skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, the way the language works is baked deep into the project. The stringly-typed nature is everywhere. Using Python isn't going to magically fix that list elements that contain `;` "don't work right". Policy scoping is weird and is not lexical (e.g., policies "stick" to function definitions, so calling a function can cross a policy boundary).

It's one of those "ah, that sounds nice" things that is just too much work once you get down to it (and we have enough compatibility to handle without dealing with the vagaries of umpteen languages as it is).
The show is well named. Season 1's story scope expands incredibly out from the initial mystery.
Wow that’s crazier than I thought, thank you for the explanation!
I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly? Going cold turkey means a chance of leaving someone behind on freenode.

Edit: I see that I have not expressed my point clearly. Freenode knows that it is dying already. Allowing a smooth transition wouldn't stop that or heal that. A downwards trajectory. Like a dictator usurping the throne, the new management wants to gulag everyone who even slightly disagrees to not leave any dissenting voices on the network. This way those who stay might stay for good, instead of only for the smooth transition.
The uk is an Island too and it didn't seem to help them
How do people handle taxes/accounting/receipts and invoicing for this kind of stuff. At least in the EU it would be a nightmare if you rely on a bunch of such links to sell.
As a pedestrian I am routinely almost killed by cyclists.
Is there a chance that someone take them to the court for this false claim?
Is there a tool that allows for checking such name clashes, ideally by specifying the domain to see how close you are?
Poland had a secret CIA prison which were used to keep Talibans.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/poland-pays-25...
> All epidemics end, vaccine or no vaccine. The Spanish Flu ended. The Black Death ended.

…HSV? HIV?
Ask HN: What LogManagement software do you use and why?
I once was in a "DevOps" role with the responsibility of getting devs' "works on my machine" code to build in CI.

Fun times trying to get code you didn't write to compile without knowing any context.

Anyways, that sort of turned me off trying to move into programming and so I went back to mechanical engineering after less than a year. Maybe I should have stuck it out longer.
We had an unregistered channel with 5 users left that got the same treatment. The topic (which was free for anyone to change..) contained irc.libera.chat
Possibly, the article has been updated in the last couple of hours, but it now says:

*What about iOS?*

iOS is affected, like all other OSes. There are unique privacy implications to this vulnerability on iOS, as it could be used to bypass some of its stricter privacy protections. For example, keyboard apps are not allowed to access the internet, for privacy reasons. A malicious keyboard app could use this vulnerability to send text that the user types to another malicious app, which could then send it to the internet.
> but when Apple LAUNCH it, it do it WitH cONfIdeNCE.

The answer I'm looking for is that during this 10 year effort Apple had already and always used their existing designed ARM chips in their iPhones and iDevices. Once they improved it over time and it surpassed their Intel counterparts, it was the time to target the Mac which is why you are hyping over the M1 performance.

In fact, macOS was already on ARM years ago. It's just that it would have ran slower and wasn't ready which is why they waited and here we are.

But this claim:

> And this is how you know fucsia/google will not.

How can you be so certain that the owner of the world's most used mobile operating system [0] and a very competitive desktop OS on the market [1] cannot or 'will not' launch Fuchsia with confidence (even when they just did)? Don't you think it's extremely too early to make such vacuous claims without ANY compelling evidence?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...
Speaking as a Californian, it helps that urban centers are usually absolute hellholes. Between the charming mix of homeless, hoodrats, and junkies that police won't do anything about it's a lot easier to raise a kid with a future if you just move somewhere that isn't terrible like a boring but predictable suburb.
Magit, an emacs package to control git.
It's not pretty, and certainly not conventional, but very efficient and discoverable.
Aye. Health and avoiding death aren't the goal of living. They are needed to live to some extent, but they're not the reason for living. Those disproportionately obsessed with self-preservation fail to live. There are more important things.

And people seem to forget the other part: your death will come for you eventually so it's not as if by avoiding COVID you've avoided a car accident. Besides, the danger of COVID has been vastly exaggerated, but irrational and disproportionate fear has gripped the brains of a lot of people.

People (typically white collar) also forget the deaths and health effects of the lockdown itself.
> Here's an interesting geological fact about New Zealand and Australia: they're both islands!

Not really, Australia is an continent not an island.

And to be precise, only Europe and Asia are connected by land borders (suez canal, panama canal).

More, UK is an island, also Ireland, Japan... and they don't have much less cases then the rest of the world
The author literally addresses this directly, indications are that it mutates slower than the flu.
There is no 'right' and 'wrong' side of history. There are complicated shades of grey coloured by propaganda. And if there was a right side of history, the US has a very credible claim to it. They've pushed science and the arts forward, promoted freedom as a cultural aspiration rather than rule by a monarch and generally acted as a credible supporting force for the greatest improvement of living standards the world has ever seen in Asia.

