skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know that! But it also seems like all the descriptions on the web about 大きな refer to it as predominantly corresponding to abstract concepts, not physical items like a ball; and connecting multiple adjectives still typically doesn't attach the な.
Proper environmental hygiene:

- No hole for them to sneak into kitchens, etc

- No food left around for them to eat

- No place for them to hide and breed

That, and maybe rat-killing robots, equipped with computer vision, who won't cheat on you.
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Does "dealing with it" make it so someone can't point out hypocrisy?
Thanks for this response. Hadn't meant to straw-man.

I agree it's important that our understanding of something like Free Software remain relevant and practical. At the same time though I think quality and freedom can generally be pretty well separated. If you release poor quality code under a Free and Open Source licence, we generally agree it still counts as Free and Open Source, despite that it's hard to work with. I think that's as it should be, although deliberate subversion might be an exception.

Are there any examples of this actually happening, though?

I imagine the best way to create obfuscated code is to use an obfuscator program, but the result of doing so is not considered to be source code, for our purposes (the preferred form of modification, as you rightly noted). If someone wants to deliver obfuscated source code and pass it off as Free and Open Source Software, they would need to program it manually, which would be severely punishing to their development work.

> what we want isn't just free software, it's software that's also interoperable, where it's easy to reuse just a part, well engineered (minimaly complex), with well defined scope and powerful/precise interfaces, etc.

That strikes me as clearly going too far. Technical excellence is not among the four conditions that define Free Software, neither should it be.

It also has absurd consequences:

• If you write a program in a language which then falls out of favour, do we say that it was Free Software at the time but no longer? (Software freedom is now defined in such a way that it is a function of which programming languages are currently in vogue.)

• If you are an outstanding programmer, you are better able to cope with poor quality code and with code in obscure languages, broadening what software you are able to work with. (Software freedom is now defined in such a way that it is a function of the individual programmer's skill.)

• If you develop a new algorithm and make the source code of your implementation available under a Free and Open Source licence, before you publish a paper explaining your new algorithm, the implementation is considered non-Free prior to the paper's publication, but Free afterward. (Software freedom is now defined in such a way that it is a function of available documentation and literature.)

Similar points might be made on the grounds of what hardware is currently available (does the non-availability of an emulator impact whether software counts as Free?), and what institutional resources are currently available (should laser-cutting software be considered non-Free by most, but Free by the relevant industries?). As an example, NASA's old launch programs [0] are at the intersection of these two concerns.

[0] https://qz.com/726338/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon...
Unfortunately, the real losers of this situation will be the Belarusian people, many of whom have immigrated to nearby countries like Poland or Germany. They will now (probably) be unable to visit family members easily, as flights will have to reroute through Istanbul or Russia.

Pretty much the same situation with Iran. Actions intended to punish an unjust government mostly just hurt their citizens.
A 21 year old bug. At that point the developer creating the fix could have been younger than the open issue itself
WhatsApp's TOS uses to state that the encryption key stays on device.

This changed a few months ago.
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Planes from Minsk are travelling from and to Stockholm as we speak. For what it's worth Swedish authorities claim decision not taken by EU yet.
I assumed this was a pun, port being a wine as well as Dover etc, but it seems Pitt actually was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and actively involved in raising volunteers, at the time that newspaper article was written:

http://www.geocities.ws/cinqueportsvolunteers/HISTORY.htm#Th...
As all markets, juniors are everywhere and easy to hire but what companies really want are good developers, and those will always be hard to find.
Lots of people have visited SF as well as more densely populated places both in the US and elsewhere.

So have I - and downtown SF is worse (in terms of littering, human excrement, aggressive panhandling, street crime) than the problematic parts of NYC, DC, Philly and Baltimore, worse than densely populated capitals in Latin America or East Asia or Eastern Europe. It's better than Indian cities but that is a very low bar for one of the world's richest cities.
Make sense - almost like a UBI light in a way. Plus not exactly easy to abuse since driving up & down the city isn't exactly exciting unless you're 5 years old.
I guess GNU Hurd [1], jokingly speaking, but correct from an architecture (ukernel) point of view.

The real community-driven alternative is Linux, which started and still is a monolithic kernel, but the multiple features it got along the years may make the distinction even less clear [2]. It seems it will also accept some Rust code in the future, so the difference may drop even in languages used. [3]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/

[2] https://qconlondon.com/system/files/presentation-slides/thom...

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANiq72khBa2GcB6-PHM3A44Y90d6vz...
Odd narration though. What constitutes "sufficient evidence"? Is WhatsApp now the judge of this?
This thread was flagged almost immediately after it was created. Where is all the traffic to it coming from?
> Today, instead of excitement, I am wondering how this thing is going to push me in some walled garden, how I will be tracked, how my data will be fetched and sold, what will be the trick used to move people away from free Web...

