skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware.

What a stupid reason is that?! It really sounds like the Head of IT at Gitlab just doesn't like Windows and is doing what he can to find excuses.
My only point was, that sure the FOLED is new, but heck, I had the first gen iPhone on day one, and every single version up to X

So, Sure, its novel - but give it a try.

I am not being overly defensive of apple, I am saying, this is the HN croud, I have always been an early adopter, ever since the 80s...

So I dont poo-poo on this thing. I love it.

The only feature I _really_ want this machine to have is IP68 waterproofing or better.

Imagine a smaller size of this device that attached to a divers arm, but can be 'curved' to the shape of the SCU-Bracer-9000.
As the 2nd tweet explains, the difficulty of Ethereum changes dynamically amd can decrease the longer that a block hasnt been mined, this is not the case in Bitcoin.
When I quote "two words" in a group I expect to only get results based on those two words, spelled with those characters, exactly as quoted. Not split, not with different spelling or related meanings, not with anything but actually the string of bytes which I have quoted.
The companies knew that copyright infringement is a possibility when developing the tech. They knew the reward was still worth it despite of that.

I am not getting anything designing work for you. On the other hand I can launch my own side projects. I know that if they are any good people are going to copy and start rip offs. I am willing to take that risk.
Go to "Robot Settings", then "Status Lights" about halfway down the page
One concern people should have about foreign tech spying on them is the possibility it undermines the stability of their jobs.

Let’s say it exfiltrates data that eventually allows a foreign competitor to build sophisticated metallurgy for turbines. It’s not like all foreign countries eagerly hire foreign talent, moreover it puts domestic expertise at risk as well as all the collateral subcontractors and suppliers… so, yeah, super metallurgy-guy's job may be secure (can get hired by the foreign competitor), even if the company collapses but not the jobs of 10,000s who work for suppliers, etc.
in general, I use my computer for taking notes. But I recently started using pencil and paper for designing quick low-fidelity mockups for things that my team is going to implement and it's wildly better than working on the computer for several reasons:

- pencil/paper is just so much quicker

- if you think it, you can draw it... quickly. It's more flexible.

- key advantage: when non-engineers (or even engineers) see higher fidelity mockups, it's very easy to get caught up on some of the details like where a button goes or how big the font is. With pencil/paper, everyone realizes that it's a rough sketch and that the final product isn't going to look this way.

After I write things up, I scan them with an app to a PDF file and then email that out (or attach to a ticket). Of course, pen/pencil isn't great for final designs... there's no substitute for a high-fidelity mockup of what somethings is supposed to look like. But I find it very useful to start with the UX and then work on things like CSS last.

Some key tools I use:

notepad: $5

pencil: $7 (I really splurged here for the pentel Orenz, my favorite mechanical pencil, but a $1-2 pencil will be 95% as good)

6" ruler: $1.76

1/2" binder (I like to keep my drawings): $4

I've thought about investing in a ReMarkable tablet, but I find it hard to justify the cost since pen/pencil work so well.
But how can I live without their 1% better touch pad and build quality?
So many of us made a whole career out of “don’t touch that? Huh. I wonder what happens if I touch it?”, haven’t we?
Yes, it's another post about web scraping
As someone who spent a decade burning and bleeding for the restaurant industry: Fucking great. If there's one sector that needs its entire economic plan blown up and rebooted, it's restaurants.

The fact that labor has seemingly collectively walked away from restaurants en masse has been one of the best things about the pandemic. Of course it's complicated (What about the ability for people to source food from restaurants, what about other economic factors that go into it, poor sad owners who invested all their money, went belly up, and now have to act like the labor they abused, "not all restaurants", etc) but the food service industry is one of the most vile, exploitative sectors out there and the schadenfreude over it getting a swift kick in the teeth has been massive.
I always use my webcam mic, not the airpod mic.

