skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a longer term, it looks like the death of American Dream. You are no longer expected to achieve wealth and financial independence through hard work, and then do what YOU want.

There are plenty of people who still expect to achieve success through hard work. The people who do achieve success through hard work usually tend to be from the set of people who have that expectation though.
Wikipedia is such an amazing and crucial source of information online. Long may it continue.
And we are not: Computer backups still exist, if you would like to do local backups. Privacy, most of the time, means less conveniency but it's still possible.
I suspect the difference is more about deplatforming americans than any political view.
Installing piped water near homes promotes gender equality, improves well-being
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Moderation

> In January 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Parler had increased its moderation team to 600 people, and began paying them. They also had begun hiring full-time employees to moderate the service.

It may be that Parler did too little too late, but I find it concerning that most mainstream news outlets are failing to report this.
I'm building my first non-toy app in LiveView. I'm blown away by how quickly I can move with it and love how Phoenix encourages DDD practices.

I'm a bit saddened that Elixir isn't bigger than it is. It's such a great entry into the world of BEAM and functional programming yet I've read more than once that people aren't interested because "it looks like Ruby and I don't like Ruby". There are some more legit reasons as well like it's dynamic, but I wish people would stop getting so hung up on syntax and actually focus on what the technology can do.
Very interesting that a read operation manages to corrupt the index. That makes it likely that it causes an overflow or similar memory corruption in an unfortunate place while reading. For example allocating a buffer based on the literal length of that path and then later expanding the variable?
This is incredibly weak reporting.

1. Has this tweet been reported? Generally when I report a bad tweet, the account gets suspended within a week or so. I've reported this tweet (about 20 minutes ago), so we'll see what happens.

2. Where's the threat? This seems akin to my saying "The United States will fall".

3. Oh come on. Yeah, it's shitty, but how is this in the same ballpark as an actual threat?

If this is the worst they found on Twitter...
Doesn't that require the active cooperation of bad actors? Sure, you can create a filter to hide all posts tagged with "epilepsy-trigger", but that doesn't help if the poster deliberately omits that tag. Allowing users to tag other people's posts patches this issue, but opens up the system for abuse by incorrect tagging. (E.g. Queer-friendly posters being flagged and demonetized after being maliciously tagged as "sexual content".)

At some point, there needs to be trusted moderation.
Hah, I love when HN strays into obscure RPG industry flame war.

See, I think this is wrong. People didn't, in fact, stick with D&D at the point where Pathfinder launched. Pathfinder was (relative to the third party RPG market) a huge success. And 4e D&D was objectively a failure in the market (though sure, it sold more than Pathfinder).

Where Wizards won was with the 5e rules. And the 5e rules are better than Pathfinder in fundamental ways that lead to higher sales and more player satisfaction.

And the reason is that 5e is, really for the first time since the Holmes Basic Set of 1978, accessible to the mass market. Kids like D&D again! Prior to covid, I ran a 2-year campaign for my 10-12 year old son and a bunch of his friends and they loved it. Some of them are hooked hard now. Likewise, couples play 5e; random groups in offices. You can watch people play it on the internet, and apparently that's a big thing too. There are communities of women and queer folks plugging a game that used to be associated mostly with unwashed cloistered incels.

It's a straightforward, easy game that gets out of the way and exposes the actual fun part of in-person RPGs to people who would never have had the patience to read through the tomes full of prestige classes and feats that 3.x/Pathfinder require.

Basically: with 5e WotC finally got back to the promise we all saw in the early 80's. Pathfinder is a fine game, but it's really just trying to hang on to a player culture from 2004 that doesn't have a lot of growth in it.
The source code for the various components that make up Open Distro is already freely available under an Apache 2.0 license. This change will have zero direct impact on Open Distro. The SSPL restrictions apply when the licensed software is used to provide a service.

It is the AWS Elasticsearch Service that will be directly impacted. It will be limited to Elasticsearch 7.10.x as a foundation. Unless of course AWS makes available the code that they use to orchestrate and manage that service. Assuming that that code is sufficiently uncoupled from other systems, they could perhaps do exactly that. It would certainly be an entertaining counter-move from AWS.
They just need more diversity and SJW initiatives! They spent hundreds of millions on them the past five years, to great effect!
I think your last assumption is correct. I've had something similar happen to me. I participate in ex-evangelical groups because of my childhood. And other groups highly critical of American conservative Christianity. Facebook floods my ads with appeals from conservative churches, conservative religious organizations, and for some reason thinks I'm deeply interested in Calvinism.

It's oddly reassuring. This shows FB doesn't know anything about what I want. At least, their ad algorithms don't. Feels like a very primitive response on their part.

