skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to share a personal anecdote, as I recently spent quite a bit of time deciding whether or not to leave Mac OS for linux (Manjaro) this year for my personal computing needs - primarily because of gaming. Ultimately, I did make the switch.
Several years back, Apple broke most of my steam library with Catalina.
I wasn't a serious gamer, but I had a lot of nostalgic games from the aughts and early 2010s that ran great (pre-Catalina) on my top-of-the-line mid-2015 retina MBP.

I finally retired that machine this year and bought a higher-end gaming pc for less than half of what it would cost me to get a less-than-the-best Apple Silicon MBP.

Yeah, it's heavy. Battery life isn't great. But my phone has replaced so much of my mobile computing needs that I don't really need to take a laptop with me when I'm traveling unless it's for work, in which case I'll have my company-issued machine with me anyway.

I never thought I'd leave MacOS for Linux - but I recently got back into gaming and basically wasn't willing to spend $4k+ on a machine I couldn't game on when all of my personal project needs, etc. can be attended to on a cheaper gaming laptop.

The fact that Apple Silicon is an absolute beast, graphically, made it all worse somehow. Like having a Ferrari in your garage that you aren't allowed to drive - only pay for and look at.

Am I Apple's target demographic? Apart from being a developer - probably not. I don't do a lot of multimedia stuff (at least, I don't do anything that isn't adequately served by a PC with a solid GPU). Because I grew up on linux I'm right at home there with all of my non-work dev / geek / fun stuff and that probably makes me an outlier.

Apple's success clearly speaks for their business savvy - and, there's now a number of chinks in my (previously 100%) Apple loyalty across my wide array of gadgetry (several Apple TVs and one each for me and my wife of: laptop, ipad, iphone, watch, airpods). After a disappointing battery experience with my airpods - I replaced them with some excellent-sounding soundcore buds. My apple watch needs to be replaced soon and I'll probably get a Garmin (again - battery life and consistent failure to capture VO2 max on outdoor runs, other frustrations). I enjoy VR gaming and plan to upgrade from a quest 2 to a quest 3 instead of buying a vision pro. What's next to go in my Apple line-up? I don't know but I've become much more open to shopping around for non-Apple tech than I was in, say, 2016 when it seemed to me that nothing else could compete with Apple.

I wonder how true this is for Apple's "geek core" of tech professionals, and how much of it is just my unique little anecdote? And, in any case - does Apple care? They've cornered the market for both the technical-artistic and "luxury" class. Plenty of meat on those bones without worrying about the geeky whims of the pesky few that are open to (and capable of) something like abandoning Mac OS for Linux.

Still, it was sad to give up my Mac OS personal computing environment. I love Apple - but for what I care about, Apple just doesn't seem to love me. We'll always have our iOS time together I guess, for now anyway.
4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years
The number of open issues doesn't tell much about the health of the project, especially on a bare-bones bug tracker like Github.

For instance: how many of those are actual bugs versus feature requests versus just questions.

Of the actual bugs, how many of those are actually critical and need fixing?

As long as incoming tickets are looked at and prioritized, and those tickets that come out on top are fixed in a timely manner all is good.

The team also just might not close any 'stale' issues that never made it to the top of the priority queue (some projects automatically close stale tickets after 1 month of inactivity, which is arguably worse).

FWIW the PR page is in much better shape: 11 Open vs 3664 Closed.
the natural language to SQL space is interesting, seeing tools pop up. The on-premise property is key. It is fragmented and thus difficult to write integrations for, but text-input fields of SQL clients / notebooks / BI tools (think metabase) are looking to be NL-to-SQL equipped. At least it will be a race of vendors to provide this.
Some reassuring words and a sign up .... this is HN.
Wonder how much this regulation cost to draft, pass, and implement? Several million dollars? Any EU tax payers care to justify this insanity?

I mean does any normal person even care about this? Eg, not people on HN with Macbook Pros – your average Windows user.

