skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago, I had a GEOS installation that used to reliably crash every Sunday at 12 PM.

Should mandatory reboots every Sunday at 12 PM be introduced in a future Windows update? I mean, someone else has done it before. If you do it every second Sunday it's even better, Microsoft wouldn't be an especially bad actor here.

The fact that other companies are even worse doesn't make this any better. For any program that has a bug, I guarantee there are thousand other programs with even worse bugs. Pointing fingers and returning EWONTFIX may fly for some FOSS projects, where maintainers can at least claim that if you want a fix in open-source software that you didn't pay for you should fix it yourself, but it's a pretty ridiculous stance if you have paying customers.
This appears to be how most legal chemical manufacturers operate as well. Customers are just a huge hassle in general.
Governments did indeed try that and would likely still want to do it, but there were way too much cultural values embedded in alcohol and production is also too easy that controlling it is not possible.

Alcohol is however generally not defined as a hard drug. Soft drugs would be alcohol, marijuana, sleeping pills and sedatives, while hard drugs includes heroin and cocaine. Netherlands has a very strict line between the two in both enforcement and punishment. Netherlands has a war on hard drugs, but is celebrated for not having one for soft drugs.

When it comes to alcohol and driving, Sweden for example uses a system that directly punish that circumstance. Driving licenses are very expensive to get and take a lot of time. Getting hit by a DUI not only mean you have to retake the tests and pay for a new license, but you are also likely to get a ban for up to 3 years. For many that is a very harsh punishment and one enough to discourage drunk driving. For sever DUI with blood values over 1.0 you also risk jail sentences up to 2 years. Any DUI involving other drugs than alcohol is regulated under the harsher rules. You do not need to trigger an accident for this to happen.

Drug laws does not need to be all or nothing. Scientists could/do define the risk profiles for different drugs in different circumstances and law makers can make more lenient or strict laws depending on those risk profiles. Sadly culture do play a role in permitting some high risk over other, but that doesn't mean risk management is bad explanation for why laws exist that punish non-violent drug user. It only make them inconsistent.
If I'm going to play with a toy OS haiku is neater IMO.

Much more fun is writing your own.
Yes - IF any of your customers/clients did anything illegal. Proceeds of crime, KYC etc. I mean, think about it - what search terms would you optimize on? "Best weed in the market?" "Buy your murders here?" ... Good luck trying to explain away that you had zero knowledge of working with 'shady' customers. IANAL so go ahead if it seems to anyone to be a good idea.

Or perhaps you meant operating as a sort of entirely Dark-Web Only SEO operation? If so, they already exist.
Open Source WebRTC Media Server – Can Be Useful
>I think he's just a bit fed up with geeks who like to question everything at every turn

TBH who doesn't hate that?

I think a lot of open source developers just gave up on their project because of ungrateful and entitled reactions from some stickler geeks.
People often cite Portugal in these discussions, but isn't that citing one example out of, what, hundreds(?) of societies around the world that all have different values, contexts, social structures and constructs, etc...

Don't get me wrong, I also believe the war on drugs is probably doing more harm than good overall, but I also don't think that we can naively assume that "let's do what Portugal did" will just work for everyone.
Interestingly, that ntkernel/wrk-v1.2 seems to be a public fork of the non-public "https://github.com/Trietptm-on-Security/wrk-v1.2" repo.

Might have been accidentally made public?
A crow can carry about 1.5 lbs in flight. A crow weighs at most 4.5 lbs. Let's assume a stretcher that can carry a crow by more than one crow to weigh another 1-2 lbs. At most, the total payload would be ~5 lbs which requires at least 4 crows. I don't think that kind of coordination is possible with that kind of turbulence in such close quarters.

So why bother?
German-made FinSpy spyware found in Egypt, and Mac and Linux versions revealed
> simply checking that rules have been followed

One of the rules is one should not be extradited for political reasons, and that is what is obviously happening here and what is argued on the court by the defense.

But as the US representative can decide what is included as the evidence and the judge accepts that or even directly helps cherrypicking(!), there's where the tragedy starts.

Moreover, a political process against somebody whom the US likes to support would be a top title in all media. Because that's what we have learned, it matters: one should not be punished for that. That idea was even present in the legal agreements, including these about extradition.

It is that "simple."
For me, Windows 95 OSR2 (OEM service release 2) and 98 were more stable than stock 95. I remember having to obtain it via one of those "100 in 1" pirated CDs, because the OSRs weren't made available to the end users.
It might be convenient to have a wine distribution with some of the higher level user space replaced with components windowsXP. I wonder if Visual studio and .net would run better.

This is something that the wine devs themselves shouldn't do for obvious reasons.
Volkfi don't exactly inspire confidence. :/
Use uncertainty to leverage the power of your predictive brain
Economies are expected to reach pre-covid levels in a year or two, which is rather short term compared to many investments. Plus, there are some obvious winners even from this situation and people are betting on them.

