skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at that. Why isn't this USA number 1 in press freedom? Hell I'm surprised it's even that high with witch hunting going on in this cult following country.

The only journalists that matter like Snowden and Assange do get fucked over, the rest don't matter they're a bunch of sniveling lying rats.
I don't know about fifteen times a second but yeah definitely.
I think a question that journalism is trying to answer is: is pursuit of objective reporting possible and/or worth it?

The dean of the Columbia Journalism School basically said it needs to be re-examined [0].

I think one can push an agenda without the over-the-top inflammatory phrases. This is probably just a pet peeve of mine.

[0]https://journalism.columbia.edu/message-j-school-community
> None of those idiots had firearms.

Not with-in the Capital building, but many were carrying outside (in violation of DC law AFAICT):

> Video footage reviewed by prosecutors also suggests Munchel and his mother carried weapons while in Washington, DC — despite the district's strict gun laws — and abandoned them only before they got into the building.

> "We're going straight to federal prison if we go in there with weapons," Eisenhart told Munchel before they entered the Capitol building, according to prosecutors.

> "We can put 'em in the backpacks," Eisenhart then said, before stashing "tactical bags" outside the building, according to prosecutors.

* https://www.insider.com/zip-tie-guy-capitol-riot-plastic-han...

> None brought cable ties with them […]

At least one seems to have:

> Brock was arrested Sunday in Texas after being photographed on the Senate floor during the deadly riot wearing a helmet and heavy vest and carrying plastic zip-tie handcuffs. The 53-year-old is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

* https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-fort-worth-texas-e1...

I am reminded of Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

I think a lot of the mob were useful idiots and are being manipulated via populism by those with an actual clue. Georgia just passed the voter restrictions under the popular 'support' of these folks.
The electric company gave us the tanks for free to us to sign up. Though the need for larger tanks to pull this off is important.
The "Nerf--" paper [1] attempt to tackle that with a directly comparable method. You might also be interested in this [2] slightly different approach that focus on a more explicit decomposition.

[1] https://nerfmm.active.vision/

[2] https://lioryariv.github.io/idr/
Really interesting approach. I've bookmarked the page. You should consider gathering emails to give updates.

This should be the new killer app for e-readers. That tech is generally closed with too low powered processors due to power requirements for it to be implemented in any current generation. But it is just right for this kind of reading/learning.

Are you doing the translation?
I can't find it back but there was a blog post explaining that earth plants could have been red instead of just green.
Do you imagine red forests??
And this is not science fiction at all, brown and red photosynthesis can be as efficient hence why it is very common underwater.
However some contingent "choices" have been made at the origin of photosynthesis and no terrestrial plant has preserved the necessary gens and such gens cannot be developed back. However horizontal gene transfer might be a hope of seeing one day a red planet (though a human made OGMs is likely the best strategy)
Which company valuations in particular do you think are being affected by paying for “services not rendered”? I’m not sure if you’ve looked at equity valuations lately, but I don’t think services being paid for and not received is hurting equity valuations one bit, everything is expensive!
At this point Qualcomm should be pretty worried about getting replaced out of Apple hardware, so I suppose key account managers are scrambling to do Apples' bidding, at least to some degree. Apple has so much control over their embedded hardware now, they probably are already working at ridding themselves of everything that stops them from 100% control. This is unparalleled in other hardware/software ecosystems; there, the situation is often much the reverse.
The questuon is, can you actyally force their hand? So far, the answer seems to be no.

Personally I feel we need to push for a law where the iser has a right to an open driver in the same way he has a right to a manual. Attempts to ship undocumented / secret functionality is software or devices should be equates with spreadind spyware or malware.
It's just not the same for me without the music.[0] Although my favorite soundtrack was actually the Welltris one.[1] Ah, brings back memories of when I had all the flags of the former USSR memorized.

[0]https://youtu.be/NmCCQxVBfyM

[1]https://youtu.be/RJEyqLK7HwU
And there are plenty of things that parade themselves around as truth that are not.
IPFS doesn't require any blockchain.

In fact someone could easily setup some IPFS nodes that fetch the data from the current host if requested over IPFS.[1] This way people could access it via IPFS and provide an alternate mirror of the data.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/experimenta...

The main benefits here would be

- Even if the source is unavailable there may be other copies on IPFS which would be transparently used.

- There may be some performance benefits in rare cases.

- If you are accessing this on a bunch of machines your IPFS gateways would handle downloading the source once, then automatically using the local copy from inside your network.

