skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a lot harder for Cloudflare to argue some clause in the contract is non-binding when they provided the contract in the first place than the consumer on the other end who just clicked "OK" on a button to agree to that contract.
NPM: An Old Bug
The Sad State of Cloud Interoperability
All of these are still maintained and get new OS features.
What is so hateful about Libra when compared with the People Bank of China's digital currency project? When that is launched, any non-chinese can hold digital yuan without a bank account.

Wouldn't the west want something equivalent for geopolitical reasons?
So?

There's still a dozen houses they could be in. Too much legwork to identify.
Normally I would've said this comment was ridiculous.

But Google did exactly this with Flutter i.e. using a game engine and I found the experience to be significantly better than native development. Not only are you guaranteed of the same behaviour across platforms but you end up with a smoother, more polished app faster.

Definitely not suitable for every use case but for many it was impressive.
When you consider investing into user facing software trough specialized API's and tools, it's safe assume only 5-10 year useful life. The consequence is that investing into user facing apps and developers has limits because ROI is limited by current and near future user base.

Separating all the program functionality from all the OS/UI stuff pays off over longer term.
What do you mean by "productive"?
There is a large amounts of secrets that fall between the two extremes 'not very secret at all' and 'should never be spoken of or touch a digital device'.

Corporate espionage backed by nation state actors is a real thing, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to secure yourself against it while running a normal business.
> I took the train once from Irvine to Los Angeles and felt I had gone back in time to 1980.

That's what California gets for electing governors George Deukmejian. Pete Wilson, Gray Davis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Don't see how you can possibly do it for anyone else, using the mirror method, without getting it very wrong.
Not all applications are the same. Your application may not have the same requirements from the OS than some other application. As an (extreme) example, an application written in C that only needs from the host OS is a top level window and basic events for handling input while doing everything else with custom code will be much more portable and easy to keep up with changes than an application written in a language with its own runtime, creates a native UI for each platform, uses native APIs and tries to integrate with the native OS.
> Meanwhile, our Windows version hasn't needed any work since 2000.

I see they haven't updated their website since 2000 as well. It's hard to have sympathy for software companies that don't invest in their business.
Ive had similar thoughts about paypal for a long time after they randomly shut down one of my accounts for unspecified suspicious activity and was doing everything possible to not deal with it and fix their mistake. And I know I wasn't the only one either. And yet it still survives to this day.
I actually agree with you.

And of course, everyone understands the speed argument. But that has already been settled. Speed matters when speed is very important. I've seen people
recommend that I stop using Python and learn Rust to create a medium sized API. The average response times for the API that I had already completed was 30ms. That's a fraction of a second. I haven't used Rust yet, so I don't know what the performance difference would be, but why on earth should someone rewrite an application to save themselves a unit of time indiscernible to both the developer and the customer? Even if my load times increased a fair amount, nothing would be lost.

As far as people who don't mind learning another language, I can understand why that's fun, because it is. But when you have work that needs to get done and needs to be done with assurance, you don't have time to learn another language and figure out its quirks, shortcomings, and strengths all while trying to build that feature. My belief is that you should be able to write a language like a member of its community. If you don't have the intention of doing that, then you shouldn't really be messing with it. (for example, don't write Python like it's Ruby)

It has been my experience in New York City that people who criticize Ruby and Python tend to come from languages that are strongly typed and use them at work. It is cool to hate on a language because if you do, then you get to feel better about yourself just by subscribing to another community and hiding underneath that umbrella. You don't have to contribute to open source, answer questions online, or give talks at your local meetup. You get to call yourself a better engineer just by subscribing.

Anyway, I got way off topic. But the point is that when Ruby came out, there were plenty of options. People went with Ruby and Rails probably because it's a lot of fun to finish your work. I know that I really enjoy finishing my work.
I got extremely excited when I read the headline. Finally!, I thought. Then I read the first part:

> Carell, an organic chemist, and his collaborators have now demonstrated a chemical pathway that — in principle — could have made A, U, C and G

in principle, what? No! The headline implies that actual RNA had formed, spontaneously. Not in principal.

Going back to arguing with Creationists.
It can unfairly reflect poorly on their client and bias the jury. In a case like this it should pretty much be a rubber stamp process from what I've read.
The gripe I have against some "government socialism" countries is that even though taxes drive up the cost of doing business, the burden of providing stable jobs is still pushed on the employers. Firing people can range from expensive to nigh-on-impossible, and then there are payroll taxes and maternity/paternity funds which most employees dont even realise drive up the cost of hiring them.

