skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
could anyone explain what this means "BTW I had no idea CTRL+key and TAB had their own ORD values" I did a search but got nothing useful.
> even here on HN people might think you're serious!

Ha! Might want to explicitly indicate sarcasm; even here on HN people might think you're serious!
All my childhood memories are in the third person. But I'm not sure if its due to the influence of pictures from those eras influencing how I visualize the memory or that its intrinsically third-person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXKruy3Zjs
Looks interesting. How long has it been running?
Yet that's not what's happening.

What's happening is, effectively, stalking. Stalking laws exist, even if the person is following another in public.

There are limits, you see.

Further, as others have eluded to, this is not about "a person seeing another person". Instead, this is about:

- a non-entity, a device, 'watching' you
- exporting that data from the locality it was taken in
- storing that information forever, if desired
- also scanning you directly, looking for RF signals

To claim that "a person seeing you walking down the street" is the same as this, is not valid.

For example, "stalking" entails following a person, where ever they go.

What else is all of this surveillance, if not 'following' a person where ever they go? And in most legal jurisdictions, this is a crime.

Try this same behaviour as a person? And individual? Follow a person where ever they go, take notes, never leave them alone? Bam! Stalking.

But because it's a corporation doing it, that's OK I suppose?

You keep trying to say that "a person seeing you in public" is the same as "mass surveillance being leveled against you".

It's not. Full stop.

So why not discuss this as it truly is? Please stop this conflation.
You're right.

Let my introduce you to "Dotan's Blur Test": Blur your eyes a bit when looking at the two homepages so that the shapes of logos and text disappears but the colours and placement stay the same.

I cannot tell the two logos nor pages apart in the blur test. That may draw fire from Atlassian's legal team, and should probably be addressed.
Nothing against you or GP, but this illustrates my personal difficulties with "the news" perfectly. As most of us here know full well, in modern application development, most of the time, there are MANY ways to accomplish particular "thing" that will WORK, but I want to find the most-efficient and most-maintainable way. So when I need to find an approach to something new, I'll search and read many things about it, until I find consensus. I've approached news like programming, looking for consensus. The problem is that no one agrees on anything any more. There is no overlap between the two sides. Each side just says the other is completely wrong.

As the intelligentsia discuss what Greenwald's move implies about the state of American journalism, and even what the facts are about Hunter Biden's laptop, people in the middle, like me, despair of ever getting to the truth in these matters any more. We are forced to simply forget about it, because we have no hope of reading enough materials, and spending enough time on it, to sort out what the most-probable conclusion is. Every article argues the complete opposite of the other. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE JOB OF THE JOURNALIST.
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There is https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv but it doesn't seem to print with borders between cells.
>Any GC language will help, indeed. But there is much, much more to safety than deallocating memory.

Yes, but that's the main allure of Rust. As for the rest (e.g. resource releasing, avoiding concurency issues, avoding not-exhastive mathces, injection, etc.), other languages have their own ways as well, including Java.

If those are your main concerns (and not also top-speed) I don't think Rust is worth the extra cost (learning slope, slow compilation times, single implementation, fewer libs and developer tools, etc).
Billy Mitchell has been streaming DK on Twitch. I saw him host Walter Day on his stream a couple of months ago. Can't be too much bad blood between them.
I'm sure they would go on any news program to talk about it. The others just aren't talking about it and his statement would counter the narrative they are trying to spin about disinformation.
Note that, despite the title, this is not an article about Weird Al and his parody lyric writing process.
This seems cool but my imagination doesn’t seem to be working today. I can’t seem to think of any interesting applications of this.
The world's biggest privacy invader is offering a VPN --- for privacy???

ROTFLMAO
Many companies have an attitude of "when the work is done, you can go home".

Since the cloud print migration will be more work, rather than OP going home at 4pm to see family and go for a jog, now he'll be staying in the office testing printer setups and going home at 9pm after his children are in bed.
Ok, so what are your experts on housing policy? On agrarian policy? On international trade? On Newfoundland state politics? On medicine?

The number of areas where you can personally vet your experts is very small. For the rest, you must either choose to be uninformed or you can choose an organization to vet those experts for you. Trust is transitive.
I can recommend Jetbrains Rider [1] for anything C#. I prefer it over Visual Studio even.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
as I trust HN more than reddit (perhaps optimistically), what VPN should I use with a seedbox? I've been looking at seedhost, but wondering if I also need a VPN as well, as an american
TwitGrid now takes parameters passed in via the URL fragment (everything after the # in a URL).

For example, you can do this:

https://vilimpoc.org/research/TwitGrid/#columns=8;users=vili...

And it will parse that and layout the feeds in 8 columns per viewport. The viewport can then be paged up / down.
First thing I thought of as well, one of the best books I've ever read, also pretty scientifically accurate.
Okay, maybe a hardware switch on the motherboard wired to the write-protect pin, but that begs the question of why that write-protect pin is needed.

