skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just some users though, and I'm 99% sure they don't want others to see it, because they believe knowing about it might damage their political side. I'm sure they have good intentions and believe that the end justifies the means and if suppression of truth is required to let the good guys win, then so be it.

Of course, everybody generally thinks they are the good guys, and once you're going down the road of "everything is allowed because my goals are good", you're not going to stop until somebody else stops you.
> Why do you need hundreds of people to maintain a simple software that downloads videos from YouTube?

There's more than one video site that doesn't simply offer the browser a link to an .mp4 or other media file, but uses Javascript to download storage blobs, which aren't referenced by filenames, and then stream them using complex Javascript code. I know for YouTube the Javascript code is important and has to be reverse engineered. The YouTube mobile app probably does the same in native code.

The 'hundreds of people' also comes in because youtube-dl supports much, much more than just YouTube (almost want to say 'hundreds of sites' but I think it's more like 50 or so).

> Is it that complicated to assemble the query string?

Again there's much more going on with some video sites than the query string.
It does. It's rock solid and most people use it in production. But the parent is more concerned about quick and handy functions. IMHO, such functionality is usually part of third-party libraries and is certainly an option in Go. It's just idiomatic Go favors KISS principles, less external dependancies and a more self-contained software. The benefit is that pretty much all the Go source code is more-or-less identical, regardless of an author. It makes it super simple to understand and deep dive into a random complex piece of software.

Go is not about abstractions, Go is about solving problems here and now.
Nit: Have they counted for the possibility of a tie? US elections allow for a tie in the Electoral College (which then kicks off a supremely strange and legalistic process).
This story has “62 points” and was posted 43 minutes ago (at the time I’m posting this comment) but as soon as I read the story and hit back in the browser, it was pushed off the first three pages of articles. What happened? Did this story get flagged? There’s lots interesting discussion here.
I actually really enjoyed learning about secure boot keys and TPMs and all when I was setting it up on my machine. Support for managing keys varies by board; some, especially older ones, don't let you do much, if at all, especially from within Linux.

With modern firmware, you can add a self-generated key pretty easily, and it's not hard to do secure boot dual boot with Linux (or even macOS if you're using OpenCore, I think!). It does require a bit of reading up though. :)
> You are forming your current opinion about entire communities based on one comment made by one developer 10 years ago

Incorrect. I am using a single example to illustrate a trend. A single example to illustrate what "unreasonably obstructionist" looks like. That particular incident made everybody roll their eyes but it hardly surprised anybody because GNOME has earned this reputation. Even back then nobody was particularly surprised by the GNOME arrogance, and I've not seen this change.

(Also, maybe I'm getting old but 10 years ago really isn't that long ago.)
Yeah I saw this too - I guess those bees must have evolved with hornets as a predator and have developed that defence. But the bees in the west haven't and so they don't have any behaviour to help them.
The truth is not a social construct. Either Hunter Biden received that "thanks for the meeting with your father" email or he didn't.

Importance is a social construct. If that email is what it puports to be, then whether it is important is a point of view.

The media don't (mis)lead us by telling us lies, they do so by deciding which parts of the truth are important enough to tell us.
I often find it useful that implementing an interface is implicit. For example maybe I'm using a library that provides a struct A. I can make another struct B that mocks that functionality for testing, and then everywhere in my code use an interface C that encapsulates A and B. That wouldn't be possible if A had to explicitly declare that it implements C.

If you want to explicitly declare that you implement an interface.. just put it in the comments, or it's common to see a line like this after a struct declaration:

var _ C = (*A)(nil);

It's a way of asserting that A satisfies C.
Oh, he died in 1998. I thought this was an obituary.
I always prefer the web client. I might use a PWA.
Thanks, I appreciate the response.

Are things like the beetles and virus new introductions to the area, or is it just a confluence of factors that are hitting harder now?

I'd also heard (many years ago) that, while the colonies can collapse, the bees normally reproduce quickly enough that you don't see much of a net loss in colony counts year-over-year - how do you see that?

My impression is that the bee populations have been remarkably resilient year over year, but whenever I see this kind of stress-and-recovery cycle, I worry that there's a tipping point - many systems seem Fine under stress until they overwhelm their recovery mechanism and collapse catastrophically.
No there is no evidence that the encryption keys have been modified. If the fingerprints match, then messages are not being intercepted and cannot be with today's technology. However, the code is closed, perhaps it is only displaying a similar thumbprint, and hiding the real thumbprint from the user. As far as I know, the code to whatsapp is closed.
It is on my list of things to learn but learning go made me so happy the urgency has decreased. Did they ever finish that rewrite of the core unix cmd line utils from C to Rust? Like find and if config etc. a rust busybox I guess.
Apple Maps was grossly inferior to Google Maps. It still is, but not grossly. Its inferiority didn't stop Apple from forcing it on their users.
A lot of this is due to a design culture that seems common around the Gnome project.

