skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish Lua were popular for small-scale utility scripting instead of Python and JS. Because Lua is way snappier: even with language translation, plenty of Fennel scripts will run under Python's startup time. Likewise, Lua seems like a great fit for small mobile apps and automation (dunno about threading though, but I seem to have read that Lua can do threads with a library).

My primary woe with Lua is the absence of ‘null’. You can't preserve structure of deserialized tables if there are nil values in them, so you can't really build API middleware and such, without extra effort for that (so you'd also not be able to use functional libraries like Penlight in your middleware).
They felt fine with Lukashenko for the last four years, they'll be fine with Lukashenko for the next four years. Actually, I don't think Daddy will hold up for the whole term, Russia will play smart and integrate Belarus , one way or another. Not as part of Russia, but I'd expect closer ties in finances and planning; and, possibly, heavy industry
FHD is not strictly necessary.

Refurbing broken old dells won't solve the unformity problem. The point of Chromebook is that they are uniform from a fleet management perspective.

And the point of
‘The future’s gonna be weird’:Musk says memories could be downloaded into robot
They shouldn't have included that tweet in my opinion. Right to repair doesn't mean enabling people to bypass factory reset protection.
Of course. Ergoloids have a long list of side effects, which is why they're considered outdated or third line treatments for many illnesses. But not others, say for severe migraines, they're still best or first line available agents.

Those risks are always weighted against benefits.
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Maybe they should stop allowing listings to be reused for other items.
Good reason to make all that open source.
I've read they will achieve naval parity with the US in just a few years:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-ar...

https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/maritime-antisub/4983-chin...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/ shows about 8000 cases per day in France (pop: 65M) I can't find a breakdown by region but the news reports say that there's a lot of cases caused by vacationers, presumably in the south.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-recent.pag... says that NYC (pop: 8.5M) is averaging about 1650 cases per week. https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership says there were 1.5M subway passengers on 9/3.

Riding transit doesn't seem like the issue. Not wearing masks and respecting social distancing seem more likely problems.
The '640K' quote won't go away – but did Gates say it? (2008)
Most Chromebooks support Linux, though? You just turn on developer mode.
> Is it my duty to protect Amazon or other consumers?

If you follow Kant, the argument is pretty much this: if everyone would do that, nobody could trust any reviews. The right choice, according to Kant, is that which you can want to be made into law for everyone. You don't want reviews to lose all meaning as they're important information for people to learn about the products, ergo you mustn't fake it.

Should you blame them? Yeah, but it's a pretty small infraction and they're a small cog in a large machine, so don't be too harsh.
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough response
tor "browser" is but not tor itself. for example brave (based on chromium) has a tor window built in. and its extremely handy for many use cases (not all but then for that other 10% you really should be running tails etc...)
Good question. 99.999999% of the time when some internet rando says he'll contact his lawyer, the reality is that he has no lawyer and no lawyer would ever take his case.

Threatening to tattle to an imaginary lawyer just gets you written off as an angry whack job.
There isn't. It's a political term to make a 2-sided issue look 1-sided.
“There’s no borders at all for IT engineers. They can find a job anywhere.”

Uhm yeah, but they also have parents, siblings, girlfriends. Probably they might have some properties bought already. So as it may seem really advantageous to be in IT, one might not be able to move to another country just like that...
Only Office parent company is a bit weird.

They started in Latvia in 2009 yet it is a fully Russian company.

https://github.com/orgs/ONLYOFFICE/people are all Russian yet they are based in Latvia(Russians nationality is about 25% in Latvia).

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/ru/ their blog does not offer Latvian language.

This homogeneity would be normal if they were working toward Russian market but even then you'd expect to see a token Latvian or some other nationality.

Normal 25 person IT company in Latvia working with west would have perhaps 10 Latvians, 8 Russians, an Estonian, a Lithuanian and someone from the west and perhaps someone from east (India or Pakistan) - all speaking English.

Ascensio only job offerings for sales managers (towards Western market no less!) were in Russian (which is borderline illegal in Latvia)

The only rational explanation is that OnlyOffice owners have set a comfortable culture for their workplace and see no need to change it.
Would you say that first sale applies to the software service subscription as well?
I can't believe I just realized it's named after Larry Page.
Crazy to see it's EPAM which is the company my old client used. Also crazy to see Yandex evacuated staff (presumably back to Russia?) which kind of feels like being tossed from the frying pan into the fire...
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I'd like to know how it's possible for third-party sites such as https://www.fakespot.com to more effectively identify fake Amazon reviews while Amazon (with presumably better data) fails so miserably.