Additionally, I've seen mentioned as factors companies like Robinhood which let random people invest in a user-friendly manner. I don't have much data on them though.
https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/
Same for me!

I have been dying to switch but tab management and switching is so jarring in FF vs Chrome (on Android).

Not only that, but scrolling is also buggy because it keeps accelerating. Insufferable while online shopping, because I like to scroll-stop-scroll-stop-scroll and FF just speeds up the scrolling if the stops are too short.
QMake hasn't actually been killed off, they're still maintaining it but there are no real updates or anything AFAIK.
I've heard the US has what essentially amount to a DRM on a lot of EU military equipment. Most of the west just seems really tangled up in general.
Feels like the 1980's all over again. :)
but, automatic updates are by definition RCE since there downloading code remotely and executing it ;)
It actually didn't save anyone because there was never any risk of hospital overload when panic didn't set in: Sweden has one of the lowest ICU capacities in Europe and never saw hospital overload.

A few places did, but that's because they over-reacted and quarantined lots of their medical staff. That's the reaction not the virus.
Just because you can.

The page loaded instantaneously on my 1Gbps link. My phone on 4G loaded it fine too.

It is also very much possible that Internet Explorer 3 is not supported either.

Yes, this is a rant in reply to yours because some people have better things to do than to analyze DevTools outputs to say the 12654 bytes were loaded instead of 12341 over 50 calls instead of 27.

I am personally very, very found of the philosophy of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and truly believe that this is how web sites with information should look like. But the ones that are readable on my devices are great too. And I do not give a shit about the volume because I do not have to.

And yes, this is horribly annoying to those who have 120x50 displays over a 6kbps link with 1 MB of capping.
Even if they are not monetised by the uploader, the video will still be monetised by Google, so this is still commercial use, even if they only earn 0.0001c
But Lighthouse says I'm accessible [PART 2]
MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating
Just keep on with the lockdowns and everything will be fine. Safety first!
Indeed. And do we trust China’s numbers? I thought it was an unspoken fact that no one cites their data in legitimate media, since it is heavily manipulated.
S L A Y E R!
Angular vs Angularjs – How Are They Different?
Perhaps, no JS framework embraced changes in JavaScript as readily as Angular did.
Now there are two dominating types - AngularJS and Angular 2.
AngularJS is an open-source framework for web front-end development. Its main difference from Angular 2 is that it’s based on pure JavaScript.
When you see a name Angular with no “JS” attached to it, it refers to Angular 2.
Angular2 is based on Typescript.
We’ll share our experience of working with each of the frameworks and highlight their differences.
Hmm, so which one is making 370k/m?

Max I saw is 83k
I use QMake and it's painful as hell for certain things. If you want to set certain options globally (e.g. where to look for external libraries that you don't want everything to link against), you end up having to include files all over the place just to avoid duplicating things.

Building multiple executables is not possible in a single .pro file, so if you've got a folder full of unit tests, which are separate applications, you have to create a .pro file with subdirs as the author here does, and then create another pro file for each test executable.
Not original commenter, but basically he's right, according to the German Rail (in German): https://www.deutschebahn.com/pr-hamburg-de/hintergrund/theme...

If a night loses 1 hour, the train stops for less time at the scheduled stops, or arrives with a delay. If the night gains an hour, the train waits somewhere for an hour. Which sounds like a painful thing, having to travel (or wait) an extra hour because of clocks.

Interestingly if the night loses an hour, the trains are automatically an hour behind schedule...
What's the alternative? Allow the Wireguard user to specify an FQDN in the config file and require Wireguard to perform a DNS query on every outgoing packet to check if the data in the RR has changed?
That only works for absolute times. Things like "tomorrow at 9am" are harder since the definition of it depends on the users local time.
Well, we can teach animals vocabulary but I'm not aware of any success in teaching grammar where "eat banana" and "banana eat" convey different concepts. People have been trying for a long time without any success that I'm aware of in birds or other primates. What the limits are is very much an area of active research.
I think it is simple until you make a mistake.

I am a very basic user of git, with one or two branches and straight merges.

Until I commit the wrong thing, or mess with the merge and end up with a set of files I did not create (.orig IIRC).

So git is simple but not simply forgiving (it may be forgiving, but you need to know more). https://ohshitgit.com/ helped me several times.
apt install build-essential

Or did you mean something else?
>cover up bad code
>cover up unfinished work

Absolutely this! I think the question that needs to be asked when you have the excuse of time pressure (or another excuse) is "well, if you had no time pressure, how would you have done it different?"

If they, or you if you are asking yourself this, is "I don't know" then it's not technical debit. It's bullshit. It's just bad code.

