skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This technically does give them the ability to backdoor your system if they supply an "update" for something you have installed via another repo... but that is very far fetched, obvious to anyone paying attention, and would be hell for their PR for minimal gain.
Why is 'fact-checking' delegated to this murky website instead of first-party investigation(its as if a journalist replaced his article "check the first result on google for topic x to see the facts')?
(Its an interesting example of trust in some vague authority because its popular.)
The fact that AAPL doesn't support brew's maintenance and development is a great reason to not buy more macs.
Stories like these are so scary because encryption is(/should be) indistinguishable from random data. Imagine being accused of some crime and the police finds a USB drive formatted by overwriting it with random data. Then the prosecutor, not having found any evidence for what you're accused of, decides to fuck you over by saying the drive contains billions in bitcoin or CP but you refuse to decrypt it.
https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

It explicitly calls out Kratom in their terms:

"Sale of a legal substance that provides the same effect as an illegal drug (e.g., salvia, kratom)"

If you argue against that definition, they provide a general catch-all for products that have are deemed illegal in certain jurisdictions:

"...products and services with varying legal status on a state-by-state basis; goods or services, the sale of which is illegal under applicable law in the jurisdictions to which your business is targeted or directed"

Kratom is illegal in several US states and in several countries:

https://www.sprouthealthgroup.com/substances/is-kratom-legal...

I know you're clinging to the words "controlled substance", but the truth is Kratom violates Stripe's terms in multiple ways.
There's a youtube of a teardown of a Starlink dish.[1] A nicely patterned printed circuit board, two servomotors, plastic housing parts and an aluminium foil back shield. There's not even an ethernet jack on the PCB, just a JST connector for the ethernet cable. First time I've seen that level of cost cutting.

Those'd have to be some seriously expensive ICs on that PCB for the bill of materials to come to $1000, let alone $2400.

And ICs are like software, printed circuit boards, aluminium foil stampings, and plastic mouldings. The expensive bit is the upfront design. The more you make, the cheaper the unit cost. EDIT: I see mschuster made the same point.

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Totally agree about the regulatory hurdles. Those could be insurmountable, especially (sadly) in countries where people would really benefit from having access to better internet.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmdQnIlnRo
Ooh, a taxonomy! Haven't had one of those since the death of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory

(these are popular with library nerds, but in practice the public wants a constant feed of links + discussion in some form, whether that's slashdot, digg, reddit, or twitter)
Maybe it's time to port VSCode to native?
Recently I decided to work on my gaming pc, installed vscode and setup everything. I was taken back how fast it felt. The experience was just an improvement all around. This is despite being pretty annoyed by having to relearn windows's flavor of shortcuts

My $3k macbook is also good, but nowhere near gaming pc. So that got me thinking this must be due to vscode being based on electron.

I think electron has crucial role, it allows for quick iteration and which is what's making vscode great right now.

However, vscode has also matured and many features have stabilized. So maybe it's not a bad idea to start creating natively built version that implements all of the stabilized functionality but comes with performance.

Technically speaking, how much speed can be expected from IDE built in C++/Rust from scratch vs Electron.
I was curious and google it

> jail until you came up with the passwords

Actually is:

> Refusing to comply with RIPA can result in a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment, or five years in cases involving national security or child indecency.

I'd doubt not releasing a bitcoin wallet password is "withholding evidence" or "obstructing an investigation" in the same way as not giving the password to your 5TB child porn or terrorism related info hard drive
Arguing that psych facilities aren’t confining people who shouldn’t be because they’re over-full seems to be a contradiction.

Perhaps they’re over-full because...
> No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial, which is an erosion of civil liberties (incarceration without trial). Having known several friends who got committed and held against their will in psych wards when there was no good reason to, because their insurance was good, this is an issue.

Do you have a citation for this being a real side effect of the type of program listed here? The program as described in this piece seems novel and this article certainly makes it sound like a success.

I know engineers and programmers like to poke holes and look for edge cases that might break any potential solution, but hopefully we can allow ourselves to celebrate the victories when we see them without letting the perfect become the enemy of the good.
What Di Angelo peddles is the same thing: racism. She has said she tries to “be a little less white every day.” If you told me I should “be a little less Bangladeshi every day” you’d get a trip to HR and probably fired. But HR invites a bigot like Di Angelo to come lecture people about race. I don’t perceive the two as being any different (particularly because I can’t help but imagine someone saying it to my half white kids when I hear it).

