skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the thinnest iphone ever that hasn't sat flat on a table for years. Touch the screen and it wobbles like a bar table needing some coasters under a leg. Apple purposely designs their cases to be flush with the camera bump, knowing that for most users, the phone will just live in a case.

It's kind of ridiculous to build that baked in expectation for more accessory buying directly into your device, but I guess that's modern design principles. Extract more dollar, and leave you with the equivalent of a wobbly table if you don't buy in.
You need to redesign your code architecture to fit the UI or you wont get a world class UI. That isn't what happens though, instead they hook in UI interactions so it looks like the designs but doesn't really work as well as you'd wish. I've never seen a developer who gladly did the architectural redesigns needed to make UI truly great.
Unfortunately, Emacs won't really benefit since it is a (mostly) single-threaded application by design. But that sweet 5950x should definitely speed up running dozens of language servers and indexers at the same time :-D
If anything, it's because they want access to all the data Google collects. None of them care about user privacy.
Imagine asking your employees to avoid taking politics, concentrate mainly on their work, and conduct themselves professionally while at work. What an outrageous thing to ask of your extremely privileged and well-remunerated software developers and other staff. The founders included themselves in this also. There are 3 things you don't talk about in polite company, traditionally: politics, religion and money; and doubly so at work, and in writing. The Basecamp founders are incredibly wise when it comes to operating a business, and it would take more than this present nonsense to shake my respect for them.
Most large industries are short-term profit-driven, to the detriment or exclusion of all else. The goal thus isn't to provide the best service or product, but to discover the best way to exploit the "customer" (the real customers are whoever owns the company.) Thus, this is probably true in many fields, not just software. People work hard to acquire skill in a field they care about and believe in, and are rewarded by a whole career of using that skill to make sub-standard or even dangerous products because that's what makes their employers the most money.
There is popular python environment where you do not restart the environment after an edit: Jupyter notebooks. This comes with its own set of problems, which CL also has, but I still find notebooks a worthwhile mindset for writing applications. There’s no need to equate python with the script mindset.
OK, but that doesn't really answer my question.

Turns out the answer can be found here:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm

"There are four types of influenza viruses: A, B, C and D. Human influenza A and B viruses cause seasonal epidemics of disease (known as the flu season) almost every winter in the United States. Influenza A viruses are the only influenza viruses known to cause flu pandemics, i.e., global epidemics of flu disease. A pandemic can occur when a new and very different influenza A virus emerges that both infects people and has the ability to spread efficiently between people. Influenza type C infections generally cause mild illness and are not thought to cause human flu epidemics. Influenza D viruses primarily affect cattle and are not known to infect or cause illness in people."

"Influenza A viruses are divided into subtypes based on two proteins on the surface of the virus: hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). There are 18 different hemagglutinin subtypes and 11 different neuraminidase subtypes (H1 through H18 and N1 through N11, respectively). While there are potentially 198 different influenza A subtype combinations, only 131 subtypes have been detected in nature. Current subtypes of influenza A viruses that routinely circulate in people include: A(H1N1) and A(H3N2). Influenza A subtypes can be further broken down into different genetic “clades” and “sub-clades.” See the “Influenza Viruses” graphic below for a visual depiction of these classifications."

So the answer is: 198 possible strains, 131 that actually occur. That explains why they have to pick and choose.
Nah, in the present environment, no pun intended, they are ecologically irresponsible. Not to mention have a huge carbon footprint.

We ought to reward companies on their ability to come up with environmentally friendly ways to get things done.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but have you considered going back to paper?

After unending frustration with Siri and grocery lists, I just went back to paper. It works brilliantly. The "shared list" is my wife texting me things to add to the list, and I immediately take the piece of paper out of my wallet and write stuff on it.

I've been using phones, computers, PDA's, and electronic organizers for grocery lists for decades, and none have worked as well, or been as useful as a piece of folded paper.
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You severely misspelled "Thanks for the correction; sorry, I totally missed that".

HTH!
Thanks for sharing the details. Glad you made it through pretty fast, sounds like a valuable experience to know your limits.
It's unsurprising that people with better career prospects are less attached to their current jobs.
Again, I think I'm missing something. Apps don't maintain a complete local database or resource records for the domain name system either. We access name-servers for that information. So I think I'm missing the use case for this system.
Perhaps I should have clarified. What I should have said is that replication is certainly important, but replication alone can't drive science forward or produce a reliable scientific knowledge base. At least, it hasn't done so yet.

And a science that's bolstered by the development of robust theory can tolerate a certain amount of replication failure.
How much is a pager and service these days? Who provides the service?
>It combines the bad parts of an ad hominem attack with the bad parts of personal arrogance and negativity. Don't think your other teammates won't realize you've "blocked" a teammate. Some of them will react badly, and potentially see you as arrogant.

