skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be a great idea to pant mystery seeds from overseas. You could end up with something invasive that’s hard to get rid of.

I bought a plant like that on Amazon (cat’s claw creeper) and luckily did more research before planting it. It’s a problem in the southern US, and I don’t want to be responsible for introducing it to California.
Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy
> realize its not worse than the flu

Sick and tired of this being repeated on HN over and over again.
The universal declaration of human rights is a meaningless declaration with no actual teeth to the true powers of the world.
Actually, a compiler is one of the less problematic things to keep up-to-date, since compilers (at least C/C++ compilers) typically have few dependencies, and can live just fine "on the side" of the system's main compiler. But some libraries or apps need half the world and its mother to run, including packages with subtle clashes, and then you're in trouble.
GNU IceCat, for desktop and Android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.icecat/
…if they knew about or cared, which I suspect they certainly didn't until now. Based on the number of things on my screen that force 60 FPS drawing, there's many developers who never notice :(
IMO, applications that don't prompt for confirmation on potentially destructive Quit are broken.

By this definition, all Mac Web browsers are broken, but you can fix the accidental Command-Q problem on an app-by-app basis by remapping Quit to something harder to accidentally type like Command-Shift-Q using the Keyboard pane in System Preferences.

Personally, for applications like my primary browser where intentionally quitting is overwhelmingly the exception rather than the rule, I remap Quit to Control-Command-Option-Shift-Q and rely on the fact that pressing Q while any application is selected in the Command-Tab switcher triggers its Quit command.
*Pax Sinica if we want to be consistent with our Latin analogizing.
The difference is which generation the rhetoric triggers.
I think this is a case where "It's the economy, stupid" gets right.

We need to build a economy for open-source projects or else the tech titans will eat the world.

People need to wake up that its not the nineties anymore, and without a better ecosystem for independent projects to thrive, we are doomed to depend on the scraps of what the titans left to us (mostly their open-source collaterals)

Some independent project might pop here and there, but keep them going without structure will lead them to a slow burn to death.
Greatest Chess Game Ever Played
Yeah the only time it’s any use is on ebooks to determine roughly how popular the book is. Ie review count rather than content
As much as I enjoy Rust, I have to agree with GP. Rust team needed to add a lot of complexity to the language to allow us to solve the borrow checker puzzles, such as Pin, Cell/RefCell, split_at_mut, the list goes on, and keeps growing.

In my modern C++ projects, I only really need to know std::move and std::unique_ptr.

The real question to ask is how much complexity one's willing to pay for memory safety. I'm willing to pay it, but with open eyes about the complexity cost I'm paying.
If you do it on every new system after OS install it's hard to forget.
While waiting for the peak to pass on uncomfortably high doses, I sometimes entertain myself by closing my eyes and realizing I have no sense of how much time is passing until I open them. And if I hadn't the prior experience of closing my eyes while sober (and simply the ability to rationalize about how long things take), I wouldn't actually know if seconds or hours or eons were passing with the eyes shut.

One thing that makes me skeptical of most people talking about LSD on forums is that for you to really lose your shit on LSD (excusing mental illness), you have to take enough to lose your ability to do that sort of thinking and rationalizing. You aren't having a laugh with your friends on a monster dose while listening to Spiritualized. You're more like a newborn animal clutching on to a world you were just born into, the dose regressing you back into a sequence of instincts away from high level human thought.
:p little configuration
> you know deep down that the only thing that can get us through this Pandemic is this: wake up and realize its not worse than the flu.

It's objectively far worse than the regular seasonal flu. Probably not as bad, on balance (in part because of better technology) than the 1918 pandemic flu, though we in the US are trying really hard to make up for that by bungling the policy response.

“the flu” covers a very wide range.
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Efficient controller design for the processes, can you optimise a feedback loop / control system (It's all signals coming from instrumentation).

You could be optimising the irrigation schedule / climate control system to produce things better/faster/cheaper etc.
WiFi Channel Bonding
Intentional Design with Maintainability in Mind
Neverware Cloud-ready is an entire OS derived from Chromium OS and designed to provide an experience very uniform with that of Chrome OS on old PC and Mac hardware:

https://www.neverware.com/edu#edu-intro
There's an easy way to form habits that's a bit silly but all my friends and I have had great success with it. Essentially you break things down into the smallest task possible (not smallest meaningful task, smallest). Then you start with only that task.

Let's say that you want to floss every night. Start by just touching the floss when you brush your teeth. For me, after a few nights I got frustrated and just started flossing. On days I'm tired I still just touch the floss.

