skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I feel like if I reached the FIRE point, I would continue to work, but entirely on my own terms, not as an employee of somebody else.

If you want do to something that impacts or depends on other people then it will never be solely on your own terms. Plenty of people burn out of OSS because they think otherwise and then the angry users eat away at them. Likewise being FIRE doesn't mean you have unlimited resources so if you want more resource you will need to get them on someone else's terms.

I've known a number of senior people at these companies that basically get to do whatever they want, pitch projects and then have teams whose job is to work out the details. Their name provides so much political clout that the org bends around them rather than the other way around.

Personally I work at startups as a hands on manager so generally haven't had much red tape, institutional slowness, upper management, etc. hassles to deal with. Would continue doing so if I reached FIRE although might cut down my hours.
We were told we were grandfathered in, actually. We specifically asked before we started our migration process to Stripe Billing.
It's a bit more than just hype: it's rebranding Bing results to make them more palatable to a EU audience, while guzzling on public subsidies to pretend it's a EU unicorn and gather support from nationalists.

There are actual results - as a public subsidies scam!
Braintree only takes the $0.30 and refunds the percentage.
I would propose that the issue is that browser history navigation is generally poorly designed, at least if you want to do something more sophisticated than hit “back” or search it as a set of URLs. It should be richer and store much more details about each entry.
When a student reconnects, does s/he get connected to the same tutor or a random one?
It's entirely uncontroversial that Basque is being spoken as a native language by EU citizens. What's potentially controversial is merely how much official recognition this fact should receive from the state in which they reside.

On the other hand, the corpus also contains "Chinese" (I assume Mandarin; I haven't checked), which I don't think even the most enthusiastic pan-Europeans are trying to claim yet.
> whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.

Next up has got to be "Bigger Sur", then "Biggest Sur" is up after, and then they'll finally be done.
I appreciate the link but still never heard of him; like most though, I've heard of Cambridge. Publishing on youtube requires no peer review or approval,so it's literally just some guy, and in the context here it's still odd to slap down Cambridge for a youtube video
AI Removes Objects from Videos
Apple claims there is not a significant translation slowdown when using Rosetta 2 to run graphics heavy workloads.
This is smart, Alan. I like it.
For me, not supporting uBlock Origin trumps every single advantage Safari may have.
People chose to use Apple because it seems like a benevolent dictatorship.

And frankly, a benevolent dictatorship is basically the best government you can have, as long as you're part of the "in-group" who doesn't push boundaries, doesn't cause trouble, and supports the supreme ruler, Kim jon... cough* Apple.

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The problem is that no matter how good the dictatorship might be today, it will eventually bite you. You will either develop a need that isn't addressed, or they will change the rules so you are no longer able to satisfy an existing need.

We're seeing this now with Google - Their motto was literally "don't be evil" for a long time. And during that golden period their users loved them. But as Google has shifted from "don't be evil" to "Make lots of money" people are starting to shift away.

Apple is still in the golden phase, but I'm not really convinced they're going to be there much longer.
Only if the server doesn't respond in time, that is - if you'd wanna prevent it from happening, you could just turn it off in the first place via GPO: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

I'd assume that's what most corporations do, since that's what it's there for.

I wouldn't 100% forsake the benefits of this stuff, since it does protect normal users - defender on modern Windows installs is good software and really does its job well, while staying out of your way most of the time. I'd leave it on for my parents.
Python's taste is one of ergonomics. Expressiveness + easyness to read, even for a beginner. Python evolved from a project that was testing the UX of syntax for programming languages.

My favorite example here is that in a function definition, `def foo(): \n pass`, the `:` isn't needed, a machine can parse it with only the newline. The : is a requirement because it made it easier for humans to read the language in user tests.
Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is able to make a release?
Ugh. IMO the network should not be on the critical path to running an executable.
*Maybe I'm misunderstanding
Why do I expect a type safe Python? I'm sure the product I'm imagining will also finally give a Python inspired/compatible language a decent module system, but I'm really not a big fan of the direction Microsoft is carving out for software development at large. I'll admit this post is presumptuous.
California gets a non insignificant amount of power from renewables (10-11GW peak solar generation during the day, per CAISO and electricitymap.org). Natural gas emits CO2 regardless of where it’s burned. Just as an EV displaces combustion vehicles, induction stoves displace combustion stoves. As the grid gets cleaner, everything else that uses it gets cleaner.

In Australia, commercial buildings can no longer receive the highest sustainability score if they have natural gas service.

These regulations are just the beginning of a path to ending residential and commercial natural gas consumption and its distribution network (which leaks non insignificant amounts of methane).
Level 5. Hmm.

