skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm in a similar situation with Apple. I can't access my 10 years old account even though I know the password and control the email attached to it because I don't remember my security questions and I don't have my recovery email anymore

I have an iPad that I let sit on a shelf for a while. During that time, Apple deleted the Apple account it was signed into. As a result, I cannot unlock the iPad or use it at all. I even made a new Apple account using the same username and password in an attempt to unlock it. No dice. Apple support won't help.
We English speakers are incredibly lucky that programming languages first emerged based on our native language. It's easy to imagine scenarios where the first programming languages were based on Mandarin or Bangla or Hindi keywords.
Data brokers will sell data to anyone; they don't ask or care who's buying or what it will be used for.
Experience Yume Nikki inside a web browser
Not multi-master, but pg_auto_failover looks to be a very nice solution for HA, and one that is operationally simple to manage: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover
Heh the embarrassing thing for Teams in this case is that I’m signed into one team that doesn’t really use it for anything but conference calls, while I’m also signed into 8 or 9 heavily used Slack groups.
In the past five years or so I haven't bumped into anyone who would use Atom. When Atom came out, it picked up some steam, but I'd say VS Code has already won that race by far.
The CCP is a dramatically larger threat than Russia has been for at least a decade probably two.
>Employees can always go somewhere else instead of launching campaigns to have someone fired.

So can Brendan Eich, which is what he did? Is the CEO not an employee of a company?

I think you're confused about what totalitarianism is. Totalitarianism is the government sending you to the gulag, not consumers or workers boycotting individuals or companies whose values they dislike. That's both the literal market and the marketplace of ideas doing their job.

What exactly is it actually you're suggesting here, that people aren't allowed to speak their mind, or lobby against CEOs? That Brendan Eich has some sort of job guarantee regardless of what people think of his beliefs? That's actually fairly totalitarian.
Agreed, and that's exactly why I hate it when someone hijacks the discussion about the government and espionage by adding the nation to the equation.
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Not every business has to be ‘better’, they have to be merely good enough and improve over time.
They said their test scripts worked but people using Chrome got an error. So I take that as in their scripts weren't using Chrome at all.

To be fair, I've not had this happen yet so I am going to try and find a site that chrome won't let me visit and see what happens when I visit it programmatically.
I'm wondering if this could actually be spun into being a good thing.

I just looked over the site a little more. The business idea seems to be to have a widget to add to your site that can be used to upload arbitrary files to it. The real advantage looks to be that they have a bunch of integrations set up with Facebook, GDrive, Dropbox, Instagram, etc so that all just works without you having to set up and manage developer accounts with 10 different services. Plus built-in image resizing and such things that all just works. Pretty cool, and I might use it if I built a site that needed to do that.

One way you can frame the point of this business is that they worry about the details of integrating with these other services so that you don't have to. As they found out, hosting external content is inherently dangerous, and it pays to have someone responsible for that who knows the risks and has experience in mitigating them. If a site owner wasn't using this service, they would have to take that responsibility on for themselves and re-learn these same lessons. So that's just another advantage of using this service - "we have experience in mitigating the risk of hostile users abusing upload services to serve malware, so you don't have to worry about it".
>People want to know that the video they see which says "filmed in xy" was really filmed in xy and not manipulated afterwards.

The only people who care enough to give up all privacy on the internet in exchange are deeply misunderstanding what normal people care about. Uncle bob would much rather the meme he made about weed not trace back to him or get to his employer with his fingerprint.

whether some video was filmed in xy doesn't matter unless you're in some sort of political crisis. Bob isn't. You're using a fictional bob to represent your own desires and present them as 'everyman issues'.

Bob doesn't care, and if he did he'd already use authentication. This is your problem, not bob's, but you're using a fake bob as some kind of 'personal shield' for an opinion leaning towards sacrificing freedom and privacy for very little in return.

