skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windy is great. The map is appealing, but be sure to check out the forecast view for a particular location. Also make sure you try different locations. I'm in the Salish Sea on Orcas Island in the San Juans and because we have a lot of topography here mixed with ocean, we have a lot of local effects, contour winds and so on and there are big differences between locations.

Also note that Windy can get it wrong. I grew up in Cape Town and forecasting there is easy compared to here because it's the tip of Africa surrounded by Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Here it's very mixed with land, sea, big 11,000ft mountain ranges like the Olympics and so on and this region is hard to forecast. For where we are, the forecasts - and Windy's map specifically - is wrong fairly often.

A trick that a lot of folks don't know about is using ATIS, AWOS or ASOS at a local airport or airfield. If you want to know what the weather is at a given location, find a nearby airport, get their ATIS (or AWOS or ASOS) phone number and you can call and get a real-time report that is extremely accurate. I do this for KORS, our local airfield all the time. You can get this data off Foreflight although I'm sure there are plenty of free alternatives. Obviously it's current weather, not forecast, but it's often helpful.
"chargeback" is probably a good keyword too.
Well, I said "closer", not an exact analogue. They're pretty close equivalents, though, as most Windows programs don't actually call syscalls directly, but link in an OS-provided DLL and call an exported symbol from it, with the userspace to kernel bits abstracted away from most user programs. Wine (mostly) re-implements those DLLs, effectively re-implementing the Win32 API (a userspace API) in Linux's userland.

(programs are allowed to call the kernel directly, though, and Wine has to handle those cases esp. for DRM/anti-cheat code in games that poke at the kernel directly, recently Linux was patched to allow userspace programs to directly handle syscalls [0][1], making Wine ... closer to a WSL1 equivalent?)

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/10/1323

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
sheer dominance in their tech space using 0 tests, absolute CDD
Yep, seems to be a lot of that [1] going around.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484294
There are many government mandates for the benefit of disabled people. We generally think this is ok.
You can always fall back on the Linux Subsystem for Windows GUI, aka WINE/DOSBox/VMW/VBX/QEMU, with varying levels of integration/fiddle/config.
You can see how they’re funded on their website[0]. I don’t think the city has the power to tax locally in the way LA might and funding London public transport out of general tax money would never go down well politically.

[0] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/investors/funding-sources
Thank you for sharing SDG. I haven't heard it mentioned in many years. The simplification power it provides is beautiful! [1]

I'm elated over having delighted and filled you with music. Your kind words have made me beam from ear to ear as well :-)

I think the intuitive power of these other formulations comes from the spatial/geometric imagery that these disciplines naturally provide. Another aspect is the conversion of unwieldy processes into simpler objects. Like nonstandard analysis replacing the limit process with the infinitesimal object.

The paradigm of replacing large processes with things that can be intuited might not be very profound if as programmers we bring up first class functions. A function is just an object anyhow! True but the human mind seems to be less efficient at composing functions than composing objects. So though it's all interchangable, we seem to work better when we are given mentally ergonomic foundations.
Back to what you said in your previous posts, the ease of manipulation in these alternative theories, it probably lends a bit from this exchange of complicated processes for simpler things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_differential_geometr...
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I'm not sure how this relates to Apple. I have a Thinkpad, and still vastly prefer the one-cable-solves-all for monitor/power/peripherals.
Genius.

Will give a well deserved boost in revenue to the local businesses, if they can capitalize on the influx of well off buyers going to the dealership. Might also shatter some pre-conceptions about tribal lands. "it can't be that bad, there's a Tesla supercharger and Store right there!".
That will teach me that I shouldn't have trusted him. I suppose it's similar to what happens if one of the common crypto-currency scams du jour happens. Except with less moving parts.
As a user my dream is that Apple actually puts in the effort and makes the changes to convince these companies to use IAP. My nightmare is that they don't and everyone drops IAP for a wilderness of credit card web forms.
End to end encryption should be as secure as the underlying encryption technology, this is only as secure as a users password which 99% of the time is trivially crackable.

