skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Sur will be EOLed in November 2022. If they really cut off v12 from late-2015, they will have provided 7 years of support by then. Slightly earlier than their usual 8-10 years cycles, but arguably warranted by the significant technological change of T2.

I don't think they'll push hard on replacement; after a bit of (warranted) skepticism, the m1 is selling itself. Besides, what really matters to them is the yearly iPhone cycle; as long as that keeps spinning, they can be generous with the rest of the ecosystem.
> Desktops and latops are work environments, not fashion accessories like iphones. Professionals don't like to change their gear if they don't need to.

I think even smartphones are no fashion accessory anymore including the iPhone.
That's all nice and rosy but current picture is veering from this away more and more. Class mobility in US is largely a self-perpetuating myth. And US, say compared to Europe is clearly class-based social system where divider is your wealth.

So when you come in poor, you stay relatively poor, and can hope your children will fare better (and most don't).

Your WWI remarks are not correct (any fresh joining recruits would compare well to starved demoralized decimated trench troops). Read some german WWI literature, they didn't care much US specifically joining the fight, it was just more enemies. If Australians would come, it would be the same.
Three of those definitions more or less overlap, and one doesn't. You can see which one, can't you?

Which, in the interest of not fucking up language more than it already is, IMO shows that the definition that sticks out should be aligned -- or rather, newfangled BS as it is, re -aligned! -- with the other ones.

For those who didn't get what I'm talking about: The current "geographical definition of Europe" is a weird recent ("early-PC-era"?) invention. When I went to school, I learned in Geography that the highest mountain in Europe is Mont Blanc; nowadays, many sources claim it's Mt Elbrus. Yeah, and Turkey and Israel compete in the Eurovision Song Contest... Fricking Australia does! Just because you call something European doesn't actually make it European.
I'm not from US so my experience is different, but anyway...

> The solution to this is to define land ownership as a 3D space and not a 2D space. It should be a 3D trapezoidal sort of shape, and as long as you keep everything within that it should be allowed.

We already have somewhat similar solution. Some stuff is allowed no closer than 3m to fence or needs written neighbour permission. But it does not solve a lot of edge cases. Some fence types need written permission based on how much sun passes through.

> These are utilities. You pay for access to them

It's common that developer builds local private infrastructure for the project. City and/or utility companies manage up to private lot and don't want to take over the last mile.

> This should be optional and you pay IF you want access

And many smartasses would skip paying but jump the fence. Those community spaces do help their property value too.

At the very least paying for access would have to include all costs to install it, not just run.

> If you can get the right architectural permits and whatnot you should even be allowed to rebuild your house in a different style. That's what ownership means.

Wait till you hear restrictions in historical neighbourhoods...
As you suggest, ancient Athenian democracy bore little resemblance to modern forms of representative democracy and no doubt appears very limited/odd to modern sensibilities. What you wrote doesn’t make what I stated about the derivation of the word any less true though: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democracy
All forms of democracy so far have been hefty compromises in one way or another and so will all be in the future, short of some sort of technological marvel I suppose. Different countries, constitutions etc. rebalance the mechanisms in one way or another, as more or less direct/representative forms of democracy inevitably have consequent drawbacks... Parliamentary democracies, republican democracies etc./all the various voting mechanisms etc., all are compromises designed to try and strike some sort of balance or confer some practical advantage. You can argue that some are antiquated, some unfit for purpose, but most IMHO. are better than the alternative. The fundamental problem with oligarchies/tyrannies/polyarchy/plutarchies/‘pick-your-archy’ is surely that you might (and almost inevitably eventually will) get a bad apple/apples. ‘Absolute power corrupts absolutely’ etc. As I understand it, the U.S. is a kind of republic (a ‘federal presidential constitutional republic’ according to Wikipedia :) and Madison/Jefferson/the founding ‘dudes’ tried to strike some, as they viewed it, balance between representative democracy and an appointed/elected executive, as you’re no doubt aware… You can argue it was/is deeply flawed and that their efforts to avoid partisan politics/entrenched political parties have failed/there are many problems with lobbying groups/corruption etc., but I would suggest that there exists at least some opportunity to debate and consequently change representatives/legislate a hopefully better way of doing things? It beats the alternative/being arbitrarily ruled by a bonkers king/some tinpot dictator/absolute/hereditary monarch! Perhaps the democratic process ought to always be a work-in-progress, a compromise that we tweak and balance with other mechanisms to eg. protect minority rights or to provide long-term stability and short-term effective and efficient decision-making through discussion rather than dictat? I would suggest that there are decisions best taken at a very direct/local level and others that are best dealt with globally/even on a more technocratic basis… The voters ideally should be educated enough to be able to thoroughly understand the process and enabled and enfranchised wherever possible to engage with it fully…
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…”
- from a speech in the Commons by Winston Churchill (a man with many imperfections! :)
https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
NFS Most Wanted was absolute kino. One of the very few games I played through.
Uncommon punctuation marks and how to use them
That is not valid. Lots of people like guns because they represent self-defense and protection of their property. Much fewer people like or own hand grenades or bombs, because they have a different purpose. This falls under the latter category. Just because they are all exploding device doesn't put them all in one bag.
My main uses are writing software and reports, none of which creates 1,000's of files under the main folder. So I guess my gadget would not be appropriate for this use case.

