skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is disproportionately iOS compared to the entire world, and especially US teens (I've seen estimates of something like 90%). iOS, the US, and US teens are all disproportionately important to digital sales. Although the US is 10% of TikTok's user base, it provides 50% of TikTok's revenue, nd from Charli D'Amelio on down the most-followed TikTok accounts are almost entirely American. That's why everyone expects TikTok's US (and possibly global) operations to be soon sold; the US is the tail that wags the dog.
The Midnight Library – a filtering mechanism for social control
I find gin helps to numb the pain...
Due to the way iOS works (dynamic dispatch) private APIs can only be prevented through an App Store review process.

And many of those APIs can be used to extract enough information to fingerprint the device, determine your location or steal your data e.g. accessing the list of WiFi networks or browser history.

So no. The two concerns are very much related.
And movies suck vs reality, yet we still watch Netflix.

I bet Jerry Falwell Jr. wishes he and his wife stuck with porn, instead of going into business and the bedroom with their pool boy in reality.
I would argue three. Anyone can get an interest in anything, can't they?
Every payment and subscription going through Apple is one of the best features for me. Especially the subscriptions.
Nonsense. /etc is for important system stuff. libexec is BSD specific and btw not everything is BSD.
Most of the silicon on a chip is turned off at any given time. That dead silicon doesn't hurt as much as you think.
I did a similar thing with recruiting ads, I added a line of "If you are interested in this role, please reach out to me starting with 'Heyyyyyy I am XXX', thanks!" in the middle of the JD.
And I simply ignore 99% of the reach out because they didn't start with that line.
It's just like the brown M&m thing Van Halen did.

Works way better than I expected.
The same price as something that has been difficult to grasp before does not really help.

My comment was not about the pricing of io2 in particular, but about the pricing of EBS in general.
> Suspend to anything has worked flawlessly out of the box for my devices since 10+ years.

lucky you - I have a laptop (GS65) where suspend-to-ram occasionally fails to unsuspend, even on windows
Alright, you are now arguing that in response to violence, counter violence may be acceptable and therefore my post must be coming from a position of privilege. My statement was about the original act of violence. It would benefit everybody to focus on that one, instead of immediately screaming "but I have to be allowed to punch back!!!1"

P.S.: You have no idea about my gender, skin color, sexual orientation or social class. Please don't just assume things.
I've alluded to this in other comments and also in the one you're responding to, but I'll spell it out: the goal is not to shoot down the F-22. The goal is to control the battlefield. So you're covering that 1 sq km with 1000 drones, or maybe up to about 20 sq km with 20,000 drones.

The rest of the F-22's range and service ceiling, you don't care about. You let them fly around all they want. If they want to go fly around at 50,000 feet at Mach 2, have fun. An F-22 is basically harmless to a drone: it can shoot down 12 drones with its 12 AA missiles, each of which costs > $1M, about 1000x what a drone costs. There's no pilot in a drone whose life is sacred, and there're plenty more drones where they came from.

You only need to engage the F-22 if they're coming down to engage ground forces. But then they need to fly through the swarm, at a huge risk to the airplane and pilot, and the swarm can react to put as many pieces of plastic in the F-22's path as possible.

If the F-22 stays up at 50K feet and drops precision-guided weapons from 30 miles away, they lose the attrition war to the drone swarm. A drone can very accurately put a bullet into each infantryman and a shaped charge on top of every tank with little resistance, unless the enemy is itself fielding autonomous drones. An F-22 can put 8 SDBs on 8 targets. Which is more efficient?
The article is about BSD.
Ask Anything UI/UX and Design Systems to This Group of Devs
I guess, my https://wordsandbuttons.online/ qualifies as a small web site. However, it was built in a very contradictory manner. I would like to challenge this: "It must be done in a manner that does not require any technical know-how whatsoever".

