skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume it's a script that searches the CSS files for any JS and runs eval()?

Yeah, the problem isn't CSS, them problem is whoever thought that was a good idea. Now XSS is a "feature" of CSS.
Same here. Working with a crappier language in return for retiring earlier is an acceptable trade off for me. Even if after a decade of working in COBOL I became unable to find another IT job, I wouldn't care, because I'd be already happily early retired.

Out of curiosity I just made a short search for COBOL jobs in my area. The few I found actually pay less than my current Java job.
Corporations are not people, however.
-1 from me. I was put off from the beginning when she said the UI “sucked” or similar, didn’t know the author was a woman at that point. Believe me or don’t but that’s my story & I’m sticking to it.

+1000 to the author for raising specific accessibility concerns and contrasting (no pun intended) the colour palates with those of other sites. The old “dark gray on light gray; tiny text” style (see: daring fireball of days past) drives me nuts.

I think the author makes fantastic points and it’s unfortunate that the somewhat mean spirited language distracts from those points, leading to this discussion rather than a more substantive one about accessibility. Not the end of the world either way.
> Expecting opponents to trust the result is absurd.

Did you trust the result in 2016? Do you trust the House results, or the Senate results?
> if your business model is free software, it needs to be monetized some other way

Mutual self-interest is a good, solid business model. JPEG was developed long ago by a bunch of companies who needed a good, standard image format. Now AV1 is being developed by a bunch of companies who want to use less bandwidth for the video and will save truckloads of money not paying patent license fees. Not to mention standarization, economies of scale, and interoperability benefits.
A company simply not having to pay the fees for something proprietary can be all the funding needed to support a free software version.

Free software development generally only needs about 1/10th as much monetization to begin with. You may get to start with the works of other people; others using your work builds the user base quickly without paying to advertise and sell your product; you'll get a lot of free testing/debugging/code feedback; etc.
RFC Mm: Introducing the Maple Tree
I guess that’s why he was afraid of the gas chamber.
Fair enough. Although I would prefer a less sensational term, I liked “Big Data” a lot in that regard.
Im confused. The article seems to be saying you can sue government agents who violate your rights, but the ruling seems to only be saying you can sue the government. Which seems dumb. The agent violated your rights, not the taxpayers.
This is the Amazon business model. If a third party seller starts making money selling something, they offer their own version and put it at the top of the results/attention.
> Why do you expect Red Hat to maintain a free OS which targets exactly the same use case as their paid OS?

Because they said they would.

They could have made the change effective prior to releasing CentOS 8, or they could have made it effective for all versions after CentOS 8. Either of those paths would be understandable. Making the change after many have already migrated to 8 sends the message that Red Hat commitments are not to be trusted.
That is about a different bug involving Keystone :)
Great point also. I am going to pass your question to some people that I hope can answer it.
A human can learn maths and do pure analysis (if it was smart enough).

A machine would struggle with simply machine learning to answer pure math questions.

Although the M1 chip from Apple.... ;)
No, but that is my opinion. I think it's a net negative to society until I see evidence to the contrary. Links welcome.
I built something like this a while ago, but mine is not nearly as nice. I etched an interlaced finger pattern on a big copper clad board, then put a tented piece of metal overtop of that, then some lexan sheets with a graphic inbetween them on top, so when you step on the arrow, it squishes the metal plate on to the circuit board and closes the circuit. It works remarkably well. And then the whole thing is powered by an Arduino that pretends to be a keyboard: https://github.com/jwalton/arduino-dancepad
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> rule on what the law is, not decide what the law should be

Seems like that's very hard to square with Citizens or Shelby County, both of which overturned quite clearly written laws with long-accepted interpretations.

The textualism stuff is, at best, an excuse used when the court wants to do nothing. It doesn't limit the court when it wants to make changes. In this case, the court took as narrow a step as possible into the minefield that leads to Qualified Immunity. It's a baby step in the right direction, but it's just a baby step.
A programmer's significant other tells them, "Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen."

The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread.
Of course they're guidelines, I'm not sure what alternative there is. WCAG mandates that the browser won't render unless it passes?
What Limits the Simulation of Quantum Computers?
Well, Microsoft gave up and are using Google's browser. And Mozilla just downsized the Firefox team (and they're paid by Google to keep Firefox going, basically). And Safari is only ever a presence on Apple computers, which Apple already control completely. It's not really a huge competition...
It still strikes me that after all this time, the next step in the direction of the author is to use an editor like ACME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)): use the shell to its maximum power, where the output of a command can be edited and used to control the existing interface.

