Photoshop is for printing

After almost 10 years he needed a new laptop (things wear out with time and he could not install more RAM) but not a new Photoshop version with a different and more costly license

The need to upgrade software is an artificial one and it's only needed because some platforms don't have a good backwards compatibility

Windows does

For many people the OS doesn't make any difference, as long as they can keep using the tools they already know

There is a limit on the improvements a new software will provide if your workflow is already good as it is and you already paid for the version that works for you

I know many small businesses that still use Office 2003

They can install it on new hardware on new Windows versions, it's simply not possible to do the same on Mac

It's not better or worse, backwards compatibility it's a feature and as any other feature some people value it a lot, some don't care at all
Interesting to see you say the SF Bay Area is much better than most of the country, while this article says the Bay Area is experiencing significant population decline:

https://www.publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-postal-service-data...
It's been pretty common over the past couple of decades for younger college-educated people to live in a city but move out at some point as they get older. Anecdotally, this seems to have pushed up the timeframe for a lot of people though I also know a few in the "never imagined I'd leave Brooklyn" camp.

I suspect most of those people will not move back especially if they can continue working remotely. One question is whether a fresh cohort moves in when things open back up. That's been the pattern but it's certainly not a law of nature (and wasn't from about the 50s through the 90s).
the police can not legally "kick the shit out of you"

I realize that we don't feel such behavior is legal, but recent history has shown that when police misbehave at this level (cf. Breonna Taylor), there are no meaningful consequences.
Atticus is not [unsavory]. He's portrayed as nearly flawless. This plays into the White Savior[0] trope.

So now if a white man in media is shown pushing back against racism, he's looked down upon as a trope? This is racist and ridiculous. Damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-dont will not get white people on your side on this issue.

requiring that teachers use better teaching tools in their curriculums isn't the boogeyman it seems to be made out to be.

If such changes are made for racist reasons, then they deserve pushback. Current projections show that whites will be a minority in the US in 2048. If our society embraces anti-white discrimination and dogwhistles like this in the meantime, then there will be cultural reverberations for decades just as the cultural changes of the 70's reverberate through today.
How Long Can InfiniBand Keep Doubling Bandwidth?
> I also don’t know anyone who still lives there that doesn’t want to leave.

Probably because many came for their jobs. Plenty of people want to live in SF.
Opt-out analytics is not the only way to do research on your own products or users. Not by a lot.

And it being popular doesn't justify it, it's just an invasion of privacy that many people put up with (or are unaware of).
I don't have dotfiles online, but many were inspired by this gist: https://gist.github.com/junegunn/8b572b8d4b5eddd8b85e5f4d40f...

For other things like files changed in current branch I've just kludged together aliases:
branch_files='git log --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --name-only --no-merges --first-parent main..HEAD | fpp'

(fpp extracts file paths from output)

If you use zsh it can also helpful to setup suffix aliases so just the filename is bound to an application. For instance `alias -s {rb,erb,rake,css,js}=vim`
I don't need GitHub, true, but I want it because I like it.

I don't care that no-one uses my projects: I use them myself and if someone wants to use it too that's awesome! The option is there, it's not like I check at the amount of stars of my projects everyday

>If one wishes to participate in a project, really, truly, wishing to participate, the buttons will not be a barrier.

Why do you want only the most motivated users? Users that casually file a bug report are valuable too.

Get real, there are casual users too
See this rather nice map:

https://jakubmarian.com/map-of-quotation-marks-in-european-l...

I like to call «this» the Swiss system, because in Switzerland they use it for four different official languages.
> And while you're at it, ask yourself why you want to make a place you're moving to more like a place that you left because you didn't want to live there anymore.

The point is not voting for politicians that make the place as undesirable as the place you left.
> Surrey, BC

Wow, what a beautiful and safe city you chose as an example. Not.
Yes but with your solution if an app is malicious, and did malicious things, it now has a whole hour to fuck your shit up before being disabled.
Do people remember that someone like Donald Trump would be in charge of that program?
50-55 degrees at the moment in the Outer Sunset, on the coldest edge of SF.
"Astral plane" predates Dungeons and Dragons by centuries. Looking at old discussions, I couldn't find any evidence that Unicode's usage is connected with D&D.

