skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can predict the Biden's gibberish: "We scared Putin, and he changed his plan." So, basically, you can make up any news and (try!) use it as a display of power. Well, all this assuming all people are idiots like yourself, of course!
Both running and walking are fitness activities that are supported by their tracking hardware. In what way do you expect them to be biased?
Most (>80%) of users are highly computer illiterate. Even among younger folks. There has recently been a story on hn about zoomers not "understanding" how file systems work.
You used the word "just" in both replies. It's a word that often comes up when a new way of thinking or a new angle may be discussed. But "just" is almost always that word which demands that past understanding be brought forward. It will block new insight. (It is a great word for communicating, "if it's not simple to understand, and if it's even this inscrutable, then how can it be true" which is a kind of fantasy-fallacy.)

If you have a question about new information, and if it's out of legit interest, it's better to stay away from "just" unless you are firmly on the side of life being mansplainably simple in any given case.

At this point it's too weird to go into the rest though, as if to convince you that I have great ideas. I'm not exactly some kind of employment wizard and I'm not writing for an audience. "Leaking leverage" ought to be metaphorically simple enough to puzzle out with some interest in the problem...
Some of this is a guardrail against social engineering. They can have an armada of minimally-trained level 1 support telling people they need to plug in their modem for it to work. Anything unusual they encounter can be appropriately reviewed by people who will understand the issue and not suffer from the confused deputy problem.
Human systems are not computer systems. In computer systems, edge cases are usually worthy of investigation and rethinking. In human systems, edge cases are to be dealt with when they appear
FWIW, the author is Mikey Dickerson (of healthcare.gov and USDS fame).
Latest Undulating Sculpture by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth
OpenGL is obsolete?
This article is garbage.

Dude bought ARM at 31bn and was going to flip it for 66bn until anti-trust regulators intervened.

SoftBank did nothing wrong, other than accept the risk of regulatory intervention.
This is a little disingenuous, that is like saying scarcity doesn't exist since you can buy almost anything at any price. There is always an implied "in a reasonable budget".
Yeah, I recently sold a five letter .io domain. Easiest money I ever made. I got an email from DomainAgents. I probably spent a little while verifying it's not a scam website. We negotiated the price over the website without speaking once. They low-balled, I countered and then we landed on a reasonable amount. It didn't take any effort at all. Once agreed on a price, the process got automatically moved to escrow.com. After entering some details and waiting a week or two, I got the money.

I just checked now and they finally started using it. Looks like a travel agency which is a really weird choice for the price they paid and the TLD.

I originally bought the domain for an idea I wanted to develop. I kept it around after an it fizzled out in case I ever want to get back to it. It was very exciting to have my "startup" "exit".
>The installer application simply installs the app. It doesn't in itself run any of the app's code. The installed app doesn't need to be codesigned and notarized

Wait, then doesn't that mean Apple's intent there is broken? I mean if you can bypass its controls on installing unsigned apps by merely wrapping an unsigned (possibly malicious) app in a signed installer, then what's the point?
Wild. I was first introduced to heuristic search in drug discovery at a biotech company in 1993.

Support vector networks were searching for good shapes by 1997, maybe before then, but the vocabulary we used to describe the search technique was different.

A huge computational hurdle was protein folding. We had brute-force searches for plausible shapes, lots of supervision by the chemists, weeks per iteration on the best workstations we could get. $250,000+ SGI Onyx, then DEC sent over an Alpha workstation.

It's come a long ways.
The timing on our side was likely influenced by the election call in September this year.
> First they start off with Right Wing Extremists. Then they move on to foreign actors

Both can be true.
But they aren’t being peaceful in Ottawa. They tried to burn down a condo building last night and have terrorized residents there for weeks now.
This is a pretty fascinating analysis. While I suspected it must work somewhat like the system outlined. Its interesting to see an analysis informed by newly-leaked knowledge about how the algorithms work. "Meaningful Social Interaction" seems strait-forward, but like many simple heuristics it can lead to unintended side effects. Like amplifying the voices of a certain subsets of users who may not be a representative sample of the overall community.
I prefer the variant “Life is a series of challenges to be solved and then you die”, but to each their own.
> Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal.

Emergency powers weren't invoked in 2020 when Canada's railways were blocked for months. In fact, at the time Trudeau was quoted saying things like "Politicians should not be telling the police how to deal with protesters"

The double standards in this country are staggering at times.
There were pre-Morse / Wheatstone telegraph experiments using 26 wires. One notable early system by Salva Campillo used 26+ tubes of electrolyte, one for each letter. Closing the circuit would cause bubbles to form in the tube at the other end.

