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java.net.URI.create Illegal Chars and Safari
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Muon radiography decodes ancient 12-meter buried building in Naryn-Kala (Russia)
"problem i have is with claims about what computer modeling can be used for. "

Ok, we agree on that. But so far I only heird weird claims from the media, activist and politician side. The actual scientists do point out the limitations of their models. But still, if the overwhelming majority of the involved scientists say all their models and data does indeed point to human made climate change and warming ... then maybe there is something to it?
Everyone should be allowed to fail, but how many artists are there out there that "failed" and got more ordinary jobs? (and how many out there with ordinary jobs would like to try their hand at failing to be an artist instead?)

The economy isn't willing to support very many artists, and the support is very exponential with a small number making more than anybody needs and a very long tail making nothing or near enough.

So tax Ticketmaster 10% and use the revenue to boost the NEA by a factor of 10.

Or stop spending $200 for concert tickets and buy some art you like displayed on a coffee shop wall and take interest in the local music scene.
There is not a single large web platform that does not use complex tracking and targeting mechanisms.

Affiliate Marketing is nothing compared to that.
perl6 seems ultra versatile, near lisp levels and can thus be molded into concise lazy functional
Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens. Lots of people enter on a tourism visa and do not earn income but are in the us for a mixture of reasons -what gets reported, is journalists being caught and expelled.

I have an APEC card. I only ever enter for work. I think it's considered ok to recreate, having entered for work related reasons.
Why should it be one or the other? Let’s just do away with both.

It’s like a criminal justifying his actions with “well at least it isn’t murder so I’ll keep going”.
I don't think the article quite connects the dots.

As I understood it, it was mainly for homefront consumption, to encourage kids to eat their veg. Pilots are cool ergo they can make veg cool, so the theory goes.
Lucky you. I get exactly zero content on my 13" MBA with increased font size:

https://i.imgur.com/Z8bB3sN.png
Yes. I too have done this before I got my APEC. But somehow, journalism is treated differently. They get turned round by CBP.
cors is not security, it's just a sanity check on top of real security
> Ask any 100 people on the street about any industry specific tooling or terms and you're likely to get nothing.

That's exactly my point: rsync is a UNIX-specific tooling, which makes it niche among people who use computers.
The death of the term 'tech industry'
If you live in a big city, consider moving to a cheaper location to reduce your burn rate. Halving your rent can buy you several more months of runway.

Ideally, do as much up front work as you can while still getting a monthly paycheck while doing justice to $dayjob.

Nominate one or more people who you will be accountable to, and track your progress and discuss strategy with them once per month. Like a board of directors.

Find a good co-working space. If you haven't worked on your own full time before, get a time tracking app and find a daily cadence that lets you 6-7 hours of productivity per day, pack it up at a reasonable hour, go the the gym, socialize.
I could see that working. Just depends on your use case and what you want to accomplish.

The approach the author takes has the advantage that when data is in the load table it can then be used to load into a real table via some transform in batches and be done in the background.
Wouldn't that allow the token to be replayed? Attack scenario:

1. Attacker installs zoom.

2. Attacker starts to join meeting foo.

3. zoom.us creates a signed request saying "join meeting foo" and gives it to Attaker.

4. Attacker takes that signed request and sends it from attacker.com to localhost inside Victim's browser.

5. Victim's zoom native app gets the request, validates the signature, and joins the meeting.

I think it can be modified to be safe if there's a key exchange between zoom.us and the native app, and zoom.us signs the key exchange with its private key. But this seems hugely overkill compared to a simple Origin check, or even compared to a traditional XSRF token (via a cookie on localhost).
I agree they broke the law. I’m just trying to understand what small change needed to happen so they wouldn’t have broken the law. Paying their taxes - after Al Capone, you’d think any one skirting the law would at least cover that base. What else would they need to change?
Is Netflix taking risks though? If you look closely most of their content seem to be written by bots trying to maximize revenue. They are taking everything people love and then writing stuff around it. Sure, there are originals here and there but look closely there is lot of rehashed stuff as well.
Persian ice cream tradition since 500 BC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani_sonnati
To check it with fewer mouse clicks:

system_profiler SPInstallHistoryDataType |grep -A5 MRTConfigData
No. He crashed into Monterey Bay. He likely ran one tank dry then sent the plane into a dive while he tried to move the fuel selector that was located over and behind his shoulder.

