skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epic and Cerner have been around since before UX and SDLC were common parlance, so their software and processes are likely locked into what we consider bad practices today.

Healthcare software exists in a weird trap where it can't move too quickly because hospitals are resistant to change, but it's software, and the software world normally moves quickly (including things around software like UX and SDLC concepts and ideas).

Simultaneously, hospitals can be slow getting off of deprecated platforms because of dysfunctional IT leadership, bad budgeting, and staff that can't or don't want to learn new software.
Considering the reputed prevalence of WeChat in much of China for everyday transactions, this may be moving close to reality for people banned from that platform
But the personnel are salaried, not paid per procedure.
Nah,they the rails app runs on the free tier on Heroku with a postgres db.
IIRC it’s about $100 or so per year. Basically hobby money just to make sure anyone submitting apps for review means it.
I doubt anyone is interested in protecting ibuprofen from a commercial point of view. Generic ibuprofen is extremely cheap; if anything the industry would probably like people to stop using it so that they could sell novel NSAIDs.
InkDrop: Combining free speech and community governance
Luck is magically transformed into talent when seen by outsiders.
For those of you wondering, it appears that the company mentioned in the article, GreenLionSoft [1], develops apps that show public transportation schedules in Spain, at least as of 2017 [2]. Their Google Play page still exists in some places but has been cleared of all apps [3].

I can't find Pablo A. Martinez's personal developer account; the closest match is com.pablomartinez, which belongs (belonged?) to a law form, according to the description on Google. (The page is no longer accessible and doesn't seem to be archived anywhere.)

Pablo A. Martinez has additional work history publicly posted on his LinkedIn profile [4]. I just gave it a quick skim, but I don't see anything shady. At least on the surface, there's no clear explanation for the account terminations.

Pablo, if you're reading this, please consider adding more info about the apps you published, ideally with links to back up your claims. It'll make your case stronger.

[1]: https://www.greenlionsoft.com/

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170428152946/https://play.goog...

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=583922732690913554...

[4]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamartineza/
Water memory explained as due to chains of crystallite pearls of water
Get used to gatekeepers and censors. If you say or do the wrong thing too loudly, MasterCard will step in and yank your ability to accept payment out from under you.
Windows is a little different: to unload a driver in Windows it needs to support an unload method, which not all drivers do. And without that you cannot even write the updates to disk (due to the file locking vs inode differences which have already been discussed in this thread) let alone load them into the kernel.

That said, if a kernel module is in use on Linux then it’s sometimes no easy task finding the right procedure to follow to do an unload and reload of it.

Ultimately this is all academic though. These things mattered more on monolithic systems with little redundancy but these days it’s pretty trivial to spin up new nodes for most types of services so you wouldn’t get downtime (generally speaking. There are notable exceptions like DB servers on smaller setups where live replication isn’t cost beneficial)
While likely right, that particular entry was more a comedy submission by djb himself, no one is taking pqRSA seriously, the merging of the sig/encryption versions too was itself hilarious and a subtle metajoke about how big the competition is. There's plenty on the line here and govts know it, there's a little bit of a lottery feeling associated with it all.

I do like their honesty about people going after easy targets. The real goal here is breaking some of the big contenders and hopefully more people have a crack.

SIKE and NTRU needs some serious attention/money/cred associated with breaking it
>If you call a function that happens to refer to a variable that only exists in the calling code, it will work

This is not true. This code gives a NameError instead of printing "1":

def f1():
print(var)

def f2():
var = 1
f1()

f2()

If it can't find a name in the local scope, it will look in enclosing functions, then the module scope, then the builtins. But it will never look inside the caller's scope unless the function is defined in the caller's scope.

Python's implicit scoping can be confusing, but it's not quite that bad.
I think one could ask such questions: "have you tried not funding what you don't even know about?" or "have you tried not paying your taxes?"
The quote may make sense, but it's still moved the goalpost.

> when one of the SpaceX boosters will have flown 100 times with between flights maintenance at an economical level, then it will be an actual success

The hope is that the boosters will be able to be reused indefinitely (stated goal of 10+ for block 5 I think?) but they only need to be economical to refly once and they will be successful. There is some argument that they need to refly multiple times in order to recoup development costs, but the reality is that they are already cheaper than the competition on expendable flights.

We know it's already economical, because as stated in parent they have flown reused boosters at a discount.

The concern you quote above is that reused boosters are somehow more likely to fail, but the best indicator that a booster can fly is if it has already flown before. Recovering the boosters has allowed the effect of stresses during flight to be measured, and we have seen them make design modifications in response. It's plausible that this has already improved reliability of all boosters, but more importantly it means that the boosters that have been reflown (or ones like them) have been heavily investigated.

