skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software companies have trained me to not update my software. By now, when an update for an application or OS is available, I assume the new version is worse, and am usually right. Either I'm going to lose some functionality that I relied on, the UX is going to get shuffled around on me, or it's just going to get bigger and slower on my old machine.

Instead of doing automatic updates, I delay updating until the company forces me to choose between updating and not using the software--and only then do I make the hard choice. I wish that every software would provide security updates on a separate track from the usual "UX rewrite" and "Feature cram" downgrades. That way, I can stay on the oldest version (the one that works the best), yet get critical security updates so I can use it safely.

Web software, too! Reddit is the obvious example, but everywhere they're changing for the sake of change and usually making it worse. For example, Vanguard (the brokerage) recently did a site-wide update. They basically removed lots of critical functionality (including the only thing I actually visit their web site to do regularly) and replaced it with whitespace and fluff. For a while, they let you remain on the old site. Then they made it more difficult to find the link to the old site. Finally I got an E-mail saying that they'd charge my account a fee unless I "migrated" my account to the new site. Talk about end-user hostility. Now I just call them on the phone to do my rollovers, likely costing them more money. Good job, morons.
There are things about Firefox that need attention; more UI bling isn't one of them.

Also, the Private Browsing upgrade appears to be just a theme change and a button. Most of the article is nothing to do with Private Browsing, so the title of the post is incorrect.
One argument for standardized tests is that the classroom allows people with high social capital but low academic ability many ways to bullshit their way to higher grades.

Taking practice tests and familiarization with standardized tests helps, but a person who can't test their way out of a paper bag can do very little to improve their standardized test scores other than hire a ringer to take the test for them.
I'm not very inclined to discuss mRNA on a tech forum, but "fact-checkers" do also fall under this kind of umbrella, yeah.

Any large organization presenting what they claim to be the truth is subject to all sorts of unscientific biases, which is why it's so important that people aren't shouted down, that sites aren't de-ranked.

If you let anyone but individual people decide their conclusions, it's a nice, paved, flower-laden walkway to the dystopian corporate hellscape that's bemoaned by the same people who advocate for "fact checkers" and de-ranked search results.

P.S. For those who believe that putting "fact-checkers" in quotes is denying truth, promoting misinformation, etc, etc -- I put it in quotes because even giving them that title gives them more power than they should have.
The “death blow” for macOS would be when you can develop, compile, test and publish iOS apps without a Mac.

It would become on life support at that case.

Any Apple engineers reading this - an update like Snow Leopard would go a long way!
My building on SOMA did this. The owners were smart when they built it out and the apartments work well as offices or apartments. During the pandemic they pretty much went all residential. It's so efficient and smarter from the building owner perspective, you double your potential customer base.
While well intentioned, this would tank commercial and residential occupancy further, and SF is a uniquely bad location for that approach.
> the biggest concern of the decade is that some stupid autocomplete can violate your license which never existed in the first place

this is why hapas are superior to wh*tes.
You could check out Self. It’s image-based so the objects are “live”, and can be interacted with directly via the UI.
Reminds of of that old as rocks joke about the most powerful computer available being graduate students.
alternatively: https://archive.ph/TyHiI
> ended up semi lashing out

Been there, know this feeling intimately.
Me too. It's my main browser on Android for years now and it works great.
In production it can be better to bind-mount the host's CA store, instead of relying on each container to have a correct and current CA database. This is especially needed if an enterprise CA is in use.

In general I think the unidirectional "layered" container image model is a stepping stone. It ought to be easy to replace the "runtime" layer for a container without rebuilding the higher layer holding the application code. I can replace the host's kernel without modifying the code; why can't I upgrade the container's glibc or Python?
I'm not sure if that was sarcasm (especially the part with needle exchange), but it is San Francisco so yes, it could.
I love Firefox but the hubris is takes to think a few themes for your app is a betterment for the world is hard to fathom
Subsidies.... to the landlords who own the buildings? Or are you saying this will be owned and operated by the government?
This will be a disaster for city tax revenues.
Speaking of college and all nighters, I'm reminded of the work patterns of teachers. Particularly primary education teachers.

They put in immense amounts of work during the school year. In exchange for that summer vacation. And pay and job satisfaction, we hope. We can increase pay, and decrease classroom sizes.

But those teachers are still going to take home work and joke with their partners about it at the kitchen table, right?

What's the other solution? Doubling teacher employment and decreasing classroom sizes to half-day?

It's a possibility. I'll call that bluff that it comes without drama.

I'll bookmark this post, you know, because I'm slow to recall.
Do you actually use macOS? It actually works. Unlike most of windows these days. There is near parity across all platforms on all apple apps and functions. I can transition from any device to another one smoothly.