Since Chrome came along, the 'Web' became less free from the start and the moment Google forked WebKit (called Blink) to use it in their own browser, it has turned the web more into a walled garden each time apps use specific Chrome features and it is getting worse. Even in that early decade, we knew about how Google and others were tracking us since the PRISM program leaks.

Later DRM was added with reasons and votes unknown, devs have to keep telling users to switch from any other browser to Chrome to use their apps and now this forked engine is in tons of Electron apps with Microsoft jumping in and using it in their Edge browser. The time to complain was 10 years ago and now it is almost too late.

Now Google is doing it again with Fuchsia which will eventually replace ChromeOS and Android. Fuchsia is highly dependent on Flutter and those apps will run on Fuchsia devices on day 1. There is an extremely low chance of that being abandoned so I'm afraid it will continue.
Most people stick to default options, and this one looks worryingly short.

I personally love the idea of using Diceware words (specifically, the EFF shortlist version). Fairly high security can be achieved with 3 only or 4 words (at 10 bits of entropy per word, you get a billion possibilities with just 3 words).

Maybe Magic Wormhole already has that option, I haven't checked. In any case, I would like whatever is the default to be raised to at least 20 bits of entropy.
It looks like the relevant attribute is:

inkscape:export-filename="/home/symbiote/Documents/drawing.png"

To get this, create a new drawing and draw a shape. Export the whole drawing as a PNG, then save as an Inkscape SVG.

[1] is a bug report, but only part of the problem seems to have been resolved.

(Tested in this new release.)

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168958
I have a more clear event: At my company we regularly communicate single use credit card numbers for company purchases. One of those was sent via WhatsApp, and stolen. Neither the origin phone nor the destination phone were compromised. The card was used to purchase Adwords, the transaction originated in the US (we are in Europe).

Our theory is that at least images on WhatsApp are human-reviewed, and one reviewer saw the credit card go through and took the opportunity.

We reversed the transaction and switched to Signal...
OCaml is also pretty good at leveraging the C ecosystem, but that's not what people are looking for in a "garbage collected Rust". If they want something close to C they'll just use Rust. What they're looking for is something easier to write that still looks like Rust and having all the developer experience that Rust has. For this, the Nim ecosystem is way too small and can't leverage an existing platform. The same do apply to OCaml and Swift so it's not a Nim specific problem, it's just that Nim doesn't bring much compared to OCaml.
There are a bunch of considerations for the native look-and-feel that go beyond the primary visual aesthetic. Using the OS-specific terms, shortcuts, font-sizes, button order, APIs. This maintenance effort is not trivial. This is all stuff people at Mozilla are trying to look out for.

But additionally adopting the design language of the system is another burden altogether. It potentially triples your design- and implementation time and adds a lot of complexity to your code. And if you're unlucky the next OS version requires you to change it all again.
"Actually the one sweating should be Russia, because on the long haul (10-20 years), Germany is going to be energy independent due to massive investments (also subsidies) into renewable energy."

ROTFL

Edit: Yes, please feel free to show your ignorance and lack of basic math skills and downvote this comment. For all others:
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

I am sure Russia is not scared. Who should be scared is the world and who is scared is me but such dumb comments.
I mean, you're just talking about an academic research doctor. Which really only accounts for a small percentage of total researchers out there. I appreciate your trying to frame that his grass is actually quite green, don't just throw the baby out with the bathwater : )
It's group guilt and punishment, a dehumanizing practice that ignores personal circumstances and is OK with collateral damage. A blunt tool.
> https://modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2858814#2858814

Fixed link (anchor is broken!): https://modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2858814#p285881...

As an EE that only became a programmer later, I would like to add that those are amazing tips.
I wonder if we can breed, via artificial selection, cats that only hunt rats.
Windows Update has a clearly displayed "delay for 7 days" button. There's also advanced settings with more knobs.

macOS just nags you everyday.
They do, although AFAIK they recommend using the API. I recently moved from one to another and it only took switching out the library and a few lines of code, since most of them work very similarly.

Easily worth the added benefits of the API
A lot of planes fly Belarus - Egypt, which means flying through Greek/Cyprus airspace.

Will be interesting if Ukraine and/or Turkey responds, as flights from Belarus to Istanbul would be effected too. Ukraine (and Turkey) are part of Eurocontrol, but not part of the EU.

Obviously Belarus will still be flying east to Russia
> The analogy breaks as Pascal knowledge is not confined to one geographical area or ethnicity.

no, it is confined to people who learned Pascal ? I could start learning chinese with duolingo just as easily as I could start learning pascal with some web tutorial, it does not mean that either are familiar to me.
> Leftover laws are weird things.

