skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted this as being interesting because I feel it is a turning point in Debian's long init wars.

The most recent Debian General Resolution on init support said something like "we chose systemd but compatibility with other inits is important"

It did not clarify whether a package maintainer was allowed to remove working SysV init support and refuse to add it back, and this is now what is happening here, so I think the end result of this will set a precedent within Debian that the vote did not.

The package maintainer has remained quiet on their reasons other than "this is intentional", which again might be interesting because it might speak to whether the maintainer needs to defend their choices at all.

In a hypothetical situation, if an upstream piece of software specifically states that it doesn't support non-systemd systems then I could see how a maintainer might want to remove previously-contributed support for being a burden on future maintenance. I am not saying this is the case here, I am just saying this could be a possible argument for why it's not a black and white matter.

In Debian package maintainers have a lot of leeway on what goes on within their packages. In other Linux distributions there are often more centralised groups who would make such a decision ahead of time as a broad project goal.

In Debian these decisions can get referred to the technical committee but that is often considered "the nuclear option".
> They might pay less percentage wise than me and you

Isn't income tax higher for those that earn more?
somehow every app-selector I know (except a real terminal shell) uses scrolling. Imho this looks great for a tablet (and if this stabilizes I'd in fact buy a surface pro or similar instead of a new notebook, should my current private notebook die).
yes, for a project optimizing workflow a static page would be fitting, but with pngs or webp instead of gifs :-)
appearently lossless webp steals pngs crown now that iOS and MacOS support it and the computational costs on high compression are less:

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-flif-comparison.html

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/gallery2
Ericsson Warns That Open Ran Compromises Security
Man charged with arson in connection with Almeda Fire in southern Oregon
Yeah, in major population centres like London, about 20% of people caught it. Whereas rural England will be lower than that 6% average.

That’s the areas. As for age or demographics of people who caught it in England, I don’t think that is well known.
How to Test Complex Data in Python
Thanks! I will look into that.
That's the difference between a system designed to keep people alive and a system designed to do the least possible work to avoid liability.
Can financial literacy be taught?
Did this person know he should have taken over when the car was respecting the speedlimit but still going faster than it should have been going?
I go the speedlimit at night as well. But here in Belgium where there's so much street-lighting it might as well be day

How much slower was the car supposed to go for it's sensors and was it all the guys responsibility even if he knew Uber apparently disabled the auto-braking due to issues and didn't pause roadtests?
Holocaust is by definition only about Jews. Holocaust is not about all the people who died in camps nor only people who died in camps. It is specifically word for genocide of Jews during WWII.
> Scrolling is a 'no' in serious UI design

Scrolling gives users a spatial feeling (ie. "what is where in relation to something else") in contrast to just magically letting things appear without animation or transition. There are plenty of UI designs which use scrolling. Sure you can debate whether they are a success or not but I've never head of "Scrolling is a 'no' in serious UI design". That sounds more like a personal preference.

> and tiling should be an option.

As far as I can tell there is nothing stopping you from simply using a workspace per app. Effectively disabling tiling.
People look at the big title-bar, complain, and don't see the lack of a menu-bar.

I really love it.
Similar to imagining Ryan Gosling is in your background https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
In 1983, although Concurrent Pascal, Modula-2 and plenty of others did it already during the 70's.
I'd love to see an approach that uses both FaceID and TouchID. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a future feature Apple will tout.
Contrast: Cartier Bresson's candid shots of Gandhi's funeral pyre. When? 1948. Just as prurient?
My impression is that it can end up with your requirements spread over half of the Internet with very little control which code runs during your build.
Great read. If somebody is interest in another great talk about boarding pass data security, there is this one from 33c3: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...
Face AR SDK v0.31: Eyebrow Segmentation and New Makeup API
Get inspired to create your engaging apps with eyebrow segmentation and new Beautification API.
Now I'm reading top comment, and this makes much more sense [1] Yeah it is an asshole move on Apple's part

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24490605
To those who won't check the Wiki link, that includes the birth of "Saved by the bell" (mechanism and subsequent expression).
Also, since when is nature against fucking with... anything, really?
Great 20 min podcast on the recent Court Strike-down of Corona restrictions
The podcast is here:

https://the-quash.captivate.fm/episode/court-strikes-down-corona-restrictions-bonus

Legalman (briefly) goes through the 66 page judge's opinion, where the court strikes down the Corona virus restrictions in Pennsylvania.

Interesting to me is that he notes that this is the first time anyone is actually going on the record - a deposition. And also that the this opinion is being appealed.

