skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone still read TechCrunch, Recode, Pando, and other early 2010s startup tech news outlets?
Apple has made huge inroads into corporate IT. How many corporate employees carry iPhones and iPads today? How many companies let employees request Mac laptops instead of Dell? The answer is: a lot more than in the mid-2000s! And even a lot more than 2010.

And corporate IT changed along the way too. The idea of buying and running a “Mac server” makes as much sense as buying and running any server: not much. Corporations are migrating to cloud platforms and application-level authentication. And away from hardware servers running on a LAN.
I'm 30 and I love dad jokes. And I hate them at the exact same time. Like I'll hate that the person said it and want to bop them over the head, but I will also chuckle or smile at the bad joke.

I love getting that same sort of pained but happy feedback from others which is why I will tell them myself.
>I'm surprised RES, the Reddit API and old.reddit still work

They promised to keep old going. However they said it won't get new features so it is gonna die a slow but certain death of incompatibility
My previous employer still uses svn. It created so much headaches and frustration due to unproductivity because e.g. someone pushed a bug without testing and you unknowingly downloaded it. No way to easily reverse of course. It was my first job after University and taught me that CRUD b2b Java enterprise jobs are to avoid at all costs in the future. For what it's worth though, I had some very funny-sad stories to tell when I interviewed to get out of there after just 6 months. Never tought a versioning system could burn me out. Git is standard for very obvious reasons.
>no one is subscribing to a service to watch reality TV

I subscribe to Hulu to host Bachelor series watch parties.

However, I strongly agree that Netflix content is braindead and the service charges you more than its content is worth.
Bezos bought WaPo for what is (to him) a relatively small sum of money to be a hands off owner of something he thought should continue to exist and has potential for Amazon style economising. That's a bit different to Musk proposing to offload or borrow against a significant chunk of his TSLA shares whilst declaring winning an argument with the management of his favourite social media platform about rewriting Twitter's policies on controversial stuff is more important to him than making money. And yes, Musk's record of posting Tweets unhelpful to TSLA as a user is another reason for them to be alarmed at controversy on Twitter becoming increasingly important to him.

It's not just the inevitability of less time to focus on managing TSLA (though running Twitter being a full time job was an issue for Dorsey, and he was only running one other company and wasn't at war with the management) but also the hints that this is an obsession.
At this point in the discussion, I’m in the perfect position to testify that this is a fantastic dad joke – but no wonder: after all, it comes from my parent.
Line comments since the "#" isn't a comment character unless it's following a statement or such nonsense

puts "for real" ;# orly?

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/comment

and there's some weird business about backslashes in comment characters, which IIRC "modern" tcl-ists use for ployglot launch scripts

#!/bin/sh
# this hides *both* lines from tclsh \
exec "tclsh" "$0" "$@"
puts "and now, moar tcl"
It's called YouTube TV and it's awesome
Which community is it in Phoenix?
Basically. Repairing bicycles is very easy and very standardized, except that some manufacturers just won't tell you what standard a part follows.
There are hidden function. The good ratio of height / width produces a familiar feel. Some tiny "non useful" spaces are actually useful for people to project their lives onto, sit there, stand, talk.
Rat extermination efforts have also removed a predator. When rats are abundant they will wipe out rabbits as they will enter their warrens and prey on the rabbit kits. I was in Somerville when they broke ground on the green line expansion which drove the rats that had been nesting in untouched government land for years into the neighborhood. Over the course of ~2 months we went from rabbits everywhere to them becoming locally extinct and having been replaced by rats
- You're already getting into "halfway towards being an OS" territory if you want to netboot.

- Eliminating variable code from the boot process makes it more secure and reliable. Why do I need to load a separate loader to load my OS which is overwriteable by my OS if the firmware can do it in a standard, fixed way?

- At least have some mechanism to load an arbitrary number of sectors.
How to handle one million transactions per second on a single CPU core
Why the need to fork NixOS?
Why not contribute?
Is there evidence they dumped their share?
I'd love to see a source for this. I'm very surprised by any claim of coal having a CO2 emissions per GW hr.
I use the type-annotated python at work and at hobby.
I see the point of OP, but I'd say it helps even if it's not perfect or "sound".

Though I agree on its negative impact on the language ergonomics. It removes the joy of writing "scripting language" and as a statically typed language it is far from static-type-native ones.

Now I see it as a tax for compatibility: You enjoy dynamic typing at the beginning of the project, but you have to pay it back once you've grown up to a certain scale.

TypeScript to me feels much more like a native static typed language because it is. Does it help to be a transpiler? Maybe. But I would think that Hejlsberg just has done an astonishingly good work to make it compelling. Python's type annotation is good and completely reasonable, but gradual typing is such a hard problem and being good is probably not enough here.
Actually wouldn't it be the other way around with gravity? Higher gravity would make planes less practical while airships don't care because their lift comes from buoyancy that scales with gravity.

