skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I use "curiosity" in the usual sense of the word, but perhaps what I mean by it is also coloured by my experience.

There are a number of subjects I used to really have zero interest in when I was younger (chemistry, accounting, law, finance, economics...), and in each instance I eventually realized how valuable time spent learning the subject was. After this happened a few times, I began paying closer attention to when I felt disinterested by some academic topic.

I don't think I've felt "uninterested" by any academic topic in years, so I suppose maybe I am curious about it all.
> Well guess what?

> Now they're millionaires.

The difficulty with this reasoning is that it assumes that homes (and the land they sit on) have only economic value and nothing else matters.

> No owners "lose" from property values shooting through the roof.

In the story you just described they lost their homes they had built up and loved.

For many people, a bunch of cash doesn't replace that.
If you haven’t attended local city council meetings and workshops, could be worth going to see why this will not work at a local level. State or national level could be more promising, but in current form proposal is highly punitive and would need some refinement.
I think that the only way for large companies to stay cool is to remain private.
The mechanism you are describing is already implemented and advertised: https://webkit.org/blog/10882/app-bound-domains/

Apple „just“ need to enforce it.
The sum of S(n) = 1^k + 2^k + ... + n^k is a polynomial of degree k + 1 over n. To find a closed form for S(n) you only need to compute k + 2 points, e.g. S(0), S(1), ..., S(k + 1) and fit a polynomial.

The claim that 1 + 2 + ... + n = n (n + 1) / 2 only requires you to verify it for n = 0, n = 1, and n = 2, e.g. that 0 = 0 * 1 /2, 1 = 1 * 2 / 2, and 1 + 2 = 2 * 3 / 2. I found this really surprising when I first heard it and thought I'd share :)
Yes, and presumably the authorities would not go easy on them next time, with the greater political pressure to rein them in. And if Meta was doing that on their own third party store where all attention can be focused on them, misbehavior would be even more visible because they would not be hiding it behind someone else’s platform.
Monopoly money
I found x2go being a nice and performing FOSS replacement fo NX NoMachine.
I've had very similar feelings with a different ecosystem. The reality is that you don't have to be a Mac developer. You can jump ship, try something else and even come back later if it didn't work out. I tied my identity as a developer to a technology. When the technology got worse, it made me feel worse.

Trying something else felt like a break-up, and I haven't attained the same reputation I had in my the ecosystem that I had spent 15 years pm; but this was 6 years ago and I'm glad I moved on and not looking back. It _will_ be liberating; it's just a soulless corporation at this point.

Reach out if you want to chat. This really resonated with me!
It is a wing you attach to the bottom of a surfboard so you can hydrofoil (ride the board with only the foil in the water).

You need energy to move forward. This can come from a tow boat, a kite, waves, jumping with your legs ("pumping" in TFA) or a small propeller ("e-foil").

It's fast because the drag is really low. Same as any hydrofoiling boat like some ferries or America's Cup sailboats.
did anything from the hackathon turn out to be used?
> as I want to be able to sit down at my computer and do five minutes of work and then go off and do something else and come back and do five minutes more of work.

A seamless experience of passing off a single session across multiple entry points seems like the holy grail of personal computing. I'm willing to accept slightly different experiences between my MacBook, Windows desktop, and iPhone - but I want to feel like I'm picking up where I left off.

In some ways this is starting to happen within certain suites of products, for example, Chrome session handoffs. Nonetheless, it's not a remotely consistent computing experience.

I'd bet it's an incentivization problem at this point, and therefore I wouldn't hold my breath.
They didn't lose their houses. They sold them. When ownership of your house goes to someone else, you lost it if your bank balance stayed the same, but you sold it if your bank balance went up by the value of the house.
According to https://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/laziness/, Clojure isn't lazy by default, but does support lazy sequences (like IEnumerable in C#).
> we are excited to partner with Adam Neumann and his colleagues on Flow

enthusiasm deflated
Stealing from Windows
The guy really should mention Somalia. It's the only example of a modern anarchist society.
But "staffers" may well include doctors, and there's nobody here who can say either way unless someone steps up with the recordings. I left out the rest because I wanted to point out that there are people with financial incentives who did push this and I don't see why it matters if they're doctors or "staffers" or the hospital's Director of Ethics.

If the Director of Ethics and their staff think this is appropriate, it'd be more surprising if the doctors didn't engage in the same.
What exactly stops LA from having any working public transit in the first place?

Nothing. In fact LA is building out more light rail than the Bay Area and they're doing a damn good job of it.
Proofs Without Words, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1470451867, is a very fun exploration of this general topic.
That was the most memorable issue I had with Haskell; thinking back, other stuff that bugged me was some of the idioms needed to move between pure and impure code. You may be right though, it's something I should probably revisit. It's been a couple years and I did end up taking some of the lessons learned from Haskell into other languages (mostly not at a low level, though -- it's more that Haskell informed how to approach some higher-level design problems). Railway-oriented programming in particular stuck with me as a _great_ pattern that's consistently useful across languages.