Not only is the quality higher, it is mitigates a nightmare scenario of accidentally walking somewhere like the bathroom with airpods on.

(But yes the mic also cuts out a lot for me)
Poorly? He made $165M spewing lies, and got fined $4M. He has $161M of incentive to keep doing what he does.
> they are making this choice because they don't way to pay the consequences of it. And that "cannot" is a short way to state that.

I don't think that's a short way of saying the same thing though, for the kind of consequences you mean at least. Imagine if I were a vegan for ethical reasons. It'd be fine for me to say "I don't eat meat", but a lie to say "I can't eat meat", since I'd be perfectly capable of doing so, and be fine if I did, and just not want to anyway. Contrast this with if I had alpha-gal syndrome and someone me offered me a steak. In that case, I could truthfully say "I can't eat that".
I like how animals ended up there: P021, W013, W034, W054, W067
The mistake that you're making is suggesting that this rules based order must mean that all countries adhere to it 100% of the time. But there are gray areas, mistakes, things that are subject to interpretation, and frankly there are areas where countries disagree. The point is that it's mostly adhered to.

If you are looking for specific examples and further elaboration, frankly I can't provide that for you and you'll have to look at global events and decide for yourself.
No disagreement here. Certainly if I were a political advisor in the room where people were suggesting getting in the weeds with the press about the definition of a recession, I would have set my hair on fire. Whether there are valid points to be made or not, they're losing politically the moment the conversation begins.
> These aren't the times for such jokes. Many people take this as proof of lying experts that ridicule the non experts.
You can make these jokes in your peer group but outsiders of these group may feel degraded.

On the contrary, I've spent the last 2 years watching "experts" in my own field make absolute fools of themselves, to the point where a number of formerly respected leaders in science and medicine have lost all credibility. The kind of "expert" that would mindlessly re-tweet an obvious picture of a salami as a scientific discovery is giving you prima facie evidence that you should have some level of doubt concerning their judgment.

The general public needs to be more informed of the following two facts:

* Appeals to authority, no matter how credentialed, are not arguments. Always start from the assumption that the "expert" is wrong until you can prove otherwise. If you aren't capable of evaluating the evidence for yourself, don't repeat it.

* You don't know what you don't hear. Even if you have heard from a true "expert", the media will regularly distort or cherry-pick their sources to make whatever sensational claim that drives clicks. So-called "experts" are often pulled from a list of twitter users that are tweeting in support of a reporter's desired headline just prior to deadline, and all other experts' opinions are ignored.

I'll add a bonus:

* Celebrity is a hell of a drug. Even the most credible speaker faces an almost irresistible force to dress up factual claims with opinions. Particularly if they're personally scared / emotional, on one of those horrid cable news panels, or both.

Bottom line: if you don't have training in a discipline, you aren't qualified to judge a claim within it. Treat the whole thing as no different than a television program about celebrity gossip, because that is what it is to you. Don't just blindly trust a quote or a talking head simply because some writer/producer at a news agency told you to trust them.
Have heard almost exclusively good things about EVGA's RMA process. Haven't needed that service myself but from what I've seen/heard they'll replace defective hardware without fighting you about it and the replacement is shipped quickly.
For most of blockchains you can do light client validation without the full chain (or full node). Light client needs to only know the block headers to validate a truth.

You can get block headers with very lightweight download work from peer-to-peer network.

https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/interface/les
That is true but they aren’t a country. They don’t set international policy. They have little to gain and a lot to lose picking this battle.

For one thing they have close business relationships with people in both china and Taiwan. They have employees in both countries. Vendors. Human relationships. Those might get kinda awkward if they picked this battle.

And what do they gain picking this battle? A few internet points?

It’s just not worth it.
The stuff you’re critiquing does have mainstream appeal though. If it didn’t they wouldn’t sell well. Yet they do.

