skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metal C is for z/OS, not IBM i.

ISVs definitely use it, not just IBM. Most z/OS user exits cannot use language environment, they must use either Metal C, assembly or PL/X. (And, outside of IBM, PL/X is only an option for those few companies who have bought PL/X licenses, which apparently IBM doesn’t even sell anymore.)

Also, historically there has been a big culture at z/OS sites of writing site-specific user exits in assembly. Less of a need for it nowadays given features in newer z/OS versions and ISV solutions, but some folks still do it. And Metal C is the only alternative to assembly that customers have.

For a real world example of where it is used, I used to work with a product that used RACF user exits to send security change notifications over the network to a Java app running on a Unix system, for auditing, scheduled access certification, etc. (The user exit in question was written in HLASM not Metal C, but if you were building the same thing from scratch today you’d quite possibly choose Metal C over HLASM. You can’t write a RACF user exit in C++ because that needs language environment and language environment use is not allowed in RACF user exits.)
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this fantastic resource. Saved me a ton of time, and hugely increased my confidence in how I'm setting things up in my "new" home.
I am also using Firefox. It blocked Google analytics on the site but did not get a warning.
you make it sound like facebook was innocent here.

Facebook build api and functionality that enabled data to be slurped, they also build how the warnings of what data is being exported to whom are displayed (or not).

Further more, since they control all the data in the first place it wouldn't be difficult for them to show a page that shows exactly which entity accessed what data they have on you.

Bottom line is that this whole mess couldn't happen without Facebook deliberately making decisions that enabled it.

And I know some of the smart people that worked there at that time. I don't believe for a second that nobody at Facebook had any idea what was happening.
Sometimes... if you put in just the right number of characters so it doesn't search the web instead... but then, it is often the first result even! No, wait, it moved just before I clicked it, fuck.
you cant expect anything less than that with the guardian. Remove all the buzzwords they throw in and then you might be able to see the real meaning of the article.
Mapping Anything with BSicons
Would it be possible to write an app in, let's say, Swift + SwiftUI for an Apple device, using the native primitives to render the UI, and use Godot just for rendering the 3d part?

Let's say that you're working on a 3d model viewer or some AR app.
Effortless Versioning of Go Tools for Your Project? BinGo
Thing is that the idea has merit if it has been proven in double blind scenarios with controls.

This is not the case here.

We might not know everything about biological processes in agriculture and all the variables that come into play, however that doesn't mean that any idea that isn't part of "mainstream" agriculture has merit on its own.
Growth cones are only relevant during development and in regenerating neurons which are not common. Everyday neurons do however continuously extend (and contract) filopodia which may reach nearby axon terminals and eventually form a synapse, thus causing synaptic rewiring. Synaptic scaling is usually used to refer to a homeostatic and uniforum up- or down- scaling of synaptic weights and is not really relevant to rewiring.
One more also, I bumped into a food delivery guy at our building yesterday and he didn’t know where to leave the delivery… a simple system like this could help him to find the correct drop-off point especially in these times of social distancing
Why would Americans turn against their own state instead of just fighting a war with Saudi Arabia? If a leadership change is all it takes then Americans can just voice their opinion in the next election.
I don't want to pay $50 for another Yubikey when I have a box full of $4 ESP32s, though.
One Ars Technica comment tries to find the reasoning, postulating that this new proposal is designed to be complementary to GPS/GNSS rather than a replacement for it.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/spacex-set-to-launch...

But that comment section is mostly pretty scathing.
"50 cents is a lot of money! You save 50 cents here, and then maybe you go somewhere else and save another 50 cents. Then you have 1 dollar. Then you take your dollar. You go to the dollar store, and you buy something else."
Everyone can use it, but Galileo is also a program to fund and support EU companies.

British companies won't receive any orders for producing the satellites and other technology anymore.

So the Johnson government is looking for ways to generate orders for British companies, as well.

[edit: changed "their own" to British", because readers might misread it as "companies owned by government officials"]
You’ve put it into words way better than I have.

God forbid people acknowledge Apple’s proprietary design is better...
To answer your question (which has been downvoted for reasons I don't really understand): Galileo is a EU project. It's only available to EU members. The UK contributed heavily and helped shaped it, but it was never meant to be usable by non-EU states, and you've got to be signed up to various agreements that could be summarized as "being in the EU". Legally, it belongs 100% to the EU.

So, could we have negotiated an ongoing part of Galileo? Yes, probably, but it would have involved a longer negotiating period and a number of compromises and continuing engagement with EU institutions. None of these were calls the government were prepared to make. Instead, they didn't even ask and just walked away from the project.

Needless to say, this is just a microcosm of the many things you have to accept if you take an absolutist stance on EU engagement.
> Hopefully you don't have micro-USB chargers, but USB chargers and micro-usb cables.

