skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's it take for an engineer in the US to actually do something like this?

What makes you think that it was an engineer in the US who made the change? Apple's got employees all over the world, including in China. If anything, my first guess was the update was made from a team based in shanghai or shenzhen, since the emoji is already banned there.
Trump enraged China when he tweeted that he talked to "the President of Taiwan" though, so clearly most people in the US think of Taiwan as being separate from China
>But we gave up our communications freedom

Nonsense. The existence of proprietary platforms in no way reduces the possibility of free and open platforms. Using iMessage or Facebook Messenger or any other closed communication platform is a choice you can opt out of right now.

Sometimes I wonder if this all-too-common "the open Internet is dead" defeatism isn't some kind of false flag to make people think the open Internet is actually dead so they don't try to leave their walled garden. That is absolutely not the case and people need to stop saying it.
> Completion isn't a simple left-to-right thing.

Sorry, I still don't understand why that's relavent. It's probably my fault for not being clear enough. Please be patient with me as I try to further elaborate:

If the command is in charge of both generating completions and also for parsing arguments, wouldn't it be aware of all inner-dependencies between flags? Wouldn't such awareness make it possible to generate candidates based on previous flags?

I'm not familiar with ffmpeg, but let's assume that there was another similar program called ggmpeg. Let's assume that it accepts the flag '--input-format' and then either the flag '--repeat-video-range' or '--repeat-image-frames', depending on whether the format is an video or an image.

That is, only the following flag sequences are valid:

ggmpeg --input-format=video/webm --repeat-video-range=.. ...

or

ggmpeg --input-format=image/png --repeat-image-frames=.. ...

Let's also assume that ggmpeg signals to the shell that it is responsible for generating its own completions by passing the flag --_completion to it.

Now, if the user types the following command

ggmpeg --input-format=image/png --repea[CURSOR]

and then presses tab, thereby invoking the shell's auto completion routine, which in turn ultimately executes

"ggmpeg" "--_completion" "--input-format=image/png" "--repea"

wouldn't ggmpeg have all the necessary information to only suggest '--repeat-image-frames' and not '--repeat-video-range'?
My house has some LSL (Laminated Strand Lumber) beams which, like CLT, are engineered, but are built up from wood strands of and a lot of glue instead of from boards like CLT. As a result, they can be made from the remainder products of milling lumber.

They can even be made from rapidly harvestable plans like bamboo:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095006181...

This company appears to be making them:

https://www.moso.eu/en/products/bamboo-beam-panel-veneer/bam...
What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf]
To Limit Facial Recognition, NYC Bill Would Require Landlords to Use Keys
Do you use an SSL cert for your own servers?
https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/wiki/Enabling-HT...
Hainan Medical Tourism Zone: New Pilot Policies Rolled Out
I would expect that the vast majority of concrete used in construction isn't poured into "arbitrary shapes," but flat walls. Even if only 50% of concrete is pored as flat walls, that would still be a huge market for this.
It could be out and working in the economy, instead of sitting, so, yes it does. Capital is a resource too...
Please continue working on this novel; I would read it. You could even start publishing today with services like leanpub and get some early backers and feedback.
I love projects like these. One that has me fascinated is the idea of building a computer than can last centuries. Can it be done?

- Will the ICs last that long, can they?

- How will it get electricity if the sockets and voltage standards change?

- How do you make it durable to dropping, water, dust, etc?

- What sort of writable storage can last that long without degrading?

- How do you edit fonts as language changes over time?

- What sort of libraries and documentation do you include?

- Should you include some sort of Rosetta Stone for new users?
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10641246

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314628
If we're changing the analogy to specifically look at Stallman again, we need to make a few changes. Specifically, a quick note that now you're visiting his house for dinner. This changes things a bit. He may have the best open source dinner spread out there, but it's ultimately your choice to keep participating.
That may never, ever happen. Don't you know that only old awkward male hippy sin^H^H^H (are reported to) make/say unacceptable things?
This comment is completely non-responsive to the article. The article describes a move in the opposite direction from increased regulation and red tape.

Meanwhile, Seattle has already been vastly better than SF at building new housing units over the last decade. SEPAs have existed during that entire period and are used by NIMBY groups to attempt to slow down growth, but ultimately they have not succeeded at stifling development the way SF's NIMBYs have.
I have heard of Larry Niven and never heard of Millard Fillmore.

Being outside the US I never covered past US presidents in school.
Well if the NSA gets access why not opening up to other governments?
"since you don't need WikiPedia if you have a library."

I have libraries and WikiPedia is still pretty useful. Searchability and portability / mobility would be pretty valuable attributes in this type of scenario.
This isn't a problem that exists alone in Seattle.

