skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as a single developer, but i'm certain a team of developers can do it even without having some big corporation behind them.
I largely agree, although disagree about the point that this is unique to Apple.

I think Microsoft also does quite a good job of maintaining compatibility and slowly bringing people forward (to the point where it's often used as a negative argument). As an outsider, the whole UWP thing felt like a bit of a mess, so I'm not even sure what's the "modern" way anymore to build Windows apps – is it UWP? WinForms? something else?

Apple benefits from having higher average quality of developers in its ecosystem, which allows them to sunset things faster than, say someone like Microsoft, who has to keep things backwards compatible for a decade+. While there are larger applications (Adobe Suite) that dragged their heels on the move from Carbon to Cocoa, a lot of software on macOS/iOS is written by independent developers who do tend more to keep up with the latest frameworks.
> Gopher is designed as a very simple protocol any programmer is supposed to be able to implement themselves.

Okay, but then it's not suited for use a modern internet in 2019 and should stay locked on private networks where it can delight hobbyists without risking users.

> It will basically rob gopher of its purpose. I understand why that would be a disqualifying property for someone who cares about that purpose.

What purpose is that? Listening to this phlog and its immediate social network, it doesn't seem like it makes much sense.
Now your site is terrible for blind people.
There is something worse, its resume driven development - which is where I see the majority of NoSQL databases used (on a single server with a few GB's of data).
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I suppose you could look at the number of views / comments / likes / dislikes ratios to determine a level of controversy. Youtube viewers are already grouped into various audiences. So their behavior towards certain video's tells something about the video.
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sure, but Chrome has the power of Google behind it and that makes the browser more attractive because users feel that if the browser comes from the search engine company they already use then it must be compatible with everything they do online. This is a perception which gives Chrome an advantage over other browsers.

It's a bit of a monopoly that Google has on the browser market and so now they have leverage over what gets approved and implemented in those browsers.

Since most people use Chrome then other browsers are forced to follow suit with compatibility.
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it can happen anywhere https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m...
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That's of very little comfort in today's world.

For example: People in EU can see footage of drowning people trying to cross the mediteranean sea, and react by punishing the orgnizations who try to help.

Really, the interpretation of events matters much much more, than some footage.
What is the business model? Where does the money come to pay for the dev and hosting? This is the question I'm left with.

Nothing is free and I didn't find this in crunchbase.

Something is paying for it. Is it tracking people and selling it?
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It appears you may have misunderstood the comment you were replying to upthread - the original debate was if buying a 1950X at $499 would be cheaper/better than a $750 Ryzen. @lhoff pointed out that even when the 1950X is cheaper, you'd still need to buy relatively expensive coolers and mobo (for TR), meaning you won't be saving (much) on older tech. Thermal issues weren't the subject (except as an explanation on why TR4 coolers are expensive).

In turn, I misunderstood your reply to @lhoff, because in that context, I read it as a rebuttal of the idea that TR parts being expensive by suggesting an AM4 mobo + TR4 cooler as substitutes on a 1950X system.
This is almost completely inaccurate.

[qoute]The Serbs quickly learned that opening fire on Hogs with AAA or SAMs made them both obvious and high-priority targets. Serb air defenses attempted to plan their missile and AAA shots to maximize the chances of hitting an A-10 while minimizing their own risks. The “SAM bush” was one such tactic. The Serbs would first fire AAA to make the A-10 jink. When they thought they had the pilot’s attention focused, they launched one or more SAMs in the hopes of scoring a hit. The SAM-bush had zero success, and often the A-10s made the Serbs regret they tried it.[/quote]

[quote]On average, Serb antiaircraft missiles and AAA engaged each 40th EOG pilot about six times—several pilots were shot at much more often... One A-10 AFAC point of pride was that, even though we often took aimed fire in daylight, none of the hundreds of strikers whose attacks we controlled were ever hit...[/quote]

from A10s Over Kosovo

https://media.defense.gov/2017/Mar/31/2001724978/-1/-1/0/B_0...
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That is fascinating. I can't think of any other opinion where Republicans and Democrats have more in common than Independents, off the top of my head.
Many other standards organizations have figured out funding models that don't shut out hobbyists, the interested public, academics, and professionals with tangential (rather than direct, funded) interest. ISO has not. They are behind the times in this regard.
Well, if you want to be a pedant, it should arguably be Bayes's theorem: https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html.