Honestly, the views here smack more of elitism than any deep understanding of what the mainstream like.
Apple has repeatedly said that it’s not China’s cheaper labor. They don’t have as cheap labor anymore, especially compared to India, Vietnam, Philippines, etc. they say it’s because of the complex specialized knowledge of suppliers around Shenzhen and I’m inclined to believe them. You can choose to not trust them.
Other POSIX functions, such as glob, also allocate memory and don't have alloc in the name.

It's something that I use. Maybe not frequently, but I definitely use it.

Also, it is in no way equivalent to malloc(strlen(x)). You're off by one byte and you've not copied any of the string.
Using a fork to eat your soup is prohibited at Soups Only (tm)

HN: While I agree that eating a soup with a fork is bad, I think the employees should be able to try.
> what's not used is not tested

What are they going to test on Windows? It's a web platform that runs on a Linux server... And Rails is kinda annoying to develop on using Windows, you definitely won't put it on a Windows server, what's the point?
I know plenty of YIYBY advocates who live in wealthy parts of SF that have clean streets, no homeless and own large properties. a good example would be 'democratic socialist' district 5 supervisor Dean Preston https://twitter.com/DeanPreston
Woodstock for frat boys and suburbanite MTV addicts. At best it would have been awful, at worst (and in reality) a rapefest.
From the article

"Kent said he was not writing sardonically"

Sardonic

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sardonic

"disdainfully or skeptically humorous"
I wonder what Apple would now list if updating their FY20 supplier list[1] which simply states "Taiwan" for manufacturing locations for many of their suppliers.

Some of the suppliers in the list[1] operate manufacturing facilities in both mainland China and Taiwan, and their websites refer to a combination of "China", "Taiwan" and "R.O.C.". I do wonder how difficult it would be for these companies to deal with both governments at the same time! For example, the visa policies of each government towards each other appear to be very restrictive[2][3].

[1] https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Taiwan#Chinese_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_mainland_China#...
Pencil, for me a pencil is much better than any pen. Pencil and paper, square paper A4 or A5.
My dirty little secret involved QB45. I local shoe chain had their POS running on true-blue IBM PCs with BASICA, the ROM-based BASIC that was only on real IBM machines. The code had the “protection” bit set so mere mortals couldn’t alter the code. The chain was looking to get out of the IBM-only requirement and also wanted some minor code tweaks.

So I “unprotected” the BASICA program, made the requested tweaks, and compiled the whole thing with QB45. They now had a stand-along executable that could run on any DOS clone machine. And since it was compiled, performance jumped, it was super fast!

Took me 15 minutes, client was thrilled, I charged them $5,000. Easiest money I ever made.

No, I don’t feel guilty about it. Was it difficult? Not for me. I just so happened to know where to hit the hammer while no one else did.
Me, I wouldn't. I also wouldnt work for the tobacco industry.
Some of the fast food stores in my area still have their dining areas closed due to short staffing.
I've read somewhere that humans are of the few (only?) mammals with permanant breasts. So that might suggest that breasts are something of a sex symbol and that there is some precedent to having women cover up their breasts. At least it seems to make our cultural standard logicially consistent.
Feels like the author was frustrated with agile and took it out in the guise of yocto engineering champion.
It's worth noting that in the ROC (Taiwan) that position is losing popularity, and since about 2007 they seem to be moving towards becoming an independent nation that claims only the island of Taiwan. It's a politically difficult topic however, which is why no name change happened so far.
A bartending robot that can engage in personalized interactions with humans
There are plenty of good developers who haven’t had the time to become masters at multiple operating systems yet. In this economy, it’s better to stick with what you know well.
Love it, agree, I wonder how many suburban towns are able retrofit their neighborhoods like this. My guess is not many based on ownership and configuration, but it would really cool to see pathways snaking through neighborhoods like that.
It was obvious even running up to the '99 festival that it was going to be an utter shitshow.
This one makes me angry every time it comes up. I'm very selective of the notifications I allow on my devices in order to protect my attention, and some product manager has the audacity to assume I need to give loud strangers on the internet the ability to rob me of my finite attention whenever they have a hot take.
I will be this guy, but can’t you use a better more safe programming language and expose an API for C?
All of the reasons are perfectly valid. Just not extremely relevant.

