skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Russian armed forces has had a lot of actual battlefield experience invading Georgia in the ‘00s, bombing Syria in the ‘10s, not to mention its internal bloody counterinsurgency occupation in Chechnya in the ‘90s. The Chinese military hasn’t fought a real war since against Vietnam in 1979, and its navy has had no experience at all since- Korea? The end of the civil war?

War is entirely more uncertain for China, and potentially more destabilizing with more to lose, than it was for Russia.
Is there any legit reason Apple is hastening the drop of support for older computers when they can be upgraded just fine with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher?

It seems wrong to me in an age of excessive e-waste that seemingly arbitrary thresholds is set that has zero hardware links.

I generally really like Apple, and is planning on retiring my 2014 Macbook Pro for an M2, but it's still working absolutely great. But i could only upgrade to Monterey with the legacy patcher like many others, seemingly problem free.

It's the same thing with older iPads, i wanted to use one as a "hub" for homekit, but you can't because it can't update ios beyond 9 (regular browsing + video + 99% of apps is also broken), so people just throw it in the dumpster with a great battery, a fine screen and a processor that could easily be used as a server, video player, browser etc.

I know other companies are often worse but we really need legislation around this; something ala if the biggest players drop support for some hardware let the user upgrade anyway even if performance will be worse, otherwise release all drivers so that you can at least install linux or alternatively release some "trimmed down versions" of the OS for legacy systems that can still run basic functionality.
> explain in depth why a side bar makes sense for settings, the most cognitively demanding part of an OS now with superfluous information on the side? That's critical real estate to lose

What are you talking about?

First of all, there's zero "critical real estate" to lose. Settings doesn't, and never has, taken up even close to full screen width on any regular laptop/monitor. And it still doesn't. Literally nothing is lost.

Second, why doesn't it make sense? The previous icon palette was a usability disaster. I'd spend 15 seconds hunting for which damned icon I was looking for each time. The sidebar has much more logical groupings. Plus, when you follow a button/link in one panel that leads to a different panel (e.g. accessibility to keyboard, or vice-versa) it's clear visually where you are now, because a new category in the sidebar is highlighted.

And I just have no idea what visual clutter you're talking about either. Do you find tab bars at the top of a dialog to also be clutter? Do you find the menu bar to be clutter? Because this works the same as both of those.
The results are extremely sensitive to the totally arbitrary payoffs assigned.
Or was it the other way around?
He is coming from an aerospace/military background so I assume he is providing this information in case the job requires working in confined spaces and/or lifting weights or other physically strenuous exercise.
Pretty embarrassing the number of people here who seem to have no issue with unsolicited nudes. Has anyone ever talked to anyone who's been harrassed, assaulted, stalked, anything? Yikes
Anybody knows what the “sd” means after his signature?
Do we have an opinion on Threema ?
Thanks for that. I almost always prefer conda but to try 3.11 I will just use pyenv. So thanks for saving me some time.
How does it not describe what you do? Every Roguelike has a specific goal/win condition that a player is trying to reach with permadeath and procedural elements.

Even then, most video-game genres are even LESS descriptive than "Roguelike". If a game is a "shooter", "simulation", "action", or "roleplaying" game, it's quite hard to tell what those things really mean. It turns out that "Roguelike" has actually become one of the most descriptive terms when it comes to game mechanics in recent years.
I could only handle the first minute of the Holocaust discussion because Kanye was just unhinged - African Americans is not a lost tribe and Planned Parenthood can in no way be compared to genocide.

Lex wrongly assumes you can reason with and even find value in the rantings of somebody who is suffering from mental illness.
It's true.. If they are fine using and old OS, they should be fine with an old VSCode release.
This whole thread is such a great example of itself!
... in one internal function. It seems that the assumptions totally hold for the library as a whole.
Anthony Sottile on twitch is a joy to watch https://www.twitch.tv/anthonywritescode if you like Python
Having used Kotlin on and off for the better part of a decade, the one thing I can say is that their editor support is unrivaled by any other language today. While Kotlin's build tools leave much to be desired (looking at you, Gradle), their focus on building a "toolable" language was the right thing to lean into. You can add all the fancy type system features you want, but if the IDE does not understand them, convincing users is going to be a hard sell.

