skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words: the RTO crowd has settled on a justification that is conveniently very difficult to measure.
Yeah, 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM#SA-110
Would it go down easier if you were offered a home, healthcare, and stability in lieu of re-training?
Don't want to be that guy (am that guy :( ), but the word is "preceded" - came before. "Proceeded" means came after, and has a direct subject.
I have worked in graphic design for nearly 20 years, and I doubt anyone will actually miss this at scale.

If you're working with EPS, you are working in specific non-Apple applications that work with EPS. You're in InDesign or Illustrator, neither of which use the system libraries for EPS parsing.
> Maybe someone can enlighten me.

I gave a talk (with transcript) about this here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-2019/

> Lightweight threads / green threads achieve the same outcome as async, but without the downsides.

This is not the case. Both have pros and cons.
Luneburg lens converts a point into a collimated beam
I know she did a few stitches herself and a couple of her videos were kind of designed to try to encourage stitching, like some sort of prompt or something (although I don't remember the premise of them anymore), but I don't think anyone did.
Each star will give a circle on which you could be located. 2 will be the intersection of 2 circles, which is 2 points. If you have some additional assumptions (e.g. Northern hemisphere), it is possible to eliminate one of the points. Otherwise you need a 3rd point to get a full triangulation.
Why can something so simple and unobjectionable happen in other places but not the US? Your knee-jerk response is the same as my own, but I wonder to what extent the apathy/cynicism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I'm always happy to have stuff like f-strings in languages. This on the other hand feels much too overladen with separate requirements of safety/etc. which reduces its general usability. Suddenly you don't have to prefix it with "f" / "{}" but "STR." and "\{}", which (unlike f-strings) keeps cluttering your reading space more, something you actually try to improve on with this very feature in other languages. Neither the prefix nor the curly braces are optional for simple terms sadly, unlike in some other languages.
Do you mean Pascal the person? :P
Bust out 1 and 2 are basically the Private Equity playbook. Buy a company, take on debt, buy-back stock. If possible, extract extra fees.

There's a book called Plunder that does a great job going into more detail on this model.
>"install all this spyware on my phone"

You do not need to install spyware on your phone. It is a spyware on it's own. So are Alexa, "smart" TVs and many other things.
i interviewed for a role to solve the latency issues. i brought 20 years of experience to the table. i could not solve their cute leetcode question in 2 min so i was out. i had the solution to their latency issues in my pocket. good luck to the team.
I was buying expensive wired earbuds long before airpods were a thing. if anything, they normalized spending $200 on audio equipment.

passive audio protection > active sound canceling. Unlike most people, I don't find losing earbuds and surprisingly discharged earbuds to be 'features'.
I would say Newtonian mechanics is a good approximation (as it is accurate in its domain, plus easier to conceptialize and compute with than either QM or GR).

Approximations aren't "wrong", they are just simplifications of something less wrong, usually in certain corner cases. Sometimes approximations are derived from the broader theory, and sometimes the broader theory comes later. (And of course, sometimes old theories are proven plain "wrong" by evidence and new theories, but those are things more like alchemy, or mistakes in math proofs, and less like Newton's laws).

Finally, iff we follow your logic then we can say nothing is ever "right". Philosophically it may be useful to realize we may never know the ultimate truth with 100% certainty, but in everyday English "right" can simply mean "appropriate".
it is my first time seeing java web framework project on HN. I am sure that this is a great project but for the love of god, just let Java die , please. There are plenty of better alternatives to choose from (nodejs,go, python, elixir, clojure, Ruby etc)
At 00:15, label pops up at the top-right that says “1.5X Speed”
Such tablets are now sold as "foldable phone". I love it for reading everything and fits in my pocket, but it's expensive for who just want a Nexus 7 2023.
Ask him how long it can fly at 90. Few minutes at most.
This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos bucks they’d be able to find someone better.
I know it's always easier said than done, but if you are that much happier and more productive working from home why aren't you looking for a new WFH job?
True. Of course you can still use EPS, you just have to find another program to view them in. And isn’t there a tool in most TeX pakages that can convert it to PDF, then you should be able to use that at as an input if it makes it easier?