Take for instance this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4djoOiLste0
The author shows how the output of "git status" is just a text, you can modify the text and add "git add" just in front of the files you care about and add the file to the index. There is no linear loop of command input that becomes command output, it's all one big buffer that can feed itself. Consider how there could be another window that perpetually shows the status thanks to a combination of inotify and git status, and you have a git view. Fiddle with the command line argument and you can choose wether to show whitespaces or not, whether to show a summary view or the full diff, or restrict the list to some files. Have another window where you can write some message, and a GitCommit command in the "Tag" of the window will use the whole buffer as a git commit message; boom, you have 60% of what I use git-cola for.

A bit more information can be seen by one of its creator here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M. The possibilities are truly endless, and I haven't seen anything that resembles it. There is just no editor that embraces your platform the way Acme does.

No, Emacs is not the same, because Emacs doesn't integrate with your OS; Emacs is an OS unto itself. You can't really say it's integrated to the OS when everything is implemented in the language that only Emacs uses.
> How did Tesla manage to create this when GM has been making cars for decades and that is the singular focus of the company?

(replaced the subjects with auto-industry corollaries)

I think it's the power of vertical integrations. When you aren't cobbling together a bunch of general-purpose bits for general-purpose consumers, you don't have to pay as many taxes. Sort of like SRP in software - a multi-purpose function is going to become super bloated and expensive to maintain, compared to several single-purpose alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl...

Vertical integration is like taking horizontally-integrated business units and refactoring them per SOLID principles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID
> we develop algorithms that show that real quantum computers—plagued by interference from their environment—can be simulated at a tiny fraction of the computational cost that is needed for a perfect quantum device
"which is not deformed by perspective" = parallel projection, as opposed to a conic projection. The further from the closest cap on the cylinder its apparent size remaining the same as the cap. In a deformed projection the opposite cap in infinity would collapse to a point. And that would defeat the thought experiment.
I'm a bit confused.

My point was that "drop the ball" means that they made a mistake. I don't think they did, it was intentional and I'd say even malicious.

Why do you think that this was not the case?
In other words, how much would Pepsi pay for the secret recipe to Coke?
AFAICT, Amazon Linux 2 is largely based on RHEL 7, not 8. So not at all nearly the same system. If you're "simply switching" from CentOS 8 to Amazon Linux 2, prepare to put some serious work into it.
I too came back here to say "Interesting take". I didn't get to read enough of it so I hope to get back and comment on it later. That said, it feels a bit too daunting that I don't see a menu tree only links leading to yet another page. I feel lost. I'd love to have a map of the territory to be able to size it up. Currently I have no idea if this is 50 pages or 500 pages.

All right the sitemap says 127 pages.
That looked somewhat interesting, but man, my eyes just totally rebelled at the light gray font on a slightly lighter gray background. Especially on a weekend, after too many hours of screen time already this week.

Why do people do this? Do they not want people to read their stuff?

That kind of thing is fine for a large heading in an Apple ad, but is actively user-hostile for long-form text. Note that Apple itself uses proper text contrast for its long-form documents.
I'm pretty sure the ruling is saying that due to how the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is worded, suing individual agents of the government qualifies as redress against the government; The RFRA more specifically defines what 'the government' means to include agents of the government acting in their individual capacities.

> (a) RFRA’s text provides that persons may sue and “obtain appro-priate relief against a government,” 42 U. S. C. §2000bb–1(c), includ-ing an “official (or other person acting under color of law) of the United States,” §2000bb–2(1). [1]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-71_qol1.pdf
That looks promising, thank you!
Yeah. The only time I really want a dark mode is if the room I'm in is dark.

If it isn't, I usually just don't care or actually prefer white for some things like writing mails.
I'm really looking forward to these, but I wonder about the charge time. Even if/when batteries can take much higher charge input, the power source and underlying grid has to be able to provide that greatly increased output safely.

If the Tesla Model X 100D can charge to 170 miles range in 30 minutes with 480v 300A power source, the charging station for this Toyota would need to be ????v and ????A (many multiples of the Tesla). I don't think I want to be anywhere near that if something goes wrong. The solid state battery may not fail, but something else might... That's an electrical explosion with deadly power.
Difference between machine learning and AI:

If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning

If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
Rather than the exploiter setting an arbitrary price (which would be closer to blackmail), I think parent comment was saying that the fair market value of disclosing such a bug was worth closer to $75k given the unique skill set required.

Skilled engineers turn to cybercrime when white-hat bounties are insufficiently rewarding, so it is in everyone's interest to pay competitive rates for finding security vulnerabilities.
How to Build Trust in the Vaccines
I honestly didn't notice the author's gender until you pointed it out, which led me to check the name. I simply read the article and agreed with most of the points, then came here to see the comments. In fact, I never attach a gender identity to authors or commenters unless something they say nudges me to check their name or username, or unless it's an author I'm familiar with.

