skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Base 60 and 12/24 make sense, because these are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number .

The rest is so bad, that it needed one of the best mathematicians who ever lived on our planet to compute the date of our highest religious festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter#Gauss's_Easter_...

We even named our electric calculation machines computer after the act of calculating the day of Easter: Computus.
Is there any somewhat simple explanation of what are the limitations of the epsilon-delta definition of limits that make it non-rigorous? I've been trying to find some information about your comment, but have so far come up empty.
every identifiable difference is the result of an -ism. -ism is bad. if i can find any difference you have to change your life in a way I like and you hate, but its ok because i'm moral by definition /s
Mozilla managed to do that because despite Microsoft's anticompetitive behaviour, the OS itself didn't restrict what code you could run on it.

Apple has codified their anticompetitive behaviour into iOS
Ask HN: The perfect digital note inbox?
I'm researching what the perfect digital inbox for notes might look like.

Have you found it yet?

How do you currently store uncategorized digital notes?

Can you imagine what the "perfect" digital inbox would look like for you?
The reason Netflix has a high tenure is because they actually give substantial raises. Generally you don't have new people coming into the same role making more than people already there.

They separate pay and performance. The assumption is that your performance is always at the top, or you wouldn't work there anymore. Pay is based on the most they think you can get when you leave. If they market is soaring, your pay will too.

When I was there I once got a 25% raise because that was what we had to pay to get new people into similar roles.
> and then turn around and say "pay up or we'll get Eben Moglen to sue you."

No, you turn around and say "you know how it was cool that you could use that thing to do what you wanted ? Well, continue this tradition and make your thing available for others to do what they want. Recognize you're standing on the shoulders of giants by giving back to the community".

The only reason one might not want to release under the same license is because one does need money to live. That's a necessity of our current political system and changing it is the logical conclusion of being in the camp of those who want to spread Libre Software
There's a difference between using a broadly true generalization as the title and using a bullshit statement as the title.
It is a nice comparison, but I would honestly say, that I never had Unix in mind in regards to this approach. And I would say, it again lacks the "catch" I've mentioned in the article: Unix philosophy implies composability, while here you treat your snippets as etudes, isolated etudes, which may or may not compose well, while always keeping in mind, that you are doing all that to eventually tackle a bigger problem.
This is a really key point. While teaching is certainly a separate skill from doing, there is also the fact that the top performers in any given field may have never truly been novices in the way most beginners are. Think of Andy Bolton deadlifting 500 pounds on his first ever attempt. What is he supposed to tell someone about how to do it? He never struggled, never had anything to learn. It's why Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant were such terrible teammates. They just got frustrated that the game didn't come as easy to other players as it did to them and yelled at them for being shitty.
Well, if it’s not a power dynamic thing then why is Tobi still CEO when it was his mistake and not the employees that he hired?
In addition to this, you can choose to run your top-of-the-line multi-core processor in eco mode most of the time, and then consciously turn it back to stock settings when you know you'll need the extra speed/throughput, only bearing the extra heat and cost of that performance when you really need it.
happy to have you onboard !!
Its not a 1-1 conversation, its a group conversation. Not all group comments stick and end up as the next random discussion, but that doesn't mean they weren't heard (read). Sometimes someone says something and the conversation can just continue without a full comment in return.

And how many posts have 900 comments? Even the heavy traffic posts I see rarely approach those numbers usually we're talking 100-300.
Go to the product detail and they show precise measurements and often CAD models of the part.
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> 120 Hz

It always irks me that everyone seem to have completely forgotten that CRT monitors were routinely used in 75 Hz and 85 Hz (and even higher rates) and with various resolutions instead of the one and only 60 Hz in native resolution as with most LCD monitors. 60 Hz meant “I can't configure Windows” or “my video card or monitor can't handle more than that with resolution that high”.
Possibly off-topic: the variety of color scales used here is wild, and interesting. It looks like of them may have pre-established meaning within the community of expertise (like the rainbow-ish one for the image after "Overall, no sign of any influence from below."), but many of them are versions of a double-ended scale (white in middle, at 0), but there's a wide variety of double-ended scales. I wonder if this less disorienting to the domain experts?
This is still an area of controversy, and the text you've highlighted explains exactly why:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Most of our digital information is not gathered from places protected by the 4th Amendment - you sent that data to somebody else. Albeit unwittingly, but that's legally your fault, per the ToS.

Scalia, despite being a polarizing figure, was a staunch defender of the 4th Amendment, and even he admitted that this was a grey area[1]. This is because he was an originalist, and this scenario never could have been imagined by the forefathers. So there's no real "original intent" to look towards, which is very important to the Supreme Court in their rulings.

