skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grumbled about indexing starting at 1, but once you get used to it it makes a lot of problems easier.

I've spent the last twenty-ish years in C and string manipulation just sucks. Think about it, you declare a buffer of length 20, the indexes are from 0->19, and the 19th byte needs to be a null if you are using it as a string and are using the entire buffer. Also, the standard library is not guaranteed to null terminate in all situations.

Lua's string indexing feels far more natural to me.
50 states, 50 policies, 50*50 independent variables, zero controls. Even the overwhelming successes and the overwhelming failures give us little information because of all of the confounding factors.

The only things we know are the really obvious: staying away from other people helps prevent disease spread, having big gatherings causes problems. If you needed to be taught that, you're not going to believe any of those 50 experiments. You'll always be able to single out something about them that contradicts it and continue to believe what you wanted to believe.
From what I've heard, the vast majority of London SWE jobs are in finance (big banks and hedge funds).

NY is the other big finance hub, but I think it has a bigger representation from non-finance companies too.
Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
HN's unwillingness to engage in meta conversation combined with somewhat vague rules and equally vague enforcement (sorry dang, although I do think you and the team do a good job in general) has really driven me away from participating as much as I used to.

Many conversations worth having aren't had and many conversations had aren't worth having. The environment has been very polarized along certain lines and unfortunately I think trends towards reinforcing very myopic worldviews held by people with very skewed perspectives of the world at large.

Just for some examples, crybullying runs rampant on this platform lately and I increasingly do not want to associate with a community that is used to coordinate and amplify personal attacks. Then there's the frequent contempt for the poor that tends to come up any time someone mentions rent regulations and/or zoning.
Youngsters these days!

Back in the 1980s and 90s, the differences between MacOS and Windows were as day and night. (Windows 1 didn't even support overlapping windows. Windows 3 had weird stuff like icons that didn't map to underlying filesystem objects so when you dragged a "file" to the "trash" you weren't actually deleting a file, you were deleting a symbolic representation of the file. Windows put a separate menu bar in every window, unlike MacOS, which was a significant waste of screen real estate back in an age when VGA -- 480x640 pixel -- screens were normal. And Windows font handling was horrendous.)

Circa Windows 95, Microsoft found workarounds for the most obstructive of Apple and Xerox's patents on GUIs. There were still weird differences, though. Mac had pull-down menus, Windows had drop-down. (Today, macOS has drop-down menus because that ship sailed decades ago.)

Anyway, the story of macOS vs. Windows is one of convergent evolution over a period of about 3 decades, and in the meantime, each of those operating systems has been substantially replaced under the hood -- Windows is no longer a graphical shell running on top of DOS, and MacOS is no longer a cooperative-tasking 68000 based system: Windows has VMS heritage rather than DOS, and Mac has BSD UNIX heritage rather than MacOS.

TLDR: in the age of the dinosaurs (1984-94) Macs clearly were easier to learn and use than Windows. Today, not so much.
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The chain of real culprits doesn't even end in Belarus. Russia officials have now fully supported Belarus and their supposed right to do as they please with planes in their airspace.

And yet the West are still happily doing business with them - see Biden lifting sanctions on Nord Stream 2.
>Now you can argue these restrictions are unreasonable but many of us don’t want our iPads or iPhones to be like our computers.

It seems to me a rather simple fix: give users an "unrestricted mode" just like Android has the ability to install from third party. By default keep it locked down, but allow the USER to make that decision, with ample warnings all over the place about what they're about to do.

Heck, for all I care make them go to an Apple store to have it "unlocked" so an employee can walk them through what it actually means and how dangerous it is so the average joe schmoe doesn't just click the button by accident.
Well, do I have the thing for YOU!

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That restriction is already circumvented with e.g. React Native though, or any kind of webview - companies can change their whole apps without a re-review. They MIGHT get called out for it if someone reports it, but in theory it's very possible.
I understand the frustration, but the comment is very “us vs them”. I also feel like you do, but we can’t operate on that because it’s pure bias. That kind of thinking has gotten us in to a proper mess as a culture.
Some areas of conversation require disclosing who you are. Freedom of speech means being able to say you don't agree with your town council for instance. Thus revealing much about yourself.

Yes you can censor yourself, hide facts, and remain anonymous.. but you can not do so across the entire spectrum of discourse, only in limited domains.
> The most intuitive thing is the command line

Are you joking? Searching in a windowed app usally brings up a dialog with various search options that can be ticked. Learning options for grep/awk/sed etc. is incredible tedious.

