skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was totally used in ways it wasn't designed for.

Isn't this the hallmark of all truly revolutionary technologies?
On the one hand this I can totally see the average politician being both this stupid and this morally questionable.

On the other hand the fact that the reporters have been able to see payment details from multiple payment apps and they are reporting this while he is still being just investigated and hasn't been charged yet smells a little too convenient.
Crypto crashing means a lot of people selling, hence a lot of trades, hence lots of money for CB.
I am someone who has recently transitioned from Mac to Linux.

Here were my grievances with Mac:

- Lack of absolute control over the system: In linux I can increase inotify watchers, use a local version of whatever CLI I am working with i.e Docker (Docker is uncomfortable to use on Mac), apply patches to kernel modules if I need em, apply bugfixes instantly etc

- The keyboard for my Macbook Pro 2015 has become sticky and the keyboard for Macbook Air 2020 is too shallow and hard to press for me. My Thinkpad E15 seems to do it just right. I imagine this is even better on a superior model.
EvalML: An AutoML library written in Python
Hahaha, no.

Why would the 0deg longitude be at the Greenwhich Observatory if the US military invented it???
you're talking to the wrong person, I personally think I'm not being taxed enough. I make absurd amounts of money while people are dying in the street (SF is the city with the highest number of homeless people I've seen in my life, and I've travelled the world)
Because those costings for solar and wind don't include the costs and viability of storage.
Windows 95/2000 was as close to the perfect UI look & feel as we've ever gotten. No crazy eye candy, good contrast, easily recognizable and consistent UI components, decent amount of information available on the desktop, and an overall UI that just gets out of your way. MacOS and AmigaOS came close, but they had more warts overall.

The only thing Windows did poorly (besides stability) was the amount of drilling down you needed to do to access some parts of the 80% use cases, but that can be fixed easily enough.

Today I use Mate desktop with the Redmond tweak, because once again it gives good feature coverage, good screen real-estate, low overhead, and generally gets out of your way.
YAML seems like a really neat idea, but over time, I have I have come to regard it as being too complicated for me to use for configuration.

My personal favorite is TOML, but I would even prefer plain JSON over YAML

The last thing I want at 2 AM when trying to look figure out if an outage is due to a configuration change is having to think if each line of my configuration is doing the thing I want.

YAML prizes making data look nicely formatted over simplicity or precision. That for me, is not a tradeoff, I am willing to make.
I basically did that for the first WSL. I occasionally helped friends install drivers or find their printer, but mostly didn't touch Windows from XP until I got a job using Win10. I used macOS at home Linux at work during that period. I wont comment on WSL because I haven't used v2 and it wasn't my biggest annoyance (it also doesn't sounds like v2 fixed the issues I had with it)

Man, I hated it. I'm just not a fan of how windows are managed, OS updates are constant and require a lengthy reboot, installing/uninstalling is the same awkward mess except now there's 2 Program Files directories, Control Panel is like archeology digging through generations of UIs dating back to Windows 95.

I hate all the intrusive tracking, ads, and preinstalled games and junk.

I tried to give PowerShell a fair shake. I liked some of the concepts around it. It's annoying the documentation requires a download (I was on an airgapped network). It was super awkward to wrap everything in a BAT file. Everyone else just wrote in BAT files because our needs weren't huge. They would be more maintainable and better behaved as PowerShell scripts, but it didn't seem worth pushing for. PowerShell was just so verbose I found it very hard to use as a REPL to build pipelines.

The experience triggered a lot of things I hadn't thought about in over a decade and I was bummed at how few things had changed. That's probably the case for macOS and Linux, but personally I find myself liking those OSes more than Windows...I've definitely been exasperated explaining their shortcomings to others because I've been comfortable avoiding them.

I ended up mostly using it as a dumb terminal to ssh into an Ubuntu box running tmux and vim.
A generous amount of free time.

