skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, Apple is letting you change your default web browser with this new iOS version, but also adding Face ID and Touch ID to Safari.

Why would anyone want to build these features if they're so platform / browser specific? Does anyone know if these auth features might work on other browsers on iPhone?
We haven't been very vocal about it just yet but all the bits to enable CI etc and the new t/compiler-arm Zulip stream are happening openly pretty much.

I'll be pinging all the relevant folks soon-ish (we're pushing out fixes to the last remaining compiler test suite failures this week).

I mean to keep you on CC as I did the last time!
Same problem happened when it was attempted in the 1960s under the name “new math”. And that’s what I mean when I say it’s a fundamental part of the educational system.

At the primary school level in particular, teachers aren’t necessarily (in fact are unlikely to be) that conversant with mathematics anyway; it’s just another subject to be taught. So as long as the results are correct, all is well.
I wouldn't expect it to become a cash cow, no, but then neither does continuing to support the iPhone 6S. I do think they could more than break even, and that ought to be enough.

Moreover, companies ought to continue offering security updates because it's the right thing thing to do—for their customers, for their brand, and for the planet.
What is your end goal?
A more accurate title would have been:
"Twitter finally enforces site regulations on Trump that every other user was already expected to follow".
I don't have repo on GitHub, but the mobile version is better for me so far. It uses all the screen space, and now we can finally see the language bar (% of languages used in the repo) on mobile version, which wasn't possible before.
Same, always the same pattern here for any article about Google.
I didn’t know any one else was consulted in any serious manner about the Japanese bombings. From the other poster it appears the UK was heavily involved? It’s def more than the US, but if only them, then not all of the “Allies” unless we’re only considering the US and UK the “Allies”. In the end though, both cases had both countries. Not to mention other situations in the world like the Middle East.

Not sure if America had anything to do with India. Probably not.
1Password users can already have effectively the same experience.
counterfeit stickers...
There isn't a reason it wouldn't work - the browsers all use the same engine anyway.
Neat. It wraps GCC.

See also Cling, an interactive C++ interpreter.

https://github.com/root-project/cling
This looks like a WebAuthn implementation, in which case it's an established standard and lots of vendors have interchangeable implementations. For example, Windows Hello has been WebAuthn compatible (FIDO2) for a while for sites configured to accept on-device authenticators.
> Now, banks don't do this (at least, as far as I'm aware), but to play the devil's advocate: just imagine if Amazon asked very-high-risk vendors to post collateral before selling. If they get caught, the collateral is used to compensate victims.

Requiring merchants to be bonded for entry into high-risk categories sounds like a great idea! I know they already have hurdles for entry into protected categories like vitamins but adding a financial hurdle seems sensible for certain categories or volume.
>> You can do the same in Prolog and similar languages. Is the language/the
compiler reasoning?

Yes, absolutely. The Prolog interpreter is a resolution-based theorem prover.
You will be very hard pressed to find any AI researcher arguing strongly that
"that's not reasoning". In fact I believe automated theorem proving is one of
the very few cases were you can find so little disagreement about whether
something is "reasoning" or not.

Note also that "reasoning" is not necessary to solve a problem like "10 + 10 =
20. 20 + 20 = ___" (1). Knowlege of addition is sufficient: given knowledge of
addition the result of "20 + 20" can be derived without reference to "10 + 10
= 20". And, absent knowledge of addition, even if a system can answer (1), it
will not be able to answer the majority of similar problems, indicating that
it has only memorised the answer to (1).

A better test of what a system has learned is a question like "10 + 10 = 30.
20 + 20 = ___" (2). The answer to that should still be "40", but again that's
not because of any reasoning; it's because "20 + 20" is always "40", even when
preceded by a false statement. So this kind of question is really not any way
to test reasoning abilities.

