skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> makes it unappealing to certain users. You counter that with a discussion-ending argument about how much money Apple makes.

For a business that makes it's money from consumer spending habits, I think this is a perfectly valid argument. Apple isn't a utility company or something the users are locked in to. If they decided openness was more important, why are they still buying so many iPhones?
> Makes you wonder if you should give up on what you like doing

Absolutely not. All these things people are talking about in this thread are still out there, you just have to keep looking. Posts show up on HN occasionally that hint at it, but one of my favorite places to go browse when I need a hit of that passion project ecosystem is hackaday.com.

There are so many people out there doing cool stuff just to do it, especially given the fact that everything is literally orders of magnitude more accessible than it was even 10 years ago when you consider resources like YouTube, and the race to the bottom on cost of things like Arduinos, 3D printing, etc.

If this does circle back to finding a job, then that's a matter of finding the right fits. I got my first job out of college writing iOS apps for motorcoach bus schedules by showing the company a game I released on the app store, and my most recent position for a Senior iOS dev (which has translated to a firmware position), I spent most of my interview talking about my homebrew synth project: https://imgur.com/a/FZ6GFsI

There are people out there who will be interested, and they also happen to be people who hire people! I show my coworkers my side projects all the time, sometimes they're somewhat relevant to what we do, sometimes they don't relate at all.
As people said, true spammers know to just strip off the "+" in the email address. This is actually a fun reason to set up your own domain and set up email forwarding for *@example.com to go to your main gmail or whatever account, then the "username" part of the email I just set to the domain of the account I'm signing up for. So I'll use amazon@example.com when signing up at Amazon (or whatever site).
He was very wrong to use what was a conspiracy theory at the time to conclude there was no need for personal responsibility. Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved.
It's sadly more common than one would think. There are some very undemocratic bits in the bowels of the UK justice system, and nobody that matters has any intention of fixing them. In fact, they are busy trying to import all the worst elements of the US system, removing legal aid so that poor people won't be able to bother the rich and powerful anymore.
There was no technical way for them to guarantee otherwise, at the time.

This is quickly changing as we comment.
Definitely true. In this case, it's important to vet guides/examples to make sure you minimize copypastable examples that have the --no_dry_run flag
I don't really think that's the same. Forgetting the "+" in the validation regular expression is something else than refusing to implement all kinds of extra checks to support very weird and very unused things.
Hi,

Thanks for creating this.

I have forked and I am running the app locally. But, I don't see any button for creating the cards.

Edit: I had to manually change the visibility style in styles.css and then it worked.
I would argue that in the driving example, there is in fact correlation, but the data set (a single drive) is insufficient to detect it. If you analyzed the data from a thousand different drives over the same road, the correlation between speed and gas pedal pressure would indeed become apparent. Perhaps the book's authors might better have said that if causation exists, there must exist a set of measurements that can reveal the corresponding correlation.

Or are there cases where causation exists, but no amount of data will reveal correlation?
>The "lab escape hypothesis" was disregarded by many (if not most) media outlets as a conspiracy theory early on.

I have seen this claim made recently, but as I remember the 'disregarded' conspiracy theory was actually that the virus was genetically engineered (ie codon sequence edited) in a lab. The virus' genetic code seems to discount engineering, but not serial passaging/hybridization.
there is a big difference between the interstate highway system and centralized internet applications. the interstate highway system was built by the government (by the people, for the people) and everyone can use it with their own vehicles, and provide services on them for others. so while building the interstate highway itself was centralized, it actually provides the infrastructure for decentralized applications.

conversely, centralized internet applications are not infrastructure for other decentralized applications but they only exist for themselves.

i don't know if the internet highway should be considered centralized (as the backbone is in the hands of a few big players) but the use of that highway is certainly decentralized. the question is rather, can we have a federated bus system, where independent companies integrate their bus timetables so you can conveniently transfer from one to the other, or is greyhound dominating the whole network, refusing to cooperate with competitors?
> This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco. Any time news outlets are credulously repeating the words of "government officials," you need to seriously devalue the reporting.

Depends what you mean by government officials. Trump was in power and his statements on this were called conspiracy theories. So the media wasn’t exactly taking the government side on this, they were dismissing statements by the government as conspiracy.

Whether right or wrong, it’s extremely embarrassing for the media. They are slowly politicizing themselves into untrustable entities.
I suspect the fact that they appear when you hover around there, ie occasionally move, could make them more discoverable.
Of course it’s intuitive. It’s a conversation. It’s a weird and complicated language, but you talk to the computer and it talks back.

