skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone read the full article?
It's writing clearly that the couple made consent on false given information, as they thought it was a type of vaccination. That lack of transparency is unethical.
What I was trying to say is that just-so stories are not consistent with modern evolutionary biology. They are in fact Lamarckian. They are by definition, not Darwinian. The phrase here is not being used correctly in this thread.
I wish they used JavaScript.
> I have seen visual dataflow languages and even worked on some of them.

have you ever actually used one?

> Even then, once a "program" gets complex it can get tangled fast.

because this is a common complaint, but it applies to text-based languages as well. what happens with visual languages is that it's easy to get going, but then people don't apply the same software engineering principles once projects get large. i do, and i find visual languages no worse than text-based languages. in some ways, there are direct improvements. so basically, these complaints are levied by people who have never seriously programmed in a visual programming language.

> A node with 3000 edges starts to look messy. There are some things you can do to fix it but then you just kind of wish to use a simple script.

this doesn't even make sense. i use labview, arguably the best designed and most powerful visual programming language environment around (and a powerful environment period). it isn't even possible to create a node with 3000 edges (well maybe for some definition of the word node, but it would be an extreme case and an exercise in shenanigans). what you've stated here sounds like "a function with 3,000 arguments starts to get messy". it's a ridiculous statement.

> As for general computing, the most thought out language I've seen so far is probably DRAKON

have you used labview? you can program windows, mac os x, linux, real-time linux, and fpga, all with the same language. this inculdes modern GUIs, web-servers, actor-based systems, oop, etc. it's extremely powerful. it has its warts, and i have many complaints, but none of them are the usual complaints by people who have opinions against visual languages despite not having used one.
It's not a competition.

There's enough love to go around.

To Apple, the $99 fee for developers is a minuscule fraction of 1 percent of a rounding error. Apple don't love it because it's money, they love it for the exact same reason I love it: it makes it a little bit harder for malicious scammers to get away with repeated criminal activity.

No, it's not a panacea. But it does weed out the utter junk and spam. It means when Apple finds something dodgy, they can sometimes find the human responsible, and it makes it expensive for developers to create new accounts if they are banned.

So much to love.
Google is aware of you making purchases
We had a similar aged Corona in the late '80s and that thing was like 90% rust. It even had some a steel plate riveted under the windscreen to hold the windscreen wiper because the windscreen wiper mount literally rusted off.

It's phenomenal how much improvement there was in rustproofing between even '70 and '90. If a '90-'00 car hasn't been crashed and not driven in very salty conditions, you can find them with essentially no rust even now.
Passenger jet is not only a matter of wether you can produce it, what's most important is wether it's cheap to fly, otherwise no one other than Chinese state airliners would buy it.
So, you've never said something like "Oh, just shoot me!" in exasperation without actually being suicidal? You don't see how something like that could be wildly misinterpreted in written form, without context, without voice tone, etc?

It's easy to feel like what you say online doesn't really count. People feel that way all the time and that fact often causes problems. Usually, though, those problems don't involve someone calling the cops on you "for your own good." At most, you get banned from some forum.
Funny you should mention that. I run a large vSphere cluster (that I inherited) now -- large meaning several hundred VMs. Live VM migration is different because it happens totally transparently; from the guest's perspective, there is no disruption at all. On k8s, pods are recycled all the time and afaik there is no "live" migration of pods that doesn't involve killing and restarting the process. k8s's "vaporize the pod first" culture is basically the opposite of enterprise-grade hypervisors, which exist in large part to minimize incidents that would require the destruction of state, even in the face of hardware failure.
All you have to consider is the possibility that in some other regions of the world, that law doesn't exist and you're allowed to trail the car in front of you to make the turn you want. This is because for busy intersections, the closer you are to making the turn, the more chance you have of making it successfully. In general, there is greater throughput, and the safety risks are minimal because the yellow light signals for oncoming traffic to stop and gives enough time for everyone waiting to make the turn before it goes red (at least, that's what a yellow light is supposed to be, some people run it, and some people even run red lights).

