skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were to walk into a store that said "please support the creator" as payment, your shelves would be empty. Or in other words if software costed no money and always relied on donation, you'd be bankrupt.

But, you can't stop crackers. Bits of memory are bits of memory. They can be changed. The balance is making games highly available, and having content beyond just the base game. Such as online play, or physical merchandise with the purchase.

If I got a poster every time I bought a game id be liable to buy more games that I may not even play.
These aren’t franchises where some employee can make that decision, the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores. Yea that might be cumbersome and make the work impossible to do but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head?
Ballmer was forced out of MS 8 years ago, doubt he cares. And anyway, IIRC, it would've been Sinofsky and co. trying to squash anything that threatened the Windows division's power.
This looks like a simple WiFi password generator, a cooler solution would be to generate one-time passwords for guests.
When someone comes to you, they can click on the touch display to generate a password, each guest can then have a separate VLAN.
If the s-expr was the only thing we meant when we say "we like common lisp" that would indeed be a good solution.

It isn't, though, and the experience I have had with languages like that is usually no different than the one I have with python or lua - but with the added benefit of being able to at least use macros.
I would recommend studying people who quit cults and religions; those who disavowed conspiracy theories; former extremists; people who changed or removed ideology of their life.

It's a process.
I recently tried https://deps.dev and was surprised by the speed. But then I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal

EDIT: typo
You're forced to drink water for much stronger reasons yet you pay for it if you don't dig up your own.
Taiwan and Ukraine are neighbors of China and Russia respectively. Also, I didn’t talk about the Soviet Union which disappeared 30years ago. But about Russia, who does not spend trillions in wars halfway round the globe.

Imagine China having occupied (and largely destroyed) 2 separate European countries for the past 15years. Or Russia having occupied two separate Latin American countries for the past 15years. Clearly the level of interventionism of the US is unmatched.
SQL and Prolog have a large area of functional overlap as they are both based on predicate logic. However, SQL more naturally aligned with the database-centric worldview of many business systems and offered a more natural way (for business users) to ask business questions. So when SQL took off, it was adopted for many solutions where Prolog might have been used previously.
Of course the analogy is weak (like all analogies), especially if you believe its purpose is to represent the whole of the Netflix responsibilities, flaws and success.

Doesn't mean you are entitled or forced by the content owners to pirate content that is not available on streaming platforms.

Netflix deals in TV shows and movies, not in access to drinking water.
Jobs, marriages, cities – we are quitting them in our droves
> I haven't seen anything remotely convincing. But I am open to changing my mind.

It was so obvious that you're statement was just a fluff.

Long covid isn't easy to measure. Eg. Not everyone was admitted to the hospital, what are the symptoms related, are those symptoms unique to long covid, ...

But by now, it should be clear that long covid exists and covid deaths aren't the only problem related to this disease.

Being in a denial state is your problem, not mine. I think it's currently a specific US political motivated issue, as I haven't encountered anyone in Belgium that claimed it's irrelevant/not existing.
What tangible value could a state sponsor get from Amazon being down even just a few hours?
The reason it sticks around in the popular mind has almost nothing to do with all of this great economic work. For 1000s of years overall global population and economic output was more or less flat, and then, something happened, and in the blink of an eye, historically speaking, you literally have a guy standing on the moon.

Not just flying, literally standing on the fucking moon.

There is no other way to explain how this can happen, then industrial revolution. No other term captures the spirit of that change. That why it will always stick around popularly.

And in world historic political terms, it also lead in to essentially control of the world by 6 small West European nations.

Overall very interesting article. Reading about that time is really fascinating and something I want to do more of. Not just the statistical, but lives of the people that lived during that change.
Some retail is definitely on AWS. Source: I work at AWS.
Maybe everyone in America “knows” this already, but it’s an alien concept in much of Europe and Asia.
According to the CDC, there were upwards of 5000 people hospitalized a week due to COVID at our peak in the US, and that went on for two full months.[1] Even if you believe US Covid deaths were inflated, cutting it in half is still 300000 deaths in the US alone.

If I take you at your word that 6000 deaths were caused by 330 million doses given, it still seems like a win.

[1] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_5.html

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> >That's illegal!

> Any theories why nothing happened in the end if this is clearly illegal? Maybe because it was a public place, people were already recorded by at least Apple security cameras?

So being a public place means that laws do not apply ?

> Or maybe the law did not applied in this exact case?

