skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this. I also remember the colour of the video window was something like 030303 and if you had that colour on any other window (including your wallpaper) you would see the video there as well.
Wow there are 492 packages that depend on this. My favorite is isNotArray which as you may guess is just !isArray(whatever);

https://github.com/zlatinejc/isnotarray
I tried one of the recently purchased "modern model F"s. It felt a lot better than my old original model F battleship I sold for a lot of money about 7 years of. I don't know if it was how they felt in pristine condition, because the model F battleship was a lot older than me when I bought it.
> What is called far right in USA is the same thing we call neo-fascism anywhere else

The US far-right includes camps that don't exactly fit that definition (though there is plenty of overlap), like christian dominionists, corporatist right-libertarians, and the misogynistic PUA/incell/MRA crowd (which is more of a feeder system than a political philosophy per se).

It's a rather Big Tent™.
Where is the $2m story? Not even a mention of the company?
In general paying content producers allows them to produce more content. If it's neutral for the (legitimate) end user, but positive for the creator, why would you not use it?
I'm looking at Nokia again for my next phone. Just need to wait for reviews to start.
Actually, unlike most DSLs, the nix language itself is pretty great and can be learned in an afternoon by any competent programmer, no Haskell background needed.

The problem absolutely is complexity, and there is a lot of stuff you need to grok to be able to use nix productively in anger and sadly that includes a lot of stuff that really ought to be much more straightforward.

Also, IMO you don't do anyone a favor by recommending they try Guix-SD over NixOS unless you also make it pretty clear that Guix is quite fringe even compared to Nix. For example Nix can and is being used for Real Work by well known companies. It as a steep learning curve but also, for certain tasks, an enormous payoff that justifies this effort.
Why is it okay then for the votes of the elected legislators to be public? Wouldn’t all your arguments apply equally (or much more, given how much more powerful their individual votes are) to legislators?
Property damage does also count as violence, and at sea will be met with violence; illegal boats will start mounting guns.
The question is why some on the left think they are fighting nazis. I think I answered my anectdotal view sufficiently. There are people out there at protests acting under the symbols of nazism and the chief executive charged with assuring those who are concerned fails again and again to ease that concern. Defend his actions all you want. The vote has come in, you can look at that for it's democratic feedback and mandate on preferred leadership.
Another happy UHK owner here.

I got the UHK since I was suffering from an increasingly troublesome shoulder impingement syndrome after working on laptop for years. The UHK was the best split keyboard alternative I could find which didn't require too much change from the laptop keyboard. Getting the keyboard and raising the laptop screen with a nice stand fixed my posture and the shoulder problems have been reduced a lot (together with physical training).

Now I'm feeling discomfort in my back/neck if I have to work on my laptop for a few hours, and I don't see myself going back to a non-split keyboard. Adding a vertical mouse to the mix has also been an ergonomical improvement for me.

Like the parent comment, I don't miss the arrow keys since navigation is quicker with the mod layer. I also use the Fn layer for controlling spotify many times per day. The agent software shipped with the keyboard is also great for customization, you can see how it works online here: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.github.io/agent/

Disclaimer: I'm just a happy customer. The UHK is also the first enthusiast keyboard I've tried, so I don't know how it compare to others. I'd like to try the other types of layouts (like the columnar layout of the Moonlander), but it's hard to "risk" paying the price + shipment cost for those in case I don't like it, and living in the EU I need the ISO layout.
Never listen to anyone making rules about comedy. Clearly they don't have any clue what they are talking about.
I'm not convinced that exclusively "kicking up" does anything to meaningfully solve intolerance
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/37/
Is someone gonna explain the flaw in my logic here?
Author here for your 8008 questions and comments!
it's more about blatant hypocrisy of the left, using COVID as a political tool. Same as BLM protests in fact.
Do any downvoters believe Trump is a fan of democracy?
> If you buy an iPhone from Apple and replace the screen with a third-party one from China, does that make your device a counterfeit? What if you assemble an iPhone entirely out of aftermarket, recycled, or reused parts? (...) So maybe this phone isn’t Apple’s iPhone X, but it is an iPhone X.

Hey, nice right to repair nod, but that phone doesn't contain any Apple parts, so it's definitely not an iPhone X.
Comedians like Dave Chapelle, Louis CK, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Bill Burr, and many, many others, kick in every direction: up, down, left, right. Policing comedy with a lens of wokeness is a profoundly bad idea.
It’s impossible to have perfect information about everyone and everything around you, so you use the information you have to make assumptions about whatever you need to.

