skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. life expectancy dips below China, at lowest level since 1996
DW are covering it in their regular online news bulletins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_SfNVNyqk
Isolated Web Apps
Generally, you're not logging in directly with the biometric data. The biometric data never leaves your device, it is just used to protect some kind of secret key on the local device that it actually uses for the authentication when logging in. If you need to log in another device, you would use an existing device to confirm the new login or you would need to use some other authentication method.
If you don't hold it yourself, you DO NOT OWN IT.

I had a disaster when using DropBox way back around 2011. Ever since then I have been responsible for storing and backing up my own files. Nobody else gets to have them in their 'safe'-keeping.
I've also wondered this, because I've considered setting one up for fictional creatures. If anyone has any details on the architecture of how these sites are set up.

I assume they generate a new image per time period [e.g. a second] and show the same image to everyone visiting the page rather than doing a generation per page load, simply because 1) they're so fast, and 2) sometimes if you refresh fast enough you can get the same image (at least one some TDNE sites). Would love to read some actual setup details though!
Sounds like you're getting all the benefits of a regular apple watch with cellular, no need for the Ultra
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariosaviosproulha...

“ There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop!“
Talk to your travel coordinator. Backlist hertz. Someone is going to get arrested. Someone is going to get killed. They’re still doing it.
> They're still making good ones: Frozen, Moana, Encanto. Just watch those and pretend the rest doesn't exist.

Probably the most objective way to view this is to actually look at the list of films from any given decade and see how many flops they had [1]. There's a bias at play here: the only movies we remember Disney making a decade+ ago are the hits. We don't often remember the misses.

Apparently Disney's "Renaissance" ended with Tarzan in 1999; but here are a list of movies that have come out since the end of this golden era:

- Monsters, Inc.

- Lilo and Stitch

- Treasure Planet (a personal favorite)

- Finding Nemo

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- The Incredibles

- Ratatouille

- WALL-E

- Up

- Tangled

- Brave

- Wreck-It Ralph

- Frozen

- Inside Out

- Encanto

I'm sure there's many great ones that you might love that I'm missing. But I'd say this lineup is potentially better than the list of movies spanning The Little Mermaid to Tarzan. To the author's credit, I will say there's part of me that's nostalgic for the traditional style of 2d character animation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f...
> writing gets better the more you do it.

Ed wood made a lot of movies, they were not any better after he had gained a lot of experience. The assumption that there is significant improvement on what you with time only occurs if there is self reflection and feedback loops and an incentive to progress.
A lot of similar points are made in The Critical Drinker's most recent video, "ENOUGH with the remakes" [1]. It seems like the latest way to stir up more interest (whether good or bad) is something that I do think they're doing, 'fan-baiting', where they intentionally play up a very small subset of criticisms as being anti-[whatever social issue is hot at the time], and use that as a shield against any real criticism.

I liked a lot of the 'Disney Renaissance' animated films, but most of them worked because they were animated (and could really bend reality). The hyper-real look to these remakes throws them straight into uncanny valley, and any additions to the new films tend to be (as the OP article states) pretty mediocre in quality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU453ZDqTG4
How would you define nature? Anatomically modern humans are 300K years old. Recorded history is 6K years old. Computer-science degrees have been around for less than a person's average lifetime. What is natural about what we are discussing, and what is the natural expectation to have?
Gruber assesses the size difference more positively.

https://daringfireball.net/2022/09/apple_watch_ultra
How do you feel about former contractors? A lot of (fairly lucrative) contract roles are often 6-12 months maybe a shade longer with extensions.
> But javascript bridge is slower than swift

How much slower are we talking? 20ms vs 9ms? I feel like we developers prematurely optimize critical paths without taking the actual timeliness of the objective into account.
Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the World to Find It
Getting a spell checker working on a machine with 64kB of RAM and a very slow disk with only 170kB of storage is black magic. Start thinking about how you would do it and check the size of the dictionary and it seems like a miracle to get it working at all.
> Neither Gemini nor the Internet Archive have access to the content through a channel other than the insecure HTTP endpoint, right?

All Gemini is signed. [0] It's mandatory. That's why the parent piped through openssl to connect.

For example, the page that we're looking at is signed. [1] (Using a bridge to show the certificate, but you can verify it yourself, as well.)

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html

[1] https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/...
JMAP benefits people who want to use broadly accepted, open standards. Especially standards better adapted to present and future needs: mobile use - lower latency & fewer round trips, lower end-user device power usage.

JMAP benefits FastMail (and others). The CEO of FastMail is also a heavy-lifter in standardizing JMAP, Bron Gondwana. It's probably appropriate to mention he's also a lead developer of the Cyrus IMAP free-software project, so it's hard to accuse him of making a private moat for his company.

