skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that they assume they've bought enough goodwill from segments of consumers that things like this don't really matter.

My older relatives generally assume that Amazon will have the best prices online for everything despite that not being the case for 5+ years now.

They're counting on customers like my relatives and yourself not changing their assumptions or habits.
Automated debugging software of course
Nothing says the response has to be positive. One possible response is "papers please"-style national IDs and autoturrets at the border. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/trump-th...
More collective punishment of law-abiding people. I'm glad I moved out of California.
Sounds like you re-invented PERT.
One can hope that with the combination of ARM, Swift/SwiftUI, and unification of their OS's it will be easier to focus on stability since they can get more of the apps/frameworks "for free" (aka less, but still something that would free up time).
Performance of rust match vs. lookup (2019)
Lithium, magnesium and other minerals can be extracted from sea-water / brine. Currently it's not economic, but this is a technology to watch.

For instance, according to a recent research paper[0] from Saudi Arabia, sea-water yields hydrogen, chlorine and lithium all from a single multi-stage process. These are all useful materials for industry. I imagine the process is both energy and capital intensive, but SA would be a good place to begin something like that.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2021-06-electrochemical-cell-harvests-...
> Even Germany today has way more solar capacity than it ever had in nuclear

That's because it never had much nuclear capacity, not because it now has a lot of solar
If that last bit truly isn’t a joke, let me be the first to point out that moving to memory-safe languages will not eliminate vulnerabilities. It won’t even really be close.

Formal proofs of correctness would probably get us closer to software that is bug-free, but literally nothing is a panacea, and at the scale of attack surface we’re dealing with most of the extreme options (even including “rewrite it in a memory safe language”) are too big to foresee happening in the short or mid-term in any meaningful way.
Judges may agree with you.

But on the other hand you can make up slippery slope arguments about anything.

Here's one: the government can currently limit people under 18 from buying guns. This is a constitutional challenge waiting to blow up, imagine if the government said you have freedom of religion, provided you are at least 100 years old.

Clearly this is absurd, so 5 year olds need to be able to buy guns, since one will lead to the other or one scenario is logically inconsistent with the other.
> The state has instituted exceptions for certain areas, such as remote, rural regions and tribal lands.

Sooo the whole state minus Portland?
Intuit sabotages simplification of the tax code through corruption and regulatory capture.
Might work, still sounds like a protection racket though.
This kind of scam was happening on Amazon for at least couple years if not more. So it is not even new/original.
> therefore having to pay for things like childcare, cars, clothing, parking, etc.

Where do you idiots get the idea that remote workers don't need to pay for childcare, clothes or cars?
Somehow, I find this a plausible and not entirely undesirable outcome for society.
The less time humans spend interfacing with machines, the more points humanity gets anyway.
From their LinkedIn

> We offer expertise in all phases of patent monetization. Our team has helped inventors and companies alike establish licensing revenue streams from IP. We specialize in uncovering hidden value in IP assets, and monetizing such assets at a price point that maximizes value.

They know that it's a troll company, The "About Us" is essentially "DO YOU HOLD A PATENT?!? CALL US NOW TO MAKE $$$"

If there About Us was more along the lines of "our mission is to protect inventors and represent creative types.." then I would be more inclined to believe the people working there might not be fully aware.
> The best bet in actually desalinating population scale levels of water would be investment into nuclear power.

FWIW on several occasions we came lose to losing the North American Great Lakes to nuclear accidents, the second largest freshwater stores in the world.
Distinguishing between colleagues and friends in no way implies being being around colleagues is unpleasant. But merely pleasant interactions don't justify making everyone spend time commuting they could spend with friends instead.
If only we could all live in candy land where massively complex systems were provided for free! What a stupid comment. No one is forcing anyone to get on the platform.
Not evidence of relative magnitude, but here's a high profile green org that is explicitly anti-nuclear:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/nuclear-power-is-a-losing-pro...
Every other government in the world doesn't have corrupt leadership, corrupt and unfair tax codes. If taxes were straightforward, then why would anyone have to compute them manually except for edge-cases, which a government representative could assist with?
Maybe IBM should hire one of those big IT companies that specialises in consultancy and service design.
It's not uncommon for someone to be so focused on their specific area of a field that they loose sight of the rest of the areas.
33 years ago I memorized pi to 110 digits while waiting for my then-girlfriend and one of her friends to get dressed. I was sitting in my friend’s car and he had his algebra book in the backseat and that’s how I passed the time.

I’m convinced I could memorize thousands of digits with a little more effort. The only technique I used was remembering chunks of numbers of varying length. The memory palace method sounds difficult to me.
I think you have missed the point so many times it's hard to come up with a number...

