skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl wasn't bad, in fact I like it's Unixism in it but too bad it lost momentum. Every language has more than one way to do it, so it wasn't a down side, it's just programmers needed to know what they're doing like always.

mod_perl worked without running an app server but I still don't know how other languages never implement mod_$lang or $lang-fpm that reloads code on change, so you don't have to place auto restart magic on development.

These days you need transpilers (but I don't blame the flourishing of higher level tools when JS, CSS kind of totally stalled from adding useful features and people never let go of old browsers), auto restart of app servers and other build procedures just to get started and that's one of the reason people stick to plain PHP/CSS/JS (loaded independently via script tag...).

We do want nice pretty slick GUI that does all that for cross platform to get new people started without asking them to do console magics. I know a few good ones but doesn't seem cross platform.
I assure you that Apple has no incentive to keep Safari up to date with the latest webspecs that enable solid PWA. Further, If developers started leveraging PWA enough that it made a dent in revenues Apple would find a way to discourage PWAs. Tax avoidance is illegal in the Apple ecosystem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236874
No, you missed the most important part. Before they stopped pursuing the theives they already were the target of organized crime. Their security guards were regularly assaulted.

The problem started long before the change in policy.
> In reality you could sell your software by direct mail

IIRC, that's exactly how some famous companies/developers (Apogee, for one) started out. They uploaded the demo to BBSes and then had interested users buy the full product by mail.
It started with bulldozer parenting, which lead to a generation being unequipped to deal with the real world. They are effectively still toddlers, stuck in arrested development. They demand to be protected from everything, including words and ideas. If they don't get what they want, they throw a tantrum. Colleges turned into their pushover parents, and then tech companies, and now almost every institution.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
For one off things, it's easy enough to just use something like WinSCP or ssh + vim. Having to count on a remote environment having all of the X client software installed to do X forwarding and sublime text to boot is going to leave a lot of people disappointed. If subl supported remote editing out of the box the presence of any extra software beyond, say SSH, becomes something no one needs to care about. Bonus, your local install is already configured and setup exactly the way you like it.
cool but creepy
One somewhat perverse detail: MacOS is much more limited in terms of userspace sandboxing options than other OS, because Apple hasn't implemented them. Which makes me wonder what the main entry vectors of all this malware are, and how much it could have been reduced with better constructs available to devs?
I refurbish medical devices in California. The customer can either talk to sales or talk to me. Medical devices are a computer-controlled apparatus, and the computer. I can fix the computer without affecting the device's calibration. Devices don't break often, but their controlling computers do.

The oldest devices I serviced run on Windows 3.1 and still work fine. There's a touchscreen mono CRT that runs on some custom build of Windows 3.1 in daily use at that office. I use Windows 98 daily.
Discussed a few times before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22248239

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8723728
Github.io is a surprisingly good option. Gitlab.io if you like gitlab better.

Substack seems pretty popular and not terrible.

Edit: Apparently a bad idea: Dev.to seems to be fairly decent, and maybe more like medium.

Hosting your own static site via netlify (or similar services) is only the cost of a domain name.

Hosting your own vps-based site on gcp is also only the price of a domain name, and if you put the also free cloudflare in front of it, it scales well, but this route does mean a lot more maintenance than any of the options above.
> […] a member of the Democrat or Republican party.

It’s the Democratic party.
You mean that mass fraud they called an election?
Freeman Dyson didn't think much of Wittgenstein: https://www.youtube.com/embed/byi3vOnVodQ?start=58
> Meditation is like local maintenance - a reboot or a defrag. Prayer is more like a software update, connecting back to the home server for bug fixes and feature upgrades.

This is a brilliant analogy.
Not “almost anyone.” The Forbes site is a mess, granted. The science blogs list only four contributors, two of them are Ethan Siegel, the author of this article. He has some science credentials, not a rando posting on the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Siegel
Yes, systemic misandry is real.

Two generations of men have grown up with it.
It is unreasonable to expect hobbyists to shoulder the maintenance burden of everything they share with the world. It is fun to build things, it isn't fun to maintain things, but that doesn't mean that what you built can't have value for anyone without you maintaining it.
Very nice. I've been using https://screenotate.com/ for years in part because of the nice OCR support
> Nobody says ETC is invalid because it has fewer hashes than ETH.

