skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[T]he story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding. Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues -- until a crisis triggers a race to uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have imagined. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.
It's the line about dropping installer exe files into a directory which is where I stopped reading. This sounds like it needs user execution so isn't really anything new.
What you are saying is that my colleague who has been working on one ticket, solving a critical bug, for the last 2 or 3 weeks is a an unproductive one since he haven't closed a ticket for a while ?

Counting closed tickets is indeed a measure for something, but by itself it's far from being a good indicator.
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On a side note: Does "data wrangling" and (especially) "data munging" sound cringey to anyone else? It's hard to put my finger on why exactly but the terms are really offputting.
It's not just Apple that's shipping AMD and Intel chips with a special security coprocessor (ME/PSP) embedded in the CPU that only boots signed, unmodifiable code: everyone in that marketshare table is doing so.

What OS does the main CPU run? Usually the one from Microsoft, the vendor with specific state-of-the-art expertise in locking down the platforms on which they operate stores (xbox).

Apple is simply ahead of the curve here; Microsoft (and the entirety of the PC market they run on) will get there soon enough.

I hope you're right and I'm totally wrong, but everything I see with regards to platform stores, DRM, and "cryptographic integrity of software" as it's termed leads me to believe that in a relatively short period of time (10 years, +/-5) basically nothing cheap and performant off the shelf will run open OSes or common software without significant difficulty.
Russia has a comparable population to Japan. And there are lots of YouTubers with literally millions of subscribers, and I don’t hear about most of them even in Russian media.
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> Modern PC EUFI bootloaders are bigger and more bloated than any uboot build in existence, and things like device tree support in linux means that you can support various boards with the same kernel (including boards that don't exist yet). Sure you'll probably still need custom bootloaders for most boards, but it's not like you can swap your motherboard BIOS/UEFI chips and expect them to work either.

This feels like, at best, getting back to where PCs already were, at least as a user. If a device tree can be embedded in firmware and fed to the booting system, then that's fine, it's just a minor implementation detail. If you need to go get a file and put it on your boot media, then that's extra friction. Likewise, I don't really care what the hardware's boot firmware looks like, but if I need a different bootloader per-device then that's a problem - can you imagine if Dell laptops and HP laptops needed different GRUB builds to work?
I'm critical of Sweden in that the people have blind trust of authority and are failing to integrate people (this includes me, as a British migrant), and will go to great lengths to avoid any mention of demographics when talking about crime. Talking about it _at all_ will get you branded a racist.

However I'm saying that the definition of rape in Sweden is broader than other countries and encompasses more things, so the same action in the UK could be classified as domestic violence or sexual harassment (thus, not rape) but in Sweden it would be rape.

For one (of many) example(s), in the UK it's impossible for a woman to rape a man, because legally the perpetrator needs to penetrate the victim. This is not the case in Sweden.
Yeah, same with three kids here (although it does mean people on video calls hear them, or in one case a fire alarm, before I do). I have to admit I will sometimes wear them either way though, I feel it helps me focus.
How does this solve the problem? Glass has huge costs to recycle as well. It seems the major benefit here is that there is less environmental impact if it gets tossed into the sea? Of course this has other issues such as breaking and cutting people.

IIRC glass only breaks out ahead if you reuse it. This is why you will often see coke in glass bottles in European bars, they are collected and sent back for reuse so it makes economical and environmental impact.
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
David Bull is magical. There are certainly some good lessons to learn in how magnetic his videos and storytelling skills are, considering few would list hour-long woodblock printmaking videos a thing they would recurringly watch on Youtube. But here we are.
Mainframes are alive and well, they just have new names like AWS, GCP, Azure...
I'm very much the target market for the APMs, so I read this with interest. Well, I mean, I would be, if I still got on planes.

I own a nice pair of Sennheisers with active noise cancellation. They're AMAZING on planes, or other noisy environments, but like any full-sized set of headphones they're not something I'd wear moving around. Since COVID happened, mine have been on a shelf -- if I want headphones in the house, I just use my AirPods or the older set of wired Sennheisers semi-permanently set up next to the couch.

