skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally many other 3rd party login systems have been around much longer than Sign in with Apple, which was another strike against Apple for the author.
What if npm packages are re-coded by popularity?
In the sense that any package that has achieved high connectivity and popularity must eliminate as much dependencies with pure JS code. But again that would cause code bloating. Dan Abramov had a talk about abandoning Clean Code. It is kind of strange that simple React app now days has NPM folder with 1GB of files, but I guess we got used to.
I worked on a Java desktop app, that had a highly complex UI written in Swing, for ~14 years. We only officially targeted Windows as a platform. For a few years I switched to a Linux development machine. The only code change required was for our third party license dongle - to reference the correct native library needed for machine fingerprinting. We also ran it on another developers Mac just to see if we could - again we only had to comment out the licensing code and it works flawlessly.

So from that experience I would say Java definitely lived up to Write Once Run Everywhere. FWIW we used the Nimbus Look and Feel. Other LAFs may not have had as much polish applied.
I mean, they both are made of people, right? And those people have brains that they use, right? And brains are made of molecules, right? At the end of the day it's all just molecules reacting to stimuli, and basically there's no difference. Because they are molecules.
Agreed. The way that Google Docs changed highschool English classes, Overleaf changed upper-division college mathematics classes.
So a little SEZ if you want to experience what it was like to live under the Divine Right of Kings and its associated aristocracy and serfdom[1][2], a little SEZ if you want to experience Christian theocracy[3][4], a little SEZ if you want to experience a degenerate lawless unproductive commune without domestic agriculture[5], and a little SEZ if you want to live free[6]?

States don’t exist in a vacuum. We’re constantly experimenting as it is, if you want to call politics experimenting, and every new law or ordinance passed, every new executive order issued, every new opinion written by the courts and every new verdict reached by a Jury changes the “system” a little. You could call it the ultimate experiment in reflective social programming if you want to get nerdy about it, but I wouldn’t use such terms myself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
Interesting, wonder what'll happen to the stock...
It appears that those links describe the conditions before passage of the communications decency act of 1996. That was all overturned by section 230 of the CDA.
Don't forget to factor in the cost to be sitting in the DC with the machine, so that you're not beholden to internet latency/outages/etc.
> What other types of violence are there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_abuse for starters.

https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/definition/e... - "This typology distinguishes four modes in which violence may be inflicted: physical; sexual; and psychological attack; and deprivation."
There are costs associated with accepting and securing cash as well.
But I thought debit card = bank transfer? There is no protection?
Apple Pay doesn't solve anything on the merchant's side. There's just nothing in the US with the simplicity and affordability as the various payment apps in Asian countries.

For instance, in China WeChat Pay only charges 0.1% above 10,000 RMB (from what various articles say). Square is not even in the same category, charging 2.6% + 10¢. And you don't need to buy any equipment to use WeChat Pay; you just need to pull up a QR code on your phone.
I think you're right and we should just use a different word instead of fighting against the plain meaning. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when it takes 4 paragraphs to explain why the plain meaning of a word isn't how the word's allowed to be used, there will be a lot of people who don't get it.
Ah yes, the old "let's block stupid (poor) people from accessing financial instruments for their own good" argument while at the same time having legal gambling.
Because they know they have a golden goose and are not willing to risk it all pushing boundaries like the FANG companies are. They also have literally 50 years of experience with their data mining and the only think more powerful that incompetence is 50 years of bureaucracy....
This is interesting technology, however I fear it will breed complacency in lifeguards. I worked as a lifeguard off and on for a few years when I was in highschool and college so I can say from experience, sneaking boredom is a problem you have to actively guard yourself against. It's a job where 99.999% of the time nothing bad happens, but you're supposed to be ready for that 0.001% in an instant; that's easier said than done. I'm not sure a system like this would have a productive effect on lifeguards.

If these systems are coupled with the right sort of training, they might be a net benefit. Or maybe the system could be designed in such a way that requires the lifeguard to stay attentive, such as requiring the lifeguard to input the current headcount. If the lifeguard's headcount starts to disagree with the computer's, that could be a signal that the lifeguard has become fatigued and needs to call in another lifeguard or call people out of the pool. (If the system isn't accurate enough to be used in this way, then perhaps it's not ready for use at all.)
How to take a data science project from idea to production
Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps
What are the common users and use cases of no code? I feel like it's well worth the investment to spend a year or 2 learning serious programming or just hiring a team if someone wants to get into the software space so kind of confused by the movement
Also, Cat Scales: https://catscale.com/
there's a Futurama gag about a 3rd option that's just as apropos as when it aired:

> Fry: $30? I can't afford that. Unless... Do you take Visa?