Self-hosters, and small businesses, who can run software, and possibly contribute, but not write their own email software from scratch—-benefit.

JMAP is targeting email, and soon calendar, contacts, and maybe more general messaging, to run better suited to current network and user conditions.

https://jmap.io/

https://www.ietf.org/blog/jmap/

Who does TCP benefit, JSON, .well-known?

who does vcf/vCard benefit, or .ics (even if it started as a proprietary format)?
I wished people would refer to time I’m an unambiguous way. Sure your standard is 24h. I still gotta ask clarification when you tell me the meeting is at 8. Be specific. Having a 24h clock is useless id you say 8 in the evening.
If it were 1970 I'd say it was a programmer's test that made it into the firmware and was shipped.

We're a little more professional and we actually test stuff properly these days, so maybe it isn't that.
The idea that was never realized was "Bootstrapping". That is, to fund a group of developers to give a group of not-office-workers computer tools highly optimized for their work. The idea was to see the computer as something other than a glorified typewriter or filing system.

Imagine if mechanical engineers were given the tools in the mother of all demos, and then given a decade to keep making them better, all green fields design, optimized around their productivity, and nothing else.

The key and ONLY measure would be how much work they could get done, an existing non-computer centric metric.

I can't even imagine how far we'd be beyond what can be done with AutoCad.

The human factors results could then be generalized to apply to other fields, and perhaps other bootstraps could have been done.

Instead of "one size fits all" mass software, there would be highly optimized tools that require a lot of skill to learn, but then multiply productivity by orders of magnitude.

There's no source code because the project wasn't funded. We still really don't know how productive an organization can be if they were able to tap the full power of a computer for their exact needs.
This reminds me of the Numberphile video on date and timezones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

I sometimes wonder how the code to handle all this would look like.
How to start a collection of classic Macs
Oh man that is shitty!
If you don't want to send stuff to others, then you would generally need to either get the email address data another way (e.g. collecting the data from breaches yourself on behalf of your org) or download the Pwned Passwords data and setup a system to check against compromised passwords locally.
That's why China created the Digital Yuan for overseas trade.
Thanks, this was very informative.

I found some other alternatives, like Perseus. Do you have thoughts on it?

https://framesurge.sh/perseus/en-US/comparisons

I am interested more in it because it mentions a lack of VirtualDOM, like SolidJS (so I assume it is more like Svelte than React).
How you feel/what you think privately is very different to how you present yourself to your employer. Being predominantly interested in compensation is a goal best served by presenting yourself to employers as whatever it is they want you to be.
Garmin sensors are more precise, and the off the shelf analytics are better. Everything else in that parent comment is nonsense.

Apple Health data is very easy to download and share with 3rd parties (say a 3rd party that has better analytics than Apple Health offers, for instance…). I don’t get the battery complaints either. I only ever charge mine while I’m in the shower, and I don’t really have any problems. The only instance I found it an issue was in 24+ hour ultras, but I don’t think that’s what most people are complaining about…

Imo, the advantage that Apple has over the more well equipped Garmin models is that it’s comfortable to wear all day and sleep with. I never liked wearing the chunkier Garmins outside of training.
When they're stressed or ill, yes:

- https://www.iflscience.com/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself-24...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
Why do you have to write full time?
Bill Gates says political polarization could lead to a civil war
>"knowledge increases exponentially"

Personally I suspect that as (slightly) false and that it's actually something like quadratic-hyperbolic growth, which looks awfully similar to exponential growth if you don't zoom in.
> Actually Germany usually exports power to France.

When was this last true? Is this net export, or is this just some of France using German electricity?

Germany has been actively shutting down nuclear power stations without replacing their capacity for quite a few years.

If Germany is self sufficient for this winter, why are they beginning to impose energy restrictions on government buildings? Why are they having so much issue sourcing cheap energy? To me it sounds like a net import situation.

> In fact many of the nuclear plants in France don‘t work, especially this year.

As the thread suggested, this is because they are addressing a corrosion issue. These will at best not be ready till early 2023.
I have to seriously ask: Is this actually a surprise to anyone?
Why did you point out academics and scientific disciplines specifically even though you said it happens everywhere?
One difference is that the Ultra supports dual-frequency GPS, which I believe is a competitive advantage of the Fenix 5 as compared to the Series 8.
Tangential to the article, I urge the reader to read Andersen's original Little Mermaid, and not settle for Disney's beautifully animated, but watered-down (heh), bowdlerized version. And I don't mean the remake.

The same could be said for most of their works.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The greatest books were written by people having other occupations and full time jobs aside.
If it's a commonly used item, it would be much more efficient to pay an entry level CAD guy to draw up a parametric screw part. Add in toolsolids of all the subtracts that the component will do (taps, CBore, clearance), and supplier call outs. It starts to become efficient.
I can add an extra data point for a country on the continent.