Like most things, there is a difference between intuitive for person A and person B and this is not the same as whether a power user can invest time learning a tool and then become super fast at it. An expert in Grep could probably find something in a file much more quickly than someone in Windows or MacOS but I would argue many people would find windowed apps more intuitive.
That is a power module made by Murata IIRC. I am jellying at that thick multilayer board.
Only on a superficial level. Everything that the app has dumped across the system (e.g. in ~/Application Support) is still in place, after the default "uninstall" of a Mac app that was put in the trash.
What weirdo would flag this article?
> So don't underestimate terrorists. Luckily, don't underestimate smart people in three letter agencies thinking about this either.

You can easily kill more people with a sewage pipe pipe mortar, or ramming a truck.

You don't see many those "smart people" even trying.

The "intelligence community" are a nest of inscrutable incompetence, and idiocy. That's the bottom line.
By the way, regarding Smalltalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27261379
I wouldn't say MS has 'completely' sovlved the installer problem.

"Just download the windows version"

'OK.. am I x86, x64 or ARM? I think it's Windows 10'

'Do I want the zip, the exe, the MSI or standalone?'

It's almost enough just to tell them to use the MS app store.
More generally:

> For anyone who hasn't started a billion dollar startup, you're probably not going to
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I think it 90% what you are used to. If you're used to using Windows, it's intuitive. If you're used to MacOS, same.

I was used to Microsoft Office, then they added the Ribbon. I know it's been years and years but I still feel it's unintuitive.

I'm used to Android. Whenever I need to do something on an iPhone I'm lost.

It's all just what you know.
I presume Ben is not his family name. Some doctors like to be called by their first name, e.g. Dr Drew
Wealth is basically time.

The more wealth you have the more time you have to do things you want to do.
Why Mass Effect Legendary Edition Proves the Series Is Still Important
Show HN: ReqView 2.11 – 360° Requirements Traceability View
They're trying to send a message. Kill an old guy who's already spent a career doing reputational damage and everyone will shrug it off as one of the risks of the business. Kill someone before they do much to you and it sends a stronger message.
POE without ethernet
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Very few things are intuitive. Is it intuitive to brush your teeth? No it is not. I spent years brushing my teeth incorrectly and paid for that as a kid until a dentist showed it to me.

Is it intuitive to tie your shoelaces? No, you learn it. Your
tie knot?

Is it intuitive learning to read and write? No, it takes years of practice.

Is it intuitive memorizing the presidents or the States of the US, the capitals and countries of the world? I had to learn to memorize much more effective as an adult in order to do things like learning Chinese script. As a kid nobody taught me how to memorize well and I did poorly. As an adult I look like a genius compared with others.

Is it intuitive all the Spanish compound verb tenses, or German people compound separated verbs at the end? No it is not, but Spaniards or Germans do it naturally and without effort.

I find the mac idiosyncrasies way easier to understand than the Microsoft Windows ones.

When I used Windows I used to to the things one way, like going to Control panel, devices or whatever, only for the next version to change it, or having Clippy then removing Clippy, for shutting down the computer do something, and now with surface is something different.

Most people comply about macs however because they have only used Windows for a long time, and they are used to it, like a German complying that compound verbs are together and he is used to ending the phrases with them,backwards.
What if we skip the battery part, use crank as the power unit? Boom, bicycle! :D
As a Russian I'm glad to hear this :)

What's funny is that we usually do not notice its beauty because we got used to it.

And I don't travel a lot so I cannot compare.

BUT

In the past years we indeed got wi-fi, air conditioning and stuff.
Some of trains are colored in thematic things, like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%...

Check it out, they look really great!
It may not be necessary for each individual to file suit or to join a class action lawsuit. It is called a fine in the article. Maybe the blog knows more than we do about the status of that.
Could always just sort processes to cores by nice value.
I think my pet peeve is the icons in the Finder. I don't consider them intuitive in the slightest, you just have to learn what they are by Googling it or clicking them.

I also learn about hidden key strokes for navigating the Finder to actually find stuff. Very useful once you learn them but otherwise they are hidden away so it seems virtually impossible to see the file system as a single entity.
If you do that, guess what Fortnite would do right now. Guess what Facebook would do to get around Apple’s privacy restrictions right now. Guess what a ex-boyfriend would do right now to install a blocked spying app.

For better or worse, the App Store being the exclusive way into the iPhone forces third parties to deal. Otherwise, they just tell the user to make the choice for them.

