skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"forecast for years" is distinct from "totally a good idea."

Time and resources a software publisher spends on the upgrade treadmill is time they can't spend on other efforts, whether or not there's advance notice. Essentially, it's a cost Apple imposes on developers for their platforms. And either that shows up in costs for users or the software folds.

If there's a counter to upgrade treadmill criticisms, one of the few that makes sense is if there are compelling benefits with the upgrade to weigh against the cost.

At the moment, it's entirely unclear to me what benefits I'm supposed to derive from dropping 32 bit support, and moreover, I can't think of a single compelling benefit I've derived from macOS updates since Snow Leopard.
And RAM, as you don't have two copies of every library loaded at the same time.
We don't though. You can be perfectly healthy without ever eating meat. The only vitamins that humans "need" to eat meat to get (basically vitamin B12, and sometimes D) are only present in factory farmed animals because they're supplemented in those animals' diets. Skip a step and just take those same supplements yourself.
If you want a replacement for Visual Basic, take Ruby on Rails.

It lets you do a lot of simple things easily and quickly, and provides enough hand-holding for a beginner.

No such thing around the frontend, though. No form designer. There are several things that generate crude but working HTML from simple descriptions, though.

Very much like a VB program, such an app is hard to make look polished, but it's not the point.
My point is that their "crimes" were painted as such by the same establishment which got damaged by their revelations, while others would find many of those revelations a public service. Forcing the media to align with the establishment POV, with the intended purpose of manipulating public opinion about those people, is not much different from Chinese censorship: a pot-kettle-black scenario in which the cleanest one stinks badly.
For women, running is still an act of defiance
Countries that don't recognize Taiwan, the US included, do so solely because the GDP of China is much greater than the GDP of Taiwan and China is more than willing to throw their weight around in an attempt to legitimize their claim through coercion. If you hold a gun to someone's head and/or give them $100 and tell them to repeat that you are a cabbage, you don't become the cabbage, no matter how much of the world you coerce.

Both governments make claims against the other's land but that doesn't make them the same government.
A deeper look into the life of an impressionist. What's truth?(deep flake video)
PG&E issues unprecedented power shut-off watch for much of Northern California
That dropdown freeze happens on the latest safari under Mojave as well (only on certain message boards, so it. Might be CSS or JS related?)
While I agree, wouldn’t a recession caused by rising interest rates keep housing unaffordable for these same buyers? Since getting a loan would then be more expensive.
I started using R because I needed a better tool for formal statistical analysis. (Econometrics, didn't want to pay for STATA. Much better packages around variants of linear regressions + panel/time series data than python). Since, I've used it for some random scripts, data visualizations, and financial analysis (Josh Ulrich's packages + tidyquant).

R is a thoroughbred at doing data analysis from your laptop. It's bad at living on a server and operating any sort of app.

For your use case (NBA analytics) I think it is a great tool and would recommend R. In fact, here are a couple packages/tutorials specifically for doing that:
http://asbcllc.com/nbastatR/
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/analyzing-nba-b...
> Where I live, revenue from fares makes up ~11% of the total

Where is this? 11% would put your system near the bottom of farebox recovery ratios for major systems.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
The house is a strawman of sorts. The rich pay property taxes too.
Or if the company goes bust or discontinues the product.
South Korea's tragic fall into the Confucianist-capitalist trap
You are technically right in that most states recognize Taiwan as a province of the PRC. However, describing Taiwan as a distinct country is ambiguous, since "country" doesn't have a strict definition. E.g., it's normal to consider the parts of the UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark to be countries, although they are not independent. It's not much of a stretch to consider Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan, or Catalonia, to be countries too.

Edit: if you look at the font in question, it does have flags for England and Aruba, for example, so offering the flags doesn't imply that you are recognizing the places as sovereign states.
Remember, Google tunes your search results based on your own personal search history.

I searched for "Catalina" in a private browser window and got exactly two results about today's release news, then a whole lot of Catalina Island results.
Dave Stagner,the only thing highly developed about you is your cuckoldry.
Funny, I find the exact polar opposite.

When I four-finger swipe left for Dashboard, stocks and weather take several seconds to load, and to use the calculator I actually have to click inside of it. And visually they all look like toys that bear no relation to current OS look and feel.

Two-finger swipe-left from right edge brings up Notification Center with weather and stocks always instant (so much faster), and I use cmd-Space for Spotlight for all calculations and conversions without having to click/tap ever, just using my keyboard. And since Spotlight allows me to type complex math expressions with parentheses, I've never had a need for multiple calculators. And then Stickies has a dedicated app.