Had something similar happen with journals of all things. Around 6 months ago, a friend of mine shared her new physical journal that she was proud of. Said she wanted to get back to writing her novel. I hit like or love to show support. Ever since then, there's been a massive deluge of ads for journals and various writer creativity tools. Even though I've never once sought out anything related to journals or creative writing.
'Just today, Azure's support system can't handle (among many things) the outlandish characters of "<" or ">".'

My favorite way of breaking things is to go the other way... oh, you won't allow < or >? Well, how about ＜ and ＞? That's ok then? Great!

One I've done several times is encounter a field that "can't be left empty", and is smart enough to filter out the ASCII whitespace before the check... but isn't smart enough to filter out the Unicode zero-width space. "A computer wizard never says too much or too little, he says precisely what he means to."
Yes, and the encryption on those really isn't that important as it can be protected by full-disk encryption (ex FileVault) on your hard disk, or throwing the backup in an encrypted container (zip, dmg, whatever) manually. The local iTunes encryption does have to be enabled for call data, health data, WiFi passwords, and browsing history to be included.

Frustratingly, if you forget the backup password you have to Reset All Settings on the device, no way to change it going forward if you lost the old one. Of course, there should be no way to get to the old backups if you don't have the password, but if you have access to the device (thus, the source of the data to begin with) you should be able to change it without a reset.
Hasn't this been the state ef academia for a long time now? At least for ML.
Taking an action that will directly result in a decrease in stock value.
> so my guess is that someone out there is spending a lot of money on a huge ad target

I think this is really it. The profit margins on this stuff is insane. And the volumes of money typical people spend on this stuff is also insane.

(speculation here) The insurrection is probably opening the door for new customers. I would not be surprised to hear a people in zero-gun households are now seeking to acquire their first one. That allure of "protection" is strong. And urbanites represent a huge untapped market for guns and tactical gear. So it makes sense to push ads on these people.

Going from zero to one is the biggest leap. I bet there's usually some event for people that primes them to pull the trigger. You buy that first one for protection, but the next ones are because they are fun, fashionable, or an investment. I know a fair number of people with gun+related collections which exceed the value of their cars. The fact that gun collecting has become fairly profitable in the past few years seems to have really spurred a frenzy of buying. If you can buy something for $800, and sell it for $1300 in three years, then why not buy as much as you can afford? This then fuels shortages, raising prices.

So yeah, it might be very much _not_ you, right now, but I bet they are hoping enough ads will change your mind. I mean, you want to be the cool, macho person that you family and friends turn to for protection in these trying times, right? /s
Of course it's annoying to carry around two laptops, but completely switching to Linux just means I won't make it happen. Maybe some time...

Unfortunately this setup will not always work with the mobility requirement. May be some small linux box instead ? But which one ?
Hunter Biden is a child rapist and deserves to be shot in the fucking head!
I am a logseq user. The nice things about it include:

- all your usual backlinks, graph views, etc.

- saves files as plaintext

- md or org mode files

- operates on / syncs / saves plaintext files

- edit locally, or sync with a git repo

- accessible from mobile (via your github repo)

So I use this with org-mode files, and on my laptop I edit files locally (I have it pointed at a git repo), which is very reliable. Then the phone simply reads from (and writes to) the same git repo.

Since it runs on git, the interoperability of the notes is really nice. If I edit the same page on 2 machines or delete a file, it's just a simple merge conflict that I can use my favorite git merge tool to fix.

Not to mention the developer is extremely active and helpful.
A 64-bit-only Wine builds and works normally on Catalina and Big Sur. 32-bit support exists in CrossOver’s wine but is too much of a messy hack to merge upstream. There’s hope that an upstreamable solution will be found in the future though.
Gender and sexuality are orthogonal.
I switched to an Apple Watch last year when I got one for my mom because of the fall detection, so that I could know how to use it and support her. The rest of my family still has Fitbits and I still prefer Fitbit for what it does (and the battery life). That said, in the wake of this announcement two people just got an Apple Watch ordered as an upcoming birthday gift because I don't think having Fitbits is a good idea anymore.

Google is not a company that respects their users. It's that simple. Apple doesn't respect developers, but it does respect users. Google respects neither. I'd say the current situation in tech is not especially positive for users generally, but having a product tied to Google, Facebook, or Amazon would be your worst case scenario, and I'm actively trying to excise these products from my life.
There was some advertising, especially toward the back of the magazine, but since Dragon was published by TSR, they probably weren't relying on the ads for financial support.
Curious to hear this from the other side. I'm an SE manager interested in pivoting to Data Engineering. I've built modest pipelines in R / Postgres for an operations analyst job I did before I became a programmer, but I'm not experienced with most of the technologies I see listed on DE roles (e.g. Airflow) and my statistics etc. are rusty.
Took me a couple of minutes to realise that this is the guy from the 10 year old math videos I’ve been watching for the past year.

