skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) This is a Chrome issue. I use Safari and I don't have this problem in full screen.

2) I do not have this issue. But then again I don't really use the desktop for storing files. I use list view and lots of subfolders of Documents. Double-clicking a zip file in list view unzips it to a folder which appears before the zip file in the list (when sorting by date)

3) command-option-escape is the global hotkey to open the force-quit menu. You can also right-click the dock icon and hold option to change the quit command into force quit.

4) That sounds annoying. I have never used an external monitor on my MacBooks.

5) Desktops (the numbered ones you create by clicking +) don't rearrange themselves. It's only full screen windows that do. The desktops stay where they are relative to each other.

6) Why would I want unrelated files to be deleted when deleting one file? That's more of an iOS thing. On my Mac I only want to delete the files I specify and no others.

7) Press command and click on the current folder name at the top of the window to go back in the hierarchy. When you hover over the folder name you can also see an icon next to the name. This icon can be dragged and dropped into other windows to paste the text path to that folder. Or if you like, turn on the path bar under the View menu in Finder to be able to quickly jump back to any higher level in the path hierarchy. Press command-shift-g to open the go-to window where you can tab complete your way to a new path. The go-to window also respects relative directories like ~ for home and ./ for the current directory.

8) I love the default Terminal. It's way faster than all of the other terminals I've tried. It's nicely customizable and it has tabs which are good enough for me.

9) I never use the launchpad. Try using command-space to search for stuff from spotlight.

10) That's weird. In general, funky things happen when you run low on disk space for most operating systems. It's a good idea to keep a healthy amount of free space (20%). Try going to Apple -> About This Mac... -> Storage tab -> Manage... This nifty included tool will help you find and delete things that are taking up a lot of space, particularly things you aren't using very often. You can also turn on a feature that deletes files which have been sitting in the trash for 30 days. I never manually empty the trash anymore!
The US unbundled the local loop in 1996, but it was done by 2003.
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> I think my ideal Linux OS is probably Ubuntu/CentOS + something like macOS’s .app bundle file format for distributing end-user applications.

Then I suggest looking at NeXTspace:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

It does exactly that. CentOS, plus .app bundles, all integrated into a single bundle.

But the .app bundles come from GNUstep, so you can't pick your own desktop.
Exactly. One can live without AC for a few days almost anywhere in the US and deal with the discomfort. If you can power a refrigerator and then have a general purpose light / charging out, it will get most reasonable people through a multi-day outage and not be vulnerable to NG supply disruptions.

A quick note: It should cost more than $20. When fridge compressor cycles on, it can draw up to 20A. Extension cord wire gauges are based on 1) length and 2) amperage and depending on home layout, you'd might get away with a 50 foot 12 gauge cord ($40). If it's 100 feet, you'd want 10 gauge ($100+). It'll vary by cord and refrigerator, and there are many extension cord sizing guides freely available.
If the latter is possible, then yes - however in a society with a declining population and modest productivity growth increasing the number of faculty positions 3-5x to account for current PhD program capacity is likely infeasible. Even a massive increase in science budgets at the federal level would likely only yield 2x the positions.

While Universities could cut administrative bloat to make way for faculty... they are unlikely to do so, and there are few levers to motivate them. With a looming student loan crises, they are likely to be forced to cut budgets significantly sometime in the next 10 years either through inflation or direct cuts.

The number of PhD candidates is partially based on the way the federal government cuts grants, at a roughly flat budget the only way to create more faculty positions is to cut PhD student grants. From a very rough perspective, the government could create roughly one career track research position for every ~1.5-2.5 PhD/PostDoc position grants they cut. If you doubled the science budget, then the 3-5x cut would work out as 1.5-3x, However due to the expectation on the number of students each professor has.. doubling the budget in the current system would simply yield the same problem with twice as many people involved.
sigh it appears most of the people who are looking at this have missed the context about why this site was created/exists.

This was created 3 years ago as a response/meme to the stupid 10x engineer stuff some VC tweeted 3 years ago. It’s a crowd-sourced list and is literally just shitposting/being self-deprecating, while also pushing back on the ridiculous deification and mis-labeling of 10x engineers. That’s it. It isn’t that deep.

It’s a shitpost meme riffing on some stuff that got Twitter into a tizzy. Nothing more.

Disclosure: I made some contributions to the repo early on and am friends with the original creator of the site (and we worked together as 1x engineers at the time this was posted).
> He cannot possibly be that ignorant. Nobody is going to be willing to not only put cycles on their battery but risk being left with a half-charged vehicle during a grid failure.

Well, that cycle part is important, as I'm still not clear on the warranty implications of actually using this vehicle's battery for stationary storage.

