skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can think what you want, but the reality is that the majority of the world still lives in poverty and ignorance, with all that it entails (and even the well-educated are not exactly guaranteed to have the same priorities as you, e.g. Israel). If you go around invading every human-right-violatin' piece of land, very soon you won't have an army.

The UN has its issues, like the League of Nations before that, but it's still a place where the world tries to communicate and (occasionally) solve (some) problems. It has lasted longer than the LoN precisely because it has not taken the "activist" bent of its predecessor. It cannot solve everything, maybe even anything, but it's still better to have such an assembly than not having it. If anything, it provides some legitimacy to humanitarian efforts, when enough countries in the Security Council agree on a deployment.
>> FireFox for iOS works just fine. The Gecko vs WebKit difference doesn’t really matter in practice.

Yeah; sorry - it really does - I vastly prefer Gecko’s rendering engine and notice it’s considerably speedier and more responsive on my MacBook Pro side by side to the newest Safari. The app even opens faster.

Not only that, but I imagine there are a ton of web devs here in the comments who have a requirement testing on the actual FireFox, not some light skin on top of the existing WebKit engine with bookmark sync support.

FireFox for iOS is the farthest thing from ‘FireFox’. It’s in name only.
>Do you use public roads or sidewalks?

Yes, and that is paid for by my outrageous property/vehicle registration/gas taxes. Huge portions of our cities have roads in near 3rd-world conditions. The major arteries of every top-50 US city grind to a halt twice a day, and you have been conditioned to believe this is normal/acceptable. Our bridges, roads, and railways are falling apart.

> Do you live, work or shop in a structure that adheres to building codes?

Yes, and I pay for that directly via the price of homes (home inspection and permit costs are passed on).

> Do you have power? Do you have access to the internet? Do you enjoy food that doesn't kill you?

I pay for all of these things directly out of the money left over that the government does not take from me. In the case of food, I pay taxes again on it when I buy it.

> share the frustration that tax money isn't always (often) spent effectively, but then I ask...what have I done? what would I do differently? At the end of the day, I'm not that interested in doing these things.

Where do you live that the government provides you home, roads, sidewalks, food, power, and water for $0 post-taxes? Because I pay for all those things directly with post-tax income.

>Paying these taxes doesn't measurably impact my overall well-being.

How does 30-50% of your take home not impact your "overall well being"? All forms of calculation that result in a lower number than that have, in my experience, come from ignorance of the comprehensive tax cycle.
Can you elaborate this a little?
Both broke the law, with quite serious consequences for their country and individual soldiers. This can't just be ignored. Even if their decision may be morally justified (to some people they weren't), breaking the rules has to come with consequences.

There are issues with the US justice system, but it is a far cry from anything in Belarus or Russia. And if there is to be any secrecy around national security - most believe there should be - then there must also be consequences for breaking this secrecy, regardless of the justification.
First-Hand: Deep Learning Lets Amputee Control Prosthetic Hand, Video Games
> Businesses don’t just go ‘on strike’.

That is exactly what businesses do, and workers bargaining for wages is also “business”. If you do not like the terms of a deal, you walk away. Like Costco walking away from American Express, for example.

Another example is healthcare in the US. Payers (governments and managed care organizations), hospitals groups, doctor groups, and nurse unions have to band together to negotiate with each other.

Another example is when cable/satellite TV operators drop channels from their service if they do not like the terms being offered by the content owner.
> Lower awareness. Aside from some alternative shapes, bar ends do not increase the width of the handlebars. However, bar ends come with another severe downside – they are not covered by nerve endings (the rider’s hands) most of the time because one cannot shift or brake from that position.

I found this part interesting. When playing ping pong I'm certainly aware of where the paddle is. I guess I could be aware of where the bar ends are, but there isn't nearly as much to train me to be aware.

I think my awareness of where my fingers are, which sometimes extends into connected objects, is based on where the nerve endings are, because over time it creates spatial awareness.
Google Aims to Make Quantum Computing Viable by 2029
I believe Mac Pro was introduced at WWDC to be released at “Fall”.
America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy
Using Waypoint Runners to Enable GitOps Workflows
This piece to me seems to suffer from not having a clear audience. A non-technical audience isn't adequately invited to care about the topic, and a technical audience isn't offered evidence for many of the broad assertions made.
I mean, you're biased by an entire lifetime of using Windows. So you'll likely find whatever you're used to "easier to use" - using a GUI vs a CLI, typing in QWERTY, being righthanded, speaking English, driving on the righthand side of the road, and so on.
I wonder if there is a website somewhere listing ordinary sites that actually double as nuclear shelters. For instance, I remember walking through the underground parking underneath Helsinki’s Kämppi shopping center, and noticing that there were huge blast doors, which were kept out of the way and made to seem unobtrusive, but could clearly be closed in some emergency.
> Sleeping the mac does not sleep the mac, it wakes up at all sorts of times

This can be improved a bit by forcing the Mac to "hibernate" instead of suspend when you put it to sleep:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/51729

By default, it would hibernate only after some time.

