skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When watching this week's iPhone keynote, it occurred to me that while they were showing all their environmental credentials, which seems to be given more prominence every time, what I'd really like to see is a slide on "supporting freedom and democracy".

Apple do have the resources, influence and brand equity to make some strides here and it doesn't have to be completely philanthropic either - it can make business sense to edge towards being better in some of these areas.

At the moment it feels a bit disingenuous to be so self-congratulatory on the environmental progress [1] when we're constantly reading articles about the conditions in their supply chain (which they do have responsibility for, despite the often touted excuse of "they're not their factories").

[1] I don't mean to talk down the importance of the environmental stuff - just that it's only one part of a wide spectrum of ethical areas that I think Apple could be addressing.
It is estimated that 250,000 people die per year from medical errors. That doesn't mean that people should shoot their doctors...

The problem is an underfunded systems and huge workload and a bit of funding would instantly safe more lives than restricting gun ownership.

Calling for restriction is a transparent political move or is born out of ignorance in my opinion (I am not from the US).

People that would profit the most from restrictions are policemen, which are probably underpaid in the US considering their risk.
It's a vaccination-agnostic comment, about how the complexity of immunological processes make the claim that any drug development involving them is "likely" a hilariously reductive statement.

As an analogy, that's kind of like saying the Wright Flyer flew, so smart money is on the Wright Company being successful. (Except if aerodynamics were about 1000x more complex)

Predicting anything in drug discovery from a financial standpoint is laughably imprecise.
From ifixit is possible to purchase the replacement battery for 30$ https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Miscellanous/Bose-QuietComfort-...

You could find a smartphone repair shop and ask them if they could do that repair with you providing them the guide and replacement component:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Bose+QuietComfort+35+Battery+Re...
The difference is that France is already producing about half as much CO2 as Germany, despite Germany having much more wind/solar. That's the power of not throwing away your huge investments in nuclear power.
My company uses Confluence (NOT self hosted) and it regularly takes 10s or more to load a page on a 400Mbit connection. Text content only, no diagrams. Confluence is a joke
If you just want to get into good shape, start eating healthy and doing something physical regularly. I do a high-protein diet, intermittent fasting, and play laser tag often. This will be enough, but if you want to speed it up you can always start deadlifting.
This is the Law of Instrument. It's a disease. (It isn't a "neurological effect", pace what the other commenter suggests and despite whatever neurological correlates it has, strictly speaking.)

To broaden your horizons, consider diversifying your interests. Don't use ALL your time programming. Devote some of the free time you might be using to program for others things that broaden the mind. Try good literature (classics), good philosophy (approachable in the way its written unless you want to become a scholar of this stuff), and leisure. Literature helps you break out of the prejudices of your own culture. Philosophy lets you develop a clearer grasp of the big picture and ultimate reality. Leisure (NOT recreation) entails the passive absorption of the world around you and allows it to enter into your mind without you running your gears all the time. Contemplation is perhaps the purest form of leisure. It dissolves our alienation from reality. Turn those gears off and you have a better chance to break out of your mental rut.

Over time, you will put programming in its place.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. /sarcasm
A long time ago before git I've casually run into quilt[1]. Not really immediate but if you don't like git may be nice to use. On IETF[2] there's a quick tutorial too.

[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/doc/quilt/quilt.html
Not to be a pedant, but are these really life-size? It's hard to get a sense of scale from the images but they look significantly larger than life size.
Except in 2 years they would be obsolete because of wear and tear and or because a new node process is released and or we get more clever around specialized chips for this purpose. More and more parts of the economy are mapped into this work relative to the scarcity of these bits of value. Bitcoin is 0.5% today of global energy usage a few more multiples and it's going to much more directly tie global energy costs to the price fluctuations the currency.

We risk the whole world becoming paperclips type economics doomsday scenario.. least growing number of people that ascribe value to cryto agree to collectively ascribe to an alternative model for distribution of transaction security.
The person put a blank statement that the Linux is unusable for the task (without giving any more information) and I responded that it is usable because we are using it for it.

As to "run of the mill software dev" this is not a snarky comment, this is just reality.

Most devs have absolutely no idea how to configure Linux at all, other than to make their application work. Not to mention configure for real time operation.