Of course not. Laws are for (poor) persons. When you are a corporation or have some money in your pocket, you can settle.
Can you explain why this is the case? Why would it take a couple of cycles for everything to return to normal if it's just a straight battery swap?
Wow. I found a video of this exhibition on YouTube, and it looks like what this guy installed is less pure spyware and more a remote administration tool (RAT).

After he took the photos he wanted, he remotely uploaded them to every computer and forced them to be shown on-screen while people were browsing around the demo.

Freaky stuff. How is installing RATs on other peoples’ computers even remotely ethical?
Why Record-Breaking Overnight Temperatures Are So Concerning
Haskell for Beginners
> Of course Mariner is open source and it has its own repo under Microsoft’s GirHub organization.

I was hoping GirHub wasn't actually a typo, but a funny internal name.
https://intercooler.js/ is down.

Curiously, trying to verify on "is down for everyone or just me" tools appears to break them.
Taiwan tech giants Foxconn and TSMC to buy 10m Covid jabs
My experience with the NHS is that it's a way for a community to get free labor out of already overworked students in exchange for an extra line item on their college application. I don't think most of the students involved were genuinely interested in volunteering; we understood that it was a transactional relationship. You would still have to offer something to get students to participate.
how did they train it ?
The ease with which he was able to install the spyware on an entire store worth of computers is significantly more troubling to me than the fact that he did. I'm sure a shocking number of people input login credentials on those computers. More malicious code could do far more harm than just take a picture of your face.
Almost half of staff care less about their careers since Covid
In my experience this article summarize the most important rule of being a creative and free thinking individual. Well phrased, and easy to remember, and most important, an excellent advise.
It's even better! You sign a contract with denuvo for how many days protection. The less days the less you pay. When the contract is up they remove it
Billionaire Branson soars to space aboard Virgin Galactic flight
> the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores

Oh that's the smarter thing to do for sure, but you're still going to be contacting one employee (who then potentially contacts other employees). I just found the emphasis on the quantity of employees in the GP comment unusual.

> but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head?

I would assume that if there was any doubt in their mind they could pretty easily go "I'll have to get my manager". If anyone with experience working at an Apple store can chime in that would be fantastic, but I suspect that a store manager in 2011 would have been able to approve installing software on a demo computer without having to go through legal. Presumably that changed pretty quickly after this stunt though.
It’s so weird the author doesn’t give any perspective on how the experiment was received on the other side. We have this one-sided evaluation of how they feel it could be perceived by the recipient, and no actual check on that.

Makes it pretty hard to make any jugement on the whole thing.
> I think this may be the only 1.5 year long stretch of time I haven't gotten sick.

Yeah, same. This, plus work from home really helps to not get thrown all sorts of viruses at you. But in my company, wfh has come to an end, and nobody is wearing masks around here. Can't wait to catch my first cold since the start of the pandemic.
How to increase your sales and increase your income and profit
Civil engineering:

The Control of Nature by John McPhee

https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522...

Stories about debris flows in the California mountains and forcing the Mississippi River to stay where it is.
Absolutely not. My problem with Vim is I pair program with Vim experts on a daily basis and am annoyed at their slowness while they are proudly using their gimmicks. (Also the length and complexity of the answer you linked makes me laugh, and proves that a category of programmers is more interested in defending Vim than about making things people want)
Wow, are you telling me that a magazine who views all investment markets as unethical doesn't like Wallstreet. Shocker.
To be fair: Sending IP address is unavoidable side effect for every service via Internet Protocol.
It’s literally that – they’re called stickers if you set the interface language to English.
There is a huge dfference between dropshipping the business and dropshipping the supply chain model. The first one degenerated into a get-rich-quick-on-the-internet scheme, with scammers, caches and everything in between. The latter is a very valid, and less than trivial, supply chain model, an especially well suited one for eCommerce. Used properly, it can be a net win for the vendor as well as for the seller.
> In the end, if Apple hadn't so vehemently condemned the piece, it would have been resigned to live as just another quick F.A.T. Lab project, and part of my ongoing curiosity exploring computer-mediated interaction. But because they had the project taken offline, and my computer confiscated, Apple managed to give it more attention than I could have ever attracted. The reporters using headlines with "artist" in scare quotes got the media artists mad. The censorship and search warrant got the freedom of speech people mad. The feeling of privacy invasion, or just the awareness of surveillance, took care of everyone else. Apple created an amazing discussion I never could have planned.