Early discussion of "astral character" or "astral plane" for the Unicode supplementary planes at: https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML024...
Even earlier 1998 use: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98354.pdf
I try to only use usb drives if they are brand new, and have never been inserted into another system.

I actually do mean burn CDs / DVDs.. I know they are not the best backup medium.. but they are better than trusting 'the cloud' imho.

You are right that more and more systems are coming without cd / dvd drives... I have a couple of cd readers (that I think are also burners) that attach via USB - I happily lend or give one away and get another, they are like $25... to use for importing and accessing hard media backups which can be priceless, with bonus privacy.
Wait I thought my point was based on Occam's razor.
From what I see/hear/experience, every kid is different.

As some stranger on the internet said:

"After I had my first kid, I thought I was God's gift to parenting. A few years later I had a second kid and he cured me of such misconceived notions." :-D
You know that Apple used to do servers, right?

It did dedicated servers way back in the Classic era:

• http://www.erik.co.uk/ans/

• https://lowendmac.com/tag/apple-workgroup-server/

• https://everymac.com/systems/apple/network_server/index-netw...

Then it introduced sleek new 1U ones in the PowerPC G4 era:

• https://lowendmac.com/2002/xserve-g4-mid-2002/

• https://lowendmac.com/2003/xserve-g4-early-2003/

These got replaced by G5 models:

• https://lowendmac.com/2004/xserve-g5-early-2004/

• https://lowendmac.com/2005/xserve-g5-early-2005/

Then Intel Xeon models:

• https://lowendmac.com/2006/xserve-xeon-late-2006/

• https://lowendmac.com/2008/xserve-xeon-early-2008/

• https://lowendmac.com/2009/xserve-nehalem-mid-2009/

It also did a very impressive dedicated RAID box for the XServe:

• https://everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve_raid....

So it is very much not new to the server market.

The problem is that although Mac OS X Server was an excellent product in a lot of ways, and offered unlimited user licenses before it was discounted, it still didn't sell well.

It's a bunch of good, professional GUI admin tools on top of a lot of FOSS Unix server tools. The same tools run on Linux on COTS kit, and cost nothing, if you know how to run them.

So, yes, Apple could. But there are already ARM servers out there. You can buy them straight off the shelf:

https://www.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server

https://www.bamboosystems.io/

This being so, it's hard to see how Apple could compete, when its OS X server efforts all ultimately failed and were discontinued, leaving only the software:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id883878097
Oh yeah, I can relate. There is a ton of change between version and very often new plugins don't support old versions at all. Would sticking to one, say most progressive implementation (Net 5 at this point) help you feel more confident that the job can be done?

Although at this point Net 5 isn't going to be documented because it's so new, and next year they will release Net 6, which will be the actual long-term support version.... this is how their mess with docs happens in the first place.
if they do get in a hairy situation they will always explain themselves since after all they have nothing to hide

Every middle class person thinks that but what they don't understand is that cops spend their entire lives being lied to, every day, nearly everyone they speak to who isn't a fellow cop is lying to them. So that you are lying is their default position. They're going to go with whatever it says on their screen or whatever another cop told them, 100% of the time.
note that care workers interact intimately closely with others, and are a good example of the marginal case where masks are a primarily effective mitigation. most common interactions don’t fit this profile.
How do you usually validate ideas?
> I guess Snow Crash is out in the wild.

I had to look this up, I presume this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

If you have a minute, can you please expand on your statement? It seems very interesting!

> Did he seem "normal" outside the covid stuff

We have yet to correspond extensively, but so far it's been pretty typical catching up after 25 years stuff, except as noted.

