skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this is a mix of the media no longer being trusted, the protestors wanting to control the narrative that is spread from their actions, and them trying to protect themselves from being filmed and then arrested.
>and neither is the police's response.

The police is almost never neutral when it comes to protests, not just in their tactics (just compare how easy the far-right gets away with even killing people at protests vs. how anything remotely left-wing is treated) but also in their press statements (e.g. see here for a police lie that activists had set a door knob under live electricity: https://taz.de/Polizei-Falschmeldung-ueber-Tuerknauf/!561005...) or at court.

The worst thing is many people do not realize this and treat police as "privileged sources", especially as many media outlets directly copy police press statements as facts instead of sending their own people to monitor and cross-check - because having "boots on the ground" costs money that too many outlets don't have any more.
Dore ubusobanuro n’imyitwarire y’abantu bitwa aya mazina: (Igice cya Gatatu)
First of all, LibreOffice does support a Ribbon UI, without all the patent-y stuff.

Secondly, "better MS office compatibility" is really, really a non-constructive and large comparative. For example, a good post would have been to list exactly what goes wrong, or what are the most annoying bugs.

Most of the time, the developers can use posts like those to pin-point exactly what is wrong and fix it quite swiftly. Because it's not only an open source project that strives for compatibility, but it's also made by benevolent humans who don't necessarily have a very definite document of what should be implemented and how. So telling them "hey guys, this should work like this, can you please fix it" is miles better than just saying "hey, your product sux, onlyoffice is better compat with word, bye".

I'm sorry if this somehow comes out a bit offensive, it is not, it's just that sometimes we tend to forget that those developers won't necessarily have the use cases we do, and hence will never optimize for them if we don't report them, and that just dismissing the whole software in favor of another without citing detailed analysis helps neither.
How about zoom? Was the worst and completely unusable for anything more than viewing a meeting.
Happened to a reporter on the Key bridge in DC.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1300857489559375877

EDIT: apparently "You're not allowed to Post" also applies
Yeah I do expect some very well-written libraries (including standard libraries) to pick it up and use it well, which will benefit a lot of people as these will be widely used libraries, but my guess is most other C++ programmers will not use concepts in nearly as many cases as they hypothetically could/should. Maybe they'll write a few concepts to document the occasional clean interface, but that's about it. The reason being that I expect concepts will have underestimated costs: duplicated logic will not only be frustrating but also get out of sync easily, templates will slow down compilation (it's not like we don't have enough of that already), precise constraints end up being difficult to write, and approximations end up being overly strict/loose and result in headaches for users of a library.

They do seem quite beautiful and useful in theory, but I will be very curious to see how much they're adopted.
That makes it no less important to be aware of any bias in reporting. If only journalists that show the protests in a flattering light are allowed to film, then this should be mentioned every time footage from the protests is shown, and any "mostly peaceful" claims can and should be dismissed as unverifiable.
Hey there,

some of you might know cmdchallenge.com. I once stumbled across the site when I was getting started with programming and always wanted to built my own. In fact it is part of my final thesis in the field of gamification.

I would be happy if you would give me feedback :-)
A Hacker News regular, technomancy (the same guy behind the Atreus keyboard), has contributed a great deal to the Fennel language. https://builds.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel-lang.org

I'd like to see him visit this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=technomancy
QEMU / KVM and either virt-manager or cockpit is that competitor.
^^ the best part is that the first sentence starts with "This is home of user friendly [...]". That color-scheme is everything but that ;)
This sounds like another way of saying widespread subsistence farming is a problem, which was essentially my point, not that it is strictly only a problem within national borders. If people have jobs, and make money, and buy food instead of growing it, then they don't face starvation because of crop failures and don't have to migrate. You seem to be opposed to "industrial agricultural practices", that I'd assumed were by definition the solution to the problem.
I'd consider 'normal noise' to be 'white noise'
And? Is it so weird to imagine WSL users who also need to be able to run Windows VMs?
The mainstream news reporting on Portland (and other regional rioting) got to the point where they were bald-faced lying about peaceful protests standing in front of burning buildings.

The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that these professional journalists think that their readers can’t understand a nuanced world of gray and need everything reduced to black and white. There can be a concept of “BLM” that is obviously right and important to support, while there is also a well organized radical contingent taking cover within BLM that is wreaking havoc on the streets and will bully or beat up anyone who stands up to them (police or bystander alike). That they call themselves anti-fascists while taking a truly fascist approach to spreading their ideology is a rhetorical pattern I’m seeing a lot lately; accusing your opponent of exactly what you are doing.

Portland just “celebrated” their 100th day of rioting. There was video from last night where they set a fellow rioter on fire while trying to throw Molotov cocktails at police.