That "Drop the trailing s to form possessives" exception needs to die.
Global temperature response to major volcanic eruptions in recent history
Chinese firm invests $23b in production of 1 mn EVs/yr and 500GWh of batteries
I've been using GIMP for some time also and I didn't think it was that bad of a change, in fact, I think it's an improvement. It's more in line with how most other multimedia applications work. Now I can just use the ctrl+s shortcut and it always saves my GIMP session rather than having to make sure I'm saving to the .xcf and not overwriting the last image file I saved.
It also appears if you somehow end up with a positive balance (e.g by receiving a red packet). I haven't tested whether you can actually spend that balance without having linked a Chinese bank account, though.
> Apple benefits from having higher average quality of developers in its ecosystem

How can you conclude this with any sort of certainty?
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If a poor country spends all its money feeding its citizens chances are it will stay poor.

If they invest in the future chances are there will be better jobs in the future and less hungry people.
All these activities seem wildly beyond the scope of what I’d consider journalism. Why don’t they just write about it rather than getting mixed up in it like this?
I'm not going to comment on 'pressure', but I've noticed that companies with formal vacation policies seem to be better for women on mat leave because they can stack their accrued time on top of the mat leave policy.
My bet is that the reason is the license. Bash is licensed GPL3, zsh is "MIT like".

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/LICENCE
The alternative is to remember the format the image was loaded from, track all of the features of each individual format, note when the user changes something that can't be saved in the original format, then before the user "saves" in yet another format decide when to pop up a dialog that describes how these featuresets overlap and alternate ways to "save" that might preserve more or fewer of them.

All of this to avoid saying: "You're converting your working copy into a lossy format. You might lose things."
I have, though it causes a lot of stability problems :(
It says it right at the bottom of the page!

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No need to imagine, Meng Wanzhou is still in Canada, and the US is telling British send Assange back.
Wake up man.
If you believe they are a trust (they're not), you should read this https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-s... and this https://expressiveegg.org/2017/02/07/guardian-bothering/
And you've never seen the storage stack give back bad data?

You seem to be saying "checksums don't matter because there may be nothing we can do about about the corrupted data". So we should just blindly accept all the bits from the lower levels of the stack? We should do nothing to verify that those levels of the stack are working correctly?

You've mentioned application-level checksumming: yes, that would be good. But until every single dev adds code to checksum (and correct?) their data structures and file formats, having more checksums allows for beter information about when corruption occurs IMHO.
On the other hand, in the 70s all the studies predicted the "coming Ice Age", which not only didn't come out to be, but turned to the opposite (the global warming).
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That's beside the point. I don't think the person in that example should face charges in the U.S., no. (But maybe they should in their own country, and obviously any murderers should be brought to trial in their own country)
Abstract:

> The ability to identify medical reversals [practices that have been found, through randomized controlled trials, to be no better than a prior or lesser standard of care] and other low-value medical practices is an essential prerequisite for efforts to reduce spending on such practices. Through an analysis of more than 3000 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in three leading medical journals (the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine), we have identified 396 medical reversals. Most of the studies (92%) were conducted on populations in high-income countries, cardiovascular disease was the most common medical category (20%), and medication was the most common type of intervention (33%).

The original study can be found here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45183.001
>But among the available addictions it’s one of the best.

Why do you feel that way? I've never been a big coffee drinker (for this reason specifically), but everything I've heard about caffeine withdrawals for people who have been daily drinkers for a while is that they are awful - headaches, irritability, extreme fatigue, etc...
Before anyone goes vegan, check-out the numerous ex-vegan videos on youtube. Even with supplementation veganism isn't sustainable for most people past 3 years, 10 if you're lucky, very few get to 15. Just keep in mind that without vitamin B12 supplements-->certain death.

This is not a human diet, and humans are not herbivores. Herbivores have complex stomachs or eat their own poop (eg, gorrillas and rabbits).

After the health flush of the first few months, veganism is a downward spiral to pasty skin, mood-swings, depression, dark circles, fatigue, skinny-but-fat, Joint paint, constant hunger/lack-of-satisfaction, excessive volume of eating. Vegans eat like you wouldn't believe. And a great deal of wildlife dies due to agricultural farming.

And despite what people say, anthropologically we are not omnivores but carnivores. Radio-isotope analysis has us eating a diet close to a wolf by preference over the last million years. Unlike a pig, a genuine omnivore, we do not have a proper cecum.