Having said that, I think it's a safe bet to assume that one doesn't "only" find such tone policing comments when the author is a woman, because one almost always finds such tone-policing comments on hacker news whenever there's an opportunity to complain about tone.
But most new technology is very expensive at first.
If you are describing quality of the color “metallic green knife” - like the car in My Cousin Vinny for example
You don't risk "overexposing" (as the article says) anything with film/paper; basically you reach the "reciprocity failure" where the rule of exposure fails, and you can pretty much ignore the exposure time /completely/ at that point. Double it? fine. 4 times? still fine :-)

I've done many 30 minutes+ exposures on both pinhole and large format cameras. On the later, it captures an insane amount of tonalities from what you are imaging, almost like "HDR" but well, with just a piece of carboard for shutter and a watch to time how long your patience lasts :-)
It’s the general vs a specific instance.

He’s gone to hospital. (Hospital is abstract, we don’t necessarily know which one)

He’s gone to the hospital. (A specific hospital, either inferring which one by context or prior knowledge)
Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
The question is: Chrome, or no Chrome? xD
Excellent article. I've been extremely disappointed at how poorly knowledge about COVID spread and prevention have spread as we continue to gain more knowledge. It absolutely makes sense that advice was general and broad in March, but we know a ton more about how this virus is spread and yet I still see people focusing on things that matter very little like some of the things and yet assuming they can do whatever the want risk free if they're more than 6ft apart.
Citizens United was based on the law being unconstitutional, not the court’s interpretation of the law.
Android with google services replacement MicroG GmsCore runs most apps without hassles.
In the US, yes. Unauthorized access and computer trespass is often felonious. People have gone to prison for logging into an email account by guessing the password.
New superhighway system discovered in the Solar System
As long as it's a choice, then great! But if it is forced upon you, then it can definitely be a problem.
But here's the kicker: the worst thing Oracle can possibly do is to say "yeah, that whole Linux distro that we used to give you for free? We're not doing that anymore." So even if you do move to Oracle Linux and they go full evil, you're no worse off than you are on CentOS right now.
There is literally nothing wrong with dark mode. It is a _choice_ which makes your analogy invalid. You can not choose to have or not have an open office as an employee, and no picking a new place of work is not the same thing.

What you're saying is akin to saying: "You like dark mode? Well you're wrong its bad for you." No thanks, not interested in your opinion.
Just nitpicking, but the package manager for the Debian family is dpkg, not apt; apt is a layer above dpkg. The same way, the package manager for the RedHat family is rpm; yum and it successor dnf is a layer above rpm.
Qualified immunity doesn't protect a government official who violates "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known" [1].

Also, qualified immunity applies to "discretionary" functions performed by government officials, but "discretionary" doesn't mean "whatever the official thinks is ok". It means a function in which the applicable laws and regulations do not dictate exactly what the government official is to do, but leave some scope within which the official has the discretion to choose a specific action. So whether qualified immunity would protect an FBI agent who put someone on the No Fly list would depend on why they did it and whether the applicable laws and regulations allowed them the discretion to do it for that reason. I doubt the applicable laws and regulations allow FBI agents the discretion to put someone on the No Fly list simply because they refused to be a government informant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Dark mode is not a fad, it's simply a good option to have in the valid cases you describe[1], and has been available in many products for decades.

The reasons we're seeing more of it are that developers are switching their bad hard-coded UIs to more flexible systems which allow it, and now that even MacOS/iOS supports it, there's an expectation for more and more apps to conform.

[1]: another valid case is apps with a strong emphasis on graphics: Photoshop, YouTube, Instagram, etc. A dark UI mitigates visual interference with the content.
Forgive me, but if you're just building out a new server, wouldn't it be easier and less risky to stick with RHEL or Stream since you already know your workload runs fine?
You also already know all the packages you need and probably have config files all set up and everything. At a minimum I would think they would pretty equal as far risk and ease if you're rebuilding.

My workloads are mostly containerized at this point so the host OS is pretty insignificant overall. Perhaps you're in the same boat, although I'd still think it's at worst equal, at best easier to stick with RHEL flavored.
The reality is if YouTube was committed to free speech this wouldn't even come up at all. People would 'brand' YouTube this way about as much as they do Chrome for letting you browse websites claiming the election was stolen, or web search for letting you find it, or your ISP for letting you download the HTML. Nobody would give a crap, they'd just argue about other platforms where the owners were engaging in censorship.

