skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calculator app on an iPhone 6s brings it back to 9. Is there some sort emulation shenanigans that are happening?

Using the SC-323 (Sharp calc emulator) app brings it to 9.0000000000000000005. According to the table, this is the same as the Sharp PC-E500 calc.
An eternal truth in cinema/tv. Once fans fall in love with the characters, they will stick around until you drop the ball
> it looks like their latest owner (2020) is slashdot

Not really, it's actually that Slashdot had also been sold to the same company! Just like SourceForge, under Dice.com's new management, it caused significant negative reactions among users in 2014 (that even made it to the Washington Post [0]), , and led to the creation of a Slashdot fork - Soylent News [1]. Later Dice.com sold both company to someone else again.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/02/07...

[1] https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/17/0148235

Note the comments, "In Slashdot Beta, Dice rolls you!" The forced Slashdot Beta rollout was the key of the controversy.
I haven’t and haven’t had to. With this setup though I could really do anything I want with the messages.
I will do the same thank you. How to do you measure if people are finding it easy or not?
> He's a nuclear scientist. He's essentially a terrorist.

Not. The Mossad is the terrorist group here.

Let me explain the situation more clearly. Lets suppose that a team in Iran would travel to US with the purpose of killing at cold blood a scientist working for the army, or in the NASA if you prefer. Would anybody doubt for a microsecond to tag them as terrorists commiting an act of terrorism?
Yes. "Permanently banned". Because the brands certainly won't change their name and go right back up.

Until Amazon starts actually vetting the products and sellers that they offer a platform to, they will continue to be full of fraud and scams.
I do this too, I just forward ALL my mail into my personal gmail (which I don't usually give to anyone) and label it differently, and have them all set up to "Send mail as" from gmail. Email Deliverability is great (atleast to other gmail users, since the mail comes from gmail servers).

I don't like the idea of checking multiple mail accounts, and setting up a couple filters goes a long way in organization. and It costs me nothing. And in case my gmail gets suspended, I can easily switch to another service.

As for privacy, I don't really think mail should be used for any communication that can come bite you in future.
The jets guided them in. The airline pilots didn't need to deal with navigation, they just had to follow one of the jets. The other jet could do visual checks of the outside of the airplane.
It's not at all the market this is aimed at, but movement in the direction of obtainably-priced new PPC hardware is exciting to me because it means that there's new hardware that can run classic Mac OS closer to the metal — potentially very close with a thin hypervisor layer that bridges the gap between what Mac OS is expecting and how the hardware actually is.

As for why it's exciting, emulation of classic Macs still has large holes (e.g. GPUs aren't emulated well enough to support 3D games) and is generally buggy, which will be a problem when all the old PPC Macs have broken beyond repair. A vast amount of unique software will be rendered not practically usable. There's also just a little bit of something lost in emulation… all the bits of added latency and quirks pile up to dampen the positive aspects of those old systems.
“ Don't confuse complexity and practical inability to predict with fundamental lack of predictability.”

Nothing is being confused. The list of contradictions to the statement is not limited in only this way, and I haven’t suggested it is. It seems like you’re saying, “what really happens” is reducible to the physical theories we have today, and if not then it will be reducible to the physical theories we’ll eventually have, or would have if we were smart enough. It seems like a matter of faith to think everything is reducible to precise theory. My personal belief is that “what really happens” is not entirely reducible to any kind of humanly expressible logic.

To throw out some brand name contradictions to the original statement: What is dark matter? Is there a theory of quantum gravity? What is consciousness? How does the universe exist? Is there any kind of fundamental randomness? What about the fact that every theory studied involves idealizations like the real numbers? Are any two atomic particles of the same mathematical type actually the same?

How about the known existence of unprovable mathematical statements (Godel’s first theorem)? (Also insert here every great unsolved math problem.)
I do wonder how far the activist researchers are willing to contort the science to avoid acknowledging that many stereotypes are in fact manifestations of statistically valid priors.

