skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, nearly nobody have experience with a REAL good shell. Is like using C all your life and don't have experience what a truly good language is.

I work in FoxPro DOS back in the days.

That is another dimension. Was close to jupyter + IDE + Database Builder + Form Builder + Code Editor + ... and the language to make stuff is NOT a joke.

That is not the only vision that happen in the past but is forgotten (or rebuilded with a massive micro-service/over-engineer/multi-machine version).

/r

So, to me, using the shell is purely because not exist most stubborn people that the one that lives in the unix/c world, that have forced for decades the use of the most arcane and inferior toolchain possible, and always shutdown any attempts of improvements under the excuse "but it works for me".

Is like regulatory capture to 1000x.

/r
Japan took "only" 2 low yield bombs. We're speaking nuclear war here, with nukes flying left and right.

> As long as only "normal" nuclear weapons are used a few weeks would probably be enough

For the "lulz" read about cobalt nukes. I have read somewhere that Russia had some but I can't confirm it.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

thats quite beautiful in its scale of monstrousness
> I really cannot leave Windows to be honest. The network effect is too strong.

I suspect whatever's keeping you on Windows isn't really the network effect. It's usually: comfort level/personal preference, or a set of software that vendor(s) can't/won't port to another non-Windows platform.

The fact that so many applications have been rewritten as browser-accessible services has liberated me. I haven't owned a system with a Microsoft OS since ~2004 or so.
I hope you never buy premise chicken stock from the store.

Everybody has things they are interested in and want to spend time on. But not everyone can do all of them.
I have a solution for the disk/partition type/layout incompatible with upgrading to newer Windows 11 builds (but not the TPM workaround) but I haven’t gotten around to packaging it and publishing it for download on our site.
I use the “Express Travel Card” feature with Apple Pay now and it’s as fast as oyster was (in the wallet settings). I walk up to the gate with my phone in hand, locked, hold it over the reader and it’s super fast. I remember the slightly delay in the early days (plus verifying your ID with touch/face in advance of the gate) but I think it’s a solved issue now.
2 months before USB-D hits consumer devices.
Here it is: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beachbody-on-demand/id10316601...

Again, I'm absolutely not affiliated with them and I'm not even in the fitness space. I run a cybersecurity company. It's just worked really well for me for about 4 years.
My company did some work with TfL when Oystercards were being rolled out. A very clever bloke at work was tasked with working out an algorithm that would retrospectively minimise a passenger's spend based on their journey history - so e.g. If they'd done 9 single journeys in a week it might decide they'd have been better off buying a weekly pass, and adjust their balance accordingly. You have monthly and even annual passes to factor in as well of course.

He spent about 20 minutes one lunchtime trying to explain it to me, but it went straight over my head (I think 'alpha-beta pruning' was in there somewhere), but anyway it was all for naught as - hardly surprisingly - TfL had little appetite for software that would actually reduce their revenue.
I just went through exactly this. I’d unplug my laptop, walk downstairs and suddenly the WiFi would stop working.

To troubleshoot, I’d plug into the hub to have Ethernet connectivity, and the network would seem to work fine. Took me weeks of guessing before considering that a powered-but-disconnected USB hub could be the culprit.

Odd that this is an issue across so many vendors. Perhaps they share a chip, but still, it reads as a mistake on the Hub as well as the Switch side of things.
Personal Googler story: In Ads and in Search, at least as of 2010 or so, Google employed independent companies who hired "raters" to provide "ground truth" for the ML systems. For example, they would rate proposed ads for a given query, so that the ML system could learn from their "truth". For Search, they'd rate proposed search results for a given query. There was a whole pipeline to bring in the raters' results and use them.

Those "raters" were contractors to the independent companies, and had no Google privileges at all. They couldn't come to campus and eat at the cafes, for example. They had no direct contact with any Google employees. I helped a relative get hired as one of those. This was about 11 years ago.

These outside companies had minimal oversight from Google, by design. My cousin joined the Search rater company and was given a test problem, which was timed and they had max times allowed. When she finished, they said "sorry, you took too long, we're not paying you."

I raised a stink and HR sent a representative to meet with the Search people. I sat in. The Search people were obnoxious little corporate toadies who claimed they couldn't interfere with any particular contractor's case, because of the legal separation requirements.

I so enjoyed watching the HR rep calmly and politely tell them, "That's great! Good job, you guys! But you know... when you hire someone and they don't do a good job, your remedy is to fire them. Not to refuse to pay."

She got paid.

I can't make any general statements about what happens to everyone, but in this particular case, I can't complain at all about HR's handling.
No repo? Curious on a high level how it works, averages nearby pixels or something, or just makes the video really low resolution and each large block is a checkbox?

