skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the Clear Spaces app for that

Basically this app and others like it give you invisible widgets of customizable sizes that push other app icons and widgets around them

Its a silly workaround thats dumb enough to work and I never think about it again
On the software side things have gone so much worse though. You have the Swift compiler that uses heuristics which makes it unreliable (a compiler that times out!), and even Apples most basic software seems to crash constantly. If you have a budget Intel MacBook the compiling time are horrendous. Just yesterday the Contacts app on macOS crashed for me.

I think Rosetta + Swift + SwiftUI might have been a bit much change for the developers at Apple and the users are now paying the price.

I hope they focus on some principles behind stable software next.
Way less dramatic, but I recently got a $200 battery replacement on my 2013 retina MacBook pro that will make it last for years to come.

I haven't been interested in a newer model at all until the M1 restored HDMI and MagSafe along with the new CPU. Getting a strict upgrade in specs along with lighter weight and less heat/fan is tempting. But I'm currently not carrying my laptop around much (use a desktop at work), so can't really justify.
I am too a software developer and I am still using a desktop I bought in 2011 for less than 400USD (not including hard drives, which I continuously buy...).
Since then I replaced a broken mainboard for about 60USD and replaced the initial 8GB RAM with 16GB RAM.

I am still using Windows 7 and I am dreading the day I have to upgrade to something newer. Because I am sure user experience will decrease massively because of the increased Windows 10 requirements. Recently a lot of software seems to be dropping Windows 7 support.

I have been contemplating buying a new system for at least 7 years now, but with horrible GPU prices and overall pretty bad value-for-money ratios compared to my current build I never really get around to it.

PS4 and Nintendo Switch take care of my gaming needs.
BlockFi is raising a down round at $1B valuation: sources
That seems fairly normal? SE & PhD for example.
How do you like XigmaNAS?

I sometimes hear it in discussions on TrueNAS. Did you try TrueNAS?
I'm still using an Acer Pentium II laptop running FreeBSD for light web-browsing and accessing remote servers with SSH.

That thing is bullet proof.
The Evolution of Music Genre Popularity (2016)
I realized this hard while optimizing signal processing code, integral over infinite spaces (what great example), it is game over for my level of skills, sadly, I was not able to even optimize code correctly without first writing optimized simplest examples possible and showing it to physicist (it is like I understood/felt way to simplify math but have no skill to actually do it), physicists quickly realized how he can rewrite math in more simpler way, the final result was code x30 faster in worst cases.
I'm still using an Acer Pentium Pro II Duo laptop running FreeBSD for light web-browsing and accessing remote servers with SSH, and stuff like that.

That thing is bullet proof.
A common perception of Jews in Korea is that they're a formerly oppressed minority who are now rich and powerful. I think some Koreans see a parallel there given the history of their own country and its recent ascension to the world stage. I believe the Talmud and "Jewish education" is touted as one of the reasons that Jewish people have been so successful and people in Korea are seeking to emulate it.
I love clojure but hate that’s it a JVM language
I would love a Prolog database query language. Itch for it every time I use SQL.
By having wealthier people become poorer by paying taxes. There's no mystery here.

We've been making rich people wealthier with the middle-class taxes (including inflation, the most regressive tax ever invented), feeding all kinds of corporate welfare, including, but not limited to, the military industrial complex.

It is about time we start thinking about taxing the rich.

Alternatively, the rich can keep hoarding their money, pretending not to notice that their first-world economies are becoming increasingly similar to Somalia and that they will soon need armored vehicles and fortified condos to protect themselves from the desperate and famished masses.
Paris rolls out ban on big-polluting diesel vehicles
Looks like you're right!

I went back and checked photos in the other sections and, indeed, there is a photo in the Accessibility section showing it expanded.

Phew.
My company expects SRE to be synonymous with cloud administrator, acting as the gateway to doing anything AWS-related.

They've also asked us to troubleshoot for database backup processes, write Crystal Reports on user activity, and be Slack admins. Some of the developers believe that we do manual production deployments of their builds (we don't). I get requests all the time from users asking if I can make accounts on various systems for them.

I was given a programming test for this job :(
This in combination with the 3D acceleration work going into QEMU [1] could end up being a pretty compelling solution for running the x86 Linux version of Steam on macOS.

[1] https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807...
Hi, interesting Tell HN! I like repairing stuff, started in 2018 and gained more skills since.

The Phenom II X4 isn't bad (according to https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php), there is a variety of model numbers but they all seem to have the same kind of performance as the i5-3337U in the (very portable) somewhat old laptop I'm using right now, which is usable.

- I recently upgraded a low-end Lenovo Ideapad (from 2019? 2020? or so) from HDD to SDD and from 4 GB to 12 GB of memory. This laptop contains a Celeron CPU that has worse(!) overall performance than the Phenom II X4 despite being 10 years newer.

