skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that Emacs is more than just programming. I use it for:

- GTD with org-mode

- Git client

- Mails with mu4e

All of it not because I can do it in emacs, but just because it is the most comfortable solution out there: I have used OmniFocus for years before, several git clients and obviously all kind of mail clients, including web abdominations.

Again, Emacs is not an IDE and never was one. I don't know what "a job of IDE" is, but for Java it was certainly never on the the level of Eclipse. The same is true for Python - PyCharm is an IDE, Emacs and VSCode are glorified editors with mediocre hinting.

On the other side, today's development environments are complex and people want them more and more integrated in their editors. Keeping a configuration needed for such an advanced editor across multiple languages is not a trivial task an maybe beyond capabilities of a single person. This is the reason why Emacs distributions exist and are increasingly gaining popularity. I also have more confidence in Doom Emacs and it's team of contributors than in Microsoft.
All other flaws asides, that the hashes are not auditables by users on their own computers is deeply wrong and undermine the trust on any algorithm as sound as it could be. Moreover, this blackbox provides Apple plausible deniability if something turns ugly, they will say, we're just the middle man, we only relay the officialy approved database, we can't vet it.
Reflections on Anxiety
Time to notify the attorneys general. I can tell you personally that plaintiff firms are already gearing up to launch class actions against Apple on this. If you oppose it, notify your AG as well.

HN Link: https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
You dismiss is as mere feel-good notion, I say it's prevention of seasonal depression.

I live in a house with huge southeastern window... and when there's occassional clear winter morning, the light and later the warmth, that's...glorious! No idea how could I replicate that with LEDs, would be probably pretty expensive.
Well it's a duopoly Apple/Google you need one of the platforms to be remotely functional in today's world, online banking, buying tickets, corona certificates etc...
Interesting, I would have thought that if you could have genetically diverse people as possible that would help, but that some pairs wouldn't be fertile, and that in that constrained environment there would be selection pressures.

Also of course selection is made for aptitude, willingness, and fit

Is there an algorithm to come up with maximum genetic diversity for a population. Such as given one million DNA samples which 98 are the most diverse from each other?
(I had the points on a sphere numerical recipes algorithm in mind)

I've never heard of anything like this, but its an idea I have been harbouring for years. Surely some of the genetics diversity could be recorded down, and gentically added to a population at a later date, as to "inflate' the genetic diversity.

This would be for germlines. Perhaps this could be done for animals which have gone through tight genetic bottlenecks.
I guess there's probably several groups working on this.
HTML is already designed to be accessible. Writing accessible websites is mostly about using the intended HTML elements and attributes.

Use <a> for links, use <form> for user input, with <label> and the proper input elements. Use the alt attribute for images that communicate information. The most common accessibility issues I see are recreating input without forms, and recreating links with anchor tags using JavaScript.
Break Down #5: Why Square Acquired Afterpay
Hilarious. I can't think of an Olympics that I've seen so little of simply because I rarely watch TV anymore and copyright strikes have severely limited even short clips from the Olympics around the net.
A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)
> and a whole new way to define types at runtime made them feel like it was too complicated

How you made this happen? My impression was that TypeScript doesn't have runtime types and stopped looking at TypeScript after that as it basically makes TypeScript useless for myself and my team.
The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project
Cannot agree more. To me it seems the original program in the article should be correct, given the `exec` from node would indeed perform a simple exec, instead of actually being an `exec_shell` function.
Consider adding "additionalProperties": false as you tweak the JSON Schema. That way, you will also get alerts as new fields are added. https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...
> it works

Does it? Dragnet surveillance might not easily inspect all Tor traffic, but it can easily see who is using it, flag those identities, and put them on a list for increased scrutiny. Unless a major web browser has it enabled by default, I don’t see it delivering on its promise.
That may explain some of the recent improvements in quality in the stores I've noticed.

It's not a lot, but a few items like having fresh ground coffee is a welcome sight when traveling as opposed to warmers of coffee prepared by someone who doesn't care that likely have been sitting for hours.
The America you're implicitly contrasting that too is more the odd one out there than Japan, globally.
We know it ravaged the Franks and Ireland, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_plague_pandemic and Plague of Mohill. I was using a more Roman definition of Northern Europe, but I'd be surprised if at least Denmark wasn't hit.
Not only does he not protest, he welcomes the violation and shames those that "have something to hide" as if exercising one's right to privacy was a crime unto itself.
I'd expect a more meritocratic society would be a more equal society wealth wise. Looking at inequality in the UK vs USA - such as the share of personal wealth for the top 1% - seems to support the article:

https://wid.world

That data appears to show that the increase in inequality in the UK since the 1980s has been modest compared to the USA.
The Gap Between Humans and Apes (2008)
> Google is a for profit company don't expect them to act like an non profit organization

I can and I will.

