skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to use this combination a few months ago when I changed jobs. It was just incredibly unstable, MacOS would just crash all over the place, requiring reboots every other day or so. Macbook used to overheat too, spining up ventilator while just sitting idle. Windows ME level of instability while overheating lead to battery failures on some Macbooks.

While McAfee somewhat improved I now consider Windows 10 with WSL2 a better solution for people who don't want a desktop Linux but need/want Linux compatible development environment.
Apple keeps throwing spanners in other companies wheels. Why spending time on new product development, if you have to commit teams to solve whatever this time Apple decided to break? This is anti-competitive behaviour that keeps companies working with Apple eco-system in check. Unfortunately thanks to excellent marketing, the user base is not going anywhere so companies need to put up with this.
A $20 USD bill is worth US$20 to me. That one is easy. My point still stands with regards to price vs value and that is how I invest. I buy stocks I think are undervalued and hold.

On GME, I have read r/WSB and the most of the posts/comments are emotional in terms of reasoning. When I’ve lost money investing it has been because I made decisions based on emotions. Often I wanted something to be true and I wasn’t able to face up to reality.

I believe short selling has a place in the market if done correctly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m against market manipulation. the buying or selling of shares by rational parties allows for true price/value discovery. My fear for WSB retail investors is that they are not rational and eventually the price of GME will come crashing down to a more realistic level in line with its future prospects and cash flow/earnings yield.

Under all the WSB bravado, I believe there is greed in that they all want to make big bucks. In that sense they are no different to the hedge funds. It’s really many small greedy fish vs a few large greedy fish....who will win? .... I’d rather avoid this fight and play a game where I’m more confident of winning.
I’m not a mathematician, but that looks more like sevenfold than eightfold to me...
> The problem is that English universities are inherently more attractive so UK has way more EU students than EU had UK students making UK support a disproportionally large number of students.

The English evidently agree this is a problem and have been doing their part to make UK universities less “inherently” attractive.
Kudos on the quality of this post, makes me feel like the project is in level-headed hands!
That question is about Linux, which doesn't have this macOS-specific issue.
> I then frequently see they have to fire up VMs/containers to do work that I can do natively. No idea what's the upside for work (dev, coding-heavy).

When you figure it out, let the rest of us know, because this is exactly what I think about every one of the breathless articles about how great WSL is. Speak of the devil... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25965231
Forever is a long time. No, I do not believe it will last forever, or even six months.

I do believe it will last at least one more week, though, yeah. And I'm putting money where my mouth is.

The best part in all of this is that you're free to short it if you disagree. See where that leads you.
> I fully understand why people want to use Apple for their consuming needs. I really don't understand why my fellow developers choose to go with Apple as their work machine. I then frequently see they have to fire up VMs/containers to do work that I can do natively. No idea what's the upside for work (dev, coding-heavy).

Once we get a Linux laptop with great and fuss free hardware, then developers will continue buying Macbooks.

Great app support might be inconsequential for software development but not for quality of life. Programmers are people too.

If a programmer who happens to do music production or art as hobby for example, which do you think he would choose, a Macbook or a Linux laptop?
Documentations explains internals usually.

StackOverflow benefits from also having answers to things trying to combine libraries and other things.
Kate Editor: Search In Files and Multi-Threading
If it's not documentation, I go to my team first. We almost never need outside help for how to solve something. And it gives us another chance to talk about design.
The example session makes it clearer that they are talking about fake social proof and artificial urgency (if the promotion ends in 15 minutes, it is a fake one created just when you entered the site, real ones last until a round time or for days). Unless the examples are misleading, they should just name those categories better.
Sort by total deaths. It is true. The parent comment did not specify the metric, every death counts and total deaths is a metric that should not to be disregarded.

You are disregarding total deaths, like a robot that only looks at percentages and ratios. These are real people.

If you remove micro-states, if you filter by this, if you only consider that, if you spin this enough, if you consider that this metric is invalid, if you this, if you that...

then what do we have for such a vague claim such as "-> more people dying"?
"I used the terms as they meant to me... every person has a unique language."

Private languages are useless for communication, which depends on shared semantics. This thread is a clear example of that, as your first post here is very misleading except to anyone who a) knows that you are using your own private language, and b) actually knows what you mean by your words. In that post, using your own private definition of the various terms under discussion is worse than useless, as anyone who does not know what the accepted meanings are will end up worse off for reading it.

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
So, your definition of “different” is someone who uses Big Tech social networks?
Come on, we all know the real solution is to keep tuitions in the stratosphere, punctuated only by a call to forgive a select subset of student debt when it is politically advantageous

/s
"Genuinely" shocked, you mean? I'm speaking of a more general trend I've observed, not connected to the AstraZeneca fiasco. It's difficult to give examples, but to my mind and given my prior experience with Guardian articles, it seems to me that there's a clear de-escalation of partisanship in EU-related news.
> Aren't libertarians all about the absolute sanctity of private property over all other concerns?

