skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably a ticket in a queue that's languishing as the easy tickets are handled to make stats look good. Also, he doesn't mention that he's leaked stuff in the past, so it may be that various managers are reluctant to be the one to put in writing what they cancelled him for.
I am still shocked by how many people do not give Trump credit for putting China on the political issue radar. Both sides of the aisle were destroying the American economy and middle class, and literally no one was talking about it. The guy has issues, and even if he fails in his endeavors, he brought trade and immigration into the national conversation. For all we know, he saved the USA
One of my college professors professed that we should all prepare for the zombie apocalypse, because it's fun, and because in doing so you're actually preparing for real disaster scenarios.

As displeased as I am about these shutoffs (trying not to rant), it has shown me the strengths and weaknesses of my preparedness plans; and it's helped keep me motivated and keeping things regularly rotated, etc.
How to Work with “Stupid” People
Notwithstanding that this developer was also a journalist using his access to beta software to learn about upcoming announcements before Apple wanted them announced, I have to wonder how suspending his developer account without any explanation isn’t grounds for a breach of contract lawsuit. If they told him right from the start that he was booted for violating NDA or even just for pissing off their marketing team that would be fine... but suspending and then ghosting him? Apple needs to pay and pay big for that.
What do you mean by the sun being variable? Don’t we already know where the sun is going to be at anytime for the entire year?
What about youtube ads, do you consider them pretty bad too?

Personally I think they are the most tolerable. There isn't that many of them displayed for me (maybe one ad per 3-4 10-15min videos). One can skip it after 5s and around half the time those ads are fairly well matched.

Contrast this with web page ads that obscure the entire content until you find a tiny x in the corner to close them or worse require you to click some stupid button to disappear. With websites that display the content, but then obscure it within a split second I realised a pretty quick way to get rid of them is to right click on the ad/element-> Inspect in Chrome then hit delete removing DOM elements that obscure the main content until you can see the content.
I seem to be something of an oddity, in that I prefer the numpad for gaming, treating the keys aroung the center "5" as left, right, up, down, jump and crouch. Everyone who sees this wonders why I don't use WASD - am I the only one?!
It feels like I'm living in a bizarre world where this event is being parsed by so many people as "Apple can't lock any account they want, force them to apologize!", when what people should be saying is "Wow, monolithic software pipelines controlled by a corporation sure are bad and this is just one of many entirely predictable consequences"
Despite his praise of Xi (IMO it's just part of Trump's "style" of negotiating), he's willingly initiated a trade war. I think that's a good indicator that he's willing to at least threaten decoupling. Trump has taken this much farther than any preceding US president.
IMO the big news in this release is the relicensing from LGPL to dual Apache / MIT.

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/11/completing-racket-s-rel...
But for real - I was having a conversation with a colleague, and the reality of 2020 being about a month away really set in.

I'm not sure why, but 2020 was always 'the future' when I was a kid.

And it's here. And seemingly the same as it was in the 80's just with more fun games and lower interest rates.
Of course you can put many provisions in contract or law but at some point nobody will work with you because the guaranteed ability to make money from every contract is gone. It's exactly why all outsourcing projects seem to have these disastrous conditions. Without them no MSP will even apply for the bid.
Obligatory wiki post
List of stories set in a future now past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_futur...
No there wasn't. The commercial internet is a trillion times bigger than anything that came before and services billions of users around the world, many for free, paid for by ads.

This is a tired old myth that everything was somehow better in the good old days but that's all it is.
There are probably a lot of factors that have contributed to the increase in high risk drinking, but even if we ignore that, I feel like the trade-off being made here is acceptable.

People who maybe prior couldn't imbibe due to no public transport options etc, have decided now that with ride-hailing apps that this is an available option. Whether or not you agree with the choice they are making, the fact that they even have the choice seems worthwhile.
I know this wasn't intended but I thought it was interesting that he doesn't think of the 1% as Americans.
You can't solve the input latency problem. You could move the input code into a super low quality game that runs on the thin client and validate the actions on the server. You could remap the high res streamed data onto the low res game client. But then you are just moving the lag from input to the updating the game world.

If you could solve the latency problem, multiplayer games wouldn't suck so much. Even super local servers with 22ms ping are one and a half frames of game rendering late for the round trip.
A JSON transformation and templating language in Go
Maybe you should look in the mirror. If you are actively developing software and adding new features - sure, you might be also developing critical bugs.

In my case for example I have few older products (desktop apps that still sell and bring some money) for which I have source code that has not been touched for years. Not interested in development new features either as those apps are mature and there is not much ROI in developing new features the whole 2.5 customers are willing to pay for.

