skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, spend millions on marketing but making a web app work in the _browser_ independently of OS is too expensive.
Along the same line I went back to pirating after all the companies started pulling their stuff off Netflix in favor of standing up their own services. I tried. But fine have it your way, back to getting none of my money.
ask the residents of Vancouver, BC what they say about this
In what other countries than America would this sort of thing work? (Not a rhetorical question.)
There are just so many things that make me fearful of either losing my phone or having it irreparably damaged. The account recovery process can be a. too hard or impossible (Hi Gitlab!) or b. too easy (too simple security questions).
If the loss of revenue through piracy is less than the cost of ongoing Linux support, then this is a sensible business decision.
Two of my children are still using these. The Toshiba Chromebook 2 is available (swappa.com, eBay, etc.) in 2014 or 2015 versions. The major difference seems to be that the 2015 has backlit keys and is very rare compared to the 2014.

I bought protective shells for them and that made a huge difference in longevity. The kids would tend to pick up their computers by the top/screen and could crack the screen or knock a connector loose.

The speakers on it are also decent, which my kids appreciate.

I really don't see how people can use the typical Chromebook with its 1366 x 768 screen except that it would make you focus solely on what was on screen.
This article offers some useful elaborations on the "rubber ducking" or "Spaniel Method." I blogged about this in https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2015/09/25/asking-questions-fr... and found an earlier description in a paper published in ACM SIGPLAN in December 1998 “Literate Programming and the ‘Spaniel’ Method” by Nick Hatzigeorgiu and Apostolos Syropoulos. Note that this is a year before Pragmatic Programmer came out. They relate the following advice on “The Spaniel Method” a professor offered Apostolos Syropoulos in response to a request for help debugging a seemingly intractable problem in a program that he was working on:

"As is often the case with baffling errors it is really quite simple. We tend to fixate on incorrect assumptions, and overlook the obvious, surprisingly frequently. I have found that one way to break through such barriers is to use the ‘Spaniel’ method: Carefully explain the program to your dog. Since the dog knows nothing of programming, you must justify every statement you make. In the process you will often discover the mistake.” W. W. Waite

I traced a connection to the Quaker Clearness Committee model, which suggests that the best way for a small group of people to help an individual navigate a thorny problem is not to offer advice but to ask questions designed to uncover greater clarity about the situation.

But this article was useful in drawing a connection to what is also called "Brainwriting" (a model for brainstorming that starts with everyone writing their ideas down first and then comparing them pairwise before moving into a group session) or the 1-2-4-all method from liberating structures http://www.liberatingstructures.com/1-1-2-4-all/

Essentially you use an escalating series of techniques that expose your problem/ignorance to wider audiences, wasting less of other people's time because you frame the problem more clearly as you go--and you may solve it before you ask a large audience for help.
Is this an attempt by ByteDance to retain control of the company?
I'd love for the US to adopt a standard that is bank agnostic, like ACH, but allows for near real-time payments from P2P but also person to business payments.

It's a big problem when Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal control a large part of money transactions.
Preload late-discovered Hero images faster
So, you are saying to brand yourself but what stops someone from copying your brand and marketing?

Also, not all business can be personalized solutions (would you want a custom car that no mechanic knows how to fix?), furthermore you lose economies of scale, which is a major reason why most companies are viable outside of tech.
Terrorizing? Poor, resourceless people? Do you just say these things as a reflex?
Perhaps we could stop dismantling the domestic economy by implementing policies that reward domestic investment? Huge swaths [0] of the country are losing their livelihoods due to offshoring and monopolistic practices.

[0] https://policybynumbers.com/economic-stagnation-and-electora...
A day of lockdown would probably not have a measurable impact.
The first result I got on scholar for atmospheric pollutant half-life claims 83.5 days:

[1]: https://hysz.nju.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/79/b2/159a6762...
“Wealth usually wins by default” is fully “as intended”, according to Noam Chomsky.
At least in terms of movies, this seems like the obvious route:

It used to be that game engines had real-time processing requirements (60/30/15 frames per second) and were constrained by the hardware on which they ran, but movies looked more photo-realistic and could take hours or days to produce a single frame.

