skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NeXTstep applications (and by extension macOS, iOS) have been directories (bundles) with the extension ".app" since at least 1988.
I read an essay once by Isaac Asimov about this fact .. and I remember that in russia they hadn't fully switched when he was born, but did before his family immigrated to America. By that time the loss was 13 days, and he ended the essay by saying, "Where are my thirteen days? Give me my thirteen days!"
"A Polish charity has received a huge phone bill after it lost a GPS tracker that it had placed on the back of a stork, it's reported."

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44645217
Used to be "Master". I got junk mail addressed to "Master Lastname" when I was a child.
>And then what - the reviewer is now supposed to build your software

I believe that is standard operating procedure for the chrome store.
Autonomous driving will never happen. It's a pipe dream like the flying car. (The problems aren't technical, they're socal and legal, and will never be solved.)
"Not a bubble... not a bubble... Not a bubble." They whispered aimlessly and forcefully.
Agreed, if they had chosen her I would not count their motives as much.
Yes, this combined with the fact that US and British drug policy was exported everywhere in the 20th century, especially after WWII with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (which morphed into UNDCP), and before that with the Paris Convention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcoti...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_Limiting_the_...
EGLStreams is on its way out for desktop Linux too, since NVIDIA is working on adopting GBM for the next driver series and is working in Mesa to prepare for that: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/99...
People don't put up with ads. They are forced upon them. Many of them with no knowledge of how to block them.

To them, ads are part and parcel of "using the internet". Some of them hate ads. But not for technical reasons though.

Outside of complaining why they hate that annoying ad from company X, most people probably won't be motivated enough to actually do anything about it. For some, this is just how they expect the "internet" to work. An ad-free one would feel broken to them.

Ads are not a bother for most casual people.
I think generally true, but it can vary by geography. There are a number of Republicans from small to medium-sized towns that either have Amtrak stations, or would like to have them, who are supportive of passenger rail in some form, and some of that support bubbles up to Republican Senators in some states. That's one reason the Amtrak national network continues to hobble along. If its fate rested on purely party-line votes, it would've been killed years ago. For example, Kansas's senators joined with Democrats to keep the Southwest Chief route from getting axed. Texas and Oklahoma, both pretty red states, co-fund a "state-supported route", the Heartland Flyer, from Ft. Worth to Oklahoma City. For somewhat different reasons, Utah has also invested in commuter rail (FrontRunner).
Speaking from personal experience, it's an absolute pain -- they're already an odd duck (w.r.t. booting, for instance), add on that the documentation is incredibly lacking compared to competitors and you've got a platform that's not too appetizing.

Allwinner and Rockchip tend to be pretty solid, as far as SoC go; start here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm
Reread the article. The "inventions" are trivial and the patents are of a sort that was banned decades ago.
"The Nix programming language" as if I needed to learn yet another language
When Seattle needed cars for the new light rail system, they had to buy a custom design that was "custom to the Pacific Northwest". Really? What about the PNW would mandate a different car from a standard design?
Show HN: It is pants or shorts weather?
You might want to look up the etymology of "grandfather clause", friend.
Improv was protected by patents, which was a complicating factor. That said, there were a bunch of implementations (already mentioned), and the capability was added to Excel and other spreadsheets.
The stats for the chicken have a hatched/died pair, thats neat.
Results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics
I think of it this way: if we are both wearing masks, your mask is going to block way more of your particles than my mask is, and vice versa.
It's ironic to use the xenophobic slur "banana republic" to describe a US Federal Court in Texas.
Exactly! It astonishes me that Wayland folks think that replacing the whole graphics stack is somehow easier than using an X extension that already exists. Really speaks to the profound immaturity of the project.
But you cannot guarantee it’s going to take half of my RAM size at most. In practice I’m going to see either hibernation failing at times, or maybe my system being hosed at times, because the hibernation image would exceed the expected fraction of RAM size.

Besides, 32 GiB of disk space is nothing to sneeze at as well. I don’t quite trust using dynamically-created swap files as hibernation images, alas.
From reading some of your comments here and on Reddit: your tone hurts your credibility.
More like selling me hardware with a built-in limiter that doesn't go away unless I pay more and they flip the "premium customer" bit.
I did a deep dive on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 last year and was surprised at how much information is readily available to anyone and yet so much of the story is still totally unknown to the vast majority of people.

I'm talking about sources like major scientific journals and mainstream media here. It just takes some work to piece it all together.

The story is actually really fascinating and almost seems like a fictional thriller novel. It actually gave me chills. This is all heavily cited with credible sources, here's the story: https://followtheplot.org/covid19
Fedora Workstation (i.e. GNOME) has already been shipping with Wayland by default. What's new is that Fedora KDE is also going to ship with Wayland by default.

Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPl...
It was in all likelihood a lab leak. The WIV in the same city as the intial breakout? This isn’t hard to piece together.

I’m also convinced that the CCP will do everything in their power to deflect blame and claim a natural happenstance. The economic reparations that will be demanded from a faceless China would destroy their emergence.
Really? Name some. The patent system started in 1790. The FDA didn't exist, thus no expensive trials and safety validation. Medicine was just a bunch of trial and error with no controls.
And how much of the expenditure goes anywhere useful? And remember that they're incentivized to report 15% of their revenue being spent on R&D for tax reasons.

That $100B is just for drugs that later got FDA approval, not the NIH grant budget.
Do you have a source for this? Not that I don't believe you, but just curious about the history.
I don't know and frankly said, I really don't care how many books I've read in about 50 years, probably a couple thousand. And for most of them I don't even remember the name or the author.

I end up cherishing maybe a dozen or so.

But the best time I had with a book was in 2020.

It's a German book on practical microscopy.
I also bought a microscope and went through that one book.
I learned more from that one book than from hundreds of those I read before, highbrow or lowbrow.
And I read a lot more of the former, a lot more.

Binge reading is just that.
Binging, not reading.
A symptom of a refined form of mental weakness that borders on addiction if not embedded in a broader range of activities.
The requirements. In retrospect, not the correct choice of words. Nothing to do with the article.

I am sorry for leading you down the wrong track.

I mean like who decided on the requirements of this project? And how was this approved? That is what I calling as a bs job where someone just slept at the wheel.
But they also won $500m+ from Samsung using the same system. Not to mention the defensive position it gives them. It seems like an overwhelmingly net positive for Apple.
What happens when those people stop working for Amazon?
> but the issue is that the conditions pertaining to work in an Amazon warehouse do not lend themselves to being the kind of work one can do for decades+

But why does this work need to be for decades? Why isn't the worker in amazon also educate themselves or upskill, so that they can move to a different career with higher paying prospects?

The days of working the same job for your entire life is gone - and that it's every person's own responsibility to keep improving their own skills and career prospects, continuously throughout their life.
Hi I actually discussed the GOF several times in my post and subsequent comments. You can find them here:

-http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid-19_did...

-http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid-19_did...

I also address the statistical models you describe, here:

-https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

I go into detail about petri dish vs lab animals vs accelerated evolution and how implausible it is.

Re: sampling viruses in the wild this isn't necessarily my area of expertise, I'm a lab guy. But I do know a lil bit about it, re: ebola in bats mostly. Only that it actually takes much longer than you think, and it has to do with our sampling methods. RNA is really really really short lived outside the host, and our sampling methods aren't that good at finding it inside animal secretions, they're optimized for humans and humans want to be sampled. you don't need to squeeze a human to get them to pee in a cup, or spit in one, or hold still to swab them like you do bats. So sampling is much more difficult. And since it's out in the field, the RNA decays more quickly too. Some advances have been made in this but it still is quite difficult.

To give you an idea, here is a paper all about the vastly MASSIVE amount of estimated undiscovered viruses out there (figure 3 in particular): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22975

I address the state department stuff also: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

Re: research mice, the mouse germination time from IVF to F1 (the first useful generation of mice) is about 12-16 weeks. Not that long on the global timescale, but really long in science. You can see a source for this here: http://ko.cwru.edu/info/breeding_strategies_manual.pdf

And that's from Case Western in Ohio, not a Chinese source. It really is that fast.

I'm sorry I'm not framing my arguments in precisely the way you want them, I framed them how I received the arguments out there having discussions in the real world with real skeptics. I then constructed the post to respond to those arguments I had been asked about.

I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Take it or leave it.
The truth behind Japan's mysterious 'Atlantis' [video]
As in HCQ? Why (if you don’t mind talking about it)?
The problem isn't really NPEs. If it makes sense to have patents, then it probably makes sense to have a market in patents. The problem is mostly low-quality patents and the fact that the patent system is a poor fit for software.
Unfortunately, by the time we could actually do all the experiments to find the best ways to handle the pandemic, it would already be over. Everybody is just doing the best they can with the knowledge they have.

With any luck, we will learn some things that will help us deal better with the next pandemic.
It's ironic that the browser that presents the biggest red flag for removing user control of DNS is Firefox, with their push for DNS over HTTPS. It's true that you can turn it off (for now), but until Firefox baked DoH in, DNS was a sacrosanct user control switch mostly unimpeachable by corporate meddling.
> There's not much to 2D accelerate with modern applications that all do their own rendering. Compositing acceleration is possible in a vendor-agnostic way via KMS planes and we'll have that in wlroots.