> Not only does doing this prevent you from lazily dropping/saving files onto it

That's the thing, it's only considered "lazy" because it's faster but the files end up in a disorganized location. By pointing the desktop somewhere more useful, you get all the speed benefits without the disorganization downsides.

You do have to weight it against your love of your wallpaper, though.
This might not be quite the same, but logic systems -- we might have a logic expression on a hundred variables, and need to check if it is true.

While one would unit test with tiny expressions, often bugs only show up in large integration tests, as systems use many optimisations to cache and speed up behaviour, which can interact poorly
I’m in similar situation. Didn’t upgrade from Mojave and like my system so far but wondering where to go from here. What competition would you recommend in terms of hardware+system?
I agree it's a game changer in the long term (eg for multiplanetary life), but in the timeframe that we have to do something about climate change (rather short), the effect of fusion depends hugely on the cost of building and running a fusion plant. If it is more expensive per Watt than a solar panel and a battery, not much is gained. If it is much cheaper, then it will indeed be a game changer in the short term. But currently it doesn't really look like it will be super cheap when it becomes available.
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The problem is when reading the data back with Dapper (writing works fine) and it has to parse the guid stored in sqlite back into a .net Guid. Thus I resorted to making the column type text and ToString() all the Guid's before writing, but that's pretty gross. With a normal string field, sqlite can set it as primary key, make unique indexes on it, use it as foreign keys. Thus my attempt to use my own generator the generate id's. So far it works great but not sure if it will be fine with 5 years of usage (basically on tables that keep growing over time, like a comments table).

But of a rabbit hole: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper/pull/1082
If your goal is to use the uuid as a delegated capability it's going to be much more complex to use the primary key for your row than to use a separate key.
Selfhosting these days is actually a breeze with docker.
I don't like using docker for delivery or for deployment of saas, but as a delivery mechanism, it's really great
Ian Banks in his novel Complicity writes powerfully decrying smoking. Quoting from the novel.

I take out another cigarette, light it and draw deeply. I
gag again, coughing and hacking and feeling the whisky
and the can of Export I had earlier slosh around inside
me, almost coming up. My eyes are watering. What a stupid
drug, what a completely useless fucking drug; no real hit
after the first drag, highly addictive and lethal in all
sorts of ways, and even if the lung cancer or the heart
disease doesn't get you you can look forward to
gangrenous legs in your old age, bits of your body just
rotting away still attached and dying in instalments for
you, rotting and stinking while you're still alive and
then they have to cut them off and you wake up after the
operation wheezing and burning with pain and gasping for
a fag. Meanwhile the tobacco companies sponsor sport and
fight off advertising bans and look forward to all the
new markets in the East and the Far East and more women
taking up the weed to show that they can be brainless
fucks too, and suits with worm-shit in their brains go on
television and say, 'Well, nobody's actually proved how
tobacco causes cancer you know', and you sit there
seething and then you find Thatcher is taking half a
million from Philip Morris for a three-year find
consultancy and you swear never to buy any of their
products ever again but at the end of the day you still
light another cigarette and suck in the smoke like you
enjoyed it and make more profits for those evil fucks.

-- Complicity (Iain M.Banks)
It sounds like you will not be able use the elasticsearch output with previous versions of ES or forks like OpenSearch.

See also:
https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/25351
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/breaki...
The psychology of the to-do list – why your brain loves ordered tasks
The file system is nice because it's the same database. I don't want all my programs to do their own database, since then how do I search and move stuff in bulk?
My late-2013 MacBook Pro isn't supported either, but Apple already said that Big Sur would be the last release for that model.

I guess it will soon be time to look for an upgrade.
Yes, power corrupts. Thus all organisations with power should have good safeguards. On the other hand, sometimes stuff that happens 15 houses away may affect you quite a bit. E.g. loud partying, neglecting the yard and breeding nasty flora/fauna. It's all about the balance.
Well, it certainly doesn't help anyone who has sank money into crypto. Whether it hurts anyone who hasn't or might be tempted to is a different matter.
> the T2 has been around for almost six years (and has been in every new Mac for four)

You could buy a brand new iMac up to August 2020 that lacked the T2.
UK-based fintech firm Wise launches service that lets Indian's send money abroad
If you are running Big Sur now, you still have another full year (and a half) of support anyway.

