skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It more or less doesn't in MacOS, and has NEVER really been a thing.

While there ARE some tools that require a more invasive "installation" process (e.g., VMWare Fusion), the overwhelming majority of Mac software is installed by just dragging the application bundle into /Applications.

(App bundles are just special directories, more or less, so you're moving more than just the file, but it presents as a single thing.)

To remove an app, you just drag that bundle into the trash.

This usually DOES leave behind things like local user data or preference files, but those are inert text files and don't impact perf or machine behavior in the long run. Users typically waste more space on cat pictures.

The tl;dr is that "installers" and "uninstallers" only exist because Windows needs them. I have seen MANY MANY FOLKS come to the Mac and be VERY confused by this. "But you NEED an installation process! This can't work!" Nope. Windows needs an installation process.

I joked, in the 90s, that despite all the monopolistic chicanery from Redmond, their real lasting awful legacy would be the degree to which they lowered people's expecations about how computers worked, and I stand by that.

(Something else not needed on sane systems: "clean up" software. If you don't litter the file system with files when you add a program, you don't need special utilities to run that shit down and delete it later.)
Oh my bad, I meant how to code it?
> Why are you using a broken toy computer not under your control that effectively acts only to hurt you? Euphemistically calling it a "telephone" does not hide the fact you are in an abusive relationship with Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon (the 'evil MAGA'). Throw those gadgets away, stop hurting yourself.

Because most users are not looking for a device that is a full blown computer they can fully control. The toy computer they have in their pocket is good enough for them. Heck I'm a dev & power user and the toy computer of a phone I use as my daily driver is good enough for me when I'm chilling on the sofa/lying in bed/out with friends and I just want to query something and I just want/need an "internet consumption device" as I still have my laptop/desktop when I need a full blown computer.
"COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated and Fully Vaccinated Adults with and Without Booster Doses During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Emergence — 25 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–December 25, 2021"

What is already known about this topic?

Although COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness decreased with emergence of the Delta variant and waning of vaccine-induced immunity, protection against hospitalization and death has remained high.

What is added by this report?

In 25 U.S. jurisdictions, decreases in case incidence rate ratios for unvaccinated versus fully vaccinated persons with and without booster vaccine doses were observed when the Omicron variant emerged in December 2021. Protection against infection and death during the Delta-predominant period and against infection during Omicron emergence were higher among booster vaccine dose recipients, especially among persons aged 50–64 and ≥65 years.

What are the implications for public health practice?

COVID-19 vaccination protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection, even as the Omicron variant became predominant. All eligible persons should stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccination.

...

Rates of COVID-19 cases were lowest among fully vaccinated persons with a booster dose, compared with fully vaccinated persons without a booster dose, and much lower than rates among unvaccinated persons during October–November (25.0, 87.7, and 347.8 per 100,000 population, respectively) and December 2021 (148.6, 254.8, and 725.6 per 100,000 population, respectively) (Table 2). Similar trends were noted for differences in the mortality rates among these three groups (0.1, 0.6, and 7.8 per 100,000 population, respectively) during October–November. Age-standardized case IRRs among unvaccinated persons compared with fully vaccinated persons with a booster dose declined from 13.9 during October–November to 4.9 during December, representing potential decreases in crude VE for infection from 93% to 80%, respectively. Comparing unvaccinated persons with fully vaccinated persons without a booster dose, age-standardized case IRRs during October–November and December were 4.0 and 2.8 respectively, representing decreases in VE from 75% to 64%. During October–November, age-standardized IRRs for deaths among unvaccinated persons were 53.2 compared with those in fully vaccinated persons with a booster dose and 12.7 compared with persons without a booster dose; these results represented crude VE against death of 98% and 92%, respectively. Protection improved among persons who received a booster dose compared with not receiving a booster, regardless of primary series vaccine product type. Booster doses provided the largest gains in protection among persons aged ≥65 years followed by persons aged 50–64 years when compared with those aged 18–49 years.

<https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm>

Your specific claims are of course complete bullshit.
In this day and age there's virtually no barrier to entry for spreading health disinformation and the quack health industry is huge, they sell a _lot_ of schlock. The fact that the people who are factually correct happen to also hold power doesn't matter since the kooks have no barriers to entry for spamming their disinformation across the internet and they're actually hard to avoid (as we see here). The people who are factually correct are generally at a disadvantage since the truth is boring and quacks can sell sensationalism ("your phone causes cancer!").
LÖVE + Zerobrane for IDE is my single favorite to write software that puts pixels on the screen.

a few reasons why I love it

-Both the IDE and the framework are lightweight enough to run comfortably even on an RPI.

-The single best documentation I've ever used for any piece of development tool. Lots of examples, concise and made for max velocity.