I think you are quite wrong there. At some point the exchanges had to pick which chain was going to get the ETH ticker and which chain was going to get the ETC ticker. While it's hard to say exactly why they did what they did, certainly the amount of hashpower on each chain was a significant factor.
I still use it daily. The ability to switch into hex editor mode and back is wonderful! I am about to purchase a Mac version as I expect to migrate to Mac soon and want to buy one before it becomes subscription only.
And what will likely happen is that as with now Recycle will be the choice. It's the less efficient of the 3 Rs; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. There was actually an order to those but we've tended to skip past the two meaningful actions and jumped straight to recycle which at times does nothing for environment and certainly not for our pockets.
One of my favorite examples of "how the question was framed" is from ~5 years ago. They asked one group if they were in favor of Obamacare, the other if they were in favor of the Affordable Care Act. Turns out the ACA polls better.
Likely produced by vaccine too, at least the ones that used full-length spike protein. The rejected BioNTech candidate for example (BNT162b1) had only the RBD. BNT162b2 is the one everyone knows now because it was the one picked for phase 3 trials, and it uses the full spike. Obviously if the vaccine were the RBD-only one, there'd be no antibodies generated for NTD or S2 by the vaccine.

Here's a paper where the studied the antibodies:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2021-033...
Their assays(tests) may not have been quite specific enough for these other target locations, but it appears to cause antibodies against multiple sites on the spike.

In the end, the OP article from NIH only analyzed the paper about a small set of people who recovered from infection and says nothing about analyzing vaccine recipients, because that's not what the paper was looking at.

Now what you should ask: What is the distribution of antibodies for a vaccine vs infection and what does that mean for variants. Because the paper and the article are concerned that the results of infection seem to cause a lot of anti-NTD antibodies and while they work, the NTD domain is mutating a lot in the variants of concern.

There's two lines of discussion that seem to result: 1. Is too much focus on anti-NTD from infection bad against variants long term? Is this how we're getting "reinfections" from variants? 2. Should new vaccines target certain parts that don't change like S2 to get even better and more universal vaccines against all the variants of covid19?
My personal preference is that I want a product that has the description 'can only run software trusted by Apple', but I also want a product that 'can also run untrusted software', mainly because I can afford having two products that independently fit those descriptions, and I need the utmost security for my phone (which I ensure by trusting Apple). That's my consumer preference, and that's why I buy an iPhone, and I realize it's not for everyone, but I would rather have the option of a phone that fits that description. Imagine the iPhone didn't take off and had 5% marketshare - we wouldn't even be having this conversation since anyone against it would just hear "go buy the other devices that don't have this restriction" - which is still an option nowadays.
I personally like posthaven, if you don’t mind paying $5 / month and you want it to stay up “forever” :) Otherwise github pages is probably the way to go
One theory is something like this: early modernism was so fruitful because those participating in it were still trained in classical methods. They mastered the rules before breaking them.

Picasso is a good example. He broke the rules of art in creative ways because he had such a firm understanding of artistic methods. Nietzsche, with his deep grounding in Ancient Greek and Latin philology, is another modern innovator.

Today, however, we’ve largely adopted the conclusions of the innovators. Rather than try and recreate what led to these breakthroughs in the first place. Discipline and training are mostly irrelevant in a world that is more concerned with novelty and shock value.
HR is the one telling the company to engage in systemic discrimination because a small minority of highly vocal bigots on Twitter confirm their biases.

HR is the real bigot here, not a small contingent of vocal bigot “activists”.
The police arrest, gather information, and pass the file to the prosecutor. If the prosecutor decides to drop the case, the police have no say.

If the police hand hundreds of cases to the prosecutor only to have the prosecutor refuse to pursue them, the police get the message.
There's aspects of an oligarch here too. Relatively few have the money to successfully sue for genuine damage to reputation should false accusations also be made.
I really don’t see why it’s a dystopia. Stores are a means to access logistics services for particular classes of goods. Like that’s their whole purpose, they’re a community cache. If people like the milkman system better for most things I see that at worst a neutral change.
That’s a possibility, but these two ideas that come up in the lab conspiracy theories are incompatible:

1. The virus was collected in nature (i.e. in fluids collected from captured animals) and escaped from the lab.

2. We don’t know the intermediate species the virus jumped to humans from.
I tend to believe that about some portion, say 20% to 50% of what I believe is not accurate. I can’t be sure which portions are wrong, so I try to stay close to the evidence and open to correction when communicating. Sincerity is fine but it isn’t a replacement for being open and humble and kind.
In college we had a professor in software engineering class who had this wonderful saying: "no matter how complex a problem looks, if you look at it just right, you will see that it is in fact even more complex."

It took years of working as a software engineer to begin to appreciate just how deep that is.
Bonds usually have a maturity date
How about Sublime Text? That’s mostly my use case. Opening giant files that VSCode can’t, Ctrl-F a regex expression, selecting all matches, and pasting them into a new buffer. Like a visual interactive grep. Sublime handles big files pretty well but I’ve still managed to make it chug on occasion.
This might be relevant. I took fullscreen screenshots. The first one was 2560x1440. The second one was 5120x2880.
Why was the title edited here?
> HiDPI mode is "native", so no scaling

That's not always the case. It can be, depending on the resolution selected (in this case it's "default for display" so no idea).

