skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BeOS internal architecture changed a lot from release to release. The kernel, file system, all the kits were constantly undergoing massive change and I don't think there was an ABI until release four. We broke binaries all the time!

Most of the code wasn't open sourced, but it leaked and yellowTab released a version using the actual BeOS source code. The entire system compressed down to 90MB and you could ftp all.tgz and build the whole system.

Looking at the architecture critically, is it a good idea to have a C++ API and have to deal with fragile base classes? I remember stuffing classes full of placeholders to create space in the vtable for future changes.

BeOS was well documented and the BeBook is still nice to read. Looking at the Haiku source, I see that they have all the kits, with the same API. When I look at the source for Looper, the code is a shadowy reflection of the "real" source. It may even be much better!

If Haiku feels good to use and program, then I think it is faithful to BeOS. Cyril was constantly improving the kernel, Dominic was constantly improving the filesytem, Benoit was constantly improving the window server, Pavel was constantly improving Tracker, etc. There wasn't really a dogma about what BeOS should be except fast, responsive, forward looking and fun for users and developers.
To save California, build more. Single family, multi family, whatever. Just more.
I disagree at least about the part about native applications. It really is better to have this universal VM for ephemeral apps and not have to worry about if the thing supports Linux or if it's actually spyware or how much hard drive space is this thing going to take up.

Recent things like Zoom native app being incredibly insecure but the same company's webapp being much better kind of proves the point.
Considering the sars-1 and mers vaccine attempts had over-stimulated immune response problems, it absolutely should be a concern.

Vaccination induced immunity levels were sufficient, but now that natural immunity levels are higher, that's not good enough?

Since I've been told over and over that the vaccine reduces the severity of breakthrough infections, shouldn't we also demand vaccinated people intentionally catch covid and quarantine, since that will also boost their immunity and prevent public spread?

Where's the study that shows breakthrough cases are any greater of a risk than vaccine side-effects?

And if the risks are comparable, why wouldn't it be reasonable to demand vaccinated individuals intentionally catch the virus to also boost their immunity?
> Many people wouldn't find doing this fun. They'd much prefer being able to watch Netflix in ultra high-def and not having to futz around with Nvidia's drivers or what have you

I think they were being sarcastic, maybe not. Either way, you're right. And this is why WE need to be doing this so that it becomes a viable option.
I can understand that! For the record I also buy music on Bandcamp. Lots of good stuff there that’s not available on Spotify.
I live in Korea. Some months my total expenses are as low as $400 while living comfortably. If I spent $1000 in a month, I spent a lot of money. I'd say my average monthly living expenses are $600-$800. My main expenses are food/entertainment, and I eat out a lot (50% of meals).

Housing is probably the biggest living expense. I take advantage of Korea's interesting rental system called Cheonsae:

Basically, if you put down a huge deposit (like $90,000: 50% to 90% of the value of the property), you don't pay any monthly rent and get the entire deposit back when you move out. My place has a $50 monthly management fee, but that includes high-speed internet. (So I joke that I get free housing with my internet.)

Of course, there is an opportunity cost because that deposit could have generated interest, but I figure the break-even point is 12% APY. (It is possible to lower the deposit by increasing monthly rent.) So it's advantageous to take out a bank loan at 2-4% interest to pay for the deposit.

There is a small risk you won't be able to get your deposit back if the owner mismanages their finances. I believe the Korean government actually guarantees housing deposits up to $50,0000 or so. In Korea, the tenants actually do background checks on the landlords! The minimum deposit is usually $10,000, so landlords usually don't scrutinize tenants.
That’s not my interpretation of the first party descriptions of the CSAM system. Clearly it works if photos are encrypted; nothing implies they’re using that capability yet.

If that were the case, this would not merely be a PR mess but PR malpractice of an entirely other, novel kind.
It gets weirder. I recommend reading Derek Lowes blog on the subject here

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/02/th...
Just to extend my comment in response to how this problem will spread:

By doing surveillance on types of images, Apple is in effect implementing anti-virus - for ideas. That's only a bit hyperbolic, as the perceptual hash for a viral meme can be searched on, just like the material they're using as a pretext for it.

I could even see them announcing it at a launch. We should be concerned that the company has skipped its Black Mirror stage and jumped right into its Universal Paperclips endgame.

(I'm also appreciating the irony that people like me being angry about Apple announcing they're going to implement a version of what Google has already been technically able to do for the last decade, and what Microsoft has probably been doing in secret since even before then.)
The article says the people doing the re-planting in the area found a cool way for working-breed dogs to do what they enjoy while helping us help the environment recover.

The dogs, unfortunately, did not undertake this task on their own, but I thought that when I read the title- thinking maybe they were catching some in their fur or pooping them out while playing or something.

