skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Macs for programming, music (DAW), and video (NLE), and don't see to have all these big problems people have. Several Macs over the years. And those are quite demanding applications (for programming, resource wise, I didn't use Docker until recently, but did use Vagrant, Vmware, and virtuabox for ages).

My major gripes are swallen batteries (2 times in 20 years), and the crappy 2015-2019 keyboards (plus, whoever idiot designed the usb-at-the-bottom mouse).

But as far as the OS is concerned there are some bugs I see here and there, but I don't see the big fuss. I don't have peripherals disconeccting at random, crashes, data loss, and so on.

I've had way worse bugs and issues on Linux and Linux software over the years (which I also use since 1997), and even used as my main pro desktop for years (1999-2003, Debian) in far more optimistic times.

One key differentiator might be that I don't install any kind of crap (I have a no-haxies policy for example, and spare for Little Snitch, I avoided kexts too. A vendor has some special e.g. keyboard driver? Fuck it, I'll use one keyboard with class compliant drivers), but I do install a lot of apps still.

Another might be that I usually re-install fresh every 2 years or so (I like to get rid of accumulated junk, including personal documents and downloaded files, and install what I really need to use at the current, sort of like spring-cleaning).
The „Emergency Override“ (press two buttons for 10 sec) reminds me of the iOS „Screen Time exceeded“ message. Took me like two days to develop the habit of instantly hitting the „no limit for today“ button every single time.
Facebook’s quarterly revenue jumps 48% on strong ad demand
Foundational economics?
Is anyone trying to fish them out?
The Schadenfreude of seeing this predominantly Brexit crowd getting stuffed is tinged with sadness that the price of cod & chips will soon be through the roof.
This is deeply misguided, I think. Dhall is a neat hack, but it's still a hack.

Any and all attempts to munge YAML or to turn YAML into something Turing complete are signals that a scripting language would have been a better fit for the problem.

The exit to this cycle is:

* to use configuration languages for things that are genuinely configuration now and always

* scripting language APIs for things that are genuinely not configuration (e.g. build systems).

* provide both for domains that are genuinely mixed (a lot of kubernetes probably fits into this category - some things are configuration for some people and dynamic or generated for others).

It sounds simple but it is hard - the correct border between config and code is usually hard to perceive and how your tools end up being used is inherently unpredictable.
Any real data, except of anecdotal "had this or that problem"?

It seems to me macOS quality has been fine for years.

And I've used it since 10.2.
LogDNA?
Probably not that bad these days, although it depends on your content and workflow. I _enjoy_ Notion more, and for what it's worth I do actually trust Notion to give more a shit about it than Atlassian, but it's still the most common complaint I get from teams. Trello is certainly vastly snappier than both (as is a Google Spreadsheet, which is many users' go-to solution for any type of even vaguely structured data).
I do not think the economic effect is big enough to be proved, but I think there is a political virtue in reducing the opposition between the richest and the poorest. For me, it is not economy, but mind manipulation.
I had this option for a while, it went away after I reported a couple of adds. Now I can't report adds anymore.
Interesting that aliexpress is now the yard to find the weird stuff
What quality but second hand goods are we talking about? Poor people are not buying second-hand designer clothing.

I personally never factor in resale value in my purchases, and I rarely buy second hand, because of the additional risk and additional effort involved. In general, poor people do not have capacity for risk.
How to immigrate is basically either as a partner of an EU citizen, on a work permit, or descendants of EU citizens.

There's a bunch of resources online to find out. Whether you are a US citizen (natural born or otherwise) tends to be irrelevant.

This portal has a simple way to find out: https://ec.europa.eu/immigration/
I really, really wish they'd ditch the yearly cycle for macOS. It's a mature operating system—older now than classic Mac OS was when OS X launched. It's not missing huge chunks of functionality like iOS, nor is it in lockstep with yearly hardware like the iPhone.

