skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qt and wxWidgets are hardly native. Come on now. Electron isn’t perfect but if you are trying to build a good-looking/functioning UI for platforms that aren’t Linux (and thus have no UX consistency anyway, Elementary being an exception), it is a very viable option for lots and lots of devs. Especially web devs.

I get the hate at bad Electron apps but it’s also an unfair punching bag, IMHO. I would rather an app like this exist than not. And as a Mac user, I’d rather a good Electron app than some wxWidgets mess that still struggles with HiDPI in the year 2021, when every Mac I’ve owned since 2012 has had a high resolution display.
Is this really end to end encryption?
China increasingly rejects English and the world
Discussion of the whitepaper here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484681
> How do you learn?

Nice try, Skynet.
It also says "The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event."

Also, on the download page, "However, in general coding terms in VAERS do not change based on the information received during the follow-up process. VAERS data should be used with caution as numbers and conditions do not reflect data collected during follow-up."

Which is just different ways of saying "this data is probably unreliable", no?
Only validly-signed (from one of the station's peers) messages move past the decoding stage ("prologue"), and of these only ones with timestamp +/-15min. of station's time; these finally searched for in dedupe queue; and at the end may be rebroadcast, if so marked, to the station's peers strictly.

You can be DOSed, so to speak, by one of your peers, but not DDOSed by a third party -- a reasonable machine can reject signature-failing or replayed-stale packets from multiple NICs at line rate, so long as your WOT is compact (i.e. less than 100 entries). This of course remains to be experimentally tested. Currently there is only an algorithm!
Posted 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419101
In the last few years Apple really showed their real face. I am also surprised to see these changes even after their extreme lobbying work.
Empty string means "we know its blank" null means "we don't know".

When it comes to datatyping, (the whole point of data types in a db), null is its own datatype, so forcing the allowance of nulls to get blank strings is kinda stupid and only causes software/application level bugs.
So no one should ever do anything unless it is technically perfect?

That’s an even worse path to tread on.
> It's really nice knowing that you can nuke a subscription without getting some dark patterns trying to talk you out of it.

Tim Cook said at the trial they could integrate a separate payment API into Apple's subscriptions. Alternatively, Apple could check the cancel method during app review - so that's not a reason to allow Apple's payment monopoly.
European civilization is built on ham and cheese. It's also why we have books
Came here to find the thread discussing this. You stated what I'd think is the conventional wisdom and I expected this to be the top thread.

However, this thinking comes at the cost of UX (or Developer eXperience). Much more mundane instance of the same thinking is hiding elements of the UI you are not allowed to use. This often gets me thinking - is there a way to do this that I'm not allowed to see, or is it just that I can't find the function in the UI?

A solution for the DX issue is logging the real error somewhere only accessible for an admin. Has this been implemeted anywhere in the wild? For UIs, just be honest and show the menu items disabled.
I like Lazarus and I think it's great and important that it exists, especially with Embarcadero refusing to recognise and take seriously the needs of a developer community outside of Fortune 500 orgs (I'm slightly exaggerating but not much).

Lazarus is Free Software, which is awesome, and its feature set is also mature and impressive (I wouldn't have thought that the project also has a 20+ year history already).

I do recommend it highly if you can't get your hands on Delphi, don't want to support Embarcadero's antics, or work with an open-source project anyway. Several major component developers, including the great guys at TMS with their cloud pack and Raspberry Pi components [0] make a ton of awesome components that are available for both Delphi and Lazarus and I can highly recommend them.

If you're operating in the commercial space and have a budget, a bigger team, strong network, database or certain other commercial requirements, you might appreciate the support options and greater choice of 3rd party components which can be installed in Delphi with just a click and that save just so, so much time in getting your product to market.

If you're learning or teaching the language, working in a small team or alone, or require a feature set fully supported by Lazarus or just like free software, I wholeheartedly recommend Lazarus as a great alternative indeed. If you're somehow in the middle, check out the Delphi Community Edition too and just find out what suits you better. I guess it also comes down to what you're used to...

[0] https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/products.asp?t=lcl
Python is not my favorite language. It's a basic language youtube-dl itself is implemented in. I would say bash but bash is hard. Even if I were an excavator driver I would still use an ordinary shovel for a personal project of planting flowers in my garden.
> You could not really explain JIT compilation to someone not knowing anything about computers, could you?

You can't explain the concept of doing something only when you absolutely need to, to someone that doesn't know about computers?
Worse still, is having to re-install a removed application when the renewal hit in order to then kill your account that was created during first run of said app.
Wait... what?

So apps will be able to redirect you to a website but users won't be able to make the payment in the app itself?
See for yourself:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...

52% includes people ineligible for the vaccine, like infants and those <12. It also excludes those with at least 1 shot.

