skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am still on macOS but I totally agree with your post. macOS and iOS are seriously locked down and it can be very frustrating.

Like you I used Magnet but wanting to get something more tiling window manager-like I switched to Amethyst[1] which while not as powerful is pretty good for what it is.

Sadly macOS has frustratingly laggy window resizing for a lot of things. Finder and Safari are usually fine but pretty much everything else feels laggy to resize and generally macOS just has absolutely terrible window manager so a tiling window manager is a god send.

I mostly use macOS because I have been doing iOS and macOS development and so what else you gonna use but I have to admit I want to move away from the platform. It is all 'very exciting' right now with all the Apple Silicon hype and yeah it genuinely is impressive but for me I kinda want to get back to something more open even if it doesn't have a lovely highly efficient and performant custom SoC driving it.

I am like 90% there in convincing myself to build a nice AMD desktop next year and moving away from macOS as my main OS. Luckily I am not dependent on any Apple services so switching shouldn't be that bad.

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
"number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with films nocolas cage appeard in"
If that were the reason, then surely they would just have offered a free version of RHEL whilst killing CentOS.
The argument for MATLAB is the IDE.

It's pretty much already decently configured out of the box, so you spend little time playing with build and project configuration and there's a debugger built-in. Syntax is straightforward and the language is pretty optimized so it doesn't take long to get a working simulation for an engineering major.

It breaks down horribly for larger projects however.
The way FaceBook cynically rolls out the 'this will hurt small businesses' violin is extremely cynical especially when all that will happen is Apple will make it Opt-In rather than Opt-Out.

Much like some users disable ad-blockers for trusted sites they want to contribute something to if it does hurt small businesses more than it hurts the ad-brokers then I should imagine people will find a way of helping out the small local companies although I highly doubt small businesses will be as badly impacted as the global players will be - so I’m in favor of the change and good for Apple doing it - whatever their reasons and motivations.
I think you're missing the point. Nobody would argue that CentOS doesn't make sense - the argument is that it doesn't make sense if RHEL owns it, as there is a clear conflict of interest.
If you want to get into semantics, a currency something that is generally accepted or in use, meaning used by many people and organizations.

For Bitcoin, transaction volume is not a good indicator of this because many of the trades (estimated >80%) these days are HFTs. Bitcoin is an asset for sure, but not a real currency.
Self-Driving Taxis Are Coming
Substack publications already have rss support, any 3rd party rss reader can be used to consume the news letters.
Paris, at least, is doing an amazing job of replacing motor vehicles on the streets with friendlier alternatives, with great results in terms of reduced air and noise pollution. Try to elect a mayor of Lyons who's like Annie Hidalgo?
Other than bloat(oversize and slowness) and maybe lack of innovation, I can not think of any other con to OOP. So if there is enough to fill a book I should probably read that too!
Trump Twitter Was Hacked
"UX efficiency for dealing with large volumes of mail"

You should definitely check out mutt for this.
Its not randomly unreliable but its significantly more unreliable when you have low viral load. (As it happens thats also when you're much less likely to be infectious)
Kaszek, QED Back Crypto Platform Bitso in $62M Series B Round
> Americans should all remember that when the next election rolls around

Unfortunately, for most people the truth is that they "like their representatives, it's all the rest that are corrupt"

Plus Washington is close enough to a 50/50 split right now that you can always just say it was the other party holding everything up.
thanx dang, have a good day/night where ever your clock is.
Some rapid tests go as high as 99.97% specificity.
Hitler would've loved Alibaba
Right. I couldn't care less if my stock transactions are processed by a computer algorithm, a group of cybernetically enhanced punk goblins in a vault below the Stock Exchange building, or intergalactic aliens. As long as it's processed.
Air quality in London for example (similar for other UK urban areas) is better now than in hundreds of years. [1]

Even the Thames is much cleaner than it has been in generations.

It should be 'drinkable' but it's not as bad as used to be.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/london-air-pollution
There are all kinds of technological solutions to that:

Both have headsets (used to be a cost issue, gradually getting solved) and play the same thing.

Or one has AR glasses and can peek into what the other is doing and communicate with them.

An internal camera captures the face under the headset and presents it on the outside with correct parallax (could be presented with AR or with auto stereo display), AI in the headset can tell when someone is wanting attention etc. and use other cameras with depth reconstruction or depth sensors to fade them into the VR player's world.
I wonder if this is the opening shot across ESRI's bow that Amazon is getting into the GIS space. Could be a problem for them.
I bought my Dell Visor (Windows Mixed Reality) headset for ~$230 in early 2018. It's fun, but my computer can only run things at low/medium quality (i7-7700, gtx 1060 3gb). I'm in a situation where there is literally no reason for me to buy a new headset until I have at least a new GPU.