Same question applies to Twitter. Regularly we see researchers uncovering evidence of fake accounts and bot networks pushing spam, conspiracy theories, and misinformation (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...) while Twitter struggles to identify the fakes.

ETA: Regarding comments along the lines of, "it's in their best interest to let fake reviews continue as it boosts Amazon's sales."

I think this argument is getting a bit old, as Amazon's growing reputation for fake reviews (and fake products) is turning off even mainstream shoppers and giving a huge boost to big & small competitors.

Amazon now has a very big financial incentive to move beyond whack-a-mole and truly tackle these problems, which requires A) doing at least as good as Fakespot at identifying the bad actors and B) implementing technologies and policies that discourage buying or posting fake reviews.
The issue is not whether you should accept a situation which appears to be mutually beneficial to you and the entity soliciting the review. Corporations are typically going to make decisions about the things they do based on income to to corporate entity. While this usually aligns to consumer need and demand (for happiness even), it usually doesn't as a whole. Facebook seems to give people what they want, but actually they figured out how to progressively remove choices from users to get EXACTLY what they want without the users realizing what had been lost (time, attention, focus, desire for a unique product vs. the product resulting from the software driven dogma of the crowd, etc.)

The question should be whether or not the embodied process is fair, in whole, to the users? As much as we worry about "right" API design here (or what is the perfect framework for CSS?), you'd think we'd worry about how bad we are screwing users with all this software optimized to make startups, founders, VCs and private equity firms more an dmore money with less and less effort.
Time had shown I have no designer talent and such articles always make me sad and angry. The tragedy is that I can actually recognize a good design, but cannot produce one.

To me these articles are like showing paralyzed man detailed physical explanation of walking, Boston Dynamics' robots, other people. Very informational and absolutely not helpful.

Probably some designers looking at software development tutorials feel the same.
> It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here

If some kind of deeper integration with Russia is on the horizon, as many have expected for years, then this might hardly matter. The overall Russian economy is so based on the export of natural resources, that the ruling stratum is hardly worried about other industries like the IT sector. All those Russians except for the ~10 million needed to run and support the oil and gas sector, have sometimes been described as "superfluous population" by commentators. Obviously this situation sucks for the ordinary citizen, but what can you do?
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On Losing Custody of My Daughter
It’s the best Amazon review I’ve ever read.

“...
I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow.
...”
So that begs the question, how repairable are Chromebooks?
The West is not just the US. I clearly said "A unified western response to China."
Did SunOS (before 5, i.e. BSD based) or did it come with Solaris (SunOS 5, SystemV based)? I honestly don't remember. I do remember that Interactive Unix around '92 (later bought by SUN to enhance their x86 port) did not support shared libraries, when Linux did. And yes, that was a big deal back then.

EDIT: http://iraf.noao.edu/docs/src/dosf/unixsmg-N-3.2.html indicates that BSD based SunOS did offer shared libraries (at least late in its live, as early on it was a 3rd party project to add those: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0433/bb8fb59cc457b74b3f8ad0...).
Good list, and this reminded me to push an edit to add my favorite symbol shortcut which is option+2 for ™. I use Alfred for things like "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" though. I also didn't know about the Soulver workflow, that might be enough to get me to buy Soulver.
Inaccurate information in the man pages doesn’t help. The one for resolved.conf claims that, if the DNS entry is not present in its configuration, systemd resolved will use the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf. But using strace showed me that, in fact, it is ignoring that file and using the resolver provided by my ISP (as resolved’s status output confirms). After copying the entries (for 8.8.8.8 and a few backups) into resolved’s configuration, it’s doing what I want it to, now.

I’ve suspected for a while, and am now pretty sure, that this system has become so byzantine that the (incredibly talented) people assembling distros, writing the software, and maintaining the man pages, don’t know how it works.
>> "safe houses" for 19 year olds trying to escape their parents

Those were called "squats" when I was young, that's where I ended up at 19. Although I wasn't trying to escape my parents at that point, I was planning on leeching off of them. I ran away for the first time when I was 14, by the time I was 19 free food and rent in the suburbs sounded pretty nice. My parents weren't having it.
My argument would be that the nation state exists as a useful tool/ mechanism for collecting and organizing power for people at the top. It justifies it's existence through might not right, so saying it shouldn't exist because it's not right misses the point.

It is there because they want it to be there and to get rid of it, you need to create something more powerful to overcome that other thing. This historically is possible but just turns into its own state.

Power vacuums are a very real thing though intangible.

But simply having the subjects of a state lose faith in it is not itself sufficient to topple it. I mean look at current congressional approval ratings in the US. They are approaching single digits but it means nothing because there is no real structure in place to challenge it.

