skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you feel my tone was aggressive, condescending or negative in other ways then I’m sorry.

I think it’s an unfair interpretation to believe that I don’t want to use HN as intended, I’m just tired of seeing every thread that’s critical of China head down the same path. You said:

> That is not at all an accurate description. This is a classic example of how people feel like the site is biased against their point of view even when it's the dominant one.

The US whataboutism is undeniable, you also acknowledged it yourself, while highlighting the same thing happened with Russian threads. I think it’s naive to believe that “all this shows is what controversy is hot right now”. Because it’s a common and effective tactic that occur on all social media, and in threads that aren’t related to China/Russia, everyone usually seem to be able to behave and stay on-topic.

As for mass flagging and quick downvotes, I can only make assumptions based on personal experience and careful observations (been using HN for over half a decade and tend to refresh the site every few minutes). You seem to blame/credit moderators for causing the threads to disappear, whereas I was under the impression it was often caused by mass flagging.. so I’m genuinely curious if flagging a thread has any effect on its position, or if it simply alert a moderator to take a closer look.
So, not stable. Stable in this context means "stable foundation" or "static" and is unrelated to "not crashing".
Build something that makes world a better place.
I don't think it is, but sounds similar to Avita Medical (AVH.ASX) and AVMXY. Their recell product has great results for burns, Vitiligo and diabetic skin lesions.

Avita have been at it for quite a while and are now in 28 America Burn Association Burn centers and look like they are increasing that number significantly this year.

Strong patent portfolio, focused on skins and a couple of other indications at the moment.

Disclosure, I am an investor.

Their lead researcher is really fun to listen to. I have a lot of respect for her
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ujqxB-I2rdM

The company is this one
https://avitamedical.com/about-recell
Or get hit by a (hypothetical) bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
After spending 25 years in tech as a dev I can unequivocally state that 'stability' is a mostly meaningless meme and most all arguments built around stability=good ships with some deep and profound caveats.

Do not drink the stability cool-aid, its 98% poisonous nonsense.

Perhaps this is different on non-linux platforms, but if you find yourself there you have far greater problems than 'stability'.
m68k is still kept alive as an unofficial port so you can run Debian unstable if you have m68k hardware.
Run DoH over a Tor socket then...
While I personally trust my ISP more than some random US based entity, that's of course true. The thing with VPN alternatives for me is that the VPN landscape today is already weirdly organized, opaque and would have no real incentive for a free tier.

Short of hosting their own, which consumers will not do, I don't see a scenario where VPN providers end up in a position that's more trustful than your average (Western world) ISP is today tbh.
Super interesting theory. I think the implication here is a little bit unnerving though: if an individual has three "weird" views, and the most effective way to convert another individual is to only expose them to one of those three, then are we doomed as a society to evolve at a slow pace, since humans are just not psychologically prepared to comprehend so many new ideas at the same time?
I honestly think the only reason something is happening with this is people who speak with President Trump complain about it.

Otherwise you can basically do anything you like in the US right now. I realize how salty that sounds but I think this is the theme unfortunately.
There are many arguments I can think of for using docker but "standard" is a pretty poor one. Directories, bash scripts and package managers are also arguably "standard" and sufficient to install most software. We should care primarily about alleviating deployment pain - not about argumentum ad popularum.

"Shipping container standardisation" is not a metaphor for what docker is, it's marketing. Docker, of course wants to be a "standard" product. Every product wants to be that.

In my experience, it's been more like a buggy kludge to deal with applications that have isolation issues with their dependencies and unnecessary overhead for applications that don't. All with a sprinkling of marketing hype.
Decent overview here - from what they presented at this year's American Burn Association conference
https://www.marketscreener.com/AVITA-MEDICAL-LTD-8777378/new...
Here is a fresh Zen1 timings comparison from Reddit[1].

Most increase is between 3200cl14 vs 3200cl12. 12%. Difference between this two is almost purely a Latency.

Then compare 3200cl12 and 3600cl14 - 3%, marginally no increase. Almost no difference in latency, only throughput and IF.

Past 3200 RAM throughput and inter-core-communication (IF) has very little influence for Zen1 gaming. For Zen2 this scenario would differ in some ways but not too much.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/c9x8v7/2700x_memory_sc...
It's not necessarily so much about the coding. It's about the maintenance and refactoring. The people who like types aren't so much the implementors who dictate the original full view of the system; the people who like types are the janitors who have to understand and clean up and extend the system down the road.

Suppose you're writing an e-commerce system. It's fast and convenient to just stick a value in a Price field and not worry about whether it's a float or decimal or even concatenated as a string somewhere, if everything seems to work.

