skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around 2015-16 I was astounded to observe a then-colleague, who had worked with computers for decades, exhibit this workflow when switching back and forth between different application windows on their desktop computer[1]:

* Move hand from keyboard to mouse / touchpad

* Click "Minimize window" button in upper corner

* Mouse over to task bar / dock[1] and click the other app

* Do whatever it was they were doing (copy/paste?) there, then...

* Repeat the process to switch back to the first app.

* Lather, rinse, repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...

Yes, I mentioned the existence and function of Alt-Tab[2] a couple times. Not too many. Apparently not enough. I have later observed the same thing with at least one current colleague[3], also with decades of experience in their line of work.

Eh, sorry, "Why are you recounting all this?", I hear you ask? OK, to get to the point: People who work this way do actually get to see their OS desktop a lot.

I think most people used to do that back when the graphical "desktop" UI was new; I may well have done so myself, 30-35 years ago -- not for very long, though, AFAICR. And I wouldn't have thought that very many do nowadays; I'd have guessed most people who've started to work with computers after ~the turn of the century would have faster, more fluent, ways of working ingrained.

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[1]: Can't recall if they used Windows or a Mac at the time I noticed this.

[2]: Or Cmd-Tab, or whatever it was on the Mac.

[3]: Whom I'm sure uses Windows.
When 2/3rds of an argument is countered by not ignoring the term "or" I tend ask you fix that first?

Especially when that remaining 1/3rd is just you taking an unsophisticated approach to the concept of anthropomorphization...
> the current Twitter suspension is also an infringement on the right to freedom of speech.

But when Twitter bans people, it's not an infringement on freedom of speech... but when Twitter gets banned, it's an infringement... but when they do it it's not because they're a private company... but when they're banned then it is... but it's not, but it is, but it's not. Lol.
Maybe a technique like « give us the IPs that start with xxxxx » be a compromise between the two?
Are you claiming you do not have a conflict of interest here?
This website design is questionable but it's an interesting additional source.

On the other hand, I don't see engines like Exalead or Qwant so not complete and must be missing other engines (especially if small and independent).

Edit: Qwant is present.
Economists have predicted 11 of the past 3 recessions.
I did something similar with an X86, with enough opcodes implemented so it could run Goody (an ancient CGA game): https://gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html Super fun exercise!
They already failed - let's make taskforce for central monitoring of revents...

Do they hear about evaluation of the problem ? a) un-Internet that damn infra; b) replace M$ system with Linux or
other for of nix excluding Apple products (too user brain replacing and limiting for building on them).

Now you say nixes have bugs too and hackers already have malware versions running on them ? But there is at least one
difference: admins have control of that systems parts and can do what they please - including components upgrades. Not so much with 40's years M$ big-ball-of-mud.

And why I'm so so anti M$ ? Remember Ukraine electric-factory problems ? M$. Hydro-dam in US ? M$. Lastly something in Brasil ? Guess what.

Do the evaluation of base problem.

And build more fibers for infrastructure handling !
Honestly that's a good thing. Let the government stay out of this mess.
If crypto speculators lose their money I don't want society to have to bail them out like what happened with Icelandic/Cypriot bank account holders.
I watched several talks on 2x speed. It's not comfortable, but some speakers speak so slow, that 2x sounds almost normal, also, I can skip that way long introductions and slow down where the interesting part starts.
I haven’t heard about adderall before but looks like it has serious side effects in the long run

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adderall/long-term-effe...
Using Scheme to Find the Median of Two Sorted Integer Lists
> So why don't people in those groups speak out against it?

You are asking why minority groups don't speak against dominantly rich, white and male majority?
"doing almost everything right to become essential infrastructure, but will need to add some equivalent of destructors to get there."

To be fair, if we come back to this opening argument, I'm still wondering how strong the premise here is? Are destructors in fact essential to essential infrastructure as you claim in your view? I'm not sure that I'm convinced by the case as you've presented it so far. I don't think we need to look too far to find counter-examples of essential infrastructure with the highest levels of safety that achieve this safety without destructors, and where destructors would be precluded by the safety model.

Also, as someone who's done a fair amount of security work, the timing safe argument against hidden control flow is at least compelling and something to explore and not ignore out of hand. If a language design can make crypto simpler and safer to implement correctly, then I would say that's already a good indication of what the language may be able to do for less complex domains.
Social media has become antisocial – here’s how to save it
To me the most interesting part of this debate is that the majority of commenters here have pretty quickly jumped to “merit is luck because intelligence is luck”, which it’s pretty much impossible to make compatible with the concept of free will.

