skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More specifically:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-f...

The CIA replaced a DLL dependency of Notepad++ with a hijacked version on compromised Windows systems.
There is a comment on the issue tracker alleging that the CFO overrode concerns by the Director of Global Risk and Compliance.
Never understood why people prefer APIs like this:

page1, page2, ... = HTTPX.get("/page1", "/page2", ...)

Why encode parallelism into a single polymorphic function? Why not use composition instead? Now you're stuck with this API forever. And if you want to customize parallel fetches (eg: batching) you'll need another different looking API.
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Hi all.

I feel typecast. For my entire career I've been in C++ roles. In the course of this I have dabbled with other languages/technologies but not enough.

I see jobs with "must have x years experience with Java/C#" and I really think I could do it, but will I get screened out at CV time?

I'm learning C# in my spare time but how do I move from being typecast? Thanks
I am all for XD, just stating a valuable reason in mixed enviroment offices.
That sentiment applies a lot in banking. See eg https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can...
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Obviously, exposing state surveillance and oppression is a good thing.

However a lot of western media and commenters conflate this by adding their own propaganda twists into their message, either surreptitiously (being anti-Chinese and using "freedom" as an excuse to attack China) or perhaps innocently without realising it (ignorantly, thinking their are really about "freedom" and not realising their own prejudices). This unnecessarily inflames the situation and a more balanced message would have worked better without triggering the sensitivities of very nationalist people.

> The Uyghurs are not ethnically Chinese but live in China’s so-called autonomous Xinjiang region. The region’s name suggests the Uyghurs have autonomy and self-governance.

"Chinese" is not an ethnicity, you probably meant "Han Chinese" as the ethnicity. Saying that Uyghurs "are not Chinese" is like saying Northern Irish people "are not British". Of course this is going to piss people off, pro-Chinese Uyghurs included. Indeed many of the Github comments are about accusations to split China, and of course if you go into Northern Ireland and talk about how all those people are "not British" you will understandably get the same sort of accusation, that you are trying to split up a nation. Indeed the pro-British Northern Irish call themselves the "unionists", the very word the direct opposite meaning to "split".

The naming of the region as "autonomous" is also historical and unrelated to the current surveillance and oppression (which is appalling) but to say this in your second paragraph makes it sound like there is some conspiratorial connection. The region in fact does have more legal autonomy than the other provinces of China.
> "That's why powerful external force is necessary for China to change."
Until rich people understand that China money stinks, nothing is going to change.
Yes they do, but for individuals and under a court order, not in a massive scale as it's today
This seems a bit exaggerated. I work for one of these ISPs, but I'm not involved in this project.

GDPR explicitly states that no permission is required if the data is anonymised. The data shared with the INE will be movement of batches of at least 5000 people. The movements will be between 3500 zones. There are more than 60.000 cell phone towers in Spain, so they could have made the movements much more precise if they wanted (at the cost of anonymity of course). If less than 5000 people cross from a zone to another it will not be shared. No IMEI/IMSI/MSISDN will be shared.

I understand that there might be concerns of de-anonymisation, but it makes no sense. If the Spanish government wanted to track someone they already can, with a court order. Spanish phone providers are required by law to store this data for 6 months minimum up to 2 years maximum. (https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2007-18243). The government is going to receive data from 4 working days, 1 weekend day, a holiday and two days in Summer. Tying this with Tsunami Democratic is a bit strange. There is an ongoing investigation, so they can already track people tied with the movement as long as they have some form of personal information (IMEI, IMSI, MSISDN). Honestly, a massive protest one of those days might throw off the statistics in Catalunya.

And by the way, this data is already being sold to third parties for profit:

https://www.orange.es/empresas/grandes-empresas/internet-of-...

https://www.vodafone.es/c/empresas/grandes-clientes/es/soluc...

https://www.business-solutions.telefonica.com/en/products/bi...

Sometimes, unfortunately, it's being sold without anonymisation too and leaks have happened. Just one example in the USA:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hu...
An example is, if the extra data is retained to improve post-processing capabilities, for example refocusing or a slight change in perspective, then you could inadvertently share files with more information than you think they contain. Remember the story of people cropping out their naked bottom half just to have it plain in the exif thumbnail.
I love how many comments are anti-USA, but the author is from France.
Compare and contrast https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Fair. But then again, if you outsource your movies, music or farming to one of the megacorps everyone else outsources too, you're still under rule of some distant managers that don't have your best interest in mind.
>The author’s writing is engaging but he doesn’t really offer any solutions.

