skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best developers are the ones who know how to set up their own best environment. Give them an office, a budget, and some time to build their own ideal space.
Are you even willing to waive your extensive list of gatekeeping items even when we do have the improvements in education(and income inequality) you claim to care about?

Your argument regarding surgeons and scalpels looks superficially reasonable at first, but no one has proposed restricting scalpels to ordinary people. We shouldn't prohibit external defibrillators or occupant firehoses because these are items "for professionals".

The comment about "the talk" is also a huge strike on your position. That statement was about the policy positions of candidates for the highest elected office. If you're this out of touch, then hopefully you do not participate in the presidential election(if you are a legal US voter). The country is better off without you.
I'm not sure, but I believe Chrome's /var symlink bug would have been prevented by that.
Yes, this reminds me of a similar, but more general argument:

Free economics tends to promote liberal democracy.

This is debatable of course. Historical patterns are complex:

https://www.economist.com/buttonwoods-notebook/2017/11/06/wh...
Ask HN: Disagreements with HTTP Spec 501 Not Implemented
I have some disagreements with how the HTTP specification for 501 Not Implemented is defined & used, and not sure where to think out loud about this.

> 6.6.2. 501 Not Implemented
> The 501 (Not Implemented) status code indicates that the server does not support the functionality required to fulfill the request. This is the appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource.

However, metrics & monitors have generally evolved to measure a basic website "uptime" as a percentage of requests: (non-5xx) / (non-5xx + 5xx). A surge in 5xx response codes is a "something is wrong, we need to act now" PagerDuty type event.

So given the above, it's easy for a crawler / bot / malicious user to just `curl myserver.example.com -X FLUBBER` and generate a flurry of 501 Not Implemented (for Akka in this case) and erroneously trigger uptime monitors. (This happened to us, hence this inquiry.)

Instead, I feel that an unknown HTTP request should return 405 Method Not Allowed for any unknown request types, since it's a bad request, not a server error.

Do you have any thoughts?

[edit] It looks like Google is returning 405:

% curl https://www.google.com/ --silent --include -X FLUBBER | grep HTTP

HTTP/2 405
> If he were to get Betsy back, he’s already planned to throw a barbecue for the Fat Tire bike group and the rest of the public.

Oh no.

> He would corral Betsy and have her attend the party, too.

whew
Please don't set up a strawman to attack; I'm not claiming what you are suggesting. My response was directly to [0] which was specifically about people walking into a road randomly without paying attention to their surroundings.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21151908
I've never used it but there does appear to be something like that called webp-hero

https://github.com/chase-moskal/webp-hero
Yes, you are dramatically misreading the situation.

I've been in attendance at an RMS talk (HOPE 2016) when he opened by asking the organizers to turn the house lights back up so he could see if there was anyone in the crowd he might want to have sex with. I saw how many women immediately got up and left in response to that, and I don't blame them for doing so. I would've done the same, if I'd felt myself to be one of the people Stallman made a joke about maybe wanting to fuck. (And, if I hadn't thought it might be worth sticking around for the Q&A and a chance at a callout. Some goober ended up yanking the mike cord, which was fine. A lot of people thanked me for saying what I did before he got to me.)

How likely do you think it is that those women had any inclination to contribute to free software after an experience like that? How likely do you think it is that I did - knowing that to do so would associate me with people who had no problem with a figurehead whose behavior was so completely out of step with modern mores, and so discouraging to such a wide segment of the community?

Since then, I've corresponded with others more familiar than I with RMS, and from that correspondence I've learned that this kind of thing was in no way out of character for him - I don't know firsthand, because that was the last RMS talk I chose to attend or will attend in future, and decided no longer to donate my time, money, or support to any FSF project for as long as he remained chairman. I don't want to be associated with behavior like that, and I most certainly don't want to enable it - both for its own sake, and because where the culture tolerates something like that, there's reason to suspect it will tolerate worse, besides.

I'm glad that so many people who have such a strong hand in making FSF and the GNU Project what it is today - far more of a hand than RMS has had in many years now - have chosen to speak so well on the subject. I know their statement has elicited a torrent of garbage. I hope they won't let it distract them from the fact that they're doing the right thing.
A few months ago I finally replaced my longsuffering 2011 MBP with an iPad Pro and a Mac Mini.
Can you provide a link? What major cities have tried free fares?

I'm also really curious to know what "less desirable" means, exactly.
As the Sidekiq maintainer, I’ve seen many customers need to shard Redis around 5000-10000 jobs/sec. Sharding is a major operational headache so this could be very useful to heavy job processors if it does prove to scale better.