It gets the most press because it stokes the Vax vs Anti-Vax conflict narrative and gets more outrage clicks
The problem isn't with a person having a UUID of some sort (of which their genome is one). The issue is that the Book of Revelations talks about a Mark people will need to have stamped on their arm and/or forehead in order to be able to conduct business. I.e. it's a problem of allegiance, not authentication.

So, in practice, anything that pattern-matches to "people will need to carry some sort of token given by a big organization (private or public) to pay or be paid for goods and services" will be viewed by some as the Mark, or a slippery slope towards the Mark.
Yahoo Search is a massive search arbitrage business. Look deeper and you'll see a ton of revenue and profit. It's just a grimy business.
Yeah that site is terrible. Spent a few days digging for solutions to fix an issue, always ended up back on that site. Always same old useless information.

I had to go to like page 10 of Google results to find some random sysadmin's blog which looked like it came straight out of 2005 and guess what? Problem is explained clearly, steps to fix it are laid out, sorted and wish I found the website 2 days earlier.
I wonder if Apple is allowed to put warnings on apps that contain directions to non-app store payments. Something like "This app may direct you to a payment method not reviewed by or governed by the App Store's strict security guidelines. Use at your own discretion. Apple is not responsible for any issues related to this non-Apple payment method."
Ah so that's how it worked? I heard that concept once and thought it was a really interesting way to ensure a user wouldn't lose their backup while preventing the company from accessing it.
> How often do people really plan trips? For the typical working adult, probably once or twice a year if you're lucky.

One thing I think all founders/Product people should consider is that there are off label(so to speak) uses for everything.

Many many people use travel planning software as escapism from drudgery. This is an opportunity not just to sell them travel, but also anything that immediately salves their boredom. Maybe a weekend getaway, a movie night tonight, or a hot date with a hot <gender> this week?

In this case the off label usage likely is much more frequent than the real thing because as Garry says people do not take much vacation; but how often do they dream of vacations?-- all the time.

Similar could be said about realtor.com People arent there just to buy houses, but to dream of what their current house could be (that they cannot afford). So maybe they're viewing lots of houses with pools? Sell them an above ground pool and a luxurious lounge chair...
Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
And that's why I kept saying "no" to the backup requests in WhatsApp.
+1 I used to go to open mics weekly in undergrad (audience, not performing). And hey, it was BYOB in an un-air conditioned attic, for $5.

It was almost more fascinating watching the same person go up week after week, with slight tweaks to their act.

It convinced me that the "talent" for comedy is probably just "attention to detail."

And that the actions required to be successful in comedy were "practice", "perseverance", and ability to use constructive criticism.
I'm sure it could become hard to maintain, but it is built as an ecommerce platform. Plugins like Woocommerce are just one of innumerable amounts of plugins that WordPress has to attempt to not break.
Thanks for checking it out and for your feedback.

You might be right, maybe 5 would be more appropriate.
Bad software punishes you for doing things right.
The images they recovered were clear enough to see who’s holding weapons…
Thanks, yes. Like I said in my other comment: if you keep other people's money there are laws and rules that apply to you. You may not be negligent with it. The phrase "fiduciary duty" comes to mind.

Yet somehow, keeping their PII imposes almost no obligations on you at all.
making society fearful & untrusting of itself, telling the tale that disorder alone rules: it's such a bleak nihilistic drive.

the mass internet is in itcs teenage years, imo, & this rampant nihilism & disbelief seem natural to me at this stage. im hoping future/upcoming generations are somewhatore immunized against these particular mistakes we are undergoing. that only happens if enough of ehats afoot is visoble, if we see clearly what foolery our relatives & friends fall into.
WhatsApp has been pretty consistent with their track record, not every Facebook product is the same but if there's one part of the company that's doing really well in terms of security and privacy for its users that's the one.
If you don’t plan on exiting, equity isn’t the right move.

At some point said salesperson will fully vest, you guys will be generating cash (profit) and in theory that salesperson will feel like they might have a right to start taking dividends. This is a slippery slope - you as a management team will make decisions benefitting the business, e.g. retaining all earnings to reinvest while your employee is going to want the cash dividends.

Sales is the perfect role for commission. Salesperson can make a ton of money if they crush it, and you won’t have to pay them a lot if they don’t perform well. Business & personal interests are aligned.

Equity is interesting if it’s significant enough as a percent of company valuation and there’s a real chance of a large payout. Otherwise, it’s noise and likely will lead to unmet expectations.
Weightlifting trains balance extremely well. A max effort power snatch for example requires excellent balance.
Developers can use payment methods that don't require credit card data to touch their servers (eg. Stripe, PayPal, Shopify).
Zero Trust is such a terrible name. What they really mean is less trust in network location, static firewalls, and site-to-site VPNs, and much more trust in the cryptography behind TLS, identity systems, and how they interact with applications.
Some of that is figuring out the software overhead too. Alexia Massalin was doing audio DSP on her 68k workstation back in the late 80s with her Synthesis kernel. Overall it seems that multiplexing with the right semantics is a majority of the problem to running new workloads on GPCPUs and takes time to understand.
Can't fire HR if you need HR to do the firing!
Always love a new Karl Guttag article, and I'm pleased to see people doing all this fundamental engineering and science work.

