skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could just price it atronomically high in the app, like a bug, which will trigger people to reach out to others or investigate.
I will say that being an older techie has also had its share of humiliation.

It's just assumed that I have no idea what "all the kids are into," these days. I guess they think that I'm being "Lenny Wosniak."

I grew up in Africa. I was quite used to black people running things, from a very early age.
> A Lorentzian manifold is not necessarily locally hyperbolic and certainly the existence of light-cones do not follow from its hyperbolic nature. A Lorentzian manifold may be flat or curved, if it's flat we usually call it also a Minkowski space. Curved spaces come in many shapes of forms depending on the curvature which is a complicated geometric object. One particular case of curved space is a hyperbolic space which is one with constant negative curvature. A hyperbolic (constant negative curvature) Lorentzian (space+time) manifold is also called an Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space and plays a very important role in physics (see AdS/CFT correspondence).

I am confused. Let me write down the definition I know, and let's error-correct to a point of agreement?

- A Lorentzian manifold is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with a metric tensor that can be positive or negative definite, but not zero.

- A neighbourhood of a Lorentzian manifold is flat if one can assign a coordinate system where we have the minowski metric ds^2 = dx1^2 dx2^2 + ... + dx(n-1)^2 - dxn^2. So it's hyperbolic space of dimension n, Hn. This space has constant negative curvature; You can check by computing the curvature tensor.

- Thanks for that particular model of Schwarzschild's solution! I wasn't aware of it.

- Do you have more examples of a similar flavour? I don't care if the solution obeys the einstein field equations. I'm mostly just interested in examples of Lorentzian manifolds with curvature.

- Thanks for the advice regarding visualizing higher dimensions. I am quite comfortable with the algebra. However, it is often the case that people have great insight into the structure of hyperbolic space, which I am trying to build. Consider Thurston and his famous insight into the structure of 3-manifolds and hyperbolic space.
Well it depends. For people who don't have a way to charge up slowly, like at home or at work, fast charging is crucial. But for those who do have a slow option and rarely go long distances, fast charging is a low priority.

But beyond that, Tesla and everyone else is making steady progress with fast charging, so it is no real block to ev's replacing ice's.
I'm not sure; I edit wpa_supplicant.conf, because I want the change to be persistant across reboots. Nothing like doing kernel development directly on your laptop; keeps you focused ;-)
On the plus side, correcting the issue for them was relatively simple with a little shunt. Good luck.
The point-of-sale terminals in Venezuela are not set up to accept U.S. dollars via cards. (They do have cards there, it's just that a card payment is by necessity a Venezuelan bolivar payment.)
With c# 8 you have nullable references and you can use the compiler to guard you against null pointer exceptions.
Probably in the app data directory, which I prefer.
Best Buy sells plenty of products that come with future revenue streams in which Best Buy receives zero cut.
What I find interesting among the woke crowd (white leftys): they believe any claim a black person makes - especially when it is "their experience." They don't question what that person says - because they are black. It is particularly interesting that the education system is actively teaching our youth - especially black youth - that racism is prevalent today. Teaching young people that they are hated by others (albeit whites) simply because of their skin color (without evidence to the claim) is the reason why we have a race war - not because "the majority whites are keeping blacks down/killing them/etc."
You say, "that is the role of the judiciary in a common law system!" but America is primarily a Constitutional-law system, and only secondarily a common-law system. We have laws (the Constitution) describing what the judicial branch is meant to do, and what you describe here as your ideal is at least partially at odds with what they say.

It appears you are also a skeptic of the principle of Separation of Powers to begin with. You are, of course, not asked to accept that this is ideal. I will, however, ask that you accept that this structure was designed and codified into law to uphold that principle, and this is often at the root of (principled) objections when things are done your preferred way. This is a better place to start a conversation, rather than of celebrating your failure to understand (which is meant to imply that something does not make sense, but really says more about your own understanding.)

