skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And being able to run a browser that isn't based on WebKit :)
Apple used to feel to me like a company that sold user experiences and the hardware was a means to that end. Now it feels like an electronics company that sells consumer hardware, and the user experience is just a necessary cost to be minimized.
A fairly good description of what's (optionally) new and what hasn't changed at all.

>Apple wisely takes an ain't-broke-don't-fix-it approach to macOS's standard multitasking model in Ventura by turning Stage Manager off by default and making people go hunting for it if they want to use it. You can't change your Mac's UI in a major way by accident.

If you haven't used it, Stage Manager differs from standard macOS multitasking by offering a column of recently used apps on the side of your screen (it's the left-hand side by default, but it will switch if you've got your Dock set to use the left-hand side of your screen instead). But unlike minimizing or maximizing an app from the Dock, each "stage" can contain multiple app windows from multiple apps; switch from one stage to another, and every window on that stage will pop back up on your screen in exactly the arrangement you were using before.

Within a given stage, app windows work exactly as they do anywhere else on your Mac. You can move, resize, and rearrange them any way you want, including shoving them all the way to the edges of the screen. The recent apps column will persist on the side of the screen by default, but it will get out of the way if you move an app window over it; you can bring the apps back up by moving your cursor to the right edge of the screen.

Stage Manager integrates seamlessly with macOS's other window management systems. Do you still want to use some apps in Full Screen mode? Great—they don't appear in your recent apps tray, and you can access them with a trackpad swipe, the same as you could before. Do you like Mission Control? Also cool. Apps in your tray slide gracefully up into Mission Control mode, along with any open apps that aren't in your tray.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/macos-13-ventura-the...
This.

If someone has no conflicts of interest, they aren't really in the field. Everyone on that board had conflicts and it will always be that way. You can manage around it, sort of. It's like those who complain about the revolving door between the department of treasury and financial services industry - do we want people who actually have a clue? The only way you can get a clue in many situations is by being in the industry.
I would think this would fall under the "false advertising" laws in any given state:

Minnesota Statue 325F.67 FALSE STATEMENT IN ADVERTISEMENT.

Any person, firm, corporation, or association who, with intent to sell or in anywise dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation, or association, directly or indirectly, to the public, for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates, or places before the public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public, in this state, in a newspaper or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, label, price tag, circular, pamphlet, program, or letter, or over any radio or television station, or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, or anything so offered to the public, for use, consumption, purchase, or sale, which advertisement contains any material assertion, representation, or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive, or misleading, shall, whether or not pecuniary or other specific damage to any person occurs as a direct result thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and any such act is declared to be a public nuisance and may be enjoined as such.

They advertised there would be no ads, then promptly started serving ads while still collecting monthly subscription revenue I think fall into this area.
If you make up what people say and then argue with them it's pretty easy to win.

The "classic goldbug" insists that gold has properties that are good for a currency (does not degrade, can be divided, does not rely on a trusted third party, has scarcity) and it has been used as currency for a long time in civilisation. I take "intrinsic value" for commodities to mean "has use aside from being a currency", for example gold is used in jewelry (does not tarnish, is soft, is pretty?) and electronics. The non-intrinsic value would be its use as a currency. If a goldbug argues all the value of gold is intrinsic, they are confused because the price of gold would probably be much lower if it had no use as a currency.

Bitcoin-bugs make similar claims to gold, plus it can be sent over the internet and is more scarce than gold. As for intrinsic value for Bitcoin, it doesn't really have one I guess. Or maybe you could make an argument about other things built on top of its blockchain like smart contracts or timestamping services?

In summary, I agree that an argument of value from "pure scarcity" is bad, but I don't think it is a common belief!
I am ignoring it for the time being. and maybe I am misunderstanding its usefulness. I'm having a hard enough time with less experienced engineers generating large blocks of code and pushing it on me to play find the errors; the idea of an AI doing it as part of my workflow doesn't sound very appealing.
Fedora deserves a mention as a solid desktop alternative to Ubuntu. It ships very up-to-date packages but doesn't require as much tweaking as, say, Arch. The default 'spin' is GNOME but they provide excellent support for Plasma, Cinnamon, etc.

I also think dnf is a more powerful and easier package manager than apt.
But it’d be even better if the laptop lid was just magnetic!
I strongly disagree. People who are experts in field X are self-selected people who agree with the assumptions that define the field.

There should not be discussion forum on the website if there is a belief that smart people (who have read plenty of books on clinical psychology and neurology) can't ask questions about something they haven't personally worked in.
You're doing the thing where you confuse the need for a feature with the need for a particular implementation of that feature. Again, UEFI is really awful. Look at ChromeOS.
> Symbian was used and developed in a time before "always-online" was a thing.

