skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you continue to buy from them? I doubt it. Do you recommend them to others? I doubt that. Such practices tend to not work out well in the long term.

I've been investing in stocks ever since my first job. I've done reasonably well, and I focus on companies that focus on making their customers happy - and they do better than average long term. That's great salesmanship.
> Using Office365 versions with Track Changes turned on is probably the most viable option with normal people

I beg to differ as normal people would expect their old documents to work, and the subset of things that work in web is not enough. Quite like LO-supported, totally not on par with native.
Cool idea! I love those small experiments.
It's not a bug in macOS, it's a security feature.

However, you can use synthetic firmlinks to define arbitrary root-level paths that _are_ writable.

See `man synthetic.conf` and check out https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/creating-root-l... for an example usage.

PS: It looks like nix has a PR open to test that solution here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3212
> millennial/elder millennia

Is this redundant or is the latter the new term for Gen X from the people who believe that the world is divided between Boomers and Millennials, so everyone else must be a “young millenial”, “elder millenial”, or “advanced boomer”?
One roommate took a pay cut and moved home with her family. Another decided to stay with an ex-boyfriend in Oregon, while the master tenant put in her 30-day notice. That left only Lewis and the other remaining roommate, who has been living with family in Sacramento since late March, to renew the lease and come up with $4,900 for May’s rent.

$4900 for just May rent? Not April and May? Hoooly moly.
I think it was Maven they backed out of due to employee ethical concerns. I don't know that they were ever a serious contender for JEDI, and they didn't submit a bid.
Yeah, ads, shelf placement. Marketing. No interaction with a salesperson. I take them as a really strong signal to walk away from whatever they’re selling. Ditto any direct communication that appears personalized. Cold calls. Hell even unexpected calls from my bank trying to sell me something or “check in”. No, no, no if you’re talking to me you want something and there’s nothing I want to give you so, bye, and even if I think no maybe I do want that I’ll just hang up faster because you’re (maybe) a pro so I can’t trust any of this—if I didn’t initiate the communication, I don’t need it, so, bye.

Actually, I take that back: recruiters sell to me quite a bit. Though they’re trying to convince someone else to give us both money, not me to give them money, so that’s a bit different in that I’m not purchasing anything they’re “selling”.
‘Suppressing’ might be a loaded term, as is implies cytokine storms are not simply a complication of an unregulated immune system (Vitamin D deficit) to begin with. Cause and effect need to be worded with baseline scenarios.
What's more, Unicode refers to "\" as "backslash".

I'd be happy if nobody ever referred to the word "backslash."

I heard it read in a URL in a TV commercial this week. I can't believe it. People have been getting that wrong since AOL days.
Your statement does not make clear whether you're making a positive assertion about the mechanism of myopia, or whether you're making an assertion about some other potential eye condition.

If you are making a positive assertion about the mechanism about myopia, then you are directly contradicting the article, which states the mechanism is not clear. While it may be the case that the article is misrepresenting the science, I personally find this to be unlikely.

In which case, given you are asserting an alternate hypothesis compared to the null hypothesis presented in the article, I do ask you for some more backup to your claims.
I've been saying this myself for a while now. Take the EU for example. Why doesn't the EU have a silicon valley rivaling our silicon valley? They have a larger population and a larger economy. Not only can they afford to invest in their silicon valley, they have a market to sustain it. Where is their facebook, google, apple, youtube, etc? Even more baffling is india. The US has a lot of indian tech workers. Why doesn't india bring some home and build their own tech giants. Instead their major "tech" companies are outsourcing companies which essentially "sells" indian workers all over the world. Why not use those workers to build indian tech companies? Why isn't there an indian whatsapp? Why did india hand that market over to facebook? None of this makes any sense.

If they don't want to follow the "chinese model" because of any perceived stigma attached to it, then follow our model. The US became an economic powerhouse due to protectionism. Every major economy in the world developed under protectionism.

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

I used to think it was because politicians are old and think tech is magic, but I'm just starting to believe most of them are outright lazy and incompetent.
the countdown pattern reminds me of shopping television's "but call within the next fifteen minutes to receive a second FREE product!"
How much Elixir do you need to know to get something out of this class?
Is there higher incidence of myopia in places with less sunlight?
Those sound like the first lines of a movie I would watch.
Because we do actually want you to click "yes", so that we can understand how you're using the site. Annoying? Absolutely. Unethical? I don't think so.