I take it that in Australia, you drive on the left side of the road? In North America, you drive on the right side of the road, so the logic would apply when you're turning left, not right.
In mostly places there's no difference between calling police or an ambulance. Everything is handled out of the same dispatch center, and the dispatcher will send whichever first responders they think are appropriate based on policy.
Am I the only one who is convinced Apple is focused on privacy because its cloud tech is really far behind Google and privacy was a path largely ignored in a data driven world? Don’t get me wrong—I like that they pursue the privacy angle but if the company’s strengths allowed them to compete with modern web/ads services companies, I think they would not have focused on privacy as much.
Emacs would get new features and improvements.
Re read the article. It's not about the use of CRISPR but the lack of transparency in his operation. The couple gave a consent based on false info. They thought their babies would receive a type of 'vaccination'.
I didn't actually like it when strangers called an ambulance on me when I was homeless either. But the ambulance driver at least didn't threaten to ticket me if he ever saw me again in that spot.

Also, the remark about ambulances wasn't in my original comment. I added it after the fact, perhaps a mistake.
After damaging Reuters report, J&J doubles down on talc safety message
I did my PhD in physics, and worked as a SWE right after graduation. Halfway through grad school, I started to feel academia is not my thing, but I cannot quit for all sorts of reasons (at least if thought so at the time). I used Matlab/FORTRAN/python for data analysis in my research work and intentionally looked into CS stuff along the way. I loved it, took a lot of MOOC and managed to eventually get a job in the industry. I loved it in the beginning, spent a lot of personal time doing work and had no complaints. The industry has amazing stride of coming up new technology/ideas, there is always something I can learn which never makes me bored. Most of the people seem generally smart and love their job. Over time I start to realize work is work and there are many factors in the play. I have to find a balance among interesting work, nice colleagues and good pay, but it is not too hard given the amount of opportunities the industry offers. Overall I am happy I made the move.

My academia background wasn’t in the CS field, so I am not sure how relevant my experience is. I did often need to look up and read CS papers to help with my job, obviously not the same way as in research. I hated paper reading in grad school but start to enjoy it now, one of the reasons is the interest and motivation are stronger and also the for-fun mindset. Strangely it came to me that maybe things would work out as well had I stayed in academia.
> Beneficial man/machine interface (post Xerox Parc)

Amen
Completely agreed, I just looked for this yesterday.

It seems like there's nothing hindering clients, just that the official Mastodon client devs don't have the time. I consider this an important feature as well that should be part of the standard set.
Damn, that's a lot of pizza I had in 16/17. The purchase history seems sparse though, a lot of missing purchases, even from repeat sites.
This is really unfortunate; when Netflix launched streaming, they had a partnership with Start that had a lot of popular movies, but now you would need to mix and match two or three services to get similar coverage. I've been buying more and more discs lately, because I want to watch something today, and at any time in the future.

I hope, one day, we get compulsory licensing for movies and TV shows, like is available for music -- then we can really watch whatever, as long as it has been digitized.
Happy New Year
That is all.
The current title ("Netflix is firing their CFO and poaching a new one from Activision Blizzard") seems to be needlessly (and inaccurately) editorialized. The article headline is both accurate and clear, once you strip out the prefix/suffix ("Netflix poaches CFO from Activision Blizzard").

Specifically, per the article, Netflix's CFO announced back in August that he'd be leaving the company.
Oregon may be the only game in town, but they are not the only game in the country. A bad reputation can lead to talent drain, less investment and fewer companies moving there.
Many places in NL only accept Maestro and Visa Electron cards (pin payment cards, as they call them), and won't take any other regular major debit/credit cards. Including UnionPay.
That's not quite what Mastodon is for, but there are many bots publishing RSS feeds, many of which can be found on botsin.space.
> Apple is doing this to generate profit.

Yes, that's what companies do. If you don't like capitalism, your beef isn't with Apple, it's with your government.
I expected a better list from Seth. Seems poorly thought out and quickly put together.
He said he wants to be independent. He is asking how to get clients.
Not all of us want to leave the place we grew up in and all our friends behind just because a bunch of juppies have decided to move in.
I think the term stoker also applies.
You still can, if that is you want.

You are free to make that choice.

Meanwhile, I'd appreciate if you didn't object to my right to choose a managed ecosystem if that is what I prefer. I like the Apple ecosystem the way it is, thank you very much.
In civil suit, USC reinstates Armann Premjee after defeat in Court of Appeal
We'll applaud and curse Facebook simultaneously. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
> Have you ever thought about the situation as being analogous to a wholesale market like Costco? Consumers pay for a Costco membership card, similar to the iPhone as it grants access to the store, then sells products in the store at a marked up rate (Apple tax as you call it).

Having a Costco subscription doesn't interfere with the customer from buying things from Walmart or Amazon. Costco couldn't demand to pay 30% lower wholesale prices than Amazon and then charge the same retail prices because suppliers would just sell through Amazon instead and have access to all the same customers. Even customers who have a Costco card can trivially buy anything from Amazon if the product is not available at Costco or even if Amazon just has the lower price.