Don’t confuse intuitive with easy or familiar.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/apple-m1-hardware-su...
I'm adamantly pro dry-run and like OP I've found that you really need to design for it. From my experience, OP's two main ideas are spot on: librarification and pushing dry-run logic deeper into library code.

Here are two other things I've found:

1. Regardless of where you push your run/dry-run dispatch to, the underlying "do it" logic really needs to be factored properly for individual side effects (think functional). Otherwise, you inevitably end up with loads of "if dry-run / else" soup or worse, bugs _caused_ by your dry-run support.

2. You still need safety nets for when someone is doing dangerous operations without dry-run. Pointing and calling [0] is a great trick for this. For example, say your tool is about to delete X, Y, and Z. Instead of a simple "Yes" confirmation which the user would quickly end up doing on auto-pilot, you could have a more involved confirmation like "Enter the number of resources listed above to proceed" and then only proceed to delete if the user enters "3".

Very curious to hear about design idioms folks have come up with!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
That’s only by convention.
Both OSes have an application with 0-x windows. macOS is just more transparent
Similar to VW reducing the MPG of vehicles after dieselgate.
Surely you are joking? I don't think "Official" statements coming from China carry any weight at all on this particular subject.
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One of the Danish newspaper have a page 9 girl (like the UK page 3 girl). One of the magazines have a "girl of the week" (they also have a male version if that's more your thing).

For my learning project, for the last four language I looked at, my code grabs the latest "page 9" girl every day, and builds up an archive. Because Denmark is a small country, the girls in the newspaper will frequently have appeared in the magazine at some point, to it checks their archive and try to build up a merged archive.

It's a neat little project for learning, because you need to do at least: http requests, regex, database integration, an web application (to browse the archive), scheduling and how to use modules/package/third-party libraries. Later iterations also adds a REST api, so I can use the project to learn how to write JavaScript application.
Did that happen with SARS?

It's not obvious to me that superspreading events should have happened along the way.
Uninstalling on windows wasn't only confusing, it was straight up broken, since applications were leaving random junk everywhere in the filesystem. Bonus points for when that junk prevented subsequent install.
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Boycotting in this case is a tool to make China stop doing bad things. Germany used to have concentration camps, they don't now.
Cmd-n for new window
Very nice. My team is prepping for AWS certs at the moment, and this is helpful.

Passing the exam does mean acting like an AWS Marketing Parrot. That is an unavoidable aspect of it. The exam is AWS certification, not "general IT skills". So I would not call this a flaw of your card content. Your cards show an awareness of this. Your card about SOAP APIs points out that the correct exam answer is technically wrong.

I would strongly suggest that you NOT take hliyan's suggestion of making a "how-to" version of the slides. "How-to" is very different than "pass exam", it would be very difficult to successfully address both needs.

I respect Hhliyan's need (and share it myself often enough); I respect it enough to suggest that it gets addressed in a way which is likely to satisfy it. "Pass the exam" flashcards have another purpose.
Agreed. After moving away from Gmail about 6 months ago to Namecheap Private Email, I am impressed at how little spam I get. It has SpamAssassin which is quite effective, but the overall spam volume is significantly lower than 10 years ago… and this is an old email address and domain I’m using, not new.
isn't much older than that?

I did zero research on the subject, and the only thing I was taught in school about its history was the usual story about Henry Ford, Fred Taylor and the rest of the company ...

but, I remember watching a documentary about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. in it there was a part about how they hired people to monitor and 'motivate'(mostly with a whip) the workers (mostly slaves), how much their were paid (more than the workers) and the hierarchy above them.
Exactly why I am not skating! The skill barriers and risk are pretty undeniable - it takes a certain kind of person to keep doing it when it's so tough on the body.

While I sometimes think I'm missing out, I quickly settled for kick scooters when I was younger; I just wanted something simpler and smaller than a bike to ride around and a folding adult scooter is exactly that - apart from an occasional curb hop, no tricks or aggressive riding, but I can push hard and easily maintain a pace between a fast run and a sprint on flat ground. I actually took mine out again yesterday after a break of a few years. I get to carve a little bit, I have front and rear brakes, and I always get complements.
And you don't think it's a problem that many people might not receive some legitimate emails at all? Or you just don't think that anything can be done to improve the situation now?
> If a new variant of Ebola suddenly showed up in Atlanta, Georgia. Lots of people would immediately jump to the US / CDC having a leak or being responsible.

In part, presumably, because Ebola appearing in Atlanta would be extraordinarily unusual. East Asia has a history of novel respiratory diseases, the same way that other parts of the world have a history of mosquito-borne blood diseases.

