skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all companies have Microsoft or indeed EU sized lawyer pools. So would be nice if there was some aspect of the EU that you could have check/audit contracts to approve them as compliant. Sure that may well be the realms of a lawyer and equally also insurance policy on the indemnity aspect. But does highlight how smaller companies will and can suffer the same issues (maybe more so) and fall foul even when acting in good faith.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...

"If your company, organisation or institution is established in the EU (In this case, the 28 EU member states + Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.), you have the right to compete for a public tender in any EU country. You have the right to:

compete for a public tender in another EU country without discrimination
use supporting documents (certificates, diplomas, etc.) issued by your country
have equal access to all information regarding tenders, regardless of the EU country in which you are established
have access to the review procedures in the respective country"

That last one implies that equally access to review procedures in EU member states must be available. That would cover contracts and with that, raises more questions about the accountability of this.

But my takeaway is, if Microsoft can have a contract questioned at a later date, how exposed are smaller companies in the same vain.
Do they really set the vision, though? Did they start the #MeToo movement and bring down Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men? Are they leading the push for transgender acceptance? Are they the reason why reparations and universal healthcare are now mainstream policy proposals in the Democrat party?

It certainly makes sense for the wealthy, elite lawyers of a society to set the course of policy. But I'm not sure what the empirical evidence from 2019 America says. I think a lot of these Yale graduates end up becoming cogs in the existing system without actually changing it, and I think other forces might be equally as or more impactful in terms of shaping political currents.
It is for me. Sold my MacBook and switched to Linux. Just need to settle on a flavour.
Just because many people say it does not mean it isn't bullshit. It is easy to be wrong.
> Please note that you must be the Account Holder of your development team in the Apple Developer Program.

https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/

> You can only notarize apps that you sign with a Developer ID certificate. If you use any other certificate—like a Mac App Distribution certificate, or a self-signed certificate—notarization fails

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...

That similar.
Yes. I get that "passionate person in charge" vibe only from Elon Musk and some game developers.
Well each US state is more-or-less autonomous compared to the Spanish regions. I guess in America states don't, by and large, correspond to the cultural regions that could become independent.

Also, the movements demanding autonomy predate the autonomy in almost every case (where they subsequently demand independence).

Other times, perhaps the reason for the autonomy demand is not national difference like in the Spanish cases, but simply distance - therefore, it doesn't become a movement for independence. Not only is the autonomy sufficient, but perhaps a backstep is taken: For instance, in mid-19th century Australia the Port Phillip District of NSW demanded autonomy and received a parliament that could do almost anything domestically. Fifty years later, they began reuniting in a federation and there's been not even a hint of independence from Victoria since.

Ultimately I think the reason for separation demands in Europe is because Europe is now the federation level of government, and the regions (Flemish, Catalans, Scots) want a seat at the table. So they're not really demanding independence but separation. This is a normal consequence of forming a federation.
Roll your own GUI automation library
Man Edward wanted to talk. Joe barely talks let alone get a question in for the first 20min.
I think it's about running algorithms with big-O complexities lower than can be ran on a classical computer, not actually more ops.
I bought a few themes from https://themes.getbootstrap.com. You'll need to do a bit of work to shoehorn them into your CMS of choice but it's not that hard.
To be fair, it's common practice to measure marketing campaign effectiveness. Mozilla doesn't hide that they share data to "Measure and support our marketing"

"Campaign and Referral Data: This helps Mozilla understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns."

"On iOS and Android: Firefox by default sends mobile campaign data to Adjust, our analytics vendor, which has its own privacy policy. Mobile campaign data includes a Google advertising ID, IP address, timestamp, country, language/locale, operating system, and app version. Read the documentation."

Src: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
> The hot water supply was traditionally fed from a header tank in the loft (attic) and so wasn't safe to drink.

Now that I think of it, I have the same setup in my flat. The tank is supposedly sealed, but I'm not sure how reliable the seal is (it is not a pressurized tank).
This operates under the assumption that your thing is good while the other is bad. I think the people in the other group would see it differently.

I also imagine on some other forum out there someone is lamenting the popularity of the Joe Rogan Experience while the media of their liking gets even less exposure, and wondering how they fix that knowledge divide in society.
You must be jeroen
The Carrd Story: 7 Steps to $30k MRR with Zero Marketing
Looks like there are seasonal jobs waiting to be created.
But we are talking about reading bug reports, not writing software. Also, I would argue that finding and fixing bugs actually does scale, as opposed to designing and writing new systems.
I believe you can do this by configuring an IMAP client and doing it there; then it'll sync the result. Thunderbird, for example, is quite scriptable.
It might be some future for niche/specific uses, but i'm certain the current model of downloading an installer for applications and games or having a (non-sandboxed) downloader like Steam, Galaxy, Origin, EGS, etc will remain the most common by far.