You can also disable the "Power Nap" checkbox on Settings > Battery.

EDIT: Typo
And boy was that a release! (discounting for Antennagate)
Edit: And the terrible home button
Formal systems are rarely perfect :)
I want Xcode on iPad.

Sadly, I think that may be a ways down the line, but I would love to be wrong.
I don't see anything wrong with the "copy to a temporary directory" approach if your function actually does operate on files within a directory. In that scenario, copying to a different directory is actually probably exactly what you want for a dry-run, since then the code that you're executing is the same exact code that would run were you to execute in non-dry-run mode (as opposed to virtual operations which are prone to bugs if that virtualization layer and your real operations ever fall out of sync).
These two points of view aren't contradictory, the Constitution is very clear that it does not grant anybody rights but it is less clear about whose rights they can infringe on.
There was a supply chain leak last week that got me excited. A new chip for the macbook pros that can support 64gb RAM.

Magsafe restored

SD card restored

Butterfly keyboard still gone, which was another point of contention in the past

and touch bar still there (yay)

alongside USBC ports

hope this is corroborated by Apple, seems too good to be true
I'd probably prefer this little laptop mode over holding a phone strapped to my controller. You could fold it around to one screen and use that configuration if you like as well. There are a lot of options and I think that's neat.
Legendary wingman and decorated hang glider takes inspiration from albatrosses
The iPhone 4 was my favorite "new iPhone", if that makes any sense. The screen was amazing for the time!
I, too, feel guilty sometimes about being in the position I'm in as a straight white man. But at the end of the day, I have two options: quit, or use my position to better change the world, for lack of a better term. Despite being a white male, I am also a marginalized member of society due to my disability. Because of this, I spend a lot of time thinking about diversity and what it means and how we can improve our workplaces to be more inclusive and welcoming to marginalized groups.

I feel you. Don't let it get you down. Let's try and use our privilege to make the tech industry a more inclusive and welcoming place for those who do not have our privileges. Good luck. :)
Gahh....Noo...I'll never finish looking all that up :-P
Thanks - there's some interesting stuff there

/me runs off to google "House of Wisdom"
Unsure why this was downvoted as other countries do this and literally TurboTax lobbies against automated filing. Because in America, companies are people, and their free speech rights include the ability to influence legislation + make donations to support that influence.
I'm not sure what makes you think he could have been a serial killer, but if it's the subject matter of his art I wonder what you think of horror authors and filmmakers, or authors of true-crime novels and filmmakers, or the hundreds of millions of people who are their fans.

Just because one finds such dark visions of humanity fascinating doesn't mean you want to hurt anyone. I've never seen a shred of evidence that such people are any more prone to violence (much less serial killing) than anyone else.

If anything, there's an argument to be made for the cathartic value of such art, and its those who don't have such an outlet who I'd be more worried about.
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I can't speak for the GP, and I don't consider it a deal-breaker as they apparently do (my laptop is a Macbook Air), but yes, I really would like a matte screen! For all of Apple's engineering, matte screens are still far clearer in sunlight. The colors aren't quite as good, which is a shame, but I'll take the lack of reflections.
I wouldn't say he's less popular. I like to think of both of them as the two sides of the same coin. Within the skating community there's probably not a single person not knowing both names and a great amount of detail about both of them. If anything I'd argue that if you adjust the publicity around both of them you'd see that they've dragged in similar proportions of people. But over time little to none stick with the ultimate goal to become their modern version. I suppose it has something to do with what is popular as a whole. What is interesting is that overall skateboarding is a subset of rebellion or at least it's viewed as such and back in the day that was considered a good thing within the community. I'm not sure what's the situation now. The point is that at least during the 2000's neither Hawk or Mullen were representing that rebellious spirit all that much which is why people were going in other directions. Now that I think of it, there's the Thrasher Skater of the year award[1] which accurately captures every era over the last 30 years. Public competitions, to street skate-rats, to the "we're in a videogame, let's throw ourselves down the biggest set of stairs we can find" to... Uugh.. As I said I have no idea what is happening now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)#Skater_of_...
Yes but for the single programmer working by himself or herself, its much more palatable to build an app for iOS / MacOS and monetize from it. I believe that is the direction of the parent comment that I replied to. Many things run on linux but they are also very big softwares run by large teams
I have honestly never felt the need for snapping for almost a decade. Just use multiple monitors if you really need that screen estate
It's the eternal struggle between neutrals and conservatives: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
Some part of me wishes that programming and stuff ought to be of enough complexity so that only serious programmers lead the tech stuff.