There was a lot of cruelty, bloodshed and lies. But there has not yet been anyone in history who avoided that while being large. The US could certainly have been much worse.
ExpressJS hasn't been updated in two years and is one of the widely used frameworks out there. It has matured enough it doesn't need to be updated.
I heard a theory the other day that houses are more affordable than they were in the 70's - because even though the house prices are high, the repayments are lower because the interest rates are a lot lower. It was a business commentator trying to rationalise the housing market.
One of my favorite projects, and a great example of how to use technology to help people understand and participate in street design decisions!
Realistically, most channels are moving to Libera and the people are remaining are people who haven't noticed yet. Going cold turkey will just give those people a WTF feeling without being able to do anything about it, and eventually they'll also leave since everyone else left.
You say that nobody knows whether covid will require a similar vaccination cycle to the flu, but that seems overly pessimistic. We have a fairly good idea how fast covid mutates and how fast the flu mutates and they are not in the same league, so it's very unlikely we would need a similar schedule.
Good point. It’s way too easy for techies to underestimate the importance of “soft” skills. Do this at your own peril.
No idea. I cycle in Germany I would argue that the main issue is extremely aggressive and reckless behavior towards cyclists by car drivers, not that they're inattentive. Although that's a big problem as well, many drivers simply don't "look" for cyclists - you always need to act like you don't have right of way. Of course, many drivers get aggressive against cars as well, e.g. somewhat adhering to traffic laws is a surefire way of inciting road rage.
It's not only the syntax that is broken. The "type system" has quite a few holes in it because of the language. Many of them have no counterpart in other languages either. It would, for example, most likely still be stringly typed, so list representations would still get baked down into `;`-separated lists with all the problems that entails.
Shutdown and Start are NOT a Cold boot in Windows 10. There you got it young padawan.
As someone who occasionally writes tiny tools with some GUI, how can I test how well they work with accessibility tools?
I would have thought that the micropython port of python optimised for IoT applications with very limited resources would be a great fit for browser based applications.

https://micropython.org/
Why are people still using IRC? It has no encryption, no privacy. Even if your client uses encrypted comms, the other clients are not, so everything is easily surveilled.

I'm surprised people are still using IRC at all.
Hmmm. Linux, and intellectual property.

I should say my personal hobby is walking into libertarian communities, asking if there's such a thing as intellectual property, then walking out whistling.
Characters are always more important than setting.

Not among sci-fi fans. There are lots of classic and beloved scifi books that are all about the world and setting and technology where the characters are 2d cardboard cut outs that only exist as an excuse to move the story from set piece to set piece.
This happened to #elixir-lang too, and they decided to move to libera.chat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288673
What's to stop, in 10 years, what happened to Freenode happening to Libera? Is there something concrete in place, or is it on trust? On trust is what happened with freenode.
One reason could be to not destroy any goodwill that was left by some members. Hijacking channels sends a clear signal that Freenode can't be trusted to provide a stable and secure network.
> If you actually engage with the substance and explain why the argument is wrong

That is completely dependent upon the subject of conversation. On some topics people are only looking for agreement.
You say:

> There is no 'right' and 'wrong' side of history.

But then you conclude:

> There was a lot of cruelty, bloodshed and lies. [...] The US could certainly have been much worse.

So you do accept there's a gradient of right and wrong.

> The US could certainly have been much worse.

But also a lot better!

> But there has not yet been anyone in history who avoided that while being large.

What we've seen is next level. This is due to the increase in mobility and world trade, sure. But it has been abused heavily, and seemingly to every extend possible. I dont know how it could have been worse without being a straight up dictatorship. (having only two parties come very close to being a dictatorship if you ask me; only one party better than the China the US like to bash so much lately).

> They've pushed science and the arts forward, promoted freedom as a cultural aspiration rather than rule by a monarch and generally acted as a credible supporting force for the greatest improvement of living standards the world has ever seen in Asia.

Tell that to the Vietnamese and North Koreans. Indonesia and Philippines also have a bit of a US hangover.

Science is fucked nowadays. Very "proprietary", as by the US-push patent law.

I think there is right and wrong. Read some Jesus and you know that ideas of what it good behavior and what is bad is not at all new. I'm not religious, but just to show that it is not merely the last decades that we know we should be nice to people and now do any horrible act for a bit of profit.
I usually agree wholeheartedly that Americans conflate "the world" with America, and that it's really annoying. I can't say that's happening here, though: it's true that the great pandemic misery is near its end in the nation of the USA (and in some other nations). That's a fact. Stating it doesn't mean that one does not care that the misery goes on elsewhere.
Say a new variant emerges that has a 90% mortality rate. Would you still wait to get the vaccine because it was "rushed" and not fully tested? Would you rely on antibodies from the current variants?

