skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't already know the answer to which book you want to write then the question you're asking is "which book do you think will sell".

The answer to that question is "who cares". No one wants to read yet another tech book written by someone who is not both qualified in and passionate about the subject.
ROFL. Yes, "as a toy". Things that 99.9% of Hacker News (and 99.999999% of the general public) has literally never had a need to do, their absence surely just invalidates it.

Hot takes like yours are what make HN a hilarious joke to the rest of the world. Embarrassing.
Math is one of those fields where there seems to be a clear correlation betwixt youth and creativity. It's just the consequence of having fresh eyes looking at an ancient problem ;)

But experience is clearly necessary due to the shear vastness of the topic. I find history and philosophy of math to be just as engaging and often crucial. Understanding the origins of probability in 17th century gambling houses, for example, sheds enormous light on the subject.

To that end, I think something like "Mathematical Evolutions" might be the best place to start:

"To tell the tale of The Isometric Problem, one must begin by quoting Virgil..."

https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
Really? Most will stay, take the money and look for jobs elsewhere
R/igraph 1.3 Released
It definitely is. I live in the US, and my house has 3 separate "zones" for heating and cooling. Programmable thermostats turn things off and on automatically based on a pre-set schedule, and the schedules can also be overridden. The result is that we're generally only heating or cooling the parts of the house that we're using.
Because you're confusing home ownership and real estate investing. Real estate investment is investing in rental properties of some form or fashion and this can be for business rentals it can be personal rentals any number of things. Because that form of investment does not rely on the buying and selling of the property to realize the gain in the investment.
So much angst in this thread! I'm going to bed.
Still has the baseband in it though, right, or am I missing something?
> On Mac and Windows, some things are easier but many things are impossible.

The obvious caveat is that many things are impossible out of the box. There are plenty of tools available to address a good number of the shortcomings mentioned in the story.
Is this different from AWS Beanstalk?
WhatsApp is not a social network, but it is owned by Big Tech and is being exploited to monetize users attention. Also, the conversations may be encrypted, but the metadata (the really interesting part for FB) is being mined. Good on OP that they got it out of their device.
I read the transcript and he doesn't seem to be rambling any more than anyone else speaking off the top of their head, rather than writing a carefully edited essay.

Also what mnl said. I hope their comment helps you see your comment in the context of how it would appear to people who read HN with a hostile attitude and look for reasons to reject it (not mnl obviously).
I’m sure the same can be said of semiconductor manufacturing. My wife’s first day on the job in the clean room, she noticed the plastic ribbons on the vent above the photo resist station were not flapping. When maintenance looked into it, the vent was blocked-off; had been since it was installed. It’s this kind of shit.

She got the hell out of microelectronics and is now a data scientist. The former is a dead end job in the USA and the latter pays better.
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve been using Mac for years and still don’t know how to make an application fullscreen like Windows does. The green button hides the menu bar, and alt clicking the green buttom makes the app bigger but doesn’t fill the whole screen.

Either I am stupid or Mac is bad at discoverability.
+1 for this. Hammerspoon is a godsend. I have keyboard shortcuts to switch to my desired apps instantly (around 10 or so, hyper+I is IntelliJ, hyper+A is Atom, hyper+F is Firefox etc.)
> Computation is a potential source of a definition of time

Do we need a "definition of time"? Maybe there are certain fundamental aspects of reality which cannot be broken down into anything more fundamental, and time is one them? If that were true, then "time" could not really be defined (at least not intensionally), we could only point out the fact that it exists. We could never say what it is, if saying what it is is understood as requiring explaining it in terms of something else.

> On the other hand, both GR and QM are also consistent with an interpretation where the universe with its entire Time-line is a fixed object,

GR and QM also appear to be consistent with idealism (Berkeley-style) – all that exists are minds and their experiences, and the physical universe (including physical laws such as GR and QM) are simply patterns in those experiences. Time then might be said to be a fundamental part of the essence of what it is to be a mind. GR and QM could not really tell us anything about what time actually is–they would merely be tools which minds can use to predict what kinds of experiences they will have under various circumstances.
It probably would yes, though that might still be fewer round-trips than establishing a new TLS connection.
Sure, but it doesn't mean you can't do it. There are plenty of things I can't do - out of the box - with Ubuntu. Doesn't mean you can't do it. Heck. If I install Ubuntu minimal I can't do anything. Ubuntu is one big 3rd party tool collection.

> Which tools specifically?
bettertouchtool

On my xiaomi or galaxy, can't remember, as they are useless since the software isn't updated anymore. It prompts me on how I want to connect when I plug in a USB cable.