There is a line between explaining to a racial majority they can be insensitive or oblivious or defensive, and saying stuff like that which implies that their race is bad and they should try to minimize it. Di Angelo pole vaults over that line.
Bad Habits Learned at School
USB stack error I seem to recall, can't remember if it was a scanner or a printer they plugged in.
The very premise of this (sub)thread is one of "more users == providing more value" so .. yes, for this conversation, it matters.
happening to me too! will email later!
KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Influence of Foreigners [pdf]
Which makes OP's point about Robinhood encouraging people to gamble with their investments even less true.
You wouldn't need to. Let's say they gave you a php script (any server side processing language) you could place it anywhere and it would download new ad content and show it as a first party ad.

Easier than changing a cname.
A bit like a cross between Factorio and Rimworld then?
Been a MacPorts user for years and I know nothing about Homebrew. To those who tried both: should a software engineer switch to Homebrew?

MacPorts has its own way of dealing with dev tools and framework versioning. E.g. you can have multiple versions of complex products like PHP or MySQL at once. You can even have a GCC package for a specific target arch as a separate ports package. Does Homebrew allow these things?
Having a hot reloaded set up for both my django (It's built in) environment and Web app environment is such a force multiplier.

It's not about simply saving time doing it manually. It fundamentally changes my dev-test/experiment workflow.

I love being able to tab to a server file, make a change, tab to a client file, make another change, and instantly test it in a browser.
Turkey Uighurs fear sellout to China in exchange for vaccine
You Don’t Have to Be Recruited to Work for Russian Intelligence
If you buy DSA or XDA caps they are uniform and can be switched around.
There is a pair of videos by Jan Moringen on the Online Lisp Meeting playlist - one is about an inspector written in CLIM, and the other uses CLIM for helping with presenting an extensible Lisp reader.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgq_B39Y_kKD9_sdCeE5S...
The use case is making it take less time to build stuff I imagine.
Coronavirus vaccines – summary of Yellow Card (adverse event) reporting
This is actually a big issue with child/family services as well. A lot of what they do is extra-judicial, though in theory there is often judicial review... eventually. This is coming from a foster parent. Don't get me wrong, a lot of these services are needed, but you would hear stories of abuse by the system.

Extra-judicial threats are something everyone should be on guard against.
Apple is invested into MacPorts (and also pays several employees working on it).
Location: Brazil
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Not a user of Reloadr, but hot code reloading is a big thing on my Java development process. There are servers and use cases that take a long time to start or setup, and having the possibility to debug -> edit code -> re-execute a specific method using the same context goes a long way.

For production usage, maybe that wouldn't be considered safe, but there are companies that provide services with this purpose (e.g. JRebel).
It absolutely does, and Wikipedia gets my donation yearly for that. However there are legitimate questions about how much/few of that is dedicated to its core tasks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...
They support them with Hardware and technical resources. Seeing what happened with the whole CentOS mess, I am kind of glad that homebrew remains independent and can continue to do so without relying on Apple’s money.
All of the videos are also available for download:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/
Could you clarify? What's the relation between Kotlin and Java 8 and/or Google?
God forbid poor people having access to something so pure as the internet, we should make a KYC before letting anyone use Google or Facebook
This is slightly off-topic but how many 'connections' can an app make over a Unix socket and how would you manage an in-app connection pool like HikariCP or similar when using a Unix socket?
Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software
I agree that Google needs to follow the law where they operate. I do think they should have challenged the demand in court, however. That would show that they at least tried to stand up for their app developers.
I switched from Enpass to Bitwarden and it was quite simple. Those are out-of-browser, though, and more in my control.
As other people have pointed out, Chromium has a gargantuan codebase. Unless dozens of seasoned developers are willing to become active contributors and maintainers for free, I don't see it happening soon.
Visual Basic .NET is your perfect beginner language with a rich built in framework and standard library. Ironically, it likely fell for the same reason discussed in this article: It got a lot more complex over time.
Thanks man, there goes my free time.

Why did it have to have an Android version. Nice game though!
Tuemilio hits $500MRR after 2 years
I lost a significant portion of my pancreas to necrosis and subsequently went into multiple organ failure—all out of the blue. Almost killed me last June/July. I was told, while lacking a concerted diagnosis, that the only reason I survived or didn't end up in the ICU was because I was in good shape and I was young (far too young for what they were seeing).

