skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're actually still pretty archaic but no one's cared to do anything about it for decades so we've all been trained to accept the shortcomings. Stuff like background processes grabbing the focus while I'm typing my password, lame modals with an "OK" button, mysterious delays all the time, etc etc etc.
Ad 2. Observe that co-founders spouses reaction to the living together.
Also on Librem 5: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/operat....
They should release a new ZZT world set in an office/mall to celebrate.
Noted!

One issue still left: SMS are "relatively" easy to eavesdrop.

I am in the US. SIM reissuing scams are not uncommon and my own number was reassigned for half a week due to a technical glitch. During that time I had multiple conversations with customer support staff and it was ridiculous how many changes I could request without any verification or authentication.
>touchscreens no one uses.

(read: touchscreens I don't use)

Surfaces, touchscreen laptops, and convertibles are all pretty popular.
At least the Ariane 5 is a proven launch vehicle. Artemis 1 is going to be the real knuckle-biter, if NASA defies all odds and meets schedule.
Amazon Makes First Aircraft Purchase to Expand Cargo Network
Bear in mind space tech isn’t all about the rockets, it’s also about what they take up there. If Starship pans out, the market for satellite hardware, orbital habitats, space probes and associated software and services is going to explode.

In a lot of threads about this people seem to think Boeing, Lockheed, etc are finished because they can’t compete with SpaceX. On the contrary, the demand for their skills at building payload hardware is about to expand massively. Somebody’s going to need to build all the infrastructure and systems for these Moon and Mars cities.
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It's not punishment. It is just simply applying the same rules to the UK as other countries outside the EU.

It is from a feeling of entitlement by some in the UK to complain about the rules they aggreeded to.
WordPress.com and self hosted sites that have the Jetpack plugin.
That’s true if you use it the way its creator does, but not so much when you replace git send-mail with GitHub’s proprietary extensions (issues, etc).
Outdoors rated 13A sockets are readily available in every electrical supply shop along with the necessary RCDs. We have similar things here in Norway and have done for at least forty years and we get much worse weather than the UK. I mean they can be buried in the snow, never seems to be a problem.

In case you wonder why we had them they were for car engine preheaters. Handy when it is -20C and snowing.
Updating to a major version is not mandatory, as they support older versions as early as 3.7.

The real problem is the plugin ecosystem, which does not do the same.
I have measured abstraction overhead in C++ for 20+ years. It was significant in the early 2000s. It is zero today.

That does not mean C++ programs are necessarily fast: it has always been easier to write slow programs, in any language. It doesn't mean C programs must be slow: making a fast C program just takes a great deal more work, and time, than a fast program in modern C++, so the extra time taken has been wasted.

You are always free to waste your own time. Wasting your employer's time is often less defensible. In the fintech world, suggesting C as a way to speed up a C++ program would get you laughed out of the room, at best.

The common experience noted in the original page is that C++ programs are faster than C programs. We know why.

That the chess program was easy to transcribe to C demonstrates that it was not good C++ code -- which you also revealed yourself. Making a faster C program while transcribing an almost-C C++ program is no big trick.

I routinely speed up programs by 2x by changing only a few lines. A 10-20% improvement in a whole rewrite is a great waste of time. Translating to asm, moreso. I would call a 10-20% improvement negligible, and crediting it to C delusional.
That personally doesn't bother me. I think it's reasonable for developers to want to safeguard the integrity of their apps. I can choose to use an alternative app without this check on my rooted phone. If there's no alternative, then of course you're left deciding which is more important. I am a developer (but not for Android) and I've never really felt the need to root my phone for many years. I think if you're a professional Android developer, it's reasonable to have a second rooted device for development if you really feel you need root.
But this was a collective effort that involved multiple people within the company. When "the Astros" got caught stealing signs, we say it was the Astros, even though the majority of people involved with the team were not involved with the sign-stealing.
Social media is human hard because Dunbar's number is quadratic not linear
My use case is emacs, git and ssh so that I can have my org files on my phone and synchronize them with my other computers. And no, the org apps aren't good enough, plus there are other features of emacs that are nice to have at all times.
Sad to hear macOS lets apps snoop on my keystrokes.
The Assange Verdict: What Happens Now
I think many comments here miss the point. I’ll try to summarise them and defend the article:

* “Chess results are not 50-50” - I don’t think the exact numbers are that important. What’s important is that in the 50-50 model or x-y model the Aliens assume these values to be just a consistent result of an RNG.

