skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. Well, that's very dramatic language. I was asking if that's what you're saying...because that's what it seemed to me like you're saying, but it seemed strange. Isn't that just what I should've done? Then "I deny you the right to put words in my mouth."! Hopefully you don't often say that in conversation when people ask you what you meant. So, if by

> C ate the world. awk... um... ... got used for some things.

> the actual usefulness of the language determines how much it is actually used.

you didn't mean something like

> Awk isn't "actually useful" which is why it's hardly used

then what did you mean? What are you saying? Because it really seems to me like that's the impression you meant to convey.
But we are probably missing the IDE/animation editor, which were one of the biggest selling points.
> How is this really different from what we already know?

I actually didn't know that public land could pass into private ownership so easily.

As it says in the article: "The law itself is the crime — a gift to the oil and gas businesses."
I found the iPhone grayscale filter really useful in reducing the amount of time and attention I spend on my phone. The ability to easily toggle grayscale on and off with three home-button clicks was crucial for making it practical to keep the filter on by default. I wanted to try the same thing with my laptop, but couldn’t find a simple enough solution. So, I built a macOS app that lets you toggle the grayscale filter with just a menu bar click or a configurable keyboard shortcut. I’d be interested to know whether people here find it useful or have any feedback. Thanks for taking a look.
Maxwell: Like Material Design or Bootstrap for the SwiftUI Revolution
GitHub has banned repos that they don't like (not even talking about breaking ToS). It's not the same as refusing a paying customer, but it's close enough. They've already chosen to be political.
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I hated the brackets at first but after using ObjC for a bit I came to love them.
That's a very roundabout way to say "Americans have a comfortably whitewashed, frankly ignorant version of reality and everybody else should walk on eggshells to help them maintain it".

Concentration camps were not solely the purview of the Nazis, and already had quite the history before they even came on the scene. In fact, while we're on the topic of World War II, the US government held people of Japanese decent in concentration camps during that war - which perhaps partly explains there's such an aggressive effort to make those camps a "Nazi thing".

The rest of the world doesn't have any obligation to help you hide from facing and interrogating your own history.
> It shouldn't (or doesn't) affect Skype/Whatsapp/iMessage/Facetime/etc types of data calls does it?

Anecdotally, this is correct. I was unable to place a normal call today, but was able to Facetime the other device.
As a student (who graduated high school 2 years ago), I think it would be cool and inviting to most people to show examples in VR (like real games or unity projects), discuss/lecture, then implement. Some students will want to be hardcore and understand the bare-bones, some students will want to play around, and some students will want to use tools that the industry uses. You can get a nice balance of both what I mentioned and your own stuff and existing work. Maybe I'm being unrealistic, but that sounds like a great class to me.
"In limit" is just shorthand for "as N tends to infinity" (not necessarily N, but you get the idea).
> equally bizarre point. If Dems want to pass their agenda, the should concentrate on running candidates that can win according to the rules that they're stuck with.

https://i.redd.it/qo1c2vtmu8s21.jpg

What a joke of a democracy we collectively pretend to have.
Do you think the game of football is more complex than, say, the global economy? I doubt it, yet we still use data and statistics to analyse the economy, so why not football or any other sport?
I would recommend a guide on parts of speech and expanding and reading all definitions.
The U.S. is currently under a major DDoS attack
I loved Windows 2000 but it is so long ago.

KDE plasma with the windows like menu is just better in every way. I use to have a dual boot into Windows 10 but even that has been gone for a year or two.
> That kills the whole purpose of automation. Automation is preferable because it is supposed to be cheaper while providing equal benefits as traditional production of goods and services.

That's the capitalist enrich-the-owners purpose. In my mind, the real purpose of automation is to relieve humans the need to do work so they can live lives of leisure and personal enrichment. Unfortunately, I don't expect us to get there within my lifetime, if ever at all.
Dyes in squid skin are naturally anti-microbial
> Making money off of YT videos is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

You said "No one cares about PCs as a business anymore."