But yeah, I'm interested in these for the post-COVID world. One thing gave me a little pause, though, prior to Gruber's piece, and that was my assumption that Apple wouldn't make it possible to use these in a wired mode at all. My Senns CAN be used that way, and it makes a big difference on a long-haul flight. If you can use your own nice headphones with the seatback system, you'll have a much nicer time, and I just assumed Apple wouldn't do that.

I'm VERY pleased to see they allowed for that: "You can use AirPods Max as wired headphones with a Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone jack cable".

There's lots of stuff I like about my wireless ANC-equipped Sennheisers, but they don't sound as good as the wired set by my couch. (I mean, no surprise; the older wired set is like $300, and the wireless ones were half that.) Additionally, the wireless ones have all the sorts of goofy interface bullshit and dodgy Bluetooth things going on that I associated with basically all non-Apple Bluetooth things.

I'd absolutely pay a premium to have wireless headphones that rival my fancy wired Sennheisers, include ANC, and operate seamlessly. That'd be a no-brainer.

But, as I said, only if travel actually becomes a thing again. ;)
Please don't exaggerate or fear monger. There is no "pretty decent chance". It was never even remotely possible (as much as a minority of rabid followers of someone wish it to be).
Well, if governments (that claim the right to use actual force) have made it illegal, say no more! That's all I needed to hear. The government is my authority, they made it illegal, I should just switch off my brain and accept their pronouncements!!!

/s
The old conduct policy read a bit like copy/paste "well surely we need something here" that grew organically to cover specific situations as encountered, and this new policy looks extremely thought-out, like it was written actually with the protection of users in mind, so I think from that perspective it's an improvement.

On the other hand (and maybe I'm being overly cynical here),
the real reason you rewrite this, as a company, is that your old policy was causing you legal issues, right? This is first and foremost a legal document, yeah? I wonder which of the dozens of public "incidents" informed this decision (or maybe the fact that so many have happened is what spurred the rewrite).

Just something to think about from a "new startup" perspective; if you have users that can post content, you need something like this, and the old "don't be evil" versions probably don't cut it today.
Agreed. But the original article is about Airpods Max which are not small either. And he specifically talks about how heavy they are.
Headphones (AirPods Max), not earphones (AirPods).
The methodology is pretty silly. It rewards activity and popularity.

A lot of critical infrastructure software is not active and not often spoken about!

Case in point: The https://www.cip-project.org/faq project highlight the needs of very-long-term support for OS components that run on critical infrastructure such as power stations.

The https://www.cip-project.org/faq project is based on Debian. Very little of it is on github.
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Great answer. Thank you so much for taking the time!
> Don't blame the mirror for what you see in it.

Agreed, Facebook is just exploiting weaknesses that already exist in American minds. Those problems exist elsewhere, but have not advanced as far.

There will be a silver lining in the Facebook case though. We're going to see a lot of emails and depositions that end the "Mark Zuckerberg is a uniquely competent person who earned an empire through ability" myth. That's good enough for me.
That is technically true but misleading because a) all of those plants were planned before the nuclear exit and b) they all close in 2038. Still a shame, though.
> anger on CDP who took offence and said they're not doing anything for linux any more.

I have seen no such statement by CDProjekt RED. Only employees of the porting company decried the criticism they got.
This is quite ironic, the EU sets its own standards lower than the UK, but in trade negotiations accuses the UK of potentially lowering the standards to get an advantage. Same stories with subsidies. I guess it's true, cheaters are always the most afraid of being cheated.
I was curious why you were asking so I thought I’d quickly find an answer with a definitive source but this ended up being much more controversial than I thought.

The popular answer seems to be a decade starts and ends with the decade handle. 200X, 201X, 202X, 203X, 204X. The current decade began when it was 2020 and will end when it’s no longer 202X.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/27/791546842/people-cant-even-ag...

> As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.

> In a recent YouGov survey, 64% of Americans said the next decade will begin on Jan. 1, 2020, and end on Dec. 31, 2029. But nearly 20% said they weren't sure – and slightly fewer people said the next decade won't start until Jan. 1, 2021.

> On this question, many voices of authority are with the minority. They say that because there was no Year Zero when the current era began more than 2,000 years ago, all decades, centuries and millenia begin with Year 1.
I think the short answer is that society simply doesn't value it as much today as it did in the past. We're just seeing the consequences of that slow change in attitude. These days it's more important to have low-effort, smooth relationships with everybody at once.