HiDPI just means 2x rendering. But it still might be scaled to the resolution you've chosen for your display.

On my MacBook Pro 13", there are four scale choices from "larger text" to "more space". The first option upscales (slightly blurry), the second option displays the 2x directly ("natively"), and the third and fourth options downscale.

They're all still HiDPI though. In contrast, when I plug into my 1080p projector, it goes back to 1x ("LoDPI"?) rendering.
I think it's specific to 1440p
The NY article is junk.

Examples:

> We're going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.

A private police force wouldn't rely on after-the-fact payments, but on subscription-like service contracts. Citizens could still hire private investigators, of course.

> Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion

That doesn't describe a private police force, but today's police which works according to its own priorities[1]. Employee of a private police force has a very strong economic motivator - customer feedback (or customer retention, as far as owners are concerned). If you provide a shit service you lose at least one subscriber - not (possibly) in some election years later, but as soon as next month.

Does Netflix support ask you to pay up before they investigate your regular service issue?

[1] https://mises.org/wire/why-police-prefer-drug-raids-over-inv...
Conceivably we'd be better off with a compound-document standard, like the 90s attempts OLE and OpenDoc but somehow nicer. Then multilanguage documents, with specialized editors, would fall out as one use for compound documents.
Look at those gifs enabling the rounded corners.

And also remember how slow connections was back then so the progressive enhancement from square to round wasnt just a blink.

So many memories
The Cybertruck is going to end up being a sales disaster after the initial sensationalism rapidly wears off. Sales will fade, it'll end up as a gimmick. Large numbers of consumers don't want to drive/use/own something that looks like that, they want something that looks like a normal truck.

Cybertruck is Musk's equivalent of the Mac G4 Cube ego mistake, except far worse. He understood that electric vehicles should look like existing conceptions of vehicles, things people can easily identify with as being vehicles they'd want to drive, but electric and maybe sexy + better in various boring functional ways. He abandoned that with the Cybertruck, and it'll bomb accordingly over time. Meanwhile Ford will sell a bazillion electric trucks, and humiliate Tesla's efforts in the space (in his inability to be humble, Musk will fall back on claiming Cybertruck is superior, even as it doesn't sell very well).

Tesla should have acquired Ford in a stock swap, left it an independent operating entity, and electrified their trucks; or acquired a huge minority position (in a stock swap) if the Ford family wouldn't go for a full acquisition. They should have done that years ago. They were too self-absorbed to see the obvious opportunity. The electrified trucks would be enormous profit centers. Now, instead, Tesla will almost entirely miss out on the zillion dollar electric truck market, which they could have had a big slice of. Tesla's only shot is to abandon Cybertruck and build a normal looking truck, which they won't do for several years until the pain from the embarrassment overwhelms Musk's ego problems (otherwise they'll just leave Cybertruck as a low volume trinket in their lineup, or abandon the space entirely).
Nor does it actually matter in terms of protecting ourselves from it, treating the symptoms, developing vaccines.

The only arena where the source matters is political, at least right now. That’s why grandstander Rand Paul is all over this and medical experts are not.
Could be a coincidence, but that was just before Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927) and Godel's incompleteness theorem (1931) dashed the dream of perfect knowledge.
Social justice initiatives don't advocate for blind hiring, they apply what they consider to be a "corrective" bias. Very few people who have been responsible for hiring engineers in SV would disagree with the premise of the study, although many would argue that there's nothing wrong with it.
So, Portable Python 3.8 would be a good idea, non ?
An 3.4 for XP ? XP still exists ?
I think one of the most famous examples is that of Grosset, who published his work on statistical significance under the pen name "Student.”[0] I wish I could give you a more recent example, but I don't pay attention to authors' degrees much, unless a paper is suspicious and from a journal I am unfamiliar with.

If I am reading between the lines correctly, you are implying there are few undergrads publishing in high caliber journals because of gatekeeping. As a reviewer, I often don't even know the authors' names, let alone their degrees and affiliations. It is theoretically possible that editors would desk reject undergrads' papers, but: a) I personally don't think a PhD is required to do quality research, especially in CS, and I know I am not the only person thinking that; b) In some fields like psychology and, perhaps, physics many junior PhD students only have BS degrees, which doesn't stop them from publishing.

