skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has gimped PWA support for iOS. It’s support and lack of features is atrocious.
They don't need to try while fighting 1% GNU/Linux desktop.

The whole point of WSL is to bring into Windows, those devs that buy Apple hardware instead of supporting Linux OEMs, and couldn't care less as long as they have their POSIX like experience.
I kinda miss the older syndication friendly shows.

Everything today is trying too hard to have a season or a multi season epic story arc and the shows today are often so damn grim.
I agree. I believe these were similar operations with psyops incorporated like the CIAs mkultra, interventions and assassinations in Spanish countries where it instilled dictators to encourage democracy, and even the covid psyops it is participating in today.
It's not obvious that mass surveillance doesn't work. It seems to work pretty well for the Chinese.

Anyway, we have a mass surveillance program because people thought it would work. Perhaps we could have avoided the program if we had more people in that room who had effectively argued that, even if it worked, it was not to be pursued for reasons that have nothing to do with its efficacy. Sometimes principles come in handy.
Kids use computers regularly at school from a very young age.
Apple. It is as simple as that. If another browser could run on iOS (not having to use safari under the hood), then things could be different.
The compound is the same, the dose is controlled by the user.
They don't insist, this is for the folks that should be supporting Linux OEMs but rather pay Apple.
Haven't used Facebook in years. Only reason I ever access it is to see some business info. As for some stupid reason they don't have proper internet presence with up to date information.
It’s actually outsourced to Accenture.
This is covered in the 9/11 commission report. Quoted below:

The protocols did not contemplate an intercept. They assumed the fighter escort would
be discreet, “vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft,” where it could perform its mission to monitor the flight path of the aircraft.

In sum, the protocols in place on 9/11 for the FAA and NORAD to respond to a hijacking
presumed that:

(1) the hijacked aircraft would be readily identifiable and would not attempt to
disappear;

(2) there would be time to address the problem through the appropriate FAA and
NORAD chains of command; and

(3) the hijacking would take the traditional form, not a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile.

On the morning of 9/11, the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen. What ensued was the hurried attempt to create an improvised defense by officials who had never encountered or trained against the situation they faced.
Medium, like YouTube, is a platform for creators to make money with little friction while also providing exposure that is difficult to build on their own. That, above all, is why platforms like this are successful.
Independently of anything else, I find the additional distinctiveness created by syntax highlighting helpful for keeping my place, or recognising where I am, if I scroll around a file quickly.
I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.

Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.

If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.

Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.

I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest.
[1] https://anth-oleinik.medium.com/
I think SHR was a IIgs thing?
From a logical point of view from a resource management perspective you giving them money is better and allows them to get more bang from that gift.

You buy a McD combo drop it off and feel good. They have to eat it right away. There stomach will not be able to handle it all. They cannot save split the food.

If you give them money they could still dumpster dive for food, keep the money and buy other things they need like (maxi pads, or 1 food bar every morning for a week or a stamp to mail someone or quarters to make a call). They can buy a smaller meal or food in a form that will allow them to space it out over time. Most importantly they can buy the type of food that works best from them.

5 dollars could have multiplier effect. A pre-purchased fast food meal will leaving the homeless person craving for days.

The homeless are drinking/doing drugs less than homed people drinking/doing drugs because they don't have the resources. I would be concerned with salaried beggers.
Sorry for being a bit of a Nix shill, but NixOS aims to solve 1, 2, 5, and the latter part of 6.
Mods maintain an”second chance” list: submissions they see were ignored and think were worthwhile anyway. This happens to my submissions sometimes, and the second time they usually take off.
This is tremendous. The cost is trivial at build but expensive to retrofit. Smart policy that should be replicated elsewhere.
taking over places is more expensive than letting people have their own self determination. distributes the load, still gets the resources and influence. greater levels of animosity avoided, sometimes completely.
The downsides of type-level programming by F# creator
There are very few mentally ill people wandering the streets in Oslo, Norway. I have seen one guy with unkept dredlocks who seems to enjoy hanging around and chatting to passers by, but he almost certainly has a public-funded apartment and generous disability pension.

The difference is very striking compared with Boston (a city with similar climate to Oslo) where there are many obviously mentally ill people wandering around talking nonsense, begging for money, carrying their things in plastic bags, and sleeping on the ground.
Visual C#'s Windows Forms do not even approach Delphi 1 in terms of functionality and designer ease of use, let alone Delphi 7 (which was released around 2000).

WinForms feel more like an abandoned beta version to remake Delphi in C#.