-Excellent forum with friendly people. It has taken a bit of a backseat to project Discord, which I find a bit sad. But everyone is helpful there too.

-Great ecosystem of just about any library you can ask for.

It has kind of spoiled software development for me. I tried getting the hang of similar technologies many times without success. Atleast now I understand the people who still go on about how great their QuickBASIC / TurboPascal workflow was back in the days.

That being said there ARE a few areas in LÖVE that leave things to be desired:

- I feel like the devs are a bit too trigger happy to make API changes. Though fixing a big chunk of these are a matter of a few search + replaces.

- The rendering can feel oddly slow?? Especially on Android I kept bumping into weird scenarios where I felt like it should hit 60 FPS no problem, even with the Lua JIT inactive.

- There aren't many resources about how to make good use of threading features to speed up common performance problems. There is definetly room for a "LÖVE2D Performance Necronomicon" to be written by someone who is more knowledgeable in CompSci fundamentals than me. :^)
This is really interesting. What tech stack are you using?

I tried to setup an account, but never received a confirmation code.
That’s because your WiFi router’s transmission power is limited.

RF burns are real, but generally aren’t going to happen with consumer gear designed to operate inside your house.

But climb a cell tower and get on the wrong side of a backhaul and you’ll get burned pretty quickly. You can probably get there with some routers running OpenWRT with the power cranked up (not recommending this).

(Worked on RF gear for years and have experienced high power RF output).
The station does not have the space on the tiny platforms for a few hundred people to wait for the train, and they would obstruct those exiting the train if they did. The upstairs does.

I don't find it overcrowded, just inefficient. Folks sitting on steps, no other seating, etc. etc...

The announcements aren't at the last second, but they are usually after the train has final slot verification and may already be unloading. You will routinely have 5-7 min to board unless there is a schedule issue.

Perhaps in off-hours they could consider early announcement, but for high density times, the infra just isn't built for that efficiently or safely.
Notice How I keep receiving Spotify promotions for the fake accounts created on my domain. Does this look like Spotify did something about it?

Whatever, I'm not going through all this BS again. Spotify has it's own "Spam box" because it is possible or was possible to create Spotify accounts without verification and a subset of it is created on my domain and I'm not going through the process of fixing up the Spotify's fake account problem.

Someone created these, I tried to inform Spotify about it and if they are find with paying for the streams these accounts (probably) generate, it's all fine by me.
Why are we paying any attention to what he thinks? All of his so-called engineering genius has either been discredited or revealed to be heavily overhyped
In addition to the content we (MicroConf) have put out on this topic, and the community we’ve built that allows people to find co-founders, we’re also gearing up a co-founder matching service.
Wouldn't visiting HN with such an old device mean you cannot read most of the posted articles? I know some users go to the comments first but not being able to read the articles might lead to less quality comments (I'm not looking at OP's old comments to not bias myself).
Ads are evil. They represent the efforts of a multi billion dollar industry using the output of millions of dollars of psychological research to manipulate you into buying things you don’t need. The average person has no chance against this psychological manipulation.

Burn it to the ground, and let something sane take its place. Micro payments and its kin don’t work today because ads are easier. Create a space and a need for them, and watch them flourish.
Here's a video showing the construction of one based on the same principle, but using a camera for wavelength measurement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MzQ1OF3lk
We are mother nature and mother nature is us. It's all intertwined. An iPhone is as natural as a banana (earth -> tree -> banana, earth -> human -> iphone). The unnatural would be, by definition, impossible.
Also, heads up for anyone on MacOS, here's a fun experiment!

Go to your Applications folder. Right-click any app. Click "Show Package Contents." Take a good look around.
Maybe they keep all their Stevie Ray Vaughan bootlegs in /srv
Uh oh, just did a search... well that's too bad.

I guess my point still stands where I'm not buying all my eggs from 1 marketplace.
It's the moment of this night's attack what is depicted on OP's graph, here is a news story:

>Ukrainian missiles strike Russian warships in Crimean naval base

>Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol, which Russia uses as a repair base for its Black Sea Fleet, with 10 cruise missiles and three unmanned boats.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/13/europe/crimea-missile-att...
I hope you are very aware you don't help to solve the issue in any possible way by being in this hysterical state of fear.

I don't agree with the naïve approach the Swedish government took on immigration, not much was done to actually bridge cultural and economical gaps, Swedish society has become very individualistic and losing its collectivist sense for a while, from what I gather from older generations since at least the 90s. Without a sense of community to integrate immigrants into different aspects of society, just relying on education of children (and hoping those connections between newly immigrant parents and the larger society will be enough) instead of bringing their parents into the fold to become fully citizens and aligning into shared values was never going to work out.

