skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the federal government is important. People talk about the "swamp in DC" not realizing how swampy it is in their local courthouses, and would be a lot swampier without the federal government looking over it.
NASA's Artemis 1 Completes Countdown Test
The reversal rate in the court of appeals is below 10% so I wouldn't bet on Epic.
Yes, it is not that apple is innocent, because they are dependent on the chinese market which CCP controls, apple is pliable in the hands of the CCP and that is why they are over the barrel
That was extremely inappropriate behaviour from you if this story is true. I feel bad for everyone else involved.
I’ve seen in on Node 16 (also V8) trying both purpose-built and custom bindings to libraries built in Rust, C, C++ and Go. All of the purpose built libraries acknowledge there’s an overhead to cross the native/WASM boundary. In my experience, measuring extensively, postMessage with native runtime objects outperforms any other ser/de solution that works with JS values.
...right up until users complain that they can't access critical work information on their phone or tablet in the field, unless they use a shitty RDP app to move a cursor around their desktop at 3 frames per second.
Mutation That Gave Us Tiny Dogs Found in Ancient Wolves
About 1/3 of the covid cases in the ICU where I live [1]. No idea how that stacks up compared to total ICU capacity (I think <10% but am not sure on this).

https://twitter.com/VicGovDH/status/1486225759874486273
Argentina has bartering clubs that operate with their own internal currency.
Do you also consider "trans women" to be a subgroup of "men"?
> Now we’re conflating several different things. The overall contribution to AQI metrics might be dwarfed by cars, but the overall mortality is not - estimated rates of mortality from smoking related causes is higher than the estimated rates of mortality from pollution.

But "smoking related causes" is conflating two very different things. If you want to ban smoking because it's harmful to smokers, that's a very different argument from banning smoking because it's harmful to others. It would be very convenient for people who want (out of what is - to them - legitimate concern, but is coming from a very different cultural background to that of most smokers) to ban smoking if secondhand smoking were clearly harmful, but frankly if this kind of paper is the best they have then I strongly suspect that it actually isn't.

> If you want to pick apart the methodology, it’d be better to find a different primary source that empirically demonstrates that proximal secondhand smoke is not harmful.

It's hard to publish a negative result and hard to get funding for work that goes against the narrative. And fundamentally the onus is on the people claiming an effect to demonstrate that it's real.

> The point I was making is that secondhand smoke can and does affect people outdoors even if it doesn’t push the AQI, and the reason is proximity - smokers are on average hanging around much closer to non-smokers than cars are.

Again that's something that I think would need to be scientifically shown rather than just assumed.
T7 is a mess

LSE's platform is much more modern: GTP being pretty much the perfect example of how to build a modern super-fast protocol

https://www.lseg.com/sites/default/files/content/documents/G...
Thanks! I like the book "5 Effective Thinking Book", will give a try!
Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share
Are they using an old, pre-Blink version?
AppCode's great for what it does, but you still use Xcode a lot for things AppCode doesn't do. You can probably reduce the Xcode dependency by replacing parts of its functionality with stuff like XcodeGen if this bothers you. I almost always have both open at once. IME very few iOS devs use it, but I'm just saying that because I've never worked with one.
Pretty much anything I program it to do, with obvious exceptions. I've replaced both floppy drives with floppy emulators, installed a FreHD "hard drive", and use an esp8266 based wireless modem* for access to the outside world.

Is the machine practical? In a modern context probably not, but I can read the news, get the weather, type up documents, manage household stuff, chat, etc, plus I just enjoy programming it.

It's a refreshing break from the modern computers I use 8 hours a day during my job. Programming on my Macbook feels like work, even after hours, programming on the 4P feels more like hobby programming.

*Some would say this is cheating, but I'm not of that mindset.
> Apple continues to monopolize app distribution and in-app payment solutions for iPhones

Apple phones use Apple payment solutions and Apple's app store.