The popularity of YT videos on new laptops, pcs, etc. seems to suggest that at a non-zero number of people (i.e., greater than "No one") still care about PCs.
Author here. Thanks for posting this. This is something I wanted to continue. The plan is still discussing NetBSD source code, as much as I can. Reading NetBSD code is a great way to learn operating systems! :-)
Now if 'open' part of PSD2 open banking actually meant that I could access my own bank account api, that would be great :).
It's remarkable how much drama is being manufactured over a non-issue. There's a zero percent chance the people putting in the effort to promote this don't realize that 'Master' is an industry term of art meaning original or reference copy.
Using the 8% rule of thumb, a $2 annual lease is about $25 to buy. About $16K per square mile. I'm willing to bet you could buy surface rights to someplace inaccessible and inarable for that price. Mineral rights for places with low prospects of minerals are generally worth significantly less than surface rights.
Well, it's one of the most famous places in the world, with tons of tourists every year. But when you start destroying this, it's worthless for sure.
Very interesting! How does this work from an average citizen's perspective? If I had a spare $10k, could I simply go bid on some parcels, and (assuming I won the auction), simply let it sit for 10 years, thereby denying other companies the ability to exploit it?
Really? It looks just fine to me. People like to complain about the GTK3 header bars, but those encompass everything that you'd previously find in toolbars and menubars, at least for simple utils. And they enable full touch readiness, as do the slightly bigger buttons and widgets.
The live outage maps are basically just this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
I'm not sure why that's wanted?

If the goal is to equalize the amount of land owned by the federal government in each state, why not do the opposite and have the government gain control of more land in the east?
This could actually be because of forced busing of whites to black schools.
Many parents want to send their kid to the best school and were willing to move to avoid their kids going to worse schools.

White parents were more likely to be able to afford to move which resulted in them leaving. Minorities tended to be poorer and could not leave and stayed in the areas with the worse schools. Kids who go to worse schools are less likely to get out of poverty so they stayed in the same poor areas and had kids in the same area repeating the cycle.

Since schools are typically given money based on property tax it meant that the schools in poor areas tended to receive less funding. There are also issues with teachers getting lower pay if they were in a poorer school. I think these issues are fixed in some states but there are still issues related to this in various states.
The Curious Case of Copy and Paste
Respectfully disagree. The Platinum appearance (which debuted in Mac OS 8, not 9) used roughly the same UI metrics which were typical for System 7 applications. It had to, as it was applied to all applications, not just ones which opted in!

Beyond that... the system appearance used prior to Platinum was, simply put, crude. It was an outgrowth of a UI design which had originally been constructed for black-and-white systems with limited CPU power, and it wasn't especially consistent. It lacked standard UI elements for many controls which had become common, like dropdown menus, utility windows, disclosure triangles, or tristate checkboxes, forcing many applications to implement their own inconsistent versions of these items. Even for the UI elements it implemented, like buttons and checkboxes, its appearance was simplistic in the extreme -- buttons were black outlined round-rects; checkboxes were black outlined squares, etc. There was very little use of color or shading outside of window chrome -- most of the UI was black and white, just as it had been from the start.
It's not bikeshedding. The open source community has opened its eyes to how poor a job of inclusivity it's done, and one of the changes that resulted was a social taboo against names and terminology that serve as microaggressions, including "master", "slave", "blacklist", "cop", and "gimp". Given the context in which "gash" is often used in ordinary language, it's reasonable to at least question its use as a project name.
1. If Macromedia was still the author of Flash/Dreamweaver/Fireworks through the html5 transition days, I imagine all of those products would still be providing big benefits to web content creators. I genuinely believe that Adobe never understood the value of these products and the communities that formed around them. Adobe as a company didn't know how to foster and grow this half developer / half designer user base.
for one thing Docker is rock solid on centos

didnt try using centos as desktop though
> 1/ Its IDE which made creating creative and interactive content mixing video/vector graphics sounds and code easier

Why is it that with all our computer power, we somehow can't create authoring tools as good as we had in the past?

HyperCard, DreamWeaver, Visual Basic 6, etc. all seem to be dramatically better for common people (read: not career programmers) than any modern equivalent we have.
Africa's Digital Economy
We had that discussion here in Sweden a decade ago. Buss drivers had a dress code that required pants for men, while women could choose between pants or skirt. That year it was extra hot weather during the summer and quite a few male drivers were complaining about the heat, and some even went as far as bringing a kilt as a way of protest against the discriminating dress code.

If I remember right the buss company involved later changed the dress code in order to allow for shorts.

Male drivers complying with the female dress code during that year in front of clients generated quite a few news article on the topic.
> app store apps will just magically work because they were recompiled behind the scenes

That will be hard to do, as apple doesn't have the source code. They could transcode them from one machine code to another, but this is unlikely. It will be the app developers themselves that will need to recompile. But I'm sure it will be a (relatively) easy process.
Hmm, so does this mean /etc/hosts will no longer work either, etc.? That's handled by the same glibc function too.
Let's grant that a terminology change like this is just a distraction. If so, why do you get so worked up about it? Why not just say to yourself "heh, much good that'll do, but whatever" and move on?
They’re coming after tech. Don’t worry, changing terminology will change the underlying issues. Just be careful not to cause thoughtcrime once neuralink is feasible in a few decades.
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I think you are confusing Larson with Terry Tempest Williams, who is mentioned later in the article as trying to lease land in order to prevent it from being leased by oil and gas companies

Yes. That's precisely my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
Star Citizen Raises $US300M, Becomes Most Expensive Game on Record
Then in that case because some apparent pairs of letters are in fact a single letter in some languages. Per the DZ wiki page someone else has given, DZ is a distinct single letter in hungarian and slovak at least.