* “Chess is not random / the players are intelligent / the aliens could investigate who plays against who” - In the parable the Aliens don’t have direct access these variables, just like we might not have the access to some variables in QM experiments and we (and They) could mistake something hard to observe for random (i.e. if the rule is “if there’s an even number of atoms in a 1m radius, do A, if it’s odd, do B” the outcome would be 50-50 and would seem random even if it’s not)

* “Theories that are more complicated, predict less or make worse approximations are worth less than simple theories that predict more / better” (in other words Science is about models and approximations, not about truth or “Shut up and calculate”) - I think the author simply disagrees but he also shows why non-mainstream models are worth pursuing and developing - so that we are not stuck in a local maximum with a worse model than the one we could have.

Something else concerns me: I don’t know much about QM but if I understand correctly, Bell’s inequality tells us that there are no “hidden variables” and that QM is indeed random.

I’d be grateful for any references to articles on this topic that can be understood by non-experts.
W^X is not a security protection on iOS, it serves to enforce the integrity of App Review. Apple claiming that it is the only entity that can write a JIT securely both provably incorrect and belies a lack of confidence in the platform sandbox.
> 2) because China's population is heavily concentrated in the west

I know it's likely just a typo, but anyway: it is heavily concentrated in the east.
Slack: January 2021 100% Uptime
I'm not even sure that it was an attempt to limit their appeal. There's a whole generation of old car executives who still think that anyone who would want an electric car is some sort of hippie-moonbat and you need to make the car look like a plastic sex-toy space capsule to appeal to that moonbat market.

And then Tesla comes along with great engineering and a more conservative body design and eats their lunches.
The White House in Your Brain
We already know that changing the clocks twice a year leads to sleep deprivation for everyone - more car accidents, more heart attacks, etc. The whole point is to stop the twice yearly disruption of our sleep.
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet?
yeah, getting food delivered generally sucks.. You pay $30* for something that tastes like crap, when you could've made something better on your own in 20 minutes for $5 or less

* in the bay area anyway, presumably it's not this expensive out in the real world
But ML could in theory accelerate the process. For example, AlphaZero uses ML to highlight the correct paths in search algorithms. The same search algorithms exist for stockfish and both can reach the same conclusions, but, AlphaZero ends up looking up much shorter distance than stockfish, yet it wins. If anything, it is significantly more human-like than stockfish.
We are in uncharted economic waters, and we have been for about 12 years. Not only is there 0% (or lower!) interest rates, we also have QE (central banks buying government assets directly), we have central banks buying corporate debt now!

This is creating market bubbles. Worthless tech stocks is one place. Housing prices have soared. Whatever might happen might happen quickly.
This is probably showing up because it showed up in Matt Levine’s newsletter which returned today. In the newsletter, Matt disagrees with one of the conclusions drawn in the paper that shareholders have a perverse incentive to invest in companies that do bad things because they are compensated their loses when the stock goes down. He disagrees because their are compensated with money that the company has which already belongs to the shareholders.
Termux is such a great piece of software. I've been using it as my primary server[1] for half a year now with no issues and very minimal maintenance.

That said, it always kinda felt like a kludge when compared to (ideally) using a full-blown Linux distro like PostmarketOS.

[1] https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...
Baby mice ‘shut down’ to survive extreme cold on the highest mountain tops
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Yeah, although "luck" is mostly just another way of saying ultimately unknowable factors caused the outcomes in some places to be better than others.

I do hope and expect that we'll eventually come away with at least a partial explanatory model that doesn't lean too heavily on being an isolatable island. But an awful lot of what we've heard so far seems to be case-by-case after the fact rationalizations leavened by how the country's politicians are viewed.
> One of the main purposes of school is child care, as we’ve observed through this pandemic, so schools must open when most adults go to work.

Schools usually close ~2 hours before the end of the conventional work day, though some (usually those for kids younger than teenage years) have optional after-school supervision programs available.

For teenagers, such programs are less common because the social consensus is that teenagers do not need constant adult supervision and can be unsupervised for a period of a few hours at a time.
I'm confused as to why the alignment of the clock with the sun should cause sleep deprivation, aside from the transitional period.

It does not impact when people choose to go to sleep, which is the biggest predictive factor in how much sleep they get.
iOS apps on the App Store effectively cannot create W^X mappings.
Yeah, SDI doesn't do a very good job of actually solving that chicken and egg problem. It tends to give a "solution" without motivating the design decisions.