Imagine an American complaining: "Parliament is so confusing! What is all this drama about 'forming a government' and coalitions? Why can't they just elect a President directly?" The American may or may not have a meaningful point, but if they do have a point, this point is rather ill-served by the venue and the manner in which it is raised. The way in which you raise your objections here is similar.
Agreed. I found her work to be devoid of any attempt at connecting her theoretical claims to any form of data and/or measurements.

As if two human beings who both happen to be white are the same, when one was born in a trailer park and the other a high-rise in Central Park West. I was pretty irritated to see her book getting promoted by my HR department, who is filled with people who proudly brag about "math not being my thing."
> Sure, you can give them an account but it is in fact against the Apple TOS

It isn't. Go read the guidelines again.
I'll give you an example: I have developed a free app for medical use. The app was requested by doctors, I didn't just make it up. When I submitted it, it was first denied because, according to the reviewer, it was "too simple". I appealed, and finally the app got accepted. Happy ending, all good.

But that made me think also: what if they decided it was not worth publishing? I mean, there was not very much I could do to make it "less simple" really. I would have given up. But why should patients be denied of a useful service because one company has complete control of what goes and what does not go onto their phones? See it like you want to see it, but it's unacceptable.
Yep - I find it very handy in vim (and yes, you can click on the tabs in vim too). Clicking and dragging selects things in visual mode, and you can also drag your tabs to reorder them.

Also works in tmux - you can drag your splits to resize them, or select a tmux "tab" to switch to it. You can also select text and then do things with it, like search back in the scrollback for other occurrences, or copy it to the system clipboard. Right click even brings up an in-cli context menu.
iOS is literally the only major consumer OS which does not allow its users to install arbitrary software. I guess Hey would be happy not to use "services" of App Store and offer their users an installer to download or a link to some alternative store instead. But they can't: they have to pay Apple a ransom.

> It’s their platform they can do whatever they want

Yes, unfortunately. That's good for Apple, but not good for us, so it's in our best interests if this situation changes somehow.
On the other hand, something like Bootstrap is pretty awesome if you want to create a slightly better, standardized look for your corporate intranet web app or site. Environments where IE11 is still somewhat common and where the relatively large share of Mobile Safari hardly matters.

Just recently someone mentioned to me that some SAP stuff can't be used without IE11. And as long as you get these hold-outs and enterprise IT guys avoid auditing multiple browsers, you'll get IE11 as the sole available browser in cubicles.
Capitalizing White seems extremely weird, though, and somehow emblematic of how we're sliding backwards into a racialized consciousness even while trying (and hopefully succeeding) to step forwards toward equality.
I don't consider myself a particularly good programmer, and I don't find the burrow checker is a substantial source of cognitive load.

I think I get way more friction from:

- library authors that go crazy with generics.

- the million ways rust makes performance tradeoffs explicit (even when you're writing part of the program where performance simply doesn't matter).

- the million-and-one things you can do with an option type.

- the arcane macro syntax.

I could probably go on. I've been writing a lot of rust because I wanted a low-ish level language with good C interop, and I didn't want to learn C++, so I wasn't at any point a rust fanboy. I very much appreciate not having to be a genius to avoid segmentation faults, but other than that, I think rust is a somewhat ugly language - for the simple reason that it has a lot of features, some of which partially overlap, and most of which are vaguely inconsistent.

I'm probably sounding a bit harsher than I mean to - obviously, you can't expect a language like rust to have the simplicity and consistency of something like lua, and by and large, it's better than anything else I write programs in.