Even wackier systems from before this time used static electricity ("current" electricity was harder to generate in the early days). One proposal was to have a different servant hold a wire for each letter of the alphabet. At the other end a high-voltage Leyden jar would be connected to wires in turn, giving the servant a shock and prompting them to speak their assigned letter. Unfortunately I can't find the source for this one right now (I think it was in the book The Story of Telecommunications).
Well, with this description you can cheer - their demise as a company is written on the wall. Especially in the current situation of the worker's market.
No, you encrypt at the tape drives themselves typically. Part of how they work is the also compress at the drive, but if you encrypt first there's no common entropy and the compression techniques work against you.

And picking and choosing is a recipe for disaster when something inevitably slips through and is leaked. Encrypt it all from orbit and let god sort it out.
> figure out dependencies or how to fit JavaFX into maven/gradle.

I struggle with the same thing. jDeploy solves one half of that (deploying javafx is no longer a struggle). I think there is still room to make creating new projects simpler.
+1 on treadmill desk and weights.

Only thing I can add is to start with dumbbells.

I've always hurt my back on deadlifts / squats when the weight got too heavy for my core.

I do 10x10 squats (18kg dumbbell) and 10x10 deadlifts (30kg dumbbell) 3x week for a total for 300 each per week.

The low weight means I don't hurt myself if my form slips, and the high reps makes up for the low weight.
>It was hugely expensive to Trudeau politically, and was a tenterhooks [edit - thank you fennec] situation because of the aboriginal file. Yet most of Canada absolutely wanted a stronger response and it hurt Trudeau in the election.

So as long as it's politically expedient for the sitting PM you would advocate using the emergencies act? Yikes.
I believe they mean utility classes which would need explicit instantiation and lifetime management to run any test that might call them at some point like:

MathOperationsProvider::Init(endianness_config, locale, wolfram_alpha_connection).
In the US it was "silence is violence", but I guess in Canada its "honking is violence"?
You don't see contradiction here? Apple leaves you, the developer, no choice.
Are you talking about the US army, which people join mostly for the free education, free housing, and to get a guaranteed job? Do you know how many Americans died in Iraq, how many got PTSD after the Gulf War?
Wasn't GoPuff in the news lately for spending tens of thousands of dollars per week on Instacart? The magical cycle of VC money...
So basically, Trudeau admits he is everything a bunch of blue collar truckers say he is?
I agree with you.

I personally support the spirit of the protest (i.e. the vaccines should be optional for most jobs and the vaccine mandate should be relaxed) but not the tools they are using, in particular blocking a vital bridge and the honking shenanigans.

I personally have no problem in expressing a nuanced point of view or accepting that I got something wrong. Truth is a very elusive concept. And I rather learn than argue.

The person I was replying to however is aggressively partisan in his opinions. And while it's true that my comment wasn't a proper rebuttal, it does address his lack of credibility for arguing a one sided view of the world.
Having sympathy is a form of support. And even the latest polls say 1 in 5 Canadians "want the protestors" to stay. That's what? A few million Canadians?
Likewise, I have no idea how this would work.
"proper footwear" is subject of controversy, I could never run without getting shin splints in any kind of athletic shoe, I could never figure out how not to heel strike...

Finally I tried barefoot shoes and cautiously increased my distance, I can finally get to that point of leaning forward and hitting mid-foot and feeling the springiness, feels way easier but now my heartrate is the bottleneck.
https://betterexplained.com/calculus/ is a good one.
https://visionfund.com/portfolio

ByteDance, Grab, Ola, Uber, Opendoor, Slack, DoorDash, Didi, Coupang were/are all great bets.

According to CrunchBase (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/softbank-vision-fund-strate...), as of March 31, 2021 Vision Fund 1 was worth $146.5 billion from $86.2 billion in initial investment. I don't know enough about the space to judge whether that is considered good enough or not.
I must say, thanks a lot for indulging my comment, and meaningfully engaging with each point in it!

Let's take a FOSS solution like Zulip, and see if it satisfies some of the constraints you arrived at:

- ideally $0 cost

Zulip is free for OSS projects: https://zulip.com/for/open-source/

- ideally zero setup and maintenance. E.g. click "+" button to create instant server in Discord rather than install phpBB or vBulletin or mailing-list software

Yep, a one-click solution is available

- ideally have modern features https://forum.getodk.org/t/important-moving-from-google-grou...

Zulip has a topic-threaded model that threads the needle between email threads and instant messaging in a way that's much better than Slack threads: https://zulip.com/help/streams-and-topics

- ideally open source if possible. Discourse is open-source but then you have to decide on SaaS hosting at $1200/yr (https://www.discourse.org/pricing) -- or pay for self-hosted costs.

