skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the past few years I've felt the same way; I've been wrestling with these feelings since the release of the 2016 MacBook Pro. I haven't upgraded my Macs past Mojave due to the loss of 32-bit application support in Catalina (I still depend on some 32-bit applications) and due to the increased iOS-ification of macOS (e.g., certain UI decisions, notarization). However, for a while I lamented the lack of alternatives that are as polished as even Snow Leopard was, which was released in 2009. I would be very happy if there were a version of Snow Leopard with security updates.

For laptops, I've decided to go back to Windows after 15 years of using Macs; I replaced my 2013 MacBook Air with a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 running Windows 10. I'm happy with the purchase; the Surface Pro 7 is an excellent tablet, and Windows Subsystem for Linux has made using Windows more pleasant for me since I spend a lot of time in the terminal. For desktops, as of this moment I'm still using a 2013 Mac Pro as my daily driver, running Mojave. Eventually I would like to replace this with a Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 build that will probably run FreeBSD.

I'm keeping my eye on the Hello desktop (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/) for FreeBSD, which appears to have the goal of providing a desktop environment that is heavily influenced by pre-Yosemite Mac OS X's Aqua interface. If this desktop gains traction, then hopefully there will be applications written that are conformant to Hello's UI guidelines, which are based on pre-Yosemite's Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

I lament the state of personal computing these days, and I wish there were more investment in desktop computing; I talk more about it here (http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/10/where-did-perso...). If I were independently wealthy, then I'd work on this.
Windows hasn't even figured out text rendering yet. My eyes hurt every time I have to read text on my gaming PC. Japanese text is especially bad.

WSL isn't that great either. I've tried to make it so that I can SSH into my WSL instance from other machines - doesn't work. Windows seems to always assign a random IP address to the WSL instance, so I can't actually forward SSH traffic to it. Well, I can but it stops working after I shut down the WSL instance.

It's nice for playing games but I don't see the appeal in any other part of the system. Setting up GPG and Git on a Windows machine is also so much worse than on other operating systems.
* Get others to vote. Participation rates are dismal.

* Vote local, too. Change needs to be bottom-up just as much as top-down.
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Yes. Why wouldn’t you?
> Music is a bit of a dog on the Mac

Music isn't even Catalyst, it's the old iTunes codebase with the non-music features ripped out and a fresh coat of paint.

It's possibly the worst app I use day-to-day on the Mac. It's crashy, buggy (I regularly have AirPlay playback just stop after 10 seconds for no reason), and because the entire Apple Music feature set is just embedded web views, it's also incredibly slow and janky.
Fund minimums
That's already a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_flash_distillation
As far as weird edges go, that one is really, really mild. It may even be considered a good idea!

For people interested in weirder things, check The R Inferno (I think it's somewhat outdated by now, though):

https://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/
Could you give any examples? The only bug I've found so far in my m1 macbook pro is an annoying flash of white color on the menu bar when using dark themes. Other than that it's been really smooth
Oh sorry I did not mean to suggest Fastmail was a faceless megacorp, I was thinking of Google, MS, Apple, etc.

I fondly recall many years ago I had some WebDAV issue and got a reply directly from you saying you'd fixed the issue but you were just heading out to dinner and so you'd push to production when you got back. That convinced a few friends to join too.

After about 10 years, Fastmail felt it was shifting to a more "enterprise" focus, which I can understand, and I just wanted to try something a little more "indie web".
5.78 liters per square meter actually, per the article.
I'm saying blaming violence on "culture" sounds like a Republican dog-whistle for "poor black people deserve their fate". (And I'm not even American.)
I have a legacy GSuite account. Google filters email from Facebook and Microsoft sometimes. Hell, I think I might have even seen them filter their own mail once.