Still, the point is, as somebody with a lot of (fair and unfair) complaints, the burrow checker is not one of them. It complains rarely, and when it does you're almost always doing something stupid, unless you're doing something fairly arcane, in which case, you should probably use unsafe.
Same experience here with an iPhone. Nice hardware (the product part) but when it comes to software and features it’s like a wasteland. For example all day events will be alerted at 9:00 am. No way to change that. What?! What is this, communism again?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5449962
I gotta keep it real for you sir banana, the only way to have a legit conversation on this platform is to have an equal number of up and downvotes.
I just recently picked up front end dev and I'm curious how professional teams handle IE these days. Is it completely ignored? Or do sites still try to support it?
It's named after his only son, who passed away from Typhoid at 15: https://facts.stanford.edu/about/
Mathematically, almost everything generic can be viewed as a collection.
Do you mean credit cards that can make USD transactions in Venezuela for affordable fees? I don't know if that exists...

If you mean traditional Venezuelan credit cards, remember that the original problem is hyperinflation, this is exactly the kind of thing they want to avoid.
Yes, I have just figured that out. My experience was for the goods/services delivered outside the app.
what's also outlandish is the anglo-saxon view on being the ceo of a company.
we're all a slave to the machine it seems.
Seems very short sighted of the US government to allow this to just get shut down instead of encouraging it and legitimizing it as much as possible. Seems to me that Venezuelan citizens adopting the dollar would be in the interests of the US government.
I kind of like the dual approach. First team to get in to the box has to try and hold onto it while still maintaining specified services it's supposed to be providing in the simulation. Winner is whoever holds it the longest.
I think I'm missing something. It's still in the App Store, right? Seems to me that they'd still happily reject it even if the rendering is done server-side.
They're also not committing the crimes, disproportionately...
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Presumably, they were just taking the hit and giving Apple their 30% ?
I think its already in there

https://puu.sh/FXajT/bce4ecc81c.png
I don't think this type of clever lawyering is going to work when you're against a corporation that rules with an iron fist.
Perfectly reasonable hypothesis.
Ask HN: How to Decode .exe Binary to Recover Source Code
Hello Hackers,

I recently came upon some school work of mine, code I wrote, from high school in 2001 as a sophomore.

For my high school CS101 class, I wrote a C++ game called Snake. The game was written using a graphics library called Allegro (https://www.allegro.cc/). Allegro was a lovely library.

It is still possible to download the original zipped binaries which I uploaded 19 years ago. They can be downloaded here: https://www.allegro.cc/depot/snake2

I also put them online here: https://github.com/natehouk/snake

(There is also a second game Mastermind available here https://github.com/natehouk/mastermind and here https://www.allegro.cc/depot/mastermind)

Unfortunately, I can not find the source code anywhere. I am very saddened by this. I thought it would be very fun to see code I wrote when I was 15, nearly 20 years ago. It would be especially fun to see how I've improved, or what neat tricks I came up with at that young age.

I have the .exe and the .dat data files and the original readme.txt. I have tried running my program on Windows 10 and with Wine. In both cases, the program crashes. I have tried all of the compatibility modes in Windows 10 and none of them work.

The year was 2001, so I believe we must have been using Windows 98 in the classroom, maybe Windows NT 2000? I can't remember.

I know that my program ran great back in the day. It even got 100,000 downloads off Download.com back then before cnet ruined them.

I want to play my game. What can I do to get my program running again? It seems like Allegro is barely supported these days. I think I need to try a native Windows 2000 install. Was it naive of me to think I would easily be able to run a program from nearly 20 years back?

What tools are available and what is state of the art for decoding a compiled binary back into readable source code?

Thanks for any info.
Yeah. I think of recommender systems as one level of abstraction/automation above search engines: the only difference is that with recommender systems, you don't have to type in a search query.
I think these things have no use case.

I'm sad to see the top comment is a joke and no one is really seriously talking about what they could do. Which I think currently is little.

They'll probably cost $100,000 a year to manage and I'm not sure outside of meta entertainment what they can do.

They have no finger dexterity, no intelligence.

People seem to think they have everything a dog or even a human has. They don't.
Java aren't fixing nulls, IMHO. They are making it worse.
>Does Apple get a cut of revenue from Gmail?

