skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What pisses me off about Apple is that, if their marketing is to be believed, I should be directly in their target market.

I'm a techie with a lot of discretionary income who has creative ambitions. Also I'm still on way-out-of-date Windows 7 because I won't accept the spying that goes on in the newer versions. I love Linux but I'm unhappily tied to Windows at the moment only because one of my hobbies is playing music in Ableton, which is literally the only program keeping me on Windows.

So MacOS which I imagine to be a more polished Linux that supports Ableton could be great.

But then they release stuff like this and I realize that even though I'd dearly like to jump ship on Microsoft, I won't ever let myself be gouged like this and to be trapped in the kind of ecosystem where a product like this, at this price point, might be my only option. Call me a cheapskate but I do know how much the hardware costs, and won't pay that much of a premium for a shiny box that will be unsupported in a few short years when they're trying to shovel the latest hotness.

Instead I'm likely to investigate options of running Ableton in Virtual machines with GPU passthrough, a bunch of hassle and clutter with extra devices and audio mixers, etc, and spend the few thousand dollars I've saved on other stuff.

They clearly don't know how to satisfy a customer like me.
The word "gay" today conjures a completely different image than it did 100 years ago. Culture controls language.
If he's using it to systematically target and harass people (which has already been clearly demonstrated), I would be 100% ok with them denying him electricity for those purposes, yep. Of course, he's paying for the service, which I suspect he isn't for his YouTube access, which complicates things slightly but still, if it was against the power company T&Cs for access to the grid, yep, cut him off.
Yeah, the hypocrisy of this particular company getting (through acquisition) an exclusive contract and aggressively defending it didn't escape me, and I'd be happy to hear a good way to break it.
> or not for normal people

Given that the documentation you're reading is for sysadmins, it shouldn't be a surprise that its not targeted to end-users (assuming that is what you meant by "normal people")

> but it’s only a killer feature if it’s accessible.

Again, depends on your definition of accessible. Personally, if there is a feature I really like, I don't mind being patient and spending couple of hours to understand the docs.

I'm not denying that Matrix needs to improve the issues that you've pointed out, but that shouldn't make one disregard how useful it is.
Do 'ret' instructions count against the branch order buffer, since they're essentially indirect branches?
Keyword Stuffing Still Works for Amazon SEO
You’re not crazy, they’re all crazy!
CNN Terminologies and Heatmaps
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
This is what I try and get across to people who are snippy about me not letting them touch/look at my phone - "There are other people in there, not just me".
I don't know why the original comment is being downvoted. I think this is a fair point.

It should be possible to give the readers a taste of the actionable business intelligence without giving it all away, shouldn't it? They have the same thing to gain as any other company giving away demos.
There is someone else on the other end. I had one of them previously get on the forums I worked on and complain about how quick I was to blocked them. I wrote an entire system for learning the patterns and automatically blocking them as they occurred. Eventually I determined that the vast majority of the IP addresses originated from Bangladesh so I just banned the entire country from accessing the web sites. That was the only solution, unfortunately for those legitimate users there, that made the spam stop for good.
I do think there's less risk in doing what everyone else is. It's like the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of the design world. You don't have to be as good to get positive feedback on your design, too, because trend-following invites less scrutiny (not commenting on this log in particular, just general laziness/poor-talent that trend following fosters). You do something original, it better be good or you'll get crucified. Yet Another Flat Logo? Yeah, looks great, ship it.
That actually ends up being quite a beautiful piece of art.
Then we get to own them all!
It's not what they think about me, it's what I think about them. Even in the last few years there's been news story after news story about some country club being a hotbed of racism. It's an industry I refuse to support and I'm happy to see it die.
Your name looks Dutch or maybe Afrikaans. I could imagine that in some places, the 'Mozilla' brand takes precedent for one reason or another. In the majority of the world, it's very clearly Firefox — when people install it, they search for Firefox.

Mozilla as the main brand is a relic of the late 90s/early 00s.
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/user-tracking
OP is referencing the Whorf hyopthesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
We use Java in our projects and although there is interest in Scala, I fail to see any real benefits from moving to it, especially with new Java features, except for a nice addition to your CV.

Can anyone share their experience where moving from Scala to Java yielded measurable benefits, besides "it's more fun to program in Scala"?
I hope I don't qualify as "old", but I guess I've been programming since the early 00s...I miss the days when LAMP (+ XAMPP for local development) was more-or-less state-of-the-art for a website. PHP, despite its numerous deep flaws, really is a very pleasant way to write frontend code. I think what the web dev world needs is a modernized version of LAMP which:

* Is trivial to bootstrap

* Is totally serverless/scalable

* Can be run effectively for free with low levels of traffic, like an S3 static website

* Uses a non-broken PHP-like templating language (maybe jinja?)

