skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just have it run this

function areYouGay() {
const cached = localStorage.getItem('isGay');
const isGay = (cached ?? false) ? Number(cached) : Math.random();
localStorage.setItem('isGay', isGay);
return (isGay < 0.5) ? 'Yes' : 'No';
}
She did a bunch of pretty corrupt stuff while defense minister. She pushed for internet censorship.
More like: VW set to acquire Rimac.
Thinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.
Both DDG and Google seem to have regressed to only surfacing lots of blog spam in response to my technical queries, perhaps with a few useful StackOverflow discussions.
I was going to say “and a name which is neither”, but I didn’t realise the atomic bomb dropping superfortress Enola Gay was named for the pilot’s mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay
But then you need to install Erlang/Elixir on the server, which kind of defeats the purpose of releases, don't you? Or have you abandoned releases altogether?
The photo contains everything needed to reproduce the text. Whereas for a building a photo just captures one tiny perspective of it.
You got it. GPL is about user freedom only. It doesn't protect freedom of those who wants to be free to restrict freedom of users.
On the subject of game development at Valve, there's a lot of things that have been worked on but never turned into an actual release. There were 5 cancelled Half-Lifes between Episode 2 and Alyx (Including Half Life 3), Left 4 Dead 3, F-Stop, "RPG". A.R.T.I, SimTrek and probably a few more.

That sometimes over-cancelling willingness I think is also part of what makes the end result great-TF2 took 9 years and several versions similarly to Alyx, but I think both were worth the wait.
1. Can be addressed by using a GUI which is not on the internet, for example SourceTree, the git interface in IntelliJ, probably many more.

2. Is often unimportant if the GUI tool can make common workflows one or two clicks.

3. Having the CLI tools to automate stuff is great, but is not necessarily the best way to have an interactive session with a repository.

Some of the things I like about graphical interfaces for Git:

- The information density is usually (depending on the program) great - I can see local branches, remote branches, commits and tree diagram for the selected branch, all in less space than a terminal usually takes up.

- A bunch of actions are available by right-clicking on a relevant item, so I don’t have to remember commands and command-line flags etc and I can just get on with things.

- Some actions like “show me the diff between these two commits” are SO much easier that they become a viable way of working.
Sweet ps4 will be cheaper soon
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It's to reduce signup friction for their geforce now cloud gaming service. Also probably to target you with ads when they release a card that would be a nice upgrade for your current one. Very annoying, yes.
I have never heard of a decice - iOS, Android, or otherwise, that had an alarm that couldn't be toggled off through the lock screen. What kind of awful alarm app was he using!?
Such unfair moderation. The author of this article has a whole string of anti-Trump pieces up at the npr.org site. He left out a lot of pertinent information, like the new Pennsylvania plant that's just started up. Furthermore, he's no medical expert. I'm disappointed in NPR for publishing such a puff piece.
Exactly this. I use the GitHub CLI and website interchangably throughout the day. When making commit messages, I generally always link a commit to an issue. So the end of a commit message will generally say "Resolves #281" or "Fixes #433" or "See Issue #218" or whatever.

I usually need to double check open issues when making these messages and since I am already writing commits on the command line, having a split terminal or tab that can pull up active commits with a single line command and see them in a concise and clean format, it is super helpful and fast.

If you are already working in the command line all day long, then it makes perfect sense to have access to GitHub in the command line as well.

Another benefit is that most IDEs will have direct terminal access within the IDE, which means you can get relevant GitHub details about your project from within the IDE via the terminal, without needing to leave the IDE.

Lastly, the CLI version is far more concise and simple compared to the web version.

I am not hating the web version. I still use the web version plenty. But it is just another useful tool in the quiver that has plenty of use cases and simplifies workflow.
On my PC:

time node -e "console.log('a')" # 0.377 total
time ruby -e "p 'aaa'" # 0.084 total
time python3 -c "print('a')" # 0.020 total
time elixir -e "IO.puts 'a'" # 0.117 total
time _build/prod/rel/bakeware/simple_script Hi # 0.205 total without zstd, 0.212 with

Another question is which language loads modules the fastest (afaik Ruby is kind of slow when it comes to `require`).
3) it should be unambiguous to spell verbally. Avoid cute mis-spellings and often-confused letters such as m and n
They are building an OpenGL-to-DX12 stack using mesa, the open source OpenGL implementation. As Microsoft finds bugs or compatibility issues with GL apps (since many rely on behavior specific to the Nvidia driver), I'm sure they'll contribute fixes to upstream mesa.
That's not accurate at all. Allowing the price to float freely would help with short term supply and demand issues, but it would not fundamentally solve the long term uncertainty for suppliers about whether or not a large quantity of masks are still going to be needed next year given that supposedly multiple vaccines will be coming onto the market at the same time.