Yes, I should have clarified that. I don't have any USB-C cables either, for that matter. My chargers only put out 18 W at the most, so things like PD (Power Delivery) wouldn't work anyway.
It's a proposed investment in a bankrupt company, and apparently not the most suited one. We'll see...
I have opened a few issues in your repo, I want to try this out but there's very little documentation. I know I can probably just `pio build -t upload`, but I'm not sure about the schematics.
If you're creative, you can have free local shipping too, or just pay $2-4 to get shipped pretty much anything. It's just sligtly more expensive than standard aliexpress shipping, which is $1.5 or so.

The major thing compared to local stuff is lack of VAT on cheap foregin goods. Noone locally can compete with that.

Also most of the stuff I buy on Aliexpress (electronic components, SBCs, ...) simply isn't available locally, or is simply bought there and resold locally (because the manufacturer's main shop is Aliexpress).
thanks! good points. i agree with you in spirit. it's probably my business bias that i see politicians and politics in an unfavourable light.
Check out Sweden's results: http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/sweden_uk20jun.html

You really just download your opinions from the top 10 results on Google and whatever the anchor person tells you? Fascinating.

As for scientists, they do not agree on this point at all. The virus is nanometers thick and can easily sail through the vast majority of facial coverings people are using. It also easily becomes useless when worn for long periods of time, or when adjusting the mask with your hand or when eating or drinking, etc.

How much of the outbreaks are attributed to the massive gatherings and protests of people over the past few weeks? Why are bars blamed for this?
If someone is inclined to critique this, have they considered the whole situation, and do they have better ideas? Remain in the EU has sailed, sadly. What do we do now?

Is it possible investing in an existing space company is the best path for the UK to have its own GPS-like satellites?
Republicans are anti-Russian from a military perspective, because some of their traditional interests are rooted in that industrial area and will always benefit from a heightened state of military urgency. That's the "John Bolton" wing, basically, which is mad at Trump for squandering their best opportunities of payday (you can't sell weaponry without an enemy, and it's hard to get a credible enemy when the key guy is so friendly to all the best candidates). That drives a lot of their other objections to Putin's reach.

From an economic perspective, imho they display the same oligopolistic tendencies that Putin's Russia exhibits: lip service to competition and open markets (mostly abroad), ruthless devotion to monopolistic positions and cartels at home. The definition of "free markets" is declined differently depending on circumstances, in opportunistic fashion. I think that's what you mean by "competitive power structures" - they are competing entities, sure, but I personally don't see them as particularly different in the way they behave. Trump lays this bare by dropping the hypocrisy: him and Putin speak the same language, in the same way Putin and Berlusconi did. Both Trump and Berlusconi spent their lives in the trenches of "the Market". I don't think this is a coincidence.

I also disagree on the view of Europe being significantly more anti-corporatist than the US, but I admit that my Anglo-Italian view might be excessively pessimistic in that area and it's a complex discussion anyway, so I won't go there. However, the difference in "softness" towards Putin imho is not there - the Eastern block in the EU, for example, is rabidly anti-Russian for understandable reasons. We simply know that we cannot live without Russian energy at the moment, and that results in some hard pragmatism.
How German fintech darling WireGuard fell from grace
Apple WWDC 2020 Highlights: Big Things for Web Developers
I know with regular USB C (not USB C to lightning), it's definitely not standardized - some chargers output 5V, some 20V, some 45V.

Are you saying lightning changes this?
Also, sue in what court? One of the big problems with leaving the EU is that we no longer have access to the ECJ when we have a dispute with the rest of the EU.
What if something about the electrical signal attracts growth in certain direction, toward other signals firing at the same time?

Or what if some neuron pairs that are not yet connected share quantum entangled structures, that if activated simultaneously ... but still how does direction occur?

What if neurons emit light, that's why you can stimulate them with light...and what if they can somehow detect the faint light from other neurons and get the direction the light comes from, and grow towards that?
Ah very cool. It seems that Apollo 68080 is a 'virtual' 68k CPU running on an FPGA.

I was curious about FPGAs since they currently have plenty of headroom to emulate early nineties consoles (inluding 68k based ones like the Genesis) - it's awesome to see that FPGAs can now be used for continued life of old CPU architectures.
oh boy, wait till you hear about wirecard
I'm not saying that it was a tactic to bargain with the EU. This was a domestic political tactic to sell Brexit and the UK's bright future outside of the EU to the British public.
This is essentially a PR-only government run by a disgraced racist former journalist who has no extended attention span, no useful real-life skills, and nothing but contempt for STEM culture - but also believes that he's intelligent enough to talk his way out of any situation.

