skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Its not so absurd to imagine getting a court order to seize a property and prosecute individuals that are using military grade munitions. Right now it might seem to be, but it isn't.

Ah hem. The Second Amendment would like a word...

There is nothing in theory keeping anyone in the United States from owning or even using military grade munitions. Just paperwork. And all too much at that. If you're going to be seizing property, due process. Your due process you seem to be espousing reads "have use military grade munitions -> seize and prosecute".

Those of us that like to safely own and have things that go boom or have military applications would appreciate it if you'd describe due process as it should be, "prosecute, secure beyond reasonable doubt conviction -> seize property", though even that is open to question as the property to be seized should reflect the crime committed. If felony theft is committed, property should transfer to next of kin, or liquidated with proceeds going to next-of-kin.

Order matters.

Besides which, what is the big deal with Israel anyway? Besides people who read way too much Revelations, and think entirely too much of the United States as a lynchpin in that, I've seen very little to recommend keeping up a military industrial pipeline coffer lining exercise in that part of the world. The U.S. is quite literally being the mother of all enablers in that regard.
It's All Just Noise
This [1] is useful to read. Sha256 supported (experimentally at least) in Git since 2.29[2]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/811068

[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/xmqqy2k2t77l.fsf@gitster.c.goog...
I do understand the friction against KDE — it's C++, which used to mean huge ass programs and compile times, it uses Qt which keeps having… "second thoughts" on its license, and it used to be slow as fuck 15 years ago.

Only the Qt thing is current, but memory is long on these things and a lot of people formed their opinions a decade ago. First impressions and whatnot.
A Eulogy for Sidney Morgenbesser (2014)
Apparently, the whole Library of Congress collection would take up 10 petabytes of storage, give or take. So the size of the Library of Alexandria can be very roughly assessed at 1.2 microLoC's.
No, you're a religious extremist because you're telling other cultures that they need to change in order to fit your belief system.
You have to understand that because animals borrowed cell signaling form plants that most transmitter blockers and analogues can be found plant cell signal chemicals

Or to put in broad terms our brains are powered by degrees of getting high. Its more of the degree and method that produces bad social results
The problem for me with a non-(Android, Iphone) mobile is that the apps I use for banking are unlikely to work.
> You may have heard of a recent scandal where researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN) intentionally tried to introduce bugs into the Linux kernel codebase as part of a research project. [...] This upset a lot of people – the Hacker News thread has received over 3000 points and around 2000 comments as I write this.

I remember when that thread hit the HN front page.

About 1-2 days before that, another article was on the front page: It was about how Facebook was experimenting on it's users by manipulating the newsfeed and inducing certain emotions - e.g., filtering posts such that positive news dominate the feed or such that negative news do. There was some outrage in academia and larger society over Facebook's behaviour and Facebook was largely accused of doing unethical research on nonconsenting subjects.

The overwhelming opinion in the HN comments was that Facebook's actions were perfectly ethical: Facebook's users somehow already gave general consent to be experimented on when they signed up.

Then days later, the kernel research story dropped and everyone was suddenly up in arms and quickly turned into fervent supporters of informed consent in research.

Now talk is about actual lab animals and most posts apper very concerned about the various shades of gray on this subject.

I find that does tell a lot about the priorities of the HN readership.
>This was a necessary stepping stone to get Lapid into office in a maximum of two years.

It's very debatable whether the coalition would even survive that long.

>If the government doesn't stick together long enough, Lapid gets into office sooner

Technically yes, but looking at the distribution of parliament, Lapid won't have the votes to pass much, and would have significant difficulty keeping the seat. Nethanyahu or anyone who'd replace him in Likud would have a decent chance of forming a government without an election.
"Hopefully not, US taxpayers should see this aid spent on themselves in their own nation."

Are you against the US giving aid to any other country, or just to Israel?
Maybe giving away killing machines isn't the best way to stimulate the economy.
How to get yourself to do things (2015)
> Since there has never been any company with $600 billion annual sales

I wonder if someone clever might exploit this loophole to kill the reverse repo market, which is almost hitting $600 billion daily. And technically it's run by the fed, which is technically a private entity. This is obviously an outlier within an outlier and God knows the government wouldn't let it's magical money maker come under fire, but it seems like with the right set of circumstances this going in front of SCOTUS could completely undermine how our entire concept of debt and lending works in the US economy.

Everything I'm saying is purely speculation. This actually happening is about as likely as the US admitting it invaded Iraq for oil (and a bunch of other more nuanced reasons). It's not about honesty; it's about money.
Lagrange handles both gemini and gopher URLs. It's pretty seamless.
> If it was just about political power it wouldn't make much sense given we've had a darker skinned person as president half this century (slight exaggeration), not to mention the current vice president, etc. etc.

