skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Almost everyone I know hates liquorice more than they hate Marmite! I was surprised to see how many replies here said they really like it.
How much of the article did you read? It makes exactly this point.

tl;dr (apparently):

> That begs the question: Why should you trust a VPN that promises to protect your privacy more than your internet provider? The answer is that you can’t, and you shouldn’t.

> By far, some of the worst offenders are the free VPNs.

> As the old adage goes, if it’s free then you are the product. What that means is that they make money off you — specifically, your data.

> While there are paid and premium VPNs that are generally more mindful about your privacy, they aren’t anonymous, as they can be linked to your billing address. Paid VPNs also don’t solve the problem of funneling all of your internet traffic to a potentially untrustworthy company.
It seems as though the Nedap Livestock management approach is a bit easier to apply, plus it does location within buildings[1]. Love the hololens integration as well[2].

[1] https://www.nedap-livestockmanagement.com/dairy-farming/solu...
[2] https://www.nedap-livestockmanagement.com/dairy-farming/solu...
GOG is excellent for this reason and my experience playing older/unsupported games from them is top-notch. It stings to buy an older game again, but they're almost always inexpensive, and you can say, "Well, this is the very last time I'm going to purchase HoMM3" (or your game of choice).

They also do fine as a purchase platform for modern games, but it's less than perfect because modern games are supported and some smaller publishers choose not to push updates to their offerings on GOG.
According to a book I read, Cheyennes divide birds into three groups: plain, great, and sacred. To my great amusement they count magpies into the sacred ones. They like them because they live close to humans, talk, and announce visitors.
Such as?

Remember all laws are only compulsory because they backed by the threat of violence, the threat of jail.

Everything else is just a suggestion. Even if you suggest "well just fine them", what happens if they do not pay the fine? Generally the answer is jail.. so you have simply moved jail one position down

In general if you are not willing to kill someone over X, then X should not be illegal because all criminal law is backed by the threat of government initiated violence
This is a real cool tool and I would love to see more simple tools client-side only. However I have serious concerns about the performance. When developing a solver (https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/) I found that compared to the native performance running it in WASM was ~2x slower. (Running it on a phone compared to a laptop was another ~2x). However I doubt the native compiler was using large amounts of SIMD. IIUC video encoding often will use a large amount of SIMD instructions so I would expect the slowdown to be worse.

On the other hand SIMD support in WASM is in progress: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6533147810332672 (preview available on chromium)
You make it appear as if that would be a good thing. I disagree.
This nonexistent product has been discussed and debunked here before.

Here's EEVblog's take: https://youtu.be/uzV_uzSTCTM
I don't share your experiences.

I'm a developer on Windows and OSX, so I have MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad.

I want to run the ThinkPad over with a car and then drop it in the sea.
"But a question nags at you: why can’t the world already know what you know?"

The state in which such a question arises is contradictory to the state of enlightenment.
Seriously. But presumably it's easier to write a snarky article than it is to spend years learning about that enlightenment really means for different traditions.
Such people have always been in short supply. Self-interest, usually ego-stroking, trumps principles with most people most of the time.
Interesting point of view since it's so directly in contradiction to mine. I always viewed enlightenment as an unique, untransmissible experience (unique as in it's different for each individual, not that you can only have it once).

I think it's near impossible to be able to convey these as teachings since it's such an intimate experience ultimately modeled by the world around you. Perhaps that's just my definition of enlightenment, an intimate understanding of the internal and external world.

If I am ever to reach this state, I hope it's an inner state of peace and acceptance because my current angst is wearing me down.
Was never aware of such a consensus.

Whenever I sent Linux screenshots, my windows colleagues remarked how much better fonts looked in my screenshots.

Sub pixel rendering, which they all had (Likely a Windows default at the time?) sounds good but just looks blurry in practice.
> A journalist who commits, or encourages or facilitates others to commit, crimes in the pursuit of their goals is still a criminal.

This is exactly what the prosecution tried to say, but it's not that easy. Did you read the testimony of investigative journalist Nicky Hager:

'[Prosecutor] Lewis: You have as a journalist merely been the passive recipient of official information. Presumably you have never done anything criminal to obtain government information?

'Hager: You said “passive”. That is not the way we work. Journalists not only actively work our sources. We go out and find our sources. The information might come in documents. It might come on a memory stick. In most cases our sources are breaking the law. Our duty is to help protect them from being caught. We actively help them cover their backs sometimes.'