I used to use PDF because you could easily export them from Illustrator and suck them straight in to xelatex or pdflatex (but this was years ago, so I can’t remember all the specifics)
I'm a big fan of 1.0 releases not being a huge change to software.

Just business as usual, but with the implication that it's pretty settled into how it should work.

Separate to my appreciation for more odd versioning schemes, like the one TeX uses.
Embedded Swift
What are some examples of open source projects that were taken over and the licensing modified where no successful fork managed to emerge?
Since so many others including myself don't see it, I guess that means it is getting a slow rollout which they are being extra cautious with this time.
In theory, maybe. I don't think our models of the universe are anything other than imperfect but useful approximations though.

Could your question be rephrased as "take the real world, with its things we don't have an accurate model of (which is most of them). Would we notice if we replaced this universe by a tidier one, perfectly described by a math model?".

It's an interesting, scifi question alright. I don't know if it has an answer.
Sure, partially it's a failing of management. But all the management is WFH and unresponsive as well. So it's easier for me to just ignore whatever team I'm in and work with the people sitting around so I can actually get stuff done.
In other news: security researchers have decompiled a popular Chinese social media app to find it has been hijacking the accelerometer and GPS in the smartphones of US citizens.

The payload was being activated whenever the phone was meeting a specific set of conditions: moving above 50mph, in a straight line, and on a road with a smooth surface.

When all three conditions were met a POST was made to an HTTP endpoint somewhere inside China. While the first two conditions are common, the detection of a well maintained highway with a suspicious lack of potholes is rare enough to identify secret military air fields with complete accuracy.

— me, after Doctorow
Actually, we're authentic hikers. We're wannabe drone hunters.
IT would also be great if the ingredients were somehow color coded based on some approximate population wide risk factor.
Math can also be imaginary, but this also seems to be a feature of the universe.
My work does something like this with Surfaces and unfortunately if you leave devices like that plugged in all the time the batteries swell and bend the screen and frame.

Maybe they could soft lock them to 50% or something but under normal circumstances it's too dangerous.
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This is good news, thank you. I've wanted a Leaf for a long time but the prices skyrocketed when covid hit. I may start to look at them or the bolt again.
Yup. They could not get competitive so they had some politicos pimping for them and can now feed on taxpayer's money.
> As I write this note, the common stock of a no-longer-functionally-bankrupt-but-now-formally-bankrupt Bed Bath & Beyond trades at $0.17 per share.

in the 4 months since May 16, BBBY has lost another 50% and closed a $0.08 today.
They network very effectively with other high net worth people
Resolution is more important than grayscale for e-ink - not only are they two sides of the same coin for dithering, but e-ink renders far faster in black-and-white so with sufficient resolution you've got a snappier page turn.
> So far nobody has demonstrated the existence of phenomena that contradicts the equations of physics. Usually we would call such phenomena "supernatural."

You cannot contradict a description; it's not a "law" in the legal/prescriptive sense.

How would you even "contradict the equations of physics"? The real world exists and it's there; we use models to imperfectly describe (to varying degrees of success) its phenomena. In a sense, the real world contradicts those equations because they do not perfectly describe it; they are just an approximation.
Remember when that was Apple and Microsoft? How times have changed!
There was a recent article (Sep 21) in Financial Times, claiming that the F35 stationed in the US were able to only fly in 55% of cases due to various maintenance issues. Maybe they should consider using runways after all :)

Edit: found it, http://archive.today/Ehlag
In any evidence-based discussion of "the kids these days" I think the elephant in the room is the mental health crisis - they have the highest rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness and suicide, they may be the most stressed out and unhappy generation ever.
ah, nice, I didn't know they had added a true "follow me" function to the mini line. Thanks.
less mozilla, more safety? and also more mozilla, more safety?
Reading this today got me started reading about other historical finds for about an hour. The last I read before heading out for the day was the Sutton Hoo ship burial.