It’s a clown show. The opaque filters are just an excuse to engage in anti-competitive behavior IMO.
Lytton fire: Residents unaccounted for; most of B.C. village destroyed
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Pretty much every country had or will have an exploitation phase before they get wealthy. The only difference is that some countries still have their exploitation phase ahead of them.
Really thanks for the conversion.
What do you mean? Airbnb website works fine. I'm on iPhone 12, and even have the app installed, but the website works just fine.
I have a hard time imagining that "r2d2 play a song" is much more inconvenient than saying Alexa ;)
I've got a SGI Indigo in my mother's house.
Before the pandemic still booted. Of course I forgot the root password, but the 4GB scsi disk is still alive.
Of course the clock is somewhere in 199[2-5] because my Irix version wont' let me log in after January 1, 2000.
or Karen, unfortunately
The 385% seems to refer to obtaining de salination in lesser solar collection area requirements.
I think they mean latent heat/enthalpy of evaporation.
Spot-on. It’s all about the guests, rather than the host.
That's exactly what i'm aiming for, i'll chuck a few grand in the opposite direction just for a laugh.
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This doesn’t use electricity at all, the “solar power” is heat from the sun causing the water to evaporate. It’s a still, not a filter. According to the article the salt/brine freely flows back into the body of water.
This is really unfortunate but there’s nothing really to do about it. I do hope parents think very carefully about their children’s names. It might seem edgy, cool, or have some deep unknown cultural roots, but the wrong name could sentence a child to many years of bullying.
Old users had the option to stay on the of 1 euro tariff with all included
A healthy exercise in skepticism.
Walker and Hummus?
The 100% level refers to a system where all energy goes to heating up water in order to evaporate it, and then letting it cool down to condense it. All the energy that was spent to heat up the water, is lost to the environment in the "cooling down" step.

If some of the heat is instead recovered during condensation to heat up the next batch of water, then you have >100% efficiency.
Wow this article wasn't extremely partisan at all.
I see it this way: My interests/intelligence/happiness do not match what is commonly considered greatness.

At times I have found myself in the position of choosing a career that can be considered successful, but I have thought, can this make me happy?, and being the answer "NO", I have rejected it. Now I have realised that my path does not overlap with the current standards, no problem, I will not send my soul in the name of the quality parameters of others.

All this to say, mediocrity to whom? If it is to you, fight against it, if it is to others, do not care a lot
The reality is that Mac OS only has a chance to survive in a good enough shape if any feature that comes to iOS can also easily come to Mac OS.

Practically all of those features are stuff that are on its face a positive additions (OCR for photos, Shortcuts).

In the past it wasn’t at all obvious that iOS features would always also benefit Mac OS and often there was a time delay. Mac OS was neglected. During that past few years Apple seems to have created the infrastructure to bring all things to all platforms in a way that’s realistically doable for them and I think that is exactly the right decision.

The billion dollar monster iOS will always suck oxygen out of the room for Mac OS, so better for the Mac OS to optimally benefit from that billion dollar monster.

In terms of the UI paradigm Mac OS certainly does some weird shit and that’s always sad (though if we are honest with ourselves not exactly a new development – Mac OS always had some weird quirks and corners) but I don’t think that’s down to iOS or unification or anything like that. For Apple platform unification seems to mean bringing features to all platforms, not unifying the UI (and that’s the right call).

That doesn’t mean that the UI team for Mac OS can’t make wrong decisions. (One example: Mac OS notifications heavily rely on hover states, to an extent that leads to a poor user experience. This is an interaction model iOS doesn’t even have, so we can’t and shouldn’t blame that on iOS. This is all the fault of the Mac OS team and design direction and not a result of unification.)
Are you suggesting that you've developed unit systems that are stronger and superior to what has been established in the field of physics?

Can you please share some examples other than adding specifiers about material e.g. 3 mg of plutonium, 5 L of argon, etc?

I can think of at least one other criterion for checking unit systems - ease of computation. See, for example, MKS vs Gaussian units.
Preventing that race to the bottom is not a goal in and of itself.
It looks like it:

https://twitter.com/xooorx/status/1410776673985994754

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38137215
> "If you are a young person living in an environment where violence is frequent and random, the willingness to meet any hint of violence with yet more violence is a shield."

Bingo. It's an entirely natural reaction to a violent environment. It's not the cause of the environment though, any more than GIs brawling during R&R caused the Vietnam War.
See also "A Boy Named Sue".
Someone dumps their garbage on your front yard. You hop in your car, follow them and find out that they're running a large-scale illegal garbage dumping business. You call the cops and report both crimes. Are you a "vigilante" now?
If a child was "bullied" with Alexa once, it's a part of growing up: what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.