At this point all I do with my Mac is work. I would much rather it be rock solid and reliable than be crammed with new features and change for the sake of change every year. Most of the features that get added for iOS parity/compatibility could probably be delivered in point updates anyway.
Agreed this article is pedantic without saying much. (Not to insult the author, I write in similar fashion and so do lots of other people)
Inheritance is a natural phenomenon.

If all my money were stolen when I die (let's say, 100% inheritance tax), I wouldn't have much incentive to grow my business more once my business makes more money than I can possibly spend in a lifetime.

Sure, some people may still do it because they love working or because they love providing for their society.

The main reason I want to accumulate money, is so I can offer them a job instead of them going through the corporate bullcrap I had to do when needing some starting capital.

Bigger businesses are capable of bigger bets (think Elon Musk) which benefit everyone, removing an economic incentive doesn't sound wise for innovation and growth.
Generators is one.

Custom allocators and anything else required to build bare-metal software.

Compiling Rust itself, especially std::core. I hit that wall when trying to cross-compile using stable Rust that came with my distro.
Zero! Monthly subscriptions are waste of money,
and whole SaaS is IMHO wrong step in human evolution.
I prefer to have my stuff for free or own stuff.

My free stack:

- Comms: Free "work" phone with unlimited everything, and free unlimited LTE/5G "work" modem.

- Music: Free Tidal from work + my own ripped MP3s.

- Software hacking: free virtual machines running at Oracle Cloud(and some services at IBM cloud).

- IDE: IntelliJ Community Edition and NetBeans 12

Only real monthly "subscription" is:

- 15$ monthly "membership fee" for my political party.
Commercial for IBM's Selectric Typewriter 1960's – Video
>Does Big Sur let you loopback audio out yet, or are third-party extensions still required? Do Soundflower & BlackHole even work on M1?

How is that relevant to a discussion about worsening software quality? OS X never had native loopback.
"Interfaces with default implementations" are a thing in Java and in some other languages, but most people don't know about them:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultme...
Ask anyone now whether they would like to go back to live in the days when apparently life was better than it is now.
That's a world where megacorps and VC-funded fartups are the only thing left, and they can give you lucrative free tires because either they're FU big or they're just burning VC money to lock you in and eventually sell your data or extort the money from you once they've become dominant on the market.

I get where you're coming from; you just want free stuff. Understandable. But also understand that there are people who want to operate and support different kinds of businesses. For example, we might pay a few dollars a month for someone to host a git repo: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/

Offering service actually costs money, and it has to come from somewhere.
Yeah, IMV its a similar problem to the convention of prefixing DB objects with T (table) or V (view), but not as bad because refactoring between class and interface should be rare.
Did I just find the ultimate capitalist villain?
Due to temporary limitations as the constellation is still incomplete. Otherwise, it will be perfect for boats.
Slackware-current is a rolling distro that receives updates daily. That's where you go to find more information. The forum at linuxquestions.org or IRC sees some discussions, Slackware was never a mailing-list heavy project.

Slackware stable (and the home page) has several years between new releases. Security updates mostly follows upstream projects, just don't expect the same commitment as fully staffed projects like Fedora or Ubuntu, everything is in there but may lag a day or two sometimes.
Interview with Rui Pinto of Football Leaks (2019)
Connecting 700M Africans to the Internet with World Mobile
> A Java-like linked list means an extra level of indirection

I guess you mean java.util.LinkedList that has virtually no use case that's not outperformed (both space and time) by another datastructure.

Writing your own linked list with prev(+next) pointers ain't hard by it's nothing like C++ templates. The removal of layer of indirection does work in Java [pretty well] as well - like extending AtomicReference (or AtomicInteger), if you need a CAS and some other data, of course it comes with false sharing.
> For example, I am not a carnist. I don't even know what that is.

"Carnism is the invisible belief system, or ideology, that conditions people to eat certain animals." ( https://carnism.org/carnism/ )

> you should stick to your principles

You're measuring vegans by principles they're not claiming to have, such that eating plant-based meat and dairy substitutes is ethically wrong.

