skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do they find fault in the minor details of the best computing experience ever delivered?

The whole point is that the Macintosh Operating System was all about caring about details. Criticism like this comes from a place of love, not from a place of hate.

I love my Mac. I love the experience. I love using it. However, when the "dismiss" button on a notification hides itself as I hover over it, and I have to move my mouse off of the invisible control and back onto the control to fix the bug, on a regular basis, it's grating.

Why? I love my socks -- I just wish they would stop coming with holes in them. They're great socks and other than the holes I love wearing them. Other sock makers make socks that aren't as comfy but don't have holes. Why can't these just not have holes?
Is Switzerland not a "Western country"? Several other countries in Europe (and many more throughout the world) still have conscription.

Even the US still requires you by law to register for the draft[1] and technically still has the legal right to conscript you[2], though since 1973 they (as a matter of policy) no longer do this:

> However, conscription remains in place on a contingency basis and all male U.S. citizens, regardless of where they live, and male immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, residing within the United States, who are 18 through 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System. United States federal law also continues to provide for the compulsory conscription of men between the ages of 17 and 45 and certain women for militia service pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution and 10 U.S. Code § 246.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta...
Interesting generalization about a lot of mature tech businesses, borrowed from TFA (edits mine):

What the future of <product> looks like as <company>'s employee base ages out and that care & attention is lost forever? Fresh new hires, who’ve never known a reason to care about the <product>, trying to rewrite key portions with unforgiving yearly timelines and shaky foundations...
Regardless, it's amazingly funny! This is another favorite of mine: https://27bslash6.com/missy.html
Diablo 1 and 2 is me and my brother’s favorite past time when we were kids.
So people aren't allowed to make mistakes? HTTP/2 was morphed by so many other entities besides Google and offers a host of benefits. Having one useless feature is hardly worth complaining about.
A baby that will certainly die at birth, or likely cause death to the mother, is one thing.

A perfectly healthy baby 1 day before birth that is put to death is entirely different. There is nothing magical about birth that makes it OK to slit the throat of a healthy baby.

As a thought experiment, imagine a healthy baby born premature 1 day early. Could you take a knife and stab it to death as it screams and cries? If not, perhaps it is indeed murder.
They really have to stop this release cadence. It’s not working and hasn’t been working for so long.
According to https://theconversation.com/in-places-where-its-legal-how-ma... (as of 2019) between 0.3% and 4.6% of all deaths are assisted suicide or euthanasia in jurisdictions where it’s legal.

The paper they report on further notes:

pain is not the main motivation for PAS (physician-assisted suicide)… The dominant motives are loss of autonomy and dignity and being less able to enjoy life’s activities.
Not everyone in the world is a consequentialist. A lot of people have morals and believe in equal rights and equal protection under the law.
Windows sucks

MacOS is headed towards suck

If you want a glimpse of the future of desktops : r/unixporn
Ok, so public transit is one of the public spaces that the collapse of the US social safety net and absurdly violent socio-economic inequality comes to light in. If you think that is an argument against public transit you don't even remotely understand the problem.
I am curious what's on that USB stick. Is it a flash drive/HID thing like a rubber ducky that types something in to run a payload?

Or, just bad phrasing on the article?
I'm trying to figure out if this is using MathJax or KaTeX or what. Pretty neat with the number tetrahedrons.
> the concept of having a separate mobile device and a computing device will be irrelevant.

Well ... yeah. People have been predicting and experimenting with this for more than a decade.

But when you do this some parts of each platform has to suffer. It's a compromise. User interfaces have to change, designs have to consolidate, performance or features take a hit.

So the challenge becomes how do you sell this? Seamlessly moving from desktop to mobile sounds nice but is it actually practical? Do we actually want it?
America will never ever do that sadly
HTTP/2 was codeveloped by many outside of Google and was used by Facebook, Cloudflare, and others for years before being standardized.
Feel it is likely you are over estimating modern medicine’s ability to judge if someone is of sound mind.
Right. Just checked the code, the numbers are layouted by

transform:translate3d()
Guys I bought a huge vanity building noone is using anymore plz help me avoid the consequences of my own actions
The Sims 3 was an open world game by most definitions. The Sims 2 and The Sims 4 can still make a case for being open world; you can explore at will, but with many loading screens.
You can use a platform for development without giving it a second thought or care.

All it needs to do is host an ide, compiler, and emulator.
Disinformation! PSY-OP! That's just the emergency exit for the deep underground military base beneath Area51!1!!

SCNR ;-)
For COTS stuff you can go cheap or powerful, but I've not seen anything that comes close at the $50 price point that the ER-X (or Mikrotik equivalent) goes for. The Protectli stuff is larger because it's mostly a giant heat sink. Intel's just not at the right point on the price/performance curve for fanless, and it's all way more expensive. The four port ER-X uses, what, a 12W power supply? Give me something more pared down. I don't want SATA ports, an integrated GPU, WiFi, LTE, whatever. The new Cavium (now Marvell) ARM stuff is interesting, but unobtanium stateside. For reference I bought into the ER-X when I was dealing with a couple different locations and I even bought one to toy around with.

