skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For inexpensive items or large ones that would incur hefty shipping fees, it is often cheaper to refund the purchase price and let customers keep the products.

I know many online shops which have done this for years, including amazon. It's just a no-brainer to let the customer keep a broken comb instead of making them return it. Shipping costs, people who receive the package cost, opening and inspecting the packaging costs and just processing that return costs a lot. Almost everybody has access to a phone with a very decent camera, that's enough to prove a product was broken on arrival.
Again, I encourage everyone to enable “showdead” and see for themselves to what degree your representation of what is being posted here matches what is being flagged.
What stops someone doing that today? Humans are also vulnerable.
It's a very important thing to do. It's been a long standing problem. The CCP is a harsh and restrictive government and we don't want to be funding advancements in their military.

This may affect supply chains for civilian supply chains, and then China's corops and government will have to make a choice: Keep contracts to make tons of consumer goods or continue to supply the military side.
> "oops, you weren't supposed to see our totally secret plan for world domination!!!"

Even though it's blindly obvious what their playbook would be if they could make their dreams come true?
I'm guessing that any references to real life geopolitical entities is troublesome.
> Also Dendrite is Go, not Rust.

Ah, my bad. Thanks.
What kinds of struggles?
I know that the authors explicitly rejects this, but "use Plasma". Seriously, these were non-issues at least since KDE3 times.
Why Go is my favorite programming language (2017)
SMS Phishing Is Getting Out of Control
> Do you believe Fox News should be banned/censored?

In Germany, we have the section §130 StGB in our criminal code: incitement to hatred. While it would be extremely hard if not impossible to get a TV station such as Fox News to be banned here, its hosts/mouthpieces/guests could certainly be sanctioned - up to actual jail time.

Also, our core media codex ("Medienstaatsvertrag") binds all broadcasting stations - radio, TV, streaming - to journalistic integrity and truthful reporting (§§6, 19, 51 MStV).

> What about CNN? They are as biased as Fox News.

I have yet to see a report that CNN broadcasts people that claim that the election was "stolen" or "manipulated". There is a massive difference between biased reporting and openly distributing lies.
Maybe they somehow got the message this was all ok after it was literally all ok for eight months.

They're despicable, but it is easy to trace exactly how the mainstream rhetoric made this palatable to them.
Somehow I missed this comment. But as michaelcampbell wrote, in Ada you'd select the range that made sense for your application.

So if your application makes sense with 0-based (time series in your example) then you can do it:

Cash_Flows : array (0..max_time) of Double;

It may even make sense to go negative for some things. For instance:

Object_at_Altitude : array (-100..1000) of Object;

Or characters:

Selected_Answers : array (range 'a'..'z') of Boolean;

Or a type that you've created:

type Color is Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange;
Histogram_of_Colors : array (Color'Range) of Natural;

But a particularly nice thing is that arrays in Ada, unlike C, don't lose their size, so you can always do:

for I in Cash_Flows'Range loop
Some_Function(Cash_Flows(I));
end loop;

So really the index never even has to be directly touched or known after creation.
No one is saying that someone said rustc should be rewritten.
I assume you aren't allowed to name names but at least one person is trying to establish a narrative that they're rushing through executive orders because they're worried about Biden being a secret CCP member.
In which case they fail twice over - there is no legal requirement to remove speech that promotes violence, or porn, yet Gab actively removes both.
>I’m not going to code up my website on an original Macintosh.

Yet people still make games, and hardware, for cold hard cash for vintage systems like the Commodore and Atari computer lines.

For example https://atariage.com/store/ is full of newer titles and in the various forums you can find all sorts of modern hardware and titles being discussed, and sold, for various vintage systems https://atariage.com/forums/

Some of us find these machines very practical, some are even still being used in commercial settings. At some point I recall one of the people being interviewed on ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast ( https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ ) mentioning they either recently stop using, or were still using, an Atari computer in a commercial setting because if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

I mean, people even still make peripherals for these vintage machines. I had a brand-spanking-new-from-the-factory joystick show up just this past week for my Atari machines from https://retroradionics.co.uk/

Sure, you might not create a flashy website for a client, or some machine learning, design the next app to IPO at a billion for, or develop the next social media platform on one but they absolutely still have a practical, functional, use for many users.
Agreed, now do antifa and BLM
If these statistics [1] [2] are correct then there's a significant global population still using Facebook that exists outside of Western populations.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
GNOME on Wayland supports VNC ootb.
I can honestly say that with what little time I have, and limited access to info, I can't really convincingly dispel the feeling that there was fraud from people. I've seen State responses, I've talked to people. I follow up on both sides takes on things. These last few days though have started to convince me that there is a huge problem, way bigger even than election fraud, and it's the sheer rapidity that agenda's can get rolled out by platforms, or handily shutdown. People recognize that. It encourages them to then spread info the old fashion way, and well...