Intuit isn't a person, it didn't vote and it has no place telling the government what to do for the people. A company has no opinions, only a bottom line and in many lobbying cases a bunch a shareholders. A government isn't a company and doesn't need to have financial gain, it needs to support the collective people of the country it governs.
I remember when string concatenations where slow in JavaScript and you used array join. But string concatenation is very optimized now in all major JS engines.
Raspberry Pi 4 supports UEFI, and Windows 10 already worked on it. So, not too surprising.
Most Scandinavian countries compute taxes for you. If you approve of the government calculations, it's easy to finalize it.
Luckily, community-driven emergent self-healing adaptations are also endemic to the Web :)
Do you think "you could be Bill Gates, Lionel Messi or PG Wodehouse or Patrick Collison", "you could do great things!", counts as an emotional appeal? That's the carrot PG is dangling in the essay, and it feels more emotional than logical.
If someone has a pacemaker or similar artificial medical device, are they still an organic human?

Yes, they are.

If I call my algorithm an optimization technique, does your license still put permissions on my use?

I think we need a new version to prevent this type of usage.

Would it be better named "Rage Against the Man"?

What about "Butlerian Jihad License"?
> They are probably clearing profits north of $70M in half a day.

Your assertion is that Robinhood is making $51.1 billion dollars a year in profit?
https://archive.is/cXiWJ
Can the TV Shows You Watch Make You a Better Person?
I was under the impression that modern patents had to have a clear list of claims but this one has nothing but technobabble and "1 Claim, 64 Drawing Sheets". How was this approved?
There's a browser-based adaptation of LORD:

http://lotgd.net/home.php

(not mine, no affiliation)
No, pretty sure not. First of all, the “buy” date is the date it vests, not the date it was initially granted. Secondly, you pay normal income tax on stock grants. So if $100 of stock vests today, you pay normal income tax on $100, and the cost basis and “buy” date are set to $100 and today. If you hang one to the stock for a year, then sure, you get long term gains, but then it’s the same boat as if you just got cash then bought it for $100.

ESPP can be a bit different, because you get a discount on the stock, but that discount is also taxed at normal income rates, and anyways is capped at like 15% or something.
It's up over 480 now.
So, um, where the fuck is Mavericks?

I love Mavericks, and I hang out in a big Mavericks thread on MacRumors. People routinely ask me for help acquiring a copy of that OS, because unless it's already in your Apple ID's download history, Mavericks is completely unavailable from Apple officially.

10.10+ has been available for years via special download links, and 10.7 and 10.8 have always been available for purchase if they were really needed. We need Mavericks!
We are going to implement a custom credentials process for AWS too with the Leapp Daemon, it's in the roadmap of the project.

Thanks for pointing it out.

The main difference is that Leapp also disable the profiles whenever they are not needed, so attackers can't find even the credential process attached to a not in use profile.

The main idea is to bring only the least credentials needed in order to make developers work.

check specification for an in-depth explaination:
https://github.com/Noovolari/leapp/wiki/specs
Justice in this life. They are some of the worst criminals still alive. They deserve it for their untold tens of millions of victims.
'Right to Repair' law will extend lifespan of products, government says
> Your question is, why isn't the federal government of the United States, a country of 330M people, as efficient and effective as the government of the Netherlands, a country of 17M people?

Holy fuck, can't you Yanks just fucking stop pulling this idiotic non-argument out of your arses every time a comparison with any other country is made?!?

Sure, your pool of people to be taxed is X times bigger than some other country... But your pool of people who could be tax administrators IS ALSO exactly X times bigger than theirs! Holy fucking fuck, how stupid does one have to be not to see that?!?
QA here, disagree. In this situation QA is focused on the quality of the new features, so they're already excellent when they go out into the current release.
Past threads related to the book:

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624057 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331219 - Oct 2018 (51 comments)

Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906662 - Sept 2018 (32 comments)
Well, you're in good company, because describing them as "minimum requirements" when they clearly aren't also feels like somewhere between fraud and stupidity.
Get more resources
It’s not just mere acknowledgement. These versions of MacOS were, if I remember correctly, paid software upgrades. Making these previously paid released available for free download might not have been bureaucratically trivial. While it may seem like a trivial gesture a decade on, it's actually quite decent and very much unlike Apple to be so considerate towards users of 'vintage' hardware and software.

Edit: Yes, I did remember correctly. Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" was the first version that was distributed for free to all Apple computer owners. Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8) were definitely paid upgrades.
It's not the same problem because getting sick doesn't take nine months. They give X people placebo and real vaccines and then wait for enough of the placebo group to get infected living their regular lives.
> They really got burned in the whole GME/AMC fiasco when RH halted trading.

