skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first encounter with Mac and I still vividly remember the 'Aaah, so thats how a computer should operate!'. And the 'just works' feeling as well. No fiddling around with zillions of settings (which actually I wasn't against at all at the time but using Tiger I didn not miss those at all, I just worked with computer instead of working for it) and the flow of the actions just made sence, visualization actually had functional purpose, helping the awareness of what happens. First time I appreciated the drag and drop, very first time, after the clumsiness of the Windows system. First time the desktop felt natural to use in combination of hot corners. It was just a deep breath of fresh air.

Too bad the experience is diminished and what I still like were there with Tiger already in almost all cases (dock, top menu, hot corners, simplicity, ...). The simple but powerful things. New things like notification center are more intrusive than helpful/informative (first thing I try to disable in a new OS with more and more effort and fiddling around and less and less success. It is forced on me!), the AirDrop is too temperamental to be reliable, iPhone connectivity is the joke of connectivities and basically awckward for simple things even, icon redesigns are counterintuitive (still have to look for photos and system preferences 4 times more than earlier, simply cannot get used to those, are not discoverable or prominent)... are just some random items come to mind suddenly, there would be more. The forced new features sometimes does not play nice with each other. Did you try switching keyboard layouts (something that worked very well for more than a decade now) with fn button while the mouse is in the middle of the screen? Based on the location of the mouse the result will be random (floating menu item underneath the mouse will take precedence over the next layout, which is the expected way), and it is there without fix for almost years now?! A completely unnecessary notification from the notification center about dnd mode activation in locked screen (newest thing pushed upon me after latest update) has no close button but covers the pop up menus of the menu buttons available there, need to log in to disappear. Just two of the annoyances the new 'features' bring. The overall feeling is that Mac got much more stuff but did not got much better, sometimes even worse by intrusive and labour intensive disabling of things I never missed and are in the way, forced one me. Starting to work for the computer again rather than the other way around.

Concerning squashing bugs of new releases I recall Mac veterans around Tiger having the golden rule: 'Never install the new version! Wait for the first fix'. So I guess this part did not change much since.
I added a page just for this tool. https://www.explaincode.app/sql

Cheers.
Every time I get fucked-up support dead-ends like this now I go to war against the management of that company. I pay to get hold of all the home phone/cellphones/personal email addresses of the highest position employees I can find and bug the shit out of them until one of them capitulates and gets a minion to fix the problem.

I just harassed the C-suite of a unicorn that wouldn't give me a refund for something that wasn't delivered. "We can't give you a refund because FedEx says it was delivered." IT WAS DELIVERED TO SOMEONE ELSE AND THEN FEDEX COLLECTED IT AND RETURNED IT AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE TRACKING LOGS. "Thank you for your e-mail. As the package shows that it was delivered you will need to take this up with FedEx. I cannot help you further with this enquiry." A weekend of texting and emailing the management and now suddenly I have them giving me their corporate email addresses and a promise to have it fixed after the holiday.
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I remember right before the Pfizer vaccine came out they touted it as being "95% effective". Like what does that even mean? Clearly it was nonsense.
I am struggling to see how a camera that measures speed and license plates (and doesn’t even see the race of the driver) can show any bias. What exactly is the issue here?

Isn’t this the most fair, robotic, boring enforcement of a law? It is truly, truly impartial. It’s measurable in an impartial way. There’s evidence in an impartial way (photos). There’s an opportunity to address exceptions (different driver, emergency, etc). But the speed sensors are regularly calibrated and either you were speeding or you weren’t, and there’s ample measured and documented evidence of it.

Is the issue that more cameras are being placed in minority neighborhoods? More miles driven? Or that all things equal, somehow they’re tagging more cars as speeding in minority neighborhoods? What exactly is the angle? Because I’m not able to see one other than “the punishment affects some populations more than others”

So maybe there’s an argument to fine based on income?

What are we missing here?
Airlines call for Biden admin's “immediate intervention” in 5G deployment
> I grew up in Chicago on a perfect grid. Now I live on a street that I picked precisely because you only drive down it if you live there. I don't like the sound of cars driving past. That's a personal preference that seems pretty generalized, even among people without kids.

Well, you could still get this, more or less, with a grid, like Barcelona's superblocks.
> “ I use Telegram to take quick notes during the day by sending messages to myself. ”

Beware that, unless explicitly setup, you are most likely also sending a copy to Telegram.
I love Graphviz, here's a citation graph tool I build with it:

https://github.com/shanedrabing/gref
We've got some Omicron data that shows similar results. Massive gap between unvaccinated and vaccinated case/death/hospitalization rates. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/briefing/omicron-deaths-v... has charts.
> (I'm not sure if a file should be allowed to belong to multiple tags within the same hierarchy; my gut says no.)