If you even listen to interviews with Apple engineers, it sounds like they are less afraid of willing and understanding people and locking their phones, as much as they are afraid of third parties essentially forcing their users to unlock their phone to install their products, and thus getting an unfair exemption from Apple’s protections while smaller companies probably wouldn’t have the clout to force users to do this, resulting in an uneven playing field.

I do get the Apple Store one more, but as history has shown, people literally go to the Apple store to get iCloud theft locks removed by impersonating the owner and faking receipts.
This is about how your role changes as you progress through different levels of management. Interesting, but I would be interested to read how management practices have evolved over time, in different contexts.

E.g. how were factories managed in the early 19th century? What current practices would have been recognised by staff in the organisations concerned?
The Internet Is for End Users – IETF
Are there any studies comparing ROI between content marketing and various types of paid ads?
> 1st response to CoVID occurrence was certainly in Wuhan

> The closest wild strain of CoVID happens in bats living thousand kilometres from Wuhan

That's weak evidence to claim that the lab hypothesis is more likely or even just to claim that the virus in humans originates from Wuhan.

Wuhan is a transport hub within China. In relation to dates it might be worth taking into account that hundreds of millions of Chinese travel around the country in early October and that the outbreak in Wuhan was detected in November/December. Coincidence? maybe, maybe not.

Additionally, we can also look at SARS (i.e. SARS-Cov-1, while Covid-19 is SARS-Cov-2): That epidemic started with an outbreak in Guangdong province in November 2002 (again, note the relative proximity with early October). Since then the origin of the virus has been traced to a colony of bats in Yunnan province [1] (perhaps also worth noting that this took 15 years). If you look at the map that is quite far away (1000+ km) and domestic transport networks have vastly improved since then.

Based on this, I don't see why the exact same scenario as the beginning of SARS would not be the more likely explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
Exactly, we need three categories: M, W, ?. In ?, anything goes: Hormones, steroids, doping, etc. We can't let nature hold back sport.
I got a will for this. Passwords go into an envelope. Pass it to them. Change passwords every time I update the will - new child, major debt paid off, new major asset.

I'm partially convinced this is a social engineering attempt but the will approach is nothing special. If you can't trust them with your crypto keys, you probably shouldn't trust them to manage your assets years after your death.
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This story continues to evolve and it's exciting to watch the new reporting come to light and slowly flesh out the details. The "lab escape hypothesis" was disregarded by many (if not most) media outlets as a conspiracy theory early on.

This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco. Any time news outlets are credulously repeating the words of "government officials," you need to seriously devalue the reporting. Reporting isn't just being a mouthpiece for the state, and these outlets fail us when they express such a high degree of certainty before there's any independent verification of the facts.

Of course, everything you describe is still "circumstantial," and it's wise to remain skeptical. However, even if we somehow eventually confirm this was not a lab escape, there's absolutely no excuse for the certainty expressed by the NYT et al in their early reporting (which is true for so much of the other COVID-19 media coverage - the media did a terrible job of expressing uncertainty with very incomplete information throughout the entire affair).
I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.
But we also have problems, of course: big crowds, random rogues, some of trains are dirty and smelly etc
Macs are strange.

I agree that there's a lot of counter intuitive if not worse UI ideas.

But it's surrounded by tons of superb tricks. Remember the live document preview years ago ?

Also the GUI guidelines made the system visually more appealing.

The compositor is also weird, I cannot really explain but when I use a Mac I don't see layers.. I don't feel like i'm clicking on a button, then an event is sent, then some logic occurs.. maybe it's only subjective bias (can't be 100%) but it feels more direct. Maybe they tailored the graphical subsystem / compositor to ensure extremely low latency I can't say.. but, even after using countless machines and countless desktop environments.. the first time I used a mac I felt something very different. Not better .. but deeply different.
How to fetch data from the Anilist API (GraphQL) using Axios
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# Worldwide shares:

- Windows: 74%

- macOS: 16%

- chromeOS: 2%

# NA shares:

- Windows: 63%

- macOS: 26%

- chromeOS: 5%

# Europe shares:

- Windows: 76%

- macOS: 16%

- chromeOS: 1%

# Asia shares:

- Windows: 80%

- macOS: 8%

- chromeOS: 0%

--

So if we only take NA + EU

- Windows 69%

- macOS 21%

That's not bad at all

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/

EDIT:

Asia doesn't make lot of sense, they are more of a smartphone oriented market than desktop

Asia:

https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

What's interesting, smartphones became the most used type of device last year

Worldwide:

https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

Today:

Smartphone: 54%

Desktop: 42%

And if we compare Windows vs iOS in NA:

- Windows: 31%

- iOS: 27%

- macOS: 13%

So yeah, it doesn't look good for windows and microsoft
It's interesting how calling it insurmountable both panders to and insults the people you're talking about.