* Uses Postgres instead of MySQL (ideally without infrastructure to manage, a la Aurora Serverless)

* Somehow intelligently figures out how to split between server-side and client-side rendering - ergo, you write templates like PHP and it seamlessly figures out bits that can be AJAX-ified to avoid full page-loads

If someone could just, like, make that, web development could be as fun as it was in the days of yore!
I miss the wonder and awe and naivety that all of this programming is leading to something better socially/politically or for lifestyle. In many ways it did. It also may have created more problems than it solved.

Also, I miss the joy of learning all the deep features and idiosyncrasies of a computer - its instruction set, I/O routines, timing and interrupt tricks, etc. These days I am focused more on Big Hairy Goals and complex systems. Fun of a different sort.
That shouldn't prevent the subversion of data members or inline functions, or the ability to add your own member functions to the class.
How's the cross-platform library ecosystem? My distant sentiment is that the bulk of libraries are tied to / provided by Apple, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
This is using the same GCC functionality, but for a different purpose.

The emulator is using it to replace a loop which selects one of several bodies on each iteration, with a direct jump from the body of the previous iteration to the correct body for the next iteration.

This article is suggesting using it to replace a call/return pair to a leaf function with what essentially amounts to a single-entry call stack (or a manually implemented link register).
Yeah, Voyager's already gone, it's too late.
I think where tape starts to have an edge is in long term storage, particularly for archival. You have to take into account that a tape sitting somewhere in a controlled environment will be readable for quite a long time compared to a hard disk.
what do you bring to the project?
Excellent discussion of grid-reliability tradeoffs. A couple of points from it:

"Sizing an off-the-grid power system in this way generates significant cost reductions, even if “reliability” is reduced just a little bit. For example, a calculation for an off-the-grid house in Spain shows that decreasing the reliability from 99.75% to 99.00% produces a 60% cost reduction ....

"energy security is not just about securing the supply of electricity, but also about improving the resilience of the society, so that it becomes less dependent on a continuous supply of power....

"Obviously, a less reliable energy supply would bring fundamental changes to routines and technologies, whether it is in households, factories, transport systems, or communications networks – but that’s exactly the point. Present ways of life in industrial societies are simply not sustainable."

Very recently, PG&E has adapted to wildfire dangers by warning consumers about blackouts. A fine example of fostering resilience.
And if what you know is nothing, you accept that, rather than speculate based on arbitrary assumptions.
I had great times with .asp and ms access db ^^
In larger codebases with many developers, attention to the API is required in order to be able to maintain code without breaking clients.

The main downside of Badge<T> is that it comes with a performance penalty and ABI change for something that should be statically deducible (empty struct is one byte in C++).
Empty structs have size 1, per the C++ spec. The compiler probably won't elide the storage unless it can show that no one probably cares.
Also available in digital format at the usual places. ;-)
I agree with that, too. My usual practice with Haskell is leave types off to leverage the information gained from type inference (with the intent of annotating signatures when I'm done), but then tell Haskell what I'm thinking the types should be if things break with impenetrable error messages.

But my coding in Haskell is pretty much personal and toy projects; I like the approach, but it may not be ideal for coding in anger.
The author of this story failed at research. The Santa Clara Golf & Tennis Club is a public institution operating on land owned by the City of Santa Clara. It's the exact opposite of a ritzy, expensive club. It's closing because of developer greed, meanwhile other public golf courses in the area (San Jose Muni, Sunnyvale Muni, Shoreline, etc) are doing just fine. None of those courses would ever be mistaken for a Country Club though.
I'd be curious to see an outline of a metabolism based on CO. Can you build an analogue of hemoglobin that behaves nicely with CO?
You think that’s scary, just wait until you watch Jaws. Giant shark will eat you up.
I would love for them to expand to Colorado, and wonder why they haven't yet.
That's precisely my point, that it wasn't even listed as an option.
If we did that 30 years ago, we’d have really affordable GPRS systems. We can’t even upgrade bridges and dams.
protected and friend are both smelly keywords?
I can personally attest that making fun of terrorists specifically in the manner you describe is a common topic in the French cartoon world, and especially common in CH. So it indeed wouldn't get any sort of media coverage because it's not a novel event in any way.

I don't deny that there was a lot of hypocrisy and fair weather friends surrounding CH after they were targeted, but the point about the Holocaust laws misses the mark. It's not illegal in France to make crass jokes about the Holocaust, as CH makes them in droves. In fact, they make crass jokes about almost anything related to France in some way and their first love always was the opposition to the traditional gaullist catholic establishment. You can be as crass as you want and won't get in trouble for it as long as you don't incite violence directly.