Edit: Actually, "Alice was friends with Bob. Alice went to visit her friend
___" (3) is not a very good test for reasoning, either. If I were to answer
"Alice", would you be able to say whether that's true or false? The only way
to make such a decision is in the context of a "closed world assumption"
(incidentally, central to Prolog's theorem proving). However, now you're
making a much more precise claim, that "GPT-3 has learned to answer questions
by making a closed-world assumption". You can test this claim much more
convincingly by asking questions like "Alice is friends with Bob. Is alice
friends with Alice"? The answer should be "no" (or "false", "incorrect", etc).

Has this kind of more formal test been carried out, with GPT-x?
The Ashley Book of Knots.
More than zero. It's called closed captioning, isn't it? I've quite often seen closed-captioning that put brief written descriptions of non-verbal depictions in bracket, and it's not entirely common either

https://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/what-qualifies-as-... (see section: "High Quality Captioning")
Might be because I can vividly imagine there are many of those. I.e. suppose you're doing nice work on improving VScode (just to name a well known thing) and then another unrelated part of your company does stupid things like this and then you get associated with it. That just sucks. Like when you use a linux shell for your day-to-day work and others are all like 'linux is completely not ready for the desktop, linux sucks'. I guess I just don't like generalizations.
His offering is highly germane to the conversation, and quite likely helpful to a lot of people reading through the comments. We're (largely) a community of makers, and it's totally fine to mention what you've made in the appropriate contexts. This is but one (good) example.
True, but the cultures that grow up around a specific language tend to encourage certain conventions, standards of organization, and team coding cultures.
> Dropbox

I have so much respect for Dropbox. I remember laughing when Dropbox gave away 2GB for free back in 2009(?) and I never really thought they had a valid business plan. I read Drew Houston talked to Steve Jobs and I still don't understand why he wouldn't sell. But then I'm poor. Anything that puts more than USD 20M in my pocket would be life changing for me.

> What Houston does is Dropbox, the digital storage service that has surged to 50 million users, with another joining every second. Jobs presciently saw this sapling as a strategic asset for Apple. Houston cut Jobs’ pitch short: He was determined to build a big company, he said, and wasn’t selling, no matter the status of the bidder (Houston considered Jobs his hero) or the prospects of a nine-digit price (he and Ferdowsi drove to the meeting in a Zipcar Prius).

https://web.archive.org/web/20200520184823/https://www.forbe...
Competition: if enough apps will implement it, it would become a standard user expectation.
I'm fairly frustrated with siri's voice recognition in general myself as a multi-year homepod user. The amazon echos I had before the homepod were more consistent and google's general voice transcription & knowledge base is still way ahead of siri.

I mostly chose the homepod because of privacy and better sound. If the privacy story was the same on google or amazon, I'd probably be using that right now instead.
I suspect it's probably the case that most are crazy, but I'm not confident. Youtube, reddit, etc are where I get this impression from, but these sites optimize for views and therefore have a tendency to amplify the more sensational examples of anything.
> With automation, it seems obvious we'll be seeing way more unemployment than what's happening right now

I fully support the underlying message, but automation has been happening at large scale for 70+ years now, unemployment rate doesn't follow automation, jobs are just shifted to other industries/sectors.
Apple users will get this natively without having to acquire 1Password. If you’ve bought into the Apple ecosystem and don’t have needs outside of it (Windows, Linux), you can eliminate the need for a separate password manager. Similar to how iCloud Files is moving towards (but likely won’t meet, while not needing to) Dropbox parity.

This is making a friendly version of Yubikeys (using Apple devices) and password vaults for Apple users.
I'm confused why this comment is here.
Thanks, glad you like it!

Theoretically, yes, you can use Splitgraph as a PostgreSQL replication client and then occasionally run a commit to produce a new delta. But we're currently focused on the OLAP use case and so Splitgraph images don't yet support storing things like indexes, views, triggers, stored procedures etc.
I find this story odd because it seems like it's over-emphasizing the large scale/ low manual labor crops. In other words, the article is talking about inexpensive, long shelf life crops:

> The Midwest in the United States has close to 90M acres of corn, 85M acres of soybean, and 30M acres of wheat.

