skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet I can't step out my door without finding anti nuclear posters and stickers in Germany. I've never seen this for any other topic: not Jesus, not Snowden asylum, not je suis charlie, but nuclear power? Somehow someone managed to setup a hugely effective brainwashing campaign for that.
Given any set of modern libraries encrypting the transporr end-to-end is trivial.

Still hard are verfication processes, for distributing certs/public keys and some secure memory handling if you want to protect the unencrypted message on the local machine in some way.
Counter measure techniques for radar are highly classified. They take a long time to develop and once you use them they aren't useful for very long. The enemy adapts.

On one hand, I feel like this tic-tac is the result of one of these techniques. On the other hand, they wouldn't test this out in the open where a Chinese or Russian satellite can listen to these countermeasure pulses.
> Why wouldn't you just Google it?

What if the problem was how to turn it on?
I think both my best and worst memories were Crimson Tide, which I remember having a genuinely moving story, but also a basically impossible combat encounter near the start of the book that meant you _had_ to cheat to get through it. I think it later turned out to be a misprint. Also the magic system in Sorcery (of just trusting you to memorise things) was neat.

I then grew into the Advanced Fighting Fantasy system which remains an incredibly friendly and easy to pick up set of RPG rules. My only sadness is that I lost my original books and the final book in the series (Allansia, for wilderness adventures etc), is always about £70 on Amazon.

I am trying to initiate my kids and their cousins into D&D now but I do miss having fewer moving parts to think about.
It is true that most SUVs have less interior space than station wagons. The high ground clearance wastes vertical space and the trunks are quite short.
It’s correct to regard trees, but not people, as products of their environment. Trees don’t make choices. People do.
I tried as hard as I could not to go to school, beginning with second grade.

In retrospect I maybe wish I had done an advanced degree, but avoiding junior high and high school still seems the rational choice.
The simple solution is to design the card so that, at all display layouts, the last visible item is cut off -- it goes a long way toward saying "there's more in this list".

The new share sheet in iOS/iPadOS 13 is not great -- the two rows of horizontal scrolls (one for contacts, the other for apps) was much more discoverable.
Objectionable Content (Python Object Model) by James Powell

James Powell never disappoints :)

https://youtu.be/AmHE0kZhLIQ
> FWIW, I disagree with that assertion.

Yep, someone definitely needs to take a course in Abstract Algebra.
Stuff like this makes me feel pretty confident that China is still a long way from super power status
I'm a heavy WSL user, ever since I switched to Windows last year (after using MacOS for 6 years, and Linux before that).

I must agree that typing is pretty responsive compared to other windows applications, but still nothing near the native experience. I also run clear linux natively on my laptop, and typing in that terminal is just faster.
There is a lot of data over many decades that supports the expectation that optimism (which ISTR has pretty clear
a definition) creates all sorts of positive life event outcomes. (e.g. you're more likely to succeed in whatever endeavors you choose if you're optimistic, which in turn tends to create a safe and supportive environment.)
I don't know why, but I click away those sites when this happens.
Not any longer -- now they're tucked into an "unordered list" icon to the bottom-right of the play button, in a row with buttons to toggle display of lyrics and to select the output.
They disabled the pressure sensing on old devices in iOS 13 so it wouldn’t feel like a downgrade on newer phones without pressure sensing.
Do you honestly believe this happens in any by-and-large way?
I never really agreed with many of the core fundamentals of Windows/Microsoft, before I had even discovered Macs as an alternative.

Like the whole need for installers/uninstallers, worrying about drivers, separate menu bars for each window, and so on.

Some of those things will never change as long as Windows remains Windows.
Which Navy models have economies of scale? These reactors look to be built on contract from a variety of vendors. Additionally these designs look to prioritize small size and lack of need to refuel over fuel flexibility and refuelability, plus they have power output constraints due to size compared to land-based reactors.
Shame vs Guilt cultures. Shame is more outward facing, Guilt more inward facing.
Everyone's experience of sweetness may indeed be different, but at least the standard way to induce the experience of sweetness is ubiquitous and immediate. Just taste sugar. Decades of meditative experience is far less commonly found.
Wow! Very interesting piece.
I think the core problem is that every manmade tool eventually has to choose 2 of the 3:

• Be intuitive for new users

• Have features for power users

• Sane number of customization options

Like the dock labels issue. I personally don't need or want labels in the Dock. But there should be an option to enable dock labels for people who are not familiar with all the icons.

In fact I would like to hide the labels for ALL icons on the Home Screen, with a tap-and-hold to show them temporarily, like the mouse hover on the Mac Dock.

Now you need 2 more options to satisfy everyone.

