skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t mean to be confrontational; I just meant that flu cases that put people in hospital, and worse, are quite common. There should be nothing particularly surprising about someone being hospitalised with flu.

I think people do tend to misunderstand what the flu _is_. An average case of flu is debilitating; a bad but not surprising or rare case will put you in hospital. People tend to conflate the flu with the common cold, leading to them underestimating how dangerous it is.
> Many APIs use versioning to keep the current namespace clean while still supporting the old version. It goes like /v1/getPosts, /v2/post/get, etc.

I think that is an important thing to do (as I agree desigining URIs is important!) I am just not sure it is reasonable, or even desireable, for them to be indefinately maintained. I am not sure what the right timeframe for deprecation would be either.
Our pay is deposited in a bank, we spend using credit cards, and we pay credit cards and utilities using electronic funds transfer. The dollar is already a largely digital currency, and I don't see what problem a new digital currency is supposed to solve.
I guess people would stay inside, not be able to talk to anyone, not be able to check public transit schedules, not be able to use maps unless they had downloaded them in advance, and probably not be able to use credit cards to buy food (assuming supermarkets and restaurants would even bother to be open).
Still can't believe that this abbreviation is actually in use without any objections while there are talks about needing to rename the Coq language.
> 2 degrees Fahrenheit is over three and a half degrees Celsius

2°F is ~1.1°C
Good. The installed version just gets in the way if you're a PHP developer.
Does anyone else find it insane that out of the top 5 companies (by market cap) in the world, two of them, Google and Facebook, are based on ads. Not creating something useful, growing the economy, producing something. Just annoying people is one of the most profitable things in the world.
Russian lawmakers vote to force U.S. tech giants to open local offices
I believe it's a compliance thing for government contracts.
Jingdong has a large selection of Cantonese textbooks: https://so.m.jd.com/ware/search.action?keyword=%E7%B2%A4%E8%...

Have you tried to buy one?
Thanks, I hadn't realised it was just SMS.
I can’t reproduce your Amazon result. When I search for “Amazon” I get Amazon apps for first 10 results. [1]

For Netflix, I the advertisement is TikTok but the first search result is Netflix. This isn’t really an Apple problem, this is TikTok buying ad space targeting Netflix as a search term.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/0iHoWKI.jpg
I suppose what I really need is a way of invoking certain operations through the ASG interface immediately, not at end of a long distributed async chain.
JIT compilers do a bit less optimization than rumored (of course web browsers and HotSpot do some of the heaviest.) The results have to be worth the analysis time, which they're not, because CPUs are already extremely fast and it's memory that's slow, and JIT isn't a technique that can optimize memory layout.
> provided, emergency services stay reachable

Define "emergency services". Are online maps showing me the route to the hospital an emergency service? What about online translation service useful in emergency abroad? What about online bank access for emergency funds? Etc...

We really got to the utility stage of the internet where half the services can be an "emergency" service in some context.

But on the other extreme, you can have a look at more strict Jewish communities where one day every week is a no-internet day.

I'm not sure if you're looking for personal or society changes, but I've been doing a completely non-religious tech-Sabbath day occasionally. It's a nice, relaxing experience. Nothing mind-altering though.
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I've not tried Nuitka yet, but I've done similar things with 2 other tools to package up a Qt-based GUI tool that has a Windows installer, Mac ".dmg" or a Linux package:

* FBS (FMan's Build System) - worked well for a while, but we couldn't upgrade Qt past a certain version and he version we used was only happy with Python 3.6.

* Beeware - our current solution. Very, very happy with this; works smoothly, lets us use the latest Python and Qt versions and lets us make professional-looking installers that we can distribute.
I just added a screenshot for Spotify. I guess search results are region dependant

> This isn’t really an Apple problem, this is TikTok buying ad space targeting Netflix as a search term

It's an Apple problem. They must either forbid it, or more realistically not display the ads first before the real app.
on linux compose = o and compose = u do the trick: őű

(a̋ is not hungarian and doesn't work)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530698

This was discussed a couple of hours ago, the top comments provide a more reasonable explanation.
Totally agree. I think anyone developing with these tools would too. It's not as annoying as say, RedHat, but out of date "system" versions are just obnoxious.

I don't know if any "native" apps have leveraged them, though. That would be the real risk of disruption.