After reading about 80% of SDI and not much else, I failed a system design interview when I provided the "right" answer of putting an async task on a messaging queue, but couldn't explain how at-least-once delivery could be used to deal with a flaky task.

I think I've filled a lot of these gaps now (passed L5 system design at Google for example) but there wasn't really a single efficient resource that helped me do so. DDIA is awesome though.
That is the point though... would you rather “feel good” doing charity, or have a positive effect on society? Donating cash instead of physically participating in charity can be alienating, sure... but certainly more effective. Note that many food charities for decades now but even in the past year are like don’t send cans of food, send cash, because it has the most effect.
IMHO: Positive-minded, generally happy people like DST, where negative, possibly depressed people like the idea of year-round ST.
The Future of Silicon Valley Is Everywhere
Can you give more details on how an L6 can pass these interviews? I’m planning a move to SRE sometime this month. I’ve been prepping quite a bit with this book so far.
Server Rendering in JavaScript: Why SSR?
Maybe(?) But I'm pretty sure if I've written "Germany is still part of the EU" I wouldn't get any down votes

In any case the still was nothing more than to highlight that IE is part of the EU while UK is not anymore
Despite the small differences in handling COVID, asian people are at least very willing to wear masks. My family is in China. They've been through SARS. They started wearing masks themselves the day the heard about this new respiratory disease. And you know how CDC insisted that masks are not needed at the beginning. Things got out of control because of this IMHO.

From the article,
> more aggressive and systematic quarantine regime whereby suspected or mild cases — and even healthy close contacts of confirmed cases — were sent to makeshift hospitals and temporary quarantine centers.

The thing that really worked was not centralized quarantine. It's how to identify people for centralized quarantine. My family has gone back to normal life (like pre-covid normal) since March. Since then every new coronavirus case will be on the headline, and deep contact tracing (not only close contacts, but close contacts of close contacts of close contacts of ...) will be performed to ensure suspected infections are quarantined.

People coming from another country are required to provide extensive documentation of negative test results in the past three weeks. The tests need to be conducted in very specific time frames and even locations, and often between two flight connections. The rules are deliberately designed to make people stop thinking about coming to China. Sadly I'm in the US and I don't expect to reunite with my family until mid 2022.
> I've long said that if I ever struck it stupid rich, I'd buy a mall to live in.

> It would still have stores. I'd pay to have those stores stocked. Ideally it would have a 90s-era movie theater in it, too. But otherwise it would be empty.

Remember that 90s kid movie 'Blank Check?' I wrote a short fan art film script as a 13 year old that followed a similar premise, the origin of the funds were that the kid was a 'hacker' so the kid stole the funds from a crooked stockbroker firm trying to launder their money and ended up taking so much he ended up living in an abandoned mall and 'sold warez' out of the stores with various business models.. I recently saw the notebook and I had clearly recently just saw that movie with Angelina Jolie and Swordfish when I wrote that as that was around the time I had just discovered Newsgroups.

I somehow managed to get to the beginning of the 2nd act and just forgot about it entirely until the day I re-read it, haha. Which for being 13 was more resolve than I thought I had.
I still have that anxiety. I think it's fine now and I don't want Microsoft to go crazy on UI again.
Emacs: Don't mention non-GNU package archives
It would be great if they let you customize the start menu tiles. All my videogames looked like crap, unless they were from xbox gamepass. It takes a lot of work to use third party tile apps, and you can't even pin a UWP app through it
Wow, that is better than I'd hoped! Thanks so much for your response! (I know it's just an anecdote, but bc I'm looking to see what it's perf limits might be, even one data point like this is very helpful.)
The version of iSH on the App Store has shipped with APK for a little while now: https://twitter.com/iSH_app/status/1336770264885948416
Of all the Wordress sites I help manage, some pre 'Gutenberg' and the rest post 'Gutenberg' only 2 are using Gutenberg, the rest have either stuck with or gone back to the Classic editor. For most users it's just too confusing.
I thought this mutes(disables) the inbuilt keyboard on my macbook. Would be super helpful for me since my son randomly presses key on my macbook keyboard while I'm trying to type from my external keyboard.

Still, a slick utility. Good luck !!
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> School should be for educating children and shouldn't be a government-provided babysitter.

What are you even proposing? Sending a babysitter to everyone's house for one hour in the morning between when the parents leave for work and when the kids leave for school?

