skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a point in time where tradeshows moved from having technically competent people in the booths to having pretty girls (with zero tech chops) and suits. This is roughly where the OPs story falls in time, and I wonder if that has something to do with it.

Personally, as long as a powercycle took care of the issue I really don't see the problem, if you do then that's fine by me. Breaking things is bad, afaics nothing got broken here.
you can make a browser - but it won't have a JIT for javascript, rendering it useless.
but you don't have to install or manage any of them. You can continue to use apple's store. you may just lose access to some apps that don't want to share revenue with apple.
You can use this question to undo the entire thing. Once you start catalogizing how you are formed and shaped by others (not an island unto yourself) you would not want to use any model of reality where the focus is not on the rest of us and our shared evolutionary history.

However our brain actually uses that model of reality where you are the important one, because everything is behind or in front of you, above you or bellow you, and your thoughts are instantly available to you, but not the thoughts of other people. And you kind of feel independent from them, when actually you are very interconnected, there is no telling where the rest of us ends and where you start, and there is scarcely any wiggle room for originality when it comes to individual behavior. Practically none if education and critical thinking is not involved.
The Coinbase model: profit from the crypto assets it lists
Personally, I'd just move on. It has limited potential to be beneficial and great potential to be detrimental.
Not solutions to your problems, but perhaps some background you might find interesting:

> Why can’t I dock the controls library so it’s always visible?

This actually used to be how it was before. It got changed into an overlay panel a couple years ago.

> Why can I zoom the Interface Builder when building iOS applications but not Mac applications?

It’s an implementation detail of how it works under-the-hood. iOS interface is rendered in what’s essentially a simulator and screenshotted, so you can zoom the result freely. For macOS the controls you are seeing are real Mac controls, which do not render at arbitrary magnifications.
I assume it means malls on the richer side of town, usually indicated by the presence of Apple/Nordstroms stores.
I'm outing myself as actually, mostly, liking Xcode (as a "mostly C/C++ cross-platform coder", haven't dabbled much with the interface builder side of things).

But some things really need to be fixed:

- Downloads are getting way too big, and most of this is all the platform SDKs. Those SDKs should be removed from the initial download and instead installed when actually needed or with an integrated "package manager". As it is now, I'm just using 3 (iPhoneOS, iPhoneOSSimulator and MacOSX) of the 7 installed SDKs, the other 4 SDKs (2x AppletTVOS and 2x WatchOS) are just dead weight.

- Don't know how it's in Swift, but starting for the first time into the debugger takes 5..10 seconds, even on my new 14"MBP, and even for trivial programs. This used to be instant a couple of years ago, but then got worse over time.

- The debugger's variable view panel is way too bare bones, and doesn't seem to have been improved much in the last two decades.

- "Schemes"... 'nuff said.

- Something needs to be done about the extension/plugin ecosystem (e.g. there is none, just a handful of extensions in the app store), look at Visual Studio Code for inspiration.

Also, I'm not sure what the "new build system" is about, but from my point of view it didn't really improve anything over the old build system. Maybe the resources should instead have been spent on something that actually benefits users.

Plenty of good stuff too:

- The clang static analyzer integration with the 'arrow visualization' is brilliant.

- AFAIK it was the first IDE to integrate ASAN, TSAN and UBSAN easy enough to use "for the rest of us".

- Probably also the first IDE with realtime memory usage visualization, Visual Studio only got this in VS2015 if I remember right.

- The Metal debugger.
>The dismissal is a setback to the China Initiative, an effort started in 2018 to crack down on economic and scientific espionage by China. Many of the prosecutions, like the case against Dr. Chen, do not allege espionage or theft of information, but something narrower: failing to disclose Chinese affiliations in grant applications to U.S. agencies. Critics say it has instilled a pervasive atmosphere of fear among scientists of Chinese descent.

While I can agree with and see the value of the overall agenda, it seems a matter of bad application. I won't pretend to be an expert on the matter who can say exactly what needs to be done, but I wonder about how necessary it really is to drag people through the mud in such cases. It certainly can have a chilling effect on scientists with affiliations to Chinese entities, many of which are plenty secular. I understand the impetus to investigate all affiliations when a foreign state is involved, but at the same time it becomes self destructive if it goes too far all too quickly. The solution, to me, seems to fall on those doing the investigating; that the investigating parties must hold to a higher and better informed standard before bringing forth charges that could hurt American scientists, and by extention, American science
> individuals won't touch that AGPL

Why? If I am working on something with no intent on making a proprietary service out of it, I might as well make my own code GPL. And if I do have the interest in making a business out of it, then I'd inquire about the commercial license.
Because nothing got broken.

