skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as Java/Kotlin dev I had same feeling about it, "hello Java", but when discover async/await smell some JS spirit.)
'Segregated Skies' tells the story of the first Black commercial airline pilot
You see it in NYC. It's not exactly common but they're out there.
Having to carry pieces of paper around, and getting pieces of metal as change is inconvenient. Come on people.
> The CDC said people generally don’t get COVID-19 from touching surfaces. People generally get COVID-19 from direct contact with someone who is infected or through airborne transmission.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...
Yeah fair enough, if you're in a situation where you have several unprivileged users sharing a VM or something than it makes sense. I haven't come across that yet personally.
Great article. The very beginnings of the great river of American popular music.

Things were different 100 years ago. No one listened to music in the car. No one (or almost no one) listened to recorded music at all. A "hit" was a song that a lot of people bought the sheet music for, so they could play it at home.

If you wanted music, you either made it yourself, or you went someplace where other people made it. And not only was rock 'n' roll not invented yet, neither was jazz. Or swing. Or bebop.

Richard Rodgers had the kind of moment most creators can only dream of, when Oklahoma had just opened on Broadway, and the very next morning he heard someone on the street singing Oh, What a Beautiful Morning. It wasn't on the radio; that person had to have heard it live.
Here's a helpful chart:

https://whitecathearing.com/when-is-sound-dangerous

At 100dB, a safe dose is about 15 minutes. Blowing horns all day for weeks on end poses a significant risk of severe hearing loss. Per affected person, a hearing loss payout can be up to around $100k. Given the ~1M people in Ottawa, I would expect the physical damage to persons in the area to exceed the millions of dollars in your "[usual] large-scale protest."
>This is absolutely relevant, turing's original definition described a completely autonomous and automatic machine, that's why every turing machine has a halting state that locks it in a loop when computation is finished.

That's just an accidental part, and is orthogonal to the manual "click next".

The halting state absolutely will be there, locked in a loop and everything, you just manually click to step over each iteration of that loop.

As said, the "click next" is no different that a clock signal in a CPU, or manually cranking the turing machine to play.

It's not at all relevant to the abstraction.

>Your computer is not a computer without a hardware clock, the repeated pressing of a button is acting as a hardware clock here.

Which is exactly why it's an irrelevant detail to the turing machine computation. It's just the clock, not the digital logic.

Whether the hardware clock is internal, or external, or I have a mule rotate around a millstone to drive it, or a big chunk of quartz, is irrelevant, as long the machine is receiving it. This includes me clicking a button to send a pulse.

Let's put it another way, what you're saying is isomorphic to:

"This setup is not a turing machine but this exact setup plus a while loop to repeatedly call xsendkey for Enter is".
The Hon. Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Home Affairs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Andrews ), referred the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Bill 2022 to the Committee for inquiry and report. They take responsibility for its contents as drafted.

The current Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs (to whom the power would be given, should it not be delegated) is Michael Pezzullo AO ( https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/our-senio... ).
From their perspective, is it really _broken_? If you're Microsoft, especially Ballmer's Microsoft which accounts for most of those 25 years, who cares about a handful of hostile UNIX nerds on some mailing list -- they're not going to switch to using Outlook and we want to discredit and destroy their software anyway.

From the perspective of market fit and success, there are countless less-technical business users who swear by Outlook. They are not familiar with anything other than the kind of endless thread top-posting in odd encodings that Outlook all but ensures users will do -- that's e-mail to them. Why stop selling it to them?

To be clear, I loathe all of it and I haven't used client Windows for more than a decade. When I used to support small business IT customers back then, Outlook was by far my least favourite tyre on the raging intergalactic rubbish fire. But it's not hard to see why they don't care that Outlook is the way it is.
Great, thanks. That answers my questions. I'll read up on the lazily allocated bit; I wasn't aware that this provided similar functionality as dispatchThreadsPerTile[1], but perhaps it's something I'm misunderstanding. I'm excited about that as a way to stitch 2D graphics rendering operations together without having to hit main memory, but from your explanation I can see that functionality might not be very useful in AI workloads.

Amen on more control over dynamic memory access patterns. It's something I'm struggling with too, and I have a feeling that whatever solution I come up with is going to be a compromise.

Keep up the good work, these are exciting times!

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/mtlrendercom...
No, I'm saying civil asset forfeiture on the basis that "cash kinda sus" (to borrow an expression) doesn't seem to be practiced elsewhere in the developed world to the extent that it's done in the US.
The last realplayer version I used was G2. I remember it had "sponsors" and channels that probably payed to be on that list. That doesn't even looks like advertising to me. At the time, I really liked the fact that it allowed me to watch live video, including NASA TV, on a dial up connection.