Also, as someone who never uses PHP, I'd really rather not have it on my machine. Scripting languages are a pretty big attack surface, even if it's just to pivot after initial compromise. I'd rather not have one there that's not being used.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that.
Actually, I kind of disagree with the article, as I see its message can also be misconstrued as a delay tactic (especially the claim that the imbalance is only 0.3%, a similar claim was used with CO2 to misrepresent the magnitude of the problem).

Yes, experts who study Earth as a system should worry about energy imbalance. But the general public should worry mostly about CO2 (and to a lesser extent, methane).
Won't homebrew be need to be re-written in a compiled language now and embed a ruby interpreter after Apple removes scripting languages (except Perl) ?
The “mirrors” in this case are Microsoft run servers specifically for Microsoft made packages for Ubuntu. Rather than the actual Ubuntu mirrors for all Ubuntu packages.
I have small daemons for linux and mac that automatically push / pull from a git repository and sync my notes.

Its a 10 LOC bash script on each OS, it allows me to keep all my notes in markdown format, and use whatever markdown editor I want.

It allows me to sync any kind of content, not only notes, but also images, jupyter notebooks, whatever I want.

As a MD editor i tend to use Typora, but I might use VS Code, emacs, etc. depending on what i am doing.

I use about ~3 machines in total for work and personal time, and this works seamlessly across all of them. It allows me to keep my work notes separate from my personal notes, and e.g. keep them in our work's git servers.
The really remarkable thing about China is that given the unprecedented feats that go on there, I really don't feel confident anyone in the West understands why.

I really wanted to write a post about this showing differences in regulation - but couldn't because the Chinese regulatory approach is too opaque to me.

There seems to be remarkably little information on what the facts on the ground are. And given the rumoured Chinese programs of influencing foreign universities I do think it is questionable which channels of information are reliable vs tainted by their propaganda.
I find the the title of the news really misleading.
We MUST worry about CO2, as much as other greenhouse gases to stop the energy imbalance.
Some journalists are irresponsible to beat around the bush of global warming, constantly trying to reinvent terminology to drown their readers.
Ok, but that’s not an Apple issue. That’s TikTok buying ad space with Netflix/Spotify as their search terms.
As someone who works with PHP on Mac OS, the installed version was nothing more than annoyance you have to deal with if you're using the actual runtime. Otherwise, used Docker and ignored it.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532243
The Optimizer could still output bytecode, which sounds theoretically nice for homomorphy, turtles all the way down (I am not a logician, mind)
I mean, Gödel was Austrian and von Neumann Hungarian who traveled/lived a lot in many German speaking countries, so I don’t see the anglocentrism here.
I was with you until that last sentence "Reduce footprint of OS" ... if you've seen the updates from macOS recently then a small footprint is not on their table (at all).
> yeah, spaces in filenames. A well-known yet insidious problem.

It'll be fixed as soon as they finish their Backslash Conversion Project!
Not a "JavaScript dev", but I think JS is a fine language. Perhaps I'm biased, because I like Scheme. The browser environment is the shitshow.

A function can call a third party service, or some subsystem running on the same computer, whatever. Regardless of the programming language, that service may or may not do stuff asynchronously after your call. There's no way to tell. I regard the console.log to be a third party service. Who the heck knows what it does, except it has access to your memory!
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You don't need to self-censor, we're all adults, we know what you mean, the US government won't deplatform you for typing an u.
> We could use more variety like this.

I don't think anyone 'could use more' paper work.
Yeah, P2PE seems to be the way things are going to ensure easy PCI compliance.

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/assessors_and_solutions...
You can see "Standardized features" and "In-progress proposals" in this table here: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
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How does cutting off Internet access across the board not dramatically hamper daily life and business? They must rely a lot less on it than we do in highly developed countries.
Even if the energy balance were fine, too much CO2 leads to ocean acidification, which is really bad for the ecosystem. Anything with a carbonate shell has a harder time forming its shell in an acidic ocean.
I use Pyinstaller to generate single file executables of my Python projects, which use Qt. It works great.
That's still pretty appawling though. If Linux distros can have big release candidates and still push out package updates between releases then why can't one of the most profitable companies in the world manage it?

I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve. Just that Apple aren't dropping support out of respect to their customers. They're doing it because it's cheaper.
If anyone is interested, here's the guide I mentioned: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/guides/multi-tenant/
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ET...

Etags can be used to check and invalidate content.
A good idea. I've always liked solutions that address issues in a comprehensive way. Develop the topic.
What they could do is use an internal, non-user-usable runtime for their own perl scripts and allow the user to install their own one.