It doesn't take too much technical know-how to build a site. Basic HTML+CSS+JS is enough really. Writing, editing, visual design, UI design, - it all requires way too much expertise in comparison. You have to be a creative let's say 80% of the time and technical for about 20%. Reducing the last 20% only wins you 20% of the effort. But! by concentrating the technical expertise in your own head you get another level of freedom as a creative person too.

I was writing on Livejournal, habrahabr, Codrspace, and Medium before I went stand-alone. And the main reason was not ideological but rather practical. I wanted to make interactive illustrations, quizzes, and puzzles for my pages. I wanted very specific very custom things no platform would provide.

And that's why I went small web. Small web but full tech. I enjoy my creative freedom by employing let it be modest technical expertise but exactly in a way I want to employ it. And I think, investing into technical skills to get creative freedom is well worth it.
It has the same problem of separating concerns (for what?) but losing important context making things harder to reason about.

Normal form isn't always the best answer, sometimes a flat cludge is the better solution.
> The ethics of killing will never be left to AI, but the technicalities of acquiring and prosecuting the target?

Other have already answered this, but I want to chip in with my own experience working for a submarine and military boat manufacturer + talking to navy officer.

They already have system to acquire and try to distinguish friend of foe. The only reason why the system is not pushing the launch button by itself is because there is a lot of tactic involved in starting an engagement. Especially for submarines who might prefer to remain hidden than launch a torpedo which will uncover its position. Also, those system are not perfect, one navy officer who was on radar duty told me that he activated the alarm on his ship after seeing something on the radar that ended up being a flock of seagull.

If the system was able to manage tactic and be able to distinguish friend of foe reliably, they would give it the power to kill.
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Is this an EKS problem or a Kubernetes problem?
Further to that, the global temperature anomaly has caused rainfall patterns to change, meaning some places are trending wetter, and some drier, and crucially, volatility has increased. Having wet seasons, generating fuel load, followed by dry is more problematic than a sustained drought.
> Recurring monthly: NEVER. [...] Unless this is $9.99 or lower, I would never consider.

And yet, you likely expect regular updates when the OS is updated, a constant stream of bug fixes, and (probably) some improvements. In other words, you expect regular development for a one-time fee of $9.99 or lower.

$9.99 is the cost of about 5 minutes of a skilled programmer's time.

This is not realistic and definitely not sustainable.
That’s easy - the ones with the money. If the wealth divides, so will the product offferings from those companies. A bit of an inconvenient truth for many of us.
Plain English has been a 'super power' for my report writing ever since it was drummed into me by a former CEO and MD at a finance and economic consultancy I worked at after University.

"Style toward Clarity and Grace" by Joseph M. Williams is, imho, the most thorough, yet comprehensible, guide to how to write in Plain English. It goes beyond short 'do this, don't do that' guides by explaining why, and how, English can be unclear with exercises to help transform your writing.

I can't stress enough that the ability to take both simple ideas, and complex ideas, and write both in a clear and compelling way that inspires action, will pay dividends over any career.
Structure is the biggest factor of readability. We’ve seen many English style guides, but they are mostly on a sentence and vocabulary level.

A run-on sentence can still be read, just more slowly. An unfamiliar word can be tackled with a dictionary.

But if the text isn’t well-organized on the larger scale, there is no hope.
The SPAC poured $400m and there is another $170m PIPE, which also includes Peter Thiel [1]

Peter Thiel was a current investor in Luminar [2]

