skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the interesting thing in that article is the stat that pedestrian fatalities reached their lowest in 2009, and have been increasing since. Is it really (as I've heard and read) that it's because people are on their phones and walking out into the road? I've definitely seen people do this in front of me, but I know that's merely anecdotal.
The devs of notepad++ aren't cops. And I disagree that using physical violence in a protest is "good" or even productive.
Because the large majority of OS only allowed for static linking.

When dynamic linking was finally possible, it was welcomed with pleasure, because not only it allowed to save disk and memory space, it also opened the door for extensibility via plugins, and dynamic behavior without restarts, instead slow IPC with one process per plugin/action.

Now thanks to missteps of glibc design and .so hell on Linux (even worse than on Windows due to all distributions), many devs embrace static linking as some golden solution.
I can read Chinese and it looks to me that both sides are attacking the other side. And most are using simplified Chinese so they are all from the mainland. I'm not surprised because just as Americans have heavily polarized opinions towards Trump, Chinese people, especially the educated, also have a huge divide in their political views. You don't see that in Chinese websites because they know what not to say there, but on GitHub, a foreign website without a high risk of being blocked, both sides just unleash hell on anyone who they do not agree with.
Aw shoot. All they need to do is spy on a few high ranking FB people and blackmail them with their dirty laundry to get their accounts back. A walk in the park for them
I must say that I've only now realised that there is no "report abuse" button on github.

Regardless of politics and Chinese propaganda, hurling insults at someone on Github should be reason enough for action against their account. You can say that the news media is lying and all that, that's just daily grind for most English-themed media as well now, but yelling "fuck you" and "wishing a rotten vagina" upon people is not something that should ever be tolerated.
Round up the bill has mostly sunset with the advent of electronic card payments.
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
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Health bosses' 'serious concerns' over homeopathy
There is. It's on the user profile page.

It really should be on each comment and issue the user has created.
Before you start chasing after your dream of millions
And JavaScript was never meant to be used to build applications...

There are many, many more inventions that are used for different purposes they were meant for.

The Internet was created so that US can withstand nuclear attack and it was never meant to be primarily used to spread advertisements.

Get over it.
I remember reading an article on hn that the rise of SUV's and their design is related to the increase of fatalities.

Like, compare a pedestrian collision where the car has a lower and more aerodynamic front vs the wall that is a SUV's front.
> the cajones to ever speak out

Do desk drawers help with that?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cajones
This is due to poor power line maintenance by PG&E as well as bad policies pushed by the environmental lobby. It should be acceptable to clear all vegetation around power lines, yet due to pressure from environmentalists, PG&E is only allowed to trim trees up to a few feet from power lines.
The devs of Notepad++ aligned themselves by naming a release "Free Uyghur" in the same way that a cop puts himself out there by signing up for the force. It's not like they have been gratuitously targeted.

They named a release in a way that they knew would piss off Chinese users. Now Chinese users are pissed off. Shall we say "mission accomplished"?
given the performance of Nokia's share price in recent years, I find the website of the chairman corroborates your statement: https://www.paranoid-optimist.com/
You might also find https://rr-project.org/ interesting -- it lets you step backwards too.
You appear to be describing a completely different problem than I am.
Popular art does this. Stardew valley spent zero dollars on advertising. UGG was well placed to hit a transition point between themes and it's paying off.
> Git's builtin help and documentation are also useless.

It even worse. Git makes certain things bloody near impossible. Want to find deleted files across all branches in git? Good luck.

In Mercurial, it's "hg log --template "{rev}: {file_dels}\n"

So, the most reliable solution to finding deleted files in git is to convert the repository and then run the query in hg.

<facepalm>
Well I get it and I use aws too, but how are we supposed to fund new software then? Seems like aws will commoditize everything. Also aws is not necessarily offering the best solution either. In the analytics space they push stuff like Glue which is basically Spark with the problems of Spark, we have things like Dask that work great for analysts but hey no we are now convincing companies that spark fixes all problems. It feels like Oracle 2.0, pushing companies to adopt solutions that somehow work but are not optimal.
I've done this after needing to heavily customize slide using reveal js.
Reveal js programmatically changes the slides and made styling them difficult. Besides, the grid layout is perfect for this kind of whole page design.
If you assume each process needs, say, 16MB of contiguous space, then you get 48-24 bits left, which by the birthday paradox implies you can have up to 2^(24/2 = 12) ~= 4k processes before you start colliding about half the time.
This should go in the FAQ! Thanks for the concise explainer for folks like me who aren't familiar with the domain.
That's awesome! Is that the first time you decided to write a book? Or was this something you were planning on pursuing regardless?
There seem to be two groups of commenters. Chinese — who I suspect are mostly self-appointed keyboard warriors, not some government backed troll-factory like the Russians have — and trolls trolling the trolls — e.g., imageboard counterculture; these are the commenters mostly just copy/pasting the keywords that get services and Chinese netizens banned or flagged.

