skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The founders didn't want a strong federal government

The founders very much didn't at the time of the founding. The framers by the time of the Constitution (a little over a decade later, and many of the same people) had moved quite a bit toward a strong central government based on the immediately-revealed practical problems with the abstract vision at the founding in functioning in the real world. Woth more experience, more practical problems were revealed; the Civil War being a key, but far from the only important, point in that process.
Something about the landing page invoked Team Treehouse visual style: https://teamtreehouse.com/
Since the author mentionned it, is the 12 factor app still a best practice? Was it a best practice? I saw the website a few times and all of it makes sense for me, but I haven't seen much discussion about it.
I personally like wxWidgets:
https://www.wxwidgets.org/

It's open source, the code has always felt reasonably clean to me, and it gives your apps native look and feel.
It used to be encrypted before upload to google, and then … one day it just wasn’t (but came with the “candy” that it no longer counts against your account quota). I could never found any explanation for this, best hypothesis I found is that it’s a backdoor for law enforcement without admitting it.

I would be surprised, given everything happening in the world today, if the new system does not somehow allow law enforcement to get access (possibly indirectly, through the app giving the key in some weird back channel)
A process akin to Bogosort
Maybe the change is not reddit, maybe it's you growing up?

For some reason I still waste my time there trying to share opinions as a HK resident: no China is not just "evil", not Hong Kong is not "oppressed", yes the old idiots, communists or not, are all the same conservative cowards as anywhere else, no we dont seem to really want a bloodbath, so far.

You can imagine the amount of weird obsessive hatred I get with this opinion, from people who ve never been to China :D
I think it will be fine, but the one big worry that I have, is that I expect a significant percentage of these "alternatives" to point to scams.

That will put Apple in another hot spot. If someone reports that an approved app has scam links in the app, will Apple be on the hook to block the app? If they do, will that, then open them up to charges? What about if they don't?

I have been quite impressed with the ingenuity of scammers. The Apple customer base is a lucrative target. I am constantly getting hijack attempts and phishing scams, aimed at my AppleID.
I am trying currently to develop a learning system. I am by nature very curious and love reading and learning. I read daily 10s pages, articles, books, watch videos in many subject. However, I find myself forgetting most of it. Yesterday, I saw a wonderful book which I read last year (The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion), and I realized I don't even remember the main thesis of the book! This was a book that had a strong effect on me. Something is broken in the way I consume knowledge.

I feel that the main issue lies in the lack of repetition. I read a book on a subject, think about it a bit, then move on to something else, and in a year or so nothing is retained. The spaced repetition theory seems to provide an answer to this.

I have currently stumbled upon the software SuperMemo. In addition to the usual card stuff from anki, it allows something called "Incremental reading". This feels like the solution to my problem. The idea is that you read to learn. You can read about it more here http://super-memory.com/help/read.htm#Introduction_to_increm... but the main concepts are that:

- you add your readings to a priority queue

- the software schedule for you the readings

- you read and distill the main information at the same time

- the software revisits the information that you have distilled in intervals, each time you revisit information you improve over your distillation and create flashcards from it

I am still learning this new approach. I have to say, the software is extremely complicated and badly designed. I would love something like this would exist as a plugin to roam. A way for you to at the same time:

- determine the priorities of your reading and orchestrate them

- build a wiki-like knowledge graph

- easily create flash cards

- extract knowledge from articles
Check my other reply, Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material supports this. No affiliation, just started using it myself.
> if people didn’t have to work to survive

Living has always required energy, effort, and skill. How can we get around this without some sort of parasitic relationship? Do you have any recommendation for some reading for a sustainable model? From my understanding, UBI is largely unproven.
Seemed like the blog post was more about note taking, but this ethos is why I like Twitter.

I realized that I have always enjoyed blogging. A medium that encourages terseness, has minimal friction to post, and provides a decently-sized audience lets me talk about my life in a way that makes me choose words more carefully.
It appears that the beliefs of most of the people who are opposed to it are based on incorrect assumptions (for example kimono -> geisha). Put another way, the people who are using it are neither intending to be insulting, racist, or sexist, and the people complaining about don't have a legitimate reason to be unhappy, because their analysis is just wrong.
But yet you can by directly from Amazon in their app without using Apple. How can Apple say that they cannot sell eBooks directly on Kindle app, but allow direct sells from the retail store?
Not op:

Likely because each ISP pushes configurations remotely and you need a way to update the fpgas. Things like your upload/download speeds are controlled by the modem not the head end. Additionally there is a web interface for initial setup and troubleshooting.

