skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as extreme but I watch YouTube psuedo randomly with a tool https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/random-place-on-yout...
It is not without precedent. Courts have upheld government's power to enforce curfews, which limit gatherings of adults, to protect public safety and property. I would like to see a court weigh in the constitutionality of a curfew for the narrow purpose of protecting the public from a pandemic. You may end up being right. I don't think the SCOTUS has weighed in on curfews yet.
On the other hand interventions turned 2 Islamic countries from otherwise stable entities into total disasters. Syria, Lybia are failed states. If Gaddafi and Assad were allowed to deal with the crisis it would have been all over by now with less death toll.

Egypt escaped their fate narrowly just because the military took control.
"Why do people continue to try and shove weirdly hacked on garbage plugins on top of basically a glorified blogging platform is beyond me."

I've been critical about Gutenberg, but I'll respond to this by sticking up for WordPress a bit here.

Others have answered the technical questions, but on your point above, that's not what agencies like mine do. We write custom theme code from scratch (although we do have a base framework that we built as a starting point) for clients, and use WordPress as a base system. It deals very well with those kinds of things as long as you know what you're doing. We spend a lot of time with clients up front to understand their use case, and build something robust but user-friendly. The first site we built, for a cross-UK social enterprise with over 200 services, is still going strong. Just because some people (that is, a lot of people) think you can chuck some free hacky plugins at WordPress and get a website doesn't mean that's all it is. It's evolved to a point (well, had evolved to a point) where it was a great base CMS on top of which you could build quite complex websites.

There's a decent ecosystem of paid plugins, like Gravity Forms and SearchWP. If you know your stuff there are also some great open source ones, like CMB2.

Some other reasons why agencies in particular stick with WordPress:

1. People know it, are familiar with its conventions, and actively request it. It allows organisations who are growing to jump from their little Wordpress site to something more complex without having to relearn a CMS. If you're an organisation that's familiar with a CMS there's a significant time cost involved in your staff learning how to use a new one. That's not a good reason on its own for not picking a different CMS, but it's a barrier when the CMSes you're comparing a much of a muchness.

2. Because it's so ubiquitous, if you want to change agency, that's relatively easy, reduing organisational risk. (Choosing an agency that care about quality, however, is a different matter). If you use something that's not common, you risk having to rebuild a site from scratch because no-one else can take it over.

3. There are excellent WordPress hosting companies out there that take away the legwork of doing things like full page caching, CDNs, git, LetEncrypt etc. etc. We use one that for ~$500 a month offers exactly what one of the hosting companies listed on the CraftCMS site does, but we can have 35 separate sites, whereas the same money would get you just two on the Craft CMS host.

Honestly, I think you can do pretty much anything you want in WordPress and Drupal, and possibly CraftCMS too, although I haven't gone deep into Craft yet. What makes a huge difference is getting an agency that knows their stuff and actually cares about both build quality and high-quality hosting.
Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and Webflow all do this better than WordPress now.
Yes, you could be right with that. I guess not enough kids are playing Risk.

Although it can seem pettily nationalistic (and probably is to some extent), for quickly illustrating "You Are Here", and the relative positions of other countries to your own, centring maybe makes more sense than having some far away country at the centre.

It seems pretty common/natural in different countries too. I wondered if a 'most accurate map' exists, and found Authagraph:

https://ourplnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/AuthaGraph-wo...

https://ourplnt.com/authagraph-probably-the-most-accurate-wo...

It's not difficult to find the origin country of the map, Japan.
> Further, web browsers never needed to be FTP clients, so it makes sense to axe support for them in principle.

Came here to say this. Browsers were always terrible FTP clients. Good riddance!
There evidentially is hardware logic in the battery itself so it's not factually correct. You might damange other pinephone components but the batter shouldn't catch fire.

I wouldn't trust something as overly-complex as Linux to prevent fires anyways.
I felt like there was much more to say in the interview, need a part 2 asap
I’m an American who was in high school in the late ‘90s, and I can’t recall ever having seen such a map before this discussion (though obviously they exist). Perhaps it was changed somewhere in that time span? Or a regional difference?

Edit: perhaps more relevant that I went to private schools, so we wouldn’t necessarily have had the same materials as were chosen by the state.
>It’s weird to me that they’re hitting a software engineer with their own company’s ads.

Sounds like super normal? The track interest, not exact profession. So they know you're highly interested in the industry and its products, but not that you're building them yourself...
Git makes sense for Smalltalk in one sense: If your purpose is to create the perfect Smalltalk "image" or a set of them one after another then it makes sense that we have a single set of source and a single repository for it. This is so if you view the whole image as a single application. Like say you would view Linux as the single application whose development your VCS was created to support.