However, outside of that, I don't think its fair to call it ignorant. Grid emergencies are often related to excess consumption for really specific periods of time. Our local utility sends out alerts asking for reduced consumption during peak just to save them some $$$s, as spot prices can be very high for brief periods of time.

We also have TOU plans available where the peak rate is more than $.20 higher than the off peak rate. There are plenty of people that would gladly pocket that difference in exchange for burning through ~25% of a battery. And because its not an outage, but rather a cost issue during peak, they'll just load back up right after the "emergency" subsides.

I'd still really like to know what the warranty for this style of usage looks like.
Or just press ⌘⇧G.
Seems high to me. I don't pay that much for a doctor, or a plumber, mechanic, etc.
> in order to not get screwed everytime I do business with any corporation

This has nothing to do with corporations. If you decided to only do business with natural persons you’d have the same burden of proof.
The funny part is that parts of the rural US have better internet speeds than the cities. Rural Electric Cooperatives do like their fiber. Carrington ND has a billboard proclaiming the availability of 10Gbe fiber to the home.
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Thanks for that. Genuinely. :-)
MacOS has suffered (and continues suffering) from severe neglect at Apple. That's why the current situation (especially with GUI) is ... weird, to say the least.

10 years ago it was the most polished and consistent UI experience among all the major OSes. Today it's a mess (though IMO still better than the alternatives).
Has anyone clearly outlined the parallels point for point? This discussion seems to go in circles because one group recognizes some similarities, and the other group say's "oh,so anything you don't like is communism, huh?"

Which, to be fair, is an appropriate response given that a huge swath of American conservatives (FOX News brand) do call everything they don't like communism.

I think we need some sort of quantification of the similarities to move this discussion forward because there's good faith and bad faith on both sides and without quantification, the good faith people can't find one another.
I’d just want to know who on earth would want such data and what insights could be gained from it. It can be challenging to build models with tons of really good data.
A serious question. If power outages are that common that you need to have this backup, would you not consider a bank of LFP batteries and an inverter before you think of using your car for this?
In case of a grid outage/emergency, having a car that is untethered to the house is handy right?

It's not the same, but my parents back in India have a few Lead acid batteries hooked up to an inverter to supply backup power when power outage occurs (about once a week). They have been doing this for decades now. I'm just wondering why a larger scale version of this with LFP batteries and may be solar panels to charge them wouldn't work where you are..
A brain in a newborn human isn’t akin to a completely untrained ANN. It has inherent structure that makes it possible to learn how to read by only seeing a few thousand words. Perhaps the millions of years of evolution that led to that inherent structure are akin to training an ANN from scratch on billions of words.
The energy it takes to fill up the tank in this vehicle once could power a house for a week.

Wow. Every household driving an F150 would appear to the grid like bring 7x houses online.

It certainly puts the efficiency of writing a bike for short trips in perspective.
Oh, weird.

I’m not sure I’d have naively realized that the fixed amount in your envelope makes so much difference.

For people confused like me, think about the outcomes:

When the two are prepared together, say $2 and $4, then when you exchange your options are +2 and -2 with 50:50 odds.

When the second envelope is prepared based on $2 in your envelope, then when you exchange your options are +2 and -1 with 50:50 odds.

(I had to diagram this all out; unintuitive to me!)
I think it's a similar pattern, but at a different layer.

You can compose methods, compose classes/instances (DI), compose libraries/assemblies, compose processes, microservices, or entire apps and multi-app systems. There are similar patterns of composition, just each is at a different level of abstraction of the whole thing.

Sometimes it makes more sense to compose it inside an app, sometimes it makes more sense to design it differently and compose on another layer. Sometimes it can be both or it's blurry and not clear...
> In short I want the ROX desktop dream, but for all Linux apps. http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/about_rox.html

Seconded. AppImage is admirable and FlatPak is tolerable, but Linux has become a hopelessly fragmented and complex ball of abstractions and everyone's best efforts to deal with that so we can just install some goddamned applications already have been significantly hindered by it.

Best I've managed so far without getting into hopelessly niche distros is Fedora Silverblue. Immutable base system (OSTree) with FlatPak for most application installs and Toolbox (see Distrobox as an alternative) for things that don't have a FlatPak. It's still a pretty rough experience, especially because of GNOME and its hatred of configurability, but it is the least-suck I've managed to wring out of Linux.
The expected value of purchasing insurance is always less than $0. You're paying to eliminate a risk and smooth out your cash flow.
"Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership."
> police don't, the DA doesn't, the judges don't - they are the main actors in the system

Most civil rights violations aren’t criminal offences. It literally isn’t the police or DA’s job.
The goal is to produce a relatively low-cost way to resolve reasonable disputes while eliminating opportunities for fraud and bad actors.

