skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Secret" is a relative term, up until about 10 years ago I suspect very few had heard of it, I'd be interested in anything online before 2016 referring to them (there was big media coverage in 2017)

The specific details however aren't public knowlege, with various secrecy levels, and there are various different plans depending on the situation (what happens if the queen was on a plane that crashed for example, or what if Charles died in an avalanche in Austria), and plans of course are constantly changing (what happens if there's a massive pandemic which means people can't congregate in their millions to pay respects as they did with Diana, what happens if the news is leaked on twitter before coordinated official announcement)
Well he was born in the 1920s. Nearly everyone born in that time would be considered racist or sexist since those terms were basically unheard of before the 1960s. I don’t really see what’s the use of condemning him given that, you ought to recognize that his generation intentionally cultivated your generation of anti-racists and anti-sexists.
Biden faces key test on EV battery trade dispute
Amazon workers vote down Alabama union campaign
Buying from a narrow list of supported hardware to use open source software has been a common thing for ages.
Early Humans' Brains Were More Apelike Than Modern
Your argument is clearly being made in bad faith because you are creating a strawman in your final point. The claim is not that the virus was one that was engineered and deliberately dropped by a despotic government. Given that you don't have a basic understanding of the good faith hypotheses being promoted, I'll have to assume you are at best ignorant at worst a state actor.

edit: lol at getting flagged for this.
Vimpc is a client for mpd with vi-like key bindings
Matrix features E2EE with proper message sync between clients: https://matrix.org/
Some people here describe his landing page as “niche” but it’s not a niche at all. Rather, it’s a persona: ceo or cto with a team.

You develop personas after you know who your customers really are, and it’s probably not ceos.

Instead, he should find and focus on a true niche. Maybe people are commonly analyzing shopify store data using a tool like this. Find something like that, and just nail that use case. That’s a niche. Expand from there.
Which services to use for mobile development in 2021?
The result isn't, but the motivation was. And have you noticed who is using which tool?
The problem isn't the "compromise" - the problem is there is no touch-first UI on Linux. That's the point. I can detach the screen and use it as a "seperate tablet", but it still sucks.

Android, on the other hand, is strictly improved by the addition of a hardware keyboard.
I'm not calling unsafe bad. I have no idea where you got that from.
True, I think all of Scotland's elections (aside from Westminster) are relative and democratic too unlike in England
Do dukes do anything? Why do we care enough to post this news here?
Ironically I think this is a good example of one of the weaknesses many people see in unions. Here we have a group of people who have voted "against their collective interest" (which is a dubious claim imo, but let's assume that it's true for the sake of argument). If they were already unionized, what's to stop them to similarly keep voting "against their collective interest", as viewed by one individual within the organization? All of this to say, I don't trust a large group of other people to vote for what's best for me personally. See also: US presidential elections, usually close to a 50/50 vote, where most people consider "their side" to be unequivocally aligned with their own interests, and the other side to be heinous and corrupt. Peoples perceptions and the objective truth are rarely aligned when there's money and campaigning involved.

(Throwaway because being anti-union is unfortunately taboo)
Agreed. My comment regards income tax brackets, not public aid.
You're off by an order of magnitude.

Total deaths in WW2 estimated at approx 70 million. [1]

Johns Hopkins estimates COVID-19 deaths are approaching 3 million. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" </sarc>
I think https://nix.dev is what you are looking for. It's a really great resource (and no need to go all in and do _everything_ in nix)
Maybe they're worried that Amazon will not want to do business with union labor and just hire people willing to work unrepresented for 15/hr. minimum.

Maybe work-life at Amazon low end is not as bad as the media sensationlizes. Why should it be your default to consider this as paradoxical rather than evidence?
Running ffmpeg on untrusted input outside of a sandbox you trust to be secure is an extremely bad idea. It doesn't have a good track record for that, and making it safe to use ffmpeg on untrusted input has never been a priority for the project.

In practice things like video hosting services which use ffmpeg internally tend to disable support for most of the obscure file formats to reduce the potential attack surface.
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>I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.

It's also worth noting that even the leading experts can get these things wrong, as was the case with the Sverdlovsk lab leak.

Soviet authorities covered it up by blaming local meat markets, and leading US experts concurred with them, only to reverse their conclusion 6 years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Acci...
iOS, Android and ChromeOS are already there. But for exploits targeting Exchange or Teams it's far from a perfect solution because valuable private information is in the app being compromised.
> "...why you would vote against your own collective interest ..."

> "...Most of the folks who vote aren't really the type to sit down and think long-term..."

Why do people call others dumb (and let's not kid ourselves, that's just what these phrases are a cultured, genteel way of saying) and then are surprised when said others don't vote for the causes they believe in?