What is wrong with this?
What they (the path part of a URL, and a filesystem path) do share is that they're each paths. A description of getting from here to there. Or there and back again, perhaps. The substrate could be anything or nothing.
Use fibonacci numbers and argue about whether they stand for time or effort
What I find funny was the whole idea of a "web app" used to be that having JavaScript on the frontend perform lean API requests to the backend would result in a snappier experience for the user. It's turned out to be quite the opposite, though I primarily blame the developers rather than the technology itself; pretty much everyone is using the technology wrong, otherwise so many blogs wouldn't completely fail to show content with NoScript enabled.
Apple controls 50+% of modern American consumer computing. They tax it heavily. They scrutinize every program that wants to run on it, adding undue and unfair process, stress, and burden. They don't allow browsers other than artificially limited Safari. No runtimes. No auto updates outside of their control.

Recent changes to tracking and ads sent billion dollar ripples through the industry, forcing Facebook to seek a new business model. Even if you hate ads, the scale of this force is a sure sign of a monopoly. And of course Apple is free to monopolize and take advantage of this data for their own purpose and profit.

Apple never lets you form a business relationship with your customer. You'll have to use sign in with Apple, throwaway emails, Apple payments, subscriptions, etc. Customers are on loan, a grace from Apple, and you can be cut off anytime. Solid footing for any startup.

Apple loves to clone app ideas, remove APIs, etc. There are countless stories of small app devs going out of business thanks to the platform they built upon.

Apple is now becoming a payments company. Soon they'll own physical space and both sides of the relationship there too.

They're also a movie studio, potential automaker, and gaming company.

Companies shouldn't be able to get this big and control every aspect, every interface. Not of 50+% of American digital activity. The Internet is not Apple, and yet for many people, it is.

I'm scared of Apple. They can do my business in on a whim. Yours too.

We should ask for better regulation to support smaller business and innovation. We shouldn't have to run our ideas by Apple. We shouldn't have to pay them for providing no service or service we didn't ask for.
I think it is mostly cultural. But think it has more to do attention, entertainment, and community breakdown. Most communities are functionally nonexistant. People don't talk or engage with their neighbors.
Someone usurped your voluntary serfdom of facebooks property by displacing you in favor of them.

Facebook may say you "own" your page on their service. They are lying.
That tech doesn't handle mechanical or electrical failures very well. The mishap rate for drones is far higher than for manned aircraft.
It was 40 years ago...
I am really sick of fast-churn and forced updates. Guys. Settle. Write a native app or three. It’ll be ok.
Again, the AppStore restrictions are no different from any console in the last 40 years.

You’re not paying for transactions, you’re paying a platform commission. Calling it a transaction fee is simply an attempt to make it sound like they’re being overcharged.
Yeah I'm interested in giving it a shot because I am so used to all the keyboard and navigation shortcuts that work across all the JetBrains IDEs. I use DataGrip, PyCharm, and Android Studio daily already and throwing Xcode into the mix really throws me off.
The Smart Modem
Compensation is $3250
Uber is a bad example because they need to have support for literally every payment method on the planet. And all of that needs to be preloaded ahead of time just in case the user decides they're going to fly to Mumbai tomorrow. Their app absolutely needs to be bloated or it won't work at all.

Likewise, Amazon needs to run on all sorts of different smart TV platforms, not just iOS and Android. All of those apps need to be consistent to each other, rather than to their host platforms. That's almost the textbook case for using a cross-platform framework.
Q1: because that wouldn't be consistent with simulation.

Q2: because that's how the simulator works.

Joking aside, I wonder if there's some principle that: physics will always look like you'd expect it to look if it's a simulation. Perhaps that's what Yang-Mills Gauge Theory is about?
Computer nerds strike wordle! Goddammit! How long before Skynet. Sigh. The end is nigh

/s
I can see the argument. But I still think it's shifting the blame from the developers of this software that people use but which haven't bothered updating in over a decade.