At the end of the day Windows does loads of stuff I don't like. That's why I don't use Windows anymore. Like with most things the EU regulates this just isn't an issue. Windows using a different browser for system apps is so far down on the list of things I don't like about Windows that even if you asked me to write a 100 point list of things I don't like about Windows I'm not sure this would make the list. Guess we need some more regulation.

Edit: Please don't downvote simply because you disagree with me. It's better to have a discussion. Different perspectives are good.
They did, from federal taxpayers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

From my understanding, this subsidy to people living in flood prone areas was basically untouchable due to Florida’s status as a swing state. I wonder if that has or will change due to Florida no longer being a swing state.
Dammit, I was going back-and-forth between the two terms. Updated.
Those are 'rarer than hen's teeth' exceptions that prove the rule.
Another possibility is that these iron spherules have a terrestrial technological origin. For example, metallic iron can be formed in coal ash, and coal ash was regularly dumped at sea when coal was used as a fuel for ships.

Stable isotope evidence is needed to really justify an ET origin (there is no good reason for the isotope abundances in a different stellar system to be the same as in our own, with the exception of the ~10K stars that formed in the Sun's natal cluster), but skimming the iron isotope data I'm not convinced.
Show HN: Write Github Actions Workflows in Typescript Rather Than YAML
Hey HN,

I just released github-actions-workflow-ts, an NPM package that allows you to write GitHub Actions workflows in Typescript rather than YAML. The package then generates GH Actions workflow YAML files from your Typescript code.

Why?

- Type safety

- Code re-usability: package and reuse common jobs and steps across different workflows.

- Imperative edge: Utilize control flow to control the generation of different kinds of workflows easily.

Essentially, I realized that as I write larger and more complicated GH Actions workflows in YAML, they become less readable and thus more prone to errors and harder to maintain/refactor.

You can try it out on Replit (free but requires an account to fork my examples and run them yourself). Fork it and run the build command in the shell:

- Simple Example: https://replit.com/@EmmanuelKyeyune/github-actions-workflow-...

- Advanced Example: https://replit.com/@EmmanuelKyeyune/github-actions-workflow-...

Read the accompanying blog post here: https://emmanuelnk.hashnode.dev/simplifying-github-actions-w...

Please check it out. I'm open to any feedback as I march towards the first stable 1.0.0 release.

Thanks
Experts Debunk Viral Post Claiming 1,100 Scientists Say ‘There’s No Climate Emergency’

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082022/experts-debunk-v...

“It’s irrelevant to the actual conversation that is taking place today about the climate crisis,” Mann told me in an email. “Republicans might try to prop up this latest desperate gambit. But the conversation has moved on, and this is really just a distraction and a sideshow.”
This isn't DRM, it's regular old software licensing.

> the requirement that proprietary drivers do not interact with GPL-only code would in my opinion be considered an EULA.

The requirement that proprietary code does not ""incorporate"" GPL code is the GPL, and the entire point of it. However, it might be reasonable to argue to what extent merely linking against an API is infringing. I can see that going in either direction, and such a ruling would have a big impact on GPL either way.
I tried exactly that. Turns out it can't be a .bat or .ps1 for understandable reasons, it has to be an executable. So, my "default browser" on this machine I'm on is now an .exe that prints $1. It works.
Future Banknotes [Euro]
WordPress extension: Detect missing ad-blocker
I would also urge people to wonder: why do they care so much?

I don't have the answer. Especially in the past, it seemed like a cost factor to keep up a modern browser (just ask Mozilla) if people might as well install anything else and still buy your OS and use your services. That may have just been going with the flow, not wanting to miss the boat.

My best guess for nowadays is the same as why Google hijacked a login to any google service (from gmail to youtube) as a log in to the Chrome browser, after which all the data on any website is up for grabs and they can facilitate privacy extensions all they want without compromising their own market position. Does Microsoft (plan to) run an ad business? Is it built-in Cortana integration which can answer with ads included or ranking own services higher? Is it just to be able to shove any new future service into more people's faces? To steer web standards, like if you have >70% market share on Windows desktops can you just build in a new ActiveX for WebOffice (as an example) and you'd force others to follow?