Of course everyone knows that reused boosters need to be dependable, the fact that they're being reflown means that the engineers are at least reasonably confident that they're not going to blow up with the payload on top. Even if a reused booster blew up, you would need to identify that something about it being reused was at fault. If you did, and were not able to fix that issue for some reason, we still have the situation that the boosters are already cheaper in expendable mode than the competition.
not in this case.
people coming from office 2003 have a hard time with 2010 or higher.
it had a lot of things to do with smartphones which are problematic in the windows environment aswell.
also germany builds more and more web interfaces for administrative work.
>I've never seen an application that has a seriously broad range of functionality where I went "Wow. That's amazing." And not just from a visual standpoint, but from a navigation and process perspective.

Even so, 3D apps have it way worse than pro apps like Photoshop, Cubase, etc with equally "wide range of functionality".
I thought the Feynman technique was:

1) Write down the problem

2) Think real hard

3) Write down the solution

In other words, the "draw the rest of the fucking owl" of general learning/problem solving.
This has been going on for years, I've experienced it firsthand and have read dozens of reports from other people in the same situation.

If this was an error, it would have been fixed long ago. At this point in time I'm convinced it's a deliberate tactic - terminate an account once they start to get popular and see if they can pull enough strings or raise enough of a stink to have a human look at it.

Blaming an "algorithm" is becoming a very convenient way to abdicate from any responsibility for shitty business practices and biases against certain groups of people.
Despite a distinct lack of egalatarianism, the US remains the place where someone born at the bottom can still climb the social ladder. Billionaire-hood may escape them, but they're not doomed.
How to Disable Reviews on BigCommerce
That's true, though at this point against a sophisticated attacker, it might be game over anyway, since they could read out the encryption key from RAM directly if it's still turned on. If the device is off, the fingerprints won't help and the data is protected by the long passphrase.

Of course all this assumes a particular attacker model and for a lazy attacker that doesn't know how to use the fingerprints to fool the sensor, everything is fine.

Another downside is being possibly forced to unlock my phone at airports, since as far as I'm aware, passwords are protected by the fifth amendment whereas fingerprints are not. In this case it might be smarter to turn off one's phone entirely when crossing borders into countries where one can be compelled in this way. This doesn't even go into all the other kinds of pressure they might apply to make me unlock my phone anyway though, so there's not much protection here aside from leaving my good phone at home.
Why do you need credit card? In EU everyone has debit cards. You pay with your money not with credit.
I disagree wrt office 365 (except for the collaborative editing in the browser feature). I dont recognize the price either - more like 22£ (unless its exchange only).

Cost accumulates at scale.
Sorry, what?

The obvious phoniness of the website (shaky English, not the actual Rufus site[1]) made me initially think this was some sort of "yeah, download this executable, trust me, dude!" malware operation. But then:

> Rufus is an open source software which is designed by Rufus developers. We are not responsible for the utility as we do not have any affiliation or agreement with Rufus developers. We place download links from the original source of the utility as we mentioned below the download links.

And it does, in fact, link to the actual project and the actual project's binaries (eventually).

So, is the idea to provide a bunch of very poorly-edited patter around why the idea of a bootable USB drive is so cool, along with a handful of screenshots of the (quite self-explanatory) GUI? Moreover, basically all of this info is provided by the actually authoritative Rufus FAQ[2].

I'm not trying to be unfairly dismissive, but I'm genuinely confused as to what value this project provides and fairly curious as to why this exists in the first place.

A suggestion: if the intent is to provide a really really simple walkthrough for using the tool with a level of handholding beyond what the official docs provide, you might be better off formatting this as a blog post or something, rather than this oddly deceptive-feeling site. At best, it comes off as a strange attempt to piggy-back on the popularity of a well-known and widely-used tool.

(Also, the social media icons are just links to the landing page. I was hoping to find some hints there, but no luck).

---

[1] https://rufus.ie/ linked from https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

[2] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ
> In those weeks, completing the habit and then tracking felt like a chore.

I've noticed this with a lot of my habits. At some point you have so many amazing and useful daily habits that doing the habits becomes a massive drain on time and attention.

That means the habits are no longer beneficial. Time to drop some of them. Pruning is important and not often talked about in the self-improvement literature.

The first one I dropped is meditation. I get much better benefits from a 30 minute run than I do from 10 minutes sitting still in a chair. And it's easier to make time for running than it is for sitting in a chair. Plus running is meditative too.

And so on. I find that habits that are getting harder and harder to stick to are telling me "Hey psst, I'm not useful anymore"
> Pablo, if you're reading this, please consider adding more info about the apps you published, ideally with links to back up your claims. It'll make your case stronger.