What real bob wants most is probably less of you interfering in what he can see and read. He's not your kid and your intrusion on his freedom to read and speak are aggression against him.
This is super cool. Although I cannot read Bangla, is it possible to extend this to other Indian languages, like say Hindi?
I learned RPN as a college freshman studying engineering in the late 1980's. Almost all of my fellow students had HP RPN calculators. Once we where doing more advanced math RPN -- with the accompanying stack -- became so much easier to enter. We all quickly learned it and I think most of us came to hate standard calculators.
I think Microsoft and the current White House are on the extreme side of untrustworthy. What has MS ever done that was trustworthy? Their entire existence has been based on abusing a monopoly. The US government is also extremely untrustworthy (c.f. the 20th century). The combination of these two entities pushing the same story is a huge red flag.

Who would I trust? I’ll start with someone providing some sort of proof. Which is entirely absent here.
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Hey, the covid deniers want their conspiracy theory back :)
Google arguably killed MetaFilter as collateral damage from search algorithm changes mean to combat spam.
Never seen this happen. Maybe try to reproduce it systematically and post a bug report?
Greenplum was founded in 2003, A/S was 2001.
I agree. They are not competition at all.

I used to work together with someone who didn‘t catch basic errors in VueJs and Symfony projects in VSCode because (idk) somehow it can‘t do it or some plugin is missing.

On the other side there‘s me with PHPStorm and WebStorm with full project inspection support and detailed analysis about code available at a glance.

Maybe I just don‘t know how to do that in VSCode but VSCode does not feel like an IDE but rather a Notepad++ on steroids to me. Sure, you can do the job in it but that‘s not the reason I pay a lot of money to JetBrains each year.

Edit: typo
I don't want a promotion.
I just want more money.
Learn a little jq, Awk and sed (2019)
That’s silly, their debt payments could be less than 50% of the total government budget and still cause problems.
Most of them want it for investment purposes + to be able to impress their peers/strangers. This might provide that same utility.
The DM41X and DM42:

https://www.swissmicros.com/products
Plus it is always a bad idea to give someone a code sent to your number. 99% of the time someone is trying to hack you and a necessary step is obtaining that code.
Reassuring to see big new features like this coming out after the Microsoft acquisition, a healthy sign that this open source product continues to see serious ongoing investment.
Stellar (XLM), Ripple (XLP), Cardano (ADA) and several others are promising transactional tech, particularly for cross-currency transactions in the case of XLM. That said, all three are less decentralized as a result.
calc-mode is wholly responsible for my HP49G+ not having had its batteries replaced in a few years. :D
If it impresses people + you can resell it for more than you paid for initially then it's worth buying.
I mean, this is easy to say, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind would willingly go back to 90s era web development of they had a choice. JS was a pitiful version of its current self - and good luck debugging it without browser debugging tools. CSS was done primarily with tables. Iframes were used everywhere. The state of the art web development IDE was notepad++. Browser inconsistencies were rampant and I hope you enjoy working around browser bugs because IE5 is ridden with them.

See, the thing about all the modern development infra we have is that it wasn’t just invented for fun - it solves real problems. Jquery was created to smooth over browser inconsistencies. Webpack was made so that when you import 20 JS files they don’t all clobber each other’s namespaces (ok, there’s a bit more to it, but bear with me here). NPM was made so that you can install dependencies without having to hunt down the JS download on Google.

This whole thing of looking at the past with rose colored glasses is a bit too easy to take too far.
I think tech/team leads/PO need to be added to the list also. I've worked with tech leads that trusted me/team and ones that didn't trust me/team.

The one who trusted us always asked "why did you do it this way" and he'd would open it up as a discussion.

While the one who didn't, would basically say "no that's wrong. It needs to be done this way".... 2 weeks later after we would make all the changes that he wanted. He'd say "no this is also wrong, why aren't we doing this [insert implementation that we did initially]".
I don't own one, but I've heard great things about SwissMicros calculators (https://www.swissmicros.com/products) from users of HP calculators. The SwissMicros lineup is very similar to HP's 1980s calculator lineup.