Sounds about right
It's Jacobin. Garbage like this is all they do. It's their specialty.
Thank you for sharing these insightful views. Somehow people who are uninformed and exhibit being judgemental to any new idea get prominent positions. The act of 'showing unwillingness to change' as default behavior is also personal it seems. If some external company proposes breaking changes it's suddenly good.. all uninformed but suddenly acceptable. These Service Owners have been instructed to always give credit to outsiders never to coworkers with equal or better solutions without the fanfare and additional business relationships which makes them feel and look good. Human behavior of numb and mindless people can become quite dangerous history has shown and still these kind of patterns are promoted.
Why? They have a lot of infrastructure in Sydney, that would make no sense.
Not sure what is their data source but it is not something new, wolfram alpha do this since many years and more in amazing way. It is based on linguistic processing system to perform these tasks.
Did you even read the post you're replying to. "Uncuttable" can apply to multiple properties of an instruction's execution - "atomic" colloquially refers to one of these properties.

You seem to want "atomic" to mean "the data that corresponds to the instruction cannot be divided" but it means "the execution of the instruction cannot be divided", those aren't the same thing.
NoOps: What Does the Future Hold for DevOps Engineers?
IANAL, but they were considering prosecuting him under Title 18, U.S. Code 1030 [1]. According to the law, simply accessing a computer without authorization is not a crime. You also need to do one of several other things -- one of which is causing "damage and loss" (see section (5)(C)).

It sounds like the Secret Service was saying that he caused damage and loss because Apple had to remove his software from their computers. But perhaps the prosecutor disagreed or felt it would be hard to convince a jury.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
what? Amazon definetly has operational people. whatever fancy name they give them.
> It changes too much, stuff gets dropped too often,

Stable features that are visible from user space? That would be extremely surprising.

> it's buggy, it's insecure as hell

It's really not. It has bugs, even security bugs, but no more than any other modern kernel.

> there no test framework.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/testing-ove... plus assorted fuzzing and integration testing
I don't follow - how do memory fences make a meaningful difference in security?
if you have an error with macros you can just expand them. Very few macros expand to more than 5-10 lines (loop being an exception).
Show HN: A Python package that makes it easier to work with lists on Twitter
You mean “esc, d, d, ., ., ., ., esc” which is two mode changes, eight key strokes of three different types. Versus five identical key strokes with VSCode. Next.

Also define “smooth flow”. I my experience pair programming, by the time you are starting you command after choosing among all possibilities, I have already performed the change with VSCode.
A few years back Amazon did a party for moving their warehouses off Oracle databases and into AWS Aurora, so that's not entirely true
If dropshipping was to be used as valid fulfillment method, e.g. what Amazon is doing without customers even realizing it, the customer will not get charged anything. Because either the goods are already imported by the supplier of e.g. Amazon. Or because the dropshipping seller is the importer of record and wll be charged with tariffs and so on.
Helgrind does something like this: https://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/hg-manual.html
I am guessing this applies more for javascript tooling

In Java, for 1 we use Sonar which is a very mature tool for code quality and for 2,IntelliJ does refactoring very well.

Looking at code climate, it looks like it was inspired by Sonar but I may be wrong
Still find it amazing that so many people think Osama bin Laden had the power to create the new "Pearl Harbor" of some insane but well-placed and well-funded PNAC Hawks' 'prescient' 'prediction', that he was able to send 19 crack terrorists who, despite showing low aptitude for actual flight, practiced on circa 2000 MS flight sims that apparently accurately modelled how an airliner at full throttle would behave (which pilots consider very challenging) to still hit their targets accurately enough and with enough force that sufficient deformation to the buildings occurred (while most fuel inconveniently burned off) that the structures were just damaged enough not to fall immediately but needed to burn inexplicably hot to finally collapse fairly symmetrically. To say nothing of the aerobatics of the Pentagon hit. And then for the command centre building that wasn't hit by planes but maybe some debris, which 'coincidentally' housed evidence against Enron conspirators, to suffer small fires and then collapse completely symmetrically later that day.
> I don't see a major functional difference between installing the spyware and taking the pictures with an open browser tab, a Facetime call to yourself, or a long lens from outside the store.

That's troubling.

How would you react if I installed spyware on one of your devices that constantly took pictures of you, but only when you were out in public? Do you think I should face any sort of punishment?

If you're not on my side of the argument with that example, then I think you really need to take a step back and think about all this.
Would you know of the data if it existed? Absence of evidence is a low bar for disbelieving a proposition.
If im already speaking another language i already lost this type of connection, then why it matters?
> The business property tax is for property over $100k. I don't think many offices have that much furniture.

No. It isn't. It applies above and below $100K. The rules are a little different on either side of that threshold.

> Also, it does not appear to be true that this tax is assessed on businesses outside of la county.