And then you need to keep the Settings app from becoming too cluttered or intimidating.

So I believe the cornerstone of all good design is a good settings/preferences system, that is easy to navigate, discover, search and filter. And to selectively restore defaults when you fuck shit up.
Then I advise you to read what you’ve posted on an obituary thread and change.
The GDPR is working as intended.

For many of us software people, it isn't that revolutionary. These are things we should've been doing for a long time, and many of us have been doing.

But many companies are massive and bureaucratic. Everything from random giant companies to schools, hospitals, etc. These people don't really care about 'privacy', and many abused the hell out of people's privacy, many unintentionally (just careless). And since they make up big processors of data it was necessary to have them improve their practices. Now they actually think about how data is being processed rather than just chucking it around.

The GDPR's biggest impact or purpose isn't to reduce online tracking. It's to secure data rights for citizens in general. And the biggest abuses of that didn't happen due to advertising or tracking.
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I read these. They helped improve building search engines. Hidden relationships are what it's all about.
Would you prefer that the British police entered the Ecuadorean embassy without the permission of the Ecuadorean government in order to extradite him lawfully in accordance with a lawful court order to not America to face trial for not clearly political espionage claims, especially when he would not be facing the prospect of up to the death penalty and in fact would probably have been released by now anyway?
1. you don't handle a team of 50-70, you hire good team leads and handle only the team leads, trusting them to do their job and try to get what they want from top management done

2. there are a lot of books on that subject, but the most important thing imho is that you and your company about the KPIs they chose. It's an art like painting. If you do the colors and forms the way others do, it is very unlikely that you will beat competition, and if there would be a book that would tell you, everybody could become Picasso. I think this is the main challenge of being a C-level, all the rest is well documented.

3. Same as 2. I see you are addicted to perfect methods which even in team lead positions doesn't apply/exists. It isn't coding. If anybody knew the right way, they could just do it infinitely and create infinite useful companies/products.

4. I'd get a good communication course and practice often in different situations, you need to become very good in "powerpoint karaoke" and it's mostly a selling skill.

5. There is an infinite amount of information in that subject, you need to figure out what the combination of (you+company) needs and focus only on that.

My 2 cents: You should focus on creating a good environment for the people that work with you, so that they can just have a lot of autonomy and are empowered, feeling responsible for the future of the company. All your worries above are partially useless, things such as KPIs isn't so much a thing that a CTO should control/care. Instead create an environment that people would come up with ideas of what to do and you just enable them.
I have seen strange things happening while camping out under a Cessna 172 together with fellow european pilots in Sedona, Arizona in 1995. Multiple lights in the Sky, zigzagging across the sky in very similar fashion to what those F18 pilots report. I know you were trying to be cynical, but maybe there is something strange going on there.
Just gone from a 7 to an 11. It’s weird, if I didn’t know the history I’d say this device feels older.

It’s bigger, fatter and heavier with a cheaper feeling finish. The 7 feels positively elegant if you hold one after the other.

And apart from the slight camera improvements the performance feels identical.
Futoko: Why so many Japanese children refuse to go to school
Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
iOS updates apps automatically; system updates still require explicit user approval. I think it 's a decent trade-off, given that the options are "don't update", "update now", and a default of "update overnight, when/if the device is plugged in".

More stuff should allow for the latter option.
You don't need 'common cultural touch stones' when you have shared real life experiences.
It could be that people who are pessimistic don't want to live or even want to die, leading them to engage in reckless or dangerous behavior.
Thun: A dialect of Joy written in Python 2
I'm the crazy idea guy at work. They are usually bad ideas. But occasionally we have to pause and say "that might be a good idea", and sometimes an idea turns out to be really good, attacking an issue from an unexpected angle.

So for me, definitely a numbers game.
> Yes! What on earth is this for?

I would presume that it's an overreaction to cover their asses if users get "hacked", and also a more aggressive DRM authentication to keep making sure you paid for all those apps/books/songs/shows.
Also immortalized in the classic Brandon Bird painting “Death of Jennifer Sisko” http://www.brandonbird.com/jen_sisko.html
They have been breathed a new life by the release of interactive fiction adaptations for mobile, such as "Sorcery!".
The fun part is when you need to integrate anything that's not synchronous into a classic state machine. It just does not work.

Message passing between FSMs usually does instead and makes them simpler.
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While that is no doubt true, I feel like that is only part of the story. Many (most?) religions teach to love all people, even if you don’t agree with them. It’s easy to get along with those who agree with you. It’s much harder to get along with those who don’t.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - GKC
> Assholes like Google still do not ask for consent.

