skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you effectively learn COBOL without having access to mainframes/the hardware it usually runs on? I know that there are COBOL envs that can run on all major operating systems for practice. But has anyone been able to learn it at home per say and then transitioned to working on production COBOL codebases?
And even more forget why we put those systems into place to begin with.

Just because the response is a bad one doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist.

FWIW, even if TSA is bad at stopping terrorists, I AM glad that all of these people punching flight attendants are, with certainty c. 1, not packing heat.
Why do they need to change it at all?
Radar has a dedicated team with full-time, US-based Apple employees working on it.
It looks like Kafka is by far and away the way to handle persistent logs/events at scale. AFAIK a company here in Japan called LINE has all their messaging flowing through a large kafka cluster themselves.

Wonder if anyone is running large NATS Jetstream[0]/Liftbridge[1] or Pulsar[2] (yahoo runs those) clusters. I guess Pulsar might be #2 in terms of adoption at large scale?

[0]: https://docs.nats.io/jetstream/jetstream

[1]: https://liftbridge.io/

[2]: https://pulsar.apache.org/
This is a really interesting and enlightening article that covers an important topic, and it's honestly sad that it will get less engagement than some clickbait or hot-topic issue.
Yeah, it's a fascinating question and I can see why it trips people up. Anyone that's done sailing/windsurfing will be familiar with the phenomena of apparent wind, and that's roughly what's going on here too.
It is not ten times worse, it is hundreds of times worse. You would be hard pressed to find a death linked to any of the established vaccines over many years. In Australia, eight people died from VITT alone so far, but how many healthy young people died of COVID? The survival rate for COVID for under 30 without comorbidities is estimated at 99.999%. An impeccably safe infection, by your standard!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482102/
Lulu is as good as Little Snitch and free. It's by Objective-See. https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html
Underground cities. Nests of tunnels filled with decentralized infrastructure. I know it is counterintuitive because of costs. However, it is a relatively proven development path. Here are seven reasons I think humanity should invest in this:

1. The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. The small mammal we evolved from lived beneath the surface and we rose to prominence as mammals in part because of that strategy choice.

The species which did not choose to do this didn't do so well.

2. As humanity progresses to become a multi-planet species we will need to live in diverse environments some of which will not have an atmosphere. This technology helps to shield against impacts.

It will be useful to get good at this if we don't want holes in our space habitats caused by high speed debris to become a very common way for colonies to die.

3. It's actually better for us in a lot of ways. The ideal temperature in office productivity studies of seventy two degrees happens to be the natural temperature in cave systems. The suns rays cause errors in both our code and also our computers code, but the shielding provided by the earth protects from this.

We would be in a healthier environment.

4. It makes better use of our space. We currently underutilize the ground. Density is associated with network effects and healthy cities that are produce well. One of the things that is common in these places is subway systems. It's telling that are most effective places happen to also be the places where we've been starting this expansion into the ground. Another is underground utilities like water and sewage.

History is already showing us our cities are better when we move in this direction.

5. This could increase land value for much the same reason that building high rises increases land value. So development of it has some economic incentives which might make it practically possible. This is especially true when Wright's law drops the cost of underground buildings to a currently unfathomably low cost.

6. Where would you rather be if an asteroid large enough to cook the surface of the Earth hit the Earth? Underground insulated from that cooking? Or being cooked?

We don't want to be cooked.

7. Evolution has already selected for this strategy at the insect scale in one of the few species which is comparable to us in terms of having civilization: ants. The strategy manages to be successful even in climates wherein rain is exceedingly common and heavy.

The largest civilization on Earth which practices agriculture already does it. It's a clever idea. We should copy their good idea and make it our own.

Meta: Once you've done this, take the other replies, and put that stuff inside the city.
I've been following Rekieta's stream for about a week, it was ok until today. I doubt that it was automated, probably reported by someone.
Would like to see these thoughts applied to public health policy.
History has shown that it's not necessarily the most performant option that wins, it's usually the most convenient. Otherwise we wouldn't use Python for data science and ML, or Javascript for IDEs. Remeber AMD's Close To Metal? It wasn't a big hit. Take a look at the Blender announcement that's on the front page right now, Blender is removing OpenCL code and replacing it with HIP/Cuda to get a single codebase [0].

There's room for both solutions, but I think it's important to have a relatively easy way to use accelerators like GPUs in a cross platform way, without being an expert or having to rewrite code for new architectures.

It is my understanding that because both Vulkan and SYCL use SPIR-V, the work done on drivers and compilers for one of them benefits the other as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29234671
Having led the creation of a language/compiler professionally, the number of features that are "nice to have" are nearly infinite. And occasionally a lower priority item that was easier to implement at the time, become far larger in scope because of how another higher priority feature was implemented. Some of these can get scrapped or pushed back till the cycles allow it.

