skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who moved to US 25 years ago - when neither internet was not ubiquitous nor Cable TV affordable, for this then young man, Jeopardy and Mr. Trebek offered a peek into Americanah that extends even today. I have lived in a dozen countries since, and every time I stream Jeopardy from wherever, mind latches to the comfort of a sparse apartment, shared with 2 other roommates, all equally enthused by figuring out what this large, lovely country was all about, through the questions from the show.

I, after a couple of attempts ended up being "screened" for the the show, and failed - Baseball and Civil War were the topics. I still do bad in these topics. Still much to learn, but thanks to Mr.Trebek, America offers a fleeting familiarity.

If anyone wants to witness the two sides of American popular culture, spend an hour between 7-8pm on ABC - For the first half you will see Jeopardy, and then a cheerful but vapid (by design) Wheel of Fortune.

I was telling my wife, two days ago, that CNN political host John King will be a good stand-in for Mr.Trebek and today I heard this news.

I will miss Mr.Trebek in a way that will last my lifetime.
iOS developers have made over a half a trillion dollars over the last decade on this unsustainable, constantly shifting foundation that they hate so much.

Makes you wonder why they bother ? Maybe it's because the very rules you say developers hate are the ones users find appealing.
[1] is an absolute banger. He continues by saying that homosexual `promiscuity' is worse than the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).

> It may turn out that the consequences of sympathizing with NAMBLA are almost equally ugly. If a climate of `enlightened’ tolerance for consensual pederasty and pedophilia tends to increase the rate at which boys are abused, that is a very serious consequence for which gay liberationists will not (and should not) soon be forgiven.
But Tor is legal in EU
If I buy a Ferrari I don't expect Ford to get 90% of the money.
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095840

plus a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001659
> Now, I'm as frustrated as anybody else here that I'm forbidden to use whatever feature I want from MY phone, for which I paid, with MY MOENY

Samsung disabled the oxygen sensor (SPO2) on their phones for Canada. For other countries they moved access for the SPO2 feature further into the Samsung Health app. But for Canada SPO2 sensor access is gone not accessible.

No warning (probably buried in an email) just one day my SPO2 sensor stopped working. I suppose it was due to some legal thing but it certainly pissed me off. I'm never buying Samsung again why blow $1000 on a phone only to have physical hardware disabled?
You're lucky. In someone prone to psycosis, it can do terrible things. Imagine feeling compelled to murder/suicide or it creating lots of new phobias.

You're right that it can basically turn off depression, though. I just want a version with that and not the rest.
And how else did homosexuals get aids? Sharing needles, getting blood transfusions or being Puerto Rican?
Trustpilot and Difficult Incentive Problems
Mindustry Game
The US has been on Saudi and North Korea level for a while now
This smells of magic unicorn shit to me.
It's fine to downvote to disagree on HN and people do it all the time in all discussions.
TDD kata with serverless services in AWS
I promise it's not performative. I am part of another Internet community where "apolitical" means "is not ringing round door to door trying to persuade people to vote in a certain way", and of course I have a strong aversion to politics in that sense. Aside from anything else, it seems highly arrogant to expect that I am somehow so much more right than the other half of the population, in the field of politics which I have no special understanding of at all. I'm not promoting apathy; I am recognising that I have no reason to believe I'm more right than everyone else here, so I will contribute my vote and I will try to understand things, but I won't try and persuade others. On the other hand, I will try and persuade others in areas where I do feel that I have unusually good knowledge.

I really am highly uncertain about what people generally expect these days from words like "apolitical", especially because I perceive this as being one of the areas where there is very strong social pressure to Not Seem Like An Arsehole and so there is no clarification in the downward direction. I think the meaning of these words has been changing quite rapidly, even over the last five years or so.
https://linuxfr.org/news/mindustry-le-tower-defense-industri...
Developers who still support apples ecosystem are in denial
I'm not sure what their problem is. In facebook's case, they have a dating app so I'm sure they're not into that.

Facebook doesn't give you much actionable feedback. Here's the routine I went through _several times_ publishing my ad there.

1. submit app

2. app gets rejected, and my account gets banned. get a generic message saying dating apps need to adhere to special, strict guidelines, and I need to sign up as a Dating service with Facebook's customer service team.

3. I try to sign up for it, and they tell me I don't qualify as a dating service (cause my app is not a dating service, it's an augmentation on it - getsmartswipe.com). So back to square one after this contradictory mess.

