skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading a reddit retort from an expat who lived in Dubai when someone asked him why he lived in a slave state; he said something along the lines of the West also uses slave labor, who makes your electronics (or mines the minerals for them?), your clothes (probably poorly paid Bangladeshi). The difference is distance, in the Emirate countries the distance to the slave is a lot shorter...
Unavoidable with web I think. I would bet on an enterprisey stack of React front end with typescript if you like and .NET or Java backend for longevity of support, available talent and available jobs.

Your 2001 .Net web app will probably still run and you can probably find devs to work on it as is or upgrade it.
- How would btrees help with that?

- can you name couple of games saving state by appending/modifying files in place on disk?
So receiving texts still works with the app? Makes the cited "spam problem" reason for killing forwarding pretty weak.
The Bartle questionnaire really highlights the one-sidedness of game design!

In her book, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen highlights the differences between women and men: their inter-communication, and how they perceive the world.

"Women are also concerned with achieving status and avoiding failure, but these are not the goals they are focused on all the time, and they tend to pursue them in the guise of connection. And men are also concerned with achieving involvement and avoiding isolation, but they are not focused on these goals, and they tend to pursue them in the guise of opposition."

"If women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, while men speak and hear a language of status and independence, then communication between men and women can be like cross-cultural communication, prey to a clash of conversational styles. Instead of different dialects, it has been said they speak different genderlects."

And Ursula Le Guin also wrote about the vast gulf in reasoning and perception between men and women: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the...

All I can say is, we need more women game designers... Balance!
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Oh that's unfortunate.
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Literally the only way for apps you want to use with your own financial details is to screen scrape.

Plaid better have good security!

But I don't see this as unethical in the slightest. In fact, I see it as a company doing the right thing by consumers in letting them get access to their own data.
Security by obscurity has protected a lot of things successfully...
Don't black holes suck-in all kinds of stuff all the time, making it a bad place to be for an energy plant?
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Happened to me too. Switch to desktop mode.
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It’s just too much mass in too little space. It’s essentially the same requirement as fusion, but almost infinitely more difficult.

If you could make a fusion reactor almost infinitely better then it would produce a black hole which would immediately evaporate releasing more energy than you could ever imagine - but no way it can be done.
Of course the CCP loves stuff like this. The big thing is will apple acquiesce to keeping mum about scanning everyone's stuff at the directive of the government. Also will that just be a "china" build or will it be in the USA code base but "flipped off"
The other advantage not being discussed here is that once you have a csv parser, it can be trivially generalized to use any character as a delimiter, and you can usually find a character that isn't found in the data you're working with unless you're working with binary data. I work on a legacy system where passing delimited files around is usually the integration method of the day, and if you can't delimit with commas (common) then you just delimit with tabs. If you can't delimit with tabs or commas, then delimit with pipes, which are rarely if ever used outside of code. Or use tildes, or grave accents, or...

Doing this avoids quoting, which avoids an entire class of problems. And yes, if you're passing multi-megabyte files around on a regular basis, or transferring giant blobs of text or binary data, or looking for a storage format with metadata then csvs are an absolutely awful choice, but as with any problem you pick the right tool for the job, and csvs are a great tool when you want to easily move some structured alphanumeric data around in a format that's trivial to parse in any language and widely supported.
It's also a boring claim in its generality. We already think that conservation of energy is not universally (for the lack of a better word) true: Big Bang. Obviously, there is no before of that event, so it's a little tough to even speak about, but that's to be expected: When such an important law of nature does not apply, you cannot expect all others to continue working.
There are plenty of systems where a software failure leads to permanent hardware failure. This would just be one more.
There are two rather distinct questions:

1. How much estrogen gets into the water supply from birth control pills?

2. How much estrogen gets into the water supply from women's urine?

(There are other similar questions, of course.)

These two questions are related in that #1 is mostly a subset of #2. But concluding that #1 is an insignificant source of estrogen doesn't tell you much about #2. Women produce estrogen on their own.
one of many reasons why they don't want to promote inside is that new hire usually has less starting pay
Complexity and price are not the problems with Citrix or any VDI solution.

The whole concept doesn’t work. I have spent years and years dealing with miserable staff who have to sit on the end of a mucked up, crawling semi paralysed Citrix deployment because someone ticked a corporate IT box and got a pat on the back of it. They literally have their potential productivity halved on a good day. Not to mention the pain of trying to get some desktop software I’ve pushed out to standard windows machines fine working with some fucked up implementation of partial profile redirection that some MSP thought was a fantastic idea.