Long story short I do not have any critical bugs there. Maybe do exist and hiding somewhere but since nobody had ever discovered them I am totally cool. The only occasional customers complaint I have every once in a while is RTFM type. Not real bugs.
these guidelines are pretty good evidence in and of themselves why Apple should not be in charge of this marketplace.
I disagree. I learned the basics of the Variant library (which provides open sum types) for Haskell yesterday in about 90 minutes. It was awesome.
How to use AI to recognize AI snake oil?
https://garden.io/ could help with those tests too.
AIUI the Librem 5 is already shipping.
Shadowbanning is an effective technique, so it can be intentional.
China goaded itself on. It's really a "boiling a frog" situation if you look at it historically. China's abuses of human rights, intellectual property, dissident repression, history whitewashing, etc. have slowly ramped up over the course of decades. Then Xi came to power, declared himself de facto dictator for life, turned the Nationalism dial to 11, and refused to take US demands for trade fairness seriously.

Yes, the current presidency is partly to blame, but don't pretend that it's the only, or even primary cause of the current narrative.
Reminds me of the "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" tags. When is Chrome going to reinvent Active-X (which only works in Chrome)???
What can I, as an average Joe living in the US, do to help?

Edit: After reading responses, I realize that there is a better question to ask: What people in the US in general do to help (vote a certain way, write to certain politicians, change purchasing habits), and how can I specifically participate in that?
In this situation, I feel like it's a case of "don't blame the player, blame the game". Californian law has been structured such that if PG&E maintains equipment with best-in-class industry practises....it is still deemed to be responsible for a fire if it started at one of their sites. So what would you do? Shut the thing down...as to not cause any more fires... the fire services has shown itself not capable of containing the blazes and the weather conditions are terrible so...of course you blame the big evil company ....I'm not saying PG&E should take no blame, they should where merited but I feel like the public narrative has gone too far in one direction.
most of the job losses of blue-collar work are the result of automation, not foreign trade (this is a statement for which ample evidence exists[1]), furthermore on the aggregate Americans do benefit from trade with not just China but also other low-cost nations, which again is economics 101. If the United States were to produce goods at the level of domestic wages a small segment of the workforce would benefit, but consumers on average would lose out due to the increase in price. The price for an iPhone could go from ~850$ to ~2000$[2]. Now imagine that this happens for every good that is produced largely in China and think again if bringing back a few ten thousand jobs is worth the total loss of consumer welfare in the states.

Also, it goes without saying of course that it would also hurt the Chinese workers who are equally deserving of good employment as their American counterparts, and it's not clear why discounting their welfare is anything other than tribalism.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/upshot/the-long-term-jobs...

[2]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/how-much-would-an-all-america...
Tech savvy developers could opt in to send their data and only do so from a controlled environment. If they notice a site misbehaving, open up an incognito window, go into "call home" mode and start collecting useful info. Sure, it's not for "regular people" but this type of reporting never will be if you also want to respect the integrity of your users.
Most of the free content is generally crap outside of a few channels/sites. Almost all popular content on youtube/web is made with the intent to profit.
Sometimes video ads can get my attention in a good way, they have to just be really well made. I remember scrolling through an Instagram ad that looked like a "safe suburban" style video. I almost dismissed it when a weird glitch effect began the transition into a Borderlands 3 advertisement. The dog in the backyard was suddenly a mutated feral dog, and his owner was a wasteland junkyard rat. I thought, "damn, I wish every ad was this good. Then I wouldn't hate them so much."
Useless or useful(at your own taste), but it would be nice if they have to wipe out that kind of data from time to time. Your life evolves your data should evolve with you too(if you want to). You really don’t remember everything from your past, but this characteristic is being externalized to third parties. I understand the government should retain some of this data, but why a private company should retain it too.
I’m not sure these economists have spent time in the Rust Belt, then. Entire cities were economically destroyed from the offshoring of jobs to China and other low-cost areas.
What's wrong with finding out how people use my site, so I can write more of the content they like, and make it easier for them to navigate through?
Watch some of the cartoons from the 40’s and 50’s. They predicted flying cars by the 80’s.
Does this apply to PhDs?
So it sounds like it can significantly increase your wealth.
Maybe it's because I learned to type on keyboards with a num pad, but I love it for numeric entry - you can enter a bunch of numbers without the need to move your hand, just moving your fingers - with practice, you can get really fast.
> I'd be in so much trouble if I got locked out of my google accounts.