Now two years later you or some poor successor is tasked to implement a feature that Price not be a single value, but a list or some other structure, say it's keyed with different values over time or per market segmentation or A/B testing or whatever. That engineer will be really glad to have a strong type system that can catch every reference to Price being a single numeric value.
>I'm genuinely curious what you imagine would replace the present American world order.

The present American world order requires: a) utter ignorance of its war crimes by its people, b) endless debt to pay for war and war machines, c) invalidation of sovereignty of foreign nations according to American political expediency, d) the pretence of a society governed by systems of democracy while factually being run by a cabal of oligarchs, e) more spent on war per week than on health care for its citizens per year, f) the continued degradation of cultures deemed inferior by the ruling cabal.

I'd be happier if the major world power was actually democratic and used its powers to increase peoples health and well-being rather than the wholesale destruction of, and mass interference with, states not towing the American line ..
The longer I've been around open source, the less it's seemed like some ideological adventure where we extend human knowledge and capabilities for its own sake, while looking more and more like a set of intentionally confusing layers of abstraction and indirection around companies with plenty of money to spend on more engineering hours contriving to buy those hours well at below minimum wage by selling people on the above ideological vision.

Also, I'm going to guess that's something like five active contributors signed up, not five full-time engineers, meaning the actual number once you do the math for availability and such is probably closer to half an engineer. Could be five, but Heartbleed kinda put paid to reasoning like "pip is important, surely it has the funding for dedicated contributors who aren't distracted by something else being their real job."
It's similar to our love hate relationship with advertising. Almost all employed readers work for companies who are at varying degrees dependant on advertising and almost all have adblock enabled. We are compromised and conflicted.
OpenSuSE is great as well. Stable, the Leap release is reasonably fresh with 18 month support window and they have a rolling release.
I posted the same comment as yours.

My guess is that the OP was referring to some non-replaceable proprietary stuff with higher-level of integration, like some kind of modules, devboards or FPGA or something. I don't know.

I just updated the comment to ask for an example.
How many innocent people has America murdered in illegal wars since 2003?
Those tend to be mirrors instead I think
Because running fork() in Rust,C&Friends is more efficient? I don't have to reload the code image at all and I instantly share all data, including any configuration.

Plus you can more easily do shmem in those languages than JS which gives you another performance advantage over pipes.
This happened to some degree with WWII, and the accusation is less that people are radicalised and more that they are given a target for their frustration.

This TED talk summarises it well. You are correct that certain media in the UK very much laid decades of foundations, and also the government with its austerity measures arguably created much of the environment conducive to radicalisation.

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_...

I guess I want to say that the fact the situation is far more nuanced than "the Russians did it" neither excuses it nor does it render those actions irrelevant. They seem to be a fairly clear piece of the puzzle.

I'm also sure that all our secret services have been at similar games for years so it's ok to have little sympathy too, but Facebook targeting did get in the way of scrutiny and oversight of these messages which is really problematic for democracy.

[edit] fix typo
I use Hub every day! The only command I use is "hub pull-request" though.
Are you an American, dang? Because its very clear to me that you won't tolerate any criticism of your in-group, and that makes HN less valuable, not more.
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> I don't use it and I don't have any issues with my current Linux desktop (using xmonad).

It looks like there's an effort to port it to Wayland https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

The fact is X11 is being supported mostly by Fedora and they're going to stop using it too.

It is already in maintenance mode with no new releases scheduled. Eventually it will be completely unmaintained, probably around 2029 when RHEL8 support is dropped.

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...
Their constant hit pieces on prominent YouTubers and new media in general has been awful. Hilarious considering how much they must rely on Google for revenue.
Network-driven differences in optimal transitions among automatable jobs
Will the first Modi 2.0 budget boost India’s AI readiness?
Instead I would rather a SpiderMonkey written in Rust.
Excellent post, thank you.

I've run into similar challenges in a number of (mostly microservice) systems that also avoided monorepos (for various practical and philosophical reasons). Parts of the solution space here are very familiar, especially relating to dependency management and "goldilocks" framework infrastructure.

I've especially found that most cloud CI tools (e.g. Circleci) fall flat here without a lot of additional work. Those ecosystems seem designed for a single repo; there's a big opportunity for someone to get CI right for non-trivial, multi-repo projects.
For Apples these are known and sold as 'family trees'.

Here's one with 250 varieties of apple.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-24348394/man...
Wait. So I haven't used Wayland at all yet but why would the graphics driver need to have support for a tiling WM? isn't that in a whole different later and shouldn't matter at all?