Isn't his whole article about how there really isn't any problem (since companies competed by AWS still do fine)?
How did this post move from page 1 to page 4 so quickly? in the space of pressing the back button.
That is amazing! Are you the author of the software? Amazing scan, and the comment is fascinating: "Editor's note: the figures accompanying this article are screen dumps from a monochrome display".
> But somehow car manufacturers don’t want to implement it.

Maybe because nobody would buy a car that enforces its idea of the current speed limit on the driver? (It'd be good to have as an option though, I agree, as long as it can be overridden.)
Gitlab could restore some trust in my eyes by parting ways with whoever signed this off in the first place.
“That which I do not understand, I cannot create”
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Indeed, that's what I do. Also, macOS accomodates for this, because Caps Lock can be set to Escape without additional software, simply within the standard System Preferences.
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Thinking back about my Git usage, I've indeed only ever used it as a sort of poor man's "hg commit --interactive", so I haven't missed it a bit when using Mercurial. Indeed I find Mercurial's model (there's only the repository with the real changesets and the working directory, but not this sort of weird inbetween thing called the staging area) much easier to reason about...
I've been using httparty, since forever.

Am I right to assume the primary difference with this library is concurrent connections?

https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty
In many parts of the world, power is unreliable due to a lack of resources -- fuel, capital, labour, distribution, maintenance. Power cuts occur, either scheduled or unscheduled, due to an inability to meet demand.

The case in California is different. The fundamental resources are present: there is fuel (or, in many cases, hydroelectric, geothermal, nuclear, wind, or solar power) for generation. Distribution systems exist. There is no shortage of local labour. Systems aren't going offline due to direct failures of maintenance.

Rather: the outages are prompted by a consequence risk. Given the extreme fire danger throughout the state, the least source of ignition creates a fire hazard, and electrical transmission and distribution equipment is a high risk for such ignition.

Previous major wildfires have been sparked by: mower blades, rims of flat tires sparking on pavement, catalytic converters parked over dry grass, sparks from a hammer. And electrical equipment.

There's a case to be made that PG&E have neglected maintenance activies not related directly to continued operation of their plant, but to risk mitigation, and I'm not going to argue one way or the other.

But the fundamental problem California's electric utilities face is not that of most of the world, where means are insufficient, but that consequence is too great to ignore. I'm coming to see this generally as a late-stage dynamic in many technological areas, one in which the unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated, often not) simply rise to a level of major significance. You might think of these generally as hygiene factors (the phrase I've been using).

Past examples would include:

- Basic personal and public hygiene factors for maintaining public health in cities.

- Pollution control laws affecting solid, liquid, and gas emissions of activities and plants.

- Environmental contamination as with lead, asbestos, pesticides, tobacco, sulfur dioxide ("acid rain"), and CO2.

- Individual psychological and widespread sociological negative impacts of information overload, media saturation and manipulation, and computer systems overexposure.

- Running extensive high-capacity electrical distribution systems through increasingly fire-prone landscapes.

Or put another way: this is increasingly our future.
> Let's for a moment assume that the government sector is incompetent and couldn't build a workable software solution.

IMHO this implies they will also be unable to create a meaningful tender and evaluate the results.

The hardest part of writing this kind of software is not the coding, but getting all the details right.
I made a bot that sent me alerts whenever La Resistencia, a Spanish TV show, had tickets available to be in the audience. It is a very popular show and tickets are usually available in their web for less than 5 minutes. I even made an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.teledhil.la...
It no longer works because they added a recaptcha.

I also have a chat bot based on megahal, a bot that downloads subtitles for my torrent videos. At work I made a bot connected to slack that alerted of some server issues.
Triggered by the blog post announcing the relase of "Notepad++ v7.8.1 : Free Uyghur".

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/

Excerpt from the blog post:

> At least 120,000 members of Kashgar’s Muslim Uyghur minority have been detained in Xinjiang’s re-education camps which aim to change the political thinking of detainees, their identities, and their religious beliefs. Reports from the World Uyghur Congress submitted to the United Nations in July 2018 suggest that 1 million Uyghurs are currently being held in the re-education camps.