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
My goodness! I've never heard that song until today. I wonder what street of what town Lally Stott is walking down, in the video. It makes quite a contrast with Richard Ashcroft moodily stomping down Hoxton, 27 years later. M. Stott is walking in time to the beat. And smiling. (-:
Sadly, he has not shown himself to be a trustworthy actor.
Wasn’t vanilla Diffie-Hellman designed for this exact yelling-in-a-crowded-room use case?
Sorry am lacking reading comprehension- whose buttons are getting pushed here?

I am a nerd, I do attend parties with all kinds of people - so you have my curiosity:)
What makes you say this? Because we elected someone you disagree with?
Did you try to virtualize it and run it into a VM only for that app?
For anyone interested, the title of this blog appears to refer to this essay by Heidegger:

https://ebookppsunp.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/martin_heide...
As a developer and freelancer I'm constantly working on a lot of different projects. Like most other developers I also have quite a lot of side projects that all are in some kind of "work in progress" phase.

For every project there are a lot of links and small pieces of knowledge I have to keep track of: development, staging, production, project management tools and issue tracking, documentation, design documents, folders and files on my local machine, git repositories, hosting providers, databases and so on.

I needed a way to keep track of all the bits and pieces related to a specific project. So in case someone asks me something about a project we worked on months or years ago, I knew where to look.

Now keeping them inside notion, confluence, etc. felt clunky, since these tools are build to handle a lot of different complex use cases and are meant to be used as a large knowledge base. The search can be slow and navigating via the keyboard can be quite hard.

That's why I build baseboard. It's a tool for keeping all your important links in one safe, colorful and keyboard-friendly place.

Looking forward to your feedback, suggestions and opinions on how it can be improved!
> They state very bluntly that MS is an autoimmune disease... when did this become clear to mainstream science?

A while. The primary symptom of MS, the demylination, is caused by the immune system attacking the myelin. The _why_ of the immune system's attack is still unknown at this point in time, but that it _does_ has been known since at least 1965, with Schumacher's criteria.
I'm not saying that masks don't work. But whether they are effective at reducing transmission and, if so, in what measure are open questions. The literature is at this point inconclusive[1]. Even the latest Lancet paper on masks and distancing attracted some criticism[2].

Of course,I agree that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But, as the BMJ post I quoted earlier says, instead of just saying "wear a mask", the best idea would also promote trials to verify their effectiveness (like the Danish trial). It's done all the time for drugs, why not masks?

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

[2] https://pubpeer.com/publications/6AF113CE946CABB0FBB811697E5...
DHS was already in massive trouble with congress for stuffing people into unmarked vans like this was a 3rd-world country. Not to mention the whole department is unconstitutional.
I knew a guy, twenty years my senior, who claimed he had once been enlightened for a week. He had just stumbled into it, to borrow a phrase from the article. As far as I know he did nothing with it. Just revelled in it (if that is an appropriate word for such a dispassionate state) and after a week he fell back into his old self. He regretted that.

To me it sounded awfully like a temporary mental affliction back then, but who is to say?
Indeed, these things take a lot of effort and views / feedback isn’t great.

Unfortunately the internet has moved towards short form, rehashing simple concepts and clickbait titles - there’s so much junk online, and the signal to noise ratio is high.

But people are gaming for most interaction, views, etc and attention spans are shorter. So this is the world we live in
See other thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577565

And follow the trial updates to see the issues. Day 17 is particularly risible.
The original conflict was when Assange ran wikileaks, the US accused him of running a foreign intelligence agency and could prosecute him differently. Assange argued he was a journalist not an intelligence agency.
Principles of Prioritization
Yeah... Some of those may not want to do it again. Others may find some way to prevent this behavior in the future.
What a weird article. It makes several assumptions that seem entirely unproven, such as that someone who is enlightened would immediately want to "spread the word". Similarly, worries about the practicality (or not) of enlightenment seem very un-enlightened almost by definition.
Which thing are you saying is good, the Uk stopping a federal europe or the creation of the same?
> I hope this source code can allow me to boot XP natively on my main laptop, so I don't have to carry around another computer just for compatibility.

In my experience, Windows XP runs fine on relatively modern hardware. The biggest offender is generally storage drivers (AHCI). You can download a driver and re-pack the installer with it.

Note that I haven't tried this in a long time, it might not be practical anymore. But with today's HW-assisted virtualization, you could just boot it in qemu or any other accelerated virtual machine, and you couldn't tell the difference.
Remember when they smeared Assange as a Russian asset because they published the DNC and Podesta emails? Kind of hard for them to back him now.