As silicon and algorithms get faster and closer at approximating reality, the difference between the output of the two softwares approach one another. Given the amount of effort required to build these softwares it makes sense to save the years of effort, cost involved and risk involved with what essentially amounts to building a bespoke, internal graphics / physics / particle simulation engine.
Women have better hand-eye coordination. And that also makes them better welders. At least, that's what the grizzled old guy that taught me how to weld said.
SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts
I always find the lack of communication goes the other direction. Security and compliance teams just enforce an IAM policy without talking to application or product teams. It gets rolled out and lots of things break, even things that have legitimate needs to work the way they do and have considered security best practices heavily already, and then security and compliance just throws their hands up and says too bad, refactor it from first principles regardless of the level of effort, staffing requirements, competing priorities, etc.
Indeed, I'm just perplexed by people being so concerned with this specific instance of censorship. I would expect people to only get outraged by more mainstream stuff getting banned at this point, considering reddit and youtube started banning much more benign content ages ago (e.g. most gun related content).
It happened to people I know. That’s good enough for me. I still have lots of friends back in Beijing (Chinese, LHFs, and expats). It just isn’t a fun time to be a foreigner in China.
> Here in the Nederlands, the loser of the lawsuit pays for the legal fees of the winner.

In all cases I've seen first hand (in the Netherlands) the judge ordered all parties to pay their own costs. Loser pays is not a default because you almost never "win a 100%". You win for something like 70% (or maybe 90% if your lucky). So unless the case was really frivolous you will still have to pay for it yourself.

I personally know 2 people who sued the Dutch state (a somewhat similarly Goliath) and won. Both still needed to pay their own legal fees and such. It is possible to start a new case to get your legal fees from the opposing side. However if you have just concluded 5 years of court against a Goliath-style adversary your probably not really motivated for "a second round".

Also having to pay afterwards is no deterrent for a party like Apple who has unlimited money. You will have to pay lawyers and such up front for a case that can potentially drag on for years and years.
Game Dev Examines Whether It's Worth Marketing Games on Itch.io
The fact that the truth monopolists first declared that masks don't work and now they do?

I always believed they work, even when the government first lied about that.
Germany and tam tam tam Apfelkind won!
https://www.dw.com/en/german-caf%C3%A9-owner-takes-on-apple-...

Ok, you're right, it didn't worked, but Apple tried.
Uh-oh. So, since they don't count me as a potential consumer of their content, does this mean I can just torrent all their stuff without repercussions?

It doesn't look that such action will result in some lost revenie, right?
I just use "The Clapper".
> It is hard to fight a legal case against an opponent with infinite money.

This also applies to criminal cases filed by government lawyers, who file many more lawsuits, with far harsher results than Apple. If this lawsuit is problematic (and I would agree that it is), government prosecutions are much worse.
That's much better, thanks for the tip!
We're closer than you'd think. Chlorophyll is only something like 28% efficient at absorbing sunlight, we have experimental solar panels pushing 45%. Collecting wavelengths the plants don't use and then lighting them only in wavelengths they do use has a significant potential for efficiency gains, though we're not quite there yet...
I have been noticing this for so long now. It happens on HN too in a different way. People piggyback on someone else's top comment to get attention for their unrelated reply.

On LinkedIn, people run connection farms. Someone asked about the specific word here yesterday.

In startup communities, it's appreciating each other to the extreme.

On Facebook, it's likes, shares and friend system.

On twitter, all of the above combined + people post anything popular for little bit of attention on the sad trending page, under popular people's tweet and so on.

On reddit, stealing content from a year before or two and repost.

On YouTube, reaction videos, stealing content and creating drama by attacking other youtubers.
> We already pay for law enforcement and the judicial branch. USDS should be handling technology problems (which US government has a ton of), not be political vigilantes on my dime.

Ah, yes, that was the argument that I hoped you were making—based on purview (these people aren't in the business of fighting white supremacists), not on whether fighting white supremacists is itself a good idea. Note that, initially, the white supremacism was irrelevant—the issue was just that a government website (which definitely does fall under the purview of USDS) was expected to come under attack—and that, to the extent that it was relevant, this USDS employee immediately reached out to the FBI, whose job this definitely should be. The article gives no indication that any more USDS resources were spent on this than the author's being interviewed by the FBI.
Fair enough. It wasn't meant as an attack - I get frustrated how arbitrary and social people's attitudes are with food.

The same people that consider mouldy Roquefort to be delicious might consider durian a sin against humanity with little appreciation of the hypocrisy at play.
I'm just thinking of all the shower singing they'd get.
Nice. boost::program_options needs a rethink for modern c++
As if what we need is even more surveillance capitalism...
Here‘s a slightly related HN post which just makes it to the HN front page as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090923
We Aren’t Holding the Right People Responsible for Cancel Culture
> a deep state disinfo plant

can you unroll this phrase a bit?
LMS: Program Generation and Embedded Compilers in Scala
Completely expected. Trump doesn’t really have a good track record in coming up with legal executive orders, while Tiktok is completely in their rights to contest this order. And...judicial review is what sets the USA apart from China.
If HDCP requires any support at all from the GPU then I'm guessing it's hard to do, since GPU drivers other than Intel are usually garbage
I see your point. But if they get the claimed several hundred times the productivity, then they need several hundred times less land. That land is still several thousand dollars an acre, even out in the sticks. That's a lot of money that can be saved on the land.