In that situation I would do whatever it took to get the vaccine. And I would feel extremely silly and irresponsible for doubting the science.
Why would you spend money on crappy and locked down hardware that can't be fixed. A computer that you don't own but basically rent. Get a Lenovo Thinkpad and join the light side, you'll be amazed!
Do you know how many people in The Netherlands ride bicycles daily? A lot. I think almost everyone in the Neherlands has ride a bicycle daily some time in their life..

Having said that, in 2000, 1200 people died. So 610 deaths in 2020 doesn't seem that much.

The Netherlands is one of the safest place to ride a bicycle. And continues to improve on it.
ircops and drama? Tale as old as time.
You're still missing the point.
"National Misery" is where the error is coming, it's not National, it's affecting everyone
So I shouldn't have my bitwarden extension?
> I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly?

Because that transition window (which was planned for O(weeks)) could've been enough time to win back our trust and make us decide to stay on Freenode. I was honestly starting to think maybe we had too much of a knee-jerk reaction with the decision move and was willing to reconsider, but now, well.
Why do you post on HN? It's not encrypted either. In fact, it's very explicitly publicly available. IRC is the same. It is and always has been public. And for many use cases that's a benefit not a drawback.
The problem with that statistics is that it records the absolute number of people that died cycling, neither controlling for population size nor total distance cycled. That makes all conclusions drawn essentially worthless: an increase in accidents may be caused by an even larger increase in miles cycled, which would actually be a net improvement.
I learned a lot from that, thank you.

I wonder how much bandwidth I've wasted for people over the years because I've saved poorly optimised versions from Photoshop. Are there automated tools that can be included in a CI pipeline to help with this?
Sure, it’s impossible to prove what would have happened otherwise (given the chaotic reflexive system).

But an interesting thought experiment, imagine, after ending WWII the US and its people simply sunk into the ocean.

Then you’ve got a massive imbalance of power tilted towards Stalin and the Soviets with nuclear weapons and allied with China, vs a weak UK and France.

While it’s impossible to prove the USSR wouldn’t have started caring about democracy and human rights and stopped caring about expansion on their own...I don’t think it’s a leap to say the world would be a worse place.
That was extremely pragmatic and well written.
The author is refering to the "National Misery", which is not "National", is global, is affecting all of us.
> Stopping world travel would’ve worked it out better.

The movement of people is a good thing. Hence stamping it out would have a huge cost, both emotionally and financially. The vaccines are comparatively cheap.
But then again, the State is part of the Five Eyes, so there’s not much to expect in terms of privacy anyway.
Of course nothing is infallible which is why I said “tend to be more receptive”.
Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
The repayments seem to stay about the same but the overall payment is incredibly large.

And because getting the % deposit is a big factor in whether you can afford a house, it pushes lower income people out of the market.

And if you bought in 1980, the high rates kept the lid on prices. However while you may have started with the same payment but the rates have been steadily ticking down since then. Creating a massive generation gap between those who bought while rates were high and those who didn't have the opportunity.

And I am sure this is only one of the factors in housing affordability but in my fairly uneducated opinion it seems like the largest.
> The prawnsalad farewell is probably the best evidence:

As someone who uses IRC daily but has no part in the drama, why would the user's "prawnsalad" evidence be trusted above others? I'm trusting nothing I read right now, but I'm happy to hear why you think some should be trusted over others.
This is just unnecessarily rude. The guy had explicitly mentioned about the daily ping and it's mentioned on the product doc as well - so please don't make him up as the big bad guy who says I CAN HAZ DATA
I just crossed $10k MRR as a solo bootstrapped founder. Here's what I learned
Project Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape (2000) [video]
International Misery is made of many more or less separate National Miseries. This particular one, that affects the author personally the most is ending.
I'm not up to speed, could you expand on what happened?
Just because the world is experiencing it doesn't also mean that a nation can't experience it. A family is Syria escaping the civil war can say their misery is ending without the civil war ending.
Original title for this post was “Rare Vietnam War images from the winning side”
So, I just woke up, came to say good morning on IRC to my friends and...

Find this instead.

https://twitter.com/CriadorDeJogos/status/139750445711463629...

WTF rasengan!
Looks like this is linking to my tweet. Do note that I am not part of Elixir core team, I am just an Elixir user. But the channel move was official, you can see the new channel linked on the sidebar of the website[0].

