skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course we should put out the fire, but does that mean we should just ignore the mess that's left behind? If I were as given to constructing strawmen as you seem to be, I'd put those words in your mouth, but that wouldn't be constructive. As we've learned from decades of chemical-factory fires (or WTC if you need a more specific example), the aftermath can present interesting problems in its own right.

The OP is not about foregoing use of these batteries. It's about taking the next step forward, and how we still don't have a sufficient answer for what that step should be. Try to keep up. It's a topic that deserves more than a hand-wave.
It's possible there was a script lurking somewhere under /System/Library/CoreServices that might have needed Python 2. The script got rewritten/snipped off, and there you go.
>To say that moral responsibility requires something supernatural doesn't make sense, since we successfully use the concept all the time. Its a mechanism for multi-agent learning.

I've come to the same conclusion. Even without free will, "punishment" is a crucial tool in teaching agents acceptable behavior. Perhaps there's a meta morality question of whether the gains from that teaching are worth the suffering of the individuals being punished.
I think the big deal here is the difference between local and national levels. The levels of gun from in the United States are high. The levels of gun crime in Detroit are catastrophic.

Overall the level of infrastructure across the nation is ok. In some areas the level of infrastructure is catastrophic and local funding probably won't improve it any time soon.

A bridge collapsing is a big deal especially in urban areas. I can only wonder at the luck that seems to have avoided mass casualties in this case.
It’s however also the way that the US funds private sector development. They can’t as directly fund and direct private corporations as that would be “communism”, so they pump money into the military such that it provides corporate welfare and spurs private sector innovation and economy diffusely. It’s inefficient by design this way.
The article does mention that: “ Each barrage ending with the same invocation: “Fix our computers.””
As someone above said,

history | grep -i "whatever I want to remember"
Agreed! I was in a large company for my entire career and only recently pivoted to a startup. I am enjoying learning about different types of challenges and how to go about solving them in a different environment. You end up learning so much about your professional self when you have to stretch your skills to apply to different situations.
I meant it more in the line of they teach ethics and morality, etc., and then do this.
Not just feature flags, but "knobs" - we use a percentage (of requests or customers) instead of a boolean to enable features so we can dial them up/down.

This let us slowly roll out new features to a subset of users in case there are any issues.

Using feature flags also requires testing the default (not enabled state), ensuring you have a robust realtime configuration manager to control the knobs, and metrics for everything - not just how many requests/customers are opted-in, but also the progress & state of the configuration change.

It does no good to first enable a feature at 1% if only 1% of your servers have received the updated configuration - that's only .01% impact. It also tells you when your rollback is complete - you want to be sure when you disable something that there's not some stuck server with the feature still enabled...
Your questions are answered in the filing:

https://www.scribd.com/document/555427906/22-01-27-Utah-Et-A...

U.S. antitrust law does not require the existence of a monopoly for a violation, just sufficiently anti-competitive behavior. High market power strengthens an antitrust claim, and iOS being part of a duopoly fits the mold.
NIF: US lab takes further step towards nuclear fusion goal
Actually RedHat no longer ships Python since RHEL 8, instead they have platform-python for internal use of the operating system and you need to explicitly install the Python version you want
Ask HN: What living scientists do you consider heroes?
While I agree that we over-fund out military, probably by an order of magnitude, I still want our military to be functional. And that requires good IT. The two goals should not be mutually exclusive.
should be this link
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/themes/Mortality

and yes access denied
Biased [0], but we use feature flags a ton. It means that as an engineer we can throw new ideas at the wall, turn them on for ourselves and then a small group of trusted customers and super quickly iterate until we have a feature that works well and that we can safely release to the rest of the world.

We mostly use frontend feature flags for this, so we'd only show the link in the menu or the specific component if the feature flag is turned on.

[0] https://posthog.com/docs/user-guides/feature-flags
This happens so often and so frequently that it makes me wonder if there is some official part of the Chinese government set up to consume and distribute this information.

I mean if an American went to a prestigious university or worked a job where they got access to sensitive information for a random company like lets say Ferrari. They wouldnt immediately know who to sell this info too or have a buyer. But it seems like we hear constant stories in such a way that makes me think they were already briefed on who to tell and get this info too.

Idk, maybe im being naive, maybe the CIA sends emails or reaches out to American nationals who work on sensitive projects.
The colors and perspective of
“liberation of Eindhoven” are incredible. It looks like it was shot for a movie.
RHEL and macOS are two very different products with two very different audiences and can hardly be compared like this.