What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
MacOS is far better. This mouse click delay you're talking about, is in your head.
mmhm.
Side note: Is it me or has Amazon been announcing a lot of things lately? I think the fact that Amazon is beginning to rule the fabric of the world and is controlled by the richest man in the world makes me slightly uneasy. I can't really place it right now but something tells me a decade from now this is going to be a big problem and they were just left unchecked to proliferate throughout the world until we became entirely dependent on them. Dictators and surveillance states often start in very non-obvious ways and most tend to not even see the issue when the exist within it. If the world is consumed by Amazon, what then?
You should be upset with the DNC members whose behavior was exposed by the emails. Those DNC members destabilized the election with their behavior, not Assange.

Assange reported it.

You seem to have the blame completely reversed. Assange did not perpetrate behavior that destabilized an election or facilitated a Trump win, not one bit. Democrat party leaders did that and have only themselves to blame.

Assange reported it.
If you like arresting your political adversaries I'd recommending moving to a country like Belarus. I hear they also like disappearing journalists who expose truth regardless of the political inconvenience.

ends-justifying-the-means thinking leads to very ugly things.
You are always enlightened, and you are always not enlightened.
The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) [video]
W2k had a w98 compatibily mode which could be enabled from the command prompt.
How to Measure Learnability of a User Interface
JavaScript Methods You Probably Don't Know
Browser tool to protect photos with passwords – secure. Proof me wrong
Unknown space debris came within 1 mile of the International Space Station
I haven't read the charges. I'm not even sure if they are public. They were also changed a few times.

Based on what I read (might be biased) he's charged for helping Chelsea Manning getting the documents (hacking) and publishing the documents before they were fully redacted to remove names and things that could help identify people - to protect the safety of people involved (common practice). This is debatable because he worked hard to redact name (together with the big newspapers), but other people published the raw documents before him and in the end Wiki Leaks release raw documents as well.

All this is pieced together based on Craig Murray's blog [1], which is often flagged here on HN.

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk
People expect technology to suck because it sucks
I just want to point out that if Postgres had a similar license then Timescale wouldn't be able to offer their product as a service.
Beauty queens can be scientists too, you need to check yourself.
Have the DeDRM devs figured out a perfect crack for Amazon's latest DRM (KFX)? Last time I checked the best option was to force Amazon to give you the book in an older format but then you lose all the typography improvements in KFX.
They're probably a more realistic model than (say) the even smaller New Zealand - which seems to be the current favourite of people opposed to the Swedish model, especially since things started going badly throughout the rest of Europe - because Sweden hasn't taken advantage of their smaller size in the same way that New Zealand did. As far as I know they don't have any restrictions on travel from the rest of the EU, meaning they're still exposed to incoming infections from all those other countries with their much bigger populations, and elimination is just inherently more sensitive to rare, random events than strategies which involve living with the virus because achieving exactly zero active infections is so crucial to its success.
Agreed. I stopped using Facebook when they stopped providing a chronological timeline of all my friend's posts. That was actually a useful service, but I guess it didn't drive as much "engagement".
There's no consensus really. People have different preferences. And even in case of preferences, lots of people are just used to what they see every day.
Papyrus...https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
> Sub pixel rendering, which they all had (Likely a Windows default at the time?) sounds good but just looks blurry in practice.

It adds some funny color artifacts when the capture is not perfectly aligned to the screen because subpixel information is encoded as color variations.
> when did this become clear to mainstream science?

Well at least 10 years ago a close friend of mine was already being treated with immunomodulators, and it wasn't a cutting edge therapy.
Ahhh, yes, very fair. I disagree with the notion that a federal Europe would be a good thing.

Human language, still a challenge after all these years.
While it is sad that this drug cannot continue for MS directly, I love that this is science work at its best.

Experimental drug, through the efforts of terminally ill, are able to discover/show/validate quite powerful benefits, but the drug is too dangerous to use itself. So we stop it.

It is progress and many times, progress is not easy nor cost free. Thank you to all those who, even in their terminally ill state, helped progress treatments for others.
I find Linux's font handling weird. I use consolas for programming and on the same system it can look different in different editors. And then it never really looks the same as it does on Windows despite being the same TTF.

I don't really have the patience to faff about with font config files, it should 'just work'.
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It feels like working towards enlightenment is what gets us there, once we are there and not thinking about achieving it, do we just settle down and willow in comfort? Losing the enlightened state. So all these back to chopping wood quotes make sense.
This article is what yall want on the front page?

The author submitted and probably vote-manipulated to get it there.

It's a content-less article, it has nothing to do with hacker values or software or entrepreneurship.

Please vote responsibly, everyone!
7 was just rebranded vista. It was basically vista sp3. MS knew the vista name had been badly tarnished.

