skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not terribly important but there are a few paragraphs there that contain a number of factual assertions completely contrary to my experience with the training we all received at a major regional US bank. I wasn't a CS rep (I'm an engineer) but everyone received a lot of training on this stuff (our customer service tenets were treated with the same seriousness as anti-money laundering, know your customer, and all the other stuff every person in the bank received training on, because failures in these areas can all lead to very bad places) regardless of their position.

Mean words cannot hurt a bank. Threats cannot hurt a bank. Paper trails, though, are terrifying to regulated institutions. Your bank’s customer support representatives are taught to evaluate whether someone looks like they’re competent and collecting a paper trail. If they are, the CS rep is supposed to stop touching the case immediately and instead escalate them to a supervisor or to the legal department.

At a first approximation everything in that paragraph is wrong. Banks care a lot about reputational damage (i.e. you can make them look horrible on twitter or in a news article) and will immediately begin taking you more seriously if you mention you might contact a lawyer, are already in touch with a lawyer, etc. It's true that communication is better and things work more smoothly if you have all your ducks in a row, but I think a respectful customer service rep is just going to assume that a paper trail exists or can be produced. They aren't going to try to take advantage of a situation where a person does not have every last document at hand during the call in order to provide worse service.

Perhaps interestingly, "legal department" is a phrase I do not recall anyone using at any bank or credit union where I've worked. I mean, they've got lawyers, and I suppose most of them are organized into one or more departments... nevertheless.

If you're feeling contrary, especially on the topic of reputational damage, you would be right to point out that banks like Wells Fargo continue to exist. I am in awe of the fact that anyone continues to bank with them.
> 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.

Or you can make the argument that no other universes other than a 3D one can support life, i.e. that 3D is necessary for life. Then you can conclude if life, then 3D.
Did you watch this video? Tom claims in the video that the barrier is designed for up to a thousand year tide. That's essentially the same as the three nines standard I advocated.
Agreed. But public opinion has shifted; people in the US think "free speech" is a "right-wing issue" now, and as you can see every time China is mentioned on HN there are ten thousand xenophobic comments by assholes from the US who don't even know the difference between the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. In theory public opinion shouldn't affect the outcome of a court case unless it results in statutory or constitutional changes, but of course it does. Given the current trend toward authoritarianism, the longer the government can delay the court battle, the better their chances.
From what I know about Vim this isn't unusual. There is a division between those who treat Vim as a constant tool that should be kept as close to the defaults as possible, so that you can work anywhere it is installed (I'd consider this the classical approach inspired by vi), others who value extending and modifying it to match their needs and preferences (this seems to me to lean towards Emacs' spirit). As Vim is both a vi-clone but also has the abilities to be extended, I don't think either is more wrong than the other. My sympathies go towards the former, because Emacs is my Emacs.
I agree with you (and that’s basically what we do), but there’s a valid point of view that if you’re developing on machines 4-8x faster than your users, that you might not notice and fix small performance issues because your computer takes them under the threshold of perception. (That doesn’t mean your devs should suffer all the time on their daily driver, but it is a concern that should have some process to address.)
> people who are familiar with what bash and rsync are will probably understand computers well enough to install them with Homebrew or Macports or something.

This is probably somewhat optimistic: there are a lot of people who are not developers who still use those tools — I've supported scientists, librarians, analysts, etc. who had a few scripts using tools like that but weren't really comfortable making changes. That doesn't mean it's _hard_ to install Homebrew but it's something which they'll need a little pointer and possibly institutional approval to do.
Maybe we could try applying the same logic to other companies and products.

One example that would seem more important is Pfizer et al and the vaccine trial data, but more generally applications to the FDA
Small proteins (one to two alpha helices) can now be routinely folded (that is, starting form a fully unfolded state, to getting stick in the minimum around the final structure) using ab initio simulations that last several multiples of the folding time.

Larger proteins (a few alpha helices and beta sheets), the folding process can be studied if you start with structures near the native state.

