skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How dare we adopt code licenses like the GPL, allowing a shadowy authoritarian figure known only as ESR to dictate our every move. If we don't start writing our own code licenses this very day, we risk the authoritarian take over of all software by the select few who are able to write them competently. Every time someone uses an off-the-shelf license from a third party they neither know nor trust, our freedom suffers."

So, your argument doesn't pan out, I think. At some point experts are expert and you are not. I am not an expert at app stores. I defer my app store choices to the people who make my phone, because they have a track record of choices I usually approve of, and their missteps are never in service of "exploit me" (like Facebook's). There are many competing hardware platforms to choose from with many fewer restrictions. I choose the more-restricted and my free time available to focus on actual benefits to the world increases. I don't believe I would benefit the world by using a third-party app store, and I don't have time for the drama it involves. YMMV.
Apparently windows has this too: https://www.startech.com/faq/thunderbolt-3-authentication-po.... Not sure whether that's the default behavior or how to enable it.
I think it’s about them misleading the advertisers; which is actually fraud. I know a guy who bought 50k followers for a few hundred bucks and uses it to get free shit when he travels. I seriously doubt he’s the only one doing this.
I did wonder if an add-on or something could do this, but hadn't got to looking into it. Knowing there's an easy solution means I will now. Thank you!
Will Google guarantee a minimum number of years to support this platform? I would hate to dedicate time and resources to this (sounds pretty useful) and then have Google shut this down in the near future.
Backing up now, thanks. Even worse I'm an Android user. I don't have a good solution for the people that mail me every few months. Oh hey, Google might lock my account because I didn't fork over 14k in fraudulent charges, can you start emailing me from my Outlook email instead?
current satellite internet is also in geostationary orbit (22k miles):

IP Gateway REDACTED
Packet Loss 0%
Average Delay 621 ms
Minimum Delay 570 ms
Maximum Delay 650 ms

that's to satellite. here's a traceroute to show you actual times:

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 1.941 ms 0.933 ms 0.930 ms
2 192.168.42.1 2.535 ms 1.232 ms 1.313 ms
3 redacted 2.668 ms 1.366 ms 2.584 ms
4 67.45.0.65 601.534 ms 569.407 ms 600.134 ms
5 67.45.5.5 1483.616 ms 615.166 ms 620.347 ms

i managed to get this low of traceroute times as the clouds happened to be gone for the moment, but given that i live in the nw, that is a fluke :)

an article on LEO options from SpaceX notes the same latency: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...

i'd love something as low as 300ms (or the 25ms that LEO is promising), but it's just not going to happen.
God I hate idiotic articles like this.

I'm pretty sure the definition of "paycheck-to-paycheck" doesn't mean having "difficulty" (only $4500 of cushion!) affording discretionary and luxury expenses like "weekly date nights, 3 weeks of vacation, luxury 3 row SUV, Coach & Banana Republic clothes, and $7 grand for entertainment).
> Python has an even closer relationship between comments and string literals: its multiline comments are just string literals that get never used.

That's not entirely true. A literal string immediately following a class or function is inspectable via its __doc__ member.

E.g.
class Foo:
"I am Foo."
def bar(self):
"I am Foo.bar"

Foo.__doc__ will have "I am Foo.", and Foo.bar.__doc__ will have "I am Foo.bar".

This is rarely used programattically, but at least one standard module uses this for running tests: doctest

Edit: not sure why it's not formatting correctly, as I am spacing the code a 4 space indent, but at least on my phone, it is not properly formatting as code. I apologize.
Seems like a great alternative to AWS serverless offering.

I just want it to live past the beta, considering that last week Google killed two of their non-beta Services.
To play the devil's advocate here...

From what I see around me, the vast majority of Mac users spend the vast majority of their time in mainstream apps (Chrome, Adobe, Office, Safari, Xcode, Final Cut, Logic, Ableton Live, etc). I don't think this will impact the majority of mac users negatively.

This will only really impact macOS developers without an Apple Developer account, which I guess are a minority. Probably in that minority most are compiling to macOS from Windows or Linux.
What do you think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkut_MC-21 ?
Canada may regulate social media companies to avoid election meddling
I don't see any single thing replacing C (or C++) but what's interesting here is many of these languages work very well with the C ABI, not just as an FFI concept but with notions of memory and data layout. The interesting side effect might be that we'll see Zig not just work with C code but Zig work with Jai with D with Rust. All of that code can still interface with C or C++ code (in both directions). This lowers the barrier significantly.

The hard part is build tool compatibility but I think there are a lot of good ideas being worked on actively, Zig and Rust being two examples of advanced programatic control over the build process. With a reasonable linker, it should be possible to combine these and more languages today.

