skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just as Samson after being shorn of his hair was left eyeless in Gaza, was this generation, stripped bare of all faith, to be left comfortless on Bondi Beach, citizens of the kingdom of nothingness, who booze and surf while waiting for the barbarians?"

- Manning Clark on the settling of Australia.
relevant bit from Tolstoy "...every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Based on the observed fact that as societies become more sophisticated, they shift away from coal and oil to renewables and nuclear.

What will happen is not dependent on the US or the EU. It depends entirely on India and China.
Darwin and MacOS aren't really all that related to NeXTSTEP, on purpose.

NeXTSTEP had proprietary UNIX code in it, and required a UNIX license from AT&T to distribute. Additionally, the display manager (infamously) was based on Display Postscript, which also required a license from Adobe.

My understanding (which is by no means 100% certain! the following is my best guess) is XNU and Darwin were almost complete "rewrites" of NeXTSTEP, preserving the "idea" but with new code.

NeXT's Mach 2 based kernel and BSD userland, which seems to have been very similar to the system developed by Avie Tevanian at CMU and used on their VAXen, was replaced with XNU, which used a Mach 3 derivative from DEC's OSF/1 project, coupled with a new (non-AT&T encumbered!) BSD userland and kernel "module"/personality based on an amalgam of then forks of 4.4BSD-Lite/386BSD, namely FreeBSD and NetBSD (several big bits of libc are from NetBSD).

Point being, I doubt they've copied/pasted large chunks of Free/NetBSD into Darwin/XNU since the late 90s/early 2000s. There was been code flow between the two, but I doubt they'd backport big features like jails (and linux emulation).

(not to mention that Apple's own MACF framework seems to take the place of jails in the code -- see https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/bsd/kern/kern_... vs https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sys/kern/ke...)
That is an interesting point but now we need a different metaphor…the table stakes are different for each player at the table?
the only thing missing is competent leadership

I keep hearing this every now and then, but the incompetent leadership does not come from nowhere nor has conceived itself. The country leaders have been legitimately elected, which means the leadership is the direct reflection of the country people's will. People consciously elect incompetence that bears the incompetent leadership, for that is what they desire for one reason or another. There are a few progressive, young parties that could steer the future of Australia in the right direction with progressive policies that make sense in the 21st century. Guess what? An average Australian does not care about the progress, they care about their real estate portfolio in maintaining the status quo for a change is scary and frightens people. Politics have become a career ladder excercise with public servants serving their own self-interest rather than working out differences between differing views and opinions and working towards a modern future of the country. Australia has been become mired in complacency, pipe dreaming and discussing how Labour is better over Liberals (or the other way around) whereas both parties are more or less the same in the grand scheme of things.
My apologies, that was written from a purely anglocentric perspective.
"Of the 661 participants, 178 (27%) had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 indicating they had been infected. "

While this is good news, I'm not exactly going to bet the house on this being 100% concrete when only 178 infections were in this test
Just email yourself?
I had to fix a similar thing in our internal password reset email sender last year. The code was doing something like:

for each user in (get_freeipa_users | grep_attribute uid):
email = (get_freeipa_users | client_side_find user | grep_attribute email)
last_change = (get_freeipa_users | client_side_find user | grep_attribute krblastpwdchange)
expiration = (get_freeipa_users | client_side_find user | grep_attribute krbpasswordexpiration)

# Some slightly incorrect date math...

send_email

I changed it to a single LDAP query for every user that requests only the needed attributes. It cut that Jenkins job's runtime from 45 minutes to 0.2 seconds.
You're right, it is not there. However I managed to find this dang's message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14344280
Sounds like most of the brighter clouds generated would be over the ocean in this particular scenario, so shouldn’t affect plants too much.
Man sentenced for charging businesses inflated prices in printer toner scam
The problem is that if you can't really just standardize every subsystem unless you're willing to give compromise your mission in the name of a one-sizw-fits-all approach. Presumably the people who built JWST passed on of-the-shelf busses for a reason. Imagine if you to tried to force JWST's bus onto every satellite:

people who don't care about pointing accuracy end up spending zillions of dollars so they can have fraction of an arc-second precision

satellites that are in Earth orbit have different thermal needs than one in L2

satellites that are less weight sensitive waste money on carbon fiber

an instrument that needs to be cooled down to 50K doesn't need a JWST-tier cryocooler, etc.