Often though, we learn in the implementation, and some of the lower priorities are no longer needed. And Reflections provided a lot of the functionality that you could make seamless from a parent class and attributes.
I agree with you: let us not leave anything important out.

Many young men were following Rittenhouse, yelling things like "Get him" and "Beat him up". I sensed a lot of dangerous emotions in the videos, in the sound of the voices and the movements of the bodies. Some say that those yelling "get him" merely wanted to makes sure than Rittenhouse did not escape legal accountability (for Rittenhouse's shooting minutes earlier of Joseph Rosenbaum). But consider that Rittenhouse was walking down the middle of a wide street towards a line of cops. What need was there to detain Rittenhouse rather than simply to follow him at a distance to make sure he keeps walking toward the police line?

Then someone hit Rittenhouse on the head, Rittenhouse kept walking quickly, but fell down after a few seconds. During questioning in court, he says he fell because he got dizzy because of the blow to his head. While sitting on his ass in the middle of the street, someone ran up to him, hit him on the shoulder with a skateboard and (almost in the same motion if I recall correctly) grabbed Rittenhouse's gun and tried to pull it away from him. This someone was making the kind of dramatic-but-somewhat-clumsy movements of their whole body that people tend to make when they are in the throes of an intense emotion and trying hard to achieve some physical outcome.

Then Rittenhouse shot that someone (Anthony Huber), which very sadly killed him.

Did I leave anything important out?

EDIT. I changed "hit him on the head" (with a skateboard) to "hit him on the shoulder".
Isn’t the same as US-International?
I'm in the same boat. I didn't even notice this change but, now that I've been told about it, I like it. I also like the hover-over indicator on tabs, although it's possible that that's been around for a while and I've just never paid attention to it before.
> Is the CCP throttling exports, or installing backdoors?

They can order workers to do that in the factory. Apple won't be able to do anything about it apart from removing anything that shouldn't be there when it lands in the US. Chinese workers can't say no to CPC orders and Apple has to agree if they want to continue to exploit cheap workforce and lax environment regulations.
TL; DR the comments: everything is broken, just in different ways
I love how you're being downvoted, even though you've given the perfect explanation of what happened.
They do say that about design because that isn't the same word as "made/manufactured" :)

The whole game is to play every country's people and their political instrument. From my perspective, it is easier the more nationalist they are, and both China and the US have very nationalist people. So stamp "made in china" on anything printed on paper, as required there, and stamp "designed in california" on things engraved in metal and then overcharge for it because Americans already suspect something domestic would be more expensive.
I meant proof of work :)

Although in theory you still need to find who owns these accounts in a proof of stake system. So it’s not as bad as what people think.
^ .app not .com I guess ?
I agree with you. There are certain parts of the US population that really don't understand what autocratic countries are really like or don't care. They seem to think the US is an autocracy or really close to it but have no real understanding. Its mind bending how daft those groups can be.
if Mozilla did lay out their rationale, it'd be a lot easier to get past lacking UI expertise or being unable to see upsides (while seeing clear downsides).

UI changes attract a lot of ire from current users in general--this isn't a Mozilla-specific thing--but Firefox is ostensibly an open, OSS project. there shouldn't be much organizational discretion to just keep UI research or data private: Mozilla should be more than happy to share data or UX research demonstrating why they're making changes, but they don't.

absent explanation from Mozilla or a helpful UX expert to pip up and say "the change is actually good, here's why", the changes often feel like they're either trend-chasing or change for change's sake to show that the UI designer's salary isn't going to waste.
I visited China in 2018, I live just outside of Anchorage.

First we flew to Seattle, and then after a layover, flew directly over Anchorage to Beijing via the great circle route. About 10 hrs and maybe 3800 miles into the journey, I was looking down at my home town.
> The difference between back then and today is "we believe it's possible but haven't found a way yet" and "there are multiple known ways", as well as it being wide spread known instead of just in some communities.

I think the big difference is that we have attacks with high bandwidths of exfiltrated information-- instead of very slow, difficult to control leaks.
Hi Niko, this rocks!
How would you suggest adding a feed to an app other than Zoom, or into a website? Just an iframe or something like that? I'd be interested in an api that allowed me to integrate this into a web app.
There's a great little utility called BetterTouchTool that will customize the default play button app. It can do a bunch of other little things, too. https://folivora.ai
I worked for about four years on Symbolics machines in the AI summer of the mid 80's. We were, perhaps, lucky in that I don't remember them breaking down at all, and our service guy was competent and entertaining.

I remember when the generational GC was released. Before that, we just used to reboot at the end of the day... but the generational GC just worked, and we didn't have to worry about memory (so much). Our rep installed the GC thermometer (that showed in the overscan area so you didn't lose any screen real estate), and that really showed the difference.

