skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that using a safe language is a necessity, especially for safety critical environments and to ensure better security. But a safe language alone does not ensure a good design. Ada is a great language (although strings are a bit of a pain), but that alone will not ensure a good operating system design.

POSIX is a great standard, but it is too tightly coupled with C. If a similarly mature and open Ada-based standard could be designed and created, that would be great. If such a design were created, what would it look like? How would files be represented and stored? How would you start, stop, or communicate with tasks? (POSIX-style signals? Rendezvous? Something else?)

There needs to be an open design that is as well thought out as the Ada programming language to really take advantage of everything that it offers.
Blame the developer? Which is why, when an app breaks on the Mac store or app store, users pound the app with 1-star reviews. Even if the breakage happened from a platform (iOS or MacOs or Android) bug.

This is not Apple "watching out" for the developers, no matter how much you spin it
There's no issue here for a Mac either (this was for a submission for a macOS program). The problem was when submitting it to the Mac App Store.
Always with the magnets.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b0c0a501-221b-4d7b-9336-0cd0e84...

I know someone who was telling me with great sincerity about how she just puts a couple of magnets in with her wash and far less soap is needed.

I told her that I only go with things where I can look up the science behind it.
When my dad was born in what was then Pakistan in 1951, South Korea was about as poor as India and Pakistan. Today, it’s as rich as France.
Water splitting? Why didn’t they call it hydrolysis?
ClincalTrials.gov lists 118 completed trials, and another 45 in various stages. Not all of these are relevant, but that's still a great deal of clinical data. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=HPV+vaccine&cond...

There's no 40 year record, obviously, since the vaccine itself is only about 25 years old. However, the extant data shows a giant drop (30-50%, depending on age group), in HPV infections. That's already a huge win for everyone but genital warts, and we haven't even gotten to cancer.

The link between HPV infection and cancer is also well established. There's good quality observational data: one clever study looked at cancer incidence in the spouses of HPV patients (Mirghani et al., 2017). The molecular mechanisms are at least partially understood and seem to overlap with what we know about other kinds of cancer too.

Maybe it "works" but the actual benefit is minuscule? Nope. Even estimates based on the older, less effective versions of the vaccine find that it's cost-effective. See, for example, Sanders and Taira (2003): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12533280

In short, all of the available evidence suggests it's a highly effective intervention, with minimal risk to individuals and big gains for their own health and the population's. You don't have to take my word for it either. You can look at the CADTH reports (Canada; CADTH.ca), NICE (UK; https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=HPV) and basically every other set of guidance on the topic, which all recommend vaccination.

EDIT: Ok, sorry about the snark, but I do think this is actually a constructive comment.
Reminded me of this episode of Patient Zero, which covers some fringe treatments for Lyme disease:
https://www.patientzeropodcast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-...

Spoiler: Don't try to fight bacterial infections with lasers.
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> they'd be prevented from doing that.

Their employment being dependent on them residing within specific locales is not the same as "prevention". It's an incentive scheme, afaik.
> Most of us view code like a book, something to be ready in an orderly fashion.

Do authors write books sequentially, first-chapter to last?

Is code used sequentially, only in the same order those procedures are defined in a text-file?

Does the text-file order of procedure definitions help us understand the call sequence?
What about Rust? Cant it solve the problem?
Sounds like non-zero vs zero
ROS is really great for getting started with robotics, but from my experience (and from others who I've talked to) tends to buckle under its own weight in larger projects. This isn't to say you shouldn't use it, just be careful with it. It has some really questionable design decisions and implementation details that can bite you later.
Or Watson
Adobe Photoshop for iPad
do you happen to know if there is a video presentation about this project? after skimming the docs and checking the comments here, i am still unsure what this project has to offer that you don't already have or that you can easily piece together. thanks
Lack of knowledge of your dependency tree isn't really an excuse here. If you're submitting your application to an App Store -- where one of the express purposes is that customers know the application is safe -- then having an unknown dependency is not really a good argument.
> That's called "circular arfument" (lol, sic) - you proclaim that this term is racist and prove it by proclaiming - without any evidence - that "most people" (who?) "understand" that it is racist. What you do is just repeating your original - baseless - claim.

first, it's whom, not who.

second, i didn't claim that it's racist because people know that it's racist.

learn from google, learn from teen vogue.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-you-shouldnt-use-the-ter...

you bring nothing novel or new or clever to this conversation.

bye, dude. you're intellectually dishonest. even worse, you're boring.
Fred Shotton, War Geologist
Still, be nice to the Goblynne Queen.

Think how frustrating it must be to hear other people say how cool something is, while not being able to see it yourself!
Isn't that what Eucalyptus was supposed to be?
> This is about submitting an app to the Mac App Store.