Tour elementary schools across the nation, and you'll encounter lines of cars waiting to pickup/dropoff children. This is emblematic of the shift that has occurred in pockets of American society--the needs of the individual over the good of society.

Seattle just has unique geographical constraints that exacerbate the issue of individualistic thinking.
http://archive.is/CxvLo
Apple is based in Cupertino, which is at least half Chinese, and is a heavily staffed with Chinese overall. You assume they have Western political sensibilities.

Edit: latest demographic data from Wiki, from 2010, says 63% Asian and 26% Chinese
See also the Librem 5, which might be getting a RYF certification.
To Improve Our University We Must Move Human Waste into Your Offices
But so was facebook for quite a long time. Now it's a 500B+ company. I remember when people said Google was crazy for paying $1B for Youtube - now it looks like one of their smartest acquisitions besides DoubleClick.
I thought we are talking about property you own, is the Landlord the company that manages the building? This sounds like they have way too much leeway!

My family owns apartments in the Czech republic and nobody has rights to enter them, or physical means to do so.
There is no 'landlord', the building and land is owned by the resident's association, where the "leader" is elected by resident's voting and paid a small salary. They manage repairs and bills.

If I suddenly found them in my house doing some random inspection and talking about 24h notice, police would be on the scene.
No you are misunderstanding my core point, the 'Inflation' is just a colloquial term we have coined for prices generally rising for many reasons some of which may be related new money being created because of money printing & Fed lending window. it just effects different sectors differently, so a TV may not go up so much but medicine goes up a lot. inflation is just average measure of that. if you provide protection from that to one type of gains then you are essentially telling society to go pile up in that & guess whats been happening lately.
Yes. I guess it's because GM is in the news too.
I have, but not at such a high cost. I guess if you have billions, 3m$ is equivalent to my 200$ statue purchase.
I was in one of Hopcroft's courses (an author of this book) for a while and if this book is on brand with his style and fields of study, it's super theory heavy. You won't write a line of code; you would not be useful to a company hoping to apply data science in the world.
Regarding "A sudden disappearance of rare earth metals needed to make electronics", you (mostly) don't need to worry about that either. Fluorescent tubes and white LEDs use rare earth elements to convert blue/UV light to broad spectrum visible light -- these are how non-OLED displays generate back light. High strength permanent magnets contain the rare earth elements samarium or neodymium (with optional lesser quantities of dysprosium, praseodymium, gadolinium). Those are the only rare earth element applications worth mentioning as far as computer system components go. Strong rare earth magnets are still used in spinning-platter hard drives, but not in SSDs.

You could buy a new EPYC server with solid state drives, grind it up and homogenize the whole thing in acid, and the resulting solution would have a smaller percentage of rare earth elements in it than the same mass of ordinary crustal rocks treated the same way.

Computers don't need rare earth elements. Nor do solar panels, nor do most wind turbines.

See for example the "Consumption" section in the USGS 2015 Minerals Yearbook Rare Earths report:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prd-wret/assets/palladium...

In descending order of global consumption volume, rare earth elements are consumed by the manufacture of catalysts, magnets, glass polishing media, and metal alloys. Everything else is just miscellaneous.
Employer-dependent healthcare and visa status are powerful tools of control. Let's also not forget sky-high housing costs, ensuring an astronomical savings burn rate when unemployed.
Collective Nouns List
The open internet order and the title 2 reclassification are two different things. After they were sued and lost the ability to enforce the order, they moved forward with reclassification.
Bank deposits aren't removed from the economy. That money is loaned out to other people. That's what banks do.
It's also neither local laws or customs to hide the Taiwanese flag as OP claims.
"dharma is “group-centered and group-oriented."

Yes, I think the 'duty' that is being referred to is 'dharma' in the sense of 'true identity', and Arjuna's identity is a Kshatriya (warrior), as are all sons of kingly descent, and an archer. He was born and trained to fight.

"Dharma" also means 'truth'; the implication is that there is a kind of falsity in not being true to the identity you inherit, or that has been given to you (e.g. by military training).

FWIW, I don't agree that people get any permanent identity at birth, nor that they can acquire some kind of permanent identity by being trained as a soldier (or a thief, or an artist, or a comedian). Krishna/Vishnu is misleading Arjuna: we're all fluid, we can all change. Krishna knows this, and in fact he shows it, because he changes himself.

[I confess I'm not closely familiar with the BV - I think I read it in my teens. It's not that long, by comparison with other classic Vedic texts; or with western religious tracts, for that matter]
Regardless of the details of this specific case; I hope the end result is some clarity around what is required to make a website ADA compliant (and when it's required).
Perhaps that manager had a baby on the way and was terrified of losing health coverage, or was in the United States on an H1B visa and was afraid they'd be deported...