> Right now we have excess food production.

True. If this vertical approach produces wheat for less money, then it will take over. If not, then it won't... today. There's this whole climate change thing. People suspect that it's going to harm food production. Can we control this smaller environment well enough for it to still be productive? Better than we can control outdoor farms.
Well, compared to apple...
This assumes people are "debating" in good faith, with the goal to reach an objective truth, which they are not.
The cost of transportation is not even worth mentioning as long as we don't try to install some super expensive electricity grid.
In my experience, the hardest thing about this whole space is the number of developers who don't understand what the problem is until it is costing them $80 million dollars.

Limiting blast radius, for example. Why does your threat model include the possibility of one of your applications being compromised and using its credentials to do desired things to other applications? That implies your programs are buggy. And clearly, your programs aren't buggy; you're using best practices. How could they be?

Even in professional development in big name companies, this is a surprisingly pervasive default attitude. Appropriate level of paranoia is something that I think has to be taught.
It's hard to explain because I found it so unremarkable and banal.

But there was a small part of the book I took particular issue, "Your expectation on answering the question why goes deep. (No duh!) You might need to adjust your expectations of understanding to be less rigorous." He says the same thing in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA It's basically his book.

I think not only does this not match my personal experience, experience I've understood from others at large, but in particular Einstein who had deep insights because of his depths of understanding "why" in broad categories of topics. Einstein's brilliance was a synergistic understanding. Better, if we don't know something, it's best to say, "It's not yet understood" and explain expected horizons for exploration.

I would compare this attitude to Sabine Hossenfelder who says, "Yes! We can figure things out including quantum gravity. It's not our 'why's' that are wrong, but almost certainly our (amazingly crazy) assumptions."
This reminds me an episode of Arthur cartoon. In it, a laptop sported by one of characters had a pear logo with obvious connotation.

Another meme from Arthur that comes to mind is a store named "One Percent".

I bet lots of details like this escape the target audience's attention... at least in this pre-schooler's case.
NPR is a shill for the ccp. Everybody knows that.
"OpenAI" == Orwellian DoubleSpeak

Its literally one of the most closed projects in existence. The fact they call it "OpenAI" is an insult.
Seems bold considering China’s firewall and all the US social media and chat apps it’s banned.
Crops in fields are subject to pests, infections and flooding; look at East Africa, South Asia and China at the moment for examples. It's a lot easier to achieve food security when your food production is industrialised and hermetically sealed in a relatively small area. Not depending on precipitation and being sheltered from hail/frost is also an advantage once you have sufficiently cheap energy that enables desalination on a mass scale. And while it isn't a pressing issue at the moment, it would certainly be preferable not to have to use half of the world's habitable area for agriculture (that tends to be heterogeneous so that it can be done efficiently at scale) with millions of acres used to grow grain with nitrate fertilisers and pesticides and to use it for stuff that's more biodiverse, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing instead.
Pool-sampling may offer a solution to the shortage of Covid testing
tmutil and pbcopy (cli utilities)
> If it's not a big deal for people over 80 to die because "quite a few [of them] would have died this year anyway"

This is miles from what he says. He is arguing for the adjustment of a statistic. He is arguing that Covid has had a minimal affect on the death rate and even smaller when you adjust for how many of the dead would already have been included in the much larger baseline number of expected annual deaths because they are over 80 and X% of those over 80 die each year even with no Covid.

I’m not even sure I agree with him on this or other arguments but it’s clear he values the life of the elderly. As an ER doctor he probably treats many (and many with Covid) each day. I think he’s earned the benefit of the doubt on valuing life, more than most of us here who treat and save no one.
So, I've been messing around with this for about 30 minutes now. I don't like giving bad advice!

Set safari as your default, set the search engine you want in the safari preferences, change your browser back to what you prefer.
It's one thing to go after a possibly mad poet to make a point.

But while this was happening the US had shipped Von Braun and other Nazi scientists over to the US, IBM's practical contribution to the Holocaust was being quietly forgotten, the industrialist Thyssen - who provided substantial funding to Hitler and could be argued to have made WWII possible - was being allowed to live a very comfortable life having been punished with a fine of just 15% of his net worth, and there appeared to be little interest in investigating the role that US industrialists and bankers, including the grandfather of George Bush, had played in association with Thyssen and other industrialists. In fact many of their confiscated assets were quietly returned.

