skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I won't claim that installing software that is not in the Mac App Store is a totally intuitive process. Still...I kinda think it's neat.

On Windows you download an installer, it does some magic (usually asking for administrator rights. scary) and then somehow the program is...somewhere. It's linked on the desktop, you can search for it, but it's unclear what happened.

On macOS Programs are essentially treated as files. You download them in their (admittedly weird) containers, drag them into your Applications folder (which is just convention, you could put them anywhere) and then they are there. Want to remove a Program again? Move it to the trash!

I love it, I think it's a very neat concept once you've understood it. Sadly Apple doesn't seem too keen anymore on people understanding it. The invention of the Mac App Store and the "Launchpad", followed by the removal of the Application folder from the Dock tried to abstract this neat feature away from people and naturally they don't understand it anymore.

But this is Apple, actively trying to make their system less intuitive for monetary gain and control over the device, and not an inherent flaw of macOS.
FYI, the Wirecutter has a great review of different office chair options: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-office-chair...
A bug from 1974 broke a Git repo on Windows in 2021
I used to live before near Malaga, but they didn't at the time (I think now they do) Malaga->Porto direct flights. it was a shame
Instead of every developer implementing validation logic, shouldn't we have validation libraries to take care of this?
A Nowy Styl "Viden" with headrest: https://nowystyl.com/en/products/154/viden/
You're wrong. If your view point permitted some leeway I might spend time arguing with you.

But I think conversion with you is a waste of time, so let's drop it.
Yes, I can confirm that it's been that way (almost) since the beginning.

Apparently[1] the original intent was to allow the user to just type and rename the file, but the enter key was quickly added after they noticed that the display models all had garbage filenames. It was an early tweak that stuck (much to the chagrin of those of us who also use other systems). Why they never added it to the context menu is beyond me.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
I’m surprised you think that Apple is going to lose the epic lawsuit, because if you look at any legal commentary (I’m following Hoeg Law’s extensive coverage of the case), the odds of the App Store being broken from this lawsuit or even sideloading being allowed appears to be extremely unlikely.
Or use a password manager.
Sleeping the mac does not sleep the mac, it wakes up at all sorts of times

This sure used to work.

My 16-inch MacBook Pro (as in, the new keyboard model) just does not want to stay asleep if the screen is open. Even if I put it in Do Not Disturb mode, notifications (like my nightly reminder to take my melatonin) wake it up, seemingly no matter what option I toggle.
ps:I am in vilamoura for that last night tonight, if you want to grab a drink ping me ;)
It's not even great for programming these days. Docker on Linux or even Windows is a walk in the park compared to the horror show of slowness (https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/7) and missing features that it is on Mac.
Anyone know of digital archaeology projects in this vein that could use avocational volunteers? I love the field and think there's a ton of potential, but sadly grad school isn't in the cards right now.
If you use an external monitor, Big Sur has a tendency to hide windows off the edge of the screen when it wakes.

macOS will do its thing when you click the dock icon and bring the window to the front, but it can be hard to notice because only a sliver of the window will actually be visible.
Interesting.. integrate through the filesystem vs peer to peer.
If sending emails is 100% free, but you still have to worry about your sender reputation. [1] Sending a large amount of mail to invalid emails will start getting your emails put in people's spam folders. That's the reason email validation services exist, to prevent sending to invalid emails. [2]

Also, humans make mistakes. You should detect spelling errors and typos then suggest corrections. [3]

[1] https://www.mailjet.com/blog/news/3-factors-that-impact-your...]

[2] https://www.mailgun.com/email-validation/

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mailcheck
Well, it makes total sense in one way - ENTER toggles name editing. After you change a file name, you press ENTER to 'save' the new name and finish editing. That seems logical, I think. So why not have the same key to start editing the name too? In the way PLAY/STOP are usually the same button etc.
HN markup strikes again (OP wrote .X@.X, where X is an actual asterisk, which HN renders as .<i>@.</i>)!
> All of these replacement commands dry run by default

Same here. In addition if there's never a use case for running in production (e.g. at one point we had a command that reset a dev environment to a clean slate) then the command will actually specifically check for the production environment and refuse to run as an extra failsafe.
Laptops have dominated personal computing (by the mildly unintuitive definition of "PC"), but you could certainly argue that smartphones and tablets have eaten their lunch in the overall computing space.
The odds that this is a coincidence are approaching 0.
> To the best of my knowledge, it is even possible to include CSS and JavaScript in the card type.

Yep. A useful debugger if you want to get started: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/31746032
Tracking people and their cars is very profitable?
When you ssh in is memory nearly exhausted because firefox or Chrome have decided to eat all your memory?
‘Manipulated Media’: Twitter Refuses to Blink as Govt Fires Blanks
A better translation (that includes the connotations behind the word) would be "pops".
> Single button mouse --> no instructions, can't find out how to right click

I can’t stand OSX, but I’m pretty proficient. I think the right click is a symptom of you being so used to Windows or linux.