The only remedy prescribed by capitalism to evil companies is that consumers hold them to the consumers ideals of how ethical a company must act.

This can NEVER happen, if every time this comes up, somebody is making excuses for them.

"Google is a for profit company of course they are gonna try to make money"

Irrelevant. Stop making excuses.
Armchair lawyers striking again...

I was there during the Symbian era, the commissions at the time were outrageous, but closer to 40-50% than 80-90%.
It may be just down to the geometry of the station if the Russian sections are in the most efficient positions to mount the thrusters. Or maybe it’s because you need to have a single control system in control of each system, one for the thrusters and one for the flywheels, and it’s not viable to have those span the US and RU sections.

In practice you need both systems. You can’t just run up flywheels indefinitely, every now and then you need to use thrusters so you can spin them down. Meanwhile flywheels give you fine control that’s difficult to achieve with thrusters, especially on something as big and complex as the station.
>they charge a percentage of what the app developer makes

What seems perverse to me is they don't tax you on your profits, I am sure Google and Apple won't like the governments do the same to them.

Btw I understand it is super hard to implement a tax on profits only so it would make more sense IMo to give the developers a choice, pay on what you use (pay for bandwidth, for reviews, for dev tools licenses, for advertising) OR pay the tax. The small devs could chose the tax , the big developers would chose the first one , Apple will have less money from this giant devs but they could keep their high walls for a few more years(I prefer if Apple and Epic don't get a secret deal and this fight continues so judges and us uncover more data about this topic)
While i agree with you that playstore is not a 100% monopoly, if anything it is a duopoly (Apple/google). But on the Marketing/AD's side it is definitely a monopoly, that should be addressed first i believe.
A theoretical approach for designing a self-organizing human-swarm system
Lawson has the best deserts
How is that relevant?

If a court does find that, did they not have the monopoly before the court made their ruling?
I don't know about drugs as such but 15 years after quitting smoking I still dream I'm smoking and wake up in the morning with the urge to light one. If I get a whiff of one when walking down the street... It hurts.

For me: I think I'm still addicted to it or at least I have the neural pathways of one.
I think it makes sense to prefer this hypothetical API:

subprocess.run_escaped("tac -- %s | grep 1 > %s", "foo.txt", "bar.txt")

over this:

with open("bar.txt", "w") as outfile:
tac = subprocess.Popen(["tac", "--", "foo.txt"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
grep = subprocess.Popen(["grep", "1"], stdin=tac.stdout, stdout=outfile)
tac.wait()
grep.wait()

(In practice the shell grammar is so grotesque that I'd never trust it to be 100% correct. But the idea is nice.)
I think that sometimes we forget that PGP is primarily a political statement. It makes the world a better place simply by existing.
The atmospheric CO2 is not a that slow sequestering process. It has varied considerably over much shorter time periods than “millions of years”.

“Carbon dioxide concentrations have varied widely over the Earth's 4.54 billion year history.”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_...
Observer, not participant; but:

It's my understanding that the FCC and equivalents make it almost impossible for there to be open hardware that connects to the phone network. And any cracks they haven't filled, Qualcomm has NDA'd the documentation for.

see https://osmocom.org/projects
Well, no.

Most of the attraction of 5G isn't really anything you as a consumer will ever see. Like more advanced spectrum management and more advanced core network components that allow what you can think of as "virtualization with quality of service guarantees" for multiple tenants. On top of that 5G also makes use of higher frequency spectrum which has implications both for use and the design of mobile networks.

To really make life interesting, 5G also aims to enable private 5G RANs. For instance industry in some countries are heavily involved in building their own 5G networks for their own use in geographically limited areas (made possible by allocating higher frequency spectrum for these uses).

The customers that 5G targets isn't so much the consumer as government and industry. For instance by removing the need for building dedicated infrastructure for emergency, defense, law-enforcement, manufacturing etc. which would represent cost savings.

Part of the challenge of 5G is that regulatory authorities don't understand how 5G differs from what they are used to, so many places in the world (with eager lobbying from the telco industry) one will try to keep new players out of the market. (Of course, they might understand, but there may be "motivating factors" to cling to the status quo where spectrum is mostly allocated in large chunks at significant cost and with bureaucracy that ensures smaller players are kept out)
That's the same explanation, as thoroughly explained in the article -- politics is degrading and overriding safety.
Me too. Too much hassle to watch the olympics
a transcript is available: https://www.arraycast.com/episode-7-transcript
> Just a heads up, referring to a people as "blacks" can ne seen as a bit rude.

And the alternative is?

