skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your question of who to side with is interesting and I’m going to sidestep it entirely because there are second order effects to consider.

I couldn’t help but think about your quote

> people on the set who weren't millionaire celebrities and might be living paycheck to paycheck

Do you think that’s a healthy situation? Where you have Tom cruise, who yells because he has tremendous empathy for his workers who could starve because of their actions? Why is it that they are so vulnerable to piracy when the captains of that industry don’t have to worry about starving?

From the text in the linked article

> DMCA made a digital action a crime that had never been a crime when done in analog — publishing technological know-how to improve and repair devices that we own.

A farmer in Iowa cannot have her tractor repaired by her mechanic, she has to go to John Deere. Because of DCMA.

> Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-f...

We have broken systems making other systems broken. It’s like a virus. Maybe Tom Cruise should yell at Paramount and John Deere from standing so close.

The situation we have is that institutions are seeking (and getting) preferential treatment in society. This has been pushed by corporations and supported by government. Maybe Section 1201 isn’t an awful law, but the fact is that the little people it’s supposed to protect didn’t get a voice when it was drafted, they may have gotten lip service, but they were not listed to. We have just kept our incumbent industries alive, kept the systems that deprive them around and make life worse for the little people.
Oh? I'm sure you have evidence for that, I'd like to see it.
GCCrs: A Rust Frontend for GCC
That is astounding! something I was unaware about before. At what depth could it be measured?
Map of quotation marks in European languages
What does prod have to do with stale Docker images?

The problem is not updating your images. Running old libs on bare metal has exactly the same problem.
Usually this means the company does not sell to consumers and is b2b only, similar to how you just can't buy something anonymously online from a wholesale distributor.
SMS is mostly popular today because it’s user friendly. I can’t imagine that most users would like carrying around separate hardware tokens.

I would imagine there’s some point at which there’s an equilibrium between fraud costs and customer acquisition/retention costs.
>The other bank used to send printed lists of one-time codes, where the website would say 'type the code at index xyz'. Later they went for SMS-based 2FA, I think they're still on that nowadays.

One of the banks I use in India adds this grid to the back of your debit card. For higher value or non-usual transactions, they both ask for an SMS code and 3 values from the grid, in addition to the password to login to the netbanking site. The app allows you to get in with your fingerprint or a "quick access code", but these other factors kick for many transactions.
Learned a bit of C, not convinced it had any real benefit besides learning about pointers kinda drives things home for you about passing stuff around by values or reference if you are a self-taught Java / C# developer.

What set me on this path to enlightenement was an e-mail article from Dan Abramov (https://github.com/HackYourFutureBelgium/just-javascript/tre...) - here's an excerpt:

"We will learn about the JavaScript world for what it is — without thinking about how it’s implemented. This is similar to how physicists can talk about properties of stars without answering the question whether the physical world is real. It doesn’t matter! We can still describe it on its own terms.

Our mental model does not attempt to answer questions like “How is a value represented in the computer memory?” The answer changes all the time! In fact, the answer to this question changes even while your program is running. If you heard of a simple explanation about how JavaScript “really” represents numbers, strings, or objects in memory, it is most likely wrong.

To me, each string is a value. Not a “pointer” or a “memory address” — but a value. In my universe, a value is good enough. Don’t allow “memory cells” and other low-level metaphors to distract you from building an accurate high-level mental model of JavaScript. It’s turtles all the way down anyway!

If you’re coming from a lower-level language, set aside your intuitions about “passing by reference”, “allocating on stack”, “copying on write”, and so on. These models of how a computer works often make it harder to be confident what can or cannot happen in a JavaScript program. We’ll look at some of the lower level details, but only where it really matters. They can serve as an addition to our mental model, rather than its foundation.

...

As for these strange visions, I don’t pay as much thought to them anymore. I have wires to point, questions to ask, and functions to call. I better get to it!
The stars are bright when I look at them.

Are they still there when I blink?
I shrug.
> 100-200k range

Yeah, that's a lot more than a cheap boat. You can get a lot of boat for 50k - like a Boston Whaler 190 Montauk. Not yacht, but boat.

And not sure what you're making, but that's a pretty damn expensive hobby for most of us.
Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser
Hey thanks for checking this out. I'm no expert at making comics, but it's something I occasionally enjoy, and I wanted to see if I could make a tool to make it easier on myself, specifically the step where I'm ready to make straight, uniformly-margined, custom panels. This is the result, and I hope you have as much fun with it as I have been. You can make panel shapes with any number of corners, snap to the grid to ensure uniform margins, snap to guide lines to go beyond the grid while maintaining alignment, save/load your work directly to/from svg for multiple sittings, adjust page dimensions, stroke etc. with just the scrollbar, etc.