So much of "technical debt" I see in the codebases I have to work with has nothing to do with time constraints / deadlines / having to get a feature out ASAP, it's just bad code written by bad developers.

This needs called out more.
iOS content blockers pale in comparison to uBlock Origin. I use Firefox + uBlock on my Macs and wish I could do so on iPad and iPhone too.
They were repeatedly warned by local groups, international NGOs and the US State Department that the speech was inciting violence. They refused to do anything and it escalated into a pogrom.
Crows recognize individual humans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html
Hi5 employee engagement app now integrates with Microsoft Teams
The BBC is fully independent and there are multiple levels of oversight to ensure that. I'm sure you can furiously Google a more apt response than that. Evidence please
A couple days ago I was sitting on my porch and heard an awful racket nearby, some crows were screaming and I didn't know why, until I saw the hawk sitting in the tallest tree around. They didn't let up for hours until it left.
God forbid I not fact check everything in the comment I am replying to.
Sorry I didn't see your reply earlier.

> As the article you listed above shows, xHelper has had 33K detected cases. That's literally two decimal orders of magnitude less than Conficker, which had over 9M cases, in 2008, when there were, if anything, fewer Windows devices than there are Android devices now.

That's some odd cherry-picking when I actually listed several different articles with much larger case counts. If it's magnitude you're looking for, HummingBad has infected 85 million Android devices, Chamois has infected 199 million, SimBad has infected 150 million. If you total up all of the Android malware attacks since the platform launched you're looking at several hundred million infections at the very least. This is not a small problem and is far from "good enough".

> Yes, because developer abuse of legitimate APIs is irrelevant to what we're talking about here, which is whether or not to allow third-party app stores. Why?

Sorry, I disagree. There are many APIs that can be used for legitimate purposes (for example loading my contacts so I can message my friend) that can be abused by developers who don't care about privacy (for example subsequently scraping my contacts and selling them to advertisers without my consent). Sandboxing or permissions or notifications don't really help address this issue, whereas at least with an app review policy you can say this behavior is unacceptable and you will be banned if you abuse it. Will the review process catch all of theses abuses? No. But it serves as a deterrent, and if you're comparing an app that is distributed via the App Store and subject to its privacy rules versus a version distributed directly via their website where they can do whatever the hell they want, I'd prefer the former any day. That's why it's relevant to the discussion of third-party app distribution.

> both Apple and Google's app store review processes have let malware through before and

No process is perfect and of course sometimes things will slip through the cracks, that doesn't mean there isn't value in the process. The statistics indicate that malware is a significantly larger problem on the Android platform compared to iOS and this is directly tied to the existence of side-loading and third-party App Stores.

1. Android is responsible for 47.15% of mobile malware infections compared to 0.85% on iOS. Windows accounts for 35.82% and IoT devices take up the remaining 16.17%. In other words, Android is now a larger malware vector than Windows itself, and your suggestion that malware is less of a problem on Android compared to Windows is statistically incorrect. (https://onestore.nokia.com/asset/205835)

2. Google's own reports show that Android devices that use side-loading have an 8x higher incidence of malware compared to devices that only use the Play Store, meaning it's specifically direct downloading and third-party stores that are the cause of the problem. (https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_S...)
"The only thing worse than thinking everyone who disagrees with you is wrong is the opposite: being persuaded by the advice of those who need or want something you don’t."

Also, the things you or they want don't have to be right.

Take software choices.

Their users all got their own reason why they prefer one over the other and all could be wrong.

Which leads us to another rule.

"Logic is an invention of man and may be ignored by the universe"

If everyone of them can be doing things for the wrong reason; arguing if their choice does or does not support their reasoning doesn't help.
I personally don't think of him as a journalist, at least not anymore.
Open Redirection in Fabric.io
For smaller organizations: when you see signs that bills aren't being payed on time, or when your employer delays your paychecks. Huge red flags that point to serious cash flow problems.
On a slight tangent, but is it just me or is this video weirdly HD for 1080p on Youtube? It's incredibly crisp
If you want actual in-depth articles, SwiftRocks has some good ones. For example: https://swiftrocks.com/how-never-works-internally-in-swift

I also share this opinion. This hard-on that companies have of making coding easy for everyone will be the field's downfall. Just look how people are outraged whenever algorithm's are mentioned in interviews. I lost track of how many people with "senior" positions coming to interview at my company and showing that they know absolutely nothing about anything. My explanation for this is that you have a bunch of people from other areas coming to tech simply because it's easy money. They don't care about becoming the next legendary developer or something like that, they just wanna make easy money. The result is that everything gets dumbed down as a result. I really hate this and it probably means that a lot of important knowledge will be lost when the old dogs die.
You are confusing positive and negative claims.