Indeed, and the article's title is confusingly wrong, as "Apple Store" refers to Apple's retail and online store that sells hardware.
The child they lost is still very much on their heart, yes.
I would like to cancel my mortgage. Who’s with me?
I'm hopefully a future physicist and the first to defend its importance but this kind of argument seems quite bad faith to me.

"Physics-based industries are those that rely heavily on expertise in physics. These include oil and gas extraction, nuclear fuel processing, and various forms of manufacturing like fibre optics, lighting equipment, office machinery, cars, ships and armaments."

Oil extraction, gas, and ships. Really? Sure, I get it, these areas wouldn't be possible without prior physics research, and present physicists will create new economic opportunities in the future; but blindly inhereting these fields' economic signifiance to physics seems incorrect. In other news, mathematics worth more than 80% of EU economy - these industries include finance, business, engineering, computing, and entertainment.
Meanwhile I find that clothes wash just fine with 1/2-1/4 of the recommended amounts unless they're soiled.

Makes the colours last longer too.
> I’m saying UBI will bring other unintended problems. I think UBI could be like people who have dogs and give them all they need [like UBI] but don’t take them out for walks. Work, any kind of work is like taking the dog out for a walk.

I like what you are saying and thought that perhaps this is why politicians seem to be so hyper-focused on jobs. They may realise better than most people jobs have other roles except producing an income.
Bitcoin's Transactional Properties that make it appropriate for global currency
How do they know which release to cherry pick?
Do you actually have the keys in your code or configuration files? If so why?
This entire process of "shock therapy" was orchestrated by American advisors, backed by U.S. capital, and closely presided over by the Clinton administration. No matter your opinion of the USSR, HN readers should be able to see what the US did to the fledgling Russian state in the 90s was an utter tragedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)

https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/

Remember this Times cover? http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
Simpletasks.js – Simple time based task queue for JavaScript
It's so funny, I remember reading that.

What I should have thought: "Wow this guy is an idiot, no consumer will ever do that."

What I did think: "Wow I'm an idiot, I need to learn linux better."
He definitely is. Having had less positive experiences in the past—meeting him was a sea change for even myself.
I acknowledge your point. Then I wonder how much of that is that in a consumption oriented economy, there will always pop up services that will claim to provide enough marginal value to absorb all otherwise unspent cash. I acknowledge that it is especially hard to “skimp” on spending for the people one cares about — so one might feel guilty over any cash flow “not used”. It feels like a different version of hedonic adaptation, harder to make decisions in.
I just checked and apparently Pons and Fleischman was in 1989. Was cold fusion a thing in the 70s or very early 80s? Because I vaguely remember a story about a company that claimed to have done it some time before 1984.
What about on iOS? And what about the fact that on MacOs notarization is more expensive than publishing to the store? I don't believe that to be a coincidence
So all of your new code was completely backward compatible with your old code (in terms of state)? That is, the database didn't care which version was interacting with it?
We revert the bad commit and redeploy. We do this for our workloads on vms as well as those on kubernetes, but it is both easier and faster for the kubernetes workloads.
Programming since age eight here. I would say that before Google and Stack Overflow were prevalent, really early on, maybe like in the early 90s, I would remember things more. Because the alternative was actually looking through a book, and although I did that plenty of times, it was often more convenient just to remember.

But as the internet got better at instantly providing examples and references and more and more technologies came out and I started using many different programming languages, its at the point where I often Google very basic things if I am tired or just not 100% sure which way the particular language works or about all of the details.

Its essentially using Google/the internet as an extension of my brain. Like, I probably could remember this thing, but why bother? I believe it increases my productivity because it means I can save my "brain juice" or energy for actual problem solving.
> rice husk cinder, limestone crushing waste, and silica sand.

Is this really a new idea? Back in the 90s when I did my civil engineering degree (I changed major later), my professor was big into rice hull ash as an concrete additive. He did tons of research into the properties.
Presumably the “I’m lovin it” slogan will require some edits?
I find naming and details as confusing with Amazon Prime, Amazon Video and FireTV.

Maybe it is not as problematic when you are in the US, but in my country Amazon Prime works in all devices (android, ios, pc, etc) except in the FireTV, other services like netflix, spotify and youtube works very well on FireTV. Note that this is clearly stated in the documentation and faqs, it is a product targeted to a few countries only.
I’d be comfortable seeing anything that puts a real value on the stock becoming a taxable event.
Why now though? Gold has been valuable for about 6,000 years.

We've had plenty of industrial era and information era catastrophes where "gold is useless" , yet a gold ring would still get you smuggled out of the communist regime, a length of gold wire would still get you food, and gold jewelry would still be the best way to move value when the government puts restrictions.