An interesting counter example to the binary interface compatibility story has been Go, which seems to let cgo become less and less functional in each release. The pressure to keep everything in Go is an interesting trade-off. I wonder if certain kinds of systems will be paying for this lock-in later down the line while other languages give much easier ways to gradually evolve and reuse code or adopt libraries from multiple communities removing the need to do yet-another-rewrite in language X kinds of projects. Or perhaps this kind of interoperation is overrated? Time will tell.
I had my own experience of hearing and reacting to this same information at roughly the same time. As i recall the story then was that we would start to see extreme weather events becoming more common within 20 years, political instability due to changes in climate (ie. Droughts etc) the next 30 years, and potentially runaway climate change in the 50-100 year period.

Prey much spot on so far.

Edit: the thing that actually scares me more than any of this is the preliminary evidence of slowing wind and ocean currents.
Exercise makes you happier than money, according to Yale and Oxford research
Correct, I'll make that more clear.
not only billionaires. How about completely unauditable $700B defense budget producing beauties like F-35 plus additional supplemental couple hundred billions per year on actively establishing and maintaining democracy in a bunch of places far far away!

correction - wow! the first ever audit has finally happened https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/11/15/heres-what-t... :

"But department officials were quick to note that was no expectation that the audit would be clean, given the size and scope of the project."
It has worked mostly fine for OS X during that period, not so much for Windows though. The blame for thelatter is squarely on Microsoft for having had terrible security defaults and a confusing UI.
>Am I the only one old enough to remember 'disk bombs' from the 90s where you filled 3.5" floppies with paste made from strike anywhere match heads so when the disk spun up it melted?

Damn dude that really worked? I remember reading about it in the anarchist cookbook but didn't go through with the effort after getting thoroughly punked re: smoking banana peels and trying out pressure points on older kids
In fcc's defense that's how govt counting works formally. Whether or not they are doing anything informally is a different issue.
A nice shirt cant hide a pot belly
I've seen what happens to web browsers that trail behind the industry in features.

It doesn't matter how nice the privacy features are, when a user encounters web site after web site that doesn't work right in their browser, they eventually each out to a more technical friend that recommends trying browser X. When browser X fixes their problems, they never return.
Trolls trolling trolls, etc etc
> Almost every job today from a Starbucks Barista to Uber driver depends on Google doing its job well and collecting all the data it does.

This is a ludicrous statement. If Google shut down, all of these jobs would still exist.
Or Homebrew?
Despite the annoying and off-topic jabs about Russia and socialism, this article makes a good point about the problems with income inequality statistics. Does anyone know of a good source for reading more about this, preferably with more data and less politics?
Yeah, the B-52, adopted in 1952, is planned to be is service through the 2050s. An airframe design expected to last for over 100 years. Keep in mind that flight itself is barely 100 years old.

And paper manuals? Are they expecting to use iPads for in flight documents or something? Shall we compare failure states of paper vs tablets?
Parent is the one who stated that mistakes "can also be just lack of sufficient evidence, or even evidence that is not collected properly.", they would be the one to ask about specific cases.

In general, you shouldn't be taking cases to trial you can't win, whether if it's due to evidence being thrown out or evidence not being present in the first place.
Actually, it looks like the devs are pretty open to including tabs (in macOS at least). https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544
San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
Works fine for me. Steps right out of the terminal:

1. sudo apt install lynx
2. export BROWSER=lynx
3. ddgr hello world
4. Press 1 (to open the first result in lynx)

The site is opened in lynx as expected.
> So even for my house, with Gigabit service, the FCC report is still grossly overstated. I can't imagine how bad their data in rural areas is.

Is that corruption, incompetence or apathy?
When I lived in SF I once cut into my finger with a rusty fish filet knife (don't ask). I went to the bernal hospital ER and they gave me a tetanus shot, but nothing else. A few weeks later I went to my family doc and mentioned this, and he said, "You went to an ER for a tetanus shot?" Me: "Uh, Yeah." Him: "That's like a $1500 tetanus shot."

They didn't have urgent care back then, but I understand there were "clinics" that could give those shots.
It's that true of iFrames? I haven't tried to determine within a child frame if scrolled into view.
In my experience the primary reason people migrate is that it is significantly simpler for ordinary developers to maintain and configure builds in Meson. They both target ninja but the learning curve for CMake is definitely steeper.
Well, I’ve been discussing it on HN for years now. There really hasn’t been much interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11418285

Mention coding by voice and someone will explain how they can’t imagine not using a keyboard, or they bring up the open office problem.

Considering the limited scope, it’s probably just a matter of the proper editor integration.
Easy to use is debatable. There are so man hidden gestures.
Can you help this student out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610658
Not true, depends on location. There are such restaurants in Chicago, DC, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, NY. If you have the crowd you will do fine, it all depends on your market.
Google's related post, "Exploring Neural Networks with Activation Atlases", has some more detail and image samples:
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/exploring-neural-networks....