I move slow and make things because my livelihood doesn't depend on it. I have practically unlimited free time and sufficient income, so I can build things that don't matter.

This isn't the case for more people. Time is money, and being slow means you're not earning much for your time.
I can warrantee you compacted snow is ice. Just go to Greenland, Argentina or Switzerland and see a glacier by yourself. You see ice and bubbles(bubbles could grow and become caves and over time they go up).

Icebergs are called ICE- berg for a reason, not snow-bergs.

If you had a snow that is 1/10 the density of water, just 10 meters of snow means 1 atmosphere of pressure. That pressure compresses the snow, making 10 meters hold more water and more pressure.

There are places in the world with glaciers higher than three kilometers(1.8 miles).
The Commodore 64 was introduced in January, 1982. Here's the C64 decoding and playing an MP3 in real-time:

https://youtu.be/0mF9kXZAjsI?t=17
Seconding the Mailspring recommendation, but be aware that it requires a Mailspring ID. There’s some progress, though, with a telemetry-free fork[1] (that’s the version I’m using right now) and plans to make the ID optional in the official client [2].

[1]: https://github.com/notpushkin/Mailspring-Libre

[2]: https://community.getmailspring.com/t/mailspring-without-mai...
An iOS app called The Lost Treasures of Infocom included the "feelies", as 3d models, alongside implementations of the games. Sadly, it is no longer available due to lack of backward compatibility (they never bothered to update the app for newer OS versions).
I agree. I would say that Erlang goes ~80% of the way compared to Haskell's type system and the last 20% really matter, to the point that in many cases I find myself not really using Erlang's (optional) type system at all. Better type coverage and more descriptive types allow the compiler to infer more and I'd say this is the opposite of diminishing returns.
> all of the email clients on Linux were awful

Thunderbird is pretty good and in my experience, less buggy than Apple Mail, especially when using providers other than iCloud. My wife absolutely hated Apple Mail, primarily because it would forget passwords and stop syncing/sending. So I moved her to Thunderbird and now she's happy.
Python vs JavaScript?
Yup, same exact problem. Bunch of stuff depending on readline 7, install something that wants readline 8, everything breaks. What a faff.
Why do you find docker uncomfortable to use on OSX? Also, what CLI replacement do you use on Linux?
As was the control of Num/Caps/ScrLock LEDs on the keyboard.
Causality is not a trivial concept.

If normal humans struggle making a difference between correlation and causation, you can expect ML will struggle even harder.

Same goes for intuition, inference, induction, deduction.

I would surmise that scientists trying to implement causality are aiming to accomplish general intelligence.

I remember that in math, a teacher would use the "imply" relationship to explain causality, with rain, grass and a garden hose.

Rain or using the garden hose would always wet the grass, and the grass cannot be dry. The grass being wet would imply the hose or rain, but it's impossible to know which.
It didn't come with USB, you needed the B version for that.
The losses aren't big, we'd get sub-10 percent between any two locations within the US, and sub-4 percent in the typical case.
Aside from it not being a UNIX, my main complaint about Windows 10 - and the thing I miss most from 90s computing - is the UI inconsistency, even across Microsoft’s own applications, let alone the sprawling disconnected ecosystem of 3rd-party applications.

Of course I recognise that Win10 is trying to operate in a far more complex environment than Win95 ever did, but that doesn’t stop me reading every set of Win10 release notes with disinterest and disappointment, finding out that they are focusing on minor feature churn and not doing anything about the core UI issues.

I often struggle to explain to my non-technical family how to do things using Windows 10 because it’s all so arbitrary.

Win95 was buggy and crap in other ways, but at least it had a manual that explained how to use it!
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In the article, the remote file's contents were not malicious, but merely trying to access it was. That would require a very different security posture to "assume all files are malicious".
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I think “Linux supported” is a vague promise that should not be relied on. I had a T495s which is supported officially on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. And it was quite frankly broken. Closing the lid didn’t work, it drank batteries faster than windows by a mile and plugging in external displays caused the X server to crash.