Don't they realize that casting aspersions on the intelligence of others to their faces is "against their own collective interest"? If you want people to vote for your causes, work harder to prove that it benefits them instead of denigrating them.
Judging the past by contemporary politics doesn't make much sense. The present and the past are separate contexts.
Interesting, what's the situation with Quebec?
> I mean, it has killed more people than WW2. Maybe a root cause analysis and better procedures are justified?

Yes, I agree. However I believe what should be analyzed is why certain countries failed to contain it. Whether it was a lab accident or wild game doesn't really matter. There's no way the entire world could prevent accidents or people from interacting with wild animals.

At the end of the day the most effective thing is to ask why it spread as much as it did in your own country.

There are politicians in our (USA) own country that denounced COVID even as recently as this January. People who fabricated data (Cuomo), who peddled poor science (Trump), etc. etc.

Don't misunderstand me, China definitely deserves their share of the blame, but I just believe that share is small. Ultimately the USA's response to COVID could've been much, much better by pretty much every metric imaginable.

And let's just act like COVID is over, either.
And that's paternalistic, isn't it? "They voted against their interest" implies that OP knows/decides what their interests are.

Personally, I've never met someone who knew workers that was fundamentally surprised by their decisions. It was always the people who only talked, read and wrote about workers that were flabbergasted. Source: worked as a consultant for a union in Europe for a decade.
I love affinity products but I wonder about their plan long term. With the current pay once, get updates for free model they will run out of customers at some point. Adobe sold upgrades back in the day, but that is not a possible path for Affinity, at least not if they mainly sell through the Mac App Store.
Callers to Rhode Island's 911 System Still Don't Always Get Proper CPR Info
Compare this list to https://projects.apache.org/projects.html, I think it's missing a few (they may not be officially dead, I suppose).
Well, that's bad. `-u` is bad, and that the cross compilation suffix somehow went after the version is also bad.
Glad you enjoyed it :-)
This generally happens when committees are too far away from the actual development. It happens all the time at companies too with non-coding architects too. Standard setting bodies need to understand the pace of modern development, they spend way to long in the discussion phase. Once their is running code a lot of the discussion is basically over, and it's a choice of writing the spec to match what happens or browsers documenting the "quirks" with the standard.

That's not to say chrome isn't busing their market share. Even if there were more players though, it's a matter of Google gets MS/Apple/Mozilla to agree and nothing else really changes.
Really any code that involves multiple threads, because there may be race conditions.
I think the better way to look at it: Is $600 / year / employee enough of an incentive for competitors to step up?

I think lots of software companies( and entrepreneurs) are seeing Adobe's revenue stream and asking "Whats the moat?, What's stopping us from building the top 5-10 Adobe features and charging $300 / year?"

It would seem that Adobe doesn't have much of a moat and that perhaps their software will be commoditized as we move forward.
> Schools are slow to reopen after covid?

Are you talking hypotheticals? Because that hasn't happened, and couldn't have happened since COVID isn't "over" anywhere in the US.
Yes, not to mention the inevitable downtime when some cloud service can't authenticate. Not an improvement on working with local software.
Yes, I considered that!
Let's just say it tells us an awful lot more about you than it does about him.
> Nix only writes new files to a remote store. As such nix caches can be served by anything that can serve files. I personally upload to S3 and have artifactory use that as a remote.

What about the maintenance side, though, like being able to clean/reap old builds from the cache, reason about which ones are part of important/supported chains vs throwaway builds from merge pipelines, etc?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but your comment reads like you were operating in a much nicer career than these workers. If your job was good enough they gave you the opportunity to negotiate your pay, you're in a totally different social class than the subjects of this vote.
You changed what tax rules applied to you by moving, and thus your tax situation changed.

The point remains: under normal income circumstances (i.e. not related to welfare or equity), there is no way for you to get a raise in your real income and have your take home income decrease due to your federal income tax bracket.
That's a valid point, but as an internet user the domain is the only attribute visible to me that can determine a site's identity. So, I am pretty happy that the W3C insisted on setting the privacy rule based on plainly visible attributes, not on hidden predetermined or site informed data.

You call the current policy ambiguous, but the proposal wouldn't even ensure that all browsers block or allow the same sets of domains.