It's even more fun when your realize no GPU in the last decade has shipped 2D acceleration capabilities. Wayland uses 3D acceleration because that's what GPUs offer, because that's what the other platforms exclusively offer now.
I believe this is why some parts of Appalachia still celebrate “Old Christmas” on January 6, which is Epiphany for the rest of the Western church. To my knowledge, this doesn’t affect their observance of Easter, which conforms to the Gregorian date.
Imagine how the kernel and operating system feels...
Alibaba fined for monopoly violations in China
It's funny, I've heard from biomed engineers that it's clear to them that patents don't work in the medical field, unlike how they're effective in the software field.

It feels like every field knows that they're a cash grab without a lot of benefits, but assumes there's some industry that they don't work in where they're needed.
There was a piece of similar software I used about 20 years ago called Teddy.

https://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adfdtUn2r4U

Obviously, Monster Mash is way more advanced and includes animation features, but ever since Teddy I wondered why there weren't bigger 3D modeling packages embracing sketch-based sculpting.
> Everybody is just doing the best they can with the knowledge they have.

Then say that. Saying that masks work is a lie. The truth is nobody really knows.

Public health officials are treating the people they work for like children. Public health officials are not our parents. We are their customers and they serve us. Big difference.
It’s been illegal in the US since prohibition basically because the government apparatus that banned alcohol needed new narcotics to go after once prohibition ended.

Cannabis stayed illegal from a combination of it being Schedule I so no medical research can take place (a catch 22), as well as marijuana use being associated with minorities and hippies who are easy to demonize in politics.

As for the rest of the world, the US pushed the UN to schedule it in 1961 and so is effectively illegal everywhere. The scheduling was reduced for the first time just last year, and only partially.

https://www.vox.com/2020/12/3/22149503/un-marijuana-weed-leg...
What do you think "possible" means?

Do you think the government uses no proprietary software?
Really? I see it every day here on HN.
Ahh, the infuriation of seeing the issue you worked hard to document, closed by summarily by somebody that didn't even try to understand.

And of course that person didn't close their pet project or the features they promised.

It's slightly soothed when it's realized one of your summarily closed bugs could have prevented the next incident or major customer loss.
Apple is very reluctant to put all of their heart in patent battles, to the point you start wondering if maybe internal patent attorneys are calling the shots and like the status quo a little too much.

They pretty much intentionally lost S3TC patent case opting not to push for patent invalidation https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/itc-judge-rules-tha... The thing about s3tc is _its Apple own technology_, just renamed and repurposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression "This mode operates similarly to mode 0xC0 of the original Apple Video codec." is an understatement. S3 directly lifted Apple patented QuickTime Road Pizza technique of encoding 4 colors using 2 values (same math, same values, same purpose, no prior art acknowledgment), to ~10 years later sue and win.
> what would you tell someone a bit further along in their career who still has the same problems?

If it's been going on for a while but you are otherwise successful at the work you're doing, the best advice I can give you is to ask a trusted third-party (friend[0], therapist/mentor that you've worked with for a while) and ask them "why, do you think, I have these problems?" Obviously, this has to be someone who won't pull punches, who will tell you the honest truth and you have to be willing to accept it as "just a problem to be solved" rather than allowing it to demoralize you. And they might be wrong, too, but more often than not there's something to whatever it is they spill.

If it's a relatively new thing, you might be going through a little burnout. I've been there a few times.

The first time it happened to me, I almost "fell out of it" by accident. My day job was in a bit of a lull at the time and I just decided one day that I'd had it with a lacking feature in Visual Studio and decided to sit down and figure out how to write an add-on shortly after waking up on Saturday. I ended up completing a really basic version that day -- enough that I knew I could do the rest of it, which I continued to work on for about a month until I released it.

I did this all during a handful of free evening hours during the week, but I checked my download counts regularly and was giddy every time they went up. I can't tell you when the burn-out ended -- probably that following Tuesday -- but any time I start to feel that way, again, I look at what I'm working on that I'm really excited about and I often find that there's nothing there. So I look for something new, usually not day-job related, with the goal of it being "far enough outside of my wheelhouse as to require a decent amount of new learning" and "not terribly difficult to do once that learning is over" because if I can't quickly get to a working "something" on a project like this before I close the IDE, I'm unlikely to revisit it. Ideally, that new learning leads to some new things to work on at the day job, too.

[0] Friends are often not the best unless you have a friend who is not afraid to insult you/the "hard truths". I've had a very close friend for most of my adult life that has been willing to say "You're being stupid/evil/what-have-you" when it was necessary.
strong taboos on some somewhat arbitrarily chosen psychoactive substances but not others is pretty culturally universal
I gave a really stupid sounding example. How about the denial of rights to long-term leasers on her duchies?

