skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dangerous? For the users maybe. What are they going to do?

For Google? They get to clean up (only keep "real" users) and reduce datacenter costs.
I think the person you're responding to is talking about USSR circa 1920-1980, and you're talking about RF 2010-2020. Of course you can say that it's all the same, but then why would you be agreeing with them 10 years ago?
I think teachers make the mistake of focusing on the end goal, for example: “thinking in abstract terms”.

A student starts in some state and that state may not have a direct transition to “understanding abstraction”.

A teacher needs to understand the state the student is in and find a sequence of transitions that lead to the desired state.

It’s difficult for teachers to do this if their expertise is limited to knowing what the final state should look like, but not being familiar with (or having forgotten) the state space that leads there.
I use Linux top to bottom in my home.

My work laptop. My wife's PC. Our plex/jellyfin media server.

My sister's pc and my elderly parents PC are also ubuntu.

I have found my support time for all of them dramatically went down after I got them off windows.

Windows slowing down over time. I longer happens, lengthening the age of hardware and pushing off OS reinstalls, which can at times cost money based on the OEM model.

I can still suck more juice out of a machine with a RAM and add drive upgrade, again, without paying for a reinstall, and saving them lots of money in the process.

LTS/stable distros just work, out of the box, for most people.

Its people like me who have an incessant need to tweak everything that will mess up a Linux desktop.
Well then let me elaborate... it's a gaslighting technique.

It creates a no-win scenario for the workers where the employee/team/etc is always blamed for managerial incompetence.
> Software is no longer such a field, our brightest minds should be going elsewhere.

I thought this in the 1980s
> So, if you hold option and double-click a corner, it’ll do a Windows-style maximize.

I've used Linux command lines with more discoverability than that. Good to know if I ever need to use macOS, though, that's a nice trick.
Because the mere fact that an entitlement for bypassing permission prompts exists, means that non-apple apps could try to exploit it (see for example the PsychicPaper exploit).

Designing in such a huge hole in the permission system just makes it that much more difficult to trust it.
A Rust Binding for WinAPI
Apple sells iPhones to children? Couldn't the just sell children's iPhones then?

It's not uncommon to have two different products for adults and for children.
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Doesn't seem very likely. What exactly would the US gain except some face value before "Science Journal" oligarchs (which in itself, doesn't seem valuable)? Sounds like a bad deal if the US ever did any favor for them in exchange of one relatively harmless individual.

Sci-hub likely won't even be hurt if they somehow get Elbakyan. She must have had other people to fall back on for the project, who'll continue to keep the website online.
does freebsd suffer from this problem as well? specifically, that application package needs to support "15 billion different versions"
It’s not that much of a difference. Apple bundles app purchases over days/weeks into a single charge to save fees.
The node SDKs for AWS really shock me.

The `aws-sdk` v2 API is huge. It and its transitive deps are 64MB. In one TS project that I worked on, adding it added 1.5 seconds of transpilation time.

I thought v3 was supposed to be a modular improvement, but even just the `@aws-sdk/client-s3` library is 24MB.

Then I see bugs like `v3 has a dependency on react-native` and I really wonder how the process works internally to release these things.
That isn't specific to Russians.
Time has shown that the market optima reached by deregulation aren’t optimal for everyone. It’s why we have a minimum wage, for example. There’s a place for letting the market decide, but it’s no panacea.

It’s disingenuous to act like there are no externalities involved and what’s what regulation is needed for. Especially when government investment is needed for the essentials like utilities and transit.
(2017)

So, we could fit phones inside USB connectors, 4 years ago. Nice >:(
In my experience - half the time you’re right. Half the time the local shop product literally will not work, or if it works is incredibly outdated (so very expensive for performance) or so crappy it will be overtaxed during use and break in weeks or days.

And I’m in a major metro area.

When I lived in the sticks? It was more 25% solid, 75% crap.
I’m sorry, what? What is their actual purpose then? How do they remain a charity if profits aren’t being used for charitable causes?

Having grown up in the UK I always assumed goodwill stores were just what we call charity shops over here, you’ll find three or four on most high streets, all run by different charities and staffed by volunteers with any proceeds going to fund the charity’s work.
Depends on your setup but a message bus architecture with polling would work.
Sometimes they do. There was a scandal some years ago when they extradited an ex-banker, who is a Russian citizen, which was illegal.
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I never even got to the later Earthsea books.

I absolutely loved and treasured The Wizard of Earthsea, which I've read and reread many times over my life (something I almost never do with any books).

