skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how people think old, robust software is suddenly going to spring a bunch of vulnerabilities while sitting there, static, unchanging. It's far more likely the bleeding edge python(s) are going to be getting new bugs.

Old software isn't inherently more risky.
One block from my friends house! Holy shit glad nobody is hurt.
The GP's comment was specific to Pittsburgh, what is the narrative that you believe would unfairly catch Texas in its net?
There is; read the prophets.
Yes, it is good to have the ability to merge without being forced to deploy change x, but not blocking change y.
I like their framing here. No more Python 2.7: use Python 3 or "an alternative language instead". Rewrite in Erlang! :)
Also biased! [0], we use them a lot, mainly on the front end. Most of the new features we are working on are gate-able via front end UI elements, and so we push out pretty much all our new features using our own platform.

We are also doing interesting stuff like controlling what features are in our Open Source Docker container via flags in the platform that are baked into our Docker images when they are built.

Once you start using and relying on flags, it's hard to go back, and helps with a bunch of 'good' engineering processes and patterns.

Another interesting aspect is that once you have gated a feature based on a flag, you can then AB test that feature, almost for free, as you have a way of bucketing users and showing or hiding the feature using most feature flag platforms.

[0] https://flagsmith.com/ & https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith
It’s been open to the public. That model type was available as a drop down.
How long will you wear a mask for? Will you wear one in 2028 when Covid is still a circulating illness? Will you wear one in 2046? Are you in favor of mask-wearing in the permanent absence of covid to protect others from the flu, just in case you have it but haven't realized yet?
China also has a massive, modern industry as far as I can tell.

People bought far fewer goods from the USSR than we do from China.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210925231208/https://www.un.or...
Why not? 35mm probably has a resolution equivalent of ~20MP.
You're right, China was, not sure if you could claim it still is, suffering from an Islamic insurgency that was trying to form an Islamic caliphate. The Chinese government imprisoned 1M people in an attempt to prevent the success of that insurgency. They clearly went too far.

Around the same time the Chinese government started imprisoning Muslims, the US government started killing or was at the very least was a direct cause in the death of 1M muslims, not to stop violence but for revenge.

Oh and as far as concentration camps are concerned, there's a bunch of brown skinned kids in cages that would like a word
No worse than "Hollywood Handshake"
I think that's a very rosy view of US intervention. In particular, the US has helped overthrow numerous democratic governments because they were not ideologically aligned with the kind of free trade maximalism the US favours. Indonesia and Chile are particularly notable examples here.

It's unclear if US actions have created a more stable world, but they have certainly created one more aligned with the US ideologically, often at the cost of lives, local economies, and continued instability.

Edit: Also, RE Afghanistan. Forget a year ago, the argument could be made that it would have been better off if the US had never invaded in the first place.
They definitely had the engineering talent.

Atari, Commodore, Digital, Digital Research, were lacking the management talent.

They had the nicest gear, but the suits botched it primetime. That's why I drink.

Now, more to the point of the parent: Sun and SGI had the management talent. They had a good run. But that run ended anyway. At some point they run out of ideas to compete with "industry standard" hardware.

So, to come to the point of the parent: would a very successful Atari UNIX station, based on the 68030 made a difference?

NeXT used the 68k processors as well. And Apple. Even with the Mac's success the PowerPC eventually run out of steam against Intel. Would an additional load of many, many Ataris made a difference here?

What did ARM do differently than all of those mentioned above?
> Come on, that’s ridiculous even if I take it as an exaggeration.

> It would be an equivalent of the canvas’s manufacturer Mona Lisa is painted on wanting recognition for their work.

Come on, that’s ridiculous even if I take it as an exaggeration.

Are we really trying to equate the millions of man hours it takes to get an M1 and A1_ into production, then fine tune the assembly calls for Swift, then the UI frameworks, QA, testing, planning, etc., till the point an app can be downloaded from the App Store by anyone on earth,

... to a canvas?

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In my mind, it is a buy in to the Apple ecosystem present and future. Yes my models look different without the 30% or 15% cut, but I have written apps in almost all languages now, and my time from idea to MVP, that can scale leveraging iCloud Sync, etc, is 1/10th that of anything else I've tried with Swift/Xcode/AppStore.

Additionally, developers get to ride in on Apple's market segment. They are doing a lot of heavy lifting to create a customer persona that we can follow if we learn a bit about the cohort... which is another separate value beyond a technical one (think FB level attributes baked into just targeting AppStore)...

Finally, I believe the current pricing encourages all of us to hold our apps to a higher standard, and I appreciate that. Things of intangible value (game coins) have high price elasticity because they directly derive little value... so producers of this good want to lower the cost because it affects their ability to profit. Apple has instead said, 'actually, no, we know the nature of what we sell, the good and the bad. Intangibles can be powerful tools or they can be soul sucking mind-holes. If your product is so price elastic, it doesn't hold the value we are trying to promote on AppStore.'