- My personal laptop is from 2012 (bought used in 2015 or 2016 for pretty cheap), upgraded memory to 16 GB

- Also repaired ~3-5 retro computers over the last year!

- Just repaired my toaster last evening (broke yesterday morning)
Really disappointing considering they now support up to a 6k external display. Yet you can't do 2x 1080p, or 2x 4k.

I think Apple knows a lot of customers care about this and want it to be a barrier getting them into a pro machine. The cheapest laptop they sell with multi-external-monitor support is $1k more than their cheapest laptop overall ($2k vs $1k).
This reminds me of the inverted pyramid style of journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

Unless I'm trying to do something stylistic, I pretty much always try to structure my writing this way. Especially technical writing.
Aw man, I made some truly OP bots for bot land. And a set up a custom TypeScript to BotLandScript compiler for them: https://github.com/mizzao/bot.land

So many improvements in that repo, that I didn't get to finish

Check out this video for how they wrecked 5v12 with 3 attackers / 0 defenders alive at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vIsSPFgUs

EDIT: haha, you're #4 in that screenshot on my repo!
Probably a cost saving feature and a mechanism to get people to buy the higher priced macbook pros.
I'm a likeminded fellow Brazilian, and I would love to keep my gear forever and never have to deal with choosing and spending on new shit, but software keeps getting worse (slower) and you really feel the difference after a major upgrade.

Last week I got a new iPhone SE 3rd gen to replace my almost-five years old iPhone 8 due to its battery gone wild (76% of original capacity, randomly dropping to 1% from 70~80%). The old one was fine, but it was only when I got the newer that I realized what I was missing — basically, speed. I got used to iPhone 8's sluggishness to the point of not noticing nor caring about it, but when I put my hands onto the newer version, it was like I removed a giant stone from my shoulders — in that context, I mean.

Today Apple announced a newer macOS that I won't be able to install on my 2015 MacBook Pro. A few minutes earlier, they announced a beast of a new computer. So… yeah, I still firmly believe that someone should keep a computer as long as possible, but if it's your tool to get work done, maybe update it once in a while — and, obviously, resell or repurpose the old, still capable one.
A six-month program in Britain will assess the effects of a shorter workweek
Fell on this YT niche earlier this year, and I’ve fallen in love. Have them playing in the background on one of my monitors during the work day. I took a break from the extreme airpod abuse and Spotify productivity playlists combo for these city walk tours. Really enjoy the ones in the rain or an NYC walk tour while it’s snowing.
To my knowledge the major problem with CdTe panels has been the extremely limited availability of Te, which is probably the main reason why they're under 5% of the market today. If one expects solar power to grow even more in the future, that market share will almost certainly shrink further still. So disposing of CdTe panels is a self-solving problem in the sense that we can't manufacture societally useful amounts of them anyway.
It’s neither the best comparison nor a fair one. The Atari was like a little Amiga but the Apple II version captures the spirit of the era better - an Atari port would have looked more like Karateka. As a side note, when I saw Prince of Persia for the first time, I felt a twinge of pain - why would I want to play a maze puzzle platforms version of Karateka, maybe the slowest paced, most masochistic game of the era, the one we played to see the animations of the next stage? Ugh, I did that once already, I don’t need more…
Think of the condition of a loosely attached tarp covering a load on a trailer. The condition of the tarp after even a relatively short drive at highway speeds will be pretty rough (and the same for whatever it's beating into). This flapping around is called buffeting, or occasionally (much to my vicarious chagrin) "buffering" in motorcycle circles.
Matlab:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fft.html
I've found (in the US at least) that automaker financing on new vehicles is usually better than any other banks.

I'm now wishing I put zero down on my last car, because it's looking like my loan is way cheaper than inflation is going to be over the life of the loan.
I use Windows pretty much only at work, and I'm on vacation (well, staycation, really), but I use FreeCommander on Windows and Path Finder on MacOS and avoid File Explorer and Finder when I can. This seems to say it has multiple panes, but does it?
The form factor was hugely appealing to computer users in the 1980's, presumably because you could just plug in into the wall socket and television and everything was ready to go. I would imagine that some parents would pick them up for their kids, particularly if they wanted them to use computers for learning rather than media consumption. Some people may pick one up to emulate those vintage home computers. Some may pick them up to develop software for a Pi 4, simply because it's easier to swap a uSD card between a Pi 4 and 400 than it is to connect a keyboard and monitor to an otherwise headless Pi 4.
California aims to slash insulin prices
> if the signature and timestamp were fraudulently created

This is enough, independent of whether or not it happened after any of the certificates involved have expired. I don't think most consider total "key compromise" (of the 3rd party timestamping cert + the code signing cert) part of the threat model... but if there was an issue either could be revoked at a specific point in time. (Mentioning algorithm compromise takes away from your argument, when that happens entire segments of PKI get tossed.)

https://knowledge.digicert.com/generalinformation/INFO1119.h...