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?E...
With Safari/iOS, all I see when I click your link is a full screen GDPR cookie notice with truncated text (the start is missing), that can only be dismissed by accepting tracking.
I have to say, I think it's great that Apple doesn't try to do damage control on their reputation, but instead does damage control toward the customer. They could've kept the service working, created a fix and silently pushed it, but they didn't.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/employme...
You could use;

auto* p2 = std::exchange( p1, nullptr );
I like things so I will see more like it. This works because of my follows liking similar things and thus those appearing in my feed, and I’m part of the network effect doing that for my followers.

This doesn’t apply to “sponsored” posts, which show up in my feed regardless of what I like (and are almost always about plane tickets or cell phone plans). They are so uncharacteristic as to be easy to spot, and if they were engaging, the brand wouldn’t have paid to distribute them.
> It turned out it was one of the most successful way to win games.

Meh. That statement is euqivalent to "Turns out being able to calculate 400.000 chess positions per second it one of the most successful ways to win games". Given perfect Micro, SC2 is a totally different game that what we are playing.
> You don't need stickers for grip (and fact they're not ideal for that anyway)

You don't need to eat chocolate cake for sustenance (and in fact it's not ideal for that anyway).

It's a minor practical benefit to having a sticker collection on there, which is different to covers, or tape, or other things.

There probably aren't millions of discreet reasons, but there are millions of people with their own reasons, even if they largely overlap, the rationale will be slightly different.
The Verge doesn’t give me, in the UK, any options to control my level of cookie acceptance. They offer me two policies to read an an accept button.
How is it a strawman? It's not even a hypothetical, has everyone forgotten already the constant dramas from the era in which Steve Jobs insisted iPhone apps would be banned if they weren't of "very good quality" or whatever the BS wording was? And when he went on his personal moral quest against porn?

This seems like overreach to me. It's annoying but it's not like the Zoom app was silently letting people watch me for hours through my webcam without anyone noticing - the app opens a full screen video sharing GUI for goodness sake. Is being joined to a VC without me wanting it when I click a link annoying? Sure. It also serves the attacker no real purpose and thus has never actually happened in the wild. It's also easily fixed. This is a storm in a teacup.

Moreover it seems from the last discussion of this on HN that videocall firms do this for a good reason - lots of users get confused by bad Safari permissions GUIs and end up locking themselves out of the app by cancelling the URL open prompt without thinking (which is apparently persistent!) Then they can't join the call. So the only reason these firms are using such a bad workaround to begin with is because Apple screwed up their user interfaces: why is this not on Apple to fix?

This appears to send a message to Mac devs that a single troublemaking blogger can cause Apple to kneejerkingly nuke features in your app overnight, regardless of whether you are fixing them, whether they're serious or not or whether it will result in legions of confused and stuck Mac users. Not a great message.
It’s kind of sad that we live in a world where this behaviour is considered exceptional and something to be applauded, instead of being the normal way to do business, thanks to both morals and regulations with huge fines to control those who lack morals.
That's not what I am saying. Any large web platform will use these tactics, the worst offenders being the ones on top of the chain. Even if you truly believe your platform or employer does not use these tactics, they are being positively affected by the platforms that do. Your work more than likely contributes to this massive market - and it is massive, it pays a lot of wages, directly and indirectly.
Still amazes me how the Persians invented a way to create and then store ice through the summer months for these treats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
I am constantly surprised how many "reputable" sites stick these bottom-feeders on their page. I feel like it must impact readers' perception of those sites when they are trying to be all highbrow, and then the bottom of an article is stuffed with crap that most tabloids wouldn't publish.
So what they're saying is, we follow this one simple trick? I just don't believe that.
US probes France’s proposed tech giant tax
As far as I understand, notarization is intended to catch malware before it can be distributed. The traditional signing mechanism can protect users against malicious software because Apple can pull certificates used to sign malware.
I put stupid stickers on mine to mock people who put stickers on their laptops. And also i love recursion.
It's also on macOS license agreement:

"By using the Apple Software, you agree that Apple may download and install automatic updates onto your computer and your peripheral devices. You can turn off automatic updates altogether at any time by changing the automatic updates settings found within System Preferences."
At least they don’t redirect the page so you can block the overlay with an ad blocker and be done.

Not saying this is OK (and definitely not compliant with the GDPR) but still slightly better.
Notarized≠signed. I suggest you watch the videos that you've posted; they go into detail about the changes in macOS Catalina and when they apply.
Not so fast. E.g. have you read "History will not be kind to Jony Ive"[1]?

Apple has its share of evil. Another example is preventing people from repairing their own Apple devices.