No.
That's disappointing. Do you know if there's a cracking tool out yet?

I just tried and it looks like you can still download aax through the browser.
If any, the best DE for OpenBSD is XFCE, and the most liked WM is CWM and FVWM by inertia.
If the basecamp app has a link you can click that says "go to this website to pay for basecamp", it's not allowed.

You can sign in and purchase elsewhere, then get the credentials and login on the app. It's fine, countless apps are like that. But if you do offer purchases with the app, Apple requires that you use the in-app purchase mechanism.
Great question/point! I had to check - tapping "Account" in the app brings you to the Netflix website.
On sand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Wise_and_the_Fo...
This article is all written on the decision from Wells Fargo to stop offering zelle to accounts with a Venezuelan mailing adress.

The decision from wells fargo seems reasonable, most of the Venezuelans (including me) were using zelle for commercial exchanges or forex exchange, and that is clearly agains the TOS for general uses.

I personally know business owners getting more than 20k daily in their personal zelle accounts, it was obvious that a shutdown was coming to it.

As you might understand, there is almost 500k legal venezuelans in the US [1] and another 400k [2] illegals, that’s almost 1million Venezuelans in the US, our country population right now is about 23millions (more than 5 millions have flee the country), so, pretty much everyone have family or friends in the US with zelle accounts and that is why zelle is so widely use it in here, but it starts a problem for US banks when people with business that are not related at all to US start using zelle (us based) to collect payments (of venezuelan business), this payments are all done in personal accounts and never declare taxes or anything, so… that’s a huge problem for banks

For all of you wondering if people in Venezuela uses bitcoin, NO WE DON’T USE BITCOIN AT ALL, there are only 2 uses for bitcoin in Venezuela, 1st use is as a currency exchange medium (USD to VES), hugely backed by drugs money + laundering… 2nd is to write nice articles about how bitcoin is changing venezuela for international media to consume

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_Americans
[2] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/venezuelan-immigrant...
Technically yes, it’s a great idea- but Apple will just block it at some point. Or at least the threat of it being blocked is enough to make it a non starter.
I assume you only program in readable languages like COBOL and AppleScript.
It's a generous offer but it's better to give every freelancer the same chance to get projects. Add yourself as freelancer to the monthly https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring thread.
I get the feeling we're only seeing half the story here. Apple allows a lot of apps which have outside subscriptions, Basecamp is a perfect example. Also, Netflix and Amazon Prime for a long time. The outside subscription requirement is probably not the issue here.

I'm not advocating for Apple here, this particular post just strikes me as being an odd exception.

Just a wild guess here, but it's likely they have some language like "Click here to subscribe" which sends users to an outside link. That is expressly forbidden.

UPDATE: The MacRumors story is more coherent and perhaps has a clue to why the app got rejected: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/16/apple-threatens-to-remo...

Maybe their odd "Help Me" page is shooting them in the foot. by comparison, Fastmail has a simple "Can't Log In" button which takes you to the Fastmail support page on lost passwords.
When have these schools ever said they care only about academic merit? They explicitly don’t and never have; every high school has a counselor that will tell you that you need to have more on your application than grades and a test score.
You probably mean AptX Low-Latency. I haven't seen it a lot and it's basically just AptX with tweaked buffer sizes.
The nature/architecture of tails means this kind of attack is possible. Apps that can "break through" the OS networking, get access to the "real connection". Excuse my non-technical language.

Disclosure/ad: I work on Whonix, which is, uh, tails in VM essentially (to the person who only knows tails and not whonix). In Whonix, the desktop is in an VM, separate from another OS in another VM running the networking. No program in the desktop VM can reveal the public IP. On top of that, for advanced users, the desktop hardware itself might be separate from the hardware connected to the public internet.