This is unfortunately every experience I’ve had with Linux on native hardware to some capacity in the last 24 years of using it other than dumb headless servers. So I use windows as the native OS and virtualise anything else.
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And what about malicious metadata?
My personal gripes:

- updating the package index on each operation. I just want to install stuff, dammit. I don't need you to run git pull to update the gazillion package definitions

- `brew update` and `brew upgrade` dichotomy. 99.9999999999% of the time I need to update/upgrade a package, not brew. If I ever needed to upgrade brew, I could run `brew update --brew` or something
Honest question, what's the advantage of pacman over apt?
Just call it racism. It’s simpler.
Right, which is why it’s absolutely critical to bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 in your docker / docker-compose config.
Nothing beats taking a good university class on it -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variabl...
> Consumer notebooks are moving away from having ethernet ports in general.

I might be wrong, but I don't think that every notebook will be as slim as the height of a USB-C port and with only one or two USB-C ports as only ports. This might be true for Apple and some companies that copy Apple. But there are still consumers notebooks that don't follow that trend and build some bulkier books with more ports and better thermals.

> 10GBASE-T is relatively power hungry, requiring a couple of watts per port. I don't think we'll be seeing this in consumer notebooks any time soon.

It all depends on customers needs. I would rather have a 10GBASE-T port than a dedicated GPU in my book, and I think the latter even consumes more watts.
We know some roads would be built without a tax. The issue is that only roads that benefited the wealthy would get built. Taxes are required for equitable access to public infrastructure.
FWIW, the Elementary app started as a Geary fork, but if I’m not wrong it got a rewrite a while ago.
I'm sure Gimp has its fans, but do people just not know about Krita? I'm not saying it's as fast/easy at small changes in Preview, but it's cross platform and mostly a drop-in for people who are familiar with Photoshop. I know people who use it on non-Linux platforms and chose it on its own merits, not giving any excuses because it's Open Source or ported from Linux--they probably don't even know.
Hmm I think the default pg_hba.conf uses "trust" and so will allow passwordless connections as postgres on localhost, you just have to specify the username (psql will use your username by default)

This is the case for the official docker image at least, and I'm fairly certain also true of distro package managers
Bugs make it to production no matter how careful you are.

What matters is how you deal with incidents as an organisation, not that you should never release a bug.
"healthy": it did not try to surprise you at every turn and corner. Functionality over vanity
The limits of the new “Nile Agreement” (2015)
I am Asian and I have Googled Asian food! In American parlance it means rice noodles, brothy soups, soy sauce, peanuts and peanut oil, green onions, etc.
For me, the ease of use of PKGBUILD files makes it easier to interface external or modifird software with the system (this has led to success of the AUR).
Should game posts get a game: prefix on HN?
I constantly open links to things that sound like important research or software just to find out it is just related to some game that the poster assumes everyone knows. is this just me?
> I would however complain that the default terminal on macOS is really not very good and I always install iTerm2...

Apple’s terminal is one of the very few that passes the VT torture test and has support for double width and height attributes. Sadly, it doesn’t do overlines and doesn’t italicise my terminal font.
Google’s next Pixels will reportedly switch to a custom in-house GS101 processor
I wonder if there is an Apple's backdoor to read users' text files when they open it and send saucier things to them. We will probably never know as this could be collated with other stuff and sent with metrics.
Oodle now free to use in Unreal Engine via GitHub
That's a holdout from the configuration UI style introduced in Windows 2000, not 95/98 (unless it was already there in NT 4, or unless we aren't talking about the same thing are all)

2000 reigns as the pinnacle of Windows UI consistency in my perception, but that particular management UI style was a first hint at future deviations, it was an outlier even then (I think it's because it's a family of UI built to interact with a separate system service, potentially remote?)
Not to give an argument along the lines of "You're holding it wrong," but...okay, yeah, I'm going to do that.