So I stand by my comment that comes from over two decades of experience in the field.
Plus one here: I get a strong case of the cliche “man must fix problem” after a solid day of programming. It’s helpful when you can keep it in balance, but it’s definitely not the right tool for all situations.
It would be good if YouTube weren't held responsible for the content they host (by both media and regulators). Its not fair to blame the transmitter for the content.
Yeah my main site is a bit of a disorderly mess. It started as a Swedish blog, but I've since added a few services aimed at a global audience. Haven't quite figured out how to unify it all just yet.
Wow, that sounds like something right out of the Babylon Bee. I really don't envy the folks at the Bee - it's hard to make up satire that's weirder and more outrageous than the actual truth!
No, we built our first code generator from scratch in 2014 [1]. I don't think most of these projects existed at the time. Our current CodeGen has always been written-from-scratch, propriety code. Our focus is also a bit different from these projects: we aim to cover as much of the OpenAPI format feature-set while generating consistent, high-quality, well-designed SDKs (should be as good as a good engineer can produce). To complete the Developer Experience of the API, we also generate complete API documentation site as well [4].

Back in 2014, OpenAPI didn't even exist. The latest API specification format was Swagger 1.2 and it was not very mature at that point. We had to build a lot of vendor extensions to cover the various REST API use-cases that API folks take for granted today.

Today, we also run the most-used API Spec format convertor tool in the world by the name of API Transformer [2]; this tool has helped a lot of companies migrate from an older spec formats like OpenAPI 2 and RAML to OpenAPI 3. We support nearly all API specification formats including RAML, OpenAPI (2., 3.), Blueprint, Postman, WADL and more.[3]

[1] https://www.apimatic.io/about/
[2] https://www.apimatic.io/transformer/
[3] https://docs.apimatic.io/api-transformer/overview-transforme...
[4] https://www.apimatic.io/developer-experience-portal
Evaly CEO Arrested in Bangladesh
I didn't say the AI should be unbiased, just whoever writes it.

I want an AI that is biased to the truth when there is an objective one, and my tastes otherwise. (that is when asked to find a good book it should give me fantasy even though romance is the most popular genre and so will have better reviews)
Whenever I read anything about how resource intensive the bitcoin network is, I wonder how it compares to the total energy and other resource use of traditional finance. Those costs have got to be pretty high for traditional finance, especially considering minting and transportation of physical money and considering the innumerable humans needed to run it. However, I've never seen a serious estimate of those numbers, so I have no idea how they compare to bitcoin's.
When you start dreaming about yourself being code and consisting of modules you know you've done something to your brain.
Apple Now Facing Class Action Suit for Cracked M1 MacBook Screens
Presentation of Pfizer booster data from Israel
I don't see the promise impacting an employee's decision at all:

1) Founders promise not to sell. Employee is offered salary without equity.

2) Founders say nothing about selling. Employee is offered salary without equity.

In both cases the employee has lost nothing of value. Someone made the founders a pretty ridiculous offer ($12bn for $700mn revenue company). Why should they refuse? No one is being harmed by the sale apart from some employees incorrectly assuming a broken promise means they deserve a chunk of the sale .... a sale that they would NEVER have benefitted from regardless of the original promise.

Compare this to the usual startup "promise" of low salary but equity and fingers crossed we'll sell. Presumbly mailchimp had to offer higher salaries to compensate for the lack of equity offered. And if they didn't then that was a silly choice by the employee (low salary and no equity).
I do not care either. Real choices are made in real life. We are just talking here.
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By which time an American company will have copied your business model and plow 10x anything you could ever dream of raising in Europe into dominating your market.
It's possible to extend empathy to all living creatures, not just those similar to oneself. Or to put it another way, to take the view that all living things have equal value on a grand scale.
Project Turpentine: an easy way to get off Varnish
Looks like they're community sponsors. This page shows the levels: http://ghostbsd.org/sponsor
i.e. a log structured file system.
Modifying Taylor polynomials for better accuracy: sin(x) approximations
It is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM
It is a lot easier to say you will never sell when you aren't looking at a multi-billion dollar offer
What does FIRE mean?
One thing that works for me is trying to push this problem-finding routine into general curiosity about the world around me... I never expected to get into gardening but I started learning more about the plants and weeds growing in my little yard, and one thing lead to another. I've also started keeping track of the birds.
Facebook to respond to toxic behavior with more toxic behavior. This is certain to end well.
https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/wsl/
They did still redirect people to the Hong Kong search though. They didn't entirely pull out from China, just discontinued the Chinese search engine. And they did that because Google.cn was largely a broken service with a significant number of results being blocked by the Great Firewall. That wiki literally states all of this!

