skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conclusion feels bogus and forced:

>The various HyperCard clones and HyperCard-influenced software lack HyperCard's radical simplicity and the resulting explorability. Explorability of the "master of all you survey" variety matters. All of the extra features in a more feature-rich system like SuperCard (or even VB) are not harmless. There is a fundamental difference, especially for a child, between a system which you can fully wrap your mind around and one with countless mystery knobs.

Says who?

>4. Everybody pushing Javascript, Python, Wx/Qt, Cocoa, and other abominations as "HyperCard replacements" simply does not remember being a child. And/or lacks a creative bone in his body. And/or is a malicious idiot.

Or the author might remember being a kid himself, but he doesn't know what is to be a kid in 2021. There are kids todays (even 8-12 year olds) who do more with Javascript, Python, Swift Playgrounds etc, than the best things ever done with HyperCard.

And the reason they don't use something like one of HyperCards successors, is not that it's 'too complicated', but that it doesn't really solve problems they have in 2021.

>But what he really sold us was a (fairly comfortable) train for the mind. A train which goes only where rails have been laid down

And yet Apple under Jobs and later, continued to ship AppleScript, shipped Swift Playground, and other such tools. And their subsidiary makes a powerful "build your own app" tool (FileMaker).

It's BS to present it as if HyperCard-made basically toy apps would be some kind of threat (or even just perceived as such) to Apple's bottom line or core products.

HyperCard alongside with other stuff was killed to re-focus Apple and save it. Apple was dying in near bankruptcy with HyperCard and Newton and everything - not only they weren't some big success, but not even the core offerings were much of success at the time either.

>Seems like many readers continue to miss the essential point, just as they did in 2011.

Or the point was bogus and the author insists on flogging a dead horse (or blowing a rusty trumpet)...
Yep. My friends all talk about “green people”. That is friends who are so poor they can’t afford iPhones so their texts show up as green instead of blue.
The point is that the factors that led to these crimes are all still there. Were the circumstances to arise again there is scarce doubt history would rhyme or repeat.
From my perspective as someone who knows Rust but primarily works with high-level languages like JavaScript, some developers who from a background of unsafe languages (particularly C and C++) seem incredibly cavalier around `unsafe` blocks in Rust code. It's like they're desensitised to the unsafety.

As someone who is used to working in a language where one absolutely cannot hit memory safety issues or undefined behaviour, you can be damn sure that I'm going to read all the relevant documentation and double/triple the invariants of any unsafe code I write in Rust (and maybe even get it reviewed by someone else).

In some ways unsafe blocks in Rust are more unsafe than the equivalent C or C++ code because you have to uphold Rust's more stringent safety guarantees (e.g. no aliasing of mutable references), but they come with the saving grace that you don't need them very often, so you can afford to really take your time and implement them thoroughly.
You should check out
Cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
The Comorbidities and other conditions section is very enlightening. Only 6% of deaths from Covid-19 were classified as only being from covid-19. On average 4 other conditions existed including but not limited to "Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning, and other adverse events.
Under the CARES Act, medicare gives an extra (bonus if you will) 20% for covid-19 related services which includes death services.
And #1 of concern is even the CDC defines covid-19 data as tested postive or presumed positive!
As for why death tolls spiked in 2020, take your pick. Suicides, overdoses, riots/peacefull protests, gang crime skyrocketing, crime in general skyrocketing, less police enforcement... kind of a trend here.
So Covid-19 is a virus, and it can even be fatal, but it is as dangerous as the flu. Yet civilization has stopped because of misinformation, the misinformed, and basic questions not being asked.
I think you're closer than you think. The biggest step, imo, is to decide what success means for yourself. If you try and pursue success as defined by other people, you will always fall short.

Then you try to align your life with goals that will help you reach your version of success.
If you want to be independent from an employer you have to work on a side hustle. Which likely means a job with a flexible schedule or shorter hours to have the time for it.