> I know you're going to be tempted to reply with "you're using it wrong" - but I'm not. This is how I like to use my computer. And it is clear that the MacBook isn't my computer - it is Apple's. (OK, OK! It belongs to my employer!)

This comment makes no sense. It's your computer. You can install all these tools if you want.
It didn’t break, it gives a timely deprecation warning, you can probably fix it in an hour or two with basic grep, where is the problem?
> I wonder, can Windows natively work with APFS volumes..? I know with extra software it can, but then with extra software macOS can do all the things in the blog post too.

This is almost like saying that devices don't need to support dealing with USB sticks formatted with FAT32 because the file system originates with DOS.

MTP today is one of the more prevalent protocols that many devices (including most if not all Android phones made in past decade) use by default.

That said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol#macOS claims that this is supported natively…
I was thinking of getting a steam deck, is it no good? (I have not followed the hype so my mind is open)
Yes, Svelte is already supported https://thin.dev/docs/svelte

We also have an integration for ReScript https://thin.dev/docs/rescript

More to follow in the future
"You're massively underperforming and we can never contact you - have a substantial pay rise" isn't really how these things work...
This was my thought. Yabai totally changed my setup for the better.
This was interesting. I was recently setting up a mac with Catalina preinstalled and no working monitor so I got the opportunity to use voiceover. It isn't very helpful to someone who hasn't been using it forever. Some issues:

1. Doesn't describe the screen well. Either "you are on a button" or will read everything with no positional context.

2. Doesn't tell you when the screen changes. You press "continue" and it says "you are on a button"

3. When you try to move through the list of wifi SSNs it jumps to the password entry every time you move without telling you which one was selected.

4. The default speed, 50%, is stupid fast. I had to look up how to change the speed.

5. The tutorial was hard to understand and I had to look up the online documentation to get an idea of how it works. The accessibility of that site seems pretty low but luckily I actually am visual.

https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/use-voiceover-util...
I suspect that'd play absolute hell with either their UX concept or the underlying UI abstractions / implementations.

This would create a situation where an application has one window foreground above the foreground application while it is not the foreground application.

On the UI / implementation side: I don't think it's possible to have any windows of an app foregrounded past the foreground app's frontmost window if that app isn't itself foreground. They'd have to create a new category of window (and probably move a bunch of internal data structures around) to make that possible. I know, "it's just code," but it's code based on some very deep and old assumptions about the way the window manager works that probably have hard-to-predict consequences if violated.

On the UX side: having a window floating foreground when the top-of-desktop menubar says another app's name in the corner is going to trigger a "WAT" for a lot of users, and I think Apple is deferring to them.
Yes, it's not ready for general consumption. Mainly due to the battery life (I use two batteries) and sluggishness (it's fast if you use non-mainstream Sxmo). For Librem 5 (which I also preordered) both these points are fine (well, the battery is still worse than for Android).

Note that we are not on Reddit but on HN. Is its audience ordinary people? My goal is to bring more technical people to GNU/Linux phones.
The difference is, both environments create conditions intolerably difficult to operate, but if we're going to be experimenting with hostile environment industry, I think its best done a few million km's from Earth rather than, literally, in the bosom of all life.
> Use sed/awk/find/grep on any documents or text like with Ubuntu

fd, rg, and vim work just fine on the Mac..

Bundled sed is the bsd variant, but you can bring whichever flavor of these you want, I'm very confused by your comment.
I used to until I came across. Endeavour OS. The AUR is so damn convenient, anyone I show it to just immediately falls in love with it.
open source software is not enough anymore.

The world needs lean and simple, but able to do a good enough job, open source software, and that include the SDKs with their computer languages (excluding de-facto c++/java/c#/etc with their compilers).

Toxic companies don't need a copy-left licence to do vendor-lockin with open source software: they just need to write non-pertinent, grotesquely and absurdely complex and massive open source software which excluds all alternatives which would require much less developement resources.

This is exactly what's happening with google(blink/geeko) and apple(webkit) based browsers. Bonus: it mecanically creates a huge amount of planned obsolescence, brain-washed web devs and scammers are in their paradise.

There is no other way than technical regulation to protect the people against this.
Good suggestion! IMHO Kitty is seriously underused terminal. Very fast, customizable, scriptable…
Wasn't Hush already the name of the HUmbleSHell ( Hush is a Bourne/POSIX-style shell that was originally part of BusyBox ) ...https://github.com/sheumann/hush
If we've done that it's because overnight we realised we needed 10 billion fish and only had a handful of people currently able to fish.

Mass mobilisation of people able to catch fish has enabled businesses to join the digital landscape.

It may be true that we've not taught people in a way that's best for their long-term prospects, but had the computer science industry taken the approach of other engineering, nursing or even accounting, with strict legislated terms and certificates, and exam boards controlling quota of people able to go into computing, then perhaps it would be an ivory tower of well built and engineered software.