It’s like equating Fort Knox and a locked car. Fort Knox might not be impenetrable, but they really don’t provide similar levels of protection.
Microsoft has just shifted to being what IBM was in that late 90s for all intents and purposes. IBM didn't care what you ran on their platforms, even at the OS level. They just wanted that sweet sweet support contract and computer leasing money. "You want to run Linux on our mainframes? Hell yeah, sign here." Now with Azure, Microsoft gets money of the same shape, and correspondingly makes some of the same strategic choices.
Neither reimplemented the other syscalls directly in the kernel. In WSL1 the NT kernel kicked Linux syscalls to an lxcore.sys driver to convert them into equivalent NT calls and objects. In WINE most things don't make direct syscalls (they make userspace Win32 calls and WINE reimplements that and many other Windows APIs in a way that calls Linux syscalls directly) but for those that do (e.g. game DRM) the Linux kernel added a SECCOMP_MODE_MMAP mode to seccomp() to trap unknown syscalls to a handler (in this case WINE) to do the same thing.
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T4 is a gpu :) NVIDIA Tesla T4: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/tesla-t4/
The Problem with ‘Complex’ Passwords
Hey! I'm really glad it was useful to someone. Thank you for the kind words :)
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They were amazingly successful -- more successful than should have been thought possible -- but they couldn't overcome the semantic file system differences.
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Yup! And in general, you can click your location on https://www.weather.gov/ 's image map, and it'll redirect you to the local office URL which is the same 3 letter code: https://www.weather.gov/mtr/ and there is a link to the AFD in the "Text Product Selector" on the page!
Even interesting jobs involve a fair amount of rote work, doing it using tech you enjoy working with makes that go a lot easier.
How long before even Linus migrates to Windows as his daily driver?
So how long until us poor fellows running enterprise windows see this?

I currently use vcxsrv which works mostly fine, but it's hard to convince other people to adopt the multitude of hacks I have to make this work, and supporting windows in builds is painful.
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Thanks for the warning, I'll buckle up :)

If I should happen to find a fix for any problem I might run into, or come up with ideas for improvements, I'll be happy to contribute.
They sort of tried, under duress, but too little, too late:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-us-developers-a...
you don't have to wait until Windows 11 for this nonsense. I am unfortunately locked at my current mission to be on a Windows laptop, my first Windows experience in years. As soon as I read up on wsl2 I installed it and inside installed the xrdp server and a corresponding lightweight environment, then just rdp into it (but every time the wsl gets restarted, you'll have to do a /etc/init.d/xrdp restart).
Although, I can't wait until I get to a sane environment again. Without Windows and all headache it brings me...
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I use almost no libraries and stick to languages which have prioritized stability for 20+ years.

This amounts to using Perl, bash, and POSIX.

On the client side, of course, it is HTML and JS, which I use a very limited subset of to improve compatibility.
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* Two, many users care about this enough to refuse payment systems that don't have it. In that case there will be a market for another payment system that has easy cancellations but charges ~5% instead of 30%.*

That line of reasoning holds when all else is equal, which it almost never is when it comes to apps. No matter how passionate anyone is about payment systems, it’s still extremely unlikely to rise to become the determining factor when deciding to install an app. If a person wants to play Fortnite with their friends, but doesn’t like the payment system, they don’t magically get to choose a Fortnite clone with a payment system that’s more to their liking.
It is definitely a breath of fresh air in that regard.
Today in "class action over the whole industry having depresed wages from their actions" history, this month marks the 21st anniversary of the DoJ filing a complaint against Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for agreeing not to poach each other's employees. The companies eventually settled a civil class action suit for $415 million.
You have never been to many tribal reservations have you?
It is certainly a victory for junk legalese that you can write an illegal contract, have it ruled illegal, and still enforce it.

The logical ruling would be to force Apple to pay reparations to all the app developers that they have illegally forced to pay for the app store.
No, it's not the main concern usually. Most people who are anti-GMO are against the gene editing part and its potential effects on the human genome.

If you probe deeply enough you realize there's not much there.
Planing trip is soul-crushing for me. All my friends said they super excited when planing, i got completely the opposite impression. All these schedule disaster starting from flight departure and landing time, bad timing produce lots of wasted time, landing to a city at wrong time adds an extra night (lost unnecessary money). Bus schedule is also disaster, "is there any bus" anxiety. Unexpected events suppose to happen and lost more money. Yep, the "supposed to be the fun most part" so called "get lost" is not fun at all. Fun parts are only like 40-60%.
Linux and Windows use mutually exclusive permission/ACL bits, even on the same NTFS filesystem.
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RF engineering is hard. IETF is ... scope averse, change averse, inertia-driven, and ... not exactly a bastion of hardware manufacturing excellence. IEEE is also way better than, say, the ITU, whose resistance to packet-based switching is famous and whose systems in that space are largely semi-mythical to extinct and who are politically inclined to actively stand for centralized and billable systems in lieu of decentralized local communications.
I’m kind of dismayed that none of these vendors seem to have a form with a buy button. Leads me to expect a lot of licensing problems.
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This might get buried, but I'll put this idea out there.