None of this means to say that we can routinely take any protein and fold it from unfolded state using simulations and expect any sort of accuracy for the final structure.
It's closer to 3 seconds per year....
https://uptime.is/

> Daily: 0s
Weekly: 0s
Monthly: 0s
Quarterly: 0s
Yearly: 3s
Does this mean I can choose python3 when writing Alfred workflow scripts? Or is there another way to add another interpreter to the list[0]?

[0]: It consists of bash, zsh, php, ruby, python (v2), perl, osascript on my machine
Apparently an enemy just needs to time an attack to happen at 0800 local for whatever regional command is in charge to get an hour or so before HQ can do anything about it :/
Honestly this is why political discussions are pointless. People can justify literally any behavior if it's for a cause they believe in. Consistent moral principles are only of interest to the philosophers.
Again, the issue is "when", not "whether".

They could drop it with v12, or wait for v13, both would be fine. Dropping it in the middle of release cycle what people are objecting to.
And you don't get the full twitter without the "app"
It sucks to see your open source work being abused like this, and there's seemingly nothing we can do about it.

Every now and then I scour the play store to see if I can find any Aegis clones. We've reported a couple that didn't have a link to the source code and/or were linking proprietary libraries (as per our license), but they're still up. Of course, those cases aren't as bad as this one where actual malware was included, but it's pretty telling about the state of the Google Play Store.
This really depends on the use case.

For example, consider a platform where users can sign up to post or listen to music. There might be three types of user: "listener", "artist", and "label". There may be permissions and configuration settings that would cater to each one of these types within the same interface, and maybe in some exceptional cases, they could be intermixed (eg: while an artist and label can post music, maybe an artist can also track stats about what they like to listen to, something that only a listener account can do normally).

The platform might want to configure each of these to streamline usage and to remove features that aren't relevant to that account type, but some accounts may be specialized for whatever reason.
Pittsburgh weather in particular is harder on infrastructure than any other city I've lived in.
> So rather than treat the issue as a rich text problem of glyph alternates, Unicode added the concept of variation selectors, first introduced in version 3.2 and supplemented in version 4.0.[10] While variation selectors are treated as combining characters, they have no associated diacritic or mark. Instead, by combining with a base character, they signal the two character sequence selects a variation (typically in terms of grapheme, but also in terms of underlying meaning as in the case of a location name or other proper noun) of the base character. This then is not a selection of an alternate glyph, but the selection of a grapheme variation or a variation of the base abstract character. Such a two-character sequence however can be easily mapped to a separate single glyph in modern fonts. Since Unicode has assigned 256 separate variation selectors, it is capable of assigning 256 variations for any Han ideograph. Such variations can be specific to one language or another and enable the encoding of plain text that includes such grapheme variations. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

This is what you’re asking for, right? Control characters that designates which version of a unified character is to be displayed.

Sure looks like it exists.
Even if it were proven that this was indeed true, the proof would certainly not be allowed to reach mainstream audiences. The author would be discredited, face character assassination (and sometimes physical assassination), and/or blacklisting from the scientific community. At the very least they would never be able to secure funding for future projects and their loved would start suffering from tragic “accidents”.
Just because a drug could treat pulmonary hypertension, doesn't mean it could not be effective at treating erectile dysfunction.
> Inertia seems to best describe the hesitancy to change.

I'd have gone for 'rigor mortis', but hey, we can't agree on everything ... like, say, a very minor change to string encoding with a 12-year managed rollout.
> If it's so cheap why us France selling at loss?

It's a long story. Basically EDF (électricité de France) was a monopoly (which is fine because it's nationalised) but Europe asked to break this monopoly (capitalism says monopoly = bad). The problem is that third parties can't really build nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams to generate their own electricity (because it's hard and expensive, which is why it was nationalised in the first place), so Europe forces EDF to sell electricity to the European market at a fixed price (which is currently lower than the market price) which is then bought by third parties and sold to customers for a profit.

The bottom line is that EDF was built with public money and is now financing private entities at a loss...

Now for the fun part, these competitor don't do anything other than buying low and selling high. EDF still is a monopoly in term of energy production, it's just not allowed to benefit from it. None of these third party benefits are reinjected in the country's energy production system.