I'm going to try to very carefully get some information about how he arrived at the conspiracy opinion.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's pretty much documented. I think it's at around 6 months when they start being able to connect the dots... barely :-)
For sure. I do see the strengths of rust as well. And would most likely use it if i had to write software that absolutely has to be memory safe. It wont prevent other kind of issues however.
The harsh reality is a facebook "meme" about how climate change is a hoax created by "globalist" to take away your rights is way more effective than a nuance article from the "lamestream" media trying to explain the energy efficiency of coal power plants.

If the goal is to convert science deniers or correct their disinformation this was a complete and utter failure.
No, you are probably right. My main usage of find is `find ./ -name "blah"` which with fd is simply `fd blah`. If you are doing more complex finds then it may very well not be a good replacement for all find usage.
"Although its specific energy is a relatively poor 1.4 kWh/kg, meaning that for a given amount of energy, iron powder will take up a little bit less space than gasoline but it’ll be almost ten times heavier."

Sounds like a good candidate for grid storage if it can be reversed somewhat efficiently, the weight isn't as big a deal in grid, especially if it is compact.

The high weight could probably be used to store gravitational potential energy as well in hilly areas.

However, if we had a crapton of iron, it would probably be better to seed plankton.
I wonder if citizens of Detroit made the same predictions in the 1970s.

It's tempting to just linearly project the status quo into the future but looking at this graph here (https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/61-c98f-5e41.jpg) it is highly possible that IT/Tech will play a less dominant role in 2067 than today including that the next big corporations potentially grow and rise in completely different areas than SF and Silicon Valley.
There is so much bad writing in corporate settings that a tool like this should be welcomed instead of being nit-picked to death. I find that a lot of folks try to sound "smarter" by writing in opaque jargon-y prose instead of just getting to the point of what they're saying.
Sounds like the build needs to be optimized.
Thanks for the per capita numbers. As someone currently undergoing Chicago-like weather, I wonder how much climate has anything to do with it.

The Windy City is near freezing people near me that were begrudgingly complying with the guidelines took advantage of our Indian summer, choosing to eat on patios and social distance in backyards, have given up entirely and are choosing to dine in and gather in houses.
Came here to say this. I mean, just trying to figure out how to use a particular Emacs function, I can search GitHub for that function and find hundreds of examples of people using it. So incredibly useful.
I mean, there are certainly places in SF that are pretty sketch late at night, which is not something I've encountered in any other US city. I've lived in cities my entire life.
Memory usage shouldn't change that much for a similar task. It's just that paging stuff in and out is much more performant when the system is under pressure. Right now with the least amount of M1 native software available, most of it will be allocating memory natively without garbage collection.

Apple's strategy has been to avoid generational/tracing GC which reaps big benefits in terms of memory usage. It'll be interesting to see more feedback from devs running a broader range of software. It's likely people will hit apps on the long tail that use GC, and similar schemes, which will cause them to complain about memory issues. Running old apps under Rosetta 2 will be another source of complaints.

These machines are optimized for the mass market. Although they can out perform many existing machines with 8 and 16 GB of RAM, there is the huge opportunity and demand for 32GB+.
Yeah, if a couple really wanted to avoid the passive voice, instead of saying "we got engaged" they should say "we engaged each other". But I don't think that really conveys the intended meaning.

The same thing is true of of the Lincoln speech, in a somewhat different way.

Does anyone really need to be warned that they are using the passive voice? Does anyone actually do that by accident?
The first episode of the Netflix show Babies covers almost exactly this material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOv5jDFtvsI
Can't have books resemble the real world now can we?
> I like that in Elm there is no such thing as undefined behavior.

Thanks, that's an interesting perspective to consider. I do know most things I've read about Elm have been very positive, so apparently it does work pretty well in practice!
I think the point was: Chrome has as much lines of code as Linux with all its drivers and still has no decent dropdown built in. Not that it cannot be built.
I think they're similar but not quite the same. A prize is offered in advance of a solution, a lump-sum license is after the solution is developed.