A user’s software can distinguish between code signed with an expired certificate that should not be trusted and code that was signed with a Certificate that was valid at the time the code was signed but which has subsequently expired.
> There are so many examples of convergent evolution [0] here on Earth that it seems reasonable to speculate that many of the most useful compounds for life would evolve similarly many times over a large number of trials/planets.

Examples of convergent evolution of the most useful compunds for life on Earth. It makes sense that in a unified environment (of Earth) there is a tendency to evolve similar mechanisms to survive - on Earth.

But we just don't know what kind of other chemical environments might be out there, in the virtually infinite cosmos. As beings of Earth-based life we fail to imagine any other possibility. This is a failing of our own understanding, not of chemistry to produce life. We just don't know, so we can't really even begin to guess. All we know is, our own backyard looks pretty dead except for us.
> The correct answer is that there is no way to make fission cost-competitive with the near-term price of renewables + storage

If you want to not find a way, it's very easy to not find a way.

If you do want to find a way, then maybe you'll find one. Ukraine for example is trying to find a way to defeat the Russian invasion. I think they will find one. They are also trying to find a way to build more nuclear reactors, 9 of them [1]. I doubt Ukraine is in the mood to throw money down the drain.

[1] https://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/energoatom-and-wes...
The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 community has been going nuts over the latest Maverick release in the sim. In this, you can fly the Darkstar and take it up to around 250,000' AGL and hit Mach 10. The whole trailer is worth watching but the Darkstar scene is at the end.

https://youtu.be/wWkczb0LIgI

Words do not describe the feeling of flying this thing in VR on a high end gaming rig with a full HOTAS setup. Although truth be told the FA-18 is the more fun plane to fly with the low altitude landing challenges.

I was breathing very hard by the end of one but nailed the A rating. It was intense.
Well...not that I explicitly recognize, but I'm sure it is possible that having been trained in it in the past, I may see certain problems a certain way. I guess I should phrase it like: I learned some math 15+ years ago but then after college I did not continue studying math or even continue refreshing the things I already learned, and I only find myself studying math-related concepts a couple times a year in my job.
I know this isn't your main point, but for GMail there's always "Basic HTML view": https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
Exactly.

Every now and then I hear on the local news that someone died because he disassembled his microwave and was playing around with this.
Playing around with microwave transformers are particularly deadly way to spend a weekend.
Most the the factory constructed builds I have seen achieve better insulation and air sealing than traditional platform constructed homes.

There are lots of levels of factory build. SIPs (structurally insulated panels) built in a factory and assembled onsite with all finishes done traditionally. Factory cut lumbar exactly to measure and built like lego onsite. All the way up to entire buildings built offsite in chunks that can be transported by truck with gaskets to connect the sections. Connect the plumbing and electrical and move in the next day.
Does Apple sell a multi-sim device? It seems like a fairly small market so it's understandable they're not spending resources on it
No. Firstly, SSH is not used at the scale where any such misuse might be a problem. Secondly, SSH is used for connecting to specific hosts, which is what the A/AAAA records actually are (being by definition the host address).
50% improvement should be by adopting LPDDR5 that they announced. I suspect they switched from 64Gb to 96Gb DRAM chip stack.
I wonder how many those are part-time contractors or outsourced.
They are 100% doing this intentionally. They want to drive power users toward spending more and they know that many of us will…
SRV is a probably a smidgen shy of what HTTP needs in 2022, although if the protocol were invented today it’d be a shoo-in for resolution in the common case.
That 20% better perf was at 4x the power though?
Robo Advisory Global Market Report 2022
"...so it's not so spooky that the field has a measurable effect."

I'm sorry, but everything about forces is wondrously spooky to me.

When we arrive at the time when we find fields to be non-spooky, and the idea of material reality existing exclusively as field excitations to be ontologically comfortable, well - then I will finally get to meet my brothers and sisters!

Thank you so much for your excellent and informative comment, btw!
Physicists gave Vegas casino its worst week ever in 1986
Right, so you remember and bring up one of the very very few features IE introduced during that period that actually turned out to be helpful and beneficial, and you gloss over the many that were emphatically not.

I notice you don't mention ActiveX as being something that "pulled the web forward".
Of course they want margins to be as high as possible. There are enough things that factor into it that they can't just turn a knob (especially buyers and competitors).
it's called "stage" but people to whom you share screen with will see all your junk windows including the browser with porn playing. Hope they make the thumbnail live.
I met Barbara Minto at a small dinner several years ago. She is an amazing person and had great stories from her time in consulting. I’ve used her system so many times when I’m having trouble putting a complex situation into words
This is true for some asset classes. I cannot speak to crypto, though.
I’ve been using my windows 7 desktop from 2012 until the beginning of this year. I had no particular need to upgrade but thought what the hell why not. I could have happily continued using it for the next few years. In fact I didn’t dismantle it and am now compiling on it.
As I know it:

The Genesis started losing to the SNES. They thought they could improve/extend it with the Sega CD but that flopped.