We should be able to get a view of Level 5 by looking at, well, lifestyles of the rich and famous. When you get the helicopter, the private jet, and a house big enough to have a helipad, you're there on high energy consumption transportation. Still can't get to the office that way, though.

Flying cars, of the big electric quadrotor variety, are in test. Battery energy density is still too low, but they do work.

There's plenty of room for progress on the bio side. It's interesting that it's not widely accepted that aging is a disease. It may be possible to re-engineer humans so that they just go on with the resiliency of twentysomethings until accident gets them.

We're seeing a resurgence of nuclear power, in China.

Perhaps we're just seeing the stagnation of the US. The same thing happened to Japan, but it started about a decade earlier.
Do not miss that one will find all of the language's pain points. I'd wager that a dynamically typed languages such as Python has quit a few more pain points at scale than a more principled language such as OCaml.

I love Python's bignum arithmetic when I write small prototypes for public key cryptography. I love Python's extensive standard library when I'm scrapping a couple web pages for easier local reading. But I would never willingly chose it for anything bigger than a few hundred lines. I'm simply not capable of dealing with large dynamically typed programs.

Now if people try Rust or OCaml with the mentality of an early startup's Lisp developer, they're going to get hurt right away ("fighting the language" and "pleasing the compiler" is neither pleasing nor productive), and they're going to get hurt in the long run (once you've worked around the language's annoying checks, you won't reap as much benefit).

If you'll allow the caricature, don't force Coq down Alan Kay's throat, and don't torture Edsger Dijkstra with TCL.
If you don't have a connection, it just doesn't do the check. If you have a crappy connection like many of our students, it takes forever to check. If the server is down, life just sucks and non-Apple programs don't open.
> Maps: Discover the Next Adventure

Seems a bit tone deaf given our current situation.
Ah. Name collisions suck.
The tragedy here is that likely the retrospective on this at Apple internally will not be "why do we even need our customers MacBooks to send all this data to us", but "how can we keep on doing this without something similar happening again"
I also agree with that.

I think it's more about infusing an engineering mindset where there is an analysis of past failures.
I think they could also go to the hospital right now. But I think that needs to be communicated; some sort of message telling people “Covid is serious but so are a lot of other health issues if you think you need medical help get it!”
So by extension browsers allowing file downloads also falls under that? That's just what BitTorrent is after all.
I didn't mention the dynamics of my relationship with my ex so not sure what you're comparing to. Down voted because of sarcasm/bias against dogs. Or because I find elitism unattractive.
Well the good news is that you can start right now and don't even have to deal with radiation poisoning.
I started with Manjaro, and I would definitely recommend it. I tried to switch to Linux a few times before I arrived at Manjaro, and it was the perfect introduction. It's based on Arch, so you get the most up-to-date packages, but it has a graphical installer and is beginner-friendly. If you can't find something in the default repositories, it's probably in the AUR (user-maintained repositories). Plus, it's just really fun to use.
For those eager to get a look at the code it can be found here: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
EEE, github, windows 10, there's a lot of reasons to suspect that when Microsoft becomes directly involved in something it starts to become less useful to the user.
This issue + the inevitable platform switching costs may wipe out the momentum gained from the new offer.

Esp. rational corporate buyers are not going to want some 'cool new hardware' if they can't do basic things.

Makes you think about MS's existential 'always backwards compatible' philosophy.
Which copyright law are you talking about? My impression is that streaming a reasonably large collection of copyrighted music (say 10,000 tracks) to a reasonable number of friends (say 10) would not be considered fair use by U.S. courts. The RIAA doesn’t sue people for this because it’s hard to detect and the damages are too small to cover legal costs, not because they accept it as fair use.

In the Betamax case, the Supreme Court said that it would not be fair to use copyrighted works in a way which “if it should become widespread … would adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.” Time-shifting was not considered to adversely affect the market for commercial TV. But surely a tool like Funkwhale, “if it should become widespread,” would adversely affect the music streaming industry?
Because Apple would not benefit from doing so, I’m fact could be hugely damaged doing so.

They don’t have any significant advertising business. They don’t need to collect any personally identifiable information. They’ve promoted their brand by putting their customers privacy first.

So why would you believe they would intentionally risk all of that here?
Between the Kuwaiti oil fires of the first gulf war, and many more country-sized forest fire events, we've learned that Nuclear Winter is not a likely scenario. In fact, the very scientists who coined the term in the 1980s have backed away from it.

Nuclear war would be awful, and certainly the radioactive fallout would be bad, and the damage to thriving historical cities, not to mention the human toll. But extinction level? Unlikely.

