skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things that I would like to see in Debian. First, something more similar to Red Hat Kickstart. The Debian equivalent (Preseed) doesn't quite cut it (effectively it is an "answer" file for the Debian installation, so when the questions in the installation evolve you need to regenerate the preseed config (this is my understanding, everything I've read says that it would be really difficult to make a preseed configuration by hand).

Second, it would be nice if the package manager had an actual database behind it capturing everything that the rpmdb does. Instead you have a flat file with some of the data in it, and log files with other data (where the log files can be rotated out eventually). I want to be able to do things like "rpm -qa --last" on Debian. Or "yum history".

How difficult would it be to write a version of the apt suite of tools that uses an sqlite db? Would that break other items in Debian? It sounds like an interesting project to take on.
Windows 10 bug crashes your PC when you access this location
Well it is the "expectations" they have on us. I wish I were in my previous job, where I hardly worked 4 hours a day and was still a super-performer.
Oh just saw this reply. I've actually gone ahead and set up my own server for my account.
Jay-Z is creating $10M fund to invest in minority-owned cannabis startups
Not explicitly no, but does it really make a difference if it's explicit? Given enough time our probes are bound to pass very close to some other star systems.

If there are other civilizations, it's likely that most of them would be on average 1 billion years older than us, as the average star is 1B older than our sun.

That's a lot of time for a lot of probes to cross many star systems even just by accident.
How did they live that way for so long?
Part of a long proud lineage of terrible jokes. When asked for a tissue my dad would always say: “tissue? I barely know you!”
They made it so that when the system booted you got a graphical login prompt, and not just a stock xdm config, either.
Spain, Australia, Florida.
When you take this theory to it's logical conclusion, you end up with some strange outcomes. The strangest is the idea of going back and killing baby Hitler. When you attempt to do that, the universe, in it's self righting ways makes the assassination attempt not work. Since Hitler is a pretty big enemy for a lot of people, many people over time try to go back and kill Hitler.

Hitler, on the other hand is just living his life as an Austrian child and young adult suffering from constant attempts on his life from people who he has no way of knowing. He gets the idea that people are always out to get him (because they are) and becomes evil, and uses the assassination attempts to justify creating the Holocaust.
Knock knock

Who’s there?

long pause

Java
As others say, it's about the size of the port. But it's not only that those ports can't handle more ships - it's also that many of the ships in operation are so big they can't fit in smaller ports. I know that Oakland, for example, is always going to be second tier because it's just not possible to send the largest container ships into the San Francisco Bay without rebuilding a lot of the port to handle much bigger ships - dredging, larger cranes, larger docks.

This phenomenon is because larger ships are more efficient, and ocean shipping is a super competitive, low-margin business (during normal times) like the airline industry, so in order to eek out a tiny profit, ocean lines consolidate and build bigger and bigger ships, which further drops prices. These ships can only actually go to a handful of megaports around the world, though.

Another factor is the infrastructure that exists at the ports - you need to do something with the cargo once it gets on shore. LA/Long Beach has invested in big, efficient terminals for trucks and trains to get loaded quickly and move cargo out of the port in big volumes.

Source: I used to work at Flexport on ocean shipping, so I have a general understanding of the industry
That you ask the question indicates the actual problem. Bubbles.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...

People have been warning about this exact problem for ten years, and even predicted the problematic outcomes. Albeit, the problems that would generate from it SEEM pretty obvious in retrospect now.

Social media sites that 'make it' are beholden to advertisers who want to spend money on the platform, and Disney does not want to advertise on a platform that also permits any extremism of any kind.

Then, any upstart social media that comes along, faces summary execution, because a lot of rich and powerful people now face the possibility of losing their gravy train.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake in this arena.

Big money $$ always wins in the end.

Edit: of course this greatly simplifies a complex system and problem, but rereading it reminded me of this unattributed quote.

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
Free noise cancellation for your Zoom meetings
There are actually several non-profits holding Debian assets, in years with a physical DebConf usually a new or existing organisation is enlisted to hold funds for that conference.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteri...
I can provide some non-native commentary on modern Mandarin Chinese. All color terms are most ordinarily used with 色 ("color"); it is unusual, though possible, to use a color term by itself.

It doesn't seem like a big stretch to imagine that this was also true when the terminology was borrowed into Japan from China, and that's why the 色 gets used in Japanese.
Why programmer gets a raise?
Because he likes arrays.
Reminds me of

There are only 2 hard things about programming:

- Cache invalidation

- Naming things

- Off-by-one errors
Hrm. You made a very specific (and false) claim, got called on it, and now you say "references to... trying to..." in apparent attempt to weasel around it.