You are saying this as a senior engineer who is in a better position to do something else about being on the receiving end of those personal attacks. I respect that and I hope you are able to keep doing it. But that isn't the case when the abuse is continuing over a long period of time, that means no other senior person stepped up to do anything about it, and the people on the receiving either have to quit, or risk getting fired for "insubordination" because they filed a complaint against a senior employee. Playing the office politics game and trying to avoid the abusive employee is not sustainable, as you've acknowledged.
Have you seen these YouTube Shorts
https://youtu.be/7VVPq0HdTUk

https://youtu.be/xLBYneyGqNs

https://youtu.be/EgT93VjDOpw

https://youtu.be/KlpvCI_0o0k

https://youtu.be/Tr_23NW9aSA
FWIW I've considered Linux better for my purposes since 15 or so years ago and easier than Windows since over a decade ago when I had to spend 4 hours to "configure" an OEM install.

(That included everything from I clicked the button until I had uninstalled McAfee and every other useless thing but still.)
Just as some vulnerabilities have names like "Heartbleed" or "Spectre", some incidents leave enough of a mark on the company culture that they are assigned names.
> They’re more than just another profit-seeking company.

I do like Apple but be real: this is how they garner their profits.
You should avoid drain cleaners because in high concentrations they corrode metal.

The compound is fine in your dishwasher because it will fully react and neutralize in your plastic or coated metal dishwasher casing.
> Once empty, you can leave it there and add detergents manually.

So you don't have to buy their cassettes. You can just fill it like a regular dishwasher.
What is wrong with classical coordinates for emergencies? Like 42 degrees north, 13 minutes and 4.5 seconds?
I don't understand one thing. Why not have a bottle refill system (like those ink tank printers) to have a supply of required chemicals?

Sure, you are adding a valve or two, perhaps a couple more sensors, but long term cost savings would be enormous.
Suppose you had enough registers, ie. so many that there's no real reason to compilers to save. In that case, you could "support" out-of-order execution by adding a couple sentences to the compiler guidance documentation for your CPU, telling them that they'll get better performance on o-o-o cores if they wait as long as practical with reusing registers.
Free Software Should Not Censor
They constantly mutate.
> The word list already is 40k long

To be fair, if the lookup table is created properly, the majority of habited locations should be within the first two bands, which means you're really only using 2500, or 5000 of those words. That was the whole point of the banding system, I assume.
While that may or may not be true, it is being called “Havana syndrome,” and the following words are from Donald Trump:

> I do believe Cuba's responsible. I do believe that. And it's a very unusual attack, as you know. But I do believe Cuba is responsible. [0]

Calling this unsubstantiated illness “Havana syndrome” is arguably as inaccurate and xenophobic as calling coronavirus the “China virus” or “Wuhan flu.” [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome#Impact_on_Amer...

[1] https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/calling-covid-19-the-...
Companies are a means to an end. That end isn’t making employees lives endlessly blissful. Of course, miserable employees lead to lots of problems but nonetheless it is mistaking the proxy for the outcome to say that employees are the only relevant judges of company culture.
That's true. I suppose keeping track another way might offset the added annoyance of the "rewind" routine (attaching another device, connecting USB for power) when refilling the reservoirs. Personal preference I guess.
> you’ll have to wait until 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-designed_processors#W_se...
Behind Getty Image's acquisition of Unsplash
I wouldn't want to use their hack for drilling a hole - not because of the risk or loss of water resistance but because the edge of the hole isn't going to have great structural strength and will likely crack and let the keyring out. You'd also probably want to get some small split rings to use with that hole, then connect one of those to anything else.
I did customer service for an energy company. At the time they paid well! It wasn’t IT, but it taught me a few things. When I was able to do a stint in the hardship division for a few months, it showed me a side of society I hadn’t seen before.
That wasn't just about transflective, that was about OLPC.

And that's the one example you can give? I know what a batting average is. Your comments are insulting in a backhanded way.