1) Vikings were definitely at point X.

2) Vikings did not get further than point X.

Yes, due to the likelihood of undiscovered evidence, you can assume that things happened for which we don't have concrete evidence. You just can't determine exactly what those things are, so there isn't really anything interesting you can say about it.

I don't think archaeologists ever make claims like "People X never reached Z" when Z is an easy 50KM journey from Y, where People X were known to have been, without pretty convincing evidence to the contrary (e.g. a mass grave containing the entire estimated population, showing they all died pretty much on arrival)

Your claim that archaeologists don't think that way is bogus. How do you think they decide where to look for new evidence? A lot of archaeology may be driven by building works needing to prove they aren't going to destroy a Roman villa, but plenty is still driven by academics thinking that a particular meadow has a good chance of containing artefacts.
Is it still a good time to start a digital marketing agency?
I would expect better advice is probably work on what makes you happy.

Sometimes doing impactful things can be very fulfilling but it generally means using some very boring and unpleasant technology (cough puppet cough)

I think most people just want to do something different than what they're currently doing every now and then.
But a CEO is expected to lead representing certain values. Often a CEO is chosen exactly due to their values and expected to further them through leadership. You would also think it was weird if the Mozilla CEO was funding campaigns against open standards or open source. Whatever your personal stance on marriage, Mozilla as organization had one stance which the CEO strongly opposed. So it would not be crazy to expect he would want to change their policies.

The damage control strategy was to insist that his values would not affect Mozilla, which is kind of a weird stance to have as CEO.

> would that mean I don’t think other people shouldn’t be able to make up their own minds, and decide for themselves how to live their own lives?

In this context it is worth noting prop 8 was exactly about preventing other people from living their lives a certain way. There is a big difference between disagreeing with somebody life choices and then to actively try to destroy their marriage!
I can't believe that people wouldn't notice 500ms of latency when playing a game. Even 150-200ms is very noticeable.
XP, when it was first released, was a more resource hungry and uglier version of Windows 2000.

Win 2000 was amazing when it was released. Games (albeit not DOS ones) worked well, it was stable and really your only other options were worse (Mac OS 9 was less stable than Win 98, ME was a dumpster fire, Linux wasn't quite ready for the desktop and BeOS was awesome but barely supported).

Then when XP was released, it had twice the minimum and recommended hardware spec than 2000, it had those stupid skins and it didn't offer anything functionally more beneficial over 2000 (aside faster boot time if you had hundreds of fonts installed).

Granted XP got better with SP2 or SP3, but it definitely wasn't the first solid nor even lightweight when it was originally released.
China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s application to become an observer at WIPO
Things you will regret - not having had enough sex, not spending enough time with friends, not putting money aside for your pension. You will also wish you'd been kinder to your parents. You will wish you'd learned how to be kind to yourself and you'll always regret not taking better care of your body.
yet another headline trying blaming some new trend a nonsense
Why Do Algorithms Gain Like Chips? (2013)
> Kovid has stated numerous times that any patches which work towards
python3 compatibility without hurting python2 functionality or
performance would be happily accepted. Oddly enough, no one has ever
taken him up on that, though a number of people have insisted it is
very important that he himself do that work.
I know plenty about their history. We’re discussing the German ecosystem here which is way way bigger than RI
This might be true, but I also think this interpretation has often been made by Europeans or others who aren't aware of just how common wild grapes are in the eastern half of North America.

Taking a boat or canoe up a river and you'd see thickets of them, climbing all over the trees.

Morphologically they're pretty much identical to European vitis sylvestris/vinifera, just a droopier growth habit. It's only once you taste them that you'd notice a difference.
Who sold their free claimed UNIs?
No. The BBC One service description is actually:

> a mixed-genre channel, with versions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and variations for English regions and the Channel Islands, providing a very broad range of programmes to a mainstream audience;

As I said, the different channels are different services, which is partly the point. BBC Four's service description is, for example:

> a channel providing an intellectually and culturally enriching alternative to mainstream programming on other BBC channels;
Thank you for writing this comment, and especially the Buddha quote. I hadn't read that before, and it's very thought-provoking.
In the UK, all lawyers have an overriding duty to the court. This means they must not mislead the court. Doing so can lead to losing the ability to practice law.
Sort of correct. There was a recent attack that provisioned a bunch of high bandwidth servers to establish their 'rankings' and then launched a DDOS against other Entry Guards (effectively knocking them off-line) to increase the chances that their range of high bandwidth servers were picked by both parties for the Tor connection. (Citation available but the Tor project blog has the details for those curious).
Possibly because:

"The unelected Labour opposition proposed activist shills"

is difficult to understand.
I was already slowly moving off google but then they locked me out of my account. At that point the only service I had been using was gmail.

It's easier to switch than you think.