The other two books in the trilogy: The Tombs of Atuan and The Furthest Shore were pretty disappointing to me, so I stopped reading Le Guin after that.
For anyone who doesn't get the reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Brings up a memory of a recent event of an American DUI murder in the UK and leaving before their untrustworthy legal system kicked in.
SMS is not the only – or preferred – 2FA mechanism for Google accounts. You can use any TOTP authenticator application, Google mobile applications like Gmail, physical security keys, or backup codes. Having a single phone number is not a problem for dealing with multiple 2FA-enabled Google accounts.
I think it's very possible that this approach was historically important for promoting creativity, but I think it's more likely, on balance, to have the opposite effect as the internet matures.
I agree it seems possible, but the motivation for acting that way seems missing.
Maybe, but "my personal moral law" doesn't even come into play here, so I don't see how it could be possibly relevant. The topic is not a morality question so it's a category error.
Hetzner is known for this.

I had a hetzner server for years and now again.

Normal consumer hardware without any magic for very good prices.

I made even 10tb traffic and run Rosetta 24/7 for 2 years without any issues.

Just expect downtime if that's your only server and it breaks.

The last few years it got really crazy what you get for 50bucks a month.
What most people consider “Android” - open source + all of Google’s proprietary add ons is not open source. A true AOSP only phone would not sell in any kind of volume in the US. Google yields a lot of power over Android based on its add ons.

Every major tech company open sources software that doesn’t impact its compatibility and encourages adoption of its platform.
I recommend andOTP downloaded from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/
> that makes it a bad security control

I agree. We can improve it so that others don't have to think about it and it actually solves their problem. Right now we pretty much just move the responsibility to the user.
Which is irrelevant given Google uses a combination of TOTP, and for connected Android phones or iOS devices running certain Google apps, a confirmation prompt on the phone.
I think you'd like Nix.
And track you for sure.
My family and I have used Linux desktops since 2008, when Windows Vista failed to run full screen video with BSOD.

There was a learning curve for a few months, but I've never regretted the shift and it has made for significant contributions to my career.

YMMV.
Speedify seems to be capable of doing packet aggregation, load balancing, and redundancy simultaneously per each connection flow. Any alternative? (preferably open or self-hosted)
For those unaware of that folklore, the github link contains reference to one of the most famous StackOverflow answer of all times:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
The Java SDKs are bigger, and what's IMO worse: in Lambda the Python and JavaScript SDKs are automatically installed but the Java SDK is not automagically available on the classpath. Since Lambda is an environment where both artifact size and startup latency matters a lot, this kind of hobbles Java Lambdas.

(I work around this mostly by using native-image.)
Oh you beat me to it.
feels like there has been endless ceaseless consolidations & mergers. I rarely feel like new players come about. I'm highly worried.
I have only read The Left Hand of Darkness of these five, just last year, and it is definitely one of my favourite books of all time.

The way it examines what a genderless society might look like and the differences is incredibly intelligent, yet is just the setting - there's a thoroughly interesting plot over the top.

And the feminist bent (among other things) makes it feel incredibly modern - I remember being impressed it was written in 1969.
I'm not a physicist, I'm just trying to represent what's in the article.
It's very nice of the UK Government to give a nice ordered list of pirate sites to use, as long as you take the 30 seconds required to change your DNS or use a VPN.
I was surprised by the Israeli media sharing a video of young Israelis attacking Palestinians where they censor the faces of the perpetrators but not the victims.

Small thing but clearly shows a bias.
"Dispossed", "Left Hand of Darkness" and "Strangers" (by Gardner Dozois) are about the same icy word. And I cant remember which is which, except Strangers is the creepiest. I do not cry, but Liraun's final words pain me so much that I cant breathe.
Is that why bill gates is buying up all the Midwestern farmland?
>Consider that the unpredictability of a message is a measure of it's information content, eh?

Yes, in the "information as irreducible data" sense. No in the "information as non-obvious truths about the world" sense. A message's unpredictability seems independent, or possibly anti-correlated with its truthiness (as the recipient may already have the true information, or be able to predict it from other knowledge).

The rudeness is an interesting point. It is rude, or would be a at a party. At the same time, if the goal of internet forums is to exchange information (as in truths), honest efforts to distill information from noise could be accepted as good faith effort at public service in the way that identifying shill reviews is. It will be interesting to see how internet culture evolves as the ubiquity and awareness of widespread GPT-3 noise grow (or if forums are just doomed).
What kind of question is that? What are you arguing for?

Do you think extreme concentration of power and wealth is good? Do you want to be free? Do you want to elect your leaders?

Again, this is not about SpaceX and Amazon and other companies. These companies do cool and good stuff! The topic is the concentration of power and wealth and the negative externalities of that.
> Windows 3.1 code on a Windows Server 2019

Can you? I was under the impression 64bit windows dropped support for 16bit windows.
Yep, I like the writing style too. Upvoted but don't know if this will help.
>I do agree that California is currently a raw deal for anybody not in a high-paying career.

