skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're kind of hurting their own product adoption here: Apple TV doesn't support the use of "gated" wifi connections (and that's on top of ensuring fewer people use Macs for pentesting/security stuff).

If I couldn't spoof my mac address, I couldn't use Apple TV when traveling -- you have to set your computer's MAC to the Apple TV mac, connect to wifi, log in, switch back, then turn on the Apple TV. And for most hotels/gated wifi hotspots, you have to do this every. single. day. Luckily I use Ubuntu as my primary, but still...

Here's to hoping they rethink this and add a feature to allow wifi login pages on AppleTV...
Which region in the UK? I couldn’t spot in in the article but I would guess Norfolk.
Okay, not no incentives, but incentives that match up with our own. I doubt the maintainers of ungoogled chromium have a secret agenda to take over the browser market. Their incentive is that they dislike google and they want a good browser without google spying on them.
You really can't grasp the differences between a technology site that's used by practically every software developer and a church?
Where does it mention that? And is asking what a persons preferred pronoun is considered rude?
A big problem for Europeans is that Tectonic currently defaults to US letter paper size:

https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/126
I'm curious (genuinely) how you define thinking in a way that it's unaffected by the dominant mediums of communication and culture. Maybe you can recommend some reading material?
Yes, and in five years they'll start showing blocking modals too, after realising this isn't monetizable.

And the never ending circle continues... Just self-host.
"Mun" means "my" in Finnish.
Cool, I've just started messing around with LaTeX, mostly for pgfgantt because Microsoft Project is so damned expensive. In fact so many working project apps (Like OmniPlan) seem to be way too high.
You are def right that I should not pack everything in a non-tech cluster and call it crap. However I'd still keep my initial statement, it's a simplicatiom but it's true.

Of course there are and must be great blogs in non-tech areas but they are not that many. Writing high quality blogs for free seems not be common in other fields. Often people rather publish the findings in a protected space, call it academic paper and I can read just a lousy abstract. Actually most academic non-tech fields fall in this category.
You could consider taking a look at Flutter's approach (it's basically a UI SDK built up from scratch around Skia). It's entirely open source and likely contains some decent tips (and you can piggyback off the engine layer and bolt on a different language for scripting).
It would be interesting to run the numbers on a jubilee for certain kinds of debt.

I realize monetary policy of inflation is in-effect a debt jubilee, as it was applied to the boomer generation in the 70s and 80s. Since diminishingly few people keep their savings in cash (instead of putting into homes, durable goods, index funds, etc), inflating away debt seems like an inevitable policy outcome. In the US, if the democrats don't do it next term with MMT, the republicans will do it with negative interest rates. It's not just a partisan issue, and it seems like there is no alternative. The main problem is that without supporting the bottom end with a minimum wage increase to match inflation, it will just be a middle class debt bailout, and the precariat will remain as screwed as they always were. Approaching this by funding a minimum income with a new VAT doesn't improve the their situation since it just subsidizes exploitation by subsidizing disadvantaged wage levels. The horror is that it's going to come down to less of what's right, and more of finding people to screw who are less likely to vote. It's a grisly business.

These Capital One people were just following orders, as the saying goes, but unsecured debt is a form of slavery. Not sure how long people will accept incremental quality-of-life improvements in slavery, but at least now we have entertainment, software, and high speed pizza delivery.

Suddenly, those land parcels in New Zealand are looking more appealing.
Indeed, it has. But not universally; its use has primarily been limited to in certain contexts.

To quote from the OED's definition of "they":

"2. In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or pronoun of undetermined gender: he or she."

OK, it certainly recognises a singular usage...

"Especially in relation to a noun phrase involving one of the indefinite determiners or pronouns any, each, every, no, some, anybody, anyone, etc."

Aha - so this usage is not (historically, at least) equally well established for all contexts.

Indeed, the entry goes on to note that:

"This use has sometimes been considered erroneous."

So it's hardly surprising if some people feel a bit uncomfortable being told they should be embracing it more widely.
This is why they'll never work in areas with weather as such. Certainly limits the geographical areas where they would be practical.

In rain, people would have to resort to ground based transport, so it doesn't really solve the problem. Transportation has to deal with weather.
In the future, when batteries are light and powerful enough to run heavy aircraft (ie. Less vulnerable to light winds) vstol craft will be more practical. So much is waiting on Kw per AA sized battery.
People have been worried about this since the 70s, when it really took off, with financial maneuvering being more important than actual economic value.
I've seen a few and that wasn't even online but in a meatspace, at a software conference. A few persons had bagdes with pronouns other than "he/she/they". Suppose that was a request of sorts. Although I haven't really talked to... err... such people ("them"? "xzem?" "xirzey'm?" what I'm supposed to use for "xe" and "ze" as a generalized group?), only saw that *ey (okay, does it work?) exist, so can't really tell more.
i have done seo since 2004 and now i'm leaving it behind for good. (reason: new google search console, amp, featured snippets and google ads the first 4 results anyway ... google lost its way a long time ago, they are internet cancer by now)

as i am leaving SEO for good, im selling my SEO book for 1€/$ (Kindle Version, i can't set it to 0)

https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo
How do you like the Purism Librem? I'm a long-time MacBook user but have been looking around (and holding onto my late-2013). I'm curious about the build quality of the Purism machines. I'm willing to spend quite a bit on my tools. And I still remember the issues that ThinkPad's had with backdoors... so, I'd love to find something that has a high build-quality and puts the user first.
I have a story similar to this.