If there is a coherent English comment in there anywhere making a reasonable case (i.e., beyond not liking it) for not including a phrase like 'Free Uyghur' in their release notes, I haven't found it.
It isn't plausible that the baseband is routinely incorporating backdoors. However it is very plausible that nation states do lots of testing of baseband firmware, with an eye towards exploiting it. If baseband protocols were as easy to test as wifi we would probably see more vuln reports about them.

It is unlikely that they would be able to remotely update the baseband firmware though, especially on an iPhone. Also, an increasing number of baseband systems use highly verified kernels, such as sel4.

As to phones in flight mode routinely pinging, this is incorrect. It would easily be detected by standard tools and counter-surveillance equipment.

It isn't plausible that a modern phone would interfere with a modern jet IMO, but I still turn it to flight mode. Doesn't mean a passenger couldn't cause problems if they wanted too though -- turn on a GPS jammer and ADS-B/mode-S spoofer while onboard and watch everything go kooky.

A more realistic security problem is that of phones listening to wifi when turned off for geolocation purposes. Just the listening is exposing the stack to some degree.
So does Mercurial.
> You can’t share any of the content with anybody.

As if you could do that today.

> It faithfully executes all your commands.

This is part of the reason why industries and governments are trying to get rid of the personal computer. It obeys us and not them. If we decide we want to violate some contract, the computer will make it possible and there's nothing industry can do about it. If we decide we want to encrypt some data, the computer will make it possible and the government will just have to deal with it or become a tyrant that assumes we're all guilty by default. If we decide we want to make "unauthorized" copies, the computer will do it without a care in the world about what some stakeholders think.

We have the keys to the machine. It is obvious why they want to take it away.

> They seemed like a fantastic way forward, but somehow they were actually getting in the way of our experience.

Personal computers definitely got in the way of the artificial scarcity, personal information collection, advertising and other harmful and exploitative experiences. Hopefully it will get in the way of even more.
The bridge program sounds amazing, not sure I grokked it correctly and the article only mentions it in passing but it sounds like they let some of the staff they made redundant take some of the firm's IP with them to help them strike out on their own? Does anyone have more details on this?
This!
But I find that a combination of Typescript, MobX and React brings me very close to a good place.
But you’re not fully solving the problem of devs using inappropriate names and you make using popular tools like text editors, grep, ctags, etc more difficult to use effectively. I mean how do you stop devs picking easily confused pairs of identifiers like “xxxxxxxx” and “xxxxxxxx” for example?

Feels like a poor design decision to me based on cost/benefit of user ergonomics.
Where I live, cheap cassette players where _everywhere_ in the 80's. Most people had record players too, and getting the sounds to a tape would be the easy part.

C64's on the other hand, was much less common, but if someone had a cassette deck, a record player AND a C64, you can bet that he/she would have had a cassette player for the C64 as well.
Only Audi phones.
Very good, I chose a poor example. You can see the point I'm making, though?
And at the same time people are also on their phones in their cars, decreasing the chance that they can respond to that person walking into the road. I've had so many times where I didn't have an accident just because I was paying attention to what other people were doing.
Ah, thank you. Reporting specific comments would make a lot more sense, but I guess github isn't expecting people to use issue trackers as conversation battlegrounds.
Don't forget the salt nicotine!
The Soviet Union's troubles with farming stemmed more from politicians ordering the farmers to plant specific crops, with absolutely no understanding of farming, soil, climate, seasons or anything, really.
Oulu is my favorite town in Finland. Its post Nokia prosperity is most certainly due to Finland's generous social security allowing its people the time and means to recover without having to abandon and emigrate, and also the significant stimulus the state put forward to new entrepreneurial initiatives in the region.

There's definitely lessons their for the rest of Europe.
Given that any default opt-out is a clear violation of GDPR when it comes to data gathering, I wonder how it ever passed compliance/legal. Given the size of the company (valued ~ $3b) they should have some 'data protection officer' position.

I recall they setup some blog page with explanations, so obviously they expected push back. Part of my work is making sure policies, code, etc. are compliant. Notifying compliance for such changes should be a standard procedure as well. In this regard I can't understand how the entire process went through, as GDPR challenge should have been expected.
Lol I started doing this two years ago and now I have a reminder for all of my friends, family, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews. It really makes a person feel good to send them a text on their bday
I favor self-hosting too, but it adds the inconvenience of dedicated maintenance to ensure your stability. For a one-man shop there is a lot to think about. So many balls in the air. I recently found my AWS instances compromised because I forgot to timely upgrade nginx on them. Got me the scares and renewed interest in at least some SaaS where it matters most.
There is still no input methods that beats touch typing in speed and accuracy. In my opinion the only serious contender is voice input but considering the time needed for corrections it is still not there.