Double letters being a single letter isn't rare, such as ll and dd in welsh. In a strange sense it arguably occurs in english in th and th, which I could argue are double-letter representations of single letters, which were originally eth and thorn

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29
Sweet potato pie! Read the entire "Risks" section it goes something like this:

Smithers: What would each of you say is your worst quality?

Man 1: Well, I a workaholic.

Man 2: I push myself too hard.

Hertz: Well, it takes me a long time to learn anything,
I'm kind of a goof-off...

Smithers: Okay, that'll do.

Hertz: ... a little stuff starts disappearing from the workplace...

Smithers: That's enough!
Well, I think now the Germans invented a uppercase "ß" letter (in 2017), although there didn't used to be.
Gold is under old mountains, and at rivers below them. These are very young and light sand rocks. You cannot expect any gold, oil or gas there. But lot of tourism.
I would actually suspect that in this kind of society -- the state isn't there to enforce discrimination, but it's also not there to redress it -- there would still be civil rights movements, and protests would probably be pretty vigorous. Businesses that discriminate would find themselves, their customers, and their suppliers put under a great deal of pressure. Sit-ins. Blockades. Rallies painting them, specifically, as villains.

As an aside, the relative absence of that kind of movement in libertarian thought experiments has always bemused me; I think there's a somewhat utopian "everything gets better when you take the state out of the equation" notion at play. Everything doesn't automatically get worse, but it doesn't automatically get better, either. If the society still has discrimination, prejudice, and unequal justice, it's still going to face pressures to reform; most of us would rather see where we live be made "better" in our understanding of the term than be forced to move somewhere else to find that "better," even assuming we have the resources to make such a move.
this is true (and a property of all? cloud formats Delta, Hudi, Iceberg, parquet, etc.)

I was referring more to the fact that the cloud vendors can co-design their infrastructure and software to support their database services.
That's what employment is. Someone has a bunch of stuff they want done, and someone else agrees to do it in exchange for money.
Hitachi have always been a little more expensive than the others, from my memory. The Deskstar consumer line could be around 10-20% more than competition and the Ultrastar enterprise 25-50% more than Deskstar. Going from memory.

I've had good luck with the few Toshiba drives I've had. That's what my storage system is running right now because it was the only thing I could find in 1TB laptop form factor when I bought them 6-7 years ago.
DDoS attack takes down major US carriers
Uh, I read the James Damore memo, and that's what I got out of it. It's the classic groundwork for an argument of scientific sexism.
The first definition is marked historical.

The other 3 definitions google offers make no reference to slavery unless you really want to stretch "in charge of an organization or group" just to be offended.
This appears so.

From the SJCL documentation:

> An older version of this implementation is available in the public domain, but this one is (c) Emily Stark, Mike Hamburg, Dan Boneh, Stanford University 2008-2010 and BSD-licensed for liability reasons.
What's the term that's equivalent to greenwashing here? Racewashing?
Do remember that this device is running a full kernel, so actually you can get the speed and memory benefits of running such. Expect some Raspberry Pi 3-eque performance.
I actually hated Win2K when it came out and tried to hold to NT 4.0 as long as I could, although I'm sure some of that was just youthful arrogance.

If I recall correctly, Win2K was a lot slower than NT 4.0 on the same hardware, and it featured some really bad UI ideas, like menus that auto-hide advanced menu items.

By the time XP was released I gave up the fight.

The initial XP theme was just awful; clearly a knee-jerk reaction to the OS X Aqua. It's too bad. The MS Whistler prototype screenshots looked great.

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/whistler2257

The later XP theme (Powerpack?) was half decent.
> I think if the bar is "don't kill minorities"

Take this as my personal possibly wrong opinion, but this kind hyperbolic phrasing is only going to hurt your cause.

The same as people defending "punch a nazi" slogans.

They will give your tribe influence, but also steadily decrease your chance at long term victory.

Honestly I cannot understand how many people (I don't care about sides) can believe in progress via violence, promoting violence, or extreme polarization.

I cannot change your minds, but sure I hope it were easier to have a moderate to moderate conversation.
Yes absolutely. However if you are aggressive in getting performance then you're likely to do things like batching the data and storing compressed blobs in the db and the rest of the row is essentially just metadata to the blob. Once you do this, relations on the data are basically thrown away because you can no longer do any joins on the blob data.