The maindownside is that if Amazon is donating their resources why bother with IPFS?
Honest talk here, except that implies that no-one in this ecosystem is actually interested in helping the poor/sick/kids or other powerless - and that's just social darwinism.

It's "win/win" for the charities and philanthropists at the expense of everyone else. And there is a whole lot wrong with that.
I don't think calling it "silly" is the right thing to do.

"Elites" have ecosystems that keep them rich, powerful, and elite of which these charities are enabling. When you donate fortunes to charities it allows you a certain voice both within the domain of that issue and more broadly. This leaves the shaping of society up to people seeking popularity, not people calculating what the "right" thing to do is. That voice, their money, and their influence have proven problematic in society or at a minimum are more problematic to the every day person who checks none of those boxes.

If you are an "elite" you will be rightly criticized at every turn, unless you keep to yourself which, as you pointed out, will likely lead to your demise as an elite.
I agree Europe and SK can field their own stuff.

But if the US abdicates its role, China and Russia are going to carve out their own spheres and soon you’ll feel the effects of having to do business (or none at all) with autocratic states controlled by them.
The reality is that this isn’t something that can be realistically addressed with personal morals or ethics and/or shaming campaigns.

These are society wide problems. This, literally, is what government is for. Or should be.

With that said it’s honorable and positive for people to notice that our government is not currently set up this way, and to try to make personal decisions to improve things.

But if you’re actually looking for solutions they’re on a larger social scale and involve things that Silicon Valley has often been culturally hostile to, like social insurance systems and organized labor.
It also saves you thousands of dollars from having to get something certified in the US. A few years ago I wanted to develop a hardware product, but I gave up once I learned how expensive certification and licensing can be. If you want to sell a rasperry pi with an LED and resistors attached to one of the GPIO pins you are looking at 5 figures worth of costs just to be able to sell a single unit in just the US.
I actually think this is a real one. One of the main problems with Twitter is that suddenly people with radically different conflicting beliefs and contexts are in the same room talking past eachother
I use lftp. The website design tells you exactly how the tool works.

https://lftp.yar.ru/

One of the most valuable features is its ability to download a single file over multiple connections

pget -n 4 your.file.tar.gz

because many ISPs limit speed per flow and opening multiple of them, even to the same target, allows you to max out your connection.
In fairness to the US, there were many more encounters between police and the press during tense situations than there have been in prior years. I doubt we’ve regressed much, but rather police probably aren’t thoroughly trained for dealing with the press under those circumstances (nor likely were they previously) and they had far more encounters with journalists while working long hours at anti-police protests. That alone would explain an uptick in conflicts with the press. Also, kindly note that I’m not expressing support for police or suggesting journalists “had it coming”—only pointing out that there might be a better explanation for the uptick in conflicts besides a rise in authoritarianism.
We use socat to buffer logs sent from containers (docker-compose) during the short window at startup where logstash and elasticsearch are not ready yet. Works great!
Companies optimize for cost. If a package scams you by having too many dependencies then you simply don't use it.
As has already been said, this is not news, nor is it a change, it is not news. It is not even something, that can be reprehensible to the people who maintain the Filezilla project. Funny to see people who have been using the software for half their lives, criticizing this. This can only surprise someone who installed filezilla for the first time, or had not installed it for half a lifetime..

So crazy.
Bitcoin is not good p2p money. It's more like back-office communication protocol between fintech companies.

I just found bitcoin-core wallet in old version of bitcoin-core, so I synced whole blockchain to use them. It took > 2 days.
Sorry to ask but can you explain the joke?
For anyone discussing the food system and fragility of society — if you missed “Connections” when it came up here a while ago, it’s brilliant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075430
I would say what happens to the tweet itself is almost an afterthought—it was one of only many violations addressed by the report, along with more mundane stuff, like contract provisions about employees speaking to the press (ruling: it's unlawful to prevent employees from speaking with the press as long as they make it clear they don't represent the company). The NLRB also required them to post notices addressing the tweet at all factories, and it was immortalized in a 55 page public document—not to mention all of the contemporaneous news reports. I think it's very safe to say that posterity is not going to have a hard time finding this tweet
Wow, I just switched to Transmit a few weeks ago from years of using Filezilla...looks like I dodged a bullet.
It’s a math problem. The US standard of living is fairly high and that’s expensive to maintain. Pick a number in your mind of how much money the government should guarantee every adult citizen every year.

If you seized all the wealth of every US billionaire and gave it equally to all US citizens 18 or older, each citizen would receive less than $20K. Not per year, but once ever.

There’s a lot of people demanding a lot of goods and services and most of that work is an actual grind.

