skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I view it a different way: macOS and many of Apple's built-in apps/utilities are, at the very least, a less bad option compared to many others.

OS utilities like Image Capture, Preview, Apple's screenshot utilities, Spotlight, Quick Look, and quite a few others have been basically "killer apps" that make me want to use macOS over Windows for decades now.

Even basic areas like system settings have been a point of frustration for Windows for an extremely long time now, with Microsoft taking many years to truly migrate off of the Control Panel and deliver something half-decent in the Settings app. The Windows 11 iteration finally starts to feel like it's a little bit cohesive (but I still hate the Devices settings panel). The whole situation has really been a mess going back to Windows 8.

Another example: anytime someone says that printers universally suck I know immediately that they're Windows users because of just how much better Macs interact with printers and scanners and how much better and more reliable their configuration interface is. Apple single-handedly saved the entire printer industry from the depths of hell with AirPrint, before that Bonjour, and before that shipping OS X with preinstalled printer drivers.

Windows 10 couldn't decide what screenshot app I was supposed to use, thank goodness it's been consolidated after Windows 10's inclusion of two separate apps both worse than Apple's tooling.

Plus, Apple has to get credit for the sheer number of decently high quality non-enterprise apps that Apple just gives you for free.

Microsoft doesn't make anything that approaches the quality you get from Apple's free iMovie, Photos, Podcasts, Books, iTunes/Music, Contacts, Mail, Pages/Keynote/Numbers (without paying).
Every person understands a roaming charge, because all they experience them. 0.001% of people use an adblocker or even know what one is.

This will always be a problem while government pays 10% of big-tech pay.
Is looking like a generic iOS app that bad?! Especially here on HN where the sentiment is pro plain html etc. a generic iOS UI should be well received
15000ft is fine by me, why should I have to pay for other passengers pressurization? I thought this was America. I usually hyperventilate the entire flight to get my money's worth of O2.
read that, can recommend also "The Taking of Getty Oil" for a more domestic, modern angle.
I respectfully disagree with this.

Delphi still delivers unmatched productivity when it comes to designing UIs and writing maintainable multi platform software.

Delphi's FireMonkey framework has a lot of things right and you can create resusable forms easily, where you don't have to fight with a declarative UI (This paradigm is an anti-pattern and totally misplaced for UIs).

There are many multi platforms apps made with Delphi which are by no means "a glorified database editor" ;)
My guess would be the power supply is putting out something closer to a square wave than a sine wave and the monitor power supply is unable to turn that into DC.
Hi. My grandmother knows more about medicine than you will ever know, my brother was the Commander of the tenth medical wing for USAF and had over 10,000 service members and their families under his care - director of the VA and currently runs the largest hospital group in a particular state... (Timothy Dean Ballard, MD Col. USAF - if you care to fact check my bullshit) and the personal flight surgeon to the joint chiefs at the pentagon (general Shelton)... Ive built more hospitals than you have stepped in....

My aunt is the head NICU nurse at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View Ca, (the hospital of the future) one of the many hospitals I built... (el Camino, UCSF, SFGH, Sequoia, Nome, Methodist) yeah im a little closer to this subject than you may have assumed.

And if you think an ER nurse "just does what a doctor says"

You know absolutely nothing of top nurses. They wear the pants.

I'm comfortable with my statement. So, thankfully you don't know what to say.
Assuming that's all true, it will only limit NASA if they force missions to use it.

Europa Clipper is not, and that's a pretty big tell.
There is also a UK chip startup: Fish NAND Semi Ltd

HTTPS://wwww.fishnandsemi.co.uk/
> I'm surprised they still blame the lawn and havent moved on to pools or something more easily associated with wealth to really try and stir the poor vs rich debate.

I understand these figures may not mean anything because private individuals consume relatively imperceptible amounts of water compared to (the agriculture) industry.

But reflect for a moment that Kim Kardashian blew through over one quarter million gallons of water in June. [0] (There are other offending celebrities listed in that article. Kardashian is the most egregious of them.)