So except for multiple unit conversions (which I've never needed)... I'm personally very glad we've moved on from Dashboard.
They were a country for a period of time. They had passports and a currency. I don’t see how that disproves OP’s point
ROC and JP flags removed from upcoming Top Gun movie

https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/1152241649893945346
Is Google going to deactivate all Venezuelan accounts? Facebook?
The same can be said of turbocharged ICE vehicles, which are quite common now especially with direct-injection.
Dunno if this counts because I guess it's the "eZ80" but it looks like TI still makes one:

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-ca...
Civilization can withstand a surprisingly extreme level of collapse without most people dying. In the most horribly war-torn country I can think of, Syria, most of the pre-war population is still alive today.

If someday the US looks like Syria, your 401k will be worthless but you’ll probably survive.
I get why people do rely on the courts, though. Our lawmaking process is horribly broken. Major legislation doesn't get passed because it requires overwhelming control of Congress and the Whitehouse. Constitutional amendments are all but impossible when it's unlikely to get 34 state legislatures to agree on which way is North. The judiciary and executive action are the only ways left to make anything actually happen.
Iron
I’m going to just pull from two of Maciej Cegłowski‘s tweets on this article (@Pinboard on Twitter, idlewords here):

> This is a really tendentious article by the New York Times that makes me question their other Hong Kong coverage. The story the past week isn't an increase in violence by protesters against people; it's a police rampage in which cops shot two schoolkids.

> There is incredible journalism being done here, including by
@nytimes
reporters, but what reaches the front page is bad. David Brooks bullshit, articles like this on "escalating violence", descriptions of emergency law as a "measured step". And we have no public editor to turn to

Both from this thread: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1181240398603112449
Nobody said anything about paying less... In my mind if I were to run a company I’d do 6 hour work days with four day work weeks. Nobody actually gets a solid 8 hours of coding done. I don’t see why people keep throwing money at more perks/food to compete with FAANG at their own game.
Free economics promote colonialism too.
Inkscape is one of the best examples of open source done well (make sure to use the latest version if your distribution bundles an old one); even when I still had (pirated) versions of Adobe I preferred Inkscape over the Adobe offerings.

Audacity is another great program from experience, and the success of Blender speaks for itself.

Gimp, on the other hand, is a UX nightmare. There's a tutorial on how to draw a line, and you'll need it, because it requires a non-discoverable keyboard shortcut. Its feature set is either ages behind Photoshop, or there but non-discoverable due to bad UX, and the UX makes basic tasks excruciatingly painful.

Photoshop and IrfanView are the two tools I miss most from Windows, the latter even more than the former. Trivial tasks like "crop picture in clipboard and put it back on the clipboard/into a file" are pure pain on Linux, because the only thing that at least works reliably is Gimp with its horrible UX. One of the "lighter" (Paint.NET equivalent) tools left parts of its UI in my saved image. Others don't support the clipboard. IrfanView with Wine just isn't the same either.
How long exactly is "from time to time"? 'Cause it's been 36 years for me and I haven't felt the need for meat yet...
Satoshi Nakamoto Could Be Criminal Mastermind Paul Le Roux

https://news.bitcoin.com/satoshi-nakamoto-could-be-criminal-...
Yeah, I've worked on several video games that only exist on probably a handful of individual's Wiis (WiiWare) or old iPhones, or maybe in a torrent somewhere now. And yet I worked on a Playstation Portable game that you can still get from eBay for pretty cheap, over a decade after the company shut down.

I'm no longer a big fan of games just being in the cloud, or even the rights not being freed up once the company dissolves.
> (I might be misunderstanding your question, sorry if that's the case.)

Not entirely, but I think my question was just more narrow. Considering the case that started this off (machines that used to work, now hanging on boot because of lack of entropy, triggered by too few disk interrupts), I don't get how this generalizes. If you take that same system, and remove the disk (replacing it with netboot or whatever), how would it ever boot, at least not without making some changes to how early entropy is seeded? I guess in the netboot case you end up with the timing of network interrupts that you can feed into the entropy pool, but this whole thing just feels off to me.

If a system was relying on a specific, inefficient set of disk access to give it just enough entropy to get through early boot, and that making the FS code more efficient caused it to fail to have enough entropy, I'd suggest that (likely unbeknownst to the system administrators), this system was already pretty broken. I get why Torvalds decided to bucket this under the "we don't break userspace" umbrella, and appreciate the care he takes to that sort of thing, but suggesting that "FS access patterns during early boot" is sorta a part of the kernel's ABI is... a bit too incredible for me to take seriously.
It's not more convenient than a car that one day of the month, but not having a car is definitely more convenient the other 30 days of the month. Owning a car in NYC is super inconvenient and expensive.

