skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Podman 3.3 and up has `podman machine`, which is supposed to do this for you...
I actually have a .Mac account from back in the day - only one I missed was iTools. That IIRC was embedded in the MobileMe settings pane, the AppleTV+ ad is top level of Settings. Between your face and software update haha. Not anywhere even close to an AppleTV settings pane.

At least they kept it out of Buddy this time haha.
I'm coming to believe that the best reason to get vaccinated is so that when (not if) you get infected with covid-19, the symptoms are likely to be milder. This was the original goal, but then when the mRNA vaccines had such unexpectedly high effectiveness the goalposts got moved to "keep me from ever getting it". Time to move the goalposts back to where they were before. Most of us are going to get infected. It's better if you're vaccinated first.
As this thread is highlighting, in my experience there are two kinds of keyboard users. Those that love their numberpad, and those that never use it. There seems to rarely be people in the middle. On desktops it mostly doesn't matter because you can shift the keyboard over relative to the screen. On laptops this translates into people completely loathing or loving the laptop entirely :)

Personally in the never use it camp, and hate these offset laptops. Sometimes its because people do a lot of number data entry spreadsheet style, I can understand that case a little more, however even people that mostly type text I've seen for example will like to enter IP addresses on the number pad for no obvious reason. God speed IPv6 adoption :)

On the other hand laptops are terrible for ergonomics and daily usage anyway, it's unfortunately we've moved so far into laptops from desktops and it doesn't seem so common to dock them and use an external keyboard.. to my feeling mostly because the screen ends up being too small once you push it back to use an external keyboard so then you need an external monitor and the cost and complexity goes up.
Hmmm it’s been a decade so maybe I’m misremembering, but I remember needing to use the REPL or escript to access the logs of my otp services… were they simple files?
According to DeWitt himself, the DeWitt clause came about because he figured out that Oracle had no query optimizer.

However, the response of a lot of database vendors was to then include precomputed results for entire benchmarks, and also to have code that tried to figure out if you were running one of them. This obviously adds no value to the user, but is great for marketing.

Arthur is a non-nonsense guy, and, according to him, there's a ton of hand-tuned assembly language code in the intepreter. To make the most of it, however, you need to know how to set up the machine properly. Most people don't, and First Derivatives and Shakti don't have enough marketing people or consultants to set up machines for test runs or to explain away bad results.

In any event, k/kdb/q are wickedly difficult languages to program, but compared to modern C++ they are far faster to program and more flexible, and compared to pandas, they are faster and more likely to not have some massive performance hit due to a scalar function. I'm sure that they miss some optimizations that a good C++ compiler targeting a processor with some of the newer instructions can do, but they allow you to write fairly performant code that operates on vectors relatively easily.
So, there is an objectively superior experience to be had with more appropriate hardware.
Oh wow. This is an amazing life hack. I can hear the SMB song perfectly in my head, and now other sounds in my environment are clearly falling on one side or the other of that C. This is going to help a lot with my writing!
> Above all, these figures present a model for thinking differently, and not in the glib sense touted by Steve Jobs. As the homogenization of culture proceeds apace, as the technology of surveillance hovers at the borders of our brains, such spaces are becoming rarer and more confined. I am haunted by a sentence from Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”: “One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour.”
The entire article is about empathizing with others...
Seems like that's a better "solution": mandate that all players and spectators kneel for the anthem
> I was TA'ing CMU's 15-410 operating systems course (a great course - build a preemptive multitasking operating system from scratch)

That class bordered on legendary. Awesome that you got to TA it. I still have an irrational fondness for AFS.
Nice, nesting seems to be so much more understandable for typical developers, will be nice to not need SASS or LESS preprocessors just for this.
shameless plug, but some friends and I have been working on fountaincards.com, which uses a plotter to write and send cards written with a fountain pen.

Right now we are still getting set up, but it’s been fun to dive into the world of Inkscape and try to figure out how to automatically generate SVG’s that look like a human really wrote them.
I used SASS in a recent project essentially just for this feature, so it seems like the CSS WG is slowly chipping away at convenience features that some people have been using for quite some time.
I assumed they meant this https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/Republic_of_Gilea...
Mass evictions would lead to everything opening back up overnight. It's utterly pointless to have _any_ anti-COVID measures at all when a vaccine is available to anyone who wants it. Moreover, it's strongly counterproductive.

Let me explain this to folks as simply and unambiguously as I can. Have you ever had a cold? Yes? You will have COVID in the near future. No ifs or buts about it. You will have it, several times each year, for the rest of your life, it's endemic and unavoidable. Do you not want to die of COVID? Get the vax. The calculus is _really_ simple here. This should be the messaging from the CDC and everyone else. People (vaxxed and unvaxxed alike) seem to think they'll be able to "avoid" it somehow. That option was off the table as early as in January of 2020.