And, by the way, it was Zmacs, not Emacs on the Symbolics.
> converting power to security

What the hell does this even mean?

Quantum computers will eventually rip this stuff apart. And the reason folks won't be able to do the same to US banks and institutions using QC? The military and NSA will hunt you down.
few laughs? we are a laughing [rolling] stock, us indians.
Thanks for the correction. Edited the post.
From a historical interest perspective, I would love to see some Symbolics simulators.

From a productivity and ergonomics perspective, I don't think chip level simulation would be the way two go. First, Genera has been ported forward to new system. First OpenGenera was released for Tru/64 on the DEC Alpha platform as an official product. The fastest Symbolics hardware was about 6 times faster than the original Symbolics hardware. OpenGenera on a 533mhz Alpha was about 3 times faster still. There is a project called VLM to let you run OpenGenera on x86 or ARM and I would imagine it is many times faster still. Also, to my understanding, OpenGenera can still be purchased from symbolics-dks.com for a heft fee.

Second, I think that productivity will be limited by how much it is stuck in the past. If nothing else, crypto being behind the times seems likely to be an issue with networking with the rest of the world.

I would love to see a more modern system like OpenGenera. I also would love to see Symbolics style keyboards be made and possibly upgraded with things like better keyswitches and USB. That should be doable for someone who wants to make a custom layout, circuit board for that layout, and keycaps but based on QMK compatible hardware.
I've noticed Google hiding websites from the search results, if you look up the name of a site they won't like, you won't find the site, only results about the site.
It's: taskset <arguments> <command to run>

So to run `ls ~` on only cpu0 you would run:

taskset -c 0 ls ~

Run it each time you want to invoke the command.
THANK YOU!

I used to use this extension, but when they went to WebRTC I couldn't find this extension anymore and gave up looking for it. Haven't used this in years but is easily one of the best tab interfaces ever invented.

Edit: https://gist.github.com/colejd/665fdf388e3b80ca614187d1901d8...
Do newer Android devices have keyboards?
> $500k

Put a few more zeros on that please.
I'm sorry but I don't really see a problem here. The fact that they won't be able to absolutely gouge people, including inflation, seems reasonable. Inflation rising above 3% is hardly the tenants fault and chances are the tenant is suffering from that as well, probably more so. Is there no other way to encourage development outside of making sure the tenants make less every year? Ultimately that's what they're ensuring here since most people are lucky to even see a raise that covers inflation. Also, the mayor can shove off. The people voted, get your wheels greased elsewhere.
Unrelated: I think this is the first link I've seen from HN to a Mastodon post.
so the matrix
maybe in the same sense as "opportunity cost"
The NYT still provides quality reporting. But most of their readers stop after the sensational first couple paragraphs and never make it to paragraph 23 where they actually say what really happened.

It’s a clever example of what Mark Rosewater calls lenticular design. The low information crowd gets their emotional fix from the headlines and early text and quits there while the Times’ more thoughtful readers get the full picture. Given the paper’s financial success in the Internet age I think we can say they’ve found a good business model.
The problem is that you never know if you’re on a fork, or if there’s going to be a reorg.
The lost Armidale to Wallangarra railway
Housing expenses should be no more than 30% gross isn't a rule of thumb, it's a maximum amount lenders will traditionally lend you. It's called the front end ratio.

Quoting investopedia "Lenders prefer the front-end ratio to be no more than 28% for most loans and no more than 31% for FHA loans."

Lenders don't care if you can retire or if your kids can go to college, they care if you are likely to default on your loan. So I wouldn't take the front end ratio as personal finance advice.

The 3x income housing advise in not related to the front end ratio. 3x income is the max you should borrow (according to the advise givers, you are of course free to disagree), the front end ratio is what you can borrow.
Endangering their own cosmonauts? What an own goal
The company (not your government) pays for 69 weeks of... nothingness? and then government also pays for the full education up to employment?
Congrats ! I think you should make sure an animation stops before the next one starts, or something similar. I am a burst scroller (read the full page, then scroll), and sometime I have to be very careful about how much I need to scroll to not trigger 2+ animations at the same time. Maybe an indicator somewhere the show where animations would happen so that I can control my scroll ?
In my field professor of practice means you have to a bunch of crap work for the department and you're not getting tenure or seniority.
I work for Big Tech. It has its faults, but blaming a design monoculture on it isn't fair. Design trends are bigger than a single company, and while there are definitely enough companies to see some amount of variation in UI and style, they tend to look similar because of tech's ubiquity. You don't want to be the company big or small that goes off in a different direction and can't get traction because you're using design patterns users aren't familiar with. It's like the metronome synchronization experiment: even a fully democratized space can trend towards monoculture.
Are the location of toilets specified in this document?
Yeah, this seems fine to me. Everything's delineated by favicons already, as it has been since tabs appeared.