If you end up using this to make something, I would love to see your work! I'm @andrewulrich on Twitter - feel free to reach out and share. Also feedback and code contributions are welcome:
Combine this technology with the launch cadence and pricing of SpaceX and the implications are astounding.

First of all, security. If your opponent has that kind of capability, you cannot meaningfully deploy tanks or any other vehicles anymore. Even infantry will suffer massively once the resolution goes up a notch. On a much smaller level, one could easily detect brake-in attempts on unguarded property.

Second, industrial espionage. Want to know how much the competition buys/sells? Plug this data into some form of image recognition.

Third, government control. From traffic over demonstrations to "unsocial" behavior, governments at the municipal level could easily inspect "their" people and control their behavior much more efficiently.
"The bigger the blob, the better the job."
I agree. Moreover:

Post that have text instead of an URL are discouraged here and have an automatic penalty.

Post with "creative" titles are usually ignored of flagged.

Is the service already available or it is just a waiting list? Post that are just a waiting list are also usually ignored of flagged.
> it's a window into who I would like to be

Is there an advantage to buying the books, rather than just putting them on your Goodreads "To read" shelf?
Russian scientist hopes to slow the thawing of the Arctic with Radical Rewilding
Yeah, I used to write my programs with Delphi

My 20 year old projects run perfectly on Linux with WINE

Now there is Lazarus to port Delphi code to a native Linux version, but it is using GTK2 and that is running much worse. (or through qt4 but that is even worse) The good thing is, if Lazarus gets a GTK3/4 update, my old code is supposed to run on the new GTK unchanged. The bad thing is, Lazarus is not popular so hardly anyone is working on those updates.
Or whatever the F “Sent-Aus” was.
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You're replying several comments deep in a chain where we've already discussed this. Sometimes things do in fact get worse over time and "look on the bright side" is not a universally useful strategy.

In fact, I submit blind optimism is in fact more tiring, look at any comment thread about Tesla or Bitcoin. It's as if these two things are perfect and you had better buckle up if you dare criticize either one.
For relatively modest amounts, you can certainly hand the person in charge hundred dollar bills and trust them to do the right thing with it without giving your name. You start donating large sums to a school or other non-profit though and they pretty much have to know where the money is coming from. (Though, as you say, you can still be functionally anonymous and can likely even tell them to take you off their charitable pestering list.)
Good point, although a lot of programmers now use an IDE for everything, so they may have no working knowledge of the command line (or a very limited knowledge).
Rockstar didn't receive "similar" criticism. They got some fallout over that interview, but the whole issue was very much forgotten the moment the game was released and everybody was just fawning over all the details.

At that point working conditions at Rockstar became a side-topic barely mentioned in reviews and discussions about the game, if at all.

While with CP2077 CDPR at least tried to do better, they set for themselves the goal not to crunch, take the time the game needs, they were not in the press giving interviews glorifying crunch as something awesome and necesseary.

Which for such an ambitious project was aiming very high, maybe naively so, but at least they tried. Yet currently the majority of discourse around the game is dominated by what an evil company CDPR is for still having to put in crunch. To such a degree where mentioning anything positive about the game will trigger responses talking about "slave labor". Which often is, quite uncynically, followed up with "Just look at Rockstar, that's how you make a proper open-world game!", a lot of eating the cake while still wanting to have it.

So what's the lesson here? That crunch is only bad if the resulting product ain't an unmitigated Rockstar style success?

> (lynching) It overwhelmingly refers to hate crimes along the basis of race or religin.

It overwhelmingly refers to the practices by Charles Lynch punishing loyalist supporters of the British during the American Revolutionary war, which had nothing to do with race or religion. Colloquially used it refers to citizen vigilante justice, and that's very much how a lot of this CDPR hate feels like.

> CD Projekt is a corporation worth billions of dollars that is being called out for treating its employees poorly.

CDPR is not even worth half a billion, they are a dwarf compared to actual billion dollar corporations like Take2, Ubisoft, EA or Activision Blizzard.

CDPR also has pretty much the best pro-consumer practices track-record out of all of them, releasing AAA titles with not even as much DRM as a serial; Just an executable anybody could copy and distribute.

They don't sell single-player games with predatory MTX as all the aforementioned publishers do, even for single-player games.

They at least tried to make an commitment to less crunch and taking their time, until the realities of investor financing forced their hand.

Yet apparently none of that is worth any goodwill, nor do labor-rights at companies like Ubisoft, EA or ActiBlizz really factor in any of these discussions right now, even tho they also just released massive games that very likely involved crunching to get them out of the door.

