skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reuters is just a newswire agency: it just does research and provides the facts.

Reuters isn't some neutral-fact agency. Reuters does tons of editorial, and has an overall editorial slant, but its customers are news outlets, not readers. Articles written from vague perspectives can run in a wider variety of publications.

What you're reading here is highly editorial (though I like it.) Reuters is choosing to report on an issue that could be interesting to people by highlighting a few individual stories of lesser appeal. They could have not covered this and covered anything else (there was no "news" event.) They could have taken the position that too many judges had been removed from the bench, implying that there was a bias against judges. The reporter made a journalistic choice to investigate the crimes of judges. The reporter then made the editorial choices to report it though these particular examples, and to highlight criminal judges still serving rather than criminal judges that have been removed, or even the relatively low crime rates in judges as a demographic as compared to many other demographics. Reuters then made the editorial choice to publish the piece - which may have been preceded by sending it back with suggestions to change previous editorial choices, or maybe even handing it off to another journalist to finish.

The idea that there are neutral fact-delivering voices of god somewhere is destructive, and easily taken advantage of by the people who own these voices of god. The Moonies bought UPI.
I'm really more talking about ground level activism, boycotts, "raising awareness", etc not military action or conflict.
I haven't seen it be the default, but vi is part of POSIX so it's omnipresent.
I was involved in designing a POC that proved this many years ago now (but after Doze appeared on Android, causing power saving issues). Note this was all for Android though, and I think Apple's restrictions make it very difficult to do this there.

There is a nice model for federating push services, and it worked. If you give apps a push "token" that takes the form of a URI or email-like address, the token can be namespaced by the push server provider. That can be self-hosted. An application can send push messages via websockets or a similar transport to the user's token-defined push server, and the user's apps can listen to it.

The long and short of it was that an app implementing the "push client library" would be able to do push messaging in a power efficient way, and it meant you could still only query 1 source server, that was configured well for long-lived connections. The trade-off is that you need app developers to really want to use it, and be willing to send the push messages to servers identified by the push token/URI.
This is my approach as well. It's probably not great for the drives since they have to spin up every power cycle, but it's a lot more energy efficient than having a server running 24/7!
Gatsby announces their new partnership with Agility CMS
A new shortcut skips stem cells completely, converts skin into photoreceptors
Why do you imagine it's by choice? It was requested that someone come up with an example of what you can do in Emacs that you can't do in Sublime and the examples given were unrealistic. Do you have a more realistic scenario where Emacs could do something Sublime, or VS Code, or Atom could not?
I feel it's not impossible, more like it just hasn't been initiated. It requires synthesizing parts off of common core, and then parents being effective at not just dishing information but capturing the essence of techniques of delivery and engagement itself. Heh, sorry for the non-answer. I guess what i'm saying is it's a trailblazing/pioneering project for whoever commits to that endeavor in a non-secular and modernized way.
It's puzzling that you've decided to write this after reading a measured and polite comment with what I think are reasonable arguments.
Didn't even know people still paid for TV but reading this thread surprised me. I would say this industry is dead with the upcoming generation but guess I'll be surprised again
And in winter you don't have to climb as long to reach the top of the tower!
> There is an horror story about an Android One Xiaomi phone

Which one? I had a Xiaomi Mi A1 and nowadays I have a A2, both are fine Android One phones that still receives updates (in the case of A1, only security ones, but the A2 received a Android 10 update).

Yeah, Xiaomi may take a while to update their phones in Android One program, but otherwise it is fine.
This is how Taiwan wins.

Long term their leadership will prevail if the communists keep trying to clamp down.
This is terrible news when we're also hearing ideas like 'China is becoming the next global superpower to replace USA'. I have no words. I don't feel like my obfs4 bridge can do much either, but I'll keep it running.
ENOENT: no such file or directory

...funny
> [...] imagine a case where there is absolutely compelling grounds for thinking that [...]

FYI the system which we are discussing does not entertain such a notion. Or else we wouldn't need or bother with juries, whose main job is to deliberate and argue over whether presented evidence is compelling enough to remove any possibility of doubt.

> So given the legal "room" to hand down a harsher-than-would-otherwise-be sentence for some separate offense, that doesn't strike me as totally inappropriate or out of line with our expectations about what judges should do

I... _wildly_ disagree with this.
Not that my disagreement here should matter much – surely the justice/legal system has its own expectations here, that would trump yours or mine?
I agree with you. But you don't have to go quite all the way to Venus for a plausible scenario that would, probably, wipe out humanity. See page 6 of this link for a scary infographic.

http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...