Honestly Apple shouldn't have anti-trust issues... its current messaging presently doesn't realize its value and strength, which gives it trouble.

Last bit: this is written in haste, so please don't take any of this personally or curtly... it's meant in respect.
'X particle' from the dawn of time detected inside the Large Hadron Collider
Any criticial web sites (banks, administration services...) without noscript/basic (x)html compatibility should not be deployed.
Ugh this is so annoying. Same with Dropbox, I'm already paying 140 bucks or so a year for storage and they have the audacity to ask me to upgrade all the time. Banners everywhere.

I can't wait to ditch them but I just haven't had the time to separate the files into long term cold storage and files I use all the time to reduce the amount of space I need for data that needs syncing across machines.
I notice that several people are bringing up Texas bridges in this thread for some reason.

One extremely major difference between bridges located in Pittsburgh and Texas is that Texas does not need to salt its roads. Municipalities that salt their bridges are literally demolishing them with chemicals.
I've personally witnessed Chinese national students attempting to acquire access to sensitive lab equipment and documentation their research wouldn't require (this is physics, here, not CS).

I've been on the defensive end of attacks by employees (all Chinese citizens, living in China) in our Chinese organization attempting to breach data and infrastructure firewalls.

Once upon a time my work touched some sensitive, classified areas. I was more or less constantly harassed by rather hilarious and obvious attempts by Chinese individuals to gain access to the classified bits for a time.

We don't live in a world where scientific and technological advances are all to the good for humanity. There are politically powerful people who would see these things used to ends that hurt others for their own gain. It happens all the time, and likely will as long as humans are what we are.
Jedec Publishes HBM3 High Bandwidth Memory Standard: Up to 6.4 Gb/S Data Rate
Or use an opportunity to look other options. What’s the point of having own domain if or continue to be locked by the vendor?
Same thing here--our neighborhood mall is being completely rebuilt with office and residential space, the old Sears is completely ripped out, but a good chunk of the other part of the mall as well. It's an urban mall, so there's no attached parking lot (an underground garage).
Interesting. So potentially downloading the entire browser cache each time? Goodness.
> I never expect point releases to break stuff

Apple doesn't claim to follow semantic versioning, which is where your expectation comes from.
Advertising. It's the root cause of it all. Reddit is actually an advertising company. Their business model consists of attracting people to the site with open forums and then spamming ads. They want people to switch to the app because that way they can collect more data and users can't block ads.
That's because kitty correctly prints not an emoji motorboat, but rather a text motorboat; the \U0001F6E5 defaults to text presentation and that is why east_asian_width returns 'N'.

You can get the fancy one with print("\U0001F6E5\uFE0Fhello"). However, the bug that the post alludes to is that not all terminals override the east_asian_width to 'W' when they see "\uFE0F". For example on gnome-terminal the "h" overlaps with the right half of the boat.
I work for a bank. This is why we ship our own 2FA app.
In C23 you can type it as 10'15'00 if you’d like.
I get nothing (Chrome or Safari on iPhone)
Thanks, this works great. On Firefox Mobile as well!

I've found that on desktop at least, blocking Twitter from setting cookies also works as a fix.
I've been curious about this as well and decided to look it up; there's a nice video that shows it off fairly well[1]. The sunshield is perpendicular to the light coming from the sun, as is the view from the telescope, though the sunshield is large enough that it can be off several degrees and still keep the telescope in shadow. You can rotate the telescope about that axis and remain perpendicular to the sun allowing a 360 degree view forming a plane. As it orbits around the sun that plane is hitting a different slice of the sky so over the course of 6 months you can view everything.

[1] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/1157-Video
> Will they completely remove bash, rsync, eventually?

Removing bash is a pretty safe bet. They’ve been making move after move in recent years preparing for it.

https://scriptingosx.com/2019/06/moving-to-zsh/
Well, I'm not that confident. If the "offender" happens to be friends with "the state", that is, the party in power, then it's very likely that not much will happen, the executive will be happy to let them be, the prosecutors, who are not independent, will ignore the problem, and the judiciary will have its hands tied. Stories of corrupt politicians enjoying years and years of pilfering of the public good are much more common in "napoleonic" systems, it feels.

It's better to have a strong judiciary than a strong administrative police, imho.
Why do these companies enforce accounts?

I thought they could track you and advertise to you just as easily without an account, using cookies.
Of course it is. There are only a couple of email providers that actually matter, but out in the long tail of domains that might never receive a single non-spam email, there are plenty that are auto-signed by registrars. It's telling that's the best evidence you have, and not, like, "Google Mail uses DANE".
As you are of course aware, but perhaps some people reading this are not, the government did consistently advance the theory that publication of speech about cryptography was "a technology export" subject to export control --- specifically, cryptographic source code --- until Bernstein v. United States, which required a several-years-long court battle.

