skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key distinction here is that the MacOS menu bar isn't part of any Window, so it never disappears. Under MacOS, SOME application ALWAYS has focus, and whatever has focus shows its menu options there between the Apple menu and the right-hand icons (see below).

This is different from Windows. On a Mac, if you quit all your apps entirely, then the only remaining application is Finder, which has no real equivalent under Windows and cannot really be quit (you can restart it, tho, which is sometimes required).

Finder is how you navigate to files, but it's also the "shell" that controls how you interact with the computer -- it gives you the Dock, the menus, etc.

The area to the right, as you correctly surmise, is more analogous to the System Tray area on the right side of the Taskbar under Windows. That side doesn't change with app focus.

The Apple menu is always there, yes.

As for your final snide note, no, we're not bothered, because it's not something to be bothered by (besides, the same supposed "issue" exists in the System Tray on Windows, where background app and system level options often coexist).

Honestly, I think this thread probably MOSTLY shows that people who aren't terribly familiar with an OS should avoid making negative statements about it.
Annoint brew. It feels like a total hack that you need an open source project which gets meagre funding (I tishinkbthey donate some hardware) is the only way to get a >2k machine to be useful for development.
> Well, by becoming new laws in individual countries.

Can a country create a right for more living space for some of its citizens?
> it's only a matter of time until that gets cracked.

or leaked
> How do you ban monitoring of public posts?

I'm not suggesting you should or can in any practical way (how heavily - or not at all - that public posts should be monitored by the government is a different debate from what I was saying).

I'm saying that the parent comment claiming the views are not necessarily conflicting, is incorrect.

This must always conflict in the end:

> I don't think these are conflicting views: (1) Less monitoring on private messages (2) More monitoring on public posts

More aggressive public monitoring (along with the follow-on laws to regulate & punish a lot more things said in public) will inevitably result in a drive toward more encrypted private social networks that can't be easily monitored. Those private social networks will rely heavily on encryption. The aggressive public monitors will have to abolish encryption to then regain the high degree of mass content monitoring they used to have. Call it networks going underground, or dark; the authorities will come up with a negative naming scheme for it as they seek to castigate the shift.

You can bet on the rise of mass popular encrypted private social networks (likely built around subjects/topics/ideology/x thing in common; more like groups or subreddits than mass social media today, in other words). It's coming this decade. And the response from the government toward that is quite predictable. They'll use it as another argument against encryption.
The French government treats Africa like the US treats South America and Russia treats the Caucasus. It is disgusting.
It's harder (though not impossible) to lie about revenue as a public company when your accounts are audited annually.

Online metrics aren't subject to the same level of scrutiny as standard financial statements. It's pretty common to see startups distort their metrics, but far fewer get away with falsifying their accounts.

I can imagine a future though when these metrics come under more legal scrutiny, just as accounting does now.
Web 3.0 offers the best solution to this. Web 2.0 companies, and the people that control them are just going to continue reaching for more control of the data we create, and give them for free. It's a problem that a small group of elite engineers have so much power.
This. "Atomic Habits" was a game changer in forming new habits for me. Especially the point of habit stacking is something that sticked with me.

I recommend the book to everyone who is interested in forming new habits or getting rid of old "bad" habits
You're mixing up evolution and speciation.

Certain breeds of dogs have evolved warm coats (through both natural and unnatural selection), but they can interbreed with, say, a short-haired chihuahua, which makes them still the same species.

Selection is a mechanism for evolution, which can (but doesn't necessarily have to) lead to speciation.
A conditional stale bot based on this tag being applied would be ideal IMO
It's odd Wired calls out Apple in particular. For almost every technology Apple works on, like the ones the article discusses that that in theory they _could_ use for surveillance, Google or Facebook is already ten steps ahead _actually_ using it for surveillance.
Ah, nevermind. I just noticed you're using Swift.
It is dependent on the person, of course. What you are saying is that it is not based on the power of will alone, which is true, but it is different for everyone.

I have been physically addicted to something that most people simply cannot get off once having touched. I did it. With regarding another substance: I go through forced withdrawals so I will not have to increase the dose. I do not experience cravings, I experience "I wish I had it, because it would make me more functional.". It does not interfere with my life negatively, so it is fine. I do not think that opiates are as "psychologically addictive" as they deem it to be, but then again, I never experienced euphoria from them at all. Perhaps were I to experience euphoria, I would crave it more. I dunno.
HN/Twitter/Reddit is for free speech when it conforms to the prevailing zeitgeist and against it otherwise, it isn't that hard to figure out
uh, no.

Homebrew hacking is one thing on your dining room table, or for basic home automation, or whatever.

