skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, X11/Xorg is stable. I remember a talk from Keith Packard about a fix in the Xorg font server (which he assumed would not be used by anyone by now but he noticed a bug report from 5 years before he made the fix and he decided that if someone bothered to report a bug then there are some people out there still using it, so it is worth fixing it) where he also mentioned how to ensure that any future change wont break backwards compatibility.

Also personally some years ago i tried to build a small GUI library i was working on at the time under a Red Hat distribution from 1997 and then run it on my 2017 Debian[0] (the colors are off because i didn't bother supporting colormaps) and it worked perfectly fine, showing that X11 (which is the only mandatory requirement the library has, under Linux at least) and of course the C library (the binaries are linked dynamically, not statically) do have two decades of backwards binary compatibility.

It is just everything else that is built on top of that that doesn't work. At least everything else that modern desktops use, AFAIK something like Motif is also binary compatible going back decades (which is how Lesstif worked anyway since it was supposed to be binary compatible with Motif).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/YxGNB7h.png
Disagree.

flatpaks provide apps that weren't packaged before.
They provide easy an easy way to install apps that are bleeding edge and may have used newer versions of system libraries.
Why Privacy Matters is a community-written site that explains why privacy is important in clear, accessible language. It's meant to be short and sweet.

It's been translated into 19 languages at this point, so we're really trying to make it possible for everyone to understand.

I thought the HN crowd might appreciate it, given the large number of privacy-related posts we've been seeing recently.
Various acquaintances have told me they are keeping quiet about things they believe because they don’t want their opinions to be held against them in future by anyone with a search engine.

Sometimes they’re quiet online about their sexuality, or that they are trans; sometimes it is about politics; sometimes it is about religion; sometimes drug use or attitudes about legalisation.

They all talked to me about those things IRL, but the lack of privacy online means they can’t comfortably reach out online to others in the same position as themselves.
Do you have a citation for that? The median is generally the most reliable metric to use specifically for income, since it isn’t impacted by outliers.
But the latter is not going on here. They are not memorizing the symbols.

> I have a choice to learn the material and take the final exam "cold"

What does cold means? Learning calculus without solving exercises? Or without solving variety of exercises? Intentionally ignoring last years tests and not trying them?

If your learning materials match what the test is supposed to test, you will solve a lot of exercises while learning from them. And the test itself would contain combinations and variations from these.
That is the case. The issue this year is the PRs have been essentially automated by some YouTuber telling people how to game the system
Thanks for this - very interesting small article
Because it conferred extra power to the hands of people who hold racist beliefs and vote that way to this day.
Gtkshutdown: A Shutdown Manager based on GTK+ 3
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I suppose any PC with a BIOS needs to maintain such fonts as well
Epistemic Status: I've been thinking about this for a while, but have not decided on any conclusions yet.

More and more, I view flatpak-style sandboxing as something kind of like wine. It's very important that it exists, as a stop-gap measure to allow people to run the programs they currently depend on. With wine, that's Windows-only programs; for flatpack it's proprietary applications, while retaining some control over their permissions. But it's not an ideal long-term solution.

Using wine in the ideal way requires creating gigabytes of duplicate files (since you want to run one program per prefix, since they may require different and incompatible tweaks). Both it and flatpak make it harder to write shell scripts and generally to hack on your operating system. More importantly, both solve problems that, while they aren't going away any time soon, could be solved just by using high-quality, trustworthy software that targets GNU/Linux natively, without the downsides of these technological solutions.

So, while I do use both of these technologies and appreciate them very much, I prefer native packages and would rather put my effort toward better supporting people who want to write software that is distributed that way.
But is that everybody under 30? Makes much more sense to measure 25 - 30. As most will start to have a real job by that age.
You raise a fascinating point, which is of how different Anglo-Indian and just generally how different anglo south asian culture is from the norm. The subthread author (or a commentator) mentioned that one thing you'll see a lot is when folks don't know the answer to your question, they'll answer a different unrelated question and hope for the best because not knowing something is seen as weakness. Of course, that is generally not the case with any of the anglicized south asian diasporas.
Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says
You could get your own hosting, and not use Cloudflare.
You could then host the font on your own site.

My site doesn't load any files from a different domain since I removed the Twitter share button javascript[0], except for one page.

