skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn't been selected for in humans, but that doesn't mean it's a genetic problem. There are however ageless vertebrates including turtles and salamanders.

Also there was a 507 year old clam discovered off the coast of Iceland. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00310...
People Are Dying. Whom Do We Save First with the Covid-19 Vaccines?
That. I was contractor once, we obviously were allowed to say what we did to various degrees. Like working on picture analysis or analyzing operational data and so on. But not about the actual details. Even the projects and so on were usually only refered to indirectly. After that, it usually just took 5 minutes on Google to find out what it was. Say supporting a new military aircraft program for the German armed forces, that left you with two options. Again, we never talked about the details, say prices, data and so on. And I won't. Nor will I talk about concrete data from my days at Amazon.

But, yeah, I very much talk about what I did. Would be quite difficult to pass interviews and get projects, wouldn't it?

Same goes for the real secret stuff. Saying you worked abroad for the CIA is much different from saying you served as a CIA operative in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2004. Unless, of course, you get an official legend fot your life after.
Agreed - I also question if analytics, targeting and personalisation is "necessary"?

In my mind, only cookies for things like Auth and session handle are necessary.

But I am not a lawyer or expert.
That's a myth according to this article [1] from a well known US brand of alarms.

[1] https://support.firstalert.com/s/article/Where-to-install-CO...
Well, I made the engine - so the answer is both :) Glad you like it. I still feel the pinch zoom could be improved though so that the focal point was at the center of the touch points, but otherwise it is pretty close to the native controls
Amazon Echo Frames Review: there’s a limit to what Alexa can do on a phone
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I would argue that, yes, making a single car is subtractive work. There is a specific and finite list of tasks that have to be done to make one car. It doesn’t help to make ten steering wheels for one car. If you’re working in a mass assembly plant, sure, go ahead, they’ll all get used. But otherwise, each piece of work needs to support a single clearly defined goal - a working car. More is not always better.
By the way, if you're storing large files under version control in Git it is often useful to use the "--depth=1" flag when cloning or pulling repositories. That way you only download the stuff you really need and leave the rest of the history on the server until you need it.
I'll pass. "Eating for peace: how cuisine bridges cultures" is not"Geopolitics"
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Everything you've said is true. Only the brainwashed CCP brigade would disagree. Right now, China is using trade as a tool to bludgeon Australia with in retaliation for us calling for an investigation into the source of the virus.
To this day, the presence of grandparents in a child's life contributes to their success. If nothing else, the "free daycare" frees up the parents to continue their careers; but also child-rearing is a skill (more like, a billion skills) that don't get passed on unless folks survive through their grandkids' adolescence
I don't see any top-level comments mentioning POSIX, so I'm here to right that wrong:

POSIX.
Could you elaborate? I'm also an iOS user and find it intuitive. But of course I would, as I've spent hours developing it and can't see the issues in the way a new user would. If you move two fingers in a rotating fashion the map rotates, does it not do this for you?
From one perspective types (and I mean proofs encoded in types) is a compile time measure against bugs, while supervisors is a runtime measure. It's much easier and more productive to not do proofs and rely on runtime architecture for reliability, it adds relatively little complexity and asks very little from developers, it stays almost the same as regular software development. And it's still necessary to do regardless whether you have proofs or not.

And types like machine types are of course irrelevant for BEAM, well, maybe they'll start to matter a bit with JIT, but probably still not, BEAM with JIT is still not going to be a performance miracle.
> Video making switched from animation to people filming themselves talking to the camera.

Youtube was completely built around Flash, the FLV format hit a sweet spot between "not looking like trash" and "not needing more bandwidth than the average user had" that else had before. I'm pretty sure we would be seeing a shit-ton of people filming themselves talking to the camera even if Flash was still a going concern - animation is a ton of work.
Check this guide on how to mine Ethereum: https://temporaryerror.com/how-to-mine-ethereum/
> no, that means you only have to choose a ratio and place your videos in there, but you don't have to commit to a certain resolution or framerate or at least you can change all that later without any effect on video position, scale and cuts.

Sorry for my poor choice of words. That's what I meant. Only the ratio is fixed (clearly, you can change that too, but very likely you would need to readjust everything).

> Too bad about ffmpeg, I love it so much :)

Trust me, I know :( Everything would have been orders of magnitude easier for me, had I been able to use ffmpeg.
Yes, the first version is here: https://github.com/uhst/uhst-client-js and there is a demo Ping app: https://examples.run/ping/ . Originally my idea was to use SSE for signalling but in version 2 it becomes a relay between peers. This approach will make it portable to mobile (native, Flutter, RN) which is difficult to do with WebRTC. The added throughput and latency should be similar to using TURN server with WebRTC. Websockets are the more common choice for signalling but HTTP/2.0 brings a new life to SSE.
Yup. My father has an old Galaxy Note 3 Neo (Dual Sim edition). That particular model never got any updates at all, so it was stuck on the release Android 4.3.

