skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To the down-voters: you're so sensitive ;)

It's not that they are sensitive. It's that you are so completely, ludicrously wrong that the overconfident tone is borderline offensive.

> Why adopt something that is on its way to the museum?

For it to be headed to the museum, there would need to be something better. Can you point us to it?

> users badly need protection from downloaded programs which can't be fully trusted.

Linux solved that issue decades ago. It's called a package manager and you should read about them.

> There are no other users on the desktop

Think on how browser exploits work. Come back when you understand it.

> On the desktop Linux is simply unfit.

So, what do you think is a better fit? Macs?
Nobody wants to stand up to China and it’s going to lead us to a very dark place. I fear we either go to war or we just acquiesce and become similar to China. I really hope we can avoid the whole bloody cultural revolution part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre
Guru3d seriously not update their website design in 20 years? Looks the same since the 2000s.
I already do that, but it's good to still know which companies intentionally distribute malware so you can avoid giving money to them.
Digicert to revoke a intermediate certificates for EVs tomorrow
Just like every thing else, this too was amplified by the internet.

If you said something controversial 40 years ago at a grocery shop, shop owner might be mad and refuse to service you, and might even put a bad word for you across the town. In the worst and rarest case, you might have had to leave town.

Now, anyone can record the interaction, put it in front of more people on twitter than the front-page of a big newspaper. And this amplifies things. Not to mention that it remains there forever for the whole wide world.

At this point in many places, you will be more quickly forgiven for taking cash from a shop's register than saying something which is not the prevalent opinion.
connect.facebook.net
graph.faceboom.com
sdk.facebook.com
I'm a bit confused as to why something like the LCM didn't have a trust setup so that it could operate indefinitely?
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I'm also not a fan of cosmetics because they make the games harder to play, when the silhouettes of characters change it becomes a nightmare.

Not to mention that they break immersion in the game too, Call of Duty Modern Warfare started off last year as a slick game with mostly realistic skins and characters, now it's full of pink anime guns, colourful tracksuits and even a Hyena...
Every time I open LibreOffice and see the loading logo... I'm amazed it's free software.

I'm thankful to everyone that has contributed to it.
Just to clarify, when I say "the developer" I don't necessarily mean the person writing the code: I mean the organisation developing the software, so they definitely have the choice.

In terms of the person writing the code, they can certainly push back. Being asked to add the Facebook SDK is either a red flag enough for him/her to do so, or they don't mind. In either case, they've made that choice.
A "perfect" ES node has 64 gig of memory. 32 to heap and 32 for off heap as well as 8-12 cores for executing queries. Heap is mostly used for internal operations and the inverted index stuff (fielddata), off-heap was used for the columnar data store (docvalues). Most server class machines exceed this nowadays, so we would recommend containerizing multiple instances of ES on a single machine and using the rack awareness feature to make sure shards didn't replicate onto the same physical host. It's been a while since I worked at Elastic, so this info might be out of date by now, but we're still using this formula for our ECE setups where I work now.
There should be much smarter moves to work with porn sites towards better sex education.

Force porn websites to do age verification on their models (most high traffic site currently do).

For all videos and especially those that display acted scenes where consent is unclear, prominently display next to the video in English+local language that the video actors and actresses are performing willingly consentual sex acts, even if the video scenario suggests otherwise for some fantasy's sake.
A generic login experience on the web (where the entire login flow is implemented in the browser and the login button just redirects to Safari, including for email/password accounts) should work around it. You can provide technical reasons as excuses for why it's impossible for your app to include edge cases for each login provider to be included natively in the app.
I'm generally comfortable with endorsing Culture A, but the whole "teasing and jostling each other for fun" is something that can definitely backfire. It makes the most sense as a strategic signal of common values, but it should definitely be avoided when interacting with those who are plausibly outsiders to the culture. (People can nonetheless be gradually educated into it by expressing praise when the inevitable social conflicts are resolved quickly and easily, or even when they start dishing out some good-natured ribbing of their own.)
The upcoming version is moving from Cairo to Skia for text rendering. It might help.
> I wonder how much of Proton development is really Valve and how much is originally Wine contributors though.

Both! They gained the advantage of 20 years of work on Wine before they started distributing it. Now they're continuing to push Wine forward by funding further development. Most work on Proton is sent to upstream Wine first, and is then merged back into Proton. All of this is visible in the public repositories.

