skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it disappointing that we blame companies operating in China and not the real forcing function for all this: the Chinese government
Could I ask your age?

I have been casually tracking who actually owns these types of devices and have never met anyone under 25 who would even consider it whereas I go to the homes of people in their late 30's and 40's and see them all the time.
Aren't successful founders very rare, "period"?
That’s exactly how the macOS AppStore apps work. Your app gets permission only to those files that were intentionally opened by the user via the system open dialog.
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Buy a Brompton.
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My son, now five, has hated them for years. He dries his hands on my shirt instead...
Windows installers are declarative and data-driven. An installer script does not simply use the file copy operations a usual app would use during runtime.

Instead an installer is driven by a number of "database" tables that specify the installer actions in a declarative way.

There are several benefits to this approach. The declarative actions are reversible and the uninstall actions can thus be inferred automatically. This removes the burden on install authors to create a script to reverse the install operations.

This includes registering services/daemons (will unregister on uninstall), registering protocol handlers, filetype/program associations, desktop shortcuts etc.

The declarative approach also allows the installer to roll back in case of an error during installation. This even includes "undeleting" files that were deleted. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/rollback-...)

The author of the install script can (non-Store installers) escape and execute a specific program during the install process. This is rarely needed, though. So the default is that the uninstaller will uninstall by completely reversing the install actions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/windows-i...
Originality? Hah! Even remaking Frankenstein every 20 years or so brought a new take to it, whether Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi or Robert de Nero, they all brought something new.

More than any point I can remember before Hollywood now turn every movie and remake into the exact same movie. There was always some degree of fashion, but there's no contrast any more - it's all highlight, so it drags and drags by being boring and samey (but loud). Highlight is now just the dull background. The loudness wars, movie edition.

Doesn't matter what it is, a current film (or Netflix high budget, Game of Thrones etc) will have:

+ An absurdly overblown inspirational speech inspiring the troops (or children, or escapees, or office colleagues)! This will take 5-10 ear-bleeding, cringing minutes. If unlucky, you'll get two or three of these in one show!

+ An absurdly artificial, but highly 3D friendly chase scene with no production value other than hype. This will take 5-15 minutes. It stopped being interesting after Blues Brothers' piss take of chase scenes!

+ Ditto, ditto fight scene. Super slow motion. I always think of Adam West's TV Batman, complete with music - Zap! Pow! OWWW! Biff! 300 enemies die, town levelled, 342,000 rounds of ammunition spent, hero hasn't broken sweat. Just about the only recent exceptions I can think of are Deadpool and Sin City. Damn, the sequels were disappointing.

+ Ditto, ditto villain's death or capture.

I wait for them to land on Netflix, then go make tea, tidy the kitchen or watch some paint dry in all those "highlights". Independents with next to no budget can still do original though.
Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability
So the loud music + ear plugs combination might actually be optimal, because the net effect is to reduce the volume of all the nonmusic noise.
I suspect we might be using different meanings of multi-server microkernel OS, unless the modem software is even more limited than I thought - I meant that the system is composed of multiple communicating servers. Does the modem just have few independent colocated "big" servers (like the ancient 4.2 BSD server for Mach)?

EDIT: Also, had some fun in the past learning about the modem software on Qualcomm modems, back before iPhone or Android so nice to meet someone who worked on it :)
If your question is how to fix negative externalities, the answer is "regulation".

Otherwise... you can't make people care about every little thing in their lives. Sure we can solve this hand dryer problem with an awareness campaign or microdonations or whatever. But what do we do for the other hundred thousand issues like this?

Nobody has that much attention to spare on non crucial things. That's why we elect people to make these decisions for us.

Many things are going to suck as long as our elections remain broken. That is a much harder problem to fix, but there is no way around it.

Unregulated markets, no matter how innovative, do not always produce perfect outcomes. Basic conditions for and solutions to market failure have been known for more than a hundred years. It's not rocket science.
From TFA:

> Q. How does AlphaStar perceive the game?

> A. Like human players, AlphaStar perceives the game using a camera-like view. This means that AlphaStar doesn’t receive information about its opponent unless it is within the camera’s field of view, and it can only move units to locations within its view. All limits on AlphaStar’s performance were designed in consultation with pro players.

Your assumption us correct about the show matches against MaNa and TLO that many people are talking about in here. That was not the long term goal of the Alphastar team to keep it on that heavily modified version of the game. For one thing, it meant that Alphastar needed a customized version of the game that it couldn't play on the ladder. As far as an AI challenge goes, it's also really weak if the AI gets more direct access to game data than its human opponents.
You also need to be somewhat even during the whole game, though, corrected for race. If you play 10apm vs somebody at 200apm, they will be able to a move at the engagements even if your burst to 400apm because the difference in army size will be that large thanks to the differences in macro.
Some air dryers start with a motion detector and and it was impossible to get most of the kids to even enter the toilet because they were afraid that it would start the dryer accidentally. I myself was confused why their reaction was so extreme but didn't think that the noise is much louder at their height and that their ears are more sensitive to loud noise too.

