skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users can't phrase their queries right, but it's all relative to the sophistication of the AI running the search. Google must work on improving it's ai instead of forcing users to enter phrases in an if-else "ai" algorithm.
A better headline - users willing to give up privacy for convenience.

Reality - there was a period where the icloud backups created backups that apple did not have access to. Critically, this mean that if you had any of a wide variety of things happen - unless you were very good about key management - your content was lost for good. ALL your photos (which could be heartbreaking) etc.

It turns out this is NOT what people want. They want apple to have access to their content, so when they have a device stolen and don't have a super long recovery key properly saved, they are not hosed.

Same issue BTW with bitlocker on windows. People DO NOT save those recovery keys, even if they should. Microsoft added a way to force a backup into an account admins and others would have access to, thank goodness, because otherwise users there would be hosed as well.
And of course have to audit the hardware design, and then audit the manufacturing and supply chain for that hardware to ensure someone hasn't substituted hardware with spyware installed.
I program scheme and erlang for fun. C , qml/js, etc. to earn a living. Programming, even with utility considered is elaborate puzzling.
Elizabeth Holmes plans to claim at trial ex-boyfriend abused her
I concur, as a permaculturist myself, 100% completely.

We get an extraordinary variety of species in our garden every year, and its because of the plants we grow - not because of the birdseed we buy in bags.
It seems like Linux is the only way out for old hardware.
I think it attempts to paint them as overhyped. If the target would be to put down blockchains, the page would simply be a "No". But it's true that we throw blockchains at things that don't need a blockchain.
From those user stories the technical lead decides what
the skill requirements and timeframe is in order to
accomplish the implementation.

This sounds like a recipe for an overloaded technical lead - determining skill requirements accurately could require mostly-designing the whole thing up-front.
Wikipedia is, at best, an imperfect attempt to record and explain the accepted definition. I think that Wikipedia's definition of blockchain does not match usage, and therefore it is in error and should be corrected.
Netbsd was interesting around 2000 when there were a bunch of living computer architectures. Now when there is just basically ARM, AMD64 and maybe IBM Power it makes less. As an avid Unix afficionado I have yet to install NetBSD. OpenBSD does whatever I need it to do. Maybe the ability of NetBSD to support commericial linux software makes it still relevant but I suspect that is rapidly going away with SystemD dependence. Does anybody know if you can run a SystemD layer on Netbsd?

Otherwise the ability to support Alpha and Vax and M68k while interesting once is for all intents and purposes irrelevant today, at least for me.

>NetBSD/next68k System Requirements and Supported Devices

NetBSD/next68k 9.2 will run on the 25 MHz 68040-based NeXT workstations. The Turbo (33 MHz) models are not supported. The 68030 model is not supported. NetBSD/next68k 9.2 does not have any local disk support, so you must netboot and run diskless.

>The minimum configuration requires 4 MB of RAM and a network server capable of netbooting NetBSD/next68k. Serial consoles are poorly supported by the hardware, see the FAQ for help...

In 2021 people spent developer hours testing NetBSD 9.2 on the NeXT cube...like what the www started on before the USSR fell. Anyway I guess everybody needs their hobbies...
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I worked for Olivetti's R&D lab and we did a lot of work with SCO. In the early days if x386 "Xenix" and Unix, they were one of the coolest companies around. We loved going down from Cupertino to Santa Cruz and working with them.
Second paragraph, and in bold:
What’s New? Detours 4.0.1 is now open source under the MIT license.
> They want power and total control over, hilariously, the lives of others who simply want to live in and contribute to a civilized and prosperous modern society.

> They're hateful, violent, and time and time again show that they're incapable of coexisting with others who don't share their same close-minded fantastical views.

You accurately described today's US Democrats/Marxists. Racist, intolerant, violent, and as we're seeing now in Afghanistan, incompetent.

Was that your intention?
I know this isn't the effect they were hoping for, but I find this pic really good :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/331447363/in/album-721...
I use a lot of views for abstraction and backward compatibility.

Rollback is always difficult on live systems, especially when the data propagate to integrations. I try to always have 'first created' and 'last changed' time stamp, and first created and last changed user. If the job is automatic the “user” should be traceable back to the individual job, not some generic system user.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/... linked in another comment
Because we learned in the 20th Century that intentionally concentrating lots of poor people in substandard housing leads to ghettoization and slums.
Making Better Fitting Facemasks with a Quick 3D Printed Frame
But you weren't by yourself. There were airline employees there the whole time.
Patiently awaiting the obligatory HN 'iPhone considered harmful' thread at this point with complementary link to a medium article. Seriously though after the San Bernardino shooter fiasco and the ongoing us government regulation demands it was basically all but guaranteed apple would pull all the stops to get Sam off their back.
Or get noticed by the right person/people.

