skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, you can use it whenever, but don't take forever.
"The Army would have been incapable of fighting WWII in the Pacific."

You do realize the US Army was extensively involved in the amphibious operations in the Pacific? In the Southwest Pacific, it was almost all US Army in New Guinea/Papua, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands etc. Guadalcanal was the main USMC effort. All of the landings in the Philippines were Army, Okinawa was joint Army/USMC under Army command. Army divisions also fought on Iwo Jima, Tinian, Saipan, etc.
I think that the Twisted codebase has the best combination of sound and comprehensive metaphor, straightforward functionality, and fun.

I also enjoy diving into it when I hit a breakpoint that calls one of its methods.
Based on the title, I was expecting this to be able Kudzu.
Look at the success Trader Joe's and Costco have had. Either company could replace the happy, experienced checkers, who care about what they're doing and how they're doing it with $10/hr people who have no stake in what's going on. The important distinction is the stake that your employees take in what's happening.

The people who are closest to and most affected by problems are the best suited to solve them. If you hire a fleet of people who don't care about solving those problems, they won't get solved. You hire a fleet of people who give a shit day in and day out, you're going to get those nagging issues that, in the long run, cost you the most.

Those companies that think that boots on the ground are replaceable in any industry overestimate the importance of management.

I rely on my people to keep me abreast of the issues, as a manager, that I need to be aware of. I expect them to fix the issues that are within their power to fix and escalate the rest of them.
Is there any external entity verifying the CO2 emissions quantities from China (and other countries) or are we expected to just take their word for it?
It's my impression that early in Benjamin Franklin's publishing career he published newspapers so he could put ads in them to sell more books. And that later in his publishing career, he used his newspapers more to promote his revolutionary agenda. The man wasn't a journalist.
The Invention of DNA Fingerprinting
I'm skeptical, too, that this isn't a stunt.
> c.f. also the recent Australian prime minister who claimed that legislation can override mathematics.

I believe the phrase is PI IS EXACTLY 3
If the end product of this is that society collapses because of the eventual effects of only fake news succeeding, then I'd say their model isn't "fine" at all.
When I was a very young child I very much wanted to have an imaginary friend, because media made it seem so nice. It wasn't that I lacked imagination, but I could never manage to conjure one that seemed fulfilling, possibly because I was aiming to have one that felt real to me.

I could imagine lots of fantastical and wonderful friends I would have liked to have, and even imagine what they might do or say, but that doesn't really seem the same to me.
The funny thing is, I bet 90% of the people supporting backdoors here also think China's government monitoring is a gross violation of human rights.
Or could it be they already have a back door and stories like this serve them by making people believe they don’t.
no. the users are allowed to use incognito mode. that there was a flaw in it that made it less effective is not google promoting competition, and fixing said security flaw is not about competition again.

Is windows fixing security flaws anti competition? Sounds like anti virus companies should sue.
I like that approach! Very plausible and consistent with services like Cisco WebEx and such that require one "admin license" and as many guests as possible.

I just recently switched from Android to iOS and there's a lot I miss about Android that will never come to iOS. I'd love to have that flexibility but cross-platform compatibility too.
Recently in Ontario the Amber Alert system for forcibly alerting phones got booted up. It got me thinking about the use of technology for non-optional alerts.

What if phones were loaded with some basic geometry layers, so when your phone's GPS detects you're outside the polygon, it forcibly alerts you: YOU ARE OUTSIDE THE RANGE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES. 911 AND EMERGENCY RESCUE NOT GUARANTEED."

I got thinking about this also because of how emergency services are often perceived as being some universal guarantee, taken for granted in the modern world. I wonder if people don't really grok that they're completely outside of the safety net they grew up in.
Are they really superficial details? You can't separate "character" and a persons desire to look good, have good posture, be athletic, not consume too many resources (and be overweight), know how to move, walk, and talk with poise. Yes, some people are born with a good set of genes, but much of this is also accomplished through hard work. And that hard work comes from _character_.
> i[f] you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape

The whole reason to remap caps lock to ctrl is that ctrl is in a terrible location.
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Hackers Could Use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities
ES doesn't store quite enough of the AST to recreate the function anyway. Most functions reference variables and functions defined in a lexical scope outside themselves. Getting the source with toString(), and passing that to eval(), doesn't reproduce the function, and sometimes it compiles ok but the function does the wrong thing.

Usually it doesn't matter, because these methods are used on functions that luckily only use well known names, mainly properties of window/global.

But it's a risk, and I've seen subtle bugs caused by the assumption that the function's .toString() can be run through text substitutions and eval to get back a variant of the original code.