Google Search was never really what one would normally describe as a "successful product" in China even when it was at it's hight in terms of market share. It sucked and given Google still operate in China, have development offices there and actively promote Android (amongst other services), it's a real stretch to say that Google discontinued Search in China over ethical reasons. Search was just, like many of their services in the west that get canned, just not proving successful enough to be worth the hassle supporting. Which was my original point.

edit: Christ on a bike. I'm getting downvoted when even the citations backs up my statement. Googlers must have logged on for their morning dose of internet outrage.
JEP 169 is for value objects and JEP 218 is for generics over primitives. As the grandparent comment said they go hand-in-hand. My sense is they're more concerned about getting it right then getting it shipped, as both have been in the works for years.
Well, SpaceX did all that mostly on government money, as NASA was by far the largest buyer of SpaceX rocket launches, and directly invested hundreds of millions of dollars on top of that (and are still doing so).
Slice that pie: how to split equity in a fresh startup
If Your CEO Talks Like Kant, Think Twice Before Investing
> Bookface is YC’s knowledge base, and it answers 80% of the questions a founder can have about building and selling a product, be it to clients, candidates or investors. It’s the most valuable content I’ve ever read.

Something tells me this information isn’t so scientifically based and cited as it could be. I wonder just how much of this contributes to the business monoculture we see today.
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=put_down&oldid=6...

4th definition: (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).

I'd say it's not out of question that this could be applied to people as well.
The northern part of saudi Arabia is actually part of the Fertile Crescent also known as 'The Cradle of Civilization' extending from Iraq where human first started cultivating and herding animals [1]. Yes it's now mostly desert but it used to be greener than it's today.

This is an excellent documentary where teams of archeological experts from around the world trying to unravel the mystery of one of the earliest man made monuments in northern Saudi Arabia [2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8A0LpX7_yM
related:

[0] https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-unlocks-powe...
Interesting points.

If I were to hazard cynical guesses, I'd say anti-corruption drives are genuine, in that corruption hurts American business interests, and anti-sex-crimes stuff is convenient to intelligence services who use sexual transgressions as black mail (e.g. Alexander Acosta explaining why he cut a sweet-heart deal for Epstein: "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone").
The Case for a Return to Enceladus
I wonder how does this affect deep learning calculations and how it's possible that all those multiplications and additions still work.
Wow 7-9 million dollars worth of unsellable Pokemon cards.

And to keep them you just have to keep working?

Maybe I should work as a unicorn as well!! Oh wait I'd rather rest on my actual cashm
Ha! Are you handy? Try adding a solar panel to this hack. But remember to always face the sun.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2021/2/1/22260540/ip...
Though, looking at the poem again - strictly in terms of syllable structure the final verse is far more regular than the rest in terms of its syllable structure, so I don't know how much sense it makes to categorise the final verse as accentual (in contrast to the rest)? Though I understand it might represent a break from an older tradition of highly constrained poetry, of which careful consideration about syllables is one part. OTOH even the final verse has a lot of classical-seeming features (internal rhyming/alliteration c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_syllabic_poetry#Techniqu... )

https://imgur.com/a/4HZmu64 is my attempt at marking strong vs weak syllables.
(I don't know the old Irish syllabic tradition, so in particular I don't know how to categorise some of the starting syllables, and probably messed up a bunch)

[ Apologies to whatever extent this is ignorant/incorrect! ]
I completely agree with this list. Although Windows 8 had a bad desktop UI, it was easily mostly fixed with Classic Shell at the time (these days it is Open Shell as Classic Shell is not updated any more). What Windows 10 has now is a better UI, but it has all this background stuff and telemetry which screws any performance for long periods of time, other times it is fine. But I have had to have performance monitoring tools open all the time to see what is going through my hard drive. It is that bad that I have resource monitor open all the time, just out of habit, because of how often there is Windows telemetry stuff or update medic service or even stuff which tries to measure power usage of programs in Windows when I am running it on a desktop. This is all stuff built into Windows installed by Microsoft, not 3rd party stuff. I have been able to deal with this by bypassing the haphazard protections MS put into place to stop me turning that stuff off, if they truly manage to stop me using my PC the way I want, not allowing me to disable the stuff I don't like, then it will become to unbearable to use Windows. The only reason it isn't unbearable is the protections against turning stuff off can be bypassed (not that they haven't tried to stop it).

With Win 11 requiring SecureBoot and the Trusted Platform Module turned on, it is a hard no for me. I like having control over my PC.
Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly and Google
I think it's a somewhat moot comparison, as Bitcoin does just about none of what traditional finance actually does, particularly on the "human" side of things.
The modern "Software operating system" is a lie, it talks to an abstraction of other systems that masquerade as a predictable machine presented to them with known interfaces.

Linux is the new 'hardware compatibility layer'
Signal mobile payments expanded to Switzerland, France and Germany
Juanita Nielsen
My company sells robots, not software, and treats us like royalty. Perhaps “tech companies” fall under the umbrella and I’m just misreading you?

Edit: I’m confused then: if robots have software therefore it’s a software company, then tons of companies are software companies. But so many of those products, the software is just a hidden detail that no customer ever thinks about or cares about. Where do you draw the line?
> the time of the statues’ creation, around the sixth millennium B.C.E., the Arabian Peninsula was filled with grassland and much wetter than it is now.

