skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a fundamental part of the OS, it’s a feature they pushed 12 years ago that never ever got any traction. User apathy towards Dashboard has been used as a darkly humorous but sad metaphor both inside and outside the company for many years now. Continuing to maintain things that have hardly any user adoption would be crazy. Better to take it out then leave it in as an attack surface and something that no engineer would ever want to work on. Many many more people know about Dashboard through jokes about how nobody ever uses Dashboard, than there are people who actually use Dashboard.

Similarly, someday MS will remove live tiles from the start menu. It’s inevitable, but clearly internal politics are keeping the feature around. Guaranteed that 99% of humanity will rejoice when it happens, but equally guaranteed that someone on HN will express how appalled they are that a company as big as MS didn’t choose to keep the feature alive for the sake of the handful of people who liked it.
Laser cutter operator here.

Going from vector graphics to laser cut product is fucking painful when the design isn’t simple.

Parameterised constrains with sub-millimetre precision in a vector graphics app is the holy grail.
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(I have this same argument with all my DEVELOPER friends who are still running Win7. Ugh)
I’m not familiar with the Phonetic alphabet or IPA beyond what they are conceptually. Ideally, what I want is a bijective function between sounds and letters in some alphabet.
This, if accurate, is quite reflective of all online forums of discourse unfortunately.

The game is rigged.
> As an Aussie, I look at these international companies as that: international. Should I now start considering all forms of non Aussie software /tech a matter of potential infiltration?

Considering the converse is already true, why not?
Many people have been running headless Chrome in AWS Lambda functions for a while now. Use cases include testing, screen scraping, screen capture.
It is also a better shell :-)
Isn't the availability of water resources a great concern for polar bear size pigs? Pigs are known for their high water needs and I imagine XXXL pig would even need more.
Nothing of the sort the OP describes happened as a result of WW1. Yes, some empires "collapsed", in the sense that the ruling parties changed, their governments got completely ripped out and replaced, or countries split up (e.g. Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany). Maybe people went through a few decades of economic hardships. Either way, these collapses were contained to local regions (with cascading global consequences), but resembled nothing of an apocalyptic scenario.

No large scale technology was lost. If anything, human civilization became more technologically advanced.
This is particularly brutal because for many Venezuelans, online freelancing work is their only way of accessing US dollars, which is their only way of accessing basic necessities. The quantities of dollars here are so low they would make your head hurt -- so places like Fiverr, while seeming like a place to do garbage work to someone in San Francisco, can be a near-literal lifeline to people with no access to other means of income. Fuck you Adobe
Maybe if you are a Pro Bash user ... personally I would not notice any difference.
I thought there was concrete that could absorb co2... but maybe it’s not enough to be carbon neutral.
>buses go faster because no one is waiting in queues to pay at the door

Well, you could always not accept payment at the door. But more passengers doesn't equal faster buses; after a point the service will bog down as the buses bunch up, and increasing the number of buses will not solve that.

A small base fare goes a long way to persuade people to walk short distances instead of catching the bus.
Been noticing it as well. Strange indeed
I don't know, I'd say something like hyperinflation in Germany[0] was probably a collapse that, er, "adjusted for inflation" was as big (for the Germans anyway) as "no more chips" might be to us today. And people still adapted to it and tried to get on with their lives in altered circumstances.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...

[1]: a charming novel about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Obelisk
Yep. I haven't upgraded since CS6. It still does everything I need it to do. I probably would have upgraded by now though if it was even possible to just buy a newer version, as there are some nice-to-have features the newer versions have. But at least I don't have to worry about dumb crap like this.
Is R really that good for data cleaning and transformation? It's slow, single threaded (yes, even for a lot of real-world use-cases with data.table) and memory-hungry. People only ignore this because code is generally written from the top of a notebook down to the bottom without ever being re-run.
I wish SF still had a decent food hall. Used to love "The Hall" on market, but that place was only temporary as they demolished the space to build condos.

It was in a terrible part of town (south end of Tenderloin), but I ventured there because of it. Now I actively avoid that area.
I'm not sure the GDPR protections are invoked by you giving them personal data they didn't ask for, but it'd be an interesting case! (Seems like anyone could screw a company by putting their name+address in the comment field of an anonymous survey, etc?)
This has been done in the Python ecosystem with matplotlib:

https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot
> why haven't we banned 2-stroke engines?

They have been banned.

https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?productid=%7BB9B8F66D...
That seems to be normal... I created a very similar platform (but text-based instead of graphical) and encountered the same problem. Despite the traffic, so far only 3 people shared anything on it: me, the guy who created the underlying language, and one brave soul who submitted cool bytebeat patches.