Maybe a better way to describe the notation is "off-putting"?
In my experience, growing up in parts of the world and segments of it's population where macos has never been pervasive, a non-techy user that had to use my Mac laptop for casual browsing struggles to understand how to even start (I hide my dock).

In my view, the idea that Mac has been more usable and democratizing (for personal computing) is not backed by either market data or personal anecdote.

Pre-iOS, Windows was the most prevasive computing UX.
Hope the court doubles the fine then.

Actions should have consequences.
It's not about having to pay it separately, but having it as a separate item on receipt.

Here, all prices are advertised after tax, but the receipt lists tax percent for each item, and amount.

A B C next to items denote tax percent, then below you have value of items with tax group "Sprzed. opod. PTU A", tax amount "Kwota A 23%", and sum of all taxes "Podatek PTU".

https://www.wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/comment_EFFuzBF17reBWZvxpe...
why bother w/ electric in that case?
It's used as part of Gatekeeper for software downloaded from the internet.

See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin... for the notarisation process and https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491 for the customer-facing documentation, which includes how to work around it when needed.

Gatekeeper can be totally disabled via sudo spctl --master-disable.
Hey guys!

Launched Community List last Wednesday and since then I've made > $2000.

This is my first paid product and sales far exceeded my expectations. Super stoked to have built something people find value in :)

This is a tiny win. The only advice I'd give to people is to not give up. Just launch!
I feel you. But this way, the entire car industry would be bankrupt in a couple of years. There's a reason why nobody is offering a cheap, $10,000 dollar, battery-swappable, raw and simple, half-a-ton-light electric car.
On the C64/1541 you could definitely upload code to one or more of the 256-byte 1541 disk buffers and make the drive execute it. The problem is you have 3 pins to transmit your data and those are not connected to any communication facility like an ACIA - you have no choice but to involve the CPU in some bit banging there.

The 1571 used the burst mode of the CIA IIRC (also IIRC it wasn't done in the 1541 to be compatible with the VIC20) so there were more possibilities there.
Nobody cares that this is just an ad? It's got too many paragraphs of bullshit filler for something that's basically "they're taking pictures and counting the pearls using machine learning".
And I understand it: 2-4 hours of "bad" flying experience is not that much compared with 10 days holidays in a location that with other companies can cost you 10 times more...
Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived? (2020)
lol you should have tried to enter a URL-encoded plus sign, %2B.
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I literally just want a Peugeot 206 with an electric motor.

Every inch of the car is well understood. Cheap and reliable parts are available all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_206
oh man, named arguments are great. I should have read the release notes sooner, i had no idea this change came out. Thanks for mentioning it!
I feel like describing the application installation process is being obtuse. The installation process can basically be distilled to copying the app to your local desktop. Counting closing windows among the steps? How will anyone figure that one out?! Even if you can't, it's easy to understand and remember after you do it once.

Anyway, going back many, many years, I feel like there was a time where if you gave a mac or a windows computer to someone who had never used a computer before, they'd more easily understand OSX (or even going back to system 7) before they understood Windows.

The OSX experience today is pretty much the same as Windows though, and most people nowadays "learn computers" from their parents' OSX or Android devices, so, new users' intuition is nurtured by the time they get behind a mouse and keyboard.
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Are empty vectors const as well?
Malaysia is a typo for Ionia in Asia Minor, where most Black Sea colonists come from, I assume? Ie, Miletus.

In any case, an important point missed here in this thread that’s made in Thucydides is that Syracuse was a cosmopolitan melting pot of the Greek Mediterranean, large, rich, and attracting both Dorian and Ionian immigrants. An army raised there probably had Massalians and Athenians and Greeks from the Euxine and a dozen other tribes/cities.
It isn't working. Declining birth rates, sky high debt, environmental disasters, political upheaval. What in the world are you looking through to give you a rose colored view of the world?
Previously [flagged]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239837
so the things that are important to us, is high quality results, related expertise of growth marketers, transparency, unbiased judgement in case of problems and up to date services.
All we know is that it's a change to numbers on the screen. Did anyone actually demonstrate reduced range?