I’m all for restricting and regulating agricultural waste of water. But surely some attention should be given to flagrant offenders among individual citizens.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119112184/kim-kardashian-kev...
Anybody flying Wizz Air is price sensitive.
Yes, there are clear biological markers related to reported symptoms of Long COVID.

Increases in exhausted immune T cells and lower levels of cortisol.

Also, patient reported outcomes alone are sufficient to identify Long COVID patients with ~90% accuracy.

https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/15573941922251571...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.09.22278592v...
"Blitzkrieg" gets a lot of ink in the basic history of WWII and it conveys this idea that Germany just had a ton of tanks and zerg-rushed their opponents. The reality on the ground is that they had a hell of a lot of soldiers marching on foot (apparently soldiers on all sides of the war were often given amphetimines for energy/morale) and despite Germany's reputation for mechanization, much of their military relied extremely heavily on manual labor and horses for transportation (which they often had to resort to eating during the most dire periods in the Russian winter).
> There is no way an adblocker accurately identifies price sensitivity outside of qualitative handwaving.

Perhaps they are banking on this information becoming public knowledge, so it can become a signal? :)
> This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is that it? On occasion I have had to write DSLs for the user input, but in these cases the (non-programmer) users didn't want to write Lisp so I used something like Haskell's parsec to parse the data.

If you're talking about Haskell, you should be talking about folk who write template Haskell, which is the macro system for GHC. There are plenty of Haskell programmers who know how to write Template Haskell, and there are plenty of Haskell programmers who don't. By contrast, I don't think there's a single Lisp programmer who can't write Lisp macros.

That's homoiconicity. Once you learn Lisp, you automatically know how to write Lisp macros. Once you learn Haskell (or Ocaml or Rust), you don't automatically know how to write macros in that language (and the macro system may not even be portable across compilers).
Any infection you have will deplete one nutrient or another, and if you have a genetic susceptibility, this depletion might be much greater than someone else. To correct these nutrition depletion to keep these viruses in check, you will need to take mega doses of the supplement for a short period.

If you are still one of these people that think zinc does not play a role in COVID outcomes I have nothing left to say but: By destroying the ACE2 receptor, SARS2 causes a depletion of zinc since zinc makes up the structure of ACE2 and prevents the recycling of zinc in the cell.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18880-0

And hey and guess what. They find that people with zinc deficiency have more herpes out breaks!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283972/

Why? Because the same thing happens with herpes but with NECTIN1 receptor and ADAM10. Low zinc means less ADAM10 activity and more NECTIN1 on the cell and therefor more herepes virus replication.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906284/

So what might be happening with the low cortisol they speak of in the study?

ACE2 is all over the adrenal gland, and when ACE2 is destroyed the adrenal gland shuts down and cannot release as much cortisol.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2020.5931...

Now, many of you will come back as show me all the studies that reveal that zinc actually reduces cortisol. And I agree, but do you know why? When someone is not zinc deficiency, adding more zinc will trigger ADAM17 to cleave ACE2 off the cell and create Soluble ACE2. Zinc the ACE2 is not on the adrenal gland anymore cortisol will not be released.

https://www.mdpi.com/viruses/viruses-12-00491/article_deploy...

But in a zinc deficient state there is not enough ACE2 to start with and ADAM17 activity is also low. By taking zinc and correcting the deficiency you will increase activity for both ACE2 and ADAM17.

If you know someone or if you have long covid, I highly suggest that you at least get your serum zinc levels tested.
You can integrate UIKit into SwiftUI, I always found that to be a pretty general purpose fallback on any missing functionality in SwiftUI.
I'm pretty convinced it's not a thing, or at least it's not COVID-specific.