Homebrew hacking in an airplane sounds like an awful idea.
Criticism of Tesla, Inc
That worked in the SR71's case because, flying high as it did, the sky above is black and you can see stars during the day.
You get no new advantages, can keep doing the same things (such as using the newest XCode) and all new disadvantages, like the Messages pop up in the upper right now takes 3 clicks to reply to because they collapsed the menu into “more” drop down. Now just extrapolate that to every pop up.
To be fair, I think a lot of today's software is also written on a Model M, even if it's plugged into the latest and greatest. I really enjoy mine, I know a couple other co-workers who have one too
Everything about which people tell you to “not invent your own” must be invented by someone.
> append the terminating clause “if it creates jobs” to more or less guarantee an approving result regardless of the previous clauses’ ethical content.

[insert political joke here]
"he system should either break even (which it doesn't do), or cost money (which means taxpayers subsidise it), or make money (which means users subsidise other taxpayers)"

That assumes a fixed amount of money and a fixed amount of stuff. Neither of which is the case in a country with its own floating exchange rate like Canada.

Government doesn't spend money, it spends people. What else were you proposing to do with the electrical engineer that is so much more important than maintaining electrical grid connections to citizens?
There's something to be said for the focused nature of older technology. If you were to set me the task of writing something long-form, and told me the faster and better I did it the more I would be rewarded, I'd be doomed with a modern laptop or a smartphone. My favorite writing tool is, frankly, an IBM TransNote from 2001.
It doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I never noticed any issues when using the ungrounded adapter. I think it is pretty conventional for most modern electronics to use a floating ground.
Maybe the ideal social network is no one big "social network", i.e. get rid of your Facebooks and Twitters and go back to small, decentralized, localized forums and interest groups running on independent, secure, open-source platforms that are easy for laypeople to set up, maintain and moderate.
Sadly you are correct, French policies towards Africa have been stuck in "colonial mode" since forever.
When faced with the prospect of losing a child to heroin based on his friend crowd, you can take action. My family moved to a different states to do a friend-group reset for one of my uncles. Kids are worth fighting for. Do whatever you have to.
I think one of the big sticking points of the problem is the challenge of power represents innately. It is very difficult to have an exceptional steward of power over long time periods. The government has done a poor job, individuals have done a poor job, crowdsourcing responsibility has done a poor job, corporations have done a poor job.

I am not trying to throw my hands up in defeat but pointing to an intransigent problem that is not easily fixable however simple every side of the argument tries to frame it and why they should be the arbiters of power/control. I understand the reluctance of any individual or company to hand over a large portion of control to a government or other community that doesn't have a track record - it is a fraught situation.
On the one hand, as a technologist, this pisses me off because we've advanced so far in the field of word processing. Autocorrect, holding more than 40 pages in memory, cut/paste, etc. Why does this Luddite persist in the old ways?!?!?!

But as a writer who knows the pains of distraction... maybe he's on to something?
Helps reduce those troublesome variances in the Narrative, too.
> Obviously anything after 2G cannot really be a "dumb phone"

Why? You can have a 5G modem and not use any of its APIs besides calls and SMS.
Being X% faster while consuming Y% less energy and therefore being Z% quieter and having W% longer battery life absolutely outweighs 2.6x price. Add build quality, longevity, resell value, this isn’t even fair, the laptop market is basically garbage or Apple these days.
Which, as always, raises the question of why a blockchain is necessary. If the creators' master key can be trusted with the power to decide who gets new coins, why don't the creators just store everyone's account balance in a database, and get rid of the enormous performance and energy costs of a distributed ledger?
Yes, I agree that we should absolutely provide advice on our area of expertise for topics in our domain but I don't think we should be the ones that make the decision. The other side of the debate aren't idiots, they have some valid view points, else this encryption debate would have been settled long ago.

Encryption was not the only point brought up by the OP, they were also against government regulation. My main point is that we are tech workers that have conflicts of interest and that we should look hard at our viewpoints and ask ourselves if they are better for us or better for everyone. We are humans and like other industries, greed has crept in and we don't always make great decisions when left on our own.
HN is not a single person, it's a community with a variety of members with a variety of opinions. The fact that communities tend to form consensus of opinions, especially such as subreddits, is kind of a major issue.
Haugen is making a point which is distinct from "government control over social media".

Her point is that FB is knowingly algorithmically delivering content that makes them a profit by creating "engagement", through amplifying whatever riles people up, which is known to include hate, violence, and untrue conspiracies. It it not a neutral public message board.
Government gets its money from spending the money.

They don't use Loonies anywhere else.

As my Canadian aunt says: money is made round to go around.

The cost of hook up is the time of the people to do that job, which means they can't do anything else.