Contrived example:

let x = "wrong variable";

function f() { let x = "I am x"; return function g() { return x; } }
f()()
=> 'I am x'

eval(f().toString())
g()
=> 'wrong variable'
Apple-focused threads on HN quickly detach from reality when it comes to Google; Google sells "just ads" like Apple sells "just silicon and plastic"
Try retraining FaceID without glasses/headwear, when standing up and holding the phone in front of your face at similar height. Anecdotally, it adapts better to sunglasses/etc. that way.

Also when it fails with sunglasses, and ask for password the first time, immediately logging in with passport will make subsequent unlocks with sunglasses work better (presumably it marks that face adaptation as "correct").
I shave my head, but I dye my grey beard. I know it probably looks like a "dye job" but so what? Is it any different from tattoos or other body modifications? And I can undo it by growing it out.
Funding Public Goods: Six Solutions (1994)
It's bizarre to me that Apple has never understood that computers are a highly recommended product. The reason that Apple laptops are popular is that the tech crowd is highly loyal and recommends macs to all their friends, parents, grandparents, when asked. And the tech crowd provides every hardware forum in existence with lots and lots of free Apple advertising.

It was never about Apple having better marketing. It was about Apple owning tech loyalty.

When the macbook is no longer the favored dev machine, Apple is going to lose a lot of market share.
Those are all great points butit's still unbelievably scary to think of a government that is storing all digital communications of all its citizens forever.

You'd have to be super naive or ignorant of history to think any different. Even if you trust our current regime, you never know what could happen in the future. It's just too much potential harm in exchange for the convenience of simply not having to do targeted spying instead of mass surveillance.

Nobody likes terrorists but mass surveillance is just way too open to abuse.
It can't always just be about being nice, unfortunately. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children could get us all killed. It's a serious threat.

If being nice turns out to be the best strategy for curbing this movement, then I am all for it. If screaming in their faces about it turns out to be more effective, then we have to do that.

I would love for everyone to be able to "rejoin society" but at a certain point we also have to defend society against those who reject it in harmful ways. Not every illogical cult-like community is as harmless as flat-Earthers.
Hmm... You could save another syllable by changing StreamingBug to StreamGlitch, which is also more idiomatic. Same number of characters though.
They're big on services, which would point towards some AI thing but the next step that seems relevant in this area for an Apple-like product is probably general, reliable, human-like AI which is too far off. So my bet is on AR. VR went nowhere but its tech might push AR into something usable. I can totally see Apple producing a Google Glass like device and getting it right, somehow.
If you think good user experience means making everything obvious or intuitive then Blender or Vim do not have it. But if you trade some learning time off, in not too long this translates to faster and more controlled end user experience which is also desirable.
You don't need a patent lawyer, just read 35 U.S. Code § 271. " . . . whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the the patent therefor, infringes the patents.

Amazon, Walmart, etc. aren't likely the ultimate targets of the suit. The suits are designed to bring in the producers under the indemnity portion of their contract with the retailer. Its a jurisdictional hook and way to effectively multiply the amount of pressure on the actual infringer, by threatening to cut off their access to the retailer (which could be accomplished in the ITC) and leverage possible contractual damages they face from the retailer. The ultimate goal is to pressure Everlight, Eaton, and whoever else is making the light bulbs to pay for a license, and using Amazon and Walmart to force them to do so.
Unions tend to prefer fewer workers to more workers for obvious bargaining-position reasons. What they don't like is losing existing jobs.

They also have more bargaining power when they represent skilled workers compared to unskilled ones.
Your analogy just doesn't work in the digital world, just like so many other analogies with physical things.

The publishers are happily sending their entire articles to people whether they pay or not. Then they add in some Javascript code to cover up the article if they don't pay up. Google has done nothing more than prevent this code from running, which is what the users want. The users own the computers, and they have every right to choose what code to run on it.

Nothing is forcing the publishers to send the entire article to non-paying users. They only do it because it's convenient for them. If they don't like Google's actions, they're free to come up with a different technical method of hiding their articles from non-paying users. Most other subscription-based sites don't do these things: they force you to login to access premium content, so the only way to get that data is to either have a valid login, or to hack the site somehow (which is obviously illegal).
So what other significant profit generating verticals does Google have?
Correlation does not imply causation.

Little known trick to establish that A causes B is to trigger A at will and see if a B is observed.

If you trigger A 100 times and it precedes a B 98 times then you have established causation to a degree. Similar to the correlation coefficient there must be some causation coefficient.
How over 25 People Got Scammed into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company
If the procedure I need costs more than $1 million such as CAR T-Cell therapy, should others be forced to lend or give me that money even if I have no hope of being able to pay it back?
> None of your arguments on this thread appear to have been persuasive, judging from the pallor the text they're displayed in has taken.