Unless Microsoft tries to force that, but they'll certainly face a lot of resistance and with their apparent coupling of Windows Store with the sandboxing model they could face antitrust issues that would dwarf the IE vs Netscape case of the 90s as there are way more money and businesses involved nowadays (and of course Valve/Steam waving their Linux support all over MS' face :-P - that story has calmed down now but consider how many companies flared up just because of the idea that MS could potentially lock down Windows with Win8).
My favorite Windows feature is how the start menu search is so slow. I hit the windows key, type the name of the app, hit enter and I get an Edge window with what I typed as a Bing query.
Some of these bugs like the Books issue have been there for years, on multiple machines/macOS versions.

If that doesn't happen to anyone else, I wonder if it's my iCloud-stored settings for Books.app
On the contrary, it the the web browsers trying to be native apps instead of interactive documents.
TwoSetViolin: Evolution of Violin Concertos
Fexl: The one programming language that's close to being flawless
Great! Now take what you've told me, and put it in some form on your website. That will help people in the future know the details of the service you're offering. Perhaps even elaborate more on 1) who will find your service useful and 2) the solution you propose and how much you charge for it.
30% is egregious. It's what I hate about Google/Apple/Amazon and why I've always refused to buy music from their services. Bandcamp charges 10~15%. Buy a CD directly from a band at a show and they pocket most of that money.

Apple is one of the largest companies in the world. They've done so with bullshit like this and I wish people would stop supporting this broken business model.

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-much-d...
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But he is financially dependent on youtube, isn't he? I am not suggesting he auto-censors himself but he is not "independent".
It's not that black and white.

It's more a matter of: If you push your legal rights in such a contract to the absolute limits, well, you may run into some issues later on when laws change.

If you're a tiny company but you put maximum onerous one-sided rules in your contracts, AND you somehow have the government you're selling to by the short and curlies so they sign it anyway, yeah, this view of 'eh, microsoft has got it coming' would imply this small company is now on the hook for keeping a team of lawyers on the ball.

That seems fair to me.

In real life, there's no way a small company would even go for such a pushed contract in the first place, or if they did, that's because they messed up by copying the wrong contract text, or there's a big brother helping them out.

Or, perhaps said simply: If this notion of 'oops the rules changed right in the middle of the contract, that is not fair!' becomes relevant, they probably were.. NOT acting in good faith in the first place.
> more operations per second than any binary computer can do

> doing something on a quantum computer that would be infeasible on a standard computer

Sorry, but I fail to see how these two are different.
This is because Siri knows that you secretly still have a desire for your ex.
Middle mouse doesen't scroll by default as far as i know, autoscroll has to be enabled from the settings. The functionalities seem to overlap when scrolling is enabled, which isn't expected.

Auto-pasting clipboard contents has security implications, whilst not having it only has inconvenience
I think the word the author is looking for is "scientism", per wikipedia:

> Scientism is the promotion of science as the best or only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values. The term scientism is generally used critically, implying a cosmetic application of science in unwarranted situations considered not amenable to application of the scientific method or similar scientific standards.

The whole "true story of a middle-schooler whose mother wanted to arrange for her son to get more time to take his math tests" has a big problem in it as well. There's a real discussion to be had about disability labeling and diagnosis, but that's not how this is framed - it's framed as the mother wanting a benefit for her son that others would not have, the son not actually having a disability, and the scheme to invent one for him failing because she refused to role-play it.

A lot of people can tell the opposite story; they knew something was different about them in ways that were disadvantageous, but other people kept attributing it to a moral defect until they got a diagnosis. (This comes up a lot in conversations about ADHD and to a lesser extent autism/aspergers.)
Don't know how that works out in Finland, but there are a few of those in Paris, and while they are just as good as those on the street at certain hours, at other hours they become overrun with inattentive pedestrians that confuse them for a sidewalk.

This makes those lanes dangerous for both cyclists and pedestrians as a result, and very slow for cyclists compared to a regular bike lane. A third to a half of the cyclists opt for the bus lane instead (despite it being forbidden to cyclists). And they are not slowing the traffic. In fact, cyclists move faster than cars at the particular location I have in mind.
I work at a MSP and install Windows almost daily. On most systems, I install Windows Professional version 1903, the latest version. On all of those, Candy crush, Skype, One Drive, Office, and a myriad of other App Store apps autoinstall. Each of those are basically ads for paid products. This is on the small business-oriented "Professional" version of Windows, mind you.

