skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I wanted to prove you wrong about the car licensing vs gun licensing thing by comparing deaths and honestly I proved myself wrong basically. For as little as you deal with a firearm on a day to day basis as opposed to a vehicle, their death tolls per year are very similar. The simple fact that we drive 2 ton + vehicles everyday and not kill eachother constantly is a testament to either A. constant use and exposure aids in safety B. gun safety just isn't a thing C. guns are mostly used for suicides and crime
In the defense of the 20yr something Apple coder who wrote that, when are you not attached to your phone? What else would you be doing?
Read up on the performance overhead of GC across other languages. They’re messy and can lock up periodically. They take up significant ram and resources.
prototype was horribly named. I was just becoming aware of prototypal inherence and it was so confusing because search results mostly pointing to the prototype library.
Smartyao LY092 Split-Keyboard Review
Is it solvable or has iterating on current approaches simply converged? There obviously has been breakthroughs in computers playing games recently
Ah, interesting and definitely not a Sett.

I had assumed you meant that the stone had been manufactured into a block, but this is clearly something else.

Some kind of special concrete formulation do you think?

The formula kept as a trade secret, then lost when the company closed or got bought or something I suppose?

Rather unfortunate, alas.

Edited
Yeah, phone syncing is not a critical task. Alternative: Finder is currently syncing your phone and you click “Cancel Reboot” for the next 10 seconds if you want. Otherwise your phone sync will be canceled, your computer will restart, and you can restart the phone sync later.
You also need the range of the dataset to be much larger than 1 (or whatever step is used)
A UI Visual Programming Tool for React JavaScript, but No More Hand Coding
Yes, coding is frustrated and time-wasting. But if there's a tool that doesn't required Hand-Coding, and it can still turn your design into Responsive Webpage, I bet you'd like to know.

Me and my team have been trying to get rid of this situation for years, so we finally came out with a tool to help. It is pxCode, no more measurements and handoff tools, no more hand-coding and code gen, but you can still hold the complete control on your Layout and Code. Should definitely try it if you're into creating Responsive Webpage.

Check out www.pxcode.io
The "system is not hung" signal is dead now due to modern platforms making sure that nothing happens on the UI thread. Now we get buttery smooth 60 fps spinners and loading bars, but if the thread doing the real work hangs, there's no indication.
Yep, Agree with that... It was fast, thin, and documented.
Additionally gatekeeper OCSP checks on app launches serve as telemetry in practice, and this has no preference or setting to disable it.

This is just a check that the developer's certificate hasn't been revoked or expired. I wouldn't call it telemetry.

Apple has said they're working on allowing users to opt-out of Gatekeeper checks if that's what people want.

Details—https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/16/checks-on-executable-cod...
How does changing your password every 90 days increase security? (2011)
Reaching max q at T+0.0001 seconds while 1 inch away from the launch site's massive expensive centrifuge. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
I can't understand why a company obsessed about thin minimalism can't apply the same thing to their OS.
Commute from the 2hr circle to central London by train. A one-month season ticket is GBP500 Cambridge-London
It's invaluable from a troubleshooting perspective, though. "Hmm, it always seems to get stuck when installing this particular package"
I hate it when the complexity of the lingo dramatically exceeds the complexity of the algorithm. Language shouldn’t be the barrier to understanding.

This seems to be particularly true in computer learning. We’re taking about a conditional step function here, right?
Very interesting.

I believe my contrarian view goes in this direction, so I will add it to your comment.

My impression is that democracy is really not as inevitable as a lot of us western folks would like it to be.

In fact I can not help myself to the compelling thought that democracies dont exist, because of some utopian view of equality and fairness, but rather, because of chance and circumstance. In most cases were a government/authority/kingdom/whatever transitioned to a democracy it was merely, because the state was in crisis and democracy was a rallying cry people could get behind, because it promised a way of ending the misery
(the examples that spring to mind are the famines of 1789 and the 1840s in Europe which triggered multiple revolutions).