Put another way: everything we know so far is circumstantial, and some pieces of circumstantial evidence are (or would be) stronger than others. An Ebola outbreak next to a BSL 4 lab in the United States would be a significantly stronger piece of circumstantial evidence than a coronavirus outbreak in a transportation hub city in East Asia.
Strictly speaking a directory doesn't have an order and you are just switching the UI to show folders sorted.
I think the real question is could tardigrades (or anything else) survive the ride up from Earth on ejecta.
Are you fucking kidding? How do you explain the M1?
https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/history/index.html

> The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.

If UN is committed to do something good for having better living standards and human rights, then they must keep their promise and try to do something, otherwise just stop pretending being someone you are not and shutdown this organization.

I think we have passed the point in human history where local/national interests were above any other interests, now we should think about interests of humans. Be it Russian, Belarus, Palestinian, Israeli, Uighur, Armenian, black or white and so on, if human rights are violated, action should be taken and there must be a consequence for violating it, not only words thrown. US shouldn't have veto rights when rights of humans are violated, be it your best friend Israel or Saudi Arabia.
It's not that it's impressive as a novel approach. It's impressive because they found a market with a need and delivered a product to meet that need. It's simple enough that it seems like an obvious need and yet complex enough that there's not that much competition.

ImageJ is suited to the needs of scientists and engineers. Perhaps one could craft a workflow using ImageJ but it would be much less integrated than the mobile app from the article.
No, this was the sleight of hand by the media. Almost all people dismissed as conspiracy theorists said most likely lab escape doesn’t mean genetically engineered. But straight away that’s how it was reported in the media. Basically twisting words and lying. Shameful.
Been there, opted for a Herman Miller Lino and I am super happy now.
For me it was the middle ground between the high-class (and high-capex) Aeron and Embody and some no-name stuff that isnt any better than our chairs for the dining table.
If your cousin or your friend or your techie son tell you that that app is just fine and then it tells you that warning for everything, it becomes the boy who cried Wolf.

Plus, even that is less embarrassing than Facebook listing every single thing they track about you.
interesting to read this, as a skater from the xx's .. hint, I read the original Thrasher low-budget local zine. There was a rebel and/or punk side to urban skating - getting hurt, breaking rules, thrills. Tony Hawk seemed part of a Los Angeles scene which was big on color photos with good lighting, making skate heroes with sponsorship, and selling a LOT of skate gear and advertising space. Needless to say, the urban Thrashers were not impressed by that part of Tony Hawk, although yes, the guy can skate certainly.. and breaking new moves etc..

I like to hear that things evolved, and this positive light on the publicity is soothing to the eternal grump side of being a rebel. Skating is great fun, bruises and all.. thanks for this post
if you squint, you can kind of see file permissions as implementing this pattern? rm /usr fails unless you sudo rm /usr
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I think their point is the users would not get the choice to "want" to sideload. Fornite, Facebook, etc would pull themselves from the App Store and be sideload-only. Forcing users to choose between the security of their device, or their favorite games and social media apps.
This is why the Guest Account feature is good. You can give someone a vanilla Mac OS X account to play with.
Today I Found Out has an episode on it too [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/CPERnfB-q3o
Interesting. How did that work? Does that mean that they would only create the user account under the + suffix? I imagine they must have had two email fields - the canonical email for login and then a separate notification email?
It doesn't make any sense that you have to leave your job to get a big salary raise. Surely you're a lot more valuable to a company with two years' of experience in a codebase vs. a new company with no experience.
Are you using a library for the flippable card, or is that all handwritten?
It takes zero practice or effort on an iPhone. You don't even have to hold the phone particularly still.

Like, you're literally describing all the extra effort and gear you have to have to do this on your camera. Wouldn't it be better if you just... didn't need any of that?
I recently implemented this using the great Mailcheck library. So if someone types "gnail.com" or "gmail.con" it detects it and we can show "Did you mean gmail.com?". If someone ignores the suggestion, fair enough. If someone purposely wants to give us a junk email, fair enough. At least we're not frustrating them needlessly.

https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
Vox stealth edits article debunking lab leak hypothesis
Philosophically I agree with you, but I also have kids, and I’ve seen the wild west that is the Play Store.

Admittedly, the same problems exist on the App Store, but not to the same why-even-try level of anything goes.

The amount of kids apps, that are marketed as kids apps, certified as age appropriate, then contain ads for zombie gorefest horror was enough to make me give up trying with Android entirely.

I have every confidence Google will eventually address this (if they haven’t already in the intervening years).

In the meantime while I dislike how restrictive iOS is I’ve begrudgingly come to accept that I need it that way, at least until my kids are older.