Does NVIDIAs driver has any special code to make i3 work on X11 but missing code to make sway work on Wayland?
That is probably why it works so well to be honest.
Democracies to lose global economic dominance as authoritarian capitalism rises
I have the Ikea Markus at home and it's been fine, especially for a $200 chair. I use a Herman-Miller Aeron in my work office that I got when I was having back problems, and like it a lot ... but I've found the Markus to be a good solution given the cost disparity. I don't feel like I need to spend $1000 for my home office.
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Mystery of NSA leak lingers as stolen document case winds up
Very open - Python is one of the better communities out there for openness and inclusion. The pip folks are lovely people and would welcome your help - https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/.
Has anyone gotten it to fruit in America? I’d consider taking a trip to a durian farm if I could get freshly fallen Durian.

Jackfruit is another one of my favorites in the tropical fruit world.
This reminds me of the Library Grape from Anathem:

"The library grape had been sequenced by the avout of the Concent of the Lower Vrone in the days before the Second Sack. Every cell carried in its nucleus the genetic sequences, not just of a single species, but of every naturally occurring species of grape that the Vrone avout has ever heard of -- and if those people hadn't heard of a grape, it wasn't worth knowing about. In addition, it carried excerpts from the genetic sequences of thousands of different berries, fruits, flowers, and herbs: just those snatches of data that, when invoked by the biochemical messaging system of the host cell, produced flavorful molecules. Each nucleus was an archive, vaster than the Great Library of Baz, storing codes for shaping almost every molecule nature had ever produced that left an impression on the human olfactory system.

A given vine could not express all of those genes at once -- it could not be a hundred different species of grape at the same time -- so it "decided" which of those genes to express -- what grape to be, and what flavors to borrow -- based on some impossibly murky and ambiguous data-gathering and decision-making process that the Vrone avout had hand-coded into its proteins. No nuance of the sun, soil, weather, or wind was too subtle for the library grape to take into account. Nothing that the cultivator did, or failed to do, went undetected or failed to have consequences in the flavor of the juice. The library grape was legendary for its skill in penetrating the subterfuges of winemakers who were so arrogant as to believe they could trick it into being the same grape two seasons in a row."
Although I think five may be quite good comparatively, my thanks to the pip developers.

And if five is not a good number, this is indirectly one of the reasons that I enjoy using python. It has a 'batteries included' release, where I often write code without feeling like I need to $ pip install anything at all. If the 3rd party package delivery system is fragile, that isn't good - but it doesn't represent a dire crisis for me as a user of python.
Bitcoin Money-Laundering Cartel Was Operating from Inside a Florida Prison
Understanding and Reducing Bias in Machine Learning
And now consider that developers would have to spend a multiple of their time on every little app. And they will be more buggy and insecure. And you'd often need to trust the binaries and install them.

Rust drives all of that down somewhat. Also webassembly will bring the ability to trust almost-native machine code.
How can I find "unofficial" testing image with non-free drivers?
That's kind of the same question I would have about choosing testing over sid.

If the intention is to be on rolling-release, you might as well just use sid. If you'd rather just be on rolling-release until the stable release is carved out (new features desired, for example), testing is pretty fine since it will transition into being the stable release.
Anything existing that does similar for gitlab?
Because the OS (getaddrinfo(), gethostbyname(), etc') doesn't implement DoH; it implements a /etc/hosts parser and a DNS (over UDP) client.

I wrote a glibc plugin that implements a caching DoH client for glibc, which can replace the DNS client or fall back to it - https://github.com/dimkr/nss-tls.
Not upgrading versions of desktop applications means I won't have to deal with nasty surprises like configuration files changing, defaults changing and requiring changing configuration, disappearing features, incompatibilities with existing plugins/extensions or integration with other tools.
After being very critical of another report and their calculations it's ironic that the math in the last sentence seems wrong by a factor 2:

> the total spend for Disney in 2020, to deliver just the video bits to 15M Disney+ subs, would be about $4M in total. [Note this is per month, so $24M for the year]
All valid points.

Fwiw, in https://github.com/bitnami/kubecfg we have added a native functions for yaml.
You can install an anti-spam filter on your landline by connecting a modem on the landline. A modem allows you to control the phone-line programmatically: if the number is unwanted, just let your program to hang it up. Software like NCID (http://ncid.sourceforge.net/) provides a solution for interpreting the Caller-ID of the incoming calls.

Even better, because the modem only rejects incoming calls, it won't interfere with your phone. You can continue using it as usual.