This is additionally double-standards: Criticizing someone who tries to reduce harm for not being perfect (because of this alleged transgression of eating plant burgers, wtf?!), while giving a free pass for those who don't care. Surely it is better to try to reduce suffering and harm than to be indifferent?

> Or are you the kind of vegan that's OK with eating meat and dairy?

No. But I'm fine with plant milk and plant burgers, because those are not made out of animals or animal products. I like the taste and, most importantly, it has made vegan eating more accessible for my non-vegan family.

(Actually, I'm not too much into Beyond Meat, because it tastes too much like flesh for my taste, while I love Linda McCartney sausages. But that's just my own taste buds, and I don't worry too much about what tastes other people like.)
That's just bad parenting.

I think rich people tend to be people obsessed with work, giving access to money is easier than teaching their kids to earn stuff - it is a different problem.
TSO is Total Store Ordering, which refers to the memory model of x86_64. For Rosetta 2, Apple will switch the M1 processor's memory model when emulating x86_64.
Darktrace Shares Surge 44% in Trading Debut After London IPO
I don't understand how these thoughts:
"I wasn’t sure at the time, but having had enough free time of late to ponder such questions, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that having a father who can pay for a top-notch education outweighs the disadvantage of being raised by a hypocrite. Sticking with the job for the sake of a paycheck passes the children test."

. . . resonate with the final part of the opinion article:
"As hard as it was to decide whether or not to stay at my job, it was easy to pass up the hush money. Mistake or not, my future hypothetical children deserved to hear their father’s story, and $16,000 did not seem like a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. After rejecting the offer, I enjoyed a full night’s rest."

So doing the right thing when it only cost him $16,000 was okay, but it was not worth it if he had to sacrifice a top-notch education for potential future kids?
I think they are referring to the fact how Fortinet was founded by two Chinese born brothers.

Tho Ken Xie is also a Stanford graduate and has had US citizenship for decades.
It's basically sending your system audio to an audio channel (e.g. to an app). You could e.g. route a Skype call audio to record it.

Handy when you need it, not exactly a metric for OS quality to offer one.
Rare blood clots from AZ vaccine now affecting 1 in 100k people
>In the past people had to think about things like how to fit a 20hr RPG into less than 1MB

You mean the didn't use cross compilers/art tools under Amigas/i386 PC's? Don't be delusional, man, everyone used these tools, even stuff like Deluxe Paint and them a custom tool to convert between graphic formats.

Also, most developers rehashed engines over and over. They would write an engine once per genre/game type.

Simillar environemnts exist today for the ZX Spectrum and as long as you can optimize/rewrite with inline Z80 code, they should be fine.
Two options available :
1) don't use systemD.
2) don't lose a data disk.
For now.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1382842277719003136
There seems to be way more 3rd party plugins. Reaper has quite an extensive API while Ardour is open source. There was quite a long discussion about this on the Ardour forum. It seems that the Reaper API and general extensibility gained more traction than Ardour being open source, as counter intuitive as that seems. Having used both pieces of software a reasonable amount, Reaper has a slight edge in terms of usability and customisation of the layout and look and feel. In particular the midi editing is smoother. That said, Ardour is a fantastic piece of software and a great open source success.
I used to teach children whose internal state is generally easier to assess than adults.

I remember watching as one kid said to another "I believe in you" to help out in some moment of crisis. It struck me as odd - something cheesy they'd (probably) heard in a movie or cartoon.

But if they are saying that to each other then I could probably use it to communicate better with them as long as it was sincere.

I'd say it sparingly when I thought it might be appropriate or helpful. The reactions were surprising to me, not at the time I said it, but later on. I'm not suggesting I was a major influence that sets kids on the right track, but I think it helped out somewhat and for some reason that specific phrase seemed much more powerful than other forms of encouragement.
Would you mind giving a quick review of the acoustic characteristics of the case?

