skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How have you gained so much insight into Russia’s long-term geopolitical strategy and deduced that their primary goal is malice against American people? Through US media? Why do you think they’d invest considerable national resources into this malice for the powerless citizenry?

And why do you think this supposed intent matters so much? Do you think outcomes will be worse for the people of the US than living under Pinochet or in modern-day Fallujah? Or do you think polarization and misinformation are not the least of the strategies the US uses in its foreign interventions?

I’m legitimately confused by your viewpoint.
> because apps distributed outside the App Store by definition won't be subject to the App Store privacy rules.

Can you explain? Side loading apps won't disable the sandbox so the app won't have access to your files, sensors or peripherals without permissions. The OS could be even more privacy focused by allowing power users to enable an option to fake private data like contacts,photos,location etc for apps that would refuse to run without this permissions.

Second thing, what extra privacy a manual review of a guy would add to an app that can't be done better on the device by sandboxing and code?

Side loading would be used by power users most of the time or people in countries with censorship.
We will not repeat the Windows story , we would repeat the Linux story where we always had trusted apps on trusted repos and only power users would "side load" stuff, on Windows the story wad different, you needed something you used google and run the first thing you find.
It's worth mentioning that WPA2 for WiFi doesn't work in XP unless you install SP3, regardless of the WiFi drivers you use.

As this leak is only XP SP1, it will be missing a lot of the bugfixes and upgrades that XP added by SP3 (and beyond).
A reasonable person might also ask whether the source of the funding has any bearing on whether or not the Chinese government is attempting genocide.
> Are you saying that Labour controls print media and the BBC in the UK?

No, how did you arrive at that invalid summation?
Love this, great job, will join to contribute.. Would be very interested in getting >2.0 channel support. Great job again
As a user I can't "feel" this bad code at all. Sure, it's has It's own philosphy of things and ocaasional bug like every software, but it's still one of the most stable and productive apps I know. there are regular updates, no big deal breakers and faults coming from the project itself. It simply works and grows, despite being so complex and powerful.

So what is this "bad codebase" you seem to feel?
Black holes this small would evaporate relatively quickly.
There's an old fashioned concept that a thing known by only you is a secret. A thing you've told somebody else, is just on a countdown to being public information.

The journalists obviously fucked Assange by being idiots, but he is 100% culpable for putting the information somewhere it could be leaked in the first place. I simply don't think it has any bearing on the case at all.
Excellent! Calibre is a really great piece of software that I use all the time. Kudos to the devs!
Quite honestly my last two tech jobs came from LinkedIn - one was flipping the switch. The other was a random reach out on there
Claudette Colvin [1] did “the bus refusal” nine months earlier. Alas Claudette was not a sympathetic public figure (she had an affair with a married white man), so the NAACP engineered a re-enactment with Rosa.

I think what Colvin did took much more bravery. And in providing inspiration for Parks’s actions, she’s an under-appreciated hero of the civil rights movement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
What about code katas?

I have five or so software designs that I've implemented several times for practice. A database, a bytecode VM, a serverside web framework etc.

I'm not so much porting them, rather trying my best to reimagine them in a new context. It helps me see similarities and differences between languages/platforms and find better ways to solve problems.

I've been practicing software for 35 years, martial arts for 25; every day I become more convinced that mastery is a journey, not a goal.
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Works around some iOS implementation issues to avoid malformed DNS packets being blindly routed to the server.
> An introduction such as this, should also explain about ways of working with git and not just explain the commands.

Amen! Too often, and this isn't exclusive to git edu, there's too focus on features and not enough on benefits.

Saying "this is the command and this is the syntax" provides no context. Git is especially context sensitivity. Without seeing real life examples of _why_ and _when_ the how is meaningless and in turn forgettable.

I also doing understand why these isn't a solid and reliable UI. Maybe there is and I struggle to find it. How fitting? ;) The point being, git is a series of events (commits and merges), or across dimensions (i.e., other team members). It is, at very least, a three dimensional graph. Stuff that into two dimensions and then into a command line well that qualifies as elitism and jargon.

The idea behind the tool is excellent, and necessary. But how it's executed? In 2020? It feels too much like a fax machine.
C has been evolving, there are C89, C90, C99, C11 and C17 standards and a new one is in the make.
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Sounds like a legitimate grievance if they're going out and recruiting people to steal secrets. In fact if they can prove a money link, they just look like a branch of the FSB.
I've no idea where the profits made by the commercial subsidiaries eventually go, except that the BBC itself is not allowed to operate for profit. That said, you seem to be missing that giving something away for free and selling it for a profit are not exhaustive of the possibilities. (-:
Yeah, but when Fall Creators Update cripples pen functionality to the point that I assumed it was a bug and rolled back:

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/fall-creators-update...

and there's no way for me to use my machine as I purchased it (Samsung Galaxy Book 12 bundled w/ a Staedtler Noris Digital Stylus) and I've had to roll back an un-asked for upgrade since, the bottom line is Microsoft needs to completely decouple the OS layer where the security updates occur, from the UI layer.