Google do ask for consent where required, but consent isn't required. There's various legal bases for the processing of data according to the GDPR (including for the performance of a contract and for legitimate business interests). Google just invested more in lawyers to use the GDPR strategically so they would have to change as little of their processes as possible.

Companies that don't understand the GDPR or privacy spent a fortune on consultants that milked them for money. Such companies seem to think the GDPR is a doomsday weapon and a revolution. It really isn't.
I do, through local taxes. The county in turn makes sure my nature-rich neighbourhood is well maintained, they leave strips of foresty area to grow fairly wild whilst mowing the lawn areas monthly, dredging up the ponds and canals (? very narrow natural looking ones) at the end of the year (outside of bird breeding seasons), etc.
Sorry, we're talking in loops. The legal issue wasn't encryption vs other cryptography, it was export or not. 7800 did face that issue, and resolved it by making the non-US version not do the crypto. This was probably easier in their case due to PAL vs NTSC. :)

I think both of us might be making the error of correcting something the other person wasn't intending to comment on! :)

Some export complications around crypto exist to this very day-- at least for commercial hardware products. I've had to fill out the export forms myself, and not that many years ago.
Correct; instead of armchair pharmacist-ing on some internet forum, we should collect actual data about its effects so that people can make more informed decisions about what/whether there are good uses for this chemical. Just like we do with other drugs.
Right after the global descriptor table is setup and paging is enabled, the GC is then enabled. On every allocation, and whenever the os has no task available to switch to, a gc cycle is performed.

Not really, the kernel and any process written in crystal has a garbage collector, any other userspace process can manage memory however they want to.
Thanks for that, it was a terrific read.
Why, in a time where Facebook is getting so much flack for privacy issues, would they want to build a backdoor into their platform for the UK Government?

Why would their targets use Facebook for communication when there's many other existing platforms that provide this service.

Privacy isn’t about having “nothing to hide” it's about freedom.

As soon as your privacy is taken away, so is your freedom.
Maybe school for kids should not be so serious business, like:

”Many schools in Japan control every aspect of their pupils' appearance, forcing pupils to dye their brown hair black, or not allowing pupils to wear tights or coats, even in cold weather. In some cases they even decide on the colour of pupils' underwear.”

Why not just keep it fun? More playing, less homework.
It's clear just from the NY Times article she was the problem and there's good reasons people don't want to be around her. Most people don't take estranging their parents lightly, especially when they have young children.
> You make it sound as if this is new, but this was also possible under the DPD from the late 90s. GDPR didn't improve that.

GDPR did improve it. Under the implementation by member states of the DPD many required that you can show "duress and/or distress" from continued processing to request erasure. GDPR made it so you don't have to show anything, you can just request it (or, more technically, you can withdraw consent).

And the DPD only said:

> as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;

Organisations often took a very conservative interpretation of this which wasn't enforced differently by many DPAs in EU states. GDPR Art. 17 is definitely stronger.
>>...which means if a western subscription services wants to compete with a cheaper local equivalent

Interesting comparison. Let us discuss that a little further.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

So Facebook provided free internet to Myanmar, and it was better than the "cheaper local equivalent" because it was actually free. Soon all the ISPs in Myanmar were out of business. Facebook was now synonymous with the internet in Myanmar, and suddenly it became a lot easier to influence people into doing pogroms. Now clearly a "western subscription service" successfully competed, and unfortunately, the pogrom did not affect the "western subscription service" in any way while millions of real humans became refugees.

Generally, people's answer to this is something like "yeah, it is too bad the people were such idiots to be provoked into such violence" or in some way blaming the naivete of the local population. But imagine if Facebook was actually asked to pay compensation for every affected person, or to stop business operations in Myanmar altogether. See, you can actually do that with a local company because they have some real skin in the game.

To complete my point, I don't actually give a damn if a "western subscription service" can compete for my business unless I have a way to drag Zuckerberg (figuratively speaking of course, a minion of Zuckerberg will do) to my country for trial and then send him to the local prison if found guilty of some local law. Think of it as "terms of providing service".

>>it sounds like you have a proverbial axe to grind

Indeed I do. It is called "stop patronizing the people of my country".

>>none of your points are even remotely relevant to the conversation

If you feel so, that's OK, although I would obviously like to see a more specific refutation.
Are you trying to say that this is some kind of waste of money? This is literally a weather satellite to help them plan for future events, which should have a direct impact on agriculture. In my mind, a country that can go from famine ravaged to space faring within a single generation should be tremendously lauded. And the fact that it's trying to do something to help prevent another famine is commendable too.