Maybe I've got this entirely wrong, but my understanding is most vertical farming focuses on producing highly perishable fruits and vegetables which often still require a fair amount of manual labor and where being close to market is a benefit.

I haven't yet seen large scale vertical gardens being commercially successful yet, but if they do, I'm certain they won't be producing corn, wheat, or soybeans.
I've got a stock Ubuntu 18.04 install at work. Sometimes, but not always, it hangs for three minutes or so trying to run fsck on my UEFI partition. Other times, I'm at the login screen within a minute of turning it on.

When it hangs, it finally exits with an error message saying it couldn't mount /boot/efi. Once I log in I can see that /boot/efi is mounted fine.

A bunch of my applications hang all the time for reasons I couldn't figure out. Turns out they were trying to communicate with my Gnome keychain over D-Bus, but they were in a separate D-Bus session so they just sent their D-Bus message and then waited for however long until they gave up. No idea at what point this started happening or why, but I never did figure out how to fix it (other than disabling those apps from being able to store passwords securely).

If I used the Intel drivers for my Intel GPU I got extreme stuttering and tearing, which only went away when I uninstalled the Intel drivers entirely so that it would use the "correct" drivers.

Then there's snaps. I install stuff and sometimes it's a package, and sometimes it's a snap. If it's a snap, everything turns into a giant mess. I had Firefox saving its downloads to Skype's workspace for some reason, multiple Firefox profiles on my system in various places, multiple versions of Firefox running when snapd downloaded a new version and symlinked it to be the default, two copies of Telegram for some reason and no obvious way to tell which was which, a snap and non-snap version of things because the Store installed the snap but another package depended on the apt package, and so on.

I installed my system on btrfs because "it's like a decade old now, it should be fine right?" and within a month my filesystem had been completely corrupted and I had to reinstall entirely (though I managed to salvage most of my home directory at least).

This is all stuff I'm willing to tolerate to some extent, but I can't think of a single thing that Linux offers me that makes it worth all this hassle. At my last job, I happily used a MacBook for nine straight years, and I never lost an entire day of productivity just because suddenly my system won't boot, or dealt with graphical glitches in every app because the driver for my video card isn't the right driver for my video card, or lost data because one of the default options for installation filesystem is unstable and unreliable.

I've never had to do much of anything to "tweak" MacOS unless I wanted to; on Ubuntu, I have to do it almost every day to get something working well (or at all).

So I'm gonna go ahead and say that yeah, MacOS isn't even remotely dead, and it's certainly not going to lose to Linux any time soon.
Why does this still get posted?

They never dropped 'don't be evil', it's at the end of their code of conduct:

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
The antidote for negative consequences of tech use?
There have been other cases like this, right? I can't think of them right now but powerful people get obsessed with anonymous message board commenters and then go on a rampage. Musk has called people at home and where they work. Back in the day Yahoo message board posters used to drive companies crazy. It's a weird phenomenon because literally the only people who care are the executives themselves. Nobody else, not even their spouses or competitors, cares. I'll call it Fishbowl Syndrome because the executives think they're in a fishbowl under constant scrutiny and literally nobody else cares what's going on with the fish.
Palo Alto NIMBY battle reaches a luxury conclusion
Giving my finger and face prints to the browser, the software with the biggest attack surface in the world, connected to internet no less, feels off to me.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20200624180614/https://www.readi...
There is a difference between diverse outcomes in parallel and diverse outcomes in series. If you have a hundred people flip a coin 10 times, redistributing each time - heads they get back triple, tails they lose everything - you'll end up with around 1000x what you started with. Whereas if you flip that same coin with reinvestment ten times, you'll almost certainly have nothing at the end - even though the average outcome is the same.
Ask HN: Who has your favorite personal website? What does yours look like?
How does this compare to Dolt and DoltHub?
I have too, and the OP got Peoplesoft to work.
But ... my goodness the effort compared to a proper jason APInis huge and compared to just web scraping HTML. I mean there is a word file someone just uploaded. That's three clicks
I don't really understand it either, but it does give way better attach rates. A lot of B2B clients seem really into it.
That doesn’t mean much, other than they are probably part of the problem mob.
> It’s crazy to think supporting a five year old device is now considered ground-breaking.