If I pay for a system with an active stylus, I don't want it to be dumbed down to an 11th touch input which scrolls and won't select text or interact w/ the system as I've been accustomed to since Windows for Pen Computing.
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I'm strongly anti-prescription and want every medicine to be over-the-counter but it's worth noting there usually are reasons behind the prescription status of a substance you should understand before taking it. Most of the people don't know how to take melatonin the right way. You should[1] take 0.3 mg 7 hours before you go to sleep, NOT 10mg right before that like many people do.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...

Also, unless you are really old or travel to different time zones all the time you shouldn't need long-term melatonin supplementation. It's supposed to adjust your inner rhythm so you will naturally fall asleep at the correct time after some days of taking it.
>Dovid Goyal

Kovid Goyal
YouTube recommendation sucks. It sucks so much. But YouTube has so much content. If you can build a page to link to YouTube videos, you don't even need to host videos. I would use anything but YouTube's homepage, I think it is a good idea.
That's a good point, I had not thought of it in those terms. Snowden was much more "I saw something wrong and I did something about it".
>They don’t want people thinking that if action was taken by the U.S. gov sooner (Feb instead of Apr)..

Why do you single out "conservatives" when Democratic politicians were telling people during the Chinese Lunar New Year there was nothing to worry about?

This wasn't a partisan blunder.
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What do you mean by handle appropriately here? This is one of the cases where I'd simply store UTC and display the (sometimes ambiguous) local time in the UI.
Those benchmarks are extremely misleading. They compare Peachpie against PHP 7.2 without opcache.

That's like comparing your CPU against a competing product with 2/3 of the cores disabled.
Scrum master could be in a lot of trouble to demand this from a temporary disabled (broken foot) person
I have no clue about the UK, but are their laws such that state attorney are allowed to actively lie to a judge and make false statements?
The flavour of licorice is, to my palate, many things, all of them unpleasant, but not "mild" at all.

I stongly suspect genetic factors, the way that some people find coriander / cilantro a strong, unpleasant taste. After all,licorice is a poison (as per the parent article), so a gene to detect and reject it as inedible has value.
OR he finally got some actual help and PRs, instead of just receiving complaints.
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This is because since at least ‘95, MS has alternated focus between base technology and polish/reliability/UX. The ones we think of as good (98SE, 2000/XP, 7) are the ones with the focus on polish. The ones we remember as flaky (ME, Vista, 8) are the ones with substantial new tech in them that hadn’t had the additional years of refinement.
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Doing nothing ...um 'But sheeps' ^^

Wait ! Is it a trap ? Yesterday after I went shopping I asked my Grandmom, if we have to by Things that often - with that sourrounding - how do the People could have survived wayback in winter ? She told me that a traveling salesman came two times a week, bringing bread, meat, some fruits and vegetables. So maybe if you do not want to herd sheeps - you may think about traveling... (-;
>Compare the US's curve to China's. If the US hadn't tried to half-ass it's measures

Are you advocating welding people in buildings?
> I heard anecdotes that Microsoft already allowed governments to audit the source code of Windows under NDA on multiple occasions in the past.

I can confirm that back in the Windows 2000 days, MS let a major global bank have access to the Windows 2000 source code to aid them in coding some low level bespoke software.

Back then, if you were a gold customer, you could pretty much get anything out of MS under an NDA.
Not that impressive actually, but if it makes you sleep at night...

If you fly a drone indoors I would seriously recommend vacuuming before doing so. Also don't put an ashtray next to the station and don't put it on next to a fireplace.

Even lighter drones can create a surprisingly strong air flow.
How do consumers suffer from an open system? Most people I know have androids and are perfectly happy with them. Nobody has accidentally downloaded an app and had their phone compromised.
You are so kind for making that offer but probably not, thank you :). I want to buy from someone who has paid money to get the key. Thank you again.
Qt bindings are a "basic thing" for a language? Why?
> No need to force things.

Forced telemetry and opt-out telemetry are two different things.

The former is clearly evil. The latter can be helpful if it’s communicated clearly and not hidden in some EULA.
The issue is the wireless protocol used by the hearing aids (which I believe it is proprietary).