I’d say then it’s time to start migrating everything to any kind of trustworthy entity. Google is the opposite as they’ve shown time and time again.
Here the section of the Apple Dev Agreement if anyone is interested:

4. Confidentiality. Except as otherwise set forth herein, you agree that any Apple prerelease software, services, and/or hardware (including related documentation and materials)
provided to you as an Apple Developer (“Pre-Release Materials”) and any information disclosed
by Apple to you in connection with Apple Events will be considered and referred to as “Apple
Confidential Information”.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Apple Confidential Information will not include: (a) information that is
generally and legitimately available to the public through no fault or breach of yours; (b) information
that is generally made available to the public by Apple; (c) information that is independently
developed by you without the use of any Apple Confidential Information; (d) information that was
rightfully obtained from a third party who had the right to transfer or disclose it to you without
limitation; or (e) any third party software and/or documentation provided to you by Apple and
accompanied by licensing terms that do not impose confidentiality obligations on the use or
disclosure of such software and/or documentation. Further, Apple agrees that you will not be
bound by the foregoing confidentiality terms with regard to technical information about Apple prerelease software, services and/or hardware disclosed by Apple at WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide
Developers Conference), except that you may not post screen shots of, write public reviews of, or
redistribute any such materials.

https://developer.apple.com/terms/apple-developer-agreement/...
So he violated the developer agreements and now is complaining that his developer account is suspended?

How is that Apple's fault? Considering the suspension emails and other info are automated, it's likely that he missed them or they went into his spam somehow.
I've been watching both For All Mankind (Ronald D. Moore, in which the Soviets beat the U.S. to the moon) and The Man in the High Castle (based on the P.K. Dick novel in which the Axis powers win WW II), and have generally always enjoyed alternate history fiction.

So, I find myself wondering how this would have all played out if the Cold War hadn't ended and Soviet Union hadn't fallen apart before 1999 when Britain was required to turn HK over to the PRC.
> More recently, I tried calling again and got to talk with a supervisor, who said I would be getting an e-mail with instructions to get my access restored.

A supervisor shouldn't/wouldn't string him along in this situation
I traveled to Hong Kong a few years ago. That city has a certain vibe that evokes the lore of sci fi movies. I always felt I had one foot in the past, one foot in the future during my stay
Then why not just say so in all his support calls? "You've violated the NDA, so we've disabled your account permanently." Now you have a clear reason and a clear violation. Apple gate keepers get to show their insane dominance over all parts computing on their hardware.

Personally I hate this new move towards Apple/Microsoft/Google being gatekeepers for everything that can run on a machine. It's fucking bullshit.
> I use the Google Drive interface to backup all my photos to my local linux storage

I thought this was killed recently[1]

(this = google photos appearing in google drive)

Does it still work for you?

If yes, how? :)

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...
The Apple Developer Agreement states:
> Your rights under this license to use and access the Content will terminate automatically without notice from Apple if you fail to comply with any of these provisions.

They also state that it's against the agreement to share pre-released information.

There's absolutely no grounds for someone to complain here.
Once Manifestv3 is rolled-out, Chrome will not support uBlock Origin at all.
> Hong Kong is the place where humanity makes its stand against oppressors.

Really? I didn’t know protesters targeted the local tycoons who made their lives unbearable in the past 20 years. Not to mention the humanity of laundering money for the worst thugs in the world. Perspective.
Agreed.

I've had tech managers who haven't touched an IDE in years read the whitepapers and hype, and tell me that things like Docker will solve all this. And in theory, it should work. Each service maintainer is required to maintain their Docker Compose file in the source so we can figure out how to create the necessary configuration with all needed services for our own needs.

In reality, once a service becomes 'stable' nobody touches the code for months or even years. And then one day I try to setup my composition and it's dependency hell where each service and its dozen transitive services are all referencing different releases and even snapshot builds.

Sometimes I look back fondly on the days of these huge 'enterprise' Java apps that included everything along with another huge Oracle or SQL Server VM. Once you got it working, it tended to stay working.

With Microservices, half my time is now spent figuring out every little glitch with 20 different services. It takes weeks for new developers to even get a stable environment running, though the promise was that they'd be able to run a 'git pull && docker-compose up'.

And since we're supposed to be able to use Docker for dev, testing, etc, they now turn off the development environments in the cloud at 5pm, keep it off on weekends, etc to save money.
Advertising is everywhere, and a core driver of economic growth for companies. Everyone with a job is working for a company that advertises to some degree and grows because of it.

Some bad or annoying ads on the web is not cause to forbid advertisements and completely misses all the content that it pays for.
How is that vindictive? It's true. What is the press going to do to help with an approval? That almost always should be a last resort.
That's how Soviet "justice" worked. He was a powerful member of the leadership, so he could only be taken down by accusing him of being a counter-revolutionary. As to crimes against individuals, or humanity? Pfft, to Stalin and his cohorts there's no such thing when the crimes are to further the revolution.