People are attributing every ache, pain, sniffle, fatigue, and other symptom to "long covid" when they are more likely the random things we all experience from time to time, or they are among the people who have long recoveries from severe respiratory virus infections.
Image of the beast?
Your stats are off by many orders of magnitude.

https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/
PXE Booting Raspberry Pis
I miss the days when Fry’s was good… :(
I’m originally from California, lived the last 23 years in Arizona, seen the writing on the wall and am literally two days away from taking ownership of a house 0.5 miles from the Mighty Mississippi. I think I’ll never have to worry about someone complaining about watering a lawn or washing a car ever again — other than lack of because I’m kind of lazy and forgot to do things…

The funny thing is I was listening to a random radio program a few weeks ago and they were making fun of California advertising to get people to move there. Which kind of makes sense to do in Florida since they have a problem with too much water flooding neighborhoods at high tide or something like that.
Well, basically I copied the second link from https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/wiki/Language-Bindings just randomly; I didn't think to check the release date to be honest with you, my bad.

The other Rust projects seems more updated, like https://github.com/Jengamon/ruwren was last updated in May 9.
> they also actively murdered tens of millions of civilians

Let's punish the communism survivors for all the bad things that happened to them.

That's what got us all into the current rabbit hole.
Adblockers are also used to prevent tracking. You can be opposed to tracking without being opposed to ads and vice versa.
Bought this book the second I found it. It's incredibly well-put together, and I can't wait for the print edition. I have already read through the PDF, and there are so many beautiful illustrations that help show what is actually happening inside a component.
Since Embarcacero was acquired in 2015 and until now, there has happened quite a bit to the RAD Studio IDE and underlying tech.
I don't know about your situation, but, Delphi and C++Builder has not been left to rot.
Starting from scratch usually sounds like a great idea. You don't have to deal with legacies and workarounds, what's not to like about that? :) So I get it why people think it's best to start GIMP anew. I also get it why people are reluctant to do so. While you are working on something new, you also typically don't have a working program for years. And when they already have software that works, that means maintaining two code bases at once.

In case of GIMP, the existing team is already stretched thin and has to deal with too many reports and requests to handle. In the past 4 years, the amount of reports in the issue tracker more than doubled, but the team hasn't grown accordingly. I don't think it's realistic to expect that the team would be able to maintain the current code base while starting anew. If the current progress is already commonly referred to as glacial, what do you think will happen if they start reimplementing GIMP from scratch?

And I get it why you are referring to Photopea here. I think Photopea is a formidable effort. But it's been under development for 10 years already. That's quite a long time. And Ivan didn't have another image editor to maintain while working on that project. AFAIK, he originally intended the write a web app to merely open and show a PSD file in the browser. That's a quite different development trajectory.
Sounds credible to me. Some adblockers and lists block bot detection scripts on purpose, in some cases it could lead the system to flag you as a bot.

What they should do in these cases is to fallback to a captcha or something like that.
Do you have any data to back this opinion up?
Thanks!

Direct link: https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js Now deprecated and replaced by https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next
There was some real shit going on with some Indonesian ISPs downright blocking connections to known public DNS resolvers (8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, etc). Dangerously close to the China-level firewalls that block known VPNs as well.
Incorrect intuitive beliefs that appear to the holder as knowledge?

The problem is so common, I really think there should be a term.
I love observing NYC, SF, and LA policies like this because it's so ridiculous.

An under 21 year old can go shoot up any substance - with the guarantee that the police won't touch them - at any of the safe injection sites, but progessive-heaven forbid that they want some whipped cream for their ice cream or want to try a recipe that included using one of these gas cartridges.

Canisters on the street? A disturbing eye sore that must be dealt with swiftly. Needles on the street? A sign of progressive tolerance and a reminder that drug users are the real victims.
Yeah it's wild! Second-guessed myself a tiny bit after seeing all the conflicting views.

Minor spoilers:

I loved the world-building and mystery in the first half, the main character lives in a post-apoc monastary, tons of great details and tidbits. It felt vibrant, deep, reminded me of Redwall and the 5th Harry Potter, with the sexual repression and small-scale rebellion against authority.