I remember that someone commented many moons ago (2000s) that 'less we talk about being "online" the more being online will become important'.

Back in the day, you were online when your home modem dialed into your ISP. Or when you were either at home or at work where you could get a wired Internet connection. Now, with wireless, we're (potentially) online all the time.
Nope. They don't make anything faster by themselves if you stick to doing the same work the same way as vertex shaders. What they do is open up a lot more options for you to do something differently that can work better for your situation.
Try Fedora. My iMac from 2011 is still running strong on that. Same on my XPS 13. Haven't needed to do any special configuration yet.
Thanks! Yes, I meant "potential for memtest86+ ..."
While we're getting things off our chest I wanted to share something.

I'm still using the original iPhone SE (you know, the small phone with bezels). The design of Safari for iOS used to be perfect. The + sign to open a new tab was right in the middle. Switching to incognito was 1 tap away. The open tabs were stacked open behind another.

Apple redesigned Safari in iOS 15 to accommodate it for the bigger all-screen iPhones. The address bar was moved to the bottom for better reachability. The + sign was moved away not to be so close to that horizontal line that replaced the home button. Incognito was hidden away. The stack of open tabs become a grid.

Even though the redesign made sense for the bigger bezel-less phones it was a regression for phones like the iPhone SE. I would have loved if they introduced the changes only to newer models but I can also understand that maintaining 2 different UIs would've been more work.
Or screen size.
>your stance

Just to be clear, I'm not the person you were originally replying to. You can describe what you're talking about by writing a program--whether or not it terminates in our lifetime does not change that it is in fact a representation of the number.
Fairfax County schools were closed for 1 year. (March 2020 - March 2021). They should have opened earlier (and we sent our daughter to a private school for the 2020-2021 year for the same reason), and I resent that I now have to pay attention to school board elections to vote out everyone who was on it. But it wasn't two years.
> will probably be the future of computing

I think you're right, but I think the key part of the tech is economic: their ability to deploy hundreds or thousands of instances safely shared by large numbers of replicated sites and applications belonging to different site owners.

Individual site owners can't afford that level of infrastructure for each site separately. Actually deploying it isn't that difficult, it's just expensive and unjustifiable.

(I nearly started a business doing what Cloudflare Workers is doing now, about 10 years ago (and not with JS/Node), so I know a fair bit about building out this sort of distributed edge system, including the WebSockets and anycast part. But life took a turn and IPv4 blocks for anycast were starting to look a bit beyond what I could justify for the development, even back then. In retrospect it would have been a good thing to build.)

> That is, if the decentralized web fails to take off in the next 5 years.

You have given me an idea :-)

(For a side project I'm working on zero-knowledge proofs of execution, which allows nodes to execute code on behalf of other nodes without the latter having to trust the former. Performance is far too slow to run things like websites at the moment, but there are many tricks for speeding it up, including hardware acceleration.)
How often do ordinary people actually get owned by zero days like you're describing? The majority have got to be malicious links, opening dangerous attachments, etc. Or, back in the day, a misconfigured firewall; I'd still absolutely recommend a strict firewall on the router.
Hmmm but Firefox on Linux already supports FIDO2, I can login to github and gitlab just fine with the existing implementation.
It's just another "nothing is free" lesson. Nothing is free
I tried it out on the kind of work I do (Spark data pipelines, machine learning), and found it thoroughly useless. Getting it to generate code that was remotely close to what I wanted was pointlessly difficult. I tried throwing it at a parsing function in a date library I maintain and it spit out nonsense that, I suppose, looked like it was doing something reasonable (but wasn't, which is worse).

Maybe it's good for some things, but I wasn't impressed. My job's safe for a little while at least.
The architecture license was acquired in 2008.

Is there any evidence that anyone has been refused a license to develop a desktop arm cpu?
My understanding is that if you are just doing the exact same work that regular vertex shaders would do, you are better off sticking with the regular pipeline. Might even be faster, since the old pipeline (potentially, depending on implementation) has a bunch of fixed-function hardware that gets disabled for mesh shaders.

The preformance advantages only come when you can take advantage of the flexibility to apply new optimisations. Such as sharing work across a mesh invocation, or avoiding launching mesh invocations from task/amplification shaders, or avoiding vertex fetch (procedural generation).
TBH the only thing pushing me away from macOS is that there’s a bunch of stuff running on there by default that I don’t understand, and I don’t really trust Apple’s direction wrt respecting user privacy.

