skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The offer-enabled installer may display third-party offers during installation. Nothing is installed without your prior consent. In case you have accidentally agreed to an offer, you can completely uninstall it from Windows' Add/Remove Programs dialog.

Except in looking into it further, there was a particular sketchy offer that was being sent called "Search Bundle" that was completely opaque, put what is essentially an APT on the machine, and was not listed in Add/Remove programs.

The other applications (Firefox, Opera, etc) seemed to allow for normal uninstallation, but not that one.
I hated those quicktime events... yeah I saw the point of having a high quality pre-rebdered video with a gameplay element, they were just so tedious. I can't stand it when games still occasionally use the "quick, mash this button!" approach, though it is thankfully not as often these days
Relatively clearly drifting around at anchor at the start, since ships that size can't drive sideways that way if not tethered. Good on the visualization to show the heading!
Speaking of - what’s the status of HARC? Is it defunct?
I can't tell you whether this is/was innate cmake behavior or whether something was wrong with the specific project, but cmake passed all source file names to the compiler using the full file system path rather than a relative path.

This is a serious (though slowly becoming a non-issue) problem since compilers encode source file names into the output binary's debug information and strings (__FILE__). The "-fdebug-prefix-map=old=new" GCC option and its cousins are what is slowly making this a non-issue, but those are a relatively recent addition.
This is a follow-up to a major component of the http://vpri.org/writings.php project that created an self-contained office suite, OS and compiler suite in something like 100-200k lines of code without external dependencies.
The 'fuck it we'll do it live' of the sea
You ever have those moments where you’re just scrounged together a solution from reading a bunch of random tickets and forum posts and you’ve found this fix someone write that may work and now you’re going to try it?

I don’t mind doing it but at the same I hate it because you’re in uncharted territory. Support can help you be that second person in the room that has more familiarity with the problem than anyone on your team.

Also I’ve used Postgres and MSSQL and MSSQL has more features. Postgres only got non-materialized CTEs I think like 10-15 years after MSSQL had them, for example.
Salary Standoff – Resolve the salary expectation/range stalemate
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar, please avoid getting sucked in to tedious tit-for-tat spats, and please avoid personal swipes. None of that is what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
baader-meinhoff has been a neologism for a long time now, enough so that it isn't really a neoligism anymore, and we just collectively moved onto accepting it as the name of this phenomenon.

there's a lot of these sorts of in-sphere jargon; you'll start picking them up if you peruse the more esoteric threads on tech news blog aggregator sites like this.

like, if one of the original repliers in a thread is "why is this on HN", there's an increased chance imho that you'll run into this sort of techno-cultural salon effect.
I'm glad that Android still has F-Droid and the ability to install any old .apk.
Typed Racket adaptation of Push-model SQL interpreter
Between this and COVID maybe it's long overdue to rethink global JIT strategies?
A 100%. We try to make as much as possible of our online video editor (www.typestudio.co) free of charge and try to be as transparent as possible in our communication. But with open source we could never raise a seed round.
How did you make the big phone image on your site? That thing is awesome!
> raw make based solutions for VC++?

You can certainly run regular Make in Windows, either natively or in one of the unix-ish environments, and have it call CL.EXE?

Having it emit VS/MSbuild projects is more of a problem, since MSBuild itself is rather like Make with different terminology and a strange pre-existing library.
I raise goats and I get my kids disbudded every year when they're under a week old. They scream for about 5 seconds, and it breaks my heart, but then they almost immediately go back to their old selves like nothing happened and are back playing with us. In my case, I choose to do it to prevent the chance of future injuries for the goat, other goats, and humans.
Please join us, and help us do things.

Seriously, our biggest challenge is that we need more folks like you, who will roll up your sleeves and help us get something tangible done "right now". Attend a working group and tell us that we're not moving fast enough, or that we're not working on the most important things, or that your idea is better than ours and we should do your thing instead.

Give it a shot, you might be surprised. Or we might be. Either way, one of us is getting better.
Yes, Prince XML is written in Mercury. I had mentioned this on HN a few times earlier:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Apropos of the hn.algolia.com search used in the above link, it seems pretty good and accurate. I could put my HN user name into the text box along with words like prince and xml, and it worked right.
Only returned comments by me. I did not have to put my name in a separate user name field. I'm guessing this a full-text search feature.
> Or, do you mean that linguists might design programming languages without ever having learned how to program?

Yes
There are polled stock you can use - no need for dehorning.
7 years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 370?
> given that they are in effect, judge and jury on their own private platform

You say this like it's some weird, bizarre thing. Who else should be judge and jury by default on a private platform? Should there be some government committee any time a new social media company starts up?