Maybe that's just the proportion of people willing to share their experiments. Maybe we need to create incentives for people to post (like... challenges?) It might also have to do with advertising to the right crowd.
South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”
Why do you need consensus at all?
Architecting Kubernetes Clusters
They can probably figure out that the little plastic things either store data or perform computation. By process of elimination since wires, resistors, capacitors, PCBs can all be analyzed for their properties.

Given that knowledge they can try breaking those pieces of plastic apart to see that it's a housing over some sort of ceramic core. Using spectroscopy and chemistry you can figure out what that core is made out of. Now you know what mix of chemicals allows for really high density data storage and computation.

Using x-rays and microscopes they can figure out that the little ceramic die has some sort of structure etched on it. Maybe remove tiny pieces to see what different parts/layers are chemically composed of.

Now they know that there's something interesting about certain elements deposited on top of silicon using some sort of etching approach. Early transistor research was already well along (and had been patented already in the 20s) so it's likely they would have made the connection. Given all that you can start brute forcing industries and ideas around those materials.
> ... to basically bankroll the infrastructure for companies like Google/Netflix/Amazon etc.

You mean like they already did? If Netflix was actually a problem for ISPs, we’d be hearing a lot more about it from others. Instead, all we hear is ISPs complaining about increased cost. What they fail to mention is that: the internet will continue to grow; ISPs will need to grow their infrastructure anyways.

> The ISPs either need to force all customers to pay by raising rates among all customers, adding data caps, or throttling data rates in peak times, if NN is in play.

Not true. Nothing in the Obama-era regulations prevented data caps.

> If they are regulated as "common carriers" then that means they can't bill the source of the data for the data. This is a very bad trend that will just increase the cost of internet.

Again, not true. Nothing about common carrier status prevents the current double dipping of charging the uploader and downloader; Phone services already charge the caller and the receiver both.
But that's artificial, and you know it. The only reason for forcing 64bit is to lower Apple's support cost and push its bottom line.
Also surprising to see pretty good English in these comments given the fact that most Chinese residents absolutely suck at it.
>I mean, you can take a plane to Taipei. It isn't subjective or unprovable: the ROC will check your passport. They issue the currency you will use to buy food. The police work for them. Taxes are collected, exclusively, by them.

The question of whether or not ISIS is therefore a country is left as an exercise for the reader.
Just look around and you'll have a hard time finding the combination of obese people and cyclists.
With line breaks (ya gotta put two each):

https://www.gimp.org

https://inkscape.org

http://mypaint.org

https://krita.org/en/

https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/

https://kdenlive.org/en/

https://www.audacityteam.org
Four day work week
Fair point. I was thinking more around the era of 2004.
I call corporativisim or prebendary, to those non-capitalists forms of enterprises, where some intermediaries ally with goverments. People always cite these examples when they want to point out about capitalism, but they're totally wrong about it. That's not capitalism, that's just another form of socialism where the State is not yet deep root in it and they're buying time while others profit, until everything is owned by the state "in favor of the people".
Charitable organizations (basically 501(c)3s in the US) don't have to pay tax on the appreciated value. So annuities offered by those organizations may take advantage of that tax benefit. In many cases, it will still be a net donation relative to other options, especially insofar as you can't pass on residual assets to beneficiaries, but it is one way of taking advantage of tax law to create an annuity.
You could call this service "Buzzard"
As an Aussie, I look at these international companies as that: international. Should I now start considering all forms of non Aussie software /tech a matter of potential infiltration?

Yes! And if they were truly internatonal as you thought they were, it would be even worse, because they would be immune from any legal action. Corporations acting as if they were sovereign powers would be even worse than they are today.

> there's a lot of innocent people in Venezuela likely feeling an immediate financial crush, simply because the software they were using stopped. They can't work now. No money means they can't feed their kids.

That's, unfortunately, the whole point of sanctions. They work by inflicting enough civilian damage to get people to bully their own government into submitting to the will of party issuing the sanction.

> What about the day when some US order outlaws my country? This is a very sad day for international tech.

Most of your SaaSes you depend on will stop working. This is a reminder why SaaS as practiced today is a bad idea.
What exactly is your position? Is John Wiegly an important contributor to the GNU project or not?
I know how data collection works, but it sounded as if 25GB/s was regarded as high compared with filesystems you can buy.

Obviously some people do want GPFS, if they can afford it, but Cori uses Lustre. I don't mean to claim that either is ideal for streaming high rate event data, of course.
> What about the day when some US order outlaws my country?