We’re camels significantly different during this time? How much of their current features are things evolved to deal with the desert climate?
There was an article earlier this week about why every engineer should do a stint in consulting.

This is why.

The reason companies like this use consulting companies is because the VPs want total control. Internal IT is purely a cost center, and unless your company (read: the business) is already on board with the product lifecycle op model, there is no point in trying to do any of this from within IT. Consultants work at the VP level and in a large enough company, we find a technical area (usually data as it has the biggest business returns) to modernize, then leverage success there build out the business case for the rest of the company (data is a good place to start building API gateways). And selfishly, the business is willing to pay higher hourly rates than internal IT (which we generally leave to the offshore MSPs).

When I sell transformational solutions to a company, I know it won’t be successful without top-down buy-in. Consultants are also better positioned to do these transformations because we do them all the time; and the exercises around stakeholder management and consensus building are extremely important. They’re the kinds of things internal teams are never resourced or trained for, and they don’t happen quickly.
From the actual registration email:

"These links will only work while the conference is ongoing. At other times they
will lead you to our website.

The conference itself uses BigBlueButton. In case of issues please try a different browser.
We've had good luck with Chrome, but expect Safari and Firefox to work as well."
Do you know what reform has happened in your city specifically? I sense a lot of bias here and I'm wondering what the actual changes are.
Closed session of Russia's Federation Council and Apple leaked online
The app is how they tell you.
Combating counterfeit products with the help of NFTs
Infinite Entrepreneurship
I believe they're getting $5bn each. Though of course your point still stands.
don't worry it's not vague I think both types of thinking are needed, creativity can be suppressed by too much concentration or fatigue, but it certainly becomes more effective if nourished by the knowledge that concentration helps to obtain
I think the idea is that the user would run these malicious binaries in WSL themselves, thinking it's a safe environment for testing. But actually, anything run in WSL will have the same privileges as the user who started the session, due to the interop features (even if it's not running as root in WSL).
X.org Could Use More Help Improving and Addressing Its Security
Idled Thai Taxis Go Green with Mini-Gardens on Car Roofs
Wasn't Minecraft written in Java?
Turning on the reader mode in Vivaldi makes the site actually quite readable. It's kind of sad that bad UX destroys enjoyable content (which this article is).
The worse part is how new settings are pushed into the new UI layer under their own menus rather than being easily accessible from the control panel. I understand the need for backwards compatibility but I'd assume they would want to put together a proper replacement for the control panel that utilizes their newest technology while still being able to manage legacy application settings. But it seems you have to go through multiple screens until you find the right one that has the setting. It's really annoying.
Number 3 is killer. I’m in a private Slack with a bunch of white designers and boy are they negative. ANYTHING gets released and they hear about it? Teardowns that’ll make iFixit’s head spin!

I take a leave of absence when the force is strong.
Sadly too young for systems before this VAX!
Twitter thread on this: https://twitter.com/ThomasPogge/status/1438849929175355396
It's a storage, but yes it's part of the cycle also.

A forrest stores carbon as long as the forrest exists, dead trees emit carbon as they die/rot/burn away, living trees store carbon as long as they are alive (and they help maintain the soil where carbon gets stored also)

Once a forrest reach maturity , it will be a store like any other carbon store (but perhaps a fragile one , it can easily be cut or burned down).

Basically, if you remove a forrest (e.g. burn it down), most of the carbon is released into the atmosphere - thus it's a storage keeping the carbon it stored away from the atmosphere.

Forrests store about 400 billion tons of carbon in total , and we emit about 9-10 billtion tons of carbon per year.

(most numbers you find will be of co2, but those 2 oxygen molecules account for quite a bit of the volumn/weight also, so make sure to not mix numbers that account for just carbon with numbers that represents co2 )
> It's an interesting challenge to think about: you have a thousand, or a million, small little robots - how to get them to do something useful as a group?

This was a big focus of a lot of the ALife research in the late 90s and early aughts. Cellular automata, swarming systems, etc. You can generally start with anything coming out of University of New Mexico and bounce around the citation graph of an interesting-sounding paper. You might also want to check out Dave Ackley's T2 Tile project and some of the youtube videos he has put out over the past few years. One thing he is very clear about is addressing robustness in the face of component failure (e.g. his 'Moveable Feast Machine' and 'Demon Horde' stuff is rather fun to watch as it responds to random and widespread failures.) Most of the work in this area is clearly bio-inspired, but why re-invent the wheel when you can steal from the best available examples...
Intuit Stock May Just Be Gettng Started After This MailChimp Bump