Or maybe a combination of all of the above. Either way, I think it would be good to know what strategy is behind this relentless pushing
I see, so if I get this right, futures are valued based on the expected asset value at the future’s expiry date - which tends to be more sensitive to trends (which are harder to manipulate), and less sensitive to momentary price fluctuations (which are much easier to manipulate)?

Except as the expiry date approaches. At that time fluctuations in assets and and derivatives must approach lock step, with the derivative having a magnified response.

So there should be at least that critical time (approaching expiration) when market manipulation impacts derivatives more proportionally than base asset prices.
1. If you're agile, you're not too busy to iterate because you're shipping another new thing. You're able to come back and iterate if that's the most valuable thing you can work on.

2. When waterfall delivers the wrong thing because the requirements from two years ago weren't updated to reflect two years of new reality, someone has to pick up the pieces from that, too. It may not be devops - it might be sales instead. But it's still a problem.
I think the Renault Twizy is a great example where it was made too much of a toy - and I pretty much stopped following the developments in the L7e space with that. But now a lot of Chinese companies seem to sell vehicles that are actually useful - mostly in the last-mile delivery space.

This one convinced me that you can build useful vehicles:
https://www.ari-motors.com

Essentially, L7e could perhaps be the Kei car of Europe?
Would this be similar to spike proteins that are used against us by a certain virus?
I love Microsoft, but I hate whoever is controlling all these awful choices for their OS. Lets be real its probably a marketing team trying to sell office and whatever else. I just want a version of Windows for actual professionals with no nonsense on it. Slim it down, make it feel like I'm on a 2023 machine with the minimalism of like idk Windows XP or Windows 7. No nonsense.
Apple avoids the problem of not respecting my browser choice how, exactly?

Apple open webviews in Safari, does not respect the user's choice at all, and doesn't even allow you to install a non-safari browser on their mobile OS.

This is like peak irony. Apple is the walking definition of this problem.
Windows 7 really was the last good Windows release. After that we got the hideous Metro redesign, then all the telemetry and shoving of Edge etc. down our throats.
Yeah, I bought my phone based on the requirements:

- Headphone jack

- A functional IPXY water/dust rating

- Replaceable battery

There aren't a ton of phones that satisfy this, but I ended up with a Samsung XCover Pro and have been quite happy with it.

Of course, repairable covers more than a replaceable battery, but I do think Fairphone could have added a headphone jack without too much trouble.
Do we know whether the camera will rely on DRMed drivers for good quality, like with Sony phones? Or is there hope that the camera would work well with a Linux distribution based on PostmarketOS?
The only thing that a user can do is switch OS. Microsfts goal is to extract as much profit as possible. The main factors that oppose enshitification are users leaving (revenue is lost) or regulation (increases costs).
I'm not buying an adapter for a slot that can and should be built in.

Also, it absolutely is an issue in practice. Dongles get lost (-> additional garbage produced), and blocking the USB-C slot means the phone can't be charged. Especially when traveling both slots are needed all the time.
Ha! Cool! I wasn't the only one!

But honestly, I eventually concluded that with the resolution available on my CGA monitor, the (slightly) higher-resolution black and white version was probably a better choice (and it gave the game a bit of a noir air).
When you're at the point of tricking your operating system into thinking you're in a different country to make it function properly, it may be time to try a new OS.

macOS has excellent compatibility with 95% of windows software through Parallels, and also respects your choice of browser.

