skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which leads to the question: if anyone powerful or wealthy enough can take total control of your phone, how comfortable do you feel with that?

There are two routes here. One way is to deal with it the European way, i.e. to try to fix it by a legal framework. The other one is a technical solution like Purism, which is very far from mainstream still. The sooner people realize they have a problem, the sooner they start organizing to find a solution.
Because `python3 -m venv venv && ./venv/bin/pip install * && ./venv/bin/pip freeze > requirements.txt` is good enough.
I was at Casa by The Sea in Ensenada Mexico from 2000-2002 [0]. These were run by WWASP (I wish I was making that up). What a trip to learn today that Paris Hilton was at one of the US based programs. As bad as these were in the US, the foreign ones could be very brutal (Casa was raided and shut down by the Federales).

Happy to answer any questions.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_by_the_Sea
What is engineering other than expressing an opinion?

Engineers are trained to have expert opinions.

They are expected to consider all relevant factors.

In AEC the relevant factors include compliance with relevant laws and rules such as the building codes and all the documents incorporated by reference.

It is a matter of life safety and the regulation of construction is at least as old as the Code of Hammurabi…it predates the first amendment by three millennia.

In that context an unlicensed person holding themselves out as an expert in engineering has disregarded a basic responsibility, they have ignored a relevant legal requirement: their license.

This raises a legitimate concern. What other corners might they have cut for their own benefit?

Because ignoring licensure is to no one’s benefit but the person doing so. It is a violation of the trust people expect when engaging with engineers. The trust that the engineer will be objective in relevant matters.

Licensing engineers is why you don’t worry when you drive across a bridge…or under one. Or go up a tall building or stand next to it. It’s why collapsed bridges are news.
What? I'm saying there's a ton of people opening a lot of tabs, nowhere in my comment I was disparaging towards them. Please don't make assumptions. I'm just saying their use case has been ruined by this update, a use case that is seldom represented in neat and oversimplified designer mockups.
> presenting from a position of authority without qualification.

You mean, "presenting from a position of expertise without very specific and questionably relevant credentials demanded by a local regulatory body." His education and career experience are certainly qualifications substantiating his expertise.

From the OP:

> “In this country, we rely on people to decide who they want to listen to rather than relying on the government to decide who gets to speak,” said IJ Attorney Joe Gay. “North Carolina’s engineering board is getting that important principle exactly backwards.”

Amen, brother.

For a state or local entity to curtail First Amendment rights, they must have a compelling interest in doing so. There is very little reason to believe that passing tests administered by the local engineering board actually provides any protective value to the public in a context where the person in question is merely criticizing a design (not building anything) and already has extensive hands-on experience in the subject they are speaking on. It's quite possible that, in cases like this, licensing demands mostly exist for the Board to arrogate power and money to itself. The Board must clear a much higher bar to legally punish people for speech.
Colors bleeding into chrome could make the line of death less clear, and therefore put users at risk.
I believe this new design is the best Safari design 'in the constraints of the new Big Sur design language'. I'm liking it mostly because the Big Sur's new toolbar is too thick.

With the menubar, toolbar, and the tabbar, 106px of my total 800px height display gets to display non-content information, much of which is clutter when I'm trying to focus on the webpage. It's a whopping 13.3%! Most of this comes from the thick toolbar that Big Sur has started.

But since Apple won't be changing that thick toolbar (as we all know), the 30px vertical height (which translates to 3.6%) that I get by hiding the toolbar is precious. So I appreciate the new Safari 15 design. Really, the only problem I'm finding is the refresh button, which I'm like 99% sure will come back with all of this fuzz, and the other functionality in that (...) button needed multiple mouse clicks in Safari 14 anyway. Like... disabling the ad blocker required a long-click on the refresh button, it's now more discoverable.

Shifting address bars... I can see how that might make people freak out; Personally I've had zero problems, so YMMV.

About tab management – I can't disagree more than the article. Creating group of tabs is very much useful, it's much more helpful than having a group of windows each with different topics and prevents idle windows eating memory and CPU when only one window gets used for a long time.

I have five tab groups, one about my school, two on my personal hobbies, one on generic development-related information (including HN) and one on my work, each with 10~20 tabs. I'm guessing the writer doesn't use tabs pervasively – that's fine. But I would like to point out that it is not rarely efficient nor overall unconvincing. Thanks Apple for that tab group feature, I'm seriously getting a ton of mileage over it.
There's just an insane amount of UI and code in Windows. I don't even want to hazard a guess how many millions, maybe billions of lines of code it takes to build Windows 10. Nobody is ever going to go through every dialog and update it to the design language of the week, while allocating the testing and QA resources to make sure it all works, in every language. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