More generally: I really like firefox developer edition's UI. It's dense and pragmatic, and I think the toolbar customizer they've built is one of the best of any application I've used. Broadly I think they've been doing stellar work, especially when they aren't blindly copying Chrome. Chrome has made some nice UI improvements that have deserved their spread, but I'm glad that Firefox has copied some and rapidly changed them, and abandoned others.

Also: container tabs. They're so, so good. And the colored bar on the tab is more than sufficient to identify them IMO. The UX is a little janky when it comes to modifying your containers, but the core concept is marvelous and steadily (if slowly) improving.

If you want to see "design for design's sake", look at Safari. It changes rather significantly with almost every major OS upgrade. I think they broadly get away with it because they have far fewer features, but it's kinda bonkers sometimes.
You could have just made that sentence part of your pitch, instead of attempting this little scam where you pretend that you're a different person. Next time, perhaps use an account with a different last name, or one that made a comment more recently than 2012. Or maybe just sell the community on the merits of your product, instead of trying to scam them at all.
people need to work out and stop trying to pick the easy route.
The expressions you mention are already there (Expression trees, since C#3 IIRC?), it was required for the LINQ features.
These are the exact same 2 things that came to my mind when I read the title.

Whoever thinks of Anything else, has never lived in the wild and will definitely be the first ones to die.
The only thing I remember about OKRs during my 10 years as a software engineer is zoning out when they talked about them at some length at company meetings.
That I certainly agree. About 15 years ago, there was talk of them (re?)releasing a 3 speed fixed gear hub and I couldn't (first) believe it and also couldn't ever find it in stock. They're around now, but I'm not sure I'd risk it.
I like Overcast. Though neither it nor anything else really comes close to letting me play podcasts with some degree of reasonable selection when I'm driving. Maybe too difficult a problem and reflecting that voice assistants are pretty limited.
Because 40,000 people maybe?
Said reckless behavior is far more common than most people want to admit [0]

Interesting about that article; The, rather obscure, Itavia Flight 870 is the only US mention there, while the much more well known Iran Air Flight 655 [1] isn't mentioned at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
KYC is fine at the edges already wherever crypto meets fiat. That would be the same here right?
I work with Material UI professionally quite a bit, but it's not flashy. No matter which you choose, I'd use it as a starting point and add your own flair.
> LISP was no longer needed.

Lisp isn’t dead. It’s not taking over the world, but it looks like Clojure is a top 25 and Common Lisp might be a top 40 language: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2021/08/lang.rank_.0621.pn...
> From the posted image, is it really that hard to differentiate the not active tabs?

But why do you even have to start with "is it really that hard to..."? - i.e. arguing that the change only makes things slightly worse.

What actually becomes easier or better through this change?
You can't find that on the website in the product specs. It's only when you actually buy the product and physically inspect the labels. I know few people who thought they make it in California and were shocked it's actually made in China.
If you're calling a skateboard a weapon I'm going to take everything you say with a mountain of salt.
I was pushed to Plasma after the 40 update too, and I've been really happy with how things are turning up these days. Great features are being added in weekly, they actually address bugs instead of tagging decades-old problems as wontfix, and it's way more flexible than GNOME. I can create more elaborate desktops with bog-standard Plasma than is possible with modded GNOME, and I can trust they'll work more reliably than an out-of-the-box GNOME install. Unfortunately, it's still not a great option for tablet/touchscreen PCs, but I can see a lot of progress coming down the pipeline with Wayland. Overall though, it's quite lovely. I can near-perfectly recreate Mojave with extra bells and whistles, plus perpetual 32-bit support and long-term support.
Concurrent with threatening moves at Ukraine's border:

https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/15/tension-builds-up-on-ukr...
paid ads in the search bar is not a good direction
Lambda School is renaming itself to Bloom Institute of Technology
The other two attacked him because he just shoot and killed an unarmed person. Justified or not, it's reasonable that others would get upset and try to stop him.
If you can't understand why people would be more motivated for pay for socialized services when people who consume those services are more like themselves, you need to reflect on your worldview.
Most people will just bridge mode the modem from the ISP to their router so that the router itself doesn't have to authenticate, which is probably why most home routers don't have PPPoE.
When I watch a film, I don't want the film to make me aware I am watching a film. Good filmmakers can encourage my belief sometimes even as I am analyzing the film's construction and intentionally maintaining my disbelief. I can appreciate quality special effects, but no matter how technically, film-theoretically, or visually good those effects may be, if they don't serve the greater film they are a part of, they aren't good special effects.

Modern UI feels like painting the shark in Jaws hot pink in order to make sure everyone sees the great special effects. Yeah, the shark is still cool, but you've made the film much more difficult to enjoy.