Interesting that it needs a kid scientist to take this on them because adults with their height bias didn't measure at those spots.
> OK, so you accept it but reject it.

I had read them in Chinese. I accept these documents confirm Beijing opposed turning Hong Kong into a self-governed Dominion, which would probably soon become an independent country like Singapore. Very likely Beijing believed it's harder to integrate an independent polity than a handover from Britain in the future. It's more like a concern against independence in my opinion.

The opportunity for democracy I referred to is the kind of attempts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Plan_(Hong_Kong) . Pressure from Beijing doesn't always make a proper excuse. It's misleading to dismiss the resistance and obstruction from Britain side. I am not trying to argue who is responsible, but considering the final results we have in history, the colony failed to justify with practical actions as a much better light of democracy as some protesters might think.

> I still don't

Some people may think "freedom" is freedom and "order" is order. But through radical propaganda, these could sounds like "freedom" is about riots and "order" is about crush for other people. That's why there should be some talking about shared values instead stressing only on one of them, even if it is absolutely good.

> would you be kind enough to link to something showing that china had sanctions imposed on it by the UK at the time.

My mistake, it's not just sanction but embargo. see https://www.mardep.gov.hk/theme/port_hk/en/p1ch6_1.html
The hardness of discrete logs over fields doesn't have much to do with the hardness of elliptic curve discrete logs. At this stage, I don't think we have any evidence that curves over binary fields are less secure than over prime fields, especially for cryptographically relevant curve sizes.

(The situation is different for pairing-friendly elliptic curves, of course, but that's a different kettle of fish).
'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)
BlueHat IL 2019 – Microsoft session on sofware security trends
Ah sorry, I misunderstood your remark then.
After years of pouring thousands of dollars into Apple's coffers you expect that Linux will still be there when you need it...

Real principles would involve switching now.
Did you just “whoosh” yourself?
The large majority of devs that buy Macs aren't UNIX FOSS devs, rather devs that care about Apple platform.
More Than 1k Android Apps Steal Your Data Without Permission
As far as discovering territory goes historically, whoever plants the flag first, and whoever can defend the territory in the longer run.
stb_image.h - I've used plenty of image APIs and libraries in my time, and none have had the simplicity of just "load this" and just worked as I expected with (practically) no setup.
Rewriting is not like paying down technical debt, it's declaring bankruptcy and trying to start anew from the ashes.

Or depending how it's done, like abandoning the debt and starting a new life on a tropical island under an alias.
Isn't M.2 storage specific?

eg not a useful PCIe slot for anything other than plugging in an SSD
When bitcoin self create art piece ;)
This is getting close to "all the new music is crap and sounds alike, the music when I was young and impressive was much better". Every generation says that, regardless of when they were born.

Maybe those older movies just didn't seem so derivative to you because it was new to you then?
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection (Preview)
>~/.config) won't magically get cleaned up.
>I'd love to be wrong here,

Isn't this what apt purge appname does ? or is something missing

Form the apt-get docs:

purge - purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
Changing mass consumer behavior by copying a feature into an existing penetrated base is far different than sticky business customers jumping ship. Business’s behave differently from consumers.

Perhaps Microsoft may crush Slack, but the basis of the argument is incorrect.
Ask HN: Advice Wrt Side Business
I am a backend developer(Python mostly) working in the middle east. While my job pays okay-ish(~USD 6000 per month take home), I need to make more cash on the side as I have ~USD 60K in liabilities that I want to pay off in the next year or 2. I want to take this as an opportunity to start something of my own. I am willing to spend a couple of hours a day and 1/2 days on the weekend as well.

Would be grateful if anyone who has built or witnessed successful side projects that generate(d) profits in the mentioned bracket could advise.
It's reliably stable. With a current Mac, running an app that was built 10+ years ago would be a nightmare if not impossible without source. With Windows, I can still run apps from the late 90's with little effort (with the exception of some DirectDraw issues).
You are putting a huge incentive on DOXing people. If you know when an account holder dies or goes on vacation and others don't, you can take all their money.
Don't underestimate the value of reading source code if you really want to develop a deep understanding. With Linux being open source, the world is at your fingertips.
Third parties pressuring the people doing the work to do more work to satisfy the criteria of said third parties => not ok.

1st parties deciding to rewrite their projects, like in your two examples => sure, it's their projects.

There is a special case when new projects are started in C or very security-critical projects are started in C++.