On the other hand, the problem stemming from this naïvety is here, right now, the solution is not to vote for SD (or AfS, and similarly populists parties) who promise to "crack down on immigration and crime" with non-solutions. The solution is not going to be simple, not going to be to just hire more police with lower standards so the government can say it's filling the ranks of Polisen to fight crime, that will only prolong, and escalate gang wars. Not that the police doesn't need more staffing, it needs, but with smart hiring, not just throwing brutes into the mix with lower standards.

It's exactly what happened when Sweden broke up gangs like Vårbynätverket, the power vacuum fueled more violence, as any country with gang issues has known for a long time. The current government is not really willing to hear about a holistic approach to solve this issue, they want to crack down on crime, and just like the narcotics policy: it won't work, it won't stamp out, gangs exist for multiple social reasons and without tackling that side of the equation there's just an infinite game of whack-a-mole, and as we see it just gets worse, now the criminals recruit 12-15 years old to do their murders for them.

I really hope you can see that there is no easy way out of this, I say that as a Brazilian living here for more than a decade: escalating violence against gangs while escalating the anti-immigration rhetoric in a country with a lot of immigrants already feeling left out of society is just going to make everything worse, I really hope Sweden doesn't go through this know failure path because it can get much uglier.
My favourite annual post from .net world and as usual - long as hell
np.nan is only for floats, doesn't help with integer, boolean, string etc. Also, datetimes have NaT, but it's troublesome to e.g. do different checks np.isnan() or np.isnat() depending in the data type. And we don't even have np.nat, but need np.datetime64("NaT"), so it's just confusing.
What happens when you run an executable from a FAT formatted partition under Linux, then I would guess Linux also no longer allow deleting the file while it is running, right? In the end this is a feature of the file system, can you delete open files?
All the more reason to reduce the number of cars on the road: prioritize active and public transport (so that people choose to use them where possible instead of driving a wasteful private vehicle).

Other measures should also be considered but our Tory government will never contemplate them.
I have a handful of ideas that I'd be interested in finding collaborators for. I own a few bootstrapped businesses (they're not in my profile, I keep them low profile to avoid competition) and spend quite a bit of money (>$700k USD spent in 2022 on biz expenses + personal expenses). Spending lots of money shows me quite a few product ideas - I'm slowly working on a few of those product ideas because I'd like to a) buy them for myself and b) make them as products/businesses - but I'm kind of spreading myself too thin and would be interested in collaborators.

So, if someone would like to explore collaborating, feel free to email me - email in profile. That said, I'd probably only want to collaborate with someone that's so good that they wouldn't need me, and then that person wouldn't want to collaborate. (I think the profile I'd be looking to meet is someone who has successfully launched 2 or 3 or more tiny software products/apps, so I can see that you can successfully make high quality polished things, and they work well and customers love them and you marketed them solo and made them solo, but they're not huge, because you've been limited to the small $$ problems that you're exposed to, so then hypothetically by building for the large $$ problems that I spend on and large $$ markets that I have some experience selling to, you could make something bigger. People like this are rare and mostly not looking for collaborators, though, because they're already making at least 5-6 figures from bootstrapped businesses already.)

I've also considered making a thing like this to help match co-founders who are aiming to be "million dollar bootstrappers" - 7 figures in profit but bootstrapped, not growth at all costs. The ideal way to monetize it would be to get a percentage of the businesses if they successfully start, but that's tough when things like YC Cofounder Matching are free services, and I think it'd turn people off. 99% of people on both sides won't end up making successful businesses even if they have impressive resumes, so another risk is that it's a marketplace of lemons. Everyone's going to be skeptical of everyone I think - "if you're so good why are you here" - so people will assume that people on there aren't good, and therefore won't seriously use it, etc.
It's interesting tech but none of the musical pieces impressed me (I play multiple instruments and have written and arranged music), most sounded too repetitive and not very imaginative. This is also an issue with diffusion based art AI in general, its good at a limited set of things but gets rather repetitive after a while. I could see using this as background music where quality is not important, like in games, though I doubt you could run the AI generator inside a game, you could generate it as a asset. People like Hans Zimmer and Ludwig Göransson have nothing to worry about.

Singing would an interesting experiment, but I don't see that here.
Most of these sound like things a native programming language can do. Without being a damn excel file. So it’s basically an argument for making your config files JavaScript, Python, etc.
What sort of wavelength of sensor do you need for ABV measurements? Size of ethanol particle? Half it because of Nyquist? Or what does it have to relate to?

I'm just wondering how fancy vs. DIY you need for that sort of purpose basically.
Is the extreme metal music lacking from the training set? Why do the extreme metal examples always sound horrible?
> Guido van Rossum came across subtle bugs where the indentation disagreed with the syntactic grouping. Meaningful indentation fixed this class of bug. Since there are no begin/end brackets there cannot be a disagreement between grouping perceived by the parser and the human reader.