Too much? Break it down more:

Look at the floss

Touch the floss

Open the floss

Pull out a little

etc

The idea (I didn't come up with it but forgot the source) is that many of the tasks we are trying to get ourselves aren't that hard but it is overcoming that _mental_ hurdle. So by breaking down into micro-tasks you slowly raise your threshold. You are also trivializing the tasks. It isn't hard to go from "My hand is already on the floss, why don't I pick it up?" and so on. I find that I get frustrated with the micro task within a week and just end up doing the thing. (I've been flossing my teeth 90+% of days for the last 6 months)
"no ads" was never a selling point of cable. it's always been a balance of fees and ads.
> Instead of wasting time dragging and dropping, just press Cmd+Down Arrow to open the files

I believe this does something different: it opens each photo in its own Preview window.

It’s basically the difference between passing multiple arguments to one “Open” invocation, and passing one argument apiece to multiple “Open” invocations.

If the images are in a folder, though, you can “Open With” the folder with Preview.
And hold ⌘ while doing that to select a "sub-window" such as an alert. Do note that doing this while in Dark mode will capture the blended color from your desktop picture, so it's not quite optimal for sticking on top of a macOS desktop template, but it's nice for making quick mockups.
Thought capitalism couldn't get worse? Meet the workplace spiritual consultants'
It was quite standard in the “old days” — I just read my mail in Emacs from around ‘78 to around ‘98 and filed my mail in directories all over my system. Mutt, elm, mm etc all worked this way iirc. I blame the arrival of the PC for the silo approach to apps in general.

As for simply delivering them to other directories: that’s pretty easy depending on what very agent you use (Postfix, qmail, sendmail etc). They are all designed to support that. It’s the clients that struggle.
I think all that should really matter is whether it was the owner that chose to have the setting on.
>Bypassing factory reset protection seems fine as long as its done as eminent domain seizure from the trash, not paying potential thieves.

Thieves (or a third party they sell to) will find a way to officially claim it was from the trash when it wasn't. People are clever and when there's money involved a system to exploit something will be found.
could you expand on that a bit?

null and nil are effectively synonyms, and I'm having difficulty understanding what about Lua's use of nil has caused problems for you.
But the story is totally vague. All he says is that there's a shortage, and that ability to repair could help.

How exactly? Would it help in a comprehensive view of things?

Certain aspects of making hardware affordable (for a given design) is being integrated and somewhat harder to repair.

If manufacturers were required to make their stuff repairable, would that increase the costs of production and the price of laptops? Would fewer people be able to afford them? Would the specs of computers have to change in order to fit/enable removable parts?

Are people likely to buy refurbed old computers at $200 versus $300 for a new one? Would the price of new computers go from $300 to $400 if this were required?

None of these things are answered.

The article/author is otherwise just advocating for something he desires (and I could go so far as to say using Covid as an cover, given the lack of detail) without being responsible for its implementation or feasibility.

If the details were addressed, I could get on board with requiring companies to do so.
When fakespot identifies a fake review there are no repercussions is they are wrong. If Amazon does it, flags or removes those it incorrectly identifies as fake, there will be repercussions with the sellers.
I think it's an interesting point to discuss whether state funding is possible for FOSS software like firefox that creates market competition within a certain segment. It would certainly work well with a more pure view of capitalism, to prevent the monopoly that is the chromium browser (engine). And I also think the EU would be a great candidate for the size/importance of an alternative-to like firefox.

I wrote a more extensive post on my blog, fwiw: https://whatshouldyoueat.com/2020/08/15/mozilla-ideals/
Pretty much the only way to make it happen is a foundation that has it written into their incorporation documents that they will never take ads or government bans. The incentives are too strong, so the large corporations get to manipulate the development of technologies by dangling ad money.

Ad money isn't innocuous. It's about control, because if the recipient were to do something an advertiser doesn't like, they pull the money... for example strong privacy/anti-advertising technologies. This desire to please the interests of large corporations leads to large scale conformity.
The TRESOR[1] kernel patch was proposed to prevent these attacks.

It stores keys in privileged registers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR
I doubt it, the used electronics/appliances market in the UK is huge. And other EU countries import refurbished products from the UK, as well.

I worked for a big recycling company, there's no shortage of suppliers and customers, even though Brexit scared away a lot of them, they simply have no alternative closer to home.

Selling the parts out of appliances/electronics is just as profitable, by the way. And there's a big market for them in the EU, thanks to the many small repair shops.