If I’m hiring from a pile of 1,000 resumes, and I don’t have time to review each one and speak to everyone, I’ll use the applicant’s school selectivity as a proxy for the probability of that candidate being a good fit.

Everyone does it, to evaluate how threatening someone looks or how attracted they might be to you, or how much economic value they might present to you, etc.

How accurate the information you’re using to base the assumptions is, of course, subject to change and can be wrong many times. But owning expensive things is considered a clue that the owner has the ability to procure many other resources, which might be relevant for a woman looking for economic security.

If you’re in the US, you can also look up someone’s job title/employer/their house address and get an idea of their income/wealth more accurately than the phone they use, so it might seem nonsensical in the US.
Yes these questions are dumb - I learned later they are cognitive distortions. I was in a bad place.
I'm not surprised that these open source communities are dying. They were founded based on the ideals of free speech and selfless sharing of technology. Both of these ideals are dying.

The GNU project makes it very clear that they are striving for the freedom of the user to modify and adapt the software that they use. So every time a GNU tool is used in the private back-end part of a SaaS webapp, that's directly opposite to the spirit of the GNU project, because you, the end user, have no way of modifying said SaaS.

And it's not only free speech in source code, it appears to me that free speech in general is under attack, now that people have noticed that a twitter storm and a supposed code of conduct violation is enough to wield immense power, for example by destroying someone's reputation, job, and life. We have effectively handed loaded guns to random strangers on the internet and, predictably, the results were bad.

The spirit of selfless sharing is also dying quickly, which I would blame onto the greed of internet startups and onto the entitlement of users that don't understand that GMail isn't truly free, just because there's no credit card charge.

I myself try to stay away from open source nowadays, because it ruins my mood if I get an entitled email from some random stranger who is insulting me because my free app did not solve his/her problem. In my case, a big company was kinda guilty in creating this problem, because they advocated my FOSS module on their homepage as if it was part of their expensive paid offering. So some of their customers feel like it's my duty to offer support...

Also, I would be very hesitant to release anything valuable with LGPL or even GPL these days. Chances are, it'll become the next cool "service" that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft will offer in their clouds, and I as the author of the software actually providing the service, will get nothing.

Case in point, one of my consulting clients is paying like $30,000 annually to Microsoft for hosted PostgreSQL. But apparently, re-selling PostgreSQL as a service with presumably millions in revenue is not enough for Microsoft to become an official sponsor...
https://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors/
One of the most common failings I see with technical people is the belief that technology should be applied to solve problems, even when those problems are pretty minimal and the application of technology could make them worse.

In the US, electoral fraud is not an important issue. Fraud exists to some extent, as in every country, but the scale of it is so small that it’s not a thing worth solving. The application of an opaque and difficult to understand technology to the problem offers no appreciable benefits and comes with its own baggage.

The same applies in the UK, which has piloted systems requiring voter ID. There is no appreciable benefit, and some obvious costs.
My assumption was that it was so they couldn't read identities on postal ballots. Another claim of fraud was that they were not allowed to photograph the ballots.
Here are the alternatives:

FileMerge - part of Xcode. Free. use opendiff to launch from CLI

BBEdit - My go to editor for the Mac. Freemium. Available both on the Mac app store and their website as a download.

VS Code - Also free.

SourceTree - Acquired by Atlassian. Also free. Good for git context to diff branches, commits and modified but uncommitted files in current branch.
I thought it would go without saying, but now I think I should say, with this system it’s transparent for everyone to see the transactions and where the votes went. Individuals could easily see that their vote was counted. The count would be instantaneous.

I guess one downside would be that everyone could see a running tally of the votes as they happen. Is that really a big problem?
I'm sure there are ways to do this.
One thing to keep in mind is that you may not be able to modify the car stereo in the vehicle with this technology.(without some other help)

My Jeep has this technology, and I added a more powerful subwoofer which resulted in a random intervals of 50-60hz coming out of the sub to cancel out the engine noise. It drove me nuts until I found a PAC audio interface that would give me a clean signal and bypassed the ANR.
Korn Shell Operators
I will teach my kids to judge based on successes and to be proud of failures. By writing about my failures I feel proud to own them.
> Also Do you believe COVID concerns should out weigh all other things including Economics, and even other health conditions (for example people stopped getting screenings for almost all other health conditions during this time. Cardiologists have come out extremely worried about the drop off in their health segments)

> Finally Do you believe all rights can be suspended provided the executive of the government declares a state of emergency? What if any limits on this declaration should there be or this the declaration the sole purview of the executive

Of course not, but you're engaging in over-the-top all-or-nothing hyperbole, even if you don't realize it, so your question isn't reasonable.