You can see how passionate and excited he is, this video made me excited to learn
And nor do they to inferno:

https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/commits/?page=3
I think they are comparing Jan 6 with the summer's BLM protests.

I don't have a fully coherent argument why the two are different, but intuitively I think they are very different. For example, one was a response to unchecked executive power (killings by police), while the other was incited by unchecked executive power (the president).
AFIK Inferno was a corporate reaction to Java and intended to be an actual competing product. Plan 9 development was halted for nearly a whole year as the team focused on building Inferno.
About the same cost of my first thumb drive.

It was one of these (though I believe the model before).

https://www.techpowerup.com/5494/usb-sticks-from-geil

Blazing fast 20MB/s write and 300MB/s read (lol)
Hunter Biden's child porn is on twitter.

Arrest Hunter Biden!
Arrest Jack Dorsey!
This is great. Much more altruistic than my project [1] that charges people for nothing in return

[1] https://lapse.cc/
The problem with this analogy is that it is likely that something like 99% of shoe buyers can tie their own laces just fine, practically in their sleep. That ratio would be inverted when you consider how many users can successfully keep track of their own encryption keys.

Regular users just care that they don't lose their data. Offer them the option to keep it 100% secure from prying eyes at the risk of losing access to it permanently if they misplace the password, and 99% will tell you to pound sand.
Try flipping it around. Instead of you spending a lot to prove someone means nothing, have them spend a lot to prove they mean something. Check out my Show HN from yesterday.
Hunter Biden is a pedophile - hang his fucking ass!
>The creators of plan9 are not involved in 9front

Nor are they in Inferno anymore, but one big name Forsyth in 2017
But only real alternative to adtech is spam: cheap (because of very low effectiveness), flashy rows of banner ads, 1990s style.
I am old enough to remember how obnoxious internet experience was ~20 years ago before targeted ads became a thing. It sucked.
"The old Apple laptop would sound like a VAX in a hurricane while building Emacs!"

Sysadmin to a VAX farm in an earlier life -- this brought back some good memories, especially of what our server room sounded like when we pushed a new build... Thanks for that.
FDA Releases Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Action Plan
“Someone take this clown out NOW. #AssassinateTrump"

Is that what you were saying was indirect?
Completing the God Protocols: A Comprehensive Overview of Chainlink in 2021
“Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody’s side. All the parties would send their inputs to God. God would reliably determine the results and return the outputs. God being the ultimate in confessional discretion, no party would learn anything more about the other parties’ inputs than they could learn from their own inputs and the output.” -NS
When receiving messages, they get automatically moved to the DeltaChat IMAP folder.
Sadly, they could just as easily add it back in with a later update.

This means that after I update to 11.2, to preserve location privacy from Apple, I must now verify each and every OS update in the future.

We need a better system.
FUCK HUNTER BIDEN!

Hunter Biden is a FUCKING PEDOPHILE!
Wouldn't it be better for platforms to solve this division problem by setting their algorithms to simply move everyone to the center (by giving preference to moderate posts)? They already do the curation by showing what they think we would like to see, maybe they should show us what we need to see. Ultra left and ultra right are different faces of the same problem.
I can't find it anywhere anymore, even on their site. They must have realized they weren't reading the room well with the ad and modeling.

But I did screenshot it previously:
https://imgur.com/gallery/bxcK7zb

If that's the look of the HN demographic, I'm even more out of touch than I thought I was.
I think it would apply if companies were hiring large number of computer scientists and using them to try to build usable software. I don't see many making that mistake. Most recognize that computer scientists belong in a research or academic setting.
Deep learning-enabled medical computer vision
Ok, I spoke too fast. It does add the extension but only if it gets modified/moved from Google Drive. If you just sync from your PC it stays as is.

That's a problem indeed.
The optimistic side of me agrees with you.

For my career I say, "tere u me shakkar". ("let there be sugar in your mouth", ie. let your words come true)
On the subject of ethics in our industry
Nintendo uses copyright claims to take down Game And Watch hacking videos
How to Think Through Finding a Lost Shoe (2018)
It’s not Jung’s, it’s mine
Wine on macOS can already use MoltenVK to expose Vulkan to Windows apps, CrossOver uses this with DXVK to support D3D11 games.
Congratulations on the anniversary, and thank you for such a wonderful language and community!
Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce join push for digital vaccination credentials
You cut off half the sentence to call its reasoning dangerous, and you are misunderstanding it.

The reason is not "The filibuster should be eliminated because Republicans use it, and I don't like Republicans."

The reason is "The filibuster should be eliminated because it's possible for one political party to abuse it, and moreover, that has happened."