The average user probably never needs to right click. I bought my mum a MacBook Air and she’s never needed to right click in the 4-5 years of owning it.

I think it’s hidden for good reason. She also never asks if she should right or left click. Cos the mouse has 1 button.
Railing against the ECHR is arguably one of the things that sparked Brexit.
After looking at the Wikipedia page for Parallel Construction[1], there is a subsection about the UK, it mentioned that one could argue that parallel construction is now a concept that applies in the UK as of 2016. It then points to an article on The Register subtitled “Enshrining parallel construction in English law”[2].

It looks like Section 56(1) of the Investigatory Powers Act prohibits “any content of an intercepted communication” from being used in court.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2016/12/06/parallel_construction...
??? Central Computers (NA with Chinese ties) seems to have some available right now (5/24/2021):
https://www.centralcomputer.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=rasp...
Learn some stretches that relieve the pain from sitting for long periods. There is a lot of good information online for neck, back, and hip stretches, and a daily routine of these have removed the pain for myself.

It's probably not the best, but I use a recliner and a remote keyboard/mouse with a tv. It's not the most professional, but my employers are more concerned with results than how I sit.
Piano bench. I've had chronic lower back pain for decades, despite having a Herman Miller at work. When I sit at the piano bench, I maintain good posture. Can't do it forever, so I take a break occasionally to stretch a little (I was supposed to be doing that anyway). It's great, and my lower back pain is gone.
Just get rid of that pointless filtering altogether.
Window snapping exists in macOS, hold the option key while hovering over the zoom button and the snapping options pop up in a tooltip.

Personally, I like that macOS is more or less unchanged. It’s familiar, and I don’t have to worry about big sweeping changes like Windows 8 or Gnome 3 and Gnome 40.

For everything else there’s usually a tiny utility app you can install the gives you the functionality and runs in the background using very little resources.
You can e.g. do

> stuff = { [0]="one", [1]="two" }
> print(stuff[0])
one

Works well; I wrote e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-in... that way.

EDIT: even this works

> stuff = { [0]="one", "two", "three" }
> print(stuff[0]) -> one
> print(stuff[1]) -> two
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-nuclear-winter-a-hoax?share=1 and https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4244 both discuss more detail; but (especially in the 80s) there wasn't "detail", there was just the same "trust us or else!".
Yes. This is untidy but effective.

Here's what's left (this was greatly reduced by const generics already, as another poster has explained):

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/array/mod.rs.html#383

That macro implements Default, but only for arrays of size 1 to 32. It doesn't make any sense to talk about a Default array of size 0, the array is empty, there's no "default" content at all.

You can see the same verbosity for places where in some other languages you'd be able to just say all these things just work with any number of elements in a tuple, and Rust has chosen "up to 12" instead because it cannot express that.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/tuple.rs.html#100

The top half of that file is explaining to Rust's macro language how to do various things for an N-tuple, and then the bottom half call that macro for the 1 through 12 sizes.

If you really need a 16-tuple (unlikely, but...) you could copy paste the code to make one with the same features. This isn't compiler support, so you could just do it yourself.
I mean obviously the Command key is the Swedish Campground symbol: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou...

And of course, the Option key's symbol is the diagram that Doc draws in Back to the Future when he's explaining alternate timelines.
>let alone in the UK with no constitutional protection only the much weaker ECHR one.

I think that's overstating the situation a little.

The Human Rights Act (which enabled domestic courts to give effect to the ECHR) is considered to be as much of a constitutional document as one can be in the UK.

Laws can't accidentally go against Convention rights. Secondary legislation can be struck down if it breaches the HRA/ECHR, and even primary legislation (Acts of Parliament etc.) isn't completely immune.

Primary legislation must be interpreted by courts to be compatible with the ECHR, even going as far as to reverse the plain meaning of statutory language in some cases. It's only where there's an express contradiction or one that can't be "interpreted around" where the court has to apply the statute as-is.
> The "lab escape hypothesis" was disregarded by many (if not most) media outlets as a conspiracy theory early on.

Because it was a conspiracy theory.

Newly surfaced evidence may point in the direction of the conspiracy hypothesis, but that would be just a coincidence.
Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl Mojolicious web app
> It didn't even need to be in the Applications folder! You could put it in a subdirectory, you could put it on the Desktop, you could put it wherever you liked, and it would work just the same. I think it's a darn shame that this isn't a guarantee anymore.

It is even worse than that, many applications these days cannot even be installed anywhere other than the default location! At least on Windows you used to be able to do that with a high degree of reliability.