The VM (virtualbox, kvm, whatever) is the single (practical) attack service, which is safer than ensuring every program the user may run is patched. Excuse the rant/ad/competition-bashing.
In the 90's I had my home network completely exposed to the public. Fully routable IP's. No firewall. It was a different world then.
Before I listened to any song 17 minutes long, I'd need to be assured that at least ten of those minutes were the guitar solo.
The Federalist is a media company paying google money to advertise digital billboards that its competitor media companies are liars.

Google is choosing to not take the Federalists money and doesn’t want to put up Federalists billboards on its property.

Does Google have the right not to accept The Federalists money?

Frame it like that and I think the problem becomes clear.

Edit: I have this backwards, I think my point still stands but I was wrong on the transactional aspect
I think the trouble here is the double meaning of the word racist. When some people hear the word, they think of cross-burning fanatics and mass murderers. On the other hand, the current big conversation is about how everyone is racist and that society is rife with systemic racism.

That creates a catch-22 for anyone who commits a faux-pas (like mistaking the black CEO for a subordinate). Either admit to racism and cast oneself in with the cross-burners, or bail out of the situation ASAP.

We have the same kind of problem with the label of "sex offender." It's a category that runs the gamut from "guy who got arrested for public urination while walking home drunk from the bar one night" all the way to Jeffrey Dahmer.

Scott over at Slate Star Codex has a fantastic piece that covers this phenomenon [1]. The core idea has to do with the tension between central and non-central examples of a category:

Remember, people think in terms of categories with central and noncentral members – a sparrow is a central bird, an ostrich a noncentral one. But if you live on the Ostrich World, which is inhabited only by ostriches, emus, and cassowaries, then probably an ostrich seems like a pretty central example of ‘bird’ and the first sparrow you see will be fantastically strange.

I'm glad we're having this conversation in society. I honestly don't know what to do about it though.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
> Her entire argument frames race relations within the context of the workplace which is problematic because her approach is coercive, not educational. It's more a guide on "how not to get fired for being racist" than anything.

I admit I only just started reading her book, so can't comment on that, but I would say that's not the takeaway I got from any of the online videos or interviews I've seen of her, most definitely not from the youtube one I linked.
Sometimes. Often the reduced line counts contain way more complexity per line and understanding it is just as hard. There's something to be said for code churn, as it keeps it fresh in the mind of whomever is on the team right now as opposed to "a guy that left eight years ago wrote this".
I'm currently working on a personal project and I was planning on using angulardart + tailwind (the css part only) but I will definitely check if the css side of bootstrap 5 might not be a more productive option. Good work regardless and thanks for all the effort.
What a joke. Go devs spent a decade telling people they were waiting for the right design for Generics to emerge. Finally after a decade they deliver to us... Java-lite generics which are going to require the community to do a massive library ecosystem retooling for next five to ten years similar to how Java felt going from pre 1.5 to 1.5 and beyond.

This language is such a frustrating mess at times.
Mostly ignored now. Reddit's broken in IE11 (at least the simulated IE11)
The problem is that the subscription is not available as IAP
The CNIL publishes a GDPR guide for developers
But then you have compile time overhead (an issue Rust and C++ have faced). One of Go's design goals was to have very fast compile times, which might be in doubt if they take the monomorphization approach.
This is what I'm wondering too. I can't imagine Apple just deciding as a one-off case to do a secret, arbitrary shakedown. It sounds more like a dispute over their written rules, which can still be questionable, but much less so.

If this goes outside of their official rules, it's a big deal. If it's in line with them, it's par for the course. I think some important details are missing from the source.
Well, it's still sexist. Same thing. Also, wrong.

A better example would be, "women aren't passionate about driving". That's a stereotype, likely a correct one (i.e. substantiated by statistics... I mean, I'm not certain, but that would be my prior, but I'm very open to changing it), and most importantly: not harmful. It's just a stereotype.

I'm not denying that things could be harmful (racism, sexist, ...). But not all stereotypes are. Like guessing that "Alex" is probably a guy.