Victims of this mimetic disease have caught on to the idea that 80% of usage needs 20% of the features.

This might well be true in a literal sense, but it ignores that 99% of the users need one or two items from the remaining 80% of the features and its just a different one or two items for each user.

The result is something that isn't completely functional for all but a tiny portion of the user base. :( Workarounds exist to expand that somewhat, though they're often extremely poorly maintained.

For example, I had a gnome3 using system that suddenly started insta-crashing anytime a GTK dialog was opened on it. I eventually had to blow away all its gconf to recover it.

It turned out that at some point someone decided that 300% and 400% scaling had no purpose and caused issues because in some cases they messed up UI layout. They removed them and the removal was just shipped along with security & bugfix updates in fedora. The way it was removed caused instant crashing for people that previously had them enabled!

I'm fixed now, though with the display at 200% I have difficulty reading it (It's a 4k TV that I need to read from a long distance away) ... but since I can't use gtk interface stuff on it at all now I guess I won't be opening any bugs on minor layout issues that might be caused by increased scaling. PROBLEM SOLVED :(
It’s just the default - if another search engine is compelling people are free to switch
The Burisma story have been repeatedly found to be false.

Trump Revives False Narrative on Biden and Ukraine https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-revives-false-narrat...

Trump's conspiracy theories thrive in Ukraine, where a young democracy battles corruption and distrust. We talked with two dozen leaders and investigators in Ukraine. They all agree the claims against Joe and Hunter Biden are baseless. Yet they persist. https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2019/10/10/trump...

The facts behind Trump’s bogus accusations about Biden and Ukraine - Trump claims Biden threatened Ukraine to aid his son’s business interests. The facts suggest otherwise. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/23/20879611/j...

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The latest NY Post story is just crazy.

Man Who Reportedly Gave Hunter’s Laptop to Rudy Speaks Out in Bizarre Interview
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bi...

What we know — and don't know — about Hunter Biden's alleged laptop
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-po...
Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid
This article really short-sells Sushruta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta

The Sushruta-Samhita covers hernia surgery, C-sections, prostrate removal ... a huge range of topics.
Nobody can discredit it so they suppress it. It’s the same thing Twitter did for the same reasons.

For starters it doesn’t even need to be discredited — it just needs to be denied, which it hasn’t been. I mean the basic facts like the authenticity of the laptop/emails or the meeting.
Zig inventor in dispute with landlord over Shrill TV show
And for the comments of people saying it's a non-story, you need to check your beliefs and look at the facts.

This is pay for play, and corruption at it's finest. After attacking Trump for 4 years for falsehoods, you shy away from addressing issues with the opposing candidate?
There's ways for the government to specify in more detail what does and does not amount to a reasonable adjustment through secondary legislation covering specific industries, building regulations, and so on.

Almost all the most important laws have some subjectivity and interpretation built into them. If they didn't, we'd get conceptual clarity at the cost of some pretty horrible injustices.
This is a pretty enduring meme (in the Dawkins sense). I wonder if it has any effect at all.
If you want to more easily configure UEFI Secure Boot on your Linux system, while also registering your own signing keys to eliminate the Microsoft and OEM ones: https://safeboot.dev/
Amazing. I am ashamed to say, but I was somewhat ignorant to issues of accessibility, and not just for those in wheelchairs.

A partially sighted friend asked me; "do you think I'd be able to walk that trail?" Despite it being somewhat technical, I didn't fully grasp his limitations. Long story short, it was a bit of a disaster when we tried it together.

We're in the middle of working on projects using panoramic imagery + computer vision + OSM to grade UK trails and their accessibility. The idea being show, don't tell.

I'm going to send an email via your contact form. I would really appreciate the opportunity to ask you a few questions.
Wozniak, Kalanick, and Chesky on starting small
Grove's infamous 'sign-in' sheet was one of the reasons that Faggin left Intel (after which they wrote him out of the story in official publications - Ted Hoff became the sole 'inventor' of the microprocessor) and of course the Z80 became much much more successful than the 8080 or 8085. Intel got very lucky with the 8088 and the IBM PC especially given the disaster that was the iAPX432.

In case you haven't seen it this looks like a very interesting interview with FF from 1995 - not watched it all yet but some interesting comments on the 8080.

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/silicongenesis/catalog/gr768wf...
Who+God+is?+Personality+Traits+of+God+Revealed
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Apple acquired DDG.
Who do the insurers pay out?

If a company indemnifies themselves through insurance, they have increased their moral hazard (ignoring balanced decreases in other areas).