If you think I exaggerate, I assure you I do not. Lenin and his bunch -and Stalin more so later- were all bloodthirsty thugs who thought nothing of individuals outside their immediate orbit.
You aren't the only one who feels that way.
I love it when DVD players force me to watch an unskippable anti-piracy threat that pirate copies always cut out.

It’s like they want me to pirate so I can avoid that garbage.
Xi's in a trap. The nationalist fervor that the CCP has whipped up for decades, coupled with the demonization of the HK protestors by Chinese media and Xi's 'no compromise' stance, makes it impossible for him to lighten up -- and the protests to de-escalate -- without him seeming weak. The HK protestors/population at this point are so angry and the radical wing so large, that they won't willingly de-escalate. Even if Lam leaves the demonstrations will continue. This sets up the stage for atrocities and more international condemnation.

Already on the international front, China is in trouble. The pro-China KMT party in Taiwan may suffer greatly in the next election because of what's going on in HK now (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3037040/tai...), making China's aggressive demands for forced unification even more unlikely in the medium term. This week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a HK rights bill (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-usa/us-...) that, if it becomes law, will put China through an annual review, which will further erode the Sino-U.S. relationship for years to come. There have been calls for a boycott of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing which seems fringey now, but won't be if China sends in the troops.

There's also the internal question. Ordinary people in China are getting censored news, but some of the raw information about what's going on is getting through via social media. What does this mean for sentiment in Cantonese speaking areas of southern China, or for areas of China where provincial officials are resented for unjust or unfair treatment of citizens?
> Trying to build CI on every branch before merging to master just won't work with the scale they are dealing with.

Google does it with 50 times the developer count.

> At 1000 developers, the rate of PRs coming in makes it impossible to determine what current master will be when the PR is ready to merge (i.e. when the branch has a green build).

True, it is impossible to catch all errors like this, but you can catch almost every error by building and testing it against current master and then merge it with the master 20 minutes later when the build is done. I have seen maybe one build breakage a year being introduced due to this in projects I've worked on, so it isn't a big deal.
Yet out of those, which actually implement the full spec (server-to-server, not to mention client-to-server, though I do think I remember reading that Pleroma has it), or even if they implement parts of it, do it in a compliant way? I would imagine the number is small because of the sheer complexity of the spec, and the many ways the same data can appear in different requests. I remember reading one of the Pleroma authors saying that they don't support JSON-LD in their implementation because no library for it existed in Elixir.

Like I said, I'm a fan of ActivityPub and its concept, but I think it's fair to say that spec is more complex than what it needs to be, and would have been better off strictly defining the shape of data it can handle.
This works for every programming language, but C/C++ is most widely used, and is used in e.g. OS, network stacks, ML/AI. Hence the correctness of C/C++ compilers affects most software.
I never understood people exercising options on locked-up shares on any company. If at least they hedged by going short on the WeWork bonds which are the only publicly traded security. It's so risky! Do not do this! The tax advantage is not worth it!
> and most of his actions involving China have been inconsistent and self-serving.

I think what we're seeing is a president who is at odds with the intelligence and diplomatic communities. It's truly testing the ideas of who's actually in charge.

The president assumes since he was elected and runs the executive branch that he has the final say on what will be done, and will go "off-script" in direct communications with other leaders to forward his agenda. The diplomats/intelligence have long-established precedents and procedures and want everyone, including the president, to not rock their boat.

When they are unable to work together, you will see these inconsistent decisions being made.
There are very different people in power in Poland these days and the voters are very different. The government wouldn't do it because they would be too afraid of loosing power over it.
So because it's worth it to you it shouldn't be pirated? As if your opinion on what laws are worthwhile to follow are somehow better than the actual law?

Nothing should be pirated.
HODLer: PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Admits That He Owns Bitcoin
I was a strong supporter of VSCode for a long period of time. Now I realise there is always an alternative.

After taking time to learn my tools I can't use vscode anymore because of how inefficient and restrictive it is now for my workflow. I mainly prefer tools that can last a lifetime and time you've investend now can yeld much better results across several decades of usage.

Here is short list of tools I can't live without: magit, org-mode, undo-tree (actualy it was a feature request and vscode team said it's too compticated for broad audience), ability to hack your code editor as you wish. Ability to work all day without touching a mouse once.
In my experience, multiple places manage to mess up changing my oil in magical ways. It's also an opportunity to do an overall maintenance check under the car.

With that said, if I spent the amount of time working on my career I spent on cars, I would be better off, so you aren't wrong.

Just explaining the reason why I STILL change my own oil, despite realizing the time cost.