List of the countries under consequential US sanctions attention and their systems of government:

Russia: dictatorship. Cuba: dictatorship. Iran: theocratic dictatorship. Venezuela: dictatorship. North Korea: dictatorship. Syria: dictatorship. Sudan: recently a military junta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

I too hope Australia is never like those countries. The countries that the US targets sanctions on, no coincidence, are always near the bottom of the Democracy Index (and typically very high on corruption rankings).

Short list of liberal democracies that have zero fear of falling under comparable US sanctions today:

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Slovakia, Czechia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and so on.

The reason why so many powerful, influential, affluent, liberal nations cooperate with the US so frequently on sanctions - and have for much of the post WW2 era - is because they know they are under zero threat from the US sanctioning them and they also know the US has exclusively targeted sanctions at non-democratic, extremely high-corruption nations.

It's really simple in fact, here's the Democracy Index. On average the higher countries rank, the less they ever need to be concerned about US sanctions being directed at them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

Some of the countries near the bottom of that democracy list: Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela.
I am guessing some of this delay springs from the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989).

Lots of structural retrofit there.

Yet I also guess that lessons from big quakes have been a part of the IBC review process. For decades.

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> At that point, developers can start applying for permits for CLT buildings, which takes about four to five years. Then add two years of construction.

Permits take longer than the building?!
the amount of times i've been yelled at to "get out of the middle of the road" when trying to turn left...
Good question. I wonder how that scales? Do 3 100 pound pigs need more or less than a single 300 pound pig? What about food as well? Maybe even waste, is there less or more or the same coming out?
> This change is a hardware change that's been forecast for literally years.

Huh? What x86 processor doesn’t support 32bit code?

If they move to ARM, everything will get broken, regardless if whether it’s 32bit or 64bit. Is breaking things twice really better than breaking them once?
Hello, fellow cuck! xD
I'll look into it tonight and report back here. If I forget for some reason, anyone is welcome to ping hn@ycombinator.com.

Edit: see reply below.
This looks more like open source twilio or plivo... Plivo originally being the open source twilio... of course this looks pretty early and I could not tell from http://www.wazo-platform.org/documentation/overview/webhook.... whether it supports xml tags like twilio / Plivo

But I was able to find 404 links which leaves me feeling this isn’t ready for prime time... regardless of being based on sound tech
Good thing Microsoft is big on backwards compatibility. Hopefully CS6 will keep working on PCs for awhile longer. Sucks about Mac, though.
I think you completely missed the point of that comment.
I am not sure there is a language where the median user's code looks more different from 2012 to now than R's. RStudio and the tidyverse have basically created an all-new "standard" library for the language that has gotten extremely wide adoption, and it tends to smooth over a lot of R's warts if you stay with code that has been written to fit with the style of code that the tidyverse encourages.
At https://hostifi.net we are working on 2 new plans launching soon, a 5 device $3.99/month or $39/year plan and a 3 site, 15 device plan at $9.99/month or $99/year. Trying to find the price point for those small install/home users is tricky. Our primary customers are the IT/MSP business owners who manage all of their customer networks from one server.
No, it's not. The old man page was incredibly confusing and misleading and has created a weird culture of fear around a simple issue.

What you care about is whether the RNG is securely seeded or not. Once it is, you don't care anymore. Think of an RNG like a stream cipher (which is what many of them are under the hood). Key AES-CTR with a 128 bit random key and run it to generate all the "random bytes" you will ever realistically use in any usage scenario. AES never "runs out of key". In the same way, a CSPRNG never "runs out of entropy".

We regularly re-key the system CSPRNG (by updating it, in the kernel, with "more entropy"), but not because entropy is depleted; rather, because it provides a measure of future security: if our machine is compromised, but only briefly, we don't want attackers to permanently predict the outputs of the RNG.

What you want are random/urandom interfaces that block at system startup until the RNG is seeded, and never again. What you do not want are userland CSPRNGs and CPSRNG "helpers"; those aren't solving real problems, have in the past introduced horrible security vulnerabilities, and perpetuate confusion about the security properties we're looking for.

Sign one X.509 certificate or ten million of them; the same initial secure dose of "entropy" will do just fine.
Found this a while back and thought it was an interesting perspective vis a vis some of the collective (mine included) perceptions of Microsoft based on their past behavior, illegal and unethical business practices and such. Not to necessarily excuse or erase that, but Nadella-era MSFT is very different than Gates- or Ballmer-era

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
I've noticed this on Reddit as well, after a mass-shooting you get dormant accounts sharing videos like "homeowner defends herself from home invasion".