One thing this pandemic has taught me is the resilience of the modern supply chain to huge unexpected disruption. It's much stronger in that dimension than I initially feared in early March.
The value proposition was clear and well written, until I got to this part:

"you want to do it without having to standup layers of infrastructure on AWS or be beholden to the legacy players like Heroku or other providers who don’t get that you want the same Netlify like experience on the backend."

So exactly how is Heroku "legacy"? From past experiences pushing a simple backend service onto Heroku was pretty smooth and "Netlify-esq".

It would be nice to explain or show the shortcomings of using Heroku as the backend for your Netlify app.
This demonstrates the limits of Apple's campaign towards vertical integration of their services. Once they make a simple mistake on their part, you are at the mercy of Apple to make it right again.
Smart screen and other measures on windows are so useless that they just encourage consumers to engage in bad security practices.

I downloaded steam from the steam page, windows blocked it. I downloaded Chrome, windows blocked it. What's even the fucking point?
To prevent virus spread by confused deputies: even if you somehow get CreateProcess permission by, ex, getting a service registered, the actual malicious executable will still be blocked.
> The advice I learned years ago

Being able to use $1/$2/etc directly might be a relatively new development.

EDIT: Or maybe not. This might have been doable since 2010:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/8dba1e634af1d973a47fca616a...
I mean,

If someone knows he's interviewing at a place where there will be a coding interview, he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook.

And maybe if the course only only gave the candidate a passing familiarity it wasn't thorough enough?
If you want to comply with worldwide payment laws and tax requirements, then I'd disagree it's "not one of the complicated problems".

It's also not something that a service like Stripe will handle for you to a useful degree.

Edit: And dunning.

Which, AFAIK, you still can't actually test properly with Stripe's system before making it live. I'm not even sure it's fully documented yet, and if it is, that's a relatively recent development.

And pro-rata'd subscription changes. And pro-rata'd refunds.

You can literally write the code to do things like this in a few minutes, including all conceivable edge cases. Many of us have. It's basic arithmetic combined with some almost-but-not-quite-trivial logic around dates.

We pay Paddle 5% of every subscription transaction for a reason.

But Paddle's model is a merchant-of-record, which also takes care of things like the tax reporting and remittance headaches that a service with Stripe's model doesn't. It's not a fair comparison.
I'm not sure what they call it, but Windows does get in the way for things you compile on your own machine. I compiled the JuicyPotato exploit and tried to copy it to another local folder and got error 0x800700E1 and the EXE went missing.
Deutsche Bank proposes taxing people for working from home
My impression from similar studies is that we tend to discriminate against people who don't look like us, not necessarily based (just) on perceived negative characteristics.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if obese/unattractive people still discriminates against those perceived negative characteristics, but I also wouldn't be surprised if that discrimination was to a lower degree than when the person doing the discrimination isn't obese/unattractive.
> software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down

The central company server didn't go down. If it was down there would be no problem. The problem is that the server is slow.
It is art, but the author also said he reads it daily to get a news digest. It is full-sized and sharp, so just as easy to read as a newspaper, and also hanging at eye-height.

I can also see it as part of a news diet: get the headlines and major trends of the day while waiting for your coffee and toast in the morning, then you don't need to be distracted by news websites when you're working. That's actually how the morning paper was meant to be consumed: get info early in your day. If you want the whole paper, the software could be modified to load the entire paper PDF and have a control to page through.
Here's the 'Hardware Lottery' essay that this refers to:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489.pdf

"Hardware, systems and algorithms research communities have historically
had different incentive structures and fluctuating motivation to engage with
each other explicitly. This historical treatment is odd given that hardware
and software have frequently determined which research ideas succeed (and
fail). This essay introduces the term hardware lottery to describe when a
research idea wins because it is suited to the available software and hardware and not because the idea is superior to alternative research directions.
Examples from early computer science history illustrate how hardware lotteries can delay research progress by casting successful ideas as failures.
These lessons are particularly salient given the advent of domain specialized hardware which make it increasingly costly to stray off of the beaten
path of research ideas. This essay posits that the gains from progress in
computing are likely to become even more uneven, with certain research
directions moving into the fast-lane while progress on others is further obstructed."
No. If you look closely at the data you might be able to draw such conclusions but lack of statistical significance often doesn't suggest or imply a small effect. Notice that in this case in particular, the confidence intervals are consistent with very large positive or fairly large negative effects. Don't underestimate the amount of noise often found in studies. Lack of significance usually just means that data is too noisy to tell us anything. If you get significance you get to say: the data is probably not pure noise but the effect could still be very tiny or caused by systematic measurement errors. Null hypothesis testing is pretty useless really.
Logic errors found in popular databases
I don‘t know, like, average SPA stuff, a lot of React.