There's a Uservoice thread I've been following for years as comic relief that demands that Microsoft port all of Visual Studio to Linux and Mac. It's the same thing; people largely have no concept how much hoary old code there is lurking there, or how many man-years their "simple" ask entails.
Absolutely underrated comment!
Most websites use only 60% of the available screen width.
And since this fellow spent probably 30+ years as a practicing engineer, I would think his experience counts for more than someone who got their PE the previous week.
Division of labor while producing a complex thing was a concept well established and documented during the industrial revolution before Ford. E.g. Adam Smith had a lot to say exactly about "Instead of a team working on various operations, [...] introduced workers who each did a very simple operation, without having to change or readjust.", it's misleading to call it "Ford's system" because Ford applied it extensively, but he did not invent it and wasn't the first to use it. Conveyor lines also wasn't an invention of Ford - he applied them a lot on scale, but they were widely used in different industries long before he was born. He also wasn't the first to apply continuous assembly lines specifically to the production of cars, as far as I understand the founder of Oldsmobile had been doing high-volume series-production of cars with strong division of labor a couple years earlier, though eventually not as successful as Ford.

He can and should be credited with applying these innovations at scale and ironing out various kinks in the process and popularizing these concepts, but it would be a lie to call it "Ford's innovation", all these things you mention were initially invented by others, although Ford did manage the practical implementation of all these innovations in combination unusually well.
Vscode is a browser
The fact it's his son makes it looks even more like testimony from convenience rather than professional consideration.
I think you find most of those people do not have any intentions of bringing meaningful value to the engineering disciplines. It's just a business opportunity to them.
Lakka 3.2 released (based on latest RetroArch)
General recursive function, you mean.

The point is that creating hardware that executes a Turing machine or something like it is easy, but constructing hardware that executes a general recursive function is so hard that it has never been done.
Doesn’t pip freeze > requirements.txt capture exact versions of dependencies of dependencies?
I've been using simple mail forwarder (https://github.com/huan/docker-simple-mail-forwarder) for a while now to catch-all and forward any email to my domain to my personal email on protonmail.
Advantages are that I can move to another email provider without much hassle, and that I can have a different email address for any service I sign up for.
The main disadvantage is that I can't make it look like I am replying from the same address.
I wonder if it's something that's doable?
After 24 years James still works on Wandering Hamster from time to time! It's always fun to see how many people have heard of it or the engine.

https://github.com/bob-the-hamster/wander
It’s a US thing I believe . In india, I don’t need to obtain any license to sign my Structural Engineering drawings. In my organisation, EIL, a public sector EPC enterprise under Government of India, you become signing authority on drawings with approx 15 years of experience. Thats it. For expert witness in courts, I have heard only Collage Professors considered.
This isn't true, the email they send is very clear that it's a sweepstakes based on enrolling in a program to raise your temperature during high heat momemts to help your fellow Texans to avoid brownouts.

In fact, the email begins by explaining how many heat deaths there are, how power outages affect vulnerable populations, and how if everyone could raise their temperatures 3 degrees during critical events we could avoid all of that.

And then a clear call to action to participate.
On a MBP 13 inch, vertical space like this is a premium as well.
I really mean no offense, but for the love of electrons, please stop saying things like: "Amps are measured in amperes". Current is measured in Amperes. It is like being a cook and instead of saying you need one cup of water, you ask for one cup of one cup. You would not do that. Ergo, your title should read Voltage, Current, Resistance and LEDs.
I work at a power company and there are a myriad of issues with wind energy. The number one being...

NIMBY.

Nobody wants a giant and somewhat loud windmill bleating behind their house. Only farmers typically deal with it. Now imagine on the entire power grid how many of those suckers we'd need CONSTANTLY generating power at the rate in which people are consuming it. Also what if the wind dies during peak period? How about the wind dies in a lot of areas so that we have to buy power from another supplier at a higher cost losing us money?

Storage is key here. But now imagine having thousands of megawatts on reserve. That's a pretty massive battery! That's essentially what would be required in order to make up for the inability to constantly generate power. And afaik, were an incredibly long way off.
Love this. I also have a silly question; is the sunset commission subject to the same principle?
This is why the letter of the law is so important, paradoxically. It is never good to have unreasonable/archaic laws in the book and have law enforcement look the other way. Since almost everyone ends up breaking them, it allows law enforcement to basically charge any selected person. Such laws should be struck off the book. I believe in Latin, this is called Lex malla, lex nulla - roughly translates to "No law is better than bad law".
The US was actually founded with the idea that this should be done to the entire constitution every couple of decades.
Training Models on All 8 TPU Cores with PyTorch XLA
An 8-step tutorial on training deep models on Google Colab while fully utilising all 8 TPU cores with PyTorch XLA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic#Trademark_...
Jose Valim is the author of Elixir, the language that uses the BEAM Erlang VM.
As far as I know iOS prohibits GPL v3 so that software would need re-licensing
This defeatist attitude toward legislating is self-perpetuating. We can at least hold our representatives accountable.
That's what he did (mentioned in the article). He prefaced his testimony with that he was not a licensed engineer but had worked in the industry for many years.