I would understand this whole situation if they all faced criticism like that, particularly the actual billions dollar worth corporations, but that's not happening: Ubisoft and ActiBlizz get a complete pass, while CDPR is made out to be the new EA of the industry.
>It’s not like the USSR had sparkling water running to every home

The USSR was NOT Socialism nor was it Communism, that was just a motto to establish absolute power lead from a small elite circle (the withered core of the communist party). It's kind of the opposite of communism and especially socialism.

BTW it would have been extremely interesting if Israel went that route (maybe the first real, and humane communist state?)

BTW2 Sparkling water in russia? Maybe Woda but then without sparkles.
Please no, Pedro Domingos has spent the past week picking fights on ML Twitter, at this point a random grad student probably scores higher on "maturity".
Voluntary compliance is working great: people can do whatever they feel like doing, which is literally the point of voluntary compliance.
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There's millions, maybe billions of different chemicals created by biological processes too.

But I get your point and I think there's something to be done advising caution with certain classes of chemicals. For example, ones containing Bromine and Fluorine have a much higher chance of being dangerous because their bonds are so strong
I wouldn't want to run a racist company. And I wouldn't want to create phony pretense for firing someone if there was ostensibly valid justification they could have used.
There is also an academic version:
Printing papers you would like to read.
At one point I had a half-meter stack of unread papers collecting dust.
This feels powerful in a world where TV consumption is already on sharp decline, yet you managed to move a few floors deeper in the historical entertainment stack.

No TV for us just meant playing games elsewhere (not complaining either, just a matter of preferences)
Was curious what their treatment was going to be regarding tin whiskers. Not much there (of course this is point in time inspection so it kind of makes sense), but a quick google revealed quite a bit of study:

https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/

I thought they were just one of those low probability items until a Sunday morning when I was running live audio for a church service. Singer was mid verse and BOOOOM! Huge booming sound over speakers startling everyone into nervous laughter. I opened the cable up afterwards and sure enough found these alien crystalline structures growing between the conductors. It had shorted and even the little bit of current in the microphone vaporized about a mm of material.

Really really weird and I'm certain kept some folks up at night over the years.
A ship is build to withstand heavy weather yet you'd still try to navigate around a storm.
This is the folly of assuming a 1:1 binding between person and hardware. When I worked in fintech, I warned risk and our architects that you could not rely on any measuee that didn't take into account SIM swapping or strategic config cloning. No one listened. This despite tge fact that SIM swapping became a hot commodity for people when ID's started to be required for legal purchases from a vendor, and when device ids were getting integrated into fingerprinting.

If you start one to one-ing hardware, you track User-Agents. Not Users. These are not equivalent.
The main impediment is that http request won't look anything like the x window requests, so the x server would likely reject it.
I check out HN / Lobste.rs
Seems very similar to Netlify, which is a good thing. Commits get their own preview URLs and branches get their own dedicated alias. Had a quick look at their pricing as well and the main difference is the Cloudflare free plan is limited to 500 builds per month as opposed to Netlify's 300 build _minutes_ per month and that Cloudflare offer unlimited bandwidth instead of 100GB per month. I am excited to start using this.
Amazon urges judge to set aside $10B cloud contract award to Microsoft
Don’t know what it’s like where you live, but in this side of the world, once I have the address of the flat (which I can get before I even view), I can lookup what broadband options are available to me. Any property that only has ADSL at best doesn’t get a viewing.

Even FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) ends up at the bottom of the short list. FTTP is pretty vital now for me, and very much features as one of the deciding factors.
Ha! My wife's Professor gave her the job of reading a hundred papers and creating a spreadsheet of pertinent data (dating methods, accuracy, age, comparables and so on). So that's one way of handling it.
I believe it's discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400249
what would happen if firefox decides to fire all "executives", "ceo" and the whole "bureaucracy" leadership, not technical one that is.
what money can be saved from doing that which brings me to the second question, does firefox really need a CEO?
So like cute, untouchable gals pushing their onlyfans page? :-)
That's what my Netflix queue was! Honest! Not just a list of impulsive clicks over 5 years.
Worth noting that we don't know what most spy satellites are, but the US has revealed that it has had a constellation of 5 satellites like this since about 2000. So this is bringing the technology into the civilian sphere with an API 'only'.