But seriously, moral is the thing that applies not only when it's convenient.

Disclaimer: I have no moral right to preach this.
No, it's much closer to Glue Laminated Timber whereas plywood tends to be made of wide sheets of thin timber of varying quality (depending on the quality of the wood and number of sheets glued together). CLT and GLT/glulam aren't made in sheets like plywood, they're usually constructed for a specific purpose (beams, etc.)

- https://vicash.com.au/cross-laminated-timber-vs-glue-laminat...
> It's just that there's a standard for quality of argument, which means that a lot of conservative nonsense gets shot down on sight

Please don't post ideological flamebait to HN or take threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Perhaps in the modern era, but less so in the past. The IRS also has a workaround if you can't prove your tax basis, which is to consider it all gains. That's a reasonable fallback for calculating gains, because if you don't have proof of basis, it's likely to be an older acquisition (and one which is more highly appreciated.) But the opposite is true for inflation adjusting, which would leave people with no records to be considered to have zero tax basis (all gains) and no inflation adjustment.

If lacking transfer documents makes the sale value “all gains”, then the inflation adjustment is irrelevant, since you are adjusting a zero basis value, which is still going to be zero if you do or don't adjust it for inflation, no matter what a amount of inflation has occurred.

The only place where there is even a theoretical problem is where there is proof of basis value but not basis date; this seems extremely improbable to occur in practice.
and now the "standup" has devolved to a design session, and I don't want to have to stand there while bob and betty have a discussion about it.
Browsers still need to unzip and parse the SVG, and store the DOM representation of it.
It's well known, let's burn the witch!
This is a really interesting and spot-on analysis. If it makes you uncomfortable, it should.
Really what we should do with capital gains is allow people to deduct losses including inflation, so that we tax the total real value gain at the ordinary rate, and do so when the money is actually divested rather than only moved from one investment security to another (because one of the arguments for lower capital gains rates is that higher rates causes money to be locked into securities the investor wouldn't otherwise continue to hold).

Or just use a consumption tax, which is largely the same thing but a lot less complicated.
Even with utter cynicism, "Microsoft hosts DOS attack on Apple" is such a disastrous headline that it's well worth avoiding, and that's before getting into any liability for botching something like this.
I feel bad for Dave. He was so early to the table on so many occasions yet he was left behind and never really made it big monetarily. He is the definition of missing the boat.
How to Quadruple the Range of Lora
300€ for one day? Keep it.
I usually install the latest MacOS version right away. After installing iOS 13, 13.1 and 13.1.1 and finally (so far) 13.1.2 in a month I think I'll wait this one out until a maintenance release.
> Grossly inaccurate is the best way of describing the screening time

Amazon agrees with you... they contend that the screening doesn't actually take this long. I'm not clear on how a question of fact like this can be in dispute unless we are arguing over definitions.

> I've done the amazon fulfillment center tour and seen employees check in for different shifts, it does not take 25 minutes to go through the screening process.

No one is claiming that the check-in process takes a long time. The check-out process is the one where the employees are screened for theft, and that is where the employees claim they must wait (unpaid) for a long time.

> There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.

I find that completely unpersuasive. The courts have just told Amazon that they DON'T HAVE TO PAY for this time. So it isn't inefficient for them to allow it to take lots of time. It doesn't affect Amazon's bottom line until the point where it becomes difficult for Amazon to hire any workers.
I love it when arguments are so deeply grounded in facts.
the (adjustable) valve would adjust the flow rate of the sauce.
I think this is the problem with letting the tech industry take ownership of open formats and protocols.
Are many homeless people in LA mentally ill? New finding backs public perception
A few of my friends and I went on a FLAC kick back in the late '00s and I remember installing Rockbox on a Gen 4 or 5 iPod in order to play my FLAC files.
I'm really sorry, but I upvoted your comments, and his, because I thought they were interesting. And wow, Dave Winer is commenting, and a guy who has a story about you from the 90's.

And that pushes his comment to the top, and yeah, here we are.

But a lot of us are very happy about your 25 years. And we know you aren't a bad person, but a human who had a human reaction to an asshole comment in a bar.
Going from a single processes holding all your data to having your data sharded across multiple processes can be more than a little effort.

Also, it might now have any benefit for you. Imagine a certain key is particularly hot. Having one multithreaded redis process handling access to it might speed things up. Running multiple sharded redis processes won't, since only one of them will have that key.
With the amount that engineers get paid in the bay area it's ridiculous that having a safety net isn't trivially easy. The real estate situation here (and everywhere) is ridiculous - it isn't right that the price of housing seems everywhere to be a little bit too much for anybody to afford.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

In the specific case of free software, the paradox of tolerance plays out concretely, in that failure to enforce copyleft on software can lead to the creation of software derived from that work that is itself copyrighted in such a way that the deriver could sue an original source creator deriving work from their derivations.