Why are we subjecting millions of small landlords to this hadship, especially in the cases where tenants _can_ pay?
Not all functional languages are made alike. OCaml compile times can rival Go's.
I'm the only person at my company who asked for a Linux machine. And I got it. Everyone else is on an M1. I said no. I don't want to use a Mac ever again. I had a Mac for 2 years at my previous company, one of those 2018 monstrousities. Never again.

I asked for a P14 AMD Ryzen 7 5850H ThinkPad. Its still en route. But until then I'm using my Dell G5 SE Ryzen 7 4800H laptop with Manjaro. Best dev experience I've ever had at a company. The dev machine adds to the package IMO. If you're not getting the tools you want, you're not being paid enough ever.
With EVs, nuclear could solve a lot more of our energy mix. Maybe EV tech would have been more developed earlier if we had cheaper electricity.

But that still ignores the huge capital costs of building a nuclear power plant, not to mention the liability insurance that has to be provided by the government.
Clearly you have not kept up with what is available.
Was just thinking about this the other day. Once aspect-ratio gets Safari support, that will take away the need for the height:0/padding-bottom: 66% thing, which is one of the last hacky bits of CSS that I use regularly. Container queries will fill another huge hole, but I don't polyfill/do hacky things for that in the meantime.

CSS really does do pretty much everything you need these days.
The docker registry is easy to self-host for development purposes (https://docs.docker.com/registry/). Securing it for production is another topic though.

If you use Kubernetes you can self-host the registry and use Harbor (goharbor.io), it supports security scanning of images and can sign them too.
> This sounds like a poor investment strategy to me. Should all of your tenants be homeless so that your business succeed?

I mean, it’s not the fault of the landlord that tenants are to be homeless if tenants cannot find a place to live when the lease rightfully terminates.

The business model didn’t take into consideration such a pandemic. I’d argue that this is a reasonable negligence since the whole society-which includes organizations with much more risk evaluation capability, like banks and governments-didn’t prepare for such a pandemic.
What’s a “mook erlang class”?
photographs can unlock the phone
Is motion sensor on key fob common even for cheaper cars?
his sense of humor is impeccable, too
Power management/Battery life. When I used to just sit in one place with my laptop plugged in it worked well for me (I do everything in the browser and/or VSCode). Unplugged, the battery seems to stretch out more on Windows than on Ubuntu.

(I've always only upgraded to LTS releases)
Maybe I could rephrase it a bit. I don't mean all games should try to be short, but right now there are almost none.

Few game designers aspire to make a game that's done in 2 hours and worth $8.

Chess is a bloody complex game and you can play a round to full satisfaction in 15 minutes. You have your complexity, but it's enough to enjoy yourself 3 hours/week.

Most movies will immerse you in the world and the characters well within the first 15 minutes. Today, you have something like Fallout 4 where it takes an hour from customizing your character's face to leaving the vault.

I think Adam Cadre's games are a great example: http://adamcadre.ac/if.html

What separated the Interactive Fiction from Adventure genre was that IF was more on interacting with the player's actions. You could achieve a goal and unlock endings, or just explore. You could get a full story well within a couple hours because the games are designed to avoid you from getting stuck. Adventure games were plagued with resource management and metagaming; once you remove the unnecessary grind of puzzle solving, you get a denser game.
hmm, is it possible to send me a screenshot of the other device (to the email in my profile)? it could be a couple different things happening, easier to diagnose if I can see.
Maybe I'm so far behind on my maths education (stopped at 18 after UK A Level) but I found a lot of 3Blue1Brown's videos hard to understand. It's possible that he has prerequisites I never watched. YouTube is bad at discovery.
Probably autocorrect of MOOC (massive open online course).
I hope you do get the Linux Laptops through. I just joined s company that made an exception for me to use Linux and I haven't felt more valued ever. I never want to use another OS again.
> What if you have odd even, every third etc

The solution is the same. `:nth-child(3n)` selects every third so you add the :not(:last-of-child) to the end to prevent it from being matched by the rule.

.card:nth-child(3n):not(:last-of-child) {
/* styles for every third card, not the last card */
}

What's less clear to me is why `.card + .card` would be better for applying a style to all but the first card than `.card:not(:first-child)`. I think there are reasons for not using `*:not(:first-child)` and preferring the "lobotomized owl" `* + *` but my hunch is they don't apply when styling classes.
The South Korea government has imprisoned two of its former presidents for corruption. It is even brave enough to jail Samsung's leader (though let him out recently after 18 months in jail).

For me, above proves South Korea is less corrupt and far better governed than most EU countries and USA.
Broadcasters Score Big Legal Win Against Locast
>However that all happened and we are where we are. I don't object to Apple's app store margins or IAP charges, it's their product, their rules.