I'm still on Mojave because I don't want to lose 32bit games. I reckon that, as long as one stays away from Safari and uses an updated openssl for most things (e.g. via homebrew), the risks of keeping an old version running are minimal.
Hey woha wow hold on a second. Quitting engineering over this? Just find a job thats pure Rails / Django / .NET. Those jobs are around, usually its smaller projects companies but they are super pragmatic. Anyway quitting is extreme, take some time off you are burned out probably.
Show HN: Chinese Version of Hacker News(auto translation)
So this is the founder:

"“When starting Sevenhugs in 2013, we realized the tremendous potential of UWB technology in consumer products and formed the belief that UWB would eventually be embedded everywhere, in our smartphones, smart home devices, and our cars”, said Simon Tchedikian (Sevenhugs’ CEO & Founder)"

Perhaps he could be contacted and asked what his plans are on opensourcing.
What you say is true, but I think the point was that the UK has consistently cherry picked rules and developments coming from the EU, while also benefiting from the EU integration.

Germany and France differ somewhat in that the EU structurally benefits them. However, they also participate in all mechanisms and, as a consequence, pay a lot of money toward other member states.

The UK, by contrast, has tried to minimize obligations while trying to keep some benefits intact.

Anyway, thing of the past.
> Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future

And, by extension, from a carbon light future through better nuclear in small form factor and molten salt reactors. Renewable is great but efficient, climate neutral finite source energy is, too.

Too bad so much of the green movement is still hanging on to its former peace movement sentiment of nuclear = nuclear weapons.
> It's not really up for debate

I'll let it go because it's not a very interesting debate and it's not the main point anyway. I haven't been a novice user for ~10 years, but I can still remember what it was like moving from Windows to MacOS — quite confusing!

> Can you point me to an example of a macOS app which closes when the last window is closed?

Calculator
For me I thought I would never be able to like the cigarette. I hated smoke(not just of cigarette) for my life and my eyes were sensitive to smoke. I hated the smell of cigarette too. But, oh boy I was so wrong in thinking it would never become part of my life.

Also if you hate smoke smell like I did, you tend to smoke wrongly and fail to fill your lungs with smoke. In that case you wouldn't even get the "buzz" of the cigarette while still feeling bad smell.
Can you 'programme' your brain to think of genius solutions?
Won't it be enough to shoot a few hundred pictures with a negative and a digital camera, and run some ML with a precomputed heuristic, to make a digital filter?
I don‘t think it correctly reflects Buddhist teaching, though.

You become a new person moment to moment and even „you“ is not putting it correctly and everything is tied together by cause and effect regardless.

Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the Buddha is only teaching by skillful means. So that quote may be the right thing for a particular addict at a time. In that sense it is true, but not as an absolute truth for everyone always.
If I write faulty code, the generated test will make sure I keep the code faulty right?
Those are not productivity applications, they are all tailored to specific purposes. The only one that I can say might be considered a productivity application is text editors/IDEs, but even then it's tenuous. No one is going to call Blender or Ableton a productivity application
What's with the exact 450 mcg recommendation?

What happens if I take more?
It's 2021, people really aren't using the App Store like they used to, imo mainly due to the insane rise of subscription based applications for things as small as calculator apps
Or, to put it to intuitive human scale - a cubic meter from the very core of the Sun outputs 270W - about the consumption of a single gaming console, not enough to power even a vacuum cleaner.

Coincidentally, it's roughly the power output of a square meter solar panel.
“Perl” Harbour is an enjoyable typo.
Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open and reveals 'bouts of depression'
Lots of modern Linux is excellent. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and so on.

Even Windows 10 is much better now than Windows used to be. WSL can be great!

For hardware - take your pick.

Microsofts own line of laptops are pretty good.

But nothing really replace macOS for me. I've tried, and can get a long way with Linux or Windows.

macOS is still the desktop OS for me.

I'd more easily switch to Android from iOS than I could give up macOS for good! :-)
Treating grown ups like children usually does backfire... Or at least not work.
I certainly did. I still remember the feeling of "oh no, I've fucked it all up" in the dream, and then the feeling of relief when you wake up and realize that you didn't actually smoke.
Found a good PBS video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_fy2vCcIiE

So they spend 17 years underground, then get out, mate, and then die after around 4 weeks.
> Then I decided to pretend I time-traveled back to the 90s - now I just write HTML, by hand, with a simple CSS style.

I wanted to, and would prefer to, do my website (which is mostly a blog for now) like this.