You can choose to not do this but then get ready to eat mediocre performance.
Where did you get this can't do calls?
Happens all the time, the NY Times confuse which state has what Senator and ESPN's stock footage for "North Dakota" is a bison with the I90 Highway sign in the background (I90 is SD, I94 is ND).
It's exhausting watching companies that have enough capital and resources to educate, train, and employ disadvantaged Americans and give them a better life resort to pandering of the lowest level during a crisis to promote their brand. I don't wish to participate or support their ruse.
What odds do any given leased acres actually have for getting produced on?
Disclaimer: I'm from Argentina. the very next time you hear somebody from my country rooting for Brazil buy a lottery ticket.

Even thought to different results, Brazil is always a force to be reckoned with.

They are the only team (I think) that has constantly reached a certain point at the World Championships.

What I observed in their game, is that they play as a team (Contrary to what my country does) and at the same time, every single one of their players is somebody to be afraid of individually.

Regarding the world championships, if you ask me it wasn't Germany that won the 2014 world cup, nor it was Spain in 2010.

It was Pep Guardiola that won both.
> One wire report says Level 3, a major fiber network backbone that cell networks rely on for routing calls and message, is experiencing an outage, which may point to why other companies are also struggling.

How common is it for major telcom companies to rely on third parties like this for routing calls?
Virtual Quantum Collider
As someone with a drawer full of these types of devices, from the neo1973 to the Creative Labs Zii Egg and Google G1, I'll definitely be picking up one of these phones when its available .. I've had a lot of fun with my PineTime watch already, as there are a number of different OS'es available for it .. in various states of functionality, of course .. but that's the fun of it. Its SO rewarding to have a device like this, that has so many open options. Write a watch-face in Python? Hell yeah. Learn Rust and carry my lab projects around on my wrist - for sure. Its like a breath of fresh air after decades of walled gardens and proprietary junk.

That said, the Pine-* devices are definitely not .. quite .. ready for mainstream. The PineTime watch back-face is not glued on, even .. but that just makes it a perfect hacker statement! Something so very satisfying about having a device so open, the case doesn't even close. ;P
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Flash was not hated. It was at its peak during 2008 when Flash games were making millions on Facebook and every media-related site used Flash interfaces. I remember being on Flashkit.com back then, and watching design houses like 2advanced.com release their next project.

Apple's decision was a major factor, along with HTML5 finally being supported by browsers with native functionality for animations and video support that had vastly superior performance. In the next 4 years, mobile took off like crazy beyond anyone's expectations and by the time the legendary iPhone 4 was released, Flash was at the beginning of the end.
This only gives mineral rights on a 10 year lease. The government then gets 12.5% of whatever minerals are taken.
Given the challenges we face with climate change, it should be going the other way. The government should be buying more land back east and slowing down on leasing. We need to give more land back to nature, and the Fed has the resources and longevity to oversee that type of project.
The invention of a "fission blanket" (aka "weak force intermodulation projector") that renders fission impossible, at a distance, is also part of the backstory for a scifi novel 'Emprise', by Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
To use land for something productive, you usually have to have exclusive rights to it. That's exactly what this process does - gives exclusive access to whoever wants to do something productive with it. Selling land at auction is a good way to ensure it goes to whoever expects to make the most productive use of it. If an oil company gets it cheap and then makes a profit charging someone else to use it, good for them - that means they correctly predicted future demand, which is better than what anyone else did.

But it's especially not a problem here because desert land in America is extremely plentiful and unwanted. It's effectively an unlimited resource. Do you know of any native Americans who want to use some remote desert but can't because they don't own it? Give them $2 to lease some. The government won't use it any more than they're already not using it so it's no use in their hands. They've already blasted big areas of desert with nuclear bombs and left it permanently radioactive so it's not even clear that the government is a good steward of land anyway.
From the post:

> The Flash plugin itself includes a JIT compiler that
> converts AS3 code to x86 code on the fly, which is then JIT
> compiled by CheerpX into WebAssembly.

And of course, the WebAssembly is then JIT compiled right back to x86, so it's actually three levels of JIT compilation. It's a wonder this runs with any acceptable performance at all.

I'm looking forward to seeing this as a dependency of any future Electron app too; Moore's law must be brought to use.
It's just mineral rights lease, right? You can still go build a home there since and you'll own that land, just not the mineral rights. I think in most cases when you own land, you don't own mineral rights.
Are people still working from home in US?
While at first glance I don't see any value in changing these terms, I do think pushback of this angry tone serves to illustrate the shocking degree of negative emotional energy that people have for the topic, which ironically serves as evidence that the terms do matter, and strengthens the argument for the change.