While it's old, it actually fulfills all his needs very well and he has little need for a newer phone... but he can't get new apps, because all of them require at least Android 5.0 (regular Note 3 / Note 3 Neo Single Sim got the update to 5, but not the dual sim). And the applications that are already on the device (Google stuff) actually no longer gets updates, and occasionally pops up "This version is too old! You have to update!" warnings that he can do nothing about..
I missed it. There was really little news that this happened. Google's anti-hype approach to Waymo is interesting.
There was a similar device I tried to buy last year but they went out of stock before I found them.

https://www.tindie.com/products/greycatco/lora-text-developm...
Pung = ROT13(“Chat”)
> I have no idea what the point is.

As a lone developer, it lets you easily snapshot the state of your code at appropriate points and then compare those to the current state to find out what you broke. Of course, you can also do this by making copies manually, but that gets complicated if the program consists of more than file.

The real benefit is when you have more than one developer working on the program. If you make some changes on your machine, and I make some changes on my machine, and when we're done we want a single unified version of the program (with both your changes and mine) in order to deploy it, what should that look like? If all we can see is that line 123 in some file is different in your version and my version, how do we know which version of that line we want?

Git keeps track of (in the form of a graph structure) the fact than your version 1 is a descendant of our original version, your version 2 descends from your version 1, my version 1 descends from the original version, and so on ... and when we merge our versions, we get a final version that descends both from your latest version and mine.

You could do all this bookkeeping manually and figure out what to diff against what, but git gives you tools to work with.
Jason (the creator of Wireguard) wrote a great response to this: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/00...
Hollywood’s Big Streaming Pivot Will Be Costly for Indie Films
I want to see an LCD with really good light sensors and a low brightness setting and see how it looks any different in uniform light.
Yes, and... "However, the neural circuitry in your eye only passes a signal along to the brain if several photons are detected at about the same time in neighboring rod cells. Therefore, even though your eye is capable of detecting a single, isolated photon, your brain is not capable of perceiving it. "

Also, evolutionarily, it appears as if eyes were evolved 3 separate times. And: "Eyes and other sensory organs probably evolved before the brain" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye (which is outstanding on this topic)
For the no-js peeps:

I was at Apple from August 2007 to November 2010.

My job was to play with experimental hardware platforms and input technologies, and come up with new user-interface and application concepts for them. I would then design and prototype apps to demo these ideas. These concept apps were shown around internally, presumably to inspire the people who did the real work.

A few things I became known for include pervasively direct-manipulation interfaces (where users do their thing by moving and gesturing with meaningful objects, instead of relying on verb buttons and other indirect controls), new forms of creative tools and new ways of learning information, and being easily frustrated with the realities of corporate research.

I made many, many things. The ones I cared deeply about mostly didn't catch on.

I would love to show you these things -- maybe they'll inspire you instead. In the box below, I have put all of my creations that I can show publicly:

FAQ:

Q - But that box is empty! It's an empty box!

A - Yes, exactly.

Q - Oh, okay, I thought you had made some sort of mistake.

A - Yes, exactly.
I’ve been studying Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model this year and even just from a systems perspective I would come up with a surprisingly similar list. Much the same: Intent (for meaning-making), and trust-building. Mentorship is interesting for its function: making the system ‘self-producing’. Before that though I’d add to the first two ‘calibration’: knowing when and how turning the dials up and down according to the need for focus, innovation, crisis response, to allow self-organisation to happen, etc
The latter, if you're unlucky. You may be interested to know that :suspend is a command.
Sure, but the impact you’re having has the potential to reach many orders of magnitude fewer people. It’s a trade off, and I personally wouldn’t feel a sense of superiority.
Firstly, I’m glad you’re able to relate but I’m also sorry to hear you go through the same thing. I know from experience it can be incredibly painful and lonely at times.

> How do you exit from this state?

I wish I had a good answer for you. Most of the time I snap out of it through “brute force” by focusing my attention elsewhere. Building and doing things with my hands (like playing an instrument, cleaning around the house, or even playing with LEGO) seem to be the most effective ways for me to overcome it. Some days that works well, and other days I’m right back to my habits after just a few minutes.

Work is also a good distraction for me sometimes because I enjoy what I do, but I spend my day working in front of a screen so sometimes I wonder how much that helps vs hurts.

I think the most important thing I’ve done is just recognize when it’s happening, that way I can at least try to break the pattern. I mostly just take it one day at a time.

