skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the Amazon vs eBay argument I’ve heard in the past is that Amazon blurs the line between when you’re buying from Amazon and buying from a third party. And if Amazon is still commingling items they absolutely should be responsible because at a certain point it doesn’t matter who the seller is.

Seller rating on Amazon are also useless. At least eBay you can see what it is you’re buying (for the most part) and get a seller eating that’s at least somewhat useful.

I really hope this forces Amazon to start vetting sellers more, they’ve simply been run over by aliexpress “drop shippers”.
It's not like he's reporting them to the Gestapo for termination.

He's reporting them to the police of a country for a copyright complaint. The fact that the country is China doesn't mean anything ominous.

Besides the "state persecution" thing, there's regular police and court work in China, every day, for 1.6 billion people, and millions of criminal, civic, business disputes, and other such cases, which is where this will fall into.

That it's China probably makes it even lighter, not harder, since copyright abuses there are seen much more lightly than in the west.
Most of the hardware I've ever owned I still have, either in working order or as component boards decorating my walls. I recall my emotion when disposing of the Freerunner was that it didn't deserve an epic funeral (the laser) or even the honor of being properly disassembled.
No because: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software)
Treefactor and Textmind
I wonder if the Federal court considered Timbs v. Indiana?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana

Not quite the same situation, but SCOTUS unanimously came down very strongly against "excessive fines".
"You will pay 200% your monthly property tax for each day your grass is tall" is indeed ridiculous
Power. The point is power. Step 1: note an issue. Step 2: show how the issue is on a direct path to genocide. Step 3: as the issue is now connected to genocides, it should never happen again. Obviously the best way to ensure that is to have someone special (or, say, a committee) in a position of power.

I'm not even saying it's a cynical play, it's extremely easy to forget to reflect on it and just think you're doing the right thing all along. The outcome is still the same though.
Fair enough, though the site mention in this post here, and my little python script don't provide a feed of a user's comments, but a feed of replies to a user's comments.
Alligator blocks highway traffic on Texas bridge
Google has done the same with YouTube to create lock-in for content creators, just like the Play Store. My pet conspiracy theory, they're also doing the same with Chrome browser, by creating as many useless features as possible.
What’s the meaning of „the Sabbath prohibition against operating electrical devices“? Not executing a physical action? Any action? Intent?

An elevator that cycles between floors and one that only moves to a floor to pick up a passenger when they wait in front of the door might be indistinguishable from the perspective of the user. Would the difference matter?

What about showing the intent to exit the elevator at a particular floor by e.g. taking a step towards the door of the cabin and having the elevator detect that?

Telling a liftboy where to go seems to be ok. Now let us assume that it is quite a shy liftboy, so we grant his wish to have a privacy shield to hide behind while taking the passenger’s wish. Would it matter if we replaced him with a voice assistant if the passenger had no way of telling that?
Go watch La Haine
Additionally I would say at least `dbus`, `gnutls`, `libssh2` and maybe?? `curl` are this kind of libraries which count as "widely used system libraries".

I.e. the few for which Linus thinks dynamic linking still can make sense ;=)
> Windows does the best here arguably

By a light-year.

> and drivers still had to break a few times in the past couple decades

Like 2 times in the past, what, 20 years?
That would return control to the users.

You could install software apple doesn't give you permission to have, like a firewall (seriously!)

Seriously, we need apps that lets you find out what your phone is doing, and who it is talking to

It would be nice to have free software available, and also compile and install your own software
It would also create an arbitrage opportunity for investors who could inspect the copyright situation and put up the $1000 and collect at the end. The system would work well.
Very similar project, also available as a GitHub Action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/feedsfetcher
I’m not very concerned with it competing per se; they managed to put out a fairly compelling package and sell through 30k units. Yeah, they won’t be fabbing custom ARM cores any time soon, but it ain’t nothing.

Open source software is a slow burn. It takes time, but projects can grow for a very long time even when things seem dormant, and then suddenly seemingly out of nowhere things are actually pretty good. I certainly was impressed with how well they were able to bring GNOME onto phones so far.

It’ll always work best if people don’t consider them to be on the same level as commercial software; it has a different appeal, but one that should not be discounted. Just as there have been so many “year of the Linux desktops,” so to have there been many incorrect calls about the death of it.
And what’s epic’s margin from getting kids addicted to wasting their time (and money) on Skinner box games? Both companies are socially destructive, but epic is pure-play evil.
The point is it's clearly less dangerous than alcohol, so it should be legal or alcohol should be illegal.
The True Cost of Processor Manufacturing: TSMC 7nm [video]
My oven has a Sabbath mode - you set the temperature and cook time, and randomly within some time period it will turn itself on and cook, then shut off. It’s just a middle-of-the-road GE. I bet most of you actually have this kind of feature and don’t realize it.