I think one of the issues is that as a species we are now much more talented than we were in the past through increased information transfer and improved education. If someone was absolutely amazing at, say, playing the piano 200 years ago, word would spread and they'd build up a reputation. Nowadays, I can go on to YouTube or Twitch and see thousands of people who are virtuosos of any instrument I could care to listen to.

So to counter that, you need some other sort of edge or understanding of a market that could benefit you.. and thus begins marketing :-)
Does not make the price not absurd. And then you have researchers who have to ask friend of friend or otherwise hunt down articles.

These prices is how rich institutions gets even more advantage over those in less rich parts of world. And that is pretty much it.
This was actually tested by students at one of my universities; now if only I had a 3d printer...

https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2021/07/26/surgical-ma...
On the differences between shipping software and hardware:

> You don't demand that a piece of hardware suddenly do a completely different function. But people do that of software all the time.

These days you're lucky if your hardware continues to do the function you bought it for, let alone gaining new capabilities!
> Our average watch time of a live stream is 40 minutes

This seems like the big accomplishment to me. Lots of educational resources, but they aren’t that interesting or engaging.
Your game looks pretty impressive for just one person. Good luck
The motor was fine but the batteries couldn't keep up with fuel.
I personally use Firefox and have WebRtc disabled (about:config => media.peerconnection.enabled: false).

If I really need it I switch to Chromium.
It's fascinating how my (our?) opinion on Google has changed since 2004.
You are being misleading by intentionally changing the definition of the word "blockchain". Everyone here knows the difference between Git and what people mean when they say blockchain. You're just conflating the two, using your new definition to create a straw man, and then attacking the straw man.
Imagine a world where banks actually tried to solve problems
The AI act is really a strange effort to regulate technology horizontally without even being able to define it's scope. Many who have read it believe it ends up regulating all computer logic in critical infrastructure (while making this definition wide as well) . I have tried to comment on this through various channels (local government/associations), because it seems a really strange "horizontal" regulation that could have huge side effects. I hope more people will point out the problems of the current proposal. I am really a proponent of both the GDPR and AI ethics for most parts but this one is really going too far .
Crypto Firms Want Fed Payment Systems Access–and Banks Are Resisting
There are videos of the tragic crash on YouTube, but this one of the aftermath is quite something: https://youtu.be/rPyvuBbhAAs
i'll be on linux!
For substantive projects, whether you 100% need a blockchain to have a business related to the idea is not the right question.

This is about creating commons for people to use that is trusted. It's fundamentally a different paradigm and mindset.

Can you technically do something similar to your idea with Postgres? So what. Do you have to put some degree of trust in another party? So what. That doesn't eliminate completely any benefit of an auditable system.
You mean like they supported bootcamp "officially" and then just took it away suddenly with M1? I don't see how that is different then having unofficial support and apple then locking down a new Mac. In either case you lost support with a new hardware platform.
Ansible and Puppet are tools that do very different things. I mostly agree with you, but Ansible does work decently as an orchestrator.

You want to use tools like Puppet and Terraform to define the state of your systems, and Ansible to run operations on those systems, because not everything is stateless; trying to upgrade a database with Puppet or Terraform will be painful, but Ansible won't have trouble.

I do wish it had static typing (Puppet took 4 major releases to finally get it and its type system is its best feature over alternatives) and less YAML, but it is what it is...
I think parent commenter didn't imply what you are saying he did. He meant surgical strikes on sites and continued assassinations to prevent Iran from getting the bomb.
I don't claim to and I'd be happy for you if you could make the exit. Just think of my words when my prophecy comes true.
EPILOGUE

Here's the exact point of the crash (cued to 5 seconds prior): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrRoSdBM5M&t=9778s

The counter overflows/resets, everything wraps around, the system counts 6 more seconds, then Windows 95 freezes.

The mouse cursor still seems to work, but the message pump seems to have frozen, to the extent that End Task itself is unresponsive, and a second CTRL-ALT-DEL is needed to reset the machine.

---

This whole thing started back in July, over here (warning: megathread): https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1413694652822163459
I don’t know how to do that when extremists from “both sides” dominate the discussion. If you have any ideas or groups to link to.
NetBeans is dead because JetBrains was a better NetBeans.
A blockchain is a distributed, append-only database with a "consensus mechanism" which dictates who gets to append new information to the database. So far, all the consensus mechanisms that I know of employ a game of chance to select who gets to append the data.
> I get pushback on this opinion from my friends, so I expect this to be an unpopular opinion here also: the cost of meat should be priced to also cover external costs of water and harm to the environment.

Maybe that would have some kind of effect, but what exactly?