I think that single-authored research papers by people without a PhD are relatively uncommon because getting a PhD is a very popular way of leveling up to the required expertise threshold and getting research funding without one is very difficult. I don't suspect folks without a PhD are systematically discriminated against by editors and reviewers, but, of course, I can't guarantee that this universally true across all research communities.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset
He says he spent twenty years on the inside of a group working and claims it is accurate about a significant chunk of that group.
This would be a compelling point, if the shampoo wasn't also under padlock.
I can think of like 5 different cities in Mexico that are safer than SF. Merida might top the list.

Californians should be ashamed but they continuously vote for this shit.
Coinbase is an interesting case because of how mission-driven it is. Basecamp should be more representative of a small B2B SaaS business.
Not yet! See TMTP from the "mnm" project (my work).
In the same vein though, can you think of any person that wants to publish research and is actively being denied being able to publish..

The people you mention are probably making YouTube videos and writing blog posts about their findings and are reaching a broader audience..
That didn't seem like a very substantial philosophical criticism.
The solution is to reprice every item in the store to over $1,000.
Thanks a lot, dang! That's ok - it's been super interesting to read what other people have to say without being a part of the conversation.
Ask for the stars and settle for the moon is a common tactic. We are subsidizing company profits at the expense of environment through forced obsolescence. Ewaste shouldn't exist as a concept for functioning products. Earth's resources are not infinite. Glue can be dissolved. Microscopes enable microsoldering. China has an entire industry devoted to tooling for such rework.
If it is illegal to defend property then you don't have property rights.
> I think they just send you a new phone

I doubt it, your secure enclave-protected secrets and data will still be there after the repair (unless they move the logic board from the old phone to a new one, which would be very interesting).
OR if someone is going to fabricate results, they fabricate them in a direction that they expect others will find interesting.
Well, there's an interesting point that a ton of SF residents cannot legally vote at all. So it's harder to claim that the average SF resident voted for him.
This has all been worked out. See CRDTs[0].

But CRDT's actually are a harder problem than Bitcoin. When you have a local square, you don't even need CRDT's.

> And your node doesn't have to always be communicating, it can go offline for months at a time and then sync back up with no issues.

If you are writing blocks offline for months, then all your transactions getting wiped out upon connection with the main chain(as its many more computations ahead of you) seems like an issue to me. A sane system would disallow transactions when not connected to the main chain.

[0]: https://medium.com/swlh/introduction-to-conflict-free-replic...
In the case of Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, there certainly was a perception that something radical was being done.
There was a big scandal a few years back, with a compounding pharmacy I think was in the northeastern US, which had some issue where they were contaminating medication with mold. It was being injected into patients, who were then having very diverse and horrible problems over time.

Boycotting Indian manufactured medication is probably neither feasible nor a solution. Nuances of regulation matter.

I remember a horror story about how patients would say their psych meds didn't work. Because the patients were, you know, mentally ill, nobody took it seriously. It turned out the FDA had approved the drug based on testing only some of the dosages, and the one that was problematic was not dissolving like it was supposed to.
I don't even know where to begin. How did you come up with in group vs out group? Who in this is the in group?
No the issues are more like if you send a resume in with an African American name or photo it is way less likely to be called for an interview than the same resume with a whiter name. Same for male/female etc. Even house appraisals and “call the cops or offer to help” as subject to the same, present day, biases.
Thanks. "Straggling emergences in which only a few cicadas are present are common, but larger unexpected emergences of thousands of individuals have also been reported."

There's a suggestion that climate change may be causing more stragglers, but nothing else on how they count or time it.
If I were Microsoft, I would want people to replace rather than repair computers. Chances are, the new computer will come with a Windows license.
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I wouldn't necessarily say Wittgenstein is overrated but he became so 'good' because he bugged the sh*t out of Bertrand Russell.

A bit like how George Harrison and Ringo Starr became so good because they were in the presence of Lennon and McCartney.

Being around great people and in that kind of environment is what leads to these kinds of breakthroughs.
Wow. Hilarious. I was one of the original commenters on that thread and stopped following when I returned my - fully loaded - $$$$ - 16” MBP. I think I’ll be glad I returned it because M1 is awesome, but god damn. Why can’t Apple fix this? You figure they would get the idea when I return an ungodly expensive machine and tell them this is the reason. Christ.
Thanks for the shoutout on displayplacer!
It seems like a tax like the Gas Guzzler tax on "unconventional" vehicles could be an answer and governments don't say no to taxes.
I wish to celebrate Wittgenstein fans on this special day for them but in a certain sense everything changes philosophy for ever.
If you'd read his stuff it's crap, even Wittgenstein thought so in his later years.
It's irrelevant because it's an immaterial amount. Itemising 3% has no effect, compared to 30%.

I would support this, as I believe that we pay high taxes because we're pacified into not thinking about the amount.
They invited it in and fostered it. I say they get what they deserve.