I think if there were no existential threat to a critical mass of people in those European countries, they would never have revolted, nor would we have so many democracies today.

For a similar reason I believe the democratic movements/protests in the recent years (like the Arab Spring, or the Hong Kong protests) have not resulted in a victory for democracy, since there is no real critical mass of people whom are existentially threatened by the failure of these movements.

Since I am sure someone has thought these thoughts before, I would be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of articles mentioning a similar sentiment/idea.
>how impractical it is

the ideas like MyNOR dovetail nicely with the couple posts/discussions here recently about rebooting/bootstrapping the civilization. One can imagine several situations where we'd have to go back to basics - wars, catastrophes and/or colonies on other planets or even generational ship, etc. I mean in the situation without modern technology available, we know how to make simple crystal diode and with a bit of small effort transistor and that would let us build very simple computer along the lines of the MyNOR ...

One can also imagine it in the other direction - how a traveler from the year 3000 would try to build a quantum-quark-multidimensional-time-accelerated MyNOR of the year 3000 using the year 2020 technology - i mean we probably already have some pieces allowing to build a crude version of it.
lol this is just delusional. The Librem is the build quality of a generic Chromebook. Maybe competitive with Apple in like 2006, as in the polycarbonate MacBook!
It’s untestable in California!
5G to home and Starlink are the barbarians at the gates of the Comcast Empire.
Oh wow. I was not expecting the Qualcomm 865 to be anything close to an i7-9750HQ in single core performance.

Shows how poor is Intel's form lately.
To be fair, if you brought $50 Bitcoins in 2013, you would have 380x your money today by doing nothing.

I'm sure your trading strategy is sound, but it's still a lot of work over the years to get the 500x gain, vs the 380x gain from just doing nothing.

(This comment is in jest. I realize "500x" is a figure of speech and not meant as a literal claim of performance.)
Employees of the Chinese company Hayer famously smashed really dodgy and low quality fridges their company had produced in the 1980s as the symbolic start to a new dedication to quality.

See https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/how-china-fr... for one write-up.

> Teetering on the brink of collapse, the collective enterprise had gone through three managing directors in 1984 when Mr Zhang, a 35-year-old city manager, was appointed as the fourth.

> No one expected much of him, since a revolving door of directors had failed to stop the rot. He put it thus:

> People didn’t have faith in the factory.

> But he grabbed the national headlines a year later, upon discovering from a check on the inventory that a fifth of the fridges were faulty.

> Each fridge was worth two years of a worker’s pay, but Mr Zhang ordered the workers to destroy those 76 fridges – with a sledgehammer.

The CEO joined in the smashing as well for extra symbolism.
These days I usually reboot my top of the line MacBook Pro by holding down the power key.
I actually really want to run native Linux on these new chips. Don't know why but the thought of modern "big sur" macOS on such beautiful hardware seems a bit sad to me. KDE/Manjaro has made me pretty happy lately and the battery life could make an amazing linux laptop. Of course you could run CDE or XFCE to get your Win95 DE. ;) Well in a few years when hopefully Linux supports M1 devices. Till then probably have to play with a PineBook or something.
Remarkable how cheap the comments on stories like this tend to be. The regurgitated "Apple is bad, mmmkay" low effort posts.

To be clear, guy started a sync with his phone (people still do this?). In the middle of a sync he decides he wants to restart his computer, which tells him, reasonably, to wait until its done. If you were running a long-running terminal script, in the middle of a backup or large file move, or countless other tasks, any reasonable OS does exactly the same thing -- it asks the various subsystems if now is a good time, if not it delays the reboot.

He could forcefully stop the sync (which would make it not an issue, while forfeiting the work it had done thus far), and he could forcefully reboot his computer, but this has positively nothing to do with "you have to reboot your phone first".