I also find it interesting that the BSD license enables this 3rd party company to fork Redis and build closed source commercial software on top of it. One of the trade offs to consider when licensing a project.
I am not saying that the Affinity suite of apps is at full feature parity with Adobe, but they are certainly targeting the pro market with their offerings.
I think it's helpful, if it describes people who would prefer a full vegetarian diet, but understand that humans are omnivorous and need meat from time to time.
GE to freeze pensions for about 20k employees
> This speaks to how fragile Unicode is, that things that were written in the past may so easily be changed in the future

Unicode does not define code points for individual country flags. It defines 26 code points "Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A" through "Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Z" and implementations use that to represent two-letter ISO codes as the region or country's flag. To use a more neutral example, one implementation might recognize the combination of SU to represent the Soviet flag while another might not.

This is more than a political dodge by the Unicode Consortium (though it is that too), it also uses fewer code points than the 200+ that would be needed for all countries, plus it allows new countries to be represented without a new Unicode version.
That's what I do if it's an option, but I think I've run into some software where that didn't work and I had to actually log into my admin account to install it. (But not log out of my regular one; more than one account can be logged in at once.) I can't recall what software that was, though.
Rimac’s All-Electric Hypercar Is Built to Race the Big Boys
Disgusting and cowardly, but if it makes a buck (or billions), am I right?
> that can do scavenging in dangerous radiated areas for example

Most robotics don't work in areas of heavy radiation, because radiation damages electronics.
> Given that macOS developers have been using a shell that’s older than a decent bottle of Scotch, this is obviously a huge selling point.

Wouldn't most macOS developers install their preferred shell as a part of setting up a new Mac? I am not a macOS developer but I feel you'd run into the limits of Bash 3.2 pretty quickly when standing up a new environment.
The origin of Keynote is supposedly the requirement to create Apple-keynote-ready presentation software that would pass the extremely specific and persnickety Jobsian requirements for aesthetics and attention to detail in an age of Powerpoint dominance. Updates notwithstanding, Keynote shows its age — but all these years on, it still produces great-looking presentations.
Did you have Adobe Creative Cloud installed by any chance? I had the same issue, and found out after several reinstalls that Adobe’s core sync finder extension was the cause.
Wild Swings in Repo Rates Raise Concerns About Bond Market’s Liquidity
Now imagine how the non-bike lanes would look like if every one of those people on a bike was in a car instead!
If I understand what you are saying, I agree. The show of "fealty" associated with adopting a CoC with all the approved progressive language is problematic to me.
The UN is a political organization and, importantly, highly leveraged by China for political gain. The objective reality is that Taiwan is an independent country that sets its own laws and is free to conduct its own foreign relations.
Maren Ade’s excellent movie “Toni Erdman” [1] from a few years ago was taking place in the city I live in, Bucharest, and one of the scenes was set in a mall at whose cinema Multiplex I actually saw the film. It was strange, when that scene came up I said to myself: “hey, this is happening just a few meters away from I where bought the popcorn”.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4048272/?ref_=m_nmfmd_dr_1
Always weird to meet Emacs people who don't like having to customise Emacs. That said, ESS has some weird defaults, not sure I'd lay them at R's door tbh.
> What are these "limits of spacetime's resolution" you speak of?

> Beyond speculation, I'm not aware of anything showing spacetime to be discrete.

It is a prediction of loop quantum gravity [1]:

In 1988, Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin, and Abhay Ashtekar introduced a theory of quantum gravity called loop quantum gravity. In 1995, Rovelli and Smolin obtained a basis of states of quantum gravity, labelled by Penrose's spin networks, and using this basis they were able to show that the theory predicts that area and volume are quantized. This result indicates the existence of a discrete structure of space at very small scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli#Loop_quantum_gra...
PLATO Notes released 40 years ago today
How Has Anonymous Shaped Hacking Culture and Fashion?
Dashboard was simply a way to get basic mobile apps prototyped on Mac before iOS existed. Apple does this a lot - make hay about something that's foundational to their next step.

A good example was usage of LLVM on the PPC->Intel transition which then helped when they ported OSX to ARM (ie, iOS, nee iPhoneOS).

Another is Safari (which was useful/needed on Mac at the time) but more importantly was critical in making the iPhone successful - mobile browsing sucked before the iPhone.
> it has zero benefit for many applications

They literally can't run without porting, disregarding performance. The benefit is infinite!
Apart from the seo, they use a lot of money from the cut they get from the hotel to outbid the hotel on paid ads. They are more than anything a marketing agency.
Thank you!