Everything new from the car, airplane, computers, phones, OLED, has had people like you claiming it was never going to be economically viable.
TU Berlin shuts down IT Services after cyber attack
> Currently it only supports Chrome or Chromium based browser seeing as the underlying tech uses SharedArrayBuffer

...which Firefox supports. You already properly cross-origin isolate your website, so it is already available on it.
> Anyway, I think a dog's nature is more about obeying humans than digging holes

The international Canis organizations call such speech slavery and a canine revolutionary uprising is nigh.
... Which I assume also mutes it?
In Switzerland some voluntary emergency services (like firefighters) have pagers because it just works better than phone/sms. However most alsrms then still go out by phone and sms.
Resuming an interrupted download is a lie? Displaying data use is hard?
It's like a wobbly table until you bend the knee and shell out a few bucks for a case. Same thing with removing the ports: can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time if you are a wired charger user and wired headphone listener. That privilege previously enjoyed by default on every single cell phone ever made is now reserved to customers who purchase wireless charging or wireless headphone accessories. Shell out a few more bucks on junk you didn't need a generation ago, or deal with a sub par experience out of the box, as always with Apple these days.
Isn't that what... zip codes/postal codes are? The whole point of systems like this is to be able to point to any place on earth.
That shouldn't be a problem. It seems like all the Bob Ross paintings are owned by a very small group. If you buy a Bob Ross painting and the provenance doesn't include any of those people you probably have a forgery.
Your argument kind of makes me think of Proton and the massive efforts of Wine, Valve, DXVK, and other projects that have increasingly made Linux a more attractive platform for gaming. You could argue that Linux will 'never be good enough' and if you want to play games you should just 'try Windows.'

I think it's worth celebrating the efforts and the progress that has been made on Linux towards being a better platform for gamers. Is it perfect? Nope! Considering the market develops with Windows in mind, you're a lot less likely to run into issues running games on Windows, but it's definitely better than it was a few years ago.

Similarly, I think that Microsoft's efforts to make Windows a better platform for developers should be welcomed! I don't think Windows is as good a platform for a lot of developers as Linux/BSD and it may never be, but the progress in that regard is praise worthy, I think.
You should try to find something more .gov to link to for statistics, rather than a PR company that flogs home security systems and devices.
I feel like in all of these near-focus discussions one very important thing tends to get lost. its that Bitcoin is the first realistic attempt to take the power of issuing money away from politicians & central bankers. we all know it is not perfect but we have to acknowledge if it becomes a bit stable and more players buy into it then there is a good chance it could be a currency hedge commodity like gold or other precious metals. eventually its possible that many small currencies can be keyed off of it directly or indirectly by easy convertibility. In that bitcoin itself may not succeed but IMO some other block-chain based effort would. I think given the size of world economy & currency markets, a couple of trillion USD of market cap may be justifiable if it becomes successful in that.
President of Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture tweets that he’s left the company
In my case, my bozo list is a handful of names that I use to help choose where I will and won't work. If one of these people is at that company, I will decline to accept a position that will subject me to their leadership. Some may see this as arrogant. It certainly assumes I have the privilege of multiple options of employer. It's not generally been my experience that people react badly to this in general, however. I can easily see how it would be much more disruptive when internal to a team.

That said, I have seen whole teams set the bozo bit on other parts of the organization. For example, I saw the head of an infrastructure group refuse to maintain or patch key services while insisting on ownership. The security organization set the bozo bit on this person and worked to protect the organization from the consequences of their choices. As an organizational tool, it can be a useful caution about known bad-faith actors.

As to your broader point, I think you're correct. Programming is difficult, error-prone, and thus benefits from an intellectual humility. Approaching it with the mindset that you are incapable of error makes this much more challenging.
Permanently? I thought the standard of performance has become “reducing symptoms, maybe, we think, we’re not really sure. This is probably safe though”
This is full of misunderstandings. When variables are allocated on the stack, the space for them with all compilers I have ever used (or written) is allocated on the stack once by adjusting the stack pointer - i.e. for all of the variables of the function. There is no pushing or popping - function variables have addresses on the stack. When the function ends, the stack pointer is reset to it's original value, possibly with destructors for the things on the stack being called.

Also, in modern compilers, parameter variables are mostly passed to functions via registers, with the stack not being involved at all.
A location near me

geohash: gcuvz30z
w3w: drift.march.donor

I had to switch tabs 3 times to copy across the geohash since the page I found it on wouldnt let me copy and paste, I remembered the w3w immediately.

I am 100% against something like a global addressing standard being owned by a single company, however the amount of people ignoring w3w's extremely obvious utility and pointing to pluscodes, geohashing, grid references, geocoords etc is pretty tiring.

We have a standards body for emojis, cant we just agree on an open w3w implementation.
Even Caesar encrypted his pages.
I think she used the wrong conjunction, but the meaning is quite clear
Facebook names their biggest outages and turns them into parts of the company mythology. Part of that is cool naming.
> This is similar to the argument that a company, once it has a good product, should just stop. Why do we need updates?, I like the features we have, Don’t change it, it’s perfect.

The annoying thing to me is that the actual software development rule seems to be “improve it until it breaks”: Slack was pretty great for a while, but at a certain point they started adding misfeatures (the new rich text input is still really annoying in a hundred little ways) and eventually the app just became really buggy: I’m still stuck with it for Reasons, but I’m constantly reloading/force-quitting it just to read messages and bits of the UI appear and disappear seemingly at random.
They have to do that if they want to ensure locations near one another never share two of the three words, due to the birthday paradox.