If you want to be high ranking in a company, you'll either have to start your own company or find a job at a company big enough with room to grow, then work your ass off to impress people and network there.

I also think that aiming high is good, but being willing to accept a slightly lower ceiling is smart. A good measure of success imo is whether or not you're happy. Setting a too-high bar is a surefire way to never be happy.
The smart models have recipe step-by-step. The recipes can send commands to the Thermomix rather than manually setting the dials and timers. There's also a baby companion Thermomix Friend that can receive commands from the main unit to cook dishes separately e.g. a sauce.

https://www.vorwerk.co.uk/thermomix/thermomix-friend/

I have the dumb TM31.
At the very least, generic types of parallel training are applicable to these models (e.g. an ensemble of models that see batches in a different order or are initialized differently).
> "It's probably pointless, but I want to remind you that you are risking the lives of your patents by filling your waiting room with so many people."

Wake up America. You finally have a president who thinks COVID-19 is more than just the flu and that is a good thing.

The last guy was happy to see half a million dead and to blame it on the flu.

With the new guy in charge at least things appear to be getting better.

For example at least lots of Americans are now brave enough to wear a mask and to also go out an get a shot that protects them from COVID-19.
Rendering a web page requires an in-page animated progress bar now?
ha, this is good. Nice thought exercise
That’s just evaluation. The next bigger change in nix itself will likely be the ability to better cache evaluations, significantly speeding up this.
I'm pretty sure it's an artificial loading screen too. There's no way it actually takes that long to render. It's quite an interesting artistic statement.
Yeah I've been using rust for more and more small projects at work (we are a c++ house but rust is "ok") and love it. However, it's annoying to hear rustaceans constantly pushing their wares
Satellites monitor Mount Etna's unpredictable behavior
SMS Static Site Authoring with Twilio and Perl
Is this even illegal?

Aggregating the data itself for a search engine went to court and LinkedIn lost that case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

If I can scrape it to build a search engine, why can't you scrape it to sell it to me?
Meghan Markle talked about this:

"In the car ride over, however, the importance of the meeting sunk in as Harry asked Meghan, "Do you know how to curtsy?" She told Oprah: "I thought genuinely that that was what happens outside. I thought that was part of the fanfare. I didn't think that's what happens inside. I said, 'But it's your grandmother.' He goes, 'It's the queen.' That was really the first moment that the penny dropped.""[0]

Per her telling of the story, we may concluded that Harry really never had a grandmother like many other people do. It seems it's always been 'formal' in the royal family. That the ideas of duty and royalty have come before family. That's not a life that I would want to live or a family I would want to have. That said, their wealth and privilege may make up for it. But it's not perfect.

[0]https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/meghan-markle-oprah-inter...
At least in Canada, it will cause a constitutional crisis as all provinces would need to agree.
Extra maddening, as it works fine with Javascript disabled. Those loading and rendering progress bars are a terrible idea.
There's a huge variety of fiction - some books have cultures, individuals, politics, economics, warfare, etc. based entirely on what's most interesting for the plot and communicates the message the author wants to tell. Others have more rational, cohesive structures that make sense and communicate lessons that are useful in the real world.

There's also significant variability in history texts, too - historians are humans with biases and preconceptions, just like authors, their source text (if there is text) was written by humans with their own opinions and their own cultural viewpoints. For example, we have detailed memoirs of the battles fought by conquistador noblemen, but an accurate understanding of the events they wrote about includes the many natives they 'conquered' dying of dysentery.

Regardless of your source, you need to apply your own critical thinking.
Wait, what? I don't know rust, at all, but why is path freed? I thought rust didn't have GC?

> let path = CString::new(filename.as_str()).unwrap().as_ptr();

Is one of those functions calling free behind the scenes?
> manually syncing the clock via ntp usually gets my dns working again.