> Salesman: Visa hasn't existed for 500 years.

> Fry: American Express?

> Salesman: 600 years.

> Fry: Discover card?

> Salesman: Sorry we don't take Discover.

the good news is that Amex seems to have stepped up while partnering with Walmart for their BlueBird cards - while not perfect, at least helping to add more options. and with walmart in the mix it seems to help get a 3rd (Amex) option accepted more places.

maybe not the perfect solution, but at least a step in the right direction.
China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
It's easy to be idealistic while sitting at home comfortably . These 2 countries are currently at the brink of war, when one country attacks you, you need to defend yourself anyway you can. I don't see anything wrong in Indias actions. China has long asked for such rebuttal from its neighbors.
Look into Boulder, Colorado. That is where the startup scene is in Colorado.
A/B testing auth methods is tricky. It's fine for "can we get better sign up rates" but it wreaks havoc on "can my previous users still sign in". At best you can AU/NA test - show different pre-auth treatments in different, very distant geographies that nevertheless have roughly similar user characteristics.
I think it seems a little dubious as well just considering the study was done with only 24 ppl.

If it works, I'd imagine the mechanism is something on the cellular level, similar to how blue light disturbs sleep by stirring up activity within a certain type of retinal cell.
You vastly overestimate how many software engineers leetcode.
The use of the term "experts" almost guarantees that the article (and the effort) is shite. The mention of anti-vaxxers moves it into the trashbin.
I've been following the discussion in Twitter with Tim Sweeney and Godot, about the MegaGrant that Epic gave Godot. Have seen Tim many times commenting about the good progress they have made, before even granting the money.

I've got the picture that Tim actually likes the software, not just because they want to squash their competition. But of course they might have motivation to take users away from Unity, who knows.

In my books, Godot is a really nice engine that will get closer to AAA -engines when the 4.0 release comes out, their open source policy is really nice and you have access to all the source code, which can help a lot while developing your apps, so It's all positive and everyone who wants to develop games or 3D apps will gain from this if they choose to put their time into Godot, not just Unreal.
You shouldn’t buy a new Mac right now
Patreon is recurring so you can get income from sleeper subscriptions.
> The unwieldy part came with all the repeated tasks, and tasks that got carried over from one day to the next (or didn't get finished). I had to copy yesterday's file, change all the key info, sort out the todo list, erase yesterday's journal, and generally do far too much work to keep my journal up.

I have that problem with my systems. I was hoping he would explain the solution specifically.
Sounds great until you consider that the vast majority of users just tap/click “yes” at every prompt.

End users don’t even know what’s best for them. My family acts like I’m a conspiracy theorist when I talk about privacy. Yes, that’s anecdotal, but I’d bet most people would behave similarly. Consider the sheer amount of articles in popular media about Facebook’s privacy violations. Now consider how many people in your family either haven’t heard about them or simply don’t care.

Even other tech-savvy people don’t care. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “what do you have to hide?”
Writing Usable Code
That’s often the case. Apple is way better than Dell and HP on supply chain stuff, but their range is narrower. Dell has like 10000 configurations and Apple has like 100, with 80% of sales being stock SKUs. Even with laptops, they tend to offer at least one model that is an incredible value due to scale. If you need to configure, however, forget it.

Back in 2008/9, I bought about 300 cheese graters at a net savings of about $180k vs other workstations if memory serves. It was a happy coincidence that our need matched Apple’s config.
A quick google search shows that 670nm lights are quite commonly made and easy to obtain, amazon has a plethora of them (although 660nm is considerably more common).
The bank would immediately decline a $43,000 purchase on my card. Not only is this way over my debit card’s daily anti-fraud limit, it also exceeds my bank balance. I would recommend keeping a small balance in any account used for online purchasing.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." — Andy Tanenbaum
Easy: Is the output great engineering because of scrum, or despite it?
I guess the assumption is that the phenomenon starts at a point, spreads across the object sized l at c, and lasts for only a period of time t at any location. Therefore the pulse ends after l/c + t = T. By measuring T you can put an upper bound on l.

Example of this inference, from the Wikipedia on Fast Radio Bursts (but I have seen in many contexts):

> The sources are thought to be a few hundred kilometers or less in size, as the bursts last for only a few milliseconds

Does that make sense?
The article says "When you provide us with your email address, it is never sold, shared, or used to invade your privacy." So, one of you is lying. I don't have the means to determine who, but I don't see what your motivation for lying would be, but can see what theirs may be.