Insurance doesn’t help the victims.
Mmhmm. I said it’s unfair. Again I don’t see how reiterating that Hunter Biden probably got some jobs because of his name proves the more salacious allegations that were the center of the story...
I think there's a fundamental difference of opinion about the notion of fairness. Some people think that fairness is defined as something that affects everyone equally in some clean-slate world, while others think of fairness as equalizing the effect of something in an already unfair situation in the world as it is. To the first camp it seems that "suppressing" a particular story on a particular platform is unfair regardless of circumstances because it is not done to other stories; others think that if that particular story has a de facto unfair advantage of being amplified by an army of bots on that particular platform, then "suppressing" it is the fair thing to do. The question is, is it always unfair to tip the scales or does fairness depend on whether or not the scales are already tipped? Should the fairness of laws, rules and regulation be judged with or without consideration to existing circumstances?
I can’t speak for all models but I do know that the 538 model accounts for a tie.
Unrelated, but I found a typo on this page:

https://resolve.rs/http/myheaders.html

It says:

> These are the HTTP headers that are being sent my your browser.

Great set of tools, BTW.
Out of curiosity: what are the primary reasons for your web preference?
Swift, especially if you have a Mac. The numeric features are well thought out and generally work the way you'd expect. The same with syntax. Swift Playgrounds are a REPL with ability to visualize what your program is doing to build on intuition.

If you're keen on using higher level language features such as generics, you can make use of them easily. Otherwise they'll stay out of your way. In terms of progressive disclosure of complexity, it is the best language I've used. And I've used many.

There are also many[1][2][3][4][5] open source projects to peruse. Even if you're not on Mac, there is Linux and Windows support, though I don't have direct experience with them.

The language itself is now fairly stable with a fixed ABI, relatively fast, and is open source so you can modify it if that's something you're interested in down the road. Despite the commentary, it's not an Apple-only language, though when you're outside the Apple ecosystem things are more bottom-up and hence the experience can be inconsistent at times.

I credit Swift with revitalizing my own interest in mathematics. It made re-learning the stuff I'd forgot from college fun and interactive.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-numerics

[2] https://github.com/phlegmaticprogrammer/LANumerics

[3] https://github.com/apple/swift-algorithms

[4] https://github.com/stsievert/swix

[5] https://github.com/AlexanderTar/LASwift
As a XMonad user, I am not considering X11 alternatives for the foreseeable future. I have zero issues with it.
I don't think you can have a 400W bike FTP without already being a pro.
The left did not suppress this story, liberal media did. You’re responding to a post criticizing this suppression written by a leftist.
The unfortunate thing is, while no one's really that happy with how the US is running things, they've probably been one of the least bad empires in history. (Post-slavery) America Vs. say Britain? I know what I'd prefer
Reminds me of an old adage I heard in high school: If you take the frogs out of the environment, you don't have the same environment minus frogs, you have an entirely new ecosystem.
You clearly have not watched video by X.Org developer, have not you? I expect you are better informed, worked a lot with X.Org codebase and can show some links on your commits.

Or if you truly believe there is nothing wrong with X.Org you would become maintainer.

> My (often incorrect) views and opinions are my own and not those of anyone I currently or have ever worked for. Please help me make them more informed (and hopefully more correct) whenever you can!
> "Media outlets are incentivized to bring in clicks/shares/likes."

Even an individual who posts a blog post wants clicks/shares/likes, even if there's no money involved, to validate their work in putting out a post and to bolster their self-esteem. That highlights why capitalism is not itself the issue; any type of news media would just respond to what its customers want. And what the public wants is infotainment, not well-researched stories.

The real problem is people and that's a problem that can't be solved.
Before commenting you could at least search for the word "tie":

The probability of an electoral-college tie is <1%
So all discussion regarding this is going to be flagged?
It's not finished, but a decent amount is implemented: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

In general there has been more effort put into trying to improve on the default tools through projects like ripgrep (grep), bat (cat), lsd and exa (ls), and fd (find) rather than creating drop-in replacements that don't provide all that much over the battle tested originals.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2016/05/11/the-afr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Great_Migration
It's pretty much a definitional requirement for fair competition that competitors must be good enough to be competitive.