Whenever I try to get into another language today, the lack of language-aware editing tools are my main source of frustration - specifically, I expect navigation, refactoring and completion to work flawlessly. I know of no other programming language that puts as much effort into context- and structure-aware refactoring - if another language does one day replace Kotlin, it will need to offer a comparable editing experience.
Whether due to bad timing in the market or general hubris, Reddit won't sell until it reaches the likes of Yahoo and the Ruperts of the world. Every day they look more and more like Digg v4, their own raison d'être
But some dynamic features, e.g. “with” make JS and its JITs give up and run slowly.

Those features are not in common use. Python’s hard-to-optimize dynamic features are more commonly used.
Haha, I thought I was the only one guilt tripped at the end questions about financially supporting emacs,
When the goal is to create a service with 100% uptake, one can't optimize for the minority position, especially if the majority finds it objectionable.

So what you're looking for if you want something like that is a developer that is not optimizing to get 100% uptake. That's tricky to find, because the people with money always want 100% uptake.
Game genres are weird, like there are "horror" games and "first person shooters" and "visual novels". The genres either describe the experience, what the player is doing, or even the medium the game uses. It's such a random smattering of taxonomic ideas.
Sorry, ready to run. That acronym is jargon from the RC Car hobby.
Former U.S. mil. pilot that worked in China arrested in Australia
Just because it hasn't been updated in forever doesn't mean it needs to be. I get the feeling that people get bored with a design and expect a design refresh.
Show HN: Bookmarks.email – Daily digest of Twitter bookmarks
I am always amazed at the ability of Unreal Engine to animate humanoid characters.
It would be fiscal malpractice to IPO right now if you have the cash to wait out market weakness. Practically no healthy companies are going to try until mid-2023 at least.
Dunno, I'm mostly missing the day when we had the technology to create responsive user interfaces. Like imagine we used to have progress bars that actually reported progress, not just some bogus animation.

Good times.
Anecdotally, now is not a good time to be doing an IPO if you can help it. My company was also thinking about an IPO and is now delaying. I imagine they're waiting for market conditions to be better
ClockworkPi – uConsole, “fantasy console” for indie game developers
They cared a lot less before the lawsuits started hitting.

Their appreciation for nudity is offset by their aversion to standing around in courtrooms or paying money for an expensive representative to do it for them.
Not sure if you're asking how to specifically do this for CPython, or how this works generally with Sigstore.

For how this works specifically with CPython, see https://www.python.org/download/sigstore/ for details.

For how this works generally: it's the same public/private key cryptography you're used to elsewhere, and https://docs.sigstore.dev/ has more details.
New Sankey Creation Tool
Recently we have been making lots of charts that have been receiving very positive responses from the community. to increase our output we decided it was important for us to develop some tools to make the process more efficient which is where [Sankey](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1159893716343028026/S...) came from.

One question we get a lot about our charts is “How we do it” and with the development of our Sankey tool, we thought what better way to let everyone know how we do it than to simply give you the same tools.

Having worked on a lot of Sankey/ Flow charts we have identified what our pain points have mostly been during the chart drawing process. We believe we have removed a significant amount of these problems with the creation of this tool.

With all the blocks and data in place this tool will connect your whole graph up in seconds with the bulk connect feature one which we believe is crucial in the creation of these charts.
They fail WCAG2 AA for "Normal Text" contrast at a ratio of 3.46:1 (#4589EE over #FFF).
Centering text in any technology. :)
I certainly don't think this is bad advice, but without some discussion of how to assess the strength of a signal or the appropriate reaction size, I'm not sure it's useful advice. Knowing not to overreact to weak signals seems like the easy part. The hard part is knowing the difference.
Bluetooth. It sucks in every kind of way possible. It never connects when you want it to. It autoconnects when you DONT want it to. Pairing is a crapshoot and praying.