You might have a pandemic going on which helps isolating people from each other, but the lines are still open. I think GP is definitely right. This is half tge reason why I felt the only thing to do that would make sense was a full public accounting of every facet of every suspected voting process. Audits, machines, software, configurations, datasets, all of it.

There is no way you hold it tight to your chest and come out of it with everyone unified to move forward, and no offence, but I don't trust anyone on Earth with the technology for successful mass management of unruly populations. A pity that quality doesn't appear more universal as evidenced by current events.
There’s a pretty strong “Feed the World” ethos surrounding small and medium sized farms.

And I never heard of it formally happening during the Civil War between N-S factions within a given border State.

But this isn’t the community with enough ties and knowledge to say anything intelligent about it. You’d want to talk to someone in the Grange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grange_of_the_Order_o...

While listening to a version of

http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Farmer_Songs/Farmer-Feeds-U...
“Prove”
You’re not wrong. YouTube is relatively easy to beat on UX but it’s hard to compete with free bandwidth and a massive promotion engine.
Attacking people protesting for racial justice is nothing new.
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1300196044693741574/p...

Same accusations were made against peaceful many time in history.

There is also evidence of police instigating violence:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/26/opinion/blm-p...
DRC is an absolute beast. I respect the author in every way - from his incredible work on LibJPEG-Turbo to his 5 year slog getting VirtualGL to work without an x-server (https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/10).

It's a shame he can't find support for this, because his projects truly are worth the effort for the niche they fill :(
Peacock's Genius Unbundling of the Office
This article sums it up pretty well, although a bit too short:

The New China Challenge Stems from Beijing’s Old Ambitions

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/new-china-challenge-ste...

China has made it a goal to subdue Taiwan by 2049, one hundred years anniversary of PRC, which is rejected by the current President of Taiwan.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/Taiwan...

And clearly China wants to do much more than incorporating Taiwan, given their more assertive foreign policies, both within the current international frameworks (United Nations, World Health Organization), and outside of those frameworks (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Belt and Road Initiative).

For a very very brief overview of some goals announced by China (dominate production of key technologies by 2025, build a world-class military by 2035, be a superpower by 2049), see a short summary in Section 3 of the Introduction of this proposal:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/global-strategy-2021-an-alli...

Overall, the proposed strategy to counter China suggests working with other democracies to out-compete China in military and innovation, while cooperating with China on common interests (public health, climate change).

> the rabbit hole goes pretty deep on this one..

(In the rabbit hole right now. Eye opening. Would recommend.)
That's interesting... I think. Could you give an example (as contrived as you wish) to illustrate this point?
Ok, I did. Explain to me where it says anything about lying is an opinion: https://bit.ly/39nLiwz
I appreciate the UI work on Okeano, but could you please support a dark mode option?
I certainly hope we can see some disruptor come out from this.

People been saying google/fb/apple is too big to compete, to me this seem like golden opportunity.
Your point about the 'invisible line' is astute. We're in a crisis of perception and reality right now, and this has caused many to lose sight of the very real lines that we have agreed upon to preserve society and democracy.

I think the other important factor here is we are in a very vulnerable moment right now because we are in the midst of a transition of power. It takes time to transfer the apparatus and operations of state, and during this time there is a power vacuum that can be taken advantage of by adversaries foreign and domestic. Every state throughout history has struggled in these times.

The failure to secure the Capitol was in no small part due to how the President has run the state in the waning months of his term. His cabinet and administration are running a skeleton crew, he's acting erratically, and he's making false claims about election results and inciting crowds in a bid to stay in power. Whether one supports his policies or not, it should be abundantly clear right now that his actions and rhetoric put the country in further danger during this vulnerable time, and that perhaps he need not have access to platforms that make this easier and more convenient. It should be hard to dismantle the state, to whip people into a frenzy, to cause the damage that has been caused.
I've never had an adult stuck, but I have had to pull out a few calves. They're curious and when your skin is made of leather and your weigh more than an adult human, you can get pretty brazen. I've only helped with beef cattle though, I've noticed dairy operations universally don't use cattle guards (for a multitude of reasons)
> conservatives control nearly the entire food production industry.