Here public interest should take precedence - it's reasonable to criticize the creators of such a project.
Art is a scam. It's all about social connections. It's about who is able to fool or coerce the richest person through social networking.
Failing is OK, as is having some wild dreams. Dragging others down with you isn't.
Mana and TLO (red and yellow) are human players.
Ah, the theory of looking from results to constituent measurements, working backwards.
It’s to reduce specific types of bad bacteria that you might have contaminated yourself with when you went to the toilet.

I don’t think anyone can expect that washing your hands will eliminate all bacteria- including those in the air.

That said, I still hate hand dryers and still refuse to use them.
No mention of how this compares to EPYC?
I'm not sure how you can write all that and still say APM doesn't matter. It's clear that in order to pull off simultaneous events while juggling macro and micro, you need sufficient APM. Being a pro means you know how to manage APM, which is essentially a limited resource, while accomplishing what you set out to do. If APM is no longer a limited resource, that removes another constraint on how you play and what you can do in the game.
Just like emacs in the 1980´s.
> The RSS entries are cached by the aggregators, and the publisher never sees how many people have seen them.

Aggregators like NewsBlur, Feedly, and Feedbin pass on subscriber counts. I am literally looking at my own FeedPress dashboard in another window right now. I promise I have the analytics I say I do, cross my heart.

As for AMP, I'm not sure I see how AMP takes less control away from publishers than RSS does. There's nothing that stops anyone from running an RSS reader which directly hits each web site they subscribe to. Aggregators may be more convenient but they're not mandatory, and this seems to me to be a pretty important architectural difference. Even if we grant that RSS is pretty difficult to monetize, AMP takes my content and cuts me out of any monetization possibility entirely -- and Google may punish me in search rankings if I don't let them do that. Surely you see why that's going to raise some hackles that RSS doesn't?
20 miles is very do-able on an electric bike. Decent models with 100 mile ranges are now around the $1,800 mark.

Also, people live far from where they want to go because they (and city officials) have planned their lives around easy access to a car.

You might think twice about accepting a future job 40 miles away if fuel prices doubled, or a new toll was constructed along that route.
If there's no shops or jobs in the places people live, maybe that needs to be fixed first? Putting the jobs close to the people sounds like it would solve a lot of these transit issues by needing less of it.
Scientific atlas should have used kilometers for distance :) Beautiful presentation though!
But your web server does.
Apple Slashes Mac SSD Prices
Thanks. So what OscarCunningham said in sibling comment:

Ambient and unwanted noise might be at 90dB. You need at least 20dB of headroom to get a good sound and range, so the PA might be (for an arbitrary attendee) at 110dB.

Then I use my fancy flat-curve earplugs to chop 20dB off of everything, resulting in 90dB music and 70dB (and still drowned-out) unwanted noises.

My numbers might not be right, but general idea, right?
That is a solved problem. The only reason you can’t bring your bike on the bus/train is because of a policy that prevents your local transit system from investing in the necessary equipment. Why are they enacting this policy I don’t know. But I think it has to do with the larger problem of city transportation policies that generally cater only to private car users at the expense of every other forms of transportation.

So perhaps you should be angry at your local policy makers from preventing you from being able to bike part of your commute.
Integra Launches Blockchain Integration Wizard; Links to Elevate for ESignatures
Teams might be a shameless copy of Slack but it also has some genuinely useful features that appeal to businesses, as well as the usual raft of useless cruft.
Look at doom's source code for an idea of how often a bool is not just 0 or 1. I doubt doom is unique.

Spoiler: doom uses 2 values for bools: 0 for false, 1 for true, and -1 for not sure/unknown/error/something else
It's sad to see that in this thread most people jump in conclusions because they only assume there is only one reason why people put stickers on laptops.

Without giving it much thought you place people in a 'category' that only exists in your mind.

There are a million reasons why people put stickers on laptops. And also a million why people don't.

I guess it's best to keep an open mind and don't think you know why people sticker.
Here is a rebuttal to the claim of persistent misleading editing, and also an expose of how outlets such as the Washington Post deliberately engaged in purposefully misleading edits in their coverage of the incidents you name: https://youtu.be/_6SPN03SxM8
During the DeepMind vs Pro Players show games DeepMind was limited to about 300 apm average, but had bursts over 1500 apm (that is blinking 12.5 stalkers individually every second) which made battle very unrealistic.

An AI which doesn't misclick or toggle between buildings constantly should in the long run probably be limited to a much lower burst apm to be comparable to humans.
Yes, nothing to be proud of; but it was a dismissive commentary of something he had no part of, and a culture he had no love for.
That’s funny. Windows’ own tool for these matters is called... MRT.exe
:) You should have tried to scroll!

I know several of the later games, and even the first games (as far as I remember) allowed two fully independent screens with the UI buttons only appearing on the first one - I used the heck out of it.
It was interesting from 50+ years before I was born, through B&W B movies of the 50s, to maybe early 00s. Independent movies don't have the same absurd tendencies, and often still have lots of contrasts. Sure, some of those are just poor too. Independents have changed too, but haven't magically ended up with the same framework every time. Hollywood didn't used to.