Is Canada that short of electrical engineers that it can't maintain its current grid and add new connections?
Would have been nice to hear about the actual process. How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? Printed out and retyped by an intern on a modern machine or what? What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? Right now the article is nothing more that 'lol man used old software'.
Were you a lawyer before and then switched to coding? Or did you accept an in-house role?

I am a third year junior associate at a law firm, it would interest me how you transitioned.
Feels like GitHub issues needs states other than Open or Closed. How about:

Resolved - issue has been fixed/addressed

Won’t Resolve - addressing the issue is not aligned with the direction of the project; it is not and will not be resolved

Paused - issue is valid but no one is continuing to discuss it, explore it, or work on it at this time; someone can resume the issue if they have new data or ideas.

Maybe issues aren’t just “tasks” but they’re part of your work, and you need some tools to prioritize your work and help communicate to yourself and others what you’re focusing on and what state things are in.
I use normal calendar event, it is forwardable, and I get confirmations per email who will be coming. I find it to work just as well.
Yes, that is definitely a public post.
Yes, that's why they have an oversized system, essentially they are putting in roughly twice the amount of power they need so that they can convert sunlight into electricity to power an AC that then moves about half of that in heat. It would be far more efficient to use a heatpump.
At least just write out the name in full before using the acronym. "CRDT" could mean literally anything and it doesn't help when half the links in the list also don't bother to name it before using the acronym.

Resist using acronyms before defining them. Don't just do it because everyone else does it. You are only creating barriers for people who might be interested in what you are talking about. I know people do this intentionally too. Don't be so insecure. You don't need to invent special language to remain relevant.

Another user commented on a similar thing earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997945
Only source I'm seeing is here. Assuming they got it from Hertz

https://twitter.com/DriveTeslaca/status/1452777788918755329
What we do is to lock closed issues after a certain time without activity (currently a year).

The idea is if it's been closed that long, a new issue should be filed so you get the context refreshed, and any patch for the original problem would also (most likely) have been in a release already, so it deserves a new issue so we can e.g. link to it in the release notes.

The closing part is all manual, tho.
>Heck even install Linux on it

Good luck with that... it's the one thing that doesn't seem to come up in these comparisons. At least with the Ryzen/Intel CPUs you can easily install Linux - but until this is true of the M1 chips then these benchmarks aren't all that useful.
I wrote a lot of code on a model M at my first job. I should probably get another, that thing was phenomenal.
Also been my experience doing technology in big banks for 20 years. Barring extraordinary circumstances, if you need to call someone who's on vacation that's an indicator of a broken process and unnecessary operational risk.

(I've also seen a person who believed he was indispensable and thought because of that he could behave like an asshole. Very satisfying to see him get fired.)
>> The article mentions that the magnetic field of the earth is changing more rapidly. Why is that?

It is heading toward Russia. Putin is a super villain and he's stealing the north pole.
There is definitely a benefit to having a unified interface. The vast majority of the time I don't want to use each chat apps specific features, I just want to message people. And then sometimes I want to be distraction free and turn off notifications. This is much easier if everything is routed through one app.

I'm also on macOS but I've been using Texts[1] for a few months and it has been a great experience.

[1] https://texts.com/
A patent troll backs off
They are in the north. Heat pumps are worthless below a certain point. I think around 10-20F.
The screenplay was the worst part of the new Dune movie
Someone could be smoking weed or worse use their smart phone on company time.
Perhaps she works for the CIA?
This model is not good for society as a whole.
Many companies are audited annually that fake the books and gone. Not saying FB doing this, but there are plenty of precedents and those are the ones caught with their pants down. FB can easily be doing this and get off easily. If there is poor regulatory (America in the past 2 decades have conclusively demonstrated that) plus immense pressure to deliver numbers even against reality, it is a hard devil temptation to ignore.
> even PoW coins with no premine can be unfair if most of the long-term supply get distributed in just the few years

The number of early adopters with “diamond hands”, as they say, who resisted the temptation to sell at $2, $10, $100, … is vanishingly small. History is littered with early adopters who bailed out. Everyone has had years of opportunity to buy into Bitcoin at a fraction of its current value, and if the gamble pays off then people can currently buy Bitcoin at a fraction of its presumptive future value. There’s no unfairness here.

Everyone has had equal access the entire time, and Bitcoin people have been doing their best to get as many people onboarded as possible so they’re not left with “crumbs” after a monetary transition.

Of course, it’s not totally unreasonable to have believed that Bitcoin wasn’t going to work out, but in that case people have no grounds to complain about unfairness - they simply made a wrong choice (by current appearances).
I think you need both. Small decentralized topic specific forums are important. But, without a larger community people tend to not realize the outside world may not share the same opinions. That leads to this tribalist attitude of hatred of "others".
"Since Sysinternals were bought by Microsoft many years ago and the tools are distributed directly via Microsoft, such tools are unlikely to have an issue being signed."