There is a need for public goods and services, but if the deal is to tax economic activity then at least take the burden off those doing the activities.
I, for one, rather enjoy the 2000s aesthetic. Different tastes for different folks.
Along similar lines some of the best services and products I have experience in Japan have been from organizations and companies that declare themselves as communist. One example, the best child daycare in my Japanese city (in my opinion) was a communist one that emphasized nature, community, and healthy child development. Also, the best food delivery service (in terms of food quality and the difference is quite noticeable) in my city is one that called themselves communist as well.
I've never understood the "number of the atoms in the universe" argument. The number of states the universe can be in doesn't seem to be equal to the number of atoms. For example, just two atoms could encode lots of numbers simply by using their distance. Quantum physics would affect it, but I mean in principle: we are not switching atoms on and off to encode state.
Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
> This complaint says far more about the developer than Apple.

Yes, it says that they didn't bother to waste resources doing unnecessary changes.

But it also says about Apple that they do not respect the time and resources of the developers that bother to support their platform.

There is no way to spin Apple breaking APIs and programs that people have worked on (for developers) and bought (for customers) in a positive way.
How is it fundamentally broken?
Works for me on Firefox 60.9.0esr. No sound though.
You think you aren't, but you are when you say the categories of "male, female and 3rd sex" are appropriate for simplifying the "absurdities". You should show people who fit in your "absurd" minority sexual categories with more respect in future.
Come on, there certainly are reasons to complain about Apple deprecating stuff and strongarming developers into their walled garden, such as OpenGL, the fast-move to Swift/Swift versions, SIP/mandatory signed apps, XCode a moving target with OS updates, EFI BIOS updates for eg. booting from afs only downloadable as part of 6GB Mojave and soon Catalina OS updates, deprecation of semi-official Mac OS ports without equivalents on brew, stone-age Unix userland tools (bash, awk from early 2000), Java (and now Python) unbundling, and probably others I'm not aware of since right now I'm not very much into developing on Mac OS and iOS.

But Carbon isn't one of them. I knew Carbon was about to be deprecated in 2005 when I was coding a crappy UI for a crappy OCR solution. Carbon was just a forward-compat GUI lib on Mac OS classic (1998?) for apps to run on Mac OS X (2000).
I think another issue is that on Apple's platforms the changes are quite abrupt, whereas most other platforms are gradual. E.g., if you wrote a Qt (the toolkit) application in 1996, you could have slowly transitioned your application to Qt 5 version by version. In the meanwhile, you have gone from non-standardized C++ to C++98, to C++11. So, you would have an application with a modern language and toolkit, which was gradually developed over the last 23 years. The same for Windows applications.

For me, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Yes, there is more churn on Apple platforms. On the other hand, it also allows Apple and the ecosystem to move faster. It is amazing what they have been able to achieve with (just naming some random things): wide Touch ID support, Metal, or application sandboxing.
Although, it seems like you’re reimplementing platform controls? This seems like a mini-Qt: https://github.com/enzo1982/smooth
Not sure why are downvoted, You have made some valid points
Ever looked at internet bill for things like GPS loggers using http?

Even most barebone request often eats more bits than data

That's why nor HTTP nor XMPP will be going anywhere
> There is a conscious "capitalist Socialism" afoot in Japan

Maybe, but it may also be good old fashioned nostalgia.

I was fortunate enough to visit the US Sony headquarters around 2012 in NYC a year before it was sold and renovated. When I was there it was already aging, but still beautiful. Everything was built with minimalist white marble, that somehow felt warm. The guy giving us a tour showed us Michael Jacksons personal seat, and original Audubon plates adorned the walls (our tour guide said each one was worth millions).

There was no products or self promotion anywhere, yet the place screamed “Sony Walkman”,
as if Sony was still at their peak. There was serious pride in what they did, from our low level tour guide up to the big bosses we were there to meet.

Japan has made great things, yet there is currently a sad sense of an inevitable slide away from global relevance. It’s heartbreaking and deeply human.
From where I stand, Game Engines are the New OS™. UE even has its own compiler system built-in, ffs...
The culture of "fake it till you make it" is sustained by the inability to tell real from fake; scammers are sustained by those who believe. Bad politicians are sustained by "bad" voters. Bad business practices are sustained by undiscerning customers. Advertising is sustained by people who modify purchasing behavior based on ads.
That is cool; Being able to call python code from SQL is very cool. Is it very slow?
Red Dead Redemption 2 Mods Will Release Soon with PC
With some tweaks, Deus Ex Invisible War runs fine here on Windows 10. In general i didn't had any game or program i couldn't get it to run in Windows 10 and i have a lot of older software.
If you understood what toxic masculinity is you'd understand it entirely focuses on behaviour, and how those behaviours build male identity.
try looking at the linked report, it has about 116 references.
> During the peak hour, the vehicle lanes carry about 400 cars and perhaps 500 people.