Significant indentation alone doesn't eliminate this class of bugs. I'm pretty sure I've only seen this once ever, and can't remember the exact combination that caused it, but I have encountered a file that mixed tabs and spaces in a way python didn't barf over, that resulted in visual indentation being different from the programmatic indentation. I can definitely say it was python 2, not 3, so that particular instance may error nowadays.
Erlang/OTP (and therefore all BEAM Languages such as Elixir) have a supervision tree which means that each module in a monolithic application can be run independently in as many processors/machines as required. Essentially you get Kubernetes + Docker for free (virtually zero overhead) inside the Erlang VM. See: https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/08/23/using-supervisors-to-o...
“Cell phone radiation increases the risk for a number of biological and health disorders, including gliomas and acoustic neuroma brain cancer. Researchers discuss how to reduce the risk of cell phone radiation.”[1]

[1] https://neurosciencenews.com/cellphone-radiation-brain-cance...
More than that, you have to "install" the code for every webapp that you use at least once (unless it's cached).
It's just not that useful in Sweden, I'd assume. You want to get the money into the banking system and stay there. What you describe is easily traceable and reversed. Unless you transfer it abroad to... less civilized countries, it's not really helping you.

I find it really hard to believe that this Spotify scam is more effective than some classic Forex scam.
See Glascow's M8 which did get built!
Random question for you: How feasible is it for someone with a software/ML background to get into this space? I'd like to get into learning a new domain through ML, but it feels very daunting.
It was not a technical limitation, in that the same equipment could display more realistic animation. It was, however, the best way the artists of the day knew how to animate quickly.
Well, xlsx is just a zipped dir of text (XML) files, so you can think of it as sort of following the .d pattern...
Solar2D[0] (formerly Corona SDK) is also based on Love2D. I got into programming via Corona SDK inspired by Bubble ball[1] made by a 14 y.o boy.

Edit: This brings back so many memories

[0]https://solar2d.com/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Ball
But they'll be able to write so much in the text editor with their bluetooth keyboard!
I was kicked out of my parent's house.

The really shit side: its impossible to change your drivers license (which is your "official address") to homeless.

And if you get sued, they send your mail to that former address, regardless if you ever get it.

And, well, I was sued. My parents destroyed my mail. And had a summary judgement against me on a case I didnt know exist, to an address I couldn't change cause I didnt have a new one.

Fuck this country.
To my understanding there is no link.
A few leaders can pull critical people over with them and help speed up projects. Samsung and SMIC poach TSMC R&D leaders fairly frequently and it makes the news over there.
> Family punishments…have been common throughout history…totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and modern North Korea have successfully used family punishment to put fear into the hearts of their most courageous opponents. Such tactics work because,

Do these tactics work? Did Soviet Russia have lower crime rates because of this punishment.

The author seems to leap from “this happened” to “this worked” without any supporting evidence.

I’d say that not only did they not work, they resulted in much more harm than the actual crimes committed. Punishing a family member for the crimes of their family means you’re now causing more harm overall. Not to mention, why punishing someone other than the criminal is wrong.
Interview with economic historian, Aaron Benanav, on ChatGPT and automation
>In Oxford they largely don't bother

Funnily enough I saw a traffic warden issuing tickets in Oxford last week.
I know quite a few technically talented musicians who have next to no creativity in actually writing the music (aside from jazz style improv sessions). Most of them never really play live unless it's part of a similarly uncreative band of college friends. I wonder if having a catchy/complex AI generated song created for them to play live might be interesting to them. Gonna check in and see what they think.
"They do if they want to deliver ads that are relevant."

I don't have any interest in them doing so, so this seems to work out.

I'm not interested in being manipulated, nor providing information about myself to make that manipulation more effective.
Thanks for this link! I've been wanting to try love but it's hard to find a real codebase that's small enough to just read through to learn it but also complex enough to be realistic. This seems like a great example.
Depends on the medium! I'm fairly certain that a high-energy microwave shower would indeed be illegal.

Both frequency and amplitude matter; reductive arguments like this will convince neither laypeople nor people with some understanding of physics.
Yeah, I don't use rewards or loyalty programs at all; I don't like giving over the headspace to corporate manipulators. But I still use debit cards very carefully because of the better protections from fraud for credit transactions.

The rise of the chip card may have fixed that; it's been a long time since I've had a problem. But I'm reluctant to find out.
There's plenty of silicon in the world that's not designed by AMD, Nvidia, or Apple. Recall, if you will, the 2021 chip shortage.
Offtopic but I could never understand why math people prefer θ to pointwise conditionals or min/max.

θ(-f(x))*(-f(x))
vs
max(0, -f(x))
Honestly an AI could write better Star Trek than what we got in STP season 1/2