There was a profound moment in my career when I was working as a consultant for a company I wont name, but they were in Canary Wharf, which is the financial center of London, UK.

I was in a glass high-rise building, and had been working there for about 4 weeks. The project I was working on was at heart, selling loans and credit to people who couldnt afford it - all hidden by opaque language and euphemisms like the article mentioned. After a few weeks it became clear to me that this is nothing other than programmers being told to use machines to steal from the poor, while the managers walked around like they were geniuses when really they were total frauds and liars.

We were very high up, and I remember going on lunch break and overlooking the poorer areas of London. With knowledge that the algorithms I was writing were causing them misery.

At that point I just quit, I told my boss I didn't want to be part of it. He just looked at me like I was crazy, then when I grilled him to the point of belittling his intellect, he admitted he knew what they were doing, but had an insane burn rate (wife, kids, expensive house and shit) so he couldn't just quit.

If these institutions would die, I would be glad.
Nice article, it’s usually hard to keep a reader’s interest when writing about shell.

I will nitpick that COMP_LINE et al are shell variables, not environment variables - you can tell by the fact you don’t need to export the “return value”. (Scare quotes, as the function’s exit code, manually specifiable with “return NN”, is also called its return value.)
What's the Point?
Warning: somewhat off topic comment to follow.

I've noticed reverse anecdotal evidence when I saw cars with ridiculous 6.5l engines in the US and Canada. It's amazing to me with my western European background how energy inefficient the US and Canada are per USD of GDP.[0][1]

It must be so much harder as an individual to make energy saving choices in an environment where those are an afterthought.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KD.GD
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...
The new rule is not a clarification of the existing rule. If you'd not like me to call you "OP", that's fine, I can refer to you by your username or they or I can refer only to "the post", and if you prefer a pronoun, Cellio states she will use that pronoun. The issue is that the new rule states you must use a certain term whichever the user specifies.
If nobody is having fun at a party, it's not a party. If enough people start having fun at a gathering, it becomes a party. So, mood matters. But once there's no more beer, game over. Objective reality also matters.
I know they exist. But how common is this? Is it actually worth spending any mental energy "worrying" about?
> I've seen a recommendation that we should use "on another hand" instead of "on the other hand".

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/on-the-gripping-hand....
I agree mostly, but which newspaper is still objective?

In any story I'm familiar with, the only newspapers that do unbiased reporting are the Financial Times and the Neue Zuercher Zeitung.

Especially in SJW stories these are the only ones that do not misquote the targets.
It's incredibly funny that you don't seem to realize what you are admitting here: https://twitter.com/jmattheij/status/1180805448427098112

From your other comments, it is clear that you will not allow yourself to be wrong here no matter what anyone says to explain it to you.
The real SEO is getting backlinks. They dominate every other aspect. Getting a high rank through "natural" SEO is really hard.

I know someone who makes $12MM/year from high-ranking websites in extremely competitive keywords... and it's all about peddling links, really. The first page of results rarely has any correlation with quality (of information/product) and more than likely the correlation is actually negative. You will find content written by non-experts who mostly just summarize Wikipedia articles, but littered with unimportant info to hit keywords. Searching for a product? First page will be dominated by whoever has more $$.

I grew up with Google and it really feels like it was a different time back then. I Googled "how to make a website" as a teenager, found out about PHP and started studying PHP documentation. From there I expanded into other languages and eventually built a career. Today you Google "how to make a website" and you will be guided through a WordPress installation on a hosting website with a $5 monthly subscription. That's literally a website by the guy I mentioned making $12MM/year - he takes a cut from each referral.
It's easy to call this kind of lending predatory, but when you leave the problem of poverty to private businesses to solve you end up with high-interest loans and payday loans.

If the government banned this kind of lending and didn't provide an alternative, poor people would have no lending options. Regulating this kind of lending (e.g. by tightening the already regulated limits on interest rates) can only go so far before the products become unprofitable and will be discontinued.