You hold a gun in one way. If you mess that up in any fashion, you probably won't hit what you're trying to, and, worse, might shoot yourself.

Saying things like "There is no official site" is holding Linux wrong. Linux isn't an operating system. Linux is just a kernel.

So phrase your search the right way:

"laptops that support GNU/Linux installation"

You'll be surprised to find, immediately it lists a whole bunch of laptops sold with a Linux kernel on them! I don't normally use Google, but just for you, I checked on it: It even has an easy-answers page.

If you want the whole package, look up an operating system, not a kernel.
I've hit this exact same problem loading YAML in Ruby. Luckily caught it before it hit prod, but still, it made me go argh for a while.
No, let’s not . I don’t want the cops harassing my friends for not being the right religion . Again.
Since a lot of people asked, some of my "power user" requirements:

- Perfect support for HTML email with attachments, calendar invitations, and conversations

- Use MS Office and Adobe Reader (with Wine in my case)

- Perfect support for Google Meet, Teams, Slack and Zoom, including screen sharing (full screen or just a window)

- Ability to customize the action for any keypress, combination of keys, mouse keys including the scroll wheel, and trackpad gestures.

- A good way to manage a constant flow of notifications: chat, email, calendar/reminders, and such

- Connectivity with bluetooth headsets. My Airpods microphone wouldn't work so I had to buy another brand of headphones.

- Support for a Wacom tablet, it was good but it lost my settings on reboot

- Local copy of Google Drive documents (did this with Insync, a paid tool)

- Working with two clouds with the same user: work and personal. This includes unified inboxes and calendars, task lists, etc.

If all I needed was to send plaintext email and edit code in vim I'd use OpenBSD ;)
I use almost the same approach.

I also limit access to just one IP, which is a VPN server hosted on a different cloud provider.

You can run a bulletproof VPN server easily using something like algo (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo)
Nuke plants got more expensive because that was the whole point of starting the projects in the first place: reliable long-term pipelines of corruption, graft, fraud, and kickbacks lasting a good decade, sometimes longer, providing many $billions, with no strings attached, to well-connected beneficiaries.

It is the reason small, standardized reactors never got traction: there was so little scope for corruption, they offered nothing of value for the people who could have backed them.

The same applies to any big public project in the US, of late: California's bullet train, New York's 2nd Avenue subway, Boston's Big Dig, the F-35, NASA's SLS. It has taken a long time, but the US now ranks among the most corrupt nations. Corruption is wholesale, from the top, not retail, at the bottom.
No it is absolutely not. That googling will find a list of hardware supported by Hackintosh and it will find Apple. Two very good responses.

Laptops supported by Linux provides neither.
You just prove the point of the author above.

If you had the real Preview on MacOS, you’d be using it all the time without even thinking, like 100% of MacOS users. Because it’s fast, it opens everything faster than you can think, and it just works well. The effort required to launch it is zero, or even negative. It’s just part of the OS.

But since you have a « sort of » copy cat which does not work as well or as fast, is not as well integrated, does not support as many files or any fatal flaw like that, you just don’t use it.

So yes, Preview is underrated and really hard to replicate.
To prevent burnout, LinkedIn is giving its entire company the week off
>Essentially the article boils down to "I am used to a Mac and anything that doesn't behave like a Mac is incorrect, and I'm unwilling to invest time into figuring it out".