Switzerland: £327 a month with an annual commitment, unlimited use of the swiss rail network, local buses/metros/trams/boats etc, with the exception of mountain tourism railways.
This is precisely what I’m talking about. I don’t replace my hvac every 5 years because Lennox came out with a new heat pump.
But not everyone holds that view based on where they live. So how do you those are the prevalent views?
The elevation profile of a planned hike really is the one thing I miss from WorkOutDoors. Too often do I look at my iPhone to see where exactly I’m at in the climb.
I love that it uses Comic Sans

never change!
Fun fact, edge.org and the Edge Foundation was generously funded by Jeffrey Epstein -- without him, Edge probably wouldn't exist as it does. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep.... From 2001 to 2017, "foundations associated with Epstein provided $638,000 out of a total of almost $857,000 received by Edge over this period." So basically Epstein funded 80% of Edge's budget.
I have had an incorrect CAD model from them. (Which they fixed when I brought it to their notice). Once burned, twice shy.
The Quakers numbered their weekdays and also their months, to avoid referencing foreign gods in their calendar. https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/quaker...
This whole article reads like a cope for the fallout caused by Thinking Fast and Slow.

I purposely keep my copy faced forward on the bookshelf as a reminder of the dangers of reading too much into anything published in the past 15 years.
> Also, you can't overlook that a significant number of people use Gmail/Google Apps and Outlook.com/Office 365 which each use a proprietary communication protocol that is unlikely to change in the future.

All of those support IMAP currently, an open standard. Exchange has MAPI as well.

Email is the best federated system we might ever have, and it has thousands of clients that can work with nearly any provider.

JMAP has not taken off, but there is a chicken and egg problem. Most clients don't support it so there is no pressure on services to support it. Though I imagine if Gmail supported it then suddenly all the clients would support it
The parsing plays a major role and is already the bottleneck in the app.

When using the app, the more the number of comments a post has, the longer it takes. On older devices (iPhone 6S or cheaper Android phones for example), it can take 10-15 seconds to parse 500 comment posts. My app already has to take this into account and therefore only displays 20 comments right away and then adds additional comments as it's finishing parsing the rest.

Since the app has a "go to next top level comment thread" button, this button has to stay hidden until all 500 comments have been parsed. So any slowness in the parsing can significantly ruin the experience.
As mancerayder says below, why can't you back them up to an external USB drive?
I rsync my 'archive' partition (photos, videos, music, programs, etc) daily to several external 4TB USB drives. Those are dirt-cheap these days. The process takes maybe 5 or 10 minutes depending on whether or not there have been any new files to transfer in the last 24 hours.

I refuse to relinquish my files to some insouciant third-party. And what recourse would you have if they lost them?? Very probably them saying "Sorry. Not our problem."
> That will just not happen outside of the rare scholarly altruist

if we listened to you it sounds like only academics would have the time to write books. thats just silly.
I think that the iOS built-in map component does not support offline vector maps. Most apps (with exception of WorkOutDoors) use that and cannot support improper offline without Apple updating the component.
Doesn’t matter. Your applications could choose not to include certain iOS versions anymore. And then you’re SOL, even if you’ve paid for the app but now the online component doesn’t work because they changed their APIs.
Not necessarily. She implied that a military person wouldn't use it because they would know it isn't effective due to a preconceived notion that it is ineffective against a person. That part is flatly false, since some military personnel would be familiar with its effective military use. As other people have mentioned, a suppressed .22 (Beretta, Buckmark, et al) were standard military weapons for covert ops for a long time. Even without suppression, they are pretty quiet as firearms go.

That isn't to say this guy knew how to use it, just that there are some people who could use a .22 pistol to great effect. The use of a .22 doesn't preclude competency with firearms.
> So the question is why were all these university people running Unix instead of VMS. Were they just dumb?

The "university" people were still running VMS certainly up through 1990 or so. Very few people ran Ultrix on their VAX hardware. And workstations were never widespread in universities as workstations basically cost as much as a car. A lab with 8 workstations was still a big deal in 1990.

Unix didn't sweep away VMS, PCs did. Just like PCs swept away workstations.

Unix didn't "win" until it latched onto PCs as a host. And people also forget that Unix didn't "win"--it lost terribly to both Microsoft and Apple.
Hoping to see AI rewrite big chunks of code while retaining the same functionality...
McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution
Canadian tech startups are hilarious. The domestic media likes to play up Hootsuite in Vancouver like it's a big deal. Maybe in the context of Vancouver's size of tech job market... But it's absolutely nothing compared to what exists in Seattle or anywhere in California or places in NY, Texas, etc.