> The reality is otherwise, of course. So, if businesses really depend on public schools babysitting children to have workers or exist, then it's proper that they suck it up and work with the school schedule if they are really that subordinate to it.

So then you're starting everything an hour later anyway and there is no point in setting clocks the other way.
> tiny fraction of folks appear to have an anaphylactic response

It's one thing to know it's a tiny fraction, another to have a friend in the hospital overnight. I'll take my vaccine anyway, but ... yikes.
As a native english speaker, I was confused about how it was possible to mute a keyboard. I did not immediately make the leap to "it mutes your mic when it detects typing on the keyboard"
How does this work for antique cars or people removing the black box?
Thank you for posting this! This is something that has been mulling in the back of my head for years now and I didn’t know how to express it, but others have already fleshed it out. I have a lot of reading to do.
> At a San Francisco meeting attended by at least 14 employees of Ticketmaster or its parent company Live Nation, the employee used one set of credentials to log in to an account to demonstrate how it worked.

I think 15 conspiracy charges are appropriate, bare minimum.
Ignorantia iuris nocet. Yes, I don't think many read the T&Cc of .eu domains, but that doesn't mean the EURid is doing something spiteful here – they actually follow their own T&Cs on that.
Loved reading this book ~20 years ago, still remember/apply the core principals.
Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth
> doesn't really have anything to do with a moral or ethical system

Philosophical ethics typically divide into utility-based, rule-based and virtue-based ethics. OP is clearly lamenting some utility-based failures and claiming that virtue without any utility isn't a whole lot of good (but also no harm, so hey).
Yes, making daily on-premise backups would mitigate the risk of losing source code.

That applies to everyone, not just Iranian developers: setup daily backups of all your code.
In case the author is worried about sufficient readership, I second this motion :)
Linus Torvalds tears into Intel, favors AMD
So, basically, apple copied samsung's debug hacks to "hide" data in the power lines of the USB plug?

the "end result" of the appl feature is exactly the same as the samsung one described in this paper https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2...
I think you’re right. Hey have a look at Sweden.
That's exactly why Florida is sponsoring it - they don't care which way is chosen, they just don't want to change their clocks anymore.
In asia, generally down payment is very low, and even low interest that could expand up to 30, 40 years to pay back. The home price is usually much lower than western countries with a few exceptions like Hong Kong, Shanghai, etc.
I'm on the fence with this one (A postion I don't like). While I see nothing wrong with disagreeing with the goverments stance on the lockdown (For my own reasons: Being in a tier 3 and 4 region for so long, I'm missing my friends, I'm missing being able to have a beer with them and its getting to a mental health issue with me now. But thats just my own personal reasons) TalkRadio would also tell its listeners to not bother with face masks and spend their money on beer instead on the basis that unless its a well fitting N95 or better mask it offers less than ideal protection to the wearer (ignoring the fact that face covering also help prevent those without symtoms spreading it to others).

So where do you draw the line? Disagree with the goverment? Yeah I disagree with them on many things. But what about when they start pushing people to break the rules?

But then again do I want a corperation dictation what can be said? Nope. I like the idea that shitty ideas/speech should be countered with more speech then to nuke the speech in the first place. So even though I heavly disagree with what they were putting out to the public, I think they shouldn't of just got nuked of YT for having shity (imo) ideas.
I know some people do this for iOS, so I would have expected it to almost be the norm on Android where many devices frequently fall behind on updates.
When accountants at Enron defrauded the State of California and the SEC, we didn't say "accountants at Enron." We said "Enron" and held Enron, the entity, responsible.
Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article?

And setting aside the principle for a second - how many non-academic taxpayers are trying to read articles that don't have institutional access through their employer or local public library?
No, I've done real work on the go. The manufacturer of my tablet sells it as a productivity device. My tablet is more powerful than my laptop and I have a portable keyboard and mouse for it.

Why have all this power if all I can do is play Candy Crush?
At this time, we can only hire in North America.
Generally a connection pool also checks the health of its connections. In SQL connection pools this can be done by executing a select 1, if this fails then a new connection can be attempted.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Many of these charities are technically irrational but realistically people are likely not to get involved at all otherwise. For example, many people donate food to collection bins for food banks, despite the food banks being able to buy food wholesale for a tiny fraction of the price. Being aware of this I smugly refrain from donating overpriced retail food but I haven't yet gotten round to actually sending them some cash yet instead and I suppose not many other have either.