It doesn't look like that. He has legitimate issues with things he needs for his job, like a good email client and calendar client. No matter how you try to adapt your workflow, the PIM situation in Linux is very poor.
I've been using Krita for some time as a replacement of GIMP. However, I still don't understand how these programs are rather powerful and complete, and yet the text tool sucks in all of them.
> I completely agree that brew is a failed imitation

I recommend MacPorts instead. Brew broke my computer more than once.
You can solve this conundrum individually with donations: taxes would go contrary to your stated goal, as the destination of funds is not in your control
Samsung Notebook 9 or Razer Blade?
I would wonder if the realization they want to prosecute (or want to publish it) comes from that, but this could not be a copy cat:

"On or about March 27, 2019"
+1 I find it absurd that (some) linux supporters find it not only ok but even a must, to have to tinker around your machine in order to make everything work. I could understand it in the 90s but this is a very different era we're in. I get zero value from having to tinker with my x-org settings to make the external screen work (sometimes). I'm using a computer to create value elsewhere and having to even think about stuff that should just work eats up my time and energy.

I believe this is the main reason that OSx and even Windows are much more prevalent in company laptops that any linux distro. And I don't see this changing anytime soon. If even Ubuntu didn't make that cut I don't see which (distro) will.

Haven't tried a laptop that comes with preinstalled linux TBH. Maybe there's some light there. Dunno. But my last experience with a Thinkpad 550 and latest ubuntu was bad. As in no proper keyboard, terrible screen issues, networking issues...
No. It’s just that performance and UX is capital for this software, and generally terrible on Linux as compared to MacOS
What you want to do is maintain a tap for your organization and pin formula versions there.
Unbelievable how the Linux community makes excuses (on the desktop) instead of fixing shitty software...it's always the same....
HFTs parse news like this the microsecond it comes out, so you wouldn't beat them. You might still be able to make some gains, but they'd be lower than trading ahead of time.
The default Mac terminal is dogsh*t, but iTerm2 is great.
The biggest problem with Linux for me was different keyboard inputs. CJK, English and, for example, Cyrillic input don’t work together out of the box. Don’t tell me “you should install this and that”. It’s basic functionality that every desktop OS should have. Linux desktop sucks.
Doesn't the Templates page do just that?

https://www.resoume.com/templates
> Yes, the apps I missed the most from the Mac were Mail.app, Calendar.app, and Preview.app.

> I am an extreme power user

Do those statements really go together? I'm not trying to stir anything; genuinely curious.
Why would you run brew upgrade if you don't want to upgrade packages? I don't understand.
That Scandinavian thing isn't so cut and dried. Culturally Finns pretty much are Scandinavian. The only thing different really is the language. It's probably best to refer to Finland as Nordic, but calling it Scandinavian isn't such a terrible error, either
I find insane that people need to tinker with anything. My fedora lenovo just works. Lol.
USA was created as a "libertarian paradise" with people renouncing citizenship and picking up guns to defend it.

It is not what it has become in the last 200 years. Modern society is very hard to revolt like this country was founded, but there are sprouts of it in the crypto community.
This is the future (5 - 10 years) for every one of the devices we all use.

I’d rather they all prioritize security, rather than extensibility.

Reading more about Pythonista, it’s seems unlikely that you could build a stateful Apple 1 emulator. But even so it looks cool. Arguably a little too permissive for my liking on iOS. I hope Apple closes all of those Inter-App communication channels. That seems like a security risk waiting to happen.
Expertise/intelligence/whatever you call it is the ability to handle more complex tasks because you can place the less complex tasks as background tasks.

This follows whether it is due to better education, better training, better tools, or better nutrition.

Are programmers "smarter" than they were 50 years ago? They can certainly create much more complex programs that do MUCH more than we could 50 years ago.

Are chess players "smarter" than they were 100 years ago? ELO ratings sure suggest they are.

Would those people of 100 years ago been able to do the tasks we can now given our current society? Maybe. But that indicates that "intelligence" is also a function of "current environment". And, if the current environment is better, then the humans are "smarter", too.
I have seen them show up in iCal / .ics calendars.
> can not drive 4K and 2K external monitors via thunderbolt adapter.

VGA ftw

> screen tearing sucks

it sure does. look into your os config for a compositor or drop the following into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-intel.conf :

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
I don't think brew does this? What it does do is update its package definitions automatically.