Culture predicts behavior, and ethnicity predicts culture, because of the nature of human reproduction and cultural diffusion (or lack thereof). Note that this is not an excuse to prejudge individuals, but in this case the statistics learned by our models are not necessarily lying. These activists are putting the cart before the horse, presuming that any ML model which shows socially unacceptable bias is obviously and unarguably wrong. That's just bad, backwards science.
I came to say this and also gripe about the fact that this franchise of franchises has gobbled up cinema and contributed in lowering the quality of mainstream film across the board. I personally cannot stand any of the Disney properties, particularly marvel and star wars, or their competitors anymore who are basically copying them to compete and also making their products mediocre.
The vast majority of bitcoin "investors" do not posses any bitcoins. Instead, they give their money to somebody in exchange for a weak, unregulated, unsubstantiated promise that they will actually hold their bitcoins and will not run away with their money.
This defeats most of the alleged benefits of bitcoin: decentralization, anonymity, etc.

Basically, it is a useless fad people invest in exactly the same way as they invest in PEZ dispensers, rare beer bottle caps and post stamps.

Some people argue that bitcoin makes a great post-apocalyptic currency, but to me such ideas seem naive.

BTC has no value as an exchange medium.
The only real, pragmatic usecases are fueling ransomware, drugs and illicit cross-border transactions.

So: a wasteful, useless thing we all should leave behind.
I recently found a great subreddit with a table in their stickied thread about the latest research on HSV cures and treatments. There are several cures under testing and we may see the first people cured of HSV in 2024:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HerpesCureResearch/comments/kg66ds/...
Personally I also think that fuel cells will make the biggest difference for clean aviation

15 mins flight on a small plane its a nice start but they're still far away from using batteries in aviation
New research busts popular myths about innovation
The Amazon brands are some of the worst offenders.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumer-groups-iss...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20837359/amazon-basics-fa...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/business/amazonbasics-electro...
Ah. Completely valid. I think I should do the same.
CRISPR had been around long before Covid. A lot can happen in 5 years.
I do this when I have to buy something from Amazon, but it does not really solve the problem. Amazon commingles product so what you get shipped may not be the product that Amazon actually sourced from their distributor, it may be third-party after all.
Does Apple have any incentives to release a first party tool to handle this? There’s precedent for Apple releasing Android tools and if anything should get sherlocked it’s this.
Can you see China from Taiwan?
> Did you forget development in your leave?

I bucketed it into "year-long lead process" and sample management.

> Chinese factories “bury” the cost of development when providing prices

My last company manufactured original designs in Italy, and quality aside still had all the same logistical and operational overhead as working in China. Factories still hide a lot of the technical details of product design, such as grading or digitization. And even if you have that sophistication, each factory uses different equipment and processes so vendor-delivered digital artifacts can rarely be used as-is (and many vendors are working with multiple factories).

> Chinese production is not a guaranteed money saver

Sourcing material is hard work. Finding suppliers, implementing internal IT software and processes, coordinating with factories, storage, and changes to COGs accounting. There's a lot of risk to own this process and managing it's impact on the supply chain. Everything is fun and games until you run out of buttons.
Unfortunately this works. Kills small ISPs on all fronts. Customer perception, technical and financial
I have to say that we’re all being pretty highly optimistic since the first production grade mRNA vaccine looks like it doesn’t really give resistance for a long time to Covid.

It’s cool tech but it’s not magic.
It's all unknown code - pirated/cracked software just adds to the number of parties.

Backdoors only really became a pressing concern due to ubiquitous Internet access. When I first setup a Windows VM and install whatever application software and updates, its Internet access is through a public VPN only. And it contains no information to tie it back to me.

Before I put any sensitive information on it, I kill its Internet access and never reenable it. So there is no way to exfiltrate data that I care about. Any produced information leaves via a local Samba share.