Would think title should say "webcam video output" or something

There is the minified demo.js
Then take it a step further: Make Chinese our official language and set-up an education camp in every Republican county.
Books from Dover are really cheap! You can also find lots of old, cheap, high quality math textbooks on Amazon and ThriftBooks.
I many would argue that making gacha game purchases harder is a feature.
A friend of mine has been complaining that a DAW is the only thing keeping him stuck in Windows at this point as well. In his case, he specifically said that VST's were the problem. Was your experience the same?
I've never understood why people use nodeJs for more than a hobby projects or small internal tools
> Would you believe it if anyone said this to be the case, 10 years ago?

To be honest, Microsoft astroturfers have long existed, for much more than 10 years.
The problem with self-learning is lack of feedback. You read something, you think you understand, but you might not, and you don't even know it. I once read Capablanca's "Chess Fundamentals" book, and I felt like I made a quantum leap in my chess understanding. One day later a friend of mine beat me 5 times in a row, so I learned the super-valuable lesson: self-assessment is not always very reliable.

Given that, how can you get feedback when you learn math on your own? I suppose there are various ways, but you can't go very wrong with Khan Academy. I just went to their website and practiced limits a bit [1]. I've known limits for 30 years, in and out, but I still found these 3-4 minutes practicing their exercises to be quite fun. I even got some stars and badges :)

I'm not affiliated with them in any way. The site just looks good to me. Give it a try.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-1/cs1-limits-and-c...
The vast majority of software security issues don't kill people. Trying to price them higher than current levels will add cost to goods, no?
Performance Comparison of Cloud Servers
As an Apple user I feel like I have lost the most here. Sad day for users, great day for dodgy cunts like Epic.
SPDX – Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials
“That said, GPUs are essential for training”

http://learningsys.org/neurips19/assets/papers/18_CameraRead...
What is the status on the different FLTK versions?
The option to use a private encryption key is presumably useful, though their still storing logs unencrypted on the users device.

The password option is not really what I would call end-to-end encrypted. This is only as secure as a dictionary attack on users passwords so in practice it looks to be trivially crackable should the FBI etc get a copy of the users “encrypted” data in the key vault + their logs from the cloud storage provider.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/163.pdf
This is exciting. I dual boot Windows and Linux, cause although I really like my setup on Linux, the desktop experience is not quite there yet for me.

I wonder if I can use something like bspwm, maybe not... haha
Writer shorter, yes. Write like a robot, no.
I found the same. C# being on GitHub combined with the Microsoft documentation has made working with it a breeze. If I ever have any doubt, I just step into the code itself and figure it out.
s_severus think you covered this one well. Also think what you have build with Vendure is a really strong solution and we have deep respect for what you have been able to set up almost on your own!

Three short comments on the functional differences:
- Admin interface: We have made our admin open source as well (happened this week) so this will be part of a Medusa setup when you launch our OS version
- On multi-regional support: We have built this into Medusa's core to make it easy to shift between currencies, shipping options etc. across different markets
- On Multi-tenant functionality: This feature will come soon; we will launch a concept called "Stores" in the near future to enable you to control multiple shops/branches from one place

s_severus, we should take an offline chat soon. Think we could learn a great deal from each other!
The more unvaccinated people there are, the more cases of severe covid there will be. This puts tremendous strain on the hospital system, and if they’re uninsured it means the taxpayers are covering the cost of their treatment. Rampant spread also promotes the emergence of new variants.It’s not only a personal decision— declining the shot negatively impacts your community, workplace and the country as a whole.
I don't understand why Epic is dissatisfied with this. Doesn't the injunction mean that Apple now has to allow other payment processors? Is it that Epic wanted third-party app stores on iOS?
Yeah I didn't even think about Covid, but agreed, that does make it challenging. I'm tempted to go to a hot yoga class just so I know. But I can't imagine being in an enclosed heated room full of people sweating and breathing heavily for an hour. I don't even like doing yoga on my own indoors.
The amount of effort that went into WSL1 including the number of bug-for-bug changes involved was tremendous. It blew my mind when WSL2 was announced because the hyper visor approach was already possible (and in use) before WSL1 was announced but MS made an explicit decision to do the extra work to make their own Linux subsystem for Windows the harder/better way… then gave up.
> The "legitimacy" lies in the fact that that is what was politically possible to accomplish.

Regulatory capture[0] narrowed the possible to only solutions involving for-profit health insurance corporations. If you don't find a form of corruption to be of interest here, I'd be especially interested to know why.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
What makes you so sure it would be 30%? Somewhere a middleman gets their cut.
Why wouldn't bigCorp just make you use their payment system at the same price without allowing purchases via Apple at all?
Don't think I've heard about those, what all requirements changed on the storage side there?
Growing up I had a group of 6ish close friends, and the goal was 100% to laugh (it kinda still is). Even when we were 13 we all knew who was funniest and who wasn't. There was no practice or work put into it. Granted standup is a totally different skillset from just riffing with friends, but some of us had the confidence, presence and ability and others were more precocious and less clever.