Expecting anything other than wasted money and failure is an exercise in unrealistic optimism.
So, running a Windows VM inside a Windows VM is the safest option?
Couldn't a paperclip potentially short the "pins"?
In my case, the ISP router (combined with cable modem) and my own router (Turris Omnia) are about as fast when they work.

But the ISP device is really unreliable - my work laptop can do 3x3 and that causes the router to lock up. It also "smartly looks for least used channel" which can't be turned off in the ui, and causes few minute long disconnects every hour or so. Oh and it overheats and restarts when you load it with a lot of packets, like with BitTorrent or video call with five people.

The router is very much worth it.
Oh, right, need some documentation there as well.

In general you can try the project with ESP32 development board and upload the firmware using `pio run -t upload -t monitor`

Then you need to pair the Bluetooth device. Afterwards you should be able to see connection requests in the serial monitor when you start authentication.

The actual authentication commands are not implemented yet, so it will not go further. Sorry :(
is this a troll? Article is clearly about WireCARD not guard
It's really a decision you have to do per-library.

For something like SDL that has a stable ABI while providing user-visible improvements in newer versions, dynamic linking makes sense. SDL's solution isn't only for static linking but also for bundled dynamically loaded SDL copies. I am not really convinced that SDL's approach is perfect though as anyone statically linking SDL can just disable this functionality and this feature has already caused problems requiring you to manually substitute the loaded libSDL.

For libs that don't interact with the system, dynamic linking does not really provide an advantage for binaries that are distributed on their own.
Given all these inaccuracies in this advertising artice I don't feel too much convinced. I'd recommend everyone reading the book by Paul Khlebnikov https://books.google.de/books?id=vb2ZAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y which gives a detailed insider view on Russian politics of that era. BTW, writing this book has costed the guy his life. As for "Putin's People" it looks like an another unwitting attempt to cash in on anti-Putin hysteria.
Github is evolving pretty rapidly than I thought it would. I like their new changes. Deep underneath it being with Microsoft just reminds me of oracle/google debacle. Definitely discourages big projects to be hosted there.
A Pseudo-Mathematical Proof that you can get Better at Everything
If memory serves the app is written in a dialect of Lisp and Firebase is the data store.
Ah, I see, thanks. I will watch the project and hopefully will use it when it's finished, thanks!
I love it when the problem solving approaches found in software engineering are applied to other domains. The suggestions at the end are basically UNIX principles applied to education.
That's not actually true. It was far more nuanced than this.
> There's already one news on front page

And the comment that is currently at/near the top and mostly discussed happens to link to exactly this site.
thanks. i agree with your stance. i do wonder if there's more going on behind the scenes. i enjoyed yanis varoufakis' book on the inner working of the EU, even considering the bias and all. then again, ockham's razor...
Great read, thanks! I would definitely consider using dedicated servers instead of VPCs. AWS seems to be ridiculously overpriced.
The git aspects of github are not the things people build SPOF on.

It’s the code review tooling, the artifact storage & the deployment pipelines.

A distributed version of those would be awesome...
If you Google "EU charger" this The Verge article will be the top result:

"Since 2009, the European Commission has been trying to convince tech companies to adopt a single charging method for our gadgets, primarily smartphones, in a quest to reduce the waste that comes when every new gadget you buy includes yet another AC adapter in the box. Now, Apple’s Lightning connector may be at risk."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21070848/eu-apple-europea...
Well, at least Microsoft hasn't had a Sidekick like event happen to GitHub. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
It doesn't require an SSD in the strictest sense of the word, but it is developed with the strong assumption that you have at least something as fast as an SSD, so the experience of running it on a spinning rust disk is an exercise in patience.
Whatever the incentives were, I actually prefer this choice to the alternatives.

This project (like Galileo) is about subsidizing the space sector first, and application is a distant 34th. I'd rather see the money flowing to people trying new stuff that to stablished companies building the same old systems.
I put all the ashes from my wood stove in the winter on my vegetable garden and fruit trees. The ash is rich in calcium, potash, minerals and trace elements. I only avoid using it on the potatoes, the calcium provides a thicker skin, which I don't like.
Yes, I mix IBM i and z/OS all the time, thanks for the correction.

However I would say that is exactly the example of a niche use case.
What you need to know about data protection
I wish it were only management that thought that way, but it seems like a lot of developers genuinely believe it too.
The genius candidate is one with the quick answer but gives a slow answer :-)
Akiko 32 – Amiga in miniITX format
I was in college from 2010-2014 which is a period of high growth as shown in the article.

It may not have been an all time high but it felt like everyone was taking CS. The 101 classes were incredibly oversubscribed. Maybe not many people graduated with the major but a ton of people started down that road and many people pursued the minor.
Why would you major in computer science if you want to work as a software engineer?