And to extend that, if they are a spammy company, that would be exactly why they would be complaining about SIWAI.
The bans will expand to the rest of the world soon enough. There is no way to satisfy this beast and no border that will contain it.

After Biden wins, I'd guess we'll have a couple years of laxer enforcement and that will doom the alternatives.
It's an acronym which fell too deep into its niche; a check word used to advertise one's legitimacy as a person on the other side of the curtain.
Right wingers current peeve in respect to loosing, again, the culture wars. You know you’re on the wrong side of history simply by checking who’s using this term. If it’s Laura Ingram and ivanka you’ve clearly lost the argument.

Fox News and trump are not victims of a cancel culture they are the cancel culture, which I think is a perfect term to describe the injustices of a system these people represent.

Who’s really being “cancelled”? Ivanka Trump or millions or disenfranchised people, mostly poor, who’s voices are never heard unless they go out to the streets or boycott a random corporation who’s been lobbying the government in order to bypass and subvert democracy for profit?
They didn't make the profit on the first sale. They made the profit on the next sale after the user finds it nearly impossible to upgrade and buys a new computer instead.
I’m guessing the whole thing is very USA centric, and they haven’t really thought through the implications of having users from across the world.
Obligatory "Tik Tok is a poison on society" post
No complaints here given how your life is in their hands during surgery
The workflows of Phabricator, having Tasks as Issues and attaching patches to them is way archaic to how people who are used to Github do things - they fork, make changes, and submit merge requests.

If you want to solicit outside contributors you pretty much have to support this model or you will lose a sizable fraction of potential devs.
Pretty much. Some of these would probably turn out to be more popular than others. It would be contradictory for libertarians to try to impose their systems on others against their will. But given the unpopularity of libertarian parties in elections, libertarianism is unlikely to be implemented, even on an experimental basis. What finished off the 1930s anarchists in Spain? It's not a very well-run economic experiment when it's shut down by Marxists and Fascists. A bit more tolerance would be helpful.
Wonderful site. Thank you.

I have a question. So how do you deal with sites which deliver the same content as you? Like, say you come across another site which also delivers playing card games like yours, would you go after it legally or something? Or have you faced issues where you have been told you are plagiarizing the game from another place?

Pardon my ignorance. I am unfamiliar when it comes to this kind of knowledge.
That is a nonstandard and confusing use of the term.
C++ is very easy to use with Godot and integrate with the GDScript support. GDScript is also very good as a script language.

Been writing my own application mostly using C++ for the core logic and main application logic using GDScript. The interfacing between C++ and GDScript is suprisingly easy once you set it up.

But yeah stuff like Rust support is depending on the maintainers of that code to update to support latest versions of Godot.
In face-to-face meetings, you can do the whole body language rapport physical communication thing that is completely lost in a screen wall of avatar-sized facial swatches.
Looker might slow you down
Why buy an expensive new/refurbished Mac now if there are completely new models with ARM available in a couple of years?
I'd wait 1 year or so for Intel Macs' prices to drop to half or lower, because Apple will not be able to sell them anymore, and then buy and install Linux on them.
I think so, at least for the ad industry. Trust is central to the economy, and most people are unaware that their trust is misguided. A simple food label seems pretty straightforward but it’s anything but. Tic Taks are “sugar free”. There is a transparency in reminding a user or consumer that they are consenting to a predatory agreement in plainer language than you would see in fine print. We are being lied to so much especially with social media.

Many people still harbour the notion that Facebook is a social utility. It used to be.
I'm not sure that argument works out though.

It's like saying, we landed on the moon by flying less than 400,000km into space, so why don't we fly 800,000km into space and see if we can land on something else? When in reality, everything we know about astronomy tells us the next nearest thing we could expect to land on is Mars, and that's 77,000,000km away.

I know we don't understand particle physics as well as we understand astronomy, but, taking Dr. Hossenfelder at her word that the Higgs boson "completes" the "picture" and that the theoretical "loose ends" would actually require "energies at least ten billion times higher than what even the FCC could test", it sounds like we're a lot closer to Mars than to the next breakthrough in terms of particle colliders.
So, you're saying that both bans and shadowbans are manual interventions? I did not have that impression regarding shadowbans. What I, and the comment I linked to earlier saw was a combination of green username (new account) and every comment after a certain point marked as [dead]. If that's not "shadowbanned," I don't know what it is. This user also seems to attract downvotes to fairly reasonable comments for some unknown reason.

