skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attempting to overthrow the government is probably at least an insurrection.

The fact that Trump told/signalled people to go to the US Capital building can be construed as giving direction, would be put it under the "self-coup" (autogolpe) category:

> Naunihal Singh of the U.S. Naval War College and author of Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups, wrote that the attack on the Capitol was "an insurrection, a violent uprising against the government" and "sedition" but not a coup because Trump did not order the military "to seize power on his behalf".[461][462] The Coup D'état Project of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which tracks coups and coup attempts globally, classified the attack on the Capitol as an "attempted dissident coup" which the center defines as an unsuccessful coup attempt "initiated by a small group of discontents" such as "ex-military leaders, religious leaders, former government leaders, members of a legislature/parliament, and civilians" (but not police or the military). The Cline Center stated that the "organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition" by displacing Congress met this definition.[463][464] Some political scientists identified the attack as an attempted self-coup, in which the head of government attempts to strong-arm the other branches of government to entrench power.[465] Academic Fiona Hill, a former member of Trump's National Security Council, described the attack, and Trump's actions in the months leading up to it, as an attempted self-coup.[466]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St...
As their boss, could you ask them to document their problem, in something like Slab, to the point where it is clear what they are requesting (like a good, or great, request on Stack Overflow, rather than "I'm stuck"). Then they tag you, you do the minimum to pass it back to them (in the hope they can take it from there).
You then have documentation for the next guy.

Optionally, you could put an interim step where someone else on the team is given the chance to advance it; might keep it from your doorstep. But I don't know if that'd help in your situation!

I've assumed that the problem is with them, not you, as that's how you wrote it. But if you have (possibly) set a tone where their solutions work but not as well as yours and are switched because it's not done as well as you'd do it, then it's on you (possibly?)! :-)
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Commandments to a Safer Digital Life
NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe from Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years
> We live in a sea of mis-information, we desperately need help making sense of the deluge of nonsense coming our way every day and the societal organ responsible for that spends its time contributing to the chaos or flattering itself.

The easiest way to start is by not confusing mainstream journalism for its editorialists. Due to that I have completely written off FoxNews and anything that refers to itself as liberal or conservative news.

An ever better way to avoid nonsense and misinformation is not use social media as a news source.

If you aren’t willing to do, or incapable of, just those two things it’s hard to take you seriously.

Lately, I have really fallen into favor with France24 and Al Jazeera for news.
If I happen to mention to you that it would be a shame if my associates and I were to decide to burn your nice little business down in the night, but maybe if you pay us that won't happen I would assume that you would know that a threat was being made. The arson is illegal, but so is the threat to commit it unless you do something that is to my material benefit.
There’s something else to this story people don’t talk about: write endurance of nand. Phone performance degradation over time can be explained by a combination of (in decreasing outlandishness) TGMLC, nand wearing out, throttling due to battery peak current being lower, and some secret throttling. I haven’t seen nand performance over time discussed or tested.

Replaceable batteries might be moot if after two batteries the device was unbearably slow. Consumers would still replace their phones within a few years.
Most HK nationals aren't muslims. Muslims face another level of anti-asylum-rhetoric than HK people.
Check out https://blook.io - simple us business registration
When I looked to FileZilla alternatives some time ago, I was surprised that there wasn't actually many alternatives. WinSCP is my default now too.
There are a lot of sweeping unsubstantiated assertions here, and unclearly defined ideas. What is lousy thinking and design? What are the practical downsides of it in the program? Given how many exploits are caused by memory mistakes in C and C++, maybe using those is actually the lousy thinking?
> utf-8 as it should be

Agreed, but now your standard library doesn't have string support, it has byte buffer support. That's no improvement over C, compared to rust.
Remember that there are people from all over the world here. I've worked for $600-700 a month on writing code before.
> Please advise how I can negotiate with Apple and resolve this matter.

Negotiate? They give you a contract, you either accept or deny signing that contract. If you sign it, you have to follow their rules and practices (some of which are not documented). If you don't, then you need to start focusing on a different ecosystem.

If you do sign the contract, and get flagged for the wrong reasons, all you can do is ask them nicely to make an exception for you, or ask for another reviewer. Failing that, there isn't much you can do unless you're a big corp.
Mathematicians have an Erdős number, describing how close they have collaborated with Erdős.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_Erd%C5%91s_n...
Al Jazeera may cover world news more objectively than CNN or The Wall Street Journal, but they are literally an extension of the Qatari government.
That's a good question. I think you're right that there probably isn't much personal liability (although Martin Shkreli probably didn't help himself). I think it's more of a corporate liability - whatever they say will be used against them in future lawsuits.
I want to see those researchers and journalists create their own companies and compete on the market with their brilliant ideas
> There are always multiple perspectives- is Zuck finding a disadvantaged community in Africa and providing training to help them get higher paying jobs that what they could have gotten otherwise? Yes. Is Zuck’s charity creating a pool of programming labor that Facebook will be able to take advantage of and pay much lower than what they would have to pay for a programmer in the USA? Also yes. Does it make Zuck’s charity bad if it is also self serving? I don’t know.