Maybe it would be possible to flag shill accounts?
Per guidelines, reach out to dang or so:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.
This is all fair, as someone who just started the DC housing search. In a perfect world the metro would have 3+ new lines to augment what we already have and infill the city. Perhaps the Purple Line is a good start.
Interesting, but I'd like to see a broader study. Note that this was the New York City DOT, not the state DOT. The study does reference some national figures, but otherwise mostly focuses on NYC itself.

Given the volume of people walking around in NYC at most hours of the day, I'd expect a sort of "herd immunity" to come into play: sure, you might be on your phone, but you're surrounded by 15 other people while crossing the street, and a car is going to be hard pressed to not see all of you. At least one of those people is likely paying attention, at any rate.

Also I was a little confused by their conclusion, given this statistic in the linked report, under "Pedestrian Self-Reports of Distraction":

"Using emergency room data from 1,075 pedestrian injuries (2008–2011), researchers at Bellevue Hospital found that 7.7% of admitted pedestrians were using an electronic device at the time of the crash."

How is 7.7% not "significant"? I'm sure those 83 people would rather not have been in the emergency room, and maybe have changed their behavior for the better. And that's just injuries; obviously dead pedestrians can't self-report what they were up to in the moments leading up to their death. Also consider that 7.7% is a lower bound. While it's unlikely that someone would lie to say they were using a device when they weren't, it's likely that there are quite a few people who were actually using a device during the incident but didn't want to admit it out of embarrassment or fear of fault or blame being assigned to them (legally, even).

I just don't find this study all that compelling.
This is one area where I think smarter lighting and adjustable temperature LEDs has a lot of continuing potential as the cost comes down. I live in a somewhat rural area, and I used to leave lights on more for safety at night. Said lights, particularly when they became CFL, were fixed temp and bluer. Now with a bunch of Hue bulbs, a fairly comprehensive set of motion sensors, and the ability to shift colder or bluer with the time of day and season of the year (all the way down to deep dim orange/red at night), I have far less light emitted and what there is has a lot less blue. I don't think it pays for itself in terms of energy savings or anything like that, LEDs are so efficient anyway (though it probably does cancel out the minor extra constant energy use from the networking of them when 'off'). But I hope it does help the nearby wildlife, and for that matter it also helps me maintain a more regular schedule even in the middle of the winter when nights are long. I think technically they're not outdoor rated, but they've had no trouble surviving down to 30 below F over a good 4 years now so far. I hope eventually full RGB is just standard and cheap in general, and everyone away from the equator can easily adjust temperature.
There are plenty of ways to express that you value vegetarianism without making false or misleading titles. Part-time vegetarian would be fine.
Precisely. Everybody should vote with their wallets against all this subscription junk. And yet...

For quite a few things, Adobe products are just irreplaceable.
A (somewhat) serious question: since Autodesk, Adobe, etc. can use Shrinkwrap/Clickwrap/Browserwrap to distinguish between a sale and a license what's stopping users from doing it right back?

What if my browser sent custom headers to Adobe saying that by serving me a webpage Adobe has agreed to sell me, not license, a copy of each new edition of any software they release for $1 in perpetuity and that a breach of contract would result in liquidated damages of $10,000 per undelivered copy.

If I'm bound by Adobe's Terms of Service before I've had a chance to read them by nature of the my browser's request then surely Adobe would be similarly bound to my Terms of Servers(TM) by nature of their response?
Safari is so garbage now
Continuously compounding the prevailing t-bill rate for the holding duration of any asset is doable but sounds like a mess.
Do you think people would be willing to make less on a per hour basis to have a 4 day week?
The executive order they reference seems to prohibit giving money or stuff to the Venezuelan government or those associated with it.

Where does it prohibit trading with individuals and businesses that aren't affiliated with the government?

If Adobe is just stopping everything as it's hard to know if someone is affiliated with the government, then that seems like a reasonable choice. But then if you're just random individual they're refusing to give you a refund when there's no law stopping them.

If I've understood things correctly, then they're refusing refunds to people who are entitled to them.
Assuming the vendor is still in business, still supports the product line, and still develops software updates for models that have been obsolete for over a decade.
There is a guideline on Hacker News (and this would apply to any online conversation):

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The thing is, in the case of the complete collapse "the printed form" will be likely the last thing we will be worrying about.
I'm not a big fan of their Ubiquiti Device Discovery Tool, I always recommend using SSH method for adoption which is very reliable: https://support.hostifi.net/en/articles/3044211-unifi-cloud-...
Sorry about that. I actually looked before posting, but could only find hn@ycombinator.com - is that the correct email?
Except that you can't, because most operating systems will not use the same CPU core consistently for a single thread. This is done for a variety of reasons, including spreading thermal loads to ensure that turbo boost can consistently kick in.
There was a keyboard shortcut, or you could multi-finger swipe to it.