One washing machine can either be sold as a refurb, or stripped down for parts for about the same resale cost. Same for laptops, desktops of course, and even smartphones.

Eastern Europe is a good market, along with western Europe, but only the latter is a good location for a recycling/reuse factory, as it's got the largest number of possible suppliers.
Why do you think giving you what you are paying for justifies murder?
If you have a Force Touch trackpad, it will also click to let you know you've aligned it back to where it was originally.
Being on windows is its own reward.

Snark aside, Croc does look a lot like magic wormhole. I'll definitely have a closer look at it.
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Sure it's possible, but then you make a single mistake during booting and your Linux install is wiped out. And the prompt you see during booting is worded to encourage you to disable developer mode and revert to ChromeOS.
> By this definition, all Mac Web browsers are broken

Chrome has a “Confirm before Quitting” toggle-option hiding in its File menu, right above Quit. Kind of wish Safari had the same.
There's a great app you can get called FakeSpot analyzes the reviews, and provides some clarity to the reviews on Amazon, and Best Buy.
Huh? Firefox is almost entirely funded by Google search.
You can also use tab completion in said dialog.
In Brave in os X, "about" has vertically overlapping lines with the end of lines having the last few characters not visible.
Fun story. I remember meeting Tyler Renelle way back at a JS meetup when he first started developing it. Not 100% sure, but I think he originally built it off a framework called SocketStream[1], though I don't remember exactly (I was a contributor to SocketStream at the time). It might have actually been another of the similar frameworks[2] at the time that relied on sockets, realtime-app predecessors to React/Angular/Vue/Svelte.

I used Habitica early on, and it was fairly fun, but I could never (irony much) keep the habit of using it.

Update: looks like it was Derby: https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica/search?o=desc&q=derby&s...

[1] https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream
[2] The competitors were Derby https://derbyjs.com/ and...can't remember the other one off the top of my head.
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Debian could hardly maintain their Iceweasel fork, and all they did was to change the branding.

People seriously underestimate how much effort there is in developing a browser these days.

Let’s be honest, if Mozilla goes under, Firefox is dead, because it takes companies like Google, or Apple to develop and maintain a browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...
I remember shared libraries on SunOS 4.x. SunOS 4.x was retroactively renamed to Solaris 1 sometime around the first Solaris 2 (SunOS 5.x) release. I ran it on both a Sun 3/60 and a Sparc. Up until Solaris 2.4 or so, most folks still preferred the older SunOS.
I feel sad that we need to educate and demand 'The Right to Repair'.

Yesterday, I accidentally noticed that my iPad Air 2 which I 've been using as a external display for ~ a year has its battery bulged and even pushed out the display[1]. If I hadn't noticed this, It could have ended really bad.

But now I have to wait for the heat gun to arrive to remove the battery for safely discarding it, as Apple has made it really hard to change batteries. I don't intend to replace the battery, as I think any device with battery and without charging pass-through feature is a potential fire hazard when using for any application which involves charging constantly. I have removed other such devices (incl. iPhone) preemptively.

More over I'm tired of spending money on expensive hardware which I don't own completely. There's absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence, which are bad for the consumers as well as for the planet.

I will vote with my wallet for Fairphone, Pine64 like brands here after.

[1]https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1302310594423345152
Those arent problems for the consumer nor for Brock and morter business, they are problems for the government. The government has already made those activities illegal.
They never worked for me. But what has worked for me is breaking things down into trivial tasks. I wrote a longer post here[0], but like you I have had 0 success rates with many of the popular ideas of how to build habits. Apps distract me more than help me in this respect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393304
Curious why the onus is on journalists and not complacent political parties or branches/members of government.

Sure, newsrooms can sway public opinion, but they’re also basically the only reason we know about those problems to begin with. Blaming them seems akin to treating a symptom, not the cause.

Not trying to disagree. I do think journalists today are partially responsible for our current situation - especially White House correspondents, whom are wholly ineffective at challenging any statements from the president or calling out outright lies.
I know they sell it, but I haven't seen them (my bubble is small of course) I only see desperate attempts (like different attempts of bringing an "app store" to Linux, now with snap)
The 1 million laptop shortage in California was reported by the Sacramento Bee after polling school districts. I worked with school boards and school districts in California for 3 years selling education software, and I have to say that the people in administration are the most unaware of what the district's technology needs really are. For every heartwarming story of a school setting up a maker lab for its students, there is another school which was allocated funding for a hackerspace, bought all the necessary equipment, and then stuck it in a closet until the right person came along to set it up. I have seen brand new 3D printers grow obsolete sitting in a public school's storage room and shelves stocked with brand new Chromebooks as a "strategic reserve".