I wonder if this is slowing down, or speeding up? At some point it feels like we'll find a equilibrium for phones, similar to what we have for general purpose computers...
Dumps go automatically to an S3 bucket with an expiration policy. But everyone who wants to visualize the dumps with JMC needs to build JMC from source locally, since there is still no stable release process or packaging for it AFAICT.
"using multiple, vertical inert metal-alloy anodes and ceramic cathodes"

What is the process? Why was it hard before, and why does it work now?

I'm not expecting a thorough analysis, but the article was very light on what they are actually doing, even for a casual reader.
'patio11 who is also a member of HN has written a blog post that IMHO is worth a read: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

It touches on this subject.
Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). You can run Perl inside of it if you want to, with the Inline::Perl5 module. Check out the Rakudo Weekly News https://rakudoweekly.blog if you want to stay up-to-date!
Every time I read these comments I realize that apple is going to dominate again. A PWA is not vetted! If you complain about a PWA apple cannot take it down!

In your PWA / QR code utopia, after someone sticks a few bogus QR codes on parking meters, scooters and bike rentals etc that point to their phising PWA - trust is going to be toast.

Seriously - chrome getting rid of subdomains used to trick users (wellsfargo.securedomain.com) in the browser bar also generated lots of complaints - and also helps users.

Is this just a HN thing? Screw the 1B users who can't be bothered to become experts on every weird scam / original headers review etc? Because it get's a bit tiring on literally every thing that google / apple do.
The way you cut an onion affects its flavor
> Would you know how I could detect that input is cat'ed into the script ? ($ cat snippet.c | runc -i). So that I can suppress 'Type your code then CTRL+D'.

Stack Overflow suggests http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10022323/ddg#10022396
Close captioning is for people who can’t hear.

I am not aware of many TV shows that offer audio commentary for the visually impaired.

Here is an example of one that does.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400590705/after-fan-pressure-...
Excising "no free tier" (because we damn well know "free" products ain't free either - that's not an indicator of marketing), your argument boils down to "one of those services is new, therefore, content marketing."

"All internet discussions of new products are content marketing" seems way overboard for me.
I think what you're looking for is this: https://metacpan.org/pod/Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic
They're hoping we're distracted by the virus / riots / rhetoric of spooky criminals.
Manchester United 3-0 Sheffield United – Premier League – FootballGH
I’m not sure why this isn’t highlighted more often, but I don’t see this just as a take on making web apps less relevant for iOS users.

Rather what I see is a system to take on and take back control from the “app in app” WeChat ecosystem that has taken over so many parts of everyday life in China.

It seems to me that Apple is looking to replicate that success, and sees the potential for apps that users don’t want to keep around permanently.

It is indeed sad that this may discourage companies further from building solid web apps, especially if Android counters this system with their own, but I think it’ll mainly be interesting to see if and how it’ll affect WeChat in China.
so one more instance of Apple effectively rendering a third party app useless.
As an apple user, I love that I do not need to install an additional app but something does not feel right from an ethical standpoint.
Or maybe I'm just being too touchy.
Right but Apple have done it and they have actual market share and 100% control of the end to end device
What's the other one, out of curiosity?
It's fugly. I thought a plugin broke rendering on GH. This seems like a change for change's sake -- I don't see what this was supposed to accomplish.