A better question would be whether he had done piping & fluids vs. another civil engineering specialty such as bridge design.
Generalized tabs accros even different programs is an experiment that has been attempted a few years ago in a few insider builds, but has been quickly abandoned. IMO it was too complex from a UX pov, duplicated some of the use cases of virtual desktops, etc. Maybe had they tried tabs for single applications, it would have succeeded. In this alternate universe we may not have the new Windows Terminal program though (IIRC adding tabs specifically in console.exe was prevented because they were about to start this grand inter-program tab design instead, and Windows Terminal was started after the experiment failed)
> The question here is whether this man was truly barred from speaking publicly about engineering or whether he was barred from testifying about engineering.

I don't think that is the main question, the testify vs speak is secondary. He is not a "Licensed Engineer", but he IS an "Engineer" (Graduated Engineering school, and worked legally his whole life as an Engineer in the subset of "engineering" that doesn't require a license). So he is an expert in "Engineering" (the subset) by schooling and legal work experience, and should be able to provide expert testimony on the field where he is an expert. He is not thou, an expert in "Licensed Engineering", so he can't provide expert testimony on that. The question them becomes: The testimony he gave applies to the subset of engineering that is only allowed to a "Licensed Engineer"? Or in other words, would he be forbidden from working on the thing he is testifying about? If the answer is yes, then he broke the law, by presenting himself as an expert Engineer in a matter restricted to licensed, then he wrongly presented himself as licensed. If the answer is no, if the matter discussed is something he was allowed to work on (before he retired) without a license, then there is nothing wrong with his testimony.
I just changed company. Wish I could go back to Zoom. Google Meet is horrible. I have to open Chrome for all meetings, as it (probably intentionally) runs worse in other browsers. But even in Chrome there are issues. Some workloads (like running tests) can take 5x as long on my system if I'm sharing my screen on Meet. Making working with others more hassle than it should be.
I don't understand that, sorry.
Post traumatic growth begs to differ.
Its definitely a scientific achievement but the problem it solves, to me, has always been man-made. The organic solution is incredibly simple, economical and environmentally friendly ... insects and a varied diet. Seasonal foods should also be embraced.
There is no such thing as VS Code Pro. And Visual Studio pro/enterprise include even more functionality, not less.
I have to say that I'm liking the technical discussion here. Although I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the meta topic about the word usage of the title. Like did I miss something and is "murder" actually legit jargon? Or is the author just being dramatic? (Article looked like "kills" would have been perfectly adequate and appropriate.)
Mitigations for inter-process side channels address the issue of local applications attacking each other. That includes your web browser, the JS in it, or any other ad-laden crapware attack your local applications, e.g. to steal credit cards, SSH keys, etc.

Side-channels are pernicious. In the limit, they give applications unfettered read access across protection boundaries. If we don't shut them down, we might as well throw out the whole UNIX process boundary security model.

Ask yourself, would it be fine if every process had a 4KB/s (basically dialup speed) connection to read any desired byte of another process's address space?

Of course not. Thus, we need mitigations to shut these channels down.
Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review
Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017)
Being a licensed engineer is not a requirement to being an "expert" in expert testimony. You are an expert if the court deems you an expert and the opposing counsel has agreed. Full stop.

I think that the only thing an engineering license should grant you, in this case, is the right to call yourself a licensed engineer, which conveys some degree of authority. I don't think he made that claim.
see also https://twitter.com/AI_Mayflower
> the issue was rectified within a few days—until it cropped up again, causing considerably less confusion (the debug script was already in place), and was fixed again. This time for real.

Oh, the angst of a fix that "sorta" works.
What about a non zero launch speed with some electrical ramp, railgun style?
> It’s like the 10’s of thousands of people jaywalking without
> issue and then the homeless guy that gets arrested for jaw walking.

I'll take the opportunity to branch OT. This selective enforcement has always been such a problem, has there ever been any attempt - anywhere - to address it? Such that if a citizen can demonstrate selective enforcement he can also be absolved of the same crimes that the rest of the population is absolved of?
Yeah but it would decrease quite quickly due to economy of scale would it not?
I'm curious to see where this goes. In my personal experience, it is standard practice to need/be requested to submit designs for review by a PE, if you aren't one.

I was originally trained as a materials engineer, and nearly 20 years ago there was no clear PE exam to take for that discipline, so I never considered getting one.

Today, I wouldn't want to be encumbered with the E&O insurance and other restrictions of a PE, and I would have to review extensively to pass the test.

In my professional experience, it has always been nice to have a 3rd party look over your design, and the expense is of no consequence if the customer/law require the review.