But it would also have risked leaving most businesses behind and things wouldn't have accelerated nearly as fast.
Covid is spreading in deer. What does that mean for the pandemic?
alt click doesn’t work. Try it. It does not work. Maybe occasionally it does, but mostly it just enlarges the screen a bit, in a random manner.
> It's a serious annoyance when you're doing build scripts that do stuff like setting $PATH.

Indeed, I was bitten by this too. Honestly, its probably the best not to touch PATH and friends and resolve the problem some other way. Or you could use modules.

> It also has the annoying "feature" of leaving you in the last directory the script changed to.

Yeah, that might be problem. I used to use cd instead of cpush because of this. However, using good framework fixes this. Check out Invoke-Build for your build stuff and you will forget about all of that. Its totally epic.

> It may mean there's no way whatsoever to pass a given path to a program. If a program internally doesn't handle quoting and spaces right, you're screwed.

Regarding space, this is easily solvable by using short syntax. Regarding quoting, this seems like a less important case - its very rare to have quotes in the file names in my experience.
> Sure, he's never censored people the same way he could on Twitter, but he's also never had the chance.

What you're doing now is far worse than Musk trying to manage his own private companies and reputation, you're fear mongering; "what if he's the boogie monster!"

Managing a private company is not akin to managing free speech on a "public square" - and Elon seems quite aware of this. He's also quite aware of the risk and threat of tyranny if the general population doesn't have a place they won't be censored by systems toeing the line for domestic or foreign bad actors/interests, whether they're for-profit industrial complexes or authoritarians.
No, that hides the menu bar.
And yet people will shit on DEI efforts. Incorporating more folks into the scientific endeavor helps combat things like stagnation in science precisely because it reduces academic incest.
Disclaimer: Armchair economist.

Having salaries automatically track inflation can actually lead to more inflation. When Australia had double digits inflation in the 1970's, one of the first things done to fix the problem was making sure salaries stop tracking inflation.
To make it maximise the area in your current mac Space (i.e. not go "full screen" in a new Space) you can go: Mac Menu -> Window -> Zoom. I just usually double click the App's window bar and it stretches the same way.
> Well, yes, but that means that my past and yours still exists as a real place that others can visit, in some sense. That's why I gave the example. Of course, that visitation has already happened in our past.

If the other person can travel to "my past", can their point of departure be said to be "in my present"?

Does this fulfil the math?

At T[0][theirs] and T[0][ours], they decide to travel very fast towards us.
At T[42][theirs], they meet us, but it's T[-23][ours]
At T[42][ours], we remember meeting them

It bends my head out of shape, which is fun... but is it "right"? And is it even possible to say T[0][theirs] === T[0][ours]?

Is it all better modelled by using T-theirs[0] and T-ours[0]... and some rule like "T-theirs[n] can never = T-ours[n]" ?
> Why do we need a trade off between stability and control?

There isn't infinite time and money in the world. Every hour making one feature more stable means an hour not invested in another. Flexibility and control are just additional features. If you want to change the system font, you have to test (and support) a much wider array of things, especially if your UI guidelines are as restrictive as Apple's. Every piece of control you expose to the user increases the engineering cost of writing and maintaining the software.

And frankly, if more people wanted that level of control, this year TRULY would be the year of linux on the desktop. But they don't.
This is not a developer-friendly decision.

Why can't they leave it working for existing URLs at least?

A quick search shows 704,000 code results containing git.io.

https://github.com/search?q=git.io&type=code

Edit: actually it is more than 704k, much more it seems.
“ I think what's helping ensure commitment in that case are the children, rather than the marriage. ”

This is the luxury belief. It feels true, it doesn’t conflict with secular values, but all the research points to it being false…
That it's still over and you need to learn to live with it just like we learned to live with how many other viruses?
For a big result like this, enough experts read the paper to catch glaring mistakes. Sort of a de facto peer review
>That's literally impossible. Answer me 2 things that will tell me if it's the lowest slavery in the world.

>1. What is the criminal conviction rate in Japan?

>2. Is there penal labour in Japan?

If I'm reading this argument correctly, it's that because Japan has a high (>99%) conviction rate and uses mandatory penal labour, Japan, therefore, has a modern slavery problem.

There's a few issues with this, the generally accepted consensus for Japan's high conviction rate is that it can be explained almost entirely by the fact that Japan's prosecutors are underemployed and overworked and this is something that can be trivially seen, e.g., while the 42% of US felony arrests result in prosecution the figure in Japan is only 17%, or while the US prosecutes 75% arrested for murder Japan only tries 43%. The implication is that the conviction rate is a result of prosecutors being incredibly selective of which cases they bring to trial, only selecting cases with strong evidence of wrongdoing with a high likelihood of a guilty plea in exchange for a more lenient sentence, rather than any nefarious corruption or underhanded tactics like wrongful confessions.