Of course direct emissions won't get there alone, but runaway feedbacks could.
It's not just that it was an executable. The real issue is that Little Snitch is distributed as a pkg (not that that's the developers' fault, as there's no way to implement the app's functionality with just a simple app). But distributing it as a pkg that requires installation with an admin password is how the malware takes hold of a user's computer. AFAIK it is always safe to open an app you download from the web (although the app may not respect your privacy).
Good point on the battery life. One mitigation would be allowing quick (wireless?) charging from existing devices like smartphones, but there would still need to be a minimally viable battery life. Example is the first Apple Watch that targeted a day's worth.

I imagine system performance would be another early issue. Again in the example of first Apple Watch, it was nothing more than a display to render the paired iPhone's content. It wasn't until the 3rd generation that it became more standalone and able to function without a "co-device".

Come to think of it in the case of the rumored Apple Glass, its rollout/development might be similar to that of the Watch. First couple of generations are heavily, if not entirely, dependent on the iPhone for data processing. But eventually it'll come into its own - thanks to the strength of Apple's custom silicon development.
There is no "redistribution to more habitable latitudes" (a breathtakingly vast understatement of human suffering) without all out war. There is no all out war without nuclear destruction at our own hand.
I've been a vim user for almost two decades, but recently my usage has increased dramatically due to the proliferation of high quality LSP servers that plug in through CoC.nvim. It really has removed all the maintenance hassle of keeping your language environments up to date.
We recommend people to install the desktop app so it's easy to keep open. However, people still like the ability to easily link to issues, even if they don't have the app installed, hence the web browser support.
> The real issue is that Little Snitch is distributed as a pkg (not that that's the developers' fault, as there's no way to implement the app's functionality with just a simple app).

In Big Sur, it might be.

> AFAIK it is always safe to open an app you download from the web (although the app may not respect your privacy).

Apps can still encrypt your disk this way.
You could do drop down answers to rate officials instead of free form text. Don’t know how it would work for verifying a real identity. Maybe require Moderation and only licensed lawyers can approve a new user?
Netflix and YouTube with ExpressVPN?
In a FOSS it is very easy to fork, so if the BDFL get's mad you can just say thanks and fork the project and continue. So that keeps BDFL in check.

IRL you own a plot of land, or a home. Or you have a small factory, and there are a lot of network dependencies, who does you sell the supplies, where you sell your products. It the local BDFL get's mad it is very difficult to move. (Specially if there are some cash flow controls were you can't get out with the money that you get selling your home or that you have saved.)
Great! My interested in Lua was actually sparked by knowing you could write pandoc plugins with it.
You can just create an "issues" or "feedback" repository.

Then you get the benefits of first-class integration with your code and CI/CD pipeline.
Has anyone tested whether this can be detected with RansomWhere?
https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html

It's a program that warns me whenever programs are locking files. In practice it's a minor annoyance when using brew or pip. Similarly, Oversight tells me when my camera and mic are being used.
https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
It's a minor annoyance whenever I have a video call and plug in a microphone. But it's "for my protection", and sometimes can be useful to know whether it's really my sound settings that are the problem, or that my headphones are unplugged. These two also seem more trustworthy than anti-virus for Mac, because they don't claim to keep me safe, just warn me when there's a problem.
"Read a compilation of Lua basics in 15 minutes in sensible organizaton with helpful explanations"

FTFY
What are the preparations that a company would have needed to do in the last 100 years to protect themselves in the event of a new pandemic? Wouldn't they need a plan to restructure to cut costs or find new revenue, and be able to cover cash flow in the n months it takes to do that restructuring? Is it that crazy to expect that from a large profitable company with long-term goals? Consider that it's common "financial advice" for individuals to be able to cover n months of living expenses in the event of an emergency, and that is often much more infeasible for an individual than it ought to be for a large profitable company.
Nifty. It has a free download (pdf), and there are lots of interesting projects in this I haven't seen before.

The Open Book (https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book) is featured in there as well. :)
For some, "fishing" means "getting drunk on a boat, with no real intent of seeing a fish." Alcohol is a very common factor in boating accidents, somewhere between 15-50% depending on which source you look at. (I think the higher end of that range is likely closest to the truth.)
Very much this. Decades ago, when I couldn’t justify the cost of software, I generally knew what places I could trust, and what places might be more sketchy, and what places were guaranteed to infect my system. The cracking scene was very competitive, and any place that messed with the final binary would get blacklisted, making it very hard to get zero day releases from various groups.

I have no idea what the landscape looks like today, and I’d be reluctant to run anything outside a vm, since I no longer know where the reputable sources are, but I’m sure there are still private trackers and discord servers where you could trust every link.
Check out git-bug [1].

It's a decentralized issue tracker that stores the data in Git and offers a CLI/TUI/web UI.

[1] https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
It's going to invariably depend on how your company is organized, and its culture.