That said, thicker air would also mean more lift from wings, wouldn't it? And more drag for the massive cross-section of an airship.
I'm not sure what your point is here.

Sure, the internet exists.
Sure, you'll find non-apple accessories.

What you'll also find are horror stories about cheaply made bits and information from Apple stating that you need to use approved accessories lest you void your warranty and/or ruin your device. Even though you'll find positive stuff, you'll be left with "ruin my device or use an apple product".
I don't remember how I stumbled across Aeon, but it's been one of my favourite finds in a long time! The quality and range of articles is extremely good. IMO it's almost on par with HN for finding well written pieces.
Fun fact: The builders of the Empire State Building aimed for this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/docking-on...
We’re rolling out something similar for the UK with https://griffin.sh - aiming to get our bank license this year. Then expanding to the rest of Europe :)
Have a look at the aerostats used in Afghanistan. Just pour concrete, tether the balloon high enough they can't shoot it.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/p...
Why is inflammation a dangerous necessity?
I certainly understand the schadenfreude aspect of it. But when I said bullying I mostly meant that as a euphemism for a sort of aggressive lobbying. For instance, manipulating politicians into supporting his companies by threatening to signal boost their opponents during the next election, or promising to suppress them.
I wonder what the criteria is for reported malicious ads to actually end up being removed and de-listed by Google?

"Murder for hire" (or any legally unambiguous high-profile crime enabler) -> Guaranteed removal. GReply: "Look how much we care"

"Run the dslreports malware infected" -> No meaningful action is taken by Google, they want 'dat DSLReports.exe $$$! GReply: <Crickets>

"Fuck yo and pwn your network" -> ? GReply: <Crickets>

The juicier question is:

How many straight up virus vendors have proliferated through Google ads and chrome 0-days? That's not going to be publicly available data. Why not? Seems like as a service operator, the right thing is informing clients who $BIGCO helped get infected with virii or malware. If notification upon discovery were mandated, at least some of the pool of desolation which undeniably exists (directly thanks to Google AdHoles) would be cleaned up. Is Google too proud to admit this happens? Protecting users, especially the most defenseless in the case of Ads, is consistently not a real priority for BigG.

Companies are full of people, and being humans we all makes mistakes or overlook things for too long. That would be okay if good faith efforts truly existed.
You just need to put on the special glasses right? They Live is a great movie. "I came here to kick ass and chew gum, and I'm all out of chewing gum." is one of my favorite lines from it.
For me, LLU only meant choosing which company logo was on top of the invoice for the same, crappy ADSL service in central London.

Moved away in '13, hope things have improved.
Your dad joke is wholesome
> In October, a Chinese team reported that its light-based Jiuzhang 2 processor could complete a task in one millisecond that a conventional computer would require 30 trillion years to finish.

> Chinese researchers, firms, and agencies now hold more patents in quantum tech than does the United States (although U.S. companies have more in the specific field of quantum computing), amid allegations that these advancements benefit from stolen U.S. work.
I've been running a SIGECOM chapter at UIUC and the main theme over the past four/five months is people meme-ing about Beanstalk and how its such a shit show. My original concern had to do with the stability lever only working to decrease the value, so it inherently requires a "distinct triangular shape" to keep itself running. I didn't take it seriously enough to do a deeper analysis (mostly because I'd find something like this, but I can't really do anything with it legally) but there's about $10k invested in the ecosystem as LPs/bond-owners within my group of friends.
I love Tcl. I haven't used it in a while as my job scope has changed. I used to write all sort of utilities and throw a little UI on top with Tk. I still keep watch on what happens in that space.
I love type hints. They make the code so much more readable. I wish they could do more, but knowing what the programmer intended for a variable is huge. Now, when I see code without type hints I think, "Oh man, now I have to dig into everything to know what anything is."
100% agree - never really understood the movement behind adding types to Python. Type hints are a useless complexity that yield little return. If you want types, use something else other than Python. The whole thesis behind Python is simple is better than complex.
My brother-in-law is a Ford mechanic. When he has problems diagnosing something he has access to Ford's engineers. He can hook the car's computer up to Ford's network and the Ford engineers can run their "digital twin" in real time and see exactly what's going on. They diagnose the problem and my brother-in-law fixes it.

Here's the thing - my brother-in-law has been a mechanic for 40 years. He was raised on the race track building race cars. His side hustle as a kid was to repair lawnmowers people threw away as "junk" and sell them. I say all this to point out the man knows his way around a car - yet in this day and age he finds he needs access to the engineers.

You may want to think about that when thinking of the service department as the "stealership." That moniker is old and hasn't applied for the past 20 years.
> How many corporate employees carry iPhones and iPads today?