> either they're forcing other countries to give up nuclear power

It's an ongoing process, they themselves want to stop nuclear but for now they're very happy about buying electricity from nuclear powered countries.

If you want to read more about it:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_10_...

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/EDF-to-sell-more...
Great, our military uses Teams; now I know we're doomed. Kidding, just kidding!

Seriously now...Hearing the pain here frustrates me because i am actually in favor of paying my taxes because i know when handled properly then roads, bridges, infrastructure, other things, and yes, the right tools for our military are done then everyone benefits...but when things are not managed right, it chafes me so much because the pain ripples all the way through from civil servants unable to do their job, to military folks not having tools to help defend us, to civilians being put at risk while going over unsafe bridges, to commerce not being efficient because roads suck, etc.
You posted over 50 flamewar comments in this thread. That's egregious, and we ban accounts that behave this way. I'm not going to ban you right now, but please don't do it again.

We want curious conversation here. When you get to the point of fulminating about what "HN" has been saying, or you feel "HN" has been saying, the thread has left the path of curiosity a long time ago, and is well into the brush. We don't want that here.

I'm not saying your views are wrong (I have no idea what they are, and no idea what the situation is). But if your views are correct, this is the worst way to advocate for them, because it discredits them. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have been doing something similar in my React Native apps - major features are enabled in a env.js variable:

{
EnableBackgroundSync: true,
EnableDebugLog: false,
...
}

This also ends up helping find different parts of code that are related in live in multiple modules (eww, I know)...
> would seem more important is Pfizer et al and the vaccine trial data

Absolutely. Also the "we in EU have a secret deal with Pfizer to buy vaccines, this is not public info"
Specifically, I'm referring to Autoverse, the artificial simulation of a single bacterium down to the atomic level.

It was such a fascinating idea that I found myself more than once trying to mimic the atomic part at a much smaller scale over the years.
I was active duty AF 20-some years ago. It's sad to see that absolutely nothing has changed.
I used to live for two years with my close friend, who has ADHD. Since I were way more organized than him, I assumed I couldn't have ADHD.

Only in the last few years I realized that I have ADHD (thanks for a friend who pointed me to some resources). Yes, including a formal diagnosis. Though this one brought little, except for my parents being mildly annoyed that they cannot keep guilt-tripping for not adhering to their very high standards of tiddiness, punctuality, organization, etc.

I reallly, really wish I had known it ealier. It would save me from a lot of guilt, shame, and approaching things the way that is doomed to failed (the same things could be approached differently).

When it comes to this friend - he is by far a person with the strongest ADHD symptoms above all of my friends with a formal diagnosis.

Medications - I recommend Armodafinil. Though, I would argue that for ADHD the most important factor is not with getting more productive with boring tasks, but finding the right environment (that provides a lot of dopamine).
python3 is not included by default as well in macOS 12.3

python3 prompts to install command line developer tools
There are limits to empathy. I empathize with those who have been misled by a bunch of loony, grifting parasites who would have been laughed out of polite society 30 years ago. I empathize with those who suffer from mental illness exacerbated by political forces that seek to benefit from the confusion they foment. I empathize with those who are afraid of needles (I am one), and who are overwhelmed with too much information and misinformation.

But at the end of the day, after two years of watching this insanity in our society, where wearing a mask is considered "weak", where taking a vaccine, a vaccine that we're incredibly lucky to have, is considered a sign of Satan, or micro tracking chips, or sterilization or whatever is the latest loony thought of the day, I'm done.
Then Tanium needed tuning. There's no reason any of it's processing should have taken 1 core for more than 2 minutes...and that's the highest load task. Mostly it sits in the background, capped at 5% cpu.

But there's only so much you can do with a 7th gen dual core mobile i7

Now...McAfee? a)Was a pig, but b)did we really need to scan the entire disk every Friday afternoon?
Meta’s WhatsApp Depicts Regular SMS as Unsafe in New NFL Ads
Capitol Police examine backgrounds, social media of some who meet with lawmakers
Part of this is that IT is viewed as a cost center (well, because it is), and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. IT's objective is to ship you a laptop that will adequately run the software you need to perform your job duties. How efficiently you perform them becomes a problem for you and your manager.
I once had the opportunity to visit a department of homeland security fusion center in Philadelphia. They had walls of displays showing surveillance cameras looking at bridges that were actively rusting apart. You would think the better public safety investment would be fewer fusion centers and more bridges that aren't rusting.
Open source app includes link to donation page? Ban! And disable their account while at it.
Shady 2FA app? Keep it, what harm can it do?
That statement slaps of some existential philosophy that will probably need to be addressed at some point...