Nintendo of America realized they needed something better. So they designed the 32X. They later planned to sell a Genesis with one built in, sort of like the CDX. Honestly 32X + Sega CD was pretty good.

But Sega is a Japanese company. And Sega of Japan didn’t care for what Sega of America was doing (and possibly wanted to teach them a lesson?). So they basically refused to support the 32X, leading to very few games.

To make things worse Sega of Japan had their own solution to the problem, the Saturn. It was further off (this why the 32X made it out), but it got announced. And it was incompatible. Why buy a 32X if it’s going to be obsolete in like a year anyway?

So SoJ basically undermined/killed the 32X, though it may not have been a great idea in the first place.

Sega found out about Sony and got scared. I believe that’s why the added the second CPU to the Saturn (making it harder to program/more expensive). But they decided to beat everyone to market to see things up with a first mover advantage. So they announced the console officially and said “It’s out today in the US”. That was a huge bombshell no one expected.

Not even KB Toys and Toys R Us. They didn’t know and were PISSED. They were responsible for the vast majority of game sales. KB pulled all Sega stuff and stopped selling it. Huge loss. TRU did something too (lack of advertising? Low stock?).

Between that, the insane price of $400, and the lack of promotion (it was a surprise launch so no pre-release coverage) the Saturn started in serious trouble and never recovered.

Sony, famously, went up to the mic at their press conference, said “$299”, and walked off stage. It was a huge hit.

Sony had money (Sega wasn’t doing hot), partners (Sega pissed ‘em all off), a lower price, and Nintendo didn’t come out until later. Nintendo was also expensive to develop (carts) and didn’t have much space (carts).

So Sony cleaned everyone’s clocks.

(I love video game history. I got to live through such an amazing time)
It's been years since it was my daily driver, but my 2004 Dual G5 is still working. The interesting part is that it is still remarkably snappy for everything but internet-related work — the Finder responds well, and applications load and run with pretty much the same user-interaction speed as on a reasonably-modern Mac or Linux box. If browsers were not so heavy — running one of the PowerPC Firefox variants bogs down the system something fierce — it would not be an intolerable experience. I'm grateful for the machines I have to work with today, to be sure, but a basic office app doesn't seem too much different on a user level even across decades.
I still listen to that song just by itself. It's such an amazing demo.
Still no RCS for iMessage.

Ridiculous. So it's SMS or some other app with iOS users.

Hello Apple? Your market isn't only the USA.
I actually had something similar made in a small shop in vietnam in 2016. Back then I had to record the video and merge it later.

I should dig it out again. It was a simple bent plastic plate. Worked like a charm for my 7 plus.
Stage manager doesn't look to me like a replacement for cmd+tab or exposé, but rather a more obvious and in your face replacement for Spaces (multiple desktops).
Yeah it won't hurt me because it will probably get ignored like many other window management options on the macOS. In the end of the day, it is just slightly more intuitive virtual desktop with continuity.

I would pay for fancyzones on macOS
While it's true that SATA or NVMe would be ideal, I just recently started booting a Pi 4 straight from a Samsung T7 SSD and it's night and day compared to the SD card even over just USB. I'm sure we'll get to better interfaces one day, but so far I'm very happy regardless.
IIRC M1 don't support DisplayPort DSC that is needed to handle 4K+ AND 120HZ+. I wish M2 supports DSC to handle this.
In other words: support. I think it's fairly well known around these parts that the primary appeal of the Raspberry Pi is support and brand recognition. Both are qualities that people are willing to pay for, may that be in dollars or lacking specifications.
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? [video]
Fair, but I am a nobody that is unlikely to be specifically targeted. I am willing to swing the balance towards convenience/backup safety vs utmost security.
I think they’re basing that claim on some buried women exhibiting archery and horseback riding strength in their skeletal structures. I doubt they routinely fought in the army, given the lack of contemporary accounts observing any women in the Mongol army.

This contrasts with, say, the ancient Sarmatians, where we see female burials with actual weapons of war, and have contemporary accounts that women did fight extensively in battles. There, a figure of 20% would be roughly accurate.
Thanks! Oh where is the button hijacked?
This kind of glitch with the App Store happens every now and then when they accidentally flag public selectors as private.

It has nothing to do with cross platform frameworks aside from that they have many users who will be quick to complain, and who don't know anything about iOS development or what how code they're deploying actually works so that the errors are confusing to them.
Sonic CD was always my favorite.