The distribution of power isn't binary, all or nothing. African-Americans have gained some power, but if you look at photos of Congress, the courts, the executive branch, governors, Fortune 1000 CEOs, powerful people in Silicon Valley, etc., it will be apparent who has most of the power.
No offense, but your comments are indicative of an epic chasm between the nature of attacks happening on a daily basis at enterprises everywhere and the work being done by many in Infosec, even those held in high regard.
> I spent from 2005 until ~last year running pentest engagements, for what it's worth. [1h ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494895]

> I don't know, [...] I work primarily in software security and vulnerability research, and not IT security. [52m ago, parent post]

Umm, so do you think IT security (I'd say pentests fall well within IT security, let me know if that's where you disagree) is within your competency or not?
While I haven't worked at Apple, I've worked in technical documentation at other places (and still am) and worked with engineers, and I can't help but push back a bit on your implicit assertion that better tooling for engineers is going to help Apple make better documentation. Having coding and docs be so decoupled that you're not able to make good documentation is not a tooling problem -- it's an internal communication problem.

From what I can see and what others have mentioned, DocC is an Apple-blessed version of existing community tools like Jazzy. Apple could have been using that already, and indeed the engineers could have been using any number of docs-in-comments systems to generate basic API docs that could have been then forwarded to the docs team.

But even if they didn't have that, it is still up to the engineers to get that information to the docs team somehow, and still up to the docs team to ensure that new APIs and frameworks are documented. Full stop. Someone, probably a PM somewhere, should have the responsibility to make sure those things happen in tandem. For example, new features and new frameworks could go in a issue tracking system, those issues have descriptions from engineers of at least the barebones basics, the docs team has access to those issues, and separate documentation issues are created and linked to those issues. And lack of basic documentation should arguably be treated as a release blocker. I am sure there are a lot of engineers in the audience raising their hands in protest at that, but when you're talking about an API or an SDK, the documentation is essentially your user interface. You don't need to have the equivalent of the multi-volume Inside Macintosh documentation ready to go on shipping day, but you need to have a basic Jazzy/Javadoc-style reference and an overview doc on day one.

I don't doubt Apple's documentation team is "small but mighty," but there seems to be something fundamentally broken in Apple's process. If DocC helps, that's great, but at best it's just a start.
It's not over. It's alive and well, it just happens to be named "Libera" these days. The only thing 'rasengan actually bought was the rights to the name (including the domain registration) and, indirectly, a user base of forgotten bouncers that will be reconfigured next time they're used.

Note how the growth in the Libera graph parallels the drop in the Freenode graph: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
The overwhelming majority of politicians, especially in higher offices, are white males.
Yeah... it's rather sad. It's like a kid kicking down a sand castle just out of spite...
Interesting summary. When is your book due ? :p
> There's no evidence that Lee has once participated in the yearly cultural ceremonies in Korea that honor the late royalty and still to this day involve members of the former royal house - the other claimant to the throne does that.

Technically, if I understand who you are referring to, that other person is a claimant to the position of head of the royal house; Unlike the line of claimants Lee is in, that line does not assert that the monarchy either still exists or should be restored. There waa another restoration claimant, but IIRC she passed without a designated heir, and no pretender has arisen with a claim through hers.
I use sops for my dot files. There’s some oddities if you want to commit only an encrypted one to git and use a sops.yaml but not a big deal. Hadn’t thought of using it for local only use in this sort of thing, but is a good idea
"It's fiscal transfer to vassal states"

So what does Israel do in return?
> Since Israel has to spend the money on US hardware, that money actually goes to maintain Jobs in the US military industry.

What a shitty cycle.
Agreed, though my point is that the issues of power and discrimination are the same, just with different groups and different applications of them.
I am tempted to create a phone case sticker::

"My Other Phone is Pine64"
I was talking more about the stress of keeping the same standard of living during a downturn. Again, I am pro-WFH but fear the vulnerability one is in when not seen in person. I've been bit before. Perhaps it's a critical mass thing, the more people WFH, the more my fears will assuage, but for the time being, I guess I just don't know. Remember, during a down turn, the company wouldn't even have to lay you off to get rid of you, just rescind their WFH policy. If you're far away, they know you won't relocate.
The Fuchsia code itself is open, and while a vendor could make changes and not release them, a project like Pine wouldn't do that. That would indeed be a major motivation to use a Pine-like over other vendors.
I guess you just won’t get traction on HN writing ‘Disasters I’ve seen in a monolithic world’.

If you have never gone through a significant dependency upgrade on a large monolithic codebase, you might not appreciate the value of microservice architecture. I’ve been at companies where the number one technical achievement for a tech organization for an entire calendar year was ‘successfully moved the app from .net 2 to .net 4’. Have you ever gone through the process of integrating an acquired company’s monolith into an acquiring company’s monolith? It’s futile. With a microservice architecture though I’ve seen acquisitions integrate significant systems (things like billing and auth) in a matter of weeks where monolith projects dragged on for years.

