skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So, tell me about how you would develop a threaded application"

(Runs for cover)
I am in a similar boat. I’m not so worried about them dropping legacy support for things, and I’m also fairly positive about where they are going with Swift etc, but it does feel like the benefits for professional use are narrow.

Having said that, I have moved back to Linux for some things recently, and it feels like time has simply stood still or regressed.
Oh no way, thank you!
At the end I see it as a self optimizing net.

- good enough for society

- good enough for employees

- stable and well organized

I'm pretty sure you can make anybody feel good in a job crossing these marks, whether the person wasn't attracted by it.
I don’t understand the connection to the OP url
Think of the ad sales!
I particularly like the irony of:

-- the claim that "Steve Bannon used the Facebook platform to call for the execution and public display of the corpses of two public officials" and "This is unambiguously true, Steve Bannon's Facebook page reiterated the claims the same day..."

...combined with...

-- "...for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play."

...when what Bannon wrote on Facebook was a direct quotation of what was said about him, here:

https://populist.press/steve-bannons-twitter-account-suspend...

He even linked to the site where it was said.

I'm not supporting what Bannon has said here by any means, but it boggles my mind why there seems to be this recurring pattern over the last several years where rather than simply using the actual, already more than bad enough words of Trump and his gang to criticize him, instead people seem to need to hyperbole-it-up for added effect. Claiming that Bannon was unambiguously not using a provocative/hyperbolic figure of speech, but rather was literally calling for someone's execution...seems a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face (note: I am using that expression figuratively - I do not mean that people here or elsewhere are literally cutting their noses off).

To me, much of Western civilization seems like the Movie Lord of the Flies [1].

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.

Except in our case, I don't think there are going to be any adults showing up on the scene to stop us from killing each other. Sadly, real life is often not rescued at the last moment as it often is in the movies, as anyone who has read history would well know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
Thank you. I needed to read this. I had been debating about switching careers entirely (from IT to genetics/bioinformatics) and as I’m progressing through courses I’m slowly realizing more and more that I’m going to still be expected to do various similar mundane, boring tasks. I’m interested in the stuff now because it’s neat, shiny, and new (to me). But in 8-10 years I’ll probably begin hating it all over again.
>Sorry TC the reality is barely anyone but aging millennials are keeping 20k songs around in mp3 format.

And yet iTunes Match remains in service.
I was around in 2012 actually. I also did not understand fully the intricacies of the system as formulated by the Founders. Nor did I appreciate the usurpation of the executive function of an elector in measuring the character of a candidate by the various States and the two National political parties. Fortunately, I was unsatisfied with that state of affairs, and read into the history and writings of the time, so that I could have a better chance of understanding what it was the Founders saw and hoped would carry to the modern day.

The understanding I got out of it, was that over the last 200 years is that we've struck a balance between opening up sufferage, but rewriting fundamental abstractions such that the pre-eminence of only two political collectives can be be ontologically considered, ensuring that yet another check the Founders were counting on, Regional Factionalism would disappear as a mitigating factor to prevent the development of a "National Political Elite", much to the dismay of Hamilton and Madison.

So, yeah thanks for assuming a modern political caricature is enough to represent the full nuance of my position on a highly argued, oft misunderstood, and underappreciated topic on the mechanics, merits, and warts of the American political system. Really appreciate it.
This is known as the Gish gallop.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
I use my laptop on my lap, and usually when I sit with my hands folded in my lap, my hands fall along the center axis of my body. We are bilaterally symmetrical beings (with some internal asymmetries).

So unless I scoot the laptop off-axis or I have to move my hands off axis to type.

I'm unsure how this isn't unergonomic. It's not something to get used to. It's bad design. Period.
CISA Rumor Control
Is music helping Alzheimer's patients considered implausible?
It does go locally if you are not on wifi. I thought the issue was my slow internet so I turned off wifi and suddenly everything launched just fine.
But a large company also have drawbacks - like the lack of agility and bureaucracy and inefficiency.

If the small company really were truly better (and by a large magnitude), they would have a chance. After all, how did google beat the original behemoth of yahoo?
You don't have to "trust" them. In fact you shouldn't. That's why you encrypt locally first. And if they lose your data you still have it locally. It is good to also have two local copies.
Anyone remember Boo? [1] It was a Python language that ran on the CLR/DLR VM of .NET. It was used early on in Unity when it had C#, Javascript and Boo. It was the language that coroutines was first implemented in that used Python like generators behind it.