Almost assuredly vxworks
But the method is identical. Get cells to present the proteins you want blasted. One uses direct mRNA deposition, the other hoodwinks denatured viruses into doing exactly the same thing.

mRNA isn't a scary new thing, it's a fundamental part of cell function. The clever new thing here is that we can bung it directly into cells to make proteins without having to mess around with carrier viruses.

Hundreds of millions of people have been exposed to covid and have also had a vaccine now, so even forgetting that there's no theoretical problem here, it has a physically tested track record.
A while back I got in trouble at work because I was perceived as being too direct in emails. IMO my mails were fine, and I varied the level of directness depending on the target audience - but others felt differently, so I started padding them out with fluff and niceties, and unfortunately it became a habit that I've found difficult to break.

And inevitably, some people have since said that my mails should come with a TL;DR! Sure enough, I feel like I used to be succinct, and now I'm just overly verbose, with redundant sentences, and sometimes seemingly rambling.

Hell, if you made it this far through this rambling comment, well done ;)
That's not really what lock-in means.

An example of lock-in is making a conscious decision not to port iMessage to Android, specifically because it would make it easier for iPhone users to move to Android[0].

Making Apple products work well with other Apple products isn't lock-in. Purposefully making Apple products work worse with other systems, phrased within the company as a way to punish users who switch, is the kind of thing we're talking about when we describe lock-in.

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-never-made-i...
For sensitive software like these, we should make them open-source so that more eyeballs are looking at it..
During the Cuban Missile Crisis Castro was certainly ready to use them and certainly ready to suffer the consequences.

Clip from Fog of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUfBc4qQMg
> > The founders put in the bill of rights to limit the federal government's actions, not state government actions.

> The Bill of Rights limits both

No, it doesn’t.

Guarantees equivalent to most provisions of the Bill of Rights have been applied to the States through the 14th Amendment under the Incorporation Doctrine.
> but the private on

Oracle was massive in the private sector 10 years ago, and it probably still is once you dig past the surface layer of nosql

Don’t forget that for a long term it was either Oracle or DB2
What portion of payments go to people not making $1m revenue? Hard to believe it is a large portion.
I unlocked my learning through working on cars and programming.

Learning theory is useless for me, at some point I used to think that I may be dumb. It wasn't until I reached college and was top of class in all CS classes. Not bragging I honestly used to think I was not intelligent.

I learn through books and videos. However, the real learning happens to me when I am given a problem and need to come up with a solution.

As an example, I didn't know anything electrical about cars, I also had just an idea of how a fuel system works. Until, I installed an engine in my car and it would not start without any error codes. I went and studied the complete fuel system and how it works. Everything was just clicking as I had a faint idea of it.

Then, I did a bit of troubleshooting after reading, I figured out part of the puzzle, the fuel pump on the engine was not powering on. Therefore, it was power issue. I started reading about everything electrical, how to test if the fuel pump is getting power.....and discovered that it was lose ground.

Today, I am complete car nerd, I know how to use professional scanners and read data from different sensors. I no longer replace things in the dark.

Plus, this boosted my programming skills. Building business applications I never encountered a problem I could not solve.

I even studied negotiating techniques before car buying to practice. This allowed me to double my salary in 3 years as a software dev. I am ice cold during salary negotiations and can recognize tactics potential employers or recruiters can use to gain an advantage.
Magic Leap is still going, they’re trying to sell to businesses now. I’ve no idea how they’re doing, though I expect they’ll need to make a lot of sales to recoup all the investors money.
the one problem containers solved for me better than anything I ever used in previous UNIX/LINUX is heirarchical resource tracking. I work with many codes that fork from their main binary and do their work in subprocesses. If your resource manager isn't scraping /proc to invert the process tree, it needs a way to assign resources to process trees such that the entire tree sum cannot exceed the resource limitation.
Not sure about other countries, but in the US, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2011) ensures that merchants are allowed to offer cash discounts.

> A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...
So you don't support M1 Macs ?
Birth defects are not the problem here. Even cities which were bombed in wwii didn’t have extreme levels of birth defects. The numbers I have seen estimate an increase from the current 6% to something like 6.1% after nuclear war. The completely breakdown of power generation and supply chains would be a much bigger threat.
I'm not. Amazon does the same thing: produce a great end product, and users won't give a shit about what you did behind closed doors to get it that way.
this guy came to the same conclusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
We had similar experiences, and now use varchar 99, varchar 999, varchar 9999. The purpose of the "9" digits is to highlight that it's our plausible guesstimate for "good enough" and can be increased later, rather than any definite unchangeable limit.
Yes they do support that.
This is a big money maker for AAPL, they'll probably need to raise the profit margins on their hardware to make up for the lost revenue.
This sort of speaks to what the GP was talking about -- not following guidelines and frameworks.