You could try having a range of things, e.g. small, medium, and large bus with a handful of interchangeable subsystems. But you're still asking designers to sacrifice their precious size, weight & power requirements
"Fastmail responds to well formed warrants [and] will continue to do so, for any legislation that applies to us both now and in the future."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28410178
It's "for our safety".

For context, I'm Australian and have just come back after almost 20 years away, living around the world.

Safety is now the absolute most important thing in Australia above everything else. Sadly, it's now more important than enjoying life.

I'll be leaving, only come back to visit family from time to time. I have zero interest in living here.
Under the current leadership the LNP inches closer to the GOP with each passing day, so, I don't expect they'll be perpetually to the left of the Republicans.
Was reading about food and economic disaster in Sri Lanka and how much of their problems would be solved with cheap coal electric and fertilizer plants. If we had an easy way to counter global warming, maybe countries could more easily borrow funds for such projects.
> b) 50 requests a minute is so atrociously bad, it’s not even worth talking about.

That was a typo, the worst performance they tested was 54 reqs / second.
This is so bad. I have no other words.
It should be if it's hateful towards 50%+ of the country's population.
Somewhat OT: What is Meddler-in-the-Middle? I can’t find anything about it, is it just another term for MitM, or is it more nuanced?
People tie themselves in knots to try and explain why the new stance aligns with civil liberties. Sure. So the logical next question is what is the point of the ACLU? Maybe they are continuing to do good work in other areas and should continue to be supported. But with respect to maintaining individual rights during a pandemic, right or wrong who cares, they are now just another "progressive" mouthpiece of whom there are many, parroting an unoriginal opinion. So why would anyone continue to care about their role in this area?
Or, alternatively, the engineer that worked on this at Apple has just read the above as another way of solving the problem and is throwing this on their backlog for tomorrow..
> You say this when someone brings up their daily coffee in real life, and not just this one time online?

We're talking about degrees. If someone I knew could not function without coffee, yes, I would suggest they talk to a doctor.

I don't know why this is controversial. Vices are great. I have plenty myself. But it's not good to have a dependency on anything...
Typically I can't find any reliable stats on the spot, but I recall the reduction in photosynthesis from ordinary heavy cloud cover alone can be up to 85% - with most photosynthesis happening whilst there is only light (or even no) cloud cover.

Probably this would have minimal effect on light cloud cover and there is already not a great deal happening during heavy cloud.
The foundations of the internet and computing were built by people from the cold war when modern civilization was a technical glitch away from ending at any given time. Half the stuff in networking is decades old, written by people who are decades older then that and raised by the generation before them. Implying the internet is a byproduct of the recent "good times" seems a bit disingenuous.

The internet (FAANG if you want a concrete definition) and modern medicine are both multi-trillion dollar industries; for very fundamental reasons. I'd argue their relative success would probably occur in both good and bad times.
This just shifts enforcement to the courts, which are part of the government.
That is quality music! I have listened to many hours of this, and only one of the songs brought me to tears: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/25/items/78_how-can-you-refu... and from the radio drama section, John Finninmore's Souvenir program is tops: https://archive.org/download/JFSP56/0-101.mp3 and this one was among the most memorable: http://www.rusc.com/members/files/mp3/f/favs.1949.03.05_Bet_...
You can see the list of NIRCam filters here: http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/in_filters.php#wavelen...

Only F070W is partly human-visible, everything else is off into infrared, as you'd expect.
If I came into your house at gunpoint and literally took everything you own, would you say I stole your stuff, or that I conquered you?
> no one was allowed on the website until the back up was done

I'm assuming this was an internal website and backups were scheduled for evenings/weekends?
I think it was back in 2018, there was a bugged mandatory Windows Update package that was corrupted for weeks.

The system would ask you to reboot the computer, at which point it would try to install the update. That failed with a bluescreen, requiring an automatic restore. This process took around 30 minutes on an SSD.

So far seems innocuous, but the thing is, as this was a mandatory update, after one or two days it would display an un-dismissable popup over the entire screen demanding a restart, which would repeat the process above.

