skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was spooked away from OneNote. I mistakenly deleted an entire notebook on their iOS app with a single swipe and press. Bizarrely, the notebook was completely irrecoverable. Not only that, but the desktop version of OneNote, which previously had the same notebook, automatically synced the deletion. I laughed at how efficiently I was being screwed. This was a couple years ago. I reluctantly switched back to Evernote.

I’ve also had trouble with OneDrive. I like most Microsoft software, but MS needs to rework its schema for auto-save products. They’re seamless 99% of the time, but come with the black swan risk of catastrophic failure at the worst time. I’d rather just ctrl+s and email backup copies to myself.
Shit, been so long I forgot. Versant was cool. Too many databases floating around in my head :/

TopLink was the ORM that made me hate ORMs.
Further, regardless of the rationale, the point still stands that Apple has never really played nicely with the rest of the tech world.

But when you're the big fish like they are, a lot of people feel like you're morally obligated to take a contributory, if not directorial role in steering the industry. And Apple doesn't do that.
https://outline.com/mu3Vwk - same article, but without "Pardon the interruptions" nags from Medium
An expression I came across recently in one of my circles was “free speech extremist.”

As in, if you think free speech trumps censoring all possible offensive communication, you are a free speech extremist.

Man, I remember the days when being PC was basically “don’t be a d*”, and censorship was the Right’s shtick.
Isn't it exactly the use case of generators ? I though js had the yield keyword by now.
The title is misleading, the post is really trying to sell you on a new language
No, you only need to describe the nature of your invention - you don't even need to claim that it works or you could get it implemented.
Every time I used FF on Linux, it had serious issues with hardware acceleration.
Correct, every spying bureau, organization or company runs open source & that probably takes away freedom.
MicroG is not an OS, but open source reimplementation of Google APIs and make usage of Google backend optional when possible (e.g push notifications). So unless Google going to drop support for all older Android versions in Maps it's all going to be alright.
Unwanted art ends up in the trash. We venerated old art in large part because of this process. If every child’d Doodle from 1000 BCE was still around few people would look at them or care.
It should cost either $0 (i.e. don’t do it) or the cost of materials (by having the students paint over it). Though it seems like even they don’t particular care about removing them:

> And yet many of the school’s actual students seemed to disagree. Of 49 freshmen asked to write about the murals, according to The Times, only four supported their removal.
I'm fine if we want to erase history...As long as the understanding is that I'm also allowed to say it never happened.
The US Military didn't force you to take them.
I'm as skeptical as everyone else to believe your story even though I've seen two of these. Can you describe the color, markings, or material of the craft? With my experience all I could make out were the 5 points of dim light and nothing else.
Lots of people get special appellations in the US. E.g. professors, doctors, priests, reverends.
This is basically the same argument that southern right-wingers use to defend keeping their confederate statues, but oddly enough many internet commenters seem to have no problems with ripping down those pieces of art since they represented something they didn't like.

I'm not accusing you (mc32) of being hypocritical since I haven't seen you make any comments saying that we should rip out old confederate statues because they represent slavery.

However, (let me reiterate that this isn't an attack on you, mc32), I think we as a collective internet need to rethink how we feel about removing artwork if it represents something bad. It is not okay for us to be okay with ripping out some untasteful art but not others, simply because some bad art is "left" and other bad art is "right."

Before you go jumping on me about how slavery is different than communism, remember that communism is responsible for nearly a hundred million deaths, which puts it near the level of slavery in terms of harm it has done to humanity (even if they aren't directly comparable).
Provides really interesting evidence for one particular type of panspermia if larger organisms than bacteria are able to enter orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Radiopanspermia
Fully agree. This really pissed me off, so don't waste your time reading it.
I mentioned namespaces.

The point I was trying to make: while you can build sandboxing solutions based on Linux, the entire ecosystem has evolved without sandboxing as a first class concept, leading to numerous half-baked, half-adopted solutions that are all quite cumbersome from a user perspective.

A new OS with sandboxing by default would probably produce a applicaton ecosystem that is more secure.

Also, isolating many normally privileged facilities (like drivers, file systems, ...) is not something that is reasonable on Linux.
Wouldn't you rather not give the opponent any information including the information that you know what they are doing?
I don't see how that is a specific problem. All operating systems have annoyances. But if you are for example an engineer you won't find a competitive range of software on Linux. For someone in need of doing software engineering a similar situation have been developing on Windows. WSL changes that.
Cheaper, easier to mass produce, doesn't need an unusually special launcher, hard to distinguish from air to air and other defensive missiles, easier to disguise the number of warheads waiting in readiness, can take an indirect/stealthy course, hard to shoot down, can include smart tracking for moving targets like carrier groups.
NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, by Marc Andreessen (1993)
>Friends don't call each other "sir" or "ma'am",

They don't do this in the UK either.
Ah, I think the context of your programming and mine are quite different. I don’t do any mathematical formulations beyond basic manipulations.