There’s a difference between saying (obviously correctly) that gay people, black people, women should all be equally able to participate in the economic engine. It’s another thing entirely to eliminate the heat, friction, and struggle in that engine.
Most graphical DE shells on Linux will just mount sftp (scp/ssh) graphically, no need for stuff like this.

People still say Linux DEs aren't user friendly but IMO they're much more so than other OSes largely because other OSes have a moat to protect.
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MusicBee whips it, and all the other Amazon 1.4 forks. I was a massive Amarok 1.4 fan, and I think MusicBee is the dog's bollocks. On Linux, you need to install via wine though. But it's rock solid. You need to go for the 3.0 release though - after that, drag ordering of files doesn't work in Wine. There isn't a compelling reason to use the latest version anyway.
Thanks, I used Google Translate at first. I have a family member that does it professionally so I may work with him going forward.
So buggy though.
So is money except when everyone agrees it isn't.
I got a warning about slow page on firefox.

Chrome Version 89.0.4389.90 (64-bit) closed itself after a while.
Bribery is on the same axis as honesty, not freedom. It would be a metric in the World Press Honesty Index. There are countries where the government doesn't even have to bribe press to make journalists write and say what the regime wants.
AAPL’s recent ~18% decline from ATH is a direct result of this, if they didn’t pay their cleaners to do NOTHING it would not have dropped so much

/s
I've read lots of problems with the US's past public housing programs, but I've never once heard somebody say that they were overbuilt.

The problems were poor construction, lack of maintenance, poor citing away from any sort of economic opportunity, and perhaps most of all racial segregation.

Any sort of modern effort would have to mirror Singapore or Vienna, where the housing is for people of all incomes, and wealthy people's rent cross subsidized lower incomes, and everybody lives together.
I am not sure why the comment is being downvoted - thats exactly what it is, a political decision to force companies to produce open drivers.
Yes, Conan and vcpkg have gotten better lately, but that is a relatively recent development. Just two years ago I still had a hard time finding some common libraries with Conan. It's good that the situation is better now.
BBC has also trended sharply away from neutrality and objectivity in its pursuit of clicks, so I’m not sure this is the best example to make your point.
I'm curious how fixing these sorts of events gets funded. I imagine the expense is massive. Is it insurance? Is the allocated amount anywhere near proportional to the money being lost to being stuck? Who eventually bears the cost?
appreciated, thank you
Lots of needless jobs that should disappear but it seems like there is a big difference in class.
Likely something like this
https://github.com/rupor-github/wsl-ssh-agent#wsl-2-compatib...

Similarly, you can also do this with KeepassXC
Just because you say so does not make it so.
You provide no argument, only assertions.
This is amazing - one of the best projects I've seen in a long time.
If your software ships with no self-update capability and you decide to update it on your users' computers by exploiting a vulnerability, is that even legal?
The absolute worst scenario happened (update)
If you actually read my comment, it should be clear that I don’t think governments know how to spend money better.
I'm not sure this is true, except that you are comparing the worst of government projects with the best of corporate projects.

Most businesses fail. Hell, most Google products have failed. As such, overall private spending is woefully inefficient (despite a few big successes), and government spending is relatively very efficient.
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I disagree, as there are lots of ways it can manifest in C++. To list a few examples:

- Implicit lambda capture where you use & (admittedly often out of laziness).

- A string_view constructed from an accidental string copy (e.g. if your function parameter is a const std::string instead of a const std::string&, or if you write for (auto foo : v) { ... }).

- A callback that references some member variables of some object on the stack, which usually completes before the function returns (but maybe you forget to synchronize in an edge case).

Tooling can help identify a number of these issues, but it's not perfect. And a number of these issues are very much C++-specific.
Minor correction on the first difference between LLVM and GCC: LLVM is under a permissive license, not a weak copyleft one.

You seem to have misunderstood the goals of RMS, GCC, and the GNU project. It was never about creating "the best" compiler (if there can ever be a "best" of everything). The goal was and is to create the "best" Free Software compiler.

It's great that the currently openly released version of LLVM is of great quality. However, exactly because this project does not have "RMS's political constraints" (as you write), there is no guarantee that this will continue to be so.
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We use wkhtmltopdf on AWS Lambda and have had zero issues in production for the last ~2 years. We're generating internal owned documents (invoices, letters, paged forms, etc) so I wouldn't necessarily trust it with untested input HTML but it really has been bulletproof for our use-case.

At some point we'll likely move to chrome/puppeteer but in most of our tests the templates required modifications to mimic the existing PDFs so it's something we've been putting off.
Baltimore prosecutor ends drug, sex prosecutions as violent crime plummets
That's not denigration, that's reality.