Put back the "releases" link where it belongs for a start. And why is the code-issues-pullrequest etc left-aligned and the content it governs centered? How did this get out the door?
Modern (5e) D&D even explicitly encourages this with it's skill system. DMs are encouraged to just pick a stat (or even let their players pick a stat) that feels like it's applicable to the situation, then then add that to their roll.
Isn't the fight against encryption a bipartisan effort?
I'd really like them to establish a "counterfeit reviews" unit too.

Many years ago their review system was one of their businesses advantages. Many users and fairly honest reviews.

Now it's rife with fake and bought reviews, rendering it useless.
Via their (very good FAQ)

Writing to PostgreSQL tables that are change-tracked by Splitgraph is almost 2x slower than writing to untracked tables (Splitgraph uses audit triggers to record changes rather than diffing the table at commit time).
Testing Warranties
Why did the title get changed from the article's title ("What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand About Agriculture")?
Just speculating here, but they still have a Back-to-my-Mac-like feature: The HomePod allows for remote access to things in your home WiFi, e.g. IoT devices.

As IP addresses of home routers change often enough, this might be a use case for DNS push. Access has to work across work across carrier-grade NAT though, so they might still need more than DNS.
For open source, you kind of are in a weird way. Open source projects need contributions, for example in the form of bug reports, feature requests, proof reading and (in the rare case) source code. Many ousers provide these benefits to open source projects, which make them thrive.

On the other hand, looking at the coin from the other side you could also argue you’re paying with your time and effort and not your money.
> Or at least diverted from another global region where the recipe/ingredients are somewhat different.

Did you happen to check for differences in the packaging?
I'm sorry, Moose is a pig. Its startup time is atrocious. Its run time overhead is non-trivial. People who use Moose in my experience just showboat that they can do OO. Does it help? Maybe. But what it surely does is it makes a program run and startup significantly slower.
In incognito mode, the FileSystem API is disabled, so anyone can tell you are in incognito mode by checking it

Bloomberg actually has the best paywall fingerprinting in the business. Using a new browser won't help either
Very interesting to hear a Chinese person complain about American higher education as too rote, as I've often read complains in the HN bubble that the Chinese system would be too rote. Perhaps things look too rote from either side if you're missing the culture-specific subtlety? Perhaps things are too rote on both sides but it's only noticed by those from a different background?

Relevant excerpt: "The things you think about are decided by your professors, and you follow their lead as you develop your thoughts instead of asking yourself what questions you developed from your reading or what link it might produce with your own background. So you just do your best to chew the cud and digest the material. And if you actually learn something, it is transplanted out of nothing and remains attached to its origin rather than sinking roots or sprouting branches. When study is nothing but rote learning, who doesn’t lose their appetite?"
...and how many of them were designed to be sprinkled liberally in the command line?

Python has a REPL but you couldn’t dump a Python one liner in your Bash pipeline.

Maybe a LISP might qualify but then you’re back to a language family that is unreadable to many and unknown to most (and I say this as someone who loves LISP)

When talking about the original design of Perl you can’t put it in the same category as Python, Pascal and the C-family of languages. Perl was born from an entirely different problem to solve and that’s why some of it’s historic features seem so alien to people outside of the Perl community.
... and do you support that? Anyway, a much better example would be forced sterilization policies.
In the enterprise IT world, admins pay money precisely because they don't want things like this to happen.

I can't imagine that IBM would make an acquisition like this and screw it up in quite this way.
That's common in small town or exurban areas in the US.
> Fourth, life is dry and boring, you don’t have friends or family, and you can’t sit around every day talking about the meaning of life. With time, you wind up really lonely, which makes you appreciate the vitality of life in China. When you come back, you’re like a bird let out of a cage, and your only urge is to fly. Who wants to study? Too bad.

Okay that has to be partially self inflicted. Too many people travel with no attempt to integrate with locals. I will grant that it's not easy, and many Americans fall into the same trap during their study abroad time, but that's perhaps the great allure and challenge is it not?