This is exactly how open source should work :) Valve's Linux team are good open source citizens, you can rest easy.
Ask HN: How do I become an 'elite' programmer?
I'm a budding undergraduate awaiting enrollment this year. I've already started to get into programming, and am nearing the end of a ML internship. I really admire people with robust programming skills and hope that I can become one of them (hopefully by the end of university). I wanted to ask, what steps can I take to help me work towards that goal? (I was thinking along the lines of daily deliberate practice, but what would be most efficient?).
The dark side of eventual consistency and how to triumph over it
The dark side of eventual consistency and how to triumph over it:
https://medium.com/swlh/handling-eventual-consistency-11324324aec4
Toxic individuals will always exist, but you are not forced to do business with them. It's pretty great.
Don't gas-light, you knew exactly what you were doing.

>The government should not bail out private companies.

Approximately 0 people came to that conclusion reading your blog, because you used a dishonest click-bait title at a time of racial sensitivity.
Will Zoom kill Boom?
Collabora is an open-source, self-hosted, online collaborative office suite built on top of LibreOffice. Take a look, you may find it useful.
Not sure, but you can use something like NextDNS to achieve the same. It’s basically a “pihole in the cloud”:

https://kennis.cc/public_uploads/0caeb8d4.png
Neither is MVS going anywhere, even though it has evolved into z/OS.

I'm pretty sure there will be a workloads running on NonStop well into the 21st century too.

So, there's no reason to think we will be free of Windows anytime soon either.
Agreed on both points, but they're fighting against the physics of sonic booms, not just Concorde's noisy turbojet [a solved problem] so I wouldn't bank on it, and lobbying against Boeing as well as an environmental lobby that's far more influential now than in the seventies.

Several European states without commercial airframers introduced supersonic overflight bans too and the Anti Concorde Project started in the UK so I don't think the argument it was all protectionism stands up anyway.
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/
Had the ribbon interface been the original UI and the traditional menu-based interface the new UI, it sounds like you and your colleagues would have still faced the same frustrations. To me, it sounds like your issue is with change rather than the effectiveness of either type of UI.
Android has tons of these apps. Cuz its Android. An app exists for everything.

Check out Blockada. (Non-root)

Adaway (root and non root phones)

Adaway requires version 5.something for non rooted devices. Anything less than version 4 is only for rooted devices.
Please note that Scott Alexander is a psychiatrist, not a psychologist.

The two professions are quite different.
They have a self-hosted online suite, it's called Collabora.
Not sure about Bluetooth devices, but the Facebook SDK definitely phones home with some system data and generates an unique identifier on first launch which is then included every further interaction the SDK has. Both of these enable fingerprinting and persistent tracking.
Don't Ask Mountains to Move
Sure - but that is "terrific" in the still-current sense of "massive, of great size" - not the archaic use in the parent.
This seems like a pretty weak argument, are you sure you want to trust a bunch of hobbiest devs with the security of your (probably) most valuable computer?

Just because something doesn’t have any know issues, doesn’t mean it’s not wise to avoid it because it flat out smells.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/100-pushups-be-stronger/id9793...

The app per se is a little rough around the edges, but imho that's moot; I've followed its guidance for stretching and reps and rest days, and it was gratifying (and motivating) to track my progress to 100 consecutive pushups and beyond. Enjoy! :)
This might help https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19
You can also do this with NextDNS[1] which gives you a "denylist" of domains to not resolve. All you need to do is change your nameservers to the ones they give you (or they also have a VPN option, I think?)

[1] https://nextdns.io
> currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags

I'm at 17,614 bookmarks 2,530 tags. And it's incredibly valuable to be able to go back and find things, even things I bookmarked and categorized a long time ago.

> so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers.

I agree. In fact, that was the second thing I noticed, right after the declining revenue numbers. Earlier this year I went ahead and paid for 5 years of archiving service (my account predates the switch away from a one-time payment so basic bookmarking is free) partly because I trust maciej to still be around in 5 years but mostly because I wanted to be sure I'm supporting the site.

I STRONGLY want this to be profitable and successful because it is such a valuable service.
Is that a GDPR violation?
The fact that we as in industry and we as citizens of free nations do not end these operations, terminate their corporate charters and throw the responsible in jail is indicator #1 that freedom (not the GOP free-dumb) as we know it is in it's death rattle.
Unbelievable with all the money sloshing around in tech that nobody has funded this. The museum was a very special place.
I mean what would they do?
This is why I am never going to China. They were behind the Equifax hack and many other similar breaches. They are actively waging a cyber war against the the US and it’s citizens. They have all of our info so they can piece together who is sympathetic to their “cause” and who is a critic.
Great question. Would also love to know that.
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You have no basis for linking those two instances. You have no basis to claim there was any intent of any discrimination in the loan program. You have no basis to claim there even was discrimination in the loan program. All those assumptions need evidence, and you just asserted that conclusion.