Why is this necessary?
I think Adobe is getting beat on a number of fronts, not just what Figma and Canva are addressing. There is a slow but steady rise in the number of people moving away from Adobe Premiere to DaVinci Resolve for example.

Adobe have been short-sighted with their very expensive subscription model which has resulted in people seeking out alternatives. Sure it was very profitable for them in the short-term but at what long-term cost?

It has done nothing but foster resentment in even its most loyal user base.

Personally I can't wait for mature Adobe After Effects alternative, and then I'm gone for good.
I only had one pre recorded MD (oasis). I would imagine that the masters weren’t unique to MDs. Pre recorded ones weren’t that common (at least in the US)
"Linux ISO" is a euphemism for pirated videos.
> As a man, I hadn't thought of the potential problems for women in this sphere (quelle surprise); that is absolutely the strongest argument for change.

Because women are more prudish than men? Or because the joke is about the male member? So if it was called "Qunt", it would be men that were clamouring for a name change?
I do agree that it looks like they should not have engaged him on his level by pouring gas on the flames every time he went off the rails. Remaining on topic would have been the "professional" way to go I guess and just leave him to rant alone. They did take the bugreport though and never questioned that it was valid. All of that still does not excuse the behaviour of the reporter.

I think your assessment that developers should not derive any pride from happy users and are merely there to serve a greater good is a bit far from reality. Maybe they should not worry about things like this but then again these are also just people living their lives. This is not a corporate entity where you engage with a PR representative, these are people, doing what they like to do.
Sometimes, paying people well goes hand in hand with opportunities for growth. The "bamboo ceiling," which is similar to the "glass ceiling" is a source of frustration for some technical employees who find themselves stuck.

Diversity and inclusion programs at most companies tend to focus on every demographic bias except for the bamboo ceiling.
I'm a voracious audiobook consumer and get my books in all forms and shapes. At some point, I got tired of organizing them and decided to put them in my Calibre library, re-encoding each book first into a single file preferably with chapter information. To my surprise, existing tools were quite cumbersome, so I put together a small nodejs CLI[1] that uses ffmpeg for encoding. It was hacked together in few hours, but has saved me a ton of time since.

[1] https://github.com/zandaqo/ctfb
> Lyft is an app. Git is a tool for developers. I have no clue how they're related.

Google: What is a system

Good luck.
Changing How Updates Work with Docker Desktop 3.3
Ansys: How Simulation Is Helping Make History: The First Flight Attempt on Mars
There's more going on here. Figma targets collaboration. Canva tackles ease of use. Nothing was stopping Adobe improving in that department.

Photoshop already has a cheap monthly subscription. Why not do a similar price point with a new collaboration and ease of use layer slapped on Illustrator?
Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy.

Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach.

But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actually importing a file), etc.

So our original runtime was actually Brainf#ck. So, at once point, if you had guessed that Google supported it, you could have written your (simple) webapp in Brainf#ck and Google would have scaled it up to hundreds of machines if needed ;-)
If I try to search something within the page with Ctrl + F that also causes the whole page to re-render and display "loading ..." and "rendering ..." progress bar.
An interesting one here. Pay for PRO in order to avoid forced updates. Looking forward to hearing what people think here. I wonder whether this is something I could take into my own open source work.
Isn't this just a classic case of unbundling[0], as to which Figma and Canva are just unbundling Adobe products.

Come to think of it, I also think the reverse will happen when people realise that using multiple tools in concert will cause friction and then some customers revert to a 'bundled' service with their needs accommodated in just one service/program.

Hopefully Figma, Canva and many others like them don't not get ironically acquired by Adobe and the like.

[0] https://stratechery.com/outline/bundling-and-unbundling/
>in a way that we shouldn't assume any ownership only based on the domain itself.