When I’ve been using Linux in other contexts lately it’s been awesome being able to fully understand exactly what each process is and why it’s running (and to be able to remove it if I want to). On my macOS (and windows) boxes I end up trusting Apple and Microsoft a lot more than I would actively choose to.
That's not what's happening in terms of asbestos. Rather, it's more like "Electricity has caused buildings to burn down, so lets ban electricity".

Rather than focusing on the safe use of a material, we instead lean towards removing it all together. Older materials with known faults (such as wood being flammable) are deemed acceptable simply due to having known weaknesses in a period where we didn't care about safety. If we found out wood causes cancer, we'd still use it in building and furniture because we've always used it in building and furniture.

It's not an economies of scale problem.

When you get right down to it, the people that got mesothelioma from asbestos pretty much universally directly worked with it (usually in the form of doing things like blowing it in loose form for insulation).

Yet we spent an ungodly amount of money and time stripping asbestos from buildings that had been there for decades not causing any problems. Ironically, directly exposing people to asbestos in the process (more than you'd ever be exposed to it was left undisturbed).
Put me at any company. Give me a mysql/oracle/etc replica to look at tables with SQL. I will understand your business pretty quickly. Give me a "key/value" store, i know nothing -- until i read the code.
> I find the idea of using VR goggles to view "screens" for work totally dumb. There is no way I am ever going to be doing that.

I think it's going to depend on the person, their work, and their alternative work environments. The main point of value may be to offer a way to better isolate yourself and your work from your physical environment.
I'm genuinely curious why you're doing this. What advantages do you get from turning off these features, installing old apps, and storing everything locally? I sync via my own server but still leave the iCloud backups for Documents on and there's no a single reason that I can see to install iTunes that's not already done better by other media players without the addition of Apple Music (which I use heavily in addition to keeping my own music library in Plex).

I feel like making those kinds of concessions means that MacOS doesn't treat you as a second-class citizen but that you've deliberately chosen to make yourself a second-class citizen. In what ways do Linux or Windows (or even older MacOS) treat you like a first-class citizen that the new MacOS doesn't anymore?
Handling Failures from First Principles
Blog post presenting a blueprint for a principled failure handling strategy that aims for correctness and completeness while maximizing the chance of success even in the presence of failure.

Not paywalled
Those sound like advanced or niche window management tools - not ‘basic’?
We now know that this statement was false. Sadly, to the detriment of hundreds of millions.
They do look interesting. The reason I haven’t bought one (besides being sold out hampering my impulsiveness) is that the screens are pretty low-res compared to a regular monitor or iPhone screen. That and apple is likely to come il out with something and I don’t want more ejunk.
The feature that made me jump into beta is that Shortcuts now appear in the share sheet so it’s the same experience like iOS. Much easier to create/test shortcuts on the mac
> is now being phased out in favor of features that are lifted out of iOS

I have a sudden flashback of 2012
10 years is OK, as long as there’s career progression, and the more recent roles have accomplishments that align directly to the new role that’s being applied for. Example: a 10 year tenure that began as a sys admin and grew into an AI director role is still good for applying to AI jobs. Counter example: Being a junior sys admin for 10 years who dabbled with a bit of AI on the side and then applying to an AI director role probably won’t fly.
There's a few nice quality of life features in Ventura, but MacOS really seems way down Apple's priority list nowadays.

They're using all software building resources for iOS and then just slap any reusable features on their desktop OS whenever possible. Great when it works for apps that are quite similar (e.g. messages), terrible for things that simply work very differently on a desktop OS (system settings, stage manager is pointless etc.).

Good opportunity for Windows to finally beat MacOS in UI/UX, since they don't have a mobile OS to worry about?
> the point of this machine is to give Developers

At 700€ price tag what a gift! It's 3-400€ too expensive for a very dispensable toy, especially given that the managed stack (.net) of Microsoft development tools can be tested on Raspberry Pi or M1, which are both very popular with developers.
India has booming film industries, but I haven't looked into historical film. I'm normally there for the escapism. The fact that it's considered A place or A heritage is another problem. It's more diverse than Europe. Heck, often languages are closer to European languages than they are to the neighboring region. I wish I knew a lot more about that than I do.

China has some pretty serious issues with the government's projection on their own history and their ability to dictate what is or is not made. Minor example: a Tang period film required a change to not period-accurate clothing because it was too immodest. Sorry, I can't remember the name.
A guest on a KQED mentioned this a month or two ago; SF building code requires a certain amount of natural light for bedrooms and other rooms (Kitchen, home office, media rooms excepted.)