The entire article is based on this incredibly misleading sentence!

The reason that number is so low is because of how bad the traffic is. A second lane could reduce that traffic and get you to the normal 1500-2400 cars per lane (source: light googling/wikipedia). Which is actually superior to the 1750 people per lane you get from the trams! (Given the 1.25 people per car he mentioned)
A library, but without the books!
I think it was just last week that I saw a headline here in Germany that after a ransomware attack on computers the only thing that still worked was fax [0]. As an administrator I would leave that old technology in place if it doesn't cost much, just in case, in addition to any of the other arguments about politics or issues around laws. Just as a backup if - or when - computers/Internet are down or unusable.

Of course, this does not explain why it is being used regularly. From my subjective point of view, having worked in the IT industry and as freelancer in various big customer projects for two decades, IT solutions don't look nearly as great as they appear to be in theory. Riddled with bugs and often brittle, completely different interfaces depending on what software you use (much of it custom-made), bad interoperability, expensive, long-term questions about what will happen 10 years later (usually needs to be solved with even more money for new software and data migration and lots of new issues). I'm a lot more wary of shiny software solutions in practice, because I think the process of creating big and especially custom niche software for special use cases seems way too political to me now and not enough interested in actually finding a good technical solution. I laugh a lot less now about people and businesses using "ancient" tech like paper.

[0] It might have been this court in Berlin: https://www.berlin.de/gerichte/kammergericht/kontakt/artikel... (TL;DR "we are offline, only phone and fax work") -- but it could also have been something else, that's not the only case when something like this happened.
... in Drosophila.

>Remarkably, the triple drug combination increased lifespan by 48%.

The effect of almost all longevity tricks deceases when the size of organism increases. On the other hand increasing the healthy lifespan of humans even five years would be huge.
Microsoft may shit out a new toolkit every other year (which is a shame, they should be fixing their existing stuff instead) but at least they maintain them for basically eternity. You can pick up anything and it'll be there for years to come (though not everything may be bundled with the OS forever - IIRC some less used some are downloaded on demand, but still the applications do not break).

(though personally i mainly trust core Win32 as everything else is built on it and because of that it is the most likely to remain stable)
What's Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]
You could have done the same with Carbon to Cocoa: transition a window/view at a time. You can use Cocoa windows and views in Carbon.

Plus you can keep using your C++ core even if the UI is Cocoa.
The same applies to Swift, you can write or rewrite parts of the app in Swift and keep part of it in C++/Rust/Objective-C or your preferred language.

The same happens in SwiftUI, you can mix it with NSView and UIViews.
I worked in that environment and you're wrong. The reason why it's done the way it is isn't because there isn't a better solution. Plenty of countries have better solutions.

The reason why it is that way is that there is one company printing out prescription paper and distributing it to doctors based on their estimated usage(the estimate is based on the previous year). Actually the distribution doesn't happen to the doctors directly it is sent to the Kassenaerztliche Vereinigung which then distributes it. For alternatives see Denmark for example.

The reason why they use fax machines is purely political. The Kassenaerztliche Vereigigungs lawyers decided against using PGP and still sends fax and physical CD's for two reasons.

Legally if you send a letter the burden of proof is on the receiving party. It's called "Rechtssicher" in lawspeak. So even if you send a data with corrupt data, it's not technically your problem. The Government basically set in stone / law that the only digital way to transmit information while maintaining the burden of proof in the same fashion is by using De-Mail (a previously failed standard that was riddled with problems).

Institutions however don't want to use De-Mail because it's tied to a few organizations like the Deutsche Telekom, and they feel like they're giving away control of their data if they can only use Telekom infrastructure(not to mention that it's pretty terrible).

As for why doctors still send fax here's a little history.

The KVSH (Schleswig Holstein) had a mail communication solution that they offered royalty free, but other KV's in the other states didn't want to use it because they felt it would make the KVSH too "whatever(i actually don't know)" but they were concerned about something.

As an alternative the KBV(the federal level institution) created KV-Mail(I think it was called). That piece of software is built by a third party which is famous for their horrible code. As it turns out when you decompile it, it's just a really terrible s/MIME implementation based on the demo code.

However, not only is it riddled with problems with messages sometimes disappearing, it's also not royalty free and it implements a decentralized system s/MIME and turns it into a royalty based solution with the KV as the man in the middle.

My information is a bit outdated so anything might not be valid anymore.