> Here are some actions you can take to help them:
https://uhrp.org/what-you-can-do

> The fact you have just learned such information is already an action in and of itself. But you can involve more people to focus on this issue and hopefully apply additional pressure on the Chinese government to stop their oppressive actions and crimes concerning the Uyghur people.
People will tell me again to not mix politics with software/business. Doing so surely impacts the popularity of Notepad++: talking about politics is exactly what software and commercial companies generally try to avoid. The problem is, if we don’t deal with politics, politics will deal with us. We can choose to not act when people are being oppressed, but when it’s our turn to be oppressed, it will be too late and there will be no one for us. You don’t need to be Uyghur or a Muslim to act, you need only to be a human and have empathy for our fellow humans.

> Hence Notepad++ Free Uyghur Edition:
For each person, it seems to be the first few years of using the internet for the first time in their lives.
Are you sure that American companies are immune to fines resulting from EU court sentences if they want to make business in EU?
It's kind of strange but refreshing, that an open source project mixes their releases with other unrelated issues, using their popularity to spread their word. But I guess, the larger and more known you get, the higher the chance to offend people.

I think there's a point, where this can turn against the project and maybe Notepad++ reached it? It may also change the dynamic while you grow. Just think about how Hacker News would look like today if submissions about political affairs were accepted...

However, I love that the Notepad++ Devs did also show some humor before with a well-known easter egg: Type Random, select the word and hit F1. [1]

[1] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...
Nokia 7xxx was fashion and experimental series and not a sign of failure. They were used to test features and target specific consumer segments. In that era it was common to launch large number of different models each year. 3-4 different series and different models in each series. It was how the old hardware-centric model worked. The phone fashion changed from year to year and Nokia was constantly increasing the market share.

When you move to smartphones as software platforms you produce basically the same phone hardware with 2-3 small variations. It was this transition that Nokia missed.
If you take the non-technical meaning of the word, then I guess I did.

> Plus , you can't trade or exchange those dependencies with other people. It's cheap rattling chains really.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you rephrase it?
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Let's not forget, totalitarian governments are way, way more dangerous for its citizens than any kind of criminals.
If a bank was created with that purpose in mind I guess it's bad. NSO was created to hack people's phones. I guess there's a legit use, but then, maybe they got greedy and sold to governments that define "crime" and "terrorism" quite a bit different from us.
unselect(2)

Description: put thread to sleep as long as there is activity on any fd, wake up only when all fds are inactive.

Useful for: Scheduling work to be performed only when server is idle.

unsync(2)

Description: Select a random file, load it into the buffer cache, and remove it from file system.

Useful for: Freeing up some disk space in a pinch.

unwait(2)

Description: Resurrects the previous child process.

Useful for: Implementing the !! operator in bash.

unsignalfd(2)

Description: Invoke signal handler whenever a given fd activates.

Useful for: User space interrupts.

unopen(2)

Description: Create a file which refers to an open fd.

Useful for: Implementing /proc/self/fd functionalit.
I'm impressed by the way Gitlab is communicating on a personal level with all of their users on email bombs.
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I think the author doesn't understand mindfulness. Achieving mindfulness can only help you to know what exactly you want to change and what you can change.

It seems to me that the author favors radical change, either in general or he assumes everybody knows what exactly must be changed and how. Which I doubt.

"Capitalism" has spared the Western world increasingly more suffering, so there is no point in "going back" anywhere.

While I do favor corrections in terms of wealth distribution, I'd be hesitant to implement any unproven radical changes.

I fail to see why mindfulness meditation is any obstacle to this.
> they’re all failing in low light conditions

Isn't this an issue with lights ?
Thanks! I'll watch the talk and share my thoughts, either here or via e-mail, depending on how fast my workload allows me to do it.
It's interesting that Chinese used to believe that the West is more fair and just and are respected, evident in the fact that foreigners receive higher regards and even the police would prioritize such cases.

In recent time, there has been more voices in China where notion regarding the West being "brainwashed" by the western media starts the emerge, which had never happened before.

I think it's interesting to note this as it's easy to be one-sided when you are hearing only the narrative and values from a certain belief system. As such without discussing the actual merit of each individual belief, care should be taken perhaps to at least recognize the implicit meaning behind any claims of "brainwash" to ones other than your own.
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aka Principal-agent problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
I also feel he assumes that there has been a better society somewhere in the past.
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You could use LD_PRELOAD to replace unlink with a version that passes an fd to a running recycle-bin daemon. That approach doesn't really have much, or any, advantage over just moving files to a recycle-bin folder and keeping track of items in there.
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I'm half and half. I adore syntactic whitespace and it makes me sad that it hasn't become more prevalent.