It really doesn't help that you're basically stuck buying the facebook-locked Oculus (either the Quest with a more limited game selection or the Rift S which requires a good PC), spend a bit more and get a Vive Cosmos, or you can spend boatloads of money and buy the Index (or buy an old Vive and piecemeal the Index parts you want since the lighthouses are compatible).

Any VR that is not roomscale will feel limited, and any VR that doesn't use some sort of tracking for the headset/controllers (IR based, usually) will feel clunky and will lose track of the controllers constantly. I tried (and loved, despite its limitations) Google Cardboard and Daydream, but those definitely never took off. Playstation VR isn't roomscale so you can't move around in the environment, so it's inherently limited.

The Windows Mixed Reality inside-out tracking works for 95% of what you need to do -- overhand throws don't work reliably since your controller leaves the tracking area, so you have to throw things by doing awkward pushing motions most of the time.

So again -- I'm faced with:
- Upgrade to a more expensive headset to get better tracking but still have low/medium quality ($300-1000).
- Upgrade my GPU to max out the quality on my current headset ($300-1000).
- Do both ($600-2000).

In all honesty, for the limited amount of time I spend in VR (1-2 hours once or twice a week, mostly for exercise with Beat Saber or BoxVR) -- None of those options appeal to me. I'll just keep using my headset until it dies, and then we will see where we are at. There's not enough new features coming out (or enough new VR hardware in general coming out) to justify an upgrade every year or two, especially when it relies on my PC having sufficient specs to power it.
You can't download an app without apple being able to log that. The payment or not is also with Apple.

You are being absurd.
"It seems too late to get back in."

The author appears to be alive, and astrophysics still seems to exist. So, what exactly is the problem? I expect wrong answers only.
Most multiplayer video games today don't ship with splitscreen co-op, people just play with their friends remotely over the internet.

I agree VR isn't great for a party game or hanging out with your friends in your living room, but that's OK because that's not the experience most people are having today.
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I wouldn't focus too much on "sequencing, selection, and iteration". That's only the start of it. It's how you think if you're programming Python or Java or C or whatever.

With Lisp you can better think in terms of abstractions. In particular how do you do data abstraction, how do you do functional abstraction (that's the control flow: sequencing selection and iteration) and how do you do syntactic abstraction?

That last one is where Lisp (any Lisp) really comes into its own. It's where you go beyond the expressiveness of those other programming languages. Whether you go with defmacro or define-syntax, it opens up a whole other world.

And the expressiveness here isn't meant to suggest that you can write programs that you can't in other languages (they're all Turing complete) but that you can write new kinds of control flow and scoping constructs so you're not limited to the sequencing selection and iteration that the language provides.
/r/bitcoin is basically one giant pump and dump subreddit. Every now and then there are helpful threads that talk about actual progress being made in terms of the Bitcoin protocol/protocols that live on top of it (Lightning), but they're never really upvoted that much and don't spark a lot of conversation.

That being said, I think that major Bitcoin forums like /r/bitcoin serve a good purpose because it acts as a containment board for people who just want to talk about the price.
> while funding startups costs the local community

I'm not sure I completely understand.

> If local salaries are depressed like that, this implies the outside investment is sorely needed.

It's interesting because a lot of capital is flowing into Vancouver right now in the form of real estate speculation.
Indeed, there is no easy answer. I think the majority of that money, if it existed, should be used for building infrastructure and financing public healthcare and education. I.e. it could replace some of the sources for the government budget, or add to it. Obviously there would be strict controls for suspending the funds if deforestation continued. If the government budget became even slightly dependent on such a fund, it'd be in the interest of every administration to make sure it kept coming. From the government's perspective, beef and soya are important exports so the funding would have to be comparable to that.
Well, according to the market they are worth less.
Aside from the pace of updates, are there any meaningful differences that new OpenSUSE users should be aware of? (I figured I'd switch from CentOS to Ubuntu, but I hadn't considered OpenSUSE).
Happy to discuss here if anyone has questions btw.
Here: https://policies.google.com/privacy you scroll to the bottom and press Privacy.
The recent TalkPython podcast "oso authorizes Python" is great for understanding what oso does, how it goes about it, and how oso's role is different from identity providers.

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/294/oso-authorizes-pytho...
I am not trying to undervalue your problems, but I suggest looking at some third world countries for some perspective. I live in one such place. In winter (which lasts for about 8-9 months each year) the air pollution is _horrifyingly_ bad: 250-300 µg/m³ of PM2.5 at day time, and 900-1500 µg/m³ each night. I am not bullshitting you, this is how we live. You can feel the taste of coal on tour tongue in a completely sealed room.

