skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handwriting-Generator
FOSS UI/UX is at least two decades behind and the gap is growing.

A major problem is that people almost always underestimate the difficulty of a good UI. Good UIs can be a lot harder than the rest of a system and a modern UI toolkit has a feature set and difficulty level approaching that of a good 3D game engine like Unity.
This may or not be linked to with the release of the free freenode bnc 4 days ago: https://freenode.net/news/taking-irc-further
I get you. I was saying that reading those specific comments was not worth turning the feature on.
At least with SVN, the is one option that is pretty similar to git’s filter-branch: svndumpfilter. You dump the entire history of the SVN repo to a file, edit it, and then load it into a new SVN repo. I used this technique to pre-process a repo to remove large files before migrating to Git. The file format is simple enough that you can easily write a program to edit the stream.
Israel is a very weird microstate

There is always a lot of outrage about it in the media. Very scandalous

Some kind of mess happening there 24*7. Medias like such "scandal porn"

Netanyahu was basically a political Kardashian, Trump Donald before it was cool
Some additions:

I want to second the clarifications by adrianN and shawnz -- there is a difference between not actively caring about suffering, and not even seeing the point in anyone caring about it.

It seems my "I in fact believe you should see a psychologist" worked exactly as well rootusrootus implied it would. Many seem to think I want to label the previous poster as a psychopath, and do so in hatred. That was not my intention. I admit, I fail at communication, regularly, even more so the more I try to refrain from it.

Although suggested otherwise, my message did *not* contain a diagnosis. Given this extremely limited context, I doubt anyone could give a proper remote diagnosis. And I especially did not attach a psychopathy label to the previous poster. I personally know of at least three mental/neurological atypical (and not voluntarily chosen) states that cause people to (partially) adopt nihilism, and I'm sure mental health professionals have seen quite a few more.
The competition for my ISP is not a click away.
I would pay good money just to know what the F is in their mind.
> technically it's run by the fed

The Fed executes repos and reverse repos. It does not run the market. Primary dealers execute these through tri-party repo agents, which practically is like two banks.
I’m mostly interested because Israel is funded by tax dollars I pay, and heavily supported by racist religious people who believe we must support Israel because “they are Gods chosen people”. We don’t share such view for any other country on Earth, and the topic of Israel has been essentially censured in the US. Even now, criticizing Israel is quickly equated with anti Semitism. You can burn flags, insult Presidents, insult any country or statesman on Earth, and it’s all within some acceptable boundary, but the minute you even dare question Israel, the discussion comes to an end.

American politicians will drag their heels at times to address issues impacting Americans, but criticizing Israel shows them immediately speak up.

I think that’s dangerous, and we have to overturn that. And the idea of any particular race being “Gods chosen people” is unacceptably racist. An Israeli person is no better than a person of any other nationality. They are not above criticism. And if your religion says it is, we need to work to completely remove any influence your religion has on our government. Racism is racism, period.
> For example: “two weeks ago an intern accidentally committed a file containing IP we’re not allowed to use, we need to erase it from the repository and all developer machines.”

Technically, the issue was actually pushing that commit to the remote repository.

I think the best advise one can give people when using it is to to run:

git log -p origin/master..HEAD

and look at the commit messages and associated diffs to see if there's anything there that shouldn't be there before the actually run git push.
I think any PM of Israel should claim at least the current lands they hold.
There are also persistent key-value store like dbm as part of standard library in python and several 3rd party implementations like bitcask for Go.
As I've gotten older I've cut back on my fast-food intake quite a bit. Not really for heath reasons either, though it's a nice side benefit. It just really isn't very good food, and it seems to have gotten worse over the past 20-30 years. Especially for what it costs.

However, I will never order from a voice-driven AI system. If that is the choice, then I decline. I don't use it in any other area of my life, in fact I cannot stand talking to computers despite using them professionally as a career. When I call someplace and have to speak to a computer I mumble jibberish until the system gives up and transfers me to a human. I'm a human, I want to speak to other humans, not computers.
Well, it's hard to compare. Those two countries don't give much opportunity to discuss transfers of political power.

Israel, on the other hand, has been giving bit of a politics show for the past what, a year or more?
I think it's basically geopolitics - they're the only democratic country in the Middle East. (According to the Economist's Democracy Index 2020: https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2020/)
In so many instances where you will never know the name of the person who wrongs you. If you are waiting to "know who did you wrong" before you "move on", you will wallow in misery.

Please, for the sake of your own mental health, try to separate "closure" from "legal justice".
I think, the old internet did not have much original content and we consumed what was available pre-internet but without the scarcity. The original ones were created by privileged people in relatively tiny community.