That said, I believe Snowden did the right thing, as this still highlights a gaping hole in our rights, and anyone who denotes him a traitor for it is bordering being one themselves.

[1]: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/asked_about_nsa_stuf...

Edit: I'll add that the CIA leaks are more troubling, if you'd like to see some true violations of 4th amendment rights. IANASupremeCourtJustice, but I think bugging a smart TV would qualify here.
All of the mechanisms that existed prior to those private sector communications platforms still exist. Twenty years ago, the only people with a national platform were those on TV, in newspapers, in magazines, etc. If this is an unsatisfactory state of affairs, then it was an unsatisfactory state of affairs for 99.9% of human history.

It seems especially inapt to call it out in the case of this person, who has singular access to those TV, newspapers, magazines, etc. He has more ability to address the people than pretty much anybody else in history -- even without those private communications platforms.

The current state of affairs is, indeed, unsatisfactory, and needs serious attention to balancing the right to speak with the right of people not to be threatened. That was the reason he was removed from those platforms: the legitimate belief that he was attempting to incite violence. We should absolutely attempt to improve the state of affairs, but I don't think it's well informed by this individual.
Apple has NO OEM. You can only buy completely integrated products period. The new M1s are SOCs, so there isn't even a 3rd party market unless you restrict that to USB and fashion accessories.

Microsoft does make its own hardware. The Surface line of products are pretty amazing. They didn't break any OEM 3rd party market nor dictate anything. In fact, they have a "signature system" policy for their first party hardware that it won't be full of bloatware like 3rd party OEMs used to do.

Google has slowly been destroying its 3rd parties and 3rd parties playing in its ecosystem have been moving towards forking for a while which is why there is always the complaint of unsupported devices after a single cycle there. (and so many community roms/hacks/installers floating around to address this)
One thing about forth in a linear file is you can define a word (word is the forth term for subroutine or function), use it in another word, and redefine the word to something else after that without affecting the previous word. (Generally the word list (dictionary) is just a linked list and you search by starting from the newest word.) So I'm curious how the hierarchical words are stored and in what order they are searched.
FAANG jobs attract the type of people with work ethic and ambition but they most likely feel like a well paid cog in the machine, that probably explains why they ditch after 2 years.
Copy-pasting my top-level comment:

I am utterly baffled that no response in this thread so far has taken issue with the statement "As you probably know intuitively, it won't work."
For me, this _does_ work and I have proven it many many times over the years by adding entire categories of technical knowledge to my repertoire. And not superficially, either - I get paid very well to do things professionally that I taught myself by reading Wikipedia.

If my experience were commonplace, the "it won't work" statement would be highly contentious in the comments here. Since it isn't, I guess I can deduce that I must be an outlier.
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“Officers are always looking for uninsured vehicles,” said Surrey RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scotty Schumann. “The officer was very surprised when he saw a valid B.C. license plate magically lift into place after they had passed the toll cameras.”
Go for it. Safari (rather WebKit) is an option on all sorts of platforms, but nobody uses it where it isn't preinstalled. Safari is free to be as simple as it wants, but that doesn't excuse them for blocking browser innovation on iOS.
8 points in 15 minutes is a pretty typical for the front page. Early votes have a lot of momentum. If it doesn't get more points soon it will fall just as quickly.
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No, Intel's 13th generation (Raptor Lake) chips are slated to have it too.

I suspect that like with Threadrippers, some Xeons will not ship with it, but I am not as confident about this as I am for Threadrippers, for reasons I cannot divulge.
> who told you that log() denotes log_e. Maybe in your narrow environment

This is a nearly universal convention in modern mathematics (except a few niches like information theory and computational complexity theory where it means log base 2, which is usually clear from context).

Engineering disciplines used to use "common" logarithms (i.e. base ten) all over the place back when most calculations were done with slide rules, lookups in paper tables, and pen-and-paper arithmetic, but with the advent of computers multiplication is just as cheap as addition, and expressing things on log scales is less necessary.

Over time the mathematicians are winning the fight to define the symbol 'log'.
Description of Google in 1998
I wonder if it is easy enough to "swap" e-SIMs that one could load your work profile on your phone (can iOS do that? I am not sure, but Android can anyways), swap sims before work starts, do work, "go home", swap back to your personal phone profile and personal sim.

Otherwise, I agree: give me a work phone if you want to snoop on it, otherwise please just text or call me on my personal.