Normally any company looking at that level of operational detail has a problem. But on their case, yes, it's probably because Windows comes from their competitor.

Adding a bunch of work, costs, and risk to yourself that will only benefit your competitor does not feel good. No matter how relevant are the work, costs, and risk.
Of the ROM BASICs, I'd say Amstrad BASIC is even better than BBC BASIC. The BASIC on the Commodore 128 is pretty good but a bit sluggish.

TRS-80 Level I was limited because it was essentially Tiny BASIC with floating point added. Level II BASIC was Microsoft BASIC.

The Apple II initially came with Woz's Integer BASIC in ROM. It was better than TRS-80 Level I BASIC, unless you needed floating point. The Apple II Plus had Microsoft 6502 BASIC in ROM. It was essentially the same BASIC that Commodore used in the VIC-20 and 64, except Apple added a few graphics commands to theirs and Commodore added the screen editor. The Apple II and Commodore 64 ran at about the same clock speed, so when you benchmark their Microsoft 6502 BASICs, they're pretty much identical in speed.
Pressure washing indoors would probably make a big mess of a grocery store though. Grocery store floors are chosen to be flat and impermeable to make spills easy to clean, but flat and impermeable tends to mean slippery when wet.
I don't know why, but with Word Flow you could train it, teach it words, including swear words.

GBoard / Swiftkey does its darnest to ensure that it will never select a swear word and always pick 'duck' but give me an option for 'fuck'.

Flow you didn't need to be accurate, you could be 'close enough' and it figured out the word you wanted based on what you were writing. GBoard/Swiftkey get it wrong more often than I like.
There's a difference between applying this in the general case, and applying it in finance, where letting something go unregulated just because it's new is nearly guaranteed to result in rampant scams and people losing their life savings to the unscrupulous who misrepresented their offerings.
I don't know. With all these threats of war between China and Taiwan, I would imagine the exact opposite scenario is also a real possibility, where a conflict arises and then for some reason TSMC is unable to operate for at least a while.
No.

The author who is shirtless -- he doesn't need to give himself a black rectangle.

Unidentified women who didn't consent to topless photos of themselves being published get black rectangles for both nudity and identity (black rectangles over eyes).

Do you really not see how a woman having a good time expressing herself in person at a music festival might not want identifiable topless photos of herself uploaded for eternity to the internet?

Don't you think the black rectangles could actually be a sign of respect here rather than some affront to gender equality?
Emoji Drug Code [pdf]
Yeah, now we just need to get people working less in general
Here’s an old slatestarcodex post with a collection of more “sentimental maps”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartograph...
It's a free market. There are plenty of companies investing in R&D even after knowing that there is the possibility of copyright infringement. There is still a huge upside in developing these tech.
I've felt that the iRobot mapping was acceptable.

Once my i7 has generated a proper map, it will will slow down when it approaches known walls, or even places where obstacles have been several times in the past. It will need to bump into the obsticle or wall to confirm its position though.

It does use a mostly predictable back and forth pattern, taking note of areas with walls/obstacles, and after the main sweeping it will combe back to go around the obstacles, and finally (optional) do a sweep of the walls. Then it moves onto the next room.

The system does have limitations. For example, if it needs assistance in the middle of a clean job, after you fix it, there is a reasonable chance that it will do dumb stuff afterwards, like missing a large section of floor. (It seems to even know this, but have problematic coding that prevents it from doing the right thing).

But yeah, I'd not call the mapping good, just acceptable.