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/
The world is not running out of helium. It is a by product of natural gas extraction. It will though get more expensive over time.
We hadn't at the time because the only JS engines we could think of were 10x larger than CMake because they were built for browsers and had all kinds of cruft for a DOM that CMake doesn't care about hanging around. Maybe QuickJS would work, but (personally) I don't really think the language would be all that much of an improvement over what we have today (my issues are mostly around the oddities of which JS has quite a number of due to its roots). Then again, some of the ideas that have been tossed around for what could happen are probably interfering and I don't think JS would make those things any easier.
Under article 6 of the GDPR this is allowed since "processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;", thus informed consent isn't necessary and opt-out is legal.

Whilst legally permissible, being opt-out with highly sensitive information is detestable and shows the GDPR doesn't go far enough.
Marilyn
18 shark bites

Not sure percentages are really helpful here.
More or less. The Tet Offensive was crushed and had Saigon supporting troops pushed into the North quickly, there’s a chance the war would have ended differently. The North was massively depleted at this point.

But the political and propaganda goals of the Tet Offensive worked and made the USA timid when it should have been aggressive. It was at this point that citizen support for the war began to fade quickly as the media incorrectly reported that VC were making progress and couldn’t be stopped, in essence unwittingly passing along the propaganda that VC hoped would spread.

Not sure the outcome would have been different in the end though. The people were colonized by the French and then the Japanese and then the French again - the USA wasn’t looking like the great liberator.
> I can understand how the new Freenode doesn't want to get half-filled with such zombified channels.

Then maybe they shouldn't have done a hostile takeover, and actually worked with the community instead.
Really? You routinely have near misses that would have been fatal?
That's the mainstream view, yes. But honestly, in case of sci-fi, I mostly disagree.

Most literary genres are defined by the flavor of character exploration you do. Any character-focused story you want, you can find a genre for it. Science fiction is defined as speculative exploration of interactions between people and hypothetical advancements of science and technology. If you laser-focus on the characters, you lose what makes the genre interesting and distinct from all others.

That's not to say that characters aren't important. But, in the kind of sci-fi I like, technologies and societies and institutions become "characters" themselves, and need to be treated with equal importance.
I hope he set all the topics to: t4k30v3r by l33
Posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26954023 about a month ago. No one cared about it as expected.
The video is the interesting part skip to 13 minutes and 50 seconds.
Freenode attempted to takeover Allegro official channel, that hadn't moved yet
Care to explain the - points?
Yes, Burroughs as well in 1961.

The point was more about systems where we have to deal with C, or derived systems languages, and the related culture that performance trumps safety.
> I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly?

Retaining any user at all on the network?

I haven't used Freenode in a long time, but I would absolutely under no circumstances establish a channel there now. Not for some grand principled moral standpoint, but simply for not knowing if I'd get to keep it.
I don't know how to phrase this politely, but I'm actually surprised at how low that number is. Of course it would be great if we could lower that number even more.

But in my opinion that's nearly impossible. Cars and bicycles are vastly different vehicles and as long as they share the same infrastructure, tragic crashes will happen. People will make mistakes and as long as the collisions are a fragile human vs a multi-ton metal box on wheels, some of them will be fatal.
From that link, this:

> I have also received hundreds of reports from project leads on freenode that

> they are being harassed and are at risk of being canceled if they do not leave,

> to Libera. This activity does not belong in FOSS. Stop it.

Smells like a load of bullshit to me. I'm not involved in the Freenode debacle at all, all I know about the characters in question are from the original resignation letter, the Andrew Lee PDF detailing his side of the argument, the articles about the mass cancelling of channels posted here on HN today, the Andrew Lee apology comment on HN about how it was a "miscommunication" and now this on the freenode.net frontpage. So I may be totally jumping to conclusions, but I find it very hard to believe that people would be getting harrassed or bullied into moving away from freenode and that anyone would reach out directly to a VERY controversial at the centre of the whole ordeal. This feels like a way to score a few points by throwing some vague hard-to-disprove accusations at the other side.

edit: the apology in question is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287178, it's "dead" so in case it's not readable by anyone the text is:

"This should have been communicated better and for that I apologize. We published a draft policy update and worked with the community in #freenode-policy-feedback to understand the community's wishes.

The policy was updated today to make clear that inappropriate advertising was unacceptable. As many of these channels were simply wildly unmoderated and closed, yet by protocol standards, "open" under a primary (#) namespace while in "official capacity", we felt it was best to redirect users to an unofficial off-topic (##) namespace.

I apologize for this being communicated poorly. This is entirely my fault, and I take all the blame for that. "

I initially thought "bullshit" on the PDF and the comment too, but each time convinced myself I could just be misunderstanding due to being a bit distant from the situation. Reading the freenode frontpage blew that away in my eyes.