Anyway, I am aware that people use multiple domains on the most diverse ways. But it's important to have the technical behavior simple and predictable, and if Google doesn't like the consequences of the way they decided to organize their domains, well, it's their problem for them to fix, not a reason to push complicated unreliable standards on everybody.
Is that meaningfully different from a vote, then? You get the majority, you get the union. If you’re a recognized union, NLRB says the employer must deal with you.
This is so cool! Thanks for digging that up and sharing. Did you remember this cover or found out about it now?
Security Researcher Earns $100k for Safari Exploit in Pwn2Own Hacking Contest
I've gotten a bit sick of running Docker on my dev systems and switched to Podman. I found a "podman-compose" script that works great for setting up my dev environments just like I'm used to, and I can run everything as my own, non-root user. When my laptop inevitably starts running out of space, there's a single directory of images in my home directory I can rm -rf to start over. It's been great.
The Human Eye Webcam [video]
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> I absolutely do not understand why you would vote against your own collective interest

The answer is in the article

> Some workers who voted not to unionize said they ultimately didn’t see how a union would improve their pay or working conditions.

They looked at the issue and felt it would not be better. We don't know what the union was promising them, and what they had seen through the process.

I came here to find this comment because the "vote against their interest" argument is very predictable. It assumes that people should have no agency. That they're supposed to be robots that only vote one way on issues because of their demographic, and if they don't, then they must have been hoodwinked. It's condescending.
Totally true :). It's a spectrum and there's a ton of options in the middle. I was mostly pointing out the extremes.
Also, when they ship a dosbox game, the installation includes not only dosbox, but a zip file of the dosbox source code.

...and strangely - I don't know if this is only the mac version - they randomly include the manual for a PC game called Harvester

<game>/Extras/dosbox/dosbox_svn.zip
...
<game>/Extras/Manual.pdf <-- Harvester manual
They don't need to be separate. It's just that Apple and Mozilla are not the majority steerers of the development of the Web.

Chrome have stated that they won't do anything to prevent fingerprinting for example.
> but xenophobic people really love to talk about it

All too often I see this used as the standard for labelling someone a xenophobe and it becomes a classic case of begging the question. Since we all agree it's not xenophobic to speak about it, perhaps it's time we wait for actual xenophobia before making what should be serious accusations?
Good. I have lived in 3 continents and 4 different countries and I have yet to see a union that is not run by and for the lazy and incompetent, ultimately to the ruin of all involved. I hear Germany cracked the code on that one, but in the US unions seem to be pretty much like everywhere.
At the very least, get rid of `-u`. Some parts of nix-env are used underneath the hood for NixOS and home-manager I beleive, but not that.
I will always upvote Heaviside. This man is responsible for most of the foundation of electrical engineering as it exists today (via and refined by others, especially those at Bell Labs who recognized the importance of his work). Unfortunately, in my experience, most electrical engineers only know his name as a reference to the step function.
It originated in a city with a research lab that was criticized for bad safety practices. That lab performed gain of function research on coronaviruses, and the strangest element of covid-19 is the spike protein furin site, which enables the infectivity in humans, and is not present in other coronaviruses.

Or we can take the Bayesian approach, and look at the base rate of novel pathogens coming out of China over the past 70 years and determine how many were lab leaks versus not, and realize the majority were lab leaks.

This doesn't mean it for sure was a lab leak, but it does mean it should be investigated, which is all any one reasonable has been saying for the past year anyway.
Just like this comment which went unnoticed.
God or geometry, that is one of the great debates. The letter is present in French freemasonry as well. The letter D would be more appropriate (Dieu). Geometry however would still hold. Anyway without going into detail, geometry has important place in freemasonry. The question then is geometry of what exactly? But we are getting off topic.
We're not talking about a once a century event. This is the third novel coronavirus outbreak in the past 2 decades, and it seems clear that SARS at least could have been pandemic if we hadn't gotten lucky.
I think it also tells us that students use bikes and students insure their bikes (assuming it's claim data. Actually. given we don't know where this data is from I don't think this tells us anything at all).
> By that definition using the REPL or loading source files in SBCL qualifies as a JIT.

When SBCL compiles rather than interprets at the REPL, that arguably qualifies as a JIT. Same for loading top-level forms that aren't DEFUN. I'm pretty sure that ECL uses an interpreter in those cases though.
I don't understand the geographic restrictions. When I first heard about Starlink, I was excited about two things, specifically: having decent Internet on an RV, and being able to change stationary homes while retaining my ISP. I move around frequently. Either I'm stuck with whatever Internet the landlord provides (almost never what I would have chosen myself), or I have to deal with changing providers all the time. That means increased rates for short contracts, cancellation fees, equipment rental fees, the hassle of having to return equipment, etc.

I would be a Starlink customer for life if they get rid of the pointless geolocking.
> In US (and elsewhere in the world) it seems to be more accepted that natives deserve special protections and privileges.