Libertarianism seems far more reasonable than it actually is when you mainly compare it to straw men.
This is a phenomenal article! Thanks for the link! (I had never heard of the “Cod wars” until now but they are fascinating...)
Did the author just make baseless accusations that high churn in the Linux desktop eco-system is a conspiracy?

Haven't there always been a high churn? And shouldn't we expect to that to continue until the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally happens :)
Shocked-pikachu.jpg

Why don't we have any browsers that aggressively deny and block tracking?

Oh right, the ad companies.
Maybe i didn't express myself clearly (english is not my primary language) but since with pg_upgrade the data will be copied from the old cluster to the new one, doing an upgrade to a 10GB database would need ~ 10 times more than upgrading a 1 GB database, just for the data copying. So the time will be proportional to the size of the data.
> The question is why some on the left think they are fighting nazis.

Using the labeling of the opposition as Nazis as the proof that they are Nazis, is one hell of a circular argument.
Billion dollar idea - RoI, Radio on Internet!
If you're in control of the environment, you might want to consider the yak shaving road and build a node package with a C, C++ or Rust library then. ;-)
Oh, hmm, I guess there's interesting things that could be done with paper ballots combined with a digital system. I'm extremely skeptical of any completely digital system however.
The results were very close in Florida as in less than a thousand votes. All of the states here the difference is nowhere near that. Recounts typically change vote counts by less than these amounts. I do not think the judicial system will decide this. In fact, I believe their impact will be near zero.
Of course they can’t do that; they’re deliberately misrepresenting a statement in order to stir up more of this nonsense.
It worries me that you failed at basic reading comprehension, yet still attacked me for what I overtly disclaimed:

> I'm not saying this is a good policy, just a hard technical tradeoff of what would be required for verifiable voting without cryptography.

It's a hard technical fact, that's all I was saying. Either trusted third parties (that are currently being maligned to shake our faith in the voting system), open ledger voting, or steep cryptography. I'm personally in favor of the cryptography, but I'm also able to understand it. Unfortunately as it goes against making the system widely understandable, I'd expect the same kind of "fake news" attacks were seeing presently.

FWIW mail in voting also gets rid of the secret ballot. Organizations haven't really adapted to taking advantage of this, but we're on borrowed time. The fundamental problem is that our current system relies on trusted third parties, and that trust is breaking down.
I don’t mind storing my source in the cloud (although if you asked my employer ten years ago it would have been a different story. That ship sailed. Even the biggest enterprises seem pretty happy to use cloud solutions for most things. I agree backup (and off ramps) are critical in any cloud offering. Can’t be in lock-in and also can’t trust their backup only of course.

Jira to me is just an issue manager though. I know there are plugins these days for document management inside Jira itself but I haven’t tried them. Don’t people normally have separate document solutions like Confluence or SharePoint for docs (aside from document that are attached to issues of course)?
Haha. Nope.
Isn’t this more an implementation problem than anything? People live their lives by encryption every day - and even have surgeries from remote doctors. I’m sure a secure way to reliably vote via electronic means could be implemented, if funding it were a societal concern. Granted, I’m thinking it’s probably just cheaper to rely on the minimum wage and volunteer work as we do now.
Yes I think this is possible (at least there are some blog posts recommending that way for upgrading without downtime) however configuring (and testing) that mechanism is not something I want to do :|
I think this means "wear headphones while watching this video to get the full experience of what it is actually like"
> I think nix isn't as useful for developers using it to setup their workstation

Trust me, if your development setup is non-trivial (bunch of services maybe in different languages maybe written by different teams) it absolutely is, and is one of the areas where you can get the biggest productivity wins by using nix.
Olive is worth following but it's way too early to compare it to anything. It's in alpha.
Maybe. But earlier detection isn't the panacea that we thought it might be in cancer.

The problem is--- staging isn't independent of the cancer's aggressiveness. If you detect a cancer at stage 2, it may be "earlier" detection, or it may be a much less aggressive cancer than one that would have reached stage 4 by the same point.
Or that we need an application containerization technology to capture dependencies..

Maybe: AppImage, snap, flatpak, docker or one of the others will eventually win out.
The EU regulates the amount of fish that can be caught, too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Fisheries_Policy , https://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/cfp_en).