For this context though I agree, we as a society should have the right to inspect any algorithm that makes safety or life altering decisions (looking at you "AI" judges) about your person or in public spaces you might reasonably occupy.

I do think data used by an algorithm, or even potentially data that was used to train an algorithm should have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The trained weights do become part of the algorithm in my humble opinion, and that does potentially lead to leakage about the source data, but that doesn't justify not allowing inspection of the algorithm.
So, even one protein cannot be simulated as in real world?
Wow, that MLK quote cuts deep. It should also come with context as to what MLK was doing. He wasn't apologizing, rationalizing it, or supporting it. He was explaining why it happens. He continually called for non-violence and civil disobedience, not rioting. In many ways, he was calling to the black community to stop doing these things and up-level protests to effective means from ineffective means.
In my experience, this is a huge factor. They would probably be better off with remote desktop environments.
Oh I agree companies should have greater interest in the well being of their communities and we should effect change that makes them beholden to the communities that allowed them to prosper and not sell the communities out to the lowest bidder overseas.

But… tell China this same argument. That they should not protect their self interest and see how well it goes over.
>>The developed nations are the one who need to slow down on their fuel burning

As a "westerner", I would modify this statement to: The developed nations are the ones who need to STOP ALL harmful emissions by implementing a fully renewably-powered infrastructure (power grid, tansportation, civil, defense) and CONCURRENTLY supply/heavily subsidize the deployment of these capabilities to developing nations.

We're all on the same international spaceship. It's not a question of fairness or who developed first. It simply needs to happen. Like... now.
Management are going to be the first users to complain!!
What are the requirements for a twitter account these days? Just an email or also a valid phone?
pyenv install 2.7.18 :)
19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Musk tried to pay him to stop
The Many Meanings of “Stack”
To be fair, that's Failing Grayling; the minister who awarded a 14 million pound ferry contract to a company with no boats. Cluelessness, lack of attention and obliviousness to reality is his raison d'être - I'm not sure his ability to exit a vehicle should be representative of the rest of the population.
Looking at the comments, users are even suggesting to use alternative hacks and frontends like Nitter, uBlock which may work temporarily but will ultimately be broken and everyone will lose again.

This is just the start and it will get much worse over time for all social networks.
> My guess is, as a bank, they're doing the right thing

Banks can and will do everything wrong.

* https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/fr.creditag...

* https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/fr.lcl.andr...

* https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.caissee...

* https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/fr.banquepo...

* https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.fullsix...
Unfortunate? It makes the case as to why passing the infrastructure bill was so important. It should make people think twice about reelecting those who voted no on the bill. If they had their way we'd still have a collapsed bridge and no infrastructure bill to pay for a new one.
There are many sizes of "startups" too – many Series C and above you'll probably never have to interact with the CEO directly, WLB improves too, but with lower equity and upside
The WSJ article is objectively better than the NYT article, too. It gives much more info about what he was actually accused of, and how the case fell apart. So instead of just apologizing for bringing it up, maybe you should work to recalibrate your views.
The article mentions they use TWO different, heavy endpoint solutions. I'm shocked the computers work at all.
Y Combinator’s investment revamp is making emerging market investors nervous
My guess is the kind of careless people who don't check for cyclists tend to be the kind that throw their doors wide open in one movement, so while this doesn't hurt, it gives cyclists a split-second's warning at best.
I don't understand how you think your point relates to it's parent. Are you just piggybacking off the point that the US does control export of semiconductor technology to make this separate point? Or are you suggesting the US shouldn't control export of semi-conductor technology in the same way they shouldn't restrict your publications on cryptography?
But xattr is opensource, Apple didnt want to invest some engineering time and effort to upgrade those packages?
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