Don't miss those times though. I like the fact that I can watch NASA TV on my FLOSS browser or using VLC.
Legal certainty? It was supposed to be the answer to the problems for the War Measures Act; the Constitution of Transitional Measures Act; the Emergency Powers Act; the Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act and some others I have forgotten.

I would argue that laws only mean what they are interpreted to mean by a particular governmental body at a particular time.

And you can in addition have a coherent, clear and easily interpretable body of laws and measures which result in a society which lacks many of the features of what people like to imagine is a "democracy".
Whole Foods created a dedicated checkout lane for cash during the pandemic, in some stores surrounded by a 6-foot plexiglass walls. It was usually the fastest line. Now they are back to all registers accepting cash.

> Will be interesting to see if SF authorities actually start trying to enforce this law or not.

Great opportunity for a city journalist to assemble a news story. Collect footage to document their experiences across a diverse range of SF stores which do and don't accept cash.

If "peer" stores accept cash, have good traffic and happy customers, then cashless competitors may reconsider their stance.
Part of what makes it a helpful is that core team members, library developers, and other highly experienced Clojurists often jump in to answer questions. As a maintainer of some Clojure projects, I try to follow their example and give back.
You don't need a bank account to use cards to pay for things.

You also don't need to use an attempt at humor about fat people to add authority to your argument.
More specifically the dream of bitcoin replacing cash died in 2017 when changes were made to the protocol. Bitcoin became cost prohibitive to use for small transactions (less than several hundred dollars) and the addition of a feature called 'replace by fee' meant that small transactions weren't immediately reasonably trustworthy and you would have to wait for one or more confirmations on the blockchain.
> Just because 100,000 people dumped money into your account for cause doesn't mean it belongs to you personally.

This is the first time I've seen someone make this completely true point about the banking system.

It's not right or just, but money in the bank is not your money. It is your bank's money, and they may or may not allow you to transact it at any given time. Your recourse's are few and extremely expensive.

If anything positive comes out of this, I hope it's more folks realize this.
It would be quite easy to claim that it was in fact created by a human, since a human was involved in the creation of the machine, in tuning its parameters, and in selecting the final image. In the other examples listed, there seems to be some external value in claiming the work had non human authorship. That an animal produced a piece, or that a jessage came from a spirit or a god, seems to make the work more valuable. Especially in the latter case, the court cannot have seriously believed that a spirit was writing the message. Yet authorship was denied, because it would be listed as spiritual. There was likely a similar impetus here, and the copyright office refused on similar grounds.
After looking into it, NativeScript does use native UI controls, not webviews.

React Native is not based on NativeScript though, they are two different implementations.
Mainly I use it for starting services in some kind of order with compose files, but other than that I believe you're correct, it only does anything at startup. It doesn't restart containers that become unhealthy it seems.
Technically, GOG lets you download installers via https, but I agree that it's a pain point vs a game launcher where you can, with minimal effort, queue up multiple downloads/ installs.
What garbage.

All timezones are a man-made construct.

Time will continue to pass at the standard rate of one minute per minute, no matter where you are. The time by the clock on your wrist (or anywhere else) has no particular meaning but what you happen to ascribe to it.
3 months after launch? I think 3 hours would be an optimistic time frame for first ban. On the one hand you have people who hate Trump from the left trolling, and on the other you have white supremacists and antisemitic people who must think they will be welcome on the platform.
Plenty of people are going to side with whatever the army does, and it'll be a capital offense to interfere with them.
infeasible - not possible to do easily or conveniently; impracticable.
Most folks can get away with logistic or linear regression. A tiny portion of those might need to move to random forest. And an even tinier portion may justify deep neural networks. The vast majority of ML is not deep learning, nor is it necessary. We're talking very boring typical business cases.
Is this the thing that I see in many Americans giving presentations? They are always uncomfortably excited and happy, regardless of what they are presenting. I get it, you're excited, but please accept that I'm here for the information, not your personal endorphin levels.

/rant off.... Sorry just came out of a workshop where the presenter spent half the time trying to get a bunch of technical people excited rather than just presenting the information we came for. Very exhausting.
> You don't want to be the guy who has no mask and 0 preparation for a pandemic when it hits.

So you should read the news, which right up until it hits is telling you that worrying about it is hysterical and maybe a little bit racist?
Massachusetts passed a law I believe in 1978 requiring the acceptance of cash by all retailers.
Small business do not go cashless to save money, nor raaccciiismm

They go cashless because it eliminates the threat of robbery. Them proudly having signs everywhere saying they were cashless is to announce to the would be theif there is no cash payday here..