I just considered what the network tab actually is and I have of course used it before, to work on the loading speed of sites, but haven‘t done that for a while. The only performance work I‘ve done recently is with react profiler.

I have never used it to inspect API requests, which I assume it can do? I‘m comfortable with Charles proxy, which is likely overkill.

My usage is maybe 45% elements, 45% console, 5 % source/debugger, 3% storage, 2% network. Somehow I dislike elements UI in chrome.

Now I‘m thinking that I may be missing out and should look at what it does and what chrome could give me.

Edit: after playing around with it for a few minutes: I have in fact been missing out and using Charles and Paw way too much when I could have done it way quicker in the browser. I hope I don't have to switch to chrome now.
What's wrong with a Thinkpad?
What about the Nuclear Winter effect? I would think going like 100 years without being able to grow food would cause everything but the heartiest life forms to die out including humans who are much harder to keep going than simple bacteria.
It seems you have a pet peeve about pet projects. The parent comment didn't say anything about pet projects.
tl;dr it's not just Photos:

> Also starting June 1, any new Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms or Jamboard file will begin counting toward your free 15 GB of allotted storage or any additional storage provided through Google One. Existing files within these products will not count toward storage, unless they’re modified on or after June 1.

> If you're inactive in one or more of these services for two years (24 months), Google may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive.
I've gotten quite good at recognizing crosswalks, fire hydrants, chimneys and the like. Though I refuse to identify that one mailbox as a "parking meter" even if it means another trial to prove my humanity. Users of the platform get treated as spammers already.
Vincent van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother
Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate.
If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning laws are altered or removed, it can be redeveloped into housing that's actually affordable.

We really are running into a wall on the methane crisis, and we we simply don't have the time to integrate these changes at a slower pace.

Let's focus on changing our regulations that prohibit building neighborhoods for pedestrians. Let's work on getting homes with solar roofs and big batteries. Let's get drone delivery everywhere. Let's electrify the transport system with electric cars, electric trucks, eVTOL aircraft. Let's tunnel underneath and between cities and connect them with hyperloops. Let's connect people in rural areas with low-cost, low-latency satellite internet access.

Doing these things will directly provide a great number of jobs for a great number of people. It will make a great number of new jobs possible. It will improve the natural environment. I think this is a much more positive direction to take than to try to slow things down.
Ames window is very cool. https://michaelbach.de/ot/sze-AmesBallerina/index.html, but I like this video better: https://youtu.be/DkVOIJAaWO0?t=233 (timestamped at the most interesting place, but the whole thing is worth a watch)
For an advertising supported business, sure.

But not for Apple where advertising revenues a rounding error on a rounding error, and they’ve built their brand on their commitment to privacy.
Is that meant to imply that the privacy protection and un-bubbling of the "middle men" is bogus? (I don't know about Qwant, but DDG isn't solely Bing, and it feeds some worthwhile organizations with donations.)
If you care about javascript bundle size you have to avoid everything that comes from google (besides angular core & common of course). Material, animations, cdk, ... everything is just horrendously over engineered and nothing optimized for size. E.g. just look a sourcecode for material checkbox! https://github.com/angular/components/blob/master/src/materi...

Don't get me wrong, I like those bundles - and I like my frameworks over engineered. They take care of edge cases. And if I'd write a CMS I'd be all over those packages. But if your constraint is bundle size, you have to avoid them.
I didn't say I was that kind of people.

Your description of them was also not exactly flattering.
> don’t get a ping back in less than 500ms or whatever? Go ahead and open anyway

how do you do that without defeating the security? Now a malicious attacker just has to wait for a moment when you aren't connected before launching their payload.
I believe the statement was more political than actual science. Let's not blow the world up ok? Radiation is bad. Let's just agree to keep some semblance of respect for human life.
it's transposed, not case difference
Source-based code coverage in Rust nightly
That's all nice and well, but what if some country decides that your country will still have Internet access, but a "degraded experience" to Apple's central infrastructure?

Still sounds to me like Apple rolled out a huge (logical) trojan horse, as a potential weapon in terms of nation state cyber warfare.

Probably not at all with that intention. But I doubt that any government willing to abuse this "opportunity" will give a fuck about that. Don't underestimate the power (and disruptive) effects of being able to practically disable a whole brand of popular computer hardware. Heck, even the ability to threaten with it (privately, through diplomatic channels) can (and probably should) be considered a serious weapon. So yeah .. "thank you" Apple.