Will those qualifications be good for anything else than Facebook? Will Zuck support that the pay grade eventually rises to the same level as developed countries or will he try to keep it down? What kind of quality of life and health hazards do those newly created jobs entail?

Regarding Facebook, I remember the whole scandal about "content moderators". Facebook's solution to content moderation was as follows: Create thousands of clickworker jobs in the Philippines and similar countries with ultra-low wages and no worker protection. Each "moderator" was effectively a factory worker who was presented by Facebook's software with a steady stream of reprehensible and horrifying images and posts. They had to decide for each instance whether or not it violated Facebook's TOS under time tracking.

No useful skills that are useful outside of that job, no potential for promotion or to make a career, serious risk of trauma and other mental health problems. But hey, jobs!
I mean, it sucks, but yeah, that's life. Twelve years ago I got paid to write a shitty Java Swing app for ad trafficking. Now I'd be laughed at. Times change.
vcpkg install.

It integrates with cmake too!
I assume everyone is curious and can easily filter garbage to find useful ideas. But I’ve been surprised the number of times juniors got stuck and weren’t able to Google and find libraries that are top on stack exchange.

Or designs with alternative analyses that honestly leave out the top toolkits for a project because they found the gartner report and didn’t go any further.

I don’t consider these junior/senior types of things, but there are things I have to realize vary across people and not everything is intuitive or easy to everyone.
> They couldn’t believe I worked that many hours. Rather than argue about it, I told them it must have been my mistake. I realized then that in the Corporation, the aim is to fit in. Not stand out.

Oof.

Wish I'd heard this at the start of my working life.

I don't say "career", because that'd imply a plan, trajectory, narrative. Which was wholly missing from my life.
Remember how Adobe removed Flash support from Acrobat a couple of years back? Attacks like this are why. Well, and Flash had other issues, too.

I'm not sure when you started using PDFs (I remember mid-90s when my Dad told me about this cool new document format that would standardize formats across platforms, screen and paper!), but hardly anything is static any more.
Even when it's not crashing, the performance is terribly slow. Also the translations for English are mostly missing.
Folks, Echoes is a web app for exploring personal music streaming stats, from services like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. We've been developing it as in-house project to sharpen our skills and learn new stuff.

You can connect streaming services (currently Spotify) and explore your music streaming stats; top artists, top tracks, recently played tracks.

Spotify APIs is pretty nice to play with, in the Discover section you can discover more great music based on your streaming data, create playlists that will be added to your Spotify library instantly. Like tracks, follow artists easily that in sync with your Spotify account.

We also use Spotify Web Playback SDK, which is in beta, to provide a full music listening experience without leaving the app.

We will be working on to add more streaming services, and also features. Kindly let us know your thoughts, how we can improve the experience, and what you want to see in a music discovery app like this.
A nit/bug re: the glob matching algorithm in use:

'?' evidently represents "any character" per the !glob("h?i", "hi") test.

But, if I add a test for glob("???", "hi"), that succeeds unexpectedly even though it should run out of input.

I believe it's because the '?' case checks nt < text.length() (which AIUI is for consuming variable input for '*') instead of t. Changing that case to t < text.length() seems to fix that problem.

(This looks like it's the case for all four languages, as the glob algorithm looks identical in all four, modulo syntax differences)
Original discussion in 2015, for those curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901282
The downside of a single string type built into the standard library or even into the language is that it needs to be both flexible and performant, and in my experience, those two things exclude each other (e.g. how do you append two high-level strings like "str1 + str2" without hidden allocation?).

Apart from that, Zig's string processing functions are not that bad, what's unexpected is that they are in the memory-operations part of the standard library, not in a specific "string module" (after all, the Zig compiler is (being) written in Zig, and the parser needs to do a lot of string-munching, so I guess we'll get more powerful string processing helper functions in the standard library over time).

But if I need to do lots of high-level string processing I probably wouldn't chose a systems programming language to begin with, languages like Python are a better match for this.
It's very often illegal to threaten illegal retribution. Employees may not know their rights, and such a threat could discourage them from exercising those rights.