I think the original Mac did it right and everyone else who didn't do the same thing (RiscOS, NeXT kinda) is doing it completely wrong. Which is why I'm a fan of AppImage when I have to use Linux Desktop and "portable" applications when I use Windows. I don't use modern MacOS.
Park, around my neighbourhood, skate park.

Don't worry about being too old. Everyone at the park is there to skate and not to judge. Do it because you enjoy it.
g-mail smtp is returning this error:

"Verify that you have addressed this message correctly. Check your SMTP server settings in Mail preferences and verify any advanced settings with your system administrator.

The server response was: The recipient address <'*+-/=?^_`{|}~#$@[ipv6:2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe72:3900]> is not a valid RFC-5321 address. <...> - gsmtp"

Not even Google engineers can get it right. We are doomed.
> Well, you could probably sell something for bitcoin, but then oops, you need to sign up somewhere to convert it into actual real money.

Not quite, you can cash out BTC without going through any KYC. You can use non-kyc exchanges like hodlhodl, ATMs which just give you cash, or in person p2p trading.

> Until you pay for something and that something never arrives. Then you would be very glad to have a central authority.

Lol, you clearly do not live in a country with double digit inflation, government mandated bank limits, oppression. Cryptocurrency is literally saving lives in some parts of the world

> Ah yes. The tired old "but the poor people in poor countries" cries the person whose first example was "I can’t sign up for a US trading account without a certain amount of capital".

And you clearly need to workout that empathy muscle
Not exactly the same, but along the same lines: mysql has an --i-am-a-dummy flag so that DELETE queries won't run without a WHERE.
I've a Gesture at work and it makes me furious - every adjustment of the armrests is gone if i ever make contact with the desk, for example.

Ok, this is not a problem with the Gesture alone, but i'd really rather have some way to lock the armrests into position after adjusting them.
I would usually structure the question a bit, give a couple test cases with different formats and ask something like "write a class..." if in Python, etc. I wasn't trying to trap anyone who might actually think /\w+@\w+/ covers the range of all possible addresses.

Digression: I do miss the days when you could assume a candidate for a position at Aquatic Widgets Incorporated would know something about water, or about widgets, or at least would have looked up what an aquatic widget is before bothering to come in for an interview, but those days have long since departed the realm of Software Engineering as far as I can tell. Which may be a good thing from the engineers' point of view, I'm not sure.
> neck, back, and hip pain developing. Some of it is because of my renewed interest in working out

Ask for help in which work outs work best for that. IMHO yoga help me a lot and everything that look like plank.

Also, consider a Stan-up setup too. And I have discovered that different padding in your chair change the posture, so maybe try with different positions of the pillows or similar?
At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done.

To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC restrictions on top and couple that with terribly organized document it makes no fun at all.

I get the need for all those layers of security but without well organized document everyone has to go through the ordeal. What we need now is plethora of how-tos for these common architectural patterns.
This was one of my big gripes about MacOS when I had to use it for work. Evidently what you need to do is copy the file, then hold down OPT (along with CMD-V) when you paste it. You'll hear a sound effect that tells you it worked.

If you right click to open the context menu, and press OPT, you'll even see the "paste item" option turn into "move item".

It's 100% the wrong way to do it. Maddeningly wrong. In a world where CTRL-X hadn't existed for decades, and Apple's way of doing it was the norm, if someone came along and "invented" CTRL-X for the cut command, it would be universally recognized as an improvement.
Gatsby employee abuse his maintainer status in GraphQL to insert politics
I moved to mac during Vista, switched back for 7, and then bailed after Windows 8. I'm still running 7 on my gaming/video editing machine.

Microsoft needs to stop fucking with working UIs. Metro (or whatever they call it now) is a worthless eyesore full of ads and distracting rotating, flipping, bouncing UI elements. Get out of my face and let me do my work.
This is a lot of FUD. Yes, Apple devices do collect some data and phone it home (mostly diagnostic, and iCloud, both of which can be turned off). However, unlike their competitors, Apple does not sell this data to advertisers. And they are just as likely to refuse to work with law enforcement as they are likely to cooperate. How many times has LE demanded that Apple break the encryption on the iPhone of a crime suspect? How many times has LE demanded that Apple install backdoors and hand them the keys, only to be told to screw off?

Yes, Windows and Android devices give users more control. But that is because their business models are totally different. We all know that Google is primarily an ad-tech company, and that Android is how they collect the data for those ads. And while a technically savvy person may be able to lock down their devices, that's just a minority of users we're talking about.

