skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending from two to four hours each day in the car comuting means a few years from your life you will lose. I'd rather live in an apartment building and do more meaningful things in my life than having a big yard and drive a few hours every day.
Swift is their "user-facing" language because this trendy stuff with "smart" languages is apparently very important for PR. I would be surprised if most of the OS itself is written in something other than C/C++/ObjC.
> What's the solution? 5'000$ per month tents for homeless residents.

What? No. Obviously not. What?
A position represents an area that the government wants to focus on. That area may look more like vertical or horizontal integration. In this case it'd be horizontal integration, where an eGov is a function of all other aspects of the government, but also requires a common approach in terms of infrastructure, engineers etc.

You can think about it like object orientation (vertical) vs. functional programming (horizontal). Both have their use cases.

The drawbacks you're concerned about are resolved through communication. If there's ongoing communication, there will be synchronization.
It was a hardware/physical type of lock, its the same idea but its not as online. Do you think most are just web interfaces? They seem closed but not always serving exclusive content, but something like iMessage or WhatsApp will not allow you to port out of the service.
Absolutely, but Apple clearly hasn't decided to switch their foundation libraries to it. I suspect it'll be a decade-long effort, but it can't happen too soon.
Cultural Half Life
> What most people don’t know is: Gas fees on Ethereum are supposed to be high.

Count me among those not in the know!

I...really don't get it.

Bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. Then we realized that it's too slow and too energy-hungry for that. So we retcon'ed it into, it's a store of value!

Etherium was supposed to be a place for smart contracts. Then we realized it's too slow and gas-hungry for that. So...we retcon'ed it, too?
> Roads alone cost $2-3M/mile and last 30 years. Amortized, that's on the order of $100k/yr/mile.

Do you have a cite for that? I believe that figure for new roads, but you generally don't have to rebuild the entire road, including roadbed, after 30 years, just repave, which is a lot cheaper.
I really don’t know - I just happened across one that worked. Maybe I just got lucky.

That being said, I really don’t think she remembered me or developed a unique emotional connection with me or anything like that. Which is fine, because that is not the point. The CBT methodology only guides the patient, and the patient must do all the work. The therapist takes notes, implements a methodology, and assigns specific work. This isn’t really all that different from a tutor or coach the way I see it.

Now, this is just my personal POV. My cognitive/emotional distortions weren’t that severe to begin with. And this was CBT which I’m pretty sure is like the vanilla HTML/JS of therapy or something along those lines. People with severe psychological issues and problems are a totally different story.
it's like a python repl for the linux kernel that then unearthed a bunch of problems, woah cool!

love projects like this...
Someone made an entire 3D IBM 1401 simulator. Punch cards. Flip switches. Scratch your head. Enjoy! https://rolffson.de/

Hello World example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-COOnvYTuo
When I did a course of self study on subjects I found difficult, it helped to appreciate the merest shades of progress that would result from study. For me, it was like music, a subject I am much better versed in than mathematics, where to notice an animating aspect of what has been a matter of routine can slowly piece together an understanding of the mechanics. Appreciate the static elements of study and the animated whole will begin to take shape.
Lessons from Shutdown Startups
are you paying enough?
I don't understand. Your product already says "easiest way to design and print labels, period." How much more of a leap is it to "tell the user why it'll help and save them time"? In fact it seems less "problematic" than what is already there?
I should not have googled goatse...

Unfortunately lying on a resume remains a huge problem that has been left untouched. We've lead innovation in the space of resume software for the past couple of years now, so adding this download option is a step towards the solution.
Of course they are.

Neighbors don't determine historical significance, they determine their financial and aesthetic best interests.

Not really sure what "developers" have to do with this. I thought it was about history? Or is any sort of justification ok if it stops housing that's more affordable than the rest of the multi-million dollar homes of the neighborhood?
I gave up on voting and didn't take part in any of the elections this year(and in the future the way it stands). With the options and possible outcomes, staying at home and reading, say, the bible, the communist manifesto or mein kampf is a far more constructive activity. But back to the points:

1. Superhosting is an absolute pile of shit by all standards. 90% of their revenue comes from hosting anti-vax and misinformation websites, targeted at taxi drivers with fetal alcohol syndrome. Even if they have drastically improved their services in the last 15 years, it's a question of dignity and self-respect at the very least. Latency hasn't been an issue in the context of websites for over 20 years. Certainly the least significant bottleneck if your website is a php-mysql wordpress blog.

2. The missing redirect is absolutely unacceptable for someone who claims to be a professional. And I can't see how this could be intentional, even for performance reasons: everyone and their dog is way WAY past the 33mhz i486-es.
Sounds more like a misunderstanding of why there are differences between code and law.