Note that i refer to Windows Forms specifically, not the entirety of the .NET Framework.
PWAs were crippled by the mobile operating system vendor with 60% of the mobile OS marketshare in the US. PWAs didn't happen because Apple doesn't want them to compete fairly with native apps on iOS.
My 1 second old idea is for their psych clinic to offer free food in trade for checking their blood levels. It the meds are insufficient, they get Rx food.

Can't tell if I'll offer that idea again, once I think about it.
This comment exemplifies my point.

Faxes are common in healthcare, and it's a common punch line from newcomers. But there's a series of standards that have been iterated on since the late 80s/early 90s that are finally getting to a place where they can eliminate faxes. There's standards for how to transmit data between EHRs, standards for how to store and represent data, and a standard API for 3rd parties to be able to write/read that data.

Regardless of these standards, you can already share data between hospitals using the same EHR -- so epic-to-epic (epic is the largest EHR vendor in the US) data sharing has been happening for a decade without any faxes. Unfortunately, there's a ton of different players in this game, so getting to a place where everyone has adopted the standards takes a long time, and the system still needs to keep running while this switch happens. To be clear, this is a common problem throughout tech: is it possible to run a native android app on iPhone? Do you think Google and Apple will ever make it possible to do that?

I can think of at least one medical company that builds their own technology and managed to paint themselves into a corner by not working from within the system. They just hire a bunch of engineers, who hear about how faxes run healthcare, so they say "cool, I can digitize the faxes" without bothering to consider or learn about other standards that are being developed. This leads to proprietary data models, with proprietary data representation, all transmitted using outdated technology. The engineers quit and go back to non-health tech, and tell their friends that health tech is so frustrating because it's so dated (make sure to bring your fax machine when you start your new job!).

But, really, the problem was never faxes. The problem is that healthcare is way more complicated, with way more stakeholders than consumer tech. You can't just launch a new product and iterate on the bugs later; people's lives are at stake, so the whole industry is heavily regulated. But if you enter with humility, recognizing that there is too much information for one person to know, but know that your skills are welcomed and needed. Take time to learn about things like HL7, FHIR, and clinical ontologies. And partner-- not just a quick knowledge sharing session-- actually partner with the domain experts, then there's a whole world of fascinating possibility out there.
1. Medium is not competing for people willing to spend 30 min playing with the command line to get a blog up. (Note)

2. Discovery! Medium is about getting people to read your blog.

(Note) there is an obvious opportunity to create a medium like experience that lets people blog using Hugo and Netlify. I open an app, connect to my account (GitHub pages, or Netlify) type my article and post.

P.s I tried to put an asterisk instead of Note but it ended up putting everything in between in italics.
I'm looking forward to dreams as a service, with personalized ads sprinkled in. Only 9.99 a month!
Remember private platform and only governments can censor. Also first amendment. Free speech only applies to government not private companies. They can show you door if you try to use their platform to market your competing product...
It seems perfectly plausible that the reviewers they do have are busier right now, because more people are using and abusing facebook, so they have "fewer available".
I wouldn't really hold ethernet cables up as a model of skipping unnecessary generations. There's 6, then there's 7, then they came out with 6A and 7A, and 7 is unpopular and 7A unheard of, and then there are apparently two kinds of 8 with different plug and shielding requirements?
Thankfully GitHub now runs secret scanning and AWS is a partner. If you did this today AWS will revoke the key before malicious scanners find it.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo...
Needs an old year in the title (2007?).

In 2007, I might have agreed.

In 2021, I've added syntax highlighting to my own editor (and things feel harder without it).
> I think the pandemic has far more historical significance but nothing for me will feel more visceral than 9/11. I appreciate this is likely a very American -centric perspective but it’s how I feel.

It's not as American-centric as you might think; I'm not from the US but after 9/11 and for several years, I had recurring nightmares about trying to escape from a building that got hit by a plane.

I can't imagine what it was like for people closer to it.
Here we go again.

People posting on Medium (or any other "platform") are seeking distribution, not a 200ms rendering performance or owning their namespace.

Also, nothing wrong with paying for content — I'm a Medium subscriber, among many other publications.

Let's discuss again when a major NYT columnist leaves for the sake of publishing with Hugo.
> Unpopular question, how did a plane and jet fuel burn down a steel reinforced building?

That's the germ of a bunch of 20 year old paranoid conspiracy theories, basically the 2001 version of COVID denialism.

If you're asking a genuine question, there are decades-old engineering analyses and all kind of layman's translations of them that explain it. I'm sure they can be easily Googled.
Sounds great!