Really 99% of Citrix and terminal installs I see these days are box ticking and a false promise of cost savings through density and centralisation.

The end story is an end user trying to use a LOB app in chrome with about 200Mb of RAM at their disposal with the CPU and IO rammed at 100% while the MSP who sold them this pile sells them the lie that it’s the LOB vendor who’s at fault.

Edit: AWS Workspaces is just as bad. It’s like working with oven gloves on after a heavy night drinking.
No advice but I've never worked for FAANG though considered it several times (yes, had offers too) but ultimately decided against it, because I suspected something like you described would await me. The money would be good but the price could be a part of my soul. Thanks for providing data to support my decision.
My point was, what if you have content in there that is CSAM in some places but isn't in others(for instance - drawings). If apple employees report it to authorities in a state where it isn't illegal, they just suspended your account and reported you to authorities without any reason.

The only CSAM Apple will flag has to come from multiple organizations in different jurisdictions; otherwise, those hashes are ignored.

And since no credible child welfare organization is going to have CSAM that matches stuff from the worst places, there's no simple or obvious way to get them to match.
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He's just commenting on how ludicrous it is for anyone to believe that apple is being honest about this and about spying for governments on its users.
so pr campaigns can be aggressive?
I have bad news for you:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
Doesn't count, you still need light to make it human-readable.

/s
>You don't see so much dunking on Python, Java, Clojure, Ruby, &c,

One of the common arguments now for why C# is superior to Java is that it supports non-nullable references. As does C++, which for large latency-sensitive projects is generally picked over C.
It’s required by law. The SEC and their counterparts have access to pretty all information on trades within their remit as gamekeepers. You broker will have told you this in your client agreement and their privacy statement.
Besides, it would allow competitors to do a lot of spying: When did you sign some contract (with hour precision), is the customer base weakening. It’s not only the same data being published, it’s n million times the same data with all its variations. If I were Amazon, I would spend a lot of money convincing the competitors’ employees that openness is essential.
Amazing. "Most reports to VAERS are voluntary" - https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html

What's the under-reporting multiplier? Why would anyone except for those affected, or god forbid, their families pursue and report bad events?

Just extra paperwork for no or little money.
No they don't, they scan them on the servers. If you have a source that says otherwise I'd love to see. I'm 99.99% sure you won't find any.
So Shapiro is (or could be) far-right because another Jew - Stephen Miller has an uncle who thought that if the immigration policy that Steven Miller champions had been implemented a hundred years ago, then their family would not have been able to migrate to the USA. So now we extrapolate a little according to the conclusion we want to reach and that's fascism - "authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy"
You have 0 proof of that other than conjecture. They are not scanning stuff and uploading it to government organizations to come and arrest you.
At least according to [1]:

"Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million, according to the center’s statistics. That enormous gap is due in part to Apple’s decision not to scan for such material, citing the privacy of its users."

If you were a law enforcement agency and noticed this discrepancy, would you believe that you'd be letting some number of child abusers get away because of that difference in 20 million reports? iCloud probably doesn't have the same level of adoption as Facebook, but the gap is still very large.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-...
For the masks thing, there was a consensus on something that was wrong, provably wrong, _and yet_ was used successfully by something like 1/4 population (most of Asia). Bit of a strange hill to die on, if you ask me.

I don't remember any real consensus that was non a man made virus. I do remember a bunch of guys that had received serious money to do gain of function research up and say that it was NOT gain of function research. The conflict of interest is so glaring as to make it have almost zero predictive power. "Of course they'd say that - the world hasn't changed much now that they actually did".

If you're stuck in finding reasons for how this got the way it is, just move a step back and imagine ... not a perfect world, just a normal, shitty world in which:

- Surgeon general takes a look at studies, says: masks don't hurt and they very likely help in a hospital setting. If you're in a crowded, risky place that resembles hospital settings you should probably wear them. And just in case, let's buy a bunch of N95... oh, we don't have those, anything close? yeah, KN95 are about the same. Let's buy a bunch just in case. They can't hurt, they definitely help stop the spread from the infected and we'll wait on studies to tell us if they can actually protect the uninfected as well. Hopefully something fast tracked, shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks.

^^^ is NOT rocket science. It's just the opposite of what we heard, at least for a while.