The difference with Apple is that iOS users can't do that. Users can't reasonably buy an iOS app through anybody but Apple.

Another difference is that a phone is more than a thing to put apps on. A Costco card is only for buying things at Costco. Someone may buy an iPhone because they prefer the OS, or the hardware, and then get stuck with the App Store because it's not sold separately. Nobody pays for a Costco membership because they like the design of the card.
India has gone a step ahead with their UPI based payment system. You don't even need to transfer money between your bank account and your mobile wallet. With the UPI interface you can use your cellphone to transfer money to another person or business just like China, and it doesn't expose your account numbers.
You can do binary search with the line where the printf statement is, and eventually you will find the line with the error.
I don't think his point is to replace Hilbert's list. I think his point is to think about specific problems that are worth the effort to solve. It seems like he made an effort to distinguish his list (and the exercise itself) from Hilbert's:

> Technology doesn’t have to be high-tech. It can simply be the hard work of finding generous solutions to important problems, big or small.

> Our next steps might be far more effective than simple resolutions, which are easily ignored or pushed aside.

> As citizens, creators and consumers, each of us can also propose a more global list.

Forgive me for saying so, but your response strikes me as a bit ironic -- losing sight of the larger theme by focusing on technically correct but less important details seems to be exactly the type of thing the author is hoping to discourage.
Your source doesn't differentiate between sober drivers and drivers not tested for any/all impairing chemicals.

Unknown sobriety != sober.
The rule has nothing to do with the handedness of the traffic. The rule comes down to 'do not enter an intersection unless you are 100% sure you will clear it before the lights change'. If you enter an intersection so late that it's about to turn red while another car is waiting to turn, you're at fault, not the car in front of you for not turning sooner. The red light transition timing is set to allow one and only one car to exit the intersection before the other side has a green light to enter.

The rule exists to prevent intersections from getting blocked by idiot drivers who enter too late and get stuck, which if not immediately cleared will cause gridlock to begin forming.

I find it a bit hard to believe that such a rule doesn't exist in America.
Do tell, what is the textbook definition of middle class?

I always assumed it was th middle of the income distribution.
Have you ever read a contract where the fine print didn’t protect the company?
A quick review shows that you were the first one to use the word "catastrophe" in this discussion. Neither Knufen nor diafygi used the word.

But if you insist on getting Knufen's definition of catastrophe, you should also get diafygi's, since diafygi posted the claim that we're arguing about in this sub-thread.
There's a good elaboration of it in Tom Stuart's "Programming With Nothing" talk[0], in which he does a lambda calculus implementation of FizzBuzz in what's left of Ruby if you leave everything out except the things strictly necessary to do lambda calculus - with the exception of what you could call C-style macros (basically text search-and-replace, so you can call a section of code FOO and just type FOO everywhere you would have typed that section of code). There's also the little matter of output - you need to translate the resulting Church numerals into readable form for those who can't see that you've obviously produced correct FizzBuzz. There's a good enough explanation that what needs to be sort of hand-waved for brevity (things that are shown but not really explained in detail) aren't entirely opaque - you will be able to figure it out.

Keep in mind, too, that the lambda calculus is a lot like machine language in one respect - the same little bit of "code" can have more than one meaning to the programmer even if the "machine" is doing exactly the same thing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhlNx_-wYk
"Just put it on the blockchain"
> So, you've never said something like "Oh, just shoot me!" in exasperation without actually being suicidal

Indeed. Imagine if Facebook called CPS/police every time a user wrote "my dad/mom/partner/boss is gonna kill me when he/she finds out."
MIT researchers are now 3D-printing glass
Encryption related things I'd like to see become easier (not free):

* Code signing, particularly driver signing on Windows (thanks for making this very difficult for open source, Microsoft)

* Script signing, a-la Powershell AllSigned mode (even though it's caused me pain in the past and needs better IDE support)
Detroit's Big Comeback: Out of Bankruptcy, a Rebirth
I hear you... But what if they have a reasonably accurate model that tested well (say 75%).

Once day, their researchers decide to test how accurate the model is by setting real time flags, but take no action. And let's say, it turns out, of 100 people, 75 people did end up taking their life.

What would you propose they do?
In a loose sense. You can see the other players cursors as they type and they can see yours. Idea is to see if people will interact when that happens.
If you spent 30M and bought 30-40 houses to rent out, you would be contributing to society by risking your capital to provide housing for renters.