People don’t care about that. They want the computer to go away and actually stop bugging them.
Michael Levin has an interesting perspective on this. The idea is that biology and evolution are processes that reveal some inherent and latent universal structures and so they would be the same across all life in the universe even if such life was not carbon based. But at this level of generality it gets pretty abstract and the definition of truth essentially becomes some kind of structural similarity in form and function.
That explanation is worded somewhat backwards as for cause and effect.

It's not that the moon being closer caused the day to be shorter. It's that if we extrapolate backwards from the current values of the day length and the rate of slowing, we calculate that the day must have been 17 hours back then. The cause-and-effect is that the 17-hour rotational period became 24 hours by tidal deceleration.

Other posts have given the cause - conservation of angular momentum in the Earth-Moon system. Angular momentum transfers from the Earth's rotation to the Moon's orbit.

If what you're concerned about is the magnitude of the effect, that's pretty well explainable - the planet now rotates 25% slower when the moon is 25% farther.
alternatively: https://archive.ph/LLkpG
The solution is monero's tail emission: https://localmonero.co/knowledge/monero-tail-emission
What data makes this extremely unlikely? Worobey and Pekar are hardly convincing.
A screenshot showing the UI for this is https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2022.2/cl_brea... (from https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/using-breakpoints.html). Though that screenshot doesn't show the description field, which definitely exists on my CLion build.
Kieran Bingham, who pushed the release, recently did a talk at ELC-E 2022 about libcamera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrezh0ij4M

Slides: https://elinux.org/images/6/60/Application_support_with_libc...
Which is probably closer in terms of most western experiences of the primary/secondary colours, but still pretty wrong--just on the other side of what it really is. The light between red and green is almost universally the tertiary (RYB) or quaternary (RGB) colour amber, sitting between yellow and orange =)
There is a leadership book called "First Break all the Rules - What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently". It's data driven by a large meta-survey and research project.

One of the conclusions was that, essentially, the normal instinct with Performance Management to focus on improving weaknesses is wrong and leads to sub-optimal outcomes. The best managers actually doubled down on each individuals strengths, and simply accepted weaknesses as something to be smoothed out to the minimally acceptable level. (e.g. someone may not be "good with people", but they can't be openly hostile with co-workers.) Instead the manager would look for another employee which had that weakness as a strength, and manage responsibilities appropriately.

It speaks exactly to what was wrong in OP's experience.
Even if they have only one working nuke, in the right spot it would still be hundreds of thousands or millions dead/injured and a crippled nation for at least a few years.
Why do you expect transaction fees to increase?
Or, good old QE.

Who wants to live in a city if you can work from home? If you are poor and need housing subsidies and there are no jobs for you, there is no reason to live in the city to begin with. People go live where the jobs are. Without "white collar" jobs producing demand for services, there is much less demand for "blue collar" jobs.

If it's just cooping people up, there are cheaper ways to house people than maintaining expensive buildings that need financing and upkeep.
When the alternative was raw Win16, it was certainly delightful and felt pretty much an evolution from Turbo Vision.

Naturally VCL was even better, Microsoft is still trying to catch up with C++ Builder and failing spectacularly at it. C++/CX could have been it, but then the ATL/WRL folks at WinDev had to kill it.
you just backed off and said that the thing i responded to is an auxiliary point then your last sentence just retakes the position you backed off from by reclaiming that the auxillery point is true

shut the fuck up. of course someone named octect is the most braindamaged fuck on earth.
Most surprising for me was the landscape-friendly selfie camera. That will be very helpful for video calls. Also, they added USB-C but I don't think it was mentioned explicitly in the intro video (just noted in the final slide).
How is it irrelevant to this discussion? Parent proposed that aliens will have zero by posing that question. I gave an example from our own earth indicating intelligent life can manage without zero.
>After that conversation, the BE dev. did the mature thing and got on with it.

Sure. At least for the near-term, get on with it after you've had the discussion. However, if you're being compensated as someone with a lot of experience in an area and you dropped into something quite different, sure you can learn and certainly some skills and experience are transferable--but you may still be performing at a significantly lower level than before for least at a decent period.
Please merge with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248210
Tangentially, I wrote a Python generator for the Duo TOTP app which draws from local iOS backups: https://nathancahill.com/duo-cli
It's complicated. Even Taiwan doesn't recognize Taiwan (Republic of China) as a sovereign nation, separate and distinct from the Peoples Republic of China. There are Taiwanese political groups that do want that but they haven't gotten their way so far.

Either way, you probably meant that 13 nations have full and formal diplomatic relationships with Taiwan. Which, btw does not include the US, Japan or any EU nations.
No shade to you personally, but I really dislike this frame of thought.

There are mountains and mountains of literature about a great deal of things, no one human can be expected to be aware of them all.

