skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I moved from the Linux world to the Apple world about 5 years ago when my work computer became a Mac Mini.

My phone has been an iPhone since 3GS.

Just looking at the apps I use on my mac, the only "Apple" apps are Messages (along with a bunch of others like Zoom and LINE and Telegram and Skype and Whatsapp for different groups/work) and Photos.

I use Office 365 for Mac and OneDrive because it has a free 1TB as part of the sub.

I was backing up using Time Machine to an SMB box running Ubuntu, but Time Machine with APFS over SMB is painfully slow and unreliable. I went and bought Arq and it replaced my back up needs. If/When I need to bring up a new machine, I'll use Apple's stuff to do that.

I've also got the following:

* Macports: Has all of the OSS/CLI tools, libraries etc. Better than homebrew because it doesn't do stupid tricks with /usr/local and root privileges and works with the Apple frameworks cleanly

* Office 365: Needed for work purposes, I use OneDrive with Arq as a remote backup location.

* Firefox: Never seen the need to use any other browser

* Thunderbird: Happy enough as a mail client, use fastmail as my mail server.

* iTerm2: Awesome terminal that integrates with tmux and other stuff

MacOS free utilities I use:

* Karabiner-Elements: Allows me to map my EU ISO WASD keyboard

* Rectangle: Gives me keyboard window placement/sizing

* Stats: Menu bar widgets for CPU/Network etc

Along the way I've bought various MacOS utilities:

* Pathfinder: Replacement for Finder that has more features

* Bartender: Keeps my menu bar clean of unnecessary widgets unless they are doing something "interesting"

* Dash: Awesome documentation tool
It's out for people on the Windows Insiders program. I happen to be on it and got stranded because they enrolled me for Win11 despite my machine not meeting the specs and now they've decided to no longer provide updates to that cohort an downgrading requires a full wipe.

That said, from what I've been seeing Win11 is mostly just Win10 with some minor incremental changes, some good, some bad. The default centering of the task bar is certainly a thing but you can set it to align left as normal although I miss having the task bar moved to the top. Only thing I find a bit tedious is the new right click menu in the file explorer, which I can understand the reasoning behind but still don't think was the right move.

I think the new widgets thing is a misstep like the charms bar but it's just another icon you can ignore. The built-in MS Teams chat feature is interesting but just adds to the redundancy of having to have separate Microsoft and Microsoft 365 accounts, which is getting silly.
Your assertion is trivially disproved by the fact that studies are required before recommending combining vaccines or additional doses. A vaccine is not like water, where nothing spectacular happens if you just take more of it or combine it with water from another well.
The tripartite relationship between gold crude oil and Bitcoin
It is a matter of interpretation, one can consider hardware built for running Windows 11, when reading such headline.
Insect cells don't have the compounds that makes meat taste like meat.
Well yes. But that’s because when going to a country you first check what are the requirements to cross the border. I’ve never seen a somebody kicked out of the US border because they didn’t make an ESTA, but that’s because everybody in the line triple checked that they have it.
Here's Jimmy Maher's multi part series on Civilization: https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1...
iOS Weather App gives clothing recommendations, test for your local weather
Beyond Sight and Feeling (how our minds grow)
A PhD spot is an opportunity, not a gravy train.
I definitely agree with the data argument.

I used to be more ideological myself (in another direction, but it doesn't matter), and still cringe at my past self when I think about how factually incorrect some of the things I used to believe are.

Since we're talking about tropes, paraphrasing another popular one: some models are useful, but all are wrong. Some ideas, while somewhat abstract, can in fact be useful lenses to enhance your understandment of the world, but failing to take into account the data and trying to fit your worldview regardless just reeks of intellectual dishonesty.
Batteries are bad for the environment is the reasoning, so why not make hardware that will function flawlessly after a brief power outage that doesn't require a battery at all...

So the trick here is:

1. the hardware has a "shield" chip that is running a python-interpreter. This chip uses FeRAM [1] to ensure that information is saved in the event of a power cut. This chip determines the best moment to automatically save a "checkpoint"

2. To prevent outages at the microsecond or seconds level a small compensator is embedded as well.

For the user, the intermittent-computing aspect is entirely invisible. Internally, the modified CircuitPython interpreter communicates with the BFree shield and decides when to make a so-called "checkpoint." A checkpoint is a snapshot of the program at that point. When the system runs out of power and eventually starts back up, this is the point where the program will resume. The system always continues from the last successful checkpoint. A checkpoint is created by sending the state of the interpreter (such as the current position in the program, the value of the variables, the state of the peripherals, etc.) to the BFree shield, which stores it in non-volatile memory (FRAM). For more details, please check out the complete paper here [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3432191
You're finding the argument against π, ε, Δ and so on easier to make as you slowly forget the math and physics you learned in school?
The free weather app "Weatherproof" is ready for release on iPhone on September 26th. You can already pre-order for free here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weatherproof/id1585503526