I've been asking myself all day, what beautiful treasures would I like to be buried with?

I don't really own much that is not throw away junk.
SocialAGI – Subroutines for AI Souls
I can't find replacement batteries for the Spark. My spark went into cold storage during covid, during which time all the batteries irreparably self-discharged.

I'm hesitant to buy another DJI for the reasons above but I haven't seen any non DJI products that wow me. I guess it's a toss up between the FPV and the mini 4.
Free credits for these type of products tend to be through startup programs that require venture funding.
They might want to, but obviously they can't if they don't have enough saved
This reads like parody (from llama.cpp, to it being a beacon of where industry is going (!?), to GPUs are overkill for what is effectively a lot of dot products)
Sooo... about the Apache Software Foundation
I thought everyone does this haha
An async runtime should have been a core part of the language from day one. Yes, make it user replaceable if you want (like the allocator) but one must be provided by the standard library. No buts.
Fair play, I imagine I'd do the same in your situation, sorry to hear your management is asleep at the wheel -- I'm a big advocate of WFH but it does require people (especially managers) to change how they work and communicate in order to work successfully.
Can't edit now. Thank you for being "that guy". Dear reader. Please read what I wrote in the sense implied by "that guy".
Borrowing money and turning it over to shareholders via buybacks and the destroying the debt with bankruptcy is obviously better serving the shareholder's interests.

Not sure what standard for “proper” you are using, or how you expect it to be a norm in a basically-capitalist economy.
It is a thing I eventually plan on selling.
Focuses more on the historical side of undersea cables, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to recommend Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World was One” which is an incredible book on the history of telecommunications infrastructure, including the history and economics of undersea cables.
I'm not going to debate a strawman.
Discord for Support? That would require me to either use my personal discord for work, or make a work discord.
> there was a lot of pushback inside the us military on investing in increasing the accuracy of naval ICBMs.

The book "Inventing Accuracy" covers this in detail. Fascinating historical perspective.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631471/inventing-accuracy/
Kevin Fischer – Open Souls (AGI Talk) [video]
Turn the volume on your microphone down and watch as Whisper just starts SCREAMING.
> "Have never seen a company so quickly and completely just throw away all of their public good will."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner - head of a chain of jewellery shops described his company's products as 'total crap' and that speech tanked the shares by £500M in 1991 money - around $1.2Bn equivalent today.
Hotel hackers redirect guests to fake Booking.com to steal cards
I wonder how many stories there are out there like yours. Personally I’ve heard enough to be discouraged from ever applying.
Duolingo is experimenting with a GPT-4 fine tune/wrapper which makes it act as a Socratic method teacher.
I don't understand how it is possible to advance to a decision-making role if someone is stupid enough to attempt to remove porn from OnlyFans, the household name for amateur porn.
Apple have chosen to go all in on Swift for their first-party code, from the kernel to the libraries to the apps. Even things running on microcontrollers (but there’s no official or standard embedded Swift subset yet).

It’s quite interesting actually that they’ve very intentionally focused on building two-way transition layers so they can start gradually integrating Swift into codebases built in C and Objective-C, and recently new support for C++ and Objective-C++. Which is the best way to do it, big rewrites are the worst, after years of effort you often have a replacement with fewer features than the old one! So being able to replace little bits at a time and write new features in a new language is cool.

See this talk for the details on that - https://youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

So don’t expect to see any Rust code from Apple, although of course they might ship third party things written in it at some point.
Military airbases are luring the UFOs. This is why they always appear nearby.
All a stock JDK lacks to handle this out of the box is a JDBC driver (which it has innate support for), and a template engine.