Even if you make 6 figures it's a horrible place. I was and essentially living paycheck to paycheck.
The board is ten cells wide so if you always get the long piece then it takes four pieces to make a line. Lovetris gives you two long pieces and then an S[1] which means you can make a line in three pieces. That's the sense in which Lovetris is "better" than your proposed algorithm.

[1] if you lie the two long pieces horizontally next to each other against the left wall
Enabling SMS 2FA doesn't make your account less secure. At worst, if somebody targets you with SIMjacking, it simply doesn't make you more secure.

If you don’t have 2FA enabled for your account, you are in the least secure position compared with enabling any 2FA method.

Either way, there’s no need to use SMS for 2FA with Google, they support many other forms of 2FA.
This is still the case. Snaps and flatpaks help a bit. But for a lot of stuff, the easiest way is to run the Windows binary under Wine. Including open-source stuff.
It’s impossible to know what metadata is stored, so I have to assume all of it is. Really weird how many people in this community are willing to defend surveillance now. As a former NSA director said, they want to “collect it all”. Why would this be any different? The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' | Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-n...
This would only work for high value items, or 'semi-fungible' goods with an easy to determine resale value (e.g. books, media, smartphones). For the latter it probably wouldn't work either. You already have things like Eco-ATM and the BookScouter app that let you quickly and easily liquidate an old phone or a stack of books, etc. It's more work than donating (you have to sort through the books, generate an invoice, etc.) but you get some cash. If donating were the same process, many people would probably opt for the cash.

I've known people who made six figures driving around to thrift stores, buying up any books worth >$10 and shipping them straight to an Amazon warehouse. I do believe I've also heard of some Goodwills scanning book donations and sorting out the valuable ones themselves for resale elsewhere.

Someone mentioned "stuff arbitrage" below and I think this is really the value goodwill, et. al provides. Sorting and classifying donations provides a lot of overhead that doesn't scale well for things like clothing. In the past when I was broke and unemployed I used to go to Goodwill and buy a bunch of low-middle end designer clothes (Levis, Ralph Lauren, cashmere sweaters, etc.) for $3-5 a pop, and sell them on ebay for $20-50. The margins aren't bad, but it's a labor intensive endeavor. Between finding the right items, inspecting for defects, cleaning, measuring, photographing, creating an ebay listing, shipping and handling, etc. I made maybe minimum wage. Called it quits after ebay raised their fees for the umpteenth time.

If I'm understanding your idea correctly it would make donating more complicated, meaning less donations. Additionally, if you have things at a thrift store priced at "market value" you eliminate a.) the social benefit of making low cost used items available to the community (think a homeless guy buying a suit for a job interview for $5) b.) the fun of finding that hidden gem, which is the real reason most people shop there to begin with.

For things like art, high-end furniture, musical instruments, it might make sense though.
That misses the point. The strength of records is that the language can build features that are only possible because of records' restrictions. It's not that the bytecode says "I'm a record" - which is all you get if Kotlin compiles a data class to one. @JvmRecord gives you all the limitations with none of the benefits. The annotation only exists for compatibility reasons.
I think of EDM as a dance tool (not a criticism). It's practical, a tight design to serve a specific purpose.

FTR I've adored techno my entire life - from back when synth, industrial and underground were more common labels.

eg: Eno, Cluster, Tim Blake, Sensation's Fix, Klaus Schulz, anything produced by Conny Plank
Then use a TOTP authenticator, which isn't tied to a phone number.

As an aside, this is the second comment, now, that is confusing general 2FA with SMS-based 2FA specifically. Given the audience of HN this is honestly surprising to me and makes me wonder how common this confusion is.

That alone makes me glad Google is doing this as maybe it'll drive more folks to be educated about 2FA.
Always calculate what it would cost you as a company to actual my hire a good sys admin, keeping that person happy and spending the money for operating a average quality setup vs. fire and forget.

A few grant infrastructure cost for any modern company is nothing and an outage costs you much more.

You can also bet that proper backup is either missing or was paid for expensive enough.

On Aws you activate snapshots and that's it.
Saving the Radome – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Does it make Facebook’s app safe to use on iOS? Genuinely curious.
Things like Flatpak or Snap try to solve this problems. Do you think they don't succeed?
The WaPo article itself is much more detailed. The bits about the age and fragility of Colonial's pipelines are far more significant than ransomware. Colonial's continued neglect is more disruptive than any single attack on the pipeline. The persistence of unreliable infrastructure is a more valuable disruptive asset to an organized opponent than a single targeted attack.