This is very similar reasoning to alien conspiracy theorists, who look at something in the night sky and assert "It can't be A, it can't be B, it can't be C, therefore it must be Aliens"

The author was also dishonest. They purposely framed their blog post in a way that would you lead you to this.
I fucking hate that Spotify uses this.
I don't see how this is an unrealistic scenario. The rehabilitation of George Bush's image happened faster than I ever thought it would. In a decade he (Bush) went from a despised president who got us involved in 2 major wars, eroded our civil liberties, and oversaw an almost unprecendented economic bust to some loveable goof who paints pictures, has trouble putting on a poncho, pals around with Ellen, and, most recently, has been praised for being skeptical of a second Trump term.
That's beautiful, thank you for linking.
Can't you optimize ad performance by generating unique URLs for each campaign and then counting the number of clicks/installs per campaign on your own infrastructure?
It's a money game and Apple could totally crack down it, but they won't. They may long term but they take cowardly slow steps like everyone else does.
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It is possible to perform "trustable" random number drawing by combining values from multiple third parties such that if any of them are fair, then the results are fair, with everyone publically able to verify the combining step.

That means all the third parties would have to be corrupt to corrupt the results. So if you can pick a diverse set of third parties such that everyone is likely to trust at least one of them, that will raise overall trust.

But you can do better than that.

You can also have people provide their own random input. In that case they will certainly trust themselves, and therefore can trust the results if they can verify the combination step.

And you can draw input from public sources that people can check for themselves, and have confidence is effectively random, in the sense that nobody can control the values. For example public blockchain hashes (as part of a combining scheme, not by themselves).

These sorts of schemes would give people absolute assurance that the drawn numbers are fair and uncorruptible, and they aren't difficult to implement.

(PM me if you'd like to discuss further. Email in profile.)
Are you sure all of these trends aren't better explained by rock'n'roll or rap music, violent video games, "chemicals", too much/not enough meat in the diet or linguistic change? Because I'm sure I can find some reactionary who is.
Linux is Unix in the sense it implements most of the same core ideas in a similar way. The same applies to macOS, which is a layer of BSD on top of a Mach microkernel. All those systems have much more in common between themselves than anything else.
Generating UUIDs at Scale on the Web
Browsers and operating systems include a list of root certificates which includes those of various governments. Pretty much any government can thus issue valid HTTPS certificates for any domain to MITM traffic.
I used to use NoRoot Firewall [0], which worked similarly, and allowed you to block per-application.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts...
Why does reorganization of Air Force Space Command into a separate organization seem like a big deal to you?
True, that's why I say the Falcons should be in jail.

But the intention is to catch extremists, the flaw is to not follow due process.

Whereas in China, the intention is to commit cultural genocide.
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It's also super laggy for me on Chrome.
I cannot take anything Facebook does (at least on iOS) seriously since the day they were bragging (with straight faces) about having so many classes that Xcode could not cope with them. And IIRC, lots of them were auto-generated and never pruned.
Support and advocate work-from-home / remote work.

This could mean convincing your employer / your clients to switch to a permanent work-from-home policy (and helping them to implement that policy) or creating software that enables people to work remotely.
You understand the subtext here right? They literally want you to install their malware on users devices so you can use their SSO. That's the entire ploy. It's how they ensure their malware spreads.
There's no way that Ring is going to stop people from sharing videos.

But making it easy to push a button to submit video to police does enable casual racism.

"Oh, there's a suspicious person, I'll submit this video to the police. Click" That person has made a judgement based on looks alone. If it were harder to submit the video (download, attach to email, look up police email address, etc) then there'd be a lot less of that.

And for people who are serious about sharing video with the police, those extra steps aren't really an impediment.

In short, I think their hearts were in the right places, but the ramifications weren't fully thought out here.
Ask HN: What are some recommendations for VCS in UE4?
I have been looking into using VCS in my UE4 projects now that I'm collaborating with someone else. I've used Git for a long time for other projects and I'm a big fan, however UE4 doesn't support it outside of an outdated beta plugin. Out of the alternatives (Perforce, SVN, Plastic SCM), which one would be the best for a small commercial project by a small team? And where could it be hosted online for cheap (or free)?
The Macbook Pro is a "professional" tool in the same way you can buy "professional" hair straighteners: It's the same thing, but a bit better for a bit more money.

True professional-only tools are things like Jira and Oracle Financials, and you can recognise them because the users hate them.
Definitely a vast difference in the level of physical violence between those two groups. But similar how bad performers are shielded by the unions for both of those groups. That's likely the issue that has OP lumping them together.
This seems insane to me. Who rolled out this change? Why can’t they just roll it back
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Can you expand upon what audience you are referring to in context of the "rehabilitation of George Bush"? Political scientists have remained pretty consistent on his image over the last 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...
Yeah similar to that. E.g. I could have a window that shows weather from one website, twitter feed, youtube, whatsapp/fb messenger. Ideally they could interact (with user control).
Daily process goals are a wonderful life skill.