For Android you can already download it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.changemyst...
Civ 6 is actually rather good, especially with Gathering storm and Rise and Fall. I have to agree so, Civ 4 is better. At least in memory, but that is propably biased due to some really great games under Civ 4. And those games are rare, regardless of version.
I've never heard anyone say they loved Subway. The only time I ever ate Subway was because I worked somewhere where there were few other options. After a few times, I started bringing in my food from home because it was so unpleasant. The bread is just terrible.
What can I say, lucky you.

Now try the same with a couple of offshored projects from some famous consulting companies.
What in MSL is based on Objective-C?
Also work. Don’t do a PhD if the work is a problem. Do a PhD only if the work is in your bones. And also socialize, and do other luck-maximizing activities. But work is indicated.
This is something I talk about quite a bit.

Modern society requires trust.

Trust that bridges are built correctly, airplanes maintained correctly, water treated correctly, etc.

No one person can manage all of that. We have to trust that other people will do their jobs, and that they don't bear us an ill will.

Destroy that trust, and you destroy society. Violence destroys trust. Censorship, however packaged, destroys trust. Ignoring consent destroys trust. Lies destroy trust. Unequally applying rules destroys trust. As does being creative and selective with the truth.

American institutions, public and private, have burned literally every ounce of trust they had to get Trump out of office, and are running on a sort of psychological credit balance that they carry with their supporters ("we don't care because our team is winning").

Historically, this does not portend great things at the next intersection.
If I take your laptop and put a different one two meters away, I've still replaced it. If I take your glass at the bar to fill it up, is there a requirement that I place it in the exact same position as your previous one, or is there a pretty big margin of error? What makes screen estate different than that?

In general, I'm all for the concept of micropayments to websites. But your implementation, weasly language (like here), and of course your homophobic donations makes Brave pretty unappealing to me. I'd rather choose freaking Chrome with a stripped down ad-blocker than it.

...I mean, using Brave is still using Chrome(ium) with a different skin on top, leaky Tor integration, and your own coin that you own... how much of?
Scientists use AI to create drug regime for rare form of brain cancer
iPhone 13: viewport, screen size, CSS pixel ratio, mobile test
Almost everything.

Seriously. The Sun supplies us with a steady and strong stream of particles.
Polish region revokes anti-LGBT declaration over loss of EU funding
> Then, if something modifies the data in the database not by using the Phoenix app, the Phoenix app would not find out until it loaded the values from the database. And what would prompt it to do that?

Just like Rails, phoenix is the doorway to your application. If there are data changes happening that aren't through your application, then you're doing it wrong.
Why does a contract between two counterparties need to use a network with thousands of nodes at all?

What enforcement benefit does the network provide? I'd contend it's entirely superfluous to a smart contract system, which could just offer building blocks from a trusted third party instead for constructing contracts, and that trusted third party could also notary the transaction and provide arbitration.

All of these complex problems are already solved (trust, arbitration etc) and involve recourse to real legal systems whether you use some distributed contract or a traditional one.

The area in business contracts which is a mess and could do with attention is standard clauses for different industries, which are well understood by everyone, diffs between contracts etc etc.
Safari just released support for JavaScript modules inside the worker scope
Benefits of Consistent, High-Quality Content Marketing
Yeah.

I could imagine that steganography is only one part of the puzzle who is the impostor.

Perhaps Apple has a secret departement dedicated to identify leakers. If they found someone they strongly suspect they lay out a trap, for example by only sending him confidential information.

And, if someone innocuously forwards a memo, they have the electronic paper trail of that.

Spionage, counter-spionage and counter-counter-spionage. Apple is waging a war.
The art and science behind Figmas growth engine
I read the superficial as they both are propped up by experienced people to attract similar talent acoording to the article. Its a great marketing and hiring strategy. And that has probably more to do with the success of the game than the individual game designers.
> There are already billions being staked in ETH2 validators today in preparation for the switch

I find it mindblowing that people willingly lock in so much money given how uncertain the whole thing is. There's no specific explanation about what happens if the 2.0 release is delayed repeatedly (like it has been in the past) or if it isn't successful and fails in some way. There's a lot of "trust Vitalik" going around which contradicts everything crypto pretends to be about.
I wonder if this applies to just google drive, but also google cloud storage buckets?
For science in particular, nobody but science publications or commentators is worth reading. Even reputable newspapers publish things which are bunk. More places need to engage with organisations like the science media centre[1] since they engage specifically with journalists and try to act as a bridge.