Oh and maybe don't attack my character. My ideas can be vilified, but you don't know what I know or don't.
Clever name, I suppose, since the implication is that we're sheep.
Well, because it would be the biggest industrial accident since Chernobyl.

It would be like not caring which oil rig exploded off the Gulf, spilling untold barrels of crude — not caring about what parts failed, and why.
China fines Alibaba record US$2.75B for anti-monopoly violations
Ubuntu 21.04 is enabling by default, so I bet loads of issues will bubble up there.

The very conservative nature of Ubuntu packaging really holds back things getting fixed in my opinion. It’s hard to have a feedback loop when the biggest desktop distro ends up being super far behind. I get why but I would love an opt-in “rolling release” repo for Ubuntu, as silly as that seems
This is the first time I've seen the acronym FANG instead of FAANG. It doesn't appear to be a typo:

> We will have devs and advisors who've worked at FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google) companies helping out.

Guess they couldn't get an ex-Apple dev.
AIUI rewriting X wouldn't be much use anyway, because the problem is mostly in the protocol not the actual codebase implementing the protocol.
>… you will eventually need to explain that a commit is actually a combination of diffs, along with some other metadata like a pointer to a parent commit.

Only that this is completely wrong.

A commit is a snapshot of the tree. There are no diffs.

There is also no "metadata attached" — the commit is the actual data (!) describing the tree snapshot.

Git is a kind of simple content addressable object store storing kind of Merkle tree objects. That would be a proper (abstract) description.
Never heard of accounting.js but it seems very useful to my use case.
hah. i’m gonna buy a dog
737 MAX is cursed. I can't wait until it's finally cancelled.
I'm pretty sure that is the case here. I have a vague recollection of video footage from the '90s of a similar diamond-shaped UFO being explained away as a shape made by the optics of the video camera distorting a bright, not-quite-focused light [possibly Venus].
A desktop environment under x doesn't concern itself with graphics drivers.
Just thinking about the number of edge cases if this happened today gives me palpitations.

And I thought this whole daylight saving time thing is ridiculous. Hold my beer, along comes the Church of England.
You forgot a forth group: advertisers.
I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t really keep a sustained bust going for 8 hours anyway. Even if I had no meetings at all, I have to stop for the restroom, tea, food, or even just to give my body a break.
Dotnet is not a language. C# and the others that run in dotnet environment can be JITed with multiple tiering for fast startup or use various AOT toolchains from Mono, Xamarin, Core RT to new built-in output in dotnet 6.
Unless you are using different vms for isolation it's all open barrels of gunpowder all the time.
I don't know if this caused COVID-19 but I found out about this type of experimentation through my deep-dive into virus research. The more I read into it, the more I am terrified. I think we need a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty equivalent to Gain-of-function experimentation. The benefits from this research do no justify the potential of new pandemics in the future.
You don’t always need a large sample size to show correlation. When an incredibly rare event happens twice in a short span of time, the chances of it being a random fluke are vanishingly small. And anyways I thought it was pretty clear that MCAS caused the crashes?
Same, I don't want to spread negativity but I literally have nowhere else in my life to express the fact that I'm seriously considering how I'm going to kill myself when societies begin to starve en masse
>Even Jordan K Hubbard worked at Apple!

That was quite some time ago and he is now working in Nvidia. I am sure Apple has plenty of people working on open source for things like LLVM. I am just wondering if they have any on FreeBSD.
I thought this was going to a joke about how saying "sorry" means that it was obviously reasonable for you to be in Canada.
A couple years isn't a very impressive track record IMO.
And here I am looking down the list for the odds of not dying. Dammit.
The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How
Such an interesting character. I can't recommend enough 'Oliver Heaviside: life, works and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age' by Paul J. Nahin, it's written in such a way that won't make it hard to you if you don't want to dive too deep in the math, but every chapter does include appendices and notes that do go deep, so you get all the details. A treat for EE history lovers.
My take is - for once - the FBI didn't handcraft a terror threat out of a twit who'd otherwise do nothing of note. Our twit seems to have been earnestly trying to puzzle out how to do harm - and been clear about why (he believes) harm needs to be done.

Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021.

“I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this world to continue unjustly treating my fellow Americans so disrespectfully.”

Our twit also claims to have been part of the Jan 6 insurrection.

On January 11, 2021, he told an associate on Facebook that he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, made it to the platform where he interacted with police officers but did not enter the building. He told another associate on Facebook that he had taken a piece of glass from a window at the building.*

ref: https://conandaily.com/2021/04/09/seth-aaron-pendley-biograp...