skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product positioning and target market.

There is a reason why Apple is a 2 trillion company, the best in consumer satisfaction and made technology easy and accessible to toddlers and grandparents worldwide.

It never amazes me that HN crowd doesn’t understand this and keeps moaning that the latest iPad doesn’t run Kubernetes. Seriously?!
I worked with Swift extensively for a year and a half, and I absolutely adore the language. I think it does a lot right while avoiding more of rust's complexities (I am a rust n00b, so grain of salt).

The problem with Swift (as of like 1.5 years ago when I stopped using the language daily) was its ecosystem. Swift package manager wasn't really used (at least for iOS apps), there was no real decent ecosystem outside the xcode world (no langserver, some server-side swift abstractions).

I think Swift would really thrive if Apple were to give it some room to breathe in the open source community, but until Swift decouples itself more from Apple's own needs, I couldn't imagine using it for anything other than iOS development.
Benevolent Dictator Pro Tempore
I really don't like how easy it is to fake a "new" article on Google. You can just re-publish an old article and stick a new date on it and Googles takes it on face value and uses the new date.
If the author was maliciously crossing the ethical line, why they would show the project privately to you? If the author was not maliciously crossing the ethical line, why were you so quick to threaten legal action and bully them by mentioning that you had the money to make it dangerous for them?
The American flag planting on the moon is one of the single most iconic and culturally significant events in American history, ever.

The movie is based off of a book written by an American.

The movie was directed by an American.

The movie was produced by an American.

For the movie to exclude this without it being a deliberate decision would be an oversight or coincidence beyond reasonable belief.

Yes, American flags appear in other movies. Captain America is a fictional character in a fictional universe. Use of the American flag in that context is not in the least bit comparable to the first time humans stepped foot on solid ground that wasn't named Earth.

The moon landing was also an iconic benchmark for world civilization as whole. Given that we have concrete knowledge of China forcing studios and actors to parrot China's values, it is certainly plausible that China did not want the crowning moment of this iconic human achievement to prominently feature America at that moment.

It's also plausible that foreign sentiment against the US at that time--not just from China-- was also a factor.

It is also possible the film creators wanted to present the moment as an achievement for all of civilization, without a focus on the US in particular.

But given the history, book, director, and importance for the US, I absolutely believe it was deliberate, and as such people upset about it do not represent a manufactured controversy. If you grew up during the height of the Cold War and the arms race with Russia and watched the moon landing, or have heard--as I have-- stories from my parents and grand parents how much that gave them hope during a very dark time, you also might be a little upset that your country's role had been erased in the crowning moment.
I think it should be pointed out that Auschwitz was by no means the worst of the concentration camps. In fact that's the only reason it's so famous, because there were more survivors. Of the absolutely worst of the worst, like Treblinka, little is known, precisely because they were so terrible.
Nooooo I guess it was pretty low hanging food.
Oh it's been years since I've used WeBex - does it have the same layout and button placements as Zoom?
FDA Grants Accelerated Approval for Aduhelm as Alzheimer’s Treatment
Honestly, I've not had this particular issue in about 10 years, but you're right. If it is dead enough it won't boot, then I guess wiping it would be tough. For me, the combo of Target disk mode, recovery partition, or external boot drive have always gotten the job done. But yeah, if the logic board is really dead and not just "failing" then I might be tempted to use a drill.
In the Windows 3.1 days I saw someone try to save an .eps file of a gaming convention flyer as "con.eps". The screen filled with PostScript and they freaked out.
“The Atlantic” employees unionize
Do you feel the same about Zoom's CEO and Jet.com's CEO?
Slow Fourier Transform [pdf]
As I've pointed out before, I think this problem didn't exist in 01974, or in CP/M at all, ever; I think CP/M was perfectly capable of creating files named AUX.H, or PRN.H, RDR.H, CON.H, LPR.H, etc. IIRC, even CP/M PIP (which is what actually implemented the special device names) required the colon to indicate that you meant a device. So if you wanted to print FOO.DOC on the printer in CP/M PIP you could say PRN: = FOO.DOC but not PRN = FOO.DOC. You could also, I think, say B: = FOO.DOC to copy FOO.DOC onto drive B:.