In any case, to answer your question: if the issue is that they've become too powerful, and there's a reasonable case to make there, then I'd say the answer is to either break them up or support alternatives, not have the government barge in and micromanage how they run the particulars of their business. I don't think there's some obvious right answer for "how tightly should a social networking company restrict what people say", so the best possible answer from a societal level is to help choices flourish and let consumers choose.

Every platform has some 'censorship' -- even Parler banned porn, and got rid of left wing 'trolls'. The only real way around it is to not have a platform so much as a protocol, like email.
S3 Day 22 – US Army breakfast
"Good morning everyone.
- cheesy scrambled eggs (tasted strongly like parmesan cheese but overall way more edible than the usual eggs);
- taco scrambler;
- ;
- black water;
- pancakes (following the path of yesterday's waffles);
- Nürnberger sausages.

Enjoy your day."
So we were doing 2 sets of people. Those over 60 who were on their second shot (because they were over 60), and under 60 essential and ag workers. The over 60 folks were all early AM. So over 60 was in this case a known separator.

The over 60 folks didn't care why text or email, they wanted to do what they needed to do to get their shots. The system we were using was setup for text. It was a tech choice. To them tho, it's a phone number, and they never text, that's what email is for. Why should they have emails and texts and phone calls and because it's hippa, an in web app email system to keep their data secure.

For my mom I'm referring to apple's pushing of iMessage over SMS... she doesn't comprehend the difference and apple's push to get people into their ecosystem is making it impossible to communicate with my mom without carrying around an iphone all day just to respond to her.
In case of Seagate's Kinetic Drives, one core was used by the controller, the other 'extra' CPU was used to manage a Key value store on the driver. These were ARM processors.
I don't think they make these themselves.
Put it a different way:

Open Source now is in every single walk of life and is only going to become more critical to everyone online, their banking, their healthcare and so on.

As such most people would want that software to be governed. Preferably with transparency, right to reply / be heard and have their needs taken into account.

It might not have to be bereaucratic, long winded or inefficient, but it will have to be government.

And it's going to need to be a government of international needs and concerns.

The only good point is we might get to shape it for the next decade while it all starts up

www.oss4gov.org/manifesto
Seems mostly to transfer wealth to already famous or rich people. The rich buying stuff from each other. Perhaps even laundering money as they do so.
Yes, I'm pretty sure the parent was taking a jab at destructful industrial fishing and its methods, not scientists
My husband swears the bulk cheese powder is not at all the same product and doesn't taste nearly as good. I've tried a couple brands (Kraft cheese powder included)

I think it's fine. Shrug

Of course, the taste changes if you use a different type of pasta, and the macaroni that comes in the box is significantly longer/straighter than the elbows you can buy in the store.
Do remember that something like 'fossil fuels are destroying the environment' would be called 'hate speech' if power shifted a bit. 'Hate' is an emotive term used to bypass peoples thinking so that criticism of certain things can be disposed of by emotion rather than evidence. People bringing up evidence of malfeasance could be called 'hate filled' people, have what they say aggressively censored, so that other people only hear these are 'hate filled' people and what they say be buried so that inconvenient information doesn't come out.
IDK they used measles virus in the movie, but in mRNA they don't use virus at all. They just use lipid nanoparticle with mRNA, it can't replicate. It just delivers mRNA to cells and the mRNA is used by the cells as a boilerplate to manufacture some proteins. In case of SARS-COV-2 vaccine it's spike (s-protein), not the virus itself, not lipid particle protein RNA, just RNA for the spike alone. RNA is not stable, for our human proteins we constantly manufacture new RNA from DNA. So basically we send command to manufacture some spike proteins so that our immune system can learn to recognize and neutralize the spikes. The movie parallel is just on the surface but in reality it works differently. I'm not saying that you shouldn't start packing your zombie-apocalypse backpack though.
Not what OP was asking
>If you check the filename of the windows installer you download from the frontpage the name is FileZilla_Version_Sponsored-setup.exe

Damn...that reminds me of the old days of sneaky checkboxes hidden in installers, usually actually hidden, that would be pre-checked confirming your consent to whatever ad/spyware to be installed alongside whatever you wanted to install.

I remember that shit being everywhere for a few years. Got tricked by them once or twice and had a hell of a time cleaning things up after.
They started with eelo, but then had to change:

> Eelo was subsequently renamed to /e/ in July 2018 due to a conflict with the "eelloo" trademark, which was owned by human resources company Meurs HRM B.V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system)

PS. I agree on it being the worst name possible.
It reminded me of this marvellous machine that was designed by Konrad Zuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwgpKRnWM8
It's regularly commented-on that the reason we don't have widespread public bathrooms like many other developed and Middle-income countries is due to insane laws prohibiting against pay toilets, on the grounds that. Turns out when you don't allow pay toilets, you end up with no public toilets at all, even in places like San Francisco where the government attempts to pour money into providing them.