Too much of programming education / online stuff is muddled with millions of media items that cater to absolute beginners.

I rarely come across deep, insightful articles that discuss at-least one level beyond the standard stuff. Any search for any programming related question leads to articles that start from installing Node / Python.

Stackoverflow is an exception though.
Totally agree with this. Trying to be perfect is a good road to paralysis and not getting things done. Software is like people: it's ok to not be perfect, especially if they're always trying hard to be better and doing good things for society.
> searched two offices of Twitter .... to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets

What were they expecting in a physical raid ?

> An hour into the search process ... vacated both of Twitter’s offices because they were closed and there were no Twitter employees to engage with

Again, what were they expecting ?
Carta has a total compensation tool for companies, employees need one too!
At this point mars is looking pretty comfy.
It's because they don't actually know how much taxes you owe. They aren't omniscient (thankfully) so they don't know e.g. how much in deductions you should have.

(I agree that #2 is a big problem, but I don't think it's actually the reason we file taxes.)
Scott McNealy was CEO of Sun Microsystems during the dot com bubble. After the bubble, he said,

“At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?”

For comparison, the price to revenue ratio of Oatly is above 25 according to Yahoo Finance.
They can also hire private companies to help, like they’re doing with crypto and some chain analysis company (I forget which, maybe multiple).

It’s a bit frightening that the IRS can deputize a corporation but I guess with crypto you live by the sword, die by the sword. Maybe the dystopia imagined by crypto enthusiasts is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get the government you prepare for?
I used to have the same opinion but I've realized that Apple APIs are for a particular type of an app. It can get very restrictive very fast.

I have since moved on to building my own GUIs with Rust.

But I that my app has different requirements than most.
And just imagine with friendly fire turned on. Even if it was all accidental (no trolls), you can die from any direction at all times.
Why do other countries need to sign the agreement? They don't really seem like they have any part in this process.
Backbone on iPhone is an amazing experience. What shocked me was how well they nail the software side of the "game console". it has a full home button and button based UX for selecting games
The 1930s time period that this discusses would have been very oddly early to begin construction of deep shelters, globally. I don't know a lot about Soviet Cold War civil defense history but Wikipedia at least confirms that dual-use construction as bomb shelters occurred during system expansions in the early 1950s, much later (and, most importantly, after the introduction of nuclear weapons). Deep shelters were not common prior to the introduction of nuclear weapons as there were cheaper and more practical defenses against conventional bombing, particularly before radionavigation (appx. early '40s).

This puts the Moscow Metro bomb shelter efforts solidly a decade later than London's conversion of Tube stations into dual-use bomb shelters, which started shortly pre-nuclear as a response to the unique challenges of defending London from the Blitz (London was highly dense and radionavigation was coming into use, largely defeating blackouts as a damage control measure). The United States made various runs at similar projects from the '50s to the '80s but they never got particularly far (which is a statement that goes generally for US civil defense efforts), probably in large part because the US never actually faced bombing like Great Britain had.
> Do you see any visible fingerprints on the photo? I don't.

The photo accompanying the article has the fingers blurred out. In the original photo the fingers must have been clearly visible, because that’s how the police are claiming they identified the man.
How does an “unbanked” person convert their fiat currency into crypto? Is there someone taking in reasonably large sums of untracked cash and sending crypto to wallets? (I genuinely am unaware)
It's cute but doomed to fail because it goes against everything most people understand about email addresses.
> Or, they were skeptics of the words of a compulsive serial liar and manipulator. It’s not partisan to stop trusting somebody like that.

The issue here is that, as journalists, their job is to look at facts and weight evidence independently, rather than simply base judgements on the person making the statements. There has been ample evidence to at least consider a lab-leak theory very plausible, or even likely, but those were largely ignored. Instead, the media seemed content to report that Trump is claiming this thing, and Trump sucks, so this thing must also suck. Not exactly inspiring behavior from the "fourth estate".
> Maybe this sentiment is a holdover from an earlier era

It's a holdover from two different earlier eras.

First, you have everything up to about 1998, which covers MacOS Classic through Mac OS 8, and Windows up through Win98. At the beginning of this period, when "PC" meant MS-DOS, the usability difference was obviously stark. But even in GUI era of PCs, System 7 compared favorably with Windows 3.1, and Mac OS 8 compared favorably with Windows 95.