There is not a market solution for this.
Have you wax economist Michael Hudson? One of his central theses is that we need debt forgiveness, as debt is piling up beyond the capacity for people to pay it. Debt grows exponentially, and it acts as a hindrance to the economy, while enriching the banking, finance and real estate sectors.
It's not a big deal if you know each individual word but if you don't then it's hell.
Scientific supercomputers used for academic and industry needs. Eg. weather prediction, CFD and FEM simulations, image processing, deep learning, and much more.
SEO is a tool. The myth is it's free. That's not so. It takes time. It's certain possible it's a tool that's not for you. That you get better marketing ROI elsewhere.

SEO is a good thing. But it's not always the best investment.
They is pretty novel. Yes, singular they has existed for a long time, but when was the first time anyone ever demanded that their only pronoun be "they"? I suspect only within the past 10 years or so.
It's uncommon. I'm not especially worried about it myself.
Just on the timeframe: there haven’t been any major changes to the CBP population over the last few years, the major reorganization, cultural... adjustments and hiring sprees that inflated and led to our current situation occurred after 9/11 and throughout the aughts.

BP specifically went from like 4K in the 90s to 20k by 2010, the damage was done a while ago.
> "wrongthink by association"

I think this is a fairly descriptive term. This happened fairly recently for me in another context. After I saw Star Wars Episode VIII, I let it be known that I thought it was a bad movie. In this cultural moment, some folks will take that innocent opinion from a lifelong Star Wars fan as a signifier of my stance in favor of every controversial thing that a terrible person who also disliked the movie said. It feels like everything is taken as a dog whistle.
There are two sides to every story perhaps. Not saying people don't need to know "their rights" and not saying it's ok to take advantage of people.

But I'm not talking about "unpaid overtime" or "working in unsafe conditions" here. I'm talking about wanting to do something to help the end user, and having people actively refuse to help because it's not in their job description.

And that stems from them knowing that they cannot ever be required to do anything that is not covered by their job description.

"So you want 10 minutes of my help to figure out why this program crashes and to make it better for the end user? Sorry, I need that request to come in writing from my boss."

People who help each other if they can is a much better environment than people who only help each other if they are absolutely required to do so.
Nuclear is how you spell winning in French. Clean green limitless power.
Nager-It.de – The Fair Mouse
I looked and didn't see Gantt charts. Could the horizontal bar chart be hacked to do this?
In suburbs you will often have major boulevards, 6 lanes with 35 to 50 MPH (55 to 80 KPH approximately) speed limits and stop lights with half safe pedestrian crossings can be 1/2 a mile apart. It makes walking anywhere into anxious misery.
In such scenario you can't count on traditional investments either.
That may be so, but it is a word that everyone already knows, so it seems within reason and shouldn't be hard to use in practice.
Unpeople are people too.
I recently switched from a 1000/50 package with Suddenlink (would rarely get over 400, even wired) to 1000/1000 with AT&T Fiber. I now easily get 950/950 wired consistently. It's $73/mo. The bill has been easy to understand. AT&T really surprised me with everything.
Meanwhile, for those of us not ascended to a Platonic space but are still in the real world, Stack Exchange remains people talking to each other.
This is a non-issue and really a false narrative blown up into something that isn't really an issue. Any concern of society can be fed into an AI and out comes a desired result. It's a computer program.
Almost twice as much work?
> Since when is that the evidenciary standard for making a decision like this?

Since internet forums were a thing? Actually, since law was a thing? There's always a human in the loop, and the human is always making a judgement call. In some cases there's a lot at stake, at other times there's very little. But ultimately people look at the guidelines, look at the history, and make a decision with the best info they have.

> More importantly though, without a clear policy on the first part, then writing something which presents any way in which someone can “gently correct you” may already be a violation of the code of conduct, or could selectively be treated as such, with no hard guidelines by which someone could defend themselves as having made an honest mistake.

You are arguing a problem that doesn't exist in practice. I use singular they. I sometimes include it my profiles online, in other places I don't. If someone gets it wrong and it bothers me I'll say, "Hey, no big deal, but I use singular they."

I get one of two outcomes -- either a bunch of downvotes and insults, or a "Whoops, my bad" response.

And we all move on.
For an in-depth visual history of Google Maps, check out Version Museum's coverage (48 images):

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/google-maps-website
When interest rates are negative, there is no other option than to fund current obligations from equity. You can't do it from interest, because there isn't any.
Royals?
For printing, it should be sharp unless you are have specific print CSS. There's a bunch of discussion in https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/1350
Labor costs, unions, and ..well..it's just not profitable for them. Apple is in business to make money, by any means necessary. Helping the American economy and labor force is not a priority.
Normally captive portals are just keyed on MAC and done through DNS redirect. In this case, just using a browser though the Mango in NAT Lan->Wifi works fine. This is nice because your Mango can then share that authenticated connection amongst many local devices (like my phone).