The other thing about public school administration in California is the attitude that parents and rich benefactors will make up for any budget/equipment shortfall that a school faces. Administrators have an incentive to underreport their school's technology assets, since their requests are filled one way or another.
I don't understand who (which company) sends the seeds?

Is it some kind of drop shipping and seeds are simply the cheapest thing?

Why is it always seeds and not just eg. an empty envelope?
Lua doesn't distinguish between, "the key is not in the table," and, "there is a value for that key, and the value is nil." Setting the value for the key to nil simply erases it from the table.
Even non users should donate to Firefox: the presence of a independent browser in a market dominated by browsers following the agenda of this le that huge tech company benefits the whole market. Of course using it (or any other independent browser, but only FF has a chance to stay in the double digits) and contributing to its market share would be even more beneficial. Apple’s Safari will never effectively stop Facebook’s sneaky spyops as Facebook is a core partner for Apple’s richest platform. And Chrome, well...
Mozilla has 20 years of evidence showing that people "who would donate but only on my terms" aren't a serious revenue source.
A digital ID, if done properly, can actually increase privacy and anonymity, not decrease it.

Without digital ID, everyone who needs to verify your identity for legal reasons needs to get a lot of data about you and verify that manually. This increases costs, friction and the chances of a leak, after all, most of your data lives in dozens of private databases, some of them possibly insecure. Over here (in Poland), phone carriers need to verify your identity before selling you a SIM (for anti-terrorism reasons). The carrier me and my family have used in the past has recently had a leak, and we had to scramble to change our ID numbers and report the leak everywhere we could. Just because they had lots of data and pictures of our ID.

With a digital ID, a company can just ask the government to perform the needed checks, without ever storing any information about you. You want to do something that's only allowed for people over 18? The government can respond with a true/false response, without revealing any of your data to a company that has no business processing it in the first place.

Same for all kinds of verification. Instead of storing lots of personal data about you on company servers, store a unique, government-issued token that is tied to your identity. No one but the government knows who this token is tied to, or even what company requested it. You're effectively anonymous. Only when you commit a crime, a company passes the token to the court, which is able to retrieve the actual identity from government servers.

Those systems are far more secure than the mess we have now.
Transunion, Experian, and others - but you can flood them with false information and they will record it and keep it forever

I don't know why any company relies on data from the big credit reporting agencies.

I pulled my credit reports for the first time just a couple of months ago, and they were all wildly different from each other, and also wildly inaccurate, each in its own way.

There was nothing bad in my report, fortunately. But just the information was so wrong. One agency had my work history all the way back to 1995, but for some reason was missing any of the jobs I had between about 1997 and 2003. One had my residency history back to 1977, but was missing the place I lived just three years ago. None of them were 100% right in any category, but always in my favor. And none of them really had a complete list of my currently open credit accounts.

One thing they all fail at is addresses. If you have a simple address like 123 Main Street, Anywhere, USA, then it's fine. But as soon as you break from that pattern by having an apartment number, or a street name with more than one word, or a street suffix other than "street" or "drive," or a directional, or a city that is commonly abbreviated (St. Paul versus Saint Paul), it all comes apart.

One place I lived had a simple address like "1234 Some Place Drive, Apartment 123B," and two of the agencies mangled it into "123 Some 12." I know addresses are hard, but both the Postal Service and Google have an API for this stuff.
> its the "last dictatorship in europe"

Well, I mean, if you ignore the country that takes up 39% (maybe a little more de facto after recent unilateral border alterations) of Europe, sure.
Rocket Lab is looking for a software engineer (preferably with some space or other relevant experience) in Long Beach if you're interested in building services to operate satellites including our lunar mission:

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/careers/positions/operations-so...
deviantart.com use to host plenty of winamp classic and modern skins (version 5+) but sadly, it's no longer publically browsable. Others like wincustomize.com and customize.org already have snapshots on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
It still just blocks everything, right? Like, all or nothing, no way to make a calendar appointment or send a message, but keep web blocked.
People don't see a dictator as a dictator until they disagree with the dictator's actions.

This is a slippery slope of course and that's why it's important to retain term limits, ensure elections are fair and untampered with, and impeach a leader when they stray toward dictatorship policies and procedures, even if you agree with those policies and procedures. It takes a lot courage to impeach a leader you agree with.