> Consider the fact that China raised millions out of poverty.

Nobody raised anybody out of poverty. The only ones they have to thank for raising them out of poverty are themselves. It was that party in the first place which plunged China into the abyss.

Telling that you can only have nice living because of the party is the true denigration.

> That's quite some level of denigration and generalization on the average chinese person you've put out.

An average Chinese person has more enough reasons to hate the country with passion that idle Western intellectuals. I myself know many people personally whose relative were killed by communists, and some even know where children of those murderers live today.

Be grateful for that??? Hundred curses
Your file manager probably does FTP. Try enter a [s]FTP[s]:// URL into your location field. Depending on your distro, for gnome or derivatives you might have to install a gvfs plugin package first.
Dang answered this recently here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870
I agree with you. I am doing a lot of coding in Go for my multiplatform home projects and C/C++ at work 8 hours per day.

Go brings faster results due to the really great and easy to integrate 3rd party libraries. There is literally no way that I would go for such a large number of third party dependencies with any C++ software - it is just too much work to prepare the libraries for use.

The amount of thinking to make Go programs run fast and with low memory fingerprint is about the same as C++ with a huge minus that you dont have a delete/free keyword that designates "now the memory is de-allocated". With go, you need to think hard, I would prefer GC language that has a deallocation keyword, so I can forget about everything I dont care about but still deallocate what I want in specific moment.

For me personally, the hugest difference of Go against C/C++ is the ecosystem and how simple is to use 3rd party libraries/modules/whatever.
Oops. Thanks for the pointer!
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Right. You were just running your mouth.
“In America you’re free to criticise the American government. In China you’re also free to criticise the American government.” ;)
calling it a free market is laughable naive. the market is lopsided in favor of businesses because many laws at the state and federal are explicitly pro-business and anti-union; see "right to work laws", the 1947 Taft-Harley act, etc. - especially over the past 20 years

and saying workers should just go and join a union backed job is even sillier when <15% of all full time workers are apart of a union [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
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Have you happened to blog about this? I'd love to be able to fix our setups with this trick!
Great game and it came with the book!
Does anyone remember the music that played in this? It is a classic song that I’ve been trying to find out for years!
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My needless job pays me a shitload of money and I work maybe 10 hours a week. Nobody notices my output is crap because my job doesn’t need to exist. If you’re privileged enough you can do nothing and still get paid for it.

So yeah, it’s maybe a little pompous when you grasp the inequality of the situation. Is being able to talk like an overeducated white person really worth that much?
Curious. Did you use proper strings or null terminated character array?
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I am talking about the effectiveness of a charity and what it needs to maximize its effect. I did not say anything about or point out anything about their demise as an elite. That is just an uncharitable reading of my words.

Thinking "elites" are more corrupt than the average bureaucrat who manage the money if we took it away is just not reality.
>All had about the same performance when scanning through my whole /usr/include file tree. That’s why I wanted to highlight that technical characteristics are often not as important as the developer experience.

Strange conclusion considering their benchmark was I/O-bound by design
Not that I have the ability to do that, but where are these Domain Engineering manuals?
And on the topic of LGBTQ+, looks like Epstein saw little difference between pedophilia and homosexuality:

http://thecentralvoice.com/stories/jeffrey-epsteins-remarks-...

This could be why Epstein may have seen gays as powerful allies for his anticipated prosecution on federal child sex-trafficking charges:

http://lanternproject.org.uk/library/general/articles-and-in...

It has also been suggested that Mr. Epstein's close friend and confidant Les Wexner is gay:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/i90f3v/epstein_and...
Who are the shareholders? Are they opensource developers?
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Markup is 100%? Which housing market is that?! I find that rather incredible, because construction is not usually that lucrative, anywhere, and if such profit margins were possible there would be a glut of people rushing in to do it. Construction loans mean that starting capital for such a project isn't super high.

Another thing about "only luxury," that means there's a regulation failure that only allows luxury homes to be built. We have a market system that means that the rich get served first. So if it's cheap to build, but only super expensive units come on the market, those who approve or deny building are letting too few units be built.

In expensive markets like California, profits are typically around 10%-25%, no more than a few year's worth of housing costs rise.

Therefore it's far easier to make money by buying and holding in California than through construction; higher profits and less risk.
Thank you for your detailed replies and the link to Bradley M. Kuhn acceptance speech. It was very inspiring.
See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th...

Was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22678816
Haha, no disagreement there. ;)
Yes. They are. In a place that's owned by their employer.

Being monitored like this in your own home is downright insulting.
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