The PR / social media contingent that supports the riots is frankly impressive. The article mentions Google sheets listing approved journalists and ways to help fund them. The level of organization belies a depth to the organization that I think most people assume is more organic and rag-tag than it really is.
I'm lazy, and I've been doing this on my own computers for over a decade. I wouldn't do it on a box that anyone else uses. And I've had to do the normal fixes for some VPN software when the network blackholes any DNS traffic not going to their server IPs. Otherwise it's worked out fine for me
As someone who's only had C++98 experience in a code base that leaned more towards a Java style, are there some good guides or books on a more modern C++ style?
Alternate opinion based document title:

Cable TV industry successfully lobbies Republican controlled FCC in an effort to kill an antiquated standard that did not allow for the collection and monetization of users’ viewing habits.
It's so funny to me that america signed this but continues to tear gas its own citizens every night.
Kind of.

It is already be possible today to put ads into a page directly.

But the benefit for Google would be that if they deliver the bundle, they would know that their ads are in there. Heck, they would know everything that is in there. So they would have full information about all ads and everything that is taking place on this new "web".

Of course, they could also use the opportunity to hinder ad blockers further. For example by not allowing plugins to get between reading the bundle and rendering it. They already weakened plugins a lot over the recent years.
Even worse, all the devs jumping on using the C++20 features right now (like the other commentors in this thread) will make software that's near impossible to compile on a linux distro more than 4 years old. And even if someone compiles on a modern machine with a modern build toolchain there's no certainty that the binaries will run on the aforementioned slightly old distro.

C++xx new features and improvements are good. But they come very fast and that futureshock is causing the fever that is containerization "solutions".
Google's quantum computer achieves chemistry milestone
And is there not a selection bias at play in a subreddit? People who don't follow the majority opinions of those on a subreddit are routinely hounded down and mass downvoted until they leave, seeing it's futile to try and converse there.
I will never understand this attitude that certain features from other OSes, however much one might have gotten used to them, constitute "basic functionality" that should so obviously be expected everywhere.

Window snapping is a cool feature, I'm sure, but how long has it even existed on Windows or common Linux distributions...? (This is a genuine question; I have only heard about it in the last few months, and I have no idea how long it has been present.)

You might as well say that a menu bar at the top of the screen is "basic functionality" (is it even possible to replicate that in Windows?), or Emacs keybinds in system textboxes are "basic functionality."

Different OSes have different features, and a blind assumption that something that has become a part of your workflow is a necessary part of every OS just seems arrogant to me.

And I don't have a clue what you mean about "terrible external monitor support". I have never had a problem with multiple monitors on Macs, while when I have to deal with even one on Windows, I regularly have to struggle with driver issues and the OS thinking that one of its several interfaces is the "primary" one that you have to plug into first, and it won't even consider outputting on another interface without being explicitly told to.
What’s weird is that the script is flipped here, if this article is to be believed: it is the alleged “underdog” that is attempting to suppress journalistic freedom (through intimidation) to control the news narrative.
As it is I have been unable to reinstall my iMac Pro without internet access from a bootable USB drive; it seems to insist on internet recovery. Also, I think they explicitly want to disable booting of older OS versions as that is an attack vector for boot security.
>Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6507/1084
A Tour of C++ 2nd Edition, by Bjarne Stroustrup

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html

> The ``tour'' is a quick (about 240 pages) tutorial overview of all of standard C++ (language and standard library) at a moderately high level for people who already know C++ or at least are experienced programmers. It covers C++17 plus a few likely features of C++20.

I will add that it's a good way to have an overview of modern C++, you can then go deeper on some topics with more specialized resources. It's a good read IMHO, with a good pace.
> it has to be possible to generate it in a logically consistent manner from some initial conditions and simple rules

Though I agree with the overall thrust of your response, I don't think it necessarily follows that an existence must be logically consistent, that it must be from some initial conditions, or that the rules must be simple.

First, an existence could be illogical to the beings within it. Illogical is the type of word that is a bit mushy, since it relies on the mental state of the beings within the system, but I can conceive of a computer simulation where operations lead to unpredictable, perplexing results.

Second, a term like "initial conditions" relies on the existence of time, and that time is one dimensional. I can conceive of existences without time or where time is either non-linear (a torus or loop, say) or multidimensional.

Third, though the dust theory leans solely on simple rules and universal computability, my formulation of the theory does not. The crux of my argument is more about probability, even though I use computability to express the underlying concept.