Leaking fixed identifying information about my hardware, or forming a side channel to a new VM instance would violate this security. I doubt the TPM would store persistent personal application data, but I don't need to be the first one to find out.
oops, I got Pfizer...
That's a valid concern. I (the desktop app) don't track, collect your data or activities when using the desktop app.

When using the desktop app, there are 3 situations the app communicate with online servers:

1. For WHOIS queries, the app communicates directly to the WHOIS servers, no middleman

2. For payment using Paypal's smart button. They might collect some data for fraud detection.

3. When checking for updates or form submissions. The app will send the only necessary information to our server. For updates, we need "platform" (i.e win32, darwin, etc.) and "version" (the current Domain Tool version, i.e "0.0.21"). For contact form submissions, we need "email", "message", and the "type" of form submission

Note that when submit a contact form, the server don't collect your IP. But as the nature of request, the server can read your IP.

P/s: This remind me to add the privacy section
https://archive.is/fkxnj
I think this article simultaneously describes everything I love and hate about zsh. The config for comfort is huge, but boy will it be comfortable when you've finished shaving that yak¹.

A few hopefully useful comments on the actual meat from a fellow traveller…

Much of the per-terminal key customising can be neatly handled with `zkbd`[zshcontrib(1)], which will also guide you with a wizard when you fire up zsh on a terminal type you haven't used before.

zsh also comes with builtin float support, so a whole heap of `bc` things can be replaced with arithmetic expressions such as `$(( x * 2.54 ))`. You can even up your game when you want more with the `zsh/mathfunc` module[zshmodules(1)], which basically just exposes math.h to the shell user.

One of my favourite options which isn't mentioned in TFA is warn_create_global, which very visibly warns you when you've forgot to scope a variable correctly. It would flag $CUT and $VULNS in `ports-check` for example.

¹ At least that is what a guy with a pink-haired pet tiger wandering a forest once promised me in a fever dream.
China pumps $14bn in cash into market amid Evergrande crisis
Well, WWII has been over for a while now and if those who are dissatisfied with the outcome continue to be on the increase, there will eventually be enough of them who see no alternative to WW3 and become quite enthusiastic for such an event no matter how destructive.

There could already be critical mass among the dissatisfied they just don't have the resources to get the whole world involved.

Yet.
I recently learned that at least a couple animators who worked on Batman: The Animated Series also worked on Cowboy Bebop and The Big O.
Sound null safety is one that most languages don't have.

Also looks like they're going to include static meta-programming, so you can metaprogram at compile time rather than runtime like many languages [0]. With this, many language features can be implemented yourself rather than needing the language maintainers to do so, such as adding dataclasses or (React-like) hooks. And if the state of the art changes, the language won't need to be redesigned or more stuff bolted on, you can just swap out the old language feature (as a package) and swap in the new one.

[0] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1482
I use a similar service from: https://mailway.app/

They have their code open sourced, and you can self host it if you want. I personally did not bother since I do not use their service for outbound mail (which would definately get marked as spam) and I trust them for now. It also has a neat temporary mail plugin (which I put under a subdomain) that might come in handy sometimes.
I believe it actually targets WASM and renders as a canvas element.
Businesses frequently don't understand the need to fix tech debt / testing / maintenance / security. They just think it's just code for the engineers wanting to "sit around and do nothing" (this is the actual phrasing I was told) because it doesn't add new features they can sell and "contributes nothing to the company."
"Show business" means the entertainment industry. "Hardest working in show business" is generic.
The comment is the start of a longer thread that is one data point in understanding how HNS would rather be adversarial than cooperative, from my perspective and others. Much of the crypto public speak is about replacing rather than enhancing existing systems. There is no join, only beat. They would likely become the very thing they desire to replace. It's human nature
As someone who values anonymity and, for no particular reason, would prefer not to be photographed and have my movements tracked

It's sad that you are made to feel like you have to disclaim that you have no particular reason for wanting privacy. Privacy should be the default, not something we have to explain to the defenders of megacorps.
I don't want to destroy him. That was a weird thing for you to say.