The more of them I read the more I tend to think that in ten years the best solution is going to be VR with video passthrough. That seems (as a layperson) to have a very clear (at least comparatively) engineering path to delivering a high quality experience.

So many (seemingly unsolveable) issues with AR displays.

This doesn't even touch the software side which seems to need AGI to actually deliver the AR that people actually expect in the end. The trivial things for AR are better served by smartphones and watches for the medium and longterm still.
Great article in The Verge about what the meaning of a "button" is:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667161/app-store-epic-r...
I quite fancy getting a microwave oven transformer to make a pretty powerful electromagnet.
Win32 and .Net docs are great!

Azure and Powershell docs leave a lot to be desired. A lot of the time parameters are vaguely documented, return values completely undocumented. You have to inspect the object returned by a lot of things to get to understand what members and methods it has, and what they mean.

Examples illustrating what formats it expects inputs in? Forget it.
Your causality is backwards. There are many, many ways to impose a "compromise" that no one is happy with because it leaves everyone worse off than they were before.
Alpine (apk) and Void (xbps) have similarly nice packaging systems.
Why would anyone want the hassle of wearing a VR headset for routine office work? It does nothing to improve productivity for most tasks. The value of VR is in other use cases.
This homemade one bodged out of a broken microwave is probably safer.
Similar opinion for XM... Would never sign up again without a generated card number that is only good for a single charge. I only wanted to cancel one radio of 3 I had at the time. By the third 40+m wait after mysteriously "disconnected" after they couldn't talk me out of it, I cancelled the whole thing.
It is your private business freemarket ideal when half the country comes to a standstill because the oil pipeline runs on windows XP or some shit?
CPUs haven't replaced GPUs for graphics though, and are very far away from doing it...
The original but the dev has it as a priority to replace with yt-dlp. You can use that now by replacing the youtube-dl binary with yt-dlp and renaming it and turning off auto-updates, but it doesn’t support some of the other features like SponsorBlock for now. The dev has PRs open to investigate that.

If I had just a bit more time I might try to contribute. In fact, I might actually see if I can help with the replacement of the engine and then let the dev decide on how to implement some of the extra features.
Paint has always been a rather useless app, only good for fun as a kid. On a contrary Paint.Net is awesomely practical. Having a cross-platform Paint.Net implementation - this would be really cool.
What's the fun in that?
How many developers do you have already, that 35% more money would let you hire 4 more? Back-of-the-envelope calculation says you've got 7, does that match up?
That seems to be the best way to reduce the number of users pestering Apple for refunds for shitty apps.
Exactly, and many features that are in the standard now and we take for granted were invented by Oracle in the first place.
Very cool, I was not aware that LEDs could be used like that. I wonder how sensetive this technique can get.
So a self-driving car should not be bound by the traffic code because it has no self-interest but human drivers should be bound by it? Why should having or not having self-interest make any difference as to whether the rules apply to you?
That's a bit misleading because those NE states got around half of their deaths in April and May 2020.

From June 1 2020 to the present Florida has had 203 deaths per 100k. New York has had 130 deaths per 100k. New Jersey has had 170 deaths per 100k.

From June 1 2021 to the present, Florida has 42 deaths per 100k, New York 7 deaths per 100k, New Jersey 9 deaths per 100k.

For the first ~10% of the pandemic in the US you were statistically safer in Florida than in New York or New Jersey. For the rest of the time you were statistically safer in New York or New Jersey than in Florida.
Index of Cognitive Biases, Heuristics and Fallacies
if it runs on the client’s machine it’s front end

if it runs on the server it’s backend

if it’s about actually running the server it’s infrastructure.

i dont see what’s that hard to understand…
Smart contact lenses already exist in prototype form.

https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens
The evidence suggest the exact opposite of you are saying.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abi9915
To me it is just an encryption, which isn't bad, but still.
The linked original source in the article has a more clear phrasing..."Write more often, but make each thing you write shorter."

https://critter.blog/2020/10/02/write-5x-more-but-write-5x-l...
Max length of email address is 254 per the email address RFC. https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3696
I was more referring to the dedicated and feature rich frameworks like Drupal and Magento than the WordPress plug-ins.
Yes but Denmark's number include those with both shots.

> More than 80% of people above the age of 12 in the Scandinavian country have had the two shots
I think it's more of a exploration of what information is possible to gather from just scattered light with time of flight measurements and a lot of computation.