He leaves the walls in the second half and stuff happens, I forgot most of it. The journey part felt like an afterthought. Something something aliens, really didn't feel earned or connected.
Hmm, I suppose that could work, didn't think about targeting the Pipewire api.

I didn't play around with it much, but the controller did appear as a 5.1 (or was it 7.1?) in Linux.

Oh, and I forgot, the controller itself also has a headphone jack. The controller itself can take 3 audio streams, two of which can be used for sound.
Note the Wizz Air anti-bot statement (https://skift.com/2020/08/31/wizz-airs-odd-fee-for-buying-a-...). The "System Surcharge Fee - Applicable to bookings made by automated systems" of € 10 is listed on the Wizz Air website as service fee https://wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/prices-di....

I just opened https://wizzair.com/ with a default uMatrix config (only loading first party *.wizzair.com resources) and it complains straight away:

Are you human?

An unusual activity was detected from your web browsing activity, which may also be done by a robot or “bot”. For this reason it needs to be verified that you are human. Bots are not allowed to use our website/mobile app in order to protect your privacy and provide a reliable user experience.

Some activities may look like they are done by a bot, such as running multiple sessions of the WIZZ website, or performing more than one search in a web browser.

What if I am not a bot? Read on for a solution.

We take many factors into consideration to make sure real website/mobile app users are properly distinguished from bots. We recommend the following:

• Use the latest version of the supported web browsers (Chrome, Firefox);

• Don’t use your browser in incognito or compatibility mode;

• Don’t use ad blockers as they may conflict with our website’s protection;

• Don’t use anonymizer proxies with botnets to hide your identity;

• Try to book from another device and/or internet connection;

• Use our mobile apps on iOS or Android

Why can bots be harmful?

• Some third parties such as online travel agencies use bots. If you book your WIZZ ticket through their websites, we may not be able to contact you about possible flight disruptions or any relevant changes, and they may also apply additional fees on the top of the ticket price;

• Bots can overload our servers, slowing them down for our real customers.

If you are using a bot, please note that:

• By using automation tools on our website or mobile application, you are violating their terms of use.

• As per these terms, we have the right to detect and block your activity and cancel any booking you make via these channels.

• To provide the best service to our customers, bots can still access the Flight-Search capabilities, but we reserve the right to discontinue or block bot users even from Flight-Search, especially if over-use is detected;

• If you would like to show our flights in your inventory, please contact us beforehand and make sure users are redirected to wizzair.com when they are ready to make their booking. You can also use a deep link to the selected flight.
[Stephenson] To this very day, I still cannot purge the phrase "imperial pint of semen" from my brain.
Snow Crash appears on at lists of the best Science Fiction books of all time, while Cryptonomicon is in no danger of appearing on any list of favorite Science Fiction books. Cryptonomicon is 25 times less popular than Snow Crash on Amazon (rank #6,737 vs #153,999) and no one on reddit challenged the assertion that Stephenson sometimes writes "rambling, tangential asides." I prefer my Science Fiction books have a good story, not teach me about math and game theory. There are better books for that. If you liked Cryptonomicon, congratulations, you have the same taste as the author. I stand by my disappointment going from Snow Crash to Cryptonomicon.
Well. Flags on HN are manual. And contacting the moderators is always an option.

However, a lot of your recent comments aren’t making a good case for yourself. :(
Totally right about almonds and ‘luxury’ crops. FYI measuring agriculture in general by its GDP isn’t really useful. Stable food supply via agriculture is the foundation of the economy. It allows people to specialize in technology, medicine, etc that generate more GDP. The entire Ag industry is around 5% of GDP in the US and farms account for 0.6% of GDP. That doesn’t mean Ag in general shouldn’t get first priority for water usage.
..and from the crappy excuse for an IDE that they distribute along with their build tooling.
> I dont want political asylum because of many reasons

Good point but but he apparently does not even want the relative safety of being able to stay away from Pakistan. We all have family in various places, that’s a given. He could also try to get them out.