That said, it's not clear if Apple will win or lose this Epic suit, so who knows what happens after that if they do?
Just for posterity, I ran into the same problem as joshgel. My 1440p's highest "scaling:on" mode is "res:1920:1200 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:on". I tried that, but iStats Menu still reports the discrete graphics card using 19W, which is as high as before.

Given that the linked script just seems to create some sort of XML file in the right directory, maybe this is doable directly? I made an issue in the displayplacer Github to this effect: https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/issues/69
Your comment would have had more relevance 30 years ago but these days I think it's fine to use the terms interchangeably given 99.99999% of software these days use those keys interchangeably.
In the US (and associated territories) I think you mean.
1) hit space for Quick Look, then scroll through? Or use column view.

2) home folder is listed on the Sidebar by default (its name is the user short name, ie its actual name). If that is not there for some reason, go to Finder -> Preferences -> Sidebar.
Yes and there is also a difference between the way US justice operates and let's say Scandinavian. They do not turn their countries into prison planet where collusion between government and private enterprise encourages large scale abuse.

Do you want to apply the same logic here?
Most of them do, but most will also waive it for flights originating or departing from said country.

Some countries go above and beyond; Russia typically grants overflight access to one airline per country, so SAS has the ability to fly over Russia while Norwegian Air never has.
In case of China there are concrete and contemporary things that people don't like. Like concentration camps. I dunno if boycot is an effective tool, but it's something. I think it's more important to stop the crime that is happening at the moment.
My main email, which is only 8 characters long, got denied sometimes based on length.

Doesn't happen very often, though.
Most useful would be to pay attention to your body while working and figure out where the tension buildup starts, then try to relieve that tension. Ergonomic products (even the most expensive ones) don't always help.
But this is the standard behavior for pretty much all apps on Mac OS, so if their complaint is specifically about Finder and not about the general behavior, that sounds like a bug to me.
Or the dreaded DLL hell. I'm not a Windows user any more, but I think this does not happen any more.
I know, it would have been fine if it was just another discipline of science or research that was hard to study..

The amount of interest from regular people and in the subject and the demand for research is so much that people want to hang on to twigs.. most people want to improve themselves and be able to think and do better and take atleast a fleeting interest in psychology... Evidenced by the rise of Jordon Peterson -

I recently found Dr.Andrew Huberman to be a voice of reason (check out his Youtube podcast, its very information-dense and pretty good) - He approaches things from a neurobiology perspective. To navigate around getting a deeper understanding yourself, I thing a chemical / hormone / neurotransmitter based discussion at least grounds your feet in real things, from which you can probably explore things for yourself.. It also eliminates a lot of the cruft from the discussion..
Clearly A is better. Because those resin blocks will be made smaller and smaller in the next decade or so to the point that arguments like "Landfills!" become irrelevant.

B isn't even a possibility. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology upgrade/purchase cycle, and of consumer behavior in general.

Most people don't throw away their computers because they "break and can't be repaired." They throw them away because newer hardware is more powerful and smaller and uses less energy.

When I went home last year my parents had 4 old PC towers of various generations sitting in their basement, they recently took them all to the local dump. All of them were still completely functional. Literally nothing was broken.

Why did they throw them away? Because they were 1/10th the processing power of a modern MacBook and impossible to move around the house. Nobody was using them.

There's mountains of giant plastic PC towers sitting in landfills that were built with the easy to repair/upgrade mindset everybody here is so nostalgic about. It did nothing to save the environment.
Gnome did this in 3.0 and called it spatial browsing. It was awful with a hierarchy 5 folders deep you ended up opening 5 windows.
Sure; but the WebView component is Apple’s own secured little space, and it seems to be a fairly secure little sandbox.
Well that actually shows how impressive the M1 is because it hits faster CPU than the 9900k at 5ghz using only 10W-20W total.

And GPU it's much faster than the Intel integrated.
Seeming like this is shaping up to be China's Chernobyl, with a similar inital government response to lie, deny, and (attempt to) cover up.
1. Constant communication with users to figure out what issues are impacting them and what they would like to do with the product in the future.

2. Trying to convince management to focus on the right things. In practice this is really just me repeating the same thing in meetings and 1:1s until they happen as I gather more and more data from users directly, through analytics and share perspectives from people I manage.

3. Other engineers I’ve met over the course of my career. I also try to read for 30 min in the morning. I read everything from self help sorta books to deeply technical books about my area of expertise.

4. Having used Jira and Azure DevOps, scheduling tools still don’t seem great. The PM I work with prepares a schedule in excel with me every quarter and we revisit it every few weeks. People look at that like 5x as much as they look at our planning tool and it takes like 1/10th the time to edit or less.

EDIT: My team is 4 people including myself. 2 senior, 2 junior.