Deleting the tweet is maybe not ideal. Any future viewers of it should have the context added that it's an illegal threat.
it's nice they're doing this, but I wonder when they're gonna start returning all the stolen pieces to their rightful owners, like Egypt for example.
Drillers Burned Off Gas at a Staggering Rate as Winter Storm Hit Texas
Just a glance at the map tells me they have zero credibility.

My guess is not that they are overtly lying, just juking the stats, devising a test by which “the press” passes but which fails to capture the real heart of the question which is whether the press is a net positive source of information, useful for informing the body politic such that they can make wise long-term decisions. Or not. Or the opposite of that.

Anyone not living under a rock can see the trend is moving in the wrong direction, and this bullshit map is not persuasive of anything except maybe that the Reporters Without Borders organization has been subverted by the same incentive landscape that’s twisting and subverting the press as a whole.
I agree with you, yet it seems pretty common for people in the West to associate sportswear with sweatshops, which some argue is exploitation, so I see why people may be cynical about corporations caring about these things.
Maybe it doesn’t matter for small programs, but probably in large programs tracing the control flow would be non trivial, so, as the parent said, over the lifetime of the program it would add up
This has advantages and disadvantages; yes, if there is a security hole in it, it likely affects everything that uses it. But it also means it gets use-case tested more thoroughly, at a minimum. Ideally, all "stakeholders" would have a vested interest in doing reviews of their own, or perhaps pooling money to have the code scrutinized.
Well then I guess I'm saying that it's not so smart to believe it
It could also be the case that US unions operate in a country where power is held by a class of people who would really prefer their serfs to STFU and get back to whatever dangerous, ill-paid task they were assigned. When the most egregious wrongs are simply illegal and never happen then it is much easier for capital and labor to have a less adversarial relationship, but when you operate in a country like the US I would assume it is necessary for a union to be a bit more aggressive in its actions and objectives.
Open Source Security Foundation
The same can be said of the BBC. That is actually how journalism is funded in much of the world, state-sponsor or state official news. That is potentially but not necessarily problematic.
1991: NN learns to program NN fast. 2021: NN learns to program Transformers fast
like a true lamborghini driver
Seriously? Electric shocks? Last time I went to a dentist she did an xray of the tooth that hurt me. Then she showed me the high resolution photo on the computer screen where I could clearly see what looked like a "bubble of something" right beneath one of the roots. This I was told is why I needed root canal treatment.

The dentist used handheld xray machine.
how fun it must be in the US where you can customize and pretty much do whatever to your car
>You can't get lower key-to-screen latency than an 8-bit computer on a CRT.

Why? My current monitor has a refresh rate of 144Hz and a response time of less than 1ms. This means that it will have lower latency than a CRT on average. I am sure you can produce a video signal on something other than an 8 bit computer.
>> create their own companies and compete on the market with their brilliant ideas

Most of the time that doesn't bring happiness.

If you get lucky you will fail fast or succeed fast otherwise the whole thing becomes quite painful.

Source: I have some experience with the latter scenarior.
> I don't understand how we continually believe the governments know how to spend money better, HN is littered with examples of government projects that have been woefully inefficient with the money they've taken.

This is of course true, but the opposite it true as well. Regardless, this misses the point. The reason people want public interest spending to be conducted by the government is that, with government spending, there is at least some opportunity for democratic (i.e. public) oversight. With private spending, there is only oversight from invested parties.
You seem to be arguing against yourself. Costco is paying a livable wage, having great sales and their investors are happy. So basically the opposite of your argument.
Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes, says study
>If hardware is involved (including old disks), again it might not.

Ideally this would be emulated too.
But there is no library right? No database? I've always used a library, so how do I switch? Example: I have 50k tracks, and I've been using MusicBee (in wine) up to now. That lets me search using any tag, including user-defined tags, like a multi-value "instrument" tag, multi-value "moods" tag etc. (And these tags don't just live in the database, they're written to the track file so the data is portable, and I'm not locked into MusicBee)

If DeaDBeeF has no library, how can I search for tracks that have mood tag "uplifting" and instrument tag "piano"? How do I create smart playlists based on some combination of rating, last played, moods, genres and instruments? My guess is, it can't. Or if it can, it's via adding all of my tracks to a playlist, waiting for the metadata to load up, and then search. Have I got that right?
True, but it’s also common for people to acknowledge where their DNA came from.

You would likely be called out if you tried to hide that fact in order to seem more accomplished than your are. If for instance your dad is the owner of the company you are working at, you’d be rightfully be called out if you tried to hide the fact that your accomplishment is lessened by the fact that you copied your fathers DNA.

No one is claiming the author did anything wrong in copying the source material for his article. However it is wrong to not provide proper attribution, especially when it’s as easy as an “inspired by link” at the bottom.
"Nobody would write that type of code, and if they did, you should just get better programmers" is such a common theme in these discussions.