That being said, Python 2 will last through the end of RHEL 7's lifespan through June 2024, and that includes the AppStream module in RHEL 8 which will similarly end support in June 2024. After that customers are recommended to upgrade to a supported version of Python or continue using Python 2.7 at their own self-supported risk, we will not support them in that endeavor.

RHEL 9 (due out in a few months) does not ship Python 2.7.

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel8-app-s...
Industrial espionage can be an existential matter for companies. They rarely make the headlines but there's plenty of court cases like AMSC vs Sinovel, where Sinovel (China) stole the control software AMSC had developed and pretty much ruined them as a company.
> When I ride my bike, I always try to stay out of the door zone, but sometimes I'm forced over by oncoming traffic in a tight street. Many streets just aren't wide enough to stay a safe distance away from oncoming traffic and also stay out of reach of doors.

If you were in a car, what would you do?

I admit that it's unlikely that a car driver coming toward you is going to flash you to come forward when they think "there's plenty of space", however you can slow right down and check the parked car occupants to see if they are there.

A bigger problem is taxi drivers letting out passengers without checking for traffic, as shown here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0dPGuP2zE

(of course the anti-cyclist brigage will complain that he should have been dressed in high viz and wearing a helmet /s)
I worked in a startup for my 2nd serious job in Canada, and it was a mess.

The company burned through $7 mills, and went under in under a year. Such a mess. I will never ever work for a startup again.

If I owned that company, I would've already recouped the money many times over.
Vim is still one of the best IDEs out there, and I do mean IDE. I have git, gdb, terminal, and LSP integration. I've got spell check. I've got tags, cscope, snippets, and lint warnings. I've got documentation and hover support. On top of that, my editor uses megabytes instead of gigabytes of RAM, and I can run it from any terminal, on any computer. I can run it on my iPad Pro using blink. I can run it over mosh or ssh. I've been able to use it at every job I've ever worked at even as workplaces have switched from Sublime to Atom to VS Code. It doesn't cost me a dime to use it. I've been writing C, Go, Rust while working on bootloaders, kernel patches, and firmware for years and years and Vim has been a powerful tool to keep me as productive as possible. Even after trying CLion, VSCode, Atom, etc. I always come back to Vim realizing that these sluggish GUI Java/Javascript apps simply don't offer enough to compare to the decades of work that has gone into Vim.

Vim and Emacs are an investment, but the investment pays off ten fold. On top of their powerful features you get to support free and open source software that isn't being steered by corporations that want to keep you locked in and collect as much analytical data on your habits as possible. They aren't looking to lock you into an editor as a service. We've seen with neovim that the system works and has made both vim and neovim even better through healthy competition. Free and open source for the tools you use everyday is the way to go.
If your code is complex you can't ever be sure that you're testing the right things, or that there isn't a codepath that your tests miss. Tests are very useful, but they're not a replacement for simple code.
I'd love to know WHY it takes over an hour to load Outlook? Can anyone enlighten me as to what takes the time? Is it connecting to something and periodically backing off when it can't? Scanning something? What?
I agree that there are many tools including bots that can cut that number down. Every time you're prompted with a bunch of articles before you submit a ticket to any help desk, it's part of that (given your bot reference I'm fairly sure you know this).

The numbers are a fantasy scenario anyway, even 10% of that (600 support staff) is not small, and it's not a cost Facebook wants to bear.

They should do support, but then, they should do a lot of things that they don't do.
How do you know Apple has no responsibility for any of that ? Are you privy to all of their strategy and the deals they make with carriers and other participants. Apple is one of the richest companies in the world, it's naive to think that they aren't using their influence to further their market position.
I read that as a teenager, thought it sounded nice, went to grad school and did molecular dynamics simulations (like folding at home) for a decade, then went to google and built the world's largest simulation system (basically, the largest group of nodes running folding at home). Eventually we shut the system down because it was an inefficient way to predict protein structure and sample folding processes (although I got 3-4 excellent papers from it).

The idea is great, it was a wonderful narrative to run my life for a while, but eventually, the more I learned, the more impractical using full atomistic simulations seem for solving any problem. It seems more likely we can train far more efficient networks that encapsulate all the salient rules of folding in a much smaller space, and use far less CPU time to produce useful results.
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I think we naturally hit our limits of retention and started searching for solution. Then bought into the promise of silver-bullet solutions promising us both retention and synthesis of our thoughts.

However, we forgot that just reached our natural constraints, and maybe its a good thing. So instead of buying into the next solution, maybe, just maybe we should just do less and filter more.
I haven't had it long enough to have an opinion about it's virtue yet but I found this interesting tool recently...

https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/
Google put users like me in a painful situation, I'm not using more than gmail and now forced to pay for everything they offering. Attracting ppl by offering free eco system and later forcing them to pay isn't something except by Google and must have to support their early adopters.
The condition of the bridge was rated "Poor" in 2017. To understand what "Poor" can mean, here's a photo taken from underneath the bridge in 2018:

https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569
It seems like it should only accept input less than 256.