By the way, the move to a digital submission format for legal documents has been riddled with issues look at this review of BeA

> This software requires communication with bealocalhost.de (which resolves to a server running on localhost). To enable TLS(https) for this connection the software brought its own Certificate signed by a regular Certificate Authority (TeleSec), but also included the private-key. Therefore TeleSec revoked this certificate in accordance with general CA regulations.

https://blog.timmeey.de/2017-12-27-German-lawyers-are-requir...
Yes, it works very well.

If you have only one thread/process, use it as is; if you need multiple readers and one writer (who do not block each other), use WAL mode; if you need simultaneous multiple readers and writers, use Postgres.

If you are using SQLite, be aware that the “copy the file to move it to a different system” comes with a caveat - a regular Unix “cp” may get the file in an inconsistent state if it was modified while copying, or in the middle of a transaction.

Iirc “rsync” if used to copy, will verify that the file was not modified while copying and restart the copy if it did (a number of times and then error out). But that’s still not enough - you may need to also copy the shm file (in wal mode) and the journal file - and you need to do that atomically. Which is harder still.

The right way to copy an SQLite file from place to place us:

Any way you like, if it was properly committed and closed last time it was used, and is not currently open by any other process;

Or creating a backup (e.g. with the sqlite3 command), which will be a nonblocking operation if in WAL more - and then you can ship the backup whichever way you want.
So the plan was to form a cartel in public?
Nothing inherently. Except that most great discoveries/inventions were made by people who were convinced about the fundamental validity of their idea and persevered over many iterations (rather than pivoting). Consider how many years the incandescent light bulb would have been delayed had Edison (or Swan or whoever you want to credit) had failed fast with the filaments. To me, fail-fast is a very VC-centric philosophy. It's perfectly valid if your end goal is return on investment. But if your goal is to "build something", perseverance is generally a better strategy.
The one thing I enjoyed with Netflix's original shows was that they weren't held back by these archaic regional deals. A show released by them releases globally. Netflix going global was the moment I jumped on. It still irritates me that the major film studios lag in releasing stuff on Netflix worldwide. There's no regional advertising deals to cut. What's the hold up??

Amazon has a similar problem of having a worthless catalogue where I live. Every movie I clicked on during my prime trial said "not available in your region".

HBO was possibly the biggest disappointment where despite not having to cut deals for ads in their shows, their steaming service is still not available globally.

With Disney talking ads in their offering, I have zero hope that they will launch worldwide at the scale of Netflix, and certainly not in Sri Lanka. Maybe India. But not Sri Lanka.

Funnily enough, google play has been the best option for me. I have various networks' TV series purchased on it. And movie night usually means renting the major movie studio produced stuff from Google play. I hope they stick around for a long time to come because they somehow seem to be the one globally available neutral ground left. Weird how that works.
Yeah, but nobody cares. OpenVPN is horribly slow and wireguard isn't, there's no point in comparing these two.

You wouldn't have an independent benchmark comparing a GTR and a semi truck.
Yes. log(log(log... GN))) applied X times (where X is the number of planck volumes in the universe) is still greater than X.

Where log = base 10 logarithm.

Hofstadter talks a bit about this abstraction in his article 'On Number Numbness'

> If, perchance, you were to start dealing with numbers having millions or
billions of digits, the numerals themselves (the colossal strings of digits)
would cease to be visualizable, and your perceptual reality would be forced
to take another leap upward in abstraction-to the number that counts the
digits in the number that counts the digits in the number that counts the
objects concerned.
Perhaps you don't need it anymore but for anyone else reading I've worked with some really large csv files that I don't date open in most editors with xsv.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Quebec. There are two main cultures here: francophone (the majority) and anglophone. Among francophone couples, about 80% aren't married.

There's no real discernible difference here between an unmarried couple and a married one. They act the same. You wouldn't be able to tell which they were unless they told you.

Quebec used to be religiously catholic. However, the church kept the people down and kept them poor and in the early 60s, the people rebelled against the church and secularized. Quebec today isn't perfect (no place is), but things are much better now than they were under the catholic church.
I would have much the same sour grapes attitude of many in this thread, except for one point: Apple cannot even keep code examples working. Most of the code samples on Apple's dev site don't even compile a year or two after they are written and Apple doesn't bother keeping them updated. This is a rather large problem and verification of how hard it is to keep up.
Meanwhile the UK national health service is apparently the largest purchaser of fax machines in the world.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...
Alan Moore in Paperback Writer (BBC) on how music shaped and influenced his work
The thing is, there are often protests, where a majority wants to protest peaceful, but a handful of radicals want to escalate which they sometimes manage.

Now when you only wanted to demonstrate, but are now in the middle of a clash with various things flying around, it should not be illegal, to protect your head.