They probably inadvertently saved a lot of people from themselves.
It is obvious, but a huge number of people don't get it still.
I don't understand how your example relates to "launder intellectual property violations". What you're saying is that your grandfather hand wrote some feature extractors that look similar to the neurons that ML models have learned from backpropagation. There's no stealing of IP there at all.
>I'd argue that someone drawing attention to specific bad actors is implicitly saying "stop these people from doing this"

Exactly, but people focus on the "these people" rather than the "doing this". Why stop this single actor when we can stop anyone from "doing this".
There's a copy of Snow Leopard server here: https://archive.org/details/osxserver-10.6
Stories are unit tests, but for UI
Gospel (Global Open Source Permissionless Enterprise League)
This already happened in academic:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/dead-professor-teaching...
I'm pretty sure the patent office has been doing less and less actual work, approving more and more patents, and figuring that the courts can sort it out.
What do you think is the difference between Intuit lobbying and a representative of Intuit lobbying?

If the CEO of Intuit phones their representative and says they think some change to the tax code is bad that's lobbying and that's fine to me.
Do you think “add more administrators” is the correct solution to every problem?
Ads are not the only way FAANG tracks you. You need to get rid of everything owned by them like your Android phone (yes, the hardware, apart from the brick, is only licensed to you, so still owned by them), Google maps etc. And find alternatives like S60 phones, Openstreetmaps etc.
People have trained ML models on code thats on Github before co-pilot. (lots of examples here: https://github.com/src-d/awesome-machine-learning-on-source-...) There's nothing proprietary that other interested people or companies couldn't easily replicate here.
> "If the smoke alarm goes off, you shouldn't worry about evacuating the building."

> acceptable

It's a gratuitously ambiguous way to convey that you should evacuate the building without worrying.
How big are these changes? That sounds horrendously slow.

If you don't trust your tests, write better tests.

If you don't trust your migrations, write better tests.
Perhaps this will incentivize locking guns up better so they won't be stolen?

What's the current punishment for losing a gun and maybe having it end up causing "gun violence"?
Remote workers don’t need to pay for commute costs to work; whether that means the family needs fewer total cars or simply fewer total miles on the same car doesn't change that it is a substantial savings.

Similarly, even if (as seems likely in most cases) childcare is still necessary, not having to do a triangle commute of home-dropoff-work and work-pickup-home reduces the likelihood of overtime costs for childcare, given a constant number of working hours.
We don't have a firm roadmap for future regions, but Seoul is high up on my wish list.

Our infrastructure is all dedicated hosts, mostly running in Equinix facilities (we buy a lot of servers from what used to be packet.com).

New regions are hard in one particular way. Since we accept anycast traffic, ever new region has to be anycast-able for us. We outsource anycast management so we're kind of stuck waiting on other providers to opt in to a region.

When we get to a scale where we can manage our own anycast and decide we want to, we will be able to ship new regions relatively quickly. Some places are harder to get servers to than others, but we don't actually need a very large footprint to get started.
It would not be surprising if there were similar stories from Ramesh Balwani about the division of labor with Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos. SpaceX is no Theranos, but you shouldn't reach that conclusion from stories from the C-suite.
Thank you for your answer.. I dont think there is enough transparency regarding this issue..
i'm not trying to convince you (or anyone, really) to stop using elixir. i am however encouraging you to engage deeper with the beam vm and it's actual properties and compare that honestly to what else is out there. what is it exactly about the beam vm and elixir that lets it achieve these latencies and why is this not achievable in other languages? simply saying the beam vm is better than other implementations isn't an answer to that question
Also the adenovirus in SputnikV is apparently actually infectious.

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/13873971863720058...
> Who is stopping the IRS from making a competing easy to use tax filing website? Are people suggesting Intuit is stopping a good product team from operating within the IRS?

How about reading TFA before commenting on it? This is literally exactly what it's about.
I have to ask. /So, You're a Sociopath/ was a game, an educational/instructional program, or both?
My main goal would be to understand how an intern could intentionally and repeatedly pushed broken code to production. Fixing that is more important than punishing the individual. A broken/corrupt system will do more damage over the long term than an rogue individual because a well designed system won't give a single individual with little experience that much control.
You seem to make the mistake of not realizing that our pool of people who post stupid arguments is also X times bigger.
I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found".

A few days back I was searching around for how to download old macOS/OS X versions, so that I could run a VM to test my app [0]. For the first hour or so, all I could find was sites that linked to the official App Store downloads for the last 3 OSes, which didn't work. The page would open in the App Store app, I'd click "Get", and it would say that it wasn't found.

This command unfortunately did the same, which makes me wonder if this is something to do with my Apple account, or maybe that they've taken down those downloads?