He lists some of his findings:

* That the Covid restrictions are effectively an injunction, but across the whole population not just an individual, on account of the term 'emergency powers'

* There were no medical experts involved in the shutdown decisions

* No minutes were taken in meetings

* etc

A couple of other points from me:

Legalman - although a long practising lawyer - is cynical of the legal system. This is a critical take.

And, there is some swearing.
That's not what happened. The question was asking why a child saw a family member in an ad while playing a game. The Congressman just held up an iPhone while asking but it had nothing to do with the hardware.

Of course there are numerous factors that may have contributed to the ad (and maybe Google wasn't involved) but they went with the smartass answer and the media ran with that narrative instead. It's not the greatest question but it's much more valid than what people are assuming it was.

Video of the question (and notice the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmuROTmazco&t=60
> either to press forward and extend our lifespan indefinitely, or learn to accept that life is temporal

I think that’s an unfair description of the dichotomy.

I’m as transhuman as they come — I want to help build the von Neumann machines that build a Dyson swarm that starlifts to extend the life of Sol and I want to benefit from those extra trillions of years — yet I know life is still temporary and will eventually cease.

Even with biological immortality and cures for all ills, there are accidents that give us a half-life of around one thousand years; even with mind backups, there is entropy; even if the expansion of the universe can be turned into a truly endless power source, there is Heisenberg uncertainty.
One thing however that the autotools do and i do not see any of the other supposedly replacements do is that from the users (be it an application user who wants to compile the code or a developer who wants to compile a library but does not have plans to develop it, so for all intents and purposes the are just a "user" of that library) is that it does not require autotools to be installed unless you want to modify the project structure itself (even simple code changes are most of the time fine without having autotools). It only requires a Make but that is basically a standard and available anywhere, unlike the other systems that they target (and cmake, etc, also need Make anyway).

I always found that annoying because if i just want to compile something (be it a program or a library) from source, i also need to install a bunch of build systems i'm not going to ever use myself. That is just pure and unnecessary bloat for me.
Gtk3's title bar / hamburger menu / tool bar / modal dialog hybrid thing is a great motivator for avoiding Gtk3 apps. I've been pretty successfully avoiding them since upgrading to Ubuntu 20 and discovering that horrorshow.

I'm having difficulty getting different colours on active vs inactive title bars on regular apps, though. Still working on it occasionally.
Only the first ISO Pascal, ISO Extended Pascal is more in line with Modula-2.

There there are all the offsprings from UCSD Pascal and Object Pascal, and same applies to Modula, with Modula-2+ and Modula-3.
The web offers you the same API on every OS. Meanwhile native applications probably have to use whatever the OS provides, forcing you to support multiple APIs.
I would point out that at minimum, that genocide was not commited by western country.

> The entire propaganda behind the Holocaust is so we don't repeat it, yet no one cares when we do.

I don't know what you mean by propaganda, but there are more reasons for talking about history and knowing history then just "so that the bad stuff never happen never again".

We do in fact teach non-holocaust related history too.
Well, when I played with a minimal lambda-calculus evaluator, I quickly got tired of having to print "\" or whatever to denote the start of a lambda. But look, for example, at this:

(f. (x. f (v. x x v)) (x. f (v. x x v)))
fct. n.
(church0? n)
(_. church1)
_. church* n (fct (church- n 1))

Are "\" really needed there? You have to put lots parens to denote where lambdas end anyway, and they also happen to show where they start too, and a dot is a clear enough signal for a human (IMHO) to see that it's a lambda. So that's how I've came up with the idea of writing lambdas like that. Then I extended my lambda-calculus evaluator with some arithmetic primitives, and yes, the syntax got somewhat peculiar.
and probably close to 100% dont know about 22K Polish officers murdered (shot in the back of the head) and further ~150K killed in concentration camps by Russians directly during and after WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Btw Russians have a funny way of counting WW2 casualties, they include Poles killed by Russians as Russian victims due to annexation of Poland by Russia post ww2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_Pol...
I fail to see what stops one of these car monitors from “considering hypotheticals, checking mirrors and speed.”

I get that it’s boring but fail to see how that’s an excuse for not paying attention (or watching streaming video) to a dynamic system you’re expected to actively engage with.

Many train systems are largely autonomous and far more static and yet we still expect train operators to not kill someone on the tracks.

How do you feel about lifeguards as a job? Failure of pools and beaches to design a good system?
Only 1 in 10 Medical Treatments Are Backed by High-Quality Evidence
My Surface Pro X currently displays 14:31.