In rare cases where broadcast is required or even more diabolical network asshattery is afoot, I create a bridge on the Mango Lan<->Wifi with brctl. Of course, then your laptops ethernet MAC is exposed to the Wifi on the other side of your Mango. Even then, I've got a pretty snazzy etables filter to keep that hot mess under control.
UK-wide. They used this database of genetic samples: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk
It is already political. I raised this point to another user - changing policies is political. If by, political you mean dealing with government policy, not sure what that has to do with this discussion.
Also their Privacy Policy says they spy on absolutely eveything and share it with anyone and everyone. Just guessing that's what some of those 25k lines do.
Oh, that has become a lot more promising in the last couple of days :-)
The third option, despite not having a "central authority" seems to have been widely hijacked.

What we know about economics seems to fly in the face of design decisions repeated again and again by cryptocurrency originators.

The popularity of deflationary economics (maximum coin counts, diminishing mining rewards) incentivizes economic rictus-- eternal hoarding and austerity-- when basically every central bank on Earth recognizes that a modest, predictable inflation rate helps to spur consumer demand and actual economic activity. This is not some conspiracy to undermine your gold sovereigns and silver dollars, it's a century of data in action.

Then you've got the tendency to stick to unsavoury communities. While some of this may be because they're the funding method of last resort for businesses that can't touch conventional payment systems (criminal or just radioactively controversial), there does seem to be an active prioritization of privacy, unreversibility, and immunity from regulation features, over features non-enthusiast consumers want like "easy cashin/out to fiat" and "fraud protection".

If you said "here's a shiny happy new tech product. It's not designed as a treatise on the gold standard, to spar with governments, or create some speculative investment. It's just about using 21st century technology to undercut the high margins of Visa, Mastercard, and Western Union", that would hit real needs. But it would be 1) hard to bootstrap because there would be no philosophically or investment motivated enthusiasts to evangelize for it and 2) likely very different in structure and operation than today's cryptocurrency products. It might not even be a blockchain-crypto product, and it might even be outright ran by a state agency.
Thank you so much! I've been searching the Web for years to find this cartoon (to no avail) and funnily that was to describe my life as a Parisian.
Have you ever heard about the Law of Attraction?
I think it's really fucked up that people have to study law. I'm expected to live by a complex set of rules that only a few understand well enough to reliably navigate, where any transgression might ruin the rest of my life?

Almost nobody I know has even read any law. Whenever I have, it has been a frustrating exercise in deciphering jargon and ridiculously long sentences. It leaves me a modest degree of terrified to do anything, because everything is probably illegal by some interpretation of some corner of some strange grammar used in some paragraph or other somewhere.
I thought you folks were meant to be smart not a cess pit of trans hate.

Trans rights are human rights you fucking TERFS.
Use keyword search tool to find searches that have no high quality results. Then write a blog post for that topic and post the link casually on Reddit comments, twitter, etc. then wait a few weeks and it will be the #1 result. I have used this strategy for several years, it basically comes down to writing quality content on topics that don’t have any content.
Debt is just another business. So long as the poor keep paying on the debt, it makes business sense to keep pushing debt to them. It seems the idea is to squeeze the rock just to the point it bleeds, but not kill it.
And if you're a biz owner, and you're making hiring decisions, which of those headlines is more compelling? Let's not be naive, they're the same.
>Culture starts at the top. If you have a mean-spirited leader at the head that frame of thought radiates through the rest of organization.

I think it's both. You can swap the head out in a company, but the rank and file can still resist and even have the person at the head removed by political pressure. At some point, the organization itself is completely morphed and needs pruning essentially to change it. If we want to see reform, I think politically the DoHS needs significant reforms bordering on amputation in some cases. It's hard to mildly reform such an organization such that it actually result in significant, lasting change.
Paper claims an conservatively estimated prevalence of 1/3652 for extreme inbreeding which equates to about 18k people, assuming a UK population size of 66 million.

Not great, but nothing world-ending.
The argument came down to "call people what they want to be called" vs. "don't call people what they don't want to be called". The banned moderator preferred the latter. Either seems perfectly fine to me but I don't belong to any of the impacted minorities myself.

Firing someone, even from a volunteer position, over that specific argument seems like a severe overreaction. Assuming we got the whole story, of course.

Internet drama. Tempest in a teapot.
I would personally recommend Highcharts for that. https://www.highcharts.com/gantt/demo
Haskell, Erlang, and Frank inspire new programming language Unison
This post is about a case where someone was avoiding singular they, in favor of changing the wording to avoid pronouns altogether.
Have you ever tried to permanently uninstall microsoft teams or the xbox app or onedrive?

Guess not :)

Back when I still had windows I had a powershell script just for deleting the apps it kept reinstalling after each update.
It should be noted that on Linux, PIDs are used for authentication (see SCM_CREDENTIALS and basically all of polkit). This is why Linux has recently gained "pidfd" support to avoid exploitable PID reuse races.