On reflection I like prizes better, especially if there are multiple tiers (first to reach the target gets the most prize money, second gets less, etc). You want to ensure that multiple pharmaceuticals are developed independently, in case one of them needs to be pulled from the market.
Not while they are exactly three years old. There will be 52 weekends with a one year old, 52 weekends with a two year old, etc.
Haha whoops forgot you're used to worse weather there. 13 C / 55 F.
They could have used 5600X with virtually the same single core performance as well.

You also can't compare manufacturing cost and retail cost. But given AMD cores are both smaller and manufactured on older process, it's probably safe to assume AMD ones are cheaper to manufacture.
How about compiling WebKit?

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/webkit-com...
> The pay for Mozilla Chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker in 2018, the most recent year for which the organization released the information, surpassed $2.4 million.
> Where this really has value is the sort of project where someone writes something for themselves and then decides "might as well push it to github, maybe someone else can use it too".

Over the years I have been getting better and better results when looking for solutions when I add the 'github' keyword to the search. If your code isn't on Github and there is nothing really specific I can search for I will not find your code. This might be more the fault of search engines, but still. Sometimes 'gitlab' or even 'sourceforge' will result in something useful if it really isn't on Github.
>How would you verify that for any centralized service, open source or not?

Other centralized (search) services don't have their entire existence depending on this one factor. What is DDG if not alleged privacy? Just use Bing directly.
Additional info (including a video shot with a high speed camera and the underlying raw data of the 136 million keystrokes) is available on the project website, https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/136Mkeystrokes/
> Avoid putting misinformation into feeds

Twitter intentionally puts irrelevant tweets from people you don’t follow into your feed.
I see this with the console at least when developing. You switch back to the tab and the console eats shit and locks up because of the back pressure.
Yeah, if Amazon is doing this right, they're basically channeling the big three pharma wholesalers (AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson) and no one else.
No, we require extensive training, and re-training, of doctors. On top of that, they need malpractice insurance, which balloons for the individual if they're royal fuckups. They aren't demonized, they're held accountable.

Demonization is a consequence of bad behavior combined with radical unaccountability.
Same story, different city in the New Yorker this week. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-p...
Yeah, now you're just saying "Nothing centralized can ever be trusted". So just say that rather than nitpicking their ToS. You weren't going to care what they said anyway.
This is exactly what the linked article is proposing.
Why Antique Arms?
Fine, we believe that you believe it's not a hoax.

But calling it a manufactured mass hysteria/delusion is just as absurd and conspiratorial. Was AIDS a manufactured mass hysteria in the '80s? People are rightly concerned about COVID because it is relatively new, we don't have super great ways to treat it yet, and in addition to being deadly, there is good evidence of lasting health impact to people who survive it. It doesn't sound like you're denying the disease, but you are downplaying it.

The public health guidance isn't just about protecting a handful of "elderly, unhealthy, immunocompromised people." People in all age groups, with and without pre-existing co-morbidities are getting the disease and dying of it--albeit in smaller numbers. And if not, they're spreading it to people who are dying of it. Even if we just for simplicity's sake, pretend that only the "elderly, unhealthy, immunocompromised people" are literally the only people who are at risk from it: you still need to have everyone observe the same precautions, or you risk infecting the at-risk group.

If this were like seatbelt wearing, I'd be totally on your side. If someone chooses to put their own life at risk, fine, it’s their life and their body. But it's not like that with a highly contagious disease. People's personal choices are having a direct effect on other people's health. Your right to do something personally risky should end when it puts others at risk. There's a reason we don't let people fire guns around randomly as long as they don't happen to hit others.

The economic hardships are temporary. You can't bring people back from the dead and you can't (as far as we know now) reverse the long-term damage done to survivors.
Of course. You must be allowed to fail. Times have changed, and I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a new developer now. Perhaps the drive to be social and show off your work is the part I can’t understand.
Are you hosting any databases in Dokku, or do you keep data outside? For a very small PaaS keeping the DB on a separate node feels like the most reliable option.