There are other annoyances like the i7 battery being so small, especially since they have a giant battery compartment. Like seriously big enough like ni-cad batteries battery of equivalent capacity. But they only offer a slightly larger capacity battery as part of their Costco exclusive model, and try to lock out third party batteries. The net result is that even when brand new, it could not quite do a single floor of my house in one go, needing to go recharge for like 40 minutes before it could do the last 10 minutes of cleaning.

The app is not very good. It does not even do some basic things like prompt the user for regular maintenance periodically based on number of hours used.

The floor maps in the app are weird. For example, on one of my floors, the online map decided that the entrance to one of my rooms was on a completely different wall from where the entrance really was. It thought the actual door was just a wall. However the actually mapping data on the robot was just fine. It knew where the door really was, and never tried to drive though the wall where the online map though the door was.
Virtual machines aren't that magic I'd say, but sure, if you think they are pixie dust, then I guess its pixie dust...
For a co-op to work, every employee (And often, every customer, though that's not necessary) gets one vote. They become the shareholders. Yes, this means that company in particular wouldn't have stock with voting shares, but that doesn't mean it can't have a stock market. For instance: There are other companies.
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Hiring a Platform Engineering Manager to partner with our VP of Engineering to help engineering succeed. Hands on manager role managing 3-4 direct reports.
https://jobs.lever.co/goswift/88396feb-9393-4083-b833-9881e7...
Was in Bethel Woods for the first time this summer to attend an Garbage/Alanis concert. Incredibly beautiful and large venue, in the middle of nowhere. The location is much more rural than I expected. Unfortunately missed the Woodstock Museum on site.
The pattern is usually worse than you think, because you click "not now".

Typically, the browser or phone OS does enforce a yes-or-no answer, and if you pick "no" the site or app is not allowed to ask again. So the "Would you like notifications" screen doesn't actually use the host program's API to enable notifications, it just brings up the dialog and asks you again.

This often means that there is a "no and stop asking" option. You just have to realize which dialogs are brought up by the application or the host environment, "accept" the application's request, and then deny the actual permissions request.
>I think spouting blatant lies is and should be something you can "get away with," at least legally.

I think anyone with a 'megaphone' has a responsibility to speak the truth. Frankly, as soon as you start soliciting money for your opinions, I think you should be held to a higher standard. Journalists, politicians, talk show hosts, whatever. I'm sick of living in a post truth world.
I suggest you read 'San Fransickp by Shellenberger, a book progressives and their media loathe

https://www.amazon.com/San-Fransicko-Progressives-Ruin-Citie...
Haha, man, gotta love how you get downvoted for wanting to be a proper loving father and not someone who outsources the upbringing of their children to youtube and roblox!
Doesn't surprise me. Money talks louder than sovereignty of some state. :(
This.
Exactly this.
I've always felt like these products were mainly designed for people who live in single-level small-ish apartments, but then it's confusing because manually vacuuming those isn't very hard either. I just don't understand the market.
bell didn’t spring into existence a monopoly. GP described the conditions that grew bell
Textbook example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I kinda agree, but also... NOTHING about modern phones is "intuitive". Every time I have to introduce a modern phone to a 70yo+ family member, I come to that realization promptly.

Swipe from bottom to switch programs? Swipe from top left and top right to get different (IMPORTANT!) panels? Why are three lines a "Menu"? But sometimes it's dots, or a gear icon, and they're never in the same place. On iPhone, there's no real unified "Back" button - chase it down from application to application with different context and result every time. On Android, unified buttons (including reliable and predictable "back") exist but their location and icons are not intuitive either.

I also encountered opposite problem than described - when I tell people to hold-press, they exert force. It's a natural, intuitive thing for most of them - they're trying to press hard. But the mere notion you need to hold-press anything? Completely unintuitive. Like everything else on a modern phone :-/
I had a CEO who drove an old toyota corolla. Also played music gigs for fun. His company was long term, and eventually IPOd. Not flash in the pan startup VC stuff but SAAS erp for essential industry.
No, it's a new iPhone 13 Pro.