And of course compile their scripts into executables or something.
However this "bug" is still entirely within spec. The whole article hinges on "the 1,000 “significand” is out of range according to spec", but it really isn't. 999999 Bytes are indeed around 1000kB. Sure, calling it 1MB would be preferable, but saying 1000kB doesn't violate any rule, is perfectly acceptable according to SI (just like I can say 1000g or 1kg interchangeably), fulfills the task of being human readable, and in all the examples given in the task the code behaves as requested.

Sure, the code doesn't do exactly what the programmer wanted. But that doesn't necessarily make it incorrect.
I'll also make the inflammatory statement that people should just use sed and awk in shell scripts and leave Perl for when they really want to write Perl.

It is weird to me the number of times 90's Linux Distros used Perl for things that are easy in awk, awk for things that are easy with cut, and other commands for things that are easy with POSIX shell baked-in facilities. I guess I'm just a shell snob.
I guess it depends on the person, I'm not sure my own output would adjust tbh.. I'm generally a slow burner, and if I had a day less to do stuff, I don't think I'd get as much done.
There is a notion of ‘reference’ in audio and visual information. You can get reference speakers, headphones, and monitors - their role is to reproduce the information without ‘color’. They present ‘faithfully’. This is what is often meant by ‘listen as X intended,’ although to be honest the interest of many audiophiles is to set up a listening environment that does impart some color while remaining faithful to the artistic choices in the mix of the original music. And mixing _is_ an art.

The article suggests, and I agree, that by making what are in effect unauthorized remixes of these works, Apple are interfering with what the artist intended.

Eddie Cue, Apple SVP of Services (in charge of Apple Music) is quoted in the Verge article [1] on this as saying, “This requires somebody who’s a sound engineer, and the artist to sit back and listen, and really make the right calls and what the right things to do are. It’s a process that takes time, but it’s worth it.” Of course you note he says this requires the artist, not present in Marvin Gaye’s case and likely most others, and time, which it is implied is not being given to this process in the article above.

The visual analogy in the article is apt - imagine Apple were revisiting their movie library - including old classics like The Maltese Falcon - and applying a process that makes them viewable in simulated 3D — but that, even further — if that person tries to view it with equipment that doesn’t support the head-turning 3D effect - they see it in an _altered_ version of 2D from the original. And this now becomes canon for a certain group of people - this version that is a byproduct of an effort to reverse the effect of a series of creative decisions made to make a derivative work of the original, done without, in this analogy, the input of the director or cinematographer.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/22525028/apple-music-spati...
While when we were run by soldiers and priests, everything was so smooth.
It disturbs me that the authors answer became the top answer. It didn’t have a loop but was less efficient than the already accepted answer, and worse, much more complicated for a human to read and understand. It seems we are always drawn to be clever, when perfection is found in simplicity.
> He often had to spend hours of personal time on the phone with HR to get these points removed.

People, please don't do this. It is not YOUR responsibility to eat this cost. This should have been paid for time.
Just start shit.

I am amazing at starting. I start so many projects. My way of procrastinating is to start something new rather than work on what I should be working on. I absolutely suck at sticking with something until it's done. I am not a "completer finisher". Suggesting someone like me should "Just start shit." is literally the worst advice. :)
That's a very anti-capitalist statement of you, do you even want others to get rich? Would you deny them their wealth? I am shook.

/s of course
Characterizing TBL as naive is absurd. He was right. And the URLs you describe are anything but cool.
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The other day I asked a question about the c/c++ plugin of vscode, somebody swooped in to edit it to just be c++ because “c/c++ is not a programming language”. The question wasn’t answered. I wonder what’s the incentive for people to do something like that.
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D'oh, you're right.
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> Facebook added that Oculus users will be able to hide individual ads or choose not to see ads from a certain advertiser.

Very interesting. The Oculus is quite a good deal at 299 USD given its technical specifications. I suspected that they were selling them below cost and subsidising them through stuff like this.

The issue is that, as a data-driven organisation I am certain that they would have assessed the likely impact of including ads on turning away users and made that the decision.
> Greenwald is no longer with the intercept

Founders' influence often lingers long after the founders themselves. You think Greenwald didn't hire/collaborate with others who shared a similar world view?
Support the companies that offer this an encourage others to do the same - I worry about a future where VR is monopolized by Facebook and held there by network effect
Sugar water: the biggest scam of the last century.
Wow! Author of the article here ...