What ended up working for me was dosdude's patchers:

10.12 Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html

10.13 High Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/

10.14 Mojave: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

10.15 Catalina: http://dosdude1.com/catalina/

These tools are meant for patching old OS X versions to run on unsupported Macs, but that wasn't the feature I needed. The important thing for me was their "Download" button, which downloads the installer directly from Apple's servers.

It was a huge relief and I was finally able to test my app properly on older (virtualized) OSes using Parallels [1], which was even having a sale at the time (maybe still?).

0: my app is Recut, an automated video editor - https://getrecut.com - which supports back to 10.13 High Sierra

1: https://www.parallels.com/
Thanks. I agree re unit-tests and integration tests. Mostly we're focused on (and talking about) testing what humans end up using directly - e.g. interfaces to web apps or mobile apps.

I think you're wrong re:organizational problems, it's part of it - but most developers (in my expereince) do not want to do QA outside of unit-tests and maybe integration tests. They want to write code, and ship things. Automation, at least traditionally is brittle as well as slow to write, and few love it. Whilst tooling like Cypress does improve things over Selenium, still, I've not met a developer that actually enjoys that kind of testing.
Presumably they're at least 15 years away from integrating their email after the merger, going by typical dinosaur corp schedules
What is the penalty for the USPTO if they grant patents that shouldn't have been granted?

The answer, of course, is absolutely nothing at all. If someone wants to force a review, the USPTO actually charges to give a patent a second, more thorough look, effectively double dipping.

It is a profoundly broken system, and people do just push tonnes and tonnes of nonsense patents. This includes the major companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google) who start shoveling patents in the notion that they'll have a warchest of bullshit if push comes to shove.
VAERS reports aren't sufficient to show causation, because they just show whatever people happened to report.

It's the same reason drugs show the thing they're treating as a side effect. People are reporting the symptom because they already had it.
I agree in theory and there are certainly teams where this could happen, but what happened on this team was that the bugs were found so quickly than the fixes were also quick (I would always get a bug report the same day and often within the hour), making shipping stuff with few bugs relatively painless.

Was there pressure to keep releasing? Yes. But with the rapid feedback, it never became too onerous to get them done anyway.
It definitely wasn't a Coyote Creek migration.

Christ, pay me $10M and I'll bring an army of 30 geeks to turnaround this landfill fire. I did a startup that M&A'ed organization email providers of all sorts (Exchange, postfix, sendmail, etc.) to aggregate them for efficiencies at scale.

1. Tested and complete backups

2. Sample testing

3. mbox migrations

4. Exceptions handling

5. Further testing

6. Cutover
They may have been so into their own bellybutton lint that they were very concerned about the difference between bound quarks on a QCD lattice compared to just elmer's gluing 2 free neutrons and 2 free protons together or something like that.
Oddly, the shrimp themselves are not great at color discrimination.

Hanne Theon and colleagues trained mantis shrimp to attack squares of certain colors to get food rewards. Attacks on other “distractor” squares weren’t rewarded. By varying the color of those distractors, one can measure the spectral sensitivity of their visual system.
Using similar methods, humans can distinguish between wavelengths a few nm apart; mantis shrimp are more like 20 nm.

This is disappointing, but the reason is pretty wild. Most animals have “color opponency”: circuits early in the visual system convert the photoreceptors’ output into a differential representation: the intensity of red light here minus the intensity of green light in the surrounding neighborhood. This mechanism “normalizes” for the total amount of light, thereby letting you separately perceive hue and brightness, and has some other nice properties.

Mantis Shrimp took a different path. There’s no obvious inhibitory interaction between the photoreceptors. They may therefore separately perceive redness, greenness, blueness, etc, but without combining these streams of information, their color acuity is poor. Interestingly, they do a “scanning” behavior that sort of recreates the opponency by dragging different types of photoreceptors across the same part of the visual world.

Thoen, H. H., How, M. J., Chiou, T. H., & Marshall, J. (2014). A different form of color vision in mantis shrimp. Science, 343(6169), 411–413. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1126/science.1245824

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tsyr-Huei-Chiou/publica...
South Dakota National Guard at Mexico Border in Privately-Funded Mission
Loathing is a bit of a strong word IMO

But I agree in the sense that working as a developer is very different from coding-for-fun

To me they are very disconnected activities.

At work I don't even write code like 60% of the time.
The price was going up by $10s of dollars per minute in January.

It was a short squeeze of unprecedented scale — the first widespread opportunity for wealth redistribution of its kind, thanks largely to social media.

Where “Occupy Wall Street” failed, “Liquidate Wall Street” was winning.

The hedge funds blatantly rigged the public trading system to avoid bankruptcy. I can’t believe so many people still defend them.
Drop Servicing Lead Generation Software Suite
> except my organization landed on full return to office for nebulous "business reasons"

Multiyear leases and/or real estate investments.
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