It wasn't just eggs. It was any dietary fats and alcohol. Eggs just happen to be something I ate most days for breakfast after the gym and suddenly could not keep down, along with most foods, and even water, at the time. Dehydration and kidney failure sucks, no matter what the cool kids tell you. Ended up losing about 50lbs of muscle and body fat in all of a couple of weeks.

They didn't want to risk surgery, partially due to the liquid compressing my lungs needed to subside, and since pancreatic necrotic debridement can be problematic in itself, and there had ended up being multiple deposits of necrotic material and other unidentified inflamed regions throughout my abdomen—so the least invasive option was put forward first: a modified diet and pain medication when I need it.

I might not feel pain immediately, and it's less the pain that I'm worried about—but until I have more imaging done and receive a diagnosis or the old "all-clear" I'm assumed to be at risk for developing chronic problems, or worse. (One does not simply keep on living without a pancreas)

So, I've been on a diet that puts me at below 30g of dietary fats a day total for about seven months now. Of particular concern is overloading the mechanism of pancreatic enzyme production, so that 30g has to be spread throughout the day evenly—can't have concentrated quantities that exists in some foods. It's the saddest diet. Most flavourful foods have a high fat content. Most non-fat options will just throw in some xanthum gum as a thickener and sugar and salt to flavour. It's not the same.

In short: it was the summary opinion of about 8 doctors including several surgeons at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, a hepatobiliary surgical oncologist in at St Joseph Hospital in Toronto, my GP, and several others. Eggs are little dietary fat bombs. I miss eggs, they're one of my favourite foods, and they're so healthy—it's where I used to get most of my B12 (I was already deficient). Egg whites are... fine.
I also recently turned it off. I had gotten a couple of comments in the past but my blog is quite low-traffic. Mostly a place for me to practice writing (and occasionally vent). However I did like the simplicity of Disqus. I tried looking around for something similar with the following requirements:

- No third party code on my domain.
- Minimal code to write myself.

Most of these tools work using an iframe, so the code that they run on your domain is minimal but they end up loading as a script that injects the iframe. AFAICT the primary reason for this is is so that they can adjust the height of the iframe automatically. In some cases I could pull a pinned version of that API from NPM or similar however it would be nice if there was a truly minimal snippet that I could use.

It also makes me wonder, if iframes could have a dynamic height would this ecosystem flourish?

In the end I just added links at the bottom of each post to search for mentions on Reddit/Twitter and another link to share the post there. I then use a WebMentions bridge to collect responses. Right now I haven't published the code that displays WebMentions automatically but I might do that in the future.
Besides, we all know that pacman is nothing compared to the one true package manager, portage.
Chrome to Edge is just trading one monopolist vendor lock-in for another.
Yes, he posted more information in an answer on Quora[1] to clarify why he felt he was turned down.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
> The larger problem, though, is that it's not at all clear that Firefox will remain a viable alternative to Chrome. Its market share has been falling for years, and not everybody is pleased with the directions that the Mozilla Foundation has taken. The creators of web sites have responded by not caring about Firefox; having to retry broken web sites in Chrome is a ritual that many Firefox users have had to get used to. It's not surprising that users give up and just run Chrome from the outset.

Pardon ? I don't run on any issue that requires using Chrome instead of Firefox. At least, not usually.

Also, as web developer I always work on Firefox and then I try on Chromiun and Edge to see if I run on a Blink bug (Yeah! I hit a few working on this way) or something that it's different between Firefox and Blink engine
It’s Weird that Apple doesn’t do this themselves. It’s not like they don’t have a cash. And it’s important for devs to have up to date tooling.

This intrepid band of volunteers are adding huge value to one of the largest corporations on earth. I appreciate the DIY effort of anyone who volunteers, though I see the donate tab on their website and sigh a little.
The fact-checkers of medicine decided the truth for you, it's for your own good they say.
And as history has shown, the solution is to get rid of the CRT, not build a better pedestal.
TL;DR

- reminder: Chrome is not/was not opensource
- Chromium is losing features like bookmark sync on Mar 15
because Google will no longer issue API keys
- if you care about opensource, run Firefox (or Chromium)
- if you are a web dev, support Firefox
May I also add the supurb documentary Trinity and Beyond. I've watched it several times and always come away simultaneously parts awed and terrified.
How to Better Read Covid-19 Data
> Exactly. We've already seen Russian authorities say that people will be arrested for using Starlink. All of a sudden, governments have lost the ability to shut off the internet without some serious jamming.