I'm not doing the "gain of function, China" thing 'cause it leaves me feeling dirty.
Not sure why you think that. There is a big difference between their service getting incoming spam texts and their service getting incoming spam texts and then forwarding it out through the phone networks.
Your description is pretty much the definition of introvert. People get it confused because extraverts quite naturally get more practise at social situations, so on a group level they're better at them. But at its core, the extravert/introvert scale is about whether social interaction gives you energy or drains it. And of course it's not a dichotomy, it's a scale.
this would easily be the most awesome discovery of the last 50 years if it turned out true and we could locate and study it...
Apple did not scan uploaded images. Apple has never scanned iPhone images. Last year Apple reported 245 cases to missing and exploited children, and Facebook reported 50M, Google ~4M, Microsoft reported, and Apple was below the line.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-ab...
I never used emojis in my private life until I started working as a software developer. I end up using them all day, everyday on Slack at work and now they have bled into my vocabulary everywhere.
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"we should be advocating for people who are not at risk to go out and aggressively live life" - given that the virus can cause severe long-lasting effects even if the infection does not move the person to ICU, I would say it is pretty bad piece of advice.
Also what do you mean by "natural infection .. preventing subsequent infection/transmission"? You don't mean that a "naturally infected" person does not infect others, do you?
KDE has been the lightest DE (including over Mate, LXDE) for a while now.

Bloated is the very last way I'd describe KDE. I was surprised to learn even Subsurface uses Kirigami; knowing Linus' opinion on weight that's some endorsement!
It doesn't, but typically if someone points out that someone is Jewish/ Israeli then you can't continue to say anything or else you're dubbed antisemitic.
> It'll be decades before our existing c++ code base is converted to modules

> I'm trying to move to go when I can and pure rust otherwise.

I don't understand in which universe replacing includes by imports takes more time than a full rewrite in a different language
It changes day to day. I haven't logged in to Twitter in over a decade. I haven't been able to go to mobile.twitter.com and do anything in years, just gives me a sign up page. I can follow a link to a tweet and use the search from there. But in the last week or so if I tap a tweet or a search result I get sent to a sign up page. This behavior varies over time.
I don’t think anyone within Apple is pushing for this, I assume the pressure is coming from somewhere external or they’re anticipating pressure because the feature doesn’t really make a lot of sense right now. We’ll probably get the actual truth years from now in some leak.
If some dozens lunatics can do this, what can an army of sharp professionals with zero morals and a multi-billion dollar budget can achieve?
Francis Bacon was actually part of some prompts haha
Google's bazel/blaze predates rust. It has the advantage of supporting multiple languages
It doesn't have to be 50/50. Misinfo props up a small but significant minority to "counter" something like climate change, a theory that is all but proven everywhere except in public opinion.

The stakes are too high (democracy, climate change, public health) to allow purposeful lies to cloud our ability to actually address these problems. These are weaponized lies, not benign mistakes.
I do, but when I click it, it requires me to log in.
How social media is dealing with the Taliban takeover
I highly recommend the BBC radio versions of Chandler's Marlowe books, starring Ed Bishop as Marlowe. The collection contains 6 x 1.5hr plays, including The Big Sleep.

https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Raymond_Cha...

The plays are rarely rebroadcast on the BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k360
Wow this article was super insightful into how the Taliban accomplished taking Afghanistan.
And so NIMSSyism began...
I think wgpu is amazing. But, if I want to take the previous commenter seriously I'd think about PS5, Switch/Switch2, etc as places where someone will have to write a wgpu implementation (non open source since those SDKs don't allow it) if you ever decide to ship on those platforms.
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I’m inclined to believe it was a quid-pro-quo (or a play at it). Apple inserts a little back door, in exchange the antitrust case against them will be eased.
Also not every A+ hard-problem team would be willing to recruit an unproven newbie who knows nothing about internal processes and lore and culture of the company and would require a lot of training and adjustment and handholding for a while. Why bother if they could have somebody from another team who has worked there for a while and proven themselves and knows what they need to hit the ground running?

Maybe they let the newbie to clean the dojo floor, and sweep the garden, and cut the wood, and take out the garbage, and paint the walls, and so on for a while and then he learns the ropes and knows more he could find himself a team that is more to his taste.
And the fine was a joke... less then $1 per person affected.