A formal written complaint prior to filing for abitration might have been equally effective. Incentivizing escalation simply drives up the costs of resolving disputes.
So disable and remove it, then. That's what I did on my Ubuntu server. Remove and purge the snap stuff. No problem.

And if you wish you can install Flatpak too, but note, Flatpak is desktop-only, whereas Snap is desktop and server.
The new, modern Rails stack is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else out there. Rails truly makes web development enjoyable, fast and effective.

It's a shame Ruby and Rails are not getting all the recognition they deserve.
Everything you need to know about involuntary borgs in Python
I'm going to add the option to check with a different selector.
Unreal Engine 1 and Duke Nuke Forever source code leaked
As someone who used to maintain a hackintosh, you can get them to work with iCloud, iMessage, Airdrop, Continuity, etc but you need to set the Mac-faking bits in your bootloader (probably OpenCore) correctly, and you might need to select for particular models of wifi/Bluetooth cards. Not particularly straightforward but plenty doable.

From what I can see, the popularity of hackintoshing has dropped steeply with the introduction of M-series macs. The biggest driver of hackintoshing was Apple not selling compelling hardware, and that’s mostly been solved.
> That's called living in society. If you value your absolute freedom above the needs of your own society, start packing and get comfortable in a forest cave, because civilization is not what you want. If you want the advantages of society, you gotta give cooperation in return.

You can say that to justify pretty much anything starting with all the random bullshit China does to its citizen. There's a middle ground to find, my point is that we were slightly to far down the fear road (and many people will die of the economic consequences actually).
Can you explain what interpolation and extrapolation mean in this context?
I've managed many "10x" engineers. They do exist. These engineers I'm thinking about not only are amazingly productive but solve problems average engineers can't solve no matter how much time you give them.

Their solutions are elegant, performant and survive design changes. Their code is easier to maintain. Paying 2x the average to these people is a steal,as they are a LOT better than that. Not sure how much, but I'd rather have one of them on my team than 3 average engineers (probably more).

I'm not saying average engineers aren't useful workers. They are, they get things done if they aren't incompetent. But they are nowhere near a 10x engineer.

10x engineers aren't perfect. But they are amazing nonetheless.

If you have never worked with one, maybe it's because you had bad luck, haven't been around long enough or haven't worked in great teams. Whatever the reason,once you meet a 10x, you will know it.
A guide on how to be a Programmer
A transfer switch should cost a few hundred bucks by a licensed electrician - not costly. I picked up a 1200W generator for under a thousand bucks and a few cans of propane to store and run it on. I can power most of my home, including my mini-split, on it. The whole ordeal was simple and inexpensive, unlike trying to get a truck to do the same.
USB 3.0 Hub Stops Working on Mac OS X
I'm embarrassed with my self
The "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Monty Python skit is a classic
"the company knows that they could be facing a 50k+ judgment"

Wait. You could lose. Doesn't that mean YOU could be responsible for THEIR lawyer fees too? EG. If you lose, your lawyer shrugs their shoulders and walks, you are stuck paying the 50k?
Is it?

"No proposed solution is widely accepted as definitive."

I mean for me this is totally a "cannot see the forest because of all the trees" situation and the intuitive solution is the right one.

But I thought the same of the monty hall problem (back in school) and only was convinved, after I wrote a small program to simulate it, which confirmed it.

But unlike in the monty hall problem, there is no new information here, when you are given the opportunity to switch. So the discussion seems weird to me.
Article title: Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, And a Hotbed for Scammers

Article heading: Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects.

So, according to the article, finances = crypto.

Seriously? I don't even have words to respond with anymore.
This was an excellent write-up! The TL;DR is perfect:

1) Don’t be afraid of arbitration. I did feel AAA was helpful in the process. In fact, heading straight to arbitration may be the best way to fight this system that corporations created.

2) READ. YOUR. CONTRACT. I swear, this got me like 90% there. It doesn’t matter that I don’t have a background in contract law. These customer contracts are designed to be (relatively) approachable. I felt being able to specifically point out what clauses were violated and how gave me a very strong cause of action. I also pointed out there was no out-clause in the contract for computer system failures. I suspect this had something to do with them accepting my counter-offer so quickly. Once the attorney saw that yes, there were breaches of contract, they probably knew my case was pretty strong. The world doesn’t care about you feeling like you were wronged and how hurt your feelings were. It wants cold, hard facts.

3) Keep records of phone conversations. Date, time, who, resolution. Keep screenshots. Keep emails. I didn’t have to present them to an arbiter, but I think if I had to, I had the evidence to point out exactly where HWC failed.