Fun fact: just like this old tax that the Italian residents are unhappy with, every single person that was old enough to vote for their representatives who then voted to ratify the income tax amendment in the USA is now dead. There is no one alive in the USA that was in any way represented in the vote for income tax; conversely everyone that is alive in the US today and is subject to it did not have any input into it: they were simply born into it, unrepresented, just as these Italians were.

There is a strong argument for all laws having an expiration date a few years past the expected lifespan of the youngest constituent of the represented population that passed it, otherwise we end up ruled primarily by those long dead, entirely unknown to us, as the laws pile up, amended in perpetuity but never aging out.
That’s not a very good analogy
In Eastern Europe most of the old people get out at 6 going to the park benches and talking all day (in warmer months; if living in towns/cities)

The other spend almost all day gardening/field work and, like you said, watch TV.

However, I am concerned for the working-age people, as noone really seems to have a hobby. Most people just scroll Facebook and watching TV. In most circles, you might even be looked at funny for spending money on a hobby that isn't fishing or hunting (like playing around with electronics, without making money off of it)
Just today there was a Audio Operating System featured on HN that looks like a great starting point for audio programming and it comes with everything you need. Unfortunately it looks like everything is out of stock, but looks interesting none the less and you can probably run it in a VM until they get the development kits in stock again.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27269589 - Elk OS – Audio Operating System

- https://elk.audio/audio-os/
Ryanair however flew over the very next day
Study on link rot/content drift on the NY Times links
Are you saying a kid is the property of his family...?

Anyway, citizenship matters, it is one of the many elements that determine jurisdiction. The US taxes and prosecutes (!) his citizens anywhere in the world, for example; and extradition is a thing.

Legal protection to a foreign citizen abroad is extended by the host country, and that's really what the problem is here: the journalist was effectively protected by European law at all times (going from EU country to EU country with a EU airline), but Belarus invaded our legal space with a competing jurisdiction claim and enforced it with guns and subterfuge. That cannot be allowed.
Honestly, considering the abysmal gap in open source solutions, dropbox and google drive are "kind-of okay". The only issue is, it needs to sync up files between devices before allowing a download. The ux is not excellent, but at least it works.

I'm really looking for a "universal airdrop", but I would settle even for a pale copy of it.
With how Google is acting, I am fairly certain that I well never willingly buy a device that runs Fuchsia. I will have to find a better alternative device/OS or keep my current Android phone going forever.

There is however a huge issue of being locked-in to only officially-sanctioned OS versions, and I fully expect Google to try and completely replace everything that is still open in Android with proprietary replacements, making the Fuchsia-based phone OS the only accepted version.

As an example of the lock-in, the primary mobile payments app where I live has the following list of requirements/restrictions:

- Android or iOS only (there is no PWA or other web-based version)
- Minimum version is currently Android 6.0 or iOS 11
- Device must not be jailbroken or rooted
- Device must not run a non-official ROM, such as LineageOS

The use of this app is pervasive in society here, if you buy/sell anything second-hand, people will expect you to use it and will be surprised, annoyed, and/or suspicious if you prefer to use cash instead.

And this is by far not the only app with these restrictions. Banking apps, streaming services, there are a large number of apps with these restrictions, all under the guise of security concerns. Thankfully most of them have web-based versions or alternatives, but it can present enough of a hurdle that even tech-savvy people either will not or cannot use anything but a recent Android or iOS device.

Almost as bad are websites that would work perfectly well in a mobile browser, but practice "soft" lock-in by condescendingly pointing you towards the official Play Store/App Store if you try to load the site in a mobile browser. Facebook Messenger is a huge and obvious offender here, there is nothing about instant messaging that wouldn't work perfectly well in a browser, after all the desktop version at messenger.com works just fine.
I'm a vim user sometimes because of the peer pressure but it's basically a cult and a waste of time if you can avoid it.

The reason vim doesn't use cursor keys for movement is not because of some secret insight but because the keyboard it was invented on didn't have them.

Similarly the concept of modes was just due to the time period. Commands were the normal way to operate editors. For many people, not many years had gone by since the editing was done on a teletype. Interactive editing was barely even a thing.

I recommend the `micro` editor.
Right, compilation time went down a lot with 1.6 by avoiding method invalidations during compilation. The other thing they did is ensure that the package manager properly compiles all dependencies in topologically sorted order when you install a package, instead of doing a lazy compile on package load where it would often waste time recompiling the same method.
Poland isn't that far from Belarus (they are direct neighbours). People travel overland between those two, it is also quite a bit cheaper.

Even Czech Belarussians tend to take the bus back home.