There is no certainty that you’d double your money in 10 years.
There are a bunch of reasons, but Municode is a large part of it. It’s a big part of the reason for the feeling of sameness of towns across the US.

But what’s the reason you were trying to point out?
It seems like that was indeed one of his points -- that perhaps the future now depends on solving problems that do not have objective measures of success:

> Our next steps might be far more effective than simple resolutions, which are easily ignored or pushed aside.
They don’t even need to make them DRM free. There are plenty of DRM options for web-based video.
Discussed 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090590
> As a small app developer, I can tell you first hand that Apple only promotes and supports larger apps in the ecosystem

I have friends at Apple who curate the App Store and I have a number of apps on the store as well. Your statement is categorically wrong.

Apple absolutely supports small developers. If you look through many of their "editor playlists" you will see plenty of smaller apps that get a lot of attention e.g. Bear, Notability, Calm. Even apps like Instagram were small once.
yeah captures a surprisingly small sample size of my purchase receipts
You can go still lower. You can create custom transistors. You might even create custom semiconductor substrates...

... and there we stop. Nobody gets to create custom atoms.
Is it surprising that data that we provide and passes through Google's services are being mined?

News at 11.

Many may find this shocking or upsetting however I personally find Google Timeline[1] creepier than this set of data.

[1]https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
On a serious note, although this may seem humorous, if any technology was a candidate to start a zombie apocalypse this would be it.

Small chance, yes, but with so little understood about what non-coding DNA does, and viruses shuttling genetic material around, who knows.
The technology is risky enough I am sure normal parents won't attempt to put their kids for experiments.

And I am sure nations won't be interested in this as well, because the risk is high, the failures are unknown, and for the most part, the reward gets too long to reap.
As an indie developer - HOW do you get in touch with them?

We have rave reviews on one of our apps and a very enthusiastic community in a unique space, but having a hell of a time getting the eye of anyone at Apple.
There's also the selection bias -- people who think the product is OK, but nothing special probably will not spend too much effort posting a review. But of course even if they do bother posting a review, ratings often do not have anything to do with the quality of the product.
Not the author but good feedback for all.

Montserrat doesn't support OpenType number variants which causes a flicker.
A defined-benefit pension is a math product. The same product could theoretically be sold as an individual account.

You're X years old? Statistically likely to retire at Y and live to Z? If we assume N% average rate of return, this is how much you have to pay every month until then to get a given payout at retirement. The risk theoretically belongs to the issuer, who has to eat the difference if they underestimated any of these numbers, and their reward comes from pricing conservatively and keeping gains beyond the promised return.

What has gone wrong were yeas of assumptions that weren't just inaccurate, but consistently inaccurate in over-optimistic directions. "We'll average 16% per year when 7 is more realistic." "Everyone will drop dead within 36 months of retirement." and seemingly "Nobody will plunder or slash contribution that were negotiated long ago."
I just opened the App Store. In the first list, “Great Apps for iPhone XR,” I’d estimate 1/3 of the apps listed were built by small, bootstrapped teams. Another third are larger companies (1Password), and the last third are pretty mainstream brands (Snapchat, Mint). Even if you draw the line for small apps below the size of 1Password, 1/3 seems like an amazingly fair share of retail space.

I’m sure many great apps went nowhere. That’s the nature of entrepreneurship. I’d say Apple’s promotion significantly improves the survival odds for small teams doing great work.
If Google refuses to provide video and sensor data, it becomes difficult to impossible to prosecute.

If they do this in some but not all cases, that lends to suspicion that the denial cases could show egregious misconduct on the part of the Waymo software (I.e. avoiding self incrimination).
I love you all. Happy Fu**ing new year everyone
The Oregon government doesn't seem to have any problem with Intel advertising "Software Engineer" positions on LinkedIn.
Go look through the store right now. The majority of the apps on the Today section will be small developers.

If your app doesn't meet a certain level of quality then Apple will not feature you. But if you do then it is almost certain that at some point they will. I suspect your app falls in the former category.
Yelling fire(falsely) in a theater wasn't an example of breach of contract that is prohibited by a private agreement, but an understanding that the government has the right to prohibit speech made with the specific intent to create criminal harm. It's also not, as far as I understand, not the current legal standard, as of 2010's Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project.
Isn't this a duplicate? Possibly of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788069
Except that Apple doesn't hype the big games. They never have.

Go look through the Today/Games section right now. All of the featured games will be from super high quality indie developers. It isn't the ones that make the most money.