I have Firefox, Chrome, Tor Browser and Brave running next to my current browser of preference, Safari. But switching back and forth is easy, and macOS respects my choice when I change the settings.
I appreciate the direct language. It’s refreshing to not have to read through the lines of PR-speak.
Seems to be a summary/rehash of https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-fire... - which I guess came first, and is a better article.
Not use Windows?
I like how they give you the frequency so you can try it yourself.
Pandas Playbook: 7 Must-Know Comprehensive Data Functions
In the realm of data analysis and machine learning, the Pandas library stands as a powerful tool. With more than 200 functions and methods, it makes you capable of wrangling and transforming data but it also makes you incapable of wrangling and transforming data because of its complexities. A dual-edge sword it is.
I had some relatives ask me about this at the time. My work is tangential to the biological sciences so sometimes they think I know things I don't :)

I always chose my words carefully. To them, when they'd ask me if it was a "lab leak" they always meant something untoward was happening at the lab. Researchers studying artificial superbugs, etc. But there's a very big difference between "natural phenomena that found its way to a lab and then out" and "artificial phenomena created in a lab and then out". So I'd respond with things like "probably not man-made", which they often took as me saying not a "lab leak".

EDIT: to be more clear about the point I was raising, I was agreeing with the parent's point. Some of this language is politically/socially charged, and one needs to take that into account when discussing the matter.
Thing is, now the UK doesn't get to participate in the free trade area, but is a rule taker anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/uk-eu-safet... - UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66394235 - Post-Brexit import checks on food delayed again
I agree these grapes look very sour
Hang in there. These 5 months rank among the worst times to get a job in software. Things will pick up in a couple of months. Make sure you're working on an interesting side project
>GPT-3.5 has 175B parameters versus 70B parameters in Llama 2

We know that for the original version of GPT-3.5, but my assumption was that Turbo was a distilled smaller model (which is why it uses OAI's new vocab & is so much faster).

If that's not the case, what could be the explanation for it being faster?
Is there a place I missed where macOS does not respect the user's default browser setting? (I'm using work-mandated Chrome as default on work laptop, never had an instance of Safari opening)

(can't comment on iOS since I use Safari there, but then TFA is about Windows 11 i.e desktop-side)
Community standards cannot exist in a diverse multicultural society because there no longer is a broad agreement on what those standards should be. Even things as basic as prohibitions on murder have various different "well, in this particular situation" exclusions that differ by culture. So anything that used to be community enforced now has to be elevated to legal enforcement, with some cultures disadvantaged and others favored by the choice of what the government will enforce on all regardless of individual cultural standards.
I wonder how this works, if I buy a laptop in the EU as a EU citizen and travel to for example the US, I still expect them to adhere to the rules where I bought it.
So again, this is just my recollection, but glueing parts shut sounds like it should help prevent water getting into the device. So if you can't do that, I assume you get closer to not getting the certification, and then adding another hole in the device might push it over the edge?

I do remember they explicitly addressed this in the FP4 launch, so it wasn't for lack of want.
I used to run Debian, but gaming was always worse than Windows for me (new AMD graphics card, yes photon is great but it's not a replacement for me). My end users are all on Windows too, and I could never properly emulate their experience on Debian (short of _emulating_ Windows).

WSL2 works really well for my needs. I get the best of both worlds. I also hate all of the data collection and dark patterns.
It would be interesting if there's a correlation with other things made of cartilage like the nose and ears.

It's interesting to note that we humans evolved vastly bigger penises than the other monkeys (silverback gorillas are much larger than men but sport 1.25-inchers) due to women having much more choice / social capital than female gorillas.
I wonder which part of the business they laid off those folks from. The article doesn't say.

In general, there are 3 main parts of an insurance company that are "in house": underwriting, claims, and accounting.

Accounting isn't really something that can be automated or outsourced.

You can't automate claims, but you can outsource.

You can automate/outsource _some_ underwriting and/or parts of the underwriting process.

Increasingly, I've seen independents adjusters (IAs, not to be confused with Public Adjusters [PAs]) doing underwriting inspections. Basically, when your adjusters aren't adjusting, they are inspecting new policies to ensure that they meet guidelines.