It's a very "American left" pitfall: make the victims of your "compassion" worse off as long as you avoid the appearance of inequity. See also: payday loans, boxing gloves, etc
So...

One individual out of 28 is known to be 400 years old. There is a subadult population bulge. Any way of estimating natural life spans from this? Could be some very, very old sharks out there. I wonder how big the 400yr old one is, relative to max known size.
Trial is defined as "a test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something." An organism's life is definitely a test of its ability to survive; a flower seed being buried in a shady spot is thus a trial. There is no need for a guide.
I'm late to the thread (had to find it satirized on n-gate.com) but I'm against all conflation/confusion. Against conflating/confusing master (as opposed to copy) with master (as opposed to slave). And especially, since it seems so widespread and dangerous, I'm against conflating/confusing the accurate use of master and slave whether metaphorical or literal, with endorsing slavery of humans, i.e. conflating/confusing the act of merely mentioning with the act of endorsing. Slavery is a thing and we need words to describe and name it; isn't that the whole point of drawing attention to it? Outlawing words actually works counter to the goal. And sometimes we do make computers serve in master or slave roles. They're not sentient so it's fine. Hopefully everybody with half a brain knows the difference between that and doing it to people.
Fedora 34 beta i3 spin
Another giant corporate bureaucracy packed to the brim with directors and codes of conduct. This stuff is the death of the open source community spirit.
My guess is that it challenges the capitalist status quo, which HN posters famously protect
Defunct enough to let their TLS cert expire.
It's even a bit worse than that.

You already probably imagine that the installer has default-selected checkbox that will install something extra if you don't catch it and deselect it.

But what surprised me was, it actively reacts and tries again if you do catch it.

If you don't stop it, it installs something extra. Straightforward.

But if you DO stop it, it then tries to install a 2nd, different extra unwanted crap. There are 2 things in the installer from the get-go, but it only hits you with the 2nd one if you managed to catch and decline the 1st one.

That's a whole special extra level of actively attempting to trick and decieve. That is crossing a line from at least plausible deniability that it's just a passive annoyance, into activly adversarial behavior against your own users.
BitClout Has Reaped $160M for Tokens Pegged to Celebs. Is It All a Scam?
So to be clear, you're conceding that your whole argument about Trump being unable to deploy any troops in the district was incorrect. I don't blame you for wanting to wrap this up.

> You're made because Trump didn't go against the wishes of the mayor and just deploy more troops?

Um, yes? The real (and obvious) issue is that Trump wanted his supporters to physically interfere. He invited them to a "wild" protest on the 6th, and on that day told them to go "show strength" at the capitol, and said he'd go with them. This is incitement in clear language.

Then, instead of going with his supporters, he hustled back to the white house to watch on TV as his supporters broke into the capitol chanting "hang Mike Pence", and refused to lift a finger to deploy resources to stop it.
I kind of like his house's floor plan where the bottom floor of the house if essentially all garage. Makes working on projects like this much more feasible.
this is great. I'd love to be able to navigate to previous results though.
I'm a US citizen living in the UK. They cut me off after less than two years of not being in the US. How long you had your Fi account before you are consistently outside the US might be a factor. I switched to Fi shortly before going abroad. I barely use any data (I have a UK sim that I use day to day, the Fi phone/account is just to keep my old US number active since I still have so many things connected to it).
Over the last 20 years I have founded and co-founded multiple software startups myself so I know a bit about making a software business successful.

I would love to invest something like $100K in small software startups. But I have no idea how to go about it.

My favorite approach would be to band together with a few other small time investors and put $10k of my money into 10 different companies each.

One issue is that all my friends are still in the "dreaming about building a startup" phase. Nobody in my circle has the money/interest to invest.

The other issue is that I don't know how to find startups to invest in.
I am one. I have invested in some YC (and non-YC) companies over the years. About half of my investments are listed here.

https://angel.co/p/diego-basch
raises hand

Early stage dev tools investor here, investing in technical tools for technical people. Focused mainly on seed through Series B.

Portfolio: https://whoisnnamdi.com/portfolio/
Interesting sequence. You can see the pilots being dropped off on a couple of ships (blue icons) and then the Ever Given. Once it has a pilot, it circles to get proper spacing with the ship ahead and sequences into the canal.

As the ship goes through the canal, it goes towards the east bank (consistent with a strong gust of wind blowing it off course) and then veers into the west bank. Looks like they overcompensated when they were blown off-course.
A coronavirus variant tore into an English island – and the world
You might enjoy this version, recounting the history of the USSR to the Tetris tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
It's not. It's a useful discussion about the pragmatic limitation of open source.
Your argument relies on a number of premises that are not necessarily true.