I put in something like 10,010,001 -- and it accepted it. This got me thinking that I was supposed to be inputting my guesses in binary, which I now realize is not how the game works.
My understanding is that CUDA has a lot of optimized libraries for common tasks, think BLAS, that don't currently exist in OpenCL/Vulkan Compute.
They should switch to Norton to make some crypto money on the side.
Maybe they can afford it, but why should they?
As noted on the GNU emacs site[0], you can download prebuilt binaries here[1], if you really can’t be bothered with ‘make install’. Homebrew is hardly necessary (for most things.)

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html

[1]: https://emacsformacosx.com/
Yes, as a person with a medical history of immune system disorder triggered by a vaccine, I am repeatedly astonished that the medical system and government keep claiming things we don't yet have data for, and trying to force _everyone_ to take these vaccines for which there is no legal recourse. The vaccine that gave me an auto-immune reaction is part of the established system that will allow some compensation to some victims. These new vaccines are too new, and not yet even eligible to be listed there, and so if your immune system reacts to one of the new vaccines by attacking your own body, it's not even eligible to be legally considered to give you compensation. But they're safe. Everyone should have them. Lucky you if it ruins your body or life.
I think you are being too hard on yourself and suffering a bit of faraway fields are greener. My post college employment from went from companies of size 10-35-3000-50000-60000. I'm the kind of the opposite of you in that I want to go back to a smaller company. If you are going to do it do it now but beware of getting trapped financially with no way to go back to living on a smaller income if you wanted to.
Thanks for this, hidden variable theories are very seductive but Bell's Theorem is definitive.
I seem to remember they just switch default shell to zsh, which is MIT [0]

[0] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/LICENCE
Strongtowns is just wrongheaded too. I have seen several articles debunking this one recently. I don't think it is a growth ponzi scheme for several reasons. It gets referenced here a lot, but it isn't very credible when you dig into their figures and math.
This case went beyond false accusations. According to the professor's lawyers [0], the government possessed exculpatory evidence and knowingly withheld it from the defense -- a theoretically-illegal Brady violation [1].

>" As my team of lawyers argued, Bonavolonta and his agents ignored basic exculpatory evidence, failed to interview critical witnesses until after I was arrested, and dramatically embellished facts in various official documents. Exculpatory information that, under the Constitution, the prosecution was required to turn over — such as a witness saying that I never was in a talent program, a Chinese government initiative to provide funding to researchers and scientists, which was one of the government’s key allegations — was withheld for months until demanded by my lawyers. While I am relieved that my case has been dropped “in the interests of justice,” I respectfully request a thorough review of this matter by Congress and the US Department of Justice to hold individuals accountable for this glaring misconduct."

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/21/opinion/i-was-arreste...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_disclosure
Different but feels somewhat the same shape as a previous point,

> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.

i'm fine with both of your alls-fair-in-love-and-war attitudes, but it makes me sick that twitter became a near defacto monopoly as the all-connected public-social-media before locking down & exploiting their position, before transforming into a propeietary closed experience.

and it makes me even more disturbed thinking what an epic project it would be to dislodge or replace this vast once public network. the switching costs are asteonomical, require millions of people of recognize how rudely governed their once open & reasonable platform has become, has fallen to.

the value propositions can keep changing. quickly. under society's feat. civil society has no control, the enemy has all the control. society has such a slow response time, our side of the free hand moves only over the course of decades, not days. it's a trashfire thing twitter is doing to us, and i fully support their right to self (re)define themselves as snakey lowlife punks who've renegged on their bargain of being the public social system, but damn i wish society could respond & shift course & adapt in some sort of fashion, and it just cant; this assemblage is trapped, and so things will only forever now get worse. it's terrible. platforms are social treachery, they all fall down.
Sure! Printers were slow and paper not an unlimited resource, so you can hide stuff that you don't need printed. For example, commonly-used macro definitions, SINE tables, or hardware drivers. It was just a tool to print only the stuff you were debugging at the time.

Of course it can be abused if the only thing being delivered is a hard copy. I'm a bit surprised that the original source code wasn't delivered and the customer built it themselves. But assemblers often ran on mainframes, and that wasn't cheap.
I just explained how cornering a market works. What part of the 3 steps is unclear?
How do blind people imagine AI? An interview with Florian Beijers
Show HN is for things you can try out. A blog is a simple submission.
> When Reddit, Quora, Medium, Twitter started, they have posed themselves as privately owned public spaces, much like Wikipedia.