4. I submit repeal to unban me.

5. They unban me.

6. I change some wording hoping maybe that's the change they wanted.

7. go to (1)

reddit, similar. I'm sure they made it confusing on purpose but in Reddit's case they took a week to reject it and said I needed to commit a minimum of 30k to advertise dating apps and work directly with them. Made no sense, so I didn't bother retrying with Reddit.
There seem to be some such people in this very discussion who think corporations might.
Why fast and frequent iterations are crucial to your startup’s success
I look forward to diplomatic Signal messages being leaked to the public immediately.
> For example Nix can and is being used for Real Work by well known companies

Real Companies are using Guix for Real Work too.

Perhaps Guix is "fringe" by some definitions, but you made it sound like some barely-usable hobby project.

To me, as a former Nix contributor, it largely boils down to a matter of taste. But there are distinct advantages (and disadvantages) to both.
The Symbolism in the Final Episode of the Queen's Gambit
I worked the census this year. There was a motivation for this. Supervisors were getting bonuses for closing out cases.

To be clear, I was never asked to enter any bogus data and I've not heard of anyone else who was. What I did get near the end of the census were lists of homes to visit where the respondent had refused to participate.

I could go to the homes on my list in any order I wanted too, and I could stop working anytime I wanted to, so I went to homes where no one had been contacted in previous visits first and when I ran out of those I went home. I didn't see any good reason to go visit someone who'd already opted out 3+ times because they had the right to refuse and to expect it be respected.

There were a lot of people who refused. Out of those I visited that did refuse they had a tendency to be pretty aggressive about it too. I was almost always able to calm them down very quickly by telling them they had the right to refuse and I would make a note saying not to bother them. But many of those cases were back on my daily list several times after I and others had noted their refusals.

All in all it was a pretty interesting gig.
> Maybe it's because the very rules you say developers hate are the ones users find appealing.

Users may not know or care, but it is a stretch to say it is appealing to power users that they cannot run ish. It is not appealing to regular users that they can't buy books from within the Kindle app. Etc. Etc.
The real problem is that companies insist on doing so much non-essential user tracking.

The intent of GDPR is to reduce this, but companies seems to prefer providing a terrible UX instead of respecting user's privacy.
Pytorch and matplotlib managed to unseat matlab, which I didn’t think would ever happen.

Bitcoin, git are open source.

docker, kubernetes will just add a level of abstraction over any proprietary os.

Things are not so bad!
The mainstream doesn't care about human rights, they will always fall for the children/terrorism traps
I fully subscribe to this point. It comes up, then it either gets voted out or doesn't even come that far.
What baffles me though is that such blatant power-grabs are being introduced, and that anyone thinks that anything would be better off afterwards. Surveillance is going to get more difficult, not easier unless you want to spy on middle-aged people talking about fishing or sour dough recipes.
These things usually boil down to: You must not do as I do, you must do what I tell you to.
(March 2020)
Non-techies most certainly understand what encryption is and if you describe what 'end' in the WhatsApp notice about end to end encryption means, it's very clear to them.
Yeah. Asking for people for consent before stepping on their rights is so annoying.

We only we could be free to skip asking, right?
This shows that the attack was planned by the powers that be, if not planned at least not actively blocked.

It was 1 guy with a weapon that the Austrian secret service was warned about.
The media made it 6 people doing a huge thing, in the end it was just 1 guy with an AK47 apparently.
Austrian intelligence was warned by the Slovaks about him and they let him do regardless.
Just like the 9/11 stuff, they knew what was coming and they allowed it because it suited their political agenda.

1 guy shooting around doesn't justify chat apps being monitored. This is a political setup.

We need to leave the EU ASAP.
You are being downvoted, but the entire video game industry is the living proof that you can mistreat your developers and use a high churn rate to make sure you never run out of them.
Like CISCO, Gigabyte, D-Link, NETGEAR, AVM, FANTEC, Iliad, ...

https://gpl-violations.org/news/
AIDS is an STD. So that’s a good explanation.
You make no sense.

It's less secure and likely more privacy problems trusting a service with Blokada compared with my own pihole.

My own pihole is accessible wherever I want, I know who has the logs for the DNS requests performed by my pihole which is done over DNS over HTTPS.

The DNS requests are made securely through wireguard and just those requests.

There is no extra hop?
Observability in Microservices World
We might not be ready right this instant but that's not a reason to not research the problem and make attempts to move forward. Something just seems wrong about sticking to paper forever. In my lifetime I should be able to vote from my phone in the middle of the ocean with satellite internet.
I also use a very similar script. The one notable difference is that I utilize Alfred’s "match" field that I set to a tokenized version of the repository name:

https://github.com/temochka/macos-automation/blob/master/src...

This allows me to quickly look up similarly named repos while keeping typing to a minimum (e.g., "m c" finds "mysql_client").