The TV box thingy is like a "normal" Bluetooth transmitter for a TV, the only differences are that my mom's one has direct RCA and optical instead of an audio jack and a blue led to show it is powered and a brightish orange one to show if the connection is active, here it is:

https://www.hab.online/product/oticon-connectline-tv/

The neck thingy is this one:
https://www.hab.online/product/oticon-streamer-pro/

The above (UK) site seems to have all versions of these thingies, here:

https://www.hab.online/product-category/wireless-and-remotes...

The alternative:

https://www.hab.online/product/oticon-connectclip/

we tried but it is too small for my mom to use comfortably.

Here is the manual of the streamer, with more details:

https://www.oticon.com/-/media/oticon-us/main/download-cente...

Check also this:

https://www.ndcs.org.uk/information-and-support/technology-f...
We are Global Online Quran Teachers, an educational organization that is located in Egypt
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I read that if you keep the password only in 1 head then you just painted a giant target on that head, where if you have it shared to a few trusted people if one of them is "suicided" then you can release the secrets so you have a way to prevent the assassinations attempts.
You know you can disagree with me while still respecting my opinion?

Also, beneficial does not imply necessary.
> A thing you've told somebody else, is just on a countdown to being public information.

This wasn't just "somebody else", this was the senior Guardian investigative journalist David Leigh, who was working with Assange to redact and publish the information in the Guardian. Assange was reluctant to give him the password, but was badgered into it by Leigh.

> he is 100% culpable for putting the information somewhere it could be leaked in the first place

The information was only available in encrypted form, and not made public. All the testimony from people involved in the redaction process show that Assange was very careful, while the Guardian's David Leigh was impatient and careless, and ultimately published the password in his book. I don't see why you think that has no bearing on the case.

Here's testimony from computer science professor Christian Grothoff:

> [Prosecutor] Smith: So in summer 2010 David Leigh was given a password and the cache was put up on a public website?

> Grothoff: No, it was put on a website but not public. It was in a hidden directory.

> Smith: So how did it end up on mirror sites if not public?

> Grothoff: It depends how the specific mirror is created. On the Wikileaks site the encrypted cache was not an available field. Different mirroring techniques might sweep up archive files.

> Smith: Wikileaks had asked for the creation of mirrors?

> Grothoff: Yes.

> Smith: The strength of a password is irrelevant if you cannot control the people who have it.

> Grothoff: That is true. The human is always the weakest link in the system. It is difficult to guard against a bad faith actor, like David Leigh.

> Smith: How many people did Wikileaks give the key in the summer of 2010?

> Grothoff: It appears from his book only to David Leigh. He then gave it to the hundreds of thousands who had access to his book.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...

At some other point it's pointed out that those following the mirroring instructions provided by Wikileaks would not have received the encrypted file. Suggesting the intention wasn't to have that particular file mirrored.
One of the reasons Calibre has become the de-facto gold standard for ebook managers is that he always tried very hard to help users, who are often non-technical (they are largely just "book people").

I think he's just a bit fed up with geeks who like to question everything at every turn; he is not the sort of person you should look to for philosophical debates on the state of software. For years, Calibre got a bad rap for the interface not looking "cool" enough, meanwhile he was busy actually helping people do what they want to do with their books, for free. Plus, his mother tongue is not English and some communications can come off as brusque even when they are just meant to be direct and to the point.
I was actually thinking about the same with respect to training machine learning models; but I think they might have something in terms and conditions prohibiting that
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Can’t most of these issues be solved by not using timezones at all on servers?

All data should be UTC; timezones only apply when the data is shown to the user, possibly on the client itself, which likely can automatically display the right time for a UTC date.
The trash still needs to go out. Re-using the plastic supermarket bags is a fairly common practice. So now we'll have to buy them?

I agree. We should reduce our use of plastic - especially Styrofoam. But this "solution" feels half-baked and short-sighted.
I don't see how the razor blade has anything to do with mental illness in this case... I think anyone in Assange's position would be perfectly sane to consider suicide. The world is a truly messed up place these days and especially for him. If anything, it's a sign of his sanity.
It demonstrates a particular deference towards law enforcement in our legal system.
I had a recent discussion with someone who argued that new senior leaders deliberately push for major changes even though they suspect the efforts will fail. Such changes make the organization increasingly dependent on the new leader, and also ensures anything that does go well gets attributed to the new leader directly rather than their team. If this is your approach to leadership, please know that you’re awful and take the time to work on yourself until the well-being and success of an entire company matters to you more than being perceived as essential.

Hate the company culture, not the player. If there is no accountability for incompetence or even malice, whose fault is that? The success of the company matters way less than the happiness of your immediate boss.
That's a nice summary and better said than I did it. I don't claim the state is an evolution, just different and impossible to undo once the concept is brought into existence. Think nuclear technology. Nuclear can't be undone either, at least in the knowledge sense and someone striving for weaponry. (No claims on nuclear as good or bad.)