Neither the FBI nor Capitol Police has made claim that any lethal gas was present, period. Not in possession of "Oath Keepers" or otherwise. Not in "underground tunnels" or anywhere else.

No reputable news agency seems to be claiming thus, either.

So, the burden is on the claimant to show that this isn't pure narrative fantasy.
SSCC does stand for Serial Shipping Container Code, not “Standard Serialized”, per your GS1 link.

The rest of your comment is correct, though; they’re for tracking an individual box (the same idea as a postal tracking number), not “a box with the same dimensions” and I have no idea where the artist could have gotten that idea from. They do have a prefix that only the company generating them can use, but that’s just to keep the numbers from each company in a separate namespace to anyone else’s.

I also can’t find (with an admittedly cursory search) any evidence that FedEx’s standard boxes even have SSCCs, and it seems like the purpose would be served just as well by a proprietary tracking number on the address label.

Regarding your edit, this is covered under §4.4.1.1 of the GS1 spec:

> An individual Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) is a unique number, which remains the same for the life of the logistic unit to which it is assigned. When assigning an SSCC, the rule is that an individual SSCC number must not be reallocated within one year of the shipment date from the SSCC assignor to a trading partner. However, prevailing regulatory or industry organisation specific requirements may extend this period.

The definition of “logistic unit” is slightly impenetrable, but AFAIK it’s intended to mean a container with specific item(s) in it, so reusing a box for something else would make it a different logistics unit. If you wanted to track the container itself you’d assign it a Global Individual Asset Identifier.

Of course, you can do whatever you like in your own system, and trading partners can make arrangements with each other; but in my experience companies will get pretty annoyed if you send them the same SSCC multiple times since it confuses their system.
Why do they have to move all the time and be nomadic?
How many IBM employees does it take to change a light bulb?

Fifteen. Five to do it, and ten to write document number GC7500439-001, Multitasking Incadescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally left blank".
Also broken on Mobile Safari
I wish the smart snake went a little longer.
Some of the issues described in the article have existed for as long as I've toyed with Linux distributions, spanning almost two decades now.

This can all be neatly dodged by buying hardware that's known to be supported OOB with FOSS drivers, but more often than not, the machines that I need or want to run Linux on aren't hand-picked to run Linux. They're almost always prebuilts that had originally ran Windows or macOS, and there's often some amount of urgency attached — I need that Linux install now, not in a week when that replacement wifi/bluetooth card from eBay shows up.

It's lead to some ridiculous hijinks to get things working. On more than one occasion, I ended up using a rocky tethered connection to my iPhone, retrying several times due to dropouts, to get Broadcom wifi drivers installed because figuring out the exact package I needed to put on a thumb drive to install offline was nigh impossible.
https://archive.is/j5cFq
First, it's a "joke", second, nobody is going to force you to use non-negative indices. Sure, you can use a base index of zero and read left to right... but you can use a base index of -1 and read right to left and live a full (if lonely) life without considering the passé alternatives.

More precisely, I'm defining the "base" to be the right hand side of the array and operating on the reversed list -- it's just a change of variables. Python supports -1 based indexing, but does not support 1 based indexing. You could easily define a language which only provides the -1 based indexing but does not support 0-based. Let me demonstrate:

void *malloc_r(int size, int count) {
void *m = malloc(size, count+1;
m[count] = count;
return m+count;
}

void free_r(void *m) {
free(m - m[0]);
}

Memory allocated through malloc_r is right-aligned and you should only use negative indices. Best not touch m[0]!
I'm using ubuntu on my new notebook because I was struggling to install debian. I got a slim notebook that doesn't have lan and as the article says the wifi is proprietary (also the nvidia gpu). I spent like 3 hours trying to work around before I gave up and installed ubuntu (it boots out of the box - pendrive). I got the non-free firmware and burned them in the pendrive I create with the debian installation, but with no success. Back in college I had a lot of free time to fiddle with this stuff, not anymore unfortunately.
It may not be to the level of support that RedHat provides, but Debian does provide gratis support and there are consultancies providing paid support:

https://www.debian.org/support
https://www.debian.org/consultants/
A NoSQL database runs into some friends at a restaurant. "Why don't you join us?" "I would love to, but I can't join tables."
I don't understand why people find DNS so difficult, it’s just cache invalidation and naming things.

source: https://twitter.com/jdub/status/739110670562557952?s=20
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:

Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who understand that "10" can represent any number if you change the base.

(Changing joke this to work amusingly for irrational bases like the golden ratio base[1] is something I haven't yet figured out.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base
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Another proof that the YouTube Algorithm is weird.
Do you have a shining example of someone using NoFlo? It doesn't have to be big, but one that you think really exemplifies what it excels at.