But I do agree with you that Infinity != Everything. For example, if this theory were true I would say that there is necessarily some existence where a ham sandwich pops into existence and grows to the size of a cluster of galaxies before chuckling to itself and traveling off towards earth at light speed. Or something even more ridiculous than that. Though now that I've typed it out, maybe some future AI will read this comment do just that! Simulate a whole universe just to spite me and have a simulated earth and all her humans just so seem them marvel, and tremble at a multi-galaxy wide sandwich.
Yes, the people arrested are allegedly from groups who are definitely responsible for sourcing a large percentage of the pre-release films you notice online.
Yeah it seemed to be working for the most part but got some arb file lock issues while doing docker stuff.

Admittedly didn't try hard to resolve it beyond google confirming it's a known issue
Being reasonable may mean following rules when contrary and/or corrupt orders are given. That is something that happens that has enormous value.
In other words, protestors are harassing, assaulting, and robbing reporters because they might otherwise be unjustly framed for minor crimes.
I tried this for a while at work, but it gets old really quickly in my opinion. I'll try to sum up the reasons I find this unusable for longer than about fifteen minutes.

My main complaints are that the sound effects are really not great, mynoise.net is the gold standard in this space in my opinion, the rain doesn't even come remotely close to what mynoise has to offer.

An other issue I have with it are the not-really-adjustable drums. Their volume cannot be adjusted which is reather annoying since I have to decrease the main volume to about 1% and it's still too harsh. They also can't really be changed in a meaningful way. The default is okay for a short while, but I'd appreciate the drums to change ever so often. A nn guided drum machine would probably for the whole premise and be a lot less boring.

Now the main complaint: The melody. I set the settings to change, but the melody really doesn't. The blending is impressive, but there's just not enough material to blend together it seems. Music has such a wide variety of ways to make simple things enjoyable, interesting and generally nice to listen to, none of which are applied here.

Lesser things include the bright pink background the developers chose for some reason and made non-adjustable and the lack of tooltips, as well as the way too fast triggering of the movement of objects when I really wanted to change a setting. Minor annoyances more or less.

When I'm in the mood for lowfi, I open one of those youtube streams in vlc without video, then unmute the storm day noise generator from mynoise, really can't recommend the website enough.
The Components of an iOS Developer Resume
And women were typically in or around the home.
Sort of feel like such posts should link directly to the original repo the repo was forked from, if any.

https://github.com/mmozeiko/aes-finder

Unless there’s some newsworthy aspect to the child repo being a special different fork.
Guard Clauses – Clean Up Your Conditionals
> "You have to learn the underlying tech in order to use the framework on top of it" just sounds like gatekeeping to me.

Possibly. But if you want to master your craft, you need to learn the “underlying tech.” That’s why we have computer science degrees, after all. Not all programmers have computer science degrees and in many cases, it shows. Someone who understands fundamentals is often more effective at debugging and problem solving when the s* hits the fan.

If you just want to bootcamp it without a deep-dive, that’s fine and I agree with you.
Yes and no - `doThing` itself is less inspectable, and it's sometimes helpful to separate the implementation from the instructions. (I wrote https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/defunctionalisation/ ; the usual introduction is https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/12/30/defunctionalization-ever... .)
I'll be grateful that it let me know it's stupid and can't fail gracefully.
What is the lowest version of iOS that you can use this on?

My main iPhone I always keep up to date because I don't want it to be exploited, but I have an old iOS device laying around that runs iOS 9.3.5.

Would this work on iOS 9.3.5? And can the current version of Xcode on Catalina target iOS 9.3.5?
> any "mostly peaceful" claims can and should be dismissed as unverifiable

I honestly thought “mostly peaceful” was a meme at this point.

With cities on fire for months and months, how can anyone take such a claim seriously?

Edit: Twitter seems to agree with me.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MostlyPeaceful
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I too feel the “pure Go” pull, but is your use case so precarious or latency-sensitive that you can’t simply use SQLite? That’s what I do in these situations.
Architect of Sweden's Covid policy given WHO promotion
US has its own problems where a presidential candidate still loses even if he/she gets majority of the votes.
I never understood that: even if he doesn't know how to open a bank account, do laundry, or fix something, can't he just look up how to do so? I would expect the younger generations to be more facile with such things. Not being taught how is no travesty, one can simply teach himself.
Why, assuming there's enough space for all of them? My grandparents lived 5 minutes walk from my parents when I was a kid & my uncle lived nearby with his family as well.

Altogether 6 adults and 7 kids. It was fine and if we lived in 3 adjacent houses that would have probably only been better IMO.
Could unions and professional associations fill that gap? Why aren't they now? Where are groups like the ACLU?

It's worth noting that journalism as a profession has a problem with letting itself become political. Seems like for a journalism association to be effective in these cases, it must insist on the impartiality that most institutions seem to be finding too difficult lately.
Thank you, incredible.
Did she break the law?
> Go after them for what? Are they doing something illegal?