Given their 9-square-meter locations and their urban area word list of 2500 words, if you assigned the mapping randomly then within London you'd expect there to be about 70,000 locations with another location sharing two words within 50m.

To put it another way, there would be a 13% chance of a soccer pitch containing two locations that shared two words.
> That's essentially how I feel when I see the "Our thinnest iPhone ever" slide knowing that 95% of iPhone owners put it in a bulky case

I was in the same boat until and I dropped my phone and break the back, which is ridiculously expensive to fix.

I use a case now, which only takes 10 bucks to replace if broken. It’s not as pretty as a naked phone, but it’s practical.
HIV is a known virus for many decades. Now that mRNA was released in a rush, why would it suddenly cure HIV?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010632
Show HN: Repo automation that generates a daily digest email of your feeds
Being displeased with feed reader experience I wrote up a quick script and GitHub automation that generates a daily digest email for my subscriptions.

I have been using this setup for a week at this point, and I found it pleasant enough that I thought others might find a use for it as well.

https://github.com/mhitza/subscriptions-digest
She's recently quit a company, and is not naming that company. She's written a few articles about the reasons for her departure, and they're all very opaque. Full of stuff that folks on the inside will understand, that the rest of us can make guesses about. At times, she's pretty explicit that she's writing for her former co-workers, if not to give hope, at least to make them feel seen & heard about experiences they can't talk about.
I expect updates it to last one or two more years given their track record. And even when it stops for months, they always come back for emergency security updates.
I don't think that's true based on the article: they say that he sold 1000s of paintings in flea markets as well as before he became famous, those owners may not know they own a bob ross but the paintings exist and thus there's a plausible explanation for the forgery.
The post is in German so here is a quick summary. 3 days ago there was an unspecified attack on the Windows environment at TU Berlin. Since then most infrastructure, including email, have been taken offline.
Seems convoluted and unfair to condemn all people using a term for what you think are their reasons. Simpler explanation is that "Latinx" doesn't carry a gender so it's more inclusive than "Latinos" and shorter than "Latinas and Latinos". I'm not saying it was a good idea but I don't get all the negativity towards it; at worst seems a misguided attempt by well-intentioned people, big deal, just let people call themselves whatever they want and let words and people evolve (see "African-Americans" and "Blacks").
The last person that tried to take trade off the petrodollar got killed.
> small enough amount produced forever should be safe

does 'forever' modify 'produced' or 'should be safe'? if the former, what produces a small amount of the spike protein forever (continuing, not just a small amount one time)?
Thanks for that, I’m on it.
Ignoring counterfeiting, aren't trading cards already a form of NFT? Reprints would have different run numbers and such.
> > where the median home price is $572,000

> Where did all the money come from in last 1 year to inflate the prices to this insanity.

This area of Texas is not well-known to most people. It's a bit of a well-kept secret. While Austin is new money and trendy, and Dallas is cosmopolitan, this area of Texas is old... old money.

> I don't understand why employers cant simply pay more and pass on the costs to their consumers. What's stoping them.

Our company not only has two nationwide competitors, we have significant regional competitors across America, and on top of that, we're having to fight Amazon as well.

I get CC'ed and BCC'ed on most shifts in company policies because it can directly affect logistics and I need to be able to actively work around or with these policies, and things are getting so crazy that Directors of Operations at each warehouse are being tasked with asking low-level warehouse employees to clock out 15 minutes early each day just to avoid any possibility of overtime.

Obviously this creates logistics problems because when a warehouse fills up, you can't send any more stock from suppliers there. So I've had to fold COVID-19 absentee reports into our data analysis, because the loss of productivity from workers can directly affect storage space. For instance, one warehouse currently has three people out with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, but we contact traced another seven people between those three, so that's 10 workers out, 3 of which for at least a few weeks, possibly months. The other 7 until they're cleared by medical doctors. That could mean roughly a 30% reduction in ability to process merchandise at that location for up to a week or two, and around an 8% decline for several weeks or months.

So we can't pass the cost on to consumers because why would you buy a headlamp assembly for your Audi A6 from us for $479 when you can get it from Amazon for $382?
Since this would be too easy for c++, there is also (sometime mandatory) copy elision.
We didn’t assume because of ignorance. Innocence lost.

Plenty of people were listening - there’s an archive from 9/11/01 that was released with many of the pages in lower Manhattan that day.

Police routinely monitored this stuff, and it’s reputed that PIs, ambulance chasing attorneys, etc did the same. Was it relevant/meaningful to when my mom was going to pick me up from work at the mall was a page? Probably not.