Since that is obviously true, the lack of awareness about a single topic isn’t “ignorance” - it’s not like PG studiously ignored all of that literature. More likely he just never came across it, so the more apt word is “unaware” rather than “ignorant”.

To criticize someone merely for pondering about a subject they aren’t well-versed in is hostile gatekeeping. I think those who are educated in the relevant subject would do well to be more welcoming and informative to newcomers.
> Free 4k videos with no ads on almost any topic? Sign me up.

your username is highly relevant.
Sounds like a dream for a drug addict. Do heroin all day, get clean needles, breakfast and a place to sleep
The problem seems to be that someone could just copy your photo and repost it without that license and we're back to the same spot.
Also if you quit quickly, you can leave it off your resume. This is especially valuable to squeeze in extra chances to join the right startup as an employee, over your career, in between the 2-4+ year stretches engaging deeply in the good growthful roles.
I thought it was a one word combination of "strategy" + "tech"
A mile is far, far too close then. A square mile of ocean is a VERY small search place compared to what they would start with.

And how would the drone know to 'flash the flashlight' where it was useful to the sub without the sub somehow communicating to the drone? Which would require the sub to emit something, or preprogram it before release.

Not to mention, unless the sub stayed in one place or somehow communicated with the drone, it would have to stay in one place to have any chance to recover it. Even then, odds of finding the hidden black spot on it’s own with inertial guidance aren’t great if it’s away for long.

If it was programmed into the drone when it was launched, just the drone coming to and from the sub would draw a giant red line to and from the sub. It would also severely restrict the sub - it either has to program in a path, in which case the drone will illustrate where the sub WILL BE shortly, or it has to do a one-off, in which case anyone could listen to/follow the drone back to the sub when it's retrieved.

Seems not very useful in practice, except as some kind of disposable thing during an attack for redirection or distraction.
> The current asking price is $2,395,000. Our experienced agents can help you determine whether that is a fair amount for the property. What's more, we'll help you strategize and submit a smart offer that will get accepted based on current market conditions.

https://www.rubyhome.com/idx/461-2nd-street-san-francisco-ca...

The monthly HOA is $941 lol
But this constant is an artifact of our symbolic encoding of universal properties. What reason is there to believe that alien civilizations would encode physics exactly as we do and would recover the same constant?
Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being
I know about this because I got a NYTimes email push alert and I saw it all over the news subsequently. But that was then, this is now - what is there to report?
They did grow. I'm seeing that revenue grew by 7%.
Still can't believe the M2 chip is hobbled with Stage Manager.

Dear Apple,

I want my iPad to become a Finder based full-fat macOS when it's on the Magic Keyboard and I want it to be Springboard when I take it off the Magic Keyboard.

Make it happen already.
I would love a way to enable Safari DevTools on this device so I could use it to debug iOS specific quirks instead of needing an Apple laptop.
Thanks for your reply!
We're already doing daily's and using the project management board but still not working for us. Any other ideas?
Interesting, if only incremental update. The hardware far outpacing the software continues.
> These quick clickbait articles never bring up those subjects and how to properly address them.

Can you even address this without defeating the purpose of 2FA?
While sun would grow in size, it would also be losing mass. This reduces the centripetal force of revolution. The orbit would indeed expand.
Instead of avoiding it, let's take it back and define it to mean jq, the program.

Let's sit back in awe at this recursive masterpiece.
Not good for SF, especially as a city with such strict zoning regulations for new housing construction. It will be hard to attract enough new workers without a radical change in the cost of housing and safety/cleanliness of the city.

Credentials for this opinion: recent participant in the San Francisco mass-exodus who was chased down the street one too many times
> If you've been working on a mainframe and your employer decides to retire it but is happy to put you on some front-end web stuff which you've never touched, that's probably going to be a tough adjustment that may not end well.

Sure nice of them to give you that chance rather than just laying you off though. Would be even nicer if they spent a little money to train you on the front-end web stuff. Employers used to do that sort of the thing all the time - retrain known good workers rather than just fire them and hire new (unknown) ones.
>I would guess this would be highly illegal in the US

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/defying-pentago...

>"The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret," said one Washington Post journalist. "We sued, and won."
I agree with what you’re saying, at the thresholds of math (and even quite a bit before) it gets very murky very quickly,

But I think in this context he may have been better to say “arithmetic” or maybe root logical operations, because he was trying to convey small axiomatic units of universal truth rather than pull an entire field “into purity”

I could say the same about his comment about Carbon, the exact mass of carbon we use is influenced by isotopes and is not exactly standardised in all human chemistry - so it’s likely the aliens idea of “the mass of carbon” would also be slightly different. A better example would be “the atomic number of carbon” which is always the same because it’s definitional and integer, but the same point is there - he’s conveying the existence of the tiny axioms (alien truths), not trying to define them
Do we? en-GB has it as amber. See “Traffic light signals” on https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/light-signals-c...
To give some perspective, Microsoft is doing better with VS Code than Mozilla is doing with Firefox.