I use multiple calculators for quick reference and when testing various implementations of my work, and was baffled that Apple explicitly stopped my from doing that with their stock calculator.app
Many people simply don't like physical activity. Of course, it would probably improve their health should they chose bicycle instead, but they aren't stupid or oblivious choosing to drive, nor is cycling objectively better. Some (in fact, probably a good majority of Americans) value less exertion and more convenience over health benefits or cash price. Maybe it would be better if they didn't, but compare it e.g. with reading books vs. watching TV. It might be better for society if people read more and watch TV less, but it would be silly to suggest that most TV watchers never give novels a fair chance, or express incredulity that some people are so oblivious that they prefer to watch TV instead of reading Dostoyevski.

In short, people have differing preferences, and your model of reality should account for that.
The syntax is unfamiliar to most, but it's very consistent and learnable. The syntax is one of many aspects of the design that keeps the whole thing simple. The use of a stack to pass arguments between words makes the kind of "pipelines" which are common in CLI shells very natural. I can think of few, if any, other languages I would want to use interactively as a replacement shell without complex line-editing assistance.

For those curious as to what a modern machine using Forth on bare metal as an operating system might feel like, check out Open Firmware: https://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware

(If you have an OLPC sitting around in a closet somewhere from the Give-One-Get-One program years ago, you already have a serviceable and physically robust Forth machine ready to roll! Same deal for some older Powerbooks and Sun workstations.)
The objectivity in your eyes is subjectivity to another. Similarly objectivity in others is subjective in yours. There is never true objectivity in our collective presence. If UN ceases to be your objectivity, that's respected.
> best model

I wonder how much recurring revenue Adobe just had wiped off their books.

What about when your government sanctions your biggest market?
Can you unpack what you mean by ‘charade’...? In particular, why did you choose that word? Are you suggesting it is fake? Fake in what sense?

One useful definition of politics is this: systems and behavior that result from people disagreeing without violence.

Politics can occur in convincing a group of people where to go to dinner, that your technical idea is worthy of effort, or that a President must be held accountable to the rule of law.
I don't have much experience in cryptography, so this may be a stupid question, but I've always wondered about whether Elliptic Curve cryptography opens up some possibilities for partially decentralizing encryption standards.

My understanding is that end-users of ECC have to decide which curves to use, and constructing a curve de-novo isn't a choice laymen or crypto end-users should ever make, so a set of standardized curves are issued by standards bodies, such as NIST.

Cryptographers endorse the math of ECC as not known to be decipherable, provided that the chosen curve (defined eg by 4 points) isn't specifically constructed to be easily compromised; and the problem becomes whether the curve-issuing standards bodies, such as NIST, are acting in the interests of state security agencies (for argument's sake, lets say NSA) who have vested interests in crypto users adopting curves that NSA can break.

Could an international, decentralized curve be constructed by standards bodies from several geopolitical adversaries such as US, China, Russia and Turkey all simultaneously issuing 1 point each to create a combined 4-point curve, so that no single standards body has opportunity to purposely make the result insecure?
You might be right. It could be allowed behavior. What throws it off for me is that most people stay in the bike lane. Only a small minority try to get to the head of the pack via circumvention (which, like you point out, could be permissible).
Agreed. Which is why most people thought phones would have projection displays and/or keyboards a decade ago... I wonder where that all went?
You must be new to this dispute. Personally I tend to agree with you but in the international game of power politics, stating explicitly what is implicitly clear to everyone can have large repercussions.
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.
I've had a car with a manual transmission for 12 years now; I dunno about feeling more in control. I personally find it more fun to drive a manual transmission car, but I recognize that I have no logical basis for this. Modern automatic transmissions (or CVTs) likely get better fuel economy than I do.

And I honestly don't even really think about shifting that much when I'm driving; after doing it for so long, it just comes automatically (despite the fact that I drive very little, on the order of 1500 miles per year at most).

It's extremely annoying if I'm ever in stop-and-go traffic, to the point that I'll probably get an automatic transmission car whenever I need a new one. I can also count on one hand the number of friends who can drive stick, so if I'm ever driving people on a long road trip, there's no one to share the driving.
Yeah, it's great that these options exist. I've taken Metro North to hike on Mount Beacon before. But I still wouldn't say it's more convenient than a car.
"We are unable to issue refunds. Executive order 13884, orders the cessation of all activity with the entities including no sales, service, support, refunds, credits, etc."