Turning off screens with universal remote controls... hm... imagine what you could do with one of those 3 Watt IR guns they use in laser arenas and a highrise building. During the worldcup soccer... Never mind.
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Anthropic arguments only work if there's a mechanism for generating other versions besides the one you're observing. For example, you could use the anthropic argument to explain why earth is in the "goldilocks zone" because there are plenty other planets out there at varying distances from their sun.

So, if you want to make the argument that 3d is preferred for some reason you need to acknowledge that there are other universes out there with 2d, 4d, etc that just can't sustain life and that therefore life only finds itself in the subset of universes that have three dimensions.
It's interesting that you say one-sided, because Black, indigenous, lgbtq, AAPI, Latin, women, Jewish, Muslim, disability, etc. rights activists/movements are each independent, and often conflicting. This list seeks to eradicate all of that, in favor of a single, white christian, perspective.
It takes less money than ever to run for office. What they do not have is the network and connections, nor are most of the public engaged. The segment of the public that is engaged and votes in the primaries for local elections tend to be business, real estate, and home owners.
I read the story and understand the working of that particular device well enough that I am 100% sure that a powercycle fixed it.
Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/6eiAh
Yes, I meant common introductory material should mention (and use) it (I think Bjarne does mention it, but I wouldnt call it introductory material)
Like McCarthyism it’s a noble cause, but I can’t help but wonder if these initiatives rather tend to be outsmarted by the real spies. People who are accidentally incriminated by clerical errors and misunderstandings are much lower hanging fruit.
Funnily enough, TeamViewer Support replied with a solution to hide the popup (https://twitter.com/TeamViewer_help/status/14459761128662097...), and later (Original tweet Oct 7, 2021, new tweet Jan 14, 2022) new popups come up anyways: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/14818556255585894...

Seems the only correct way of using TeamViewer is to uninstall it and never use it again. If you paid "thousands of dollars" for something that doesn't do what it says it'll do when you pay, then you kindly request a refund, otherwise file a complaint with your local commission/bureau/ombudsman.
What is the problem with the AGPL?
No code survives first contact with the user. Code is messy because of the impedance mismatch between the (mostly) precise world of computers and the real world. So, we do the best we can knowing that 'correct' is always just over the next hill.
I’m not sure how to respond to “really Xcode in the background” but it’s an app with an entirely new codebase (that Xcode now shares some code with) and a full toolchain. If you haven’t tried the latest version released recently you should give it a try, it’s much improved from what we had in the past.
I think you are completely fine and on the right track with reflecting which topics actually mean technological improvement. Tech is full of hype that will be forgotten in a short time. On the other hand some companies would really love to induce the feeling you are missing out on a trend.

I guess you have to keep your cynicism in check, which is all but easy if you take a closer look at some tech solutions. I believe the startup hype can really net us something interesting, but you don't have to feel sorry to be skeptical.
I've worked in Academia. There are so many Chinese scientists. Trust me that's not a problem in the least.
A consultancy working less than 40 hours a week – does that exist?
Dodgy because the very act of listing coins will pump their value.
Not Kindle-friendly, but I suspect you're aware of 'Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View', Cosma Shalizi [0], PDF available, which seems to parallel the topics here. Have you had a look, and, if so, what do you think?

[0] https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/
I agree that you probably should be prepared to handle such scenarios.

I don't agree that this is a good reason that doing such a prank is harmless. The sales person might not have been prepared. They may have been having a bad day already. They may not be confident that power cycling would have solved the issue and thus may have been extremely stressed out going forward, ruining an (important?) presentation.

Probably I'm reading too much into a casual retelling now, but from what I can read: The fact the sales person was panicking should've been an indicator for OP to help him out. At that point OP should've empathised with the sales person instead of make things worse.

It's not because "Oh you should know how to fix this" may be true, that it's not a dick move to throw a fellow human in distress under the bus.
IMHO, having a whole generation slightly dumber is more concerning. I prefer the trade off be something else.
We cannot marginalize segments of our population based on race, nationality, religion, sex, etc. and expect to remain competitive. This is a basic truth of economics. And it's also wrong to do that to people in the first place.

Americans are Americans and we all should be treated equally by our government.
I've tried to play around with Turbo[0] from the Hotwired project, and've always struggled to get off the ground with it. Whenever I've gone to do anything with it, the documentation has always seemed lacking, and it seemed like their stance was mainly "just use our Ruby Gem!", which isn't so appealing as a Go dev.

[0]: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/
Casually announcing that everyone in this city has worms on the basis of zero evidence and deciding you can therefore ignore this paper is not the win you think it is.
> iframes are cumbersome of course, so it would have been interesting to see the protocol focus on making them more seamlessly integrate with the embedding context with a standard postMessage protocol for things like securely forwarding content sizes (for auto-resizing the frame), events, and styling information across the frame boundary.