I strongly second this. If it is not clear, this means to please be clear on what your experimental and play apps were from the original personal developer account.

> My “personal publisher account”, was terminated last August 1th. I probably will never know why. It was mostly abandoned, I had just a few old apps just for testing features or make experiments.
If only they'd thought of using a special prefix for reserved words, e.g. _.
I can report I've had firefox go weird on Linux if something like a font is updated while it's running.
Ha, that's the problem, right?

I fit in with obsessive gear geeks a little too well, and can't afford a new time- and money-suck of a hobby.

As somebody who enjoys playing games, managing to avoid the MMO craze entirely was a struggle and an achievement...
I believe it is _STRONGLY_ against apple/google interests to allow apps to be installed from anywhere especially considering they have an economic interest on their own marketplaces... actually I think they are soon gonna even discourage the use of webapps in subtle (eg on purpose performance hits on browser experiences) or not subtle ways.
And I who thought the KDE/Gnome wars was over.
The pain varies wildly from person to person. A friend of mine was out of order for two weeks after having a single tooth removed. I had all 4 removed and recovered in a few days and without much painkillers.

IMHO the doctors should prescribe less at first and see if it would be enough, but I also get that they are overcrowded and the same patient coming back for just more painkillers might be a little too much.
Well even outside of Silicon Valley the question changes to “why aren’t you a manager yet?”! Annnoying ageist question, despite that my experience is worth the money. You just need to avoid companies that doesn’t value it correctly.
Besides, in open space offices it's the only form of self defense.
Swift loosing heavily due to reference counting GC instead of a tracing GC.

Now I have a talk to point out to those that always trump that referencing counting GC are so much better than tracing ones.
I have an unproven theory that a beach culture contributes as well. People want their bodies to look decent enough to show them off.
Another comment mentioned John Taylor Gatto. If you are not yet familiar with his writings, check then out.

http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
My evaluation of the benefit is completely opposite to yours. An exploitable bug in 7-zip has a much higher impact than a bug in Tomcat. Tomcat is running somewhere in the backend so an exploitable bug is not usually usable as a direct attack. A bug in 7-zip can suddenly create a bunch of ransomware attacks just by distributing malicious files.

We have a mountain of C code running in the wild parsing binary formats that's in real need of some fuzzing or ideally replacement by safer languages.
Only if the team plays along regarding static analysers and compiler warnings as errors.
Healthcare has lots of low-hanging fruit that's solved by simple CRUD apps, and those can be reasonably maintainable (and secure) if you build it using easy frameworks and well-known patterns that are commonly found in tutorials lying about the internet.

It'll be so simple that it's equally maintainable.

The real issue is adoption, but that's expedited if you're a doctor who's also a software developer and makes it easier to sell.
I used to use Sketch, however, I switched to Affinity Designer which I use on both desktop and iPad.
Please educate yourself with the term TCM (traditional Chinese medicine, 中药) before making such condescending comments. It's a very specific branch of medicine, not related to the generic English term "traditional medicine".

Your argument, to a Chinese person, is equivalent to "JavaScript is old because Java is old." It makes no sense at all.

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

Edit: It's also worth noting that in Chinese, TCM is simply 中医, which literally means Chinese medicine. I'm not sure who decided to add the "traditional" in front, but it's not actually how it's called in China.

> Traditional medicine is distinct from modern medicine only by virtue of the parts that don't work.

If you say it this way, then maybe we should stop using the term TCM and just call it its original name "Chinese medicine" so we can both be happy.
Very surprised to see no one mentioning yeD here. It is _the one_ diagram making tool I go to, when I make any diagrams related to software development. The only areas where I had issues with it, that I can remember were:

- "How do I teach it to make these halfcircle-circle joints of component diagrams?"

- Sequence diagrams are a bit slow to make with it, because yeD not knowing their semantics and not doing much for you.

Apart from that, it has many features I depend on and that save time:

+ far more functionality than things like drawio

+ performance when dragging stuff around, no lags like in many browser apps

+ Export formats: SVG, PDF, PNG, graphml (its own format, so that you can edit later), others - Also looking like the diagram you created and looking clean, now like Dia

+ forcing rectangular edges

+ connecting edges and shapes so that they stick together, still enforcing rectangular edges, something I find very difficult with other tools like Inkscape and being able to connect the edges to any point of the shape, not so limited like Dia.

+ moving anything will bring up helping lines and snapping to certain alignments

+ when edges cross there is a setting to display "bridges"

+ Import SVG as new shapes

+ many settings for shapes and independently for labels

+ can add multiple labels to a shape or edge (multiplicities in class diagrams for example, or cardinalities in ERMs)

and probably more thing I don't remember right now.

It is one of the very few Java tools, that really works well for me.