I'm in France, it's 13:27. I'm confused about how one can mess so much with this basic feature. It's not even a timezone issue !
Anecdotally (1.5 years of usage) Gnome 3 doesn't crash.
Don't bother with pihole, too much work and setup. Get nextdns and update your home routers DNS to point to there's and voilà a pihole in the cloud!
Getting Started with Capacitor
I wonder if this turn of strategy could convince at least a part of the mainstream media to push the story.

the "Assange is not a journalist" take was something they liked. The "any journalist can be punished anyway" take should raise some alarms.
A book every creator should read (summarized for those with no time)
Can 'officially' be added to the auto-strip list? It's rarely used appropriately.
> If that's not possible in a market, then it needs to be regulated like a public utility.

What I don't understand here is does this not just hand Google the monopoly but now with government protection? Because they're already in place, so who's gonna offer this public utility?

We see similar situations with, e.g. cellular carriers in the states, where wherever you live, you only get not-even-a-handful of choices.

And how does a country regulate an international "utility"? For Google to maintain its global position, it needs to consider not just local regulations, but also those in international markets. Public utilities so far have always had a limited area of operation.
Go has a distinct C flavor, and Rust has a moderate C++ flavor.
Go has the key design features of asynchronous concurrency (go-routines) and message passing, as well as fast compile times. Go is backed by Google.
Rust has the distinct design feature of memory safety, particularly with its implication of pointers, for concurrent processing. Rust is backed my Mozilla.
Since both share that C/C++ ancestry, I wouldn’t expect that you would gain too much, or lose too much, by picking one over the other if you’re interested in just learning the language to become a better programmer. If you’re doing it for work, then you’re going to use whatever they have already set up for you. So, use that one... which is probably Java...
HyperV host only runs on Windows.
What stops a regular bank from doing this?
This. All day long.
Did you read the article? I am not familiar with this publication nor its traditional biases.

But you have badly mis-characterised the article I just read. It calls for open mindedness and evidence.
I really feel this. I manage about a hundred computers for scientists/students. Total free reign. Some want to use linux. I’m sorry, you will never have working audio. Oh. It looks like the available linux drivers don’t play nice with this sandy bridge mobo and the dm will fail to initialize. The list goes on.

Never have I seen lack of hardware support on windows. I think that’s the essence of “just works” here.
I understand why... A lot of business travelers have a third party book their flights, so there isn't always a username/password. Airlines and travel agencies don't make it clear that it's sensitive information though.
Looks nice, is there a video of how it works with multi-monitor setups ?
Great idea!

I'm not sure we should be writing new network connected daemons in C though.
Holocaust happened here and was done mainly by western country. It was very much result of western ideologies. It was also successor of history of pogroms and antisemitism that existed in Europe. Europe still have some of people who did lived through it. The movements that made holocaust happen and their ideologies still exist and are alive in Europe and in western countries.

America is quite close culturally, literally fought in that war, literally fought a lot in that war because Germany was threat to America too. America did not had just few units in WWII, it was major player.

It would not be surprising for history of "us" and politics of "us" be more prominent in western countries then history that happens in different countries. Afaik, in Cambodia, they do talk about their genocide and have museums of it.
Some things come to mind:

- Better whistleblower protections

- Personal liability for making false or misleading statements to a regulatory agent

- Corporate death penalty. No more "too big to fail" nonsense. If there were actual competition among aviation manufacturers, the government could just dissolve the company and auction off the product lines to competitors.

Safeguarding against capture from the regulatory side is more difficult. But I guess term limits for decision-making positions could help, or having a good process for identifying and declaring conflicts of interest?
A tragedy. It was an interesting tech that could have been useful elsewhere. It wasn't just a "what if we put solar panels in a road" scam.

Hopefully the military will take it up. Use it for high altitude platforms or something. Keep it in development.

To release the patents, and the doco and the books and the simulator for free is pretty amazing.
AFAIK XPrivacy needs root to be installed, which would break part of the android security model.
High tech, low life.
The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
discussion of a blog post about this tool:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465967
Most of the web privacy settings are specific to Safari, not the Webkit browser engine.

Also an app can access and send more data than a browser window. Anything the webview can block can just get transmitted by the app itself separately. So there's no reason to block 3rd-party browser engines as the GP post says.
That's a poor excuse given that a) mp4 support is pretty good these days and b) CSS already has responsive loading of assets. It's purely that to a man with a JS framework everything looks like a dynamic site. I highly recommend running Noscript to see how much of the Internet is broken because of this kind of nonsense.
Bizarre that you are equivocating a local coffee shop to online advertising; the emergence of which gutted the magazine industry, severely damaged and forever changed print news, and was single-handedly responsible for pushing Alphabet and Facebook into the Fortune 50.
It doesn't really matter if you work backwards or forwards if you can prove your conclusion.
use to love ETag :)
Question: do you think you will be arrested for doing the same thing if it was in your country? (A from myself: yes absolutely)
Love this. <3
Lack of support for GUI apps such as MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. It was actually workable with wine a few years back, but that was before everything went to an auto-updating subscription model.
The only reason I am still using windows is MS office.
I might give it a try myself... My home machine is running Arch linux and works flawlessly for more then two years already. Just my work is still stucked with a lot of documentations sharing between some other people and I need MS office programs which have no alternative in open-source word.
well, the office.com looks promising these days and I hope to switch completely ASAP.
I think my statement applies, or at least is likely to apply, under any implementation of Marx's ideas, and also has applied under every implementation that has been tried. If someone has a real counterpoint to that I'd be happy to hear it and engage with it.