The problem was introduced, IIRC, in MS-DOS.
Microsoft's Windows strategy is baffling to me. They have gone out of their way to fix a lot of their problems (in fact they fixed almost every single nitpick I had about Windows 7 coming from OS X and Linux), and they add a lot of new powerful features, but at the same time they actively seem to be sabotaging themselves at every step. I really don't know what to make of it.
Appalling and completely unacceptable behavior from a company so committed to being a conduit for open-source innovation.

Slightly unrelated: I used to shamelessly promote repl.it a couple years ago, but no longer do because their app has become so bloated and hard to use that it's discouraging to beginners -- recently I tried to remotely help a non-technical friend w/ an assignment and we must've spent ~20 minutes dealing with account creation, sending the correct invite link, and making sure we could both see our changes; it felt like a terrible waste of time especially as I kept reminding them "I promise it's worth it this app rocks!"

The app used to actually be awesome back when you could spin up an env in seconds, send the link to a friend, and immediately start collaborating.. Hopefully this will be the nail in the coffin, or at least lead to a mass migration from the platform.. :/
Probably. It'd be weird for a SEO spammer to put the effort into building a popular HTML editor/optimizer just to inject links to a few sites they own and operate. It's far more likely that they're offering that link injection as a service.
Less a choice, more a consequence. It’s not like DDG wants to replicate MS’s search policies, it’s just that DDG lacks the infrastructure to do it on their own. Until they do, this is going to keep happening.
Apple announces macOS Monterey, the next Mac desktop operating system
You find it improbable that geopolitical enemies tend to be the ones that attack us? Feels like saying "I find it weird that people I insult disproportionately punch me in the face".
But don't they ALSO sell the Mac for creative professionals who are using it for audio production, video editing, photography, content creation etc.

Why can't the iPad do software engineering stuff too?
The person should be irrelevant, yet you keep pushing the "front line worker" thing. Why does that matter? If anything, it makes someone less credible, as it makes it more likely that they are influenced by personal anecdotes.
Seriously why are Google video calls SO confusing and why do they change every year?
> Please report this to Apple; the AASP was not following the rules.

Which rules exactly? I wouldn't be surprised if a rule like you imply indeed exists, but it seems that it's inconsequential if it exists, judging by the experiences of many customers.
When I go to the doctor, this happens:

- Doctor says "Say ahhh" and looks in my throat with the thingy

- Doctor looks in my ear canals with another thingy

- On other occasions, my other vitals are taken, maybe some vials of blood, etc. Again, a student can do this.

I'm asked a few general questions, with some follow-up questions based on my answers.

Then the doctor puts this information - along with my patient history - into the decision tree in their head and comes up with a result. If the doctor is stumped, I'm sent to a specialist.

The above can be automated, plain and simple. It would also be an improvement over my experience of the health system - in Canada. I have never seen my GP pull up a multi-year graph of my blood pressure, weight, or whatever. What I am describing is a system for creating regular data points of the kind currently used in diagnosis. What I fail to understand is how you cannot see that there must necessarily be predictive value in such a database.

Even if only 80% of the job can be automated, public health would improve immensely if the global population can do regular checkups like the above cheaply.
Only if you equate sternly worded letters from the CEO with a visit from murderous thugs who steal your stuff.
Not COPY, but software that runs on Win9x used those names still for opening devices.

That's why they still work. For the same reason as other DOS Aliases, like C:

If you use UNC paths, you can bypass alias names, because your path will be unambiguous - however if you write such name into one of the "classic" visible name spaces, software that uses classic paths (for example because people are familiar with them, and because rewriting all strings to ensure you use UNC is annoying) might... Find issues ;-)
I think you are assigning too much “us vs them” to the ransomware marketplace.