I apologize if the initial post was condescending. It's a well written article but I still perceive it as naive to the larger structures which hold this stuff in place.

There's a great YouTube video (imo) on the topic of state level power dynamics if you are interested https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
They did not fire employees working on Firefox. The questionable layoffs were the Servo devs, which were arguably working on next-gen stuff. But the Gecko team remained intact.

It’s actually not bad for orgs to trim expenses. Given Mozilla still has solid revenue, we could view these layoffs as refocusing on stuff that matters (Firefox, plus revenue diversification via services), while ensuring they stay in business for years to come.

Everyone knows that they are too reliant on Google’s revenue stream. Now that they are taking steps to diversify and to be leaner, everyone jumps on them.

Well I for one am optimistic about Mozilla and Firefox’s future.
edit: I meant to say pump 25a through a 20a breaker
Really? I've been at the same job since college and they just had my transcript, in-person interview, and drug test results. Social media doesn't come up in any interviews. Maybe HR searches for obvious red flags via Google, but not that I'm aware of. I don't work in software though. Is it really that common when applying for software positions?
Exactly - the west is not unified on China. Which is what I said.
> And the project is not starting from scratch.

This makes it even harder from my p-o-v. Most contributors want to create something new and not maintain old legacy, grown over a few decades. Diving deep enough is work and might happen once in a while for a bug which is a pain for somebody curious ... but tough sell.
There is a scary level of support / apathy to violence. Don't get me wrong. I am never going to support violence and murder, and I too will judge those that do. I am simply seeking to avoid generalisation.

I'm not naïve to movements being co-opted. I have witnessed that first hand numerous times.
The first part of my top level comment comment was the substantial bit. Feel free to respond about problems I raised about cash. The second half is a complaint against the pro-privacy fear-mongering that pops up so often on this site ("Pass this act or the evil police are going to snoop on us!")
If you consider the Bloomberg article on SuperMicro, they repeatedly claim expert/insider sources corroborate their version of the story, and have issued no retraction after their story was thoroughly debunked. While this certainly reflects poorly on Bloomberg, it reflects most on the journalistic standards of the article's authors. I don't think we will ever have a world where authoritative sources exist, since there can always be elements within the source of authority willing to bend the truth for more clicks.
Perhaps: More intelligent and engaging trolls? :-)
Yes and no. Yes, I think owners of devices should have much more access to the parts and tools needed to repair their own equipment. But, there's an argument in this article that I don't completely agree with, although I can sympathize with the need.

Those activation locked iPads would be very helpful to address the device shortage at schools and it would be great if we could find a way to do that. But, it's not simple either. Activation lock is the problem in this scenario, but it's also a solution in another scenario.

Activation lock has dramatically decreased theft of Apple phones and tablets. Right now, there's not much point in stealing one of these devices since it cannot be used by someone other than the owner. But I can remember a time when device theft was a daily occurance in public. The problem expressed in this article is that the legitimate owner has changed, but the lock has remained, and that is a valid problem.

If a recycler can suddenly unlock them, that solves one problem but creates two more. Now you've resurrected the black market for stolen apple devices and created a new black market for the unlocking of these devices. Sure, there is probably a technical solution to solve that too, but my point is that a solution needs careful thought and not just free-for-all legislation.
You can install Linux on every single Chromebook that has ever been produced (even the very first one). You are probably mistaking "managed" Chromebooks as a different line of Chromebook models.
These are instructions for interacting with a running Libreoffice Online service.
Man, Russia has way more people than I thought. For some reason I expected it to be less than 100 million total.
iOS music player app that downloads music from the internet, even YouTube
As usual, Taipei is a counterexample.
It was already authorization- its the "last dictatorship in europe" - what did they think it was before?
You would match by adding explicit padding bytes which would be archish specific (32 bit vs 64bit). A much better alternative to making life hard though is to just manually pack the struct
What's an activation locked iPad? Does that mean lost, stolen, or an owner threw away a working iPad for some reason, despite its high resale value?

Bypassing factory reset protection seems fine as long as its done as eminent domain seizure from the trash, not paying potential thieves.
> over trying to appease the kinds of customer needs that involve keeping 25 year old binary only jars running

C# doesn’t break too many things while it evolves. Example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collectio... That class was introduced in .NET 1.1 way before generic, still present in the most recent .NET Core 3.1.

They sometimes deprecate higher-level stuff, but very conservatively so. E.g. asp.net web forms (2002) is deprecated, while windows forms (also 2002) is still supported.
not all of them, but many engineers are willing to move if they don't have kids and can make it work
The Russian economy is both super small (last time I looked it was smaller than Italy), and not terribly diversified. I’d be a bit worried about it I lived there.
It Is Difficult to Get Someone to Understand Something When Their Salary Depends Upon Their Not Understanding It
I consulted at a SAFe shop for nearly 2 years. It was nearly unanimously hated by engineers. It was very process heavy. PI planning took 2 full days every two weeks.