It has a built in HTTP server which has recently been improved. It’s also getting, in preview now, a string formatting subsystem which is not quite a template language, but it’s interesting. And, to be fair, out of the box the JDK does have a template system: XML and XSLT 1.0 support.

The HTTP server is usable, but could use some sugar. Same for the logging system, usable but could use some sugar as well.

It has TLS built in as well.

It does not have JSON built in. In todays world, that along with persistence are probably two true must haves. Mind, the JDK used to ship with JavaDB, which was a version of the Apache Derby database.

It is trivial to add the SQLite jar to a project. You wouldn’t even need a connection pool with that.

Anyway, the point being that the JDK is almost there just by itself to be capable of serving a lot of use cases if you’re willing to put in a little bit of work to make your particular work flows a bit easier to use.
Yup, absolutely. My take is that because you get to do something fun (start from scratch in a good language), the thousands of test cases you have to write and then run against the old implementation doesn't feel so bad. (I have to imagine a good amount of mailing list archeology will also be required. "How did Linux mess this up in 1992?" etc.)
Boltgun's alright. My favorite of the neo-retro shooters is Amid Evil. (Weird to call a game with RTX raytracing support retro, but that's 2023 for you.)

But honestly, IMO, if you want to play Doom or Quake... I recommend just playing Doom or Quake. The modding scene for both games has been active for nearly 30 years, and there's still excellent content coming out for both games regularly. If anything, modding popularity has accelerated in recent years thanks to "Doomtubers" like decino giving additional exposure to custom maps. Dwell[0] came out this year and is one of the best Quake map sets/mods ever, and the Cacowards[1] always has great stuff, with the 2023 edition coming soon.

[0] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dwellv2p2.html

[1] https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2022/
> i could not solve their cute leetcode question in 2 min so i was out. i had the solution to their latency issues in my pocket. good luck to the team.

Why do some Google engineers make $500k-$3m/yr?
As a U10 soccer coach, using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot kept my players in the game much longer.
Life Rule 101 - *Trust is earned* That is, if it's not earned, it's not trust. Full stop.

And yes, the loss of trust is the exponential inverse. That is, one slip and your ten steps forward is at least one massive step back. And if you never earned true trust in the first place then you're worse off.

It's worth repeating: Life Rule 101 - *Trust is earned*
The US operates 750 bases in 80 countries. I don't know why you are fixated on US operations, when military operations primarily take place outside of the US.
Things can get a bit tricky depending on whether you consider "Hispanic" to be a race or ethnicity; if you consider "White" to mean "White, non-Hispanic" the figure is actually 58.9%[0]. Since TFA breaks out Hispanic and White as different categories without mentioning this I suspect they are viewing it that way, but I can't say for certain.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045222

Amusing aside: I belatedly noticed we've both cited the exact same page!
Hmm... I wonder if this is this why opening man pages with Preview suddenly stopped working in Monterey while ago?
If math is real, nothing is real.
Some places you have to apply for a permit (few of which are issued) to make sure there aren't too many hikers at once. So I think it's both.
Others might say that drones are a sensible and respectful way to honor a beautiful landscape.

Mini 2's are quiet enough and much of the hostility against their use is rooted in prejudice and a little bit of hysteria.
And for some, the Ball State University. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_State_University
It’s ridiculous that companies are allowed to just conjure up a unit of measurement (the Serving) out of thin air purely to confuse the public.
So the confrontational is more because of the perceived shift to offensive ("unprovoked") first strike over "defensive" second strike, rather than any perceived loss of a deterrent second strike capability?
Wouldn't the vast majority of articles on this site require that tag?
They remind us that we are all gorillas more quickly than others.
The more interesting question is are the numbers in the universe the subset of real numbers that are computable.
Downtowns are generally the only “15 minute” cities around in any urban area.
All I want for Christmas is for eink displays to be as cheap as commodity LCDs.
Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29
This sounds like a problem to me. It takes more than ML folks to ship a high quality, production ready product.
That’s interesting; thanks.
Our lockdowns simply can’t be worse in the future, at least not in living memory. The people who have lived through them simply won’t stand for them.
This is the crossing of the Rub icon. The dye is cast.
Trust real Trust, by definition, is *not* the default position. If it's not earned, it's not trust. Anything else? Call it what you want, but it's not trust.