Greenhouse gas emissions by sector:

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

> Energy: 73.2%

> Agriculture, forestry and land use: 18%

> Waste: 3.2%

> Industry: 5.2%

Each piece of the pie is further broken down and so you can see that, for example:

> Agriculture etc > Livestock & manure: 5.8%

> Energy > Food and tobacco: 1%

The majority of emissions comes from burning fossil fuels. Additionally, fossil fuels produce gases that were buried in the soil for aeons, whereas meat production produces gasses most of which are re-absorbed by the soil. See carbon cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

To be more specific, as the article says:

> Livestock & manure (5.8%): animals (mainly ruminants, such as cattle and sheep) produce greenhouse gases through a process called ‘enteric fermentation’ – when microbes in their digestive systems break down food, they produce methane as a by-product. This means beef and lamb tend to have a high carbon footprint, and eating less is an effective way to reduce the emissions of your diet.

So cutting down on meat is an effective way to reduce the contribution to greenhouse gas emissions of your diet. Your largest contributions are your (direct or indirect) use of fossil fuels.

Furthermore, the majority of eemissions in meat production come from ruminants. Chicken and pork should are not ruminants and you should probably exclude them from your taxation suggestion.
I've already got something just like this, only its better: the m5StickC:

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/stick-c

It is truly dee-lightful to sit and play with this environment, made even more awesome by the depth of the PlatformIO library system.

See also, PineWatch, similar ..
maybe, depends what you want for your career. imo best thing about working at google is just having it on your resume, which you already have
Sorry. This blurb made me think cooked books:

> Notably, the company told prospective investors in 2014 that the company was on track to break even and generate $100 million in revenue. It brought in little more than $100,000 for that period.

Even if there was no cooking, how can they miss the mark by 1000x? How can VC be like “oh shit we were deceived. They said 100 million and it was 100 thousand.” It’s not rocket science to look at the operations of a company to determine if their claims are off by 1000x.

Edit: spelling.
Yes. I don’t think a reasonable interpretation of my comment is that I’m in favor of slaughtering the population.
I can assure you, as the world’s leading behavioral psychologist, a former Miss Universe, and the winner of last year’s Eurovision contest, that the poster is totally qualified to speak on the topic.
Apple can also silently create a stealthy virtual device that will get all messages as your phone does
What specifically in a newer X86 chip would justify this ?
This is an insightful comment.

Whenever someone loses their account the first thing they do is run to the vendor and flip their shit when the vendor is unable to do anything.

I imagine from a business perspective it’s just better to keep access to data, sometimes without nefarious reasons like advertising, rather just keeping customers happy.
Or use Linux and just have a system that works forever, literally.

If you are a newbie, try PopOS.
No he didn't...? The final sentence of my reply is

>"Maybe the host would also reflect that diversity in order to show that it’s not just white males who can be the gatekeepers to these values."

The word maybe ought to strike you, there. The previous sentence outlines the two priorities, "a passion for knowledge and a respect for a diverse community", but that last sentence merely suggests that it need not be another white guy.

From this, you synthesized

>>Richards is just another, factory-produced white man inseparable from a sea of others. We cannot possibly represent diversity--because we are all identical. Whereas choosing a ethnic minority is a breath of fresh air that we can all rattle our pom-poms over.

To justify this screed, or even your first post, with such an insane logical leap makes me wonder about, as MLK said, the content of your character.
From the article, it sounds like they mostly don't trust the car to not get confused and shut down in the middle of a trip.
Because the game is hideous.

https://youtu.be/nGAz0RcZCk4
People should obviously get vaccinated, yes.

It does suggest that the vaccines could be improved to be even more effective.

It’s also interesting that the people most resistant to delta are people that were both infected and vaccinated.
Australia Is Paralysed by Fear
It does have a web app, but they make it incredibly hard to find. I’m not surprised that some don’t even know about it
The ”new information” is that jury selection starts Tuesday.
Well, there are building-sized shake tables:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kKcIsBKDo
Once implimented a mulitlingual cms using xml schema, doctypes and xslt. The lifting was done by a server i called saw. Servlet action wrappers. Maps for namespaces led to varying transforms. XSLTs produced html, applet editors, flash, etc. Was fun. 29 markets. Bonus, was running in blackdown jvm on netbsd. Had to use oracle for db. But there were idls for as400s in the mix to.
Counterpoint is when you're spending cycles thinking about the weird language you're not spending cycles on creative programming, however adding chaos and restraint is a time-tested path to innovation.
Want to inspire kids to learn more about computers? Cute version of Apple-1
This would make sense if "number of homeless people sleeping in a registered shelter" was in any way a useful statistic. Without a denominator, such as number of available shelter beds, and other data such as where are the shelters in relation to clusters of homeless people... it can tell a lot of different stories.