It has little to do with "keyholes", other than to give readers an illustrative idea about the experimental setup.
This is flame bait and extremely insulting.

Trust is indeed at issue here, but in my opinion, it's more about a lack of trust in authorities rather than trust in the "wrong talking heads". However, this is all conjecture on both our parts.
Perfect! It's actually better if you interact with it regularly... which reminds me it's time to rotate the rations in my kit. Dessert for the week! :-D

Technically you should have multiple bags. One in the car, one by the bed, one in the shop. Again, it's more of a mindset, and what's the cheapest, comfiest buffer you can get away with. For me: water, shoes, toilet paper, marine rations. Sanitizer b/c it's not the earthquake that gets you, it's the diarrhea caused by poor hygiene afterwards.
> Simple means getting rid of extra words. Don’t write, “He was very happy” when you can write “He was happy.” You think the word “very” adds something. It doesn’t. Prune your sentences.

Scott Adams
https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/the...
Goodstein: Why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics?

Feynman: I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it.

He came back a few days later to say: I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it. https://www.quora.com/What-did-Richard-Feynman-mean-when-he-...
Yeah I think it is but this is a great Windows option, thanks for the share!
Ubiquity tarnished its image with the leak of client credentials from its Cloud offering.
That's not a bad idea, it's a good idea.

Maybe a bad 'business idea', in that it probably won't make a ton of money, but as a solution, expanded into other casual sports, it might make sense.

Pick Up BB has a lot of participants, who are not at the court at the same time.

An app where you tap a button and say 'Who's Up For Hoops' and it connects you with others, is a great idea.

You could work with cities to schedule the courts.

If there is a legit need, there's opportunity.

The challenge with such things is generating enough penetration that it becomes 'a thing' - so many great ideas I see would work really well if they did create a critical mass, and, of course, it'd be hard to make money.

I can see, in the future, these things working out.

A partnership with a famous baller, and perhaps with a sports drink or Nike or something, where they integrate it with Nike's 3 on 3 competition, you register for points, show your best moves etc.. It could theoretically work.

I wish we had better mechanisms for escalating these more niche apps into common public consciousness.
I am slightly worried about all these manager related articles use the term "manager" in a negative light but "leader" in a positive light.

Are there no bad leaders (umm I am pretty sure Hitler wouldn't be labelled a manager)? Wouldnt the title "Bad engineering leaders think..." Or even "Bad leaders think ..." Be just as apt?

There are ineffective and toxic behaviors everywhere and just labelling a class of jobs seems scary.

By the way I have gone between IC and management (even managing managers) and the "badness" I've witnessed (and sadly also partaken in) was never localized!
Fascinating. Of course it would be too easy if they were strictly the same!

It seems like reading the tale of a greek programmer cursed by the gods to work with madness itself.
Amazon’s Success Formula for Building an Invention Machine
I wonder if it's possible to DIY this, but using say a beta emitter, I just found:

"Beta particles are less damaging but have greater penetration than alpha particles, and can cause DNA mutation and cell damage."

Theoretically could you use an electron gun in a vacuum chamber to cause mutations in a seed?
SQLite on the Web: Absurd-SQL
> JSON is verbose and writing anything decently complicated with it sounds like torture.

Except in comparison with XML :-)
Musical Cyberdeck Is Part Synth, Part MIDI Controller, and All Cool
Thanks for pointing that out, it's a relief.

For the lazy, the footnote basically says that the discontinuity at 280g is not caused by an increase in seizures at this amount (which would indicate police fraud), but by prosecutors choosing to charge defendants at slightly above the 280g threshold when the amount seized was actually significantly larger than the threshold.
>appear on my credit report

The root of the problem is sharing the private information. Why your credit reports are shared among completely different entities? Nobody want to gives them a consent to share your private information.

> system of universal secure IDs

Actually, it's the opposite. US has universal ID(not secure though). That's the problem. If there exist one idiot who doesn't verify your identity, everything fails in chain reaction, because everybody else believe the idiot.
To me it seems right the opposite: finally a change in the UI that actually makes sense (more native-looking tabs) and the privacy features seem bar beyond that of any other browser.
Greenhouse CTO Shares How to Reduce Unhealthy Employee Attrition
I remember my mom struggling to teach me pre-algebra ahead of the school curriculum. My uncle (a math teacher) mailed us a bunch of "part-is-to-whole-as-part-is-to-whole" word problems of increasing complexity and various forms, and working through those made a lot of things click. The concreteness helped, and it also made me understand the equivalence between proportions, fractions, decimals, percents, and their real-world concepts, plus it has some simple solve-for-x attached to it. And it's learning-by-doing instead of learning-by-reading.
Thanks for the Friday humor!
godot: https://godotengine.org/
most of godot UI itself is made with godot engine
But that's important because Google will loose all the motivation to do anything good and avoid anything bad once they capture 100%.