For example,

>On top of rotating passwords on a yearly basis

> rotating passwords for users every 90 days

NIST 800-63B, as of 2017, explicitly advised against this.

"Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically)." [1]

[1]https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
60-80 million china
20 million russia
8 million germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide#:~:text=After%20study....
>The modern office is designed around a type of person: A morning person, an extrovert, and someone with no kinds of sensory or attention issues.

As someone with a sensory disorder, I'm literally looking for a new job now to avoid getting dragged back to the office full time. WFH has been a real blessing to me, my morale is far better as I can completely eliminate the horribly harsh lighting and endless churning soundscape of noises that all offices seem to have. Add that to my being very much not a morning person I genuinely think I'll never set foot in an office again, certainly not on the traditional schedule.

Companies will have to adapt or die to the new reality that many people who aren't morning people, aren't extroverts, and/or have sensory disorders find offices shitty environments to spend a third or more of their life in. The future is giving employees a choice of environment that suits their quality-of-life needs I think.
You may have already bit too hard into the ecosystem when you use Apple marketing terms like "retina display" instead of hiDPI.

There are more than one better laptop across all of those metrics as a whole.

One thing Apple does do significantly differently is moving along tech (for better or worse) because the other OEMs can be timid in their experimentation until a generation after a big switch in Apple hardware.

I bought an ASUS Zenbook last year and I can thank Apple for setting trends for hiDPI, DCI-P3 displays, Thunderbolt, and big trackpads. But on the flipside, I can lament Apple for bad trends and it not having a 1/8" headphone jack and soldered RAM. And because it wasn't Apple I have a touchscreen+stylus and saved a lot of money.

The newest trend of using ARM (and RISC) processors in laptops (could care less about what Apple brands it as) is a good one though. There have been attempts at good ARM chips, like Samsung's flagship ultrabook, but too many applications didn't run on it to make it feasible. I had an old Chromebook I slapped Linux on and it was a mess because certain applications, namely anything leveraging Electron or just having a .deb file, wouldn't run. For better or worse, people have to cater to Apple making such switches. Now you have started to see projects actually release binaries outside of x86.
Are Jews white? I'm one and I don't know. Until about 1980 Jewish was separate category from Caucasian on my school forms. I've been told by a KKK member that I'm not white. We appear to be designated as white for purposes of accounting for privilege. To some people it depends on whether we are Ashkenazi or Sephardic. So a hate crime against Jews might or might not be about whiteness.
"V" is a very simple versioned publication system (there's an explanatory link in the article.)

Vpatches are backwards-compatible with ordinary gnupatch. (can simply execute "patch -p0 < nameofpatch" for the sequence.) "V" has nothing directly to do with Bitcoin.
OK, you got me at ffmpeg! By bash history and search history are littered with fighting that gem.

But youtube-dl, the subject of this post, is another matter. Using it is a simple matter of `$ youtube-dl <url-to-video>`, the former which is bash-completed after two characters and the latter which is a paste. Surely that's quicker than any GUI.
Yeah, a shell is just interacting with a bunch of text, and once you've built up some familiarity with Emacs you can reuse everything you've learned (search, autocomplete, cut/paste, and once you have some elisp skills then basically anything).

One of my annoyances with VSCode, which I do think will one day eat the world, is that it still seems the basic level of abstraction is too high. So there's a separate terminal window, which I always have to tell to go away, and which has its own key bindings. What I want is just a text buffer running my shell, that behaves like every other text buffer. Same with the database clients available for VSCode - stop building UIs, just give me text with a process running in the background. The editor is already all the UI I need.
WhatsApp Gets End-to-End Encrypted Chat Backups
I mean, I think there are use-cases where a schema would bring real improvement:

- Error messages: A validator doesn't just have to tell you that a document is invalid, it can also tell you why it is invalid and what you have to do to fix it.

- Better editors or viewers: If e.g. an IDE knows that your JSON is "really" a record or a graph or a table, it could show some specialized UI and make it easier to view or edit those documents.

- Smarter auto-formatting: A schema-aware pretty-printer could format JSON in a way that's better readable than just putting every field on one line.

- Documentation generation: e.g. Swagger does this well: You pass it a schema file and it generates a polished HTML documentation, complete with examples and interactive web client.

- Code generation: You could auto-generate parsers, serialisers or data structures that are specialized for a particular schema. This would probably be most useful for low-level languages or other languages where working with generic JSON is inconvenient.