Gold is probably the best thing to hold in economic uncertainty - up until the point where social order breaks down and it becomes the second best thing to hold.
It seems mostly reasonable to me for Apple to reject apps that use those features assuming their own apps have to obey the same rules.

Unfortunately if you're popular they seem to let you bend the rules. AFAICT Slack has not been rejected and I believe Slack is electron based.

The issue is in Chromium. I have no idea if removing the API usage will be easy or hard but it's been

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027
Why are you leaving so late? You need time to decompress and relax at the end of the work day.
Ok, I've temporarily changed from the submitted title ("Gitlab blocks current employees and stops future hires in China and Russia") to the page title—which I assume is accurate but is uninformative—until we get clarity about what an accurate, neutral title would be. Does anybody want to suggest one?

Edit: I've provisionally gone with "Gitlab blocks hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia". If that's wrong, or if anyone can suggest a more accurate and neutral title, we can change it again.
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How about the New Nintendo 3DS XL or Xbox One, now with 30% more confusion in conversations.
As far as I know, employment in Australia isn't typically under the terms of indentured servitude. We haven't been a penal colony for a while now.
I thought that fire trucks had a switch to activate the sirens by the drivers; I had no idea they were activated remotely by radio.
Oh, I forgot to add since many people mentioned this: we currently have nothing in place to automatically rollback migrations. So far that hasn’t been an issue, though.
Will check it out, thanks for the suggestion.
That's not really an example of what they're bringing up.

Microsoft has the .Net ecosystem (as the above poster described it "Microsoft's Java," which it largely is). However for a period Microsoft was naming other products and services ".Net" that were completely unrelated. Specifically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET_strategy

Both .Net Core and .Net Standard are part of the .Net ecosystem for real, making them not an example of the marketing phenomenon being discussed here. Which isn't to say the names aren't confusing, just that it isn't in the same pattern.

PS -
.Net Framework: Legacy/Classic .Net. Windows Only. Started in 2002. 4.8 is the final major version.

.Net Core: Light weight/cross platform "reboot" of .Net Framework. Started in 2016.

.Net Standard: Minimum subset of both that allows libraries to be cross-compatible with .Net Framework and .Net Core. Also assures they lack Windows specific dependencies. Allowing a bridge to migrate to .Net Core.
++ is no longer allowed in Swift. It has to be Apple TV+=1
Age of Empires 2 works under Wine, it just needs some minor hacks. Last time I checked, the game launcher has an embedded webpage, and if it doesn't load, the "game start" button won't be laid out properly. Installing Internet Explorer 6 under Wine (by winetricks) fixes it...
Rent a bike from embarcadero. Ride it through golden gate stop by at fisherman's wharf for some clam chowder and Ghirardelis for some dessert. Its a great way to spend a day there.
Yes, it can vary, but it’s kind of important. If you don’t know the order of specific operators, or if your language violates math rules, a dev might want to know that instead of resigning to just not know things.

For readability, yes... sometimes, but for readability sake, not “I don’t know what this does without them.”

I’m not just talking about math operators, but logical ones too. I’ve seen people put parens around every “not” because they weren’t sure. There are three essential logical operators. Surely those can be learned at least. And yes... in those cases where readability is an issue, of if they’re necessary, please do add them, but please don’t if you’re unsure what “!a && b || c” does. Seeing “((!a) && b) || c” raises red flags.
Yeah definitely. A poorly crafted SQL query can wreak havoc on performance, especially at scale!
Stuff you use more often tends to get memorized, less common stuff googled when you need it. When it’s memorized you do save a lot of time. I’d say if you’re really experienced in a language you rarely google syntax because 95% of it has become memorized.
Imminent Global Sand Shortage
As a user I think Electron is great. It means many more apps have a Mac version. Compare to games, where Electron typically isn’t feasible, and observe how many games don’t have a Mac version. A little extra memory usage is fine by me. I can understand how people disagree, and that’s fine, just don’t use Electron apps. No need to ban them from the platform.
What did the carriage drivers do? Asking for a friend.
So like the first use of a shared ledger ever for binary packages?
What part of my statement is misleading? Here's the history of Sanders' campaign underpayment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-be...
Propping up the industries that are losses but whose failure would cause massive instability and upheaval. Those in power, have no interest in this outcome while they are in power. So Quantitative Easing part X and punt to the next election cycle.
Only exotic, multi-thousand dollar speakers will reproduce 44k, and for that you need a 96k sampling rate. By using a sample rate of 44k you can theoretically only reproduce up to 22k.
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Dark times are still happening. Right now they're renaming everything Azure regardless of whether it's part of their cloud offerings.