Yep, is Open Source. https://github.com/zulip/

> Ultimately, whenever an end user is frustrated that "FOSS project leaders don't do what I want them to do!" and wonder why they end up choosing Github Discussions or Discord ... it's the result of tradeoffs above. The hypothetical forum discussion software that makes all clients and admins happy doesn't exist.

It's a bit hard for me to understand why Zulip is so lightly represented in these discussions – for example I saw it mentioned in the TiddlyWiki thread you linked, but the talk seems to have tailed off and mysteriously settled on Discourse. Someone seems to have the incorrect idea that Zulip requires running your own instance of it; that's not the case.

My hypothesis here is that there's a decent level of groupthink which tends to reject perfectly available FOSS solutions in favor of equivalent proprietary ones because FOSS solutions have (perhaps rightly) gained a bad reputation over the years as being difficult to use and operate. My thesis in this thread is that it's high time we began re-evaluating that, and giving FOSS tools a fair chance rather than prematurely declaring them to be bad; especially in light of data portability concerns.
I'm under the impression that rate-limiting is manually applied by the moderators on a per-user basis.

*edit: Ironically I've been rate limited and can't continue this conversation, lmao
I wasn't being snarky. I was merely pointing out that the situation had changed since you made your observation. No need to turn that into personal attacks.
Now you're claiming it was "forcible"? What does that mean? With the application of force? It's not forcible if there's no contact. You really did make a misleading claim about smashing through barricades which shows you are either trying to mislead people with false information or have been misled yourself.
Ah - I think I see what you're saying. At the same time, I don't think I agree with your premise. The numbers in front of us seem to indicate it's not just slightly different, it's dramatically more likely to end up in the ICU as an unvaccinated person. With that in mind, one of the cheapest/lowest impact avenues to reduce ICU bed usage is via vaccinations (acknowledging that's brushing aside the issue of forcing vaccines).

Do you think it was ever appropriate to have any mandates? If so, do you think the moment it passed 50/50 in terms of ICU beds (or other similar stat) was the appropriate time to repeal them? Or what should the "trigger" have been?

Given the 40:60 ratio of ICU cases and the 10:90 split of unvax/vax, I think here it's a pretty grey area. This still seems like "too many unvaccinated people in the ICU" to me, even though they're not the majority. I can definitely empathize with it becoming a judgement call now though, and on that I agree. At some point someone is making a decision about the magic number, and I'm not sold on the current government's strategy there.
Android allows some apps to give users an option to track them at all times - Google Maps is an example.

AirBNB currently doesn't even have this option. Maybe they're planning on adding it.

When an app asks for your location - it has to give you all options - usually only 2: "only in app" and "never".

There is a third: "always". It won't default to "always". So the user has to pick it.

Zillow has this as an option - so I imagine the Play Store would let AirBNB add this option.
It’s probably a matter of time until this is so normalized with virtual KYC that people wouldn’t care much when asked to do the same by a potential employer.

Though as it becomes more common, it's probably also a matter of time before software is available that lets someone hold up a green card and it's replaced with the document of their choice on the video feed.
>The Ottawa police refused to do any enforcement.

This is not correct. The Ottawa police have repeatedly said that they're ready to arrest anyone breaking the law but currently it is not illegal to park in public roads with trucks and the truck drivers are mostly abiding by all laws. Less than half a dozen people have been arrested because there's no laws being broken.

The reason they are not doing any enforcement is because they have no legal authority to kick out the bulk of the protestors.
I don't even know what you're playing at.

Yes, grocery stores are essential. Yes, gasoline is essential, being the only source of energy for all long range transportation.

Yes cars are essential in many places where there's no good alternative. For example most of America, geographically.
because it can look cool. this site back in the day was one my earliest recollections with rounded corners, after the mac os

https://web.archive.org/web/20010418154702/http://www.glideu...
I think it is much more simple - the power of suggestion.

if I was shown a picture of an explosion and a picture of a flower, then asked "which is more peaceful" I would not be able to pick, because pictures are all equally peaceful. a picture may depict something, but a picture is a picture. what's that? oh you meant to ask about the content of each picture? well now you've completely eliminated any 2D representation of anything, and are now talking solely about explosions and flowers; concepts independent of media. oh but UX person wanted me to think that because an explosion is inherently less peaceful than a flower, that makes a picture of an explosion less peaceful than a picture of a flower? NOPE. totally separate things. try again, UX person.

this is what confuses me. shapes are shapes and have no inherent feeling or opinion about anything. if you want to talk about the concept depicted by each shape then you're no longer talking about the shapes at all; you've left user-experience-ville.

but UX people use a normal person's desire to couple the photograph itself and the subject in the photograph to say "round corners are better, here's a whole article about it" and normal people will (apparently) say things like "sharp corners are so much more jarring for my eyes and make it so much more difficult for light to pass through my pupils so obviously I'm on team round-corner."

just feels like mental slight-of-hand, like someone is trying to trick me into agreeing.