The problem highlighted by CH is that there currently is only one ideology that gives artists, filmmakers, cartoonists, etc. pause in the West when drawing up jokes or material, and that is Islam. There are few other topics in the West where there is a chance that criticism or commentary on your part will cause you great personal adversity or harm. In fact, I can't think of any off the top of my head but I'd be happy to hear some examples.
Disabling autocomplete is user-hostile and additionally should be considered a security flaw. It makes it harder to use password managers.
I'm aware of C++ and Xojo for sure.
This is basically good.
The list of Trump's attempted businesses is hilariously sad (except the Fraud which is just sad). Don't even get me started on his Snazzle Snacks pyramid scheme.
I'd love to see HN or Reddit or someone work with the feds on how to investigate and prosecute astroturfing/sockpuppets/shilling, perhaps as unauthorized computer access and/or fraud.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?...

"Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned."

"Certain changes in brain chemistry" result in us adjusting to be approximately as happy as they always are even in situations which one would predict way less or way more happiness.
Going by human history the fact there is intelligent indigenous life somewhere doesn't stop some of us deciding we own it.
Sounds like, neither does anyone else.
Nasa’s Super Guppy (2015)
Who has time to play golf? Even though we can afford it, we are constantly in back-to-back "sprints" during the day and tied to our computers so we can respond to pages for "devops" at night.

In the rare downtime we get these days, the pace of modern highly paid professions leaves us too exhausted for lengthy sports like golf.

Leisure is dead and will stay dead until life takes precedence in work-life-balance again.
I hope they never find it, cause when they do, that will mean the end for them.
It’s important to have an Incident Commander, but that goes by the oncall rotation, no the org chart.
I'm sorry you've had that experience. We are working hard to be better open source citizens in many ways, including better communication on issues, etc.
Can we talk about these attack names? Everything bleeds these days. "RAMSack" is a legit missed opportunity.
Just signed up and so excited. I need a solution so badly.
The public golf course across the street from my house is fully booked every single day
Literally the worst
with 4G finally getting fast enough (along with the low latency promises of 5G), i think we're almost at the point where what you propose might make sense.

before this, wireless tech/infrastructure just wasn't good enough, and needed continuing investment to improve. now that we're over the hump, a GSE can begin buying up the 4G infrastructure and leaving operations/service to the carriers.

since there are 4 national and some regional carriers, you could even divvy the duplicative infrastructure up between state and federal GSEs, much like state and federal highways. then you'd have some semblance of competition that would keep the infrastructure from just crumbling away from political/bureaucratic neglect.
Or you mandate a docking system that works for all the bike companies. Commoditize the docks using public action and then the free market can actually be free to solve the rest.
Yes, back in the day we used to consider thinking about security as sand in the gears of progress. A slog to get through with little payoff.
i had to give up after the 10 or 12 anti google paragraphs. after reading that, this website certainly doesn’t need recaptcha because i’m going away!

there were a couple of feints as if he were about to get to the content, then ha! back to diatribe.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with PingCAP.

I can't speak for PingCAP in general, but I know that many of PingCAP's Rust projects are part of the TiKV org [1], which is explicitly trying to become more community-oriented as part of their move into the CNCF (I work for PingCAP on TiKV). This message won't reach far, but if somebody finds themselves having difficulties contributing to TiKV or communicating with TiKV maintainers, and they speak up on the TiKV slack, somebody will definitely take notice and try to help.

Not knowing the specifics of your experience, it might help to consider that most of PingCAP are Chinese, and some communicate in English better than others. In public forums like the issue tracker, they write in English to include the global software development community, but for some it is quite challenging.

I'm hopeful that the PingCAP process will improve and their projects will become easier to contribute to.

[1]: https://github.com/tikv/
While these items might be true, as an interviewer you are not trying to solve for “find all good candidates” but, instead, are solving for “find one good enough and better than the rest”.