(By the way, I'm a big fan of visual programming, so I'm just curious.)
I, perhaps appropriately, improperly calculated their threshold for humor.
I work in tech in Orange County and nobody here particularly cares about the M1.

It may not help that I work for a company centered around manufacturing, and factories are deeply Windows centric. (For the Linux fans, it turns out that when the Linux box fails at 3 AM, and nobody in the factory knows what to do about it, it gets replaced by Windows ASAP. Doesn't matter why it failed, they want someone around who at least knows where to start on diagnosing it.)

I would guess that my experience is closer to average for a software developer outside of the SV bubble than yours. And developers of all kinds are going to be faster to upgrade computers than the general public.
> Researchers ran the numbers and determined that even if you made a change in the past, the timeline would essentially self-correct, ensuring that whatever happened to send you back in time would still happen.

I'm sure these researchers are pretty smart, but nothing in this article goes beyond the level of a grade-school debate. Maybe there's something enlightening in the paper. But if there was, you'd think it would make its way into the article.
For who curious, the antivirus that caused problem looks like Norton 360.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682834#c39
Just give it to me in popular movies: Back to the future style time travel can’t happen but Terminator style time travel can.

It doesn’t say what constitutes a “major” change and what is a minor one though. The only guidance we are given is that the original motivation for going back must be preserved but otherwise very large changes can happen (planet of the apes marky wahlberg version)
> you need to tap on some apps to bring them into focus as if you were clicking on a window in a desktop app

Nope, not really. What's shown on the video is just a modal window not getting focused after its parent has been manually selected. This is going to go away once the activity overview starts to group child windows together with their parents (it didn't so far because it required wlr-foreign-toplevel-management protocol to be extended upstream to provide information about parent-child relationship).

> Full GTK desktop apps like Audacity look cramped on the tiny screen

FWIW such apps can be scaled down - which makes them pretty usable in many cases.

BTW. The video shows the state of the software from initial shipment in November. Plenty of things have changed already since (YouTube works out of box, jumpy scrolling is fixed etc.)
For future reference, keeping a USB Ethernet adaptor handy seems to work well in those situations (well, as long as there's an ethernet port to plug into I suppose!).
Pasting the abstract from the paper:

The theory of general relativity predicts the existence of closed time-like curves (CTCs), which theoretically would allow an observer to travel back in time and interact with their past self. This raises the question of whether this could create a grandfather paradox, in which the observer interacts in such a way to prevent their own time travel. Previous research has proposed a framework for deterministic, reversible, dynamics compatible with non-trivial time travel, where observers in distinct regions of spacetime can perform arbitrary local operations with no contradiction arising. However, only scenarios with up to three regions have been fully characterised, revealing only one type of process where the observers can verify to both be in the past and future of each other. Here we extend this characterisation to an arbitrary number of regions and find that there exist several inequivalent processes that can only arise due to non-trivial time travel. This supports the view that complex dynamics is possible in the presence of CTCs, compatible with free choice of local operations and free of inconsistencies.

FWIW, the last sentence of the paper itself (prior to the conclusion) reads: It is an open question how generic is this situation and what are the spacetimes and physical systems for which nontrivial, self-consistent time travel is possible.

As usual, non-scientific reporting overplays the ramifications.

Link to paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc
Here's how much the cost to ship a container has changed over time:

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1351626763189714945
I agree with the issue of stress, but it seems less problematic to me than the vowel mismatch. Orange and door use the FORCE vowel in their first syllables. Syringe doesn't; it uses NURSE, and this is enough to prevent the words from rhyming.

(Perhaps you view orange as using the START vowel in its first syllable. That's still not NURSE and still doesn't rhyme with syringe.)
Thanks! huge learning uplift from one sentence. I should add, that Adium developers are fighting on, but its been a long time since significant investment in the app was made and it crashes on big sur frequently. If Beeper by using the matrix can avoid this, and simplify the GUI back down, I could be taken there.
By whom? Almost all mainstream mathematicians rightfully lionize Cantor's main contributions, as David Hilbert so eloquently put it: "No one shall expel us from the paradise Cantor has created for us" Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können
Yeah, this! I would also like to make a list and pick exercises that I like and then it suggests more more exercises that can fill the gaps of what I still need.
Ubuntu is actually based on Debian unstable, they do their own QA rather than relying on the Debian's testing migration QA.
Self-fulfilling prophecy, yes.

But the article reads like some sci-fi bs tbh. What's considered the 'same outcome'. If I kill baby Hitler, would the universe create another just like him? Or someone else will do same things? If someone else does them, surely it won't (for example) kill as much people. So someone dead would now be alive in the future (or vice versa). And now the outcome isn't the same yeah?

Sorry but this is bs.
The computer salesman was trying to convince the CEO to buy the horribly expensive mainframe.