I still think it's worth learning by anyone who's got the time for it.
X11 is hopeless. It was a turd 30 years ago. It still is a turd. If it was a simple as "make your toolkit asynchronous" then it would of been done a long time ago.

Take Xterm, for example. I did benchmarks over remote systems long ago. When it came to performance over the network it was absolutely trounced by Gnome-Terminal. And Gnome-terminal was a lot slower then then it is now. The reason was because Gnome optimized text output on scrolling text that minimized the latency impact. And it still sucked.

There was a reason that it never saw widespread use in the enterprise outside of very nitch sysadmin users on pretty much local area networks.

Were as Windows has been used to support thousands of users in a single environment with almost entirely remote applications for a very very long time now. For most users and most applications there is no difference in functionality between remote and local applications.

Were as X11 will never be able to accomplish that unless the computer is sitting in the room next to you. Nomachine and similar tech can speed it up, but that isn't really X11 is it?
I can't for the life of me why Apple people will go to all lengths to justify their standard corporate predatory behavior. Apple, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. is a business that operates ruthlessly for money.

What an insanely illogical but also misplaced metaphor. Apple didn't "save" anyone - they found a new revenue stream and tightened control over data their platform produces to monetize it further, just like Google. What is the "saving" nonsense you all believe?
> ... or you accept that the widow argument was a bogus special interest ploy

It's not either/or. The old lady (old guys don't like to be kicked to the street either) argument was very real and causing a lot of pain for real regular people.

It's also true that the special corporate interest saw an opportunity and sneaked in to a law that never should've applied to them.
Yes, this is a poor and politically charged article; we don't have to read far to get to a beautiful application of Godwin's law:

> Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, described Canada’s law as “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

Euthanasia and assisted suicide is not murder. It's helping people who feel they don't have any other option.
Showcase of apps built with avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#showcase

Saw this update for Avalonia that I wanted to share, since the prospects of the new features are exciting.

I've made a couple of small-medium GUIs using it and the experience has been nice.

I use it with F# and an elmish functional-reactive library: https://avaloniacommunity.github.io/Avalonia.FuncUI.Docs/

I also develop on and primarily for linux (pop_os, but use my applications on macos as well).

It's not perfect, and a commonly cited criticism is that the documentation could be more robust, but in the sea of GUI frameworks this is my favorite target if electron is not viable (still IME the most mature and supported).
> Also you're required to sign in for updates so they can track you. No software patches without monitoring.

This hasn't been my experience. macOS still incessantly bothers you about OS updates even if you decline signing into an Apple account during first-boot, and you can download major release updaters independently from the Mac Store (e.g. using the script from OSX-KVM).

[1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
How do you do this in Haskell: read a variable number of lists from standard input, until the nil symbol is seen. The lists are heterogeneous: they can contain any mixture of numbers, symbols, strings or any other objects. Then zip them together (truncating them to the length of the shortest one).

TXR Lisp:

1> [apply zip (gun (read))]
(1 2 3)
(a b c)
("foo" 3 :bar)
nil
[Ctrl-D][Enter]
((1 a "foo") (2 b 3) (3 c :bar))

CL:

[2]> (apply #'mapcar #'list (loop for x = (read) while x collect x))
(1 2 3)
(a b c)
("foo" 3 :bar)
nil
((1 A "foo") (2 B 3) (3 C :BAR))
> Rather that the value of the land is set ~exclusively by the things that happen not on that land

You do know that that is not true, that the value of land often depends ON things that happen on that land, right? (It's not hard to come up with examples.)

But, I do appreciate an example of something that I didn't mention, namely the propensity of Georgists to make claims that they find self-evident and profound but are actually are false.

> Why should someone who happened to own a random piece of land and did nothing with it for 4 generations get a multi-million dollar windfall because Disney accomplished something nearby?

The taxes aren't going to Disney....

> Re the valuation of land separately from the improvements, these are already separated on the vast majority of appraisals.

And that separation is mostly a fiction, as anyone who owns real estate knows.
> FB and Google have a global surveillance network to track people

Please help me with this - what is Apple doing with its ad network that Google is not?