Anymore, I love that I have a clear path on how to obtain a very high six figure gig with plenty of resources to get there. I’ll gladly play that game, with enthusiasm. When others focus on the plight of the interviewee, others are leetcoding, white-boarding, practicing, reading up on blind, etc.
Drones for rebar tying for concrete construction
What kind of sites do you make? I’d imagine that avoiding things like react is fine for a lot of sites that just need a bit of form input here and there and some nice styling, but that anything relatively big with interactive pieces would fairly quickly devolve into a difficult to maintain mess without components. I’ve sort of been trained to think that, though, as I was just starting development right before libraries like React started to get big. I remember reading cs books and learning about how important encapsulation and modularity was and then feeling like I wasn’t really able to apply those concepts adequately in my really early web projects. React came along and seemed like the best answer. Do you do something different to organize code related to more complex frontend user interaction than forms/animations, or do you find that you just don’t really need complex frontend user interaction for the websites you make?
This is fairly topical point. Yet in terms of maximizing stability, it seems like those democracies that do -not- vest too much executive power in a single person tend to fair better. Many presidential systems which adhere to strict notions of unitary executive theory are finding themselves at the mercy of unaccountable and uncontrollable leaders, while parliamentary and semi-presidential systems which better distribute executive authority and retain close accountability to democratic feedback mechanisms fair better.
Let them invest to compete, instead of merging. Merging will only make things worse.
You've made similar comments before [1] which were overstated at the time, do you have some github issues you can link to that clearly show what you're saying?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15460382
It's sad to see Kotlin took over quite a share from Scala in my perspective. A lot of people are waiting for Scala 3 to make their decision which makes it worse.

Don't get me wrong - Kotlin is a nice language. But Scala is one of the most language to bring novel ideas in to the industry. There will be even dependent type in Scala 3.

A lot of people are keep bashing languages like Scala for complexity. I don't think they are wrong but in this way the industry is moving slow compared to the reckless style in 90s. People are just too caution with new languages nowadays, which makes things harder for new ones. New languages have to add a lot of compromises to get attraction.

There's still a long way from carpentry to engineering.
What you're seeing on that site isn't actually OpenStreetMap. It's data points from OpenStreetMap that are overlayed on top of Mapbox [1], with the vector tiles served up by Tegola.

1: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/

2: https://tegola.io/
I wish you the best of luck getting everyone you communicate with to stop using SMS.
>The not-so-talked-about but killer feature of Matrix is that you can bridge other services into it

This is useful, but why is it killer ? Stuff like this has always existed even with IRC or XMPP. The annoying part with all these proprietary services is reverse engineering their APIs and APIs not being stable etc. Once you do the main legwork, can't you pipe it to anything, whether it's Matrix or not ? What does Matrix add to this ?
Do you ever have to SSH into a server? Then learn some vim or if you are like me and it is usually a conf file then nano will do just fine.

Do you want an editor that is big on being customization and automation (a programmable text editor)? Then try using emacs. Loads of stuff you can change and automate. You can even use it as a simple web browser.

If the above don't interest you then VSCode is probably more than adequate for your needs.
How much law do we take with us?
And whose?
See,
marslegalcode.org
Both roles sound great from my prespective
> Randomizing form field names […] will prevent auto filling fields by browsers and password managers.

I wholly agree that this would not help, but for the sake of completeness, I want to point out that <input autocomplete=""> [0] is designed to solve this, by decoupling input field names from their intent.

But Chrome is playing dumb about it [1]. And of course, the spambots will just adapt to parse the autocomplete info…

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/chromiu...
I have to ask, why do people do this? What do they get out of it?
If you're into movies with zombies, pontypool is a fun watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)
It could but they should be able to provide an Attestation of Compliance. If they can't, then you can trust that they're PCI compliant.
Saying car sharing is here to stay is not the same as saying Uber and Lyft will last forever.
I’m not very interested in a Pro machine but I want an enthusiast machine and a most-performance-for-the-buck machine and an expandable machine.

You want the most-performance-for-the-buck from Apple?

You haven’t been paying attention for the last four decades...
Over 60% of women face enforcement of wearing heels at work, study finds
The biggest issue I have found is Auth, specifically session sharing. Any advice for that?
Goofing off while waiting for a compile to finish.
How Google Search Works
Other commenters have basically answered already, but to be clear Luminati is not the only provider, just the most infamous. It’s very easy to find others of greater or lesser reliability. Search “residential IPs proxy” and you’ll find many vendors.

But yes, the whole cottage industry is sketchy. Almost all providers are leasing users’ computer with outright malware or shady TOS. The savvy play is to release a free game, app or even SDK which will then opportunistically route requests from the control server through the user’s device.

Recaptcha solving APIs are frequently bundled with the more reliable and premium services of this kind. They introduce a lot of latency since there’s a real mechanical turk across the world solving it for you, but they basically work.
So if they sold a display like the one in the iMac that is actually manufactured by LG, you’d buy it....

So why not just by the LG display?
Flappy Bird implemented on the HP7440A pen plotter
"non-carbon based life"

I guess isn't silicon the only other that bonds four ways? Not a chemist but I feel that 4 bonds are a big thing.
Though bots may use it, it seems the perfect use case for aria-hidden.
Depends on your locale. I’m in Orange County, south of LA where country clubs and yacht clubs are alive and well.

Younger generations are joining both.
Just because I did development in the 2000s does not make me old.
The battles are so fierce because the stakes are so low.