That said, yes, this user has some questionable comments, most of which seem to have come after the point where I initially noticed. I don't see any reason why posting about racial statistics, China, immigration, and lynchings is a big red flag, especially the way 2020's been going so far. It is certainly easier to troll on these subjects than it is about how much Rust sucks, but, in isolation, I'd call this a chartreuse flag, at best. I do agree with you about your assessment of this user's current comment history, however.
Even if magnetically they don't have 'bit rot', they use bearings where the lubrication can dry up and wear out when they're not turning for long periods of time.

You need to keep them spinning on a regular basis, and replace them as they begin to fail.
When did Apple stop making the "trash can" style Mac Pros? This link is surprising to me.
Typsetting is hard. I think the bulk of problems may come from an impedence mismatch between the expectations and reality of typesetting.

How many people actually look at the output file texput.log? What about using the family of \tracing* commands? Heck, most TeX engines drop you into a REPL as soon as they hit an error! How often do people make use of this, even minimally by using \show and \showthe to investigate state?

In my experience it seems like people (reasonably) come to TeX/LaTeX viewing it as a sort of advanced word processor. This is unfortunate, because if you approach it more like a full-fledged programming environment, then it ends up feeling a lot more friendly, if a bit archaic, IMHO.

When you're on a deadline, the frustration is real though. I got fed up enough that I bought a hard copy of the TeXbook and spent a week-long deep dive just trying to grok plain TeX. By the end, I ended up liking it enough that I re-wrote my master's thesis in plain TeX, with nice hand-crafted macros for section and equation numbering, etc. This actually made troubleshooting interesting and tractable for me.

If I were still in academia, I would probably advocate strongly for having a TeX/typesetting course for graduate students, if nothing else than to give us a good excuse to actually study and become closely acquainted with this tool that we rely so heavily on.

I love plain TeX and want more people to see the joy as well.
The same class as Office?

My teachers in highschool knew what Office was and how to use it. I doubt most teachers now have heard the name VS code and don't know why they'd want it.
I do disagree, there was a lot of discussion about this on SSC prior to Scott shutting it down. If you just read what's on the site now, you're missing most of the important background information. In particular, the "reporter" at the NYT was clearly looking to get SSC cancelled, so Scott self-cancelled before that could happen, on his own terms.

I'm ambivalent about his decision, but it was definitely his to make and probably is in the best interest of his patients (and himself)—at least in the short-term. The world, however, has lost a really good blog and community.
My router doesn't accept a username at all, which actually makes a bit of sense since there's only one 'account' on it. Unfortunately, this means that neither the browser nor LastPass will save the password. My previous router allowed me to change both the username and the password, then pre-populated the username field with whatever I'd entered (but didn't disable the field), which I always thought was odd...
Why shouldn't companies have any values that result in "political" decisions?
Something doesn't make sense in Interview Prep today
Yes; just search Twitter for "orange site".
> Be honest and say those things out loud. "I want to eliminate the evil people."

I would eliminate people who publicly espouse the domination of me and/or people I care about for the crime of being black/jewish/queer/women/caring/etc, not because of anything about them intrinsically, not, say, for being white, though they mostly are, but for being the kind of person who espouses the domination of me and/or people I care about for our color/genitals/love. You trying to equalize the sides of that is extremely...telling.
What if the list contains/is itself advertising, and the random person is everyone on a huge list of active email accounts?
Does it work on people of color? Seems like a potentially deadly oversight considering what we know about existing failures in object-detection.
I ran ~200 instances of Postgres in production for a SaaS product. This was on top of GCP persistent disk, which qualifies as quite good network storage, all of it backed up by what is now called Velero.

This particular database was not a system of record. The database stored the results of a stream processing system. In the event of a total loss of data, the database could be recovered by re-streaming the original data, making the operation of PG in a kubernetes cluster a fairly low risk endeavor. As such, HA was not implemented.

This setup has been running in production for over two years now. In spite of having no HA, each instance of this application backed by this DB had somewhere between four and five nines of availability while being continuously monitored on one minute intervals from some other spot on the Internet.

During the course of my tenure, there was only one data loss incident in which an engineer mistakenly dropped a table. Recovery was painless.

I've since moved on to another role and can't imagine having to run a database without having the benefits of Kubernetes. I'm forced to, however, as some folks aren't as progressive, and damn does it feel archaic.
The tile is “ You shouldn’t buy a new Mac right now”.
I wish blog posts like this had examples of things they actually did. It would make it a lot more informative to learn from an example.
Biggest thing is to somehow get mainstream credibility to content creators. FreddieW (OG Youtuber), JKNews, etc. say that breaking into Hollywood after years of huge Youtube success is really hard b/c you're starting from 0. Everything you've done on YT is "oh that's just Youtube stuff", which I think is totally unfair and a huge detriment to the deep talent pool on Youtube.