They divide themselves on left-libertarians and right-libertarians. What you're thinking about is right-libertarians, so anarcho-capitalists, minarchists etc.
It’s incredibly disappointing that in 2021 booting from a microSD card is still the norm for nearly all of the SBCs on the market.
Proper mSATA (and even NVME) SSDs have gotten unbelievably cheap in the last couple years. It’s at the point now where a good quality microSD card is only marginally cheaper than an mSATA SSD of the same capacity.
Anyone who has been working with these types of systems for a few years knows how much of a headache relying on SD cards is. Inevitably your SD card is going to stop working or get corrupted — it’s just a matter of time and use.
Because your average Unix program will basically spread itself all over your system, and is nearly impossible to remove. I don't want to pollute all my system directories with random gunk.

Keeping things in containers keeps it from making a mess, and that alone makes it worth it, to say nothing about the advantages for handling dependencies or running multiple copies or versions.
You’re taking the tail risk on the down side but you’ve sold it on the upside for extra yield.
Yes, Kiwix is available for Windows: https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/

There's also Zeal: https://zealdocs.org/

And DevDocs: https://devdocs.io/about
You didn't use mac during the notarization system outage? I coulndn't even use my keyboard and mouse (the one on macbook, NOT bluetooth one) for 2-5 minutes after lid was opened.

True that this is a good example of a security system that affected people negatively – though ironically I was unaffected by this because I was on-site with a customer, working on an annoying network without internet connectivity. But yes – it's fair to say the ecosystem is not perfect.

And don't get me started on the completly stupid difference between ctrl+c and cmd+c. One (the standard for everything except macos) is used in terminal and the other in every other app.

This is not "completely stupid" – it's just a difference between platforms. The command key sends commands, and the control key sends control codes. The cmd+c combination will copy text in both the terminal and all other applications; ctrl+c will send an interrupt. If anything, this is one of the things that keeps tripping me up working on a Linux desktop after so long – I keep inadvertently sending ctrl+c instead of copying, because the control key is overloaded with both text manipulation commands and control characters! But this is just a muscle-memory and familiarity thing.
The article is devoid of engineering details. There is no way one can tell from this set of information if the FAA is right or wrong, or if SpaceX is right or wrong.

That being said I have a problem with your comment. You are talking about that the rocket exploded as if it was of consequence. You even capitalise it. Why do you think it matters?

Safety of a test is about the process, not the outcome. You might have a bonkers unsafe test and come out lucky. That doesn't mean that the test was a good idea or safe.

Or you might have the worst of luck, a complete explosive failure, and still everyone remains safe because the processes were right.

I don't know if the FAA is right or wrong. I don't know if the processes of SpaceX were safe or unsafe, but I know one thing. From the fact that it "EXPLODED" but hasn't hurt anyone or caused any 3rd party property damage you can't draw any conclusions about the safety.
> e.g. the future that we're heading to in the EU is the same as 5/9-eye countries: there will be a "legal" way of encryption and another one that is illegal, all depending if access can be given to 3rd parties / LE...

Why do you say there will be, as if the future is predetermined? Perhaps we should re-evaluate that and help prevent it from happening instead of complacently stating something as if it is a foregone conclusion?

Your words matter here. The way you are using them is helping materialize the future you do not want.
Your view of von der Leyen is pretty much correct. The problem is, so, the Spiegel has an axe to grind with her. Various reasons, she being from the CDU, being former Defense Minister, working with defense companies and the Big 5 consultancies. The defence company and defense ministry thing goes back the 60. Then defense minister Strauss, also head of the Bavarian CDU sister party CSU, illegally raided the Spiegel offices. And was the driving force behind EADS / Airbus as well. Ever since, the Spiegel is driving an agenda in that direction. Sometimes they loose themselves doing so. Their whole reporting of the Covid vaccine story is just another example where they totally miss the main issue.
“ Regulatory officials aren't idiots”

Source or proof on that claim?
Inb4 "you can disable automatic updates with these simple 4327 registry hacks and 322 group policies"
Can confirm, definitely RAM pack wobble. Still makes me shudder!

Memotech solved this problem by having a lower-profile RAM pack that included a piece of Velcro so the connector stayed secure.

https://www.nightfallcrew.com/27/09/2013/memotech-memopack-1...
> hard work to sufficiently pass an interview/test/etc?

Interviews are bullshit, arbitrary, and random, as discussed at length in countless HN threads.