I can see where someone writing complex mathematical formulas in C would definitely benefit from single character variable names
From AWS blog:

"(Amazon) will be opening an AWS Region in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The new Region will be based in Cape Town, will be comprised of three Availability Zones, and will
give AWS customers and partners the ability to run their workloads and store their data in South Africa."

https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-...
I don't think anyone is arguing that "men cannot be solo parents", just that it's a better situation with two parents. There are also some who believe that having both male and female role models is better.
"Although this is alpha/beta software, I'm looking more for feedback on design and functionality than bug reports right now -- down the road the bulk of the program will be rewritten in C++ anyway, so don't take the current code too seriously. But bug reports are welcome too. New releases will probably come out about every 7-14 days until 1.0 arrives."
"Current capabilities
....................

Motif interface.
Multiple toplevel windows.
Save/mail/print document (plaintext or HTML).
Document source- and URL-viewing windows.
History list per window with GUI interface.
Option for new window per document (TurboGopher interface).
On-the-fly font selection.
Many common document choices accessible via menubar.
Keyword search capability.
Hotlist capability -- keep list of interesting documents,
add/remove items, list is persistent across sessions.
Smart handling of documents too big for single X window --
virtual document pages via inlined hypertext.
Interruptable at any time via SIGUSR1 signal.
No config or resource file installation required;
self-contained executable.
Hypertext help.
Integration with NCSA Collage and NCSA DTM to broadcast documents
into real-time networked workgroup collaboration sessions.
Stable! :-)

Future capabilities
...................

Multimedia/MIME.
Asynchronous collaboration functionality.
(annotations, references, revision control).
Hypermedia interface to scientific data.
Visual hyperweb/hierarchy layout and navigation.
3D/immersive interface.
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You vastly underestimate social skills and the value of authenticity.
The group supporting its removal alleges that it “glorifies slavery.” If you read the description of the painting, that’s just false and makes me skeptical of the quality of the minds involved.

This would be appalling even if it were free to remove the mural. With all the literal and figurative shit San Francisco has to deal with, it’s borderline criminal to waste more than half a million dollars.
There is a service called "Blendle" that does something similar, but on a model where you pay per article.
I think from the Twin Study they saw changes in the immune system, but not severely compromised. Additionally, NASA astronauts are a highly selective population in pretty strong physical conditions who are lightyears away from those you hear about who have truly suppressed immune systems.
Can confirm that NewPipe has this feature
I wonder who the bulk of that $600k will go to (certainly not the laborers!) and what their relationship is to the people who decided to spend that much.
It's prohibited from usage by various regulations, like PCI-DSS, so you simple have to turn it off.

There are a few vulnerabilities like CRIME or BEAST with variable impacts, some can be patched. It's very poorly explained so good luck understanding any of that.

There are a few old algorithms that can be decrypted with current computing resources, negating the point of encryption. You have to disable DES, RC4 and NULL.

I personally think the whole TLS 1.0 depreciation is a mess that's very representative of why cyber security is a mess and will never improve. A huge cargo cult telling to turn it off because it's broken, ignoring that it's breaking a lot of clients, and without a single explanation of what's the problems or how to mitigate them.
Experienced software engineer would NEVER code something like that.
Both physically and logically it makes no sense to get same AOA reading after many iterations of trimming.
That clearly means something is wrong. And probably the sanity of data being fed is in question.
It’s the dumbest mistake in critical system I’ve ever heard.
Even in non critical software these types of logical mistakes are rare.
Ironically, it could have been written far more concisely and clearly by using IIFE, if-then statements and reordering the logic:

const result = (() => {
if (!conditionA) return 'Not A';
if (conditionB) return 'A & B';
return 'A';
})();

Yes, I know, I "need" to use curlies. But there's really no reason why someone shouldn't be able to quickly make sense of this. The ternary, on the other hand, is unnecessarily cryptic.
The difference is that OpenID is not a 'well known startup' but an industry standard and that Apple obviously implemented the well-known protocol 'OpenID Connect' but added some bugs and didn't want to mention that their technology could be compatible with the existing one.

And I don't want to downplay the innovative additions Apple made to the whole thing (browser integration etc.), but it doesn't make an honest impression if you don't mention that your revolutionary product is a based on a well-known standard.
The vanishingly few students who might actually have taken the time to confront the images, and come away somewhat disturbed by them, are the very ones most benefiting from it.
Genuine bands are hard. So are genuine partnerships in every field, including founding companies.