When machine translation gets so good as to be transparent, correct, and effortlessly ubiquitous, we'll probably see more cross-cultural communication. And along with it, a bunch of additional clashes, new taboos, and additional reduction in the range of acceptable expression. I probably say things that someone halfway across the planet thinks are abhorrent all the time, and I only get away with it because we're not interacting yet.
Is there any reason to not read this as “we can’t have a more equitable society unless the market happens to create one?”

On a related note, why does it seem as if some countries (all of Western Europe, for example) have managed to create more equitable societies using government policies?
Sure, but you'll note they didn't name it COMOL.
"Liberalism"

It's a pity because it rocks!

https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/808223_062615-cc-confeder...
Is it really a "huge move" though? I feel like we've seen something like that once or twice a year for the past decade at least.
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I think that is exactly their point. That is why disabling SIP is not a practical way to work around the restrictions applied to the user. There need to be more levels of control than just disabling SIP, so users don't have to sacrifice functionality and security to run the apps they want.
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At least they are honest enough not to pretend that climate change does not exist.

Depending on how you measure the CO2 emissions you could argue that not China is the first one that should take action but the ones that did most of the damage.
How can you get a spatial audio effect from a screen the size of an iPhone?

Is it that objects off screen and to the left can be heard before they enter the viewing area?

I wish these had the Ultra Wideband antenna for spatial location applications. That would have been a fun API to mess with. That, and like the reviewer said, this has to happen with the next Apple TV.
>Controversial ones can prove themselves with facts/science.

The details matter, but as a rule I disagree with this. Some facts are obvious, like pigs not growing on trees, but others aren't, like climate change. Science has been corrupted for decades and I don't believe it to be a proper arbiter of truth in certain areas, particularly ones that can't be tested against reality easily, such as climate change.

You probably disagree with me, which makes my "bar for misinformation" different than yours. And I'm guessing that we won't be able to bridge that gap through reason and logic.
I just wanted to suggest https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase if you are comfortable with using Python and Selenium. I opened various issues last year and the main developer is very welcoming and he fixes/improves the code very quickly.
Personal time is often more valuable than the time you allocate to work. Maybe you're willing to work for $35/hour, but would you charge the same rate for giving up time with friends and family, time for relaxation, time for fun, or time for chores or running errands? For many people, the answer is no. Time away from work is far more valuable.
Welcome to social media.

As far as education I just email the experts.

Especially those in academia. They reply all the time.

Similar to how you’re saying, yes the experts have considered the edge case, but 1 to many communication for the masses was solved decades ago.

The problem is emotional political subservience. All of human history it’s been a gerontocracy telling grown men and women they’re too stupid “watch this titillating nonsense instead. Be oo’d, aah’d by our mighty social norms and mendacity!”

History was ruled by what we’d now call helicopter parenting.

Technologically the problem you see is solved. It’s the emotional socializing habits that are the problem. For example: the pattern you call out in your initial statement? Yep, everyone else is already an expert. Why reach out?

That has nothing to do with lack of technology. Lack of humility is the problem you highlight.
California is so diverse, though.

We've got the ocean, got the babes

Got the sun, we've got the waves

The mountains and the rain

And high-speed train

Why would you live anywhere else
Good luck. Enjoy the process.

Would recommend reading Jordan Mechner's Journal on the Making of Prince of Persia

https://jordanmechner.com/store/the-making-of-prince-of-pers...
This is basically an advertisement for a clothing brand but boy am I a sucker for vaporesque accessories.
The author mentions problems with speech processing, speaking,
sensory overload, sleeping, getting out of bed, eating, smells,
textures, and navigation. None of those problems were created by
society

Your understanding of the neurodiversity movement isn't correct.

Neither the article nor the movement in general claims that society "created" her difficulty performing those things.

The neurodiversity movement points out (correctly, IMO) that lots of people with behavioral "disabilities" are in fact quite able, but need to do things differently and may need accommodations.

It says that autism and other behavioral health issues are not necessarily inherently "bad" (just as being in a wheelchair is not inherently bad) but we fail as a society when fail to accommodate such folks.

Broadly I agree wholeheartedly with this. Ultimately it's a message of ability. It is a movement by and for people who want to achieve and be a part of society. As somebody with diagnosed ADHD this is how I approach things as well. I don't consider it a disability. I just tend to do things a little differently.