What is the source or evidence for this little factoid?
Thanks so much! I’m also running a lot of bots so this’ll be particularly useful.
I am not in the field of Geopolitics, so I only heard opinions from Twitter or Quora mostly. Apparently lots of people over there perceived that Dugin's influence to Putin was over inflated. Especially after Trump was elected along with Russian interference scandal. Putin as an ex-spook was perceived as a kind of short sighted yet dynamic instead of formulating and following a long term static grand strategy as Dugin suggest.
I think there is a habit in popular literature to equate "science" with "facts obtained by reading scientific and/or engineering literature." Hence all the talk about polymerization or drying oils etc. They did not mean to imply "scientific-method-based."
https://www.planetary.org/articles/08190630-curiosity-wheel-... explains the root cause.
You're being downvoted because discourse should never be narrowed, period.

Ideas should be thrown into the public square, in the full light of day, and judged on their merits.
The wealth and power of the CCP is directly tied to the success of Chinese business internationally (much like the Cuban Communist regime). Their is no private enterprise in China; the CCP quite literally owns all means of production in China.

I’ll politely refuse your invited to support the CCP (oppressors of the Chinese people) by proxy so as to not upset the people of China - you see how your logic is circular here...?
a few violent individuals? A few? From the videos I've seen it was far more than a few individuals with ill intentions.
> When would you choose FPGA over something like an STM32?

Essentially for the same reason you choose to use a GPU instead of a CPU. FPGAs deliver application specific circuitry that outperforms a general purpose device. Typically these are high throughput applications; signal processing (SDR), image processing (find the license plates), audio processing etc. While it might be conceivable to do many of these tasks with very fast MCUs, often there are power budgets or other constraints that can't be met.

For example, imagine your application might be handled by either a.) STM32F4 running full tilt at 160 MHz or b.) an iCE5LP4K at 50 MHz. The former could consume just south of 200mW, whereas the latter might be around 10mW. That's a very big difference when you're running on a 100mAh embedded lipo battery or 40mAh coin cell.
I agree that the GP dipped a foot into nationalistic flamewar but that's no reason to jump into the pool.

We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological flamewar and ignoring our requests to stop. That's obviously against the rules and obviously not ok and you've been flaming up a storm here.

In case anyone is worried about this, we ban accounts that abuse the site regardless of ideology. If this account were posting the same way but arguing for opposite positions, we'd ban it the same way.

Actually, the irony is how much all these sorts of account have in common with each other on both sides of the ideological divide. They all resemble one another far more than they do the bulk of the readership here, who respect the rules, come to HN out of intellectual interest, and would prefer not to swim in hellfire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the left's fascination with the Russia conspiracy

The idea that there is nothing there at all is a conspiracy in itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_investigation_origins_c... it even has its own Wikipedia page)

Some leftists are wrong about what it actually entails, but the three letter agencies are mainly populated by republicans, and they are the ones (and the senate Intel committee IIRC) establishing the Russia chronology.

Also, Glenn Greenwald is absolutely obsessed with the Russia thing to the point that he could reasonably be considered more in line with the right than the left on this.

"We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be, and we remain proud of much of the work we did with him over the past six years. It is Glenn who has strayed from his original journalistic roots, not The Intercept." etc. etc.
Forget "legal responsibilities" - they meet them in whole by deleting CSA (and other literally illegal material) when it's found and ideally alerting the proper authorities.

Now, let's talk about CSA in general. Microsoft and friends might not have any legal obligation whatsoever to help Gab out, but I'd argue they have a moral one.
Interesting. Still don't think this is an honest way of describing it:

>WhatsApp, on the other hand, had zero encryption for a few years, and then adopted an encryption protocol funded by the US Government
Humans would be able to see that it is on a long stretch of straight road with no intersection in sight and so while they might be confused, they would not come to a sudden and instant stop.

The paper showed that self-driving cars are not quite at that level of deductive reasoning
I'm not so sure about that. I think it would take more than flashing a photo for 100ms (or just putting up a photo at all for that matter) to trigger a human to stop. You have to overcome the context and I think that's harder than "one photo on the side of a highway".
> If these things were as trivial as you think, then why doesn't open source simply patent all the good new ideas now?[...]But this doesn't happen. Ask yourself why.

Because they didn't find the idea first. I'm not sure what your argument is here?

Lots of patents do go to open source projects. Is "this" a world where open source finds everything first? If so I'm not sure how you got the idea that I was arguing that.

> And, if they're so non-trivial that open source, or Google, or whomever want them to be free, then the ideas are worth patents.