It went even as far as stopping all fishing of herring in 1977-1982. That worked (in the sense of “herring didn’t go extinct, so there still is something to catch”)
Yes, and the even broader context: the Democratic victory was 4-6% _less_ than that indicated by diverse pre-election polling.

To allege fraud here is to assert that not only did Democrats rig the election, they rigged almost every poll going into it and created an illusion out of the entire political landscape. It would have to be an incredible large, elaborate conspiracy.

Occam's razor here is quite simple: more people voted for Biden than for Trump.
> The same applies in the UK, which has piloted systems requiring voter ID

VoterID makes perfect sense and is used in some parts of the UK already for 20 years. How anyone can possibly object to it, especially given how many and varied options are acceptable, astounds me.
"what about Biden?" in no way excuses Trump's statements.
How does this compare with unicomp keyboards ( https://www.pckeyboard.com/ ) Both are marketed as buckling spring monsters but surely there are some competent actual reasons to spend the extra money on the model-F?
Abortion is very tricky to push back to the states, because some states want to criminally prosecute the doctors and sometimes even the patients involved. Accepting a patient from a different state could lead to a doctor having committed a crime in that state and having in future to avoid traveling to that state or to any state that would extradite the doctor to that state. This would be a mess.

Education is already largely controlled below even the state level, by local school boards. The Federal government hands out a lot of money for the purpose, largely to even out the quality of education between wealthy and poor areas of the country, but it’s pretty hands-off.

Controlled substances is another place where criminal law differing state to state creates a legal mess. The more the law differs, the greater the mess. Delivery of drugs from states where they are legal to states where they are not has not yet blown up into a huge issue because the Federal government regulated interstate commerce and still considers the substances illegal. If the Federal government takes a hands-off approach and Amazon starts selling cocaine it’ll get messy fast. This sort of mess already exists due to patchwork laws about firearms, but in that case the problem is substantially mitigated by (a) the Federal department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and a constitutional right to at least have firearms in every state, even if the nuances differ.

Publicly funded media seems like a niche topic? Voice of America is a State Department effort aimed at influencing foreign policy. NPR gets most of its funding from donations. I can’t think of any other examples.

I could see certain classes of environmental issues being pushed back to the states, but it would be tricky and probably a mess. Polluted soil is likely to become an issue for other states if it’s in the drainage basin of the Mississippi, less so if it’s out on a salt flat somewhere in the desert west.

Labor issues, housing issues, and subsidies are already things that states have a lot of involvement in or control over. Housing activities by the Federal government mostly consist of welfare spending like subsidizing housing for the poor and underwriting mortgages for homebuyers. Another issue where the Federal government gets involved mostly for the purpose of shuffling money around between rich states and poor states.
It makes no sense, because it solves no problems and serves only to disenfranchise people. I can see no argument in support of it whatsoever.
> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now has a mix of GTK+2, GTK+3, GTK+4, QT4 and QT5 applications

I agree on several points he makes about GTK+3, not so much on the theming issue, but it's arguable that the reason most distros have a mix of gtk/qt by default is not because gtk+3.

Now pretty much every kde-based distro that wants to ship with firefox/chrome by default, has to bring up gtk. iirc ubuntu studio shipped with both qt and gtk because of the plethora of applications it offered, way before gtk+3 was a thing.
Almost everything we buy do own is about status we want for ourselves or show to others. Fake iphones could be used as status symbol for wealth in some parts of the world. In others it could be employment at a FAANG company, name in a research paper, false degree or membership at an exclusive club. All are different sorts of status symbols why we need them is because humans are basically animals and these status symbols for whatever reason signify strength which we feel we need instinctively even if not actively pursued.
Maybe I'm obtuse, but I don't really see the difference between downloading Firefox from the play store or downloading a porn app. In either case, I downloaded an app from Google's servers that allows me to view objectionable content.

If the objection is that Google doesn't want to provide an app that can be used to access illegal content, then why provide a browser? I would think that there is less of a chance of finding child porn on a major porn site app than what would be avaliable via a browser.

The only difference I can think of is that a browser has other functionality besides adult content.
As straight edge as he seemed, I recommend tracking down the Howard Stern interview he did several years ago.

One of the highlights was he tried cocaine at a party via someone who worked for him (accountant maybe) and Alex said he didn’t like it. He also mentioned ingesting a large quantity of cannabis edibles not knowing you weren’t supposed to. He said he slept all weekend and didn’t realize how long he was out. Pretty interesting given I always thought he was a straight edge.