The unfortunate lesson that every Canadian working in the tech field will learn is that if you're really talented and experienced, you're going to ultimately be faced with the stark choice of accepting a dramatically lower salary for the privilege of living and working in Vancouver or Toronto, maybe because you have family obligations or can't/won't move to the USA. While you will see your peers who are free to move take jobs at double the salary in USD-equivalent in the US.
+1 for AutoSleep, it’s amazing abs basically perfect even with intermittent or broken sleep.
Amazon is shockingly bad at parametric searches. Products are routinely miscategorized, often ridiculously so, and frequently have missing or woefully inaccurate parameters (like treating a bundle of four 16 GB SD cards as "64 GB").

Even when Amazon's product parameters are correct, their filters are frequently outdated -- for example, their category for "internal hard drives" has a single filter for "4 TB & Above", even though capacities as high as 20 TB are available. They also have a filter for 1500 RPM (not 15k!) drives, which I'm pretty sure have been out of production for longer than Amazon has sold hard disks.
Scary, this is like the side of the titanic cracking and all the countries on board about to sink.
But what is important in the next quarter's results has shifted. A company that might have prioritized reporting strong user acquisition might now prioritize cash.
"People don't have ideas. Ideas have people."

https://wearehostsformemes.com/
Then it shouldn't have been titled as so.
Not sure why this got flagged.

Anyways, I find it’s best to use they/them pronouns (or rather remain gender/pronoun neutral) when referring to people on the internet, unless their pronouns are obvious.
> at what point do we tear it down to see what happens?

Without knowing the purpose of something, we cannot know the cost of removing it.

A few weeks someone commented to me on how they thought that some chain link fencing along a railing should be removed because it was unsightly, until they saw a toddler playing near the railing and realized that the toddler could easily squeeze through if the chain link fencing wasn't there. If they never saw the toddler, they would have thought the fencing pointless. If the people they asked failed to think of the size or behaviour of toddlers, their conclusion would remain unchanged. Yet, had that chain link fencing been removed, the results have been tragic. Because of the nature of my work, I can think of many other circumstances where safety measures have been put into place where only a few people would understand their purpose. In most cases the reason is less obvious than that bit of fencing. Unfortunately, few of them have the element where someone realizes the purpose out of chance before the damage was done.

Much the same can be said of software. It may seem like it is fine to pull out a piece of code, test it outside of a production environment, and give it the okay when everything works. Yet it may not be fine. That code may have been inserted to deal with a problem that client X was having to deal with one of their requirements or to deal with a peculiarity of their production environment. Because it is particular to a particular client, the development team may not know of it (e.g. the developer who did the work is long gone) or it may have simply been forgotten. Just because the purpose is unknown in the present doesn't mean that removing it is devoid of consequence. Those consequences may range from impacting their procedures, to financial loss, to safety.

At the end of the day, you need to understand why something exists to determine if it is still relevant. It should be removed only once you know that it is no longer relevant.
Not sure that's much better? Tiff also said "inflation is transitory", but hey, here we are.

And if I'm a union guy negotiating my next 3 year contract and I listen to Tiff and only get 8% this year, then 3% the next two years, is Tiff going to pay the difference when inflation isn't under control?
You make a phone. After one year, you release a newer, faster phone, and then repeat every year following. At which point do you stop producing the first phone you made?

Perhaps you say "when it stops working". Well if that were the bar then we would still be producing computers from the 90s. Ok so maybe you say "no, when it stops running the apps I want to run". Sounds reasonable enough. So when should the app makers stop supporting the older hardware? Presumably at the point when maintaining the old hardware starts costs more than they make from the support.

This point will be reached sooner or later, and you might disagree with it because you still see the product as fully capable, but ultimately the phone will stop making economic sense at some point and production will stop.
My kids and their friends could sing many of the songs from Encanto from memory, especially "We Don't Talk about Bruno."

Frozen, which had an inferior story and even score, also had that quality.

The live action remakes have no soul and are forgotten as soon as they're over.
[1] https://twitter.com/JokerQuinc/status/1574211454865383424/ph...
Didn't he fund a ton of different scientific organizations?
> He mentioned vim.

He did, but just as less is more vi and emacs should always be mentioned together.
This is pretty! Love it!
https://archive.ph/49w2e
The only one who caused Ukraine to be dragged into a war is Russia.

If you want to say fuck anyone say “fuck Russia” to the Russian soldiers currently committing countless war crimes against women and children in Ukraine.
Convexity.space
Yep. This whole thing about not hiring "job hoppers" is a conspiracy to suppress wages by the management class. Companies will drop you without a second thought, you should have the right to do the same. I think more software engineers should move into consulting where the gun for hire nature of our industry isn't hidden.