This new Podcast generation of comics is interesting because some stand-ups can go on a show and just riff really well. Others are not that great once they get outside their comfort areas.
No brick and mortar store has anywhere close to Apple’s dominance on mobile apps and the retail industry is not a defacto duopoly. Apple and Google control 95% of the global app market. Apple alone was 65% last year.

For reference, Walmart and Amazon have about 14% and 10% market share respectively. Numbers differ from report to report, but the scale of difference is pretty clear.
USB-C hubs that I’ve used have been garbage. They’ve all crapped out after less than a year or so of use. The Dell USB-C docking stations I’ve had have been flawless. Not sure what the diff is as my Dell puck USB-C hub sucked (went through 2 of them in a year), but the docking stations are solid.

The one difference I see is that the docking stations are meant to be independently powered and I think it has its own fan. I’m sure the internals are different too, but I don’t know how. Curious if anyone knows more about the difference between the hardware/firmware on the hubs vs the stations.
The J&J vaccine is adenovirus. It’s the same class of vaccine as the flu shot we have had for decades. If you’re really concerned just take that one.
Not every Election App looks identical on each platform. Plus, it’s just a nice confirmation that the experience works properly on your preferred platform.
There’s one really good use - student discounts.

It’s been a few years so my figures are likely a bit off but you can get a student Oyster card (which gets you something like 30% off all journeys) and then you can link it with your 18-25 rail card and get a further 30% off the tube during off peak times. It all adds up to a huge saving.
Oh indeed, they all have quirks.

Oracle seems to have more than most, IMO.

I have a journeyman data engineering level experience with each. Rare combo I guess, Data Scientist focus.
This is great! It would be better if it dithered though.
NL tech was outdated before it was even released.
So... No microservices SPAs with noSQL database on top of kubernetes in a monorepo?

So disappointing.
Ask HN: Any 'business' people turned technical stories here?
It wasn't all for naught. That's how oyster (and now contactless payments) work
Every so often I yearn for something that would be like a fusion of 4DOS/4NT/Take Command (https://prog21.dadgum.com/74.html), a lisp "listener" (https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html) and a nicely pre-customized unix shell and terminal. Ideally something that could be also set up on a windows box without spending a day installing unix-style tools.

I'd settle for a nicely pre-customized unix shell and terminal - what are the cool kids using these days? fish?
Going to test my pain threshold with that this evening. Thanks.
That’s not always a given. It’s possible for Electron apps to have per platform styling.
Matt Levine strikes again - Everything Is Securities Fraud!
Thanks for the clarification, sounds like the usual rationalisation dance from when people are resistant to something new.
You've already decided to dehumanize the people who don't agree to take a mandated health intervention. You may feel comfortable comparing people to viruses but I don't. The 20th century has a nasty history of that sort of thing.

As far as delusional conspiracy theories, what's your opinion on social credit systems, central bank digital currencies, and intra-national passports? Last I checked those are on the menu in China and coming to a democracy near you.
Isn't binding energy, the energy released when things bind? And energy that has to be delivered to the system to break it apart? [1]

The energy that is present withing the system of bound components must be something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy
This one's new to me. Never heard of it before. Thanks!
I've observed a mix of headhunters and company recruiters, although it can be a bit hard to tell them apart for smaller startups.
Here's the same for the SF Bay area for those interested (took some poking around to find it, basically MTR is the monterey/bay area weather center so I tweaked the URL params to match)

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=...
Honestly I wouldn't mind loosing modern nice things, as long as I can go outside and trying to get food in a "normal" environment.

Puking blood while cancer eats me from inside, starving because animals are dead and the sun is hidden so no agriculture... way too much for me.
> Besides did everyone forget they can call their credit card issuer and suspend payment?

This does not get you out of your contractual obligation to pay, if you have one. You could end up getting an annoying surprise from a debt collection agency a few years down the road. An important thing that Apple was able to provide that a credit card processor suspending payment can’t is to force the vendor to let you actually cancel the subscription, not just the payment.
PHP, Nginx, particles.js
Yes, those laws in California are not uniform among states. If Apple is not a monopoly and violating Federal Law, then on appeal, to higher than state laws, the case is more likely to reversed.

Since other states do not have the same laws of California, the Supreme Court will likely apply Federal Law, not California law, on appeal.

Epic is headquartered in NC, after all. Thus this will fall under interstate commerce clauses, and California law only applies to transactions in California.
I mean, they could probably just as easily use a window.
It's valuable to have a doctor who can help you diagnose the problem and get the machine set correctly; technicians who can help with mask fitting and explain proper usage and maintenance; and followups to monitor effects. Some people might be able to manage those things on their own, and I certainly feel that people who already saw a doctor and own a CPAP should be able to manage their care if nothing changes.