If you're at all able to start with something approaching the business-facing parts of Scrum, I think that's a great place to start. In Scrum, there are ideally two completely separate queues: The product backlog belongs to the business folks, and is organized in a way that works for them, and the dev team's list of tasks belongs to dev, and probably shouldn't look similar at all. And the only way for things to move from one queue to the other is during a regular meeting where the dev team says, "OK, it looks like we've got room to take on X additional work, what can you give us?"

And then, and I think this is secretly one of the most important things, the dev team physically creates new tickets for the new work they're taking on. You should never be able to just drag-and-drop tickets from one queue to the other. Ideally, it shouldn't even be physically possible to do so. Where I am right now, one is in $JIRA_COMPETITOR, and the other is an Excel spreadsheet. (If we all worked out of the same office, I'd probably go for an Excel spreadsheet and yellow sticky notes on a wall. Yellow sticky notes on a wall are awesome. They're a great deterrent to keep the PHBs from generating reports and dashboards for bothering people with KPIs.)

This little ceremony, and the associated firewall between two related but separate business functions, is, I think the heart and soul of what Scrum should be. It's the thing that sets up all the little firewalls and incentives that encourage business and dev to maintain a relationship that's more functional than dysfunctional. Everything else - sprints, story points, standup meetings, all that jazz - is just window dressing that some teams may or may not find makes that ceremony go more smoothly.

And if you can get a formal handoff like that in place, and get people to respect it, my (admittedly hopelessly idealistic) belief is that the rest of it gets easier to figure out. What's the correct scope and size of individual requests that the product people make of the dev team? Whatever size and scope best enables people to come out of the meeting feeling good about how it went.

But if everything's being jammed into one gimongous ticketing system, like all the ticketing system vendors seem to want you to do, you're doomed.
thanks for getting this out there
I'm curious, what kinds of things do you see that are being prioritized for Firefox or Mozilla over things the community wants? I can't think of anything, but I am also extremely biased.

> (look at how many issues from Rust 1.0 are still open with no conclusion, discussion or resolution.)

Issues for the project are prioritized based on need and ability to complete them, not age.
Which are the most reputable sites?
Geolocating tells us which country the ip address belongs to. The countries policies towards companies operating those ips have a big effect. Nationities do matter.
OpenResty embeds Lua in nginx, the results are out-of-this-world speed and power. I know OpenResty can be used for complex projects but I always used it for just that little extra simple configuration can't do.
Py4web
Because it lets you use single quotes ("isn't") or double quotes ('error: "%s"') without escaping ('isn\'t', "error: \"%s\"").

A rare case where readability and consistency may not be the same. (Let's not argue about this, it's subjective. I'm aware of the obvious counter- and counter-counter-arguments, such as syntax hilighting and greppability.)
Oh okay very interesting. I didn't realize that AR headsets were significantly behind compared to VR headsets. But the question is how behind is it, because clearly Apple is able to somehow pull it off, right?
Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple Talk about SwiftUI, Xcode Previews, etc.
> What's wrong with the comment syntax?

Not OP, but for me it's not... "blocky" enough? Especially for inline commands it's maybe just too easy to glimpse over it. But otherwise it's also maybe just plain unfamiliar.
>engineers almost always make poor product decisions

You seem to be misinterpreting my thoughts as being against the idea of a product manager role. That's not what I mean. I'm talking about product as a separate autonomous org with a CPO, versus embedded PMs reporting to EMs alongside the rest of the product development team. I have similar, though less strong, feelings about Design as a separate org as well, for many of the same reasons (communication overhead/bottlenecks).

With regard to backlog, there is actually some capacity planning math that can show that (unintuitively) backlog size negatively affects product delivery velocity. I'm not an expert there, I've just watched some internal tech talks about it in the past.

At a higher level, think about what happens when the business side requests a new feature, or a product change. What is the difference in terms of confidence of estimates that can be given if you have 20 tasks in the backlog, versus 200. Sure, for that one thing you can up the priority and jam it in above a bunch of other stuff. But then, once that starts happening to people where you prioritize a newer request above theirs, how does that affect their confidence in your planning ability on a longer timeline?

> in my (vast) experience

Lastly, maybe pump the brakes a bit here, boss. This statement doesn't make me trust you more, independent of your ideas. We're on a web forum, not in a board room.
Well I think a big part of it is that Americans are a lot taller than Guatemalans.
For sure, but it's technically an AR system, right? ;)
If you're looking for free software the best site I know of is debian.org, though if you use Windows or Mac you might want to check out firefox.com, libreoffice.org and gimp.org.
That kind of mentality was the joke in many eastern eu movies in the 80s. Pretty much the standard comedy in Polish movies from that time.
“Nonprofit” is a statement about ownership, not labor.
Currently, and historically as far as I know, part of a police officer's job is to hurt people, when certain conditions present themselves. Every day police officers respond to DV assaults that are in progress. Oftentimes the perpetrator fights the police.