And almost nobody gives a fuck — when you try to discuss it with someone, you either get a blank stare, or "stop exaggerating, it's no so bad" (by which they mean "you don't drop dead right away (unless you're asthmatic)".)
I would say that our brain is wired to react to direct threats and not long terms ones because the main cause of death was direct threats until not so long ago. And by natural selection, the ones reacting to direct threats survived. This is an hypothesis, I would be interested if there is research done on the subject.
> Is it to be able to use variable names like they're used in mathematics?

Yes. That's the main point (in my case). I'm really tired of having variables with ugly names like "alpha" and "beta", when I could have simply α and β, just like they appear in print.

> Why use a miniature vocabulary of symbols when you can use English?

Because that's the vocabulary which is already used in math, and I do not wont to change mathematics to adapt to the limitations of programming languages.

See, I don't coincide at all with your point of view, but allowing greek leters in variable names would not keep you from using your preferred naming conventions.

EDIT: it's not really "difficult to type" either. For example, in linux if you add

setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier

to you keyboard configuration, then you can type greek leters by preceeding regular keys by CAPS LOCK.
Are you up to speed on the dark net markets?

Most have closed. The last one in use, Empire, had an exit scam this summer. Before that, Wall Street Market was taken over by feds and used as a honey pot - where they used traced bitcoin transactions to arrest dealers/people involved.

Any drug dealers still doing online trading prefer Monero, and even then, I would still say that using a currency solely to buy drugs online is the definition of hobby money.
I haven't tried it out. It seems really interesting, though. A guy in my group loved it, but he graduated. I haven't yet so I guess we can put at least one point on the board for Julia!
I wonder why. There must be a skill gap, else the senior engineers would simply drive three hours and double their earnings.
The Oculust Quest 2 is my first VR headset, and it can cast to the TV. That helps tremendously with the social aspect, rest of the room can see what you're doing and give feedback. In addition we've been playing Eleven - a table tennis game - in multiplayer with two people in the same room (with two headsets) which is tremendous fun, but requires a second headset.
I think thunderbird is a dead end.
That particular example sounds more complicated than it is to apply dwm’s alwayscentered patch, yank-put the Gimp isfloating example line in the default config.g, and s/Gimp/terminal/ (which doesn’t actually require truly grokking C).
Im curious where this puts TomTom on the landscape.
That 99% of republicans aren't racist you just use the extremists to stereotype and use it as an excuse to espouse hate
In the opposite direction, being away from matlab, I notice an upside to "vectorise everything" seems to have been "code shrinkage". Looks like ~3-5x times compared to "code with loops". I often find myself ill disposed towards my (and other's) code, it looks complex and verbose. I guess one can't easily un-see/forget how much simpler things can be.
For reference: HN thread from 55 days ago when this story first broke. Nice to find out for sure that it was/is true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859217
I use this quite a bit for ad-hoc git log viewing in bash. Thanks to the developers!
The fear of "looking poor" is so real in the US, which makes it harder to see who's struggling. It also creates this cognitive dissonance I've noticed here on HN where an article gets posted with pictures of the extended lines at food banks and people point out that most people seem to be driving relatively new cars, therefore why are they in line at a food bank?

I think a lot of people don't understand how poverty really looks because we're socially motivated to project wealth and status wherever we can.
>why doesn't the state of Washington just ban the chemical?

Is it just salmon affected by this chemical?

It looks like Kentucky has both cutthroat and rainbow trout. Both of which are actually species of salmon in the genus Oncorhynchus, which are true salmon.

Would they be affected by the chemical?

How about other species of fish?

That's the thing about this kind of stuff, it's not necessarily localized. There's a lot we don't know about ecosystems and the long term effects of chemicals like this. Chances are though, if it affects one area in such a negative way, it'll have other negative effects.
I agree with you about the 2 scenarios.

My concern, though, isn't about potentially pages and pages of explanations. It's more about the fact that I spend time opting out of that kind of stuff and some how still get the ad just because I was standing in an auto shop.

I've got a pi-hole on my home network, I've opted out of personalized ads on every site that gives me the option. I try to make it clear, "leave me alone."

But still I get ads that tell me I'm not being left alone.

The problem is these tools we're given to opt out, and we learn that they don't work; and a feeling that everyone in the world except marketers have to seek explicit consent.
The EU has limits for suspended particulate matter, and at least in Germany all the major cities are battling to stay within the thresholds. A few cities ban diesel vehicles in the city, others put expensive air purifiers next to the measuring stations.