There were always derivatives, themes, fashions, but without dull homogeneity. Too much chasing what sells, I have no idea why, but it seems to have reached self parody with succession of predictable remakes that add the standards and take away what made the original interesting in the first place. e.g. Total Recall

I still regularly find new bands and music. shrug.
Microsoft say a lot of things. I'll consider listening when they will (re)write their stuff in Rust.

TBH what MS does development-wise is irrelevant for me, since I gave up on their platforms a long time ago. But if they put their money where their mouth is, it might give Rust the push it needs.

Wouldn't count on it though, MS can't even figure out what own development story to support for more than a couple of years.
>some people seem to see everything Google does as some plan for world domination

That would be foolish. At least some of the things that Google does are clearly just side-projects.
> Is it really realistic to make every chat with a colleague into a formal, public RFC?

Maybe, maybe not, but when the community asks for a discussion about something, a response of "too late, we already decided behind closed doors" is not one that builds a culture of the project taking community involvement seriously.

Even if a decision has already been made in private, and will not be changed (which I feel is already somewhat missing the point of a community project), at least showing openness to those discussions, taking feedback, and tracking it in public is important to build the culture that is necessary to make projects succeed like this.
I interviewed there. Very cool office near the SF waterfront. Lots of staff. Even 5 years ago, clearly unprofitable and relying on funding. I recall thinking at the time that their executives smelled the blood in the water. I sure did.
i think the point he's making is "resident" not "citizen".
As a Mac user who develops high performance scientific applications portable between all UNIXen (Linux/Mac/BSD), I still can write my code pretty easily on the platform.

I personally don't use Homebrew, et al. but, I have a Linux VM which handles that stuff pretty well.

I didn't develop a Mac specific "application" though.
Apple Watch Eavesdropping Vulnerability Forces Apple to Disable Walkie-Talkie
Nuxt.js and safari: infinite loop when hot reloading
Fun fact, neither does AArch64, it uses ORRN with xzr instead.
I find it weird that you don't expect root privileges on devices you do work with.

It seems like this conflates the notion of having root privileges with turning off security. There is no meaningful connection between the two save in situations where there is no meaningful way to control said security layers save destroying them.

For example refusing to boot a bootloader that isn't signed doesn't require your oem to hold the only possible key that can be used to sign said bootloader.
I started using "Turbo Boost Switcher" recently. You can enable/disable turbo boost from the system bar which keeps the MacBook quiet. Love it.
Is EU any less critical of Saudis?
I have a prediction to make. Let me know if I'm right or wrong: These cars with dealer decals are all from dealerships located outside of California, yeah?

I ask because I have a suspicion that CA law bans them. Either that, or our culture is so anti-dealer-decal that none dare try to add them. (Every decal I've ever seen has been from out of state)
Successful single founders are very rare.

It's unclear they are remarkably more rare than other types. The data appears to show that single founders are the second most successful arrangement after pairs.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional/
Many beginner tutorials on web development breeze by "how to disable cors" as the most natural obvious thing to do, usually when wanting to call your own API on a subdomain. I think because it sometimes "gets in the way" and how to properly work with it requires slightly more planning than just disabling, developers fall into bad habits.
Are you serious?? Bringing up some random statement from a politician about science. Completely irrelevant.
> marginally better than paper towels

Of which you need only one to dry your hands:

https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_smith_how_to_use_a_paper_towel
Not really. I get the dislike for the hyped up terms but there are many companies that work in ML/data science (and hire ML engineers or data scientists) that do know what they're doing. And there are distinctions, though sometimes subtle, between the terms.
Not sure if we need a clear definition on what's OK and is not. I'd say there are different gradations of harm.

The article starts off with

> Alright, let’s do it, let’s talk about failure. In my role overseeing visual and performing arts at Kickstarter, failure is an everyday term—a project is either “successful” and meets its funding goal, or “fails” because it doesn’t

There is a third option for customers: funding succeeds but project either does not ship, does not ship according to specifications, or has serious product flaws.

I get that's an elephant in the room Kickstarter (and Indiegogo and such) do not want to mention.

It could be something you don't care about. I've seen left and right being confused, Mac/Linux support being dropped, launch date delay (very common) just to mention a few examples. Not every customer cares which fractures the customer base with fans and discontent former believers.
I enjoyed finding a foil sticker at jwz's club that turned the glowing apple into a glowing double helix.

https: //www.dnalounge.com/store/stickers.html
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in ¶ starts "America needs ..." (I double-negatived myself after an edit <shrug>.)
Just wipe your hands on your pants after shaking them in the air for a bit.