There was also IronPython added when the DLR came out and is still updated to this day, latest works in .NET Core. [2]

It would be fun for Python to have more focus with Microsoft tools and some things on Azure or even another Boo/IronPython like CLR/DLR virtual machine language or more focus on IronPython itself as well as more of CPython. Having Guido at Microsoft is awesome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython
A lot of laptops, Dell for example, offset the touch pad to the left even though there is no keypad. You might be right that these are technically centered on the q to p span of the keyboard.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/De...

https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/reviews/05RhNkV9HnULG0LW4YRfKzZ-...

https://www.tec-int.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/...
F# is strongly typed as I understand it. Python succeeded because it wasn't. A languages type system design mutates slower than the domain specific needs of what is popular. That slowness translates to difficulty in grabbing emerging domains. And the existing users are opposed to untyped structures as hacks causing friction. For example, most deep learning libraries even in typed languages are only semi-typed as matrix sizes aren't compared in the type system but in run time.
> and almost no risks

This isn't true--especially for Vitamin D. We have several doctors at this point who deal with cases where too much Vitamin D causes Calcium uptake issues and affects cognition and heart function.

Vitamin D is NOT something like Vitamin C. Your body easily dumps excessive Vitamin C so you can take fairly massive doses with no real ill effects.

Your body has a much tougher time excreting Vitamin D--so large doses of Vitamin D can cause issues and accumulate.
It is fat soluble. You can develop toxicity, and the effects are not trivial: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

It seems based on casual reading of research that more people are deficient than not and dosing to toxic levels is unlikely. But it's not a bad idea to do this under the care of a doctor.
These look way better than the OP. Clever.
At that point might as well get rid of the Mac and switch to something else.
“In other news, Apple has quietly backdoored the end-to-end cryptography of iMessage.”

Is this substantiated somewhere? It seems like a big deal if there is any truth to it.
Actually, through their Altera acquisition, they must have design licenses for a number of recent Cortex-A variants as well, since a number of their FPGAs have ARM cores.
Correction: You don't need to login to install apps from Microsoft store and software control on Linux.

Android, yes playstore requires an account but you can install an alternative store without signing in.
Pirates of the ArXiv
While there are illegal efforts to battle the inaccessibility of research, the digital and completely open preprint platform “ArXiv” has been growing immensely in the past 5 years. For good reasons.
> The United States has the longest running form of government

The Vatican is likely to disagree.
Here's a small collection https://pyre-check.org/docs/pysa-additional-resources
> The Office already has received input from stakeholders on the Office policies discussed above and on use of the Office's discretion in institution of an AIA trial ... Among other things, stakeholders have indicated that the Office's use of discretion as outlined above helps to ensure that (a) AIA proceedings do not create excessive costs and uncertainty for the patent owner and the system

(this proposal helps to prevent) "excessive costs and uncertainty for the patent owner"... yah, what a shame that a wrongfully/improperly granted patent could be overturned.
Worth noting that the above mostly talks above Vitamin D specifically, not multivitamins. D is the only one you do not naturally get from food (ignoring fortified food), and it also as mentioned above one of the cheaper ones. Multivitamins are far more expensive in general.
They're probably already spending more.
Even just getting excavators on to a beach can be risky.

Near where I used to live they were using an excavator to move some sand. The tide caught one. It started to sink. They sent in another. You can guess what happened next.

Cool. There is still a small article about this:

https://starcommunity.com.au/star/04-05-2008/time-and-tide-w...
It's important to think hard about nuclear war. However the problem to focus on is that nuclear war is a lot more likely than most people think. Accidental launch in reaction to bad intelligence is a constant possibility; also the number of nuclear powers continues to increase. Civil war in any nuclear-arm nation is also something to consider. All of these could result in multiple strikes, which would unleash horrors not seen since WW II or before.
Considering the Durbin Amendment capped debit card processing at 0.05% and $0.21 per transaction, and interchange pricing for credit cards ranges from 0.65% to 2.4% plus a few cents for the auth fee, it is pure profiteering that PayPal and Stripe charge this much to process cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-in...
Had the same thing earlier in the week as the isp was doing maintenance two nights in a row. 5+ seconds to start sublime and other really basic apps. Apple apps had no problem of course.

Remembering the notarization problems people were having months ago I did some tests and confirmed.

Now have little snitch installed again and my laptops going to be an Apple orphan. So I never noticed this problem today by virtue of it pissing me off 2 days before.
Walt Umenhofer, the military veteran mentioned, was a friend of my father’s. Walt also owned a drivable tank. No joke.
Given how much higher the iOS app sales are, it seems like Apple is providing very significant value for that 30% cut of theirs
Certainly good to here that drivers for it are now in the linux kernel.
Have you tried out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-all-tabs...

> Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

I expect that the vast majority of users would be entirely uninterested in the workflow you describe.
Having been on the interviewer side of the table at a couple smaller companies as well as a FAANG or two, I can say I've never seen a question on the slate where the candidate was obviously intended to fail. Maybe some other companies do this.

However, if a candidate answers my first question easily I will try to extend or constrain the problem enough that it pushes them out of their comfort zone a bit. This gives them a chance to show off more skill than if I only asked an easy question.

Also, there are very rarely "perfect interviews"; it's rare for people to get the highest score on even one of their interviews, let alone all of them.
There's a research direction on 'controlled natural language' which is essentially a limited subset of a natural lanugage that still allows to express all that you need for a particular problem domain.

They have their uses in natural language generation, where you may want to output some data in a way that's more readable to humans, and in various specialized query languages. For example, in some tasks you may prefer a voice command system that has more flexibility than mere keywords, where the instructions are phrases matching the users' language (you might want the same product to support many languages) but the system needs to understand only a very limited subset of language that can be expressed with a strict grammar - mainly because its ability to do stuff is also limited to what that subset can express. And this provides reliability - you can verify that the limited set of expressions that the system can understand get understood properly and those who aren't clear get rejected. This is bad for some use cases and good for others; picking a 'best effort' most likely interpretation (which many state of art methods do now) might be desirable or completely unacceptable depending on your use case.

The benefit of a strict grammar over (for example) NN transformer architectures for NLG and NLU is that it's relatively straightforward to map the structures of that grammar to the structured data that your non-NLP code is using for the business logic, you can have a clear and debuggable 1-to-1 mapping for the semantics of these phrases.
Even within a population, vitamin D deficiency will vary by lifestyle, skin tone, and climate. All three of which vary a lot in the US.
Vit. D supplementation is dirt cheap. Like $15 for a years worth. That’s a lot cheaper than milk.
I'm running a bunch of ThinkPads with Fedora & all works fine (and worked fine for years).
The interesting part here is that there is a record of public discourse that lead to the US Constitution. So you do not see just the product, but also the process that preceded it.

Also note that people do not just write constitution to satisfy their ideal image of constitution, they need to write such constitution that would be accepted by many citizens with differing ideas and goals. Especially when it is not a constitution of a unitary state, but federation. Last time we tried something similar, we ended with Treaty of Lisbon.
TIL, electronic voting machines are CLOSED SOURCE (hardware and software) - that should be completely unacceptable in an open democracy.

It makes me wonder how a statement like this can be proved.

> There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised

When it comes to something as important as elections the mantra should be: don't trust. verify.
Using wolves as first responders against a deadly brain disease
Yes. And they prevent many kinds of programs on their operating system, e.g. anything trying to access DRM material.

The same goes for OSX and iOS and Android. There are lots of things that can't be run. They're under no obligation to allow them, however much we might want them to.
P# was already a project at microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/safe-asynch...

It has transformed since into:
https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/
About YouTube Rewind this year
My boss is not technical. Never been a developer. I have no mentor.

An example of over complicating things is I will ask too many questions to make sure I fully understand an ask. I will keep asking more questions if I feel I can make an ask better or I see a risk.

Honestly I feel like if I spent more time designing my boss would think I'm just making things more complicated than it should. Do you have a design book in mind?

How can I use agile as a solo developer? Everything I've read on it involves a team environment.
That's why notarized applications should be stapled too. The stapling "ticket" is embedded in the app bundle and allows macOS to perform an offline check.

Basically you'll get the usual GateKeeper window, but with a slightly different message, along the lines of "I can't check this binary in realtime but I trust the embedded notarization".
> Actually Apple would be the biggest company, in the market of people who have smartphones in the US. They just recently have a bit over 50% of that market.

Is Epic requiring Apple to only open their stores in the US?
I knew but had forgotten, it’s been that long.
There is no connection. ‘Maxharris’ is astroturfing.
> You can't really compare Google to Apple. You can switch to a different company if you don't like pixel phones and get almost the same experience. You can switch between manufacturers and use windows/Linux as well. The same isn't true about Mac os or iOS.

