skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm very glad that, in general, programming and computer science is a place where credentials matter significantly less than contributions. Sure, the programming language you wrote or the library you maintain may not be the best but no one listens to whiny academics demanding everyone bow down to them and disregard your work.

Yes, and that works for all exact sciences. If you can somehow prove a formerly unproven mathematical conjecture, guess what, they will listen to you. You may even get prizes.

But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Since in psychology very few things can be "proven", studies are the next best things. But you cannot just spout nonsense and expect people who are actually experts in their fields to endorse you.
Nice! Thanks for answering! Would you choose PostScript over Forth as a general purpose language?
Sounds edge case-y (and only decreasing as wealth inequality increase)... but as you said, there are other reasons that keep them going. It’s not about “survival” in the most basic sense. That doesn’t make it any less real to those people.
I'm ON Catalina right now, and I didn't even know that. (I typically use my Linux laptop for everything... dunno why I decided to use my Macbook Pro today) I had to triple-swipe right just to see if was really gone. Yup. It's gone. Dang.
Because ultimately, arguments relying solely on economics are moot.

Technically, a human life has an economic value. And yes such value is used every day to decide health policies and insurance coverage. Would this mean that SpaceX killing N humans (where N=30B*number of years of operation planned for starlink/value of a human live) is ok? Absolutely not.
Frankly phones are all limited by the USB connection on the other side of the cable. The industry can easily standardize on something, update that standard every ~5 years and be fine.

Mini USB (2000) Micro USB (2009) both predate the Lightning cable and could charge and communicate with phones at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connector_types
The earnings yield is much higher to compensate.
Would the location of the factory really make much difference? If TSMC was to buckle under China pressure, it could probably find a way to interfere with or distribute secrets from the US military chips regardless of the physical location.
No, these are two very different cases. The earlier one was about corporate social responsiblity, the new one is about investment profitability.

And if you are wondering if the BlackRock head is right, do a google search on "fossil fuels stranded assets"
Yes, you are misunderstanding. I don't see how that's not obvious to you. iMessage is tied to an Apple ID. Unregistering your phone number from that Apple ID doesn't turn iMessage off. The fact that you think it does is where you misunderstand. The only way to turn off iMessage from an Apple ID is to turn off iMessage for the devices that are set up to receive those messages.

It's literally impossible to send an SMS message to someone's Apple ID and it's not possible to send an iMessage to a phone number that's been unregistered from iMessage. Just because you don't understand how it works doesn't mean Apple is at fault. You cannot delist an Apple ID from iMessage, you can only sign out of iMessage on a receiving device. That's it. Anything else above that is your fault.

If you don't want to receive iMessages at all and don't want people sending them to you, sign out of iMessage. It's not that hard.
But part of the reason why coal is a poor investment is the issue of climate change. Work on solar panels and other renewables is at least partly spurred on by the threat of climate change.
I took a lot of inspiration from Hasura and Debezium. At the time they used triggers to send events via NOTIFY (not sure if they still do)

The issue with NOTIFY is that it has an 8000 byte limit. Some of our updates are large (JSONB columns) so we need more than 8000 bytes, or we would have to notify just the row identifier, then fetch the data (inefficient).

Supabase hooks in to Postgres' replication stream so there is no issue. It converts the streaming bytes to JSON.

One other bonus - you don't have to set a trigger on every table. Just run `CREATE PUBLICATION supabase_realtime ON ALL TABLES`, then you're good to go.
Why? You wouldn’t exist to be able to perceive that it happened at all even if he did
Was there ever a time like that? I’m only in my 20s, but I can’t recall a time when most computer systems weren’t terrible. (I love computers, but honestly, they suck ass.)
And the Tesla Roadster was just a modified Lotus Elise.

Buying an of-the-shelf product and reverse engineering it, before building ones' own, is a very valuable step.
Here is great Vegas blog that broke the news on the tunnel in Vegas.

https://vitalvegas.com/elon-musks-tunnel-project-is-underway...
I share you concern, but I wonder if a strong law could account for this?

"You must use the standard, unless doing so would have a substantial impact on your product's capabilities." (I wrote this in 30 seconds, replace with more legally sound version.)

I feel like Apple would have a hard time arguing the lightening is technically more capable than USB-C. But if they want to create something that is a clear improvement, they can go for it... until a standardized version catches up.
Yeah but they rely heavily on Chinese companies that are not 100% renewable. That's like someone saying they have never murdered anyone while routinely paying for hit men to get their hands dirty. Technically correct, but misleading.
Science behind bars: How a Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison
We have four kids, but only three are special needs. Most of them were able to follow "adult" works from a fairly young age, but one of them was not until age 8; he struggled following simpler works (e.g. Gannett's My Father's Dragon series) in the first grade. Once it "clicked" though, he was great.