Also, the HP 12c financial calculator and the HP 35S scientific calculator are still being sold by HP.
Where did I say currency value was entirely out of their hands?

Look, I’m not defending Chavez (he was the one who took out the loans) and I’m not defending money printing as a way to pay debts, but that’s what happened. They got huge loans from the IMF, and then when the price of oil tanked unexpectedly they tried to print their way out of it. Then they defaulted on most of those debts, and the USA slapped sanctions on them and tried to coup their government. None of that helped.
Running WordStar for DOS Under Windows: VDosPlus to the Rescue
"My favorite word-processing program is the versatile, customizable, and powerful WordStar for DOS, last updated in December 1992. Running it under Microsoft Windows can be difficult, particularly with 64-bit versions of Windows, and especially with recent versions (Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10).

But an MS-DOS emulator released in 2014 called vDos makes it easy to run WordStar for DOS (and many other MS-DOS programs) under Windows, whether 32-bit or 64-bit, with real onscreen italics and boldface and excellent printer and clipboard support. WordStar's graphical Advanced Page Preview and Inset work under vDos, too, although only at standard VGA resolution (640x480 pixels). vDos is free for home and personal use.

Note: for an older version of this page, covering vDos versions prior to 2016, see here.)

https://sfwriter.com/vdos-old.htm

vDos was created by Jos Schaars by modifying DOSBox. DOSBox, beloved by those who like MS-DOS games, has never been good for business applications. Jos changed that by stripping out the gaming flourishes (joystick support and so on), beefing up file locking, and vastly enhancing the screen display (plus allowing you to use any monospaced TrueType font you wished). His system supports XMS, EMS, and it automatically converts PostScript or PCL (LaserJet) output into Adobe Acrobat PDF files that can be printed on any printer."
Any chance you'd be willing to share some version of said expectations document?
Well, it’s easier to build because it has a terse syntax that requires fewer symbols, doesn’t need precedence and associativity rules, and has no ambiguous instructions. It’s easier to use for the same reasons.
Furthermore, the answers to security questions aren't always stable. "What was your first pet?" Well, I know how I answer this question because one dog in particular I sort of consider my first pet. But I can remember dogs we had before that one so my answer is a somewhat arbitrary one.
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Since RPN is front page, let me note that Turkish can be viewed as an RPN language -- the verb comes at the end

(although agglutination etc make it not quite so clear cut)

The agglutination is very similar to properties on structs

object.time.by.ability.duration

Except that there is a fixed standard order, and every object (word) responds in the same way. -- Very similar to an inheritance hierarchy from a single object :)

A difference would be that every subclass a.k.a word has a meaningful way to respond to the dimensions of duration, ability, startPoint, byWho, and a few others that are not easily expressible in English but very convenient
Yes, it does. Run a political campaign on 'All the stuff you buy? I'm going to make it cost more,' and you will be slaughtered at the polls.

People barely making ends meet aren't very interested in those kinds of political statements.

You could, of course, try to lie to them about what the consequences of your policies are going to be.
Hold some physical gold, then you aren't reliant on anyone.

Its like keeping a gun, you hope it never gets used but when you need it, you're glad you have it.
Not sure why the word "abuse" was the first one out of your vocabulary. Asia is much better off thanks to expanded trade with the West, and the West has likewise benefited greatly.
> To be legal you need to get the user's consent, upfront, for that tracking.

No, that's just one basis for processing data. Another basis for server-side tracking like this could be legitimate interest. The site will need to provide evidence that they've weighed up the user's interest in this and be able to demonstrate a convincing case in favour of the site.