I moved the mailchimp signup to a separate page to isolate their JS code to just that page.

[0] https://tacosteemers.com/articles/2020-08-30-twitter-share-b...
> I found the reaction to this from the internet so strange

That's because "the internet"'s voice isn't the prevailing opinion of the general population. It is the fad-driven prevailing opinion of socially dysfunctional people aged 14-27.

Social media addiction is a disease, and en masse it has cast a shadow over all of political discourse.
Incase it benefits others, I did a brief survey of static site generators and while Pelican looked great it had more functionality than I needed.

I ended up using staticjinja instead. And after sticking with it for over a year now, I'd still recommend it if Pelican features like RSS feeds and code syntax highlighting seem like overkill for your project.
Yeah, personally I think this has a lot to do with post-colonialism.

I'm Irish, and there's a lot of this in our society. It was much more accepted in my parents generation, and appears to be reducing a little bit as we become a richer society.
How about Finland? That's not the general attitude here.
It's not a bribe. That's your negative spin. The positive spin is it's just 2/26th pre-payment of the rent for 2 years. You then pay 1/26th every month for 2 years, repeat when you renew your contract. Do I like having to pay 2/26th up front (2 months rent?) no. But I also would prefer not to have to put down payments on cars/houses.
Our current legal system has evolved over many hundreds of years. I merely describe a set of initial conditions and a few possible early developments. The space of things it might evolve into seems pretty wide. I do suspect some of those things would be good. That said, in the meantime:

There have existed societies in which the penalty for murder was to pay a fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild

Also, this doesn't insulate rich criminals from all repercussions. If they have enough money to pay the fines when murdering tens of people... well, you could try killing the criminal directly. You can do that today as well, if you're prepared to pay the price.

A really rich criminal could hire bodyguards, of course, but those would be costly, imperfect, and have some chance of turning against their employer. Ultimately it would become a rich guy in charge of an organized criminal gang, which... is also something that exists today.
I realize this is a bit off topic, but no, the parent poster should not. It's a mish-mash of poorly explained introductory probability material. There are numerous other textbooks on statistical aspects of heavy-tailed random variables that would be far more insightful.
Climate change is a slow process. Technology is fast enough to catch up with it and solve it, since it's mostly a technological problem.

Privacy is a social problem. Automation is too(And my guess in the near future, it would be a much bigger problem).

Social problems get resolved very slowly, if at all. So those 2 seem more worrysome.
In US prisons, the prisoners segregate themselves, btw - the prison itself doesn't do this.
No disrespect intended, I've just never enjoyed all the tinkering that comes with managing this stuff myself. I just want to write & publish my posts somehow; used to use medium but then they added all these popups and annoying things, so I switched to Hugo. Now, it might be a good stepping stone to eventually just setting this all up myself, since I've been frustrated with the limitations of markdown & hugo shortcodes and occasionally just want to write things in HTML (yes I know you can write HTML in hugo markdown pages). But I never would get to that stage straight from hosted blogs like medium, so it is good that static site generators exist I think.
Guilty as charged! I did read the article but misunderstood it. In my (admittedly weak) defense, the conversation that ensued in the thread started by my comment was interesting. But you're right: it was also off-topic!
The median is often used for income, that doesn't make it "reliable."
It's not really clear to me how this really compares to ML Flow.
Unfortunately his actions will be used by racists for years to come to justify hate and discrimination.

I'm hoping github can quickly step up and ban all accounts that submit spam PRs, to protect the integrity of open source but to also protect people from themselves.
Sure, but you always have to ask, to what degree?

If it is more prevalent than in other societies then you can definitely call it a phenomenon.
Secrets detection must be part of your DevOps pipeline
I’d very much like to commend whoever posted this for saying what Pelican is right in the gorram title!
Yes it is. That 3K is the average young person's only asset and it is just getting eaten by inflation anyway.

These people struggle to pay rent each month let alone think about "investments".
Why Should Microservices Be Idempotent
>Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in people with an acute loss in their sense of smell and/or taste in a community-based population in London, UK: An observational cohort study

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
I think that has died down after the agreement (where they agree not to claim that any more). Their claim to ancient Greek heritage was an overreaction to a Greek overreaction to drive them out of south Macedonia (the Greek part) around 100 years ago. Before then, both races were coexisting pretty happily, as far as I know, but the Greek government decided to launch a propaganda against North Macedonians (slavs) in the early 1900s.

