skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Make a platform so locked down that basic features are lacking.
2. Prevent users from easily writing and executing scripts to add functionality, like Greasemonkey.
3. Sell apps that cover missing features.
4. Improve your original operating system, rendering paid apps useless.

I’d like to see Apple let AppleScript be executed on the Apple Phone. I’d like to have more control over my device, like an Android. Maybe someday...
I have not tried this but if you are into programming, raspberry pi and a place to put the hardware in US with internet access, you can do that. You can buy raspberry pi with a SMS hat and program it to receive the sms and send it to your gmail account.
Buildup of damage due to radiation, chemicals and the like would introduce more errors/damage into offspring.
I strongly disagree. The Spartans and Athenians equal under their Spartan law and Athenian law respectively, which created the bedrock of democracy (that we eventually based our government on today).

There may have been other civilizations with good equality measurements, but my knowledge of history isn't the best.
I'm not sure when I learned recursion, so I don't know if I can say whether or not I had any trouble with understanding it.

I do know that once you understand recursion, knowing how to properly change a routine to a stack or other non-recursive routine (generally because you keep blowing the return call stack because the nesting level gets too deep) can be tortuous at times depending on what the routine is doing.

So perhaps that might be an insight to how people facing recursion as a beginner might feel...?
I have three email addresses not counting my work email. It’s me for professional stuff, a private one, and a junk one for accounts and mailing lists. (Ironically, only my professional one gets spam.)

Not counting work, I guess have three or four Google accounts. (Ironically, none of them are gmail.)

Frankly, I never use the social media sign ons if I can avoid it.
MongoDB Is Dropped from Homebrew Core
> In modern times, I can think of two languages that seem to have been built to provide solutions in specific problem domains:

The obvious one to me is `R`!
Smart playlists are not displayed on cloud-based platforms (e.g. this webapp, sonos integrations, etc). I presume this is because they didn't want to implement the business-logic both on the server and on the native iTunes app.
Sherlock’d.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked...
And yet lots of people still use Snapchat, myself included. I have zero need for Instagram, on the other hand, since I am not into sharing photos publicly.

I use Snapchat for chatting, bitmojis, and simple photos/videos with one person. There's nothing superfluous to annoy me.
I recently switched to a windows machine from Mac at work, and brought in iTunes to listen to Apple Music. It’s really as bad as I remember.

Really great timing on this for me.
So much for https://musi.sh
I think the idea of the Dom being represented and manipulated like a supervisor tree is an interesting one.
to understand better American external business and political policies i highly recommend reading this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000Q67L00/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

It will explain a lot of the events that are happening today and that already happened
Not participating in internet forums is a good start, huge time sink.
Bus Pirate [hware dbug device]
Wow, that's exactly the dream I had last night.
Julia is in the same space.
are they really putting more vehicles on the road though? That is, are they replacing a larger number of people driving themselves to stores with a smaller number of professional delivery vehicles?
I bought one a few weeks ago and tbh it does nothing except make me uncomfortably warm.
What happens when a hospital gets hacked? This law could kill people.
"until the total amount owed is paid down"
If you want to have more control over your device I do not see why you would buy one which you know does not allow this type of control. This is, after all, the tool the market offers to take care of this type of problem: competition. Use it.
Or the underlying companies that are traded.

This "evil zombie index fund" trope seems to imply that index managers just continue to blindly buy the stocks in the index regardless of events, falsely inflating the value of companies. If a company is unable to generate cashflow from its underlying business, this will quickly become evident because it will be unable to pay its creditors and employees. It could take advantage of its "inflated value" by issuing shares to generate cash, but this would then obviously begin diluting the stock and cause the price to fall, the "zombie indexes" wouldn't simply continue to price it at a constant value. I.e. price discovery will happen, just perhaps not as quickly as an active analyst monitoring the stock would do it.
Why don't we make getting mugged illegal while we are prosecuting victims. If you give your wallet to a mugger, you go to jail. Then no one mugs anyone anymore, right? /s

People pay ransoms because they want back whatever is being ransomed. Making it illegal to pay the ransom isn't going to stop that. It will just push everything underground and make it harder to catch the ransomers.
let's say a "telescope observation" has to be on the order of a supernova explosion to be observable. There are about 30 supernova explosions per second in the observable universe. To date about 10,000 supernovas have been observed using EM spectra, on average that's about one observed major astronomical event every other day.
I feel that that this is the startup equivalent of racking up credit card debit.
It seems like a terrible misuse of state power to further punish people who were the victim of a crime.

Also notice that this won't necessary ransom payments. It will raise the cost to:
1. The victim who pays with jail time.
2. Society who spends time investigating and jailing victims.