Well, then you know more than the tax assessor who visited me every year at my business and told me, almost verbatim, that if you do business in Los Angeles county or travel through the county to do business elsewhere, it doesn't matter where your home base might be, you have to pay this tax.

> Just how exactly are the figuring out who is driving "through" the county? They have to send you the assessment forms.

The way I learned of this tax, a couple of decades ago, is from a guy who knocked on my front door asking about a business next door. When I told him they were out at a conference, he asked me what my business was (we had no signage outside our industrial unit). When I told him, he said "Oh, yeah, I have you right here" as he opened a thick binder.

This guy was canvasing every single industrial center at the periphery of LA County to both assess and inform businesses they owed this tax. He was well trained. After identifying himself as working for LA county (showing ID, etc.) he asked stuff like "So, do you do business in LA County or are you just local out here". If you said "yes" to any number of his well-prepared questions out came an assessment form. He even tried to come into our facility to do an inventory. Non only was I not going to allow some random unannounced guy to come into our facility, we were doing a bunch of aerospace work that fell under ITAR regulations, NDA's, etc. You can't just walk random folks into your office when you do that kind of work. So, in what I am going to call a "third world style", he proposed an assessment value right there and then, in my lobby. I agreed and wrote the county a check.

F-ing thieves.

Think about it: Businesses in LA County have to perpetually pay taxes on their desks, chairs, tools, computers, tenant improvement (yes, that too!), SUPPLIES, etc. A perpetual tax on the damn chair you are sitting on. That's what it has come to. I don't understand why voters pass this crap and expect job creation, growth and the ability to compete with the likes of China.

A perpetual tax on my coffee machine. Brilliant.
I would argue Big Pharma free rides its self on research from universities around the world which are mostly publicly funded and not for profit.

The US represents less than 34% of global research.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17354441/
Controlling a process we don’t understand
You literally posted as an argument a comic (theoatmeal) about a guy who ends up pirating Game of Thrones because he can't find a subscription to watch it.

> Once again, come back when you're ready to debate what I'm saying, not what you imagine I'm saying.

You can keep on playing the "you are imagining what I am saying" the fact remains you also posted this:

> If those people chose to pirate SG1, literally nothing in the equation will change: the owners will keep not getting the money.

> And the only fault lies with the people who decided to pull SG1 (and other content) from Netflix.

And I have yet to see any arguments from you against my statement that no content owners are forcing anybody to go on the hunt for pirated content. It's entirely in the pirate's camp that lies the decision to download pirated content.

I can understand that people used to pirating are in full dissonance cognitive mode regarding their justifications but it remains and will likely always remain that they are not forced to pirate content. It's simply not true.

Downloading pirated content might be the only option but no one is forced to.

> Once again, come back when you're ready to debate what I'm saying,

Frankly, the same to you too.
>But the hesitancy I've witnessed is not based on a kind of logic or reasoning, rather just an 'instinct'.

What about the advocacy? I would go further and say that not even advocacy, but the general behaviour to trust the authority, is an instinct, rather than rooted in logic or rationality.

Because there is really no reason to trust CDC/FDA, after so many instances where these have caught to act diametrically opposite to the interests of the public (For some examples, look at real event portrayed in documentaries like 'what lies upstream' and 'Dark Waters'). Time and again, these agencies get away with little more than a pat on the wrist.

But people still, instinctively trust them. It is very sad, as you say.

>He personally dislikes Dr. Fauci

To be frank, it is hard to like someone who declares himself as the embodiment of scientific truth.
Systems Observability
That’s true, and I wasn’t suggesting they would undercut Podswap on price — just that they would drop their own price somewhat and eat up enough market that this business wouldn’t be sustainable.
> Consider if software had not been 'installed', but the browser left logged into a Zoom call

There’s a difference between someone tripping and someone being pushed down. Usually when people are photographed throughout the day without their consent it’s in the background of someone else’s picture accidentally or via security cameras, not part of some public art installation showing off their “computer face” when they go to an Apple store because some guy wants to make a point about “computer mediated communication.”
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Using something you consider "spyware", even without paying for it, sounds like just as much of a self-own.
No system I worked on in my career still exists and is abstracted well.

Music is a sub-arc of Maths. You know that, right?
Did you even bother to read other comments before getting triggered?

> I self-hosted a writefreely instance for a while but I found many features were proprietary and only available in the paid managed hosting (write.as). All features that I didn’t need that much and could workaround however it just made me feel quite dissatisfied with the project.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find the correct answer.

“Anyone who is trying to hawk 99 dollar t-shirts is a scammer by definition.”
Many people at Microsoft use Macs. It’s not a big deal.