Here is a description of what this means for appliances:
https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitchen/what-is-sabbath-mode....
It turns out I didn’t really understand how it worked! What I described is a feature, but I guess not a Sabbath mode feature
Is it true or is it hearsay? I have not had much contract with remote parts off the country during this period and am not sure.
See that is the 'hook' then Google monetizes those petabytes without paying the people who uploaded them[1], that is the 'business model'.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/youtube-will-put-ads-on-non-...
> apparently allows you faster development

If linking has such a huge impact on Chromium dev cycles, maybe they should make their codebase less of a bloated hog :)

Linking all of Firefox into one libxul.so with LLD takes basically no time (on a good machine) for a release build. Slightly noticeable with all the debug info but still pretty quick.
Android apps are becoming more and more dependent on the closed source blobs that Google ships with Android devices, so some apps might not work without them. Although microG exists, it isn't perfect and some apps still won't run with it.

A Linux phone can forgo Google's userspace libraries for Android, and if they're really needed, Android can just run in a container like with Anbox. Instead, it can ship with the typical GNU, busybox or ulibc userland that most Linux users are familiar with.

Also, you can use pretty much any language or runtime to write apps for Linux, while you're stuck with the Android Runtime, Android NDK and Java compatible languages and runtimes on Android.
This is big.
Highlights:

•Glucose and sucrose ingestion led to negative cognitive performances.

•Negative effects due to blood glucose increase were more evident with overnight fasting.

•Sugar effects on cognitive abilities are likely to be glucose-mediated.

•Sweetness perception does not play a role in moderating cognitive performances.
> just because someone claims to be a Christian doesn’t mean they are.

Externally it pretty much does. Unless you have some specific concrete evidence there's not really ever value or reason to claim someone isn't part of the religion they say they are.

If you are _also_ part of the religion they claim then you might have some interest in whether or not they adhere to your doctrines but to outsiders it's all opaque and irrelevant.
It's a question of when as the EU is already going after Apple for forcing the use of its own payment system. I can't see how Apple can possibly win.
Here's the press announcement from NASA directly. It has even more information:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-hel...
Chrome on OS X. I did not take a screenshot.
After life insurance, put your most valuable assets (especially your home) in a living trust.

And most importantly take care of yourself and tell your children you love them every day. Rest in peace, Vernon.
He also designed Amatic SC, which is practically everywhere.
No, you're confusing correlation and causation. MDMA users have been known to commit terribly violent crimes.

Besides, alcohol users have also been known to commit terribly violent crimes (and unlike MDMA, which is near impossible to study in the US, we've studied alcohol enough to know that it is in fact a contributing cause of violence). The point is that it's hypocrisy to allow one clearly dangerous substance to be used by the population and to make another one illegal.
It was indeed displaying on top of HN and embedded in the page. That's what shocked me.
So to me this disprobes the hypothesys: if it were a skill the way programming is, your 5th business should be mwaay more successfull than your first, just like your 5th react app is better thsn your first
The convenience of this scheme is that if you complain about being treated unfairly, you can be either told "sure, it's because of systemic discrimination, we'll fix it right away", or "you're just complaining because you're afraid of losing your privilege" - and this does not depend even a little bit on your own actions and your own achievements or qualities. It only depends on who the powers external to you pre-designated to be "privileged" and "oppressed" - and they did it not knowing who you are, what's your story and probably before you have been born even. Your experiences and concerns can be central or immediately dismissed just because somebody sorted you into one group or another. And it's your own fault, for being in the wrong group.

And the most funny thing about it is that people propagating this system actually thing they fight for equality and against the abuse of power. While this is exactly how inequality and abuse of power is done.
And how many grocery stores would stock hot dogs if they were required to give them away?

The point that investment money doesn't chase big expensive research projects with low returns still holds.
What drives me a bit nuts is when dynamically evaluated languages (which theoretically punt their compilation to lazy on-demand runtime compilation/evaluation) become monstrosities in the build cycle complete with painfully slow compilation and package resolution.
If I may, what made you become pescatarian (is that the correct term)?
Developer here. I super appreciate the support. Some context:

- I'm a big fan of RSS and there is a thriving community behind. Just check out this list: https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS

- I'm also a firm believer of web as a platform, a distributed document database, and an open library of knowledge, as opposed to a "compile target" for cryptic JavaScript apps that take control and freedom away from users. Jim Nielsen has a timely critique: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/web-languages-as-compile-t...

- The bigger picture behind the osmos project is to create an IDE for personal knowledge management. On the surface:

1. I read my rss with osmos::feed.

2. I capture reference links from the feed with osmos::memo.

3. I digest the knowledge and connect them into notes with osmos::note.

- All of them are done with plaintext (some sprinkle of markdown), remote hosted on GitHub, so they are easy to run NLP and ML against. Potentially with GitHub actions, or locally with some bot, with a cloned repo.