For a period in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was a physical write-protect. That was also a period when BIOSes came with less bugs, so there was far less need to change it; but when the need did arise, it was there.
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Sort of. There are still lots of USB printers which just won't work with ChromeOS - despite working fine in regular Linux.
I've not intentionally fasted over sustained periods - my reference comes from being inconvenienced by hunger in the middle of necessary activity and persisting anyways. I should try to discipline myself for a few days and see what happens to my psyche.

I've wondered if high function brain pharmaceutical intervention (depression pill) succeeds because of a similar effect - the side effects themselves are the "cure" because the body is purposely affected at the base of Maslow's pyramid. This distracts the user from existential angst or threats out of the realm of control of the individual because this is a self inflicted "problem" that can be solved (guaranteed) by patience and temporary suffering.
On second thought, all publicity is good publicity. Maybe drawing the attention of Atlassian would be good from a marketing perspective. They would effectively let Atlassian initiate a comparison between the two products.
Reminds me of Dr Katz animation:

https://youtu.be/CWaNSfkWb6s

I believe they called their technique wobblevision.
I don't completely understand this sentiment. I mean, when confronted with "rookie devs", surely our focus should be on transforming them into not-rookie devs, not on transforming our tooling into a dumbed-down version...

Plus, while 'elegance' is mostly subjective, I see a lot of it in XPath. It's a DSL for describing generic tree traversal, its concise and declarative, and frees its users from the need of writing imperative or recursive, repetitive and easy to mess up, tree traversal code. Just not having to maintain state by hand during traversal is a huge timesaver. Additionally, at least in version 1 + some early extensions, XPath is much less complex than PCREs and not much more complex than CSS syntactically.

edit: typos
There is now an explainer video -- https://youtu.be/S8JrmXg0BNo -- for why this exists in the first place.
The games & records are the premise; the people and personalities were the movie IMO
Here's some commentary on the technical arguments against the play on the videos being from original hardware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/8a6ymm/billy_mitc...
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I have not, as last time I checked, there was no vim plugin for editor integration with the OCaml REPL, but did another search now and found something that seems to make it possible (https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime) so might test it out at one point. OCaml always looked interesting, but now I could actually try it so thanks for the reminder!
how disappointing.
This requires your imagined scenario to be true. It also requires that the selective release of information is weighed in the opposite direction to what you are seeing.

In specific terms this is equivalent to saying "Russians showed us proof of Dem corruption" and the response by the media is "well imagine that there's worse GOP corruption that they haven't leaked"
This looks really cool! I'm testing it now. So far so good. It is actually quite impressive how it works.
Shameless plug of DefiantJS[1] that gives a lovely fast XPath query capability to JSON data.

1. https://defiantjs.com
For a good overview about how DMCA/lawsuit happy Billy Mitchell is, check out this video from the absolute legend Karl Jobst: https://youtu.be/DNSJX1a2weo
I love Google sheets but I also work with large enough data sets that it regularly freezes up which is always associated with a frustrating “lost connection” message. I’ve been shifting more and more to Excel because of this. It’s pretty funny to move away from Google because my data is too big.
I was taught in physical sciences that friction was proportional to weight and surface area. We were given blocks and a 'force meter' that was a bendy springy length of metal in a wooden calibrated frame.
So pull blocks on a surface with the meter to measure friction. Try different surface area, stack them for multiples of weight, plot on a graph.
Mine weren't coming out on a straight line. Other people noticed theres' weren't either, so they fudged their data points. I put down the honest ones. I got it 'wrong', they got it 'right'.

Of course that old myth was nonsense, my experimental method was correct, and I've felt the injustice for decades now!
CSS and XPath don't share any functionality.

Maybe you had XSLT in mind (which still is different) - or the fact that both CSS and XPath have "selectors". But one is used to get nodes (as a library), the other is a styling language.

And XPath, at least originally, had an extremely elegant path language.
Cloud Print still depends on some Google Talk internal API's. Google Talk went away long ago, and all it's infrastructure was still running for cloud print, making it very expensive to keep going for a small number of users.
Privacy --- by routing all your network traffic through Google's server???

Really? It's impossible to underestimate the stupidity of the herd. Moooow.
This may be the first time I've ever disagreed with a comment you've made, but here we go!

> Meanwhile, safety in a web application is domain-specific, and there isn't much a language can do to protect you.

There absolutely is. Rust's expressive type system is a more important feature than the memory-safety guarantees for general purpose programming. This has significant impact on the ability to express security constructs directly in the code. Witness, for instance, the widespread use of typing to distinguish unvalidated and validated user inputs, such as Rocket's RawStr type [0].