Sure, there’s no silver bullets. But there are a lot of problems with monoliths which microservices eliminate. Not without trade offs, naturally.
The new PM claims that Israel owns Palestine because it says so in the Bible.
Right -- that was the other thing I was going to suggest. There's nothing stopping you from using WKWebView on macOS or Edge WebView2 on Windows. Some might argue that there are browser differences -- to them, I ask: what's difference between targeting a single browser and targeting a single GUI toolkit/framework? They both limit the platform your code runs on. So you might as well choose the latter and give your users a native experience without ~300MB of useless bloat to save yourself what is probably not more than two lines of Javascript (you useless inconsiderate louts).
There's a lot of unresolved debate in the philosophy of mind about how the mind might come about from the brain.

Not all hypotheses assert substrate-dependant epiphenomenalism, which is what you seem to be suggesting.

So our current understanding is merely that we have little clue whether it's possible. I lean towards the idea that it's possible and view the burden of proof as being on your shoulders to show why wetware as a substrate is necessary.
I’ll add onto this: if at all possible, secrets should be short lived and rotated reasonably often.

Given enough time and enough secrets, it becomes asymptotically likely that a secret will become exposed. Ensuring that those secrets expire quickly is a good way to mitigate this.
It's a bit creepy how Israel gets about as much attention as a country like China or Russia in social media / news. Does this deserve a mention? Probably does. As the main headline in CNN / BBC / Nytimes ? I'm not so sure, how is Israel so important?
Applying for NIH funding, Part 1
>but giving people illegal consciousness altering drugs seems so much worse.

Why do you think so?
Every time I see this take, I imagine Lenny saying "Goodbye, dental plan!"

We'll all be toothless sooner or later. Why not abolish dental hygiene and medicine altogether? Think of the savings.
You mean that within this century we won’t have 3-times-a-day “load shedding” for months?

If I wasn’t South African I’d believe it.
Clearing forest for ranches has been (and continues to be) among the most ecologically destructive activities in the history of the world, especially in tropical places where it directly replaces rainforest.

In the USA (excluding Alaska), something like 1/4 of all land area is directly used for animal grazing land, and something like 2/3 agriculture production goes to producing animal feed. These take huge amounts of water, fuel, and other resources. Beef production in particular is one of the leading causes of global climate change via CO2 emissions.

I love steaks and hamburgers as much as the next person, but we shouldn’t pretend it has a low environmental cost.
That's a bit short sighted, though. Foreign aid is an investment, and a tool to solidify your soft power.It is worth it even without considering any humanitarian aspect (which you should, but not everybody does).

Running a slightly less ridiculous military-industrial complex would free plenty of funds to fix just about any issue there might be in the US (except of course the big one, climate change). Second is having a slightly less ridiculous tax system.
IIRC, Lapid dropped out of high school.
my second clause is real broad!
95% of Congress have at least a degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_St...

(under demographics->education)

85% of British MPs

https://studee.com/media/mps-and-their-degrees-media/
It's also the security of the only enclave of gay rights and feminism in one of the most barbarously anti-progressive regions in the world. Whether or not that adds incentive is subjective, but framing it like paying for just "a nation's security" sounds like propping up Luxembourg's independence from France and Germany.

American problems at home are bad though. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
I don’t agree that HTML grammar is easy, but either way it’s objectively more complicated than Gemini markup. I also don’t agree that web layout is easy. Dillo, for example, is not the best document-viewing experience (even when I’ve designed for it specifically) despite putting in much more effort than I’d be willing to.

Also, if this[1] is your HTML parser, it doesn’t look like an actual HTML parser with implicit tags and error correction, just a parser for some easy subset of HTML. If we’re not going to be web-compatible anyway, why not spec a language that’s actually good?

[1] https://github.com/s2607/webthing/blob/d6dd43aa5a3cc6dee15f8...
He is in a coalition that has 60 votes in favor out of 120.
That isn't broad at all
You clearly do not understand what Hinduism is.

Brahmins are a small subset, who at different regions and times might have been corrupt. Just like the church.

But unlike the church, Hinduism is experiential and no one has a monopoly, which is precisely why Buddhism is one of many 1000s of movements.