You were a country that values free speech. Now you are a country that values "content moderation" to suppress "misinformation".
In the Netherlands the car is always at least 50% at fault in accidents with squishy traffic (cyclists, pedestrians, skaters etc). This motivates people to look carefully before opening doors :)
It might look like risk taking but because of laws like this and excellent road design it is actually very save.
Please would be nice.
You're being intentionally obtuse here. You didn't prove anywhere that this was the market price, on the contrary, there are good reasons to believe it wasn't.

Traditional way corruption works in my country is exactly that: the people who purchase goods using public money make a deal with the vendors, behind close doors: "I'll buy directly from you, and you can inflate your prices, but you kick back 25% to me". So the seller doubles the price, knowing they have no competition, pays 25% in kickbacks, keeps a nice markup (still sold the item 50% more expensive than they would otherwise). An accountant would find absolutely no fault anywhere: there's purchase orders, invoices, receipts, everything matches. They have no idea how much sprayers cost or how much a specific model should cost! An auditor, on the other hand, could ask exactly these sorts of questions (why was this a direct acquisition and not a public auction? what was the benefit of selecting this vendor? why can I find this model available at 1/10th of the price at a reputable retailer?)

[edit] Look, I actually agree with your take (what this auditor is doing is sketchy, he is certainly not taking on "the establishment" with his saga, his motives look dubious). But that doesn't make the supervisors innocent. He can be shady, supervisors can be shady - these things are not mutually exclusive. For the life of me I don't understand why you defend the supervisors, contradicting yourself in the process[+] instead of focusing on your actual valid point. Yeah, he should get his auditor position; no, he's not fighting the establishment, he's just trying to gain popularity by creating outrage.

[+] first say "find me one suspicious line item" then after several are found, you change the subject or try to pedal theoretically-possible-but-highly-improbable theories ("we can't be 100% certain the price was inflated! What if you found a similar thing at 1/10th of a price, surely that tiny town needed a premium sprayer that had to be very expensive").
Not, specifically but the article mentions at the end that the original laptops used for the win10 transition were using HD's (aka spinning rust) rather than SSDs because it was a lowest bidder situation.

Given what I've seen of corp/gov IT, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the "security software" (aka virus scanners, intrusion detection, etc) then proceeds to hammer the disk/CPU sufficiently that the machine cannot make forward progress. My wife's work machine (a fairly nice, if slim dell) sits there with one of its 4 cores at 100% running a McAfee process hammering the disk doing some kind of scan pretty much 100% of the time. The result is that it pushes that core to max turbo, overheats the system and then throttles the whole thing to ~800Mhz. It then takes a minute or two to open word/etc. And that is with a fairly fast SSD, add in the spinning rust, and i'm sure it would take much longer.

And of course its locked down sufficiently that its not possible to even try and fix it.
>> I have always gotten the impression that all the major questions are settled

This is unfortunate- feels like that mindset could stifle innovation
Rosetta is incredibly impressive. And I guess it needed to be. The switch to ARM was going to be a hard sell without a fast x86 translation layer. I'm hoping though that devs don't use it as an excuse to never release ARM builds of their software. It would be good to have ARM builds across all the major operating systems.
True; an important distinction!
Think of all the politicians, lobbyists and their families that depend on bribes from foreign entities to survive, you heartless monster!
Wow the font and color of the text sucks to read on that blog. I think maybe he has been stuck in C# or Java land to long. I do agree with him though that we need to provide more details on what makes it clean to you if you are saying that.
I agree with you that no one should ever like seeing damage to a community. Two things come to mind in response to your comment:

1. it is important to differentiate between violence done towards individuals and damage caused to private property. i am not accusing you of conflating the two but i just feel it necessary to be explicit in these discussions because people often try to slyly discuss one as if it was the other.

2. I think a compelling argument in defense of the demonstrators in 2020, target isn't a part of the community. It pays minimum wage, makes it difficult for small business owned by the community to compete, and most importantly extracts the wealth and moves it away from the community. I am not saying there weren't better targets. I'm not saying we shouldn't (necessarily) go after government buildings if those are you grievances. I'm just saying that there is reasoning behind this even if its blunt.

(Also worth noting i read an interview with a restaurant owner near the target whos restaurant was burned down that effectivly said "yeah this really really sucks, but at the same time i understand the wider context." That's what happens when you're actually a member of the community and get caught up the fallout from these things.)
People in SF are just bad at driving in general
In a sibling comment the GP was able to say it was indeed juvenile and they've moved on. I think that makes a fantastically healthy and productive string of comments: someone talks about an interesting past event, someone else points out it wasn't a responsible/polite thing to do since the original story doesn't touch on this, original person agrees and share more history continuing the conversation with some follow up to the story too.
Decision-Forcing Cases: Gaining experience without the hurt
Weird take on "avoid, if possible." I've just added a default Emoji font and begun to use them for little indicators of which machine I'm SSHed into. They work fine?
US citizens enjoy a lot of wealth that was extracted (sometimes very violently) from the rest of the world, and you could make the argument that maybe the US citizens should give something back to the people whose exploitation they enjoy.