Top-down, command-and-control organizations that churn out product are different. Not all achieve the same success, but nearly every industry has figured out how to industrialize “creativity.”

In music, pop has had industrialization for sixty to seventy years. Instead of The Beatles, think of all the “bands” that were actually vocalists fronting for The Wrecking Crew or The Funk Brothers.

Think of producers and arrangers like Quincy Jones or Trevor Horn or Prince. They produced many acts, including their own, but they were essentially scaling themselves.

Bands of equals are hard. But industrializing music is an understood business.
The events only lasted a few seconds and even as I was pointing at it and shouting to my wife - it took her a moment to realize what was happening and she nearly missed it. I can't take a convincing photo of the moon. This would have been impossible.
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Yes. This has been going on for a while. There were several civil war statues of various generals that have been pulled down because of their politics at the time.

They tried to do the same to the Statue of Cecil Roads which I believe is in Oxford University.

There is also ideas of "Colonial Science" or "White Science" which reminds me of movement of removing "Jewish" Science and Mathematics in preference to "Aryan Science" before World War II.
I don’t think they said there’s a lack of a nonce, it seems to be saying that they’re not allowing the client to set the nonce.
Cue the British Museum to the rescue.

If I recall correctly, back in the 90's, when the Taliban decided to destroy those giant Buddhas, the BM pleaded to be allowed to dismantle them and take them to Britain instead, at its own expense. The Taliban refused.

This art doesn't seem nearly as important, but, I wonder if they could do the same in this case. The PR alone may be worth it. This sort of thing is the best conterargument they can possibly have against contestation of their legitimacy to hold foreign art.
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Well, they aren't wrong as far as that goes. I would simply remind them that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me add also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
As someone with an MA in Art History, this is simply astounding and unbelievable. None of the people on that school board seem to have any historical perspective:

- Rivera, his work and his pupils like the mentioned painter were left wingers actively denouncing white privilege, slavery etc.

- The work is meant to be critical and through being uncomfortable evoke discussion and reflection

- Destroying art because “it doesn’t fit what we think is right” has many really bad examples in history.

I really can’t believe this is happening. Totally sickening and it makes me despair for the education of the kids under this school board.
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Misleading post. Bait and switch in action. The important part of the title is in small script. Probably I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise ️
'Disneyland With The Death Penalty':

https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/

Another article which left a mark on me is Bruce Sterling's 'The Future? You don't want to know':

https://www.wired.com/1995/11/wired-scenarios-future-dont-wa...

In the original print edition, this was a tumult of mad typography, as well as an essay, which was a very Wired thing but taken to extremes. Appropriately for a cyberpunk writer, it may not entirely hang together logically, but it delivers a thrilling stream of eyeball kicks. I still remember the conclusion:

Real futurism means staring directly into your own grave and accepting the slow but thorough obliteration of everyone and everything you know and love.

Does this sound like fun? It can be.

Just don't expect it to move a lot of product.
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> Isn't that a bit condescending way to address such organization?

It would be if their CTO hadn't personally endorsed the "scientific" content of this patent in his letter to the patent office. In light of that, it's hard for me to see a different explanation than either "incompetent scientists" or "incompetent propagandists" (because the patent is a blatant joke to anyone with a science education), hence my reaction. I'm open to a different explanation, hence my question to those better versed in the mysteries of the U.S. military-industrial-scientific complex.
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> Version incompatibility is expected, because Linux kernel changes a lot.

Expected by whom, though?

I could understand it if it was major kernel versions or something like that, but it seems that a whole bunch of things are really tightly linked.

> Which now explicitly and clearly says the driver is for Ubuntu 18.04 only - did you not see that?

I honestly didn't. I went back and checked - yep, it does say for 18.04[1].

I have to say though that I wouldn't have automatically assumed it was ONLY for 18.04 though without it being more explicit about that. If the official drivers are available within the repo from now on, then it'd be great for AMD to actually say that. (I realise this isn't Ubuntu's fault)

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-hd/amd-ra...
What are the main differences between TeXmacs and LyX?
Hey remember when Al Gore was running for President and liberals and libertarians could agree on a lot of things.
It kept re-adding because the flap of the aoa sensor was stuck in the "aircraft is pitching up" position.

Boeing management did not add a second sensor to some planes and also pilots were not aware of how to switch off mcas.

If you worked in large scale project you would know that most devs are assigned components to work on and usually have no idea what other components are or how they will interact.
Related: Transducers for Python and related HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591118

I don't know how JS generators work but Python users seemed to think Python's generators cover most transducer use cases.
> intrinsic to the design of OpenBSD

Design and implementation are two different things. I can imagine an OS perfect for game programming, but I can't use it, because it's not implemented.