Then Windows 98 and Mac OS 9 came out, and I'd say that things at least evened up. All else being equal, OS 9's GUI was still simpler and more intuitive, to my taste, but all else was not equal. Windows 9x had memory protection and pre-emptive multitasking, and Mac OS Classic didn't, and there were issues with system extensions and stability in Mac OS that I personally felt were more troublesome than Windows's famous BSOD problem during that era. This opinion could be a product of my experience working tech support at the time. BSOD was usually fixed by cursing profusely while rebooting. System extension conflicts were fixed at great physical and emotional cost to the person doing the fixing.

So I'd say Windows was generally easier to use than Macs for a while, until OS X eventually came into its own. It's harder to place a start time on this, but let's say 2002ish, with the release of Jaguar. And then there's been a sort of long slow decline as they clutter up the GUI, while at the same time Microsoft was putting serious work into cleaning things up. I'm not sure if the switch happened during the Windows 7 era or the Windows 10 era, but yeah, I'd definitely say I find Windows easier to use nowadays.

Personally, the main thing keeping me on Macs nowadays is frankly just the touchpad, to which I seem to be addicted.
>What did happen was that countries caved to US pressure to deny even the possibility of snowden passing through their airspace

Hence forced to land in Vienna.
That was because Ireland only made this deal available to Apple, not because of low tax rates. In Estonia companies don't pay CIT unless they pay out dividends, for example.
I bought a $150 Hon chair from Costco. It was great for about 5 months but then the padding got worn out and now it puts my legs to sleep.
If a vendor runs a website to sell their wares that happens to run on linux, then yes it's "easy" to make money on linux. If you are a developer trying to make money on some software you've created specifically for linux, then it's a different thing entirely.
datakit:Connect processes into data pipelines with Git-like filesystem interface
This is why I'm actually expecting Apple's laptops to become a fairly common choice for Linux users, once marcan's work gets further along!
will there be any penalties for countries that do not agree to this? Say if a country wants to set a lower tax rate than this 15% global minimum in order to attract businesses. Or this country could offer lower taxes in general because they don't want to collect that much tax. After all, how much tax to collect is a structural and public spending issue, and a ideological issue. It is specific to a country, and taxation policies and methods are supposed be the sovereignty of a specific country. I also assume this 15% tax is a tax on company profits. But some countries may want to have lower income tax, but a higher value added tax.

But in the future, when this is established, US and other participants in this scheme might view countries offering significant lower tax as anti-competitive, disruption of the market, disruption of established "international order". Using these talking points, the next logical step is to enact penalties. For example, levy extra taxes on that country businesses' operations and transactions in the judications of all of the participants. Would this be a valid concern?
If something like this would ever come up where I work, I would start running. How would these sort of numbers even translate to something remotely related to measuring the quality or even quantity of the teams output?
The real reason is that Americans owe money on more income than the gov't is aware of, and if you're going to omit income, they want you to explicitly lie about it so you can be prosecuted for it.
It’s not about a level, it’s about the rule. To everyone who says “15% is fair,” consider what you’ll feel like at 70% marginal.

Literal global rule. Some would call that overreach.
They could totally do this and it would be amazing. Would be a great but late reproach to the years of complaints about the demise of general-purpose computers that the iPad and iPhone have represented so far...
People mostly take the standard deduction.

(85-90% of households in recent years)
I think the US has demonstrated enough "possibility of intervention" since 1991, wouldn't you agree...? Kuwait is "free" but Iraq is lost to Iran, Afghanistan and Rwanda are still a mess.

Guns don't solve everything.
I’m not opining on the merits of the case, just on who needs who more.

For the record, I think transparency (in general) is always good, and so any terms and conditions that restrict price transparency are inherently bad for society.
I've been expecting them to move the Touch Bar up and add a row of physical function keys. I'd be perfectly fine with that.

There are some bases of users that actually use the Touch Bar. Most of the devs on here are not among them. From what I've heard it's mostly graphics and 3d people.

The biggest issue I have with the Touch Bar is how un-customizable it is. Make it easier to do DIY customizations and I might find some interesting uses for it.
The problem isn't any specific rule or loophole, it's the immense complexity of the system. Removing the loophole they're using today doesn't fix the system, it just leads to corporations using other loopholes.

That's why putting in place a simple minimum tax is a good plan - if there's a complex system but an overarching rule that says regardless of any other rules, you must pay at minimum 15% of profits, then you at least can't avoid that minimum (I mean, except with clever classifications of what your profits are, but at least for the most part it's not feasible for most of the large companies, excepting some like Amazon, to claim that they make no profits).