Notice that ransomware authors are not on that list.
You would think that having a successful product with a strong user base would be enough but it seems tough to work w/Apple when you are reliant on their platform and they have a competing product as Spotify (which compete's with Apple's iTunes) can attest.

Spotify recently launched Time to Play Fair and their FAQs are quite a read: https://www.timetoplayfair.com/frequently-asked-questions/

How's a company supposed to stay relevant against such odds?
Yes, future is now.
Have you experienced additional mental acuity/focus first hand?

Fasting for 24-36 hours for me isn't bad. But days 2 to 3 when I do a 3 day fast I find it extremely difficult to concentrate/focus on anything difficult. By day 3 my energy is usually shot as well and I just don't want to do anything but watch tv.

If anyone has advice beyond sugar I'd love to hear it.
I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I work at Stripe. Capital works a bit differently. Yes, we offer loans, but we also offer cash advances (with a focus on loans right now). They're pretty similar—repayment via your sales, fast funding, a fixed fee with no interest, and a streamlined application, to name a few things. When we make an offer, we’ll make clear if it’s actually a loan or cash advance (and what that means for your business).
For low level APIs, I would say anything that could be configured on a per call basis should be parameterized: memory allocations, database & http connections etc.
1. Keep in mind that the programmers had swallowed gallons of the multi-server microkernel koolaid, so the flow was user code -> mk -> file server -> mk -> device driver and back.

2. Someone used the wrong magic keywords in the mig spec, causing poor message send-receive structure and code.

3. The same someone, IIRC, set up the copy on write memory management for each page, rather than one big buffer. The latter would still be slower than just copying, but geeze.

4. There was something wrong with the driver at the time; I never heard what.

5. In fairness, there was some overhead from our monitoring.
There's nothing wrong with goto in C.
Agreed that the Sysinternals Suite is indispensable for anyone trying to do real work on Windows.

As for Process Explorer, the open-source Process Hacker is even better: https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker
Yeah, I've done up to 7 days before, but I do drink huge quantities of black coffee every day and that by no means ends when I fast haha.
Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media.

With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and become available on all devices. That helps a lot because you don't have to resort to using some other player for that those obscure albums that aren't streaming anywhere. After all, while Apple and Spotify have a lot of music, there are still many holes in their inventories.

Apple has always been much nicer about offline track availability. Just click the download icon and the tracks will stay on your device. Spotify has had this feature, but it's been flaky. After Apple Music launched, they eventually added a "Download" toggle to albums, but only in the mobile app (it's there for playlists in the desktop app, for some reason).

Spotify has a 10,000 song limit that applies to adding (or "liking" as it's now called) to your library. You can keep more in playlists, but you can't "like" more than 10,000 songs, which is crazy. It's not a lot of songs. My jazz collection alone is more than that. Apple's limit is 100,000, as far as I can tell.
It would be nice to save the code and upload it to github.com, is there a tool to make this automatically?
I've done up to a week before, it doesn't really change much IME, but I'm no doctor.
strace ls
execve("/usr/bin/ls", ["ls"], 0x7ffd86646d90 /* 61 vars */) = 0
brk(NULL) = 0x5581b6542000

I see brk(), that's glibc.
As a general rule, absolutely! Unfortunately, if applied too strictly though, it can be weaponized or stifling in ways you may not anticipate (which tends to be true of almost any rule used too universally).

For example: I’ve seen cases where there’s disagreement as to which of two technical paths to pursue, where one side (not liking the way consensus is currently leaning) demands a data driven proof that one of the choices is best. Ordinarily this would be fine, but in this case, it would take no less work/time to gather said data than to entirely implement both solutions and directly compare them.
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win
aka "Merge Request" in Gitlab vernacular (which makes more sense than "pull request" in my opinion).
It used to work flawlessly on my MacBook pro at work and a couple of months ago ... it just stopped.

Now all the windows stay on the integrated display and I have to restore them myself ... sigh.
somewhere i read in google documentation that you cannot. you'll have to setup a local solution (ex mail filter rule)
Well, maybe. On the other hand forcing someone to update often reveals that updating does not in fact break the world, particularly in linux-land where API updates are supposed to not break userland. Many times users who don't understand the risk incorrectly assume worst case scenario.
Two units connected by a cable, weighing a combined 1700 pounds, both dragged away by accident? I have a hard time imagining that. In an accident where something on the surface snags it, I can see one of the units getting pulled away and the cable snapping, but both seems unlikely, at least for an anchor. Granted, I don't know much about what a trawl net looks like in the water or how much weight it can hold.
Facebook Deepfake Detection Challenge
IIRC many of the period tracking apps sold their user's data. Seems like a good reason for Apple to introduce a version which uses the OS level features to keep data synced and in the user's hands.
As much as I commend them for creating a web client for their music service, the UI looks like it was designed by an amateur. Can't really put my finger on it but it's something to do with the content alignment, the gradients used. I would have expected better from Apple.
Anyone have any examples of the opposite? Where a feature did actually stand as a product?
Mugging involves threat of physical harm. Getting ransomeware'd doesn't, and if cities stopped paying then this kind of attack would stop. It's more like outlawing giving muggers your wallet when you're dressed like Iron Man.
For a steady stream of these, check out https://twitter.com/PWTooStrong
> As I have said previously, memory is like a huge array with (say) 0xffffffff elements. A pointer in C is an index to this array. Thus when a C pointer is 0xefffe034, it points to the 0xefffe035th element in the memory array (memory being indexed starting with zero).