I tried OpenBSD for 2 months, and went back to MacOSX. First, package repositories were meh (either pay, or recompile from source, or never update).

Second, OpenBSD graphic driver support was just very bad - no drivers for GPGPUs.

Third, lack of drivers, applications / services for interfacing with the real world and external devices.

I come home, open my laptop, click on select monitor, and I see 3 monitors available in the WiFi network (two TVs, and a desktop monitor). I can just click one, and my display is mirrored in real time to them - I can play a video, and it is mirrored perfectly, and with audio. Same at work, want to show a video in the presentation room? Connect to the beamer per wifi with a single click, display mirrored, great. Phone detects wifi, laptop backs it up to network storage, synchronizes media, updates software, Smart watch synchronized, etc.

None of that worked with OpenBSD. I had to find a HDMI cable in the basement to connect the laptop to the TV, monitor, beamer,... I had to use a USB cable to connect the phone to the laptop, which I then couldn't back up or synchronize without a gazillion brittle workarounds, etc.

Losing support for all modern devices felt like going back to the stone age. Linux isn't really much better, but while I like OpenBSD design, philosophy, and parts of the implementation. The current implementation doesn't work for me.
In practice, I see a bunch of non-browser clients that are capable of doing 1.2 but will only do 1.0 as long as it is being offered. After a multiyear transition, nothing failed the day after we turned off 1.0 on the server end.

A week later we turned off 1.1, as the logs said that no 1.1 connection had good credentials. Nothing failed then, either.

My recommendation: turn off 1.0 and 1.1 at the server end, enable 1.3 when you have that capability.
It’s amazing how impressively flawed the thinking around this is.

You can use this app to show an image of the QR code (Apple Wallet), but you can’t use that app to show an image of the QR code (Photos).

The only reasonable point in the article is that the Photo app doesn’t know it’s a QR code and therefore you could end up with an image that won’t scan. Which is certainly one possible way you could end up not being able to show your ticket (or your battery could die, or your screen could break, or it could be across the network and your service sucks), but it is no excuse for not accepting a ticket that does successfully scan.

The fact that they then went after this person to extort money from them after the fact — when they were a valid ticket holder — is mind blowing.
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I'll keep using my Arch linux with Windows in a virtual box. Win win.
This paper is emblematic of a serious problem in the software development field: lack of empirical research. It is unsurprisingly filled with opinion and anecdote, with little mention of research in the area. And in the one actual study cited, "Does Test-Driven Development Really Improve Software Design Quality?", the author mis-characterizes the findings. Not that there is a huge set of research on unit testing to refer to--there isn't--and hence the problem.

"Software development has been characterized from its origins by a serious want of empirical facts tested against reality, which provide evidence of the advantages or disadvantages of the different methods, techniques or tools used in the development of software systems."[1] In my view, the best thing we could do is to adopt "Evidence-Based Software Engineering"[2] as other disciplines have. This is more likely to have a major positive impact than the newest and hottest language, tool, or technique.

[1] Reviewing 25 Years of Testing Technique Experiments. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220277637_Reviewing...

[2] Evidence-Based Software Engineering. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=999432
Just out of curiosity: Which Linux distributions come without a package manager?

The only one I am aware of is LFS (Linux From Scratch), which is more like a manual on how to build your own distribution than a distribution like others. Anything more mainstream?
I see. You know better than the MPEG chairman. Good to know, I can retire from that debate.
As long as you some assume that there are no unpublished exploits in Linux. The Heartbleed bug was in open source code for a year and a half before it was found.
And who has paid the programmers on payroll on aomenc?
Do many people use TeXmacs? Now that you can export markdown and org-mode to LaTeX, TeXmacs doesn’t seem to provide much value. I use org-mode with embedded LaTeX for many documents and it works really well for standard stuff. You still are probably going to want to use LaTeX (or even just TeX) for complex documents like resumes and the like though.

I’ve tried using TeXmacs once and it never really worked well. Maybe because I already can write LaTeX reasonably quickly, but using it always felt slow and clunky.
This has nothing to do with unacceptable views and everything to do with middle-class people wanting to cover up anything unpleasant.

It's unpleasant to teach your children that the US forefathers were people to be admired when they have seen him with his slaves walking over dead Indians every day.
"Kernel written in C++... The horror."

What kind of discourse is that leading to? It's just an unqualified, unsubstantiated attack on serious work undertaken by presumably top quality engineers.
You’re asking more questions but I also clearly signed off. All the best.
It would be rude if they refused to make it if you still insisted. It’s polite of them to tell you before they make it that it’s a bad choice.