I'm looking to move away from a QNAP box, and one of the driving reasons is the horrible "hard-plastic hard-mount everything" design that couldn't amplify hard drive noise any more if they'd done it on purpose.
What deelowe said. Shepherd's cli tool is herd. For example you can run sudo herd status. In practice it means they are running GNU Guix
I got an ipad pro from 2020 and tried all these, but have to disagree.

It's not as bad as no adblocking altogether, but very far from firefox with ubo on Android.

It's good enough to use however, and android has it's own issues.
Anything. Cars, bikes, electronics, kids toys, furniture.

Personally, I'm able to enjoy the lifestyle I do because I buy second hand. I'm also able to add value by repairing items, although as you say, there is the risk that someone is dumping broken items on you. You just have to be discerning, and possibly experience getting burned a few times.
Brains in a Dish
If you look at the information available regarding the SNES dev kits[0] you'll see the one intended for programmers included memory inspection and breakpoints. However, from what I've heard, a lot of SNES developers didn't actually have access to these tools.

I should probably ask some colleagues who I knew developed for the SNES back then, I'm sure they can shed some light on what it was like.

[0] https://www.retroreversing.com/super-famicom-snes-developmen...
or buy and old Bank Vault Time Lock

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_lock

https://gaslampantiques.com/shop/historic-bank-vault-time-lo...
Aliexpress is just a treasure trove for ordering so many different kind of useful and often useless novelty items.

Unfortunately my country has now forever banned it and now I have to pay anywhere from 10 to 20 times for these same chinese items on Amazon and other sites (which I believe are still shipped through china but through a proxy country just so the shipping label doesn't say china).
But what cameras do professional photographers choose, and why?
Fascinating! So you design the whole shebang, including keycaps?

Maybe you're the person to ask: I've been thinking about switching back to a mechanical keyboard, but I am looking for a specific keycap form I haven't been able to find so far.

If I cannot find these off the shelf somewhere - how realistic and achievable is it to have these custom-made for me specifically?

By the way, what I am looking for is a square base with a recessed "mesa" - either rounded like the old Nixdorf/Siemens/Fujitsu KBPC S [1], or completely round like this vintage Nixdorf [2] or the Teenage Engineering OP-1 [3].

So if you or anyone else reading this has a pointer, I'd be grateful.

[1] http://www.notebook-service.biz/bilder/Tastatur/Siemens/Tast...
[2] https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2NlgxNjAw/z/icUAAOSwBoxeB1t4/$...
[3] https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1
> Nonsense

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> the amount of wirst bending to move sideways across a straight keyboard is a known finite quantity

That amount is not a universal constant. I have large hands with long fingers, and I’ve played piano when I was a teenager. I don’t bend wrists to type stuff, at least when using furniture which suits me, and a full-sized desktop keyboard.

> those with the keyboard split in the middle

Indeed, it was one of them.
> Inheritance is a natural phenomenon.

Biological inheritance, property inheritance, however, is not.

> If all my money were stolen when I die (let's say, 100% inheritance tax), I wouldn't have much incentive to grow my business more once my business makes more money than I can possibly spend in a lifetime.

Even if one agrees that that is true, that’s not an argument that inheritance is natural, that’s an argument that it is a feature of society chosen to incentivise people to accumulate wealth surplus to their personal needs.
Cubasis 3 (the iPad version of Cubase) came out a year and a half ago and is still so horribly broken as to be unusable for a lot of users. At release it couldn't even have been considered pre-alpha. That was the point I finally gave up on them never to return.
I think we accept social hierarchies mostly because we were born in it, molded by it. In a vertical, pyramidal, system, we are coerced to compete against each other to reach the top when most of us cant get there. The places are limited. We spend far too more energy against each other. I vastly prefer ideas of horizontal society based on cooperation. One of my favorite pragmatic book who critic social Darwinism in favor of this alternative is Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Here is a wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...
Sell products that are BENEATH you
I mean, it depends. I primarily use to glue services together because I'm too lazy to keep scripts up to date.

They're pricey, but from what I've seen online they're a bit less shady than IFTTT.
That’s a non sequitur.