There is no singular holy book and no need even in communities where it existed.
Looks like we finally learned what "fuck you money" means. What an aspiring ideal.
Speaking from experience with the pinephone, the browser situation is actually pretty good on postmarketOS because they have a custom firefox configuration for mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6qnlw4hgE

I can also confirm that the camera interface is slow. It takes like 30 seconds to dump a single image and render it into a jpeg. The main camera app is called "Megapixels". I'm not sure, but i've heard there are some paralellism changes coming downstream that may improve performance somewhat now that they have updated to gtk4.
OFTC as far as I know is much stricter about on-topicness and such than freenode was, and Libera is a fair bit less strict than freenode was, so merging the old freenode with oftc would've required drastically changing oftc, which I'm sure no one would want.
Yeah documentation looks fine and all for the LinkedIn API, until you have to deal with failures because of outdated validations or missing explanations.
There was also a tariff and import cap put on during the Harper era.
Solving Sudokus without backtracking [video]
You might want to re-read those threads, because the community takes were not as clear-cut as you claim. (If anything, large threads often are a sign of non-agreement, because people strongly disagreeing creates more comments) And of course not everyone participates in every thread, which makes judging overall sentiment even harder - that someone comments less or not at all on one thread doesn't mean they don't care about the issue.
Those types of driver vulnerabilities are exactly why Fuchsia's sandboxed driver model is needed.
In the presence of financial engineers, you can't have it any other way.

This is how politics is supposed to work. You pick one organization (your government) that you bend over backwards to give everyone the ability to input to. Anything that starts to get too big for their britches, you implement controls for.

Then the regulatory arms race continues.
Could you say why you think that is instead of clouding what you’re trying to say in a rhetorical question?

To me, Israel is significantly more than a microstate. Liechtenstein with its 38,000 people or Monaco with 39,000 are dots on the map. Israel has over 9 million inhabitants — I think classifying it as a “microstate” is a misnomer.

Israel is also a pretty powerful player and holds a lot of influence over US and world politics in a way that no “microstate” can.

Why are people so interested in US politics? Because the decisions of the US matter deeply to global geopolitics. Same goes for Israel, I think.
Unpopular Opinion: I don't want a Linux Desktop (XFCE, KDE, etc) on my phone. I don't care about being able to run terminals or `chown -R user xyz` or `htop` on my phone.

I want a phone with a decently polished OS, smooth (given hardware constraints) that can run apps that I control (deny ads, location info. etc) and provides an alternative to the Android/IOS duopoly.

I just hope that the Pine Community will realize this and focus energy and work towards having a canonical OS on the PinePhone that just works.
I feel a little bit sorry for the woman's kids and grandkids, because having nearby grandparents, and specifically grandmothers, in your life seems to confer certain advantages in natural selection. [0]

Just this morning my wife and I were talking, almost excitedly, about what our last "job" will be: Helping to raise our grandkids, if and when we have any (in the not-too-distant future, perhaps).

- In the grandkids' infancy: Doing lots of playing, talking, laughing, reading to them, and other interaction with the little buggers, to help their brains develop.

- From their births onward: Being sources of patient, calm, unqualified love, taking delight in their mere existence (but always deferring to their parents). Giving their parents a break in childcare duties from time to time.

And of course your own kids are your kids forever. My parents and in-laws are long gone, yet even now I sometimes catch myself thinking, hmm, I should ask Mom and Dad about that. My wife has said much the same thing. We both want to be around for our own kids for as long as we're able and not a burden.

We're both really looking forward to being grandparents. It gives us a(nother) reason to continue eating right and getting lots of exercise to stay in shape: We want to be physically up to the task for as long as we can manage it.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/07/6920883...
Bad Code Quality Case Study: Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
It gets views, which is what the media wants. Your question is basically “why do so many people care about this enough to view articles about it?”
Don't worry, you wouldn't have "understood" D3 anyways, even without the support wheels that observable provides. It's not a chart library, it's a modular system to solve common visualisation problems, often times interacting in extremely magical ways (e.g. zoom and drag).

Since you were too enraged to jump over your own shadow and invest the 5 minutes to learn a tool that I've literally used to teach children in rural Africa how to program, you probably wouldn't have been frustration resistant enough to learn D3, which has a steeper learning curve than emacs.
This looks really neat! Congratulations :-)

I haven't seen logo since the Apple ][, so it was kinda cool to see its compatible with the Apple logo !
Is this more of a...

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

or a

"We choose to go to the Moon not because it is easy but because it is hard."

situation?
They are one of the world tech powers, regardless of whether you like to think of it or not. There is power concentrated there, and intellectual property.

It's similar to how Vatican City will get posted even if there is almost no population.
> If you doubt this, try visualizing exactly which streets and landmarks are going by overhead as you travel between [subway -- CRC] stations. It is rather hard to do, and as a result people often treat stations more like portals into a parallel wormhole network.

Idunno, I find if you're somewhat familiar with the more detailed map -- and the subway stations are marked on it -- it comes somewhat naturally. You probably fool yourself a bit if / when the subway lines are very curved, because (I guess) you'll tend to imagine pretty straight lines between stations, but... On the whole, that's pretty much why subways were built in the first place, so I wouldn't think you'll be all that much off
How to make your code reads like a poem? Beautiful boolean variables