Not only do they install, but they immediately fill the start menu tiles with this spam.
Thank you. I am not sure why people are talking about 2.5 days, since the key claim is "linearly scaling". If simulation is linearly scaling in this regime, the entire proof is indeed questionable.
This is kind of an inappropriately intensely personal level of scrutiny to apply to a newspaper opinion piece, isn't it?
Ask HN: Why does technological disruption excite people?
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ok, but if using ssh keys anyway there is basically no difference other than using rsa.
Interesting..

ReactOS -> targets Windows XP compatibility.

HaikuOS -> targets BeOS compatibility & POSIX too.

Redox -> Unix-like with Microkernel design
Quantum supremacy is about scaling (big-O notation) - taking a classically O(2^N) problem and making it polynomial. The empirical experiments are just to show that the scaling works, and the uncertainty comes from the fact that we still can't fit very large N problems into current quantum computers. Effectively, they don't have enough RAM to even load the problem (i.e. enough available quantum states).
No, 2.5 days is irrelevant. This is about proving exponential speedup, but IBM is claiming linear scaling, so it is a serious challenge.
Relevant blog post about the leaked preview by Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317
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Same here. The "You need a newer Xcode to compile this" pops up more and more often though (e.g. with vulkan stuff), so I guess I'll have to upgrade soon... probably to Mojave.
I agree, but my problem is the word, not the idea. The word is loaded, like 'mystical', or other words. I'll still use those words when speaking to the right audience, because I know they won't misinterpret me. That's why I can safely say "That live music show last night was a religious experience", for example.

The point is, we're not rational beings, at least not exclusively. We're emotional beings, and even if, ultimately, emotions are accounted for by physical factors, there needs to be a way to reconcile our rational side (which includes science) with our emotional one. This include realizing that unbiased, fully-rational science is just impossible. Our biases, as part of our phenotype, are there because whatever caused them to emerge either helped enough ancestors survive, or at least did not get them killed before reproducing, so they're always going to be there.

I'm sorry I'm ranting and again, I get what you're saying. I've been through enough experiences of accepting "spiritual" and other words in conversations with people I don't know well, where the other party shortly starts talking about alien abductions and astral traveling, that I know what you mean. But I've also been through enough conversations with people who think science is infallible and will eventually find a solution to everything and an answer to every question.
I appreciate your lengthy response.
Right but of course for the Western world China's largely non-violent crackdown on the Hong Kong protestors (with even the proposed law being repealed today) is a much more heinous atrocity than millions of Yemeni children literally starving to death because of SA's arrogant assurance of Western backing at any cost.
Right but I think were only scraping the surface of whats possible over millions of years meddling.
To make that easier, I use stow.
They have a "course DJ" starting from lecture #3 ! https://youtu.be/1D81vXw2T_w?t=25
When I see pictures of cities with lots of bikes, they are usually cities in South and East Asia.

How did they become so successful? Is there anything to learn from their experience?
Although I like looking forward to the next macOS name unveiling and seeing new themed wallpapers, I think operating systems should get a regular stream of small updates for individual features and builtin apps, instead of monolithic yearly releases branded as distinct products.

As for API sets, SDKs and third-party app compatibility, they could still be tied to yearly milestones, e.g. "macOS 2020 January", so there would be no breaking changes for apps which advertise compatibility with that, at least until 2021.

Isn't that kinda what Windows 10 does now?
> 2) the totally broken clipboard in Linux causes constant annoyance: I want reliable, predictable copy/paste for text that works the same in every application

This is probably my number 1 rage point with Microsoft Office products. No matter what I do, it persists in trying to do some kind of fucked rich-text copy/paste that mangles whatever I paste into. It's so bad that I've taken to pasting into Notepad first and copying from there to try to ensure that I only get text.
Didn't know this name. I just learned that he was a co-writer for the TV series "The Deuce". Very interesting
Thanks! Great suggestion on the pricing, thank you.

You've got the stack right, but I'm using Firestore instead of PostGIS. Since I don't need spatial queries (yet) and it let me get up and running quickly as a solo dev.

Totally happy to chat more about it, just reach out
> Given any big amount of data you are going to find something that fits

Exactly, and that's the main problem at the base of all "data mining": it is probable that you will find a model that will only work with your data. Take a step outside and everything falls. You are basically giving a formula to noise.

But often discoveries happen also by chance, so we shouldn't stop looking at unexpected patterns. However, once you find one, you should create a theory to explain it and setup a new experiment to confirm your theory.
If you can....
Read books everyday. Whatever sticks sticks.
I don't understand nearly enough of this stuff, but this section sounds... weird:

Each run of a random quantum circuit on a quantum computer produces a bitstring, for example 0000101. Owing to quantum interference, some bitstrings are much more likely to occur than others when we repeat the experiment many times. However, finding the most likely bitstrings for a random quantum circuit on a classical computer becomes exponentially more difficult as the number of qubits (width) and number of gate cycles (depth) grow.