The data suggests, as mentioned in the press release, African Americans disproportionately favor menthol flavored cigarettes. Failing to ban such previously is unfortunate but not racist and certainly not blatantly racist unless there was intent to disproportionately harm African Americans. Prior intent was not mentioned in the press release.
> Evolutionism has no place in civilized society.

How can you square this with the necessity of Darwinian-like competition in a relatively free-market economy? I want to see the unsuccessful companies go extinct, and I want to see the unproductive workers let go, because such sorting is necessary for prosperity.
Quite possible the same stuff is being used around the whitehouse if this is some standard government used pesticide. But we will have to wait and see.
Also, for a different approach, there was GBForth, but sadly is not as complete.

https://gbforth.org/
That is all true except:

Humanity has spent centuries trying to prove that alchemy ( turning metal to gold) is not possible.

We still have no idea what primes are. Unless the millennium problems og ( p vs np and prime factorization) have not been proven. Bitcoin will be stifled in its development
How to Create Your Own Material Design-Like Color Palettes
It's reflected in the rates.

The McK engagement manager who is a veteran and knows their job (and your job as CEO/CFO/VP) charges $10k per day, because they are basically an experienced executive for hire -- while the McK associate fresh from business school gets leased out for $1k per day. The latter are the equivalent of a smart but inexperienced freelance developer (who don't cost much less) -- though with the resources of McK corporate behind them, and the willingess to work 14 hours a day.
I think that is just your opinion, and not objective truth. I am a happy debian user, currently forced to use macOS at my current company, and can't say I have a great time developping on a mac. As a web developper, Linux is great: native docker, native linux terminal experience...

I however think this is a personnal opinoin, and I won't argue that Linux is better that macOS. If I has been a macOS user from the start I would have maybe been equally unhappy to be forced to use Linux.

What i'm trying to say is, we are all different people with different tastes and priorities, and I don't think we can objectivly say that one OS is better (or "sucks the least").
if wifi packet capturing is broken, then this effects web browsing too right? if most packets received are garbage, then this cuts down the bandwidth/download speed etc.?
Huh, I was thinking along the lines of inheriting genes.
That reminds me: whatever happened to namecoin? That was one of the top cryptocurrencies about 8 years ago.
As a french, I'm sometimes offended by what Americans call "cheese".

If I'd wanted to make a non-dairy pizza, I'd just remove the cheese and find other interesting ingredients. The world is too vast and beautiful to eat what the Americans call cheese.
You do realise this is the exact argument that Facebook themselves make when people say 'the value is generated by the community' yet FB rake in billions?
The headline and byline from your links:

“British American Tobacco circumventing ad ban”

“Smoking giants are flouting rules set by Facebook and Instagram”

As always, regardless of the digital or print medium, Big Tobacco (& others) have always tried to flout the rules. Same goes for Alcohol and Gambling ad bans.
The idea that "weather is increasingly unpredictable" is also presented as a fact.
The article states that they moved of the ads platform. If people pose with a cigarette and it's allowed by content guidelines of the platform and country, would you expect to have it censored?
If I post a picture that I am smoking you think they should delete it cause I'm advertising it?
Passive Income Ideas for an Unstable Economy
This is a video of the maintainer talking about the new virtual 68k 'machine'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ve0bCC9q4
I'm also experimenting with hybrid emulation on the mister minimig - i.e. using qemu as the CPU and the FPGA for the Amiga hardware.
https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2397
I think this overstates both the willingness of businesses to move and the relative importance of taxes compared to other factors on where businesses will stay.

Even with a negative tax, fast fashion wouldn't produce any clothes in the US while high-tech research labs thrive in cities with high taxes and labour costs. Meanwhile, the megacorp holdings already shift earnings, profits and costs around the globe in a way that turns competition into an unwinnable race to the bottom. How could the US ever compete on tax when Ireland is willing to tax Facebook's earnings at basically 0%?
$8500+ a month for Google Map API, we opted for developing our own local places database now