It's basically printers all over again. It sucks!
I see the dematerialisation going at an increasing rate: one smartphone replace how many things today?

Think about how things have changed in the last 20 years with the internet. How we have improved efficiency all around, started the EV revolution, solar energy, AI, etc.

Same with internet vs before: books, schools, libraries, stores, etc.

Things like facebook marketplace: so much used stuff everywhere. For me it’s very easy to find almost anything I want used cheaply, but when I don’t need it anymore and want to sell it it’s harder (houses are already full to the rafters)

The new generation is not as much interested in stuff, there is too much stuff everywhere.

So I think we are very close to peak stuff and peak humans on the planet.

Furthermore we are being more and more careful about long term thinking our our effects: pollution, ressources, global warming.

I think we are overcorrecting, putting too much emphasis on these things and not enough on humans problems: meaning crisis, depression, suicide, nuclear war.

To me it seems we are very close to a world of abondance and safety, but we still fighting with each others.

We are looking in the rear view mirror to decide what is important, but the future that is coming is very different than the past.

You can look at Tony Seba energy transition just to get an idea of what is coming on the energy front.
2x a small number is sometimes also a small number.

I speculate that labor is not a significant contributor the cost to produce an iPhone.
>The good

>Orange color scheme is fittingly Halloween-y for late October

Lol what? Are we to the point now where OS updates are so mundane that a highlight of the release is that the primary color scheme is "holiday relevant" for at most two weeks out of the year?

Not bashing Ventura - I haven't used it - I just feel like this is a weird thing to put in the "pro" column for a review of an operating system. Not that putting it in the "con" column would be any less weird...
This.

Looking at this kind of research is a kind of game: statistically most such research is wrong [1], so the game is to spot the mistake as to why the research is wrong.

I think you are winning this round!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
Concerns like this are a big part of why you need to charge double your normal rate when contracting. You might not get paid for travel to and between job sites. You also aren’t working performatively so there’s little or negative value to padding your hours to match a 40 hour schedule every single week. Work 30 hours except during crunch time. Sharpen your saw.
Once or twice, yeah sure.

9 times in 3 years, it at best means that you're really really bad at judging and picking workplaces.

But from the outside, if out of 9 places all are shitty, the problem might not be the workplaces.
A few years of TSMC being unavailable would cripple consumer electronics in general. Lots of chip vendors all buy their dies from TSMC. It's not just Apple by a long shot.

This is a known problem, potentially one even at the scale of being a national security issue. It's a big part of why there are all these new federal subsidies to try and bring advanced chip-fab back to the US.
At the end of the day, the goal is to enjoy a data sequence that exists in the world.

If someone thinks that they can “own” a data sequence on the internet, and labored to produce it based on that belief, that’s unfortunate.
Scroll a page. Click a link. Go back. You're back at the top of the thing you were scrolling.
no, it has a persistent notification, but maybe they do something else wrong if other vpns work fine
Not all, but the ones that mattered and bothered, yes.

I am not asking them to delete the other app, I am not asking them to join a religion. I am just asking them (and helping if necessary) to install an app and set up an account on my server.
> Labor cost is an issue but at 530 per month as of 2020 Chinese mfr labor is still relatively cheap and only twice as expensive as India.

The interesting question the article didn't answer is "how much labor goes into making an iphone?" The economics are very different if labor is 10% of the cost vs 70% of the cost.
Printing something from my computer. I can connect to servers all around the world and for whatever reason, I cannot predictably and reliably connect to printers in my home or office.
HTML tables still work great, just like they did 20+ years ago.
We have trouble keeping Jira and Bitbucket synced. Both cloud products. How can they struggle with integrating themselves?! (Our GitHub repos sync just fine.)
You can explore the public projects here: https://opensource.ieee.org/explore
Copy and paste in Windows.
> Trying to pass 9 different jobs in 3 years as "hyperfocus on dumb details"

I’m constantly baffled by HN assertions that nothing should matter in an interview.