I’ll definitely reach out as it seems like a great platform after diving some more into it
J&J because I was caring for my dying mother at the time. Appointments for J&J were plentiful at the time and it got to immunity fastest
Fantastic endeavour.
I'm someone who has needed to force myself in mathematics for my career. I needed extra help at school, but had no real trouble in any other class.

I thought I was just too dumb for maths. I came to realise that my problem was not in mathematical concepts which it turns out are fairly easy, but in the language of maths itself and how it is taught (some exceptions such as Strang who is just a wonderful educator). Programming in particular really helped me to learn. That's not to say that certain areas aren't still difficult but reformulating away from the traditional notation and teaching style has helped me.
There was a long article about how they have to do it in an office, and how you can't bring any electronics with you, and how you have to click a special button when you go to pee, and there's a daily limit on how much you can use it.

edit: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo... it was probably this one
Use a browser that doesn't purposely nag you for permissions like Safari does. Firefox fits the bill for me, and doesn't throw nagging pop ups at me all of the time.
> I am sure everyone on HN moved quickly

This is me. For years my employer offered to get me a phone, but I declined. Why would I want a mobile phone. I don’t want people to get ahold of me whenever they want. But, then that first iPhone came out that was actually a full-fledged computer with phone capabilities on the side. I immediately jumped on that.
None of them ELI5, as I’ve originally asked. I’d love an ELI5 perspective. Thank you.
C# in its many forms has many challenges, when it comes to desktop software. Mostly that if you want your software to work on any other OS apart from Windows, there still aren't that many good options.

For example, there is Mono with Gtk#, but it's not really widely used, supported and overall seems to be dying, much like MonoDevelop is: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/faq/gtk/

After that, there was Xamarin Forms, but they're facing similar problems because in the new .NET there will be a new officially supported framework for GUI apps (they got bought out essentially and there has been little development on their project since): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/

The new .NET cross platform UI still hasn't been released either (well, you can check it out if you have the preview builds) and it might be a while until we can actually judge how well the "official" approach works in its stable form: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/get-started/ins...

There are third party attempts to fill that vacuum of strong options, like Avalonia, but that's also just work in progress, like every other mentioned approach: http://avaloniaui.net/

Of course, there are also others like Eto: https://github.com/picoe/Eto

The point i'm making is that due to the history of .NET, cross platform wasn't a priority and therefore there is a really large amount of fragmentation, as well as the developer efforts are spread thin.

Contrast to Java, where you basically had AWT, then eventually Swing, and now there's JavaFX/OpenJFX, all of which are cross platform. Similarly, in Lazarus (a FreePascal IDE) there's the Lazarus Component Library which is where most if not all of the development effort is focused.

It's probably also easier to just have to learn one framework and set of tooling around it and be able to work on most projects out there that use that language, as opposed to there being so many different ones.
> The containment building is also smaller than a 747, so you can’t transfer the entire plane’s energy to it like you could with a larger target like the towers.

I know very little about physics and found this to be an unexpected point I’d like to understand more. Could you explain?
The ACLU has basically grifted vast sums of donations from people who believe in classically liberal values and foundational (to America) civil liberties while pivoting to a partisan progressive political organization in the Trump era. Their work now often resembles election campaigning more so than nonprofit work.
That’s getting into pretty basic economic theory, costs going down across the board in a very competitive market will generally bring down prices, eventually.
Sounds like you're generalizing, based on... early APLs? NumPy? You could translate any BASIC code to, say, Dyalog APL easily without significant loss in fidelity. Different languages take different approaches but most modern ones (the ones that aren't just made to be calculators like Ivy) support either a generic functional or imperative style just fine.

K is inspired by Lisp, although you can't adapt that style directly because of the limited scoping rules: variables are either local or global, so a function can't see variables from containing functions. This means no closures, which K implementers consider a feature (I don't).
I believe that using the line 'our lines are busy right now' cuts down on complaints. I assume this was A/B tested and found that it has the same effect.

Until very recently, Google Play also had a similar notice without mentioning COVID when an app was in for review.
Load times of Medium posts on my Nexus 5X/Firefox Mobile were so bad, I stopped clicking on links to Medium eventually.
https://joinmastodon.org/
Might as well see what FB is scared about
Before that, there was a time when "most of the limitations of the language" had not been addressed. I had the misfortune to have to program in the language in that time, and it was painful. Part of the reason C took over the world and Pascal did not is that, in this time, C was much less annoying to use than Pascal.