Then any time diversity hiring is discussed we suddenly forget that we (collectively, as an industry) don't have a reliable way of measuring competency.
Bill made sure in the past that Windows should be The Operating System on PC, and it stuck. I think most of the upsides of current windows usage stem from this achievement. Hardware, software compatibility, and familiarity are often cited as upsides, but these reflect the status quo more than the merits of the system itself.
That doesn't change the fact that having access to the resource makes it much easier to commit this fallacy. It's a rare environment where naming a fallacy actually contributes positively to the epistemic atmosphere. It's rather analogous to giving someone access to an easy-to-use extremely-high-power energy source, with a small warning label saying "caution: danger of death", and a wide array of cables and electrical components, and saying "go forth". If you know what you're doing, these components are useful and will allow you to construct safe things. If you don't know what you're doing, you kill yourself with them.
Not bad at all for 1982. I almost have a hard time believing it
I accidentally find close my eyes while doing things helps.

When I'm running I periodically close my eyes and it helps me breathe a lot.

When I'm programming I often close my eyes if I know what's the current state and what operations I'm going to do for several following steps, until I lose track of them. It helps me to concentrate and recover my sanity.
"the only statistic that matters"

this is the kind of certainty that hides misconceptions and forces biased perspectives.
This is worth a read if only because of the clear introductory explanation of the market clearing mechanism.

However, it’s not a profit maximizing algo that will make you rich (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
N of one, but this user is in the process of leaving Apple.
I think Alice Schwarzer's words seeded some doubt in me, that v.d. Leyen got a fair chance overall. Seems like she lost her ways in fighting conservative opposition all her career. Anyway, Schwarzer is a nasty person, with some rather ignorant positions, so whatever. I just don't want to jump to conclusions on v.d. Leyen, without really reading up on shit, no more.
Building rep with you all is not a priority of mine

I’ve got positions in stocks that go back to the 90s, AAPL @ $5/share, etc.

I’m doing fine in real world terms. Rep in a database that can be shutdown whenever is not something to protect
ECommerce trends that will define the cosmetics industry this year
I believe that there is a distinct difference between formal and informal fallacies and how they should be dealt with in a debate.

I agree with many here that just pointing out fallacies does not advance the debate, however I believe this only applies to informal fallacies (which are often much less clear cut). To me informal fallacies are often just poor debating style.

However formal fallacies should absolutely always be challenged, because the make the argument formally invalid (non sequitur).
Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
I'm very far out of my depth here, but from a quick read it seems like there is a commonly used flag SA_RESTART that should automatically retry these system calls instead of returning the EINTR error.

I've no idea whether the behaviour Apple introduced is allowed by the standard, but it seems that it is at least quite common to not explicitly handle this EINTR error because there is an alternative way to just tell the OS to retry instead of returning this error. So I wouldn't be so quick to claim that the downstream apps are coded improperly.
That documentation says "[EINTR] A signal was caught during open().", and the documentation there for sigaction with SA_RESTART says "If set, and a function specified as interruptible is interrupted by this signal, the function shall restart and shall not fail with [EINTR] unless otherwise specified.", so as long as all signals were installed with SA_RESTART (which is probably the most common case since nobody likes dealing with EINTR), open() should never fail with EINTR.
Photoshop, if that’s your thing?
Only if you believe apps like McAfee are benign.

If sysadmins have installed McAfee on your workstation, then presumably they want to use it. Installing it and then excluding code downloaded from the internet defeats the whole point. (The effectiveness/safety/whatever of antivirus is a completely separate issue.)
Windows Enterprise has none of these issues (I use for a development project). It’s a perfect, smooth experience and I love it. Of course you’ll have to shell out something like $1100 for a license, which is highly impractical for most hone users.
You know, this is about the one thing I do like about macOS. Cmd+C/V should indeed be the universal sequence for copy/paste.

I particularly hate the way GNOME terminal uses Shift+Ctrl+C/V for this, because if you accidentally hit Shift+Ctrl+C in Chrome then it opens Developer Tools.
This seems like a classic case of Hanlon’s razor and I don’t see any evidence to the contrary (yet).

An NSL would be handled a lot differently than removing an app from a single app store for sexual content. Every indication so far points to it being a mistake by Google.

From less than a week ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/googles-bots-decide-...
Interesting idea. I like Emacs' approach toward UI building. BTW, why havent' you given a try to EAF first?
Will Matrix respond to this by pointing out that F-Droid is a viable option for people intending to publish or use FOSS apps?
Okay, 2007 is pretty old, I can't fault them for not supporting these functions. However, this is a noticable trend with macOS. Their pace with modern Unix is severely behind, and I often get bug reports from macOS users lacking some API that's been available on open source Unicies for 5+ years. Plus, even if Linux in 2007 didn't support what you need, it's open source so backporting the required functionality is feasible, and impossible on macOS.