The current internet content is made for the internet. A lot of great things were made of course but I think the optimisation is diluting it into mediocracy. Every single day it gets more and more optimised for revenue or influence through time dominance. If you pay for it, it is designed to keep you pay for it(not necessarily pay for it and consume it but keep paying. Games are mostly freemium where you pay if you want to enjoy, movie subscription services will pile sh*t in font of you to give you the impression of endless content, optimize scenarios for retention etc.). If it is free, it is designed to pay by proxy(purchase something or give political power to an interest group).
My fault, I wasn't clear.

My use case also includes being able to check certain file occasionally on mobile. That requires Files app.
Surely you'd put something in writing when you wish to resign?

In Britain, I'd print out and sign something like this:

Dear [Manager]

I wish to offer my resignation with effect from 14 June 2021.

I am obliged to give 3 months notice. Therefore, my last day of service will be 14 September 2021.

Yours sincerely

Anything else is optional, and can be discussed with the manager if you want to, or not.
> This was the end of my relationship with Sony.

Honestly, I still did and still do love their headphones. For the money, Sony is probably the best bargain out there by far. But I'll never own another Sony product with a mircorprocessor. Not a phone, not a camera, not a receiver/amp, not a laptop computer. And I still won't buy music under the Sony label. Thank you Muse for signing with WB!

It's a good thing that I bought my MiniDisc player in 2004, just a year before the rootkit fiasco. Because I loved that device.
Netanyahu always looks so grim and serious. I bet he's not the one to appreciate a joke. Kinda like Trump in that regard.
> What's to stop Amazon from splitting it's retail business into separate legal entities entities by category to stay under the arbitrary limits?

This doesn’t work. Beneficial ownership and common control would trace through the legal entities. If Amazon actually splits up its business, on the other hand, that’s fine! That’s good! No need for anti-trust action; they did it themselves!
How is that related to HN?

Anyways, the interesting thing is the total remixing of ideologies that happened. "Rightwing" Netanyahu is considered to be the best for the poor/traditional Mizrachis. "Leftwing" Meretz agreed to have a cabinet dominated by settlers. "Leftist" endeavor of bridging the gaps with the Arabs is bringing anti-LGBT legislation (and was actually started by "right-wing " Netanyahu).

Israel needs a new name for the current political divide because right vs left, it is not
How much of those jobs in the US military industry is going to people who need food, water, and/or shelter?
> how is Israel so important?

They are one of the few world powers with nuclear capabilities, although they are not officially recognized as such. However from my understanding basically everyone on the world stage knows it is true.
I’m also from this “micro state” and I find your alluding to racism to be disgusting.
But am used to this tactic to brute force your rightwing arguments, so no surprise here
Well, in fairness, there isn’t often interesting _democracy-related_ news about China or Russia. If there were, it would be significantly more remarkable than this story.
Compliant politicians don't necessarily have to get anything in return. Punishment and the threat of it can motivate behavior, just like positive reinforcement.

Anyway, I wouldn't personify these countries and assign them motivations. Geopolitics is complicated, and there are many people pulling strings across many nations, complete with complicated rivalries and partnerships. The support for a modern Israeli state in the first place started outside of what is now Israel. So, you can't assume pressure to support Israel all comes from Israel itself, purely in its self-interest.
Most certainly not, Israel has a very nice software industry but it isnt critical. If it stopped tomorrow nothing major will happen. If Taiwan stopped tomorrow the global chip supply collapses.
"In the US, we mock people that try to teach intelligent design in schools. In Israel, you put them in charge of education."

There have been plenty of theocrats in high positions of power in the US, and teaching Intelligent Design is not a laughing matter for large portions of the American population.

In fact, we may see some cases supporting the teaching of Intelligent Design come before the Supreme Court before long, and given the conservative dominance of the court those cases could well be decided in Intelligent Design's favor.
The word "deserve" has no place in this analysis.

If Israel stories get more clicks, then they will be on the front page. That's it.
Broad in this context means that the coalition is build together out of many parties along a broad spectrum, as opposed to, say, two very conservative parties or so.
None taken. I mean what I said. If you're an enterprise Windows IT security person, I'm prepared to accept that ATT&CK is important to you as a practitioner. You can tell me that attacks on corporate Windows infrastructure are the most important problem in information security; I won't litigate that.
Because Israel is one of the most powerful nations in the world. Maybe not so much the country itself, but its people are everwhere. They are our alies
This is a predecessor of the computer that I most crave, the HP-87:

http://www.oldcomputers.net/hp85.html

(I wanted the HP-87 since before the Series 80 became the standard issue computer in the great Brutalist&retro ambiance of the video game Control. I would be sure to get a HP-87 without any supernatural phenomena.)
I've never heard the term in the media. I guess a lot of people are reaching the same conclusion.
Its this one: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/right-click/id1364038646?mt=12