If 3 early terminations and 9 jobs in 3 years are “dumb details” then I don’t even know what these people would consider relevant when it comes to work history.

Juxtapose this with the “Ask HN” posts from people asking how to deal with incompetent or difficult coworkers, where the response is usually a chorus of “GTFO”.

Like you said, there’s a reason hiring managers focus on these details: It’s because we have to protect the team, and bringing in someone who has a history of causing problems or failing to deliver puts everybody at risk.
Not going to lie, this seems to scratch an itch I haven't thought about since the days of the Pocket C.H.I.P. If the keyboard is even remotely useable, I am interested.
At least, unlike elephants, we're not doomed to die of starvation after losing our last set of teeth.
Wait, is the printers story over?
My inability to connect to a printer over the network reliably. Can't tell you how many times I have to "fix the printer" in my house.
Mine is automated message handling in iOS.

Specifically I volunteer for a group that uses SMS with embedded links for the volunteers to tap to check in and out of a job. Frequently these links are truncated or divided in a way that makes their URL structure invalid. This happens all the time due to the difference in message length and how iOS handles longer messages.

I know this boils down to an SMS character limit kludge, but our Android users do not experience this. The message comes as one block or "bubble" but the iOS users see multiple bubbles that are frequently out of order.
You can use something similar, even today. My CV isn't *much* different than the one in the link and it seems that it does stand out as I've been complimented about it, twice.
MS Office issues. The whole project back in the 90s as I understand it was that all of these productivity tools would work together. You write something up in Word, move that over into a PowerPoint slide and add in a cool data visual from Excel. I don't know what happened but they do NOT play nice together anymore. Tables don't copy right, I use a totally external program to screenshot the table or pie chart, and maintaining formatting between programs?

Fahgettabouttit.

Word is also remarkably bad with long (100+ page) documents and lots of different content sources. If you're not pasting as pure text into Microsoft Word, you're playing with fire.

Also, I suspect it's cruft inside the program that has made this problem actually worse over time, not just "still a problem". Thank god Markdown is now more widely supported, including on Microsoft-owned Github.
I don't see many 5-star skill ratings, dual colored backgrounds (?), or unreadable fonts. Where do you see those? I would turn people away from that format if they asked my advice.

My resume, and the resumes I've seen aren't too far away from this format. More bullet points and a bit more detail than this, I guess. But otherwise pretty similar
> why do they need 100 engineers

You're off by an order of magnitude. Hundreds of developers? Sure. But Uber has thousands of developers.
Yeah, I am a little disappointed that this is the first upgrade that I cannot get with my late 2015 iMac. I'd use the legacy patcher perhaps, but I don't see much on this new version that I would want, so i'd rather keep things offical for now, to avoid any issues.

Yes, I get that this machine is 7 years old, but I cannot tell from using it, everything is extremely fast, I upspecced it when I bought it and maxed out a lot of things, it has a decent i7 processor, 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd and the m395x maxed out graphics card, heck it still games well in Windows.

I really see zero reason to upgrade, it runs better than my new work windows laptop except that Apple have decided for some reason I can't get the update.
Isn't this Meta's biggest problem that it's Metaverse can't shine using graphics from the 21st century, because it needs to run on cheap VR headsets. You don't have a big market if a $1000 graphics card with 300W TDP is needed to run your stuff.
Where to even start with this... Ok, how about with Microsoft Outlook? The "undo" after deleting or moving an email works about 10% of the time. Sometimes it recovers the message, but most of the time it either does nothing or even better, brings back a totally different message!! smh
>>who seemed to have gone full Pirates of Silicon Valley and stolen the good features from iOS

.......I'm sorry, what? It seems like iOS is "stealing" features from Android every few years, they basically let Samsung and others implement something first, improve it for a couple iterations, then finally they add it to iOS and say "look this is a massive step for iOS!", and I'm sitting there being like......we've had this for at least 5 years, what's the big deal? Just that it's nice and polished? Cool, well done, have a cookie.
The PRC constantly skirmishes with India and has land grabbed many islands in the South China Sea, many already occupied.