For example, it could be a legitimate interest to track A/B testing in order to increase shopping cart checkout rates - the legitimate interest is arguably that the site wants to increase its revenues and if it can demonstrate a convincing case for this, it will be allowed by the regulator.
This is a reasonable take. We should be careful to not overplay our own hand in terms of how much money we create because while you can pay back your debts with printed money, it may make people reluctant to lend to you again (interest rates might go up).
There are nuggets of truth in here but they are combined in a way that makes no sense in net.

Eg. it's true that some fusion programs are rooted in nuclear weapons work, but that cannot be easily said of ITER, because if that were the goal we'd have FIRE instead, the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment that used actively cooled conductors and higher chamber pressures. (And then also a bunch more since FIRE would be built.) ITER's advantages don't make sense if the goal isn't actually sustained fusion.

Yes, ITER is slow, over budget, and had delays, as is typical of project of its scope, but this doesn't mean it's a fake project any more than James Webb or SLS. Not delivering power doesn't mean it's fake science any more than the LHC. Certainly its jobs program aspect doesn't transfer to new fusion startups, which are in large part privately funded.
The article briefly mentions RPL. It’s a programming language for Hewlett-Packard RPN calculators. It’s an interesting curiosity if you’re in to niche programming languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL_(programming_language)
Here's a download link to the image: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins...

If someone wants to try it on an m1 Mac, I'd be interested where it fails.
Sounds right, a 7400 TTL chip held 4 of them and probably cost about $0.32.
More money. Otherwise I don't care.
It wasn't even a belief in the first place.

I read a dozen books on post-Nixon US politics.

The amount of allegations from both sides of US politics that the other benefitted in the personal capacity from trade with China is staggering.

At least some of them must be genuine.

It comes to a very simple explanation that communists have indeed been influencing US politics for decades with very crude means, and that they were successful in that.

This is an embarrassing admission US has to do first before any recovery can be started.
Not much feedback other than it all looks really good! Great polished landing page and login flow. I'm gonna try this out for our next session!
Because the past is a foreign country, the classics are an excellent guide to that country, and foreign time travel broadens your perspective, making you a cultural and chronological cosmopolitan instead of a hick with the stifling horizons of your own local spacetime. They embiggen us.

Plus a lot of them are fun as heck to read, page turners, not at all difficult, e.g. Pride and Prejudice or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Count of Monte Cristo and so many others.
Iceland has been hit by 18,000 earthquakes and a major eruption is predicted
Too funny to hear this when there is a hostile nation that has fought wars that lead to millions of deaths since ww2 in the name of freedom, a nation that uses exactly the same methods to spy on absolutely everything - the US has accessed the secret communication of the Soviet Union for many years -, a nation that has led to chaos in the middle east and in post soviet republics.

Sorry, but it is time that the world is sanctioning the united states in the way that you propose to sanction China that is finding back to its old strength.

best regards from a white person from europe, not a chinese.
It's definitely in the realm of injustice; how could it not be?
The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]
Stop buying American goods.
Its not quite like Reddit because the same forum can have posts about starting a cooking business and posts about theoretical nuclear physics.
DHS Buying Cellphone Geolocation Data to Track People
Clicking the OP link I get a warning page from my ESET AV:

"Potential phishing attempt. This web page tries to trick visitors to submit sensitive personal information such as login data or credit card numbers."

Is this somehow related to the Google situation?
Elites still be elites. West Coast elites pick from Stanford instead of Yale. Desk jockeys win out against hand and body workers. It’s the same, just spread westward.

What new things have been enabled that might affect class?
I’m not sure that “influencers” obtain a higher class level. They’re an interesting beneficiary of the technology shifts, but it’s tech more as publishing platform than tech as tech.

New commerce platforms allow a different patterns of buyers and sellers, but we’ve always had a variety of merchants.