But if you view the image as a "workspace" where you are developing multiple projects and multiple components which ideally could be shared among multiple developers working on different applications, then the trad. Smalltalk change-management makes more sense. You want to track the versions of individual components/classes/modules, not just the version of the whole image. (Maybe you could call this the Cathedral vs. Bazaar?)

Saving the whole image --which Smalltalk developers do many times a day-- is similar to creating a version of your whole repository.

Individual developers do "branch" by having their own copy of the initial image. At some point they need to merge (or rather "combine" see below) some components from their images with components produced by other developers.

The difference is that in Smalltalk the merge happens by combining specific components/classes/modules, not by trying to automatically merge the whole "image".

Because of the component-based model of Smalltalk it is easy to divide the work so that each developer works just on their own classes or even on just their own methods of a class. Then "merging" is mostly a non-issue, you just combine the latest versions of different classes and methods from different developers.

Why is traditional "merging" needed in the first place? Because to accomplish something you may need to modify some existing source-file in some way. In Smalltalk instead you could subclass an existing class and make your fix there, and use the new subclass instead of modifying existing source. (Ideally).
I severely doubt any of these things are for sale. If you pay up front costs out of pocket and get accurate answers, I'll cover the cost. Interested?
I'm certainly no defender of the US's Middle East strategy, but I don't think apathy has much to do with it. Disengaging with the Middle East would just require a different kind of apathy. We'd have to read about many of the same bombings, massacres, civil wars, and say "I hope they figure it out but this is not our problem".
I believe California banned it, but there are services where companies can pull the current salary for prospective employees. That puts you at a serious disadvantage.

Those services should offer something to employees to spit out low, high, and median salaries for a specific job title at a company.
Sounds like your problem is with capitalism generally, along with a heaping dose of modern economics, not startups specifically.
He died in Aug of 2018.
Even if they are charged with war crimes, who is going to hold them accountable?
Facebook wants Apple to remove iMessage as the default message app
You may not like Morsi but he was not running a failed state.

Ugh, can we not be against both wanton foreign intervention and backing military juntas?
I would love if we would stop analyzing every single detail in public.

I wish HN would have a limited amount of articles, news paper have that already and if the internet is 'out' and i would need to be forced to do something else for the day.

Its probably nice to think and discuss something that specific in desktop/computer historian fansub or so but that should be searched and discovered.

I got so fed up with all the nvidia 30x0 rumors. It was a great launch but every peace of rumor was not adding anything to it.
Everything is negotiable. Proceed accordingly.
This object is much smaller than the ISS, and will much, much further away.
The analogy is like crypto currency, it is even harder to understand and use than that for most people.
So happy to see this project in here. It was the very first OpenSource project I have ever contributed to.
> There is an apathy around bombing civilians in Islamic countries

I suppose you mean the bombed civilians are in Islamic countries rather than the apathy. FWIW, I first thought you meant the latter.
Maybe it’s a region thing. Back when I did Python it was fairly popular, but VS Code appears to have largely taken over in that language, much to me continual confusion.

Most of the other languages you listed have extremely poor Emacs integration, both for cultural reasons (C# devs tended to be on Windows), and because some of those languages are so dominated by other IDEs that nobody bothered to write a good emacs extension. Java is a great example of this; the IntelliJ experience in Java is just so good, nobody managed to come anywhere close in Emacs, which created a self reinforcing cycle.
The Iraq war was a war crime, by the Nuremberg standards, it's aggression.
Boeing is already a nationalized business. They're financially propped up by the US government which is why they've been able to make all of these horrible decisions without any consequence. They're no longer a tech company. They're a zombie financial institution.
That's an irrational fear. WSL2 runs on top of a very well vetted VM environment and has it's own well walled off sandbox. If you are trapped in windows like I often am it's a sufficient replacement for the real thing in 98% of use cases. Windows 10 is extremely stable on good hardware from well known companies. Just disable all the garbage that runs in the background. If you buy bottom barrel you will get what you paid for unless you're extremely lucky; same goes for linux.
If only Trump would leave NATO in this term...
But if we don't send anything now, there will be no superior vessels in the next centuries! Progress on technology doesn't happen on paper - you need to iteratively build, test and improve designs to get where. You can't just leapfrog a century of novel space technologies, much like you can't write a large program on paper, only ever put it on a computer when it's done, and have it compile and work correctly from the first build.
My new coding workflow: VS Code and Remote-SSH extension
This is the background story from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571038
I am interested in signing up to rent out my heavy equipment. I will message you directly.
When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion
OK, here are the receipts: internal MS emails from just a couple of years after this (in the run-up to Vista) literally saying that they expect to be compared to Tiger and found wanting:

https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/197001811/microsoft...