"Privacy" is a marketing angle for Apple to monetize data - they do it in exactly the same way as Google. But why Google bad Apple good to you?
I think his approach is too naive, because I strongly believe that we need better understanding of natural intelligence before we can even dream of reproducing it digitally. And I am not talking about memory, computer can do that already better than us.
What are the three things you like most about Mac OS?
It was quite useful to speedup redirects:

location ~ ^(?<canonical>.*)\.html$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
http2_push $canonical;
return 301 $canonical;
}
Last I checked it didn't work if your cpu is amd or your resolution is wrong
I think the gaming focus is to market the free product. The enterprise version is all about productivity stuff. The big things it adds are better color quality and multi-monitor support.
Cosmopolitan Libc v2.0
Do people with history of depression and mental diseases suffer? Do they have a right to end their suffering?
Years ago I experienced an issue with a Cyberpower UPS software update that interfered with the system's Bluetooth, causing devices to not be able to connect, inexplicably since the software doesn't use BT for anything.

Only after much online searching did I stumble on another user with the same issue and after uninstalling it and reverting to an earlier version the issue immediately went away. I've since kept a more open mind as to what may be causing network issues.
This is a bit misleading. Canada has no abortion laws. It did until the late 80s when the courts struck a law against any abortions as being too restrictive and unconstitutional.

Laws don't typically allow things, they restrict them.
Climate change can not be solved by individual action. It's a ridiculous idea to propose this in the first place. Governments are supposed to solve Tragedy of the Commons through regulation. The Common who takes it on himself will lose everything to gain nothing.

government intervention such ad carbon tax and EV subsidies and actions like the green new deal are what is needed.
And yet real estate is still the world's biggest asset class, amounting to some 68% of all real assets worldwide:

https://www.gameofrent.com/content/is-land-a-big-deal

and the vast majority of that real estate's value is in land
Walters' Lever of Improvement
How to Investigate Your Next New York Apartment
Absolutely everyone dies. I would argue that part of a respectable quality of life should include a respectable quality of death. There is so little dignity in death as it is.

But when death is immediately inevitable, and hastening it is comforting to the one experiencing it's immediate inevitability, it is not "selfishness" as one comment maintained, but perhaps "fright" over that level of compassion. It might feel like you're begrudging someone of a life, but you just might be begrudging them a death that they've already come to terms with.

That thought process makes it acceptable to keep a brain dead patient "alive" for decades. Is it common for them to come back after all that time of being clinically dead, and then enjoy life until the next time they die?

The argument I'm seeing in the threads about minor ailments such as hearing impairment are just silly because nobody is proposing such a thing. The article talks about his long term state of mind. There's a weird kind of alarmism that always jumps to really specific details, at the expense of the whole, that supposedly show a gap in the logic, but actually are the gap in that logic.
I just press space instead of enter. However:

Home: you can only cycle between de navlist on the left, and the top toolbar. The complete app does not respond to the keyboard, probably because they are not buttons, but clickable rects.
There's this boilderplate menu "Format". cmd-nr nav behaves weird.

Reminders: you can only cycle between de navlist on the left, and the top toolbar. The complete app does not respond to the keyboard, probably because they are not buttons, but clickable rects.

Stocks: you can only cycle between de navlist on the left, and the top toolbar, and it get towards some articles, but it simply doesn't work properly. Arrows have weird behavior, can't nav to "more data". But this is a lot better than the previous two.

Everything feels just like some one-person solo project recreating the OSX experience, but only focusses on how things look.
U.N. human rights writing about Canada's failure to fulfill the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is hardly sensationalist clickbait.
“The many stories, past and present, that demonstrate how anarchy works have been suppressed and distorted because of the revolutionary conclusions we might draw from them.”

And yet there’s a bibliography below.
It's depressing how the housing bubble and the consistent failure of western cities to properly control their expansion - and create adequate supply of housing and urban transit - has induced people into extreme versions of 19th century utopian socialism, such as de-facto nationalization of all land.

Instead of a working state with minimal powers that affords us the liberty to thrive, we are dreaming that a mythical and benevolent Leviathan will come and make order. Well, guess what, that benevolent Leviathan does not exist in practice, the state is made up and run by private individuals who are profit maximizing just like the grubby property owners gouging their tenants.

We know private property works, and that it has created a society where people enjoy political and economic freedoms unprecedented in the history of mankind. Yes, land is different, and while it's essentially unlimited (from a housing perspective), due to it's 2D structure there are strong externalities related to its use. There is a whole discipline related to solving those problems - urban planning. We can go even a step higher and force cities, using national/state law, to create the necessary housing supply and transport systems - if they are willing to for whatever reasons, say the illusive property appreciation induced by scarcity.

This is all much more tenable than a "100% tax".
Well, how does Somalia do now? (Sorry for ignorant comment)
The thing is though, even though Sublime Text doesn't adhere to all Mac UI conventions, it does respect the most important ones and its appearance can be brought further inline with custom themes. Additionally, it's always performed excellently which makes up for shortcomings in overall "nativeness".

This cannot be said for much if not most cross platform software that runs on macOS — much of it is strictly least common denominator when it comes to UI conventions, system integration, etc and more often than not is slow and bloated.