All can be done on a Raspberry Pi.

https://murphy101blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/raspberry-pi-...
From the Russians, it’s unclear, but the Trump campaign certainly used micro targeting in swing states to get Sanders voters to not turn out to vote for Clinton.

As for the Russians, they are not interested in getting a specific candidate elected as much as amplifying falt lines in Western societies. There are many cases where they were inciting unrest on both sides of an issue.
Often they can, if they don't use certain features not yet encapsulated in webapps.

Most of it is about trust, and you'll see certain web APIs built around asking for permission to access the camera, or image files or whatever.

Desktop apps often can't really trust each other. It's not a problem right now, but if you could XSS something into a game or social app which, with user-level permissions on your desktop could remote-control (for example click-simulating) your electron banking app, that would be really bad. Just a contrived example, but with great power comes great exploitability.
A good parallel is how fad diets slip into the zeitgeist. People were already looking for a magic cure for their weight problems. When that cure falls on their lap many people fall end up with a new (frequently self-destructive) solution.

The key is the finding susceptible people and giving them the solution they were already looking for and it'll almost feel obvious.
I'm Irish and I really like Durian. The flavour and character can really change amongst different varieties too.
Of course, a graph where vertices are phone numbers and edges are "likely has in contact book" is probably fairly straightforwards, if not cheap, to buy...
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Both of my kids have attended Waldkindergarten as a standard cultural action here in Austria, and it has been extremely successful in their case - motivating them each to be engaged in nature in their environment, wherever we go. I quite often will find either one of them in our own garden, poking at something interesting, whittling a new stick, caring for a creature they found somewhere. Whereas their peers who did not attend seem, these days, to only have attention for their mobile phones.

I strongly encourage every parent in the Western world to get your kids engaged in the natural environment, whatever it takes. City-dwellers seriously need contact with nature, especially kids.

I truly believe a kind of highly damaging neurosis occurs when people don't hug trees.
I was thinking about whole driver feature set, so got it wrong.
Yeah, unfortunately the people in this thread do not have experience with this stuff and just reply based on their gut feeling.

That middle zone you describe where you are stuck between the two worlds are probably the worst.
Yes indeed, it looks actually suitable for rough terrain and will be driven in such.
Yes, big transitions with desktop environments can lead to glitches for a while too. Theoretically independent parts can be upgraded at different times, but show subtle compatibility bugs not captured in the dependencies. I experienced this with big KDE Plasma updates. Nothing too big, and when you know about it it's easy to avoid with temporary pinning.

Like all rolling distros, it's best to be a bit technically savvy and know your way around the distro to handle those glitches. That's the big interest of stable: no bad surprise. Stability is not just lack of bugs, it's also lack of changes with the unavoidable little regressions here and there. There's room for both stable and current, but it's different and criticizing stable because it's stale misses the point IMHO.

Anyway, I agree with you that testing (and rolling distributions in general) are probably not a good idea for newcomers. For those who like to roll their sleeves and dig in once in a while, and like to learn, then fine.

Also, people usually don't need the latest in all. So stable with a few select up to date packages is usually a very good compromise. Just get the latest for what you really care about, and for the rest the no worry but slightly old is just fine. With flatpack/snapd and each language package manager this mix and match is really easy to do and probably a better trade-off than a rolling distro for many people (but not all, so just use what's best for you).
I don't think an apple root stock would work as its not closely related.

Additionally, theres a technique called budding[1] where you just graft individual buds. This has the advantage of maintaining the habit and structural integrity of the root stock.

Haven't got any good resources for you though, sorry.

[1] https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=400
Not my experience with Python

I wind up having to install as many packages as dealing with a Node JS project
I'm not talking about the maturity of the project but more about the concept of the feature flag for security.
I can't think of any product or service where you dont get better support after paying. Can you?
2019 EuroLLVM, Compilation and optimization with security annotations
The first thing the EU should do is ban political contributions from non-Europeans, the way the US does for non-US-persons. Unfortunately this is not within the remit of the EU, however, and can only be undertaken by member states.
By what metric should we rate the value of infrastructure like Amtrak's? Should it really be profitability? Maybe I'm not reading the right articles, but I never see highway or interstate infrastructure judged by their ability to turn a profit (with rare exception they never do). Rather, they are judged by factors like how many more people can travel, how they decongest traffic, or even the economic activity that they enable.

If we take into account the number of cars that are removed from the road, and the economic activity enabled by fast eastern seaboard commutes to financial and political centers, then where does the balance lie for this service?

To not sound wishywashy, I bet it looks more favorable.