Applying that technique can mitigate SSRF attacks without even knowing the details. You can worry all you like about SQLI in Rust, but in the code I've seen it's no more a concern than any web app, and likewise it can be enforced in the type system in a way that sure seems superior to "hope the dev only writes boring Python".

I'd agree with the general premise that, all things being equal, the security of something that looks exactly like everything else is higher than some novel construct. But I strongly disagree that there's nothing a language can do to help developers write secure applications, and I'd suggest it starts with an expressive type system.

[0]: https://api.rocket.rs/v0.4/rocket/http/struct.RawStr.html
That is a philosophical question, of which politics is just a derivative.
Rtmp client is a big value add. I’ve been using Oven Media Engine with OpenVidu to get that rtmp endpoint.

Can I ask what you’ve been building on?
I’m a beginner clojurian but i’ve noticed some devs put a repl folder in their source tree, e.g. stuart sierra’s component project has a dev sub folder https://github.com/stuartsierra/component/tree/master with repl examples in addition to the tests.

I missed a trick in life, i started getting into Clojure in 2020 but about 5 years ago i used to sit 1 row of desks away from Stuart Sierra in Stirling and I don’t think i ever properly spoke to him save for hello or so. It was a funny setup in that operation, i had to fight for my small team to even have office space at the time!
I wonder if this is something that is going wrong in my brain lol. I have a hard time remembering when exactly things happened (to figure out in what year I started school I basically have to walk backwards through my memories keeping track of some kind of time marker like seasons, like traversing a linked list). I often joke that if I ever was a suspect in a criminal investigation it would be very difficult for me to provide an alibi. It feels like a lot of day to day memories don't get 'time-stamped' at all.

I always thought this mainly had to do with ADD related working memory problems, but maybe it's more of an episodic memory problem?
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I read this as "Weird EY AYE Yankovich", which I thought was super duper clever.
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Every single one of those private liquor stores buys its stock through the BC Liquor Distribution Branch of British Columbia, so yes, the monopoly is still very much there, just hidden behind a few facades. I suspect something similar is the case in other provinces too.
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My experience is that it is much more difficult to focus on any individual task, but much easier to enter a 'flow' state with ADHD.

If I can manage to do 'thing a', I find that often, all the world falls away - regardless of what the thing is.

I also have a theory, completely unfounded and out of my own ass, that ADHD and other similar issues are just part of the spectrum that is autism. Any scientist want to confirm my personal belief?
> usually created by the merging of two black holes — have dramatically increased their sensitivity since the first identification was made in 2015. The growing data set is helping astronomy

That graph looks like a hockey stick. Is it really accelerating or are we just getting better at detecting it (this makes more sense)?

One question for me is how do they know which collision is BH+BH, BH+star, Or star+star? That sounds incredibly interesting detail
The disappointing thing about iCloud for me is the nonstandard 2FA.

No QR code you can scan into an app of your choice. No FIDO/U2F. No printable backup codes. You use your iPhone and if you want a backup, you'd better buy a mac.
Just to be clear here, burden of proof is on whoever makes a claim. Strawmanning is refuting a claim that isn't quite what someone else claimed.

Of you claim something exceptional, you need exceptional proof. Such as the mentioned world-will-end claims.

If you are merely saying "there's a guy who says..." it's a whole lot easier, you just have to point at where he said it.

I'm not making any claims, just pointing out that if someone indeed says that the world will end soon, they gotta do the heavy lifting.
This has been particularly interesting to me because I can usually only relate to system design in software visually.

It works wonders for me personally to see code blocks as literal blocks that do X and connect to other blocks via graph edges. Then I pseudocode what I want and replace.

Whiteboarding is a bit difficult if I can't visualize transformations or stores of data in some way, or if I can't see a theoretical big picture for a particular function.
Op is already in base 100 fixed point. I guess because that's what the sensor returns?

Though it might be smart to convert it to another format. Four nibbles of BCD would be ideal and the MCS-48 looks to have native support for it.

Thought you would need a custom version of shift by 4 that handles BCD.

Or simplify the equation to just adds:

C2 = C + C
C4 = C2 + C2
C8 = C4 + C4
C16 = C8 + C8
Res = C16 + C2
> Let’s just forget about their sweet pensions and lifelong benefits package.

Let's not; considering it doesn't make their total pay and benefita particularly good for the entry requirements, though it makes it somewhat less bad, leaving them only 11.1 percent behind comparable professions instead of 18.7 percent considering pay alone, as of 2017.

https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-gap-2018/
The NBC story is about a completely separate incident. It has nothing to do with the laptop.

The contents of the laptop are not "fake news." At least one email has had its DKIM signature verified. Multiple people who were copied on the emails have verified their authenticity. The pictures and videos of Hunter Biden on the laptop speak for themselves.

It is entirely possible that the story of how the laptop was acquired is at least partially fake, but there's no actual evidence of that, and some evidence pointing the other way - why would Biden's lawyer ask the computer shop owner for the laptop if he didn't have it, and Biden if Biden thought he didn't have it?