Most businesses that do that have a history of robbery.
My current TV is and prior two TVs were Samsungs. This one will probably be my last because this is the first one I've tried to use as an actual television and it sucks at that.

The prior ones, and this one up until about 18 months ago, were only used as displays for my cable TV box, DVD player, Blu-ray player, game consoles, and streaming boxes. I then cancelled cable and hooked up an antenna to watch actual TV broadcasts on it thus actually using it as a television instead of just a monitor.

It's terrible at that. First, it doesn't have a good way to quickly check the signal strength of multiple channels, so it is awkward and tedious to deal with setting up channels where you need careful antenna positioning to receive them.

Second, when you bring up the channel guide it continues to show the current channel you were watching in a picture-in-picture (PIP) inset. This is good so you can check the guide without interrupting what you are watching. However, if any of the channels listed in the visible part of the guide do not have a good signal the PIP inset freezes for 5-10 seconds while it apparently tries to get information about those channels. You only get the uninterrupted PIP is all the channels on the guide are giving good signals. I've got some that vary depending on weather and atmospheric conditions, and I've got some that I need to change antenna aim to get, and these are scattered throughout the guide so I tend to get the interruption on every page of the guide.

Third, there doesn't seem to be any way to delete a channel. Some of those weak channels causing some of the problems mentioned above were channels I don't care about, but happened to be strong enough when I did the channel setup scan that it added them. Nor is there a way to explicitly add a channel, although I think that if you manually direct it to a channel that it has not auto programmed and it finds a good signal, and you repeatedly do this, it might add it.
The economist cancellation process is an email last time I did it (I subscribe in spurts). Not as ideal as a button but not as egregious as requiring a phone call or something.
Sounds like it's actually the social timelines that annoy you.
> Private debtors must also accept cash.

Right, debtors do but merchants don't. And merchants can put terms on it, which was the point I wanted to make.

If the sign says, "you can use this toll road if you either use EZ pass or accept our pay-by-mail system", then there seems to be no reason you have to include "cash" as one of the options.

Of course if you fail to pay, then you do owe them a debt (fee + penalties + whatever) and I think you are right they have to somehow accept cash, but that doesn't have to be made easy for you. Agree its not a state vs. private issue, I should have been clearer.
> I'm advocating for @Accenture

Acdenure, the condsulting body shop spun off from Arthur Andersen the fraudulent accounting ccompany that perpetrated the Enron fraud?
> I would argue that the use of this Act has already weakened democracy in Canada because it shows that the only response the political systems has to a very minor disruption is to use acts that everyone understood to be for much more extreme situations.

Certainly the act was used in response to weaknesses in the system - eg the Ottawa Police Service were unwilling to fine/ticket/otherwise deal with the illegal activity for weeks; crowdfunding sites weren't subject to FINTRAC; etc. Ideally this will lead to proper legislation regarding these weaknesses, removing the necessity of using the Emergencies Act to deal with a similar situation again.
There are many good suggestions here.

The one thing that stands out for me is that you have been doing this for 20+ years. Yet you say that the panic attacks only started a few months ago.
What was happening when the early panic attacks happened?

Without further information some things that come to mind are: you got promoted to lead a different team; you are working for a different manager or company; management have shifted their focus; you have had some staff changes in your team or related teams; something in your personal life has changed, etc.

Finally is there something COVID related for you, your team or the company?

Too many questions. Helping with the panic attacks is an obvious first step. Removing or changing the causes of them is the long-term fix.
Spending all that time clueless means that you're wasting time you could have spent reacting to the situation. It's not just about refunds, if you blocked out four weeks for a doomed vacation, then knowing that the vacation is doomed in advance will give you time to prepare an alternate itinerary for those four weeks rather than finding out perhaps a few days beforehand.

> The water company will tell you, the bill you pay should be higher, etc

My water usage varies across months, I am hardly unique in saying that I don't keep a close tab on the water price breakdown. Many people auto-pay their electronic bills and don't check in very often until something goes very wrong (like the water gets shut off). These are the kinds of important items that show up very prominently in local headlines though.

> breaking the law always involves a reward and a risk.

That's not what I'm saying. By the time you realize that you're actually breaking the law, you're already being punished. Suppose there's a law that punishes BBQs during fire season. If I'm not aware of this BBQ law in advance (eg. via the news), by the time I'm fined or arrested for unknowingly hosting a big BBQ, it's too late for me to figure out that it's illegal.