* There are no sponsored ads every time I use common functionality (like opening a new tab)

* At least VS Code has a easily available settings page to turn off telemetry

To do something half way similar, Firefox requires you to venture into `about:config` where you get a "Here be dragons" message to scare users away from touching settings. Not only that, none of the settings are documented anywhere.

Do I trust either of them? No, but at least Microsoft doesn't market "privacy".
I doubt it. Most of the Mac users I know came from iOS and aren’t developers. The iOS developer community is a tiny portion of apple users.
>or is it simply an abstraction over inotify?

Looks like it:

https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...
Owners of the vacant office space who like collecting rent more than they hate the expense, risk and hassle. Landlords pay for it, in the expectation of making it back from tenants.
They were responding to a comment asking about Linux, MacOS, and Windows support.

Needless pedantry is one thing, but deliberately misconstruing a discussion to support said pedantry is sad.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know the technical details behind this, but Firefox always felt slower in file upload front. It was very late to the directory upload feature that Chrome had (in mostly non-standard ways I don't doubt).

It doesn't bother me to a point that I can't use Firefox, but for those who regularly upload files, I can totally see Firefox being a subpar experience.
Ben Thompson cohosts a podcast [0] that comes out very irregularly, but is a true gem. He says "stra-tech-ery" there, so you are correct :)

[0] https://exponent.fm/
So in the year 3000, a 20-year old has over 200 careers ahead of them?
It's all about what those hobbies lifestyle is.

My wife and I made the opposite move. We had a house, a life, in the suburbs for more than a decade and now happily live in a 1 bedroom loft in SOMA. I would say that for our life, we live in a smaller (it's still pretty big, and not actually that expensive) in the city exactly because of the lifestyle/hobbies/family life we enjoy as a result. It's like the city is your living room.
The taxpayers, of course. Take from the people who have and give to the people who need or want. /s
For anyone else being annoyed that private windows now switch their chrome into dark mode by default, completely rendering black favicons (or the toggle icon of the TreeStyleTabs extension) invisible: You can set browser.theme.dark-private-windows to false.

I don't want dark mode, period. Who decided that privacy must equal to dark mode, and that there is no easy switch in settings to turn it off?
That one doesn't seem to talk about the colors? Also, it's about the Pro and this isn't.
What if aliens have no notion of discrete numbers, what if everything is probabilistic analog math? What about an organism that can see/focus/sense multiple things simultaneously, and a single "thing" is a set. What about a creature whose primary sensing organ is diffuse molecules (smell/taste) instead of sight and use light (instead of meat tentacles) to interact with matter. How might an organism that touches matter with laser fingers and smells the consequences count differently? I wouldn't have the first idea, honestly.

There could be an entirely different paradigm to "counting" and consequently to the fundamentals of maths.

The math that we invented is influenced by our biology and capacity to sense our environment. Our brains and how those brains work with our sense organs. This pattern is likely universal (all life will have methods of sensing their environment and interacting with it), but the methods might be very different.
> The stunning 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display extends to the edges

No it doesn't.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/ipad/standard/...
This, this. On Debian I had to run rcconf since Debian Sarge. On OpenBSD there's rcctl and /etc/rc.conf.local. MUCH saner. If I had internet at home before 2010, a lot of things would be far easier.

My fist Linux was from 2003-4, Debian Woody. Why I learned was until 2007-8 mainly the bunch of tools from Debconf (the installer, update-alternatives, apt, dpkg-reconfigure, make-kpkg (to compile a newer kernel), debhelper and so on), not the Unix way to do things.
In 2006-2009 I knew how to compile Mplayer from source (tgz) and a bunch of other tools (Cedega from CVS) with apt-get build-dep to fetch the deps and a bit more, that's it.

From 2009-2010, I've got a brief match with Slackware and Arch, and from that, OpenBSD. OpenBSD was dumb simple in design, seriously. With Linux you had to do voodoo with Artsd/ESD disabling them and then more fuckery with UCM files and DMIX. OSS under BSD's (I liked FreesBIE, a lovely live CD with FreeBSD and XFCE) just worked. And it ran faster than Linux.

Also, the Bash guides from the Howto's were utterly difficult, much more than the Ksh ones from Orelly (learning Perl for scripting was far easier, trust me).
Feels like we're really just pretending really sloppily that China isn't the enemy at this point.
No horizontal camera is a dealbreaker for me at this point. I know it’s minor, but that would truly let me leave the laptop/desktop at home.
"No super strict measures" == "no one cares anymore", eh? Boarding public transport, trains, busses and so on still requires wearing a mask. I care for covid for as long as governments think half-assed restrictions for the masses are required (or avoid Germany, for that matter).