A monopoly does not mean literally zero competition; it need only mean no competitors that are good enough to be viable.
I wish The Matrix had humans in virtual reality cages because the AI had a mandate to keep them alive and well, and this was simply the most efficient mechanism for doing this. This would have made the resistance far more ambiguous as they would actually be fighting for freedom but against the well-being of humanity.
Apple owned the outcome of that decision (and thus one of the world's best map services). They don't get that by pointing searches at DDG. In fact, even if they bought DDG, they wouldn't own DDG's search results, because DDG repackages other search engines.
That is because it is sarcasm.
Yep - I imagine the "siri suggested site" thing is a preview (and threat) that Apple has a search engine in its back pocket that it's ready to roll out whenever.
That NYPost has issued fewer retractions just means that they lack the integrity to take responsibility for its misinformation.
More ycombinator suppression dropping this off the main page. Great job big tech.
Capitalism doesn't know how to account for things that have no dollar signs attached. The only answer to anything in capitalism is: let's create a market for that. When you elevate capitalism to an ideology (which is what is happening for many people) instead of an economic tool that you need to use when necessary, then you lose focus of the real world outside markets.
I know I’m nitpicking, but this just doesn’t add up:

> Nearly half of Google’s search traffic now comes from Apple devices, according to the Justice Department

> The Justice Department, which is asking for a court injunction preventing Google from entering into deals like the one it made with Apple, argues that the arrangement has unfairly helped make Google, which handles 92 percent of the world’s internet searches, the center of consumers’ online lives.

What? Worldwide, iOS market share is peanuts compared to Android. Depending on the report, the exact amount varies pretty widely, but nothing ever seems to report more than 18-ish percent worldwide. macOS is negligible. Meanwhile, Android’s market share is enormous.

Android devices alone—worldwide—could easily account for half of Google’s search traffic, especially when you consider countries like India. But the DOJ wants to argue that:

1. Google handles 92% of global search traffic

2. Half of Google’s traffic comes from Apple devices

If we believe that 92% figure, that places a generous upper limit of Google’s search traffic originating from Apple devices at about 20%, far short of “nearly half.”

Look, I hate the monopolistic nature of search just as much as the next person, but can we please double-check that our numbers actually make sense?
On the small point wrt "stuff not working" for a user:

There is a future blog that will point out all the "support myths" about Wayland. E.g., how, contrary to popular misconception, obs and other standard Gnu/Linux applications do work out of the box with Wayland at the time of this future blog's writing.

I imagine the impossibility of writing that blog today is the reason Ubuntu 20.04 ships with x11 as a default.
Its a great programming language that is helpful to solve problems without wasting time.

I really appreciate the simplicity, I think it totally makes sense at work where not everyone wants to deal with weird code. I think maintaining old golang code will not be a major problem in the future for example. The garbage collector make things a lot simpler too.

The dependencies management is not great compared to npm/crates/rubygems/... but it's still better than the Java world and it exists and it's being used.

I wish generics were already there, and I'm not a fan of the interface{} keyword. I'm also sick of the if err!=nil everywhere, I wish it could have a better error management like Haskell/Elm/Rust/...

I use Rust in my latest personal projet and while I prefer Rust, it's a bit too complex quite often and I spend more time thinking about rust things than thinking about the problem I'm solving.

This is not the case with Golang. It's not a fun programming language but it does most jobs very well.
Everything I have seen says cycling is generally more efficient. I think the 80w the author quoted is quite low. They may just be a small very person.
The history of anesthesia is much shorter...
The classic example is the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone: https://sites.tufts.edu/tuftsgetsgreen/2018/02/27/wolves-cha...
Everyone loves a Chestnut Brown ale that your neighbor brewed in his basement. But my clients prefer name brands delivered in sealed bottles.
> One of the neat things about PalmOS is that it ran apps directly from where they were stored. No need to load them into "memory".

In practice this is not the way it worked on PalmOS on actual hardware past a certain point, and the way it actually worked is not that different from how code is loaded in a conventional desktop operating system.
It is an interesting view on software quality, but I think software quality is really multi dimensional (while the pyramid has only one - up and down). Internal quality can't be ignored. Without good internal quality you can't even achieve the first level for a longer period.
> ChromeOS runs on Wayland

Kind of. The Chrome browser itself doesn't run on Wayland, it runs on a custom compositor (I believe Aura?). Sommelier[1] is a Wayland compositor used for Linux apps on CrOS (Crostini), but Chrome doesn't use it. There is an ongoing effort (Lacros) to make the Chrome browser itself run under Wayland on CrOS, but it's not public outside of development builds (and not yet on par with the "native" version).

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA...
Wonder what other words that could be found that do something similar.
Java might in theory be faster but I have never seen a real Java team put out code that was capable of doing 10k requests per CPU per second. Always hitting per thread limits or logging lock contention or GC issues etc. except one thing written by a genius with NIO. Ordinary people can hit those performance numbers with Go and without special smarts.
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In the USA liberal and left are closely related - it basically means votes Democrat.
That’s sort of what he is arguing. As you go up from 100, “other factors” become more and more significant and IQ becomes less significant as a predictor of health or success.

Go below 100 though and very low IQs seem to be predictive alone of various poor outcomes.

So it’s more useful as a diagnostic for deficiency than a predictor of exceptionality.