There needs to be a moratorium on these sorts of low-info, low-effort posts. It's just pandering to a base.
I think the ponzi continues to work for now, the arbitrageurs can cash out, while the illusion that tethers are backed prevails. So indeed if no one does redeem these USDT as I keep reading could the arbitrageurs just slowly buy the cross to USD over a period of time after the trade? Alternatively USDT seems to be a proxy-currency to move across exchanges and networks, so it may indeed be transferred off to other pairs/tokens to fund alternative trades...
I worked as a teller in a rural area and a dude just walked in open carrying a pistol. It was super weird but the dude had that small town naivety.
CME offers Bitcoin futures[1], available for trading via Globex. It's a futures contract, so you won't hold any BTC position (long or short), and it's actually cash-settled, so you don't have to worry about delivering or actual BTC.

However, margin will be steep, considering the volatility; my broker in particular actually has a $200k overnight margin requirement for a short position.

I'm sure you've heard the saying that the market will remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent. Please keep that in mind when shorting bubbles.

[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitco...
"Although Wikipedia has the introductory price at $4995, or nearly $10k in 2020 dollars."

But the comparable machines of the time like the Mac IIfx or the Sun boxes of the time had similar or higher prices.
>I don't intend to be hostile towards you.

You fooled me.
Take control of your social media
It is against HN guidelines to imply that another poster did not read the article.

E: for reference:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.
Man, this thing and the TeenySERV are awesome. Good for you, hn_expanscape. I have no practical purpose for either of these, but I love them.

You mentioned elsewhere that you have a four-monitor variant... any public page for that? And what's pricing on these like? (the smaller) $20k? 30?

This right here is what Hacker News is really about. Somebody wanted a specialized computer, hacked one together, and is now looking at running a nice boutique device business. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing more of your designs!

PS: Typo -- 'third "interation"' at https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/a7-m3-prototyp...
Yes, but that bar would still get hung intermittently whenever a specific task took a long time.
Armory (YC W17): Using Playwright E2E to Validate GitHub Pull Requests
How is this less fanciful?
The proximity is exactly why I don’t want it to change.
At some point someone with more money than you is saying fuck it, their comfort is more important than yours, and you’re just going to have to suck it up.
It's funny how height (a trait which we have very little control over) gets the green card for filtering but weight (a trait we very much have control over) is deemed too offensive to ask for.

I think it's because we know that our weight is completely up to us and that a failure of keeping the weight that is desirable to others is a failure of ourselves. It's a thing we deep down know is our own fault and it scares us. As for height, it's not my fault I'm short or tall, if you don't like it, meh, I didn't screw up or anything.
When in 2008 I think Apple was announcing launch of "icon language" aka emojis. I was thinking at the time on reading that arstechnica article "wow.... I would be going to have to learn an entirely new language based on graphics.... Oooo.... like chinese? How would I remember it...."

All those years later, I still don't use emojis in my daily life but I would love to read that article again
Dont ask questions, just consume Apple product and get excited for new Apple products.
I do it when I dump photos to my NAS with Image Capture. I've never needed an iPhone backup... but it's nice to know it's there if I do.

I think it's crazy to keep more than a few months of photos on a handheld device unless you routinely backup or subscribe to a service or iCloud. Some of my friends have years of photos and no backup. :(
Sanger was objectively a terrible person. That doesn't mean that abortion is a automatically immoral.

So you can equate terminating a pregnancy with that of murdering adults and children but unfortunately in reality it's a grey area. The older the fetus gets, the less grey it gets but there's no solid line to make it easy as much as conservatives would like to believe. Especially in cases of rape, or high-risk pregnancies.

It's a terrible decision to have to make, so I'm all for reducing the number of abortions. But you can't do that by outlawing abortion. And the side that wants to do that, outlaw abortion, also wants to pretend teenagers can "just not have sex" and that there's no need to teach them about safe sex, contraceptives, etc.
* querySelectors are about 462x slower in Chrome than static DOM methods and 250,000x slower in Firefox.