It sounds like they're saying "simulating this physical process accurately is extremely computationally expensive, but just running the physical process in the real world is MUCH faster". But that's true of basically any physical process!

Simulating turning on a single lamp in a room and figuring out how much light falls on what walls is an enormously computationally expensive process, which can take immense amount of time to figure out (depending on your desired level of accuracy). Movie studios, CG artists and game companies build entire render farms to solve this problem. But the physical process itself (just turning on the light) happens instantly. Just replace "turning on the light" with "running a quantum circuit".
Pichai worked at Google for a decade before becoming CEO, he's hardly a consultant with "absolutely no real world experience".
Thanks - great feedback. Always trying to improve the home and feature pages and I do agree on your points. Have considered getting an explainer video created.
...-in the creators opinion, for the tasks that it solves for them
> electric biking is expanding your reach a few times over.

Electric bikes are motorcycles, and I don't want vehicles with the speed and acceleration characteristics of a motorcycle in my bike lane, if you please.

postscript:
my very concerns for my safety seem to be getting voted down a lot considering that our friend the Dutchman here has given a rather nice reply recognizing the substantive nature of this conflict
StackOverflow shares on the moderator review and reinstatement processes
I don't know of any African countries where the people's democratic freedoms are much more prevalent today than they were centuries ago.
Wednesday: Nehemiah Takes Action (444 B.C.)
I’ve known a few friends join community kickball groups in new cities they move to. The mix of people I’ve seen in photos and from their descriptions is definitely mostly younger ages, but spans most demographics within the younger age range.
Getting excited by new things isn't unique to just tech enthusiasts, I believe it to be common for humans in general
> As I said, I'm pro-cycling. Good for you, all you hardy souls. But it is a seriously boneheaded point of view to imagine that cycling is going to be more important as a mode of transport than public transport in most of the world under the conditions that exist now.

Here in Toronto, Canada, we are building out bike lanes, they are heavily used and it's pretty cheap to dedicate some lanes to bike traffic. They are used ALL year long, even in the snow. Yes, more people use them in the spring, summer, and fall, than in Dec-Feb, but they are used all year long.

Your complaints are not based in reality, either in cost or in usage patterns.
Does the actual podcast, not the one that gets uploaded to YouTube, have Joe reading ads?

I assumed it did and they got cut out?
Honest question, where does one use a spellchecker in the browser ?
Not sure how active is it but Genode looks interesting:

https://genode.org/about/index

"The Genode OS Framework is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose operating systems."

"Genode is based on a recursive system structure. Each program runs in a dedicated sandbox and gets granted only those access rights and resources that are needed for its specific purpose."
Microsoft tried doing that with the bi-yearly Windows 10 feature updates, and now they are moving to a yearly release cycle because there were too many bugs getting into releases even with an army of "insiders" (although it should be an army of QA people that are in Redmond). They don't release major updates to system applications between releases either (The rewrite of Edge and WSL2 are planned for release 20H1).

The real problem is that Apple needs to loosen the secrecy between engineering teams, as there's no good way to tell if your new Safari feature breaks something in System Preferences because the System Preferences developers are in another building and aren't under the right NDA to learn about your new Safari feature.
For classical computers, one computer simulating another is only polynomially slower. The claim here is that any classical computer will be exponentially slower at simulating this problem. The experiment is just to show that the scaling is really polynomial vs exponential, and the uncertainty comes from the fact that we still can't fit very large N problems into current quantum computers. For small N, the two curves could look similar.
> They do it the dutch way.

> Denmark is really a big village.

?????
Mostly because they're throwing buckets of money at the developers for exclusive deals, not because it's a better product offering in any way, or has a better audience.
As a Clojure (and Java) dev, I started with Cursive and eventually moved to emacs w/CIDER as I became more comfortable with it. Cursive is great for people new to the language who may not know emacs - learning a new language is challenging enough without also having to constantly refer to an emacs cheat sheet :).
This was also my experience. I am always perplexed by these pearl-clutching post-Jobs threads, which also pop up on the hardware side as if no Mac hardware had thermal issues or other hardware faults while Jobs was at the helm.
Not anymore. I think he has at least a dev by now.
More people listen to his podcast than watch network news.
Wondering which city is this if you don't mind answering?
Having the graphs in the app is much easier than doing yourself.
Because drivers want to go 60mph and not wait at stop lights for more than 3 seconds.