I also incorporated the refresh script under a different keyword into the same workflow. This way I can quickly refresh if I don't see a repo that should be there.
> Article 8: Right to privacy

- Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

- There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

(I'm not feeling bright enough to comment but this seems extremely relevant)

[0] https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/human-rights-act/arti...
It pretty much is, section 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

I mean wearing my programmer goggles it doesn't state privacy AND correspondence but OR, but still. Not having your personal conversations get intercepted is not too much to ask for, is it?

I mean I get it, if they have a reasonable suspicion they CAN intercept your communications (listening devices, intercepting the phone conversations), but this is not a right they can claim on anyone, and they shouldn't be able to force companies to allow them to listen in. Not arbitrarily anyway (see: Snowden revelations, where it was proven that the NSA just hoovers up anything and retroactively checks if there's anything wrong in there)
The article makes it sound like a done deal. Is that really the case?
Mistakes That Are Hurting Your Data Driven Strategy
Users have no power with Apple actions. Developers do have such power.
Don’t build for them and they’ll listen.
Acorn Atom :-) didn't know they sold them outside the UK.

The Atom was the predecessor to the BBC micro
I just did a bunch of research for this on a new car I'm getting. From what I was able to learn, the CCF and MLV block road & tire noise, but the butyl sound deadener products are still important to stop the sheet metal from vibrating and to stop resonance in the door cavity & trunk.

25-50% coverage with butyl directly on the sheet metal is enough, since it doesn't block sound, just absorbs vibrations. If you tap your doors or trunk lid, or if you swing the door shut, the sheet metal will have a tinny hollow sound, but after butyl all of those become more of a solid 'thunk.'

Overall, the butyl stops the sheet metal from making its own noise and from amplifying the tire vibrations; then the entire surface needs to get 100% unbroken coverage of the CCF/MLV to block all types of noise from entering.

Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur_Rhi5js8
In that regard, is any large organisation different?

I tried to convince the UK government this was a terrible idea when the Investigatory Powers Act was going through. I failed to make any difference at all to any part of it, but I did learn about Select Committees while trying to find out which MP I had to try to convince given my local MP was a powerless newbie.
I think it's fair to say that the root of most/much war is greed in one form or the other.

But it doesn't work without being able to convince other people that they'll benefit from joining that cause, based on being members of your group/nation. Those wars are justified typically by generating a shared sense of fear and/or hate for the other side. If people's ties or shared identity to that group were weaker, it would be harder for people to buy into that propaganda.

I find this interesting, because without some unifying forces I don't think our modern society would be able to function well. I'm just not sure Geography and national identity/culture are the best way to unify people. Can't say that I have any better alternatives though, other than thinking that if our personal identities were less tied to our national identity, the world might be a little friendlier place.
E2E encryption is scary. I'm also in the "you can't ban math, why try" camp. But I can't see authorities/politicians give up the idea of getting access to decrypted communications after court orders, in a 100 years, even if everyone completely understood the topic. It's just not happening.
There are at least two reasons that Apple tries to prevent tools like iSH. In order of what I suspect is their motivation:

1. Users can be foolish or even tricked into installing apps and entering commands. If iSH provided a possible attack vector, these kinds of users would get bitten (and they would complain about weak Apple security). As Apple really does seem to be making a strong effort on security (and privacy, it appears?), losing a few useful apps and a few users is worth the trade.

2. This is a bit more of a stretch, but for various reasons Apple wants to control the macos/ios development process. Whether it's to force developers to own Mac computers (when xcode could probably run quite well on iPad Pro...), or to perhaps guarantee a more consistent outcome (which ultimately should affect the users in a positive way, or at least a less negative way), Apple wants to control the process.
The EU is slowly starting to show their true face. We probably have left at the last minute. I personally think this is an attempted assault on human rights and such ideas should be nipped in a bud and people proposing that banned from any office. My blood boils.
Apple is actually pretty good at having humans interact with us (developers).

I generally don't have to spend long in the "Anything but talking to a human" distraction gauntlet.

They don't always tell us what we want to hear, but they do call.
Amazon chose not to allow users to buy books from the app. Apple is not stopping them.
Moving Issues from Jira to Tuleap
Thanks! I'll consider the vmware snapshot and the WAL archiving (I wasn't familiar with that till now) :)
> I always assumed there was a clean cut between jeopardy fans and wheel fans.

I'm sure there some purists as there are purists in anything. But purists are small portion of the overall audience.

The overlap fanbase between the shows were easily the majority. It's why they put the shows on one after another. Like you mentioned one got the 7pm slot and the other got the 7:30 slot. Networks do that when there is substantial common fanbase. They don't want a significant portion of the viewing audience to switch channels at 7:30.
> I wonder if the Apple appstore (at least watchOS/tvOS) approach of using bitcode as the one-time artifact and then turning that into concrete instructions later would be possible for an entire Linux distribution (Gentoo II).