EDIT: For the past, I don't know how many versions of macOS, you'd get the following message when running python2:

"WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7."
he can be entertaining but beware of pretty much anything he says about Linux

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29958684
It's not that inflation is suddenly a surprise today. The surprise is that inflation has taken so long to 'suddenly' appear. Most of us have expected it at least 5 to 10 years ago.

The government can't throw billions and trillions of dollars into the economy willy-nilly and expect there to be no inflationary effect. The money-splashes have really got going about 14 years ago with the huge bail-outs of 2008. What's taken so long?
Maybe they are protecting their customers from trash. Shiba token is an expensive waste of time to interact with. It will never be accepted in the real world — no erc20 on eth will be. It costs way too much to interact with.
It is causing exchanges to burn more eth then they make with this dog token. It’s a dog turd for sure.

Doge… dogecoin is something else entirely. It almost destroyed Binance last year, and has taken down multiple exchanges in the past. It is a strange beast.
Thanks. Not sure if this critique counts as shredding. It's mostly A) needs to meet XYZ higher quality bar B) small mistakes in computations.

In this world anything can be put to a higher bar and small mistakes are expected.. etc

Is anyone aware of any ivermectin study which meets the quality bar, has no mistakes and concludes that it doesn't work? That would shred the paper to me.

As the critic you link says

> It might be useful as the very first piece of research into a medication

I wonder if/how the 2nd study will happen.
Tracking the impact of content moderation on freedom of expression worldwide
Both of my hands are quite dexterous, but I still often find myself typing with one finger if it's on a smartphone (I'm still not used to typing with my thumbs), or one hand if I'm on a normal full sized keyboard (such as when I'm eating or snacking). I've owned a split keyboard before (MS Natural Elite) and it was fine, but I'm unlikely to ever buy a split keyboard again.
Consider you have to split a string with 20 flags in sequence at a given offset. That's 40 codepoints with no readily discernible boundaries. To parse that you have to scan backwards to find the first non-flag codepoint. Otherwise you could split the middle of a flag pair. You also have to handle rendering invalid combinations as two glyphs and unpaired codes. For normal codepoints with combining characters you can scan forwards until you reach a non-combining character.
Mojibake is a universal problem when multiple charset is used and there are no charset specification on metadata. Software guess charset but it's just a guess. Japanese locale software occasionally confuses Latin-1 vs SJIS but often confuses SJIS vs EUC-JP or UTF-8.

Unicode/UTF-8 is widely adopted/recommended in Japan and there are no widely used alternative. Japanese company tend to still use SJIS but it's just laziness. Han unification isn't a problem to handle only Japanese text: just use Japanese font everywhere. To handle multiple language text, it's pain but anyway there are no alternatives.
> There are zero sellers I want a relationship with on Amazon.

I understand. If we are talking about the 350 FBA sellers listing the same avocado peeler they all get from the same factory in China and private label under 350 different brands. Yeah. Could not agree more.

However, there are categories and products where you probably do want a relationship with the seller. Health and beauty products comes to mind as a potentially obvious one. For example, if there are recalls or any important notices pertaining to the products you bought, you would be well served to be on their email list. In addition to this, it is common practice to offer customers discounts for recurring business. This benefits everyone, the buyer gets the same product for less and the seller creates a subscription-based cashflow stream. Everyone wins.

If you look at it from the perspective of the typical mercenary FBA seller who took a $1,000 course to learn how to sell on Amazon, yeah, again, could not agree more. However, there are tons of sellers who honestly want to build a solid, reputable, caring family business that delivers good products. Most of these people work very hard --much harder than they did when they had a 9 to 5 job-- and it can take years before they turn enough of a profit to pay themselves a decent salary. I would caution anyone from seeing all FBA sellers through the same lens, that would not be an accurate assessment.
I've always been a little surprised why we haven't figured out a treatment for myopia beyond LASIK, e.g. some way to manipulate the muscles around the eye.