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[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyjmw/history-will-not-b...
I think that's how pretty much everybody does it

Though every MacBook has some small details that can be picked up even if "identical"
Nintendo is updating the original Switch with a new CPU and storage
I don't like the UX. Made my laptop spin like crazy. Why do they have to make such a long scroll and why don't they use multiple pages?
Because they have bills and wages to pay. They more than likely have tried different methods of monetisation as well, it just didn't work as well.

Which is why this field is in dire need fir reinvention. It's terrible, but it works. The challenge is making it work, without being terrible.
This article could be the definition of "first world problem"
Instagram could have become some interesting things if it had sold to FB. The world's biggest modelling agency for one.
It's not, but sandboxing requires code signing.
What about their privacy though?

It is a joke, but it makes you think why we think animal privacy is not a real thing whereas if you’d do this with people you’d have a whole lot of criticism. Very rightly so I might add.
I was boldly going with a universal quantifier ("always") which might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I wasvery careful of getting the direction right. "All taxation leads to (some form of) innovation" is a very different statement from "all innovation comes from taxation".
He also wrote a nifty article back in '81 about calculating e to 118,000 decimal places.

https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Users/Grant_Stockley/App...
> macOS is on the path to adopt iOS permissions model and long term roadmap is to apply the sandbox to everything

I do not see where this is mentioned.
It would appear to be very similar to the Bohmian interpretation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theo...

There have been some nice papers on this. See "Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories" https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.abstrac.... They use weak measurements to make inferences about particle trajectories (ala QTT).

Maybe the authors feel that they are working from a different theoretical foundation. The foundational argument, that quantum systems have specific but unobservable states, is the same in QTT and DeBroglie/Bohm models.
This doesn't kill package managers like Homebrew.
Smart Card Systems Redesigned
I suppose zebras are basically walking barcodes :)
Syntax errors are the easiest errors to fix and almost never get into production.

Zero downtime deployments are very rare, and ads a lot of complexity, so it's a big trade-off, compared to just uploading the new code and restarting the service. And having the front-end deal with minor hiccups like service restarts, because users will have such issues all the time due to being on mobile networks, trains going through tunnels etc.

You can do as much testing as you want, both manually and automatically, but you still can't detect all issues as efficient as thousands of users in production. So just accept that there will be issues, and instead design your pipeline so that those issues can be fixed within minutes.
> There is no broadcast,

Wrong.

In your notifications screen (who liked your stuff), you can change pane and instead see what your friends has liked.

Most people don’t know it, but yes, it means you can “spy” on your spouse or vica-verce.

It’s the sort of creepy most people wanted to avoid when they left Facebook, and unknown to them, Instagram still has it.
I think you misunderstood me. I am making the point that Bitcoin has basically no value. Its only value comes from the fact that currently enough people think it has a value. Like the million dollar homepage. Once the novelty has worn off, it could drop to 0 value.
That looks absolutely amazing!
> isn't worse than the likes of Facebook, Google, etc.

I didn't qualify my statement to leave these out…
I'm saying DeepMind could be better at lower APM than a human could be. Which is cool because APM we see as a physical limitation, topping out at around 350 average iirc. If you go through a players 350 clicks, how many are good tactical decisions, how many are mediocre or bad ones and how many are just the player keeping tempo?

We don't know how our attention span is limited and how that relates to tactical planning.
#3 ftw. Yep... Nup.
The PE organization has been especially desperate to hire over the last year. The burnout and churn is real. Be wary of what you'd be walking into.
Tweet exchange + link, for anyone else stumbling upon this later:

> @milankloewer Would mind joining this thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392612 We are discussing the results of your work with posit.

> Happy to join. In short: I did not use any quires so far. All simulations are entirely based on 16bit posits, but I compare them to Float16 and not Float64. Tricks are: Scaling and rewriting algorithms to avoid very large and very small numbers, that's it.

https://twitter.com/milankloewer/status/1148670158883475461
For me culture fit is working culture fit. I’m always looking for someone who can get on board with the way we work as a team. I don’t care if we can become friends or not, if you are willing to work long hours or not (I’d rather not) as long as we can work efficiently together and rely on each other to get the job done.

In early stages, for instance, I would look for people who have a shipping fast mentality. In later stage for people who value technical excellence.