Borland fixed that, and brought Pascal to parity with C. (Maybe even ahead of C, because Pascal had better type checking.) But then (or soon after), there were a variety of C compilers. Once Borland raised their prices, some of them were less expensive than Turbo Pascal. (Once gnu came out, some of them were free.)

Why was the original Pascal annoying to use? See Brian Kernighan's "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language". (Despite its reputation, it's not a hit piece. And, as someone who had to use the original, unextended Pascal, I can tell you that every word of it is true.)

Pascal was written by a university guy trying to create a teaching language. And he succeeded - it was a very good teaching language. C was written by a couple of lab guys trying to write real programs, not classroom exercises. Their language was better at that than Pascal was.
SIGINT doesn't imply on mass surveillance, and HUMINT doesn't imply in targeted actions.
I've been programming since before syntax highlighting was common, and I continue to program without it frequently enough that I'm happy to not rely on it. I'd rather spend my time programming than figure out how to get colors working in the terminal session in. What I like is to be able to get work done in any situation. Reliance on any given tool is an impediment to that.

Not to say that I hate syntax highlighting. Likewise: I carry a lighter camping, but I also know how to make and use a bow drill. I think there's a big difference between learning to live without a technology, and hating that technology. And that's the generous read of this article.

To rebut the author, I've seen an indisputably good use of syntax highlighting: rainbow-colored parentheses in emacs. In most languages, I've got a sixth sense for unmatched parens, braces and brackets -- but that isn't strong enough for lisp.
Well, some of us never saw it in the first place.
Examples:
https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operati...
> Start the whole debate from scratch. Get down to first principles.

Been hankering for this from media and politics for a long time, an outline of the general principles or overall vision that informs individual takes on various issues, but not expecting to ever see it in my lifetime. Disillusioned with the collective ability of humanity to reason together
I read that was happening in some Florida counties (I read it about a month ago, right as school began there). I didn't hear how it had gone over with the governor.

I think if you say "we won't fund you if you mandate masks," the mechanism for mandating them probably isn't very relevant. Mandating masks via dress code policy is still mandating masks.
I'm with you, I remember watching these when I left my very first physics lecture as a freshman. I have no trouble remembering it, so I assume this is mostly for people who have never seen it.
"The German-Speaking World"? No, of course not. Some frauds/impostors might be terrified, but that's about it. Contrary to popular believe, they are not "the World".
If the article is correct, that’s what they are doing and Facebook is using their market and financial dominance to stop it.

How is “they’re a private company, make your own” still being used as an argument when situation is obviously beyond that? We have conclusive evidence from FAANG and Governments that they work together.

You practically CAN’T make your own Facebook. Facebook will stop you one way or another. Google who has a dollar or two, tried and failed spectacularly. Do you know how much better an organic startup would need to be to rival Google’s Day1 investment in Plus?
Didn't have a chance to work with Pyramid yet, so can't really comment on that
They’re social animals though. Wouldn’t it be lonely?
Firefox ships with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled by default, disabling those tracking cookies and other trackers from the first time you launch the browser[1].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
I like the quote the from the Supreme court on the topic:

"If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence"

However, I think it's also important to recognize that in today's algorithmically driven content presentation, "more speech" is often comically ineffective because it is never consumed in the emergent content bubbles that silo people from contradictory information. Not to mention the fact that misinformation that confirms your preconceptions is a much more powerful influence than actual information that contradicts them. Given this, an important caveat embedded in the above quote is: "If there be time". A recognition of the fact that, in some circumstances, there will not be an opportunity for more speech to prevail.

I don't have a solution to this. There may be no good solution to this, except lesser degrees of bad solutions.
The Final Border We Will Never Cross
Why? Every time people make new technology to subvert the government, they must raise their tyranny in order to regain control.

Encryption, for example. It denies the government information, evidence. There's nothing it can do about that. So will it criminalize encryption itself? Will it presume guilt if you refuse to decrypt? Will it ban free computers that run software not signed by the government?

After enough iterations, we'll either end up with an uncontrollable population wielding ubiquitous subversive technology, or an omnipotent totalitarian state that defeats any attempt at subversion before they can develop.

I hope for everyone's sake that the governments will discover their own limits before either outcome.
Bad data vs no data at all? I would think no data would put you out of a job while bad data would require more hires to filter the data.
Also notably, from your article:

"Carvalho said that among the 13 deaths, the majority of people contracted COVID-19 and died before the beginning of the school year. One person had direct contact with students, he said."