You judge the persuasiveness of an argument by... the "pallor" from other users' votes? In a discussion about computer security... which is an area in which you yourself are the expert? Shouldn't you be the one whose thoughts and votes other people would look at (and frankly, quite possibly, did look at and become immediately biased by), rather than the other way around?

> Why would I do that? If it was just one or two comments, sure, who cares, but you've written a multitude of them

Why would you do that? Yes, good question! Why did you ignore my 3rd comment in that thread (I suppose 3 is "a multitude") where I pointed out you had not been actually addressing my argument at all in the previous 2 comments, yet still proceed to interject into this discussion instead, and after waiting for hours for the discussions with other people to finish, again waste time replying to me here with a comment devoid of any substance? I wouldn't know; that's a question only you can answer to yourself.

You can "place the burden of proof on me" if you want, but the fact that you misrepresented my argument twice, refused to ever address it, moved told another thread just to tell me I'm being backwards, and now replied hours later to judge the merits of my comments by other people's downvotes in the very area you're an expert in... answers my question more fully than I could have ever hoped it would. Thanks.

> and none of them appear to be surviving.

You're wrong here too. At least one of them is still quite productively moving forward, with a kind user who left genuinely good replies that have actually directly addressed my arguments, and I look forward to that user's next reply.
Last time I applied for a loan, they followed up asking for bank statements for the account I had given on the application form to receive the funds.

I agree with you, and that doesn't seem right, but it is what the request asked for.
All the serious guys are already using pro equipment - DSLRs with interchangeable lenses.

And they all have to cut and edit their video, because thats what they do.

So being able to edit on a 2" screen when you care about quality to the point where you're getting a DSLR doesn't make any sense, so it isn't implemented.
Who said anything about real names?
Last I checked all the kernel bits were in C++.
There's a problem involved when you don't have a subject matter expert.

consider: here on HN commenters will often deride decisions made "anyone in the field with half a brain should know...".

But if you don't have that requisite someone in the field with half a brain, and when someone who literally makes money from convincing you they are experts tries to sell you...anything, how can you possibly evaluate the truth of their claims?

I saw this in state govt when they would try to hire someone - without programmers on staff, how can you evaluate if someone is a decent programmer? This goes beyond the normal problems of interviewee evaluations - you can get people that can't do fizzbuzz and you'd not be able to tell. Being able to tell the difference between "experienced expert" and "halfway competent but way over their head" isn't even an option.

It's a hard thing for an organization to overcome - as far as I can tell, absent some trusted 3rd party evaluation system (which runs into incentive problems), it requires iterations of staffing and trial by fire to build even this ability to evaluate in house.
Project Zero suddenly was interested in checking the security of games (which you rarely if ever see)

I don't think it's all that sudden and they've talked about it:

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/955540415263907840
> so they can't attract enough good talent.

...and they have no real way to evaluate the talent they DO attract, so they're doubly-screwed.
Does nobody realize how inconvenient it is that the relationship between the radius and circumference of a circle cannot be calculated readily by hand? Our manufacturing processes will be greatly improved by silencing those so-called 'mathematicians' and standardizing on a value of 3 for pi not that never ending mess.
Plasma (KDE) still has wobbly windows. Settings -> Desktop Behavior -> Desktop Effects
I am not
This is only tangentially related, but if the subject of these moon rocks interests you I would highly recommend a recent video [1] Destin of Smarter Every Day did on the NASA facility that stores the moon rocks, catalogues them, breaks them apart, and loans them to researchers for studies like this.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI
Are you kidding? My office is located next door to a gym (which I use). Guys care a _lot_ about their beauty.
This is an important question when deciding whether it's a good idea to boycott Amazon over warehouse conditions.

If true, and if you still buy the same stuff from other retailers (because you still need a coffee maker, for example), the effect is to force warehouse workers into worse jobs.
Yeah, the bulbs are pretty awesome. My partner was complaining last year about how the LED bulbs are ugly to look at and really wanted an Edison like bulb but with LEDs. A quick google later and I was shocked to find that idea already existed.
Cargo drones could be the future of the shipping industry
I totally agree. I also think there is a huge selfishness in allowing yourself to be used as a surrogate to a psychologist. Just because you are lonely due to not figuring out the other things yourself, doesn't mean you should play doctor to feel fulfilled.
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You can also read the actual press release from UCSB, instead of reuters' regurgitation of it.

https://filamentpatent.ucsb.edu/
I believe you want HTTP HEAD. It's defined to return the same response as a GET but without a body. You can therefore look at the Content-Length response header to see what actually issuing a GET will cost you.