It's like getting a physics degree to become a civil engineer.
"out of work and destitute"

Does being in the House of Lords for a while count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Simpson,_Baron_Simpson_...
tl;dr yes - and an exception to Betteridge's law!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> (a bunch of comments about the UX redesign)

I agree. I'll add one: README files with tables now require horizontal scrolling, and that's utterly disappointing.

> The "explore" and "trending" functionality

I do work in ML and computer vision, and this is how I discover all of the new models and code people are using. It's awesome.

> Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host and issue/MR tracker. All the other stuff is just distraction in my eyes.

You're missing out! Deploying code is so easy once you're using CI/CD. Github actions are powerful.
If GitHub's been migrating to Azure infrastructure on the backend, it's possible that everyone else moving to all-WfH helped to cause it. Teams use massively increased during lockdown for obvious reasons and that's definitely Azure-based. If Teams managed to overload Azure capacity, I could see that having knock-on effects on GitHub.
I don't think CS is a high social status field at all. You're deluding yourselves. Outside of our peers also in the industry nobody cares that you're a staff engineer at Google. Absolutely nobody. They'll assume you're doing IT work like the characters in the IT Crowd if they even bother to think about it at all and haven't already walked away.

Here's a concrete example to make it really obvious.

How many computer scientists are there in the Lords in the UK? I'm not sure there's any. There are nearly 800 lawyers, doctors, religious ministers, biologists, physicist, mathematicians, philosophers, business people, politicians, authors, composers. A computer scientist who defines the field for half a century is lucky to get knight bachelor.

Look at similar establishment institutions elsewhere. Are there any computer scientists in the Senate in the US? Are computer scientists often invited to lead major public bodies? How many computer scientists become deans of universities compared to other fields?

The social status of computer scientists is zero.
Most of the cost comes from land based shipping which you conveniently ignored.
Because the odds of the technology working are really not high. And neither the company nor the managers have any record of successes they can point to.

And because there are a lot of others firms doing work which is more obviously different and potentially valuable.

And because the net loss to those businesses working on Galileo in the UK will likely be higher than the net gain from this idea.

And because Johnson has a despicable record of wasting public money on useless projects which inevitably raise questions about where the money actually went. (See also cable car, garden bridge, test and trace app, etc.)

Apart from that - sure, why not?
because it's what you need to get a food in the door.
Only one number that matters, the current / effective reproduction number [e.g. 0]. Everything else is a consequence of that.

Deaths within cohort are decreasing because of increasingly effective treatment options [1]. The medical system works a lot like our adaptive immune system when faced with a novel pathogen, and it takes some time for best practices to be discovered and promulgated. Even symptom treatment is going to seriously decrease all-cause mortality.

Having volunteered at a large US metro board of health over the last two months, booking testing appointments and arranging result reporting, I can tell you that a substantial number of under-50s are being testing. Primarily families and people with exposure to a known case.

Effectively, there are a few groups the virus spreads through: (Won't shelter)|(Can't shelter) + (Won't protect)|(Can't protect) + (Will protect) + (Will shelter).

The spikes we're seeing are a consequence of public health policy + current SEIR proportions in those various groups. As more vulnerable groups are increasingly infected, they become immune (aka recovered), which decreases the ability the virus to transmit in those groups.

And left with less vulnerable groups of susceptible individuals, effective reproductive number decreases.

The danger of SARS-CoV-2, given the relatively low mortality (and based on genetic modeling of potential mutations), was never that it was going to crest with Ebola-like proportions (you get it, you die), but that it was going to crest with a magnitude that would overwhelm available medical resources.

Unfortunately, that crest is a binary proposition: either you have spare medical capacity (and serious Covid-19 patients receive high-quality care) or you have none (and serious Covid-19 patients receive no treatment).

So the danger is not death rates now. The danger is (effective reproductive number) -> (expected case count) -> (serious, hospitalized cases of Covid-19) -> (exhausted medical capacity) -> (Italy-esque spike in deaths).

[0] https://rt.live/

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/17/de...

[2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/15/go...
Wheres a good place to learn what one would need to to write a shell for Windows 10? Assuming no previous shell experience, and a little Windows programming experience.
All the GNSS systems have a mixture of services intended for the general public and so keys are public - and systems for which the keys needed aren't public. Most of them (e.g. GPS) say the non-public keys are for the military, since the EU does not have a military it says these keys are for "Public regulated services" and highlights that Galileo is ostensibly 100% civilian.

The UK won't have access to PRS service from Galileo. It isn't entitled to equivalent access to GPS, and obviously not to GLONASS or Beidou. So rather than say "We're a small unimportant island so that's fine" our government feels it absolutely must have equivalent capability.
Entanglement demonstration on board a nano-satellite
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-ho...

Is this what you're referring to?
Good. Those APIs were awful. If your website needs to know the battery status or other such information , you need to be writing an app which I will never download.
I just found this on MetaFilter and I'm already a big fan.