Though I am keen to try the extension the other commenter mentioned.
The similarities between very different species are absolutely mind-blowing indeed. Anesthesia works on plants for example! Jellyfish have to sleep, despite having no brain at all. They even suffer from disorientation when being sleep-deprived (afaik researchers frequently poked or otherwise disturbed them in their tank during their normal sleep-phase. On the "next day" they showed signs of sleep deprivation).
Ah, I failed to read “Inspired” somehow.
Well, there is the fact that Israel is in the middle of a series of conflicts that has so far lasted a couple of millennia, the consequences of which spread quite further than Israel itself, so it's in the interest of quite a few people to see a bit less fuel poured on that specific fire?

Several occidental countries have a (relatively) long love/hate relationship with Israel on top of that.

Also the fact that (some) Israeli politicians are not above a bit of interference with other countries either.
I'm sure these are great criticisms but you didn't describe scams and I'm surprised you didn't start with something obvious like NFTs.
1. Netanyahu has been embroiled in accusations of corruption.

2. Recent active conflict between Israel and Palestine.

3. Netanyahu has been in power for a long time. He has struggled, and now failed, to secure a coalition for something like a year.

4. Israel likely has nuclear weapons or can quickly create nuclear weapons.

If India's PM was ousted under similar circumstances, I would not be surprised to see similar news coverage.
Possible reasons for the ban:

- IRCCloud publicly tweeting mean things about Freenode: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/1397475744448663564

- IRCCloud effectively “competing” with Freenode’s new bouncer service (bnc.freenode.net): https://freenode.net/#freenode-bouncer-stay-connected-on-irc..., also see this IRC exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494124

The timing does suggest that Freenode put off banning IRCCloud until they had an alternative (their bouncer) in place. Obviously, a terrible move and one that should accelerate their implosion.

Side note: amusing that their help page on IRCCloud (https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irccloud) is still up given their recent website purge.
Not lsd but the reason behind the banning of cannabis and heroin is a pretty well known story https://www.unharm.org/the-racist-truth-behind-the-war-on-dr...

They were criminalised to criminalise part of society. Lsd was similar - the govt was worried about losing control of people and their desires.

Lsd has never been an interest of mine, but I am aware many people find the experiences they have truly profound.

there was some excellent work in curing alcoholism that used Lsd and proved very successful prior to it being banned; BBC News - LSD 'helps alcoholics to give up drinking'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17297714
> The family agreed to help the police figure it out.

No. A couple of children, grand children, or cousins agreed to share their DNA (or it was legally removed without consent). The rest could have told the cops "NO", and they still would have gotten enough DNA evidence.
IT security is a different specialization than any sense of the term "pentesting". IT security people engage pentesters, in the same sense that pentesters engage IT infrastructure in order to, like, send emails and stuff.
https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ and https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php are useful.

The former has PRIVMSG (message) statistics which show that Libera Chat is considerably more active than freenode despite having less total users (for now, the crossover point is predicted to be the 26th and it's been moving closer and closer for days).
You might like the Nook. I've been rooting e-ink Nooks for about nine years, and the latest model can install Android apps without root! I mostly use it for studying with Ankidroid.
> some who believe that not even a single dollar should flow out to foreign aid so long as there is, for example, an American child experiencing hunger

Thankfully, not enough to be politically relevant. Because the alternative is letting the world degrade to the point that we’re shipping that child out to a war.
You treat people like toddlers, you can't even look them in the eye and tell them that, and then call me childish? Anything else, you anonymous coward? The fact that you can't tell that to the people you do it to says it all. No, I don't care to explain to you what was your responsibility to look into before you even put it into action.

> I’m not snooping anything by monitoring our computer systems in the way I do.

You just spoke of monitoring people, not systems. You spoke of "slackers". Now you're already backpedaling. I hope you get caught, and sued into the fucking ground.
It's broad ideologically, it even includes a party made up of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Should either of your example countries (China or Russia) have a change in leadership, that would be a massive story in the US media.

The media regularly inflates the importance of some issues while failing to adequately cover others. Can you better articulate why you find this to be creepy?
Our (Indian) PM just just faked it! He got a degree printed in a subject that didnt exist, and when the degrees written by hand and in a font that was invented in this century. Not sure if Israelians tolerate white lies from their politicians as we do.
<@root> Anyone who needs a bnc bnc.freenode.net 6697 nickname:pass (nickserv nick/pass)

Vendetta? Competing offering.
Provide technology to the US and a testing field for US developments.

The Patriot anti-missile systems were shit before Israeli technology was used to improve them.
Anecdata: I once took LSD and went on a bad trip.