I'm not sure that's the case. I believe you have to licence spectrum in the same way that you would if you were offering a terrestrial based service, and if you don't have a licence then you'd have to turn off the beams as the satellites passed over that part of the ground.
My experience with homebrew is that it doesn't deal well with multiple version of packages at the same time. For example, it doesn't like to keep outdated openssl in parallel, which is good from a security standpoint but can make it difficult if your job involves a lot of looking at antique codebases and help with updating them...
It's why I switched back to macports after briefly testing it
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Big Tech must NOT have a monopoly on moderation!
YMMV but I've found the new Firefox Quantum faster and its extensions easier to write. While the UI customizability has dropped a bit it's more secure with the line of death keeping out deceptive UIs
The real question is if people with a capacity (perhaps even desire?) to suffer beration and verbal abuse are better at their job compared to the people who just quit?

If they are indeed better, then Jobs may have had a sound strategy. But if this form of masochism is not positively correlated with competence, he may have ended up with a worse team overall.

A similar discussion happened concerning toxic language towards Linux kernel contributors. Some have suggested that a "code of conduct" (i.e. speaking civilized) would lead to worse code quality, implying that the best developers are also the ones who tolerate or even desire verbal abuse. Personally I doubt this psychological condition is correlated with competence as a developer.

After all, how did Jobs get so good at his stuff when nobody abused him? The poor guy in the interview suggest it was the threats and berations which made him do his best effort. So why does this logic not apply to Jobs himself?
Longform pieces from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are always worth a read. I can also recommend a pilgrimage to the museum at Los Alamos if you find yourself in the high mesas of NM.

One popular subject of discussion is the use of AI for command and control of nuclear launch capability. Taking the human hand out of the equation. SkyNet looking more like prophecy than fiction ;)

https://thebulletin.org/2019/08/strangelove-redux-us-experts...
omg thank you, voice of reason.

No disrespect intended to parent posters (i appreciate them sharing their anecdotal experience), but def sobering to see that at the top, and realize "oh, this is the common view of hivemind i'm participating in"
If he's been out in that weather long enough to fall asleep, he needs medical intervention.
> and a very high ceiling of prestige and monetary reward

Is it really? How much do the top chefs make?
a dreaded quora question answered by Max Howell - https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
When a progressive liberal says they want to pack the Supreme Court (and destroy the rule of law in the process) they mean it. It’s backed by white papers peddled by fancy think tanks. There’s like PACs backing it. The ideas are published by professors in reputable journals.

When MTG “likes” a juvenile comment saying “a bullet would be quicker,” obviously I don’t treat that with the same weight, because that’s a figurative phrase that doesn’t convey an actual plan to kill anybody.

I think it’s a fair thing for parties to have to defend the concrete policy proposals of their wings. Not so much random inane muttering of individual members.
The demo didn't. A decade of crashes in the field did.
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I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.

Windows is where the users are, and apt-get works just as well on WSL2 as natively.
> This has been a big thing on my mind recently because I've been asked to do a design review for a system created by some high-SLOC-productivity people who built a complex system with a sophisticated-looking architecture but who keep giving me answers like the second one.

I've recently found myself in the middle of one such team, except without the high productivity part. Sometimes I think I'm the only sane person in a sea of mad, and at other times I wonder if maybe I'm just dumber than I think and don't understand.

I've designed and built systems that get deployed around the world, but if you look at my code and architectures, they're relatively unsophisticated. I just don't see the need for sophistication unless it's solving a specific problem, and I find these highly sophisticated designs just make everything harder (for me anyway).
How is it different than any situation when somebody turns violent and the police aren't already there? At least in this scenario there are people there who are presumably the most equipped to de-escalate the situation without further violence.
Every time the post title contains "wikipedia" out come the same complaints. I say what I always say: can you please point out a specific incident where you saw wrong information, tried to correct it, and were overturned?
"disqusting" - thanks for the article!
Such as Switzerland.
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Read only memory was written once.

An imprint of history is not memory, in much the same way that fossils, stars, the environment is not memory. Human DNA has not been written to. It is edited in only very specific circumstances - DNA repair, TCR/BCR recombination, meiosis and interestingly, and possibly relevant - LINE-1 transposons in neural tissue.
The Linux box that runs the exec carpark gate is down