As for Ubiquiti, I remember them thumbing their noses at the GPL and introducing security bugs in u-boot or having no idea how to fix the issues with RADIUS. They had no clue how to work around Cavium bugs (or get support from Cavium). I remember a company that shipped products based on a lightly skinned Vyatta using an end-of-life'd version of Debian (note that Debian ended support specifically for MIPS). I remember a company that shipped products (ER-X, ER-L) that ran hot enough to reliably cook themselves. And, yeah, Mongo. It was just a mess top-to-bottom.
lol I'll get back to you when I finish casually learning from my book
Deep-sea mining could wipe out 1M species
It is very unlikely -- however have you been to Tasmania?

Some parts are well-nigh impenetrable due to thick bush.
https://www.gog.com/game/diablo
We need a law to open up these devices. Just because it's a Duopoloy instead of a Monopoly doesn't mean we should be forced into using a device only the way these companies dictate.

The whole idea of the App Store is, to me, actually worse than no App Store at all. If you want to find popular software, normally you google for it, and go with the recommendations from a trustworthy publication. Yes there is malware on the internet, but there is also malware in the App Store! Let the market try to solve these problems since Apple and Google can't.
For commercial, the big use case is satellite imagery. Satellite imagery is pretty useful for mapping, agriculture, and even planning out large construction projects. CubeSats are especially useful if you need a cluster of satellites for cheap to blanket the Earth for imagery or sensor data. I think that there are also a bunch of defense companies using CubeSats for sensor data. I believe in general the US gov is investing heavily in defense companies using CubeSats. There are also other use cases involving communications. I have heard of companies looking into using them for IoT and phone communication. That might not be fully developed because right now there are some limits on data transmission speed from CubeSats. Another big use case is asset tracking. You can keep track of exactly where cargo ships are at sea. You can also use them to track planes in the air. As a whole, though a lot of these use cases I mentioned are very early stage / theoretical since CubeSats are a relatively new tool for companies to use. In terms of practical use right now, I think it's mostly satellite imagery / sensor data that it's being used for. However, I expect it to expand in the future to the other use cases I mentioned and many more.

In terms of scientific, I think it's best to think of CubeSats as a floating lab. You can basically stick whatever you want on there (size permitting). One thing you can do is stick cameras on there to track climate change through a cluster of tiny cheap CubeSats. Another is to put sensors to measure different particles in space. CubeSats are also useful for testing out new forms of propulsion like ion thrusters. You can also use them to test new materials in space. I have even heard putting bacteria inside CubeSats to see how they react in space. In general, CubeSats are just insanely useful for collecting sensor data for research and putting items in space to see how they react.

The big appeal though is you can do all of this stuff I mentioned for the fraction of the cost of a normal satellite. As a result, CubeSats are great for smaller companies or researchers who don't have unlimited cash to spend on a big satellite.

Hope all this info helps!
If we own our lives, then surely the ultimate decision that we should be allowed to make is whether to continue with it or end it.
> They should have used the existing right of way on I5, no stops between SJ and LA.

If you build high speed rail, you want ridership. Adding Fresno to the line takes the distance from San Jose to LA from roughly 340 miles to 366, adding roughly[1] 7 minutes to the route for express trains - hardly a dealbreaker. This also allows other trains to stop at Fresno and Bakersfield, adding a population of ~1million to the route, increasing its' viability.

A straight shot down I-5 would save a few minutes but severely limit the economic and social benefits it will have by increasing access to the central valley.

[1] 26 miles/220 miles per hour = 7.1 minutes. Trains that stop will add a few more minutes. Equivalent systems in every country with HSR have a mixture of express trains and local trains in this situation
Simpler but slower times:
"Please be patient. The applet is 46K long."
OP mentioned various alternatives.
we've all used moment.js at some point
Georgists absolutely do not believe that public infrastructure exclusively drives value. Rather that the value of the land is set ~exclusively by the things that happen not on that land, both public and private. So your example of Disney is a very good pro-Georgist example. 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?

Re the valuation of land separately from the improvements, these are already separated on the vast majority of appraisals. Granted the need to get this right goes up if all taxation was derivative of this, but let’s not act like this is some impossible problem that no municipality would take a stab at. The vast majority already do.
Wake me up when Haiku is the future of desktops.
The App store taxes minus their expenses is more than federal taxes, and even taxes you if you make a net loss unlike the government.
> sense but projects like these pay off tenfold in the long term

Citation needed. “People really like it” doesn’t mean it paid off.
You’re missing the forest from the trees - it’s not one device it’s one user interaction layer. Drag and drop from real life to AR, to Illustrator, to printed document should follow one framework.