I'm not sure how true this is outside of a particular platform/compiler. As far as I'm aware, C doesn't actually define how pointers are represented, only that they are a reference to memory (although null is a special case). Pointers in C are very abstract which allows for much more aggressive optimisations.

And all this is before we get into how memory actually works in practice, such as CPU cache lines.
> I've seen cases where people got hundreds of comments (many of them minor, nitpicky) from more experienced developers and were discouraged by the sheer number of them. That most new developers naturally suffer from imposter syndrome is not helped at all by 100% critical code reviews.

This, combined with a large portion of developers lacking social empathy, poor communication skills, and (unfortunately) a desire to appear to the the smartest person in the room, can lead to severe demotivation and stress for both experienced and new team members.
If you have a big collection of obscure/foreign music (video game music is a great example), then nothing beats Apple Music + iCloud Music Library and iTunes match.

You can use iTunes match to provide cloud-based high quality versions for music ripped from your CDs (or collected during your teenage Napster years).

Even better, being able to mix content from your iCloud Music Library and streamable content from Apple Music is a huge plus.
> CL: Stands for “changelist,” which means one self-contained change that has been submitted to version control or which is undergoing code review. Other organizations often call this a “change” or a “patch.”

source: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/
Why do you say that? Biology is usually very simple. Eat food, live. Don't eat food, die. Drink water, live. Don't drink water, die.

Just because you don't happen to know the answer doesn't mean the answer is complicated.
> Also, even if Apple Music managed to be a Spotify clone, doesn't it only work on iOS/OSX?

Apple Music has been available on Android for a few years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
Is there a reason that this is a link to the wikipedia article instead of http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate ?
It’s not black/white as having backups solves ransomware attacks. All that the ransomware must do is lay low long enough that the oldest backup is likely to have occurred after the infection, hence containing it.
Or the password is used in sprintf() ... I know at least one organization where this happened. The % was being stripped from passwords for that reason.
Without seeing the actual FB dating app, I'm assuming it masks the dating persona, much like joining a FB group, until a true "friend" connection is made.

FB is acutely aware that "[X] is in a relationship with [Y]" is a strong social signal in today's world. So the implication is that genuine identities ultimately should connect via any dating app.
Are you supplementing with electrolytes? You need magnesium citrate + salt + potassium. Without that I can't achieve fasts longer than 48 hours.
This taxation thing keep getting banged around a lot, but I don't think it's quite right. Many of the rights, like due process, is something fundamental we'd expect of any civilised nations.
I wouldn't want to exclude tourists from that, and they probably aren't paying tax.
Municipalities that don’t have backups aren’t the victims. Taxpayers are, and if they stop paying ransoms, they won’t be victimized any further.
But we already have that. Gold. Or CHF. The problem is that it takes roughly 10 years to outshine the stock market.
Because getting mugged isn't a choice that somebody makes. A closer analogue is criminalizing paying kidnapping ransoms. Which is a crime in several developed countries, so as to disincentivize kidnappers.
As a millennial a few years shy of hitting 30, I find your rounding up a bit too generous. That aside, I’d still say that the prime Tinder age group is millennials.
Whoa, sounds like it makes it possible to have a Gentoo install that's nice to use.
How to Flip a Yield Curve
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Of course Apple copies features—Camera+'s volume button shutter was initially blocked from the App Store then wound up in the first-party Camera app. But I don't buy the premise of the article.

There were dozens of flashlight apps in the store when iPhone OS 2 came out, so the OS can never have a built-in flashlight feature?

That article's examples of "copied" features are also straightforward evolutions of existing ones that have been around for years, but the author doesn't mention that.

Sidecar, ostensibly a clone of Duet Display, builds off of the ability to wirelessly extend the display to an Apple TV since Mavericks (2013). Regarding Clue, the second release of the Health app added reproductive health tracking in iOS 9 (2015). Certainly at the time engineers and product managers would have been thinking about the future direction of these features.