When I looked into it, I found similar stories from educators of verbal skills not clicking until the 3rd or 4th grade, followed by a rapid catch-up and then zero lag. According to most special-ed folks I talked to, if there are more specific issues at a younger age (e.g. problems with reading comprehension, but not auditory, or vice-versa) it can be indicative of a learning disability.

You are 100% true about reading to them from a young age (and not worrying too much about "hard" words; kids don't know which words are supposed to be hard unless you tell them) makes a big difference. Seeing kindergarteners from homes without a single book in them vs ones read to from an early age is rather eye-opening.
They could do something like the apple watch. There would be a strong magnet on the bottom of the phone and a miniature coil? Or just like a couple contact pads on the bottom exclusively for power. Kinda like the smart connector. They could do it and still have the ability to satisfy wire-like use cases.
According to Samsung's own account, their first fabrication plant in Austin, Texas opened in 1997, followed by major upgrades/expansion in 2007 and 2017.
Long term of course. But you still need power in the mean time, as well as money and jobs.

You’re also assuming those who are good at mining coal could somehow instead be good at both protecting the planet AND making as much money. That’s seldom the case.
Sounds like forced IP transfer to me.
Does anyone know if there's any merit to Apple's claim that USB-C isn't compatible with the iPhone's slim dimensions? (From the article: "Apple insisted that its slimmer devices would be unable to fit the then-new USB-C technology ...")

Just looking at the tech specs for the iPhone 11 (lightning) [1] versus iPad Pro (USB-C) [2], the former is actually thicker at 8.3 mm compared to 5.9 mm, and yet the iPad Pro can have USB-C.

Especially given that it's so prevalent in their other hardware, it almost seems like stubbornness at this point that Apple doesn't want to switch, but admittedly that doesn't pass the test of Hanlon's razor. It seems like there must be a better explanation out there somewhere for why they've desperately clung to lightning for so long (backward cable compatibility within the iPhone ecosystem? inertia in circuit/case design?).

---

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-11/specs/

[2] https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/
Please no. Design. by committee, specially political ones, is the worst thing that could happen to innovation.
Then stop buying Apple products.
sure, I understand that, but from what I saw the data isn’t that hard to process either, there are multiple R libraries actually that help, I’m currently also learning Genomics Analysis Harvard course at edx.org.

I already found multiple papers published in the last few years that identified the important locations with methylation changes, and those targets map to known illneses.

I tried to go to many doctors, but as they couldn’t measure any important changes with their toolboxes, they all sent me to psychologists.

Thanks for offering help, I’m always interested in learning more about genomics, though right now my plan is to learn by reproducing some articles that I read that contain methylation data sets (after the Harvard course).
What kind of vehicle did you use, and how did that affect your costs?
Microsoft, Amazon and Apple also sell ads.

AMP may tie publishers into their standard, but as a user I'd much prefer an AMP page to a dog slow publisher page on mobile.

Despite all the hype and FUD, ad blockers still work just fine in Chrome.

iOS has plenty of hidden spy apps, masque attacks, and iCloud backup attacks.

Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all routinely deprecate products.

Plenty of privacy concerns with Amazon and Microsoft. Remains to be seen if Apple caves on the Pensacola iPhones.

Not sure how workplace politics or culture affects the user experience at all, sounds like you might be confusing your own prejudices with users at large.

Microsoft censors their products in China, Google does not.

Amazon sells counterfeit products, Google does not.

Apple refuses to interoperate with industry standards, Google does not.
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Well said. This is the right way to look at it I think. It’s a loose model, or abstraction. For some applications it provides utility/ value. Others, not so much.

It’s not a universal definition of personality, but more a rough set of patterns of communication style, where in really many different personalities might fall under.
Nullable/Non-nullable reference types in C# 8.0 having nothing to do with Nullable<T> and aren't even implemented using it.

C# 8.0 implementation of something like Optional<T> for reference types uses static flow analysis to ensure correct use of potentially null values. That's vastly superior in every way to Optional<T>.
I think you have a point
"Software engineering just isn't that hard. Tedious yes, but not remotely difficult. "

This is every job after you've mastered everything you need to be successful. The key is to keep learning more or just completely find a new challenge.

" ... find interests and friendships outside of work."

100% agree.
"So basically some subset of EU Parliament legislators have an opinion about something."

That's...how governments work? Government officials put out a proposal because the industry can't get its act together.
“Curious conversation” means working towards understanding, as distinct from heaping blame.

In all the examples cited, there are many actors and circumstances that have brought these things about; investors, sure, but also customer demand and behavior, technological evolution, social and economic factors at micro and macro scales, and countless millennia of evolution.