(I realize that it's not black & white and there's likely a lot of corruption and other not-nice-things happening along the way.)
On Leadership: You should challenge your teammates
Chernobyl was a combination of issues and can't really happen again today. Fukushima is bad but very few people died (counting those that'll get cancer). Many, many, many more people die from the pollution caused by coal every year, and many, many more will die from global warming.

If one such failure amongst hundreds of reactors active for over fifty years is the price of saving millions every year, then so be it. We should use solar/wind/water to the full extent possible but not exclude nuclear energy, especially with the latest factor designs. And you can bet that Japan learned from Fukushima and that it's very unlikely that'll reoccur as well. Plus, most reactors aren't built near major fault lines, so this failure isn't even possible in most places. Let's not kill millions because of a TV drama. It's news exactly because it's rare, that's why you don't hear of people dying while installing roof solar or from air pollution.
> The Chinese satellite was designed and built at a cost of $8 million, with China paying around $6 million of the capsule’s price

It is odd that the article mentions these details about the satellite cost, but then completely ignores the much larger cost of the launch itself, which should be on the order of $50M.

edit: apparantly it was a rideshare with 9 satellites total. https://www.space.com/china-long-march-4b-rocket-launches-9-...
AFAIK the restriction was “stop using embassy property to interfere in other people’s elections” and “you need a wash”, “clean up after your cat”, and “we don’t like that you skateboarding at night, playing loud music and walking around in [your] underwear“.

I’ve not seen any corroboration for the claim he smeared excrement on the walls, but that was in the same article.
Isn't this true only through the optics of economy?

You can have creative endeavors that serve no purpose, and you still do it for the sake of the activity. Maybe it's the by product of practice, but it's still creative work.

Or even the a problem solving situation, it might solve a problem but no be the optimal solution.
I often find people first assume something that isn't in US anti-trust law - that one must have a "monopoly" in order to be problematic - and then use a narrow definition of monopoly to conclude that no legal problem exists.

US law talks a lot about "market power", not monopoly. And...

> economy dominated by big tech

we both seem to think it is clear that there is market power.
People's choices also are in some way a product of their environment (heritage, parents, neighborhood and so on) and their suchness/nature, both of which they can't do much about - aren't they? Besides, judging them is hardly useful - they're what they are and society has already got the consequences part covered so what's judgment adding here?
Maybe the point is that most people are also products of their environment (culture, family, etc).
Two separate points:

1. You can largely escape the trifecta by hiding advanced customization options inside of the Terminal, where they're 100% invisible to anyone who isn't explicitly searching for them.

2. For a long time, Apple's way around the problem was to have different platforms for different markets. The iPad was a simple computing platform for very casual users, and the Mac was the more capable option for more advanced users. For some reason, Apple has now decided that their simple platform needs to be as capable as the more advanced platform.
> yet ignore the fact that the actual creator of the language was so against the addition of this operator that he saw the community’s insistence on it as reason to step down as BDFL.

Regarding this part, Guido specifically addressed the toxic debate as the reason for stepping down as BDFL, and not the operator per se.

(Yes, I'm reinforcing BiteCode_dev's reply on this point)
As a programmer, I often stumble upon the performance arguments and pitching technology Y over currently used X "because of better performance, i.e. it's fast".

Sure, the impressive feats of engineering accompanied by a short time to build, sounds good. But how much money and time went into maintaining all the flawed decisions?

The stories of Xerox Alto's first GUI-oriented computer are usually accompanied by how Apple stole it and made it better. To me, this sounds like their speed did not help them ship a great product to the end-users.

JavaScript was prototyped in 10 days, which is impressive. But there are also many jokes using this same fact as a punchline. This quick development was paid many times over by having to deal with poor language decisions. It took another 20 years for the language to start moving and developing in a more developer-friendly direction. And some of it will never be better because it has to be backwards compatible for all browsers that ever existed.

Comparing a "highway" (later edited to the military roadway) from 1942 to construction project in one of the larger cities in the world is not fair. I agree the time it's taking, and the cost is absurd. But the cost of work has drastically changed since, and the 1942 number most likely doesn't account for the fact that it was built by soldiers who are already on the payroll, so there were probably little additional worker expenses. And the standards now are more strict than they used to be.
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Your MacBook Pro definitely needs that dGPU for at least one reason: external displays.

Any software developer who cherishes their health uses a proper keyboard and mouse as often as they can, and that setup lends itself to using an external screen, too.

If you do frontend work, your external display should also have HiDPI – if only to give you a chance to notice when you introduce bugs or regressions for 2x/3x users.

I believe a dGPU is required for the MBP to drive an external screen with such a resolution at decent frame rates.