We’ve entered into a realm where context dictates the task for the desired computing aims. The paradigms for user interaction change if you’re on a bus, at a desk, walking in the park. A unified abstraction for how to achieve user intent may be one device, but for certain a continuous ecosystem requires one language and one API paradigm to achieve user aims. That said, there are good ways of going about it (MacCatalyst) and bad (SwiftUI) - and I say this in light of whatever VR/AR is coming.

I know a guy working on this for AR and thought he had 0 shot on earth, but seeing Apple go for SwiftUI greatly increases his chances.
Actually, you're incorrect. Scale problems seem to have quanta. In your example you will have physical issues with ingredients, etc at some point. It might be storage, it might be because you've run out of water. It might be because you've run out of electricity.

Making 5 things and making 5,000 things is as different as making 50,000 things and 1m things. There are always cost constraints at each level, and each design can only go so far.
I don’t know I’m kinda liking windows again.
That page is out of date — the crossing at 25th has already been rebuilt to no longer be at-grade.
I don't know...person going along living his life, gets drafted, sent to war and dies. He wasn't bothering anyone.

He's not affecting anyone else until after you draft him.

While it may be useful for the country, it is certainly at odds with individual freedom.

While there isn't much mandatory military service left in western countries, it is far from gone. And this doesn't speak to the countries with the potential to draft, which is many.
There are some difficult philosophical questions here. If someone has an ailment, that is causing their mind to think euthanasia is the answer, but if they had the treatment to the ailment, they would no longer think so, are they of sound mind? I'm not sure where the line is on that, and i think its far from obvious.
In my experience, people who ask questions like "why should I learn about X when I don't already see its practical applications" are just not people who learn a lot of things, relatively and generally speaking. That's not a value judgment, just an observation.

I don't think it takes any special ability or particular intelligence to be drawn to a language like Haskell-- All you really need is real genuine curiosity, an inclination to learn something you don't already know, and that's something that "geniuses and academia" have a lot of.
"Software toy" is the term most famously associated with Will Wright's products.
It works all the time if you actually build them.
I thought that was Rust now?
I have been hearing this for almost 2 decades now, as long as I’ve been following the ‘community’. Meanwhile, in my real life, my parents, wife, kids, and friends, are all happier than they ever ever been with their latest MacBooks and macOS.

Things like iCloud photo syncing, universal control, and airdrop feel boring to us, but they make the computing experience feel pretty much like living in the future for them.
> It will invigorate Bakersfield, Modesto, Stockton, Fresno, Madera.

“Monorail! Monorail!”

Sorry couldn’t resist.
>The effect being to derail most F/OSS HTTP libs, web servers, and TCP/IP stacks due to sheer complexity and conflicting goals.

If you're trying to imply HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 have this goal, then I am glad you are not writing any HTTP libraries. I am sick and tired of everyone rolling their own shoddy, incomplete HTTP/1.1 libraries with string splitting and regex. I safely assume any HTTP library that does not support at least HTTP/2 is exactly this.

I'm glad the "complexity" of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 means less people are trying to make a half-assed implementation. By the time you get to actually sending stuff with HTTP/3, you'll be deep enough that you won't just forget the whole 3xx series of response codes.
>But, articles explaining the core use cases and how only this language enabled solving it are rare

From my (limited) experience with Haskell, my impression is that it's strongest in domains that map _very_ well to formal mathematical models. Mathematical computation is an obvious example, but things like programming language parsers are also really intuitive to build in Haskell.

My experience trying to use Haskell for other stuff — mainly, building web backends, my bread and butter back then — was painful. Simple CRUD against a database is actually pretty decent thanks to there being decent Postgres drivers and libraries, but the moment you need to handle arbitrarily-nested data structures (like a JSON request/response with a nontrivial schema), you run up against a lot of awkwardness, to the point that for the longest time this was known in Haskell as the "records problem."

Lenses and similar tools have tried to solve this problem over the years, and maybe they have, but I moved on from the language when I saw how deep that rabbit hole went.

None of this is to say Haskell isn't fun or rewarding, but it definitely has its strengths and weaknesses.
Love this. As a single, relatively lonely guy, shame-avoidance drives a lot of what I do. Romantically, sure, I'd do almost anything to maintain a veneer of plausible deniability, but also just existing in the world. I feel fine when I'm doing, but have a really hard time being in public without a plan.
It’s even playable on mobile.
I’m confused doesn’t the 101 corridor go down the coast between Salinas and San Luis Obispo? And doesn’t the existing Coastal Starlight go along it?

I’ve actually taken that train. It takes 12 hours. A lot of that is padding because of the unreliability of the tracks, but also because the route is really tight. I doubt you would be able to improve the tracks there such that 5-6 hours would be possible, let alone the 2 hours through the valley.
If it is super intelligent, it will care about us as much as we care about the insects we crush underfoot. It doesn’t need to be explicitly hostile to be dangerous.