There are millions of variables that inform "the homeless problem" and isolating a pretty minor one -- political affiliation of a single politician in the nation's largest city, overseen by both state and federal governments -- just strikes me as really simplistic.
Because Israels government doesn't have any interest in using nuclear weapons on Iran, or the population there. Iran's government states time after time they want to wipe Israel off the map. Whether they would actually do it, I don't know, but it is part of their politics, like other issues are in the USA. Also because Saudi Arabia and Israel, nor any of the other countries we are allied to want them to have nuclear capabilities.
My personal favorite is the 'what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone' one.
Nowhere in the article does it say doomed. Its 2021, can we stop flogging the commies yet?

The Tupolev was an absolute engineering masterpiece given the constraints it operated under. This thing had to transport regular people and land at practically any airport, something Concorde never did.
Toast S-1
I don't know if anyone else felt this, but I've experienced a real sense of calm and relief in the past couple days since reading an analysis of this paper.

I'm not on social media (except Nextdoor - ugh), but sometimes I find it hard to not challenge people who say really noxious things in online comments. I was brought up in a family of legal scholars who approach political and interpersonal debate with facts, proofs, and Socratic reasoning. And so I fall into arguing with online trolls who seem to sense that they can get me worked up just by their sheer unwillingness to engage in civil, reasonable conversation.

My takeaway from this paper was that it's not the online environment causing otherwise-normal people to act as trolls. It's that online trolls drown out more reasonable voices, and that they're not nice people in real life. They meet the definition of psychopaths. They are not people who can be swayed by logic or nuance IRL any more than they could be online. They're likely not even interested in whatever falsehoods they're spouting other than trying to get satisfaction by pushing people's buttons. In other words, if you ran into them at a bar, you wouldn't have a conversation with them. You wouldn't even go to the places they go. You wouldn't have them over to dinner and try to have a civil discussion. They are too busy at home beating their wives or whatever it is psychotic people do when they're not trolling online.

And this gave me a sense of relief, because now I feel I can ignore them better. I can think of them as people like my SO's abusive father, or my abusive half-brother. People you just don't speak to and don't engage because you won't give them the satisfaction. I know "don't feed the trolls" is nothing new, per se, but somehow it's something I've been good at IRL and bad at online for most of my life. Because online I give people the benefit of the doubt that they're more than what they appear to be at first blush. This essentially proves that they are one-to-one the same people you wouldn't have anything to do with in real life, and for me that's a powerful reason to just walk away and ignore them.
Just like some board members like to get hands dirty and run things themselves. Musk is this type. But that's an exception.
No, certain industry used to require that like financial industry.

Of course, the state controlled joint venture gives more benefit on the table, like any business deals.

Use your brain...

US capitalists are the best and smartest. You think they are willing to subject to such draconic rullings?!
Sure - I guess I should have said disputes.
That’s why I keep it quarantined to my work computer. If friends/family want to use it, I use it on there.
I was just looking at their compatibility for my perfectly powerful laptop (Dell Latitude e5570 with i7-6820HQ) and was sad to see it won’t support Windows 11. Very sad
Encrypted backups should be a user option at the very least.
List of Electronic Trading Protocols
You have your programming language. Now, you design a special-purpose DSL (using macros or whatever) in which to express solutions to your problem. Now you have two languages. (apologies to Jamie Zawinski)

The issue is: Management of Complexity, not how to efficiently express complexity. This is why we have layers - layers are a kind of DSL; and this is where most complexity lies. Clear layering -- including defining the functions of each layer -- is how Complexity is tamed. (And this can be successfully done in assembly language, if you want.)

The main reason to master weird languages is: Fun.
Past threads with comments (not many):

This is Water [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27747931 - July 2021 (1 comment)

David Foster Wallace: This Is Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507754 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

David Foster Wallace: This Is Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405924 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

This Is Water – David Foster Wallace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436613 - July 2018 (3 comments)

This Is Water – David Foster Wallace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12482325 - Sept 2016 (3 comments)

This is Water - David Foster Wallace's commencement speech from 2005 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731340 - May 2013 (4 comments)

This Is Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685071 - May 2013 (1 comment)

David Foster Wallace: This is Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679086 - May 2013 (2 comments)

This is Water (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672961 - May 2013 (1 comment)

"This is water, this is water." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909239 - Aug 2011 (29 comments)

This is Water (David Foster Wallace on Life) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342230 - March 2011 (1 comment)
It's a shortcut to the old mobile site, yeah. "i" for iPhone. Not to be confused with i.redd.it, which hosts images.
I think my tone came across as more elitist than I meant. I certainly suffer from all of these issues! I enjoy working with data and ML so I'm aware of and try to actively combat them in myself but I'd be lying if I were to say I haven't succumbed to these problems myself in the past and don't continue to do so.
IIRC, there was a long period of time where the max uptime on a Unix system was ~94 days. That makes a lot of sense.
Settings->User->iCloud->Manage Storage->Backups.
Hard no on CBDCs- they're subject to the same fiat abuses we already have