Marketshare isn’t everything. You can have outsized mindshare with a tiny market share. You can compete for more than marketshare, too
Or keep it alive for far beyond its expiration date.
Has anyone built one of these advanced modular reactors?
The last argument of kings.
Declarative data transformation in Clojure with Meander
I find that assertion utterly perplexing.

I mean, to each their own. Someone else using an editor I dislike doesn’t harm me in any way. But if someone told me that VS Code was “best in class” for anything other than a language I have never touched and have no knowledge of, I’d look at them like they’d just asserted that the sky is green.
What happened in Syria was precisely the result of allowing Assad to 'deal with the crisis'.
There was a time when new hires spent years or more doing support and learning all the codebase. I got to learn how very interesting and complex systems (from a space program to a Unix kernel) worked. I got to see what brilliant, pedestrian and bad code looked like.

Now, new hires need to be given the new features so they’re happy and can rush out and create new technical debt from day one.
On one hand, it makes sense. Any large organization will attract "threats" and a multinational organization cannot count on the legal and civil framework of one country. Think of the World Trade Center: it was a symbol of something to somebody, but to most Americans outside of New York before 2001, it was just a big office building.

On the other, consider that money is power and that those in control of the assets of, say, eBay would want to use that power at their discretion.
Keen point. Thanks.

It just now occurs to me that you're probably referring to the epistemological crisis. I don't actually know what that means, but please humor me.

Sanger teaches philosophy. To him, maybe there is no truth? Or that all truths are equal? Or something like that.

More than a handful of the geeks I've worked with were afflicted by the recursive discursive thing. Most bad was the philosopher software architect. Actually repeatedly debated metametadata, the data about metadata. I wanted to kill myself.

Tying this back to current events: It might be useful to have some canary questions, to determine the epistemological bent of the other participants. It's pointless to argue about facts if the other party doesn't believe in facts.
> 25% marginal tax rate is a bitter pill to swallow

laughs in European
I said for most digital assets. That wasn’t an accident. Utility tokens, security tokens, NFTs, wouldn’t make sense to be treated as currency, since I’m around people that require me to specify.

And then you have an example that didn’t show how proper accepted legal designation as a currency, in the future, would lead to worse tax treatment, which is the supposition we were talking about. Let me know if you come up with something.
I think the discussion and analysis of each company's prior behaviour is exactly on point--the question before humanity in the general case is "what are these companies really up to?"

Each (including Apple) has a hidden agenda. They can be both beneficial and harmful. They are not our friends! They deserve our scrutiny, suspicion and supervision.

A company is a system that was created to pursue an agenda. That agenda is nothing like the agenda of a typical human individual (except at absurd levels of abstraction) and is not necessarily net-beneficial to actual humans in the short or the long run.

It's an axiom of systems analysis that behaviour trumps speech when you are trying to figure out what a system is really up to. To say it another way, we would like to identify the actual operant utility functions of these companies, so we can predict what they are really working towards, and what their behaviour and impact might be in the future. Their prior behaviour is the best signal we have!

To force the discussion to revolve around "laws" and "right" is to pretend that current ethical positions and laws are optimal and can't be gamed. A superficial inspection will show these premises are false.

The ongoing work of governance is to try to figure out economic, social and legal rules that "work" for some consensus definition of "work". That requires a clear understanding of what is actually happening, and good scenario analysis for the range of possible outcomes (including unintended consequences). Maybe that's unrestricted free markets, maybe sometimes it isn't. Maybe it's the law as it currently stands, maybe it isn't.
True. And I inferred the context is about seeing maps in general - which includes movies, games, advertisements, company logos, computer icons, etc. I.e. the situations in which you see depictions of the world (and mentally recognize them as such), not necessarily use them to find your way.
Why dual boot when you can do your linux work and windows work on the same machine? Imagine you write a lot of python code that has to work on both linux and windows. You want to dual boot for that? Sure for the final set of tests you would run on pure Linux but for day to day development WSL is a fine substitute.
I understand copyright but I’m not sure an open source library that uses a proprietary API is considered a derivative work. Is there case law here?
> In late August, the agency released guidance affirming that taxpayers who receive crypto for completing “microtasks” must declare it as income.

What if I received valuable content in exchange for identifying fire hydrants or traffic lights?
Objects in high geosynchronous orbits do not meaningfully decay.
I use legacy a little differently to mean systems that have actually aged to obsolescence, as in they are no longer maintained by the vendor, no more security upgrades or other ToS updates. I suppose it could also apply to any system used prior to the current one.