Gmail is a good example. Has very flexible tagging schema. Every tag exists in a hierarchy. Emails can have multiple tags.

SQL is not good for hierarchies though. You need to use recursive CTEs or denormalize relations and things.
I think flipping it is better tbh. Making Linux my primary and putting Windows in the VM on a desktop. I love this setup so much more than WSL lol. I get to keep Windows and Linux more secure and separate from each other - but still can access Linux just fine via ssh and the Windows Terminal. Several modifications later to the UI I have it where I honestly forget that I am even accessing a Windows machine at all.

Feels like I am just using macOS for the most part & w/ no compromises.
> From what I understand Amazon's foundibg philosophy is focused on just serving the customer at the cost of any other externality and that's where most of the conterversy surrounding them comes from is placing whatever is needed to please the customer above every other concern. But that means when working with them they are pretty great.

I have tried for years to report counterfeits on Amazon to their customer support to no avail. They don't want to collect that data, it seems, despite the severe effects their products can have on customers.
From [1]:

> Alex Hawke, announced earlier that he cancelled the visa “on health and good order grounds, [and] on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so”

The lawyer for Djokovic states:

> The delegate said Mr Djokovic may infect other people because he’s unvaccinated. The present set of reasons is starkly different. The minister assumes in Mr Djokovic’s favour every single fact that might have been in issue previously, that he’s complied with the law, that he poses only a negligible risk to others, Mr Djokovic has a medical reason not to be vaccinated, and that Mr Djokovic is of good standing.

> Wood [Djokovic's lawyer] says there is a “clear jurisdictional error” of “irrationality” in that the ground of “exciting anti-vax sentiment” is premised on Djokovic only having that impact if he remains in Australia.

> “He has no rational basis to say” Djokovic staying would cause more anti-vax sentiment, Wood submits.

It is not "because he lied on and fabricated his visa documentation."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2022/jan/14/novak-djo...
I am billed by units of water used, not how far the water travels.
MSHA has no Covid mandates, including virus masks. Having worked at sites regulated by MSHA, I respect their safety mandates. OSHA is ineffective and now politicized.

UL tests electrical devices for safety. I would prefer more voluntary certification and testing organizations.

The roads in my town are owned by the property owners, as it should be.
I understand how handshake works. What I'm saying is that getting my mom to point her DNS servers at an alternate server is a non-starter. You have to get the root servers on board to carry all TLDs or most people will never find them.
I tend to believe that the "stupidest" beliefs that apparently large percentages of US Citizens have are more a form of rebellious performance art.

Like, if you ask the population if they believe if Trump is currently, secretly, President, some percentage will say they believe it. But I think the actual percentage is far lower; it's just polluted with an ever-growing number of people that are lying about their beliefs just to be obstinate.

Then it becomes like a game of chicken to see how far you can take it, how long can you insist on the belief before you crack. And ultimately at some point the difference doesn't really matter.

(In high school, I started saying "Spiffy!" ironically, and kept saying it, and then there came a point where it didn't matter I meant it ironically, I was just the guy that said "Spiffy!")
I live in New Mexico squash grows great here.

But ya, can second, Fry Bread and really fatty mutton seem to be staples. Plus whatever everyone else eats (Burger King, lunchables and Gas Station Hot Dogs).

My theory is native squash just doesn't taste that good. Sort of like how Anglos switched from boiled parsnips (have you ever eaten that? I haven't) in 1200AD to French Fries and Pizza now.

I went to a Navajo buffet once. They did have a little traditional food (mutton, fry bread) but most was just mashed potatoes and stuff you might find at Golden Corral. The native stuff was not very tasty at all as I recall, (this was years ago) and I never went back.
I think having some residential that's offset is fine, the problem is that almost inevitably these places are designed to be impermeable to walk/bike traffic as well, and with the long distances required to go anywhere, you do have to drive everywhere.

A positive counter-example would be Houten. Winding street layout that's not good for through traffic, but very nice for walking and especially biking: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.033207,5.1474598,3a,75y,4.09...
I wonder how this will play out with the AU/NZ alliance with free travel etc. NZ seems to be getting more progressive while Australia becomes more conservative. Will there be a point where something has to give?
pgAdmin, don't you mean pgBouncer?
There's no need for a variant-specific booster. The vaccines are still very effective at preventing severe disease with Omicron. Just like they were with Delta.
China. Lots of blatant plundering of water and natural resources, lots of political manipulation and Chinese money used to inch Australia toward authoritarian compatibility with Chinese global aspirations.

Australia doesn't have enough people, wealth, or apparently the political will to oppose China.
That can be done with bandcamp but ironically bandcamp is the one place I'd rather pay because they are a rare platform that's actually pretty good for the artists and listeners alike.
Traditional varieties of squash absolutely grow in the desert. It's not super common on the Navajo res to my knowledge, but the Hopi and O'odham reservations have sustenance and large scale commercial farming.