MoltenVK is a good workaround, but open standards > workarounds.
Just delete your account and block it on the network. It takes a month and then you forget it even exists.
I completely fail to understand how cryptocurrency is any different than a collected art piece or pottery. It's all in the eyes of who values what & is ready to pay for it.

You don't go about regulating a random artist online for what they sell to a customer be it code or a couple of fighter jets getting it on.
I will have a look at the profile managers, that might be quite useful for now, thanks for the tips;

As for the "unique device id", you can check it here where they also describe how to turn it off in Firefox: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
Report it, and report their browser, and all E2E encrypted messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook): https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...
There are companies that accept Dog but I believe due to the volatility of all crypto, the rate is derived from it's fiat value.

Such as

https://airvpn.org/

Edit* Sorry, on my phone and my eyes are not that great, I miss read communities and vps.
SN8 (the previous test vehicle in this series) did not explode in midair. It launched, climbed slowly to about 10km altitude, and then descended to land.

It remained under control for the entire flight, landed hard, buckled, and broke open. There was a big fireball from spilled propellant, and a few large pieces of debris (likely COPV's - composite-overwrapped pressure vessels containing compressed gasses) were thrown a few hundred meters or so.

A failure of this magnitude was anticipated by the preparations they had made (clearing a large area around the pad, plus safety notifications to keep aircraft and ships out of the area); nobody was endangered.

The vehicle had a flight termination system (self-destruct) which would have fired if it had gone significantly off course before it left the safety zone.

The site is on the Texas coast just north of the Mexican border; if it had EXPLODED in midair, perhaps some debris could have ended up in Mexico, but there is literally no way this could have endangered anything in any other US state.
"The kafala (sponsorship) system binds all low-status migrant workers in the Gulf to their employers. Generally, the kafala system requires the worker to obtain the employer’s permission to travel or leave the worksite to look for other employment. Regulations require a minimum of two years of work for the sponsor (kafeel) before such permission will even be considered. This encourages widespread wage suppression and conspiracies to deny such permission. Such ‘labour bans’ effectively bind the worker to the employer for a long period of time. More significantly, a worker can’t get an exit visa from the government without permission of the kafeel. "
I'd surprise if a antivirus on windows would fail the read attempt from random software instead of temporary hang it. It will most-likely to be blamed as a bad AV here. Instead of just accepted because apple always do the correct thing.
No, the governments learned of Covid at the same time. There was no law of nature constraining the EU to start later, or compelling US and UK to start earlier.

Normally, it makes sense to do this. Negotiate price, avoid hassle of repeated procurement energy, wait until you have more certainty about trial results and manufacturing process.

This situation was a national disaster, not a normal procurement exercise. The EU should have committed earlier to a broader range of vaccines because the cost benefit was trillions of euros of human live and economic damage costs compared to billions of euro of potentially redundant vaccines.

That they didn't do this, and now are scapegoating the manufacturers, is a 'catastophe' from my perspective. Coordination and delays are explanations but not mitigations.
"Those proposed fixes don't make any sense for macOS."

You only get this "error" (e.g. absolute correct function of the API) if you are running antivirus, so...

"and downgrading to prior OS version is basically impossible for most people"

It's RIDICULOUSLY simple for most people, and is always the primary recommendation before doing an OS upgrade. Apple has probably the simplest backup/restore system of any OS.

You're batting 0.000. Keep going. Never let ignorance stop you from adding your wisdom, to surely be upvoted by "Apple is bad, m'kay!" fanatics who brigade these types of posts to tell us that "tHiS Is tHe lAsT StRaW"
I had never heard of those Haidt’s book or Turchin’s theories. Very interesting reads - thank you for sharing!
That is similar to my approach, though I will download the documentation if it is available that way. It is always available, you know which version of the documentation you're using, and I never understood why an intermediary should be involved when something is referenced frequently. (Yes, I realize the latter is a personal quirk.)

As for StackOverflow results, at least there is a chance that they will be more useful than most third-party information. I have found too many sites that attempt to rehash the documentation, perhaps in clearer terms but virtually always covering common knowledge and completely omitting everything else.
When using TimeMachine as backup, rolling back to your previous OS version before the update is a rather easy thing to do once you encounter that your required App X is not yet updated to support latest version. I personally do never upgrade my macOS version before 6-12 months being released, and there is no need to since the previous version(s) is supported for several years after the release.
Does not have to be distributed, can be any E2E encrypted also. Signal should be banned, WhatsApp, Facebook messenger: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...

Report them all, if you can't find objectionable content on those, write it to yourself, screenshot it and report the apps.