But I somehow doubt that all the people commenting would accept that free will is not a thing.
It’s far far more rigorous and far less loaded than the question Graeber’s theory was based on.

Graeber’s question was, paraphrased, “do you think your job makes a meaningful contribution to the world”. This is an objectively loaded question. For example, I could rephrase that question as “do you think your job makes a contribution to the world” and lose absolutely nothing. The only purpose the “meaningful” adjective serves is to arbitrarily raise the bar for which people would answer yes to the question.

The only thing useful Graeber’s research possibly showed is that people with more education have a higher standard for what they consider a meaningful contribution to the world than people with less education.
In Norway, most health services are funded by the authorities.

The notable exception being dentistry. The dentists (mostly) fight tooth and nail not to be publicly funded; the reason, of course being that the state holds way more leverage than individuals - and rates are sure to plummet once the state foots the bill.

If I go to see my doctor, am admitted to hospital or whatever, I pay a small deductible - $20-40 - each time; once my expenses in a calendar year exceeds approx. $300, I get a waiver valid for the rest of the year, capping my direct medical expenses (excluding dentistry) at $300 a year.

For comparison, last time I had a tooth filled a few years ago, my dentist charged me $300 for a 20 minute job.
So why can’t banks provide higher yields with simple savings accounts? If it’s got nothing to do with federal fund rates or middle men?

Here in Europe banks are entering an existential crisis as the ECB maintains zero and negative interest rates (of course, this is simplified as there are actually several different federal funds). Banks can’t finance their business anymore. This led to increasing bank fees, bank mergers and basically bad service for their customers including no interest paid on savings.

Defi will sweep away the banking market on the long run if central banks keep doing their lax monetary policy for much longer.
Sounds like a modern version of "false consciousness" which some left wingers were using to explain why some people they thought to be natural allies didn't agree with them.
You can also buy earth magnets at local woodworking stores. They're super fun!
You should tell the Marxist-Leninists that they aren't supposed to exploit the hydrocarbons.
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It started even before, I remember most of these discussion being around in the mid nineties.

They're not at all ineffective, they took hold in school and accademia and produced a generation of person deeply sensible to the topic of equity and social issues, which outrage quite easily and can be brought to bear to a wide range of causes from truly important battles to cancelling people for a shirt a friend gifted them.

The delay you see is not because of the technique not being viable, it is because in culture wars you need quite literally to grow your army, as people get entrenched in their ways after a while.
> You don’t think there’s a possibility of timing attacks that can be used (eg use the yubikey for an account under your control on the same service)? Might be hard for corporate keys obviously…

Did this feel like a fully-formed coherent thought when you wrote it down? Because that didn't come across. A Security Key has no idea about other accounts on this service, some other service, anything like that, it's intentionally oblivious.

> They’re probably pretty good but I don’t know how resistant they would be to a physical attack to figure out the domains.

I think you still don't get it. The Security Key has no idea what domains it has been used with. It isn't trying to hide them from you or from bad guys, they aren't secret, it literally doesn't know.
> I would argue that OVH is not a cloud provider

You would argue wrong. OVH (now renamed OVHcloud) is clearly and openly shifting from a webhosting company to a cloud company, and it has been for a few years now. Their name says it. Their landing page says it (the 4 maine categories have "cloud" in their name. All the official PR describe it as a cloud company.
The name is poorly chosen. Many people use gunicorn as a WSGI server in combination with Django, it might even be the most commonly used one (with uwsgi), and I feel like this name is much too close.
Ahh but it already passed the test ROMs at the point I turned to printf debugging.
A lot of algorithms are applied to medical images, as pre-processing for eye examination but also for automated analysis.
Prosecute.
Directing military ordnance in the 1700s.
For storing yes but lossy compression can be useful to improve performance of your UI for example, as long as the user knows that the image displayed has been degraded.
I don't really understand why expansion towards West is not an option.
It's close to slander to use such a name, I'm afraid.
It is surprising what businesses have managed to keep up with Amazon.

I was amazed last year to find Argos, a traditional bricks and mortar catalogue based outlet here in the UK, now offer a good website and next day delivery to most of the mainland, and at competitive prices.
That’s true of nearly every job. If every founder in Ycombinator shut down their company today and fired all their employees, thereby killing all those jobs, there will be minimal effect on the economic output. Largely because the vast majority of jobs here are early stage startups which haven’t had a chance to bloom, and the vast majority will fail anyways, but we don’t know which ones will ahead of time.