European examples do not weaken 2.b. There are still large wealth disparities to be found.

For example, don't mix up income equality for wealth equality when considering Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Sweden

I don't know enough to make claims about European economic setups.
Why twitter, probably would be fb first!
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It can be seen as an addition, true. In my first reads of it, I couldn't think of it as an addition to contemporary Agile practice. Maybe the emotional burden caused by years of (bad) Agile practices got in the way. But even so, in multiple senses, following Software Craftsmanship principles will mean going against currently well-established agile practices.
> For most purchases made within its App Store, Apple takes 30% of the purchase price. No other transaction fee — in any industry — comes close.

Isn't this blatantly false?

Android's Play Store takes the same 30%, as does Steam. I doubt most physical retailers get significantly less.
I stuck with Windows 2000 for many years after XP was released. XP brought absolutely nothing I wanted and a lot of things I didn’t want. All the truly interesting stuff, like WinFS, never made it in.
Looks like it's 4.5% Samwer, 23.2% public, 27.2% institutions and 45.1% VC/PE, all of which is held by Global Founders Capital Management, which is the holding company for the Samwer clan.
Time is one of the easiest ways to find a bug in a backend app. Search for "23:59:59" or any use of local server time and you got yourself a bug.

I work for one of the largest banks in the world and I get to see a lot of code for some mundane backend stuff. For some reasons, people think that the day has always 23 hour, 59 minutes and 59 seconds and that there is a one second delay between one day ending and another starting. Then they are incredulous some trades have vanished.

There was a serious movement to stop data flowing around midnight until I reminded everybody that midnight happens 24 times a day (and not even that, there are fractional timezones, DST, etc. to complicate matters).
Whatever happens - it happens by design. Your work wasn't quite as important as you believed it to be. Managers have a very good feeling on where to invest and where to divest their personal energy. Either your area or the whole company wasn't set up for success, so they divested while you hung on to a lost cause. It's not your fault but that doesn't matter because you took the blame. Better pay more attention to what's going on around you next time and don't expect your boss to do the important job for you.
Wow, his name is really Kovid?? :-D
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The only reason I found out was because I'd done that: I've set uBlock to block JS by default, only turning it on for websites that don't work without JS at all. I've gotten used to seeing the purple sign with 10 or 20 blocked requests, but seeing that number hit 30 for a simple blog was... shocking.
The Hague act : https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...

Yes, we are partners in NATO.

edit: 18 yrs later, it strikes me as how pre-emptive this was.
Enterprise version is also free if you deploy it on Oracle Cloud, more info : https://www.graalvm.org/faq/
Facebook intentionally made its product as addictive as cigarettes
for anyone who disagrees with US policy and considers it hostile, abusive, hypocritical (and hence a threat to their own values) ... their view could be: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And so it doesn't matter where the money comes from as long as they work on the same goal (e.g. stopping the war mongering hypocrisy that is US foreign policy). The current (dire) state of Russia after all is a failure in US foreign policy (the biggest tragedy and a massive lost opportunity in how the US handled the crumbling USSR).

In Europe we have a refugee-crisis and constant debates about what to do with them. In that debate we forget that it was the US that invaded Iraq, Lybia - they are responsible for it. Sure the Wagner group is there now as well profiting the same way as US contractors. But Africom, Blackwater and every yank in a uniform are a much larger threat to peace than Russia & China combined. (regardless what nutter occupies the whitehouse)
I think that argument falls apart as soon as you consider alcohol. Alcohol certainly qualifies as a hard drug, based on its impact for both users and bystanders (especially in your example with driving). We tried to ban it and that made things worse.

Also, isn't imprisoning people a huge cost itself?
You can do all of those things on Wordpress at a fraction of requests, time taken and bandwidth consumed.

E:

For comparison:

3.5k word article on Wordpress with comments and analytics, scripting enabled: https://i.imgur.com/nTlMxwL.png

TFA, 900 words, scripting enabled: https://i.imgur.com/wWRMPts.png
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Based on my experience sharing things in-person is much more productive. I think you're looking from a developer perspective and thinking "how can I produce as much functionality without being impeded", which is your point of view. The scrum master is likely thinking "how can we ensure the whole team has an optimal flow" and ensuring such blockers are dealt with as effectively as possible, which is more important.

Granted, most scrum masters have no idea what they're doing which likely leads to individual team members not seeing fulle value in Agile rituals, but it is there.
What are you using instead? I don't see a viable alternative to Calibre currently.
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