However the flexible identifier rules bother me no end. But as soon as my editor of choice handles it transparently then I guess I might come round.
Funny because yesterday I read about these jets captured by a high speed camera for the first time in Nature magazine:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12261-y
That is so simplified that it is more wrong than right. I don't know of any mainstream religion that encourages waiting for god to fix things.
Because the "old timers" though this linux thing was a toy and a fad and stuck to Symbian
Fire risk in California has been growing rapidly over the past two decades.

Fire records have been kept reliably since 1932. Of the 20 largest fires in state history, one dates to the 1930s. None have occurred in the 1940s, 50s, or 60s. Two occurred in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, and sixteen since 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires

This is independent of structures or urban-rural interface. The measurement here is area burnt. And despite advances in detection and firefighting methods, the situation has been deteriorating rapidly. All of this is independent of PG&E.

That the utility's equipment has been directly responsible for multiple blaze ignitions is absolutely true. But this doesn't seem to me to be the biggest factor, and a focus on ignition rather than increasing latent fire risk seems to me absurdly myopic.

(The power curtailments themselves seem fairly prudent. Though horribly disruptive.)
From an outsider's perspective, it just seems like a way to replicate daily prayers.

I'll stick with the Rosary thanks.
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AFAICT we already use less than half of land:

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
> what if I were to start writing the English letter ‘C’ in two forms, to distinguish its two pronunçiations? Speçifically, when ‘C’ gets the soft /s/ sound, we'll write it with a çedilla, and when it gets the hard /k/ sound we'll write it as usual.

catalog

catalogue

pronunçiations

speçifically

çedilla

çircular

clearançe

maçe

preçious

oçean

These are all examples from the article. Do you notice the pattern?

If you ever learned a romance language it will be obvious because you
probably learned it as rule, and while the rule is not as pronounced in English
it still works a lot of times.No cedilla needed in my opinion.
Fully agree, mindfulness can help one come up with even more radical actions. It can be a tool for activists to cope with the pressures of activism.

It doesn't sound like the author has done any mindfulness practice
XML spec is longer than one page, granted, but it's about three times shorter than YAML spec. And XML spec describe not only the XML syntax, but also a basic form of validation (DTD), which include references. Basic XML has only five special symbols (<, >, ', ", and &) and can be parsed in linear time. (Namespaces complicate things somewhat.)
I usually go on the offense here with this account to try to preach the other side of story in a justified manner as possible. But I do want to just note on this to say I love the way you portrayed the actual situation versus many, it's very on spot and I wish others would recognize the situation the way you do.
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There we go. The authors biased and naive opinion of mindfulness is just that. His opinion. Without any awareness of itself.

What happens when we have nothing to think about but thoughts? We lose ourselves in the content of thought without seeing them for what they really are.

Human says "my thoughts", yet believes himself to be the content of the thoughts, the seemingly very important thoughts that start with "I" and everything that comes after it.

Where are the thoughts appearing in? That's you.

And staying in this perspective on purpose is mindfulness.

And being mindful sets a lot of things straight.

Radical change starts within and everything outside follows after it. And you don't need to do anything for it. In fact, sometimes you need not to.
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I think this is a great example why we as a society shouldn't coddle corporations just because they provide jobs. When they fall, others take their place, and many smaller companies make for a much more healthy and dynamic job market than a single monolith.
This sounds something like a wellbeing room, which is pretty common. Or is there literally a door marked 'crying room'? If latter, I am worried.
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Why is it wrong? It's quite courageous of them to support human rights, and they have the right to do so, especially when they have been developing and giving away their software for free. You have no obligation to use it.

Also, If they are "just an ethnic group", then why are so many being sent to prison? Why the mass surveillance, restrictions, arrests and 're-education' camps?

"Free Uyghur" doesn't necessarily mean they should be given their own nation, but at least be able to practice their culture and religion freely.
And I guess it won't return unless all pages are fetched? even worse...
I think it's fair to say that whether you hit the pedestrian is more or less irrelevant to your score on a pedestrian detection test.
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"stopping the phone from sending crap that (supposedly) messes with airplanes" was never the goal of airplane mode. If phones could bring down an airplane they would have never been allowed on board.

The technical problem was always that planes cross cells at speeds for which the gsm handover protocol was not designed. The business problem was phones would eat into the juicy onboard services turnover.