But as a fun fact, the three sisters were often grown dryland on as little as a single rainstorm in pre-contact times. Some of those areas average around 40mm of rain a year.
There is already this service which works to get your Facebook account back:

https://hacked.com/
> to the point pensionable ages are needing to increase because healthier, longer lived people don't retire any later.

It's not obvious that that's the guaranteed outcome of pensions, or a consequence of an unexpected change in lifespan in the mid 20th century.
Deutsch in Beginning of Infinity places the cornerstone at conjecture and criticism leading to Good Explanations: “An explanation that is hard to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for” that are treated as fallible (“Fallibilism The recognition that there are no authoritative sources of knowledge, nor any reliable means of justifying knowledge as true or probable.”). Falliblism to Deutsch is in contrast to:

* Relativism The misconception that statements cannot be objectively true or false, but can be judged only relative to some cultural or other arbitrary standard.
* Instrumentalism The misconception that science cannot describe reality, only predict outcomes of observations.
* Justificationism The misconception that knowledge can be genuine or reliable only if it is justified by some source or criterion.
Is it the root servers that you need to get on board, or the publishers of the publications that most people use, or the operating system publishers?

For instance, if the browser makers all started resolving certain TLDs via an alternate network, then people could start publishing websites using domains managed by that network without needing to engage with the root DNS servers at all.
you can ask just about any family with kids; you can also google it, there are plenty of studies on the subject. Here is a ready made query on the subject; https://www.google.com/search?q=impact+of+lockdown+on+childr...
I think more native american restaurants would be wonderful. But my eyebrows lift at the idea of "native american cuisine". We're talking about dozens of distinct cultures that covered the entire continent, from the damp, mild ocean adjacent pacific NW to the deserts of the southwest to the grasslands of the midwest to the forests of the east and north east (and so, so much more). Nobody would seriously suggest that there's any possibility of a unified food culture across this range.

So, let regional native american restaurants bloom!
When you have lots of things-that-create-things-that-create-things, this gets tedious really fast. DI frameworks exist because they result in a lot less code that does nothing but pass dependences along.

This reminds me of SQL/ORM debate. "Just use SQL!" Sure, until you get tired of typing the same SQL over and over and realize you can cut out most of that crap by adding an ORM.
>If you use a huge DSLR, you come across as creepy.

I think that's mostly true for those who rely on telephoto lenses --which have a use, but for street photography suck because they flatten things out.

If you want good street photography photos most [d/SLR shooters] will use 35 to 50mm lenses. There are outliers but for most of the "candids" that is the usual range. With these people don't come across as any creepier than a photographer using any other equipment.
In my inner ring suburb, the largest category of expense is policing. We spend more on police than we do on parks and roads.
>Also hospitals intentionally understaff, and pay their staff the absolute minimum

Nurses and doctors make more in the US than any other country. Are you referring to other support staff?
Its why I concede something trivial and small early on in a debate to get social credit.
PSA on how to prove to yourself the Earth is a.) not flat b.) specifically not a disc with balls circling overhead, easy edition:

1. Watch a sunset. The Sun goes over the horizon (not around in circles overhead).

2. Clouds high in the atmosphere stay lit longer at sunset (and light up earlier at sunrise) than clouds lower in the atmosphere. It'd be the opposite with a "Spotlight sun", which would project a cone of light onto Earth, wider at the base than the top.

3. The Sun's apparent diameter never changes. It can't be a little ball flying around in circles overhead, because it'd get smaller when it's farther away.

4. Watch a lunar eclipse. The shadow of the Earth is curved.

5. If you are in the Northern hemisphere, find Polaris, i.e. the Norh Star. At night, all the stars go counterclockwise around it. Its angle off the horizon is exactly your latitude. Go to the Southern hemisphere. No Polaris, it's over the horizon ffs. But there is a south pole point you can find by using the southern pointers. All the stars go around the south pole...clockwise. [1]

6. Like Polaris, the constellations disappear over the horizon as you move south.

7. Go to the ocean. Watch a ship sail away. It disappears hull first over the horizon. Use binoculars. You can see more of the ship if you are higher above the water. The ocean is curved.

8. Watch the Sun for a year. It moves through the Zodiac (i.e. against the background stars). That's because the Earth orbits the Sun, duh.

9. Take a flight from South America to South Africa. Take a stopwatch if you don't believe clocks are real. Planes would have to be supersonic to fly the greatly exaggerated distance of a disk Earth.

10. Look through a frickin telescope. Literally every planet and star and moon we see is round. Why would the Earth be different?