My current company pays partly for my phone (like half?) and don't expect anything in return, they just wanted to make sure if I used it to make calls for work I was paid for that (I never do anyways).
Apple account disabled after using many different gift cards
A little over a month ago I encountered a very serious problem from Apple.
I’m posting it only now, as I have just returned after a long trip.

I can no longer fully use my account - download apps I bought, update them, use my balance, renew subscriptions. And all of this affects all my Apple devices - two iPhones, two iPads, a Macbook Pro and an Apple Watch.

As I was told by one of the 30 operators I managed to talk to on the phone after spending about 12 hours of my time on it, the reason was that "you redeemed several gift cards too quickly and they all had different face value".

I've been an Apple products user for a bit over 10 years now and have used a variety of devices and gadgets. And in the last 3 years my whole team of 20 people almost completely switched to Apple devices and ecosystem. And up until that point I thought it was a mutually beneficial and friendly relationship.

I've been travelling a lot in the last 10 years and living and working in different countries. For this reason, I have multiple Apple ID accounts in different countries. Since not all the apps, especially banking, food delivery and cab apps, are available in all Apple Stores (according to Apple you can have up to 5 accounts). And I usually use gift certificates, because it helps me not to think about which card is used and when it expires. And it seems that I've been using them since my first introduction to Apple products 10 years ago.

In early July 2022, right on my birthday, my Macbook pro 15 2019 was suddenly showing no signs of life. While it was being repaired, I decided to consider upgrading my working computer. After choosing the needed configuration, I redeemed my supply of gift cards to my account. I still have receipts for almost all of the cards, as well as the cards themselves.

A few days later, I was about to place an order for a new working laptop, when I found out that I was getting an error "Your account has been disabled in the App Store and iTunes" when trying to purchase something. After that, long calls and conversations with technical support began, and it did not lead to any solution. As a result, I was left without a new laptop, and most importantly - all the digital content that I bought on my iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro - I can no longer use and update it. And that are dozens of subscriptions, Final Cut licences, Logic Pro, and a lot of other software. Tech support gave me only one solution - create a new account and buy everything again. And this is not one hundred, and not even one thousand dollars.

As I see it, the tech support is unwilling to solve my problem or help solving it in any way. Phrases like "yes I understand you" will in no way compensate for my lost time I spent over the phone with them nor earn the money that I spent buying apps that Apple has taken away on its own whim due to some very questionable reasons.
This is trying to make an outbound connection on port 3000 using a remote-access JS. Any reason why this is the case? Blocked by Little Snitch
That's half the reason.

The other half of the reason is that Web applications are way easier to deploy, even if 100% of your users are on Windows, because the second-order-effect of being locked-down is less gatekeeping and less scare screens. If a web app is able to see stuff that it hasn't been explicitly granted access to, that's considered the Browser's fault for allowing it instead of it being the User's fault for installing an untrusted app.
You could use this to allow two people that both need to say "yes" without anyone else knowing who said "no" if the two yes doesn't occur.

However, it does leak knowledge to Alice and Bob; if either said yes they will know what the other chose. This is probably unavoidable.
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echoes of United States v. Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

would be ironic if Mozilla played the next Netscape
Oh, turns out german uses fond, while english uses fund.
Yes, I agree with that. However, the rest of my comment talks about the desktop where the situation hasn't changed much from decades ago - the incumbents use anti-competitive tactics, but people can still install alternative browsers and may do so if you give them a tangible reason to do so, but the hypothesis is hard to prove because Mozilla isn't actually interested in giving the masses a tangible reason to use its browser over the incumbents'.
Link around paywall?
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This principle was very well used in Smalltalk's IDE in its Class Hierarchy Browser.

Some other languages can exploit it too. And some clever web-based REPLs approximate decently to it.

I'd love to see this idea growing outside the Smalltalk world because is very valuable and influential to the DX (developer experience).

I vaguely remember seeing it in IBM's Visual Age for Java in the early 2000's.
Haha, no it's more like Elon Musk visits his factory in China, mysteriously disappears for 3 months, his Chinese assets are sold off and he reappears 6 months later and decides to leave all his leadership positions and become a recluse.

Let's say it's not even the explicit, Musk just suddenly struggles to find suppliers for his factories in China and his deals to buy raw resources in China start to get delayed.
Here's a map, thanks to a Redditor: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/x8r6a3/countries_that_...
I worked with a bunch of early stage startups, they don't need to build a lot of features like marketable products. Lots of scripts and poor ui will do just fine with manageable maintenance (devs even like their poor invention .. hope they would opensource it)
>"Had Snowden not run like a coward, he'd be a free man in the US right now."