Also, Live was another Microsoft naming phase.

For me, the canary in the coal mine of ms naming is their messenger. Msn messenger, live messenger, Skype, Skype for business, Teams... I assume the next iteration will be named Azure Teams.
Don't use payment apps like Paytm/Phonepe unless you know what you're doing
Previously argued : https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-un...
so what is the actual efficiency now - ie what is the energy content of the h2 produced,
compared to the energy input??
What about human resources and project coordination?!
I love the occasional topic like this that makes HN let out its inner Reddit.
AFAIK there is no law in France where the government can force you to do something you don’t want to do related to your employment. They can however seize your devices.
You are right and I am sorry, that was unnecessary.

For the record, I do think there are problems with Electron, just not the ones usually mentioned. A big (huge!) problem in my opinion is that two windows can't share JS context. It's the reason why VSCode is way behind in multi-monitor support for instance.
The ultrasonic variant is clearly not ultrasonic. Even a 80 year old will be able to hear that.
You are exactly right! The "chicken and egg" problem is a large part of why these favorite language X operating systems slowly evolve into partial implementations of existing operating systems. What good is the favorite language X operating system if there is no software for it?

But wait a second, if the favorite language X operating system would implement these handful of POSIX APIs then look how much software could probably run with just a few tweaks. Except the POSIX APIs do not get implemented completely right. Or they suffer from terrible impedance mismatches due to the design differences or safe ideals that have to be relaxed in order to have them work. For example: Ada has unchecked conversion, unchecked deallocations, etc. Rust has unsafe.

A big part of the reason that GNU and Linux have succeeded is that they implemented Unix APIs with some innovations and improvements along the way.
Applet TV-=-1
Next up is Apple TVX. "It's called 'tee-five-ten'. Yes, that's what it's called. Say it that way. Because we said so."
I did. Mea culpa
Why not start consulting/contracting on a project basis? You can set your own hours and try out the four day work week.

In my experience, not much work is done on Fridays...so most people work 4 days and are paid for 5.
I give you msn and live messenger.

All the other ones are literally different products each. I expect different products to have different names.

Why there were so many messenger products is a different question. Anyone from Google wanna jump in and explain this one? ;)
No, it’s almost certainly just a search for strings and looking through the symbol table.
It's not clear what you're asserting. For raw return on investment, there is a compelling analysis:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/news/warren-...

which demonstrates that Dalio has been wrong over time (as long as we have been around, at least).

This does not preclude Dalio from being right about specific small periods of time or decidedly in the future. So far, not so much.
Agreed. It's more like an 85% functioning local version of the 80/20 of AWS. It doesn't cover all services but it is fairly comprehensive and does cover almost all the major ones.

Overall it's a really cool project. I had some networking issues running it inside Docker though. When I would place a message on an SNS topic it would come back with an exception triggering my exception handler, however it actually did send the message to the topic. Couldn't work it out and left it. Might revisit it later but that was an annoyance for me.
>The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones.

Or they won't, and we will have a wave a depression, suicide, and populism.

The critical factor is the rate of change.
SmartRename is a Windows Shell Extension for advanced bulk renaming
The signal isn't 44kbps because it isn't 44kHz. No speaker can reproduce 44kHz.
Naming is hard ️
Yeah, this is already a nightmare with rebar in reinforced concrete. Just imagine actual ping pong ball sized voids filling with moisture. Swiss cheese, indeed.
This isn't really a naming problem, though, although the naming is poor. Better naming or more clarity isn't going to fix the fundamental problem - Apple TV doesn't deliver on the promise of an (idealized) Apple product/service.

A good Apple product may in some ways be more constrained than similar products but is easy to understand and use and 'just works'. For instance, you bought an iPod and you plugged it into your Mac which popped up a store where you could buy music. You didn't have to know what an 'mp3' is. Or you bought an iPhone, took it home, plugged into your computer and 3 minutes later had a working new phone/pocket web browser. You didn't have to listen to anyone telling you about extended warranty and the web browser actually worked.

Buying an Apple TV or subscribing to the service doesn't solve any of the endless irritations and inconveniences associated with consuming TV or movies online. It just names them all Apple TV but if they fixed that, the irritations and inconveniences would still be there.
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depends? It splits it into 2 parts (vocal, everything else), 4 parts (drum, bass, vocal everything else), or 5 parts (drum, bass, vocal, piano, everything else). piano isolation is the weakest.

If you want to play along to drum + bass, then yes.
"DST as we have it seems suited to a world that still has a third of the population working outside in the fields. A world where work start time and sunrise were inextricably linked."

I don't get it. If sunrise is what matters, DST is irrelevant. As someone said, the cows don't consult the clock when they need milking.