Many of the older office spaces in SF might be impossible to convert under current standards; the city may have to exempt conversions from those rules or something. They might do if if the moneyed interests lobby for it.
https://archive.ph/tbet8
I think the build quality of the thing might be more of the cost than the difference in power. Could be wrong, though.
But the issue at hand usually isn't "is Copilot legal under current law" but "should it be"; the article even admits this, touching on the legality but merely on its way to eventually tackle the question of whether it is "a problem", something that isn't (to me) much of a question of law, but instead either a question of ethics or, maybe (if one tries to be completely dispassionate on the matter), economics (which seems to be the approach used in the analysis by this lawyer).
Honestly, where Mac Window management has always shined is through the use of gestures on a touchpad.
Nuclear absolutely does need CO2 taxes to be profitable in the US vs. fossil fuels. Quite large ones, considerably larger than the "cost of carbon" in the IRA, otherwise fracked gas and combined cycle power plants blow it out of the water.

A CC power plant costs maybe $1/W; a nuclear plant costs 10x that. With cheap gas and no CO2 charges nuclear doesn't have a prayer of a chance to compete with that.

This is why the so-called "nuclear renaissance" in the US collapsed even before renewables got cheap.
I'm nursing a Mojave install that I intend to keep around for a long time, even though there are newer devices and operating systems in my houshold for everyday online stuff.

In terms of the Mac experience, it was quickly downhill from Mojave in my opinion (though I'm more fond of Snow Leopard or possibly Mavericks aesthetically), plus the 32 bit cutoff which kills important backwards compatibility for me.

I already leverage some of the really nifty Mac features like Target Disk Mode, cloning and booting from external drives etcetera, to enable some hardware agnostic behavior, and will eventually move to virtualization, probably through Proxmox.

Not having upgrades introduce breaking changes (Notes.app, I'm looking at you!) is such a relief.
Personally I think the modern hero-worshipping auteurship culture is far more harmful than anything else. You don't matter, your name doesn't matter. Culture is commons almost by definition; all works are derivative and stand on the shoulders of anonymous giants.
I'm not affiliated with this company at all, but I'm curious what others think.

My understanding is that Chainguard offers Docker base images (Chainguard Images) that contain just what's necessary to run the binary (commonly referred to as distroless images). This is in contrast to "regular" Docker images that contain an entire Linux distro baked into the image.

By reducing what's included in the image, it becomes far easier to basically generate an SBOM (software bill of materials, i.e. list of all the software in the image) and "prove" that there are no known vulnerabilities in the stack. (I think this "proving" is what the Chainguard Enforce product does.)

- Is this overkill for startups, and something that companies will only consider if it's required for something like SOC2?
- Is this a role that a company should fill, or should these distroless images be more community driven?
Which is exactly why using a middleware is an option and therefore a decision the implementor makes.

Many people appreciate the middleware approach as it provides coverage for the API surface with minimal investment, so a great way to get started.

But there is no free lunch
For sure you can. I had this workflow with manually added keybindings through many methods over the years: skhd, Hammerspoon, BetterTouchTool etc.

I just found that the functionality is useful enough to warrant an app that can dynamically assign these hotkeys based on the apps I use.

For example I change browsers often to test new additions. And because I have rcmd-B set to focus/launch/hide my current browser app, I can keep my muscle memory even after switching from Safari to Firefox. In rcmd I just press rcmd-ralt-B to reassign that hotkey, in previous workflows this involved editing a specific file, or opening a preferences window and finding the right setting to change.

The experimental window switching/opening using Right Option is also something very useful and really hard to replicate using default macOS tools.
Ahh yeah two points got mushed together. I agree they should fight for their IP. I meant more that the value of their snippet of code will go down as others fill in with their own IP.
I think he's trying to say, albeit poorly in my estimation, that adding a USB keypad in the box defeats the purpose of having a portable machine? I'm only assuming that because they're suggesting that Stage Manager is impractical and not useful for them and USB keypads seem impractical for a laptop and would be unused by the majority of people using Macbooks(?) Pro.
I'm confused. How is Stage Manager a "developer-hostile move"?
What you are describing is how it works. A mesh shader is a lot more general and flexible than even all three of Vertex / Tessellation / Geometry shaders working together. And so, it replaces all three of them to be an alternate pipeline option. It cannot be chained together with them.
Seems like he's just arguing about cosmetics.

System Settings is now vertical instead of rows. Big deal - how much time does he spend in System Settings? In command line I prefer "ls -la" over "ls". Vertical is faster to read.

An article says Stage Manager can be turned off. I'm using AltTab.app to customize my multi-tasking.
The same reason you're using Docker itself
I'm stoked to see this as it's one more platform that can run OpenBSD 7.2. From the release announcement last week (https://www.openbsd.org/72.html):

New/extended platforms:

- Added support for Ampere Altra
- Added support for Apple M2
- Added support for Lenovo ThinkPad
x13s and other machines using
the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3
(SC8280XP) SoC.