Also code more reliable, unless you have a bug and someone siphons off millions of dollars of your customers money, irretrievably?
What do you upgrade for? Using Mac for music production means never updating immediately, and maybe not at all.
It would be so nice to have it though! It could do a lot popularize recursive problem-solving and function writing, without having to go into modifying these functions to make them stack-safe.
Find out for yourself, it was open sourced and now exists as GNUStep http://www.gnustep.org/
Makes me remember how Facebook operates memory leaks at scale; "won't fix, we just reboot servers when they crash".
Off-topic: has anyone actually started referring to Facebook as Meta (noticed the title swap)?
How about $2000 per month for the life of the relationship?
You can hack it to do it, but I am wondering what virus/security problem worries you?
But in ten years, all the used stuff will also be fully-electronic vendor-locked garbage, just older and with the cloud services down, and hence unusable.
Whats it for?
I imagine the failure of the C# Windows project looms large in such discussions.
Thanks for the reply. And I guess you do the service worker -> postgresql thing to avoid the database-per-user setup with pouch-couch 2-way sync?
You're being downvoted for "gatekeeping" but you're not wrong.

NSF has the L2 paid membership section, which is the absolute best place for information in the field - both public and insider information. Likewise airliners.net has (or had) an excellent paid option, and I can think of a few others.

Requiring payment is still a good way to let those passionate about a topic self-admit themselves while keeping the masses at bay.
New England cities suffer, in this regard, from their Puritanical and Quaker roots. Public alcohol consumed in urban areas is generally a very bad idea because our forefathers were against it and codified it into law.
Isn't that Stoicism though?
> Does the public give away free real estate to the restaurant, to be used to generate revenue by the square foot?

I can only speak for Zurich, where there is a lot of outdoor dining during the season.

The space used by restaurants for outdoor dining on public space is "leased" to the restaurant. They pay a fee for the use of public space to the city.
The actual title it "Ministry of electronic governance" and there's also a "Ministry of effective governance".

These look like ministries introduced to address specific concerns or goals of the leadership. When something is "ministry of something" gets budgets and freedom to use these budgets and other tools that may not be possible if it was just "department of something under the ministry of other thing".

When Turkey used to be friendly with EU and had a goal of joining the EU, there was "Ministry of EU".
It is in the sense that pointers everywhere cannot be prevented and it isn't always easy for a static analyser to actually make sense of how they are being used, as shown at some CppCon talks this year from Microsoft.
I've listened to Tang's talks a number of times. A great example.
What happens when the price is so high that it cannot be used to purchase food? I guess it could buy a higher echelon of assets. But what demand is going to drive the price if the currency cannot meet basic needs? Can demand drive price if a commodity is entirely illiquid?
"Should we be happy that we're improving, or sad that there's so far to go?"

A hardcore cynic might say, there is no improvement, only change. We might have come so far with some things, but lost or destroyed so many others in exchange.
You can jailbreak and get user patches too.

>The only way to be safe on Apple's computers (and phones) is to update to the latest version the day it comes out.

That has not been the case with 14 and 15, its a heuristic but unknown backdoors are a constant threat. Realistically we should state that they are never, ever safe.
> The ISS works because it gets fairly constant supplies from Earth. It is vastly from self-sustaining.

Right. Analogies only go so far.

> Settlement of islands and continents on Earth had the benefit of an adequate life support system that had far fewer catastrophic failure modes than anything we've come up with right now.

Looks like we agree that "it was never done before" is exaggeration.

> If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab beaches, I'll just kind of implode. If none of those things happen. I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm fucked.

True, but. If asteroid meets the Earth, if supervolcanoes will misbehave, if particularly nasty virus will get to humans etc. we're toast. The thing is, all those things don't happen often - even ISS works for decades, with relatively minor glitches.

So - if oxygenator breaks down, as Neil Armstrong would say, we'll fix it. If water reclaimer breaks down, we'll invent a dehumidifier. If the external wall will develop a break, the inner one will serve until the outer one is fixed. We may die - but we also may prosper.
I don't know why he doesn't just pay women for their time, and skip the middle man.
I use the Nvidia GPU drivers, so I'll upgrade if Apple ever agrees to sign Nvidia's binaries for new OS releases (fat chance!)
Bread from a bakery is a luxury? In Germany there is a bakery on every corner and a large, fresh loaf of bread costs under 1€!
Does it come with pinterest preinstalled?
It's exactly that marketing worda for tamper-evident audit log
Many European cities have pedestrian-only central squares or plazas that are hundreds of years old.
Fraud Detection with ML Using the AI and Analytics Engine
> The most important features are the ability to quickly and reliably deliver app updates over one year, safety, affordability, and good UX (participants are non-technical Android users). I don't want to use Google Play Store.