When it comes to ease of use this is a completely different story though...
I am of the view that attempting to systematically eliminate an entire culture though the use of force is represenible. If someone likes that they are deserving of ostracisation.

Given that 150 states have signed the genocide convention I don’t think that being against Genocide is a western view.
Sorry for being an ignorant: Who's Sammy? Surely not: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sammy ?
Power over humans.
No humans, no power.
I was taught English grammar, I just never understood as a child why I should care.
> I must say that I've only now realised that there is no "report abuse" button on github.

There is.
If you go to github.com/$user on the bottom of the sidebar left: "Block or report user"
Yeah, but doesn't Google earn commission based on the revenue from adsense? It seems very odd that they ban accounts when they're also making money.
A, probably. Sounded like the parent meant something more ominous, as that's no biggie to warn about, you recharge and are as good as new.
In that case, why switch from Sketch to Figma and not to, say, XD? I feel like "multi-platform" was not _the_ reason people like Figma better than Sketch (maybe it's part of it, but not all).
There's lots of evidence about China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Campaigning against China is the right thing to do as long as they persist in these uncivilized policies.
The latest iteration of that burning platform, Symbian Belle with QT and PIPS was already quite an improvement, Symbian was getting quite good, being open sourced, with everyone slowly moving away from Symbian C++ (uggh) into Qt/PIPs.

Paralel to that N900 was shapping up quite well, also using Qt as part of its SDK.

Being asked to throw away their Symbian Java and Qt for Windows 7 pure .NET SDK was what made the large majority abandon ship.

Naturally Elop was just driving Nokia into the position he could benefit from his compensation clauses given to him by the Nokia board.
Personally, I would also brake if a kid pretended to walk into the road. There just has to be one kid who isn't pretending for it to become a really big issue.
Hurricane proof windmills, as someone else mentioned, and lightning catching supercapicitors would help capture all a lot of it. Might be easier than covering large areas of land with solar panels.
Thanks much for digging that up
My take on this is that it's not possible on a long enough time scale. If you try to curtail freedom of knowledge and trade, eventually you will get artifacts that will slow down the progress of your society (just look at the Github bans). Look at how hopelessly antiquated "parallel" societies like the ex-GDR, North Korea or Cuba have become.

North Korea still holds out as they completely closed down their population. But if you try to have all the good parts of western society while still limiting intellectual freedom, I think all of this will come apart eventually. Travel from and to China is not severely limited, and eventually there will be an influx and a core cell of Chinese people wanting to have the same freedoms for their country.

Fighting those minds will show the true faces of any authoritarian regime, which in turn will get more people upset. I think in these days of full technical mind control, it will be an interesting excercise in how long a government can keep this critical mass contained and intimidated.

But once they can get some visibility and they hit a weak spot in the regime, it's usually over: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_demonstrations_in_East_...

The human mind is meant to be free. Any dictatorship is actively working at destroying itself.
When I'm dropping off my kids and other kids run in my way I usually just stop to chat or play with them, but I'm doing this when walking or on a bicycle.

I guess if I wore a 2-ton suit of power armor I'd just be pissed off instead :)
If you don’t know something as basic as how to make bitcoin untraceable, then you’re the idiot.
Android does this routinely with wifi listening, if not GPS. It's a feature, and you can't turn it off. Haven't tested if GPS spoofing (a debug interface) overrides that.

Iphones now do this too, privacy violation by relay to nearby iPhones, over Bluetooth and possibly with the new mm wave RADAR too.
Well, when a person is an asshole in his/her core, lost trust is actually you starting to see through the masks. Me personally... when trust is lost, it is never regained. I move on (Move on professionally to other company; For people, those who truly showed their asshole-ness are dead to me forever).
This is easy. Rather than paying $16 for a pack of vape pods, I should pay 0.0001% of my earnings over the rest of my life.

Then the vape company has a direct incentive to help me be successful.

Such a payment system should be assisted by government (ie. Government should give out forms which prove your earnings), and banks (who would remember who is due what percentage of your earnings and distribute appropriately).

