skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost noone bothers to develop platform spesific apps, and native applications are dying. If we don't stop squabbling about native look and feel, we will get no native applications at all.

Well, unless you're talking open source tools and/or everythign within the sphere of desktop productivity . Then invariably your "consumer" desktop apps of choice are some mixture of GTK2/3, Qt, Swing, WxWidgets......

Granted, the different GUI libraries and applications using them tend to have _slight_ inconsistencies (GNOME 3 / GTK3 window titles versus everything else's window titles), but for the most part they're consistently themed, they render quickly, they behave the same way with the clipboard, mouse interactions, element focusing, keyboard shortcuts, accessibility functions......

So I have open right now LibreOffice Writer, Firefox, Evolution, many gnome-terminals, Transmission BT client, GNOME Files, GNOME Boxes... all of which look the same and there's no cognitive load spent switching between them, because they behave the same and look the same.

I can open up Inkscape and GIMP and Evince and KeePassXC and VLC and retain that experience.

Meanwhile, whilst still my IDE of choice, my PyCharm (so, JetBrains) IDE windows do whatever the hell they want (STOP STEALING FOCUS!!!), glitch out rendering, look completely different. And Spotify - gets all its points docked just for how it handles tabbing through UI elements. ("No, I don't want to tab through ALL of the Discover page, I want tab to cycle through the different UI elements, preferably not taking a painfully long time to reach "search".... Ugh fine, CONTRIBUTE TO MY CARPAL TUNNEL THEN!!!)

"Native" (as in, "consistent experience across the whole suite of desktop applications") toolkits still make it way easier for _developers_ to design applications consistent with the rest of the system.

Android and iOS UI toolkits serve same useful purpose. I tend to find that apps that are just a reactive web framework in a fullscreen frame are pretty painful to use. Like, wtf are you doing when I hit back!??? Why is this full screen splash form with two text boxes SCROLLING when I touch it???

tl;dr of my rant: Goddamn people stop trying to make your applications look the same on every device and let me use it how I like on MY device, for the same of a) my wrists and b) my attention deficit brain
I fully concur having the same annoying wetware limitations
Certainly with DRMed video it is common for the video to never be buffered/stored on disk. Sometimes a few seconds is, but even that is uncommon, and more likely it would simply be retained in RAM now.

With more secure DRM systems the OS literally never gets access to the video buffer, protected by hardware, in order to even send it to disk.
Tig is also my favourite way of staging individual hunks or lines.
I've been having a search fail trying to look up information on typical heap space consumed by the compiler.

At one point I recall people complaining that you couldn't build 32 bit Rust on the target machine because the compiler couldn't squeeze itself into a couple gigs of memory. I'm curious if we are still in cross-compiler territory there or if the last few generations of improvements have done much for that limitation.
works in safari on ios fwiw :)
The biggest habit I had to break moving from Google to DDG was phrasing everything as a question.

If anyone is thinking of making the switch, you can always redirect your searches to Google by throwing a g! in the query.
> Operating systems are currently written in C, and therefore have a C interface.

Not true. Operating systems are written in C with some assembly, and the interface to userspace is universally written in assembly. E.g., https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
For one, the MIT/BSD/GPL licenses are all between 30-40 years old, whereas the MPL is only 8 years old. So that's 4x younger.

For another, Mozilla has never really tried to "market" the license. It's hard to make something gain traction if you don't really try.

And then nobody really cares that much about licensing so if something is "good enough" and does what they want it to then they're going to stick to it. Especially if it means they get to avoid doing research about licenses.

And people that do really care about licenses tend to fall into camp permissive or camp copyleft with not a whole lot of in-between.
I assume you're looked at Apple's Continuity[1] and Sidecar[2] features of macOS+iPad. They work more reliably if you use a cable to hook them together.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204975

2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380
This reads like a giant fluff piece about what is probably going to be a very anti-consumer, anti-free-speech, DRM heavy chip that MS want to popularise as an alternative to the (still hated) TPM.

Why else would they design it for the xbox, of all things? [It's not going to be for stopping speculative execution attacks in a cloud server! It's going to stop you running custom software.]
How long do we think it'll be until the CISA election disinfo page gets taken down (https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol)?
There is no registration or login.
I hear what you're saying but I feel differently. I've done Okinawan Shudokan as well as Judo/Jiu Jitsu/Kenpo/taekwondo with my fav being Shudokan being the purest and most spiritual of them all. I feel lower ranking to fight against much more experienced instill a sense of impending doom unless your confident level is so high, it can exceed fear. Now granted you need that fearlessness to be successful but I feel until you have grasped sensible baseline fundamentals and grow in confidence. I think it will work against them in learning. They would tend to spar more reserved and timid actions. Whenever I was challenged by lower rank. I was the one who got hurt the most because they tend not to have any control :)

By the way, if you're sparring in a compassionate env is one thing but when your senior jams and/or breaks your fingers/toes and continuous unrelenting. Yeah, a little fear tends to creep in when you're sparring higher rank.
As a European now living in the US, my first thought is that the $2,000 shouldn't even exist to be collected, especially by invasive data broker rent seekers.
Oh excellent!
> But there's nothing holy or fundamental about an implementation detail of how Git does things that makes their use-case hard.