So I am guessing these layoffs are probably from one or both of those areas.
Are those kinds of algorithms used in VR eye tracking systems?
part of the problem here is that when people say "lab leak" they are talking about two different theories

1. that the lab "created" the virus via genetic engineering or something.
2. the virus was natural but the lab was studying it and it escaped.

The paper is explicitly about case one, saying the virus seems completely natural, they explicitly say case two is not off the table.
If this admin has shown one thing it is that they won't be encumbered by the pesky Constitution.
Somewhere in the last decade, Microsoft realized that it would be better for them to give away free upgrades to Windows for existing licensed customers so that they would have an larger pool of users that they could upsell services to and target with ads.

At this point, I'd like to return to the days of paying $129 for a Windows upgrade if it meant ripping all this junk out of my OS. Windows 11 feels pretty snappy to me, there's lots of stuff I like in it - but every week, every day brings a further encroachment into my user experience with this nonsense. Edge has already completed its character arc from upstart browser to beloved alernative and to bloated annoyance.
> feels like a crazy one.

If you dig into the rationale behind the policy, you'll likely find that it has nothing to do with email usage, and instead is much more related to controlling what is discoverable when litigation arises.
Really? I know plenty of developers with decades of experience who have never held a professional sysadmin position. Now if you're saying that it helps to do sysadmin work as a hobby to facilitate a development career, I won't disagree with you. But if you're erecting an artificial barrier to entry, I vehemently disagree with your assertion.
ECB has a survey to gather opinions on the banknote themes that are being considered. It's imho interesting, although I can't say I'm absolutely in love with any of them.

https://survey.ecb.europa.eu/euro-banknote-survey?lang=en
Edge used to be a legitimately valid choice
Apple doesn’t disrespect set user preferences in the same way that Microsoft does. This sort of oversimplified drive-by whataboutism isn’t great for conversation.
> The story is told of a Chinese law professor, who was listening to a British lawyer explain that Britons were so enlightened, they believed it was better that ninety-nine guilty men go free than that one innocent man be executed. The Chinese professor thought for a second and asked, "Better for whom?"

Specially referring to the British legal system (although others will apply), the system itself is part of the punishment, and is often used maliciously as so. You can be accused of X, have your details leaked to the press (by the police!), have social judgement cast upon you, only to be quietly found innocent later.

From personal experience: Better yet, you can have the police abuse their power to seize property and raid your home during the early hours of the morning, only to have all charges dropped, in which case you have to go through a lengthy process to get your (now damaged) items back. There is zero recourse, all of the oversight bodies are filled with ex-police and look after their own.

Meanwhile the real guilty people are 'let off' (non-pursued) because they flee the jurisdiction of the local police, or are part of a community the police are scared of. They only care for easy quick wins.

To address the article directly, the current system is to let 10 guilty men escape justice, whilst harassing 10 innocent men, and occasionally prosecuting them too.
Microsoft decided they would rather to extract more value from their captive users than the users are will to hand over if the law doesn't make it too expensive.
Are you suggesting that government (big or small) is immune to moral policing and that it's confined to the private sector? Any centralized system is subject to attack, the bigger the better.
You seem to have found an edge in the insurance business, which will enable you to offer more competitive premiums and win business from existing insurers. Best of luck!
> but data and historic evidence points to the wet market

Because almost no-one has covered this news, you may have missed that the data pointing at the wet-market (from Worobey et al) has been thoroughly debunked using solid scientific data.
I agree. I have Firefox, Chrome, Tor Browser and Brave running next to my current browser of preference, Safari. But switching back and forth is easy, and macOS respects my choice when I change the settings.
It was 640KB...
> The reason why you may think it has been suppressed as a conspiracy theory is probably because the people pushing the more for it actually use conspiracy theory patterns

Maybe it's because Fauci himself called it a conspiracy theory and tried to suppress the idea from further discussion. I think many would consider that "official", even if not technically.