Making Pakistan safe for free speech seems beyond optimistic for now.
I guess I'm curious how all the theoretical benefits pan out in the end and if the benefit is worth the separate project.
I remember (faintly, from 20 years ago) using Lisp in game programming to create rules for mobs, from within the game.
In Common Lisp you can have namespaces, where you can have your own SETQ:

CL-USER 53 > (defpackage mylisp
(:use "COMMON-LISP") ; everything from Common Lisp
(:shadow CL:SETQ)) ; but not SETQ
#<The MYLISP package, 1/16 internal, 0/16 external>

CL-USER 54 > (in-package "MYLISP")
#<The MYLISP package, 1/16 internal, 0/16 external>

MYLISP 55 > (defun setq (a b c) (print (list a b c)))
SETQ

MYLISP 56 > (setq (+ 1 2) 4 5)

(3 4 5)
(3 4 5)

MYLISP 57 > (cl:setq a 12)
12

Most implementations also have a way to protect core symbols against redefinition and a way to do it anyway (possibly shooting yourself into the foot).
If there's significant overlap with ICBMs I could see it being reasonable from the perspective of maintaining military production readiness.

Imagine you need a bunch of people trained to do X, and machines capable of Y, in order to build your missiles, but you don't need many missiles right now, but if a war against a major power broke out you'd need to ramp up production massively and instantly. Either you keep making missiles you don't need, or you somehow train people and maintain machines without actually using them, either way you're spending just to maintain readiness for no immediate value. Or you find a close enough use where you can get some value by producing something similar enough that you can convert to military use rapidly.

That wouldn't be so much political pork as actually practical. But I know little to nothing in this area, so just speculation.
Have you used TikTok? I have and uninstalled it after a while. It feels like it takes all the bad elements of social media to the extreme. It's highly addictive, more so than other social networks, contains extremely shallow content, and can be very manipulative. I agree all social media can exhibit these traits to a degree, but TikTok at least for me really took it to the extreme.
Lowes website has been 100% broken for me ever since I enabled Resist Fingerprinting in Firefox.

I can load exactly one page, but on any navigation or refresh I get:

=====

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.lowes.com/" on this server.
Reference #18.cc69dc17.1661724957.fe4ef4

====

Result, unless I use the profile with fingerprinting enabled, I just have to buy elsewhere.

Drupal.org triggers "prove you're not a robot" every few page navigations with Resist Fingerprinting enabled. Walmart.com too.

Fedex package tracking errors (seemingly due to the API server refusing the connection) if resist fingerprinting is enabled. Amusingly if you use the website help bot and say "track XXXXX" that does work to get some basic information.
Rewetting dried wetlands could stop 100B tons of CO2 emissions
The solution is to prevent the river from flowing to Mexico? Sounds like a dick move similar to what China does with the Mekong.
I tried Real-ESRGAN but it seems to dream up slightly too much? Has anyone else had this problem? It tends to generate details where there shouldn't be any.

Maybe I need to add some setting?
I find often there is a hint of both. People are people.
I often will use salt in ice baths specifically for that reason :)

Ammonium nitrate used to be uses in the "instant ice/cold packs" for first aid, but has since been replaced with urea - I believe due to the terrorism regulations.

Which means (as another poster suggested) I'll be trying urea as a way to chill drinks sometime soon I guess.
My cold sores will break out after any sort of physical stress (excluding exercise). Ironically I get them most often after heat exhaustion.
> this API has been in use by the pro-audio audience and targets low-latency for audio and MIDI connections between applications.

My emphasis there because I love that the author got this right.

It's always been frustrating to help users tangled up in Jack only to find out they're just trying to get a single application to output audio with low-latency. (Their assumption being that Jack is the tool to attain low latency audio input/output in Linux.)

Good vibes around Pipewire and good vibes in an article describing Pipewire are a good sign for an audio server. :)

Edit: clarification, typo
Or, it could be the same price, but an airline MBA wants to squeeze out some ad impressions from you along with your full-price ticket.
Perhaps they're not being fined enough.