I would say that the erosion started in earnest with Atom. People flocked to it because it was free (even though Sublime kinda was too, being nagware) despite its performance being horrendous and its lack of maclikeness, setting precedence for the acceptance of generic UI, sluggishness, and high resource consumption.
>Won’t the state just reemerge over time?

Most of the examples cited in this book no longer exist, and some only lasted a few years. The stateless societies and social experiments were mostly conquered by imperialist powers or repressed by states.

So even if it worked, it will work only for a limited time.
>replace TCP with vague promises of pushed resources

Server Push was introduced in HTTP/2. TCP was replaced later, in QUIC and HTTP/3. The goal of replacing TCP was not to improve Server Push. Chrome never even implemented Server Push for HTTP/3.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Chrome.
> Currency-based economies have only existed a few thousand years, and capitalism has only been around a few hundred years. The latter has proven to work quite miserably, (...)

You've got to be decadent, spoiled, detached from reality westerner to write such nonsense.
Helen Lewis has changed substantially since that Peterson interview: https://youtu.be/yZYQpge1W5s
> They didn't lose their houses. They sold them.

They lost their homes which is not just a house. There's a much more emotional aspect to a home that can't be expressed in merely dollars.

They were also forced to sell in the story, it wasn't a choice.
They asked four questions that all pertain to sun exposure and weighted them into a single metric. Seemed pretty reasonable to me. You may find interesting a recent article on how academia's stance on the benefits/dangers of sun exposure has changed in the past few decades, including that study specifically, how it was received, and what criticisms and accolades it's received.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...
Why should anyone else than the victim have the right to decide what suffering is "good enough" for them?
Rojava: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_N...
10-year-old PC makes it sound dramatic. Yet single core speed hasn't increased that dramatically over the last 10 years.
I have only been using macOS for a few years now but it’s only been getting better for me. The new control panel thing is great, the M1 is mind blowing and everything mostly just works.

Have been using Linux for 10 years now and while I still respect the work that has gone in, you have to be very forgiving of all the stuff that just doesn’t work right.
It’s more like a tie-breaker for religious rules disputes favoring personal and societal freedom: something like

“if you don’t have a clear example indicating how something’s bad, it’s probably Good Enough™
“
Thank you for explaining! Interesting stuff :)
> Why? Should they jump off a bridge instead?

At least then there will be less lingering suspicion that he was pressured into it for being a cost point. And unlike in the usual AS hypotheticals, (but like most actual assisted suicides), he was perfectly capable of it. He didn't need assistance.

If you say, "my life is not worth living", maybe that's your call to make. But I think it would be very, very, wrong of me to answer, "Yes, your life is not worth living". Especially if I was your doctor.

Involving other people in your suicide, trying to get them to validate your decision, is deeply wrong. It's far worse than things like "emotional burden on your family" like suicidees are often accused of inflicting. It's no wonder that after this has been law for a while, doctor's moral sentiments are sufficiently sabotaged that they start encouraging it for people they see as a burden.
In school, I worked on an introductory CS/EE class many, many moons ago, and I believed we used something like "logisim", which by then was pretty awesome - you could build simple things like adders, combine those with "macros" to bui;d ALUs and then whole simple CPUs.

Since then, the logisim project has discontinued, but it looks like there is a open source successor:

https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution

Have not tried it, but it looks promising, provided you don't want to do too complicated things (not sure if you could really model complex CPUs like a pentium with it). Also, it's pretty digital only, so I wouldn't expect Mac-Spice-like analog circuit simulation.
This is all very disturbing: price people out of care and convince them to consent to die.

I think if someone wants to end their life, they can just stop eating and drinking. If you just stop eating it will take longer, but will still work.

Someone with grave health problems will often have little appetite.

A friend who nearly died with a running car engine in a closed garage says it's an easy way to go.

The main consideration for the person choosing to end their life is that the measure they choose be reliably effective, as an incomplete death (oxymoron?) will likely entail further suffering.

The seminal reference on the topic in the US is Final Exit, by Derek Humphry.

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Exit-Practicalities-Self-Delive...
> get rid of all the footguns about expanding unquoted variables

The shell's power & it's footguns are one in the same. "Fix" them, and becomes a general-purpose language--a jack of all trades & master of none. CS professors will love it, but doing anything meaningful in the shell will look more like a one-page python script instead of the l337 one-liners the Jersey boys graced us with.
Recently was also looking around for quantifiable stats on Python for: downloads, usage, FAQs, etc. — and found these:

https://pypistats.org/top

https://www.programcreek.com/python/index/module/list

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?tab=Votes

Anyone know of any others or large collections of Python source code that are easy to download?
>that’s a gain for humanity

Imagine what has happened to american manufacturing workers since the 80s but happening to everyone on the planet.
This is by no means a "gain".
Uhhh did we watch the same video?