> Psychotherapy doesn’t help much, even though I plan on allowing more time for it, I know it takes time!

I’ve been in and out of therapy most of my life since I was a teen (I grew up in a toxic and abusive household so much of my focus has been recovering from that). Some of it has helped but for whatever reason it doesn’t always “stick” like I hope it would. I’ve also tried various medications but my “issues” seem deeply rooted, existential, and not easily overcome by a pill.

I truly hope you find something that works for you! I know it’s not easy but I try to stay optimistic that one day my efforts will prevail and something will give.
> "How do you know what files are directories?"

`ls -F` helps with this on terminals without color.

> "I feel like I am inside a coat closet!"

Some terminals do offer higher character resolutions than 80-by-25.

> Sad because my memories of how great it was to have a terminal that could do line insert so when editing files over a 1200 baud modem it still felt fast, were now pitiable.

I use a terminal on a somewhat regular basis (an IBM 3151 emulating a VT100, connected to a Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD).

It can be a great tool for learning Unix command line fundamentals thoroughly (a prime example of blub studies [1]), and as you get comfortable with it, you might find it useful for deep work (George R.R. Martin's use of WordStar 4.0 on DOS [2] is a famous example of modern-day usage of text-mode computing, which isn't the same as using a hardware terminal on a Unix machine, but close enough in spirit).

The caveat is that it does require patience and commitment to the process, which is tough when more convenient and capable user interfaces exist. Oftentimes I'll look up documentation on my phone while using the terminal, since it's simply more convenient than trying to navigate through modern websites on a text-mode browser.

[1] https://www.benkuhn.net/blub/

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
>restricting the density of people at gathering spots?

Restricting the density to... Zero? Is that what they are calling the forced shutdown of indoor and outdoor restaurants, gyms and other places of business and subsequent jailing of violators now?

(And jailing of mask violators as well, despite mounting evidence that mask mandates don't work and/or make the problem worse)
Ungoogled-Chromium; https://ungoogled-software.github.io/
Yes. Why the f is len() a function in Python? From a design perspective, it makes absolutely no sense. You have to implement the __len__() method in order for the len() function to work. Why isn't it just a method?! And that is the one "right" way to do it. Drives me crazy. And there are countless other examples like that.
I didn’t say there is no sharing. The post said unfettered access. That isn’t the case.
> Yes, things like "Asians are good at math" is racist, even if it's a positive stereotype.

So what would be the proper way to describe an ethnic group that, when examined purely statistically, really has performed well above average in mathamatics?

Do we simple never acknowledge that such differences exist, as some people have signalled?
More infos: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/big-news-from-dasung-in-december-...
It doesn't have to be Windows. Linux has had the superior audio stack for the past two decades, and it's considered the standard for most A/V work. Just as there are "Mac exclusive" apps, many Linux/*nix audio tools are never ported to MacOS (for example, the industry staple CALF tools are not actively maintained for MacOS).

The larger point here is that the M1 is not as revolutionary as it's being made out to be. The "flagship killing" multi-core performance is embarrassed by the Ryzen 4800u, which can be found in NUCs that cost significantly less than the Mac Mini. If price were a limiting factor in the industry, we'd probably see more people reaching for those Ryzen machines: but we don't. That's why this article is ultimately self-defeating.
The Wikipedia page on the company that manages this domain is surprisingly short:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Computer_Bureau
Signalling through QR code or pen & paper while possible in theory is not feasible in practice because both sides need to exchange ICE candidates & offer/answer. So a signalling middleman, whether through websockets, SSE, polling, etc. is needed. And if you want to support network handoff then you need persistent connection to the signalling server for re-negotiation.
Apple is a huge company so certainly experiences will vary but all the anecdotes, podcasts, and books written by former employees mention the highly collaborative environment, even within very secrete siloed projects [1].

Honestly, the reality is most engineering is tedious and boring and mired in context. The old 10% inspiration 90% perspiration quote always rung true for me. I think you’ll struggle to have anything other than a superficial conversation of any hard problem or question with any engineer whose not closely associated with your team.

[1] Examples abound but this is my favorite: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638098-creative-select...
Now this surprises me because I bought mine in the MS Store. Thanks, I'll look into that.
you can't compare eink with lcd - one requires backlight one not at all - toally different technology
Apple support in the US is second to none, in my experience. My experience with Apple support outside the US has been hit-or-miss but mostly miss.
Budget != P&L
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743267
That’s considered clean?
Kinda like the GameCube, I like it

https://youtu.be/Tve6ZBZaDsI
It wouldn’t, because it has nothing to do with the companies that were brought up. The skype thing is an old and very silly conspiracy theory. They didn’t rearchitect an entire product as a favor to the US government.
Everytime I use this I expect my coworkers to react with "how did you find that so fast!?" and I can share the magic with them, but they're probably just thinking about what to order for lunch.
The Year of Unchecked Privilege-Checking
The key paragraph for me:

> You can't truly be a senior employee until you see your work as subtractive, and until you have an intuitive feel for the set of all the work that needs to get done. Once you think in this way, you can interact with any other leader as a peer, working elbow-to-elbow, of one mind on what needs doing. Until you think in this way, without even realizing it, you are implicitly asking for those above you to insulate you from reality, to build you a little sandbox where you can work.