I was referring to IT management of macOS - that was ambiguous in my post, apologies.

iPhone only came in 2008, and its deployment in corporate environments is entirely dependent on iCloud (launched in 2011) and related services, which didn't really come into their own until the mid 2010s.

Before the mobile revolution, it seemed (or at least some of us hoped) Apple was poising itself to capture the IT low-to-mid-market for corporate Apple desktop computers and potentially move upwards/outwards from there. Alas.
In my experience very few, if any, mod communities take a considered approach toward licensing. Whether you're allowed to base a mod on an existing mod is left to guesswork. They're quite unlike the FOSS world in that regard. moddb doesn't even have a section for licence information, unlike, say, GitHub.

Modding communities often also take a 'permissive' approach to the copyrights of the base game, but fortunately the publishers are often wise enough not to bother taking action against such mods. A mod like [0] gets to exist despite that, ultimately, it's infringing on the base game's copyrights.

[0] https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-esrgan-pack
OSX server was nice, but I saw the writing on the wall years ago when they killed xserver and other products. I learned long ago never to put long term faith in their products.
I'm wondering if all these logging solutions that don't offer traces have any kind of future.
> Businesses that hold a massive and unfair effective monopoly on communication and information are different from unremarkable coffee shops.

Youtube does not hold monopoly on communication or information.

> it's an action that you want to force on them by some mechanism of public rage

Lol. :) Public rage you say? Where is the rage? :)

> I don't get the obsession with removing dumb online stunts.

Let me help you with that: This stunt was done in order to get attention. You fuel it with attention and there will be more stunts. Either from this dude or others. You remove the attention and it dies out on its own.

I believe, and many others seems to agree this stunt was potentially dangerous and we should have less of these in the future. Removing the video is the way to achieve that, keeping the video up is youtube profiting from a potentially dangerous stunt.

> Appealing to protected groups is the weakest argument you could ever make for "Businesses can censor whoever they like".

Because it is not an argument for that.
Wondering if there are certain individuals/institutions/organizations that would have vested interests in any of this?

Looking at the amount of money that is spent on nation-level campaigning (for a term length of ~4 years) the sum short would be minuscule when compared to near-global reach to be gained, so maybe the total of folks chipping in one way or another weights in much more p.a. than what currently is "on the table".
I can think of other ways: "For example, one recent analysis of 911 calls across eight cities in the country found that 23 to 39 percent were for low-priority or non-urgent issues like noise complaints." https://www.vox.com/2021/4/14/22374196/calling-the-police-vi...
IMO the government shouldn’t be doing most things in house, they should have a handful of regulated contractors who they can delegate these things to.
And the thing is, it’s made by Panic. A company, that aside from like one piece of software, is absolute garbage at supporting anything they sell.

I wouldn’t own another Panic product if they paid me.
> The majority of US citizens agree with the very narrow limits on free speech defined by the Supreme Court

Do you mean to say that the majority of people believe this is how private companies should operate? If so, Id love to hear your reasoning for thinking that, because I would disagree heavily.

Saying racist stuff is legal, but its still going to get you kicked out of almost every bar, with few to no complaints from other patrons.
The words just before it were "a sketchy patched executable". People are bound to infer there is something wrong with it, regardless of whatever your intentions might have been.
It's there a term for this phenomenon where a 'thousand cuts' of small optimizations that improve x or y metric kill a brand?
I went into Bank of America last week to get a cashier’s check. An employee greeted me in the lobby of the bank with an iPad, took me to their desk, had me tap my debit card on the back of the iPad, put my PIN in, typed out the cashier’s check details on the iPad, had me review it, and then printed it.

I was in and out in probably 3 minutes max.

I am assume iPads are simply much cheaper to operate and troubleshoot and replace than desktops.
I'd be primarily interested in the crank mechanic, but it looks like getting enough of a grip on the other side to stabilize it would be a pain, and cranking will probably result in accidentally throwing the whole thing down.
I'm a big fan of the work Paradigm is doing. Foundry is a great project: https://book.getfoundry.sh/
It makes sense for them to create these open source tools if it can improve the development productivity of their portfolio companies.
True. I grew up 'free range' as you mentioned and there was a lot more freedom to go around the city n my bicycle, take the bus/train and even the airplane before I was 16. It is hardly the case anymore.
I tried mypy when I first started into type checking in Python back when I was trying to do Python in VS Code and I discovered that mypy is a time-sucking anti-productivity disaster that needs to die in a fire.