This caused data loss in applications if the user didn't have the opportunity to save whatever data was in memory. Remember, the popup is undismissable, there were no ahead of time warnings, and the timing varied (so you couldn't even rely on "the computer will fuck up at 16:03" or whatever).
I don't see what that really achieves when all the chips and OSes are backdoored. Not to mention the fact that the entire backbone is meticulously tracked.
I like xmlstarlet too, if only because it's old enough that I can reliably get it in package repositories and the dependency footprint is tiny (less an issue now with this tool written in Rust, but previously I was comparing to NPM- and PyPI-based affairs).
monkey paw curls

Introducing Windows 12, the worlds most powerful post-modern computing experience.
We also need a cloud darkener in case the cloud brightener makes things worse.
Ethereum or another crypto.
Photosynthesis is largely limited by water availability. Plants only uptake CO2 when they can open stomata, which is when they won’t dry out.
Exploring quantum gravity and entanglement using pendulums
That's a lot of words for an entry level Photoshop tutorial.
Seriously, why is it there? What purpose does it serve?
The allure of communism boils down to the promise of getting something for nothing. Of course that never works out.
But how are you going to validate your scientific discoveries if all the images are coming through the pipeline: "POS telescope > AI upscale"?
I think Bill Atkinson is more deserving of that comparison than Andy, and Andy Hertzfeld has been one of my heroes since I was a teenager. Hertzfeld is a brilliant engineer, but he had less to do with UI/X issues. Atkinson came up with the menubar, drag-and-drop, and a host of other GUI fundamentals that are seen as self-evident nowadays.

Definitely agree about the culture, though. The Mac group loved what they were doing, but that was not a healthy or sustainable way of working.
For $4k you could get an (old) refurbished R820 with 1.5TB of (old) DDR3 RAM.

Which is a far cry from the claimed 4TB, but still, damn.
de·moc·ra·tize
/dəˈmäkrəˌtīz/

verb

introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to.
"public institutions need to be democratized"

make (something) accessible to everyone.
"mass production has not democratized fashion"

https://www.google.com/search?q=democratize

I suppose that would be the second meaning.
To be clear, I find the automatic edits to usually be useful. I left my comment to explain why I flagged the article (assuming 'dang looks at flagged posts and then has to wonder "Why is this flagged?").
Could do? Yes, it's as easy as adding a contact to your phone. Wants to do? I'm sure some do and some don't, but I'd argue that there's conditioning involved there by these services so that is irrelevant.

I can think of a simple engineering solution to the problem of recommendations, an open API standard to fetch them should a user want that functionality. So it could work, but the hosts don't want it to work.

But that aside, just because a service makes recommendations doesn't mean the recommendation engine is more useful than randomly finding things or getting sent things by friends. I'd argue that YouTube recommendations, at least in their current iteration, are less useful to users than their friend sending them a video they were subscribed to, following random twitter accounts that share content they enjoy, or even a chronological list of uploads sorted with content tags. You're placing a lot of value on something that frankly is a raging dumpster fire of hot garbage.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/solve-pc-problem...

Nice things are that it doesn't disable the ability of the remote end to see what's happening and that it requires active input from both ends to make the connection so the machine isn't open to a fully remote takeover.
Hi there. I launched Europe’s leading dating website in Italy. Pls feel free to ping me.
You can open your lastpass vault in a tab, and use the "bookmarks" in their interface to ensure you are visiting the expected websites.

An authority on the topic suggests users avoid using browser extensions with their password managers:

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/passmgrs.html
What's behind the mouse cursor while you're doing it? Could it be the UX/UI layer keeping state up-to-date?

Other possibility, do you have a gaming mouse with 1000Hz polling rate configured?
The Democrats say that voting is being discouraged. What is being discouraged is invalid votes, to diminish fraud. Republicans would love to encourage an authentic black vote.
At least you can edit it after posting in order to correct it. But yes, why bother putting it if it’s just ignored?
Sounds impossible to park 900 satellites on the same L2 Lagrange point. Hope you realize this telescope is to be positioned on an infinitesimally small and unstable point in empty space, on the "far side of Earth" from the Sun. Because that's the spot with the best view, apparently.
Teams, that application that is notoriously slow, unstable and crashy AF...will soon be 100% baked in and inseparable from the rest of the OS.