11. Swing a pendulum for 24 hours. It won't just rotate back and forth. Foucault showed a free-swinging pendulum will rotate in a circle because of the rotation of the Earth. You can even compute your latitude from the speed at which it processes.
Not just that, but you also have to provide other details to solve the puzzle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain's_Jawbone

> The prize of £1,000 (roughly how much £15 was worth in 1934) will be given to the first reader to provide the names of the murderers and the murdered, the correct order of the pages and a short explanation of how the solution was obtained.
Thanks for the idea! I added that :)
> That's not really how vaccines work. No force fields are deployed, you'll still catch COVID, but, you're immune system is now got some training in how to handle the situation.

We do have and continue to make "sterilizing vaccines" which for nearly all common use of the words do "deploy force fields". The small pox vaccine was one of the best examples, the measles vaccine is also up there. The COVID vaccines just aren't as good and people aren't educated enough to understand why some vaccines are basically perfect while the COVID ones aren't.
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Zig is fairly low-level. GPU compute kernels are already defined as stringly typed things that get thrown into an additional non-Zig compilation step; I don't know that I'd feel too badly about somebody having to write a tensor DSL that Zig could interpret at compile time.

Do you have any examples of situations where people would be writing a lot of code with custom operators where each individual block is pretty small and having to deal with a DSL of some flavor would be especially burdensome?
Look at http://ubuntubudgie.org and my http://sorun.me script. I am working on smoothing out those "edges".

I am also working on betterScale to yea.. fix the difficult hidpi monitor and multi-monitor w/ mixed lo & hidpi monitor situation. (at least on x11)
https://github.com/rbreaves/betterScale

I am pretty impressed with what all is out there to create a really bang up OS on Linux these days - also impressed with how little development time has been spent on actually polishing up all the amazing things they have actually built.

All of the ingredients are there, but there's been no real chef in the kitchen to put it all together imo.
Yeah, which seems ridiculous. As a first step, ICANN should be changed to some kind of international non-profit (I'm not even sure how you do that - do you just register it in Switzerland?).

Since they are not under a country code TLD, I think it really makes sense migrate .com, .net and .org to be 'international' TLDs (I think many people internationality basically already consider them to effectively be so) and US companies should be able to access equivalents under the ccTLD like .com.us, .net.us etc. if they wanted a US-specific one, just like every other country does. Then also, I really think all .gov, .mil and .edu and the other US-only TLDs should be phased out (they could just become redirects to .gov.us, .mil.us etc.). Having those TLDs as US-only just smacks of American exceptionalism - I understand the history and it made sense at the time, but became inappropriate as all the other ccTLDs started becoming used. They should have migrated to .us domains back then and deprecated .mil, .gov and so on.

It would be a bit messy, since .us is already delegated and there are already heaps of domains in that namespace which would have to be either retained as legacy or migrated after some time. So really the sooner the better! The US Government would probably have to buy the .us ccTLD back, create ones like com.us, net.us, org.us under it and then re-delegate them while operating .mil.us, .gov.us, .edu.us themselves.
Considering the 1996 "Life on Mars Hoax" was recently debunked, a bit of patience and caution would serve our planet.
But then the root servers can still be used to censor domains by removing them.
> I think this is an insightful comment and I'm sorry to see it get downvoted.

The comment was written with clearly flamebait-level phrasing: "lard", "gold plating", "luxury beliefs", "whine about being underfunded", etc. so it's actually good if it got downvoted.

Additionally, it's flatly wrong about the facts: people have been moving into cities, out of rural areas, for decades now. There's little to recommend in a comment that's grossly incorrect and also written in a way seemingly intended to rile people up.
I think it’s hard to get good data anymore since so many people are vaccinated. I’ve heard one news outlet report that some scientists were trying to analyse the unvaccinated data only and initial findings were showing Omicron may be just as bad as Alpha. But small sample size etc etc so we really don’t know.
It needs the phone's battery to hear up the reagents and sample. It's also not clear to me what processing is occurring within the cartridge and cue device.
Specifically, Intel made a craptop prototype to compete with OLPC and IIRC it was $400 while OLPC was $200 or less.
Parents.
sure but you still get the people while denying/disrupting your war enemy since the US and China may likely be in a shooting war if that were to happen
There is a paid service to help you get these back.. O_O

https://hacked.com/

(I guess it is that common?)
It would be a start, but not all of the internet is accessed through a browser. And I'm not sure you'd get Apple and Google on board unless there was a way for them to make money from it.
I, and everyone else, has to pay taxes in USD. That will never replaced.
> Even if you're not feeling it, go through the motions

How? This is the whole problem; for many folks, this isn't helpful advice because the whole problem is that it's hard to do things if you're not "feeling" it.
The scene of the time hacked his computer to swipe the source code. I'd be pissed too.