That is one approach - what we've experimented with is having applications load their own thin 'block handler' code in an iframe, which then renders the block and does the message passing with the parent window. This way blocks don't have to know whether they're framed or not, and applications can choose not to frame blocks, e.g. because they're all trusted and they don't want the additional overhead.

As David says, very interested in any and all thoughts on this subject, as it's important to get right. Like many aspects of the spec, the thinness of the current material is more a reflection of the early stage of the project than a view that it is unimportant / doesn't need further work.
> In summary: a massive headache, avoid if possible.

Will do. If its more complicated than a box-character, it doesn't belong in my terminal :-)
OEmbed – An Open Standard for Embedded Content (2008)
Can you elaborate on exactly what's horrendous/dreadful about it, rather than who submitted it?
A decent suit is supposed to be comfortable, for me more than jeans (if it's not too hot) and if you are tall and fit you look great in them.
Responsible media (what you call "MSM") doesn't say "Ivermectin" is dangerous.

It says it is dangerous to spread the lie that Ivermectin is useful in the treatment of Covid, especially over the proven methods and agents of prophylaxis and treatments.

You can't distinguish between "Ivermectin is dangerous" and "People took too much Ivermectin because they thought it cures Covid". Because the latter is true and happened a lot in the US. What also happens a lot in the US is that the same people who promote Ivermectin give a shit about proven vaccines, proven treatments and masks and so on.
One year ago article. Needs a 2021.
Although, ironically, he removed the powered-mech suits.

Recommendations: If you want modern powered-mech suits military action, read The Red Trilogy. If you want a cracking sci-fi novel from the same era but very different politics, “Rebel in Time” is a corker.
> There are lots of arguments about this. The 45' will have everything scaled up, so sail handling is more difficult. Assistive devices, like roller furling, while a lot better than they used to be are still finicky. Ground tackle, especially, is so much larger and heavier that without mechanized assistance, you'd better be in really great shape.

Finicky? I wouldn't say so, maybe in the past, but they've had a lot of time to improve now. Sure, they're more likely to break or foul than a system that simply isn't there, but they are also considered by some, as with a number of other modern sailing aids, to be pretty significant safety enhancements.

Things that mean you don't have to go on deck in a heavy sea, things that save energy. It's a lot harder to get washed overboard when rolling in a headsail from the cockpit, and you're going to save a lot of energy over spending time getting up to the bow and working there.

Plus, I'd say the chance of getting whipped in the face by a stray block on a line is less in the cockpit too, and less dangerous if it happens.

John Kretchmer (https://johnkretschmersailing.com/) in one of his books said (to paraphrase, I forget his words exactly) that he thinks a working autopilot is the biggest safety enhancement you can make to your boat. It lets you save energy. Go down below, make some food or a cup of tea, keep warm. It allows you to save energy and make better decisions.

> Ground tackle, especially, is so much larger and heavier that without mechanized assistance, you'd better be in really great shape.

So… get a windlass!
Those claims seem unsubstantiated

https://twitter.com/dangoodin001/status/1486976676965715968

ok, it's importing iFlytek. But without demonstrating what it's doing and when, even if it's listening (which is not clear if it's happening) it could just be listening for a wake word (just like Cortana, Google Assistant, etc. work)

Moreover, this guy seems to have willfully mistranslated the EULA to pretend that it's doing something it isn't doing.

https://twitter.com/rpotter_9/status/1486982536232587264

Whoever implemented the app though, should've kept it simple. Adding more needless functionality is just going to drive sinophobes and conspiracy theorists in a frenzy
Paying for software?
These things have a way of working themselves out.

"Father of Chinese Rocketry"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

Except for the 5 years under house arrest part. Wow.
Number 1 - your certificate has expired.

g.sr.ht uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired. (Error code: sec_error_expired_issuer_certificate)

Update: My apologies, so you are good here. I am running firefox in protected virtual machine for obvious reasons. you are using letsencrypt and they updated their certificates in oct 2021.
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/post-install-tips-hints...
Not at dosages a Human would survive.
Googling "HeyDay" turns up a couple of websites that are not correlated to this, seems like it's a common name.

This is their website: https://heyday.xyz/
That sounds worse to me. 3 is at least an objective number. Being tried based on intent is always problematic.
Meta Collaborates with Nvidia on AI Research Supercomputer
Contact lenses are a thing.
How to Create an Impressive GitHub Profile Readme
Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
My favorite tool for remembering how to run something, or rather for not having to remember: A simple Makefile and a readme file.
Windows Version check would disagree with you why this abstraction is required. I forgot the api but there is kernel api that will contradict with your view points.
I can't imagine anyone reading this story and thinking, "Oh, this must just be a series of unfortunate accidents by naïve supervisors."