Case in point: there was a great piece a while back about a domestic mask manufacturer who ramped up production for the H1N1 outbreak only to see demand collapse when the pandemic turned out to be far less severe than expected [1]. They almost went out of business because there was no where to sell their masks at a profit and had to unwind most of their operations.

The solution here is for the federal government to backstop the orders. If no buyer can be found at price $x / mask, then the government will buy them and put them into the national stockpiles for the future.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest...
You can’t run Linux if you can’t modify the bootloader (as called out in the article).
This sounds like you’re saying if you’re an artist, and you do a really good job, you shouldn’t get paid and should lose the rights to your work. That’s quite a strange concept.
Why is Next.js my ultimate choice over Gatsby, Gridsome, and Nuxt?
I've been pleased with Searx[1] compared to DDG or Google, given that it aggregates search results from multiple search engines. You can self-host it or use one of the public instances[2].

[1] https://github.com/searx/searx

[2] https://searx.space/
Like right now? The feather river canyon near Paradise is on fire as we speak from a lighting induced fire that has caused fatalities. The Camp fire burn out area is actual one of the boarders of the North Complex fire.
According to DDG's Privacy page[0] --

"We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."

So it sounds like they use the slippery slope argument.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
I look forward to see what's will be the price in Europe, hopefully underneath 700 euro.
The EU probably will lose the same in absolute terms, but it will be spread over 400 million people not 60 million. So in terms of rational policy making the EU should want a deal as much as the UK, but of course in practice if the impact is less diffuse it’s just less politically important.
You don't have a voice that's why you're asking here. So someone gave you a good suggestion and you shit on it. You should let it expire or give it to a group who actually wants to do something with it.
!hn
Wait, I was under the impression that the spun material used to make the masks was the challenge, not the actual manufacturing of the masks. Which is actually rather simple.
I don't understand why valve/steam gets a free pass from everyone. What does Epic do that Steam doesn't? Honest question.
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The quality of discussion on HN is generally quite low these days. But it's even worse on topics that touch on issues of social justice or relate to persecuted minority groups. Too many commenters here appear to be sorely lacking in empathy.
What cooperative? Can you share more?
What I find most concerning is, where are all the "normal" reporters - and I don't mean the unicorn unbiased ones, but regular, biased but not actively pushing their fringe ideas.

(I mean, it's ok to have fringe ideas. But if you are pushing them without having much to back them up with, and at the same time acting as a reporter, lets just say I wish we had more to choose from.)
I think patents (and especially software patents) cause more problems than they are worth. The most valuable asset in an economy is entrepreneurship and creativity, which often comes in the form of an individual making something amazing in his 'garage'. Patents do not help the lone genious in any shape or form, in fact it is already a very bad idea to worry about patenting your idea early on, because the effort and money it will take to do so will detract from the invention itself. For the lone inventor, this means he essentially just has to take a gamble and hope no one has patented his idea. And if someone sues him, he is done, his invention gone with him (which was valuable even if it already existed).

Patents do somewhat work in the 'corporate' world, where potential inventions require a quantifiable capital investment that would obviously not be worth it in the absence of patent law (like antibiotics). But even then, companies often choose to keep the invention a secret if possible.

Software, generally is not like that, capital investment required is only quantifiable for 'big' applications, that do not require much creativity but simply a lot of work to create. And these applications are actually not the sort of thing that is patentable.

I think the reason patents are generally accepted is the 'righteus' notion that if someone invents something, he owns it and it cannot be stolen from him. But this notion is achterhaald, what if two people invent something at the same time? What someone invented the same thing a few years later, but actually succeeds in bringing it to market, unlike the first inventor?
I remember my first Android phone would (I was not aware at the time) keep the alarms turned on even while in silent mode.

During the final exam of my calculus course, which takes place through two class sessions, my alarm went off to remind me of my second class session. Despite the professor promising to tear up our exams up if our phones made any noise or appearance the hour before, I'm assuming he ignored it because I was literally the only person in class that made any attempt at engaging with his lectures. Unrelated, I had also completely given up studying for the exam since I knew I was going to fail and had plans to retake the course (but be at least present to take mental notes on the final), but he clearly bumped me up to a minimally passing grade for what I can only assume was the same reason.
> Are you saying that you are OK with the risk of never getting to re-experience the media that had a formative contribution to your personality during your childhood or early adulthood/teenage years?

No, I mean I think that's a shame - but I just factor it into the equation.

I'm not describing what's acceptable, I'm describing what I think I'm getting for my money, which can be a factor in whether I decide to purchase something at all, or whether I'm happy/disappointed with it.
So if I buy a AAA game now for $80 I'll be happy if I can run it at all for 5 years. If that isn't enough for me to buy it, I won't.