That reason may be based on facts or not, or convincing or not, but it is an argument that is not based on personal dislike of one party, except insofar as one party is doing something that would be bad if any party did it, and you are prepared to dislike any party that does it.

If I said "Gerrymandering is bad because Republicans have used it to their advantage," I would be agreeing with your argument about gerrymandering, because both of us would be prepared to say the same thing about any other party were that party to use gerrymandering to their advantage.
What will this entail for when you're building Elastic Plugins?
Mozilla's Firefox Hardware Report shows that most Firefox users (55%) still have only two cores! Four cores is slowly climbing at 34%. Firefox users surely have older hardware than Steam gamers, but it's another data point showing just how slowly hardware turns over.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-arch...
Demand Hunter Biden be arrested today!

Do it you fucking virtue signaling fucks!
His example has nothing to do with Apple really.

He means every publicly traded tech company with stock and how the collective market (though stock options) increases the money a SWE would make verses saying paying market value for a dentist that might be compensated well but has no competitive stock options to overcome.

Great point
WordPress 5.6 Core Stats: contributions by country and company
WotC has been dead to me since 4.0. I stayed on 3.5 and switched to Pathfinder for some new games.

I don't particularly want to learn 5.0, but I'm feeling I might be forced to if I want to join/start any current games...
This post like this that remind me the people seriously believe there aren’t just the same number of crazies on the right and left. That “your side“ has all of the “reasonable people” and is “morally right”, what an amazing coincidence.

You only want one side to have to “own“ their crazies. That isn’t how it works. Neither side should be thought of or represented by their “crazies”, that isn’t anywhere near good faith.
I agree. But the idea of declining living standards as a causal factor is not mentioned, nor even hinted at, in your original comment.
Exactly. Stuff in /usr/local is very capable of messing with other parts of the system (plus it munges everything not package managed together, which is even worse).
Not to mention no one has a mental toughness to hold through every huge rally and dumps over the past 12 years and you'd be losing quite a bit of that anyway.
I’m not sure it actually does corrupt anything. I just spent an hour on this and it never manifests itself as any actions performed via chkdsk. I think it might just trigger a mandatory consistency check.
Please tell me your purchase confirmation page says "thanks for nothing."
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It is indirect. It isn't a solicitation for the job specified but a cry that it should happen.

I do see that as becoming a direct threat if the person giving it has a known cadre of people willing act on their words. Such as a military or cult leader might.
I expect Elastic to not pretend they are doing this in the spirit of getting contributions back. Just say that this is in the interests of their business model.
Raku is a seriously cool programming language, but it is still not at the level to where I'll put in learning effort past all the tutorials I've read in the past. When it reaches maturity, I could see myself using it in some hobby projects. It seems like it has a good bit of the power you see in languages like Smalltalk, but in a more accessible package.
If anyone finds this interesting and hasn't listened to/watched "Science and Futurism with Issac Arthur", go watch some episodes now. His "upward bound" and "outward bound" series are probably most relevant for this.

Inspiring great material, and it may convince you that large rotating space habitats (O Neil Cylinders) are the future.

"Gravity wells are for suckers."
Is anyone working on a OSX or iOS variant of the same idea?

EDIT: in the sense that OSX or iOS programs could run on other platforms.
Right there with you. My first linux machine was an old Pentium 2 Gateway box :D.

I also grew up in idaho mountains so you can imagine how bad radio stations were. Nothing but talk radio and one "hits" station.

Napster was a small lifeline into the rest of the world, though for the longest time we were 5 to 10 years behind the rest of the world when it came to things like pop music. It was bizarre!
Windows 10x is now Microsoft’s true answer to Chrome OS
Parler claimed they were intentionally not going to get into the game of defining "hate speech". We see how hard that is in the context of Twitter and Facebook. There are laws on the books in some countries criminalizing as "hate speech" the voicing of opinions that many reasonable people would consider simple truth, political or moral beliefs, mild skepticism of power, or disputing of facts/interpretations. In the US there is no definition of "hate speech" that is currently consistent with existing law. We already have laws to criminalize certain speech acts and a body of law to support them. If someone knows what "hate speech" is and can define it in a policy that isn't used to silence political opinion, then they are in rarefied company. Many people's opinions are noxious to others, of course. But who gets to decide which are which? Apple? Amazon? Twitter? Facebook? The 2020 US Congress? The 2022 Congress? The President of Russia? The CCP? The loudest keyboard activists and their online mobs? Those who are celebrating this aren't thinking it through, or have other agendas.
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Obviously the evolution of the english language is so long-running and complex that no group could have conspired to implement a deliberate change such as this for whatever reason.

With that said, please consider this:

What type of societal structure would be likely to merge the words for "human" and "male" while leaving the word for "female" separate?
This is a failure of targeted advertising. Do you think Facebook would approve this if they had a human looking at the algorithm?