The are several reasons why vista churned so badly at startup was the indexing service and the service that was trying to load everything into memory. Turn those 2 off and vista worked as good as 7, I did this to dozens of computers and the owners were so happy. Several other background services needed about 1.5GB of memory just to get the system up and running. This was when 4GB of machine was considered 'huge'. By the time 7 came out they had fixed both of those services and a 'crappy' machine had 4GB. Dumping it on a box that 512MB of memory and it struggled badly (512-1024 was the sweet spot for XP). 8GB for Vista and up and for proper use of that, you need the 64bit ver.
Honestly I just read through it like it was a cyberpunk short story. His heart is pounding as he collaborates with super-hackers all over the world in an effort to rescue some desperate person's millions. All of the jargon was totally lost on me but gave it a certain flavor.
No but various programs will store and delete files in the temporary folder. Also if you use the disk cleanup utility it will clear them out. I think from Windows XP onwards it was moved out of the root to somewhere somewhat harder to find.

Of course it was never meant as a place to store users files temporarily, it was always for programs that needed to write a temporary file.
Do what you're paid for.

If your compensation is based on visibility, then communicating the importance of your work is as important as doing it. If your company will pay you more if you spend less time working and more time communicating about your work, then you should make that adjustment.
Living in Korea I purchased all necessary housewares for my studio apartment -- cleaning supplies, dishes, utensils, cookware, etc -- from the Daiso down the street. Truly a lovely place. Somehow I would never dream of doing the same, back here in the States, at a Dollar General or some such place.
There probably is a pro Taiwan bias in Wikipedia, but ironically a big part of that is from China blocking access to the Chinese Wikipedia for most of its existence. Who else is left to create the Chinese content?
Imo the free tier of tailscale is the best way to consume wireguard for me.
NASA’s Osiris-Rex Begins Its Countdown to Tag
You're Enlightened implies an "I am Enlightened". Now, you're somebody special. This very realization takes you out of Enlightenment.
Impossible to define Enlightenment, we can only point to what it is not.
Describing truffle implementations as alternatives to Java implementations is not quite correct. They are always alternatives for the reference implementations (CRuby, Cpython). They're also not really about integration with Java Bytecode

Also Truffle will let you run C extensions unlike regular jvm implementations due to the polyglot nature of Graal and Sulong
> he had those rows of pipes laid in the ground with spaces between them at the road entrance

Yes, exactly, a.k.a. Cattle Grid [0]. They are heavily used in the UK in National Parks where there are free-ranging livestock (horses, cattle, etc). There is one just a mile from where I live, at the edge of the New Forest.

> but your car would do just fine.

If only the tourists realised this! Locals take them at speed and you just shoot across them and the speed evens out the bumpiness. Tourists take them slow which makes them much more noisy and bumpy. That said if you try to turn on them (e.g. if you haven't straightened up from a junction) they can cause a significant skid risk, especially when they are wet.

Finally, many of the local ones have little escape ramps for small animals (e.g. hedgehogs) that fall in and then would otherwise get trapped in the pit below the pipes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_grid
I would never have attributed that quote to Pascal as he mostly is depicted as quite judgmental. Or perhaps he thought he only needed to forgive himself?

Well, after enlightenment you clearly know that you need to chop wood and carry water on your own volition. Ok, technically very likely not for yourself, but still. "You do it for yourself" is the same lie we tell children when they need to go to school after all.
macOS does its own peculiar brand of glyph dilation. A couple of links about this: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/918991457532354560, https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/918593367914803201. I would count this as heavy distortion, far heavier than anything any other platform may do.
ClearType
personal attacks aside ... My claim is based on what nuclear defense experts have been warning for many years: US nuclear strategy is entirely based on a pre-emptive surprise strike:

How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze: https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...

anyone who thinks current (even combined) Chinese / Russian military capability would stand a chance against US power in a kinetic war is deluding themselves. (List of United States military bases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...)
It may have happened when Windows got subpixel smoothing and major Linux distros were still using Gnome 1.x, but I think even macOS 9 was much better than Windows at that time.
Here's my (somewhat oversimplified) take:

- macOS uses no sub pixel hinting since High Sierra. Instead, it's just grayscale antialiasing. To make up for the unnatural thinness that occurs when grayscale antialiasing is used, fonts are artificially bolded by a small amount.

- Linux/FreeType uses very nice-looking sub pixel hinting and maintains the clarity of fonts pretty well. The spacing between characters may not be pixel-perfect, if I remember correctly.

- Windows/ClearType snaps fonts to the pixel grid very aggressively, resulting in some amount of distortion. Many of the default Windows fonts look really good with ClearType, while others appear strange, especially at smaller sizes. In terms of technology, ClearType is the most advanced.