With ransomware criminals, “us” is the attacker, and “them” is everyone with a computer who might pay. Political boundaries don’t factor in to it at all. It is by nature an anonymous attack, hence the term “ransom”.

It is strange to me that almost all high-profile ransomware attacks that have been publicized in the US are claimed by the FBI to be Russian or Chinese. There are plenty of other countries with greedy criminals that know software, too.
My understanding based on the blog post was that it was cautionary due to the threat of legal action. It seems clear that there isn't any doubt - it's caution due to the stakes.
How much sophistication does it take to attack a computer system running software that hasn’t been patched in years?
A lot of these seem to be JS-based. Static site generators are supposed to be simple, static, and generate small pages that load fast. I don't see why I'd need React or Vue support for a *static* site.
They might if they were seeking approval to show as later evidence.
The starting voltage is lower and drops faster making them not ideal for some applications and just annoying for some others (ie. motors start slow and get slower quicker than Alkaline).

Charge speeds also suck unless you get some of the fancy expensive chargers.
Why Bother with Cucumber Testing? (2014)
> It’s a simple package and not without its faults but when you consider the pace of technological development since then it’s appalling how much CAD has stepped backwards.

CAD is bad because there are too few users.

Work backward from the Altium statements. Altium has about $200 million in revenue. Altium website claims licenses are about $2K-ish. That's a maximum of about 100K paying users (reality is likely closer to 25K).

If you have 1,000 features, you have 100 users per feature.

In reality, those features follow a power law. Everybody uses the same basic features, but if you use a slightly off-path feature, you may be the only user.

Open source is the only path forward in this space because code can accumulate over time and users can consolidate over time.

The problem is that CAD coders are even rarer than CAD users, and they can get get paid quite a lot in their day job--why should they do this for free?
Probably not, since they have more money and can’t be outlawyered like an intern could.
or hotel brands that offer consistent hospitality services all over the world. Each of which requires a 24x7 multi-skilled staff..

or the piles of humans feeding the internet, tech and social media 24x7
I think the email chain actually reveals the extent to which the blogger tried to salvage the relationship and the project, and how he was acting in good faith. Explaining that this communication happened with the CEO of the company is actually an important detail that should not be left out.

I do however appreciate that one would expect private communications to remain private, but in this case I think it was warranted to include such details. Basically, I don't think there is generic approach toward revealing private communication, and it should be done on a case by case basis depending on how important the details of such conversations are.

EDIT: I would also point out that:

> "Furthermore, the victim (whom I fully believe to be a victim) just showed to the world how easily he doxes work relations, which doesn't look great for future employment.".

My impression after reading his blog post was actually the opposite, I would hire the blogger in heartbeat if I could.
Google is a cesspool because it’s their job to fix it and they failed. I stopped using Google search because of how far it’s fallen.
You can hide that row of icons, it doesn't show up on mine. There's a checkmark for it in General preferences.
Onedrive (or rather the Office365 variant, I don't know about the other) still complains about such things. Just amazing in this day and age.
Ask HN: Non-Reddit websites to discuss hobby related interests?
I'm trying to remove Reddit from my daily usage, as I find it really homogenous in its opinions and also a giant time suck both before and after I find the information I want.