It isn’t more accepted, it is a different situation where these natives were systematically wiped out and almost completely destroyed entirely. They are given special protections now (not privileges) because they are still feeling the very real effects of active cultural destruction, forced sterilizations, children kidnapped and put into “reeducation camps”, etc. The British government is not banning speaking English or forcing children to attend Islamic schools or banning white Britons from owning property.

> I have family who live in an area which over the last few decades has become majority immigrant

It sounds like what you mean is the neighborhood has become majority poor. The low-income immigrants moving in were likely an effect of, not a cause of, the neighborhood’s economic decline. Lack of economic opportunity is strongly correlated with crime, immigration status is not.

> Now I'm in a middle-class area it's not something I worry about much anymore

As I suspected. You should probably look into what city planning policies, or lack thereof, and other economic factors are allowing this kind of neighborhood disinvestment, and not blame the low income people who may or may not be immigrants that move to the housing that they can afford.
In which case the title is anti-union, because it doesn't mention what union and hence is conflating them all with each other.
Your union needs seem much different than the typical warehouse or factory worker. Especially if you're on HN — I'm sure most everybody on this website would benefit more from "a direct relationship with my employer". A random overworked Amazon warehouse worker doesn't have that sort of managerial access or a skill to leverage for negotiating.
Can't believe they pulled this off. Incredible.
I'm horrible at work from home. After about a year of brute-force methods to try to get myself to focus, or to improve my impulse control when so many distractions are immediately present lead me to come to accept one signal is above all in indicating I'm on the right track. Telling myself no.

So now, especially in the morning - if I catch myself thinking "just 15 min of YouTube" or "maybe ten more minutes of sleep before working out" I make conceited effort to tell myself "no" and actively do what I completely acknowledge I do not want to do. Ironically I sort of caught on to this signal in college when I was a horrible procrastinator and didn't yet know I was ADHD. It's a bit extreme, but always doing what you're most actively avoiding has started to work for me. Only took me a year of being locked in my apt to figure it out...
It certainly is easier for you or me, but not for an average person. Let's look at the command names. find, sort, and even mount are ok. curl? Does it have anything to do with curling? cat? What do cats have to do with files? Oh, it's because I'm using a mouse, isn't it. mv? Why not move? Or going back to previous examples, why not fnd or srt? Consistency is important and you don't want users to guess. grep, xdg-open, and systemctl are just random letters for most.

And that's just those who can speak English. If someone doesn't, it's just nonsense for them.

> One has to be trained to right-click.

One has to be trained to understand which commands exist and what do they do. I can't imagine someone without any training typing `grep -nRIiw`. Sure, you can look it up in the manual, but that's the thing - you shouldn't. You should consult the manual when you're using something for the first time or something isn't working. I can pick up any vacuum cleaner or get in a rental car and start operating them right away. I have to look up how flag works with different CLI apps. I shouldn't have to. Good design should be obvious.

That's why we're not typing `systemctl poweroff --force` to turn off a TV, we just press a button on a remote. And I can pick up remotes from other TV sets and turn them off without looking up their manuals.

> nothing is ever consistent even on the "same" operating system.

Funny you mention that. I tried some of your commands. Turns out, I don't have systemctl or pdfgrep installed. So much for consistency.
I'm not an expert on China but I would generally assume that the consequences and reputational damage of being seen as responsible by the rest of the world for COVID-19 would outstrip nearly any other possible consequences being mitigated against by not seeking to clear themselves.
That reminds me of https://grid.is/blog/your-biggest-competitor-is-a-spreadshee....

> I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need.

A tiny self mailing Google App script set to run daily and hooked up to a spreadsheet with expiration dates can do the job, no need for an app. Email reports are sent in case of any runtime crashes.
Am I the only one who thinks $500/mo seems excessive for union dues? That's $60k/yr in dues for every 10 workers. Does a union really need a full time rep for every 10 or 20 members? If, perhaps, half of that goes to "strike insurance", that would mean $15k/member over 5 years. Which would be enough replace wages(at $15/hr) for six months. Do they really anticipate a six month strike every 5 years?
They can, but members-only unions of the type most common in e.g. Europe have mostly disappeared in the US after the National Labour Relations Act 1935 made the current system possible.

On one hand I can see why it was attractive for unions to push for it, given how brutal anti-union efforts were in the US, but it seems to over time have had the effect of making unions focus on drives to win workplace by workplace and ignoring places they don't see a chance of winning a full-on unionisation vote.
Well, it is still the future, because UWP is also COM vNext, I know Microsoft marketing sucks.

https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion
As is their right to do, but I’d think with such a massive drubbing they’ve taken here that they’d pack it up. More than a super majority of workers have rejected the unions attempt to infest their workplace with leftist, conflict politics.

The only question now is how Amazon punishes the organizers and reward the dissenters.