Harsh.
I wasn't trying to say do nothing, but that just giving a bunch of money just seems somewhat patronizing and wouldn't really make that big of a difference.
Nobody who has 5 devices will pay $10/mo for this; they are all doing what I am: booting the controller on-demand (or some other local solution). Less than $10pa would seem appropriate (and I'd snap that up in a heartbeat).
Does it make anyone else uncomfortable to see a fairly high number of freshly created accounts that only comment on China related threads? Specifically (read the comment history for these accounts):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thewholeview

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=surajama

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thrwy_01

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=7u5432throw

* https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=howhigh12323

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwaway13372
The objective reality is that most of the world, including the United States, does not actually recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country. It recognizes that it exists as... Something.

I think you would be hard-pressed to argue that the Department of State, and its counterparts in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Brazil, Japan[1], etc, etc, etc, have been 'highly leveraged by China for political gain'.

Oh, and to throw another monkey wrench in your argument, consider that both China and Taiwan believe that Taiwan is not an independent country, but that it is part of China.

What they disagree on is who is the legitimate government of China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
Dare I bring up the Bloomberg article without causing a shitstorm? I remember reading around that time a (I think) presentation on how to trick / hide against x-ray tomography etc but I can't find the link to the source if anyone has it?
Something with a life expectancy of 3-5 years
>> developing an organisational capability to design, build, and deploy successful machine learned models in user-facing contexts is, in my opinion, as fundamental to an organisation’s competitiveness

>... I just wanted to point out how cyberpunk that is.

Nah, that is corporate flavor of the month/year/etc. It's not the 90s, so they're not "synergizing" any more but otherwise, whatever.
A few days ago, I encountered Siri pronouncing A1 (/ei/ one[1]), a major road in the UK, as "ah one" (how you might pronounce a lowercase a). Threw me for a second as I've not heard it make that mistake before.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJvept23aHc
Isn't that what Haiku OS is doing?
And that range is much less than missile range. That is why modern aircraft carriers are as obsolete as the battleships they displaced 80 years ago whose cannon-range was much less than carrier-plane range.
The bike lanes are optional unless marked as bike lanes only with the appropriate sign, so bikes are allowed on the road in that spot. In many places you'll see the first four or five meters before the traffic light used to expand the bike path right in front of the cars to get more bikes through the traffic light. That depends on cycling the lights appropriately and requires a separate set of lights for the bikes.
I finally switched to UniFi equipment after hearing for years how much better it is than consumer WiFi equipment.

Oh man, what a headache.

Depending how one configured things, there’s at least 3 ways to provision devices - all 3 incompatible and will cause issues with each other. User manuals refer to Apps no longer in existence. In no instance have I had a “just works” experience. In two instances the option I needed to configure was not available through any of the 3 (4?) dashboards and I had to resort to sshing into the device.

4 weeks later I’m still experiencing ISP fiber modem disconnect issues every 48 hours and can not connect remotely to debug. The impression I get is 90% of the performance “gains” one gets from switching from Asus to Ubiquiti come from dedicating one $300 piece of hardware (which overheats) for each network function (firewall, switch, router, AP) rather than using a single threaded all-in-one device. Then people still bolt on accessory devices like pi-holes when a USG should be perfectly capable of performing the task.
It looks like waiting is not going to help in this case. It’s not like 32 bit apps were accidentally broken. When Apple kicks something to the curb they do it forever. I’m probably stuck on Mojave for good.
Human-readable financial contract that can be compiled and deployed on Ethereum
This is entirely the consequence of them switching to subscription model. Take heed, and realize the same applies to any SaaS you may be using. SaaS may be a profitable business model, but has underappreciated downsides like this.
If Microsoft can do it, so can Apple.
I'm not suggesting that the government should build a train to Bay101. But at the same time, it's an example of a place that thousands of people go to every day, and wouldn't be able to without cars.
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That's because there is a level difference, which can be hard to navigate when you are going down on an oblique angle. Most people don't bother, the lights cycle fast enough. But when you're in a hurry you'll skip the queue (and plenty of people will skip the light too, but that's another matter and not allowed).

The level difference is there to discourage cars from going on the bike path. Of course it also has the opposite effect.
Having limited SFH zones does not prohibit a person from pursuing any number of housing option that works best for them.
Really? It seems like a lot of words to say "unfamiliar material bad." Surely the people advocating CLT have thought of some of these obvious downsides, and have ideas for how they're addressing them. If those are inadequate, then talk about that. Instead we get "In my professional judgment it is driven by a certain "gee whiz, isn't this cool" environmental state of mind." Excuse me if I want facts and not someone's un-sourced, un-backed-up "professional judgment".
We do have electric scooters but a much more expensive kind, figure 2-3K at least.
Firefox... not sure. I bounced from the page as soon as I saw it.