Unfortunately, Google hinders the competition when it comes to reliable automatic upgrades on Android. Third-party app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades or background upgrades, only the Play Store can. The exceptions are if your device is rooted or you had the app store baked into your vendor's ROM. Supposedly this design choice was somewhat addressed in Android 12.

> I have also tried F-Droid, but at least on my Pixel 2 XL, updates of some apps downloaded from F-Droid often fail to install.

This will happen if you try to use F-Droid to upgrade or reinstall apps you already have installed, but didn't originally install via F-Droid. Fresh installs from F-Droid seem to work for me.

> To give you some context, for my dissertation project, I need to collect data using a custom Android research app installed on participants' phones for one year. The app requires a lot of permissions and continuously collects a lot of data. My colleagues discouraged me from using Play Store because Google banned their apps for no good reason and with no recourse, even though their research was approved by research ethics and human subject protections committees (IRB). This jeopardized their federally-funded studies and caused issues with their findings.

This is a good example of how Google's anti-competitive actions, when it comes to their mobile OS and mobile app distribution, hinder innovation, research and the advancement of knowledge.

If you have time, or your colleagues do, please consider reporting this to the competition and antitrust divisions of the government. I've posted about the relevant regulatory and investigative bodies and how to get in touch with them here[1]. Here's what the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department says about reporting[2]:

> Information from the public is vital to the work of the Antitrust Division. Your e-mails, letters, and phone calls could be our first alert to a possible violation of antitrust laws and may provide the initial evidence needed to begin an investigation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176193

[2] https://www.justice.gov/atr/report-violations
Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications
Who's this "we" that gave the "manchild" money? What do all these bitter resentful people want? For Elon to stop? How do you make any real progress, especially in fields that are stagnating or have no one working them, without hubris and lots of failure? Yes, Elon has made some regrettable statements but that's orthogonal to technical achievement.
> Strictly limiting exposure to dissimilar views, however, is...

...not an effective mechanism for social media and news sites to make a profit, unfortunately.
The ROI on rewriting existing code may be questionable, but the long-term ROI on writing new projects in safe languages seems unassailable. Choosing C or C++ for new infrastructure projects is madness at this point.
NYC lawmakers pass bill giving noncitizens right to vote in local elections
Cleaned up that lazy copy-writing. Thanks for that. We use GPT-3 to write content following best practices. I am sure you understood that much from the website.

Blockchain verified resume is one of four download types along with PDF, DOCX, Drive. Not a huge component of the software by any stretch of the imagination.

The software is quite nice, no patronizing here.
Zenodo is better because you get a DOI for the code + data that way
The article kind of leaves the impression that being cynical is bad. The author didn't say why is the case nor did he try to provide a proof.

It doesn't seem to me that cynicism and optimism are opposites. You can be both cynical and optimistic.

If you are going to trust all people and their claimed motivations without thinking, you are going to set yourself as a victim.

For example, thinking that politicians and big corporations desire nothing but your own good won't do yourself much good.
>Staying in an existing build's shelter absolutely is the right thing to do.

It was not the "right thing to do" for someone who wanted to leave, couldn't because his job was on the line, and died as a result. There's no way to spin it.

>No business/organizations send their employees out of the door when there is a tornado warning. THAT, would be corporate manslaughter.

You're almost there! See, if forcefully kicking everyone out is manslaughter, then forcefully keeping people inside (threat of termination is a force for working people, you know) in a building that was absolutely not built to withstand such tornadoes (built for Amazon), and then directing people to go to "safe" places within the building that became their graves is . . .

Business is usual, you appear to think?

Just stop. Once Amazon puts the ball-and-chain of "do exactly as we say, or be fired" on people, they take responsibility for their livelihoods in case of an emergency.

The genuine thing to do there would be to tell everyone that they are off for the day the moment they got the tornado notice, that there's a tornado, and that Amazon asks everyone to follow safety procedures.

The fact that Amazon did not relieve their workers is what makes them murderers. These people were still on the clock. They died as employees, doing what their supervisors told them to do. By not telling their workers that they are free for the day, Amazon took responsibility for their lives.

The deaths of these people are on Amazon.
The Definitive Guide to Improving Site Speed
I wish I could say the same. I was hoping for redemption from the movie, there really are parts of NGE I like. At the end I was so angry at myself for having wasted another two hours I can't even tell you.
Anyone tried this before to patch older OSX? PCs are more open so I assumed (correctly) this would exist.

http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
And here’s a sample chapter: https://personalfinancespython.com/files/sample.pdf

(I couldn’t modify the original comment or add replies to it anymore, hence posting a new one.)
The main idea is building a single server deployment in a secure and maintainable way... and then possibly taking it to 5-10 servers at which point the Bash-only approach is less than ideal (but possible). Then you can pick a better tool of your choice (Ansible, Docker Swarm), but learning it is outside the scope of the book.