I could see this happening with WASM once its system interfaces and SIMD intrinsics mature... "write once, run anywhere"?
Power users who want to run a Linux environment on their phone are a minute fraction of the iOS user base. I don’t think Apple is interested in serving every possible user, and they’re probably quite content to let people who need this type of feature find it on a different platform.
It's not. An update was published to the regulation stating this clearly for those who don't understand what consent means.

The option to accept or reject must be equally prominent, and if there's complications to rejecting, then the consent cannot be considered freely given.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.
I'm really sad to see so many Trump supporters as well, but ... but maybe you are young?

Bill Clinton banged a very young intern in the Oval Office.

Bill Clinton lied, deceived, distorted, mislead - and then very 'point blank' lied about that directly to the Justice system, which is illegal.

Do you remember that? I do.

Bill Clinton has legitimate accusations of sexual assault hanging out there against him - just like Trump.

Why did Democrats (and others) 'forgive him'? And 'look the other way'?

How was the Democrat Brand not 'destroyed forever' by a 'Serial Abuser in Chief' in Office?

Democrats (and others) forgave him, because they think it was not so bad, that ultimately he was a good person, the act was ostensibly consensual, the Republicans were making to much of it - etc etc..

Some people simply don't see a 55 year married old man, banging a 22 year old intern in a prestigious office as hugely relevant. Others do.

I think most Donald Trump supporters believe that he 'Loves America' that he's a 'Business Genius' who just 'Speaks Plainly' and sometimes says aggressive things, but that it doesn't mean much.

I personally don't think any of those things are true, but it's not hard to see how people watching Fox News might be 'believers'.

To some people 'they are sending us their rapists' is like an inappropriate Chines accent or an off colour joke - inappropriate and little bit offensive, but not existentially so.

"I guess what a lot of us are struggling with is how anyone cannot see these truths for themselves in Trump. "

I don't think they do see 'Traditional Conservative' in him - I think they see mostly something else and that's my point.

If the GOP base wanted a 'Traditional Conservative' there are a dozen other, more obvious choices.

But it's all moot: Trump really isn't much of a 'Conservative' in any way, it's a 'Bully Nationalist' which unfortunately 1/2 of Republicans will vote for because they want to, the rest will vote reluctantly.

Both traditional Conservatism and 'American Socialism' (i.e. Centre Left) are not 'dead' - they are everywhere but it's that populism is having it's time, and supported in the press.

The Intersectionalist Reactionaries on the Left are very close to taking over the Democratic party, much as Trump 'barn stormed' the GOP.
If the webapps themselves use AGPL software, that's not "internally." If the employees of a SaaS company themselves use AGPL software that isn't linked to the service that users access, that's internally; e.g. if a webapp uses an AGPL database, the users are accessing that database.
It does not increase power. But it couples data instead of static noise into the communication which might be more annoying on the other end.
Once the EU starts controlling all communication it is game over. It will be worse than China.
Yeah, they actually call you. It's a bit annoying, actually, since they call you at a random time and also they basically read off a script, so they might as well email you.
I'm always baffled when I see things like this. The people who are actually creating and sharing being forced out by finger waving moralistic censors who somehow manage to take over leadership positions is a trope that threatens open source communities. I've abandoned projects already because of this pattern, and have seen many friends do the same.

Watching a community that has stood for freedom be destroyed by petty authoritarians is incredibly depressing, but I think that very freedom and openness is what makes it vulnerable to these manipulations.

It seems a lot of these people exist, and a lot of their supporters do too. I'd be perfectly live-and-let-live, and just stay out of their projects, but it seems like they intentionally move into and hijack existing projects as well. I'd really like to see a clear method of letting these people know they are not welcome in a project without giving up the very freedom and openness they're founded on.
Let's Talk AI Podcast
"Pytorch and matplotlib managed to unseat matlab"

From what I know, most companies use MATLAB for real-time simulation or its VHDL code generation, which means you can put your algorithms into FPGA with relative ease. I don't see Pytorch helping there anytime soon.

That said, I agree with you that a lot of mathematical computing is moving to Python, especially now that there's multiple frameworks with GPU support. And yes, that's a great development :)
> it can be distributed through TestFlight

Not for long. There was a post, a couple months ago, by a developer that was screaming about having his developer account permanently banned, because he was using TestFlight as his distribution system.
For people in favor of this kind of tone and manners policing, where does it end? Will you be happy when everything you see on google, facebook, twitter and mailing lists is nice?
What concerns me is that with the increase in arguably totalitarian laws and the constant attempts on once sacrosanct principles like the above we're moving in a direction where we'll run out of room to point at that side and say "yes they've got X but I'd still rather us because they have Y" when more and more we have Y as well.
Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphoton_lithography
If powers that control EU want it, it will happen. Take a look at ACTA and the regulation that has been pushed.