Anyway, the first thing that came to my mind when I read this article was pinhole glasses which people have also (most likely wrongly) claimed help correct myopia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_glasses
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128035412/https://www.reute...
Alternatively, it could be that building high quality cross-platform front-ends that look and behave consistently across those different platforms is actually complex and the tools to solve those problems reflect that complexity. In my view, this is pretty common knowledge... just consider, every example of native software is horrible outside of one or two platforms, and most native software project/products don't even support more than two platforms.
Depends on the situation. 40 years ago, software engineers were an extremely rare breed, and concerns about hacking and security were negligible compared to today.

If I was a manager with purchasing power I would have viewed it as proof that the machine was programmable and wasn’t just a “toaster” that had been built to do one thing and only one thing. It’s not like he made the machine generate garbage noise, displaying set text on the fly wasn’t a commodity back then as far as I know
I don't know, it seems pretty libertarian for a county/township to nullify state law when it deems the law unnecessary or bad. Different branches of libertarianism may disagree but in the end it's all about localism, no?
I seem to recall this also being exposed in the commpage.
Just noticed this. I'm puzzled why my comment attracted downvotes.

I typically lean towards gender neutral terms in my speech, but this actually wasn't one of those cases. I had originally used "his", but noticed it resulted in he/him/his referring to two different people. "Destin has also peaked [...], as he interviewed Obama during their presidency." vs "Destin has also peaked [...], as he interviewed Obama during his presidency."

Obviously, Obama was president and Destin wasn't, but the sentence still reads more weirdly with the grammatical implication that Destin was president.
The upgrade docs for the latest release is like War and Peace.

For a frigging router. With lots of things like "we renamed this or that option or component for literally no reason"
The answer to these questions is one of those things that are beyond human understanding. It's like asking why does probability work? Why does predicate logic work?

They are axioms. We have never looked beyond these axioms nor will we ever in your lifetime.

I mean we may find a deeper mathematical model for quantum mechanics but the question of "why?" will never be answered. It may not even be the right question.
These planes can run on one engine, so risk was small.
All we have is Facebook and lots of batshit bitching.
"I had a visceral reaction to the racism in the book and I can only imagine the pain and despair that any student might experience while reading it in class," board member Judy Schwab said

Which is why it’s required reading.

Seriously, learning about the history of racism in the US should make you feel revulsion so you don’t keep it going.
> They don't allow browsers other than artificially limited Safari.

This one alone strikes me as the worst offender.

And to think, back in the 90s, people found it objectionable that Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows. Apple's behavior now would be like if in addition to bundling, Microsoft also completely blocked the installation of any competing browsers.
I was in my 20's and still had a juvenile/hacker streak. No harm was done.

Back at that time, I had dreams of actually owning a 8566, but at the time they cost $60k and it seemed impossible.

I picked one up about five years ago for $2k. It STILL has the best performing AFE of anything ever made. All the modern equipment uses signal processing, but that's cheating.
Can a bot solve worldle 100% of the time?
Toxic black mold is growing in my brain
IMHO "the 30%" - the fact that you have to use Apple IAP when you ship on Apple's app store - isn't the problem with Apple's policies. It's just a convenient way to express that Apple has a lot of market power and is willing to wield it.

If Apple had a change of heart tomorrow and opened up app distribution, they probably would still charge 30% - because everyone does, even things like Steam which runs on platforms Valve doesn't own. However, that doesn't change the fact that Apple can gain competitive advantage over their own partners by utilizing their app distribution chokepoint.
> helps you learn about vanilla APIs, try Lit

Ah yes. The library that has its own string-based DSL surely "helps you learn about vanilla APIs"
The key difference is that Apple iOS covers more than half of the general computing market in the US.