I don't think it's good advice to self-diagnose, buy used equipment, and hope you get it right. CPAP quality degrades over time, for one. Some people might benefit from a CPAP, but really need a more complex and expensive machine like a BiPAP. Some people have central sleep apnea rather than obstructive sleep apnea. Some people would be better off with surgery or implanted devices. These are not things one should be figuring out on one's own.

If none of that is convincing, in the US it's illegal to sell a CPAP to someone without a prescription. I honestly don't care about that part, and if I knew how to order a new CPAP directly (perhaps from Canada or something), I would personally do it and skip the doctors entirely, but I don't think it's good advice, especially before you're properly diagnosed.
What laws do you imagine grant corporate entities immunity? The companies are victims of the crime in this case, along with their customers. There is no special law that grants corporations criminal immunity from falling victim to a crime, because that’s not illegal.

If you look at how this sort of thing is regulated, there’s two general approaches. The first is creating a category of data that requires special protections, and defining a standard for protecting it. Either through legislation (like HIPAA), or self-regulation (like PCI). The other is to specify a requirement to protect all PII, but not define any specific standard for protecting it, only prescribing penalties for failing to do so (when seems to be what the EUs regulatory approach is).

Both of these approaches are problematic.

Is it self-evident that any breached data was not sufficiently protected? I don’t think any experienced professional would agree. It is impossible to build a system that is completely protected from being potentially compromised, and it’s possible for a largely unprotected system to last its entire lifespan without being compromised. So the simple fact that a system has been compromised doesn’t necessarily reveal any information about how adequately protected it was.

On the other hand, is there a single security standard that’s widely regarded as being good? I don’t think there is. The ones that are generally regarded as the best I would personally consider to be not bad, but not great. One size fits all solutions tend to find a lot of not fit for purpose use cases as well.

It’s also not apparent to me at all that spending more money on security achieves better security outcomes. I’ve worked in numerous large enterprises that spend enormous sums of money on security budgets, and manage to achieve very little with it. So I don’t think you’re going to get much consensus on that being a suitable metric for how adequate a company’s security systems are either.

You could easily devise a system that punishes companies for falling victims to these attacks. But that’s the only outcome it’s going to achieve. A punishment for being the victim of a crime.
I was also amazed with WSL, it genuinely made me think I didn't have to leave Windows anymore. It is honestly one of the best products Microsoft has launched recently. The development tools division of Microsoft is on fire and should be commended.

The Windows division is another story though. With all the Windows 11 news I decided to give desktop Linux a spin for the nth time in 20 years. Installed Manjaro and I'm extremely impressed. Even though I have Nvidia graphics everything is buttery smooth, all my productivity tools are there, setting up my VPN was far easier than Windows, and even more amazingly most of my games work well thanks to the recent push by Valve and the steam deck.

I will probably stick with it this time, so maybe for me 2021 finally is the year of the Linux desktop.
Windy has all of that. A quick glance at the layer menu on the right of the map shows how to toggle that and more.
Note that this doesn't seem to actually be related to USB-C, but rather to a quirk of how the docking station the author was using behaved when not connected to a computer. This could just as easily happen with any dock. But maybe USB-C and Apple's dongle life has made such docks more common.
Is there anyway to see a sample or demo of this guide? I couldn't find anything that really showed what this guide would be like. I like the minimalism, but it could use some more content IMO.
Mommy Vlogger Faces Backlash for Turning Son’s Trauma into Thumbnail Clickbait
TBF, hubs in general seem to fail regardless of brand. See my other comment about Dell hubs vs docking stations. A model of ‘hubs are cheap because they fail frequently’ is a poor one. Hubs should be cheap because they can’t deliver power and device connections or they have limited port types.
IIRC Japan's FeliCa (Suica, PASMO, etc.) is much faster because it had more stringent timing requirements in the spec because of how many people they needed to be able to walk through a turnstile, which increases the cost of the associated hardware (the readers in the turnstiles/trains/buses, as well as in e.g. iPhone chips).

IIRC Presto does store the value on the card -- when you load value online, every bus/train/turnstile gets a batch data file of cards it needs to update the balance for, and checks every card that passes through it to see if yours is one of them, and then writes the updated balance to the card. But the slower scans are due to the choice of a different standardized transit pass format (one that allows for much slower -- IIRC, hundreds of ms -- reads/writes than the Japanese standard).
I don't understand how they could implement the savings / spending caps for contactless cards but couldn't do it at the same time for Oyster cards. It's insanity.
FAA Awards $100M to Develop Next Generation of Sustainable Aircraft Technology
That's why you don't go there, you go on ServerFault and SuperUser on StackExchange instead.