You're misremembering, but please feel to prove me wrong by pointing to any of these services positioning themselves as the "Wikipedia of [thing they do]".
This one is ready made: http://www.apollo-core.com/v4.html
This isn't a perfect solution but we "solved" this by allowing services to know if migrations have been run. We store the migration data in a shared database and every service that depends on a specific migration, directly or indirectly, is configured to verify that migration has been run before health checks will pass.

The system is designed to support automatic migrations and deployments, but I don't trust it enough yet. (It's easy to write a migration that works on a local database but consumes too many resources in production, so it's just a matter of having a proper preprod, that I haven't created yet.)
https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569
Just an FYI you may want to double check the laws in your state and company rules on personally recording meetings.
Alsi it has more debugging formats
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128141631/https://rarehisto...
The issue is not unique to Pittsburgh, even if the location has its own specific challenges.

More than 30% of US bridges are in need of repair or preservation work, and on rating bridges in either "good" or "fair" condition, the total bridge population has fewer than 50% rated as "good". [0] About 7-8% are rated poor.

[0] https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/
It’s a mid-year release for Apple, even if marketing doesn’t indicate it in the version number.
Sounds like you've got some Impostor's Syndrome, just like all the rest of us.
If the flag is obtained from a configuration file, you have a testing configuration where the flag is toggled and you run the tests in your CI/CD pipeline. E.g. we have a development plan where everything is enabled and tested.
If I were to guess and remember my time working at a 'hot desking' company, it's because on login, the user's profile will be copied from a central server onto the local system.

I found out this is a thing when Chrome and Firefox started to put their files in the user's home directory by default. If that has to traverse a network - and who knows where all that data is coming from or how fast the internet connection is - that can take a long time.
That last sentence speaks volumes - it all depends on your personality and situation. Currently I have no appetite for the startup risk and no time/desire to work myself to death on a daily basis just to see a startup succeed (or more often, fail). Work-life balance is of far more importance to me right now than anything else, including compensation (especially when broken down to an hourly wage).
Ask HN: iOS App Developers, any unnatural app downloads recently?
My company makes iOS apps and games. Yesterday I received an email from Apple telling that they're terminating our account in 30 days for breaching the agreement by trying to manipulate the app ranking. I promptly checked the trends and saw that one of our games got 17k and 18k downloads from the UK only in two dates (19 - 20 Jan, 2022). All users downloaded the game from the App Store Search page. On usual days, the game only gets 200-300 downloads globally, and 15-20 downloads from the UK.

Apple wants us to find the issue, mitigate it and ensure that does not happen before they can look into the case. We don't know how that happened, and we don't see anything abnormal in other stats. The game is basically a driver's license exam simulation game. Did anyone in the UK notice some media coverage or news about such a game? Did anyone else got unnatural downloads on those dates because Apple accidentally messed up their algorithm on those dates and our app got ranked higher? Any hint would help us keep our business running - we're bootstrapped, and only publish in-house mobile games and apps, so we don't really have anyone at Apple to ask what went wrong.

I have been reading scary stories from developers whose accounts got closed by Google and Apple every now and then. In my case, it's not a life ending situation because we also publish on Google Play. But still I'm curious if the App Store Search went nuts for everyone else or just me. Thank you for reading this far. :)
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC could snoop on taxpayers locations
Sibling post mentions the kext breakage happening as well as another example, but I feel like they've been slipping on this as they've had increasing difficulty matching major features to their unbending yearly release schedule. So more and more (and this is the case with macOS 12 also, see Universal Control) we've seen big headline features announced at WWDC keynotes not manage to make it into the .0, but rather trickle in over the .1 to .3 releases. Once that rubicon was crossed having more other major/breaking changes start sliding into point releases doesn't seem too surprising I guess, even if the cultural slippage is irritating.

Apple probably has to either give up strict semantic versioning for breaking changes, give up their strict release schedule, or be willing to defer announced features that don't make one major version all the way to the next. Something needs to give. Looks like they've decided to go with a "semantic-lite" where breaking changes and major features aren't the rule with point releases but can still happen in old enough/deprecated areas.

It does seem more needless though in cases like this granted, unlike other examples it's not really clear why they'd do this now rather than 12.0. Not as if Python 2.7 was a spring chicken last year either, support ended in 2020 and that was like 11 years after release already? Heck, why not 11.0?
But is it worth it actually? I doubt that this MacOS version is used on servers…
Might be some zoning restrictions on being able to put residential in. But adding offices is easy, as it's still commercial. Which isn't to say that they couldn't try to get it rezoned, but it's more difficult.