Apple's data collection is a murmur compared to the deafening screech of that of Google.
Interesting, I built something similar for myself - https://jublime.com/. It is not as polished as this submission, but I just add features which I feel useful to my job search.
Why not simply

DRYRUN=echo

cmd() {
$DRYRUN "$@"
}

?
If you are in a major city you can often find used "high-end" chairs for reasonable price. I'm on a 5-year-old used Aeron I got for $275. Herman Miller has made newer fancier chairs but I'll ride this one for probably a decade before I upgrade.
>Why is it that when I click Finder, nothing actually opens? I have to hit Option+N to actually display a Finder window.

Clicking Finder will open a new Finder window if none was created thus far, or bring up a minimized window.

>Don't even get me started on the sort options. What kind of file manager applies a Sort view to every single directory, instead of the one you actually set the Sort view to?

Not sure what you mean. If I click to select a sort view, it's applied to the directory I'm looking at.
The same thing happened with Ivermectin as a prophylaxis. All of a sudden anything that was years old with a history of safe use in humans was off the table. They all also happen to be old enough that patent protection is gone. It's almost like people wanted this to be more dangerous and less treatable for some reason.
Photos existing in the giant photos thing is just a mess. I hate it. I have to export them to do anything. I am not sure they even back up correctly. And this is photos.
The writing in the BBC article suggests "this photo", they refer to "the photo" and show a photograph.

IMO that's bad journalism if it's not the original photo - how about 'the original photo, of which this is a lower quality copy, had enough detail for police to read fingerprint markers from, those markers were matched to the suspect [...]'.

If it's not _the_ photo, then who knows, perhaps it's a fake the BBC produced or it's a stock photo. Why not state details about the pertinent evidence on which the whole story supposedly hangs.
That's interesting, but I don't want to buy apple hardware. When I buy an Apple product, I'm paying for the integration the software and all the other stuff in addition to the hardware. That's a steep tax. I just want an arm chip performance and free software on top of it
That's funny, I feel the opposite regarding OS X and Linux. Fwiw I have never used macOS, but I imagine it's very similar to OS X.
I've been trying so hard to have the Unifying software work on Windows 10 and it just doesn't work. Tried almost every solution online but the program does not even launch.
My 16-inch MacBook Pro sleeps just fine.

I assume you have Power Nap disabled and no devices attached that try to wake the MacBook?
I found the flashcards wordy. However, I feel they need to be even more wordy. Acronyms should be resolved, at least once, per card (preferably on the explanation, to aid teaching the acronym)
The best thing for me has been to change several times through the day.

I start off in a random office chair. Mid-morning I switch to sitting on an exercise ball.

In the afternoon, I sit at the kitchen table for a while, and then move back to either the office chair or the ball.
> Changes to system config won't be rolled back and other files won't be cleaned up.

These didn't exist on the original Macs[0], and I would argue that they shouldn't exist on any Desktop OS.

[0] Unless you count Extensions, which were still drag-and-drop but to a special folder under System.
> Archival nodes– nodes that store full history– still exist and are still needed.

Still needed as in "must be there for the chain to function"? Is it possible to have a situation where every node on the chain has truncated its history?

Note also that currently bitcoin needs 300 GB to store data for a fraction of a fraction of transactions needed for the world to run [1]. And crypto enthusiasts people want to move everything onto a blockchain.

[1]

- Total number of transactions is ~640 million: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-total

- Visa alone processes 4.8 billion transactions per quarter: https://s1.q4cdn.com/050606653/files/doc_financials/2020/q3/... which amounts to ~52 million transaction per day

- To handle Visa traffic alone, for that same quarter, Bitcoin blockchain would grow by 9 terabytes. 36 terabytes a year.

And that's for Visa volumes alone. Even though Visa is the biggest one, there's the long tail as well.

"the total number of general purpose credit card transactions in the U.S. was 40.9 billion in 2018" https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/market-share-st...

So, how long before even the archive nodes start truncating data?
Forget the money, Not much people are fortunate enough to enjoy stakeboarding at age 53.
Did not a similar incident happen when a plane from Bolivia was forced to land in Austria after possible orders by the US in a search for Ed Snowden?
This is one of my biggest complaints about trucks these days. I have a newer Tacoma and it is the same size as my dad's 2008 Tundra.
As an aside I’m thinking voxel based games, and generally games that render via CPU should do really well with a native M1 port, right? (with scaling, because the 4.5k resolution gotta hurt :))
What sendmail rules would you even use in 2021 to process a bang path? Just deny.
> So can they be considered domesticated just because they were raised in a cage?

Yes, most definitely. Over many generations. They're the same species as wild minks, but domesticated (just as dogs are same species as wolves, but domesticated).

And the scientific community agrees. For example, see this paper: https://bioone.org/journals/wildlife-biology/volume-15/issue...

It's true that they've not been domesticated as long as dogs, for example, but there are clear morphological differences between the two.

Most importantly for our conversation, infectious diseases can behave very differently in wild and domestic populations, for reasons of population density, immune status, etc.