But sure, a few humans are better adapted to a plant-based diet than others, and our distant genetics was herbivore which means these genes can re-express, but for most people veganism becomes a nightmare and explains why the level has historically been at 0.3%.
It means opening PNG files, saving PNG files, creating PNG files, etc without seeing XCF at any point (except perhaps if you try to use a feature - like layers - not supported by PNG when saving and GIMP showing a dialog to warn you about it).

Replace PNG with any other file format (outside of XCF, of course).

The technical side is irrelevant, i am talking about the UI and its behavior here, not how it could be implemented.
No, many of these apply to web apps like e-commerce stores as well. Go to amazon.ca or wayfair.ca and you'll be greeted with a "download our app" persistent interstitial that promises "advanced features". BS.

They want you to install the app so they can silently get access to a laundry list of permissions that a web browser would throw up dialog windows about. There is no additional functionality on the app for the user, because you can tell the "apps" serve the normal site in a webview wrapper.
> The point is, "because android does it" is terrible reasoning for naming the thing.

That was not the point at all. The point is that the concept of a toast exists and is already widely established. Android is one of those platforms. That's it. I fail to see the point of bitching about Android as if that would undo the dissemination of this particular UI pattern. I mean, Microsoft adopted the concept. Do you expect to undo that by bitching about Windows 10?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tiles_and_toasts/2015/07/08...
He is also being accused of 17 counts of breaching the Espionage Act with a maximum sentence of several lifetimes in prison. The conspiracy to break the CFAA charge was just the taster -- and I would argue that it was done tactically so that the discussion of Julian would be "he's a hacker not a journalist". If I was working for the DoJ that's without question what I would've done -- whether the accusations were true or not.

We live in a society based on the presumption of innocence. Just because the US government says something (which happens to be incredibly helpful for their narrative) does not make it true.

Also, he wasn't accused of trying to break into a laptop. He was accused of allegedly offering to help Chelsea Manning crack a password hash (which he never did). Aside from the fact that johntheripper is free software and is so trivial to use that teenagers know about it (making the entire story seem suspect on its face) it completely ignores that this is ridiculously minor compared to the Espionage Act indictments.
But in some places it happens more often than others.
I think it's bad policy for the FDA to screen medicines not just for safety but also efficacy. From this study it appears to be frequently unjustified but it gives the drug a seal of approval that has a tendency to replace the judgement of doctors and patients. It's not that the FDA decision makers are corrupt or incompetent. These are wildly complex issues that nobody can get right consistently. Better not to conceal that with centralized decision making.

Modern medicine can't even agree in broad strokes on the proper ratio of macronutrients for humans. We give them too much power when we uncritically accept their judgement on any given treatment. For me, prayer would have no effect. For others it could be a life saving intervention. The efficacy of a particular molecule for a particular patient isn't much easier than that to determine. Therefore decision making should be as decentral and computationally parallel as we can make it.
If you save a png to a jpg, you'd expect a warning. Saving an image that you're working with to a standard image format is a lossy conversion.
We've actually known this for quite a while. And there are paraplegics controlling a normal 2D mouse with their brains right now. I'm not sure they ever attain the dexterity you or I manage by controlling a mouse with our hands, but it can be done. It can even be done without surgery now.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18367779
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Give it away on FreeCycle or similar, put a free ad somewhere. someone will take it.

Don't just throw it away.
I always remember it as “jump” and “climb”. Climb doesn’t start with k, but fair enough.
With my kids they are always allowed to "get some space" if they want to, but we never force isolation on them (we may suggest it, and often that suggestion is accepted, but it's clear that we're available to talk if they want to).
If your service is free and you monetize by selling users' data, they're all the same. You don't have to sell things to your users to make money. Just look at Google!

Because users in the rest of the world who are not as affluent aren’t as attractive to advertisers. You are already seeing it with Google. Google just announced a year over year decline in net income as ad sales increased a lot slower than acquisition costs.

Google doesn’t “sell users data” it sells access to users to advertisers based on their data. Advertisers aren’t willing to pay as much for users data for much less affluent users

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/classic-mistakes-understandin...

Again, the world is not the US. If I'm making a website for Europe or China [1] or South Korea [2] or Vietnam [3], why do I care about the US or Japan market share?