You can improve your writing skills by writing every day. I recommend it.

But the best way to become an elite programmer is to understand complexity: when it’s okay and when it will kill you. The best way to understand complexity is to have ownership of projects that grow in size. You’ll watch the database queries start to buckle or the abstractions hamper readability or the singleton grow grossly in scope.

Build things, publish them, and work on them over longer periods of time. Share them with friends. Learn from the brittle parts of the code.
I use https://blokada.org/index.html on Android.

But you have to keep an eye on it because it can get killed when Android(?) thinks it needs the resources for something else. The app has some options to help prevent this but it doesn't always seem to work.
Your experience reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/
The easiest one is the time it takes to correctly count at the end of the day. That can easily take an hour even for small shops. If you go card only, you can just lock the door after the last customer and leave. Accounting for revenues and discrepancies (which always happen) correctly is a huge hidden cost.
That truly was a case of a picture being worth a thousand words - a much more dramatic effect than my puny intuition had guessed, and a nice piece of video editing: a clear view of the salient parts and no blather. Thanks indeed for posting the links.
Spotify Isn’t Working on iPhones
No: it's not like calling a PDF copy of book a "forgery". A forgery is created with intent to deceive. A PDF copy of a book doesn't seek to convince anyone it is an actual book.

People have reasons to buy art other than to treat it is a decoration. For some, it is about the feeling of a direct connection to the artist. For others, it's about owning something that's unique, or more prosaically as a store of value.
Is that this https://wicg.github.io/portals/?
Spotify is the same for me today
From an outsider's perspective on human rights, would it be worse if a government mishandles citizens than if they mishandle foreigners?

I believe it really doesn't matter at all if it is actually about human rights, they're human in either case.
Not being protected from prosecution doesn't stop cops from engaging in self defense. If you genuinely think you are in danger as a cop you are willing to break the law to survive and accept being fired as a consequence. Protection from prosecution means there is no consequence to "premature self defense". If a citizen is perceived to possess a weapon but does not draw or fire it the cop still has an alibi that can be used to justify pulling the trigger.

I have seen a video where four cops randomly shot a man with a tazer. That man had no intention of escaping. The excessive use of police force served no purpose. It didn't make the job safer.
Teachers union corruption looks a lot different for sure and is likely less insidious but there are lots of examples of problems.

From teacher protection clauses that mean teachers who aren’t legally able to teach being retained to opposition to any pension reform in bankrupt states.

I’m certainly not anti-union but I lump teachers unions in with police unions and the teamsters as cautionary tales of their downsides.
No it's actually. "Microsoft pulling devs from supporting PHP for Windows". The project itself will still live on and builds will still exist.
Tiger to Catalina: let’s port some code
Audience means online communities that I frequent, which is primarily Reddit.
Concorde used four engines. Two engine ETOPS over water wasn't a thing back then, first real relaxation of that rule was in '76.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
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Yes, it's definitely time for some slightly enhanced armchair activism!

Convert all active whatsapp contacts to signal? 80%? 50%?

Same for Facebook messenger!

It needs to be uncomfortable enough - if they want to communicate with us and are minimally tech savvy ("click link to install app") they have to switch to signal.

That's it.

I'm starting to send out messages over my morning coffee.

Let's do this together:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060592-In...
So, I'm on the same version of Ubuntu and LibreOffice and I use Calc almost every day without problems.

Also, on the infrequent occasions that I need to do document recovery (usually from my unplugged laptop running out of battery), it works flawlessly.

Not to pick on you, but I feel like comments like yours are, I don't know, unnecessarily negative or nitpicky? Like, people will read your comment and think, "Oh geez, LibreOffice is crap." But it's used by portions of government on at least 754,000 machines [0] and my mom. Being used by many doesn't mean it's amazing, I suppose, but it at least means it generally works and probably isn't complete crap.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/who-uses-libreoffice/
Sollten is indeed Konjunktiv.
> Yet pulsar I only came across on HN a week back.

Same - was it the comment saying nobody chooses Kafka anymore? I was surprised by it.
Yep, and I feel peculiarly grateful for the next sentences:

By 2018, the screenplay had been languishing in development hell for five years since the most recent script rewrite of 2013 and has yet to be picked up for further development.
There's the UniServer https://www.uniformserver.com/ - a complete WAMP stack with quite a bit more, plus it is pre-hardened for use on the public web, ready for deployment and production. It's humorous how many WAMP developers work in public with their development hooks open, allowing outsiders to peer in and they are unaware. UniServer does not allow that.