* in JavaScript you don’t need classes, ever.

* you are executing slower using a framework and probably writing code an order of magnitude slower as well

* expert developers don’t do popular things
Estate Farm Distillery
This farm started a distillery to turn their organic grain into vodka and whiskey.
In the teens, there was World War I and a pandemic. There is no reason why people should be out of work in 1933, because of a stock market crash that happened 4 years prior. Once the crash happens, you can pick yourself up and get back to work. The slow recovery in 1929-1940 was because of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations (and Congress).
... WSL2.0 isn't "containerised". It's a virtual machine, and if you use it, you're running Windows in a virtual machine too.

So if you want a Linux VM: great news. They literally demoed a linux VM during the Arm Mac introduction back at WWDC. They provide the basics of a Hypervisor at the OS level, and Parallels at least, already has a working user land VM tool that can make use of said Hypervisor. They've also confirmed they're working on a new version of their app to run on Arm Macs.

I get not wanting Homebrew - I refuse to install it, and will always find another alternative. I'm told macports is a better approach to the same basic idea (a 3rd party package manager for Mac utilities) but more often than not if I need something I just end up downloading a tar, and do the regular configure/make/make install.
> Um, this is a feature not a bug.

Not allowing reboot during sync without a warning is a feature.

Not allowing you to cancel the operation from the warning is a missing obvious feature.

Not having a discoverable method besides rebooting the phone to cancel the sync operation is a major UX flaw, though probably more of a design flaw than a bug, sensu stricto.
Just to note this is probably the single most slanted you could pick for M1 vs Zen 3 performance. For instance I could pull this graph instead https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16252/119343.png and make the exact opposite claim. In reality it's probably best to read the full review and come to your own conclusions https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

The truth is desktop Zen 3 is only decently ahead of certain multi core workloads at 10x or more the wattage, the rest is either very close or somehow behind. The mobile versions are already going to be week in comparison and it's going to be nothing but a travesty if the best hardware stays vendor locked to Apple only. Especially when the M2 (or whatever is next) rolls around as Apple has been on a steeper trajectory with in house silicon than Zen has been.
The color NeXTStation actually had 4096 colors, dithered by Display Postscript to approximate more colors. 12 bit color and a 4 bit alpha channel.
Rainbow tables can still make sense for a salted hash if the salt can be predicted. A current real-world example I just recently learned about: SSIDs (network names) are used to salt WPA-based WiFi network password hashes. If the SSID is a default name (examples: NETGEAR, LINKSYS, XFINITY, etc.), then you could use a rainbow table.
> Many American city governments see ISPs as companies they can shake down for fees and concessions, not realizing they're only hurting their own citizens by limiting choice and increasing costs.

And yet your typical American on the Internet still blames greedy companies for their slow speeds. As if companies elsewhere with faster Internet were less greedy.
Lots of tiny memory allocations are inefficient no matter what. Slight deallocation refinements to poorly made software (the reference counting part is not 'hugely inefficient') is focusing on the wrong thing.
Mel, a Real Programmer (1984)
Exactly. Ideally, a sync is silently interruptible, or at least can be easily manually paused. That's the actual, and legitimate, issue. Being "unable to reboot" because of the in-progress operation is a derivative result, and the author is misleading by making that the title, for the purpose of creating a more provocative headline.
If you stop a disk format in the middle, you have to start from the beginning. I'd imagine the same thing would happen with a sync.