Background:

I'm someone who has traveled fairly regularly (> 30 countries), with some trips comprised of solo backpacking across Europe or South-East Asia. I also think I'm really good at planning, which is largely about constraint optimizing and solving some version of TSP (traveling salesman).

The idea:

You're in a city. You tell the app all the places you want to check out. The app returns an itinerary, calculating TSP starting from your lodging, taking into account expected travel time, the times the places are open, lunch / dinner, etc.

I would personally find this really useful because it would replace hours that I spend optimizing my travels.
Not the opposite more a middleground "we don't keep IP logs unless (uncommonly) forced by law enforcement".
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> It is somewhat similar in quality to yahoo answers.

“How is babby formed?"

[EDIT] Corrected quote
>costing potentially tens of thousands of people life changing amounts of money

Have any numbers on this implication? How much is life changing in your opinion? Is there evidence this many people were shorted near that amount?

It's hard to imagine that local wages are life changing for those "potentially tens of thousands of people" but paying market clearing wages would be significantly different.
This might actually be the year of the Linux desktop
I don't want to want this, but I do.

Only semi-related but what I really want is for easy windows apps on linux that work without fail. I prefer my linux box and generally hate the windows ui (don't get me started on windows settings or audio). I've tried switching to linux full-time but I don't know if I can hack it. Games are 90% there and I can do without the few that don't work with proton, but there are just too many apps that only work on my windows side that I just don't think I can dump windows.

Wine gives me inconsistent results and breaks for just about anything that needs registry access, not to mention its pretty complicated. I'm hoping to stumble on some tool I've been missing out on that makes everything easier because I wan't to run linux as my daily... I just don't know if it is practical.
COBOL is an ok language.

The problem is that you'd be updating very old programs, handling money to the cent, and dealing with systems that likely have had multiple hardware and OS migrations over the decades.
Well, this is concerning. I just bought a MicroTik RB4011 to replace my ol faithful Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X because I’m getting fiber installed next week…

I guess I will be doing some research on MicroTik vulnerabilities and try to find out if these are just misconfigured devices that got owned or if I should hold off on the switch!
You're so right.

Reminds me of when people were claiming ADA exemptions for masks, as a "loophole". Then folks involved in the ADA point out it wasn't a loophole, because it was illegal to claim an exemption if you have a real condition.

Except the way laws like the ADA and HIPAA are written, it's literally impossible in most cases to check if someone is lying or not. So unless you're ready to literally gamble on your guts feeling (they can't sue you for discrimination if it was indeed false, but you have no way to check!), you couldn't do anything.

But hey, it's against the law, so I'm sure people won't lie.
> I would rather use Apple payment system.

The price would be higher if you used Apple payment system. That is how companies would get consumers to be enticed to use other payment systems.

That is what Epic did with their V-bucks: either use Apple system at the usual cost, or use Epic payment system at a permanently decreased cost (20% cheaper in August 2020).
Out of the box, Powershell comes with some aliases matching standard commands, like ls is an alias for Get-ChildItem. I think the intention is to make it more 'familiar' for Unix users on the "home" platform, where you don't usually have native Unix commands, but I found they just got in the way and I removed them (aliases like gci for Get-ChildItem still remain, so you don't need an ugly verbose command line, but you do need to learn some new commands). I'll wager that some of your experience was due to these aliases, which just get in the way trying to use it as a Unix shell.

So far I've actually been surprised at how infrequently I've encountered the problem you describe. I don't doubt that it's a real problem, but I've generally been pretty impressed with how well a list of lines, which come across a pipeline as an array of strings, mingles with objects. It could be that our "daily driver" tasks have different domains so this mismatch surfaces much more frequently for what you need to do.

I've had ideas for better shells for decades, mostly around handling structured data and easy network connections without destroying too much of what makes a shell a shell. So genuinely, respect to you for actually implementing along this path.
https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland
The issue of subscriptions gets worse --not better-- if there are more companies competing for subscription revenue. Having to use more than one service to manage all your subscriptions would make things even more of a headache, so I don't see how consumers would benefit.

Ex. if a 3rd party makes their own subscription management that somehow allows you to cancel subscriptions faster than Apple does, maybe that is more convenient, but now you have to figure out which of your services work with that provider and likely would have to use both as neither could offer you everything you wanted. I understand how the idea of competition for revenue could incentivize better management from the likes of Apple and others but I just don't think the market for this will be competitive at all.
The internet needs to figure out how to make appliance manufacturers liable for security breaches in some way. Otherwise the cost of security is an externality that they dump onto the internet for free.
I'm going to put this comment on every Apple vs Epic thread from now on, regardless of how many internet points I lose.