Yes, yes there is.

I've worked in systems like you're describing (CVS, SVN) - The problem is that they ALL require locking.

Locking freaking sucks. It sucks SO INCREDIBLY MUCH more than dealing with the complexity of a real distributed system that git won, even though its cli interface is a god-damned nightmare.

You clearly haven't had a co-worker lock a file you need to edit and then go on vacation.
I wonder if Cranelift would be useful for making a C++ REPL.
Quite so. I suppose I lament the idea that you can become a good writer whilst shortcutting reading a large corpus of good literature. There are many ancillary benefits to reading good literature, and losing them makes education as formation that much harder.

It's a much more important example of the phenomenon that children who are glued to phones or movies on long car trips instead of playing the license plate game are missing out on some implicit geographical education.
I really hate that name. I'm sorry, I know it's been said a million times before.

I've thought about forking it and just running a script to rename it to "ButterflyDb" or something pleasant.

Nobody thinks "cockroach = doesn't die". We think "disease" because we evolved to have a strong rejection response to these creepy crawlies. Roaches cause disease. Does anybody want that with their infra?

They could sell this so hard if they named it "ice cream" or "cheesecake" or "coffee" or anything but slimy cock roach.
These days you can use `switch -c` instead. Switch makes so much more sense to me.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-switch
I don't use Chrome, so I don't know what Chrome profiles are like. But Firefox also has profiles. Launch it with the -P option to open the profile manager and create additional profiles, besides the default one. Each profile is an entirely separate browser state: settings, tabs, cookies, storage, cache, etc. You can use them simultaneously. (This has existed for as long as I can remember... since 0.9 and probably back to Netscape?)
This is a very sad thing to read.
> Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches...

This is exactly correct. Excluding poor local search results (which is understandable bc of the privacy aspect), Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance (5+ word queries), and also finding results from small or obscure sites. The later is simply because Bing's organic index is not as large as Googles.

Bing/DDG's organic results are still very good, but they are not as good as Google's in the above specific circumstances.
> If you ask it to do something and it does something else, it was your fault, and also you are stupid. If you ever make a mistake, you will be punished for it with a long drawn out cycle of embarrassment. No matter what happens, it was not git's fault, it was your fault.

Ready to be downvoted into oblivion for this, but: This is how a lot of the Linux/FOSS community is so it makes sense that Git is too, sadly.

Things have gotten a lot better with the attitude these days, but you know it's bad when StackOverflow needs to issue guidelines on being polite and how to answer questions without being rude/condescending.
Hi,

It looks like the podcast is indexed on Podcast Addict based on this URL: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2464269

I don't have that app but in a browser the episodes are loading and playing here.

What ended up not working on your end?

By the way, it also comes up if you search for "Running in Production", which leads to: https://podcastaddict.com/?q=running+in+production
Also betting markets are highly influenced by both polls and published election models, so it’s hard to say that they ‘beat’ them while also being influenced by them.
Yahoo did open source theirs, https://vespa.ai/
> I don't think anyone has really proposed this.

They seem to talk about it right near the top of major news stories, so I guess they are proposing it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54612293

You might also get useful information about how people's immune systems react, when you give them too little of the virus to get infected. It's not only about figuring out the dose for the main trial. It also could have been done 6 months ago...
edit: downvotes like printing presses go brrrrrrrrrrrr, have at it friends, it's not like you can rebut what I said

FDR's 1933 violent statist gold heist is the greatest single theft of tangible wealth in modern history, nothing else compares in such a short span of time.

Steal the gold at gunpoint, pay in junk fiat, promptly turn around and massively debase said junk paper to demonstrate just how worthless it really is.

Gold prices

1932: $20.67 -> 1934: $32.32

1971: $44.60 -> 1974: $183.77

2001: $256 -> 2011 $1,912

Those all represent epic, rapid collapses in the US standard of living caused singularly by the Federal Government's various idiotic actions (Smoot–Hawley, Vietnam, Iraq).

The golden rule of the ruling classes everywhere: if you really screw up big, you can always steal from the population by debasing their magic paper (oh hey look, Bitcoin is up at $17,800 and gold is at $1,880 - that value implosion you can hear beginning again is another round of down for the US standard of living courtesy of profligate government spending we can't afford, all monetized by the Fed).