Angry scapegoating might be briefly cathartic but doesn’t effect actual change.

A healthy, curious conversation explores all factors and yields ideas for new solutions to present day problems.
But Mini and Micro USB both royally sucked. That's why they invented the lightning connector.
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I think it is an abstraction: the one underlying both of those components that combined to create the vulnerability.

The abstractions provided by the OS compose in very surprising and hard to predict ways for humans. This is why newer systems don’t use the same abstractions (JavaScript and browser APIs), or else sandbox them much more thoroughly (iOS).

Those newer tools have newer problems, of course, but I think a lot of the churn and reinvention of tech that we complain about is really about trying to find abstractions that combine in more predictable and useful ways.
Constantly? Like, twice in twenty years?
This is a rather pointless stat though. None of the cables currently available are rated for 9 years and most have a ridiculously short lifespan of 1-2 years anyway.

In fact it probably works against Apple as it demonstrates that the churn of innovation doesn't really exist if new advances only occur every 9 years.
Good, fuck outsourcing.
There is no disagreement with Mr. Dan Katz's views; the licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, whose words make up the article. He suitably hammers home his point that the content of the books is nothing more than airport science, as he openly rages against the profession of 'behavioural scientist'. He also mentions the book sales, conferences, TV appearances, bestseller lists and ever increasing circulation of the books etc.

I get it. He feels passionate and sees a charlatan, who is hitching a free ride on the back of his respected profession and getting the rockstar treatment. These compendium of books could have effectively been languishing under the sections of new age, self-help, therapy etc., except they hit home with a certain audience. Now that he has vented his spleen, what more does he hope to achieve, especially under the circumstances that there are no laws or regulation in place to curb any of the activities. Also, by continuing to rage against it, he only brings more welcome publicity for the author and his books.
That comment's on this being a bunch of news fluff.
It's OK. Java 8 is supported until:

* June 2023 - Redhat [1]

* June 2023 - Corretto [2]

* September 2023 - AdoptOpenJDK [3]

[1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/faqs/
[3] https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html
It's surprising that such a small proportion is reducing the balance of their loans.

Cancelling debt in some ways sounds appealing, but it has the unfortunate effect of punishing those who are the most financially responsible. This is both in the payments they've made that they didn't have to, and the future societal taxes that will be required to retire that cancellation debt.

Lots of moral hazard at work.
Right but my impression was that that was basically a performance optimization for IronPython, similar to type hints for Clojure and that they aren't actually necessary. IronPython was mainly what I was thinking when it comes to alternate variance strategies. I mean most typed languages I know of with stricter typing regimes than Java either all have the same variance schemes or eschew subtyping altogether, JVM, CLR, or otherwise.

Why doesn't that work for mutable collections (are you referring to the need to be invariant here?) or immutable collections? More specifically, why can't you always have `Collection<A>`, upcast to `Collection<Object>`, downcast to `Collection<B>` as an escape hatch? You break type safety but erased generics already break type safety (this is especially clear with C#'s choice to follow Java's convention on array variance and the pain that this causes when it's inconsistent with everything else in C#).

For passing back to a typed language, you add a downcast of `Collection<Object>` to `Collection<String>` and have no runtime conversion cost. Why doesn't that work?

EDIT: Ah I see, is the basic problem you don't get free (more accurately cheap) casts, especially with generics? I'm not familiar with how casting works in the CLR since the vast majority of my time is on the JVM.
iPad Pro already has a USB-C connector, clearly Apple are already in the process of doing this
Like English spelling has any rules. There are a lot of irregularities with English spelling that students need to learn by heart how the word is spelled compared to how it is pronounced.
I believe that is what he was going for: the Beowulf of the English cannon. That's what I mean by, "so dry but so good." If you don't understand the form of heroic epics and that he'd written such huge epics himself, it can pass the casual reader by.
What makes you think NMN has been "proven to be safe?" That's a pretty strong standard to conform to. There's virtually no clinical work that's been done at all, for starters.

A lot of genuine promising research in animals, but you also have this animal cancer model that suggests at least a little caution...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448588/
It’s a great stocking stuffer.
I think it’s useful to keep in mind that Apple helped design USB-C, so it’s not like they’re shunning the standard. And they were one of the earlier adopters in the PC space, and they’ve adopted it for the iPad Pro. I think the main thing holding them back is a combination of 1) the huge installed base of lightning accessories, and 2) the fact that USB-C adoption has been slow.
But if it's law to use the standard connector than how do you use a different (lets say newer) connection if the law says to use the standard connector.