[cue hyper-emotional MSFT spokesperson reaction GIF]
It still is. The fact that we are being lied to about how it’s a pittance does not obviate that.
Britney Spears’s Father Files to End Her Conservatorship
Bleach white minimalism is the thing I lament the most about 21st century design. And, when designers reluctantly put color and contrast back in, they tend to just give you light grays.
I agree that it's very important to clearly communicate the designs to the users. However, I feel that it's practically hard for many reasons. For example, it's hard to argue in the document why something is not done (e.g. why are entities referenced by pointer instead of string name). And also keep in mind that the document is read by people of various degrees of expertise. It's hard to make all of them happy.

In fact, when I first started using LLVM, I created a basic block and put everything into it. Then LLVM complains, and I learnt that a basic block must be a list of straight-lined operations followed by a branch. At that moment I was feeling similar to the author in this post: "Why is there such a bizzare rule that makes me harder to write my program?" But after I was forced to rewrite my code to conform with this rule, surprisingly, I found my program logic much easier to understand. And when I gradually knew a bit more about LLVM, I understood that the basic block rule is there for other very good reasons as well.

So is this good design? Clearly it is. This design decision not only helps with the library itself, but also forces the users to write code in a less error-prone way.

However, is it possible to justify this in the document, so another user won't have to go through my initial frustration? I am doubtful. At least my personal feeling is that, I won't be able to understand why it is designed this way, unless I actually have played around and experienced it myself.

I hope this clarifies my point on why sometimes it is hard to communicate design philosophies.
Google gave them a $99.9k credit.
Recent bias/availability heuristic being what it is this might not be a fair assessment: but my recollection is there has been 1 person ever who’s been able to engage on these topics. I thought it was an independent, but I also thought their name was Scott Ludlum. But a quick Google tells me he was the deputy leader of the Greens so my recollection is wrong on at least one of those fronts.

Which is exactly the problem: A single example that is but a distant memory. No contemporaries that can challenge the status quo.
I'm not sure they could automatically determine the title for every conceivable web page. There's the tab title, but that oftentimes isn't just the article title. For example it may be "The Website | The Article"
Early in the project the maintainer(s) are super-excited of their new baby. Later on they burn out and move on to do different things. The PR guides are written in the first stage, while PRs get ignored in the latter.
The physics t-shirts I've seen had the Schwarzchild Radius formula on them.

Physicists assume the pointless mass.
> What is the reality on the ground though?

The reality on the ground is that all Western European nations have stricter voting laws / requirements than the US does and almost nobody on HN will dare to talk about that fact because it's inconvenient to the propaganda game.

It's the sick joke of eg Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game from Georgia to protest new voting laws, shifting it to Colorado which already had similar voting laws to those that Georgia wanted to implement. It's all bullshit propaganda.

The same is true of immigration restrictions. You're not supposed to talk about how strict most other affluent nations are when it comes to who they let into their countries to become citizens.

Can you imagine the global uproar if the US began a cultural genocide program against Muslims like Denmark is aggressively doing? Forcibly taking children away from their parents to be re-educated via nationalist propaganda and forced value systems.

How about something less sinister - a national ban on full face veils like France, with punishment by forced re-education. The US would be called draconian, Islamophobic and racist for such treatment. Meanwhile over there's Macron one step away from calling for a cultural crusade.

When the US does it, it's bad. When everybody else does it, it's logical and good and progressive.
Taking care of all of the causes is not enough to fix the problem of climate change. If we hit net zero today, it would still continue to warm for decades, which means more deforestation and desertification through fires. Your proposal is far too conservative to avert disaster.
I used to overwork pretty badly. This was mainly because I like what I do for a living.

However, I am in a position now where I can work 80 hours one week and disappear for a while to balance it out.

I try to make the most of the "flexible work schedule" and "unlimited time off" without shortchanging my employer, and I am grateful that they trust their employees enough to allow me to do so.
Hopefully ESA doesn't mess up like they did with the Schiaparelli EDM lander.
Aren’t these hustles the same thing? One is a boss manipulating others to work harder so they (the boss) can exploit the workers output. The other is (sorry to beat a dead horse) capitalism (late or otherwise) exploiting workers to the same end?
"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"
Considering the adversarial attacks that image recognition systems are vulnerable to, perhaps even a well trained system could be induced to produce inappropriate results of one sort or another. Perhaps the training set and algorithm for the model should just be publicly available so that people can scrutinize the data and figure out incrementally how to avoid most biases or guffaws to a generally accepted level.
How to do an online flash sale event with Easegress and WebAssembly