First of all "Rightful inheritance" is a matter of human law not natural law. Whatever state or laws existed surrounding inheritance clearly do not exist anymore for artifacts more than a few hundred years old. It is absurd to say property rights of states existing thousands of years ago apply today. You won't find any courts arguing that. Absurd.

Second, descendants of millennia old property owners are both impossible, and too easy to find. Because of the way human genetics works you yourself may be a descendant. I'm a descendant of 13th century nobility, does that mean I and the millions of others with this ancestry inherit their various artifacts such as a cup or textile? Absurd.

>If your property may end up in a foreign museum millennia after you die, why even bother working?

I don't know. You'd have to decide that for yourself. To me the question is absurd. When I die I may will what is left of my estate, but I don't absurdly believe that thousands of years later my will be respected. Totally ridiculous.

These artifacts belong to the world. Any attempts by states to force other states or organizations to "return stolen items" is a mealy mouthed way of saying they want the value they perceive they have lost. This is absurd greed. Just like conquering land, the losers have no right to their lost land. That is never the case. And you will never see these same states trying to return the land they have "stolen" to the descendants thousands of years later, now spread myriad around the world, because it's fucking absurd.

When people die and a lot of time passes things become just things. Some novel state that has no true connection to, and in fact had no knowledge of, some past state has no right to property of millennia-dead people of that state. It's ridiculous.

If this was about doing the right thing then one would recognize that these are artifacts of our shared human heritage, and as such they should be kept in trust for the benefit for all humanity unbound to any particular regime cultural or legal. Of course it isn't about doing the right thing it's about stupid politics.
I'd be extremely surprised if the percentage was "fairly high", having worked in FAANG for half a decade.
Especially since Apple re-wrote the Finder for the OS X release right after the one that introduced Core Animation. Maybe they were trying to be a bit conservative with the Cocoa Finder rewrite and were focused on simply ditching the Carbon APIs while preserving as much of the application's behavior and internal structure as possible, rather than more thoroughly modernizing the app. But the fact that it still hasn't been modernized in this way for more than a decade sounds like Apple's macOS developers a Microsoft-style fear of touching core components of the OS.
It's hardly semantics. Many people over the past few hundred years have found it mind-bogglingly unlikely that organisms can evolve to be so purpose-built to survive in their environments if the only input driving that forward is the circumstances of their birth and the sheer number of organisms being produced. This study suggests that's not the only way these genetic changes happen, which makes the premise of evolution much less unlikely.
Or because their experiences don’t match yours? I’ve used a lot of operating systems extensively and they all have unique pain points that make me want to rip my hair out. If you go in with a negative prejudice and then find anything wrong you’re just confirming your bias without acknowledging any of the positive traits. Of course you hate it. You don’t even want to like it.
Compiler compilers are great, I love writing DSLs for my projects. I usually use yacc/lex, or write my own compiler (typically in go these days).

However (and this is just me talking), I don't see the point in a javascript-based compiler. Surely any file format/DSL/programming language you write will be parsed server-side?
Maduro convinced me, that's who. Specifically, Maduro's behavior in office for the last N years, and even more specifically, his behavior toward opposition parties. (Imagine Trump having Biden arrested in April 2020 on some transparently fake charges, so that Biden can't conduct a campaign. Trump wins the 2020 election, though there were "irregularities" in the vote. Then he dissolves Congress. Then in 2023, Trump arrests whoever the leading Democrat candidate is. Would that be authoritarian? I would say, absolutely yes.)

I think it's more interesting to ask, who convinced you that Maduro is not authoritarian? And, what possible evidence would change your mind?
This is the entire business model of Amazon, Walmart, etc etc. Every company on the fortune 500 basically.
I will concur that the art market in general seems like a way to store, hide, and transfer wealth.
A Collapse Foretold: How Brazil’s Covid-19 Outbreak Overwhelmed Hospitals
Baseball is not a business model either.
https://www.rotato.xyz

It’s pretty cool, well worth the price.
The real real treadmill is nature. Even if you eat today, you'll need more food tomorrow. How outrageous is that?!
hate speech is not free speech & freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

some level of censorship is necessary to stop nazis and such from spreading their dangerous ideas, which result in mass shootings.

censorship doesnt automatically mean totalitarian state. every country in the world has some limitations on speech, its working perfectly well in europe.
Hence why I never said it wasn't random, specifically that it's not the random trial and error of genetic mutations at birth.
A Notion kanban board!
The pricing page seems reasonably clear that this is just revision history and not the current data.
It'd be cool if the online editor dispensed with the need to "write the grammar" entirely. A node based parser-generator in addition to Ohm being yet another grammar based parser-generator would be pretty great.
There are too many pink haired alphabet people. Everything they dont like is hate speech, triggering etc.