[1] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/
(Also good to know that the account was re-enabled)
AI is the monkeys
I believe resilience and being an autodidact are the most important skills. Next is good social behavior, because programing is a very social activity too. Additionally English would be good, if you are not a native speaker.

This stuff you can learn by trying to get non trivial things running. Like diving deep into a non trivial open source projekt.

There you will apply what you know and learn new things. It's important that you do not give up. If it takes a week to build up the knowledge to get something done that looks easy to more experienced devs, you have to fight the uphill battle to the end. You need to get to the point where you do not give up, whatever the challenge is and solve it in the end.

Interact with people, read docs, apply knowledge, try to learn on the way.

Additionally learn how the web works and how computers work.

On the side you can do some algorithm training to make you sharp and train to learn hard stuff even more.

If you learn a language or framework, get reviews from experienced guys (automatically happens on open source projects). Get that feedback. Try to do things idiomatically and according to language or team conventions.

If you get good at this stuff employers will love you. And you will even be able to pull of own projects effectively.
The IPO celebrations are simply crazy! All over my socials
He coded those games single-handedly AND in x86 assembly. Yep, that's a good example of a genius, right there.
as a complete newbie to this,

where does the code actually execute? what's the code writen in?

whats stopping malicious code running?
Volumio is great, but I am now using moOde audio player (http://moodeaudio.org/) which is similar, but has much better DSP, in the form of CamillaDSP (it actually works..), also I find the GUI more intuitive.
> Making laughable assertions doesn't help convince the unvaxed to get the jabs.

Being unkind rarely changes anyone's mind.
This.

It's fair game to ask me to memorize ASCII. It's the goddamn alphabet, we can safely assume first grade level education, but I don't want characters that I don't recognize at a glance and I can't easily type in my code/output/whatever.
Not the author, but I can elaborate on the difference with Meteor since I have experience with both.

Meteor is not server generated but rather a SPA framework with a server side part to it. It helps you build a SPA app quickly and it also uses websockets for all the transport but usually you just send json data there.

I don't really like Meteor because the performance is not that awesome and there is problems with node since it is single threaded. Meteor still doesn't support worker threads or other similar solutions in node so if you have something blocking on the server side the entire app will go down.

Liveview in the other hand is server side only (except for the liveview part). All the state is on the server and when the state changes it will push out the changes in the template and rerender automatically. In Meteor the recommended stuff to use is pub/sub and meteor methods but you still have to rerender yourself just like in a normal SPA.

Meteor is thus simply a way to quickly build SPAs and Phoenix and Liveview is a way to quickly build SPA-like feeling to apps but with everything living on the server.

You can think of Liveview as Google Stadia but for websites. Everything is rendered on the server and you just get the updates.
But storing things off-chain kinda kills the entire concept, doesn't it? If I hack into DigitalOcean I can mess everybody's NFTs by tampering with one database.
All we have to do to fix this is to add taxes to traditional meat until it's more expensive than lab-grown meat.
> Continuing with your naive reasoning, let's make synthetic corn instead of farming too because why not needlessly maximize complexity of the systems that we have to maintain?

Sarcasm aside, it is worth exploring. The typical photosynthetic efficiency of crops is only in the 1-2% range.

Modern solar panels reach 20%. The electricity can be used to produce hydrogen at 80% efficiency. The hydrogen could be used as energy input for an engineered yeast to produce proteins that we need.

I don't know about the efficiency of that last step, but it is at least plausible that the overall process could be more efficient than photosynthesis. Solar Foods[1] is betting that it will be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods
There is a good tag line "Microsoft - redefining infinity"
The war on drugs and surveillance overreach is a total disaster, but that's completely irrelevant to whether harmful drugs should be regulated at all. Fail to adequately regulate drug distribution, and you'll end up with another opioid epidemic.
I disagree. Knowing if something could be nil is a very different thing than something unexpectedly becoming nil. If you have values that are guaranteed by the compiler to never be nil, that removes the burden completely.
I wonder what percentage of WSB thinks they are secretly smart and just playing a dumbass. That seems like it would be an attractive role to be in, especially for humans.
It's a transcript; you don't type like you talk either. I know I uh and ahh a lot more, awkward pauses, etc.
I wonder if the game Among Us took its inspiration from Apple.
Obviously not everyone at HN. But it's definitely true that there's a faction of online Karens in HN.
Braben too, for similar reasons.
It's more

95/98 -> 98SE

ME -> 2000/XP

Vista -> 7

8 -> 8.1

Can't say about 10 as the version numbers are harder to track
The conspiracy theory that Finland does not exist, has been debunked as a hoax. However nobody was yet able to actually prove that Australia is a real thing.