You are right. It's a question of incentives. The Apple/Google duopoly is incentivized towards control because it allows for abusive profit extraction. They have less incentive to open their platforms and both continue to invest heavily to avoid doing so, because their product, their rules is extremely profitable.

>I do think banning developers from informing users of how to get subscriptions and such outside the store is foolish.

From the Apple/Google perspective, it is foolish in only one respect: it so outrageous that it invites legislative and regulatory response.
The title of the submission matches the title of the article, but the title of the article itself is doing a lot of editorializing here. A more accurate description of the situation directly from the article:

> Only $1.7 billion of the $46.5 billion Emergency Rental Assistance Program has been distributed by state and local governments

Both the landlord and her tenants interviewed in this article do not have the money to rectify this situation, the landlord is stuck without income because of Covid, the tenant is stuck without income because of Covid trying to care for an entire family.

Without government assistance, one of those two parties is going to be homeless, period. You will either have landlords suffering a loss of income (sometimes catastrophically) or you will have mass evictions of low-income renters who have no way to afford housing during the pandemic.

So the entire point of rent moratoriums was that the government was going to step in and provide resources to people affected, to try and prevent these kinds of no-win situations. That money hasn't appeared, despite being approved by Congress. So now we're having a debate about whether it's more moral to force a landlord with 3 properties to live in her van, or whether it's more moral to force a renter caring for her daughter and autistic son to be homeless. Both of those outcomes are bad.

The real story here is, after the government approved $46.5 billion to help prevent situations like this, why only around a tenth of that assistance has actually been distributed to the people who desperately need it.
Bitwig has native Linux support. Reaper trumps both Bitwig and Ableton Live.
That was later after iTunes plus came out (higher fidelity, no DRM in some countries)
Because I'm on a macbook and buying a new laptop is currently not on my plan. Maybe in 1-2 years I'll replace it and run linux.

I've tried running linux on it but the cpu temps are too high. This seems to be an issue with the linux kernel and the cpu's used in macook laptops.
I have always thought it disappointing that safe RTGs are not a more common technology. Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to design one that could be buried in the ground outside, or under, your house, which could provide probably a lifetime of power.
Ergo: Everyone once again becomes unvaccinated.
I find it a little weird when integrated graphics is mentioned as prominently as such in marketing copy. "Ryzen CPU + Radeon graphics = Mobile AMD laptop."
"Infinite Series" is officially discontinued and still made the list. Vi still occasionally posts something.
The cause is not being functional, but having dozens of extra features and multiple syntaxes for the same thing, both Scala and Haskell suffer from that. On the other hand OCaml is very fast and Elm is the fastest compiler I've ever seen.
Edit: oops there was already a similar comment when I posted
The original developer was Evan Miller, who stepped away from the Erlang community a few years ago. I think others contribute, but particularly with the rise of Elixir & Phoenix I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it isn't as active as it once was.
Nope. It was always the deal.

I have artist sales records predating the iPhone.

Edit: Also worth remembering that iTunes is/was/is the iTunes Music Store (itms) and that Apple sold apps via it for the click wheel iPod under the same percentages.
Didn't read, but isn't it obvious?

- We have several chemicals in our retina's that respond to specific frequencies of light according to some curve. They are calibrated. There is no such calibrated mechanism for how you detect sounds.

- We actually suck at identifying colors. Every 5 year old has seen the 'shadow' optical illusion where two parts of a picture are exactly the same color and they look totally different.
Intuit, a law company as much as a tech company, loves M&A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit#Acquisitions_and_carve-...

Perhaps intuit is going to market to business owners via mailchimp's databases.
I've already moved out of the city to a more rural area and don't plan to find another onsite job. It's quiet, the rent is cheap, I don't have to commute.
“Wildlife as Property Owners” by Karen Bradshaw – Review
Unless you do exciting things with NIFs, Erlang can't share any data except for the binary storage for RefC binaries. When you send a message, all the Erlang terms are copied for the new process, but for a RefC binary, that means a new ProcBin that references the same binary storage, not a copy of the binary storage.

This copying isn't memory efficient and may not be CPU efficient, but along with immutability, it makes garbage collection simple, fast, and independent per process.
This looks awesome. I'm so glad they re-used the & syntax popular in many compile-to-CSS languages. Between this and CSS variables, I might not even need SASS in my toolchain anymore, which would be amazing.

@nest looks extremely cool too. An easy way to keep rules affecting one selector logically grouped with it, even if the selector relies on a small thing about its parent elements.
I'd actually be into that. I come from the split keyboards world. Put your god damned numpad in the middle and give me ortholinear keys on each side. I will throw money at you today.
I believe the Framework Laptop offers that, though it's very new and the non US keyboard options are available yet. They're aiming for a pretty decent list by end of year including UK, French, Chinese, Korean, German and blank (both ANSI and ISO).

https://frame.work

(I'm in no way affiliated, just eyeing them up for my next laptop purchase)
That's a really fantastic bit of propagandistic history. I realised from the first that the claimed mission was B.S., though in the end, science actually prevailed.