I mean look back at the toolbars on Windows applications from 20 years ago. those icons meant NOTHING (beyond the simple cut, copy and paste icons, really) and we all learned what each meant. and don't you dare try to tell me that a floppy disk icon naturally means "save" and definitely could not also mean "load" or even just "floppy disk" which is what it actually represents. you try depicting the concept of "saving a file to disk" on a button with enough room for a 16x16 image supporting 16 colors.

shapes don't mean ANYTHING. they have no meaning or inherent ease of viewing at all. at best all you can do is hope users either memorize the shape-to-action relationship table or know how to show the tooltips.

I say that UX people are crackpots, but I've worked with a few and they all seemed very sane and well-thought out folks, so I dunno. but then there's this article saying a sunburst shape is "harder to look at" than a circle shape and then it is hard to go anywhere other than going straight to "UX people are nuts!"
NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to carry Mars samples back to Earth
Same, reading the article immediately reminded me of people making changes to their strategy around npm dependencies after the `faker` incident.
I'm from Maryland. I'd often see chestnuts while walking in the woods. They (and their trees) looked just like this. Were these likely another variety? Or was I seeing these? It's weird to think that I normally saw an endangered tree but on the other hand I often saw bald eagles.
I lost 20% my max lifts after the second jab, but gained out back in a couple of months.
Yahoo, Alibaba?
If you use sketchy IT contracting firms, you’re vulnerable to this grift.

It’s pretty common. A contractor attends some degree mill back home and is basically a human terminal. They get some training on how to function and send most of their work to a smart guy who does the work of a dozen contractors.

If you allow remote, it’s 10x worse - the folks are almost certainly working multiple contracts.
I agree, which makes it pretty flimsy as proof of the premise. "You've probably seen someone look really tired after race walking. On the other hand, this guy did pushups at the end of a marathon. Ergo, race walking is harder than marathon running."
> Why should something like font rendering differ between OSes, that makes no sense.

Because application font rendering (FreeType and GTK/Qt on Linux, GDI/DirectWrite on Windows, Core Text on Mac) differs between OSes, and browsers generally try to fit in with OSes and reuse native APIs, rather than roll their own font rendering and fail to respect OS-level font configuration settings. And even if every browser chose cross-platform font rendering, different browsers might pick different styles. Note that old versions of Safari on Windows interestingly did use Mac-like font rendering.

...but Windows Firefox has its own font configuration settings (GDI for Arial and Verdana, enhanced contrast) ignoring the corresponding OS settings... oops.
> restrictions are justified based on the harm prevention to your neighbours

Taken to the extreme this kind of thought becomes pretty anti-human (thanos, global warming)

> mandating it could still be justified for certain activities

Yeah it could be justified for sure - I just don't think there's any way of ignoring that it's a judgement call/balance.
It's not about any mandate, because there isn't one. If people don't want to get vaccinated they can quarantine for 14 days when they cross the US-Canada border. Or they can just move trucks domestically within Canada or the US. All those options are open to them. Truckers just no longer get a special cross-border exemption and have to play by the same rules everyone else has for a while when they cross the border (vaccinated or quarantine)
I got upvoted a couple times, then downvoted a couple times, I guess there's a bit of an even split between smart people on whether or not you should be "punished" for talking about these kinds of realities. I think for the sake of marketing, the powers that be will want a new word, for what we're going to be doing as a society to the human genome. Something that means eugenics, but sounds different, somehow safer, and altogether moral, and encompasses traditional eugenics, but also extends to edits made to already living organisms through tools like CRISPR.

How about... Life-Safe Code. DNA is effectively code, code is editable for the betterment of people, riiiight? And it's Life-Safe - like if you wanted to oppose Life-Safe Code you're saying "I want code that isn't safe for life to promulgate", which should help diminish the effectiveness of any rhetoric towards enshrining inherent rights that protect people's read/write/execution permissions over their own genetic code. And if you want Free Lifeware, or whatever, well, do you have problems with seatbelts? Because clearly there is a major inconsistency to your worldview if you accept seatbelts but won't promote the deployment of Life-Safe Code to all humans by any means deemed necessary.
Not OP but I read the next sentence as explaining that sentiment:

> The normal thing today is comparing Julia to R, Matlab and Python.

I'm on the same page as you, though. I've never written R or any Matlab, but when Julia was still new, I remember seeing an example that it was a language that didn't use S-expressions, yet had as potent of macro and meta-programming abilities as if it did. Seemed like it'd be wonderful to work in.