When I started learning PyCharm though, I discovered that type checking can actually work well in Python and it is not a waste of time at all. So I advise people now that unless you're using PyCharm, do not waste any time on type checking Python. In which case, have at it. I love it. PyCharm is really the only way to do type-checking productively right now.
Lock them in a cage with folding chairs and make it pay-per-view.
Fun fact: there are only 25 about "blimps" in existence right now (note this does not count rigid airships, but I don't know if there are any of those left).

https://www.rd.com/article/why-you-dont-see-blimps-anymore/
I agree treating Type Hints as comments is the way to go. It's a bit nicer to use a library that is fully-hinted than one that is not. But I don't worry about type-hinting my own code, unless it's a particular complicated function signature that other people will be calling.
I imagine once you have a verifiable net worth over a certain amount (at least 10 million in near cash assets + a hefty amount on hand) you are able to bypass certain things the rest of us simply can't. This is what I've heard second hand anyway
Only facts here. I think most large codebases eventually see type hints drift away from reality as individual contributors are more incentivized to hack in `Any` types to make things compile instead of typing every line properly. This is especially common for handling data objects which come in over the network - often they can have a couple different types but people just type it as one thing for simplicity.

Overall I do think type hints are worth it though, for maybe two benefits. They force you to look at the ridiculous types you are using, like `List[Union[None, str, List[Dict[str, str]]]]` which is the sort of thing that happens in codebases all the time. It adds just enough friction to push people to make explicit dataclasses or simplify function returns, which is good. Secondly they help with tracking functions which return None, which is a pain when following callstacks in big codebases.
Explain to me how SSL tells me so I know which is the right site:

https://www.vlcdownload.com
https://www.vlcdownloads.com
https://www.videolan.com
https://www.vlc.com
https://www.downloadvlc.com
https://www.videolan.org
https://www.videolan.co.uk
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/

In linux/Mac, I can "sudo apt install vlc", "sudo yum install vlc", or "sudo brew install vlc". I know I'm getting a valid and good software delivery. It just works. No malware. No sketchy websites. No malware packages.

On Windows, well, you feelin lucky?
Might be related, but mouthwash use is correlated with a drop in systemic nitric oxide levels due to the negative impact on the oral microbiome. You can find a review here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35081826/

At Bristle (oral microbiome testing) we advocate against broad antimicrobial mouthrinses as they can negatively impact your oral health similar to how antibiotics cause dysbiosis in the gut.
I agree. I'm glad that they're optional. One of the main reasons to use Python is to prioritize development speed over performance AND to prioritize read/write-ability over hand jamming mundane syntax. I understand why some who have a background in typed languages might prefer to use Python with type hints, but it should be understood that they aren't very Pythonic.
I've annotated Python typing with a 20/80 approach.
I annotate strings, integers, floats, simple list and dict.
I don't try to produce complex type specs for lists, dicts, functions.

My company runs some kind of static analysis that checks things.
And I get 80% of the benefit with 20% of the work.
So start small, and don't expect perfection (yet).
It sounds like they should spend a lot of money via debts on park improvements, since that'll be moved onto the counties as soon as the district is gone
I'm waiting for the day when people run Linux on windows via a hypervisor to run old programs under wine. This is pretty close.
That's a Soviet response right there. Everything must be examined objectively. It doesn't matter if someone else committed a crime or has a fault, that doesn't justify crimes of our own.

I'm happy to put myself on the defensive though. Self-examination is a path to enlightenment. I am guilty of many things in life. Some of which I have been punished and others which I never will be. In the portions of the Americas, Asia, and Europe that are healthy democracies, simple political engagement can suffice. Many things others would characterize as "abuses" were actually proxy wars against totalitarian regimes. If the entire world were healthy democracies, it would be a far more peaceful place due to having checks and balances on power. As opposed to dictators.

But that has no relevance here, when there's an active genocide occurring in Ukraine. I'm not part or parcel to that. Others are though.
HN / Reddit
> Do you have access to their internal modelling? I don't. I have no idea what they were expecting.

That's pretty rich considering you asserted it did not fail as a product, then demanded this of someone who disagreed with you (and is obviously right).
Why is it only rated 2.9 on Play Store? The negative reviews look quite articulate, it doesn't seem like coordinated manipulation.
The SEC filing shows there's now a commitment to provide that equity investment. Elon Musk has formed a Delaware corporation which investors could invest into to provide the money behind the "Equity Financing". The article does not confirm your point and your top comment is misleading.
Pretty sure the colonizers also named the continent.
The issue is that loans are ways of realizing gains on investments that aren’t taxed.

A proposal to correct this is to require that when you use an asset as collateral for a loan you have to reassess its value and pay capital gains taxes on the increased basis between when you acquired it and took out the loan.

Basically there needs to be friction and taxation with equity transactions like these loans.
I know at least one person who put OS X Server 1.2 on a G3 266 laptop, that was supposed to be running 8.6 for the business that cut the paychecks.

I've still got the installer in a shoebox somewhere.