Although I will say, the drive isn't that much faster than the train ride. And driving is dead time, whereas train riding time isn't.
Naturally GNU and free software movement is intertwined with politics, but as someone who remember the time when people debated if they were communists I remember the answers. When Creative commons came out with the No Commercial variant we saw the same discussions pop up, and again with the same answer. They said GNU and the free software movement was not communist, socialists, libertarians, left or right. It was a new political movement based on the four software freedoms, pulling activists from both side of the political spectrum. You could have multiple project leaders, including RMS, in the same room and have as larger political diversity as there were people. The one thing that united them is that they believed in and advocated for free software.

The reasons some people are now getting upset is because that answer seems to have change in very recent time. It is no longer a new political movement that recruits activists from all sides, nor is acceptable any more that there is political diversity among contributors. In that environment I am not suprised that RMS do not fit with his unconventional view on multiple political topics. He is neither a true democrat nor a true republican, and if GNU want one of those then indeed there need to be a discussion for a new leader.
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Part of the politics is that the Republic of China still officially claims to be the legitimate government of the whole of China. So it really is recognize one or the other. Politics within Taiwan have so far prevented declaration of Taiwanese independence from China in any form, and the One-China policy that everybody agrees to prevents recognition of the PRC and establishment of two-state relationships. Until either of these political realities change, the formal fiction of unrecognized statehood is unlikely to change.
Adobe just cut off the entire country of Venezuela from the software it paid for, over a political row between the US and Venezuela.
Density isn't solving itself! People worked for years to get those commercial centers upzoned. And there's still plenty of million dollar houses sitting two blocks from Broadway and John, which are definitely impeding on those who want to live near that light rail station and walk.

And those century old houses would be a lot safer if they could be turned into multiple units, which can be done without demolition. The smaller old houses get knocked down to build a huge new house, which is made of the same materials and designs as those condos and apartments.
(disclaimer: I used to work at Microsoft)

There's an important lesson here: while reasonable skepticism is always good, it's important to remember that a policy of "never forgive, never forget" actually creates moral hazard. If people/companies think they will never be forgiven for current misdeeds even if they get better, then there's no incentive to get better and they might as well keep being horrible. Allowing people (or companies) to turn over a new leaf incentivizes good behavior.
ubiquity are totally going to find a way to block this.
You forgot the first part of the US statement:

“The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China.”
'“The days are coming when we will have satellites in the sky that can monitor any facility on this planet,” said Rob Jackson, who heads Stanford University’s Earth system science department. “I’m quite excited about that. The environmental community will be able to watchdog any facility on Earth. I think everyone will benefit.”'

This is a potential taxation and fining powerhouse. Penalty payments for 'leaking' carbon dioxide will be mana from heaven for the UN IPCC carbon credits lobbyists.
Maybe not much help to you, but my Rollo Thermal Label Printer works fine on Catalina. Didn't need to update any drivers, it just works as it did before the update.
Yea it's not possible (in a way that works without breaking stuff) to drop from 64bit to 16bit the way you can with 32 to 16. That's just a limitation of the cpu architecture that's just not something you can work around. Dosbox and virtualization however do allow that to still be run if you provide the OS bits (install windows 95 or 3.1 in them), so there's still paths forward that will usually work. If they need to talk to esoteric hardware then you might be out of luck still but it might not be impossible to get that to pass through depending on what it is.
Fine by me - sweeping out the dust.
Thanks, I didn’t know that other contributors were not consulted.
You wouldn't want to do it by hand, but it's straightforward to program.
The Sight of Sound
What if the studies that say extra time in the office is often wasted are true? Should people give up some comp to not sit in a seat?

The studies may be wrong, or maybe you pencil it out and it just doesn't model out correctly, but if you lock in the pay on the basis of the assumption that the total productivity would be less, it's sort of favors one side of interpretation. And if you're truly trying use a four day week to attract high-end talent, reduced per hour pay somewhat dilutes the attraction of the benefit.

Finally, some consulting gigs are billed per hour anyway, so the model might end up that total comp is somewhat reduced vs a full 40/hr week. Or it might end up the same pay for four days - it really depends on the business model.
I used VAX and Dec 10, then got a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine.
Worth a click through. The full episode is available to watch for free.
> Why should Apple be expected to take a political stance