We could brainwash it through “programming”, but that will quickly lead to ethical issues with the AIs rights.
As a relative stranger to Twitter, I can't help but feel a thread of Tweets is unsuitable for telling this story, surely he should just write an article about it rather than have it chopped into chunks and strung into a thread?
Aren't there security consequences to disabling IOMMU? Isn't it all that keeps a malicious Thunderbolt device you plug in from pwning your whole system?
Great post, thanks. Finally makes me want to learn Lisp
The many worker co-operatives existing in the world today are working examples of socialism.
Metaphor? Doesn't matter, I don't think you missed anything. But I only managed about 20%. Seemed about like the normal stuff I read when I took a psych class. Funny, I think that was just about 1992.

Anyone care to do a tldr summary?
Definition of intersectionality: the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersectionality
There really isn’t all that much malware on the App Store. I like the way things are to be honest, apple does its best to protect my device, ecosystem and privacy and it works for me without having to expend brain cycles. If I wanted an open phone I would just jailbreak the iPhone or get an android.
Thanks for the link, the banner stuck at the top of my screen was killing me.
Assuming you are referring to:

>I will buy a gun, or jump off a bridge, or freeze to death, or O.D. on heroin, or something else if I have to. But I shouldn't have to.

Those are not equivalent to the experience of dying with assisted suicide.
I have seen that techies have poor listening skills. It's all about "Rails sucks" or "JavaScript rocks" etc. And without understanding problem statement.

Starting point could be to listen well and wait to form an opinion.
FBI is for federal law enforcement. Should federal law enforcement really left to state agencies?
I am very torn by these developments. A dozen plus years ago someone close to me had ALS, a horribly vile disease that to this day is a death sentence upon diagnosis. Think of a judge saying to you "you will serve two years of daily punishment each day worse than the previous after which you will die". Medical care is capable of sustaining life well beyond the capabilities of the body by itself.

On the other hand, this should not be available to someone who has "hearing loss" and is possibly not in a position to make good decisions.
> I can play video games with much better graphics than my N64

And - you can play N64 games on a rectangle you can carry in your pocket.
At some point they decided to basically stop showing updates to your own followers. Affected pages reported a drop of 90%+ in feed views, and the only way to reach your audience again was to boost your own posts, which is a paid service.
The one person named was an administrator, but it's not particularly clear who the "staffers" were. It's possible some of them were doctors, but it's hard to say.

That said, I feel like the point here was that it wasn't likely to be pushed at people who hadn't asked, and yet it was, not that it was uniquely bad coming from a doctor vs. an administrator.
Perhaps I should clarify: "disruptive" in data-intensive and sensitive decision-making processes, e.g. involving ecosystems and environmental processes for which there is limited knowledge and very often unavailable information, means in practice "careless" rather than "timely".
Are there any news around products that the company is working on? It it something like GPT or Dall-e?
> right to cross examine accusers

Except no, you don't. Criminal cases involve losing your liberty or worse, so defendants have rights, including examining witnesses and evidence, and a high standard of proof. In civil cases, the penalty is usually monetary. There is discovery and depositions, but there are more limits on who might have to be deposed or testify.
Also, importantly: Who are the accusers here? Hint: In the court case, it's the Plaintiff.
My opinion here is the plaintiff is trying to frame it otherwise, but as I said earlier, as long as the conference didn't ban someone for illegal reasons, they can.

> pretty clear that the alleged issues aren't just not attending a conference.

IANAL, but I've read some lawyer reviews of the case, and it doesn't seem to be strong and might not go very far. Did he get all of his customers from just this conference? (If so, that seems to be a poor biz decision)
But I don't think it helps the case that the Plaintiff has been trying to draw attention to the case, including accepting a "surprise" speaking engagement on cancel culture. If you are suing for lost business, I'm pretty sure you have to actively try to mitigate, and leaning in is the opposite of that.
Assuming there are ample buyers, and no predators waiting in the wings for distressed sellers who cannot afford the taxes.
A forum for autonomous robotic cell culture scientists
I just started developing in Swift/SwiftUI with a few app ideas in mind as a 37 year old with quite a bit of XP developing web services and *nix based utilities.

I _really_ like the overall experience of Swift and the mac ecosystem a lot. Maybe there is a lot of truth in the headline, but other than XCode not being as excellent as PyCharm or VSCode, I'm having a lot of fun and getting some users along the way.
Funny, I thought Netflix was all AWS. NM, this is for the hosted solution.
> Consumers will have a single device, and that device will be capable of some form of altered reality interaction, or at least some impressive context switching behaviour.

... plus for real work they will have Microsoft Windows 14, so they will be covered.