- More efficient storage: A data store that "knows" that all documents conform to a particular schema could optomize by storing/querying only the schema's data structures and not a generic JSON DOM. (Though to be fair, it's not clear how large the performance improvements from this would be, especially compared to a DB that learns similar information from the usage patterns and data that is actually stored)

That's a lot of "could"s though. So far, I haven't seen a lot of those use-cases realized. What also frequently baffles me is that use-cases almost seem like an afterthought in schema design. Most specs and blog posts (like this one) read as if a schema doesn't really need any justification and actual uses are just a nice bonus.

Instead of an overengeneered spec, I'd prefer an actual software suite which realizes some of the above use-cases - and then brings a well-designed schema language with it.

I believe Swagger/OpenAPI started this way, which might be how they gained traction at all. But judging from the OP, they seem to be taken over by the astronauts again...
What probably harms consumers the most is that companies with large purses have an outsized influence on policy and typically write their own regulations that serve to generate additional profit and make it difficult for new entrants to the market to emerge. You don't need to have a monopoly for that, just a good old fasioned colluding industry and a politician who cares more about their individual wealth than the collective good of their electorate that they represent.
Haha, nice :D.

Thanks. Now I wish the company I work for would drop their plan to bring me back in office next week and just settle instead for a day or two of mandatory presence in the office per month (crossing fingers while you do your magic).
I think that no. Writing is separate skill. It has nothing to do how you internal thinking os nor whether it is sloppy.

It has a lot tondonwith whether you tried to learn writing, found good teachers or other resources. Learning to write won't make your thinking different, but you will be able to express things.
Microsofts documentation is a mixed bag, but mostly rather good, if you know how to read it.

An example of a place where it's bad is the Python API for Azure. I needed to call some service, I forget which, and everything was clearly just translated from C#. There's a function which takes a string as an input, except it doesn't, it takes one of three string, neither of which is mentioned. I assume that in C# it's an enum, and Visual Studio will just list the option for you.
Containerization built in to the OS, with strict privacy controls on what containers can access inside of other containers.

All applications run in its own container, unless they are granted granular permissions to do otherwise.

The code and assets for a program belong in its own quarantined section, not spread out over the filesystem or littered around /etc/, /var/

Built in networking for these containers.
Could be an issue with content blockers and safari. The page works fine with safari for me.
I believe that's where the selection comes in. You only select those you want to doom to failure/remove.
You can buy physical goods in the Amazon app, but not digital books.
Tauri looks promising if you can code Rust
Many of the pieces of information we attempt to communicate have low semantic complexity and information density. They translate very nicely into an outline or a list of lists.

Other things are very difficult to convey, type systems, multiple levels of interpretation, multiple levels of VMs and runtimes, and things that are spread out over time or inter-related in complex ways.

One thing your dyslexic friend may have is a lack of context and bullet points are the fastest way to a) build context and b) provide roots to be able to hang more information off of.

tl;dr both.
> What I discovered the hard way, when open offices took over, is that seeing somebody reading a book PISSES EVERYBODY OFF. I can't comprehend why, but when people could see that I was reading a book - even a book about Java or XML or web services or whatever happened to be new at that time - they would come over within a few minutes and ask "what are you reading? Why are you reading that? Shouldn't you be programming? Aren't you a programmer? Why aren't you staring at your computer all the time?" Even people that had no business policing my time.

That's a red flag right there.

I've seen companies where you were expected to have a stack of books on your desk or in a bookcase in your office. Not reading was considered bizarre behavior.
Kinda of harkens back to that Mat Velloso quote: "Difference between machine learning and AI: If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning; if it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI."[1]

Beyond that I think that branding things as "AI" in the way we do today gets around the John McCarthy truism: "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more."[2]

1. https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1065778379612282885
2. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/138907-john-mccarthy/fu...
> this idea that public servants are ineffective has become a self-fulfilling prophecy

This is spot on and something I’ve also felt when working close to government.
Aren't all the lithium batteries of the sort you're talking about labelled as 3v? A lithium cell would need a buck circuit to do 1.5v
Sciter [1] is kind of a really lightweight electron. It's about 8Mb, cross platform, and you can either run it standalone (like electron) or use it as a library from Rust/D/Python/C#/whatever. You pay for the small size with a lack of compatibility with the existing Javascript ecosystem. Any moderately complex JavaScript library that interacts with the dom will probably use something that Sciter doesn't implement, so you end up reimplementing stuff like graph libraries. On the other hand there are a couple of very useful additional APIs that regular browsers don't have (like SQLite, control over window borders, transparent windows etc).

1: https://sciter.com/