The server should not return fuzzy content lengths: your client should have soft limit ranges rather than a single hard limit.

Of course, the server is not required to support HEAD, nor is it required to include Content-Length, which touches on your real complaint:

Programmers get to write programs the way they want to, and most of them don't share your value of preserving bandwidth and using progressive enhancement.

That is a relational and human problem. There is no technological solution to it.
It was my impression, not supported by much, that unions do like to set a salary for a role rather than letting that be up to the company or negotiated between the company and the individual employee. (Unions featuring superstars, like the Screen Actors Guild, are an obvious exception.)

I think it's an interesting question how a government workers' union would be likely to feel about a hypothetical restructuring that lost 75% of existing jobs while doubling or tripling wages. I tend to suspect that if the union already existed and represented those low-skilled jobs, it would be adamantly against the restructuring.

Doubling wages while not cutting jobs would obviously be fine with the union, but what would the point of that be?
Unfortunately we already are. See SAT prep schools and test prep industry in general in the US and abroad for an example.
Recently, I used a working typewriter. It was a very refreshing experience. It has space, tab and backspace that physically move the paper back and forth. It has shift and caps lock which physically shift the head to use the upper part of the font.

The keystroke was too heavy and couldn't accept fact consecutive typing because of head jamming.

Now what is remaining for me is to use the working VT100 terminal and teletype.
>its not directly applicable unless you are doing graphics programming

You missed the point. It actually is directly applicable.

The difference with math and programming is that the axioms of a program constantly change. A reassignment, a mutation is an axiom mutated.

Otherwise they are the same.

You could invent a style of programming where all things are immutable. Then that style of programming will be virtually indistinguishable to math. I wonder what I would call such a style of programming?
It seems that this more than a OS is a minimal file system with a obvious limited feature set that relay on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H - It assumes that a BIOS that contains a lot more machine code is available.

For the new generations this will seem not to have any real applications beyond code golfing.

But from a nostalgic point of view, it brings me back to the demoscene era.
I still fell a wistful longing for the old days thinking to fr-041:debris ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2llbP52Zo ) 7:20 minutes of awesomeness in less than 199 Kb.

BTW, I just google it and apparently there is plenty of events going on... Coming very soon: https://www.assembly.org/summer19/
My point is that you have to keep your key people content, else they will leave. During a downturn, you especially want your key engineers, best sales reps, most well-connected customer liaisons to stay around. If they leave, this will hit the bottom line, and getting a replacement will be expensive, or often impossible. This is a known way into oblivion [1].

There are booming industries where the boom mostly floats top executive boats, though. Ask an Uber driver, or an Amazon warehouse worker.

[1]: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
I think they do pretty well, plus it's not like Paul Allen's wealth died with him. That is one of my favorite places ever though so I really hope it sticks around.
> a la carte

Yeah, I wish we had an online resource (other than Wikipedia) anyone could learn any sort of math from in a systematic way... Oh well.
iOS allows JITs.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You're using bad or outdated second or third-hand info with no regard for the game of telephone involved in getting it to you, nor the anti-Apple zealots obfuscating the truth on its way.
#notallmen

:sigh:

Way way too many of us, and way too few of us who call them on it. "The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept."
As I said, cameras or something similar would be working to their strengths. Hell, build a game console, Microsoft eventually pulled that off and Apple has a huge leg up.

But, the thing is they don’t need to be good at something. Giant companies regularly expend into new areas. Employ the right people, make some investments, and suddenly they are competitive.

I am not saying Apple should diversify like this. However, it is an option.
The author appears to lump anyone of opposing views together.

Flat earth - trivial to disprove, ok
Anti-vacation - not trivial, but a huge amount of work has been done to show anyone who isn’t totally shut down the glaring before/after situation of vaccines, so ok

Men’s Rights? Seriously? Is the author saying men have no rights? Some of the things that fall under the men’s rights umbrella are the draft, lack of help for homeless men vs women, biased family court, little recognition when a victim of domestic violence (interestingly the CDC recognizes that), biased prison sentences, vastly higher rates of on the job injuries, etc.

So is the author saying anything that happens to a man his own fault?

Is there a specific men’s rights subgroup the author is referring to that’s very loud and just goes around saying men never do anything bad?

This is like saying “civil rights” people are a bunch of angry people with no reason to be angry.
Someone on Twitter says this:

https://twitter.com/huizhong_wu/status/1156349675831615488

> If you watch this vid from a Chinese site it says she used to cover up her face with a cartoon photo onscreen and would post filtered photos and short vids. Think it’s that she forgot to put up the photo for the live http://n.miaopai.com/media/ffdEpeNnTdRPa4ABk8DJa-zgvC~FDYrT