The demonstrations are made alongside the indie hackers/early-stage startup mindset. Run a single server, or possibly single server with a dedicated database.
It's interesting to see the number of bugs related to race conditions here, and it would be very interesting to know if Rust's protection against race conditions would have been relevant ... there are plenty of good modern memory-safe languages, but not many with Rust-style freedom from data-races.
Just added another comment with a link to a sample chapter. Thanks!
I'm not saying that we should stop making progress - creating new technologies that benefit the world is no doubt a great thing.

It's just the stress on GDP which makes me feel alarmed - historically speaking, things like GDP are always excuses to convince people they're goals worth following before we improve things like inequality or the quality of life. Do people now generally feel happier than half a century ago since GDP has drastically increased? Or the mental health of a large fraction of us was deteriorating all along over the decades?

It almost feels lies like "let us focus on delivering the features first, we'll get back to the technical debt once we have time" in some organizations - there are always new features, and always room for development, other things are always overlooked or keep bare minimum.

Back to the specific topic of increasing lifespan. Inequality is a problem much harder to solve than the technology itself. If we don't solve it carefully, it's very likely to be more harmful than helpful to the world. The right to live and the right to reproduction are the two most sensitive things to creatures - fundamentally it's much more risky than inventing the Internet or plastic surgery.

I can't help but think what I saw in the hospital - people with cancer and with no money giveaway their painkiller to drug dealers in exchange for some dirty motel nearby. Meanwhile, I know there are old, important figures who live in the hospital and spend several years of the average person's income per day, taking up a large fraction of scarce medical resources, equipment, and wards, just because they're old (many of them have no serious problems, just in case) and "important".

Think about the ancient tyrant who spent a lot, searching for immortality elixir died from poisoning. He became a laughing stock because the elixir didn't work, but it wouldn't be so funny if the elixir works. Nowadays, rich people can already fight cancer much better than poor people. Just imagine, how it feels when you know the first 0.1% of powerful figures you know (name the first 3 at least), are going to live for the next 500 years, but not everybody else?
Poaching results from public data is an oxymoron. Poaching ideas from data isn't even possible.
Ahh thank you so much. I hope you'll like it.
Lunar can control the real backlight of the MacBook display by tapping into the private DisplayServices system framework.

The app only supports integer values between 0 and 100 but the framework supports floating point values between 0 and 1.

You can try installing Lunar’s CLI (https://lunar.fyi/#cli) and then running something like the following in a terminal:

lunar display-services SetBrightness builtin 0.005

That will try to set the backlight of the builtin display to 0.5%. Then you can try lower and lower values to see if they make any difference.

If you don’t see much difference between 1% and sub-1% values then there’s no way to dim the backlight further, and the only remaining method would be Gamma dimming which Lunar can do if you disable the Apple Native protocol from the Controls menu.
In addition to this resource and UK's equivalent (PRONOM/DROID, also mentioned in the linked post), I've found ArchiveTeam's wiki to be very useful for obscure file format details: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/

The `shared-mime-info` database from freedesktop-dot-org is probably more worthy of contribution than these government-backed databases, at least in terms of number-of-end-users. New type definitions in their database will improve the entire Linux/BSD ecosystem (both desktop and server!) because it's consumed not only by fd.o's own `update-mime-database` utility but by many language-specific type-identification libraries too https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/m...

…including (shameless plug) the new Ractor-based Ruby type library I've been working on in the wake of the `mimemagic` drama earlier this year: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/tree/NEW%E2%80%85SENSA...
I'm surprised changing who has the right to vote in municipal elections can be changed by a mere City Council vote. I'd expect it to require a referendum, at minimum.
Maybe, but if you look at it from the opposite point of view, I think it can be said that those that read books enjoy an advantage over those that do not. Even though the idea could be conveyed outside of a book, the time, discipline and quiet required to read is likely better than most other methods of consumption.
My experience in academia these days is that it’s dying. 10 years ago it was expensive but people used it in Physics and Maths departments; now we don’t even install it on our HPC cluster and nobody has asked us for it. It’s a shame because having used SymPy it’s just not as good, but it’s 90% as good which is what matters.
Google actually did use to have this functionality. They almost certainly removed it because it hurts profits (an advertising company that allows it's targets to define content?).

I've been using this extension for a good while now, and it's probably saved me a stroke or two.
http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ just posted this if you're interested, never thought I'd suggest hackintosh resources to a Mac user, but if you need any of those new features: https://www.tonymacx86.com/nvidia-drivers