It's a damn shame that Russinovich sold out to Microsoft as that broke Sysinternals' independence. It seems clear to me that Sysinternals was getting a bit too clever for Microsoft's liking and by buying Russinovich out then meant that it could control the process. Likewise, Process Explorer is being silenced for similar reasons, and denying certificates is obviously cheaper.
If NASA green lights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years
This isn't a new lock-free algorithm. Single-reader, single-write FIFOs are one of the oldest approaches around.

They have to be tweaked when execution isn't guaranteed (by using memory barriers). TFA is about an exploit based on code that hasn't added the required memory barriers.
I don't know about that. Many people I currently work with take a month vacation to visit India.
> Any kind of sustained load would melt it down if it didn't automatically throttle itself back to 2 GHz and below after like 5 seconds

Bingo
Right. But the context was a comment to the effect of the government providing them at a reasonable price. Which, as you say, it commonly doesn't in many rural or semi-rural areas.
Oh yeah that's for sure. And since they have a house style for everything it'd be a bit silly to faff about making your \lstset look just so when the printer would need to re-set (reset?) all of it.
Show HN: my book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur
https://youtu.be/7FYb1gwi-30 seems relevant :)
How about a WhatsApp group with 20 family members?
Why would I want a man in the middle of my communications?
Foods That Boost Brain Power
GitHub issues have labels. You can add "Resolved", "Won’t Resolve", "Paused" as you like.

Many large repositories use labels to show the state of the issue. You do not need to rely on open or closed.
Progressivism is good
Yes, it is good.

nationalism is good
No, it is not good.

Nationalism is good
Yes, it is good.
Facebook's language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism
Tech people have tech knowledge, but they are not policy experts. Our job is to give the people creating policy information on our area of expertise, not theirs. If you don't agree, look at that comments on this post. They are shallow and tech centric, not considering all of the various impacts of a comprehensive policy.
> If it doesn't work, it means there is some secret or centralized check that the network performs, which means the currency is not open.

I could be wrong, but isn't this because distribution of 'free' worldcoin is centralized? Meaning you can create identities on the network that may or may not be tied to a real person's eyeballs, but that identity only gets free Worldcoin if scanned by lets say an Approved™ Orb scanner operated by an Approved™ Orb operator, who is (presumably) verifying that the orb is scanning real humans only.

This is basically Yet Another Shitcoin With Airdrop, but with some effort to try and control 1 human adopter = 1 free coin in the airdrop.

Regardless, that doesn't imply that the network is centralized / controlled, just the distribution of the initial 8 billion worldcoins is (philosophically, you might say that the centralization of the initial distribution of coins means that the network is effectively not decentralized, but presumably the network is running similar code as any other blockchain).
Exactly - every community has a diverse set of opinions (whether its discernible to the average person or not is a different question) and rarely do you find a homogenous group of individuals without a very strictly enforced control mechanism which suppress differences from being seen then creating a homogenous community.
The leak is more important than the leaker. That I support and value the Snowden leaks doesn't mean I always have to agree with Snowden (I think he's terrible on macroeconomics and crypto, for instance).

No whistleblower has ever received such a red carpet as Frances Haugen. In itself, it's good that she's aggressively defended by the political establishment rather than facing reprisals and jail. But it should make you question what's going on here, quite apart from the contents of the leak itself.

One of the things Haugen proposes, repealing section 230 protection, is even supported by Facebook itself and strongly opposed by antimonopolists (who argue that it will be far easier to comply for Facebook than any would be competitor).
What? If you were unaware, 1 J = 1 Ws

Besides, considering the food industry in most countries will not even get rid of kcal where there exist zero reason to use that unit, I don't think so.
Is that a Java issue, a typing issue, or a company issue?
This is probably what would have naturally happened if the CDA were never passed. Instead, we've turned internet companies into geese that lay golden eggs for the government.
Yes, democratic governments have many drawbacks around regulation but aren't they the least bad choice we have in a situation like facebook?

There is no governance beyond zuckerberg currently and he has proven that he is aligned with zuckerberg and not society. Continuing with the status quo and doing nothing does not seem like a good idea to me.
Eating pork
- It's wrong

Eating long pork (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_pork#English)

- It's okay
Any good references on low level details on ARMv8+?
I've observed that implementing a CRDT system requires blogging about it afterward
FatHub: https://sr.ht/~martijnbraam/fathub.org/
Tor is a tool that enables privacy. It makes sense that its creators would believe in privacy.

Would you expect a gun manufacturer to be apolitical, or would you expect them to support the right to self-defense?
Exactly I do not understand how the ads I get are so totally useless if they are so good for others... They literally never give me anything I want, need or even vaguely find interesting. It looks untargetted, while Google is often spot on.