[1] https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN25K1BX

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/luminar-technologies...
I've heard this argument a lot and it makes sense, but on the other hand isn't there a maximum limit to the amount of fuel(carbon?) that can accumulate? Fungus and detritivores must certainly play some role, no? Doesn't the shade provided by the big trees place some limit on what can grow beneath?
Locust – An open source modern load testing tool
The Train to Port Arthur (2016)
I enjoyed reading the second half in a nature documentary narrator's voice. Or a tennis announcer maybe.
Yeah, I guess it could be inconvenient. On the other hand for many things I don't need to log in very often due to cookies keeping me logged in.
Where, how and in in which format is my data stored?
First question I have ...
It needs their attention more than their consumption I suspect.
I think they were referring to the percentage taken when processing sales for other developers on the Epic Games Store and Steam.
It's hard to automate something with a GUI.
It is also hard to make programs interoperate if they use a GUI.
You're not really wrong on many of your points, but you look at everything from a power user/developer mindset and that's too narrow of an approach, sorry.
I.e. you should realize programming is not for everybody, not even close, so the claim that things are easier now is very much true for a lot of people out there. As such there's not much to laugh at, in fact that sounds borderline disrespectful to me.
Why shouldn't this be separated?

All files that the distributor ships as configured ought to be put into /lib or /usr. Any system specific configuration belongs to /etc, but ONLY that configuration.

On a fresh install of BSD/Linux I'd love to see an empty /etc directory sans any necessary overrides to make it boot.

Makes backing up that directory a lot easier too.
To be fair, I'd make it a point to comment and not mention bananas if I saw such a request.

Why? don't look for reason while analyzing the behaviour of the average internet user:-)
> It is broken and unusable on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

Hmm, I use them on several kubernetes clusters in the past few months and don't see any issue yet.
Not at all! I just tried saying that making a simple and "usual" website was not my goal. I wanted to make something crazy and that's how I got here
Misleading, yes.

Industries recovering to pre-pandemic levels is anything but a non-story. There's nothing inevitable about that happening right now. It's news.
Still, thanks!
Yes steer well clear of this guy. I can’t remember the details as it was long ago but I distinctly remember him being lambasted by the design/dev community.

EDIT: Not to leave HN readers hanging and to back up my comment...

He raised $100,000 on Kickstarter back in 2014 to build a "privacy" focused phone. One month later he took the phone off the table due to "lack of resources". Needless to say the phone never materialised.

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/13/ind-ie-scales-back-focuses-on-...
It took 3 months at my old client (fortune 100) to get a signature for an Addendum that would deliver us a service for free in addition to the paid stuff that was already signed.
If you've still got a job.
... and not everything is BSD
The source article is about a month-over-month increase in home construction. Speculation about how much millennials hate the "inner-city lifestyle" or how bad cities will get over the next decade seems both inflammatory and off topic.
Because it's wet in the winter, and hot, dry and windy in the summer. Everywhere with this weather pattern sees frequent wildfires.

California used to have more acres burned annually a hundred years ago, but the amount of land burned has decreased since then, as a result of suppression efforts. This may be increasing the severity of fires, as there's more fuel to burn.
The answer is maybe to auto merge what has not changed locally? To me, changes to the boot process is just as interesting as changes to the default shell settings.

The distinction between configuration and code isn't what's important here. The purpose of these files are to describe a system wide default state. It is not to mark them as devoid of programmable logic.

The latter doesn't even make sense if you look at what else is there. /etc/profile for example is clearly code.
The economy as a whole? Probably not, because it's more measured according to the country's whole GDP and stock market instead of personal tragedies like getting evicted or bankrupted.

(disclaimer: not an economist, just a dude in an armchair with an Opinion)
The claim is that the Arch pacman mechanism (and the dpkg one, and the rpm one, and ...) only prompts you when there is an actual merge, and when it does that, it's actually fine and preferable for the package manager to leave old and new versions on disk and ask the sysadmin to resolve the merge by hand, and this works in practice. It does not ask you to review every change to /etc. This is why Arch is mentioned, as an example of a system where this situation works fine. (Debian and Fedora are also good examples.)

If the BSDs' upgrade procedure cannot distinguish between changes to /etc where the local sysadmin has also modified the file and changes to /etc where the file is unmodified, and they prompt you to review every single change to /etc, that seems like an easily fixable missing feature.