However, since a lot of people are not a fan of our banner, we've decided to add an explicit "no" option. I still disagree that our original implementation is a "dark pattern", as we very explicitly[1] will not sell your data, and tracking for the sake of improving the product seems like a square deal to me. But I understand that people are finding it annoying, so it's been changed. Sorry about that.

[1] https://supernotes.app/terms/
... or semi-long-lived games you keep being squeezed for until they shut off the servers, as is the current fad.
I wonder if boxing has its own flavour of kayfabe.

I struggle with that two, and that's one of two big things. The other thing is: how so many things around us are balanced by adversarial relationships instead of cooperation. From nature, where ecosystem equilibrium is just a slow-moving frontline of life forms fighting and starving, to markets, where price determination relies on companies fighting over customers and ever pushing on each other. It's all so incredibly wasteful.
Just to add to Peter's comment, the one issue with links via email/newsletters is that they show up as 'direct' traffic with no referral, so they are about impossible to link back to anything w/o the utm params.
Yeah, it doesn't work really well :) Work in progress
> Now you can use acceleration for ML under WSL.

Using libdxd12.so, which is closed source and works only under WSL.

> They are not changing Linux.

They are literally asking the Linux kernel to pull in their changes to add a proxy to Windows's device driver model to the Linux kernel. No changes to Windows; all changes to Linux.

> They are adding something to Windows.

Windows already has DirectX, so no, they are not adding something to Windows.

> Why are you all so threatened all the time?

Because MS has a proven track-record of screwing others over. It is only wise to heed a potential threat.
The virus is partying hard in my homeland unfortunately. The northeast and some dear people I know are suffering from it. Please take precautions my people and stay home as much as possible. #coronavirusinbrazil
FYI, source article is from a fringe, right-leaning "news media." I belong they have a staff of 5.
It sounds like you are dismissing the phrase "improve access" as some wibbly-wobbly social justice fuzzy meaningless concept that is obscuring the important stuff.

To me, though, it sounds like the fundamental basis of the whole capitalist system - I'm thinking of the idea that free markets can only function if transaction costs are reasonably low, and the economist Ronald Coase, etc.
Many questionable Russian sites do full port scans not only on localhost but on all the private subnets. I had to block all access to ports above 1024 for all local subnets. Usually people don't have firewall rules for that.
Yeah, so thanks to “Deref coercion” a &Vec<T> will coerce into a &[T] in many places. That’s probably what you’re seeing.
Nix guarantees reproducibility, which means anything can be rebuilt from scratch, but that's a very abnormal use case. If it didn't work out of the box, it's a problem with the package scripts (the "derivations"). That said, all of our software tends to bottom out in a bunch of shitty C libraries that are all delicately cobbled together with autotools and cmake, so anything that aspires to reproduce these things is going to have issues. This tends to make Nix difficult to use, because it doesn't have nearly the same investment/manpower (yet) as other package ecosystems that is necessary to wrangle these dependencies into a stable foundation that doesn't leak its underlying havoc to higher levels of the stack.
There is a think called a non-hierarchical workplace that eliminates the toxic competition this stems from. It is not necessary.
Thanks for the list. Btw LibreOffice Draw can also edit PDFs [1]

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/13/using-libreoffice-as-a-pdf...
Dark Fiber
Yes, if you swallowed 1kg of Polonium, perhaps special procedures are also warranted.

What does this have to do at all with the topic at hand?
> While Oracle has regressed and is oppressing the ecosystem in its typical ways.

Not sure what you're referring to here. Java/JVM has been open sourced for a while as well.

> while Java is just a kitchen sink of non-cohesive features and libraries

I disagree. If you look at the new features coming out (pattern matching, records, green threads/fibers, value types, etc.) the Java designers are taking a very principled approach. Everything fits very well with the language design.
I've spoken with three banks on the phone in the last few weeks. They all work from home.
Yeah, clearly there's some code somewhere that does something. I just don't understand why there are so many files and so much code that does nothing and means nothing.

I'm fine with verbosity. I'm fine with lots of data type declarations, annotations, things that make the compiler happy, etc.

But a file full of getters and setters? I can put up with it, but I don't understand why.
Is there a non-coder/contributor reason to use this over Java Minecraft? Like, is it more performant?
I use Sheets for personal data tracking, for content planning, for making quick financial projections, etc, etc, etc.