As an aside I love all dogs, but especially Border Collies. Never been lucky enough to have one. They are indeed super smart, and agile! They are often featured in working-dog competitions and obstacle course competitions! Oh and frisbee catching, I always see border collies doing that. I've always dreamed of having a dog that could catch a frisbee but of all the dogs I've had- while all amazing in their own ways, most could barely bring back a ball. I blame my poor training skills :( Lol.
Sorry, didn't mean that it was obvious scientifically. I meant obvious in terms of pharmaceutical progress. They built a mouse model to mimic muscular dystrophy and cured the mouse model of muscular dystrophy, which is why they felt confident spending their millions on human muscular dystrophy. Unfortunately, it was not a good model, in the same way that most most mouse models are not good models.
The people that live in those area, and own those deeds, are the ones that vote and or convey their desires to their representative to impact the rules in those areas.

So I guess the answer to your question is "because those people bought their deeds under when a certain set of rules were in place, and they are in a position to exert pressure to keep those rules in place". Why would you expect them to act against (what they perceive as) their own self interest?

The answer of "because it helps society as a whole" is a powerful one, but not one that holds enough weight for a lot of people to give up a significant portion of their net wealth / retirement / satisfaction.
All Web applications are spyware and security is not given, hence OWASP.
Very nice find. One single file, in most languages. Short and sweet.

Thanks for sharing!
Oh cool, I didn't know about this. It's always been something I've been concerned about, but wasn't sure how to address. I like their summary:

Cryptographic signatures prove that a message originates from somebody with control over the private key, but it's impossible to prove that the private key didn't sign additional messages. In update security this means a signed update is a strong indicator the update is authentic, but you can't be sure this update is the same update everybody else got. Somebody in control of the update key could craft a malicious update, sign it and feed it specifically to you.
No, blocking them from iframes is just the first step. alert/confirm/prompt are absolutely in danger of being deprecated and eventually removed.

Browser makers have declared they’d like to remove them altogether: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894. But they’re too popular to remove under current policies unless they’re really causing harm, and I do believe there’s serious risk of them classifying it that way. (They’re actually a bit of a maintenance burden, as three of the few remaining synchronous things.)

Remember also the big difference between deprecation and removal. I’d go so far as to say I think it’s likely that alert/prompt/confirm will be deprecated and produce console warnings in at least one major browser before four years pass, though I don’t believe they’ll yet have justified going ahead and removing it.
Many pages from Mozilla MDN are 404
That's not muscular dystrophy. That's a motor neuron disease.
The FDA has asked Pfizer to perform 5-year studies for known adverse side effects of vaccines, like myocarditis.

As of 2021, we do not have long term (e.g. five years) data on either vaccines or Covid.
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Also you can only use it on babies.

But as pointed out elsewhere, wrong disease.

As for that drug, I doubt the price would need to be that high if people were ordering a thousand doses a year, but I'm no expert.
I don't know where you're getting that from. In lambda calculus — where closures were first developed — there's no restrictions against mutation of captured variables or values.
Basically every metro area in the country has an affordability problem as defined by cost of housing relative to wages. One of the most affordable growing metros is Houston, which has no zoning.
Bakersfield housing is expensive for the region. The salaries here, in my opinion, cannot keep up with this recent rise in prices.
Lambda calculus API is eternal. There are multiple LISPs, so multiple APIs, changing over time.
opportunities aren't really a function of money in particular in the software world. You need a good project, good people and whatnot, but you don't need 18 billion dollars for your next company.

In fact if anything I'd honestly say it might be a negative to be that wealthy. A lot of ideas are the products of inventiveness in the face of constraints and a sense of urgency. There is a lot of super-wealthy 30 year olds that have emerged out of the big IPOs and a lot of them have basically retired.
We have the ability to generate green H2 from electrolysis.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-16/taxing-th... - the wealthy can afford lots of houses. They buy them or even build them (midwest, lots of empty multi-million dollar homes are still appearing).

I mean, there are multiple multi-billion dollar companies who haven't let go of their office spaces when there's no hope that people were going to return to work anytime soon. One of the many simple reasons, they can afford to burn the cash and it's a drop in the bucket. I don't think you are grasping what kind of wealth buys up houses.

> It's easy to see how it doesn't add up.

> Why would some wealthy foreign investor want to buy a house and then lose a bunch of money by not renting it out?

In the late 2010s, the primary reason was as a protective measure/taxation avoidance. In China, the wealthy are always at a danger of being on the wrong side of the government and having your wealth confiscated. In Bellevue (the wealthy eastside of the Seattle area) had a burgeoning industry of exotic car dealerships, luxury jewelry and housing prices soaring as Chinese money loaded up on housing. When Xi (and the PRC at large) decided to crack down https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2020/02/chinas-new-fore..., by 2019 most of the luxury businesses evaporated and houses were being liquidated (most still made money because of decent US housing inflation) because of the taxation of foreign assets and the penalties for not disclosing them. So that's done.