The fact that a patent could be worth money doesn't imply that it should be granted. If I could convince the government to grant me any patent I wanted, I would go patent every word in the dictionary.

> You think it takes longer to implement a compression codec than to create it?

Most codecs aren't made from scratch. If you got rid of the network effects, there definitely would be "constant new ones, each improving the last one".

In a world where implementations have to be nailed down and then it takes years and years to roll out, then creating a codec takes a very long time.

If implementation was as easy as normal software, you'd see organizations that put out a new codec every couple months, featuring the latest ideas and tweaks.

> stuff about compression

I'm talking about the people working on h.265 and AV1. They're already working on codecs, so I know they can work on codecs. If a bunch of people are useless at working on compression, well that sucks but it's a sideline to my argument.
Teams has breakout rooms for a month or two in my tenant.
You can screenshare just fine through xdg-desktop-portal. It has nothing to do with whether the DE / compositor providing the implementation of xdp uses X or Wayland or something else, and it has nothing to do with whether the application doing the screenshare has an X window or a wayland window or any window at all.
The vast majority were cheering on the "rioters" because the defended choke points could only fit so many people.
What's interesting to me about the comments here, is how much autonomy everyone seems to have about their work time.

I'm working 100% remote due to Covid, coming from a loosely enforced "only work remote if you need to be home for a plumber / cable install / snow day" policy.

We have a (loosely enforced) "start at 8pm" mandate, and mandatory daily calls at 9am and 3pm to report our "challenges".

Slack messages flow freely at all hours, with a policy that emails and Slack messages always be responded to within an hour. The culture is such that any Slack message not responded to promptly (even during lunch hours) is, at the very least, cause for concern. At no point would "taking 2 hours at lunch to run errands" be acceptable without prior approval, even if we routinely worked past 6pm (as I often do).

I expected this to be a bit extreme, but I'm beginning to wonder just how extreme is this culture right now in previously "non-remote" jobs?
Dang, I grew up in Soviet Union and what I see in the last couple days looks exactly like communists doing in 30s (removing unwanted people from photos, firing from work, kids betraying their parents to authority, etc). While I don’t know the history of this account, I don’t think this comparison is far fetched and it is way closer than I thought I will ever see after coming to US 20 something years ago.
It works fine with Firefox for me since some time. But does it really work with all GTK apps? I would have to install some Gnome app to test.

Maybe someone else could confirm? This would be progress! (Even it uses some parts of Flatpak under the hood, which is less nice).

I'm a little bit skeptical as Firefox had to add support for the desktop-portal before it started to work.
Maybe because of the redirect to the app store?
The US has used sanctions on Iran, Cuba and countless others. You can argue their effectiveness, and how they may just hurt the country's citizens..

but this has been a long standing problem. It's something Trump can do that might slow China growing their military presence. We are talking about a country with very restrictive freedom of speech laws and who reeducate certain ethnic minorities.

I wonder if this will affect civilian supply chains as well? Will some governments and their corporate counterparts be forced to decide if they want to supply consumer goods or build their military instead?

I'm sure China could eventually create shell companies to move some resources, but it would slow down military growth. It would also be something Biden would be foolish to try and undo, because it would give the impression of special interests in China. After the Swalwell allegations, it would provide a good check.
Anecdotally, I worked at Apple, as a software engineer, and I've never heard of this, or anything like it. I would characterize the actual attitude more as - we have to say no to a lot of good ideas, so that we can go 110% on the great ones.
Not just collaborating. Any kind of work.

We plan 8 hours a day of work for developers, but they spend 4 hours in meetings, 2 hours fielding questions and just 2 actually working.
Miguel de Icaza on going to market and open source
How a String of Failures Led to the Capitol Siege
Your description reminds me of the Outer Wilds, the creator wrote a thesis on the game. While it is a bit awkward to get used to the time limit it's part exploration, part archeological adventure, part flight simulator and part platforming. The latter parts take a bit to get used to but really make the game fantastic. It's up there for me with journey and it sounds like I should really play KRZ. I just wish I could forget the Outer Wilds and play it again.
A quick look at the Bragi Dash Kickstarter shows it was started in February 2014 and had raised nearly $3.4MM by March 31, 2014. It looks like it finally shipped in early 2016 (original promise late 2014).
While the default behavior of this library is to map the entire file into address space (and also the default assumption that people have regarding mmap), you can map specific portions of a file into memory to avoid virtual address exhaustion. It's just far less convenient to do so, though typically still faster than the alternatives.