Against this background Pound's actions had exactly zero influence on the course of the war and the fate of the holocaust victims. The real causes were elsewhere. And not only were the people responsible never deplatformed or otherwise challenged, many never faced any significant criticism of their actions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...
Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises (WFOEs) are not an uncommon way for foreign companies to operate in China, and Tesla is definitely not an exception. According to data from the Chinese ministry of commerce, WFOEs accounted for about 74% of all import/export by companies with foreign investment in the first half of 2020 http://project.mofcom.gov.cn/1800000121_33_13497_0_7.html
Mind recommending the books that touch on Snowpiercer's themes? Would love to get them.
Pirating games seems like a terrible deal when you consider the viruses, bot nets and bitcoin mining malware.
A huge problem with this is that some apps don't "accept" this drag and drop, and the preview just disappears without saving the screenshot file. I can't remember the exact apps which behave that way, but I've been burned and irritated multiple times because of this. As a result, I disabled the preview feature and added the screenshot folder to the dock just like OP did.
Just wait until the CCP gets their pile of lawsuits over unfair tech bans. Oh wait...
This does ring true. Esp if you consider the recent MS flight sim & how that's hooked into sat pictures.

It is very much constrained to geo type applications so the "eating the world" is a little dramatic. I like the hong kong airport example that...shows how broadly applicable geo type stuff can be and how much applicability it has if you take it to a granular level
Apple once sued a small Polish online grocer "a.pl" [0]
They lost.

[0] https://www.pcworld.com/article/262202/apple_vs_a_pl_tech_co...
> Now lets get the yield potentials for everything else under the sun so we can start optimizing better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsaufB5F8dk

That presentation is by one of the same scientists referenced in the linked paper, Dr. Bruce Bugbee, the one who grew wheat on the ISS.

He has a whole youtube channel that goes into more detail than you can imagine:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Apogeeinstrumentsincorporated/vide...
Road to Genius: Beginner No.9
No need to take it so literally. I read "No one sleeps until this is fixed" as "This is the top priority, push everything else aside. Do not screw around, stay late if you can. Everyone who can work on this needs to fix it."
The HBO Max saga is really tiresome. They really want you to think of Amazon and Roku as the bad guys, but they really, really aren’t.

HBO threw so many loyal customers under the bus by not having Prime Video channels or Roku devices as supported options at launch.

If you have been a loyal, full paying customer of HBO via Prime for years, suddenly you’re a second class customer paying the same price as Max, but without access to the expanded content. Even if you were willing to migrate that engagement to HBO’s preferred Max app, if you happen to have set up your home to rely on Roku devices, you are out of luck. It’s crazy town.

Apparently HBO expects customers to just wholesale switch their preferred home device setup that is working well for use of Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, Showtime, etc. etc. just for the Max app. Crazy.

I really hope the pressure ratchets up on them as nobody moves to Max as the early numbers have shown.

HBO is a channel. It is not a competitor of Netflix or Hulu, and its whole value proposition of producing significantly higher quality original content rests on this. It should want to be a channel and not a platform.

The whole strategy is rotten, and the tactical execution of Max is something really HBO should be ashamed of. What a way to damage customer loyalty.
We've managed to mitigate this by doing cloudformation launches manually with the developer's own credentials, and have each resource take on the IAM role it needs. (Since you need sts:AssumeRole for CFN creation anyway, it's not really useful to limit the cloudformation role, it's going to be essentially admin in any event.)
Might be a good political argument but not a legal one.
That’s not really how it works in the Netherlands, I’m afraid. Yes, the losing party usually has to pay the legal fees, but these fees are determined using a point-based system and do not really reflect the actual costs.

But, I do have to say, IP-related cases are an exception, and more is covered there (still not necessarily the actual costs). But that is not specific to the Netherlands but mandated by an EU directive (2004/48/EG).
I realize that the points are rather arbitrary, but they can have value particularly for newer users and user who may not have contributed much.

For example, the ability to downvote happens at around 500-ish rep, so users in that point range might potentially see their privileges come and go based on comment down and up votes. While users with more than 4k rep like yourself might never see a change in permissions.

In the end, I accept the rules and workings of this site and gladly participate.

Without focusing on point hoarding (as you say that becomes arbitrary and ultimately meaningless), I think that potentially removing someones privileges with respect to this site should they fall in a critical point range and comment something about OSS that a vocal group on this site disagrees with seems wrong to me.

I think Hacker News participation and the community should be able to have a healthy debate/exchange on tech issues without needing to worry about "points" in any capacity.
Anything for C#?
If this group wanted to communicate in secret then using a Facebook group for clandestine conversation in 2020 feels like the equivalent of using bullhorns in 1990.

I don’t think they really care about secret conversation, though. I think they want to recruit new followers. Every new recruit reaffirms that they’re “correct” in their thinking and solidifies the sense of belonging.