If you stop in the middle of a firmware upgrade, it's a bit more fussy; a good process would just need to be started over, but sometimes you need to do an emergency procedure (and sometimes the emergency procedure involves an external firmware programmer, which is exciting).
Having a professionally established engineer guiding and vouching for younger engineers seems like a very powerful idea, and could help combat the growing problem of a massively inflating industry bringing down average code quality. With so much demand, engineers could be very selective about who they take on for apprenticeships... businesses could be expected to help senior engineers find the time and resources to take on apprentices. Ah, what a world that would be.
Not really. BBC reporting from yesterday: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55048147
[..]
Afghanistan, home to the heroin trade, moves into meth

A new report released on Tuesday warns that Afghanistan is becoming a significant global producer of methamphetamine. The country's opium poppy fields are already the source of the majority of the world's heroin, and now this report, by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), warns that crystal meth could eventually become just as big an industry.

The boom is the result of a discovery by drug traffickers that a plant commonly found growing wild in parts of Afghanistan, ephedra, can be used to create the key component of meth: ephedrine.

"The realisation that you could produce methamphetamine from a wild crop in the mountains has been a fundamental gamechanger," said Dr David Mansfield, an expert on Afghanistan's drug industry and lead author of the report.
[..]
The team discovered that methamphetamine production was a "two-tiered process", with ephedrine relatively easy to make even for people in poor households, who then sell it on to more specialised "meth cooks". The researchers were able to identify the images of ephedrine labs through the large quantities of waste water and dried ephedra crops left over from the process and dumped outside the buildings.
[..]
NYPL services Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. That's 3.5 million people to Queens' 2.25 million.
Personally, I would go for a RPI4 model B and a wireless keyboard touch pad combo if You are interested in a RPI system. The 400 means you're keyboard is wired to the TV, which for a media center isn't that great.

If you are also having to buy a monitor it might not be a bad Idea to look into black friday laptop deals too as a 400 plus monitor is getting fairky close to the price of a low end acer or asus. Almost all laptops have an hdmi output and far more horsepower than you will get from a Pi.
Some ISPs offer 10gbps packages to the house. I have no idea how to take full use of 1gbps pipe.
Nothing less than cofounder at that stage.
I wonder whether the promise of faster Internet would diminish some of the NIMBY opposition to high rise towers?
Global nitrogen dioxide levels dropped since COVID: NASA video
In my experience, new construction has access to fiber, and very little old construction has access to fiber.
How does it deal with the sudden inrush of air and the object at supersonic speeds when the hatch is opened?

Although, I guess for something about to go 5000 mph through the atmosphere, a little extra air probably isn't a big deal.

Maybe the hatch cares though.
Medium Counts Followers
Large open source projects should be regarded by nations as infrastructure required for innovation. Just like roads are subsidied and maintained by governments, so should software be subsidied.
Finding a doctor to heal my son
Judging from news about sales and profits that’s what a lot more people are not doing.
Sometimes processes hang -- bugs exist -- and there's no getting around it but to kill them. (The author doesn't even explain exactly what they were doing or why they couldn't cancel it, but every major Finder file operation I'm aware of has a status bar and a cancel button.)

I'd still rather my OS refuse to shut down because it thinks a process could lose data.

Because at the end of the day I can always just hold down the power button to turn it off, you know?
Those are equivalent statements.
Personal property is private property.

The term "personal property" is mostly used by Marxists.
Well in economics what often matters is what's happening at the margins. So the total capacity might not be that important.

Though you are right, even though the race isn't always to the swift, that's the way to bet.
Yeh, internet speed is getting faster all the time.
No, the idea that password hashing should be slow is built into the basic understanding of what password hashing is for and should do.

It's just that security wasn't as important (limited web attack surface) or generally understood back in the day (so people were even less likely to ask "is this hash suitable for passwords rather than checksums/indexing/etc?" than they are today), or the slow ones from then were fine -then-, but advances in hardware, the availability of the cloud/GPUs (so massive parallelization without a cost of infrastructure only a nation state could afford), etc, means they're easily compromised today.
Apparently Pixelmator uses it: https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1328757085769658373
Would have liked to see Asian countries in the comparison.
Building a scalable 'shot-based' serverless AV1 video encoder in Azure
They sort of did compare it in a bin fashion, since they gave the median.