A valid criticism of the neurodiversity movement is that it seems to gloss over the fact that, well, often behavioral health issues are genuinely debilitating. A schizophrenic who hears voices in their head would probably not claim that it is some hidden strength.

On the whole though, I think the movement is a good thing. It is ultimately a message of ability and a call for inclusiveness.
Support anti-trust laws to prevent massive conglomerates form smothering all forms of competition then?

That being said, just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not possible. Parler is a recent example of this.
> Twitch does not represent the US government. It's just a private entity doing business in the USA.

This is funny. Do you think someone confused Twitch with the US government? Do you think only the government should be concerned with free speech? Do you think corporate censorship isn’t important?

I see comments like yours frequently and get confused. Of course government censorship is more dangerous than corporate censorship. But saying that Twitch isn’t government is like responding to BLM with “well, technically all lives matter.” Of course it is true, but not really relevant.

The issue here is that Twitch doesn’t seem to respect free speech and build it into their services. Legally, they are allowed to do this. Ethically, that’s bad. Ethically, companies not supporting and building and fostering free speech leads us to some sort of Disney hellscape where all video calls must include smiles or people get booted, etc etc

Slippery slope hyperbole aside, I think it seems pretty fundamental to me that private communication platforms for the general public need to have free speech as an ideal and apply restrictions carefully. Making blanket band without considering context seems like it will make the experience less useful for communication.

That being said, I’m surprised there was even a confederate flag emoji ever available and surprised took this long to remove.
Yeah, there are some gems out there of some really good bands in their early days, that would have never been documented without some random dude with a video camera. Here is an example:

https://youtu.be/asFpyKzXq9w
You will be able to build your own extension with any backend in the future, but I'm curious what you're looking to gain from that?

I don't know whether GDB understands the Wasm-specific constructs in DWARF, while the current integration uses LLDB under the hood, which does support those.
Because I already know: C, C++, Obj-C, C#, Php, Lua, x86 ASM, ARM ASM, Linoleum (some ASM-like esoteric languagE), BASIC (not VB), Java, Python, JS, MushCODE (it is derived from LISP), SQL and some application specific scripting languages.

I started coding when I was 8, I am 32 now, and in my government-issued employer list, I had zero employers.

My dad knows COBOL and MUMPS, and kept talking about how horrible they are... but maybe I can get a job if I try these.
How do you think this situation could best be remedied?
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...not to mention all the critical software running on power plants, industry, aircrafts, ships, cars, satellites, core Internet routing...

Did i forget military, e.g. weapons?
That may be true, but why is that a good thing? Would it not be better for users, if private platforms also provided the same free speech guarantee that the government is obliged to give.
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Did you see the second part of my comment?

> Completely free speech has never existed on internet platforms
Thanks for showing that you have no clue what a mainframe is.
In Hong Kong, Pepe The Frog is a symbol for freedom and anti-authoritarianism.
You can write custom pints if you're willing to build a custom toolchain (shouldn't be too terrible to rebuild it once a release)

That said, GATs fix a real pain point not actually shown in the article. And that's for impl return types in trait methods. You can have return impl types in normal functions, and even associated methods, just not in trait methods. I think the term for this is existential types. And they occur a lot with async. So async in traits is a real pain point this feature fixes.
at first glance it seems like a donation based model isnt the most sustainable (or innovative)

could be wrong though
The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. It comes as no surprise that it is ugly — built as layers of hacks on the older format versions to overcome their limitations. However, given the POSIX standarization in late 80s and the popularity of GNU tar, you would expect the interoperability problems to be mostly resolved nowadays.
Or FORmula TRANslation?
in america companies are free to decide what content they will store on their servers, unlike a communist society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship
Less verbose `ADD 1 TO LINE.`
or there is the handy `COMPUTE N = A + B + 5;`
For sure, a very good question. It's definitely a rabbit-hole that doesn't feel very productive to go down beyond, "here be dragons".
Thanks. This Google vs. DDG discussion keeps coming up and I'm baffled by the strong opinions because to me, the two seem about the same. But I'm never logged in to Google and I set my browsers to aggressively expire cookies so I'd imagine I'm not getting any personalized search results.