Would be easily top used tool for me if it wasn't blocked on the company level where I work.
Putting it this way it misses the point of that statement, but yes, that does appear to be what they said.
There are significant biological risks to having kids late in life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect
Accepting your premise that all of these things are equivilent, when you change mask rules or required vaccinations, etc, you need to let everyone know. So if they don't agree, they can protest, or leave, or attempt to arrange the circumstances of their death to prevent the removal of their organs (it's haddly a donation if it's forced).

I'm trying not to argue for or against opt-in vs opt-out or no choice, that's a fine discussion to have, but this thread was more about notice.
I tried playing Final Fantasy XI on a private server for a week, but found the game to involve too much grinding. Then I noticed an SQL injection in their auction house web page, which allowed me to dump prices of items at various times and build a private API. I used this to inform my investment, got quite wealthy and bought equipment for my toon, then quit the game shortly after.
If you don’t have a solid understanding of genservers I think you’d find yourself lost at the deeper parts
There are times to hold fast to ideals, and times when demanding purity is self-destructive. (And of course wisdom is knowing the difference, and much harder than it looks.)

Open source should be a big tent - it should be an answer to questions people have many different motives for asking. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
LOL. Reading that audit report made me immediately wonder who in the heck is blowing money on bringing new tech to their critical finance systems. And then I saw your post and, yes, that answers that.
Dont sell yourself.

Be honest.
Be modest.

Work hard for your own satisfaction.

If you make a modest living doing something you enjoy, consider yourself lucky.

Unless you want to be rich and famous. In which case, kiss arse and big yourself up all the time.
qmail-verify. It is an "update" of the third party "realrcptto" patch by another third party. It says "third party patch" right there in the sentence I quoted. There is no qmail-verify in original qmail.

As to the second question, I trust softlimit from daemontools and that is what I use. https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/softlimit.html

Not sure what "messing with seemingly unrelated init scripts" means. Can you be more specific?
That is true. Unfortunately the executive branch of the government also seems hell-bent on making things as terrible as possible =/ I'm really not sure where this will lead. It's very sad.
Show HN: Apartments are opening their amenities
> The security requirements probably could not be met by telecommuters.

I don't see why not. VPN plus appropriate admin lockdowns on the computers being used by the telecommuters should work. That's how other security-conscious businesses do it.
You really can't do anything with that data unless you are matched with the other person.
For a long time, Python3 support was advertised and there were lots of Python3 flags, but it was patently broken and there were many tickets that acknowledged as much. Allegedly that has changed now, but my experience was so bad I ran from it.
A Package Manager. Wow, what a wild innovative idea.

Click to select, then click to install!

It's a pity that the Linux distros couldn't have had something like that for the last decade or so. /s
I'm a high-functioning autistic and have Alzheimer's disease in my family.

I wouldn't wish either of these on anyone - the future will just have to get along without any of my offspring.
VW pulls Instagram ads after racism row
Same site, same team - https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elixir
Programming skills are directly correlated to programmer ability to debug, I will go as far stating; programming is not about writing code, but in ability to find bugs and figure out how to resolve them.
Love this. Thanks for sharing!
It's possible but there's steps to jump through, and the expected response times don't change even if you get escalated to a TSE from a different area.

Disclaimer: Is a TSE...
We're using Nix where I work as well, and while I can say it was not the most user-friendly to set up, once we got it in place it has reliably worked for the last two years.

We used to have a long and flaky shell script which set up the development environment for new engineers and CI machines (for iOS development on macOS, specifically). Now we have a very simple script which just installs nix and runs alls builds through the nix-shell. This makes builds on local machines and CI very easily reproducible. It also means that when dependencies change, we just update our nix config, and the new dependencies will automatically be fetched for all of our engineers and CI machines — no need to manually re-run the setup script.

This is my favorite part of Nix — you can do `nix-shell --run "<some command>"`, and it will make sure you have all of the correct dependencies (downloading if necessary), then run the command with those exact dependencies. This is especially magical when engineers working on other platforms have conflicting dependencies — a problem we no longer need to worry about.
Yeah, "direct" traffic is so elusive. It's just a big bucket of visitors. It's a pity because I would have loved to reach out to folks who send this traffic and thank them, or ask for their thoughts on the product...etc.

Mailchimp adds their own trackers on top of the links you insert into the newsletter, which they use for tracking open/click rates, but that's almost less interesting than the source.

Why does it matter that I have a 36% click rate on the last issue, is it good? What if instead I have 10% click rate, but 1 of those people shared it with 10k more?