There of course is a secondary question here too: should I buy these games even though I'm then contributing to this poor state of affairs when I buy DRM games rather than voting with my wallet? I don't consider that (Although I'd avoid e.g. buying the Oculus heeadset because of the Facebook thing, but that's a whole different level of evil and also affects me personally more).

> It's still possible to play N64 cartridges, watch VHS tapes, read book

And there are probably tons of things from the period after those (2000-2020) that are forever lost because their DRM servers are dead etc. And tbh. it doesn't make me even a little bit sad.
I'm kind of sick of companies punishing personal/hobby/learning users because another group that should be paying for their software isn't doing it.

This is their problem to solve, and they have chosen to do it this way.

I regret spending effort in learning how to use this platform. I am removing all my public Fusion360 designs and tutorials and replacing them with recommendations to others to avoid their software.

Original: Anyone looking to learn CAD probably ought to just jump right to solidworks as a vendor that is at the very least more predictable and has better return on your time.

Revision: May have spoken too soon Re: solidworks. sigh I gues if you are a great software engineer with some free time, have a look at FreeCAD. It needs some good help.
Let me post an informational link, with some explanation of potential increased resistance:

"[HCoV-NL63] is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which enters its host cell by binding to ACE2... Further analysis of HCoV-NL63 pathogenicity seems warranted, in particular because of recent evidence that this virus uses the same cellular receptor as SARS-CoV (ACE2)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_NL63
Ha, I literally did not update to iOS 14 last night because I figured it would mess up the alarm.
I was able to buy 20 KN95 masks for $50 through an online retailer advertising through my local business journal.

KN95 masks are the Chinese regulatory standard vs N95 which is the NIOSH standard, but KN95 sales in the US still need FDA approval.

Here is a list of approved masks from the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...
> many IP cases come down to bluffing

That's quite insightful in understanding how the concept of intellectual property works in practice. I see, it's about making a claim to convince the other party of its legal ownership.

Whether the actual legality of the claim is proven in court or not, it may not matter if the claim is convincing enough, or too costly to contest.
Amusingly, mostly incorrect in this case translates to true. The point is it’s not a linear increase with time. Yes, controlled burns can make a serious difference, their also a significant risk on their own as unlike wetter climates you get a lot of fuel at the same time.

Blaming PG&E is relevant because they are one of the few companies operating in these areas. When fires start in suburbs they rarely grow out of control, it’s when their far from human habitation that you see major issues. Another option would be adding sensors to PG&E equipment to allow for rapid responses and thus vastly limited growth.

Underground cables still causing fires doesn’t mean much when their significantly less likely to cause wildfires.
Off the cuff, a better user experience altogether might be to prompt attendees afterwards to submit their biggest take-away, instead of a patronizing poke.

That way, not only does it confirm paying attention, but you can also get a signal of course effectiveness.
How does this compare to Pomerium or other open source IAPs?
The solution to hoarding is quotas, not price ceilings. Limit how many people can buy, but don't try to control the sale price.
Does the government think that if they had software patents they could get a Facebook too?
I suspect it's a function of your use cases. I've used Linux on the desktop since the late 90s, and I still use it every day. My employer makes me use MacOS for work, and it's a constant source of frustration for me, but Linux is consistently wonderful.

Vague criticism is useless though. My frustration with MacOS is mostly that stuff is either broken or unintuitive. I use Emacs, and after upgrading to Catalina, Emacs could no longer open files on my Downloads folder, even after manually assigning it permissions to read the entire disk. This turns out to be because Emacs has a Ruby script it gets launched through that has distinct permissions from the executable itself, so I have to hand-tune the launch scripts to make reading from disk work correctly.

There's lots of stuff like this. Mouse avoidance mode on Emacs is broken when it is set to 'banish, completely breaking the ability to drag the Emacs window around the desktop. Took me a few weeks to track down.

I want to tile a window to the side, so I have to click and hold on the full screen button, then select a side, at which point MacOS goes into some weird full screen mode and forces me to select some other window for the other sid, which I didn't want. I just wanted to tile a window on one side. If this feature were launched in Linux, I fear the derision would never end. Pop!_OS did it better.

For some reason, MacOS can't remember that I type Dvorak. After I log in, it remembers, but on the log in screen, I have to manually select Dvorak every time so I can type my password. If I've already selected my account, there's no reason it can't do that for me. Linux does, except Elementary OS, which is broken in dozens of other ways as well.

If I touch the play/pause button on my headphones by accident, my entire desktop gets buried beneath iTunes (I guess Apple Music now). I had to remove execute permission to avoid this, but updates seem to revert the behavior from time to time.