I didn't hear about Apple settling for a lot of money. How much was it?
Because the bad guys never have one in the movies /s
Sure that’s how it works. Average R&D spend is ~20%, so 20% of the price paid goes back into R&D right now.

And yes, money goes back to investors who often reinvest it into biotech.
It’s gotten to the point where I bypass mostly anything with thousands of 5 star reviews, and that makes the rest of it a crap shoot. Too much Chinese junk on there. 600 sellers is t even a drop in the bucket. And what’s going to stop them from signing back up with new accounts?
I can't help but feel pessimistic about this progress. The quantity of hyper-low-quality and outright fake products is oppressive in its sheer magnitude.
In practice how is Dart functional? All I see in Flutter is classes all over the place. It's like no-one learned anything from the evolution of React and the decline of Angular.
> Honestly, you could probably make a business out of a store that sells only high quality gear.

Those businesses (they used to just be called "stores" or "retailers") are being driven either to transform or out of business by models like Amazon.
Loving the inclusion of a image from an Ordinance Survey (OS) map. For those who haven’t heard of them, maybe the younger members on here or anyone from outside the U.K., OS maps were the U.K. standard before GPS and Google Maps et al. We were even taught how to read them as kids at school and youth centres (eg scouts). In the days before ubiquitous GPS, it was considered an important life skill to read maps, understand grid references and all the various different markings on an OS map. To this day I still find OS maps to be the best around for clarity and information density. Though I won’t deny I also have a little nostalgia for their stylings too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey
It is not a solved problem, unfortunately. That is why you see so much interest in the likes of PinePhone - even a rooted and de-googled Android doesn't really give the same feeling of ownership and control as a standard GNU/Linux system. At the moment, the most practical thing to do is to pick whichever Android phone you find most physically appealing that also has LineageOS builds, scrupulously avoid any Google-made software (including and especially Play Services), and try to use it as little as possible. Keep the phone as a satellite device. Install KDE Connect so you can conveniently transfer photos and other data to a more suitable platform, and F-Droid so you can still tinker with apps. Expect to miss out on most of the usual closed-source apps - most are only distributed on Google Play only, and you can't have that without handing root to Google. Finding a phone with the physical properties you describe shouldn't be difficult, although expect to have poorer LineageOS support the more obscure it is.

If you want a pocket device that truly gives you the same feeling as your desktop, and is immensely practical at the expense of not having mobile phone access, I can fully endorse the GPD Micro PC. Since I got mine, the phone only gets used for phone calls, navigation, and photography. I generally keep the phone on hotspot when I go out so the Micro PC has connectivity.
Not my downvote, but lots of molecular model sets are more like Tinkertoys.

Edit: corrective upvote actually
Medication compliance is ~80% at the best of times. Even with an every 8 week injection the patient needs to show up.
If you like RPN, try freecalc42. I got a plain 9

It implements the HP42, but with a math library w/ 34 decimal digits of precision. You can also buy a calculator, the DM-42 that runs on it and itd be the best calculator in the world if the key board weren't so… bleh
https://github.com/zellyn/bundlepi/ if it's helpful to you…
Blender is also very usable as a nonlinear video editor.
There is no need to do that. The pilots can crash the plane easily enough using literally any working flight controls or engines. They were out over the ocean until they gained control of their plane.

In the US, the aircraft sent up are not armed. There is no need for them to be.