For a legal case, I'm not surprised that the barrier of entry for expert testimony might be a PE.

I'd be interested to understand from a lawyer here on HN what the extent of protected speech is in a courtroom situation.
I love the colour of the page 'bleeding' into the 'tab area' - providing they can maintain a decent level of contrast. It looks really nice in the provided example.

Of course, I hope they've used `<meta name="theme-color"...` instead of the background colour so pages with a white background and a black header don't end up with white chrome.
Texas is pretty big on licensure. Surveyors sit at the top for historic reasons. All that land you know. And there’s big money that gives a shit about surveying out in Texas…little money too.

Texas takes government Texas Ranger seriously.
And teams. And all that software that you used to be able to use that you have to make exceptions for so that in the end you end up forgetting to re-enable some critical part of the windows scareware implementation.

Seriously: try installing Firefox on Windows 10 (I had to do this recently, I have now one computer in the house on Win 10 due to a hard requirement for some software/hardware combo), and you'll see Microsoft learned next to nothing from the browser wars lawsuit. They're simply asking to have this done to them again, they now actively discourage Firefox to be installed by claiming it can 'damage your computer' and is insecure. Incredible this stuff.

Oh, and Google will return a link for Chrome as the first item when you search for Adblock for Firefox. You can't make this stuff up.

Has there ever been a large company in IT that didn't turn absolutely evil as soon as the opportunity presented itself?
I support the right of private employers to discriminate against employees for anything, including despicable premises like sex and race. If you are the government, you should only be allowed to discriminate based on actions that could adversely affect government efficiency, and being party to a union falls under that.
magnetized steel wire as the recording medium.

I had no idea that was how recordings were (or at least could) be made at the time. Of course it makes sense-- early use of magnetic tape was something like nickel coated bronze, so there's no reason a wire couldn't also work.

Just a bit of electronics history I wasn't aware of that I thought interesting.
Ok, but the entire top row is now 90% buttons, tabs, and address-bar. Leaving me to struggle with the trackpad to position the mouse on a tiny sliver of border. Is there a keyboard modifier for move-mode?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/superlative
If this is your security mechanism (chuckle), then attackers will just slow themselves down by duty cycling. Say, only attacking for 100ms at a time, then sleeping a second. You'd never know.
Particularly in advertising providing medical advice and what can be said is highly regulated.

For good reason too. Intravenous bleach suggested by someone we trusted may have caused some real harm. It would seem reasonable to remove a doctor's license to practice medicine for giving such advice.

Of course broad scale communication is different than specific testimony in court, especially from a seasoned practitioner.
This is fair, but at least you're sure that when you close the window that it's gone and that is as far as I'm concerned its biggest feature. Oh, and that it seems to work well on all platforms.
Sort of: https://www.sunset.texas.gov/about-us/frequently-asked-quest...

And I had a mistake in my timing, it's every 12 years.
> A lot of historical figures contradict the prevailing narrative [that trauma never makes you stronger].

I'd argue that the key word here is "trauma"; I think _adversity_ can make you stronger (more disciplined, and more focused), but I think that Dr. Bernstein is using the word "trauma" in its technical, medical, sense, i.e. "Psychological trauma is caused by an adverse experience, or series of experiences, that result in an injury that changes the way the brain functions, impairing neurophysiological, psychological, and cognitive functioning." [0]

[0] https://www.med.upenn.edu/traumaresponse/trauma.html
Why is pip freeze not 100%?
> not just in the form of Javascript but that's the largest example I can think of.

As far as I understand browsers still get owned at every pwn2own. So you might want to stop running untrusted JavaScript anyway.
Off topic. By the way I think you meant ‘throw away’ not ‘tosser’ which is British slang insult meaning masturbator. It’s basically interchangeable with ‘wanker’.
It's especially jarring combined with the next point:

"A proper Tab bar, with as much horizontal space as possible, to be able to open a lot of tabs and read at least a small part of their titles."

Which suggests ignorance of vertical tabs.

I'm wondering if the author hasn't spent much time with the long tail of tech-savvy users. The emphasis added to "any" is unfortunate.

A fair chunk of Tridactyl users hide the address bar; I find I very rarely need to know that information.
> It’s a US thing I believe

It is a great many countries.
They are. They are optimizing for end users not developers. This UI change must be driving people who keep many tabs open nuts (I am not one of these people, I like a tidy environment with only a few tabs open that support my current activity).

Maybe Apple has decided to nudge users in the direction of Marie Kondo; if a tab does not spark joy get rid of it.

For me, whenever I switch tasks or activities, I usually quit out of safari and restart it. I like to concentrate on a single activity and not flit around trying to do many things at once. Maybe Apple is trying to healthier use of devices, as in providing Screen Time usage reports.