I think we’ve all known someone on a project that needed to be carefully “contained”, while there are others who “get it” and can be left alone with worrying. To me, there is where product management is valuable, building a shared vision with the team, so everyone stays aligned and sees how their individual work supports a greater goal. Great post.
Unlike some of those top comments, I actually like your curation a lot. Prefer it to The Economist, New York Book Review, and the other sites ppl linked in the comments. Good job!

I know you have an RSS feed, and the crowd here probably is all for RSS, but I would love it if I could leave my email somewhere and get a notification when a new submit was posted.
Drug use would possibly be a confounder when doing that, unless use of certain drugs is one of the attributes you're looking for.
I would be concerned that chaining to an expired root is going to cause some certificate verifyers to flag the chain as invalid. Similar to when the Sectigo/AddTrust root expired recently (but perhaps that was an issue because the cross-signed certificate expired).

If you support older systems, you really need to try to separate out clients to different hostnames (and sometimes different IPs, it they don't have good SNI support), so that you can provide each segment with the certificate chain it needs. Trust root issues are a lot harder than the sha1 deprecation, because at least there's a fairly well used TLS option exchanged for key support (it doesn't exactly mean support for keys in certificates, but it worked pretty well). There is a TLS option to provide trusted CA information, but it has zero mainstream use (and it doesn't seem terribly usable anyway, sending all your trusted root CAs is too much data, a digest/id would be much more reasonable).

Thankfully, browsers usually have forgiving verifiers, but if you support applications, libraries for certificate verification are all over the place; and if you support 3rd party clients good luck. x.509 is too big a spec to want to bundle it with an app, but you can bundle in trusted roots if you're targetting a sane platform.
If you think Eddy Cue's budget isn't tied to itunes profitability well...
Compiz cube can already do this with your entire desktop circa 2006. I remember being quite delighted with it when I first installed Ubuntu but it was never very practical. I still miss wobbly windows though
The US writ-large tried the 'color blindness' approach for a long time. The general effect was that shit kept rolling downhill, but that those in power were not expected to discuss or do anything to improve the situation: the heavily racist outcomes of the war on drugs, racially disparate education funding+outcomes, etc etc etc were off-limits for 'polite' conversation. The current thinking is that you have to acknowledge race to fight systemic racism.
Show HN: A new and reliable Geolocation API
sure you can't? https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/14802/can-i-use-ff...
Would also recommend "The Germans and Europe" by Peter Millar for a sweeping history of the region.
Dont miss the current 1INCH christmas airdrop
https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
> I just don't understand why Hawaii government has been so slow

Island time is a real thing. And politics in Hawaii takes nepotism and "good old boys" networks to the next level. Things are the way they are because the people in charge are happy with it.
This assumes that every single intelligent species fails this way. We only need one that is smart enough or lucky enough to avoid this problem.

Similarly for other problems that can block interstellar travel (bureaucracy, nuking themselves, etc).
So does the US govt. Does that mean you will reject a grant from them for your cancer cure or solar panel research? Less evil USians will die from cancer as a result potentially, along with the rest of the world.
That’s the reason why I think I couldn’t work for Apple.
Without trying to sound too flamebaity, as typed versus untyped has been discussed endlessly, I would like to see a study which compares development time and reliability between a Erlang and another typed language running on BEAM. That is, typed versus untyped for the sort of systems which are built with Erlang.
Isn't that a very good frame rate for an einc display?
Yeah, that's what it looks like to me. The posture looks pretty unnatural and the "pack" is ridiculously small given the altitude it's been spotted at.
>I suspect more extreme up-front measures would actually stop the virus up-front.

And if we were to allow these "more extreme measures," what's to stop a hostile actor from weaponizing our submission to totalitarian regime, by creating and releasing more viruses, in order to extend and increase said concentration of power?

You assume benevelonce. You really WANT Drumpf to go full Pol Pot on your ass?

"Only if he does what /I/ say, which is good for society, and not anything else!"

Don't you see the flaw in your logic here? Haven't we see this play out in history many times before?
In swift's case it's a single threaded frontend that is fairly inefficient: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CompilerPerfor...
Privacy without anonymity is a myth.