How about that Bitcoin Confiscation Act of 2033? A real shock. Nobody could have seen that one coming.
Trump says he fired top cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs
For anyone not getting the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...
I'm thinking more like search indexers with like 100k pages, in a specialized category like 3d printing or basketball. I can index things like those on my home PC, practically.
There are plenty of unpleasant names in tech. I don’t think this is going to make a difference.
Thanks, appreciate the response.
TwinkieDB
This isn't the first frivolous DMCA request GitHub complied with. A company owned by one of the largest tech companies in the world doesn't need to "panic" about something like this.

Sounds like cynicism is your hobby, buddy.
Agree, its why at the time a national lockdown made little sense(early March/April timeframe). Britain did that and its GDP dropped 20%. Now in the US the virus is running rampant due to increased spread, lower humidity and colder weather so will have to see what Biden does in the coming months but I expect a nationwide mask mandate at the very least and probably 1-2 months of the entire country under a strict lockdown. And this is with a vaccine somewhat widely available.
Can you share some first impressions? I do front-end web dev mostly, using vim and sometimes VS Code, and usually with a Twitch stream in the background... thinking I might trade in this big 16-inch MBP for the M1 MBP.
Hopefully, once they get acquired, they'll be forced to change it
Vector?
The difficulty, of course, is that clarity is primarily a function of ideas and meaning, and ideas and meaning are totally opaque to tools like this. For example, no complaints about this sentence:

> The poets breach the digestives by moatbutt every Thur.

And if I change the sentence to:

> The poets breach the digestives by moatbutt every Thurs.

it tells me my reading level has changed from 7th to 8th grade despite Thurs being a much more common shortening of "Thursday" than "Thur", which is nonsense. God forbid such tools ever be used with young students.
Now, that was a fascinating read! Can't believe I've never heard of this guy.

The most interesting part to me: "...Le Roux decided to diversify and expand into illegal activities around 2007..." I guess I've never really thought about how people end up in these criminal enterprises, but I certainly didn't think they just decide to one day.

Thanks for sharing that!
Okay but link me to the items on Amazon via a referral so I can actually buy it - I don't have "yellow velcro sneakers". Yet.
Yes but we don't know which - the decision to ban TKAM here wasn't made to promote a specific alternative, it was a response to an incident of racism involving a kid who read TKAM. For all you know, they could be reading The Turner Diaries. While I would love to think that the teachers are socially progressive individuals who have found a better alternative, presumably those teachers would have switched to that better alternative regardless of whether TKAM was an option or not. Unfortunately I have my concerns about what the teachers who actively avoided the more appropriate option decided on.
Actually, these are blurred circles. Apparent when you set the "fuzziness" slider to zero.

Metaballs are different. They are essentially a visualization of electric or gravitational fields. For the traditional formula in 2D, each pixel is colored based on the weighed sum of the inverses of the distances to the center of each "ball".
The AWS ARM instances are cheap and fast, highly recommend if your workload supports.
Agreed. I grew up in a roach-infested apartment and hearing the name as an adult gives me creeps.
What's the downside? Cost?
Sounds like it might be rejecting blank referrers
Why PredictIt isn't efficient: smart money is restricted by the amount they can place on any bet. This leaves plenty of inefficiencies in PredictIt. One time, I bought all the contracts saying that every candidate of Democratic nominee would lose and it paid instantaneously. Easiest $50 I ever made.
It seems more than a bit presumptuous to tell open source maintainers what they “need to” do.

If they announced tomorrow they’d decided to focus all their efforts on using Rust to calculate digits of pi, that’s their perogative.

As a prolific creator with a strong sense of vision for your projects, I’d have expected this to be obvious.
Ask HN: Are you selling your recent Mac in light of the M1's performance?
It's pretty depressing to think that I just spent $3k on a MacBook Pro for personal use, in January, that's now being outclassed by an Air which is 1/3 the price. It was supposed to be a 5+ year computer, and it's already starting to feel obsolete. I've never even sold anything on eBay before, but I'm experiencing a panicked urgency to sell it off while I can still get most of my money back and get an M1 (before resale prices inevitably plummet).

Anybody else in a similar boat/have thoughts on the matter?
> "arcane legal loopholes" are caused by accumulation of capital.

That's going far too far. Governments introduce legal loopholes for any number of reasons: personal favours, genuine good intentions. Capital is one reason among many.
> I'm not aware of two-factor authentication for SMTP or IMAP.

This could be achieved using a client side TLS certificate along with a username and password. I know that Postfix and Dovecot support it.
Is an unaccountable corporate monopoly with a revolving door with government better?
Go Darwin, Go
This protection instinct can be utterly irrational: when my first son was just born, we were walking on a sidewalk and a car passed by, and I felt a slight urge to throw myself in front of that car to protect my family. Of course I didn't, but I did know right then that I would be able to fight and give my life for my family, if necessary.