In fact, it strikes me that Apple is _very_slow_ at making obvious improvements, creating opportunities for third-party developers to make plenty of money. Those ad-infested, 100 LoC flashlight apps made cash for 5 years before the feature became part of the OS.

Whether copied or not, I'm extremely skeptical that App Store analytics are influencing OS features. It's never been Apple's style to be analytics-driven.
Long term or repeated fasting should actually decrease your body's metabolism rate; which is a good thing if you want to age slower. (I.e. think about species who have slow metabolisms, turtles, for one, who live very long lives). I do alternate day fasting (48 hour fasts, every other day) and realized I now need far fewer calories to get by than I used to. Obviously anecdotal but I feel great!
IVF for a woman in her 70s? This isn't a miracle: it's insane.
Ouch - sorry to hear that. Besides hooking people up with top industry professionals, since 1998 they've created loads of quality music history articles, videos with many well-known artists, and new-music compilations.

Fingers crossed that Yadastar can find another angel.
We Built a Boxer Briefs Brand to $5K/Month with Zero Experience
Not surprised to see Sparkasse (German Bank) here, their password rules are horrible, they cap it with 5 chars which is insane.

I hope if someone gets hacked they will be able to sue the them because of their archaic security practices.

p.s. would like to use this opportunity to also complain about their non-english English dashboard, god I hate it.
If you’re making something people use because Apple doesn’t make it then you don’t pass the test, and there’s zero reason Apple shouldn’t do it themselves, especially if they can do it better.

To stay relevant, don’t expect to plug gaps in Apple’s product offerings if you don’t want them to one day render you irrelevant.

Spotify isn’t one of the examples I’m pointing at either, but it is still relevant as they aren’t doing something Apple can’t do better (in Apple’s mind). I’m not going to weigh in on preferential treatment vs Spotify here as that’s a whole different kettle of fish though :)
For whole system backups only. If you just backup the data then it doesn't matter if the ransomware is there as data - data can't execute without some actor who runs it, be that the system or a person.
Here I am just wishing my company would even allow me to post the source of a project I've worked on with any license and apparently Google isn't worth praise for hosting all such projects with an Apache license by default and a review process if you'd like to try to keep copyright.

https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
On iOS: Library -> Songs -> Sort by recently added
Why is it that people feel so discouraged by loads of review, especially early on? I always had a good bit of imposter syndrome early on, but never considered quitting. I always assumed that you have a lot to learn, that it’s expected you’re going to suck at some level.
If you go into the kernel, it's implemented in terms of mmap/munmap.
A Perforce changelist is more like a git commit than a GitHub pull request.
Palantir to Seek Funding on Private Market, Delay IPO
Some places I've worked explicitly won't push/deploy/similar on Friday.
I’ve never figured out why some Apple products are immensely well designed and some have basic aspects which don’t make sense and I guess it comes down to the people working on the products using them day to day or some exec who really uses an app day to day championing UX improvements.

Music in its current iteration seems driven by Apple’s need to become a services company and the music app which really last spoke to people internally was one in which your own music is portable, not a steaming music service.
That is not what I understood to be the driver. It would be nice if some Stripe-based store-owners reading this could opine on this?

I assumed the primary value was tying debt service to revenues at a micro level.

I assumed the secondary value was that -- since Stripe had intimate knowledge of your store, revenues, cash flows, correlations to customers -- that they could better price your loan and give you a more competitive rate on the loan.
aka "patch" for the Linux kernel development community
Hi, I made this.

It seems like most of you are as enraged as I am about some of these password rules. They just flat out make me mad.

It's not much, but I've actually had one company reach out to me after making it on the list and they made their password rules less dumb.

So, if you find any particularly egregious offenders, do your part and submit a PR. It may actually make a difference.
Sometimes it's not possible. For example an India does not allow dual citizenship, to become US citizen they would have to give up their citizenship.
If your extended family and friend live in India, that might not be an option.
Furthermore, for Greek citizens it is absolutely impossible to get rid of their citizenship. They can burn their passports, commit crime, but they will forever stay a Greek citizen.
> simply lose that data

Maybe the worst use of "simply" ever.
Um, yes? And they also took time for the market to understand. A lot more time.
> "The picture that emerged out of those meetings was that you could create a permanent, economically self-sustaining presence on the moon that could be done for the single-digit billions," said Steve Jurvetson, a venture capitalist, who provided the initial Open Lunar funding.

Exactly how will this be economically self-sustaining? I don't think the stuff of moon-rocks is particularly valuable, other than to collectors and scientists. Presumable a moon colony would have difficulty just creating enough food for its populace, so I can't imagine it would have the capability to become self-sustaining. Maybe everyone becomes remote software engineers working for companies on Earth, and those companies send supplies in return?