I typically use it to just subscribe to subreddits that discuss hobbies or other specific interests that I'm into and ask questions about setting up a new distro/fermenting a new food/etc etc

What other sites are out there that have the expertise of these subreddits, without all the attention getting other aspects, or homogenous political snide remarks or comments that come with it?
Keeping fit permits a longer lifespan, which can be important for the evolutionary fitness of grand kids. Also, I'm being a bit facetious, I don't believe all our behavior neatly fits into evolutionary motivations, and the science doesn't claim such rigidity. It does, however, have startling explanatory power about a bunch of things we do. I'd suggest watching the lecture series in the sibling thread
This indicates a level of US Fed LEO technical sophistication I’m somewhat pleased to hear exists.
No, I’ve been buying 2500 mAH batteries rated for 20A draw for 5.50 a piece, mostly Sony and Panasonic from illumn
You're awfully certain of stuff that isn't so.
Lots of devs can't choose their platform. It's often a choice between Windows and Mac, if that. On a lot of the jobs I've worked, it was Windows-only. Give me a Linux machine instead and I will spend the day as happy as a genie who was permanently released from its bottle.
and the riju forking has begun
This German map from 1850 seems to spell it "Monterey", although it's a little hard to make out.

https://history.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Radefeld...

This American map published at the time of the Mexican-American war labels it "Monterey B."

https://history.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Mitchell...

This American map published before the war also labels it "Monterey B."

https://mapgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/1845-Map-of-Californ...

Here's a map produced by a British cartographer showing the spelling to be "Puerto de Monterey" in 1745:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California#/media/F...

This 1650 Dutch map seems to spell it "Monterey", although the handwriting is archaic and a little bit difficult to interpret:

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2661/view/1/1/

Perhaps most convincingly, this Spanish map published in Madrid in 1802 documents a 1603 expedition, one of the first to navigate the California coast. It uses the spelling "Puerto de Monte Rey".

https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hornbeck_spa_1_a/22/

None of which is to say that the "Monterrey" spelling wasn't used. The following English-language map from 1838 uses the "proper" Spanish spelling:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Californ...

I'm sure there are plenty of other examples using a spelling of "Monterrey" as well.
This one, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Doesn't seem to be linked anywhere, though. I wonder if there are other pages like that.
It doesn’t go out where I live, but you could instead get a diesel generator and not have to worry about utilities
I agree, it's not a mistake or a bug. It's an intentional feature, followed on with intentionally including the feature in further releases.

It might not be a great feature anymore, but it's not a bug. A 40 year old bug is things like TCP didn't have timeouts in all states, so LAST_ACK sockets should stay around forever if you follow the spec, or that if the two peers get mixed up about where the seq and ack are, each ack will elicit an ack from the other side, and if the peers are near enough to each other, that can result in gigabits of useless ack traffic that never results in data exchange (thankfully this isn't a common state; I've only seen it as a result of a bug in one OSes syncookies that was fixed, and it is likely to end with a timeout)
They even went up. I bought many various LG and Sony 18650 for around 2 dollars each (high quantity) 3 years ago. Now I pay about 2.80 for the exact same type.
I suspect OP is saying that something like conscripting people to war wouldn't be popular today.

I also doubt it would be popular with helicopter parents :)
If you use UNC paths, it already happens. The issue is dealing with software that won't give absolute UNC (NT-native) path to an API.

That said, it should be theoretically possible, but I believe any approach other than hooking into high level IO call will be problematic, and you'd probably lose access to many things like serial/parallel ports etc. (as applications wouldn't know the names you renamed them under).
I had my credit card out at "Vim Keybindings", only to be slightly disappointed by the Windows-only limitation (for now). Looking forward to try this out on Linux soon. Although I'm pretty happy with Vim, I'm curious to see if I'm missing out on a significantly better experience.

That being said, not a fan of a monthly subscription for a native desktop application.
I'm not the one who made a statement as if it were a fact.
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Yeah, there are some things they aren't great on but for most things they are fine.

> Charge speeds also suck unless you get some of the fancy expensive chargers.

This has been a total non-issue to me. I have 30 or 40 batteries running around total, keeping 4 spares on the charger is no big deal
ShazamKit
I only know a few criminal hackers, but within that sample their skillset is really niche. They know what they know well, but otherwise they're just trying to solve problems like any engineer.