> African American

It’s such a weird term, but as far as I know it’s the term people over there use?
History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]
Wonder no more. The answer is that the NYT is likely overstating the power of the testing they did.

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodservice-retail/subway...
The human mind is indeed fascinating
Neither of these codes (which, by the way, I certainly object to) is anywhere near the scope of China's blanket ban on any activity (speech included) covered under the Article 51 quoted in a comment elsewhere here. Basically that's any activity any government official says it is.

Suggesting these are on the same level is, at best, to show misunderstanding of what the words mean and how the government applies them.
Climbing Everest without supplemental oxygen is possible and has been done[0], and isn’t the same thing as “breathing without oxygen”.

[0] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner
We have two kinds of brakes.
A large part of my old man's last job consisted of rating the energy efficiency of commercial buildings according to the Australian NABERS system.

A large part of a building's NABERS rating had nothing to do with how much energy the building consumed at all, but whether or not it implemented certain "green" technologies.

As someone who had worked in the insulation industry for 25+ years prior to this, it used to shit him to no end.
This is the most striking proof that fossil fuels are causing global warming I have ever read: simple energy conservation thermodynamics principal. The fossil fuels store energy from the sun of ancient times. Think of them as batteries with high energy density. Combustion releases that energy in form of carbon that prevents a proportion from the energy coming from the sun from being reflected back into space as infrared waves. Basically it’s like releasing the heat (the energy) from the sun of ancient times and preventing it from escaping into space at the same time. Basically the earth has become a pressure cooker.
The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]
> Why provide an exploitable API, while a safe version is possible and is more direct? I don’t know, but my guess is that it’s mostly just history.

Its to ensure you can take a shell oneliner and turn it into a program one liner. Ie. anything you can do in a terminal / copy from the web you can trivially do in our program! Whilst this is a footgun for application development this is a necessity for other kinds of people who write programs that are also a target market for such scripting languages.

Of course it should really be called 'runInShell', and provide an option for which shell etc.
I'm on my phone, otherwise I would have written more
As many wrote, this is a well known problem. Running any commands on external user input is prone to similar attacks. When doing it, one should strongly consider going through an API that will prevent such command execution. And I would go for a standard/well known library for the language used instead of a homegrown one.

That said, I often use such code myself for simple tasks that I run on a local machine. The simplicity of calling a shell, internal pipes and all of its options, is great. If and when I need to polish it or especially expose this to other users I can rewrite it properly. My 2c.
You will of course still have Google insist asking to enable "Google Play Protection" with every app you install or update, without the possibility to reject it entirely.

If you accept, they'll never ask you again. You're only option to reject is "not now".
I agree with you on this, and I'm glad you mention it. I think it might be a tangential topic to the relative positive impact to text-recognition / road-condition-recognition, though.
Coal does, it has plant fossils and sometimes even animals -

https://theconversation.com/coals-formation-is-a-window-on-a...

"A famous site at Nyrany in the Czech Republic was discovered because the director of the natural history museum there had coal delivered to heat his room. Splitting the coal sometimes yielded well-preserved fossils of early amphibians, so he could add scientifically significant specimens to his collections without leaving his office."

I'm surprised oil is plankton, not dinosaurs/dinosaur plants as the myth goes.
The modules was latched to an American module.

When your left arm decides to "go home" and your right arm doesn't, it's a problem for your right arm too.
Sideloading on Android is not viable.
And Google is working hard to enforce this situation.

This might be a monopoly.
Or at least, I think the current scrutiny from legislators is fully warranted and we should not jump to conclusions because AFAIK the jury will be out for a while.
Boss is watching: How AI-powered surveillance rules the workplace
My favourite is アルバイト (Arubaito) for part-time job, from the German “arbeit” (to work)
It's a distinct memory that stayed with me when visiting Japan for the first time. One of the first places I went after the train from Narita to my Shinjuku hotel was a 7/11 to use the ATM and pickup local currency. When I walked in, I walked back out because I assumed I went in the wrong door. No, it was in fact a 7/11. I ended up buying some small meal and coffee (with a barista preparing it) because I was so shocked that it looked like a decent quality, albeit small, grocery store, so I wanted to give it a try.

The coffee was just great no matter where you go. The food was ok, it wasn't anything I'd go out of my way to have but was so much better than anything you'd find in a US convenience store. I wanted to sample it but didn't want to waste my food adventure too much on convenience store food.
It seems more like a Fermi estimate.
Could you please explain onlyfans monetization model?
Oil comes from the ground.
Remember "peak oil" from the 1970's? Google it while you can, before they remove the links.
Distributing apps outside the Play store isn't really viable currently even though you can technically do it because there's no way to automatically update them. They are apparently fixing that in Android 12 but I seriously doubt they would have without Epic.
I'm on a laptop and it's taking up a third... But great article!
There are some regulators at play too. Higher carbon+heat leads to better conditions for plant, which absorbs carbon and generates swamp... Which will be pulled underground to make more oil. We have overwhelmed such systems but they can correct our actions if given time.
> What are the downsides of of using a real API (e.g. dev environment) for automated testing?