There's always oil money from the middle east which has ended up in California. My family sold off 2 properties to families from Quatar and Iran, who casually paid for east house up front. These were their "California" homes.

Banks have been buying up houses for awhile now. Yes, it pains me to bring up FOX News. https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/major-wall-street... - they are likely to rent out the homes. American banks who are looking to maximize value for something they don't intend to even live in (or run to), don't mind renting. This is a maximized investment that makes sense to you. Those do happen.

My wife and I just bought a house next door to one of the MANY display houses of Todd Griffin (Windows Plus). The yard is a wreck but the interior furnishings (kitchen, windows, shelving, etc) are very nice, barring the bare slab concrete floor. Nobody has ever lived there.
I'm at the end result of your situation now. I wish I'd gotten out from under it so much sooner.

The death spiral really kicks off when you start losing efficiency (as you've described) and as a result there's always more work on your plate than you have the capacity to do.

There's a paradox: the usual solution if you have extra work is to just push through it with some extra effort; once it's done you could theoretically go back to the usual routine. But your current predicament is because you've been working extra hard for too long already. You just go backwards if you try it.

I've spent weeks and weeks trying to "catch up" on my current project - and the previous two projects - working after my kid has gone to bed, working again first thing in the morning, working weekends - it only gets worse if you keep doing it and you wind up with worse results (I've just now blown past a deadline myself). Trust me. My mental and physical health is fucking shot, I've got skin rashes, putting on weight and I've been giving too much parenting work to my wife... I'm probably going to be mentally fucked for weeks now.

The solution is to reduce the workload. Drop some of the spinning plates, tell your boss you can't do XYZ in the allotted time, or just straight up quit.
Your right, but anybody else making this argument up until now in defense of natural immunity got ignored or ridiculed.
I have been using futureme for over a decade now. Highly recommend.
A.A. Milne played cricket on the same team as J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse.

I'm not sure what this corresponds to, but it sounds like it means something.

Also, the real Christopher Robin is said to have had a less than happy relationship to the Winnie the Pooh phenomenon.
> the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy

I think the average person does indeed care about privacy, otherwise we would use public bank accounts and would get rid of passwords, curtains and summer clothing.

Most likely, most people do not fully understand all implications of all technical details and aren't making fully informed decisions.
Really nice and fast UI. Will definitely have to check on Dokku.
They do so because zoning banned boarding houses, which is a variant of the same thesis.
Luckily for you there isn't much support for the idea of induced demand in housing. It's a thing in roads, but not in literally everything and definitely doesn't seem to be in housing. Also while NYC certainly has built tons of housing in the past, it too has been festering anti growth elements and literally the densest us city is only the 20th world wide.
It's smarter to go to court with one solid, defensible piece of evidence, and then broaden your case as supplemental evidence comes to light. These attorney's took a...different approach.
Furthermore the ammonia production processes use natural gas (not crude oil!) only as a source of hydrogen. They could split water instead, it’s just that the natural gas is cheaper.
Presumably the 5-month duration was based on the date of their 2020 submission for FDA EUA approval, relative to the earliest date of infection of their test subjects. If those early test subjects are participating in the ongoing trial of T-Detect, it's now probably a year since their infection & recovery. Hopefully we'll see a longer duration in their next FDA submission.
Yep and they still try to push applecare+ onto customers.
Wouldn't California, and the rest of the country, be better off if quite a few people from across the spectrum left for other places? The wealth/talent/business concentration is really unnecessary, and with drought, fires, and other global warming concerns, it's actually not that nice there.

The solution to a lot of the "housing problems" around the country isn't further concentration but decentralization.
It is not different with housing, unfortunately. Singapore, Shanghai, NYC, SF, LA, won't get cheaper if they build more housing.

Nevertheless, I completely hope that I'm totally wrong on everything I said. It would mean that I might finally be able to afford to buy a house in those places.
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One of the great things about the web is the fact that I can expect anything I create today, to be relatively forwards compatible, and I can build things in a way so they're either backwards compatible or degrade gracefully.

The philosophies around entropy isn't really relevant here IMO. The web should continue to be evergreen.
An open air prison is worse than an enclosed one?California got the state they voted for. Save the hollow moral indignation.
My tech is

- Python/Django for the web/automation stuff

- Postmark for emails

- Linode for hosting

- SQLite for database

- Airtable for curation
Your link says the exact opposite of everything you wrote.