But yeah, I agree with you about the potential. Also, presumably a constellation imaging the same location from multiple angles could synthesize a super high resolution 3D image?
Fleisch bologna wurst und brot.
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Pulp Fiction?
A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users (2015)
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I'd bet someone could pretty easily build an alarm that goes off every time one of these things is looking at you. That radar blast has got to be massive. This definitely couldn't be a 24/7 thing from those satellites. I wonder how much radar time one of those things has before it needs to recharge/refuel.
> Is it possible to "lockdown" the Google Chrome engine in our electron apps so that future chrome changes don't break our apps?

Don't upgrade the Electron version? Electron bundles it's own chromium. It won't auto upgrade on you unless you bump the Electron version.

> What is the process of developing - how do we launch our apps, compile our apps, change them and re launch?

If most of your code runs in the renderer process all the standard web reloading techniques should work similarly.

If you change the main process js you may have to restart or find some specific solution. But you probably won't be doing much in the main process.

The development workflow can be nearly identical to web dev. The most notable difference is you have access to Node APIs from the renderer process. Makes some things easier but also has security implications. Don't use any Electron specific features unless you need them and porting to web should be trivial.
The downside is that these filters sell out in places where there are fires. So the time to buy them is now.
This is it exactly. She's applying a standard of academic rigor to Google and they can either accept it or not. If they want to filter what kind of research they publish, then they have to admit to themselves (and their employees) that they baking pro-Google bias into their work and it need not be taken too seriously by academics. Maybe that kind of bias is irrelevant when you're publishing algorithm or mathematical work where bias is less inherent, but if you have an AI Ethics team you should be prepared for some controversy. And they clearly weren't and panicked.
The policy is against harassment, not a blanket ban of these words.
Writing a Muslim character into an American cartoon in 1987 would have been highly unusual, so I'm not sure it's evidence of a Hollywood bias.
I took a few drafting classes in highschool. My handwriting improved tremendously. They spent several weeks on just how to hold the pencil correctly and how to have the right touch on the paper for even lines. They also spent a lot of time on how to be deliberate about what was written. Because back then getting an error into a blueprint was extremely time consuming and a pain to repair just in the paperwork world never mind the physical. Never did that job. But it sure cleaned up my handwriting.

Just for fun a few months ago I thought back on how my signature has changed over the years. I drew them all down on a piece of paper. My wife thought I was nuts for having no less than 7 different signatures. My current one sort of resembles letters and scribbles.
Yep. In order to claim something a failure you need objective criteria to begin with. In terms of Covid those objective criteria never existed and thus the King's claim has as much meaning and weight as mine that Sweden's handling of Covid has been a wild success compared to other countries.
I think that at least within Finland, worries were mostly related to communication delays in informing relevant organizations about a potential nuclear incident. I.e. if this had turned out to be a more serious incident, the response would have been delayed. Glad to see it wasn't serious.
If any device can be used for banking I don’t see why accessing the bank using the the same device that generates the second factor is a problem.
You could just as well use a different device to access the bank.
Why Inflation Targeting Is a Bad Idea and So Many Feel Inflation Is High
Except, of course, for ads officially purchased through it
It was reported about it in the German press. I'm an opponent of nuclear power, but in this case I can only shrug and conclude that everything worked as expected, the issue was identified and dealt with.
Apple in Mid-2023
Anybody have tips on how to get to this level of solder-fu?
I'm curious, which new competitors do you mean precisely? Do they have better capabilities than Capella? This seems like a great upcoming industry
It's the same for me. I think the magic stops working once you see the mechanics. And if you consume enough instances of some medium, you can't help picking up on them.
There are ways, but they aren't particularly obvious and are more work than they should. With some elbow grease involving multi-step builds, snapshots and diffing the resulting images to copy only the required files into your final image, you can definitely build them, at least.

It isn't made particular easy for you. Honestly it's actually kind of a pain, wherein lies the problem. Doesn't help that some languages' official images are kind of bloated themselves, either.
Schopenhauer said that.
I'm far from an expert on this topic, but I believe the reasoning is that (at least in the USA), African-American ancestral links don't necessarily go back far enough to identify an ethnic group because of slavery. In the absence of the ability to say e.g. "I'm from the Yoruba people", the primary group identification just becomes Black. I agree that it seems kind of reductive from the outside, but I'm mostly inclined to let people decide their own names.
You need a real cushy job to get enough time and energy for the second job that would be the research.

And a tenure-track position usually comes with some workforce or at the very least a good network of experts to refer to. There are of course really shit academic positions, but you'll anyway not have time for research if you have a really shit job, so that objections seems to cancel.
These are all good rules. Sometimes it can be really hard to tell when a solder is solid. You can get hairline cracks that aren’t visible to the naked eye but cause intermittent problems.
Shaolin monastery's “CEO monk” and the obscure the business of faith in China