I don't think anyone would consider copyleft enforcement "friendly," but the alternative is "free software has no ability to protect its core tenants," so some friendliness must be abridged.
The north part of West Seattle also basically has the one bridge. And WA did have an I-5 bridge collapse a few years back, although IIRC it was collision-induced structural damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-5_Skagit_River_Bridge_collap...
Me too! I was so disappointed that the spin off never happened.
What I mean by "commodity" is:

Suppose you want privacy:
You need to buy your way through to get it

Suppose you want something for free:
You need to sell your privacy for it

Although your point is right; maybe "luxury" is a better term.
Modern carrier fighter jets have more or less the same range as WW2 fighters
Publishers of audio products (soft synths, DAWs), games, and a fair number of domain-specific products have told their customers not to upgrade yet.

Here's a rundown of products that depend on 32-bit support or that haven't been tested in 64-bit on Catalina yet:

Audio products: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/macos-10-15-ca...

Games: https://www.macgamerhq.com/opinion/32-bit-mac-games/
I've pushed for this before. Your idea: haven't read linked article yet. Mine was an organization that obfuscated working- to middle-class finances as much as rich. It would operate at cost with most legal stuff done as templates and accounting comouterized. It could be a public-benefit company, foundation, or co-op. They'd just charge annual fee to be in, consulting for anything complex, and everything external at cost plus minimal labor.

What yall think?
Way to Fight Cancel Culture; Stop Capitulating to It
One way to gain traction (pre-collapse) might be to hold competitions about getting it to run on challenging "salvaged" systems and demonstrating impressive ways to copy it from one system to another.
TikTok's ToS maintain that they own any content posted to the platform, and this is a standard clause for most social media companies. The TikTok users get exposure, which may or may not be worth it.

Cody Ko ran into this last year, video here (relevant portion starts at 4:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdR8cue4eE
exactly. A lot of engineers in SV are in a good enough position to be actually able to do this without much setback for them and their families financially since they’ll be hired elsewhere right away
I do audio recording and editing on my Mac. My email is full of dire warnings from software vendors to not upgrade to Catalina yet.
Me writing off a bunch of people that are mostly unrelated to me and a group of people expel their leader are vastly different things. There is(should be) an inherit trust from the leader to the group and the group to the leader. It's fine for the group to expel. What is not fine in my opinion is for the group to do this under external pressure.

This clearly show the group has no allegiance to the group itself. Only to winds of external pressures. It basically proved GNU is not really serious group. Just window dressing.
fyi,"just add alt-text" doesn't come as good comment as there is already too less awareness about accessibility related practices in web community but I guess you already knew it.
That simply isn't how the Supreme (or any) court works. Perhaps there is a servitude issue at hand, but that is not the argument that the plaintiff made.
Apologies, this is indeed a shitty link.
The commonly held belief that banks require a deposit before they can hand out loans is a myth, the financial system has not worked that way for at least 40 years, if ever at all.
A bank's ability to create new money is enormous, and proper explanation can be found in this paper by the Bank of England: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
>Wait why aren’t we building more apartments again?

Have you seen the Seattle skyline in the last 4 years? Lol.

I feel like this is a canned rant of yours that doesn't necessarily have a basis in this actual situation.
"The overall tax rate on the richest 400 households last year was only 23 percent, meaning that their combined tax payments equaled less than one quarter of their total income. This overall rate was 70 percent in 1950 and 47 percent in 1980."
> I was just wondering from a British Point of view whether you still consider them to be British or not.

I think they're culturally British. I don't think they are British owned or that their IP is British owned. Which was the context of the discussion.
Can you do us all a favour? Please stop incorrectly stating that the problem is with pronouns in general. It's been pointed out many, many times. The point of contention here deals with one person intentionally refusing to use the pronoun someone else has requested when addressing them.

Notice the emphasis on the words "intentional" and "them".

(To be clear, this comment in no way meant to justify S.O.'s horrendous handling of the situation)
I still remember the neuros HD.

- multiple swappable storage/battery backpackd

- built in fm transmitter

- Linux based firmware / iTunes like music management that was Linux native

- mp3 ogg Flav support

- radio support plus scheduled recording

- Shazam like feature called "hear it see it" when plugged in

- ridiculously long battery life

In 2003
I welcome it, as metropolitan home prices are comically out of reach for nearly all income levels.
~100k years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19937047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20742898
Per the article, natural blood has to be refrigerated and only lasts for a few weeks, while this stuff is good for over a year at room temp. You wouldn't need a blood bank. Every local clinic could keep a few bags in the supply closet.