... yet every time time I've been told "you don't need Rust, just use C++", I can point to at least one UAF in their own code, and have even pointed to CVEs on Mitre for their own projects!

People make mistakes. Use tools that stop these mistakes, rather than helping you to "write code faster" like in the article (aka writing bugs faster).
That's real easy to say when there isn't a union yet. And the company has zero incentive to give any kind of realistic and useful information in this situation. They can say whatever they want, and it doesn't mean anything. They don't even know what the non-existent union will want or care about later, so how they can have any accurate expectations even if they are perfectly rational and honest. The only purpose these statements serve is to try to prevent unionization.

Part of why this is not a simple "both sides" issue is because we're talking about one side that exists and one side that might one day exist. The non-extant union can't weigh in on company statements or make any statements of their own.

So these rules exist to help ensure the workers are not unduly influenced by the company when they consider making that union finally exist. I don't see a problem with this.
This is the most readable version for me. I like C++ also but I find the namespace clutter annoying.
>Stolen

Dubious opinion

>Rightful owners

All long dead
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Board Changes Pot Possession Fine to $1
> if there's a pricing error, the item is free.

I love Publix, but I think this is marketing blargh. They once had a cuisinart dish marked with a $9.99 price tag so I bought it. The cashier rang it up as $199.99 and I brought it to her attention. She brought over a manager who said it was an error in labeling and should have been marked down to $99.99 and they would honor the intended sale price.

I mentioned the policy and she shrugged and asked if I want it or not. I declined and she put a new price tag on it at $99.99.

There was only one item and it was in the deal section. This is my only experience of Publix being lame in decades of use. Really surprising. This was also the only pricing error I’ve ever encountered.
A warning before filling your kids with anticipation: I loved The Hobbit and Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid but I remember being very disappointed with this game - maybe it demanded more commitment but I gave up on it after a few days. I found it inscrutable at the time - characters coming and going at random, fighting with the parser trying to express my intentions, unclear progression, not enough humor, etc.

I reckon later graphical adventures - the Lucasarts ones for example, would provide a better shared experience. Can’t wait to try Monkey Island with mine when old enough.
Meaningful Networking Requires Going Beyond the Screen
There was a speech given by Sharyl Attkisson explaining the issue with today’s “journalism”.

In short, the slanted media is what is being taught in school and writing slanted articles that please the corporate owner will get rewarded. Truth has no place under the current environment. However, there is hope.

Link to the speech:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxI803q6i8
That's quite some level of denigration and generalization on the average chinese person you've put out.

Consider the fact that China raised millions out of poverty. Consider the fact that they're one of the few countries able to stand up to the US. Consider the fact China has the most opportunities out of the few chinese-majority countries in the world. It's a great deal for them.
CyberDuck is a nicer-looking and more user-friendly alternative to both.
These comparison articles can be reduced into 3 types...

Write code:

1. In less time

2. That runs faster

3. That's less buggy

Pick one.

... this article advocates for (1).
It is not a surprise to read that elite philanthropy is to some degree self serving, or that elites might societally invest in away that is consistent with the same societal mechanisms that helped make them elites. The underlying research [0] is interesting to me from this perspective: if you see "elites" as potential investors in your social mission, a rubric for understanding their preferred mechanism for social impact can inform the way that you approach donor development with them. "Do we believe in the same ways of making change?" Toward that end, the paper has a tidy 2x2. Overall, the paper is skeptical of philanthropy that is not "redistributive between social classes and between rich and poor countries." You may agree or disagree, but if you are a budding elite philanthropist yourself (hypothetically) the paper offers a model for you to examine your own assumptions in giving.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijmr.12247?...
National railroads don't have a good history in the US. Though here it was the cities taking over.
Kevin Napier (First of the 50 authors on the against paper) talks here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6OrCJ9ZEU (32 mins)

It addresses the above a bit and its interesting in its own right talking about Kuiper belt stuff.
Plan 9: Not Dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein (2019)
Featuring everybody's favorite piece of Asterix fan art: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059199
The NLRB has jurisdiction in Texas
Plan9 is by far the most fascinating computer operating system I have ever seen. Truly amazing. This is a whole new level of out-of-the-box thinking... Does anyone know if there are any books about this OS?
Double Exponentials, and Saving Humanity
Not only airports :D

- Stuttgart 21

- elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

- Mobile Internet

- Everything that has to do with the Deutsche Bahn :D

- more stuff...
any chance you know of something comparable for linux? I have tried a half dozen or so in last few months and keep coming back to filezilla, maybe it's because it's familiar, but always like options.