Kinda like data scientists - they can be masters with a couple of libraries and concepts, but if you have a data science team you also are more or less guaranteed to have a jupyter notebook open to the world, or something along those lines.
I don't really know how the civil trial works in the US, but in my country you are not required to participate to the process and thus have a lawyer (while it's required for a penal trial). You can decide to not defend yourself, that doesn't means that the other party wins, but that you don't take part in the process, and thus it's only the accusation that can provide proofs and similar things, and then the judge decides.

In that case, I wouldn't even bother to try to defend myself, if he doesn't have any proof that something is copied as it seems, no way he will win. Worse case scenario and you are guilty, fine, you will have to take down your project? You will have to pay a compensation? How much can this be quantified? 100$? 1000$? I don't think more than that. And if you refuse to pay? They have to do another trial just to have your money. In the end, they will end up spending a lot of money and maybe in 10 years they hope to get something back (most probably nothing).
Either that or they just approached it like a bank account and simply wanted the money and didn’t care about the cryptographic specifics whatsoever.
Wow, some comment operations are incredibly fast now, fast enough they seem instantaneous. Thank you!
I've been a proponent of regular blood-letting through blood banks. For those who can do it, it's really easy and it also goes to save lives.
I am sure once you hear of "Gang of Four" design patterns [1] your immediate response would be to rage about why is one bringing an organized group of criminals to the subject of software design pattern discussion.

1. https://springframework.guru/gang-of-four-design-patterns/
I have a unproven suspicion that Rechargeable Energizer may actually be Panasonic cells. I tend to see them both marked as made in Japan and they both seem to be great quality.
I think Richard Stallman's cynicism about licenses was misplaced 30 years ago, but that the tide is turning.

I do prefer to work on libraries that are available for commercial work. But I also cannot get my employers to pay for said libraries. Which is how many of us started using OSS in the first place - because nobody could smack us with a checkbook and say no.
This also boosts value for ios users more than the rest. It means an ios user can facetime anyone rather than only ios users while an android users still has to rely on an alternative solution.
> It’s common to use a program to optimize the layout, letting the computer explore tons of layouts very quickly. I did not go this route, as I found it difficult to write down my exact preferences.

I am reminded of a paper about optimizing the specialized characters on a French keyboard[1][2]. The accent and ligature layout got accepted into standard, and the authors write that they had to adjust the criteria based on feedback from the standards body about which layouts felt more right.

What it shows is that it is possible to turn optimization into an interactive process when it's unclear what the objective function is.

The paper also mentions a new method to solve very large scale problems. I wonder if it could optimize a whole keyboard, whether chorded or straight.

[1] http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/keyboardoptimization/MOTOR20...
[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/2/250082-azerty-amlior/f...
It is my go-to editor, even for Linux dev stuff now that WSL is better integrated with Windows.
Trivial radiology is pattern matching. Radiology for which you need a radiologist for is not. Yes, you could replace part of radiology and some radiologists with algorithms today. Unfortunately, those are also mostly the cases where we don't need radiologists.

I'm sorry, but in many cases and even many important diagnoses that impact the patient, 2 radiologists that aren't allowed to communicate will sometimes reach widely different conclusions. Additionally, if you've interacted with radiologists you were certainly able to see that their analytical and logical thinking capabilities are often far below that of a CS major.

A complex problem in radiology is not: "this patient has TB because [chest X-ray]". It's more like: "take this patient that had 30+ surgeries in the past 5y and tell me if his problem is more likely to be diagnosis 1 or diagnosis 2". And the problem for those cases is that you will never reach the critical mass of training data required (within the capabilities of a single startup) because those cases are too rare. You'll need the collaboration of the health system as a whole for that, _i.e._ state policies. So you can't really chip away at the complex problems on your own.
Amazing documentary about taking the first picture of a black hole
Not personal details. It was relevant [professional] correspondence and you can see how professional the student was.

In contrast to the CEO, who said along the lines - we got a lot of money and we have lawyers.