And after that case a good parent can explain a child what Alexa is and role-play that scenario to make a child prepared to deal with it in the future.

Children grow up by getting into troubles and learning to deal with them. For that reason, for example, unsafe playgrounds are beneficial for children (google it).
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Because its a massive conflict of interest.

Its the same reason you wouldn't let a Defence contractor CEO be secretary of defence, or why you shouldn't let a telecoms lobbyist run the FCC.

Oh wait...
This plays on the larger trend of erasing the border between machine and a living being.

Amazon's Alexa is a pretty dumb machine, but it has a name and a voice that makes it appear more human. I've heard about older people who interact with it using polite words non-ironically. I think it's been done deliberately, to make people relate to the product.

A different angle: humanoid robots in art are often put in the positions of servants (see Asimov, Ghost in the Shell). Servants were traditionally human (and sometimes treated like tools), erasing that boundary again. While we aren't there yet, we're working on it, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO

I think it's the reduction of that boundary that causes people to be confused about whether they are talking to a living being or a dumb mechanism. (Tachikoma: "If we acted a little more robotic…")
RE: use case

In our SaaS we enforce slightly stronger limits for trial accounts who sign up from free/disposable emails. User is Gmail? Well, sorry, +XX to "spam score". They will probably use our system for spamming.
Great question, I could speak at quite some length about this.

My thinking has been that anonymity + knowing that your messages will disappear in a few seconds creates the lowest pressure possible environment to say something that you might not normally want to talk about (IE, venting about something that bugged you, for example.)

/b/ is indeed anonymous, but on the other hand, you know your post is going to stay there for a while. People can read it and respond to it for some time after it's been posted. On VentScape, you know that after a few seconds it will disappear, thereby being lower pressure.

You bring up a good point, that you aren't talking to anyone directly here, which is true I think. But I also believe, personally, that a lot of the benefit of "venting" is attained even just by getting the words to come out of your mouth. Your vent doesn't necessarily need to be critically discussed with another person to benefit.

Is VentScape the world's greatest venting platform? I do not think so. But I do think it allows for a certain kind of pressure free communication that's hard to come by elsewhere, whether that be friendly banter, random chatting, or yes, venting.

I could write a lot more about this if you (or anyone else) is curious, but those are some initial thoughts (without being too wordy, hopefully.)
It quantifies the heat re-used between stages. In the supplement, they note 600% is the maximum. The derivation is at the bottom of p834 from the journal pdf.

It's basically vapor produced at the measured average temperature divided by energy input.
Do the internal issues have anything to do with USA completely blocking their ability to improve and import?
"Do you have family in the island without access to US dollars?" - My point exactly, this is an issue the US has exacerbated, as a form of propaganda AGAINST Cuba.

I am, and have family, from a very similar South American country.
You can have as many domains/users as you want. (Unless it's like five billion and breaks the service or something.)

Generally phone access is third party through IMAP. On Android I personally use K-9 mail, but you can use anything that supports IMAP anywhere, which is a pretty good number of options for any platform.
are you still hitting this error?
I loved MacroMind (later Macromedia) (later Adobe) Director.
Delivered dozens of educational CD's, corporate CD's and many of my own 'experiments'.

One of those was a map for EverQuest to help find dead bodies (it was a big thing at the time), and help swimmers who fell off a ship to get back to land alive.
Another was a project to scan every user-authored book in Ultima Online (using basic OCR)

Director was extensible in that you could not only import 3rd party libraries, but write your own modules in Pascal.
Much more powerful and extensible than Flash IMHO.

Flash won that battle after the buy-out, and Adobe extinguished Director.
Still miss it to create proof-of-concept, simple or amazing cross-platform apps.
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Siri is a common name in Norway and Sweden.

Much more common than Alexa.
So in ideal conditions one could expect to provide about 12 to 15 people with drinking water per square meter. For me this is an impressive number.

If I calculate one unit with 300 dollars this would mean 5.5 cents per person per day for one year for fresh drinking water. And after that only a little bit for maintenance probably.
Given the user name, I'm guessing "Reed". No idea about the other name though.
It makes no difference how concentrated the output brine is if it's the diluted to same concentration at the outlet and the same amount of fresh water is extracted.
Those openings are all global.
Usually, numbers over 100% mean that you are putting in less energy than is needed for the process. In this case, that would mean putting in a little over a quarter of the needed energy. That does not imply free energy or anything. The rest of the energy has to come from the environment.