I'm still kind of talking past the other person, and vice versa, but it's hard to have a good conversation about this, and I think it's important to say something to express my opposition to Marxism (though that's debatable---if nothing good/useful can be said, it's very debatable).

I would not have said anything on most discussion forums, but if there ever was a place where it's appropriate to speak up against Marxism when it rears its head, YC News is it. I think I can voice my pro-capitalist position politely and it's OK here, even if there is no traction in the conversation. I wouldn't do that on, say, reddit; I think it would be rude in that context, unless I can actually foster a meaningful conversation.

> the odds of you yourself wishing to step back and hear with open ears what I’m suggesting is quite low

Valid statement about the Internet in general, but culture can change, and we should strive to be better than that. In my own commenting history there are certainly bright and dark spots. I try to do the best I can.
So a person hiding Jewish child, caught by being denounced by another Jew (1), send to concentration camp and killed is not a victim of Holocaust?

1. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/life-in-sh...
Yes, will be interesting to see if it changes anything, but I doubt it will. As Murray suggests, it's probably becuase prosecution has seen so little media interest in the court case that they've now changed tack:

> The purpose of the earlier approach was plainly to reduce media support for Assange by differentiating him from other journalists. It had become obvious such an approach ran a real risk of failure, if it could be proved that Assange is a journalist, which line was going well for the defence. So now we have “any journalist can be prosecuted for publishing classified information” as the US government line. I strongly suspect that they have decided they do not have to mitigate against media reaction, as the media is paying no attention to this hearing anyway.
How will this have an effect on airplane safety?
I agree completely. It depends on the book, of course. I have grammar books that I have worked on for years and never totally finished. On the other hand, I can read a couple of classic SF novels on a rainy day and still really savor them.
Do's and Don'ts of Code Review
As a long-time developer who has reviewed a lot of code, and had a lot of code reviewed, I would like to share some of my Dos and Don'ts of code reviews:

DO point out logical errors.

DO point out possible memory leaks or performance shortfalls.

DO give examples for resolving potential issues.

DO ask questions related to functionality.

DON'T withhold approval for stylistic deviations.

DON'T withhold approval for stylistic deviations.

DON'T withhold approval for stylistic deviations.

DON'T withhold approval for stylistic deviations.

Thank you!
I don't want better ads or more targeted ads because they are more likely to influence my behaviour.
Apple Is Killing Web?
> That being said object.setter() has no equivalence to FP and is unique exclusively to OOP.

What about Lens.Setter? (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.19.2/docs/Control-... )
Geo Locating IP Address Tool
> If you're rich, buying expensive shit is probably the most beneficial thing you can do for society.

That's not true. You can go and pay people a 50 million dollars to make a yacht for you. Or you can pay that 50 million to other group of people to build housing for the poor. In both cases, it provides jobs and puts food on the table of the people you employed. But, the yacht is just a toy for you, while housing will be life-changing for hundreds of families.
> I've been on the linux desktop for 15+ years and what does this mean then?

I've been seeing this kind of feigned obtuseness for 20 years now. It isn't cute or funny, and linux desktop is still a minority operating system even amongst the nerds it is supposedly for.
In some countries, identity documents are in relatively frequent use. The number of authorised strangers who would have access to one's identity document might be significantly higher in these jurisdictions than, say, the number who would be able to view Tony Abbott's passport number. I'm thinking of - for instance - the 'personnummer' in Sweden (I've heard friends recite theirs in public when asked for them).

Q: Should (merely) the number from your passport really be considered a secret?
Most television writing is terrible. Dialogue seems to be written to sound cool - structure or sense be damned. Characters talk past each other constantly. Plots waver around like drunken louts. It all lacks coherency.

I can't help but think that a lot of it is to do with the collaborative writing process, with frequent fast rewriting. Films suffer the same. Shows with one writer or at least a very strong creative lead are usually much more coherent.

Television is being carried by production values at the moment. It looks and sounds great!