Political censorship isn't just morally wrong, it's bad for business and bad for your brand too. The moment you allow that camel to put its nose under the tent, you're inviting in a whole world of pain. Suddenly every zealot out there will be demanding you silence the people who disagree with them, because they know that maybe if they make enough noise you will. They'll attack your brand hard because they know if they do you might cave. A hard core libertarian "everyone is served on principle" attitude keeps the fighting at bay because people know it's not worth putting in the energy.
Agree with @Aeolun's comment. Feature Flagging is one exception in buy vs. build where there just isn't any good SaaS out there that makes it "just buy it" worth it. More so if you need customizations beyond what is offered.
> History, literature, philosophy, and anthropology are all good examples of valuable humanities where there is some grounding in logic and facts.

I'm sorry, but this is a profound misapprehension of the humanities: one of the first things you do in the study of history is learn that history is a human project, subject to human flaws. We don't take Thucydides and Herodotus at their words; we expect the "facts" of history to be distorted.

Philosophy predates what you think of as "logic," and does not use the phrase to refer solely to systems that map roughly to the constrained proof structures that programmers are taught. More profoundly, many philosophers will outright reject the idea that logic is some kind of a priori substrate: not because they think it's wrong or not, but because they think that it's the responsibility of philosophy to consider what would have to be for it to be otherwise.

I know that it's difficult, but please consider whether your own positions have become dogmatic. You don't have to agree with prevailing views in gender studies (I don't even know what they are!); you merely have to ask yourself whether you're qualified to dismiss it as "an ideology with very little basis in reality."
Recently I’ve been using Linux more, as I used to. Have to say Ubuntu remains the most polished and useful of the distro’s overall. Just works most of the time.
If there were a table of several objects, many of which were green knives, only one of which were made of metal. You are standing out of arm's reach and need someone close to the table to hand you precisely the green knife that will get the job done: the metal green knife.
Which is essentially market driven blackmail as far as I can see. Once I meet my new neighbours (one of whom is a moral philosopher by trade) I might ask about how to assess if that's ok. Personally it feels somewhat ok to me, speaking as someone who's built industrial espionage for money.
Academically, clearance is unrelated to frame versus unibody. In practice, body on frame facilitates lifting the body to provide additional wheel clearance and more substantial suspension modification and/or larger diameter tires. e.g. more options for lift kits.

On the other hand, any vehicle with 8" or more of ground clearance qualifies as high-clearance and is reasonable for BLM, Forest Service, and Park Service roads designated "High Clearance" under ordinary conditions.

Unibody allows lower floor height which is not the same as ground clearance. It's more closely tied to step-over height for entry/exit.
>the government doesnt have any money of its own - thats our money. to rephrase: the government does something the courts rule as wrong, so they take money from us to pay for their mistakes. the injured party clearly deserves recompense, but i feel like we can do better than this.

I see and understand your perspective. You're right, "government" does do things that, prospectively, contemporaneously and/or retrospectively are inappropriate, unfair and/or just plain bad/stupid.

That said, at least in the United States, "government" isn't some foreign agency or third party. Government is us. All of us, through those we select as representatives in our town, county, state and federal governments.

We can (and, in my estimation, should) do better. But I believe it's incorrect to place blame on some nebulous "government", as if it's not us Americans.

A good way to start "doing better" would be to remove the perverse incentives that make money the primary currency of our political system.

Independent, non-partisan creation of local/state/federal election districts is a good idea too.

That's a huge problem. For example[0], in the 2018 elections, 53% of Wisconsinites voted for Democratic state (assembly and senate) candidates, but those candidates only won 36% of seats in those bodies.

That's just one example. I'm not singling out any particular party, there certainly are states with Democratic majorities that have created district maps that favor their candidates too.

In any case, I agree with OP, but just wanted to point out that, at least in the US (and many other places too), we are the government, not downtrodden serfs crushed under the heel of some other group.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/several-l...

Edit: Fixed typographical error and redundant wording.
I use mpd scripts to auto-generate a list of my favorite songs and upload them to my site [0] [1].

[0]: https://seirdy.one/music.txt

[1]: gemini://seirdy.one/music.txt

I summed up my music preferences on my site's "about" page; copying the Gemini source below:

-----

It's auto-generated by some of my mpd-scripts:

=> https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/mpd-scripts/tree/master/smart-play... mpd-scripts

I'm a fan of glitch, trailer music, and symphonic and power metal; I've also recently been getting into Japanese rock thanks to a few anime openings. Some of my favorite artists are The Glitch Mob, Pretty Lights, Beats Antique, Hammerfall, Badflower, Celldweller/Scandroid, Helloween, Two Steps from Hell, Nightwish, Mili, and MYTH & ROID.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.

I almost abandoned it during the first part; felt too... normal? Dull? Too attached to the modern world, when I wanted novel sci-fi concepts... I was thoroughly unprepared.

Looking back, it's the type of novel that makes me want to write code; start projects; fix problems.