A heat pump is another common example with efficiency numbers in the same ballpark. With a heat pump, the heat is being moved from outside to inside (or vice versa for air conditioning and refrigerators). In that case, it requires, for example, 1kW of electricity input to move 3.85kW of heat.
The article quotes one of the founders saying their wages “placed us at the bottom of a low-paying in­dustry.”
Assuming 1.5 US gallons, this converts to 5.678 litres.
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And I disagree with you. The police officer is not doing anything wrong he is only utilizing a strange loophole. Is an actor wearing a reflective hat is breaking law by preventing paparazzis of using the photos in tabloids? Why should they make it easy to post the video on youtube which is a commercial platform that has nothing to do with any kind of law. The video of the police officer can be manipulated too to show limited context. If he was breaking the law the video can be used in the court no problem. They can also write an article or describe it on twitter.

I think the issue is that people are entitled and intoxicated by their "freedom" and publicity. It is not enough if what people say is consumed it must be mass consumed. The freedom of mass publicity is limited by DMCA takedown.
It's just not realistic to enforce at scale.

As an example of this, look at the explosion of cheap handheld radios that can operate across all different parts of the spectrum flooding in from China, enforcement has been... more or less non-existent except in the most egregious of cases. Generally the range on these things is only a few miles, and trying to pinpoint a single intermittent transmission even if it's static within that few miles can be _extremely_ time consuming.

And we're talking about a very limited shared resource that we rely on for many aspects of day-to-day life.

Where it _is_ possible to enforce at scale is at importation/sale.

Yes, any random yahoo can get the parts to put together an illegal transmitter. But the scale of that problem is a hell of a lot different than a product being mass marketed online for $50 with no indication that it's illegal to operate.

The simple fact is if the market gets flooded with cheap devices that don't follow the spectrum allocations, large swathes of the spectrum will very quickly become useless. It's pretty a straightforward example of the tragedy of the commons.
I'm thinking of FTC and oligopoly.
> For that reason, for example, unsafe playgrounds are beneficial for children (google it).

Why won't you google it for the shared benefit of all of us? It's an interesting topic, after all.
XKCD has an appropriate comic for this: https://xkcd.com/1367/

I too am a big promoter of that a lot of "apps" can be done with web technologies.

Early on I was interested in PhoneGap/cordova ecosystem and one interesting quote that floated around was that users don't care what the technology is, as long as it is fast.

My gut feeling is performance on native applications is "easier" whereas us web developers are butchering a glorified document to behave like an interactive application.

Regardless, I still find the web a lot of fun. Which is why I build simple apps: https://morsecode.tools/
Can’t use due to the pihole on my network, wich is set up for anti-tracking (privacy) mainly. Since it’s supposed to be anonymous I’m a bit surprised.
Might check out what it’s blocking on the site, but probably won’t bother. Most sites work fine.
Yes. So it is not an issue for the device. However, the salt does end up back in the ocean where at scale the salt levels will be higher leading to the (edit: local) environmental issues mentioned by the GP.
Nearly 2ml per second?

(My faith in my own maths is weak ..)
Install sbcl, slime, gnu emacs in some form.

See the book Practical Common Lisp for an intro:
https://gigamonkeys.com/book/
This is the winning sentence for me:

Unlike some desalination systems, there is no accumulation of salt or concentrated brines to be disposed of.
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OTOH Star Trek has also doors that can read your mind. Notice how they never open until some character actually intends to go out. Now try that at your local mall! I fear that you'll be disappointed... But then considering when Star Trek is set, mind reading technology is perhaps not out of the question. After all AI face recognition is already fine tuned enough to see the difference between happy and sad people.
As crooked-v noted, there is no native support within the M1 Macbooks for multiple external displays. Apple states this on the tech specs page in the Video Support section: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/

You can workaround the issue with a Displaylink dock though. I've been using the Dell D6000 dock to run two displays on my M1 Macbook Pro since launch. It's definitely not a perfect solution (with buggy wake-from-sleep quite often) but it's a good compromise until there's native support.