Keep in mind that to many of the younger generation, smartphones are their singular computing device.
Moore’s story is kind of funny. He was still in high school and was sick of the principal. He had also just turned 18. So he went door to door to all the stoner kids, skateboarders and other young adults that also disliked the principal and got them sogned up to vote him in as a bloc.

Then the older, more conservative types got wind of it and ended up fielding three candidates, all of whom split the vote allowing Moore to win.

So in the end, he spent his last months of high school being the principal’s boss and being called “sir” instead of being yelled at for having his shirt untucked again.
> backspace and shift+backspace still work for back and forward.

That's no longer the default. It was disabled because it confused regular users and could cause data loss if people think they're typing in a form and the Backspace instead navigates back.

But good news! You re-enable Backspace as a keyboard shortcut to navigate back by setting the about:config pref "browser.backspace_action" to 2.
All of this is correct de jure, with the exception that the executive powers that be (i.e. sheriff's dept) can refuse to comply with the court order. Then nobody would be around to enforce the court order.
The point of newspeak was to simplify the language to limit the ability to have complex thoughts or expression.
FBM has its own set of nightmare-scenario issues. At the end of the day, Amazon can shut you down any day of the week, at any time. If you've done FBM long enough and have the kind of product that benefits from recurring business, you could survive post-shutdown by reaching directly to those who bought from you in the past. It can work. Sure.

I know a bunch of people who unplugged from the mothership starting by switching to FBM. The truth of the matter is that Amazon has such market dominance that being out there on your own might mean an 80% reduction in business. The exception is if you have very special products that are sole-source and well protected. In that case you could recover nicely to a decent run rate and make money.
H2O is actually a significant greenhouse gas from jets. Water is the most significant, giving Earth +30°C of warming, but most of the time we’re maxed out on that already. Still, in the dry upper troposphere, contrails make a pretty sizable contribution to AGW. Even in a carbon-neutral system, where you emit your GGs makes a difference.
The visualization tools presented look really nice, but they seem to present program execution as sequential and linear, which is a model that seems like it will really break down at these time scales (10s of cycles).

Modern processors will look hundreds of instructions into the future and try to start executing them as soon as possible. Branches are predicted far in advance of when they can actually be evaluated. Many instructions can be executing simultaneously. A clean tidy flame graph showing 1-3ns slices (~5 cycles) cannot help but be a vast simplification of what the CPU is really doing.

The linked page about Processor Trace says this:

> instruction data (control flow) is perfectly accurate but timing information is less accurate

The article mentions using magic-trace to detect changes in inlining decisions made by the compiler. This is a case where it will shine, since PT can perfectly capture the control flow, and it doesn't necessarily rely on having perfect timestamps for everything.
Why does that matter with respect to being less tied to rust? Yes, it compiles to WASM but your engineers still have to write rust in order to make changes to the software. I mean I suppose they could edit the WASM directly since it's technically human readable, but if you're doing that why bother with rust at all?
Ask HN: Does Nasdaq volatility make life difficult for startups?
The Nasdaq is quite volatile, as of late. How significant is this event for the typical startup venture? As an example, i am asking as a programmer: is it advisable to join a round-B stage startup venture at this moment in time? Is it more difficult for a startup to raise capital, because of this volatility?
The article quotes the model of the first (rather than 0th) edition system as a PDP-11/20; which the architecture page on Wikipedia says: "So originally, a fully expanded PDP-11 had 28K words, or 56 kbytes in modern terms."

28K instructions / data ops for the 'OS' and all guest programs, with 4K words (also 16 bit) of memory mapped IO / device registers.

It's clear the entire system would have been constructed in what today might be thought of as a 'Minimum Viable Product' format. Powerful functions and operations, but focused on a very narrow tolerance for inputs. The intelligence of even 'dumb' terminals makes a ton of sense and this gives me a greater perspective of the relative power required for early laser printers (rasterizing vector graphics on the fly) in the 80s.
They think they aren’t, but it’s yet another thing they’re confused about.