I try not to, but I know it's in there.
A few months ago Infinity Search was featured here on HN.

https://infinitysearch.co
I'll take it, that's still far better than PR press.
For blocking I use Pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/ and unbound. I like the simple interface of the the Pi-Hole, point it to the locally running unbound which is configured to use several DoH providers I trust.
But so does "IBM", for computer professionals who came of age in a certain era…
Bill Gates: More than 50% of business travel will disappear in post-Covid world
With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs
That quote is fantastic. I could feel the pace and rhythm change.

Sometimes I wish poetry other than rap music was popular. I know no one I can share poems with or equally show me their finds like we do with music and memes. I’m forever sending an mp3 or Spotify link to friends and vice versa.

Nobody ever iMessages a sonnet.
Chip Interconnect Startup Kandou Raises $92.3m
I really worry about the normalization of this sort of thing.

Really - in a respectful relationship with a vendor - you would gain SO much by just asking. Even if people say no.

Really, it's like "I wasn't stalking you, I was just collecting valuable feedback for improving our next date!" <slap!>

Instead, try "Hey, how are you - did you have fun?"
This is great news. Based on the early reviews coming in, native Apple apps perform amazingly well on the M1 chips. So it's going to be really important for third-party apps to support M1 natively to remain competitive.
Meh. I’m likely as creeped by the crawlies as you... still not really phased by the name. I can imagine some business stakeholders reacting negatively though - but they might write that off as general tech weirdness...
no one uses them yet. If you're using them, buy an M1
Ugh, I thought that, with Windows XP, we were done with these modified versions of Windows...
I like it. It's memorable, and for me it does evoke "doesn't die". I'd even argue that, out of all the DBs, the name is one of the things that made it successful... even if you don't like it, you're gonna remember it.
I'm not saying "trust the management", I'm telling you how an investor would think about it. High spend on marketing can absolutely be justified. Additionally, there's rarely enough public info to allow any investor to independently verify whether it's justified in a specific scenario or not. But if an investor thought that there was positive ROI on that spend, they're not going to fret too much about how large that amount is - as long as it's bringing in a positive return.
That's not enough. Someone standing in front of such a system cannot tell whether records are kept, or shared.

1. One risk is that the government will slowly erode any limitations. In Germany, one of the most privacy oriented countries, restaurants were required to collect contact information. This was announced as being strictly for covid contract tracing purposes. Less than a month later, the police in multiple states were found to have demanded and received access to those lists for reasons entirely unrelated to covid. So any default level of trust has already been betrayed.

2. Another risk is that the vendors themselves might prefer "alternative definitions" of record keeping and data sharing for various reasons (e.g. processing in the cloud and/or by third-party companies with even less restrictions, data collection for ML training purposes, selling the same dataset for profit, "flagged as hidden" vs "never actually stored", "stored to persistent media then deleted" vs "never persistently stored", preventing access by contractual/legal vs technical means...). The people making such promises are never ever the engineers that actually understand their system. And similar to the previous paragraph, companies have every incentive to slowly erode any guarantees they might've actually met at some point.

3. The people buying the products (shop owners) as a general rule have neither the expertise, time, motivation nor source code level access to call the vendors out.
It's hard to compare the three examples you give because of the different time ranges for each, but the 50% change between 32 and 34 certainly looks a lot smaller than the 71->74 and 01->11 changes... but you point at '33 as the "single greatest" event?
Oh really? I'm still quite young so I may not have heard of that. Curious to learn more tho.
Agreed, first impression matter. We evaluate it by name before we even know it, in milliseconds. It leaves a bad taste.
Trump Fires Head of Cybersecurity Agency After Election Finding
It seems like most graphical applications written in java and running on macOs adhere to the system's look and feel. In fact, you use good ol' Swing with the mac look and feel slapped on top. Whether or not the app behaves like a native app comes down to how it's written.

Is this a windows/linux specific problem?
I think we're all still dancing around a blind spot, where we want eventual, Pareto Principle consistency (where a consensus is formed around 10% of edit histories, many others require only a consensus of 2, and the rest are backups that require a consensus of 1)

We're trying to assemble this from different pieces, without a clear idea if we can even get there from here, given all of the roadblocks Information and other Theories throw in the way.

I hope someday we meet in the middle with systems that can handle code and incidentally a bunch of other problem domains we also care about.
It's odd because "all beds occupied" sounds like a lot but there are cantons that do not even have ten beds.
Incorrectly. It mistakes non-passive constructions for passive. For example, "The sailors are spent." is marked as passive despite not containing an action verb. It looks like it's just regexing on forms of "to be" followed by words ending in "ed" (perhaps also using a dictionary of some irregulars)?
> They can help highlight issues and it’s up to you to decide whether those really are issues or just personal stylistic choices.

That's a great way to frame it. I find Grammarly useful, but grammar checkers will never be (human) language linters.