"It can answer any question! Just try it!"
The CEO thinks a minute, and asks "OK, what's my father doing right now?"
The computer grinds away for awhile, and answers "Your father is fishing in Michigan."
The CEO chortles to the salesman "Wrong! My father died five years ago!"
The computer answers "Your mothers husband died five years ago. Your father just landed a 10 pound trout."
The quality of accessible food in so much of the US is astoundingly bad. Most meat cheese and vegetables sold by the largest distributors (and therefore what most people eat) are not great - I compare most lunch meat to the meat equivalent of canned green beans. Let alone the added sugar..
This is an oldie (I first heard it in the 80s) but is one of my all time favorites. While it can be told about any two classes of people it really applies to a lot of code I encounter:

A physicist is showing a thermos to her friend, a programmer.

"It's amazing", she said. "You put a cold drink inside and regardless of how hot it is outside the drink stays cold".

The programmer is suitably impressed.

"But that's not all", she continued. "You can put a *hot* drink inside and no matter how cold it is outside the drink stays hot".

Now the programmer is perplexed.

Plaintively he asks, "But how does it know?"

I think of this whenever I read code that contains a gratuitous state variable that explains the type or content of some data structure rather than make the data structure self-explaining. Even more annoying when it's a class.

Having to coordinate two variables is a recipe for bugs down the road. Seems like it should be a beginner's mistake but I see it all the time in "non beginner" code.
Do not conflate growth with the quality of an economy.
Indian uncles and aunties who trust a WhatsApp forward because "internet" more than what actual scientists are saying. Essentially your Karens in WhatsApp university.

They are loyal because for them, WhatsApp is the first time these millions of people got to experience internet. They dont know about stuff. They even remove their liability in spreading stuff by writing:

as received

I seriously believe if anyone at matrix can build a 1 click bot that sends "good morning" random photos to recipients is going to rock India.
We die a little every day. Making a muscle bigger is a trivial pursuit, aim higher.
What's it like to have sex with a programmer? Nobody knows. They just sit on the edge of the bed telling you how great it's going to be.
>>> The slaughter of an extra 3000-4000 people in the span of seven months is a colossal tragedy. I hope that the cheerleaders of future racial reckonings will do all in their power to prevent similar disasters.

>> How exactly do you think the BLM protesters are responsible for these murders, or could have acted to prevent them?

> Here's a brief summary of violence that occurred in one day of BLM protests in the state of New York:

> 3 Buffalo cops run over ...

> Violence begets violence, whether it's committed by BLM protesters or a mob of Trump supporters.

So you're saying the increase in homicides is BLM protesters (or hangers on) murdering cops?
Sometimes you might want to know success though. So...

status = destroyCity(&city);

This way, because assumingely we may mutate city in some way we’ll still have what comes after to examine, we didn’t pass the name or Od of the city, but the location itself. And we’ll know if overall our destruction worked. It’s also better if you code to MIRSA destruction.
Yea, in Vietnamese, blue is "blue-green like the sea" and green is "blue-green like a leaf", presumably a call-back to before the two colors were linguistically distinguished.
Interesting. I am curious to what extent the indigenous people were wiped out by europeans vs their own enterprising kindred who were quicker to jump on new methods of war and looting.
From Wikipedia:
"Before invoking the powers under the Act, 10 U.S.C. § 254 requires the President to first publish a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse."

It hasn't been invoked without state/local request since Kennedy.
Maybe if folks would ignore the symbolic distractions (statues and holidays) and actually put effort into fixing IHS then things would actually get better. The statue isn't killing anyone, but poor health care is. How about put some effort into housing so large family units aren't cramped in a house when a plague hits, and maybe when picking colleges to partner with, you pick a Tribal Community College (TCU). Maybe actually report how many enrolled developers or executives work for your company instead of putting them in other. Maybe shame people with no enrollment who steal scholarships or positions that are set aside. Maybe understand that a lot of Native Americans start college late and stop holding that against them.
What a good example of a literal use of the term orthogonal
My favorite programming joke goes something like

TCP in the streets
UDP in the sheets
It really isn’t. Pretty much nothing about firearms is ‘well established’ scientifically. Just like most other social science results.

The relationship between poverty and shooting deaths is very strong though.
Will this have any impact on medicine supply? I know that drug supply chain issues are pretty well tracked so I wonder if we will see a spike in shortages for different types of drugs.
Raspberry pies usually run a debian flavor, so there is that vector.
This suggests concepts like fate and the universe having a will and intent. It seems absurd. Wouldn’t a branching creating a new universe with its own timeline make more sense? Each unit of influence you exert as a time traveler branches a new universe in which you continue to exist and which has a completely new and separate timeline without paradoxes.
This is cool. I wish all FOSS tech had a consultants page.