During the 9/11 attacks, if Flight 93 hadn't crashed, one of the proposed plans was to ram the airliner with an F-16.
Was it Matt Damon who said you can't make projects that aren't block busters anymore because Streaming has completely eroded the Media sales market where smaller projects could recoup box office loses?
Not to be confused with Kraken JS https://krakenjs.com .
Sure. Just look at the divergence of steel price from iron ore price. I don't think steel producers are complaining. The fact is, China has been way over consuming in terms of steel. Even if they continue to depend on Australia for iron ore, ore pruducers are not going to compensate wine makers or coal miners for their losses.
I'm waiting for the day (not in a good way) when they announce the Star Wars/MCU crossover trilogy movies.
My experience with Amazon has been positive, too. I’ve ordered hundreds of items from Amazon over the past year and a half—books, toys, tools, food, office supplies, exercise equipment, guitar strings—and haven’t had any problems. I live in Japan and most of my orders have been through Amazon Japan, but items I ordered from Amazon US have been fine as well.
I am somewhat scared of this mRNA/fancy biotech stuff. We are really playing with fire and I dread to think what happens if we screw up. I don't think the way we test this stuff is sufficient. We need some kind of simulated unit testing for drugs.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever had a negative experience with Costco. Or any negative experience I might’ve had they fixed so quickly that I’ve forgotten it, either way.
If your team fails because you have incompetent leadership, then YOU are the one who suffers.

Upper management doesn't go around looking at what individual people are doing. They just see Team X as a whole keeps having problems, so Team X is literally sitting around and doing nothing.

There's no need to talk to people and communicate. Just fire them. There's no other possible reason they're having problems other than lazy engineers not doing anything.
I'm not sure they're the reason, just a symptom of the current system that only rewards box office hits.
Australia’s China ‘strategy’ makes it less, not more, secure
Rio Tinto partners with Caterpillar for zero-emissions autonomous trucks
Yep, exactly.

https://streamable.com/pedvjq
Us free market people built the world's best vaccines. You're welcome.
Native edge computing (i.e. containers or VMs at the edge) are probably more suitable than workers for such a task. Granted workers do have persistence options (e.g. KV store) but you'll have to target your existing app towards them.

Disclaimer: I work at StackPath which offers containers and VMs at the edge with anycast IPs which is perfect for this use case.
I am always getting very excited when I see a new "OS" announcement. But disappointment sets in when I
then learn that it is either a Linux kernel with a new
package manager or a (slightly) patched Linux kernel.

It would be nice to distinguish in the title between such efforts and true new OSes like Haiku, Serenity.
I also do screencasts speedrunning through the product. It's amazing how many quirks and UX smells that became invisible this uncovers. In other words, a crappy UX you deal with daily to the point it becomes invisible magically becomes blatant when you record a video. Cognitive dissonance and all. You find yourself saying "And you can simply do X", but find yourself clicking on 23 buttons to do X, or an error message you instinctively used to dismiss pops out, and it makes you unconfortable.

My videos are full of swear words and surface these issues.
What do you fear will happen exactly?
It separates end users from more of their money for hardware, operating systems, and software as well as IT effort.

In ways that are more immediate and more costly than anyone was anticipating, and can only get worse in future years.

Looks like the idea of intentionally but unnecessarity requiring only the latest hardware could be just what the hardware makers have been wanting, and they were the majority of the customers paying Microsoft for Windows licenses since the free user upgrades to W10 from W7, W8, & W8.1.

Because for years now most of the end users paying for a Windows license do it only when buying a new W10 computer.

And Windows 11 may not be intended as a free upgrade from W10.

But if W11 is only going to install on the newest hardware anyway, that's going to rule out retail purchases of Windows 11 upgrades for the majority of established users.

So they're really going to try to push as many sales of new PCs as possible

So far it looks like W11 could still end up being shunned no differently than W8, and only be used with disdain by those who have no other choice when purchasing a new PC.

And it may not be possible to get much adoption of W11 unless it is offered as a free upgrade from W10 after all.

In that case you can expect W12 to arrive shortly, not be a free upgrade, and for W11 to have an early EOL.
Forgotten Tech: 3Com's 3Station and 3Server
>I dread to think what happens if we screw up

Cancer. It's always cancer.
New drug could slow tumour regrowth in inoperable bowel cancer