People seem to love their cars more than their health, and other measures like modernizing heating don't seem to have much traction.
dwm and i3 are too capable and too complex. I get lost in the nested containers
Ask HN: How to find job with a great engineering culture?
E.g. clean code, static languages, testing, up to speed with the best practices
Basically where "it works" is not enough and with focus on maintainability
Location: NYC metro area
I think it would have had Oculus not been owned by a shitty company. I have a hard time directly giving FB money. I'm not going to reward FB for anything.
It sounds, from TFA, that it's a combination of private school and taking care of elderly parents. The latter is clearly a "need" rather than a want.

The former is more clearly "want", but it may well be a good investment if it leads to better schooling. That said, it seems like a prestigious boarding school, and reading between the lines it sounds like they're spending a lot more than they need to. They make several excuses about better colleges and the kids' friends, which don't really add up.

There's a mention of "identity", and it sounds like they just don't want to admit that they're now merely regular-middle-class rather than upper-middle-class. It really sucks that the kids lose access to the very top tier of education, but by definition that's not "middle".
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That's what I use as well, and that was my baseline for comparing this new one. It's missing most everything so far compared to newsblur.I've been using newsblur since Google killed Reader and I've been happy with it.
It also means "naked" in french. For example, https :// homme. nu/ which directly translates to "man dot naked" (and reads as "naked.man").

(Broken the URL on purpose, don't go there. It's a risky site likely filled with malware.)
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There’s over 1 1/2 million people on that site it’s the largest forum of Trump supporters by far
That depends entirely on your living situation. If you live on your own, a VR headset becomes just the opposite - you go from being isolated to being in a room full of people. Those people can be on the opposite side of the world, but you're carrying on a conversation and playing mini-golf with them.

Or for local play, there are one-vs-many party games where one player wears a headset and interacts with a group of people in the same room who aren't in VR.

Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is a great example of this where the other players are referring to a paper manual to help you defuse a bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqelfBKuiic

There's Acron: Attack of the Squirrels where one person has a headset and other people play against them as the squirrels with their phones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP29BxhvHfc

Or Davigo, maybe a less social one because it's VR vs PCs and not likely to be in one room, where the VR player is a giant trying to swat at the tiny humans who are playing a 3rd person game where they team up and throw bombs at the giant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7a63MMx6Q

Even if you don't have a game where other people can be involved, you can still cast the headset view to TVs and tablets. It can be plenty of fun to pass a single headset around taking turns in Beat Saber if everyone else can see what's happening.

I'm guessing none of that was the case in 1995, so I wouldn't be so quick to stick to a 25 year old judgement of what the technology can do.
Could you not use a deploy key? They are scoped to at the repo level and you can optionally give them push access.
>I'm lost right now I feel like as a 25 year old I should know how to flip this.

This is a result of too much hustle porn in the media and in fiction. In reality for every successful flipper of the sort you're picturing in your head there will necessarily be many suckers who have a cargo-cult understanding of the problem. Please don't take it the wrong way but I am seeing a little bit of that here as there seems to be some magical thinking going between "I'm young" and "I should be able to hustle successfully just by taking the time to learn a bit about it"

If there was a reliable (the keyword here)and/or freely accessible way of just doubling your money like this, we'd all know about it. In reality, you will have to observe your current environment and find opportunities there. Usually people will either not be aware of the opportunities available to you or will not spend time educating you about them instead of pursuing them themselves. If they do, it means that the opportunity is in the teaching (think pick-axe salesmen during the gold rush).

In the end, keep in mind that you might also be successful or not for reasons entirely beyond your own strategic choices.
Republicans refused to remove a liability shield for companies from the bill.

That's a good reason to refuse to pass the bill.
if you care about details (most people don't).

Most people don't care about battery life?
"Twitter has refused to answer direct questions from BBC News, including whether the account had extra security or logs that would have shown an unknown login."

No matter what answer they gave, they'd look incompetent.
GP is talking about aarch64 Linux laptops, and IIUC Pop_OS uses x86_64.
Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app.

"Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based data analytics, and helps the Tims app to identify when users are near competing fast-food restaurants and coffee shops."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-privacy-wat...
Agree with all points except Rust and “standards”. The performance and stability of Firefox Quantum was largely driven by Rust. W3C standards are just out-of-date documentation. Do what’s good for the Web and the W3C will eventually document it.
Yield farming, not actual farming lol
When I had a headset, I think the main thing that kept me from using it was the inconvenience. You have to keep part of a room clear, deal with a mass of cables, the weight of the headset, its positioning on your head, finding somewhere in reach to store it, etc. The lightweight wireless headsets of the future will help a lot. Smartphone vr is promising from this angle

Honestly, the privacy policy made me a bit uncomfortable too
Yeah it was invented at my school UCLA but that thing is not even close to the Internet is today that was done by capitalism and capital investment