That does not mean they are bullshit jobs.
And good for Nigeria for taking a stand too. More countries should do that.
This suggests only 5% being backed by usdc: https://daistats.com/#/collateral
> - Title (or keyword)

Yeah, that's the hard one.
Nativescript does that:

https://blog.nativescript.org/nativescript-8-announcement/#c...

Just like regular react and lots of other tools, React Native is as popular as it is because it was one of the first (and credit where credit is due, it changed the landscape), and because of corporate marketing and hype along with a generous helping of people wanting to use it to ensure they are employable.

Nativescript IMO is the better framework down to it's core, though it's ecosystem can be quite dated at times (you may come across a lib that has not been changed in years, and that may be because it works and the outstanding issues aren't deal breakers).
I am using blockchain as a distributed, decentralised, tamper-proof database that no single entity controls. It is used just as a ledger to maintain monetary and non-moneraty transactions between various stakeholders in education: the government, the education institutions, the students, businesses and policymakers.
Once those connections are established then the information of funding of the student's education can be used to perform autodeduction from that student's income and distributed to everyone that was involved in that student's education. Again this transactions is also recorded in the distributed ledger.
50% Ministers in Modi regime and 80% Judges in India are Brahmin aka Meritocracy as per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

And India has vaccinated just 3.2% of its population;
Probably a better term here would be "approaches", as in limits. 0 and 1 are not valid probabilities - absolute certainty shuts down probability math.

(This is cleanly visible if you try to transform probabilities to log-odds representation - of the extremes, one becomes undefined, and the other infinite.)
This worries me because I "just don't get it". If I worked at medium I would expect to have zero input on editorial decisions (unless I was hired as an editor). The CEO publishing some fluff about not reopening old wounds is something to ignore (like most CEO messages), not something to interpret as a personal attack. It's doubly ironic that a message about assuming good intent is immediately assumed to have bad intent. What is up with people today? What am I missing?!
We all cheer for Max Schrems to teach these companies that misconstruing cookie banners as complying with EU regulations is a risky play.
According to your definition, 1 and 2, I've been doing a "rat's work" more than once :)
I would say management is definitely not useless, but it's hard to evaluate manager's impact, so people who get promoted can be in fact awful managers. The only way to measure their performance seems to be the performance of the unit they manage, which is often achieved contrary to their personal impact rather than because of it.
It cancels shutting down the app, i.e. lets it keep running.
> Javascript can't access the file system, what good would it be for most command line programs?

I mean, NodeJS has been around for more than 10 years now? Of course you can write CLIs with JS.
Biological Robots May Soon Build You a Better Heart
>Creation of nuclear weapons does not go on the plus side of the ledger.

I never said that - I specifically stated "nuclear power" in response to the claim that "nothing is made" during wartime.

>A lot of people now dead would punch you in the nose for suggesting those things justified their suffering.

I didn't even imply that, and no reasonable person acting in good faith could reach the conclusion that you did.
Typesetting Troubles in Alpha
Oh dear god no, any random passerby could say something requiring exponential time to parse. :P
there are ways to be paid, just don’t expect google/apple/fb to do that until they will be forced. eg see new eu laws coming forward, and some companies soon will disrupt this space. it will happen like gdpr, someone is already preparing for it, without making too much noise...
Not sure if joking but that’s generally the age where pension kicks in/an individual can start pulling from tax advantaged retirement accounts.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" --Einstein (b. 1879)
Applying the ABC Metric to C, C++, and Java [pdf]
Exactly. I identify as strict antifascist and leftist, but cannot understand why the extremist social justice warriors are identified as leftist.
Eg there was this citation by them

> creates a “not safe work environment.”

On the contrary, calling for censorship and heated nonscientific, political discussion on the workplace, esp. against conservatives, creates a non safe work environment. It also cripples science.

Formerly they were called out as religious zealots, not leftists.
While there is a want or whim, those with ability, real or apparent, will always be highly sought after.

I doubt it's possible to solve without removing humans from the equation.

That said, I would gladly be convinced otherwise.
Religion is too broad a term, so there are subclassifications. You mentioned "absolutist" for one.

If one were to talk about religion in general, the definition would probably be close to encompassing nation states and corporations too: an intersubjective idea, that exists as long as people believe in it, and that evolves independently of any individual or group of believers.
Back when I faced similar issues SSHing to my home network from school and work, I forwarded port 443 external to 22 internal.

Very few people would be so silly as to close outbound port 443, and everyone expects that port to see encrypted traffic anyway, so it seemed like the logical choice.
> Those are called examples.