However I see the term applied to any system as young as 5-7 years old. I suppose in cutting edge areas of computing this may be the case, but not at all for things like ERP software that underpins the business. Major versions of systems like that often have a minimum maintenance horizon of 10 years on release, a clear roadmap, and a relatively smooth update path when new major releases come along. Where I work, we recently upgraded from Version 8.x of such a system, which the vendor had maintained for 15 years, to version 9.x. We'd upgraded into 8.x only a few years earlier from a truly legacy system had run for most of 30 years. It still worked fine, and was faster than what we have now.

We didn't update because the system wasn't doing what it was supposed to do: we updated because we wanted to do some new things, and because the vendor after decades and multiple extensions, stopped providing annual compliance updates for state & federal regulations, which also would have been extremely costly to produce ourselves (not to mention being a major legal risk if we got something wrong, and the vendor had previously indemnified us if they made an error of that sort). Otherwise we might very happily have turned to various "best-of-bread" stand-alone options for the new functionality we needed and then hired a couple of extra database jockeys to manage the complex ETL & data warehouse needed to make it work nicely.
Here's at least part of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_g...

And a transcript if you don't like video: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... The Stallman stuff starts on page 30.
I am not aware of any case of fire.
So unless it caused such a bad fire, that everybody involved died, I think I would know about it having followed the PinePhone very closely, especially since June for my blog.

That said, as the fix seems to be rather trivial, distributions should just check and ship a new kernel if necessary.
Sure, but it’s not like the choice is between Emacs and VS Code alone. I for one find IntelliJ to be far superior to VS Code for the languages I use. Especially since search and autocomplete actually work, which it doesn’t do in VS Code.
I made this over the weekend:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11zocPoV4-tGjgnLlrV9mKZS733o...
I note that dailymotion, liveleak And niconico all have apps on android. So I don’t think they are deliberately blocking all competitors to YouTube.
>"The entire secret to YC getting going was PG and Jessica—there was no other magic trick."

[...]

"What did they do?

They took bets on unknown people

and believed in them more than anyone had before. They set strong norms and fought back hard against bad behavior towards YC founders. They

trusted their own convictions,

were willing to do things their way, and

were willing to be disliked by the existing power structures.

They focused on the most important things, they worked hard, and they spent a huge amount of time 1:1 with people. They

understood the value of community

and long-term orientation.

When YC was very small, it felt like a family.

Perhaps most importantly, they built an ecosystem [...].

This is easy to talk about, but hard to do, because it requires

not being greedy."
Show HN: Fully Open-Sourced Online MIDI Editor
Mozilla Open Sources WebThings
Ok, I watched the video and his rationale for why his guitar tabs were "fair use":

1) he wrote out the tabs himself instead of copying them from a copyrighted book and

2) he wasn't making any direct money by selling the tabs themselves; however he also acknowledges was getting indirect money via Youtube monetization of the videos that displayed the tabs on screen

Unfortunately, he was naive and probably wasn't aware of history. Back in the USENET days, the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were made by volunteers for no money.

He was playing with copyright fire and didn't know it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-line_Guitar_Archive
As wildfires near Silicon Valley, tech struggles to find backing to fight them
Netflix Sends Firm Response to GOP Senators over Chinese Sci-Fi Adaptation
That.Option.Does.Not.Work. I'm trying to scream it from the rooftops, but apparently I am not getting through. Go to CNN, Bloomberg, food recipe sites, medical sites, etc. Autoplay is Not Off. Windows 10 and Android, the very latest public releases.

You open a page. A big box at the top has something it it. That something is video. The video loads. By the time you scroll down, it starts to play. Oh, and it jumps into a smaller box so you're Forced to observe it and click into it to stop it.

Media autoplay is not off.

Another way to phrase that is, the media autoplay is On.

The option described above Does Not Work. Another way to describe that is, it should not have video playing by itself.

Alas, video plays by itself. Apologies in advance for being terse and not explaining myself earlier.

In short, autoplay is On and the option says it's Off.

Please let me know if I can clarify any part of this.
Plano’s Tyler Technologies confirms ransomware attack in software hack
Congrats ! I had a same idea (and same name idea !). But idea are cheap...

The base seem's solid, but you are a long way home : you can make order without mail and phone confirmation or paiement, so renters will end up with a lot of noise !
RMS is very critical of things and as much as I have great respect for him I cant just take his side without all the facts. I dont even know a single person paying for emacs today either way. Seems like an old beef thats dead as dead can be considering GNU Emacs seems to have won out. Unless you are Walter Bright, you do you sir, you are awesome! I guess same with Linus who uses Micro Emacs if I remember correctly.

I always wanted to get more into emacs but I spend more time fighting the setup to bother anymore. I love Spacemacs but I am leaning more towards Neovim + Spacevim since its pretty damn nice.