Do the BSDs really prompt you to accept every change to /etc on upgrade for files you didn't modify, such as sshd.conf or services?
Huh? Why? For who?
True, true, but they don't usually insist on being friends if they'd rather not.
They usually take them as a base layer and then modify to what they need, saving lots of time. Here's where thePenTool comes into play
Pedantically it ain’t so straight forward. Coastal redwoods are taxonomically in genus Sequoia while giant sequoias are in genus Sequoiadendron. And of course “pedantry“ is the answer to “What is the practical utility of learning Latin?”
https://github.com/kjk/notionapi
But this article is not about everything.
I would assume the questions are of the simple, "What facts did we state?" kind, rather than requiring some deeper understanding or inference. So why would you allow someone who couldn't grok the facts to comment? If my assumption is true then it works as a reasonable anti-bot measure, allowing wrong answers would negate that.
The lords need some work done, but they're making sure people earn as little as possible, have zero ties, and no transferable skills. I'm thinking of McJobs; zero-hour contracts, contractors, gig economy work, that kinda thing.
I must admit I'm an engineer and not a financial person, and am having a hard time understanding this. Are these correct:

long tail risk: assets that have problems that take a long time to affect the price

HY: high yield, meaning they change quickly in price by large percentages and can make more money quickly

trash: low priced stocks for crappy companies

bottom falls out: market takes a dive

garbage: same thing as trash

collateralized HY coming due: investments backed by assets that will default

leverage: money

"oft repeated things": aphorisms about finance that are often wrong, in this case the poster you replied to's comment.

I'm probably wrong on half of this and I still don't really get what you are saying. Excuse my ignorance.
Study: Low-dose HCQ and mortality rate in 8075 hospitalized Covid19 patients
libexec exists on Red Hat lineage OSes too, and it's standardized in LSB. (I think I'd basically say that it's Debian lineage that doesn't have it; the default of e.g. anything that follows GNU's 'make install' standards is to use it unless instructed not to.)

LSB is worth reading, because it had a precise definition of /etc that is not "important system stuff."
Maybe one of the rooms is really big. It could be a velodrome, a baseball field, or a speed skating rink.

In a rural area near me, somebody built a big luxury "house" with an unfinished interior. It was not for living; the building was dedicated to growing illegal drugs.
The people in the newly wealthy countries like China of course.
This is such a beautiful explanation. Comments like this make me come back to HN again and again.
The areas that are burning are not really large timber producers. The CZU fire is largely in protected state & county parks. The SCU and LNU fires are largely in ranch grassland & chaparral, frequently used for grazing cattle.
Christmas season may be a bust though - a lot of the Christmas tree farms in the Bay Area are in areas threatened by the CZU fire.

Most of the timber production in California comes from way up north, in the Eureka area and in the Sierra Nevadas. This area is somewhat resistant to fires since it gets so much more moisture and precipitation.
Also, people have brought up examples of real C and C++ libraries that people use, that would be unsound if bound by AutoCXX as initially implemented. I'm really not sure what the argument is for AutoCXX being sound without requiring the user to write unsafe, but the argument against is not an abstract one as you are implying.
I downloaded and installed, but then I saw it forces me to sign up using gmail or apple only. This led me to start reading the privacy policy... you basically collect every webpage I visit, ip, how many times/time of day, etc... and sell it to advertisers.

I don't like advertisers manipulating me through their psychological research into my habits. It's unethical.

If this software were offered in a way that respected my privacy, I would honestly try it. But for this reason I tend to stick to open source software. It may be much less functional and require more manual work, but it gives me peace of mind.

Wish you the best... just not my cup of tea.
$10 million may not be a lot for Harvard, but it's still a lot of money for the individual researcher it research group.
I certainly hope the shell doesn't have a renaissance. Just today I was updating my dotfiles/customizing my OS, and I had to swap out several shell scripts for Python scripts because I couldn't edit shell. The scripts looked like arcane rituals, not editable code.
I'm really not sure what you're arguing. Military research needs to be funded always, because when war starts, it's too late. Civilian research needs to be funded always, because ... anything else would be insanity. Your original statement was that we shouldn't do military research outside of war. Nothing you've said supports that.
No, the robots haven't taken over, at all.