"Not knowing how things work" is only an excuse up until someone explains to they, "I was elected, here is the law," and they deliberately refuse to acknowledge it

(The reason people run for these obscure, low-paying jobs is so they can get rich on the taxpayers' dime - so they can rezone and procure and otherwise redirect money and influence to their own interests. No one does it as a fun hobby.)
I firmly believe that "Mein Kampf" is a must-read book for any civilized person. It is very educational, best read together with Tanya Savicheva's diary [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Savicheva
"Everyone" is not necessary. That the only successful such studies are in areas with high incidences of Ivermectin-treatable parasitosis is a notable coincidence, isn't it?

Ivermectin failed in large studies with populations that didn't have worms.
Yeah, it's also related to how well we can simulate the behavior of others.

And here you eventually hit both the limitation that without abstractions you can only simulate a less complex system, and also how the information about the exact state of the system is fundamentally limited by the (quantum) uncertainty principle (which also allows the discretisation of information, via Planck's constant h) - entropy being a superfluous concept meaning just "lack of information" :

https://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy-more.html#sec-ph...
Well, if the sales guy had been more knowledgeable or more interested in someone who clearly knew his stuff better than he did then this could have ended differently.

Could the prankster have done better? Sure, no doubt, but it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Could the salesperson have done better? Yes, also no doubt, having been there this was simply a missed opportunity.
The only alternative is that iPhones wouldn’t be available in those countries, and so you still wouldn’t be able to install those apps.
That will be great. Awaiting your result.
Most likely for Java and Haskell you won't be able to find anything. I personally used Pyto and Pythonista 3 for Python (there's also Juno for local and remote development if you're into Jupyter notebooks). I also use Drafts, which is editor, but uses JS for scripting and I and few my peers use it for automation and whatnot. I also seen Scriptable in use but I haven't used it myself.

As for other things - I'm Shortcut user and there are few extension to it like Pushcut or Toolbox Pro which extend it. I have shortcuts that manage my devices at home, when I'm there or when I leave, plus stuff I automated some with NFC stickers & Watch. Usually I start with it, when I want to get something automated. Shortcuts + servers provides a lot of automation (especially since I can get the data for widgets or make an action through it).

As for the other (especially compiled) languages I'm not sure if it's possible even possible without more advanced tools (and as far as I remember jailbreak voids warranty, but is confirmed to be legal). One can, however, create iOS applications without being part of developer program (this requires re-signing every week or two, which is inconvenience, but still something that can be automated) and for those 99$/year you don't have to re-sign every period. AppStore presence is not obligatory so one can make use of all sensors and data iOS applications have and even more (as AppStore rules don't oblige to your own personal apps) - and even share it to a small group of friends assuming they trust you, as they'd have to manually accept your dev certificate - something you can quite easily do with family or friends. It works for me but YMMV.

In general I'd say that for power user Apple's ecosystem isn't that restricted as people make it. On MacOS you get widely supported AppleScript that I personally despise due to syntax (and it seems like Apple dropped the idea of supporting JXA lately), on iOS there's reasonable x-callback/Shortcuts automation framework and quite a lot of commercial tools.
And Linus torvalds can certainly afford it
I just did a music test with & without my cochlear, using Postmodern Jukebox. ;)

Here's the reference song and timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1cGPfL-Bw&t=130s Without my implant I can barely hear anything the drummer does for the next 10 seconds, so it must be > 1500 Hz, which is the upper limit of my "good" ear. With my cochlear alone (i.e., plugging my "good" left ear) I can hear all the frequencies, but the song sounds "tinny" and lacks clarity. With both ears I'm not consciously missing much in terms of clarity if I had normal hearing, so the brain does a very good job at creating almost normal sound from my two very imperfect ears.

However, please note that outcomes for cochlear implant recipients vary. I've been told that my result is unusually good given that I scored 90%+ on standard audiology speech tests post-implant.
Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a "premium" service? Canceled the sub.

Tangent: Now that I occasionally play music on Spotify I get ads in the form "We know you were a premium user before, how is life with the free service now?". I find that somewhat creepy and disturbing.
> Well maybe the engineers should know how to sell the thing they're making?

I agree, why not have an technical guy there who knows how to operate the thing and can support the sales guy? If the company is sending only sales guys with no in-depth technical knowledge to a trade show, it's fully understandable and well-deserved if this sort of thing happens.

> why should he know every last intricacy of the machine?

If I am buying an expensive piece of hardware you better believe I will ask questions about the intricacies and if I don't get answers I will not be buying.
At Microsoft at least at my site we are encouraged to contribute to open source and it even brings perks/recognition so really not sure about “most companies” here
Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning!
Browser developers aren't frontend engineers, they don't feel your pain.
right, given the huge production chains how many people maintaining essential production chains around the world would be required to live on to not revert to medieval society?