And this is just me trying to run Slack, Emacs and a browser. I'm not even doing anything fancy. So when I hear that Linux isn't ready for the desktop, it just doesn't resonate with me. I've used it for decades as my daily driver, and I plan to continue.
i mean, this is an American magazine, things look more real the closer they are to you.
The leadership in this administration has a many decades long history of screwing over and stealing from their “partners”.
First of all: "the market is glutted with face masks [and hand sanitizer]." This is a massive success of the free market, mitigated only by the unfortunate fact that, as it turns out, those are not the most useful bits of PPE.

Second, contrary to the pro-price-gouging argument, the real issue is risk aversion: nobody will sign the long term contracts required for manufacturers to justify the investment (and, by the way, are functionally the same as a higher price). Why? Because providers in places where shortages actually manifest - largely poor & rural areas - are nearly bankrupt anyway. They can't guarantee payment for sh*t in the long term.

Ultimately, this issue is exactly the type of thing we need collective action for: pool our resources & buy together to defray long-term costs. Bluntly, the government should be guaranteeing these contracts. But they don't AFAIK - and that's the failing.
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“ These measures are always marketed as being for security from hackers and more recently also in the name of privacy, but from the beginning it has always been about ensuring that Apple can control which applications and accessories are allowed on the iPhone, in particular when those applications compete with their own offerings.”

Uh, well ok unsupported assertion. Apple has always allowed third party calendars, email clients, messaging apps, etc.

It’s always been security, privacy AND battery life. This original iPhone didn’t allow third party apps for a year, and they were only going to be web apps. Eventually they game up with a tight sandbox with strict limits on background processing that protected battery life, privacy and the essential phone functionality from rogue apps.

Being able to buy a tightly managed device that maximizes its battery life and your privacy and security is an important choice for consumers.
I hire freelancers sometimes and this is exactly right. We agree on scope, price, and timeline. Helps me budget, helps you know when the project is done.

Hourly fills me with dread as a client. I have no idea how much this is gonna cost or when you’ll be done and I can use it.

Retainers work well for ongoing work. Like when you need someone to do X, Y, and Z misc tasks every week.

Fundamentally I pay for results, time is an implementation detail. Why should I care how long it takes you?
> I don't see car enthusiasts lamenting (maybe they do, I just don't see them) that Joe Average has no idea how to tune a carburetor

I think they do, and you just don't see them.

I think what the author describe has been happening a lot and even more violently in the car industry. I just think the average Joe doesn't have enough incentive to care and will just throw his car and buy a new one if there is an issue.

But for some specific users it has became really apparent. One of the trend in the farming truck industry is to numerically mark all components of the truck "to help farmer identify and repair". Practically, a lot of truck will behave like printers and stop working if they detect a component is defective / not original even if the fault is minor. Thus, for a while, farmers used hackers services to bypass those costly replacements. But as the manufacturing companies are catching up, it's becoming harder and harder. So the net result is that trucks from the 80's have seen their price explode as they are deemed much more reliable and can be fixed without requiring an authorization. (https://jalopnik.com/classic-tractors-from-the-80s-are-becom...)

I think the vendor lock-in trend might have originated in the tech industries but is definitely trending everywhere (computers, phones, cars, coffee machines, printers, video games, can you name more..?).
It's definitely not that easy.

There are so many messier cases in the real world, like companies that raise a seed, then burn through it too fast only to essentially start over with a new "seed" and new "co-founders" down the road...
SourceTree is very good and free. I use it for:

1. Selecting specific lines for a commit.
2. Stashes management
3. Rebasing branches, cherry picking commits.

It is possible to do a lot more with it, but for the most other operations I use command line or GitHub UI.
DDG does have a switch to enable location aware search (coarse at the level of country).
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> Luckily, one can make the grammar LL(1)-parser-friendly by rewriting all the left recursions in the grammar rules as right recursions.

The problem with this is that it changes all the left-associative operators to be right-associative. For example, `python compute.py '3-2-1'` gives the result 2, but it should be 0.

Edit: Why the downvote? Am I wrong?
!se or !r respectively on DDG. (Also !reddit and !oldreddit)

Bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Bang search: !bang <site description>
Chicago is only getting more expensive
As (insert expletive here) that was, it was more of an Act of War than just an assasination. So totally different, though I think it was immoral, strategically unsound, and stupid. Also loathable and with no regard for innocent lives.
99% of the games 'they tested' and I doubt they truly went through thousands of titles.
My local Korean grocery store and Ace Hardware both have KN95 masks in stock for $2 to $5 a piece. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've heard of them just being available in stores elsewhere too.
No, Sec. 120 of the copyright law, at least in the US, says painting, photography, drawing, etc., are allowed. The general principle if 'right of panorama'--what you can see from public areas is basically part of the public area.
Rhythm IS music