Yes, since and during the communist takeover of China, all of its military might has generally been directed inwards at it's own people, but they are still a military force and are well organized.

I'd equate the current period of the PRC to the Soviet arms build up of the Cold War.
I just miss responsive desktop applications. I see USD10000+ tools running in the browser and I just wish we went back to how solid applications were built in 1990s or 2000s.
Initials of who typed up the letter.

Standard practice back then. I learned about it in H.S. typing class in the late 80s

Edit: s/resume/letter/g
I play roguelikes like Hades. If you asked Hades players "is Hades a roguelike" I think most would say yes.

Language evolves. Rogue, Nethack, Angband, etc are now just a type of roguelike.
Bad judgment on the part of Toyota.

Understandable --- but still bad judgment.

The entire Japanese auto industry is built around the internal combustion engine. Milling and casting technology represents decades of refinement and millions of jobs.

A lot of this goes out the window with EVs. The alternative is for Toyota itself to go out the window.

It's called "progress" --- and it waits for no one.
All of these things are generally frowned upon already.
Easily tested by comparing charging times in hot regions and countries as opposed to cold ones. For example, Kuwait versus Norway.
the difficulty an ambulance sometimes has finding you after a wreck
Tried for hours this weekend trying to share files from my Mac Laptop to a Windows 11 PC over the network. Both had latest versions of operating systems.

Could not for the life of me get it working. Had to dig up a usb thumbdrive.

I used to have this working fine in 2002.
Of course, because the more older models you support that don't have the hardware needed for your new features, the more programming you have to do to enable/disable those features in different configurations, the more testing, and the more bugs. It becomes impossible to maintain. At some point you have to draw a line and let go, in order to delete the legacy code holding you back.

But please don't throw your iPad in the dumpster! I don't know why you're saying it could be easily used as a video or browser -- it still can! Tons of people use old iPads running old versions of iOS specifically as video players. They're perfect for that! Don't put it in the dumpster, sell it on eBay or give it to a friend's kid or something.
Bluetooth. Especially when paired with the infotainment systems in cars.
No and that makes it worse
verification of not just payload, but who/what signed, ie trust on who produced the artifact.
No so that's exactly it.

Not all combinations are tested, all branches are both taken and not taken, but not all combinations of taken/not taken are tested.
Bought my brother laser printer in 2019. Zero maintenance zero worrying about the INK DRYING OUT (wtf) and my wife can print from the LAN or her phone. I've done zero tech support so that makes it worth every penny. To me it's a solved issue try it!
It's amazing how often things break with absolutely no indication of why or what caused it. Load a page, get a completely blank screen or component. Why? No clue. Everything just silently fails and redirects you to a happy path, e.g. back to a home page or a starting screen. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get an "Oops, try again later or contact support for more help!"
Keyboard and trackpad/mouse is a huge difference from only a touchscreen.
Yeah fucking Bluetooth is the real player of 2022. Even when it works it works poorly
There are too many to name, it's basically the entire developed world, which is basically NA, Western Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea.

Not saying the US is not more expensive, but it's not a "huge outlier" by any means.
Leave, get a job somewhere else. Seems like an awful work environment. If you stay here, you'll ruin yourself. I know.
Shit, I'd be happy if the Mobil stations near me would correctly implement chip cards on their gas pumps. Every friggin' time, they ask for a PIN and refuse to take "no" for an answer. Every. Time.

It's a credit card. It doesn't have a damn PIN in the US, and I have to go inside to pay for gas every time. I've quit buying gas at the area Mobil stations because of the hassle. Most of the other chains seem to get it right.

How is it that Europe has been doing chip cards (with PIN) for decades, and we can't get this right?