There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Somebody is going to have to build a device with a connector that isn't standard at some point to make progress.
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With the help of your comments, I could now write the conclusion to my article. In a nutshell this is the solution:

#include <math.h>
#include <fenv.h>

int fits_long( double d)
{
long l_val;
double d_val;

// may be needed ?
// #pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON

feclearexcept( FE_INVALID);
l_val = lrint( d);
d_val = (double) l_val;
if( fetestexcept( FE_INVALID))
return( 0);

return( d_val == d);
}

The article explains it in more detail. Thanks for the help.
My point was Apple had been developing a connector at the same time. They could have worked with the USB working group and improved the standard rather than adding yet another cable type.
Huawei HMS new terms reveal it may show ads in the EMUI
Simon Peyton Jones gave a very good talk on this at Strange Loop 2018 - sadly it's falling to deaf ears
> The single best thing I have found for releasing a tight psoas (to remove the tension and allow your pelvis to orient itself correctly)

Funny you mention psoas. PRI[0] + Stott Pilates[1] has been life changing for me because its basically all about getting your psoas muscles strong and limber. Anyone with back pain, I highly recommend.

[0] - https://www.posturalrestoration.com/

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stott_Pilates
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The government hasn't addressed the economy or the environment. They have shouted the same crap on repeat so many times that we have forgotten that coal is not a good investment and only serves to funnel government money in to a few corporations.
I’ve seen attempts to clean the contacts damage them because they’re springy. I’ve also just seen them get deformed enough that they stop making good contact.
He also wants to sell more cars. Not less.
Not just "the structure of the universe", the Ancients identified structure in the cosmic background radiation.

The episode that revealed this aired within a month of a real-world discovery of a pattern in the cosmic background radiation [0]. Unfortunately, it wasn't nearly as enticing as what was in the show.

[0] https://www.seeker.com/cosmic-rebirth-encoded-in-background-...
I could not agree more; especially with the vi advice. I'm still a work in progress, but I agree this would be cool. (I have `ESC` remapped to `JJ` and I find myself trying to exit insert mode in emails, papers, etc. all the time...)

I've also structured the site in a way so that it kind of has a schema for each article and the next step was to write a little client so one could read from a terminal.

Baked into my design philosophy is "reuse" hence not opting for a custom light-to-dark-toggle. Thanks for this though, I'd just reminds me I gotta keep it up ha. Do you think browsing in the terminal would be a hassle for people?

I'm also trying not to go too far overboard, thanks!
This is true.

I don't think schools should completely drop handwriting, at least not within my lifetime. It's necessary for filling out forms at the doctor's office, and signing contracts.

But a little basic ability is all you need—you don't need to write neatly or quickly. So if schools want to focus on it less, that makes sense to me.

Nobody should have to write whole passages by hand.
No one can really predict their security accurately.

Say you maintain a bare-metal server in a data center that your company controls.

How much do you know about its physical security? The protocols for admitting new staff? Do you rely on your company’s physical security team and HR? Are any of those functions contracted externally, even partially?

How much do you know about the network security? Do you rely on a networking team? Is any of their work contracted externally? What about the link to the outside world?

How much do you know about the sourcing of the physical hardware?

How much of the source have you audited? How about firmware source?

GKE obviously introduces new factors and vectors, but it also simplifies many of these and adds elements of herd immunity. And it’s also the same as the rest: your system was built by many people, it will be used by many people, and it will be maintained by many people. You can spend all of your time verifying every link, or you can help them do something in the world.
There are tons of economic analyses that show that these kinds of boycotts or divestment efforts (usually driven by naive university students) rarely cause any noticeable change in policies or operations at the targeted companies.

What is usually happening is that other technological or consumer behavior is already leading to the decrease in business of some industry, and the divestment push happens simultaneously (because of people's awareness) and is merely a symptom of their final decline.

Take South Africa in the 80s, or the ridiculous grape boycott of the 90s, etc. None of those symbolic acts led to actual changes happening -- those were all consumer or political changes already in flight.

People create much more effect by voting with their dollars than by symbolically calling for divestment. It usually turns out that there is someone willing to take your place as a buyer when you choose to divest. It's only through fundamental change in demand or supply that a business is affected. Stop believing in the effectiveness of the feel-good boycotts. Even Blackrock won't make a difference.
I think aaron is saying that the meme should be ELI15.
My XS Max has been cracked since day 35 and the apple employee failed to apply the apple care+ I requested to my phone (I know, my fault for not checking). That being said, the glass quality has improved leaps and bounds. They phone has been cracked for over a year now and the cracks have showed zero sign of expanding beyond the original point, and the glass is all intact (not slowly chipping away as previous phones have). The cracks are narrow enough that they are almost unnoticable when watching netflix on the phone, and I am a major home theater geek. I have no desire to spend $600 just so that I can crack the phone again. I really hope a future model returns to a metal back however, as a glass back seems solely designed to break easily and need repair.