Instead of trying to ruin Apples ecosystem, Epic should try and develop their own.

If Valve can make the Steam Deck, Epic can make a Fortnite Phone.

Epic could then choose to make the phone as open or locked down as they like. They could have their own app store policies, and they could allow any payment platforms they like.

It could be an Android fork, or they could have a look at what is going on in the Linux phone community.

Would it be a success in the market place? I just think that depends on Epics choices it makes along the way. But I do know that millions of kids would rather have a cool gaming phone rather than an old fashioned iPhone.
From across the pond... Yes Minister and the follow up series Yes Prime Minister are the most rewtchable TV shows I've ever seen. When it was originally on air, it's said that the prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, loved it. And it's still absolutely relevant and witty today.
Ah, well that doesn't really matter, you can still see them as two separate participants in an asynchronous protocol.
Parliamentary systems with proportional representation, but the research does show they are better over all --- both theoretical and empirical. The situation in Italy is unfortunate, but I don't think it is a good reason for the US to rest on its laurels.
https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/
Why is Debian unstable still stuck way back on Node v12?
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> outsourced foreign support rep telling the user to run sfc /scannow

Sysadmin story. Recently I had a really strange problem after a disk migration - defrag.exe simply would not run no matter what (I needed it to TRIM the SSD), it just quits without any messages, as if it's /bin/false. GUI had the same problem.

The first search result was a thread at answers.microsoft.com, they give the same canned "sfc /scannow, dism /restorehealth, chkdsk /f" response. But OP finally solved the problem on their own, the "Optimize Drives" service was somehow been stopped, restarting it solved the problem. I tried it, it didn't work. Having no options, I decided to give the seemingly useless solution a shot (why did I bother to try? This was after a disk migration, I felt filesystem corruption could be real). It finally worked after "chkdsk /f"...

I was genuinely impressed. It was the first time ever that it actually fixed a real problem for me. Presumably defrag.exe detected a filesystem anomaly and refused to run.
I got a Samsung fridge recently, our first "french door" fridge. The mechanism that keeps the space between the doors sealed has failed often enough (keeping the left door open) that I've actually been thankful for "the fridge has been open for a few minutes" push notifications.
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Not just flame wars; wars.
This primate descendant is thankful I had a strong family structure of grandparents. Even in their grief they took care of me in my early years and I think I probably turned out ok. I'm more surprised I survived early 80's era powder formula.
Some beryllium ceramics I heard...
Epic will appeal the Epic vs. Apple decision
I think my fingers still know edlin.
The pandemic could explain this, a lot of people are now reluctant to use public transport at all.
> package.json

Ctrl-W, bye
Nowadays I reach for Krita for all my image manipulation needs
What does this mean for the future of scp?
What’s common sense property right?

Isn’t it common sense to not buy a toaster expecting it to be a server even though they both have circuit boards and technically can both compute?

Still don’t get why don’t you just buy things that advertise the functionality you want.
In my experience, it's fun to work on interesting problems and it's fun to work with interesting tech. But it quickly becomes overwhelming if you try to do both at the same time.
Subsidizing 3rd party developers, would be if Apple paid app developers to be on their platform, on top of a 0% commission.

Instead, what people want, is for users who already own their own phone, to be able to do what they want with it, without an uninvolved 3rd party (Apple) getting in the way of transactions made between the user and the developer.
Have you tried KDE plasma?
I like this comment.

What doesn't add up for me, is how you can do compile-time type-checking in a language that has eval, or an equivalent mechanism. As far as I can see (which is not very far at all), you have to either give up the dynamic Lisp magic of producing and running new code whenever you like, or you give up the static Haskell magic of proving (some) correctness at compile time by having a rigid exoskeleton which limits dynamism, but peels of cleanly before you run the program.
>If that exists, it existed before COVID, and vaccinations against COVID certainly haven't changed that.

Australia is taking it to the next level and using covid as an excuse. Do you believe that they will end their programs in 5 years when all of this is over?

>Are you referring to mandates? These have been a thing, in the U.S., for many decades

Vaccine passports are starting to be required to go to concerts, grocery stores, ball games, etc. If you do not do what the state wants you to do you will become a second class citizen with restrictions. This is similar to the social credit system in China.

>Vaccine mandates have excluded people from things far more important than restaurants, such as education, for many decades. This is not new to COVID.

No one is restricted from education. You can go to a private school or get an exemption.