> Nearly 98 million people were affected, according to the settlement
I have great memories sat in the labs at college with peculiar hardware just seeing what we could run netbsd on. Aside from education it had no practical utility to us at the time, but it was good fun :)

Brilliant project delivering some good free spirited light heartedness to the OS world.
Crane and Westmoreland looked into this: "Are Black Hole Starships Possible" (2009) https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803v1

A black hole is generated when mass-energy density is above a certain threshold. You need to pack about a megatonne of mass-energy in a sphere 3 attometers in diameter to get a black hole approaching a useful lifespan. You could do it with bosonic matter, but photons are easier. Well, "easier":

>In Section V below, we discuss the plausibility of creating SBHs with a
very large spherically converging gamma ray laser. A radius of 1 attometer
corresponds to the wavelength of a gamma ray with an energy of about 1.24
TeV. Since the wavelength of the Hawking radiation is 8π^2
times the radius of the BH, the Hawking temperature of a BH with this radius is on the order of
16 GeV, within the limit of what we could hope to achieve technologically.

>[...]

>In a previous paper by the first author [9], it was proposed that a SBH could
be artificially created by firing a huge number of gamma rays from a spherically
converging laser. The idea is to pack so much energy into such a small space
that a BH will form. An advantage of using photons is that, since they are
bosons, there is no Pauli exclusion principle to worry about. Although a laser
powered black hole generator presents huge engineering challenges, the concept
appears to be physically sound according to classical general relativity.

The process of aligning the laser array will be interesting, however. From Wikipedia:

>Unlike most objects, a black hole's temperature increases as it radiates away mass. The rate of temperature increase is exponential, with the most likely endpoint being the dissolution of the black hole in a violent burst of gamma rays. A complete description of this dissolution requires a model of quantum gravity, however, as it occurs when the black hole's mass approaches 1 Planck mass, when its radius will also approach two Planck lengths.

See table 2 from the paper. A 0.32 attometer wide black hole has a surface temperature of 98.1GeV and is losing 61.4 kilograms per second-- 5,519 petawatts of ultra-hard gamma radiation! Even at that diameter it has a sizable weight of 108,000 tonnes, but it doesn't have long to live-- a couple weeks. A poorly collimated laser array will produce undersize black holes which will rapidly evaporate. The paper suggests keeping them well away from Earth, on the other side of the Sun if possible. Not hard-- you'd want to put the array well within the orbit of Mercury for better solar power flux.
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Sorry to hear that, hopefully this can be some consolation

>LB1's height is estimated to have been 1.06 m (3 ft 6 in). The height of a second skeleton, LB8, has been estimated at 1.09 m (3 ft 7 in) based on tibial length.[4] These estimates are outside the range of normal modern human height and considerably shorter than the average adult height of even the smallest modern humans, such as the Mbenga and Mbuti at 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

They (maybe) really did exist (sort of)
> The Guardian would only appear extreme to those who's world views have fallen off the other side.

Eeehh... I'm a long-time leftist and I used to think that, but over the last decade I've grown to be much more skeptical of the Graun. On issues of sexual identity in particular, it occasionally reads like some breathless pamphlet produced by university hotheads; and their treatment of Assange and Corbyn has been utterly shameful.
iirc the single dev who was working in the mac build gave up because metal completely fucked the graphics acceleration. performance is very bad on mac last time i checked
From and enterprise perspective Citrix is very inexpensive compared to most other VDI platforms. It's not that hard to maintain and keep a farm running well if you limit your application deployment to me office and run your weird stuff on small app specific farms.
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I opened this on mobile and you either have to log in or open the tweet in the app to read the entire thread (twitter login wall).

I was going to do neither things.
> (which is thin already as “experts” continue to be exposed as frauds, just look at Afghanistan)

Respectfully it sounds like you already bought into the idea that "the experts" (if that can be referred to as a monolith, which I disagree it can) are usually wrong. Btw, no one got Afghanistan "wrong". Most knew the country would fall, no one knew how fast. That's a good example of how, when people claim "the experts got it wrong", they don't understand what said "experts" were actually predicting.
I'd argue that pointing to what gets shared, rather than what reaches people and actually gets viewed, as proof that Facebook is a hotbed of right-wing content and that the idea they discriminate against it is a lie is actually outright misinformation. The thing Facebook's algorithms control is which widely-shared and widely-interacted content actually shows up in people's feeds, and if you ignore that you're ignoring Facebook as a company's entire role in influencing what their audience sees.
Absolutely. In fact I have a book that can teach you to be more Bob-like in just 7 simple steps ;-)
I thought so too but unfortunately it would take someone making 100k a year somewhere between 6 and 12 months to teach someone making 40k to do the job properly. Then that someone would get a job offer making 100k and quit.
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pkgconf already sucks on Linux when your packages are configurable, and sucks even more on Windows
I'm interested in having an API access to my own banking data.

However, personally, this feels almost as bad privacy-wise as screen scraping my bank account.

Reading your privacy policy only promotes my distrust.

I realize I may not be your target demographic though.