Politicians and other opportunists love to leverage the false idea that trust is a default. The bar is higher.
Are they any more or less stressed than kids who grew up during the great depression or during the world wars? Or is that we just have better tools for data collection and analysis, and a better culture around being open about mental health issues?
Everyone does this. Otherwise you'd go bat sh*t crazy trying to remember every intricate details of common tools.

also using ctrl+r and filter through older commands (ctrl+r to cycle) is also necessary for good mental health.

for example

alias ll="lsd --icon never -l"
alias lla="lsd --icon never -l -a" # all
alias llr="lsd --icon never -l -r -a" # reversed
alias lls="lsd --icon never -l -r -a -S" #by size
alias llt="lsd --icon never -l --tree" #tree
alias lld="lsd --icon never -l -d -a --tree" #directories tree

alias m='micro'
alias ss="git status"
alias diff="git diff --color | cat"
alias log="git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
alias lz="lazygit"
alias dc="docker-compose"

# rust
alias cr='RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run'
alias clippy='cargo clippy'
... many others

Soon enough, when you start piping these, you end up with your own bash language, cca. of that time you thought it was a good idea to augment C with macros (sic!)
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Former Amazon hardware boss Dave Limp will take over as CEO of Blue Origin
I don’t think Einstein could have come up with general relativity if he had to rely on any other language than math. So I suspect math is not “just” another language.
Fixing this as an individual is not that hard. Stop eating processed foods, eat whole foods. And if you're severely insulin resistant, consider a temporary low carb diet.
On a societal level, screw these giant processed food companies.
I bought Affinity Designer because I updated my Mac and Adobe CS6 (which I used Illustrator from) no longer worked.

It’s really great, if you do that kind of thing I second it for sure.
I've still got PCX and BMP files I drew as a kid in the 80s that work fine in every major OS
The rope breaks and now your go-pro is in the sky.
California High-Speed Rail gets $200M boost
Hahaha. Maybe, maybe. But what if (at least some of) the lizard people are actually not from another planet but are from an alternate timeline dimension of Earth where the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't happen and it was reptiles that evolved into a "humanoid" 5 pointed upright form? o_O
I'm recounting second hand so can't source anything but here is an SLBM test done in 2021 by a sub off of Florida, and it landed in the South Atlantic. So they must have several different ranges, and possibly it's changed over time.

https://missilethreat.csis.org/us-navy-test-fires-trident-ii...
Dredge if you like fishing and don't mind Lovecraftian horrors.

I also hear good things about Dave the Diver.
My 2013 Nexus 7 refused to die- I used it until late 2022, when I finally replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy Tab A, which is almost as good though I miss the "pure Android" minimal experience; I don't care for Samsung's additions to the base Android platform.
I don't regard that as obvious. A social safety net COULD catch them when they fall out of the workforce. We don't seem to have such a safety net in America, but that's a consequence of politics, not of economics or technology. Confronting those politics admittedly is a tall order, but consider the alternative: retarding innovation, wasting human potential, and maintaining make-work jobs because politics is hard? Is that really the hill you wanna die on?
Can you give a couple examples of such projects?
And what are the answers from philosophy? Last I looked, all that philosophy could offer to questions like that was an enumeration of multiple conflicting answers.
It was easier for me to find a rental in NYC than in was in Berlin so I wouldn't really say Germany is ahead there either. Maybe if you got a rental 10 years ago? German rental markets are price-controlled which means extreme shortages because... surprise surprise... Germans don't build either.