The post is by a random dev who doesn't work at a browser, and it was closed by someone who does after they said they don't deprecate things unless they plan on removing them.
>Not that I know what other users want, but I want stuff that works reliably, does not slow down and does not need constant fixing. I prefer software that stays the same over software that is constantly changing. I like software that keeps doing what I installed it to do and nothing more.

This is exactly how I feel.

I think there are two camps - some people like shiny stuff for the sake of shiny stuff.

I want to perform the tasks I'm trying to perform as quickly and efficiently as possible. Often that means cli and custom scripts, if I need to use a GUI it's using the keyboard as much as possible and avoiding the mouse, and if I must use the mouse, then I have a lot of custom buttons mapped and/or ahk scripts.

When I see people entering username/password and not knowing that you can tab to get to the next field, I die a little inside. These are people who work on a computer every single day, but they never thought to look into increasing their efficiency on said computer, even for the most basic of tasks that they might do 50x per day.
No, HPKP didn't lock you into one public key forever. You could rotate keys. The HPKP header had an expiry date and let you specify multiple keys, so you could add a new key to the list and switch over when the previous key expired.
Chrome does not disable alert(). Alert() will still work, just not from cross-origin iframes.
Plus, I think it can make a domain unusable forever. You can end up buying a domain you cannot use because the previous owner had used HPKP.
ONE MILLION! (2011)
Only half of California homes are owner occupied. [0] So, there could be more CA voters renting than home owners. To put that in perspective, Texas has over 60% owner-occupied housing [1].

[0]https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA

[1]https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/TX
If that is your only metric by which to judge, then Houston is a roaring success. Include just about any other factor in your judgment, such as walkability, health outcomes, education quality, or disaster resilience to name a few, you might consider Houston's zoning strategy to be batshit insane.
Some web developers might get a decent amount of their income from maintenance.
For the people with homes, locked into lower property taxes, a stable monthly payment, and their version of the CA dream, nothing needs to change. I can't really blame them. When I owned a home I was a NIMBY who thought my mortgage payment afforded me a right to continue my lifestyle indefinitely.

After a divorce and becoming a renter, I have a lot more sympathy for folks subject to the whims of landlords and the rental market. Sure, renting means I have some flexibility and don't have to worry much about maintenance, but there is an emotional and social price you pay for the lack of (sometimes imagined) stability afforded to you by home ownership.

I'm about to plan my CA escape after 27 years in the sun and it is not without regrets. I'll say though that the one thing CA should consider is requiring the supply of housing to match the supply of jobs. I suppose it's fine if, say, Cupertino doesn't want to urbanize, but as long as they allow more commercial space and more jobs, they put pressure on surrounding communities to deal with the negative effects. I can't really care too much anymore though. CA has been good to me for a long time, but she's showing me the door and telling me I'm no longer welcome and it's not something I have the will to fight for.
I can second Svelte and SvelteKit, despite the latter still not being at a proper 1.0 version. The developer experience was so smooth. I’ve been a fan of Vue for a while but Svelte and SvelteKit converted me almost instantly.
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I have to agree with this. I find discord better than slack and I don't want to mix my gaming life with work.
> Why do people think that the universality of decay can be stopped?

Theory: A lot of those people tend to survive by jumping from metaphorical ship to ship (API or software or whatever). So to them, the reality is that the ship you're currently on pretty much always feels like it's sinking, and you're always looking out for signs. You write articles lamenting sinking ships, because that's your reality.

These people also may feel like the universality of decay can be stopped in the current context, by moving away from a decaying ship/system. It's more of a question of where the decay isn't as bad, or as seemingly needless.

Example Pro: After a while you can get really good at evaluating ships. Con: It feels useless to build your own ship; you're afraid you'd have to jump from your own ship and wouldn't that feel awful.

Other people survive by building ships. They're cool with decay, because building new stuff that works better is interesting. Their job is to support their stuff, and to a lesser degree to patch others' stuff, like maybe their supply ship, or a friend's ship. To people like this, the reality is that holes just happen. So you learn to deal. Maybe you even learn to love patching holes, and you get so good at building ships that your ship's holes are downright fascinating anyway.

These people aren't usually as worried about decay. But they may have a problem of eventually going down with their ship, or finding that their ship is no longer just a ship but also a lot like a baroque form of floating junk pile.

Example Pro: Obvs, you can build ships. Con: People will try to jump on your ship, and they'll probably tell you they think it's sinking, and expect you to do something about it.
I'm afraid a change is inevitable. But it can be a softer change that mostly preserves what they care for, or a rough and dramatic change if no adaptive measures are taken.

I suppose that SF residents probably liked what their city was in, say, 1985, and did not want any change. Has SF changed somehow by 2020? Was in to the better?
Paradoxically, everyone who lies to themself they they have a mental illness has a mental illness.