This story is truly shocking to me, not so much for the allegations of corruption, which are neither surprising nor interesting, but for the willful blindness of so many very smart people who are using a lot of brainpower to rationalize it away.
I have totally replaced Drive/Docs/Sheets with Nextcloud [1] + OnlyOffice [2]. You still get online cloud storage and online editors with the bonus of using the widely popular (OOXML standard).

1. https://nextcloud.com/

2. https://www.onlyoffice.com/

As far as Gmail goes, I have heard really good things about Fastmail (as others have mentioned) or if you want to host your own, I highly recommend checking out mailu.io.
That's fine, there's no reason why everyone needs to understand why I do what I do :) I agree with you on FOSS software brittleness though, Linux is usually better on that front. Brew is a hack that works well enough in practice, however.
Yes this was explained extensively in the episode 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.

The inventor of their gates found a flaw and reported it. In typical capitalistic fashion the higher ups decided the $ was worth the lives so they silenced/banished him.
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Suing is really a jerk move.

I mean it’s a video game high score. It’s impressive played on an emulator or not.. but in the grand scheme of things..

I always thought of Billy Mitchel as kinda a fun personality in small doses. In the extras on the “fistful of quarters” he brings an old woman a q Bert machine to practice on which was nice.
Though he seems to have a bit of an humility problem he seemed affable.

This Lawsuit changes ones perception of that image a bit. I wonder what his reception at in person video game events will be once they resume.
It’s actually easy to see why I was downvoted.

If you believe what is being said about the NYT it challenges a couple of core beliefs that many people (especially on this forum) might hold

1. Freedom of speech is not always a good thing. A free press reporting on topics like “but her emails” can have negative consequences, even if those journalists are acting in good faith.

2. People in the aggregate can’t be trusted to make sound judgements, even if that means democracy is built on shaky foundations. Give them all the information and let them take a call is a strategy that can backfire. Flat earth, anti vax, qanon are all ideologies with vast following online, regardless of how stupid they are.

When you challenge people’s core beliefs, it hurts them. They respond with downvotes.
I come from a Node.js background and picked up Rust about a year ago, after dabbling with Haskell, Elixir and Purescript.

---

Things I like:

- Modern type system. Sum types, Option type etc

- Strict compiler. If it compiles, it works.

- Great error messages.

- Mature package tooling. Cargo is at least as good as npm.

- Mature GraphQL packages.

- Decent cloud support. Github actions, Container guides.

---

I've been running it in production for a while, usually as a remote schema for Hasura: https://github.com/ronanyeah/rust-hasura

Deploy pipeline:

- Push to github

- Github action builds binary

- Github action pushes binary to AWS ECS in a container

- This triggers a rebuild of the AWS Fargate service which restarts with new Rust code
Facebook leak reveals policies on restricting New York Post's Biden story
I may be wrong, as it's been some time since I worked with them, but I think XPath is both its own standard, and a part of XSL at the same time. A lot of XSLT deals with selecting nodes from the source and it happens with XPath expressions.
I agree, for a significant portion of the packages yet not all.

Regardless, the diaspora of packages is just common culture in Javascript in the wild. As a reference, I site leftpad. As a remedy I offer the saying 'its better to laugh than to cry'.. :)
Gmail being a complimentary service takes a core role of Google's user identity tracking and control. Don't forget that Gmail always has been and will be the primary reason why users are creating Google accounts.
As far as I know, Australia forces email providers to give them backdoor into email:

https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130806/australia-access...

I don’t know how it affects Apple or Fastmail’s non AUS customers. I still pay Fastmail just to support their mission.

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-and-support/how-to-engag...
I haven't tried it out so I can't speak to the quality of it but there's the LIKO-12 as a free alternative: https://liko-12.github.io
I used wasm for a computer vision related feature we built at work. It allowed us to reuse a bunch of things from opencv without having to reimplement those things in JS.
Journalism has stopped being about reporting what happened, and has become increasingly focused on telling you what to think about what happened

And on the other hand, it's about reporting what might happen. What I'm seeing around me is that "news reporting" is more often than not speculation about tomorrow's events, rather than reporting about today's events. Maybe it's for the same reason, reporters feel that today's events have already been covered to death because of the hype news cycle, so they turn to speculation rather than confirmation and contextualization?
>if you don't delete the whole repo.

Right, but the repo and the other features are fundamentally not the same thing on SourceHut. It's entirely unnecessary to take down the mailing list (perhaps to take down the archives, but not stop accepting future emails) to comply with a DMCA notice. The mailing list and the repository are not joined at the hip like they are on GitHub. And the service provider is not obliged to be creative in finding the broadest possible scope of infringement: the onus is on the DMCA author to provide a list of infringing material.