If you combine South Korea and Vietnam you probably have the GDP of a midsize state in the US. In China, if you want to reach the growing middle and upper class - you still have to support iOS.
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Like polio, malaria, yellow fever, rotavirus, trachoma, hepatitis? Sadly we have plenty of pathogens of all stripes in common circulation already.

Maybe I'm misreading what you wrote - but it kind of sounds like you are suggesting we knowingly infect some developing country with additional diseases, just to see what happens, in the hope it helps us make better medicine for ourselves? That would be kinda ... twisted
https://www.pika.dev/search?q=jquery -- so jQuery is not "modern" any more? That's quite surprising, giving for instance the dependency of the http://semantic-ui.com/ framework on jQuery (https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/issues/1175)
On one hand, I ran into this myself a couple of times (needed to spec some tolerances for shafts and holes; wanted to find laboratory glassware specs). Didn't end up getting them since it was a one-off query each time.

On the other, you have to admit that they do a much better job of making money for the value they provide, compared to e.g. compiler developers. (Just from a cold capitalistic viewpoint. I don't philosophically agree with not having a free way to get started with programming.)
I have several sites that I visit daily. All of them can be accessed by typing in the first character, or, at most, two characters - the url then appears in the navbar, just hit <enter>.

The strange thing is, every nine months or so, FF will forget one of these urls. It doesn't do it for all of them at once, just one, and it's not related to upgrades. All I have to do is enter the full url and hit enter, and things are back to normal again for that particular url for many months.
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You should try layers; they're really useful.
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Depending of the size of the prime you might need to take multiple photos.
Ultimately, it is up to your users - if they want to use the app or PWA website. You shouldn't be forcing them to change their behavior. Or, your engagement will suffer.
Ah, I misspoke. I meant "access", you're correct about searching. The original link I cited for explanation still applies.
And the attack comes from the greatest democracy in the world. It is not from a dictatorial state. If the heroes are this way...
"There are no missed shots, just some bullets containing 'To whom it may concern'".
I don't think "all Trump supporters hate immigrants" is a fair characterization, given that there are quite a few immigrants who are Trump supporters themselves.

also, Godwin's law?
Username checks out. Unfortunately, truth is spoken.

This is the danger inherent to full enumeration of the technologically enabled envelope. This is also the danger of the "market"; as it incentivized the ability to clearly specify the "who" of the customer.

It's why I've been getting increasingly uncomfortable with the economic push away from cash as the primary medium of economic exchange.

The death of the payphone marked the beginning of the end for infrastructure that wasn't in some way dependent or useful as a means of user surveillance.
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Army commits massacre in Sudan then cut off internet.how we get internet back?
The book 1-2-3 Magic tames even the wildest kids if you are consistent. It feels humane to give kids a few chances to change their trajectory. Highly recommend.
The AI was defending, so it would've benefited from ground defenses, and the study indicates the human team had AWACS assistance.
With my daughter, if I have to say "no" or "not now" I always try to provide an explanation, which ranges from "we don't have time now because we have <some time/date/location> to get to" to "I think that's too dangerous <explanation of risks>". I've done that every since she could speak. She's 10 years old now and I still do it. That being said, I don't often tell her "no". If she wants to do something that involves risk of injury (or something similar, like making a huge mess), I walk her through what she wants to do and get her to see where she needs to be proactive. She doesn't always listen.

For example (when she was younger), I have a four-wheeled cart for moving things which she wanted to ride in the driveway. I pointed out that she definitely would fall off and land on the concrete at some point, which made her understand she needed to wear protective gear (knee/elbow pads, wrist guards, and a helmet... basically skating/skateboarding gear). Of course, one time I came home from work and my wife told me my daughter needed to tell me something. That something was that she rode the cart without the gear and fell off and injured her hands and her chin by falling face first into the concrete (luckily it was only a minor injury). I don't think she ever tried to ride the cart again, though I wasn't opposed to it (with the proper gear of course).

This is just an anecdote to sort of "illustrate the process" I suppose. I hope it is at least moderately useful. And this makes it sound easy, which it is definitely not. It's tough, but so far it seems to have worked well.
Journalism organisations have lawyers for a reason (and they do help other journalists and even sources with legal troubles), so I completely disagree it was out of their power to do something about it.

But also -- they didn't even write about it. They smeared him relentlessly for 7 years only to "change their tune" immediately after the point-of-no-return.
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