The basics of such a system already exists in the UK, where students commit to paying 9% of their future income to pay for university (with a time limit and money limit).
I made a remark about the author(s) of Notepad++ naming his release "Free Uyghur", quite unpopular I would say, I meant it to be like that, I told him/them that Uyghurs are just a ethnic group of China, not a nation, etc... But in this case , bloating someone's project for political reason's is just plain wrong, is awful. Github should have something in place to protect open source projects against something like this.
I get this after successfully reporting just one troll. The threshold seems to be quite low for GitHub's abuse filters. Unfortunately, that means you can't report a group of bad actors easily unless GitHub moderators with access to the anti-abuse tools start reporting or banning them themselves.
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I suppose adblock is theft too?
Black People should have their own country in America!!!!
@Notepad++ dev, publish the Black People version!!!
Fucking the White dogs
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It does, until you visit one that has lost its jobs...
> "in most cases avoided hitting the pedestrian"

I am not sure if this result merits the use of the word "aced" in the title.
Yama lets you ptrace a child process but not others.
Use of water-based adhesives is one of the factors in sport shoes coming apart prematurely, especially in humid climate. It is dictated by environmental concerns. Shoes with European Ecolabel have strict limits on use of organic solvents in manufacturing.
I wrote a bot that watched twitter for stock symbols and then applied a social sentiment index based on the tone of the tweet. The historical stock quotes were downloaded, and the stock was added to a polling system to capture future quotes. The social sentiment could then be turned into an indicator to determine when to buy/sell especially if used with other indicators.

Well I forgot about the system then twitter changed their api rules. When I went back it had captured data for 2 years. I backtested the trades and I found that it sucked for indexes/etfs, worked mmokay for pop stocks (think Tesla, bynd, suneq) but really shined for pump and dump stocks. With Twitter out I added stocktwits, Reddit, and tradingview. I now have twitter again and all of these feeds are run on various dedicated servers feeding into a mothership

NB: the system was originally written for a stock pumper who disappeared after a month of development
> They can achieve a huge safety improvement by forcing speed limit. But somehow car manufacturers don’t want to implement it.

I've had multiple cars that show the current speed limit on the dash. Some based on GPS, others based on visual recognition. None of them have been correct 100% of the time. I wouldn't want my car to slow me down on a highway because it misinterprets a sign or because their data isn't up-to-date, or because the GPS is glitching and thinks I'm driving on a side road.

It's a really simple solution in theory, but in practice it doesn't seem feasible yet.
Isn't that a feature for debugging tho?
Ah! That's what I was missing. KYC
> They named a release in a way that they knew would piss off Chinese users.

No, they piss off CCP supporters, that's not the same thing at all.
Not really, no.
Weapons manufacturers, as despicable some of them are, do not set out or actively help murder civilians and journalists.
Some of them might have in the past, but those are criminals, first and foremost, just as NGO as a bunch of criminals in my humble opinion.

>My wife is in finance, it was this or an abusive boss and constant unpaid overtime.

Or not working at all, considering you are so "privileged". Or working for some NGO, probono even, if it's about finding meaning in life and not about paying the bills.
Or working as a walmart greeter or meter maid or orderly in a hospital. I'd rather work my really shit orderly job I used to work years ago, than work for scum like NSO.

Given she works in finance, she sounds educated enough and privileged enough to find a nice job that does not involve deliberately targeting and killing civilians. Maybe less "prestigious" or paying less, but still enough to make a nice living on your double income.

I am not buying your excuse, even tho you and your wife might be buying it yourself. Rationalization can be a problem.
Are you never afraid your laptop gets stolen when you go the toilet, or do you take it with you then?
To be more accurate they jumped from a burning platform (Symbian) to a sinking ship (Windows Phone) while throwing away the lifebuoy (MeeGo).
It seemed like a tactful thing to say. When trying to convince someone of something, it's helpful to be nice to them first.
> We can't expect NSO Group to take a stricter view of 'American security interests' than the US government does.

No, but we as people can take a stricter view. The people working for companies like NSO Group are torture and murder facilitators, plain and simple. There is no legitimate use case for products like these in a democracy. Police forces working under rule of law are not in need of these products.
The article literally starts with this: "It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism..."

For a more meaningful discussion of mindfulness, I recommend the "Mind The Mindfulness Hype" episode of The Psychology Podcast [1] . They dig into what the scientific method has to say to mindfulness, what studies have been made and what is missing, and what benefits can be realistically expected. And what's over the top hype.

[1] https://www.scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/mind-the-mindfulne...
University of Oulu, incidentally, is where IRC was born in 1988.
I'm normally one to hold a grudge. I still don't buy Sony products for something they did over a decade ago. In this case I think forgiveness is appropriate. There are obviously people working at Gitlab who have terrible ideas, but the organization seems to be able to deal with them in a healthy and transparent way. This compares favourably to companies like Zoom or Equifax.
The runout to Sgt Pepper is preceeded by sound only audible to dogs.

Monty Python released a triple sided record. One of the sides had two grooves. Depending on where you placed the needle, you would hear either side 2 or 3.
Good that they take a stand, more should dare to do that. I did see this as a good enough reason to make a donation to Notepad++, and added the comment "Supporting the Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur release".