I understand why in general people don't like tracking, especially here on Hacker News, but I think some of it could lead to much better outcomes for all parties involved. I wonder what other solutions there are to help piece together your audience, and their interests.
> Did you continue to buy from them? I doubt it.

Only bread, cheese and processed products in original packaging, so I guess this proves your point. But they are doing fine to this day, because there's only so many people you could tell (for various personal reasons I didn't want to pursue anything serious, like ratting them out to safety inspectors and hoping they didn't bribe the local inspector, like a certain bookstore I know of... but that's another story), and people tend to stick to their local grocery stores anyway (price and location sensitivity).

For what it's worth, despite that I'm now distrusting businesses by default, I try to compensate for that; if there's a store or service provider that I feel treats me fairly, and I don't see any obvious signs of deception in their overall business practices, I tend to stick to them despite cheaper options available. I feel fair business should be rewarded, and I do my best to put my money where my mouth is in this area.
Not going to build my hopes up, but looking forward for automated tests generation.
I would assume the loudest voices have already been driven out, given several of the protesters from last year claim they were retaliated against by management.

Employees that create problems for a company usually find themselves outside the company one way or another.
Isolation, Covid-19 and the App Store
Is Google blocking the discovery of information due to political correctness?
I have tried many video editors including OpenShot, Cinelerra and Blender to finally arrive to Kdenlive and stay with it! It is still in an active development and getting better and better! I also definitely recommend trying anyone Kdenlive.
This is a very simple HN share. This title isn't for an insightful blog post like you normally might see. it's just an image screenshot comparison of five search engines for a given query, whose search results say it all.

I really hope this doesn't blow up in my face. Here we go.

I'm an LGBTQ man, and politically on the left. I suddenly wanted to know whether the not often used word 'lesbianism', in trying to find a noun to grammatically express the sexuality of lesbians, is considered offensive or not. It was a harmless enquiry, just trying to work it out.

To my shock, in response to this query, Google acted like the word didn't exist. It even suggested "lesbian" like I shouldn't have typed the word in that sentence. It absolutely is a word: https://i.imgur.com/scdLe3W.png

The winner in this case? Yandex. They seem to never be afraid to show me what I'm actually looking for, if it is on the Internet.

We need to know about words, and to see them with our own eyes. We need them to be discussed, to even discover and be educated about how other people feel about them in our society. By hiding words, concepts, and information in this censorship-level way, Google only lets ignorance increase in the world.

Is this a case of politically correct censorship gone too far, or just a random blip in Google's vast algorithm and an unfortunate false positive? This is not the only example that I have increasingly experienced recently, which is why I'm sharing this particular one.

I fear it is just one in a string of upcoming experiences where Google will no longer show me real information which, from non-Google sources, I know: 1. exists, 2. is most relevant to the query, and 3. Google used to show me.

The other search engines prove it to be true. The fact that I have to even go to other search engines to confirm it is worrying.

Am I being paranoid? Is it just me? Has anyone else noticed the quality of Google results becoming increasingly worse, and even trending towards 'political' censorship?

This one might be a random mistake or seen as a weak example, but I can give other live examples.

Certain words, concepts, and information exist in the world, and Google is starting to have a say of what people can find, even if they're searching for it. People want to learn more about certain things, but Google is no longer showing it to them.

This is chilling. This is a horrifying abuse of power. I don't care that it's capitalism, because the issue is larger than that. The problem and the effect is societal.

Facebook is equally guilty in their own domain of influence - in shaping and censoring culture on a global scale that is unprecedented in human history.

Google's main abuse: knowledge.

Facebook's main abuse: culture. (and also knowledge.)

To me, very concerning.
Nix doesn't pay any attention to the rest of your system. It keeps everything it needs (including its own Python interpreter) in its own "nix store" directory, at /nix/store. You can crudely think of it as having its own virtualenv for every distinct Python target you use.
My guess is that a big noctua heatpipe heatsink would keep a CPU from throttling most of the time and do well cooling it, but it would probably be loud when it has to get rid of a lot of heat. The great thing about liquid coolers is they can get rid of more heat with less fan speed and end up quieter (if the pump isn't loud).
The element people are ignoring is money. You can communicate, teach, etc. without money coming into the picture. Sales is about money. You can claim you're "selling" an idea, but the implication is that you're still doing it for your own benefit or advantage. That doesn't mean it has to be a one-sided transaction. You may really believe that what you're doing is beneficial for the other party. But your own interest is an inextricable element of sales.

If your own advantage isn't a factor, there are a hundred words with more relevant connotations to describe what you're doing.