Interesting example of the activation atlas in action:

> These atlases not only reveal nuanced visual abstractions within a model, but they can also reveal high-level misunderstandings. For example, by looking at an activation atlas for a "great white shark" we water and triangular fins (as expected) but we also see something that looks like a baseball. This hints at a shortcut taken by this research model where it conflates the red baseball stitching with the open mouth of a great white shark.

> We can test this by using a patch of an image of a baseball to switch the model's classification of a particular image from "grey whale" to "great white shark".
Unfortunately you just can't do that in Japan, it is pretty universal (though Kansai stands on the right, and Kanto stands on the left).

In extremely congested areas people will stand on both sides, but the convention is to stand on one side and have a "fast lane" on the other side. I realize it has less throughput, and puts more strain on the escalators, but that's not changing any time soon.

The point is, escalators and perhaps train boarding are the only two times where people will be mostly self aware of their position. Walking on the sidewalks is not one of those times, everyone is staring at their phones, or walking in groups of 2-3 across.
As mentioned in the article, other Boeing jets do automatically present a checklist on the display when they detect a problem:

> A second electronic system found on other Boeing jets also alerts pilots to unusual or hazardous situations during flight and lays out recommended steps to resolve them.

The 737 is stuck in the past because given the choice, nobody wants to have to retrain their pilots on more modern systems.
Yeah. Most people shouting "free speech" are fully aware that shouting "Fire! Fire!" in a cinema might be "free speech" but is certainly not free of consequences.

I'm pretty sure "the usual fools" turn out to be complete hypocrites when it's their girlfriend/sister/mother getting rape threats too...

And there's no "1st Amendment to the US constitution" right to "free speech" in most of the world. If your Nazi hate speech ends up in Germany, both you and Facebook will be held to account for that no matter how many Ayn Rand books you've read or how dedicated to ethics in video game journalism you are.
That 35000 number includes retirees (though I don't know to what extent retirements are income-funded in Canada) and kids still in high school and college (and possibly post-graduate education).

The median income for 45-54 year olds from that site seems to be $49,100. Median for 35-44 is 48,000. It's not $60-80k as you say below, but not $35k either.

One other interesting note is that there is a pretty big difference by gender. Median income for _males_ 35-44 is $56,300 while females are at $41,400. For 45-54 year olds those numbers are $58,000 and $42,400 respectively.

Those differences are big enough that I wonder whether this is being affected by the relative incidence of part-time vs full-time work. The statistics here seem to be looking at people with any income at all (including investment income), not "salaries"... Depending on the demographics of the people you talk to (full-time jobs, 35-55 years old, maybe toss in "male"), $60k is not an unreasonable thing for them to feel a "typical" experience is.

I agree that people with educations and in "good" jobs tend to over-estimate the median income, but I also think that once you account for lifecycle effects the median income of what people think of as a "typical worker" (which is not a 17-year old nor a 70-year old) is higher than the summary statistics suggest. And of course the thing that can really hurt is if you can't find full-time work at all....
When this comes up, my stock answer is: No, correlation is not causation, but it is correlated with causation.
Show HN: Datafix: connecting people with unclean data to people who clean data
Keep trying to talk to them and explain -- so far every instance like this I've heard about was refunded. Good luck.
> Doesn't apply to works by contractors paid by the government though.

Depends on the terms and conditions of the contract. Keep trying to get people to ensure they secure rights for the government by default but it's a constant struggle to get people to sweat the details :p
>actually can't find mates

It seems that things are even getting to that point.
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Right now, I run ad hoc containers/bots cheaply on GCP by using Cloud Scheduler to turn on a preemptible VM which invokes a Docker container, run a function, and immediately shut it down. (technical details here: https://minimaxir.com/2018/11/cheap-cron/)

Cloud Run seems to obsolete that workflow (and it fits well within the free tier), and I couldn't be happier. Will watch the keynote tomorrow for more!
> iOS apps can use whatever rendering engine they want. The restriction is on JIT

Wrong.

> 4.7 HTML5 Games, Bots, etc.

> your app must use WebKit and JavaScript Core to run third party software and should not attempt to extend or expose native platform APIs to third party software

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
> (2) I don't train my martial arts with heightened sense of danger and adrenaline, or at least, that is not my only mode of training. If anything, I am going for dead calm at high intensity.

Same here, but a different life and death sport--auto racing. My sports psychologist turned me onto this (and also progressive relaxation); just four little words he told me that positively changed my driving forever "you are an observer." That state of mind of being detached emotionally from racing, transformed me from driving near the front--to being The person to beat.

Oh and btw; if your really serious about your sport--there's nothing like finding a sports psychologist who specializes in your activity. Nothing like it.
>Fresh water is what future wars will be fought over.