But in this case "foreign aid" seems to mean mostly "weapons for dictators", so it doesn't look like a constructive use of the funds.
Right, but you have to individually set up all of your apps to work with it; the proxy can be mandatory for all apps by dint of network controls.
Just to note, the linked story is about David Mayman of Jetpack Aviation in California, while the other stories you mentioned are (British) Richard Browning of Gravity Industries - the one recognisable by its wrist-mounted supplementary engines. So there are at least a couple of competing inventions.

Sure, there isn't a killer app for jet packs at the moment, or perhaps ever. They were enabled by miniature-scale turbine engines being developed for other purposes. But you never know - some innovation in control systems, or them turning out to be just perfect for some obscure emergency/military task, they might find a niche beyond stunts and tethered tourist experiences.
Tesla Model S placed placed third worst of 128 cars in vehicle inspection result
Apple isn't in the business of spending excess money to avoid breaking things. If anything apple is the opposite.
Riots are indiscriminate almost by definition. Has there ever been a riot whose targeted damage outpaced its collateral damage? We can imagine such a thing, but if it's not practically likely to ever occur I don't know what the point would be of developing theories about it.

On the other hand it's very straightforward to locate some justified wars in history. In fact I would say that most wars have a side that has a just cause, which is typically the defender.
We do, not sure if we do it "right", but we do have flags (both in the backend and frontend) to enable features only on "dev" while they are being worked-in-progress, this allows us to not delay pushing to prod. We also have feature flags in our infrastructure-as-code actually (we use CDK, a typescript based infra-as-code framework)
I was curious to see how each state was doing and Google didn’t disappoint:

https://artbabridgereport.org/state/map
> At my last job IT had tanium installed on our machines. It would make your computer nearly unusable for hours. Sometimes I felt like we had computers that were completely consumed by the overhead it took just for us to have them.

Trend Micro is the same way. The only thing that eventually made it bearable was getting an SSD, but it still sucks.
They've done some contentious things in point updates but this is really going to put the cat among the pigeons, especially with the "alternative language" jab. Way to rub salt in the wounds :-)
Right, I believe that is the last available snapshot in September before it started returning access denied. The 2020 report was not available then either. It seems like this sort of information is highly pertinent right now.
Right, but this is a standard section in the release notes, where they provide status updates for ongoing deprecations.
An unfortunate punctuation mark for the infrastructure speech the President is about to give in PA.

For readers outside of the US, how are similar infrastructure issues?
> These bridges were built during times of relative wealth when the local steel and related industries were doing well.

This is a problem that needs to be solved everywhere. Governments build infrastructure with nothing but hope that future tax revenue will support maintenance. There should be something like a retirement plan for this infrastructure where a certain amount is invested at the time of construction to support maintenance ongoing.
I'd also wonder about the level of diligence applied to detecting and reporting such problems in Texas. How many of the bridges in Texas are really in better than poor condition?
A glass is half empty guy and a glass is half full guy ;-)
Twitter specifically positions itself as a space for public conversation, and is sometimes the only place where people like world leaders and government organizations post their content. Blocking posts behind a login wall seems, at least to me, antithetical to their past messaging.
They already have the data and the name recognition. While each is powerful on its own, they are far more powerful (and sticky) together.
Title of the article: "10 injured in bridge collapse in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park"

So, 10 people were hurt. But they say none of the injuries appear life-threatening, so there's that.
Well, 'python' is not going to run 2.7, can tell you that. Maybe it will run ruby though? Idk, it will probably run python 3.
The counting methods of "bridges" don't seem to match between the sites.

Pennslyvania's average age of a bridge is over 50 years old, where Texas lists only half of their bridges being over 40 years old.

https://www.penndot.gov/ProjectAndPrograms/Bridges/pages/def...

So Pennslyvania's clearly got a problem, but Pittsburg (and the state on the whole) gets more rain and far more snow and ice, so even if they were the same age, it doesn't really seem comparable.
You will need to install a supported python executable and add it to your shell's PATH variable, like any other language implementation.
The Rise of Open Source Challengers
It's risk mitigation. Feature flagging everything is a pointless waste of time until suddenly you have to roll something back in production and it's not feature flagged. The value of feature flags increases with the greater the cost of a mistake making it to production.

For iOS builds particularly, that might have a 1-2 day review delay before you can get a new build approved, they're invaluable.
That's a relatively recent development. For a long time, Assembly Sq and Natick Mall were just malls.