There is some reaction within Greece after the agreement, about how it's a betrayal etc, but I expect that to die down pretty quickly now that the matter is settled.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659207
Paying the Danegeld, etc.
Remote is ineffective. If someone wants to cheat, they will.

Automated and data-scraping like this is downright unethical.
I find this concerning in the context of the tendency for packages to promote the use of npx commands, where npx will just find and run the missing package name, so a typo means you have now just run different code than that what you intend in one command.
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for months and months and months as a kid, and still have an installation of OpenTTD on my machine for an relaxed evening. But RCT is his masterpiece. I remember being shocked as a teenager when I learned that the game I thought was the work of at least a dozen people was written by a singly guy in assembly.
This is going to forever be the disconnect between privacy advocates and companies handling user data.

For FB/Google and other data stewards privacy means keeping your data safe from others because they consider themselves a trusted party.
Even amazon does this.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alexa-traffic-rank...

700k users
Problem is, how?

When I went to university I ended in deep debt.

Took me years, to pay off that debt, it felt like literal slavery, since I would just take whatever job that could pay the debt that was offered (I had to decline many jobs because their pay was lower than my debt, meaning taking them I would just stay in debt forever), and then I would stay until I was fired or had to quit.

Even then, those were not "real" jobs according to our government, in my country my "real" job registry, is empty, I never "worked", because I never got hired full-time legally, I couldn't afford to, whatever people offered that the pay was good enough, I would accept, even if the employer was obviously hiring me as "freelancer" just to not pay taxes.

The times I had burned out during this, I had to keep going, travelling for a year? I dunno if I will ever afford that. Making friends? How? When? I am not in a foreign country yet I have two friends at most, and one of them moved to another country and I see him once every 5 years.

So it is not like people have a choice after they went to college, I still feel that going to college was the biggest mistake I ever did on my life, I should never have went, and never took that debt, it is paid now, but I am working with Marketing, instead of working with programming, and have little room for error, no debt, but no surplus either, if something goes wrong with the business I am screwed.
Today I observed that on bindu, area close to an implant on scar, I can hear an earworm. When I relaxed on area close to bindu, I can feel tenses around my vision relaxed, also earworm getting silenced.
Does that not also prove the point? The US view of racism being white against black eclipses all other forms of racism, including white A against white B, or even black against white.

That's not to say white against black is only a US problem, because it isn't, but it helpfully masks all other local problems and pretends they don't exist because "America said so".
> You're awfully pessimistic and ignoring human creativity. And also human capacity for accepting compromises.

Sure we might manage to live with 10 billion people on the planet, maybe even more. But why would we want to? I see no value in having more people on the planet. If anything it only reduces the value of each individual.
> as one of the people who sat in a room with my colleagues, listening them talk about the hours and hour of thinking they had done around how to contribute meaningfully to OSS

Don't let your sunken cost and in-group bias distract you from seeing the unfortunate externalities of decisions here. You're separating intent from effect when that is the exact problem. DO created a program which incentivized spam that puts long-term strain on a community which it derives revenue from long-term, just for short term benefit.

If you or anyone else who designed that program doesn't understand that and take action until a /satirical twitter account/ has to pop up, that's really bad. I don't think you should try and make excuses for it. You should try to understand why the incentive broke and caused unintended side effects first before you go criticizing others.
Agreed. EVERYTHING is a dire and critical issue in the modern clickbait news cycle.
I generally agree with you. I suppose the argument--depending upon what the overall distribution looks like exactly--is that you can have a sizable minority clustered somewhere below what would have been considered a reasonable middle-class lifestyle while the median still looks reasonable.

Also CPI doesn't really account for housing prices in many of the metros where the best jobs are or higher education prices.
Anyone who believes the above simply hasn't looked at the numbers. The speed at which we need to reduce emissions simply dwarfs anything technology has ever achieved - not to mention the fact that so far, technological progress has always had the net effect of adding to GHG emissions.