Intimidation, blind (racist) violence, looting, attacking the police and setting property which isn’t theirs on fire.

I’m pretty sure all those things are illegal.
Time for stricter privacy laws and a code of ethics for programmers.
RedShift Copy Command from SCT Agent – Multiple Tables
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The script was always shaky. If there are lines of mayors, governors, millionaires, corporations, and celebrities lining up to support you, you are not an underdog. There are not similar lines to make sure a given periodical has room and support to safely provide agenda-free reporting.
Of course there is, except I'm sure a lot of the people on that subreddit are also heavily involved in "protesting". There certainly is a selection bias at play in the general population of Portland, too ;)

Edit: I also find it fascinating that the users of the Portland subreddit will shun or ban you if you are not actually in Portland, as I am sure that a lot of those folks strongly favour all immigration in general. As I said, it's a miniature picture of hypocritical narrative control in action.
Using HN's italic convention is preferred.
Unlearning The 'Nation State'
I honestly cannot say if that's a GPT-3 comment or not. Are you implying that the 3 years cycle of the C++ committee is the reason why people are using containers? Without being disrespectful, that doesn't seem to make sense.
I'd be interested to see whether you got an answer to that on Retrocomputing Stack Exchange.

* https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ti...
Another way is to use Trio - https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
The Daily Caller has been managed by Tucker Carlson, who attacks protesters on the air virtually every day. The Daily Caller is known for right-wing troll articles. There’s no chance in hell that this publication would ever portray protesters favorably.
Calling anyone from the Daily Caller a “reporter” is charitable at best.
When I went, there was special permitting required to go up the Khyber Pass but nothing for DAK. So assuming you can get a visa for the country, you should be able to reach DAK easily from Peshawar.
This is definitely something to look into. so far dero looks like a pretty solid project with out of the box thinking.
The pull request https://github.com/mmozeiko/aes-finder/pull/11

Says "Improved cross platform capability, key dumping, memory dump search." but it's not even new code so nm comment on it.
And therefore protestors have a right to prevent them from filming in a public space?
The pull request https://github.com/mmozeiko/aes-finder/pull/11

Says "Improved cross platform capability, key dumping, memory dump search." but it's not even new code so nm to comment on it.
Would Apple ever release an iPad style TV? We made a concept version
Malware Committing Click Ad Fraud on Low-End Devices in Emerging Markets
It makes me sad that an institution I used to like and respect, reason.com, seems more and more often to subscribe to the standard (and, taken uncritically, untrue) set pieces of the standard American culture war.

This one, in particular, that “antifa is a violent mob that is super hypocritical”, and also aliasing “antifa” and “blm” as coterminous.

The truth is very different, but I fear that many in their libertarian audience have shifted a lot more authoritarian in recent years, so it’s a logical evolution. It’s just super disappointing to see them regurgitating the off-the-shelf battle lines instead of digging for real.
Thankfully both Arch Linux and Gentoo have native Chromium and don't require Snap. I can recommend them to everyone. Arch is more practical for everyday use though as compilations take time.
This is great: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

I mean, kudos to Google for (probably) not cheating here, but that's a low score.
Been discussed before.

But, again I'll mention that America is largely planted with imported seeds. Collected by Botanists in the 1800s circling the globe and bring everything back indiscriminately. Our food crops, our animal feeds, our garden flowers, our vegetables.

This ban is a silly act, political in nature and irrelevant to everybody except the legitimate Asian seed sellers who's business gets hurt.
Giving Up a Normal Childhood
I drove through and visited Portland on the way up to Seattle recently. Portland was a damn fine city.
Obviously this is to control the narrative. Why would they shoo and have "minders" ala repressive regimes?

Is it because "fake news" (that'd be a tough sell coming from the left who question that assertion). Is it because they don't want people to see the underbelly of the movement or at least the bad elements in their movement?

What we do know is that if you are an organization looking for change, if you're not very careful, your well intended movement will be usurped by those who have ulterior motives --they will use your movement as "useful idiots" and you may ultimately loose control of your movement to demagogues.

There is a difference between people who are honestly looking to make things better and those riding such wave to enhance their own power.
I should have probably been more precise but that is what I tried to say: one time mega doses are safe and your body is able to produce big quantities even through short sun exposure. That doesn't take from the fact that you shouldn't take those mega-doses multiple times in short course.
This seems to be an assumption common amongst newer generations. I was expected to my own laundry, mostly feed myself, get myself places, manage my schedule, do a good chunk of the housework, etc. It made sure I didn't fall flat on my behind when I hit the real world, and plus, I don't see why a parent should have to do those things when a child is physically capable of doing so.