The reason Apple's share price is booming is because "consumers" are buying their products so their earnings were great. Many of them probably spending printed stimulus money. Same for Amazon.

There is really no magic here except the illusion of unlimited money through quantitative easing.

The QE is the only thing holding things together, if that stops, everyone is going down the same drain to poop town.

Edit: I should also mention many investors are probably putting a lot of money into Apple as it's seen as a safe haven for equities right now.
Don't follow the 'active verbs' rule too much. There's a limit to it, especially when writing technical documents. If it sounds unnatural, or when you have an implied subject that's an important part of the thing you're trying to convey, just use passive voice.
This is the correct take. Generally speaking, the prices set by Epic before this stunt likely approximated the highest price which didn't reduce aggregate spending.
Which is not relevant because the article is about BSDs.

If your point is that rc should not be modified for <whatever> because of BSDs… rc is not a centralised and unified tool, how BSDs handle their initialisation process has no bearing on any other system unless those others decide to follow suit.
I wouldn't assume that only American interests and outcomes are preferentially relevant.

My takeaway from that data point is that the Syrian military might be very interested in such an investment.
BeeGate: IUCN’s Anti-Neonic Pesticide Taskforce: An exposé into activist science
US is the majority of revenue sure, but there is no way that so much comes from iOS the cross platform play numbers don’t back this up you can’t just extrapolate from hypothetical app download figures.

The US is about 80% of Fortnite’s but the majority of the players are on consoles not mobile. The 80% figure will change drastically when China grants epic permission to monetize the game as the vast majority of their players are in China.
> I don't think there's that much logging in california, is there?

No idea was just thinking out loud
Shell scripts have some idiosyncrasies sure, but at least they don't rely on significant white space.
Of course a competing App Store can offer lower prices, they don't bear any of the costs for developing and managing the iOS ecosystem Apple spent billions over a decade building (that many other companies lost fortunes failing to compete against). They can just popup a virtual store in someone else's successful established platform and access a market of 1B+ credit cards they had no hand in creating where they can dictate their own margins for selling virtual goods - somehow feeling entitled to get a free ride on the massive development & maintenance infrastructure costs that is subsidized by the App Store.

Strange most other markets don't just let everyone to sell their products (physical or virtual) on their markets at no cost [1].

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
This points a difference between Internet public discussions an private interactions discussions.

In private interactions, either chatting or RL, I quote "facts" without references, discuss papers I never read, and in general do things just for the act of communication, knowing I'm often wrong, and knowing the other side knows to take me with a grain of salt.

However, in public discussions you can't afford this liberty. Stating a wrong fact in a public discussion may cause a diffusion of false information which is almost impossible to undo.

I think most people are aware of this difference, and even in the academy the accuracy required in private conversation is not as harsh as the accuracy required in a public forum.

The problem is that for many people, Internet discussions feel like a private conversation. Hence I see even people I highly appreciate throwing the accuracy standard out of the window, and making public Internet comments as if it was a pub conversation over a drink with some friends.
Someone is always complaining regardless of the message.

You can state that you like strawberry marmalade and someone on this planet will threaten you and your family for that transgression. Problem is the net isn't as anonymous as before thanks to social media and some people without significant personality try to call your employer, who succinctly distances the whole company from strawberry marmalade to underline how important it is to have values.

Employees will be reprimanded and strawberry marmalade removed from the canteen.
As far as I can tell, Lanier's big idea is that tech companies should compensate us for our data and we could all live happily on that money while helping build our robot future. Well, Facebook's revenue per user per year is thirty bucks. Is this simple innumeracy or is there more to it?
“finally, now more than ever, women can buy our product”