Yes, even more so than today. Being American, I never realized how scarce water actually was until college. I studied inter-regional conflict and learned all about water wars.

Related:
https://www.worldwater.org/water-conflict/

https://pacinst.org/news/pacific-institute-releases-updates-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict_in_the_Middle...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict
So do the new platform (e.g. not 737) Boeings. The retention of paper on 737MAX is all about not changing anything to avoid having pilots require simulator training. It's also why it has a glass cockpit that mostly shows digitized versions of the 60s gauges.
I don't think there's any core slot machine functionality in Roblox.

But Roblox is essentially a game development platform. Anyone can build a game on top of Roblox, and that player-created game could have slot machines in it.
No idea why people are downvoting you. This is a very important question to ask when it comes to Google services.
Google will typically waive charges in cases like this.

The only time they won't is if (by looking at the logs) they decide you were probably scraping and storing all their data.
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Can you just search Google for “<term> remote site:craigslist.org” for similar results?
> output impedance is lower, so it's harder to drive heavier headphones

That is backwards. Lower output impedance is better as more power is delivered to the load all other things being equal.
I started coding for fun because I wanted to build things, so when I had a problem I searched how to fix it. At some point, I started noticing "larger" problems that have to do with code structure and data flows.

Since I am self-taught and everyone was talking about "best practices", I started to learn and follow those around 1-2 years into coding. I built beautiful abstract glass houses that didn't get me any closer to my objectives! So I was curious why these best practices were slowing me down and started digging deeper to be able to know how, when and why to apply them. Lots of conflicting info online, so had to start thinking about those by myself and not just follow random articles. I even started searching conflicting info to see the two sides.

But yeah, you are totally right, devs get stuck into that pixel and forget about the larger picture. I switched my thinking to a purely "ROI" for the business, and I am convinced it's been a strong win-win. But you have to learn about the real, implicit and explicit, business objective, which is something 99% of devs do not really care (or need to, in this market). I also started realizing how code was many times not taking me closer to my objectives, but that's a topic for another day.
"Connectome-specific harmonic waves" maybe: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10340
I always felt great to serve in the military and fight for freedom (of oil).

Next up: Venezuela.
Last I checked Windows was still the second most used OS. I am sure Microsoft collects a lot of telemetry through Windows even when the user is not using Bing (or Edge.)
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That's static analysis, but not symbolic execution. Looking at the JavaScript section, you can't do any of the stuff described in the article with JSLint.
That's cool. How many people can be present simultaneously in the meeting at most?
Isn’t that exactly what Apple is doing - good default security that won’t affect most users? What software is granny using that isn’t actively supported and not already coming from a trusted developer who isn’t already signing their software to avoid the work around for running unsigned software?

But, no security defaults with either Mac, Linux, or Windows stops an app that has user level access from having access to all of the user’s documents - except for apps that are either in the App Store or voluntarily sandbox themselves.
> People would even rent fruit bowls for portraits.

I find it kind of refreshing to know that this kind of behavior did not start with Instagram influencers.
Yeah I only pay like 20% of the cost of the premium for my plan for my wife and I. Which means the actual premium is over $1k a month... yikes. At least the deductible is only a few hundred dollars...
> I suspect you're arguing from the point of view of a determined attacker against a specific target

Not necessarily a specific target(although maybe in a sense). If I were, say, the Chinese intelligence apparatus, I'd be sprinkling exfiltration devices around D.C., military bases, and defense contractor offices(especially the small ones, who don't always seem to have their shit together).

You can fit a lot of smarts in a small form factor these days. I could, with the budget of an intelligence agency, cheaply mass produce USB storage controllers which only activate when specific files of interest(say, OrCAD schematics, or source code) are saved to the device. I could sprinkle them around, or even just strongarm one of my country's manufacturers so that the bug goes into wide distribution. Now I use sniffer vans, like were used to execute the Tempest attacks against military bases in the 80s, to find my beacons and exfiltrate.

GSM modems might be expensive, although it would be a great way to get data out. You could also add GPS and use a small geofencing database to activate when you're within a target radius.

Keep in mind this is just the musings of a bored idiot(me). I suspect an intelligence agency could find more useful things to do with a USB stick.
You can avoid using systemd[1]. If you don't like the churn of desktop environments, may I suggest Xfce ? It is usable and does not overhaul things that often.

I personally prefer systemd and moved from Ubuntu to ArchLinux a long time ago in order to use it. But I agree with you, the constant overhaul of UI is a problem which is why I have stuck to Xfce for a long time. I however, do not use GIMP, but there may be other options out there.

By the way MacOS is Unix, it is a POSIX compliant OS. Also, you can run Linux on your Mac.

[1] http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distribution...
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