I probably have a naive understanding of this, but why not? In your Shopify example, users should certainly be taught that Shopify does have ownership of mystore.shopify.com (in at least the 'security' and 'privacy' areas of concern from the write-up). Likewise, entities proxying resources controlled by others through their own domains (e.g. CNAME cloaking) should take responsibility for what they are serving and how they are exposing their clients.
Haha, it's true! Disabling JavaScript leaves a perfectly working article. Is this one big troll?
It's a joke. It's not a terrible idea. It's a great idea! A great joke!
Has anyone mentioned this footage being shot over green screen and a jungle composited in the background?

Gotta love this addition to make it seem like this monkey is living the life.

"Bananas and video games in its natural habitat! This monkey is living the dream."
Test patterns:

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=d=60:s=1920x1080:r=24,format=yuv420p -f lavfi -i sine=f=440:b=4 -b:v 1M -b:a 192k -shortest output-testsrc.mp4

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc2=d=60:s=1920x1080:r=24,format=yuv420p -f lavfi -i sine=f=440:b=4 -b:v 1M -b:a 192k -shortest output-testsrc.mp4

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i smptebars=d=60:s=1920x1080:r=24,format=yuv420p -f lavfi -i sine=f=440:b=4 -b:v 1M -b:a 192k -shortest output-smptebars.mp4
Saying "there is no point in getting an M1 MacBook" is probably what's garnering you the downvotes.

It's rough around the edges and whether or not your use case is successful is definitely very specific, but for my personal hobby projects (ECU reverse engineering), it's been an excellent tool. Ghidra worked out-of-the-box in Rosetta and natively with a few simple build system tweaks, tricore-qemu was trivial to build, Mono is working, VSCode is nicer than ever, and CrossOver Wine (in Rosetta) even works great for running Windows-only toolchains. The battery life and performance-to-price ratio on the Air have been amazing. And, some things like GMP are _ridiculously_ fast - a brute-force RNG -> RSA attack I developed is actually faster on the M1 MacBook Air than on my not-that-old Ryzen desktop.

I agree that the hype is tiring, and yes, some things like Android development don't work correctly yet - but not everyone is an Android developer, and dismissing the first-gen Apple Silicon products in a blanket way goes against the experience of many people. Thus, downvotes.
Zerodium triples WordPress remote code execution exploit payout
Yep.

window.setTimeout(makeprogress, delay)

With various repeated hard-coded delays of 50, 250, and 500ms.
Democracy? you know, the one that's already in place. Royal families has no direct influence on the democracy of these countries. Correlation doesn't mean Causation.
I agree with your reasoning and the reason this is hard to change is similar to Python 2->3 transition.

If it was about 50 users, we could just do it.

Since there are many users, it takes a while to move from one UI to another.
This sort of thing seems more like a self-reinforcing loop than something to be assumed innately. They write articles with a clear political slant that comes through strongly on some subjects. Potential readers who don't like that slant go elsewhere, and those who love the slant stick around, read everything, subscribe, and comment a lot.

Perhaps more concerning are those in the middle, who would say they don't have a self-proclaimed position, but aren't sophisticated enough to recognize the slant. For those types reading media like that, they tend to absorb that slant as a law of nature instead of a political opinion.

I remember once upon a time, it was considered to be a good thing for journalists to present both side of an issue. Maybe not every single issue, but at least anything important and contested enough to be worth holding a vote on. We were supposed to trust them, because they were supposed to know enough to do this. It was supposed to be dangerous and encourage extremism to present such issues as if there was only one legitimate side. I guess those days are long gone.
Neural Machine Translation with Keras
I agree. Affinity started very strong and just keeps getting better. Adobe's subscription BS is going to hurt them in the long game.
You will never understand these discussions if you take them at face value. There is almost always something else involved. Misdirection away from actual issues, people with too much time on their hands, people with an axe to grind or some other agenda.
Sublime Text has it bundled too. I think that makes more sense than hoping that things work with whatever the system version of Python might be.
You can't even search within the page. Ctrl-F hides the content and shows the progress bars.
Reminds me of another classic Innovator's Dilemma to have panned out with Google and Y! guarding their web-scale infrastructure from the outside world even as AWS was running away with IaaS.

https://gigaom.com/2007/12/04/google-infrastructure/
At the moment the happy path for Nix is using it in the same space that Docker is used now - for providing reproducible dev/prod environments for server backends. (And in fact Docker and Nix complement and play nice with each other.)