The second issue is that if the high conviction rate is a result of a need or desire for prison labour then it would also be visible in the incarceration rate, however this is not the case. Japan has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. To emphasise just how few people Japan actually jails, let's look at some other countries countries. Incarceration rates are per 100k population: US: 639, England and Wales: 130, China: 122, Spain: 122, South Korea: 105, Canada: 104, France: 93, Hong Kong: 90, Italy: 89, Germany: 69, Japan: 38. Japan has half the prison population that the UK does while having twice the population, if they are jailing people with the intention of using them for slave labour they are doing a terrible job at it.

The only conclusion that can be drawn here is that the conviction rate is irrelevant to the discussion, and while it's still entirely possible to argue that Japan has an unintentional modern slavery problem as a result of prison labour it seems less of an argument against Japan specifically and more of an issue with prison labour in general. But if the problem is with Japan specifically, just how big of a problem is it? Using the globalslaveryindex[0] mentioned in a parent comment we can take a ham fisted approach and simply assume that all Japanese prisoners are slaves, add the Japanese prison population (around 50k) to the estimated number of modern slaves, and, well, Japan still has an incredibly low number of modern slaves, lower than the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and South Korea despite being roughly twice the population of any of these countries, and a quarter of the number of modern slaves that the US has despite being half the population. While I don't agree with prison labour I also don't think it's modern slavery, but even assuming that it is it's incredibly hard to come to a conclusion where Japan looks worse than any other comparable country.

[0] https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalenc...
could it be an issue of confidence?
i know people who trust the spoken word over the written.
That this functionality is not builtin is the most baffling MacOS design choice I have ever seen.
Direct paper link https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06507
This is such a glaring omission, but I guess they don't sell a mouse with scroll-wheel so they don't care. Luckily there are a few 3rd party apps that sit in the menu bar, I'm using Scroll Reverser.
That very much depends on how twitter structured their options and the details of the contract for purchase. I've seen setups where all unvested options vest immediately with a purchase and I've seen setups where the options are gone just like that. There is a whole range of options in the middle that are possible as well.
Rustlings is a great way to get a feel for what you learn in the Rust Book.
FTPS yes, no SFTP in macOS 11.6 as far as I can tell.
It's possible to add it though, as 3rd party apps can 'hook' this feature.
I'm very glad that his channel covers it. I think that the IPCC reports should be required reading at this point as well. Or at least summaries.
> I'd not heard of MTP before, so looked it up: "MTP is part of the "Windows Media" framework and thus closely related to Windows Media Player."

This comes from [1] which is an interesting page.

It's a de facto standard though. And now specified in the USB standard. Android devices expose themselves using MTP when connected with USB for instance. I think the goal was to allow devices to expose their media data / receive media stuff from the computer while still being able to be used. Exposing as a mass storage device was problematic because conflict could happen when both the device and the computer tried to access the drive, so at the time, most mp3 players just couldn't be used both as a mass storage devices and as an mp3 player at the same time. You can still use your Android phone while it is plugged as an MTP device (fortunately).

Though it seems something like Samba, NTP or sshfs could have been possible. I don't know what is the full rationale behind the choice of developing a custom protocol. MTP probably provides some features that makes it easier to manage media stuff. I've not looked into it much. It does extend the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) (used in digital cameras) which is an ISO standard so it's not completely custom neither.

Apple went with their custom iTunes-related protocol with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, because why not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
I don't live in the USA, and have never been exposed to its mainstream. Probably the best way to find out would be to go outside, talk to random people, and ask them where they get their news and/or advice?
Corollary: lets all take a pay-cut to keep inflation in check!
Could this scenario be possibly?

Twitter earnings this quarter are a disaster. Elon find a way to pull out of the deal by not being able to secure financing. Twitter falls to 30 dollars.
Firing people at a private company is not anything near the same thing as censoring someone on what is said to be run a public square; and for example if he wants to allow Trump on, ideally with conditions or full-time oversight, if Twitter employees can't accept that and cause problems internally - who are then going against company policy - then they should be fired, no?
"undid iridium" - for a literal backdoor into an AI
Ask HN: Has HN traffic / engagement declined over the past year?
Over the past year I've anecdotally noticed a decrease in posting volume, comment volume, and even comment and post quality. HN doesn't publicly post their statistics (to my knowledge), but does anyone at HN have (and can share) visibility into any stats or trends over the past few years and can share how any of that has changed? Mostly curious but also I think there's some macro changes going on in tech and entrepreneurship.