For ASCII I recommend taking a look at Emacs artist mode, especially, if you are already using Emacs to write the code.
It must be nice being as large as Netflix and able to pull a move like this without Apple threatening to remove you from the App Store due to non-compliance. Apple wouldn't dare remove the Netflix app but a smaller developer wouldn't have a chance in hell of getting their app through without being forced to use IAP.
Since LibreOffice 4.5ish I have preferred both writer and calc. Feels more robust and consistent + a lot snappier (incl. starttime).

I only use it for collaborative editing of docx and xlsx.
Society in general is pretty hard on older people and it increases with age. Think of the way older women are treated as “grandmas”. They can be shoehorned into a role they may not want to play.
I will see what I will do. However the problem is much bigger. Amazon should take down a shop when they know that the seller is simply changing the ASIN.
But this isn't the only problem. I tried to report 10 different items. It was possible to report just 3. Their system isn'r recognising the other 7 ASINs.
So Amazon really has a system that makes difficult to impossible to find your right. Hiring an attorney costs money. They know it and this is why they are making it as the only option.
The comparison to CMake isn't apt:

https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake/blob/master/README.md#...

CMake projects allow proper recursive inclusion, so this would be sufficient to include 'bar' and link against it:

add_subdirectory(bar)
target_link_libraries(Foo bar)

...this only assumes that somewhere in the 'bar' directory, 'add_library(bar .....)' is called.

Alternately, one can (and often does) use a 'find_package(bar)' call instead of 'add_subdirectory' to pull in a library installed on the system somewhere.

The main difference seems to be that bake is configured with a particular json schema while CMake is configured with scripts written in the CMake language.

I'm skeptical that the json approach stays as same as advertised once large and distributed organizations use the tool seriously. At scale, I expect a bake json to resemble a maven xml, albeit in json.

I'll also note that bake doesn't seem to support a distinct test phase, which will likely cause issues in large organizations; they would need a separate test configuration system on the side somehow.
Try Emacs artist mode for ASCII diagrams in code.
For a subset of "ASCII art" diagrams, check http://asciiflow.com I find it handy sometimes :)
‘Automation’ in Service Operations
The showcase pieces in their portfolio are urban mobility apps. Doesn't get much less shady than that.

But the ad and in-app revenue streams mentioned in the article suggest that they have also been active in other fields. In-app purchases that still go on after account termination might be a hint in the right direction though: would IAPs via Play still be going on? External ("untaxed") IAPs are the biggest sin from the app-store's point of view. External purchases are allowed to be handled externally (e.g. paying for physical goods in the Amazon app), but definitions are not always clear and then it's all arbitrary judge-and-executioner.
slowly become less fluent in adopting new tech, and it shows

For me, it's the exact opposite. Containers? Oh yeah, they're just like zones on Solaris. Kubernetes? Works like a VAXcluster. Cloud? Been there, done that, let's not make the same mistakes. ML? Well we used to call it predictive statistics, the only real difference now is we run it on GPU not CPU. I pick up "new" techs easily because I can step back and see the same patterns repeating.

Experience is the killer app. Ageism is just another prejudice.
There are plenty of smaller apps that do the same thing. One that comes to mind is ACloudGuru.
Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs
I have been getting a number of people trying to get me to apply for crypto jobs recently. They list a load of buzzwords expecting me to be enthusiastic about the hot new tech. I explain that I am not (but that I will work for them if they are interested in a solid software engineer and they pay me enough).
Use cloze deletions! https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#cloze-deletion
Not all, but some do. It is actually every shade of grey with respect to what you try to secure. If it is you cat pictures you probably are fine with just a fingerprint scanner on your phone.

Want to secure your passwords and accounts, I would at minimum amend that with a proper passphrase or at least a N-digit pin (with N bigger if needed). And also get a proper scanner as most cheap things are notoriously bad.

Though it also depends on the attack vector as most biometric 'abuse' is done by people around you and not strangers. In which again; a passphrase is a simple solution.
Could you please kindly unroll or post a link to a picture. From the link it’s not clear what this thing exactly does or looks like.
I’ve had good managers.
https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=...

I process was open tender from which the software projects were chosen.
So now the game for developers is to include intentional but sufficiently abscure bugs that they can harvest money off down the line.
acetaminophen damages the liver and kidneys at an alarming rate. It should have been skipped prior to today.
Our two year old has taken it upon himself to feed the dog. He needs help scooping up the food but after that he can (carefully) walk across the room, pour it into the bowl, return the scoop to the bin, close the bin, and then the cupboard door. Sometimes he spills the food. That’s ok, we clean it up together. I have no idea how he learned all these things. We certainly didn’t teach him explicitly.

Amazing creatures these humans are…