"Australia doesn’t exist!"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/apr/15...

https://open.spotify.com/album/3jSxZ6F7euTQJDe0fZHjBV

https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/14/the-greatest-lie-ever-...
> Doom/Quake

Doom was a tense collaboration between Carmack and Romero. Carmack was geniusing out the engine, while Romero was pulling hard on the game atmosphere, music, level design and details like the timer that spawned Doom's speedrunning culture.

Quake, which was Romero-less, was a technical masterpiece, but not a very memorable game. There was the brown level, the other brown level, and the brown level again but different. Its modding potential plus competent network code really made it a big hit.
Lacking capabilities also means fewer decisions. If you want to model something in ObjC, it's a class, full stop. In Swift you have the choice between classes and structs. There are generally more degrees of freedom.

Just observe how much the iOS community talks about Swift patterns. Objective-C was more like Go, in that you accept your fate, keep things simple, and write some boilerplate code here and there. It seems to drive some people crazy, but it also avoids C++-style meta discussions about language features.

Whether this trade-off increases or decreases productivity depends on your team.
I guess you have a point, but, you don't only code for yourself; the quote applies to others as well, and in practice, few people code in a vacuum.

Don't write clever code; the problem you're solving with code is difficult enough already.
agreed. your software isn’t finished when it passes final qa. it isn’t finished when you deploy it to production. it isn’t finished when it has no known bugs. it’s only finished when your last user is dead.
which is far superior regarding the roads
Claims that Alpha Centauri or Civilization II were best games are over exaggerated - I have never understood why people had to make such controversial claims and why they have to continue to do so. IMO, they were unappealing games slapped on top of a very simple concept of first Civilization, that had unique component among all the strategy games - digital encyclopedia - long long time before wikipedia. That was one of the reasons why I started to learn English.

As for Civilization II - it sucked hard and if anyone feels insulted about this claim, then they really have to sit down and shake their brain box to remember if that Windows monstrosity of Civilization II was really that great. Sure, videos of advisers was new technological advance, which very quickly became nuisance and then were turned off. Music was initially great, but after a while I had to play Civilization II without it, unlike Heroes of Might and Magic II, which had the greatest music and was proper full screen game for Windows(and DOS!!!). Not to mention, that there was great strategy game of Master of Orion 2: Battle of Antaris. And then there was a Civilization clone - Master of Magic - with had a very successful following as Age of Wonders.
Anyway, I can still enjoy first Civilization(even with that nasty bug, that glitches Earth map in late game), because of Genius simplicity of a game, but can't say the same for Civilization II even if I had fun when I played it, because usage of Windows GUI in Civilization II will feel outdated and very unappealing, which only later Civilization titles fixed.

As for Alpha Centauri - it was not as widely available as Civilization II and technical specifications were ahead of most of PCs, when most of them were not powered by latest Pentiums. That sucked, as I really wanted to play that game(hence the discussion about greatness is more limited, unlike about first Civilization), but by the time I was able to get a hold on it, it was already outdated(and unplayable due to Windows compatibility and color paletting issues!!!), compared to other games that were released at that time.
> I have never once seen a Japanese traveler required to produce any medical paperwork along with their passport (and I have flown a lot between both countries).

That's because a significant number of countries that require vaccines also require something called a "visa."

Visas have many years of history, and they're generally obtained beforehand. When applying for visas, you submit various documentation, pay a fee, and it makes your entry process much easier. When traveling first world to first world, visa checks for travel are generally waived. Going first world to anywhere not-first world, or in the opposite direction, usually requires some degree of a visa process.
Le Monde also has a publication in English - Le Monde Diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/

I find it gives helpfully different perspectives on foreign affairs, and when it reports on my country (UK) it escapes the day to day press allegiances because it looks from the outside in. I'm having a go at learning Esperanto to read the edition they publish in that language, because I suspect the view will be even further from that of the English language edition.

To GP: the populists are, in my experience, just partisans. There's not much value to any of them. Save your time and find international publications.
This is fascinating! It definitely needs more iterations, but once the learning curve is achieved, something that uses 8 fingers. vs. 2 thumbs is going to be far more productive.

Good post, but even better design thinking and execution. Thanks for sharing, and good luck on next steps!
Is it possible that, with your reference to «books», you mean "preliminary to participating to debates, one should have an education (in-depth intellectual training), and a continuous effort towards it"? This should go without saying.

The issue is to find the best sources for information and analysis, and the "book" form does not solve the issue.
First round price was disclosed by Kyle Samani in this video[1] as $0.04 per SOL. They're currently up about 4000x.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68RqaSL3Ruk
I get the scary part but I don't really understand what's the beautiful one here.