Let's take the example of the digital industry. Arguably, it's shown the most impressive trajectory of energy efficiency, with an exponential growth sustained over many decades, roughly gaining 3 orders of magnitude every 16 years (See Koomey's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law#:~:text=Koomey'....).

But overall, what's the currently worst-offending industry in terms of GHG emissions / energy consumption growth? The digital industry! Our unmoderated consumption grows even faster than energy efficiency gains, to the point that it's the only major industry in which the energy intensity of added value is increasing.

(Many sources here: https://theshiftproject.org/en/lean-ict-2/)

We do need a lot of technological investments, but the narrative that says this will be sufficient is a very dangerous mirage. Please, be responsible, do your research, and don't spread ignorance - our children will have to bear the burden.
Anker, Belkin, and Cable Matters cables are solid. For chargers, Anker and RavPower. Aukey can be good too.

For other brands you need to check the specs carefully to see what the rated power and transmission speeds are (and take anything from a fly-by-night brand out of China with a grain of salt).
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It was really difficult to tell what the app actually does from their website. I was interested, but didn't want to have to download it just to find out.
All Traditional Chinese characters are valid in Japanese even if they're only used for names. Japanese also has kanji invented in Japan which are not valid in Chinese. There are currently 2136 jōyō (general use) kanji, which are the bare minimum you need to known to be considered literate, but if that's all you know you're going to spend a lot of time with a dictionary. In practice you need at least 3000 characters, which is about the same as you need in Chinese.
> What is needed is removing the source of the problem in the first place...To use medication or drugs is not going to solve your problems,if you continue living such an unnatural lifestyle.

But this ignores that the source of the problem could be brain chemistry itself. Or at least that it is part of the problem. If it were situational only, everyone in the same situation would have the same outcome. But the physical structure and chemical cocktail of each individual brain plays a huge role in how those situations affect each person. The brain is an organ, and just like any other organ, there are situations that cannot be fixed with “lifestyle changes”. Medication should not just be hand waved away.
Was it a Jamaican and Hungarian restaurant, because that would be awesome! I would try a Jerk Chicken Goulash in a heartbeat.
For non open source software, dependencies are often packaged with the software itself, so it would be the same in flatpak or in the distro. It is true for software that uses shared libraries though.
CATSv5-Generate and run API tests at runtime-now includes security fuzzers
100ms for setting up an initial TLS connection is about what I'd expect. It depends on the key size, ciphers, etc, but up to 300ms is typical.

However, this should only be done at the beginning of the connection. After this the client will have a symmetric encryption key that is much faster to use. Their load balancer should be caching these sessions so that subsequent connections don't need to re-negotiate a session key.

If this 110ms is only on the first request, and a cache miss on the sessions, then I'd say that's probably something you should be expecting. If it's after the TLS session has been set up, or on a cache hit, that sounds bad. It also could be that their session cache isn't large enough and is forgetting sessions too soon, causing more TLS negotiation than may be necessary.
No. The Mac way is download the app file disk image, click to mount it, drag the app file from there to the Applications directory, click to unmount the image the way you unmount USB flash drives. Perhaps I would also suggest removing the disk image part to further simplify the procedure. A user should not be forced to enter any terminal commands or even understand what an archive (or an executable installer) is. We must take "stupid" users in account if we want to conquer the desktop market as they are the majority we have to conquer.
> They say no to superficial networking events in which people swap business cards and never hear from one another. Why? Because successful people don't network. They build relationships.

I've felt for a long time that there is no such thing as "networking" as its own activity. You build a network by just having life experiences and interests- hobbies, clubs, other parents from school if you have kids, religion, volunteering, side projects, alumni associations, and of course people you've worked with in the past. These relationships need to have some sort of basis other than you wanting something like a job or opportunities.
Privacy can increase freedom of speech from the perspective that the statements you would say in public are always a subset of that what you would state privately. I think most people have one or two examples on mind. That is not because these opinions are unthinkable or misanthropic, but because the tolerance of the public is the lowest common denominator.

Freedom and equality are also competing concepts. If you make everyone equal, you have to limit the freedom of some people. Then again without equality your freedom is very likely limited.
It’s “reliable” insofar as it tells us how the “average” person is doing, and by definition the lower bound for the top half of the population.
I would track 18-30, as that catches those who are likely to be living independently.
I know. It was a comment about the culture comparisons.