Imagine the cost of 200 engineers and managers in a large room for 2 full days. Most of them are not paying attention. It was hilarious that we would spend 2 days every couple weeks talking about how we could be more productive.

For me SAFe is now a red flag that I look for when interviewing. SAFe is now in the same category as "we don't use source conrol" or "we are like a family".
I used to operate a dozen or so small web sites. A spammer once offered me a crazy amount of money for the mailing lists. When I declined, he offered an even crazier amount of money to buy all the web sites, in their entirety, including mailing lists and social media accounts.

I ended up selling him the one web site that didn't have a mailing list and only rudimentary social media presences. I bought a new car and moved to a better city with the money.
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As a counterpoint, I have never been made to realize the US origin of HN as in recent times. The "hacker" in the name is gradually being swallowed by the "news"-mainly US
You could retrieve it from your mail server via IMAP (say with tiny program like fetchmail) and pope them through whatever program you like.

I run my own server so info stuff like this automatically as the mail comes in.

The people saying “use smtp” don’t know what they are talking about: SMTP is the protocol for delivering mail to a host. You want to process the message as or after it arrives.
"standards" is misspelled "standarts".
Yea, maybe large amounts of cash to the point where you become a target for armed robbers, but handling an average amount of cash in a retail location where most people pay electronically anyway is not really that hard. Isn’t this why Brinks exists?
The world’s first successfully cloned endangered Przewalski’s horse
As another recent parent I absolutely agree, add in to the mix to Google any possible answer you want to see and it becomes pretty useless as a resource. I have given up on the internet for parenting information except for healthcare provider information.
And it's naive to say that there's no borders. You have to be qualified for the visa requirements. You also have to renew this visa every year or so. You have to start all over. Of course everything is possible with some effort and money, but i'm tired of seeing this term "no borders for it engineers".
If you're using Quartz Debug, you probably want to set these as well:

defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QuartzDebugPrivateInterface -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDDockShowFramemeterHistory -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDDockShowNumericalFps -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDShowWindowInfoOnMouseOver -bool YES

The first one lets the window list work, which Apple in its infinite wisdom has decided you as a non-Apple engineer don't need. The middle two are things you can set from inside the app but show useful things in the dock icon. And the last lets you identify which app a window belongs to (press ⌃⌥ while hovering over it), which is very useful when you have a random thing pop up and you don't know how to get rid of them.
Pale Moon[0] used to loosely fit that brief but these days it’s diverged a bit more from Firefox.

There is also Seamonkey[1].

[0] https://www.palemoon.org/

[1] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
most news articles can be traced beck to Reuters verbatim, it's strange how few people go to the actual source and seek out a rose-tinted alternative
Core 2 Duo is ancient. But people are tossing 2-4 year old machines, and they've got everything one needs. Not to mention smartphones and tablets, which get old in 6 months. That's ridiculous.

It's even worse with home appliances, which do not have any significant improvements yoy, or indeed, any improvements at all. Nothing but the design changes. They can be easily fixed and will last just as long as a new appliance.
> distinctions between ads based maybe on broad characteristics vs ads that are based on tracking every move you make across the internet, purchases in stores with credit cards, and micro targeting based on specific interests.

That very broad and general advertising of which you speak will only dwindle with time and therefore the distinction will not be a very useful one. Already ordinary billboards are being upgraded to smart billboards that can scan and identify the people walking by (facial recognition, Bluetooth, perhaps soon gait, etc.). The decline of print media means that we’re losing the one kind of advertising that can't hook into technology to track you.
I recommend the Forest app. It works on both desktop and mobile and allows you to block sites as well as apps and sync your preferences between accounts. I will usually set a 2 hour timer while I need to focus.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forest-stay-focused/id86645051...
https://www.forestapp.cc/
I've always had horrible experience purchasing things like this in that they never stay working for long, are poorly supported when new versions of the OS come out, or are just broken by default. How long have you been using it? How are system upgrades? Is it reliable? Not trying to be an ass, it's just every time I've tried shit like this in the past on someone's recommendation it's been a fucking waste.
Los Angeles natural gas plant has been leaking methane for years
I have a theory that when news orgs nurture soft authoritarians (Bush/Patriot Act, Obama/espionage charges for whistleblowers) their weakened journalistic instincts leave a vacuum that's easy for harder line authoritarians to fill.

That's what I believed happened in the US. I wonder if a similar process happened in Belarus.