Everything else is at best childish and naive, and too often discriminating against certain persons who would actually be a valuable asset. A grown up can work efficiently in a team without going to Thursday beers every week.
There certainly seems to be a lot of bullshit going on.If you mention this you will just get criticised for not being enlightened enough. As to whether it's a bad thing that the super rich are getting fooled out of their money, well I'm fairly relaxed about that.
Your Low Blood Sugar Level and Your Brain

Here are two things to know about blood glucose and handling (pre) diabetes.Yes, a low blood sugar level can leave you confused, weak, and with an aching head - but it doesn't kill brain cells. Mature adults who've had even repeated episodes of hypoglycemia don't lose mental functioning. Children whose brains are still developing may be a different matter.

What do you do?Check your blood glucose level before you do things like heavy exercise that will drive it down. Let your friends, family, and co-workers know how to recognize hypoglycemia. Keep a supply of readily absorbable carbohydrates close at hand. Glucose tablets, hard candy, and icing are good options. Wear an ID bracelet. And remember that your body has hormones that should help reverse hypoglycemia.Commit yourself to learning. The good news is that the field of diabetes research is advancing at a breathtaking pace. Specialists have trouble keeping up. You never know when someone will make a breakthrough that could improve your quality of life.

Here are some ways to keep abreast of developments: Get a good guide for Diabetes. Much of the information is applicable to pre diabetes as well. Join the American Diabetes Association. Go to your local chapter meetings. Subscribe to their magazine Diabetes Forecast - where laymen can get access to state of the art thinking and research. Go to authoritative resources including Medscape Diabetes and Endocrinology Home Page, the National Diabetes Education Initiative, and others.https://letsfireurbossnow.com/the-big-diabetes-lie-review/
The point of the dollar is, that it is backed by the United States of America. By the government the Federal Reserver Bank as the front line of setting and defending the value of the dollar. And by the whole US industry, which is trading their goods in dollars. That is the reason why modern currencies are generally valued vs. the gross domestic product of countries.
CdQA – a software-suite for easy implementation of QA systems
Hopefully the unethical organization develops a reputation for being unethical. Then only unethical people will patronize said organization. Ideally, unethical behaviour leads to marginalization, though obviously that does not always happen in practice.
It is based on trust but also on the gross domestic product. If you want an iPhone (Tesla, corn, beef), you have to pay for it in dollars eventually.
I prefer Calca. I just find variables easier to deal with. I used it most recently when I was working the food table at my kid’s school fete, and I didn’t have a point of sale. Just do all my calculations with variables so it was easier to spot errors. (Kids spending their own pocket money are ruthless at challenging your math).
I'd also love to see the questionnaire if you're willing to share it
My bet is that as soon as there are sensible arguments to counteract your counter arguments, you will come up with new counter arguments.

To resolve this cycle let me propose a radical idea: Tell us when you would change your mind! Then we have something to work towards to.

What is the level of evidence and rigor that you require until you accept that plant based diets generally have better consequences for all beings involved and should be promoted over „western“ heavy meat based diets?
Is this evidence-based? I have believed this for a long time but it's from first principles (being able to experiment safely leads to more experiments) but I've noticed that European society is more conservative and prefers not to experiment despite having better welfare systems.

I wonder now whether proportionality is key. Whether the people who will experiment are precisely those who would prefer to make a metric ton for themselves by experimenting and aren't worried about the downside.

FWIW I have lived in Europe, America, and Asia. I like to think I'm fairly neutral.
To even discuss this quantitatively, we have do define what "original" means. Is a movie based on a book, play, or comic original? What about a sequel with an original story but existing characters/universe?
There are no infinite buyers and sellers. With intrinsic value I meant that there is something tangible you need or want. And the local supply of that thing. Which is determined by the effort of providing a thing. That is why beef in a farm town is cheaper than hundreds or thousands of miles away, as the whole chain of transportation and reselling adds cost.
A good programmer will write readable code in any language, and a bad code will write unreadable code in any language. But most programmers are somewhere in the middle, and so whether mediocre programmers end up writing readable code ends up being what's important.
Note that conflict-free at this time is so hard to be practically impossible. Fairphone, a company and phone founded explicitly with the goal of producing a phone without conflict minerals, still isn't conflict-free, and it's not for lack of trying.

Sure, Apple has more leverage, considering their size, but that also comes with its own set of problems. Plus, their customers have nowhere to go to in protest - all other phones are full of conflict minerals too.
Griddy: Package for FAST CSS grid layout generation
That's not even wrong; lots of TV series don't have continuity, so they can't have cliffhangers and other tricks like that.
There aren't. On top of that, look at all the ways to represent NaN with IEEE floats.
They are leaving us in the dark, so to speak.
Aha. For shorter term employment makes sense. Usually in these hear parts the laptop will be deprecated/replaced before the employee (e.g. after 4-5 or so years).