I "discovered" that everything in the universe is fractal: space, time and causality. Every microsecond of existence contains within itself the whole existence of the universe and at the same time each one of those 'temporal universes' contains other temporal universes, every micrometer contains the whole space, and every moment there are millions of decisions that take us to the next 'frame', but the other decisions still exist and have their own decision trees.

Also, we're all the same person or being.

Weird day.
https://www.codecademy.com

I didn't finish, but I recall enjoying their intro to JS, and managed to write a few working things hah
One day I'd like to break this circle. I've been doing 2-day Git workshops with a colleague for a few years now, and "to internals or not to internals" is our constant disagreement. I don't like talking about blobs, trees and anything below the "commit hash" level because I almost never need it myself.

My other personal issue is the complete opposite of the "going way too deep into details" teaching resources: showing clone/commit/push/pull and calling it a day. This leads to resources like ohshitgit.com as things will eventually break when people use commands without understanding what is happening.

When doing our workshops, we go through the basics: what is a commit, what is a branch, what is HEAD, what do commands like checkout/reset/rebase do on graph level. This approach demistifies Git without going into internals. It also takes away the fear of "advanced" topics (like "rewriting" history)
What about the Palm phone? It's waterproof, 2oz, and has a feature that cuts power to the cell and wifi chips when the screen is turned off, so no calls or texts until you turn it back on. I love it as my daily driver for a year now.

https://palm.com/
If a game has strong positions and weak positions, then these positions may have different tactics. "Offensive" or "defensive" etc.

This reads to me as "tactics for those in winning positions". The test is, what if everyone followed these rules?
> they're the only democratic country in the Middle East

Yes. All citizens can vote. All those who can't vote are not citizens- which doesn't prevent the Israeli government from actually governing them. Since the division is along ethnic lines, this is usually called apartheid.
> I'd be worried about an infinite process loop here.

I mitigate this in several ways, first, only one worker can work on a job or child job. At worst, one worker is stuck in a loop. There's also a maximum limit of retries. So a job is never infinitely retried. Increasing the amount of stall time per request would be trivial but it's never become an issue. Monitoring potential infinite jobs is as simple as querying for jobs that reach the limit.

I'm sure Erlang or other actor model type implementations would handle this incredibly well at scale but it seems to me that just doing in the database works good enough for at least certain workloads.

As always, it comes down to a question of the right tool for the job. The advantage of the database is that it's mostly likely already in the stack. I don't doubt that there are situations where it's the wrong tool. That's why it's interesting to know at which point it's not a good solution, so that one can make a good decision.
Exposing the kube-DNS service to the wild wild world
Pro Israel lobbies heavily influence American Congress. Israel receives a disproportionately unique generous backing on all fronts by Western governments, therefore they deserve extra scrutiny and should be held to account above rogue foreign regimes.
Ouch, this is really bad news.

Cinnamon on top of Ubuntu has been my absolute go-to for the past 10+ years for a very long list of reasons.

Having to switch to the OSX botched look-alike abomination that currently ships with Ubuntu (unity or something) would force me to walk away from Ubuntu altogether to switch to a distro that supports Cinnamon natively.

I truly hope someone technical enough will pick up the torch.
Inside Brazil’s DIY, eco-friendly NFT art marketplace
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict spills over to other parts of the world. Either through their Muslim populations, or through activists who put Israel into the "colonial state" category, and, of course "colonial" is a very negative thing nowadays.
Yes, particularly (I suggest) Kendricks' comment on the Merck Vioxx scandal: "- the point that I want to highlight from this sorry tale is that it is estimated that Vioxx caused 100,000 additional heart attacks, in the US alone, and nobody noticed. This figure was only worked out when researchers analysed the figures on increased risk, that had been seen in the clinical trials – at least the figures that were finally seen when Merck were forced to release the data.", He ends his piece with "You can join the dots yourself. Or not.".
It's possible to set up static hosting for free. I actually saved $5 (+1$ tax) a month by doing that.
Someone in my family actually DID go to prison for something aweful. I would be perfectly fine never knowing about it.
Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and the other countries in the Middle East could well lead to a nuclear war, or at least destabilize the Middle East, which is a critical source of oil for the rest of the world.

If Israel was in Antarctica or on the Moon, a lot fewer people would care.
Hi, replying from the US. Israel is obviously at least tied with KSA for our top relationship in the middle east, and both of those relationships are deeply (like, DEEPLY) important to our politics. Not to mention that you're one of only 9 nuclear armed states in the entire world! Plus Bibi was PM for 15 years, including the last 12, and you've had 4 elections in the past 2 years trying to sort out if he's staying in office or not, ending up with a coalition of parties that ostensibly hate each other but are laser focused on removing him- the whole thing is certainly newsworthy!