- In the long term, I was hoping to create a "positive feedback loop". Use ML to extract patterns from my notes, make connections for me, and recommend interesting reading in the osmos::feed. On the other end, osmos::feed can use NLP to detect how each article in the feed might connect to ideas from osmos::note and make note-taking even easier.

- The parent project (https://osmoscraft.org) is still in super early stage. Would love to let the community give it a spin while I keep iterating.

- Thanks again for the ♥
After getting rid of my Freerunner, I had one of the the first Android phones (HTC?) briefly, then got a Nokia N900. I liked the OS, although it's my memory that it wasn't as fully open sourced as the OpenMoko. I did enjoy it, even though the device always felt too thick to be comfortable in my pocket, and the touchscreen cracked badly after a minor impact. I ended up using a cheap Nokia candybar phone for a year or so, before eventually getting another Android phone.

I wish Nokia had continued developing the Maemo OS.
"It is frequently stated that the 1967 referendum gave Aboriginal people Australian citizenship and that it gave them the right to vote in federal elections; however this is not the case."[0]

"It was some five years before any real change occurred as a result of the referendum"—change thanks to Whitlam in 1972, I suppose.

It seems aborigines had the right to vote since at least 1962:

"The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 received assent on 21 May 1962. It granted all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections."[1]

But the history goes much further back:

"In the 1850s under the constitutions of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, Aboriginal men had the same right to vote as other male British subjects aged over 21. ...

In 1895 South Australia became the first electorate in the world to give equal political rights to both women and men. Aboriginal women shared these rights.

However, laws specifically intended to deny the vote to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were enacted by Queensland (1885), Western Australia (1893) and the Northern Territory (1922).

The first federal electoral Act, the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, granted men and women of all states the right to vote. Indigenous people were excluded from this right unless they already had the right to vote before 1901. ...

In March 1949 Prime Minister Ben Chifley introduced an amendment to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918. This extended the right to vote in federal elections to any Indigenous person who had been a member of the defence forces."[1]

[0] What the referendum did not do: Give voting rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Australian_referendum_(Ab...

[1] https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/indigenous...
Gab is living testimony that an AGPL-powered Fediverse can be successful.
Do you seriously not understand the distinction between racial segregation and enforcing immigration laws or do you just not believe in nation states?
Why Rust of course! /s

More seriously, as much as I'm personally not a huge fan of JS (but this is TypeScript?) I don't see how such comments add to the conversation. This particular package even seems to be very considerate with its dependencies: there's only a half dozen, and relate to obvious things like terminal coloring/manipulation, syntax highlighting, and diff generation… Now, I've not explored the full tree to see if those drag in the world, of course.

Sometimes, I think the hate on dependency trees gives them a bad rap. Code reuse lets people build things easily & quickly without having to badly reinvent every wheel! Sometimes, I get notified of a JS dependency with a security vulnerability where if a user can control how many spaces are used for indentation in some library's pretty-printer they can RCE and I die a little inside.

I think there are easier ways to get a side-by-side diff, but this tool does do a remarkable job of reproducing GitHub's aesthetics.
I haven't tried it (can't be bothered to boot up a Windows machine at the moment) but it looks like distribution and control panels, chassis wiring diagrams, and the like might be better supported here than in KiCAD. For PCB design, this looks like it trails KiCAD pretty badly.
The platfom gets more and more siloed/hostile to interoperability
Google webmaster tools has a basic chart that shows web vitals, likely as seen from google bots.

You can setup your own lighthouse setup, and measure the production sites from any number of vantage points, ideally from where you have most users coming from.
I've never bought an app that was one-star, but over time many of the really useful apps I used were sold and did one-star kinds of things.

One app kept track of my car info (vin, insurance, mileage, fillups) and was useful. But one day it was sold - uploaded my data and put it behind a login.
It also prevents subsidies from government to corporation. In many cases the minimum wage job creates less value for the local government than having the person do nothing at all. In those situations the job should not exist
This article ignores the human rights aspect. We need to be able to install software independent of the App Store to work around government censorship. As is, if my government asks Apple to take down VPN apps, they will do it, and I’m left with no way to access information on the open web.
check out base16
http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
If I am to install Pandoc (on Arch Linux) I have to install 95 Haskell dependencies besides the ones I already have installed.
What is the difference between hot water, light and cooking when it comes to the Sabbath?
At least in my (I think typical?) big city tech worker circle the bible as literature has been received with disdain the couple times I've seen it come up.

I also had a (atheist) friend once tell me he bought copies of the bhagavad gita and quran to put next to his bible so he would look well read instead of christian if anyone looked at his book shelf.
> For example, Matrix clients on Android/iOS will stay suspended entirely, then will wake up when you receive a push notification.