Slower, harder to set up state the tests need.

Front end teams should also be testing their code against a broken back end; eg http 500 responses.
A or B? Why does it have to be binary? It seems that a spectrum is in order.

Our brains are all not exactly the same. So there's a case for A.

Our lives are all not exactly the same.So there's a case for B.

The best answer might be C, a spectrum. A spectrum that considers both and some combination of A and B.
I must be weird because my home isn’t a courier drop off location.

Also I don’t own a printer. I live in a small flat/apartment (similar to many Japanese) and I don’t want to dedicate space to a device that I would use 3 times a year.
Not sure if you’re a native English speaker, so commenting explicitly just to help out. “Religious” does not only refer to supernatural beliefs, at least in American English. US partisanship has escalated to a level where it can be easily referred to as “religious.”

Many clearly prioritize it over their official “religion” as you can see with Christians bending over backwards to support Trump even when it puts them in direct opposition to the teachings of Christianity.
As much as like F-Droid, it is only for open-source apps, isn't it? However, the majority of apps is still closed source. I would like to see an alternative android app store, which can also serve closed-source apps.

Another problem is a missing alternative to Google Mobile Services (GMS), which are installed on virtually all android devices. For example, if you need push notifications or in-app purchases you are dependent on them as well.

IMO, it is the widespread distribution of GMS (and a lack of alternatives thereof) that make google a quasi monopoly.
Totally agree. The CASM is just a Trojan horse for something else. What better to disguise it in than some altruistic, ethical, and moral heart string pull that makes any opponent seem like a pedo.
>The frontend was made entirely with Bootstrap. A functional, life-saving MVP without any dynamic content could have been made in a month with a team of 3 developers.

The correct answer should have been to go with Salesforce Non profit cloud, or select one of many competitors. To develop a CRM from scratch is always a bad idea.
Quaternions are a mathematical model. Are they also a mechanical solution?
Are we not past that?
I am sure the earth will have time to adjust but not « us ». That was my understanding of the phenomenon at play. I may be wrong but it don’t understand the downvote. My comment wasn’t political.
I’m not sure what you are referring to. Could you please elaborate?
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Yes, but

> A situation that has the exact same effects on society...?

This is patently false.

You do come off as arguing in bad faith, resorting to debasing any concerns of policy misuse as simply a product of the imagination of the person raising the concern. As if authoritarian policies and erosion of freedom/privacy are something completely baseless, impossible and unheard of, instead of happening all the time.
What are you, looking for a fight? No one's disagreeing with you. I live in this country. I watched it on live TV. I have no doubt what his intentions were. There's no need to insult me and say I can't understand what you're talking about.
> but nothing's "wrong" with yours either, you just haven't had the practice/opportunity to develop this side of things.

Condescension, with no concrete feedback to improve.
> I would like to see an alternative android app store, which can also serve closed-source apps

Don't Amazon, Samsung and Huawei have their Android app stores, for any app?
With a rising population, on the order of several percent a year, reduced per-person energy consumption cannot do much. It can only delay the inevitable a decade or two. The answers are clean energy or a steadily reduced population. We are biologically adverse to the later, leaving green energy as the only option.
So basically the US today.
Even if you are in India, you are not limited to India, are you? There are lot of companies hiring for remote python developers. If your manager thinks you are good then why not talk to him/her about the state of the startup you are working in? If s/he says that the situation at the startup is bad, then ask for reference and recommendation to support your future career path.
> It was saying it does affect his mood, he just doesn’t have the EQ to realize it consciously.

Consider the possibility that someone might indeed not get depressed from looking at a couple of street photographs for a minute. That having to fill a CAPTCHA can in itself be so annoying that the content of the images becomes irrelevant. Or that someone who (in their words) lives “in a third world country” might have bigger concerns which render banal pictures as truly innocuous in their mind.

Use your emotional awareness. Empathy is about opening yourself to the feelings and reality of another, not about extrapolating your own emotions into them.
a) software

b) outer space
Relevant to the topic of personality and choice in the article. Robert Plomin in his book Blueprint cites the pretty astonishing finding that the weight of adopted children is pretty much not at all correlated to the weight of the adopted parents, whereas the weight of the birth parents is a strong indicator for weight in adulthood, even if separated at birth.

https://imgur.com/XIyvzFz