This doesn't really make much sense to me. Unless you are going with a niche privacy-oriented fork of AOSP, any non-iOS smartphone you move to will still be controlled by Google. And if you do move to one of those forks, you are essentially migrating to an entirely new ecosystem anyways. It's no easier to leave Google's Android ecosystem than it is to leave iOS or macOS.
Customer discovery?
If I am reading the fields of this implementation of BSL correctly, it will be open-source software in 10 years, when it converts to Apache 2.0, but not today. Until then, the license does not comply with the open source definition due to field of use restrictions.
Yeah, this is the second article I've run across with a non-sequitur link.
What is the line between criticism and slander? Why can we draw that line when dealing with individuals but it is impossible to define categories when dealing with groups of people?
Eight states[0] still have electronic voting systems without paper backups. They're un-auditable. I'm not going to weigh in on the current politics of this situation, but US Election security is awful, now, and since at least 2000.

I actually did my degree thesis on designing electronic voting systems (and built one), and ultimately concluded it was impossible to make them fully secure. The best you can do is paper backups and random audits to detect anything illicit followed by a full audit if that fails. No paper backups results in it being undetectable.

Computers are good at making things more efficient, but in terms of election security the inefficiency is a feature (i.e. it takes more people to alter votes, and the more people you add the harder a lie is to keep).

[0] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-...
No chain of custody, closed source voting machines, ballots sent to people who didn't ask for them based on known-bad voter rolls...but sure, I'll just take some random government agency's word for it.
A certificate revocation request signed by the private key is proof of private key compromise.

Anyone issuing such a revocation due to knowledge of compromise of the key is notifying the issuing authority of the compromise.

If a key is used for a purpose not listed as allowed in the certificate, it's compromised, even if the entity that misused the key is the original holder.

Anyone issuing such a revocation without authorization has the private key, and is using it for something they're not authorized to use it for. It's compromised by definition.

There's never a reason not to revoke a certificate when a valid revocation request is received. The key has been compromised, either by leaking or by misuse.
Doesn't this bigger design flaw you describe apparently exist? I (and many others) did exactly that to get our machines responsive again, ocsp.apple.com 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file.

I don't understand what you mean.
A "manual" test case I've seen before actually involved trying various things in the software while literally walking into an elevator and having all network connectivity suddenly cut out (no WiFi and no cell radio), in order to simulate what so many people do (or at least did anyway, pre-COVID) regularly throughout the day. I suppose this is also a bit different than just toggling connectivity on the device, since for some time the app and OS both still think the connection is in tact when it's already physically gone, so it may even be useful to help expose other issues this way.

One of the things that's easy to take for granted these days when working on desktop or server software is a mostly stable network connection, but on mobile this goes completely out the window, or down the elevator shaft as the case may be. :)
use pin payments they can take and settle in USD just ask them and they are an AU company. similar fee structure as stripe 2.x + 30c
FYI I've had the issue you describe half a dozen times with CentOS but literally never with Arch Linux (on both machines with similar nVidia cards, using the proprietary driver). In general I'm pretty impressed with Arch's package quality, I seldom encounter any issue and when I do it's patched very quickly.
As someone who doesn't use Safari this just sounds like a secondary Bookmark list.
I'm surprised this isn't codified in the law instead of left up for administrative regulation.
> appearance of a Doctor(or if they smoke etc).

Being fat is different to smoking.

To get high from smoking you must smoke. To love food you don't have to be fat.

Being an alcoholic is more comparable. Or a two pack a day smoker.

A doctor should be vaping though. If they don't vape that is bad. But I feel like these things are small compared to all the other problems we have with doctors, like overwork.
Reading from/writing to glue tables works rather well, in addition to S3, although that's just a rather thin layer over s3.
If anyone else has a Google Music account, but doesn't want to move to YouTube Music, then try chatting with Google support and asking for a refund. It worked for me!
But weak shields are only not destabilizing as long as there is complete awareness of its weak nature. Forms of reality denial are standard mode of operations in politics and good luck finding a war that didn't start with one form or another of reality denial.

On a tangent that doesn't really change ether we find weak shields bothersome or not: arguably all strong shield projects were just weak shields with reality denial built right into the sales pitch.
I recently ran across a review (from 2013) of Kurt Vonnegut's collected letters. He was working in public relations for General Electric (in the early 1950s, I gather) when he sold his first story to Collier's (a large-circulation magazine of the time). He wrote to his father that if he could sell five stories a year, he would make more than a year's pay at GE.

But he wrote in 1986, "the magazines had gone out of business, and I was suddenly in the position of having to write a whole book in order to get what used to be my fee for just one story."
The only thing worse than that is when they come back and say, "Oh nevermind, I figured it out." and don't post the fix.
What a great list of disinfo + debunkings. If I could tweak one thing, I think it would make sense to put the red X statement before the green checkmark, since the checkmark statement is the response