It is really a political stance to have Unicode Emoji 1.0 as a feature?
Sent you an email. Apologies for posting this meta discussion here.
Ok, imagine if EVERY OS out there had their own signing system like this. Can you imagine how hard it would be to publish multi-platform software!? Sure macOS and Windows are the largest consumer OSes, and I'd be very shocked to hear Linux OSes doing this, but does that really make it OK?
What about from an ethics standpoint ? Is there less suffering when you compare a single 300 pound factory farmed pig to 3 100 pound pigs ?
I'm not saying (in this comment) that they should or shouldn't, only that this is the argument for net neutrality. This is why I picked an analogy about the military: whether you're a hawk or a dove, you should argue your position based on the anticipated effects of well over two years of your policy.
Accelerating Deep Learning by Focusing on the Biggest Losers
3C 273's visible jet is "~200 kly (60 kpc) long".[0] There's even a Hubble image.[1] Our galaxy is about 150-200 kly in diameter.[2] And the Large Magellanic Cloud is ~163 kly away.[3] So yeah.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273

1) https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-hubble-gets-the-b...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-appl...
The Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan. No one is confused about the geopolitical entity you mean when you say "Taiwan".

The ROC government has for some time used some variation of "Taiwan (Republic of China)" when using English - passports, visa entry stamps, embassies, etc.
> How can I, as a person, talk with my money to prevent this?

With your personal money? You can't. Can you convince extremely wealthy people to spend their money in a way that will ultimately lose them money? Possible, but still losing odds.

See Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins for an example of what this fight looks like. (he was one of the guys who paved way for the original deals between the US and Saudi Arabia that you mention)
This is not very true. Taiwan, Republic of China, has made attempts to change its name, only to be met with the threat of war from the People’s Republic of China if they perform a name change to Republic of Taiwan.
The RoK and DPRK each claim sovereignty over all of Korea, which both sides legally view as one country. That hasn’t stopped the rest of the world from recognizing them separately.

Taiwan’s partial recognition is due to pressure from China, not any logical impossibility of recognizing two different countries that officially claim to be one.
The claim that MS is "putting the Linux kernel at the heart of Windows 10 as part of WSL 2" is an overstatement. If they really wanted to put the Linux kernel at the heart of Windows, they would ditch the Windows kernel, which would be no great loss, and make Windows a GUI over the Linux kernel.
An archived email to a mailing list from one person in 2013 that can never be corrected or amended isn't the most reliable way to spread information about cryptography engineering.

What does Gutmann say in 2019 about /dev/urandom vs /dev/random?

Which of the two do JP Aumasson (author of Serious Cryptography and inventor of several cryptography algorithms used today, including BLAKE2 and SipHash), Dan Bernstein (Salsa20, ChaCha20, Poly1305, Curve25519, Ed25519, etc.), Matthew Green (professor associated with the TrueCrypt audit), et al. prefer in their own designs?

I can promise you the answer is /dev/urandom. Why do they prefer /dev/urandom? Because of the reasons outlined in the article I linked (which, unlike the mailing list post you linked, is occasionally updated with corrections).

It's not really that complicated: Use /dev/urandom.

If you're on an ancient Linux kernel, you can poll /dev/random until it's available if you're uncertain whether or not /dev/urandom has ever been seeded. Once /dev/random is available, don't use /dev/random, use /dev/urandom. This side-steps the "/dev/urandom never blocks" concern that people love to cite in their fearmongering. This is essentially what getrandom(2) does.

If you're on a recent Linux kernel, you can say "just use getrandom(2)" instead of "just use /dev/urandom", but the premise of the discussion is whether to use /dev/random or /dev/urandom not which of all possible options should be used.

See also: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-rando...

The belief that /dev/random must somehow be better than /dev/urandom is, frankly, security theater.
Starting reading an article, ended up finding out it's just an ad for a product. Not cool, bro.
Seconded. This account is linked to my real-life identity; I'm not a bot/shill. I'm a city dweller and these kinds of articles are highly relevant to my interests and my real life advocacy and organizing work.

It shouldn't be surprising that lots of tech workers who hang out on this site live in dense cities like SF or NYC, and are interested in how cities can be improved by removing vehicles, which don't scale to high urban densities anyway.
You very much can build and sideload an IPA on iOS if you have (access to) a computer running macOS.

Sure that's beyond the reach of most people, but how on earth do you people imagine that people develop and test new apps on iOS devices if you think an app _must_ be published to the App Store to run at all?
That's a tough one, because you really need both options available.

"Mispronouncing" to your phone's language is actually helpful if you don't speak the language, because you'll legitimately understand it better. Local pronunciation can often be completely and maddeningly unrecognizable to a foreigner.

While if you speak the language, it's obviously nonsensical to have it mispronounced and you want the real thing of course.

Example: "Rio Tinto" in Portuguese is pronounced "HEE-oo CHEEN-too". If you don't speak the language, you're NEVER gonna map those sounds to a street sign because the "r" and "t" sounds you're expecting aren't there at all! While hearing a completely incorrect "REE-oh TIN-toh", you can probably recognize.