Tangent - Also interesting, the WaPo article [0] bears little resemblance to itself from only hours ago [1]. The article has grown by about 50%, while contents have come and gone. That's my favorite application for archive dot is - Seeing the timelapse of iterative releases, watching journalism bend and sway in the current of its own response. I'm not making any judgements, the internet is already sloshing with useless hot takes about journalism and media. It's just fascinating to see the modern editorial process at work, out in the open.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/cyber-att...

[1] https://archive.is/vlNs2
Prepare to be on hold a very long time and be subjected to the person who answered the phone flagging down a coworker to go physically check the isle.
I've no idea how people manage to flawlessly run their nvidia GPU. Prime is OK but having to open apps with prime-run like sudo is such a drag. Does your laptop have a BIOS switch?
From what I've seen, much of the delta in pay is actually the result of lower profit margins.

Facebook, as an extreme example of profitability, can pay its directors and EMs $1m+ per year in total comp, but it's not top-heavy - it pays its engineers ~$200k out of undergrad and >$350k after a few years.

By contrast, I know of many cool hyped-up hardware unicorns and biotech companies, and none can compare to FAANG in pay because software scales in a way that other businesses can't. (One hardware unicorn pays its new grad SWEs $60-70k).

Unless the biotech company is actually a biotech-focused SaaS company, it's inherently going to have a higher unit cost that prevents software-level comp. It's a disappointing effect of the current system we live in.
I switched to Linux around the same time as you. Before that I was a Windows user from 1997 until ~2008. In the late 1990s and early 2000s people just accepted that Windows crashing everyday was a normal feature of that software, and they blamed every crash on user error, eg: "your drivers are bad", "you're running buggy software", etc. My Windows 98 install couldn't run for more than ~4 hours without crashing, it was infuriating. Windows 2000 did better, but it would still crash once every couple of days.

Linux was a million times more stable and much more pleasant to use as a programmer (no SDKs to download with complex installation instructions). It also had a package manager which made installs/reinstalls a breeze. You could actually write a bash script to redo your setup automatically, wow! Never looked back.

I recently installed Windows 8 on an older computer I was setting up for my mom (she didn't want Linux, understandably). It was my first time using Windows in two years or so. Windows Update was broken out of the box. It wouldn't run. You had to manually download a patch to get it to work. I don't really understand why desktop Linux gets so much hate when commercial software is this bad.
Biodegrades is too fuzzy. What's the time horizon for that? What conditions are needed?
ok that's fine but it still doesn't change the fact that there is a distinction between parameterizing field vs parameterizing the simulation. You shouldn't have conflated the two in your defense of LCDM.
I'm struggling here. Are you saying that there aren't any barriers for entry in the US? For everyone, or for Asians specifically?
Le Guin really used it as a moment to drive home her views on diversity in "A Whitewashed Earthsea - How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books" here [1] (I've seen the Earthsea adaptation, and while I'm not as critical about it as she is, it really is a very different story, and best watched as a story inspired by Earthsea).

She's always been very vocal about this aspect, and how the diversity in her work was very deliberate and "snuck past" publishers and readers defences (at the time first published) by first mentioning it a bit in, and how publishers and cover artists at various point tried making the characters white:

> My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn’t see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. I didn’t see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had “violet eyes”). It didn’t even make sense. Whites are a minority on Earth now—why wouldn’t they still be either a minority, or just swallowed up in the larger colored gene pool, in the future?

[1] https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv...
SMS based 2SV is just one option, there are many better methods you can enable for a google account.
And maybe slow down account creation used for online harassment?
Well yeah, it's gonna look similar. It's a simulation of macOS operating system.
> but I'll go see if there's another offer that is maybe 3% better or 2% cheaper

I'll go to 3 stores, and just ask for the price and say "Thank you! I'll come back when I'm decided."

That way, there is minimal haggling, and I know I'm not getting completely ripped off. Still, it's more work than just checking online. But depending on the price of the item, it may be worth it.
The offending code for those interested:

const decodeEscapedXML = (str: string) =>
str
.replace(/&amp;/g, "&")
.replace(/&apos;/g, "'")
.replace(/&quot;/g, '"')
.replace(/&gt;/g, ">")
.replace(/&lt;/g, "<");

Seems like it's in multiple places in the code base too, I think all those clients are automatically generated.

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/search?p=1&q=const+deco...

So that's not even a good fix, think he should have fixed

aws-sdk-js-v3/codegen/smithy-aws-typescript-codegen/src/main/resources/software/amazon/smithy/aws/typescript/codegen/decodeEscapedXML.ts
That doesn't even contain "Rust for Windows"
The flagging system needs to be more open. If a user flags a post/comment they need to give a reason. These reasons, along with the username, needs to be accessible to everyone, not just moderators, so people can be aware why their submission is wrong, or whether there is a pattern to certain users flagging behavior.
With 8 mln Americans out of work, why are more companies not filling jobs?