As others have said, there are other ways to obtain this information but news feeds will highlight noteworthy issues. Do you repeatedly poll the health dept website for the latest guidance? That's one way to keep up to date on Covid restrictions, but generally it's even more inconvenient to poll everything that matters.
I never considered my “career” as part of my life goals. I always navigate based on happiness. When I wasn’t happy doing what I was doing I tried something else. We all have an inner compass that will guide us in the right direction, if we allow ourselves to listen to it instead of following the expectations of others. It works remarkably well if you let it.
Bones, Bones: How to articulate a whale
As stated in [1], we need to fight this battle on both fronts: cash-equivalents and cashless-regulation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435574
I've had my Framework laptop for a few months now and NixOS (GNOME desktop) has been working excellently.
It's handing over multiple pieces of paper, getting back of mix of paper and coin, and then having to futz around with that. Compare with just tapping a single card against a machine, having records of the payment for yourself (for keeping track of spending, etc), etc. It's obviously not all "objectively better" but "strictly easier" is not true if you amortize across all usages of cash vs non-cash (going to ATMs after figuring out you don't have enough on you?)

I'm not going to argue against cash existing, but "swipe the machine" works 98 times out of 100. For the other 2 times, yeah carry some cash on you. I think it's a very good system of last resort, but especially in places with contactless payments cash is less practical
When the person cannot do the job with reasonable accommodations.
But surely you must realize that there's more to money than just paying bills. Japan still has a strong cash culture, but even there people put their money in a bank. A cash society cannot be resilient to an evil government if you consider that said government could theoretically freeze funds at the bank level. In fact, this scenario sort of happened in Brazil in the 90s, and that's a country that had a very large portion of the population that was unable to transact digitally (because credit cards/ApplePay/etc weren't really a thing back then and a lot of people were poor to begin with).

If you want to argue for a world where said attack vector isn't possible, then you're implicitly arguing for a world where people literally stash money under their mattress as a standard model of security, but that implies constructs like mortgages can't exist. Point being, how money is represented has a big impact on how society is able to function.
> Could this be a self-destructing laptop by design of Oydisen Electronics?

That seems like a very paranoid take. Electronics sometimes fail early in life and to the best of my knowledge requiring returns for refunds is standard operating procedure.

That said I understand you not wanting to return a device that has unencrypted sensitive data on it.

Some things you might want to consider in the future are:

1) Enabling full drive encryption before saving any sensitive data to a device.

2) Not buying laptops with non-removable SSD's.

The laptop doesn't have to be a total loss though. I have a laptop with a flaky HDD and I run if entirely off of a Linux system installed on a 512 GB USB 3.0 thumbdrive that you can buy for less than $100. I'm sure it's far from the performance of an internal SSD but it works fine for my needs.
The word “crisis” isn’t really appropriate.
Most bank accounts frozen under the Emergencies Act are being released,committee
Yep, close to 100,000 arrested, 500,000 investigated, 150,000 public servant dismissed, 319 journalists arrested in Turkey [1]. What is happening in Turkey is very different than Canada.

[1] https://turkeypurge.com/home-page-3
Does Impedance Matter?
Maybe I'm alone here... but the biggest hurdle I have with ML as a software engineer is the python ecosystem
Notice the Canadian government did not in fact say they did not freeze the accounts of donors, only that they did not "provide lists of donors to Financial Institutions"

Those are very different statements, and they can both note have provided a list specifically of donors, while including donors on a list of "suspected criminals whom accounts need to be frozen"

Facts do matter, and I do not trust the RCMP, nor the Canadian government to provide those facts
Original protest was over trucker mandates. Trudeau made his comments and it became about a lot more.
> Google News has gotten increasingly annoying though, forcing me harder toward the "personalized" results

oh brother, you aren't kidding. I want top news of the day, but all I get is a hundred clickbait versions of two or three things I clicked on once a couple weeks ago.
I'm literally sat at my desk inside my house with cash in my jeans pocket now.

It's a total non issue. You probably have a bank card or phone in your pocket or on your desk.

Some of us even use _note books_. Insane, I know.
There's a game that's fun to play to see how sometimes ideological and vacuous the Economist can be - try and swap out the key operative term of a piece with something absurd and see if the force of the argument changes or remains persuasive.

This is a while back, and an extreme example, but the pinnacle for me was the editorial (https://postimg.cc/hhkmfgN3) on the 9th of January 2012 where one could swap every reference it had on defending banks and financiers with references to slavery and slaveholders and the force of the argument would not change one jot. This was because it made absolutely no recourse to the wider context of impacts that the industry might have besides being of benefit to a city. It was just a whirr of rhetoric and really opened my eyes to the biases in play. The magazine's prestige has never quite recovered.

Fun aside, many other cases of journalistic bias are more about very selective reporting and emphasis, see for example the Bolivian election of 2020.
It would be interesting to quantify the experience of this and compare professions.
The West was not manufacturing regime changes out of thin air, it was supporting factions in the internal political conflicts. So did Russia, but for some reason that never counts.