We can't know this for sure. We have no idea what the behind-the-scenes factors were that led to Obama granting clemency to Chelsea Manning.
Allowlisting, yes. Keep in mind that even fairly unsophisticated malware has been observed using channels like pastebin and Twitter for exfil/c2.

Blocklisting, that's a cat and mouse game. Go look at how many different URLs and IPs are utilized for commercial telemetry in the likes of Adobe and Microsoft software if you aren't familiar.
So, now does he infiltrate Russian government and release secret documents of theirs? That would be a reasonable expectation...they may regret this move.
Looks like it was fixed. "squatted" was misspelled as "sqautted".
Good description of the essence of democracy and the path of it sliding into authoritarianism.

In a democracy all of the institutions of government and society are relatively independent, with power spread out and relatively balanced between them. This goes for the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of govt, as well as the civil service, the press, the academy, industry.

In contrast, as politicians start controlling "something like FBI or EEOC", and start forcing the justice department, the press, academic institutions and other government and societal structures to bend to the will of the leader, you soon have authoritarianism.

Once it goes that way, it is very difficult to restore a democracy.
First time I'm hearing about 3rd parties being compelled. Realistically given the target audience, why wouldn't most 3rd parties take the easy way out and keep the pre-installed IE?

At some point Microsoft was forced to include a browser choice program on installation and it had marginal effects on the IE user base. Likewise, despite the heavy shilling, Edge can barely get a foot in. Realistically all that changed is we now have to boot Edge or IE to get another browser again (from average user PoV).
I learned the hard way to not let my phone sit at 100% all the time.

When COVID hit and I started WFH, I just left my phone plugged in all the time. After 3 months, the battery started swelling.

Now, it may have been coincidence, but I doubt it. Now I only charge every other day, staying between 20% and 90%. I really wish I could configure an automatic charging limit without rooting the device or using some external method.
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He is probably in Gabe's basement playing l4d2.
"They" as in the countless spy agencies... I bet you don't even know how many of them are in the USA alone (They all share data anyways, so what's the point?).
"flying is a privilege not a right", "you have no expectation of privacy in public," and "but we're safer from aircraft collisions etc and that justifies the reduced privacy" are what it boils down to. I'd be shocked if anything you here isn't a nuanced or refined way of saying one of those.

Life is a lot safer now, so ever more 'safe' things start to look dangerous. If you prefer liberty/privacy to safety you're quickly becoming a dinosaur and if necessary society will imprison you to make sure you don't interfere with democratic process of the majority.
Yes and yes. Works like a charm for me when I need to learn a new area, including an unfamiliar area in a large existing codebase.

Start with tiny snippets. Spend a lot of time in a REPL, or write tiny tests, learning basic facts, proving intuitions, and connecting the dots. Write a lot of comments describing the findings, linking to the docs, etc. Ignore the urge to structure things beyond small, easily observable functions: not enough is known yet.

Eventually I convert a worksheet full of tiny snippets into a worksheet with a number of more interesting functions added, then with functions connected so that parts of the actual problem get solved. I can track the solution at every step back to the tiny snippets and comments.

Then I turn the worksheet into something like real code, using most of these functions, just structured properly, with tests split out, etc.
The general consensus seems to be either leave it in the checking account until it is pulled back (and it almost always will be unless the amount is "small or reasonable" and therefor not caught in an audit) or directly contact the company immediately.

Moving it to a savings account is tricky because the automatic clawback will pull from whatever account it was sent into.

Once the company issues a W2 or 1099 the next year that covers it, I would consider it relatively safe to keep.
Firefox is no position to make these kinds of moves (7% of desktop users, ~0% of mobile). Taking activist stances on how they want to see the web will serve to do nothing but drive more users away from Firefox.
Airalo just works in most of the world. I travel quite a lot and eSIM made my life a whole lot simpler.

Before you had to find an operator kiosk at the airport and negotiate with someone there who might or might not speak a language you speak to try to get a pre-paid vaguely firing your need if one exists. Now you can just pre-buy in app before your flight and everything pretty much just works.
Although this news is now stale, it seems to me like someone at nasa was almost hoping that the rocket was damaged. This could absolve them of the inevitable public failure that this launch (or lack thereof) will be.
> So you want to reform the week, the only time cycle that hasn't been altered in millennia to sync it with... what exactly?

No. I don't want to change the week at all. I'm just saying that "the week is 7 days so it's a quarter month" is broken as hell.