A couple of earlier comments:

5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854882

5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237745

Oh, and TIL: "Alco Products, Inc.", who manufactured the nuclear reactor used at Camp Century, isn't ALCOA (as I'd suspected), but "American Locomotive Company". It was only in the nuclear power business for about 6 years, shipping its first reactors in 1957, and selling the operation in 1963.

https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/railroads/alcocovers/

I'm also pretty sure the TIME Magazine cover shown at 30:13 is is GE's Ralph Cordiner:

https://archive.org/details/1959-images/page/1/mode/1up

More on Camp Century: https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-secret-cold-war-project-...
Anyone interested in how things like this work and are built should checkout Ben Eaters channel on youtube. It is glorious.
On page six of the paper:

To assess MADDNESS’s effectiveness, we implemented both it and existing algorithms in C++ and Python. All of our code and raw numerical results are publicly available at https://smarturl.it/Maddness. All experiments use a single thread on a Macbook Pro with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-4960HQ processor.

edit: the url above redirects to: https://github.com/dblalock/bolt
Totally Agree.

This is really unfortunate unless they are going hard for the "Accountant" demographic.

* FWIW: Typing this on a System 76 machine with a [1] TKL mechanical keyboard.

[1] TKL / Tenkeyless - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/tenke...
Catabase: A Database of Categories
There a pretty substantial amount of mercury in CFL bulbs.
The analogy between pitch and color recognition is funny to me - it's like the skill gradient is backwards for artists versus musicians. One critical skill in learning to paint (naturalistically, at least) is learning to differentiate relative color, not absolute color. Learning to look at an apple and see warmer/cooler bits of red, for example. As the article points out, naming "red" is easy for most people, and then you spend years learning to mix all those funny shades in between.

There's a whole school of painters - after Edwin Dickinson, mostly - who talk about "color notes" and "color pitch". I wonder what the analogous cognitive processing skills are for artists.
FWIW, I struggled with FP for years before discovering Erlang. It's a good gateway drug.

> One just has to search HK news here for functional programming and most comment sections will have this debate.

Yet this thread entirely avoided it until your comment.
> I’m hoping that Apple will provide APIs for showing payment screens and Apple will still control the ability to show all subscriptions, cancel them in one single place, etc… but I don’t think Apple will ever do that. Unfortunate…

I'm not sure that Apple can do it without being an intermediary in the process - managing the billing. And... well... that's what Apple Pay is.

In order for Apple to be the one to show and cancel subscriptions, they need to be the ones billing you and then processing that transaction (possibly batching it up with others to reduce processing fees).

Likewise, if there's a dispute - for example a child made a few hundred dollars of in app purchase and the parents would like to refund that... Apple can reverse those transactions ( https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204084 ). If you're dealing with a 3rd party payment system... you're going to have to deal with the 3rd party payment system on your own.

Another "it can be gotten around" when you leave the App Store and payment processor is the in app purchase constraints ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204396 ) in that a developer wouldn't have to honor that check at all.

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The future of 3rd party payment processors that developers ask for really means taking Apple and its APIs out of the process. Entering in the credit card information (making sure that developers aren't trying to bypass access constraints on the wallet) and sending that out themselves.

For example, PayPal charges 4.99% plus a fixed fee that's about $0.10 per transaction ( https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees ). This is comparable to what a developer would have to pay to Visa or any other payment processor for doing micro transactions of their own. Having Apple do it means that Apple would really like to charge at least 5% + $0.10/transaction which for a $0.99 is $0.15 and that's 15%... which is the amount that a small developer shop would have to pay for doing it through Apple.

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And so, I return back to the question - how would you see Apple opening up the APIs for doing payment processing without doing the payment processing themselves (and insuring extra expenses)?
> We can try to steer the elephant, and may have some success with that on occasion, but complete control is not possible. What I am saying, is that it's ok to let the elephant do what it wants sometimes, because ultimately it's going to do that a lot of the time anyway.

That's not a sound argument though. E.g. the fact that you can't save every starving child in no way proves that you shouldn't try as hard as you can to save those that you can.
Cuter – concolic testing tool for Erlang
If it's programmable you could set up a layer with a number pad on it. I've done that with mine and basically never use the actual number keys now.
This is a diverging motivations issue.

Many people are not in a stable career such that they can hang around and do upper management's job for them by "expensively failing so as to demonstrate IT's failures".

Academics and PHD students in particular live from grant to grant. They can't afford to waste grant money "to make a point that IT doesn't work." Reputations - and by extension careers - can be made and unmade with such stuff.

Aside, I think the academic life being so fragile is ALSO silly but that is another story.