You could theoretically use Nix for managing user apps too, but that's a niche use case and (as you found out) not in a working state.
You will find most developers don't actually understand how fast a single x86 core can be when used appropriately. Most are too busy hiding from real hardware concerns to think about such things.
This will move to other placeslike Discord
spot the umberella theft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJ4MojENJg
The Brits storied history at sea must give them access to tons of tactics to pull from.
I appreciate you taking the moment to reply. Once the western media decides on repeating their propaganda long enough, sadly people end up buying it and selling it themselves. I wish that western interests/values can turn back to family and society(if that was ever the case). It's disgusting watching those you love turn into xenophobic hypocrits (and how many times in the past two decades Ive lost count) because the man on the telly said so.(soc. media for the modern folk) It will get only worse with these constant screen times.

I've been encountering too many armchair strategic commanders lately. I hope it's just an artifact from the post elections unification. Must be easy planning doom and gloom when it's not gonna be on your doorstep I suppose..
It’s still definitely used and taught here. Maybe that’s a regional thing?
Thank you, free was not the right choice of words. My point was that Apple does not make its money selling individual pieces of software which would be endangered by HyperCard. Apple should be indifferent whether someone prefers using the OSX calculator or a version written in HyperCard. They’ve already paid for the machine and the software before they can start using HyperCard.
How Many Plants
Yes. The advantage of Firecracker is that it's lightweight and boots incredibly fast. It's a pretty good way to run containers. But the virtualization primitives are almost the same.
The systems that committed those injustices and crimes against humanity are alive and kicking. The processes and motivations that led to those matters are still present. The only thing that changed is that there is no more motivation to commit such atrocities again, surely those will come back.

Beyond that, I don't see why we should excuse past crimes. All that motivates is for future crimes to be done faster so that the moral high ground can be restored then.
Going a little bit further, there's the time between the frame displaying on the screen and it reaching your retina, then the time between that and it reaching your brain in the form of electro-chemical signals, then the time between that and your brain decoding it.

By the time you perceive anything, and even more so by the time you react to it, it's already in the past.

There is no "now", it's all an approximation.
local turk assured me the meat was fresh, but it aged weirdly when I let it sit for a few days, so I switched over to another butcher and e'voila, nice agey taste
While this is correct, people often make outrageous last minute decisions in cars because they’re not paying attention. If you’re not taking the time to really look at your mirrors and blind spots you’re not going to see a cyclist. This is common behavior that I witness as both a driver and a cyclist.
The problem with that problem is that all the evidence would be 300 feet underwater.
I'm pretty sure it's explicitly intended solely as punishment for people who have javascript enabled.
If backpack thieves were going to jail decently often, it changes the risk assessment of opportunistic thieves.
You're referring, I think, to this:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/mcdonalds-sample-budget-shee...

Highlights include:

* At minimum wage, it would require working 284 hours per month, or about 70 hours a week. To work merely 40 hours per week, they'd need to be earning $12.75.

* It assumes they can get health insurance for $20 a month, even though they're working two part-time jobs.
JC: Convert output of CLI tools to JSON
Why is it better than Java?
(author here) I agree that Nix not being statically typed is one of the biggest drawbacks of the language. Having it statically typed with a strong type system like Haskell's would help solve some of the readability issues that you mention. Types of course also serve as documentation, which is another often-mentioned weak point of the language.
Finally, with static types we could also have much better editor support with nice things like auto-completion.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any efforts to add (optional) typing to the Nix language.