Any time an arrestee is not fully cooperative with the police taking them into custody, the arrest is not going to be pleasant to watch. Someone is having their freedoms taken from them by force. I don't see an alternative, though.

Here is a scenario:

A person just committed a carjacking using a gun. It happens every day. (There are more than 30,000 carjackings a year in the US, and a bit less than half involved a firearm.)

What non- or less-violent action do you suggest a better trained police officer would take to bring the offender into custody?

Let's say the carjacker didn't have a gun, but instead had beat the driver up. The police spot them, and they run. What next?

Serious question. I have never heard what I consider to be a practical answer to how policing could work in the United States without use of significant force.
Exactly this. Been wondering the same thing myself.
True... It could also be likely that they haven't published the AR version of the technology, if it's possible...
I've heard it specifically about Salvador Dali, except he would drop a key.
This is not a useful analogy. You won't die or be horribly disfigured sitting at your keyboard. The tradeoffs of driving a car vs using a Mac are very different. They're not comparable.
You can `sandbox-exec`. But that probably wouldn’t be useful for a program like little-snitch, which needs rather broad permissions normally.
One thing I've thought about is a sort of "crowdfunded patronage" model, where the creator of a work declares upfront how much money they want to make off of it, and releases it into the public domain once they've received that much money.

That's a ransom model. It's one of several [existing mechanisms] for funding free/libre/open (FLO) works… none of which appreciably move the needle on making a living off them.

I've spent a lot of time talking about Snowdrift.coop on HN recently so I'll skip the pitch this time and just link our [wiki], which has a suggested reading order front-and-center; I'm happy to join in follow-up discussion.

[existing mechanisms]: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/existing-mechanisms#fn2

[wiki]: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/
No other text editor has so much in common with playing a musical instrument. Everything you do eventually becomes muscle memory; an expression of grammar rather than the execution of a procedure.
Style and storytelling.

Style: Is the site intentionally designed?

Storytelling: Does the site communicate its purpose (or lack thereof) well?

I’ve been cataloging a bunch of personal sites (300+) if helpful here: https://www.are.na/tmm/personal-sites-iouu5rp4cra

My site is at https://meagher.co. Happy to chat about this subject further - email in bio.
In my experience, it's both.

Jira is laggy as fuck and makes every interaction I have with it take 5 times as long as it needs to, or at least it has been in the two organizations that I've worked for that used it.
>In big cities where congestion is a problem, you have to look at space efficiency

At least in my city we don't need to go from 100 cars -> 1 train to solve the issue. Going from 3 solo drivers -> 1 Uber/Lyft will cut congestion to 1/3-1/2. That's enough to alleviate the worst traffic.

>Uber and Lyft are also not economical for a lot of people which is one of the other big reasons you don't see them taking off in many places.

The shared services are pretty comparable to what public transport costs in my city. A single bus/train trip costs ~$5 when taking all taxes/fares into account. Most journeys from point A to B require a transfer so the cost is more like $10. $10 in a Uber/Lyft shared ride gets you pretty far.

Even if it nets out to be more expensive it's at least something that people will use. The current riders are mostly those too poor to own a car and have no other choice.
Thank you! Redis is what brought back the spark of fun in developing in me.
Gen Z speaking: Why would anyone ever have wanted that, even at 40$?
Yeah, the ad quality is horrible. I'm in Sweden; I've seen/skipped through all of the local ads like 200 times each by now. At least it feels like that.

Sometimes you get something new - it's always some poor american local company that made their own ad (often some construction company targetting home owners) but messed up the geotargetting, I presume.
Love the down stuff. Comforter (from Costco, on a deal), Jacket (from our local used gear store on a deal). Amazing warmth. My wife grew up in a similar situation as you. Could never get warm (skinny, and due to early arthritis the cold 'hurts'). Can't believe the weather she has been willing to go out in this past winter.
You are thinking of Salvador Dali. He would hold a spoon in his hand and rest it above a plate. When he fell asleep the spoon would fall and make a clang with the plate. Jolting him awake again, he would try to recall whatever was happening in his subconscious right before being startled awake and try to express it on canvas.
I've been using vim for about 7 years and for me it's not so much about the efficiency as it is the pleasure of commanding (programming!) a powerful, wellmade tool.
I don't think that we should 'ban' Chinese or Russian people if you are pointing towards that. I do think that we shouldn't pull a smokescreen over the truth by dissallowing statement of fact that most hackers are Chinese or Russian.

We also shouldn't shout down people who are hit everyday by this as rascist or emotionally charged. It's completely logical for them to want to ban these groups. Instead we should educate on exactly what kind of a very dark and hellish place banning leads to.
Does apple not throw up a permission dialog whenever an app tries to access just about any part of your filesystem? Like this:

https://nektony.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grant-acces-d...

I could be wrong, maybe it's only for certain kinds of apps.