But I like having tags and categories for all my blog posts, and I don't like the tedium of doing _that_ by hand. I could write something to do that for me, but then I'd just end up with a static site generator anyway.

In the end I just settled with hugo since it can do everything I need for now.
Long live the irony mark ⸮
It's so funny I never come across many of these issues since I made a switch and I'm working from an iPad
Yes, I completely forgot about it. I used it a few years ago, I tried also [1] which is integers instead of strings.

[1] https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus
Just get a Dell to run these 32 bit Mac OS apps you require!
We don't really know our future projected energy costs in a post-climate change world.

Fusion might have a place if there is a massive amount of energy needed to reset the globe to a semi-controllable environment - either carbon control, air conditioning / heating on a city wide scale, natural disaster mitigation, etc.

Changing weather conditions can also affect solar and wind energy sources, which make it less permanent. Fission reactors still remain a crucial investment, but if Fusion ever 'arrives' it could prove a more fundamentally scalable solution - of course, around 50 years in the future.
It might look warm once the plastic gets yellowish within a decade or so of use lol
Copy/Paste of diagrams in Google docs/presentation stopped working by a few days
How is this possible? What kind of testing happens in such a big and important project?
That's roughly my understanding, with the exception that AFAIK several of the IJN carriers and crew had been involved in operations in China during the invasion there, so they had combat experience (though AFAIK no attacks against the carriers occurred there).

As for fuel fires, yes, several IJN carriers were essentially lost due to fuel fires or explosions after suffering damage that otherwise would have been perfectly survivable. Perhaps most spectacularly in the case of Taiho, were inept damage control essentially turned the entire ship into a giant fuel air bomb, resulting in a spark somewhere setting of a massive explosion with catastrophic loss of life (and the end of the ship).

The USN lost Lexington that way, but crucially, they learned from this incident and instituted a system where they purged the aviation fuel lines with CO2 (cooled exhaust gases, presumably?).

Also IJN carriers had dedicated damage control teams, and a very strict command hierarchy. If you weren't on such a team, you were supposed to do your assigned duty and not do anything about the ship burning or flooding. In the USN apparently everybody nearby was supposed to help with damage control efforts.

IJN had also saved on money and used iron piping for the fire suppression system, as steel was expensive or in limited supply in Japan. This turned out to not be such a good idea when the shock from a nearby bomb blast shattered the pipes. Also said piping was not zoned to nearly the same extent as on US carriers. Not a good combination, as you can imagine.
Yes sure Rails cant scale. Lets sprinkle React and Node on the code so everything magically scales...
Yes, seems obvious. Why shouldn't it?
Ok, I see what you mean now. You're right, there are two separate concerns here that could be considered orthogonal.
I think the increased performance of Apple Silicon along with its exemplary battery life will attract enough people that it’ll more than cover any folks who need x86 for multiple operating systems.

I also will miss having x86 in a Mac but I’m ready to have all day battery life in a 16” MacBook.
Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages
Hi, normally i dont post at all. But this is my attempt to share pieces of information anonymously that expires in a certain time. Site is made in Angular and and the backend is a simple thread safe dictionary that resets every 24 hours. It is by no means a commercial solution to any problem. This is something i came up with half an hour of dev work, coz i could not find anything similar.
I am alone noticing that you can't anymore copy/paste slides between presentations or diagrams between different google drive documents
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And it's specifically the low error rate of the HiFi sequencing that enabled this advance. The string graph collapses not just because of sequence length, but error rate that makes it impossible to distinguish repeats from each other. The 15kb reads used in this paper have just enough length and accuracy to span almost all repeats in the genome (rDNA and some centromeres excluded).

The assembly used the same conceptual foundation as the original human genome assemblies, for the curious: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1114
Who said they disdain native apps? They simply believe that web apps have/will continue to take over. You aren't going to get back native applications for every product just because you prefer it or that to you it is better. There are factors more powerful than that which are determining that web apps are more suitable.

For example: ability to serve ads, autoupdate, AB testing, tracking

Maybe those things are bad for you but are they bad for the people who make the product? No, they're pretty good things for the company, maybe even expected in 2021. Your preference against those things doesn't change that fact
In all fairness, this sounds more like you consider new tech a perk, a toy. Meanwhile, professionals get gear not to tinker with it, but to meet their mission objectives/business goals, and changing gear is considered unnecessary overhead (unless - as it seems to be in your case - new tech is the mission objective).

Writing this on my trusty T520 Thinkpad. 10 years, still going strong, still the main battle station for my professional life.
> If I were to try and do the whole thing on my own, I wouldn't be able to launch by my target date without cutting significant features

I think that's exactly what you should do: Rank features and focus on what is required/can be included in order to ship ASAP, cut the rest.