It is going to be worse for expats in France or Britain, though.
Maybe it's the other bits? Like sure a ton of photonic energy is available, but cyannobacteria need P, N, and other elements like Fe. In fact, I recall something about geohacking by just dumping a bunch of Fe into the ocean to do exactly what you're thinking...
> with its self-rewrite immune escape functionality.

Interesting! Could you elaborate on this or provide a link?

> but also because the spike protein was already "solved" ahead of the pandemic.

I would also be interested in further information on that?

Thanks
Vector images are nothing like bitmap images. You can't take bucket fill and use it like you would in Paint. What you did, it seems, is you used a bucket fill on a group of objects, setting their fill to the same color.

For what it does, Inkscape is one of the very few usable, large open source tools. It has the same problems other OSS projects do (suboptimal UI being one) but it's not tool's fault you expected behavior that's at odds with vector graphics.
On the contrary. Our political elites are unable to find political and diplomatic answers. Resorting to bans and sanctions is weak. Inability and unwillingnes to talk to each other will make the people suffer. The ultimate suffering is civil unrest and war. The big picture to me is a very dark one: The world is preparing for war. This is just another side note to heigthen tensions.
This is always the argument used by fanboys, "you're used to Windows crappy way". For them there's no way macOS can actually be suboptimal in its own ways, even without comparing it to something else.

I love Apple products and to be honest I generally like macOS too but these responses are ridiculous.
I don't work in the industry this OS is marketed towards. I do however have some experience in embedded development and synthesiser programming. Can someone more familiar with the field answer a few questions for me?

- The website says: "With Elk hardware companies can move away from dedicated chips and use general purpose ARM and x86 CPUs without any compromise in terms of latency, performance and scalability". Is this intended as a ready-made OS for hardware synthesisers, or as a way to host VSTs on consumer SoCs?

- Assuming you're not targetting an obscure platform, or have a cumbersome toolchain, is writing a bare-metal executive the most difficult or expensive aspect of engineering a synthesiser? I've done some experiments breadboarding simple synthesisers with Arduino and STM development boards plus a 16-bit DAC. In my case the most challenging aspects weren't getting a real-time executive loop or handling I/O. Mind you, I didn't go as far as implementing a GUI.

- Is real-time Linux not overkill for most synthesisers? From the outside looking in, it looks like it would add more overhead and complexity than solve problems. If your objective is just to host a VST, this might be a decent trade-off. Or maybe if you intend to use high-level languages for the GUI.
I honestly do not believe that a UBI is necessary nor can it solve problems that we face. The only appeal is in the simplicity and naivety that politicians will not add clauses and complexity (they will).

It's also a funding nightmare, not because of inflation or free stuff or dis-incentivising working, it's because the sheer amount of money would rival the GDP but the vast majority of people will just get most of it taxed away so that it has a net zero effect.

If you are going to throw around money it would make more sense to just give people meaningful employment and if nobody employs these people they can get a temporary job from the government. After all, a minimum wage is completely worthless if you can't get a job because of it.
Well, free does mean that you don't get to pay to use. Where the money comes from is a different question, albeit the most important one.

Perhaps it would make sense to tackle overly dependence on cars by slapping a tax which is directly used to fund public transport. So the more cars you have registered, the more money goes into public transport so that it can compete better, without getting left behind.
Spend money on a BBC Belarusian comedy channel... Hehe..

Broadcast from neighbouring countries.

It's probably not very rational, but it would be fun :)
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> All bark no bite. Assuming they got help from Russia, the gas pipeline (Nord Stream 2) is still going as planned.

And is sadly supported by most big Bundestag parties (with Grüne being the only exception but for all the different reasons).
It's an offshoot forum of a video games guild subforum built from another larger forum. It's not going to grow (indeed, it is dying / dead at this point).

All things must pass and all that.
Do you also cross with a red light on a car, when there's no one around anyway?

Also, in most cases expanding the road is far from easy or feasible at all.
And Dutch KLM (the other half of Air France) happily announced they would continue to fly over Belarus, but they changed their tune after a sharp condemnation from our prime minister.
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The British did something almost identical with cobras in Delhi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentivea

Perverse Incentives it seems never work
It's by far the best open source vector editor out there. Whatever that means varies from person to person. I don't do vectors for publishing so CMYK support is never on my mind. But other people do and if and how this works in Inkscape can be a no-starter.
The cost of a system where you decide if someone should receive benefits or not is one thing - how to distribute the budget to those that most benefit. The extra cost in ensuring hose benefits are in specific vouchers for specific things tends not to be necessary from a saving money point of view.

But government benefits for poor people are not about providing poor people with the ability to live, it's about controling them - be it company towns or church poor-houses which gave free housing but banned people from say drinking or dancing, to a healthcare system which bans people from leaving their job because they won't get healthcare.

(Government benefits for rich people of course are completely different)