The ability to own and apply statistical models as produced by ML seems like elite. Are the people who build and own these drawn from lower-than-elite classes? I think the VCs and other investors that prosper from them are the definition of elite class.
My daughter is at the learning algebra stage. I note that the way they teach kids to parse algebraic notation is by building an infix operation tree. If they’d just take the natural next step of discussing postfix (and prefix) traversal, everyone would think rpn natural.
My personal collection of HP's from back in the day. All are operational and I have the original manuals from a few.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/McLDSnm5ksaRQhSJA
lol. Classic software guy

“I’m too lazy to learn to drywall, I’ll just use OSB instead”

I started laughing hard enough my wife checked on me.

Proceeds to sand, trim, treat and putty 20 sheets of OSB to achieve a finished product.

It does look nice. I commend you on that. OSB is serviceable though. My stairs are painted OSB in my house.

What type of power you run out there?

I assume you are gonna need at least a big and noisy window unit (for the warm) and oil heater (for the cold). Or going mini split? So at least a 30amp breaker?
The price has gone up by several orders of magnitude, and Satoshi hardly provided much leadership beyond the original paper.
I didn't. It was windowed, plus on the M1 I was running a different screen resolution so that windowed could be 1920x1080, so that was actually a larger Minecraft window than the native screen resolution (hiDPI) would allow.
Let me know how it goes! I've been using it with multiple D&D groups, in 5 campaigns now, and everybody in the groups likes using it. The timeline UI is not ideal when you add a whole bunch of calendar entries (a lot of scrolling...) but it all works and will be improved :)
All of the non-technical people I know are capable of installing software on desktop computers without using app stores.
My very-much-not-a-lawyer understanding is that their legal obligations and liabilities are minimal on account of Gmail being offered free of charge. Anyone know if that's true?
Taotronics Bluetooth 5.0 transmitter/receiver supports two headphones.

Marketing information from Amazon

LOW DELAY: Low Latency for High-fidelity Stereo Sound, lag-free content streaming in transmitter mode. Low Latency supported Bluetooth receiver is required

MAKE IT TWO: Upgraded 2-in-1 Bluetooth V5.0 transmitter can be paired with two Bluetooth receivers (like headphones + speakers) simultaneously. Note: Low Latency does NOT support Dual Link mode
Unfortunately, for a "light-weight" text editor, VS Code is very power hungry, especially if you have more than a few plugins. Yes IDEA is not much better but you get far more for your watts.
Oh they’re very interested.

Serving the professional creative market is the core of their marketing.

Are they selling a majority of MacBook Pro’s to film studios? Of course not, but they need that prestige to compel Greg the aspiring film student to buy one so he can feel like he has “arrived”.
that's right sorry for the mix-up :)
It may be easier to build, but that difference is quite small and not likely something that would have influenced the design of a scientific calculator. Many people have found RPN to be a superior user interface, and that’s likely the “why”.
I meant supply as in "supply and demand." A collapse in production results in less supply.
If you provide a C library then it'll be super easy to add Nim support!
I think that's another reason I like HN. There is no direct messaging like other social media, so if someone wants to interact with you they need to reply publicly.

It's a small thing, but I think it is an important part of HN.
"Find me one person on this earth who is legitimately interested in being tracked by marketing companies who sell their information on to whatever giant collections"

Sure. I'm legitimately interested in that.

I prefer being marketed to by people who have a good idea about what I would like, rather than getting phone calls at dinner time from people trying to refinance my non-existent mortgage.

And no, I'm not scared about Google knowing details about my life. If a dangerous entity such as a rogue government wants to do me harm, they will be able to find out whatever they want about me whether or not I use a 'secure' browser and search engine.
You can talk about authorization alone but only because authentication is necessary to handle authorization and so can be assumed.

send the service a signed number of your choice.
You can now sign in on future visits by signing messages with the same key

This part is the authentication.

My extreme opinion is that the post office should run OAuth servers.
Almost everything innovative sounds like a dangerous trap to conservative thinkers. Artists disagree and flock into this new digital era.
Running Racket BC on iOS
https://defn.io/2020/01/05/racket-on-ios/