No. It's whataboutism.
US Air Force gets serious about delivering military cargo via space rocket
So nostalgic. This brings me back to a time when computing was fun, but also fraught with danger. I can't even recall the number of times 13-year-old me totally screwed up trying to install Mandrake 7 or some such misadventure, and had to sweat through getting it to boot again without the aid of any other internet-connected device. I believe once or twice I even called a friend and asked them to look something up and read it to me over the phone.

It's an obscure beginning, but the first time I ever wrote something that could rightfully be considered "code" was mIRC scripting language. You could find DLLs that would extend mIRC with arbitrary functionality. I figured out how to open a socket, listen for incoming connections and just by printing out what I saw when I pointed the browser at localhost I reverse engineered HTTP and created a shitty web server in mIRC. I remember it would serve a text file just fine, but images usually got corrupted. I think mIRC sockets were only intended for text, or there was a distinction between text and binary variables or something.

Later I used an mIRC DLL extension to control the mouse, my shitty web server, some program the took a screenshot once per second, a real web server, a dynamic DNS service, and a dial-up timed dialer to cobble together something that connected my computer to the internet during my "computer applications" class at school and let me remote control it. Of course, there was nothing I needed on my PC at home, and nothing worth doing on it with a janky setup that only refreshed after each click, but it was fun to make.

I miss those days. Every download was exciting and new, it seemed like there was a vast frontier of unexplored internet, software, IRC channels, and things I could make. Now I sit down at my computer and check about 4 sites, have trouble focusing on making anything interesting, and generally do not have the same thrill. I wonder how much of it has to do with not being 13, and how much has to do with the modern internet.
This is why I think some folks spend so much time on customizing their mechanical keyboards. The need to decorate one's own space.
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Exactly. User story: As a manager I want to make decisions but maintain a layer of isolation from consequences.

Being the fall guy is a bullshit job but having fall guys to sacrifice is imensely useful.
Dear arstechnica, please don't write articles like this, where you make it seem like curl is somehow related or even the cause:
"It can be reproduced using five requests from cURL, a command-line tool that transfers data using HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, and other common Internet protocols."
I find it quite untasteful to somehow sneak an plug for curl in here at all.

Thinking of: “I will slaughter you”, where Daniel explains how he gets death threats from clueless sysadmins that see that they have been hacked by someone that used curl.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

Edit: I have e-mailed the author, but someone that use Twitter may want to try and reach the author on @dangoodin001. Thank you.
Disagree entirely. Ironically it's your "systems don't matter, it just depends on whether the people in charge are good or not" that is grade-school level. x)

First, I didn't say democracy good, monarchy bad... My point is precisely that western bourgeois democracy is pretty flawed. It is however better than the absolutist monarchies of the 1700s and 1800s.

>some humans are bad actors, therefore it doesn't matter how your society functions, there will always be people who exploit the system. The only reason you think monarchies is bad is because historical monarchs have been abusive. But there have also been abusive democratic leaders. Humans are the problem, not the systems we create.

That's just silly. A well designed system has institutions, checks and balances that prevent bad actors from wrecking the system. An absolutist monarchy has none. Can't you see how that matters? Taking your argument to its conclusion, then absolute monarchies, bourgeois democracies, direct democracies, soviet-style totalitarianism... it's all the same! All it matters is if you're lucky that the people in charge are good.
Sure, but this covers a lot of territory.

Executing well on a new paradigm for a 30 year old suite, maintaining compatibility, etc. These are really hard, and MSFT's speciality. Office became office originally for maintaining meticulous compatibility with its predecessor, Lotus.

It's incredibly tedious, frustrating work. Takes a ton of perseverance. Google docs came out of the gate to oohs and ahs. It was slick. Cool, innovative features like real-time collaboration worked well. MSFT's start was much clunkier, and expectations were already high. It took years before it wasn't an embarrassment. Even then, office 365 was never cool, not even now.

These two companies are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Google likes paradigms, impressive launches. Then, they expect that the paradigm, being better, will just win. Everyone will adapt to their new way. They don't have the belly for years of kludgy, schleppy work while everyone makes fun of them.

Google cloud was a great example of this. It was early. It solved the problems that needed solving, in theory... especially the sexy ones. Everyone just needed to abandon everything they had been doing and come over to the New Way.

This is the exact opposite mentality to the one that maintains badly thought out feature of excel from 1996, itself design to clumsily support Lotus notes features from 1985. A million boring details, technical debt and nothing sexy. Where there's muck there's brass.
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Pushing out lowlife scum is always good.