Doesn't the protocol already need to do something to support that? Presumably it's an out-of-band notification, and they needed to add support for that. If they already added FCM an APNS, they'll have to add something to support a 3rd OS. It could be in-band or out-of-band, but either way sending a message on a TCP connection is really all that is needed.

As a side note, Jabber did add an in-band way as you suggest, but then also had to add OOB signalling because Apple disallows open sockets for background apps.
Yes my intention was that it's more or less the reference version of that model, certainly databases like System R existed many years before Volcano :) I appreciate the correction.
For all practical purposes Al Jazeera is Fox News. Who takes them seriously in the US?
Pokémon cards are just another pyramid scheme. I’ve been scalping them but I don’t keep them because at some point they will Crash like beanie babies
I give you the BASIC Stamp[1] a BASIC environment on a chip with 25 BYTES of RAM. And the SPI RAM chip[2] (8 megabytes off a SPI port).

I built a simple PDP-11/20 emulator (not cycle accurate) that used the Atmega chip and a couple of FRAMs for 'core'. At 16MHz it ran faster than the PDP-11/20 did when it was built, and the 11/20 ran RT-11.

Basically this is a detailed way of saying that perhaps you perceive limitations where I see opportunities :-)

[1] https://www.parallax.com/product/basic-stamp-1-interpreter-c...

[2] https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/AP-Memory/APS6404L-3SQR...
Lobbyists lobby.
Can an Ordinary Person Achieve Buddhist Awakening
As it should, the CDC makes decisions in data, and the teachers union is a reliable, on the ground, data source.

CDC needs to know what is happening before they can send out guidance, the teachers union (of people who are directly involved in the effects of any such guidance) should and are a powerful resource to consider.

This article frames it as if a massive corporation payed off the CDC, when it's a union of teachers having a say in their safety.
I work in an ICU. Bedside staff is equipped with PPE2. No space suit. I've spent months of my life wearing only a surgical mask in what is basically a COVID aquarium, with patients on non-invasive ventilation in open-space units spraying virus everywhere. Our staff case count of hospital-acquired infection is currently zero. So, I don't know what the ground truth is but it certainly seems like exposure is not the only factor.
Somewhere around that mark (it was 3 when i responded, i believe that is more close to the truth,) maybe more for graphics drivers. Of course, that’s with Microsoft’s legendary commitment to backwards compatibility, more limited scope in which devices Windows targets, and a driver model specifically designed to provide a stable interface.

Linux doesn’t attempt to provide a stable driver model, but based on the fact that many users are stuck on old kernels due to unmaintained drivers, I’m not sure if it would really help that much if it did. Desktop PCs are the place where drivers are most likely to be maintained long term and thats a small part of the Linux install base. The dynamics differ more in the wide range of supported devices.
I haven't admitted this publically, but I am actually really looking forward to Project Hazel masks [0] which look like a crazy futuristic n-95, but have microphones and clear portions to help with communication.

[0]https://www.razer.com/concepts/razer-project-hazel

ps. They have been approved from concept phase, so they are being built as we speak
Classic project, sadly not even the revived psdoom-ng compiles without extra work
I ran elementaryOS for a couple years when I worked in research. I switched off when I bought a intel NUC, and the skylake processor platform wasn't supported yet (not their fault) and had to run the latest kernel and never went back.

I like elmentary. It's pretty, works well, etc. One thing that did irritate me was when I had to install something that wasn't "default." A gnome or QT application, and it looked to fugly. Just didn't work.

I with these guys the best. I think what they are doing is really cool, and I admire all the work they've done in vala and what not.
Everyone that distributes Linux software targets both Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos/etc. and OpenSUSE is frequently neglected. I have to deal with a great deal of such software. I know this can be worked around in most cases. The added friction is, however, not helpful.

And that's a shame, because OpenSUSE is excellent. If KDE continues to thrive SUSE deserves a lot of credit for keeping it alive.
>I feel like a luddite sometimes.

Luddites were right in their own way: their point was not against technology in abstract, but about the destruction it brought to their line of work with no alternative offered.

But, Luddites aside, being enthusiastic for any application of technology is a sign of the idiot consumer or the naive futurist.

The actual technologist knows that some tools are good for X and not for Y use cases, and also knows when to cut down technology (as opposed to add for the sake of it).

(Same way we don't add features to our programs for the sake of it, and many features are put there by demand of the marketing team to get more money out of users, not to give them something better).
I remember buying a $3 trip on Atlanta’s public transit system and the machine pumped out 17x $1 coins at me.

The Canadian in me was very disappointed.
Sure they can who do you think is digging ditches in the USA? People with questionable immigration status or criminal record who have no other choices that’s who.