4) Don’t get a home warranty.
I have a mixed feelings about this, standard library's vulnerabilities are part of Ruby's vulnerabilities, so you would update your Ruby version anyway. But you're right specifing version explicitly would prevent this.
Then why isn't discrimination against homosexuals justified since they spread much worse diseases?
A 10x or 1x developer is not really something to focus on. It's the 0.1x developer that is the most important one.

I've been a 10x, 1x and 0.1x developer. Let me tell you: most business or managers have a hard time distinguishing between all of them.

- 10x: You're smart, knowledgeable and passionate. You love going to the office and create code. Love the team and are moving forward every day. You're doing meaningful work. Managers love your work. You get excellent reviews. You earn as much as your colleagues.

- 1x: You do your job to get money. There's a lot of business shit, stupid decisions all around you. Dispite that, you try your best to do your job. You sometimes complain to managers, they claim they can't do much. You get good reviews. You earn as much as your colleagues.

- 0.1x: You spend your days wasting time on the internet (Hi there, welcome to HN! :D). Some days you do nothing, some days you spend 15 minutes fixing a bug. You find excuses of things you are stuck at. Managers give you good reviews. You start questioning when you get good reviews, what the fuck your other colleagues are doing? Are they also goofing off all the time? Probably. You earn as much as your colleagues.
Stress Testing Concurrent Features in React 18
That have not been my experience so far, every time I see a "10X engineer" (worked at several big tech companies) either they have been working in the problem for years or they put 12+ hours of works every day.I don't believe in geniuses myself, never seen one. There are for sure incredible people who have done great things, but you can clearly see, they lack in many other aspects of life. Also, note, that most of those people are not really interested in the "other aspects" of life, but as a complete human being, they have an unbalanced life, obviously, because you need time to develop skills.
> If there is a 20 email long chain, discussing a clause in a contract, that counts too. What was the intent of both parties?

What if the contract includes a statement: "this agreement consititute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes, merges, and replaces all prior oral or written agreements, negotiations, offers, representations, etc. with respect to the subject matter. No course of dealing between the parties, no usage of trade, or outside evidence of any nature shall be used to modify, interpret, or supplement blah blahb lahblhbjajk"

Yeah that 20 email chain? The contract specifically says it can't be included in the agreement. Bringing that up was a fun conversation when negotiating the contract...
If laptop breaks, I just swap SSD into spare machine. With mac I have to wait days maybe weeks for SSD desoldering and fix. Sorry it is a toy! If Apple can not invest $2 into connector, there is no build quality!
So back to geocities style page with an under construction gig. :)
I still haven't emotionally recovered from this and I might have to switch jobs.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=htt.ps
They missed Elementary OS - Linux distro designed to look like open source/bootleg version of Mac.
What amazes me is that people who pride themselves on being smart when faced with Apple always resort to the laziest and most stupid of explanations for Apple's popularity: "marketing".

While marketing does play a bog role, it is still rooted in the reality: Apple makes good products (that are often leagues better than the competition in several areas), and as a whole the experience of using Apple products is better for a significant number of people.
I wish I could do a good job at that.

Let me rob a definition from this paper "Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09485.pdf :

Definition 1. Interpolation occurs for a sample x whenever this sample belongs to the convex hull of a set of samples X, {x1, . . . , xN }, if not, extrapolation occurs.
What would you call it then? Water heater is ambiguous. Could be a pool heater, a central heat heater, etc. It's perfectly clear what they mean.
Instead of transitioning college from a luxury to a municipal resource, we continue to treat it as a business.
This title seems like clickbait, I’m pretty sure a Bloomberg Swift terminal (which they even say in the article!) is the worlds most important financial messenger. This is just self important crypto clickbait from Vice.
My old company had to use Skype for business for over a year because Teams didn't support phone calls! It was ridiculous. And that's with the so called 'support' Microsoft provided.

They survived.
> Looking at it from an objective, systemic approach, you and yours have zero possibility of survival of an Earth biosphere destabilizing event.

I don't think that is going to be my problem or my children's problem or my grandchildren's.

Once you have exhausted that, well who cares what happens next.

And mind that I am a pretty long term view guy compared to 99% of the population. The vast majority of the human population doesn't care about what would happen 5 or 10 years from now. I suspect righfully so.

At some point even intellectuals have to admit that time spent worrying is subtracted from the time spent living.

So basically yeah, let's dig up all the oil, light that on fire to propel our amazing house party and run the place into the ground.

We may never live forever so we better live for now.
The homicide clearance rate in Chicago is at or under 50% and approximately 50% of those identified as assailants had no charges filed against them. This implies the assailant figures may be 4x under represented. Who knows?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/31/22996487/cpd-po...