It wasn't my intention to have such a big thread. I couldn't anticipate that "2021" in the title would trigger so many people to share their personal thoughts about apps and note taking techniques.

While the article's main focus was about note taking itself, I didn't want to compare existing solutions or even have some ranking. I also didn't have the time to try everything out (like Roam, Obsidian etc.). It's just that I have a strong preference for Tiddlywiki since I've been using it for years (not only for a Zettelkasten and note taking but also as a great UI for visualizing links between objects).

Nevertheless I'll definitely have a look at your recommendations.
> If I search for something related to javascript for example

As someone that's been learning a little JS over the last year, I quickly came to the realization that you skip over the SO links that come up in the search, and you go to one of the many other sites. I've had good luck with w3schools and mdn. SO is a lost cause for JS.
No, just removing the internet doesn't revert life back to the time before it. They are asking what would our "today" look like if we had an internet day of rest once a week. Maybe people would have a regular get together day?
I’m more surprised than you are. Nix is rarely mentioned at all, despite being better in most ways.
> The confusion between between a zero and an O would only happen to a human

It happens to a computer doing optical character recognition (OCR) on a scanned document. Or a machine vision system reading street signs or other text.
Russia's involvement is a historical legacy of the 90s at this point.

Today they would not be involved. In fact Russia has said that they will leave in 2025.
In or from mainland China? No. I converse with native Cantonese speakers from Gwong Dung on a regular basis, and they have told me that teaching materials were not available on the mainland. I am either misinformed, or the situation with textbooks has vastly improved in recent years.

I have had no problem buying Cantonese teaching materials, including the Robert Bauer's comprehensive Cantonese dictionary, Victoria Yip's Cantonese grammar book and a quite a few more obscure ones from Western online book sellers.
Deutsche Welle, the german public broadcaster has a bunch of fantastic videos on this if you're interested:

Egyptian Women and the Arab Spring 1/2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCSYJDeoCI)

Egyptian Women and the Arab Spring 2/2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfbW8FfHbQ)

Ten years after the Arab Spring, is there still hope for democracy? 1/2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIhDQ6YVOvQ)

Ten years after the Arab Spring, is there still hope for democracy? 2/2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxN7FCNOD4I)
Yes, my code is not that complicated and I use languages that are rather high level (Python, Golang, JS with Vue) so I needed the index I think once when I had to remove an element from an array in JS and for some reason I was not using lodash.

But yes, there are of course cases where the index could be needed, I was merely commenting on the aversion part for generic developers.
My spouse does this. Traumatic brain injuries often lead to swelling/fluid buildup, and if a serious TBI isn’t relieved by a drain or bone flap, the brain can herniate through the base of the skull.
> even the best parents can have horrible kids

it is very much unlikely, though. and you know that.
"We" will almost certainly survive. Whether that also includes me or you is a completely different question. Famine, wars, natural disasters etc are quite likely.
That's a fair answer. If the question is whether people could live without Netflix, email, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. for one day a month, at least my answer would be "of course, without breaking a sweat."

But if you posit a general lack of network connectivity, you're right that it means that most services that we take for granted would be down including things like e.g. buying gas.
Exactly - and the amount of effort this consumes is immense. You end up with grant-writing and paper-publishing institutions where the actual advance of knowledge is squeezed between the two.
Earth with structures designed to withstand Chicxulub will be more habitable than Mars with structures designed to withstand Mars, sure.

However, Earth doesn't have structures designed to withstand Chicxulub, there is no incentive structure to build a substantial number of them and we have no way of testing them even if we had them. Earth without structures designed to withstand Chicxulub is less habitable than Mars during Chicxulub.

And without a substantial atmosphere Mars is much less vulnerable to Chicxulub than Earth is, and the structures on Mars would mitigate it much better than Earth's structures mitigate it here on Earth.
That's why they need to go back to the talking filibuster rather than abolish it altogether. Right now all anyone has to do is claim they will filibuster something and it grinds debate to a halt; there needs to be a cost associated with using such a powerful tool of obstruction.

The talking filibuster would require a senator to stand up and speak for hours and hours on end, wasting everyone's time and burning all their bridges on gathering co-sponsors for the work they want to get done. They would have to care very deeply to invoke such a measure and that would allow the majority to pass laws but retain the ability for the minority to delay and stop legislation they see as truly extreme.