skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just this week, Biden was talking about having people go door-to-door to push the unvaccinated to get the shot... So, that's not "forcing" people, but it's too close for my taste.

Can you acknowledge that—even taking this completely at face value—going door-to-door encouraging the use of a vaccine has absolutely nothing in common with legally forcing women to take unwanted pregnancies to term, regardless of which side of either policy you care to take?

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Trying to draw parallels between these two situations is absurd to the point of bad faith or willful misrepresentation.

> I'm going to presume that you wouldn't be fine with the state sending people door to door to push those who were pregnant to carry to term.

For reasons completely independent of "my body, my choice" which was the original goalpost.

This is an issue of public health for which we had to globally shut down international travel and social gatherings for a year and a half, and which had incalculable economic impact on billions. Can you also acknowledge that such consequences might perhaps clear a higher bar than that of a choice whose impact is fundamentally limited in scope?

Recognizing that difference in impact is why we've spent $20bn on vaccine development and who knows how much on the actual vaccine rollout.
That would be the "strict liability" part.
I’ve always wondered: how feasible is it to implement an “isprime” function, via lookup table? If such methods are used, is cryptography getting weaker and weaker in practice as more large primes are discovered?
I have wondered what the procedure is when someone gives impossible orders. Like, I know there's a spectrum here, but just to illustrate, what do you do if your superior says "I'm ordering you to jump that gap" but it's thirty feet wide and fifty feet deep with big metal spikes at the bottom? If you ordered me to, I don't know, fix a computer, and I've diagnosed that the computer is busted because the CPU has let the magic smoke out and I don't have any spares or any other less-critical equipment to cannibalize for a replacement CPU, is it just my job to tell my superior that it can't be fixed and if they keep insisting I'm just going to have to wait for my lawyer save me at the court-martial?
I'm a game dev and over time I've settled on using two groups of tests for my projects. Both at opposite ends of the spectrum.

.

1. Unit tests. But I only write them for stuff that needs them.. Eg. Some complex math functions that translate between coordinate systems; the point of the unit tests is to confirm that the functions are doing exactly what I think they are doing. With mathsy stuff it can be very easy to look at the output of some function and think, that looks fine, but in reality its actually slightly off, and not exactly what it should be. The unit tests are to confirm that its really doing what I think its doing.

.

2.Acceptance tests by a human. Theres a spreadsheet of everything you can do in the game and what should happen. Eg. press this button -> door should open.. As we add features we add more stuff to this list. At regular intervals and before any release several humans try every test on various hardware. This is to catch big / complex bugs and regressions. Its super tedious but it has to be done imo. Automating this would be an insane amount of work and also pointless as we are also testing the hardware, you get weird problems with certain GPUs, gamepads, weird smartphones etc.

.

I find those two types of tests to be essential, the bare minimum. But also anything in between, like some kind of automated integration testing is just a shittone of work and will only be useful for a relatively brief period of development, changes will quickly render those sort of tests useless.
Hello Kitty Ransomware Targets ESXi Servers
There is not a direct relationship between Fox News and Fox 45. That is true.

But...

Fox 45 Baltimore is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and corporation with a definite pro-Trump bias, and a history of making editorial decisions pushing stories to the right.

So you can say that Fox News and Fox 45 don't have anything to do with each other in a corporate tree, but the are both pushing the far right narrative because they largely follow the same editorial dictates.
I'm not sure how you are refusing to improperly service something, The contractor is there because a high ranking individual at the DOD put them there, in most cases they are helpful, and willing to help out when they can, but they are there with the orders to make sure the equipment they are tasked is maintained properly.

With that said, if a commander orders someone under his command to smash the piece of equipment with a hammer, the contract won't interfere, but he will report the situation.

The issue is, most of the equipment at this point is well beyond the knowledge a company commander would have, they aren't qualified to know if this is something that can be fixed in the field, and a soldier under his command that is qualified isn't in a position to refuse the capt. order. So they fry the equipment.

The army is pretty big on redundancy, and having contingencies, it would be very rare that an operation couldn't continue without a single piece of equipment. It might be harder, and may be a greater risk, but in a place where lots of things get shot, you make a plan, then you make due.

I'm not saying the scenarios I'm describing fit all situations, but I can say that far less equipment was destroyed after they came on board.
An under powered expensive hardware for running games that are not designed for it? Doesn't sound like a good buy.
VRChat user survey: Profile of a passionate, VR-heavy virtual world community
Hi HN:

Here's the link to the code snippet and screenshot which got scrubbed from the submission link:

https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs/issues/98#issu...

Thanks
Keeping in mind I’m always exploring…

I think my position is that regulating businesses should probably be done, but they don’t come out of nowhere. They fill demands that people have. So people need to start caring and change their habits, and business will follow suit. Not that business shouldn’t or couldn’t be regulated in tandem, but as a reply to the person who was saying businesses care about their bottom line, but people don’t - I find that to be a bit naive. I don’t see a distinction in “care” here. Plenty of companies do the right thing, even better sometimes on a per-capita basis (if you could compare their employees to another group of people).

TBH we are fucked so none of this matters. People think electric cars will save us when cars themselves are the issue. Or that we shouldn’t ban plastic straws because it doesn’t do enough when the whole point is we shouldn’t have single use items (except obvious cases like medicine).
This feels like something out of Warhammer 40k. The troops aren't allowed to repair their equipment, they need to call in a techpriest^H contractor.

40k started off as a satire of 1980s British culture, but somehow reality ended up matching fiction.
Definitely on my bucket list to see a live launch
> For Arch it means software does not crash because bugs get fixed in newer versions.

....what. That is not how OS stability works.

Also, Arch is nearly impossible to use in production environments.

Let's say there is a vulnerability discovered in the version of lighttpd you're running in your production environment. On Debian, you pull that package, do some testing, and you're done.

On Arch? It's a rolling release distro. They're continuously updating everything, including system libraries. You can easily end up in a situation where getting a security bugfix means you have to update nearly the entire OS thanks to it being built against updated core system libraries.

Like Gentoo it's one of those OSs that is cool for linux nerds and a headache for people who actually need to practice proper systems engineering.
The comparison was between cruise ships and assisted living facilities, which are a lower level of care. Nursing homes have more medical care; assisted living is more "someone cooks and cleans for you, but you can still go to the bathroom and get dressed on your own."

Still, the basic point that a cruise ship has better amenities and personal services than many "independent living" assisted-living retirement homes that cost more does highlight how ridiculously expensive senior care, even less acute senior care, has become in America.
Capital's profitability now depends on 'lockdowns' and acute social enclosure
I think the discussions miss a bit an important point. IANAL, but I think if a young programmer reads a lot of source code on GitHub, and based on this reading becomes a better programmer, this is a fair use of copyrighted material and pretty much independant of the license. If I read any book and learn the corresponding language, this isn't a copyright violation of the book either. This starts, when I begin to quote from that book or the programmer takes snippets from the programs that got read.

The problem is, I don't think you can really claim that Copilot learned to program. While some of the output seems to be something new, most of the times it looks more like a recomposition of learned fragments if not even longer pieces of verbatim code taken from copyrighted material. We have seen examples of this. And in this moment, it becomes a copyright discussion, probably determined by the volume of copyrighted material reproduced. Which by the way is always the risk if a human uses certain training material. The better one is at memorizing things, the more there is the risk.

Or put it the other way around: if Copilot would use its "knowledge" of programs to advise the programmer like pointing out potential errors without reproducing anything it used for learning, it should be fine. But that is not how it works.
Great talk by deech on Pharo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
Is there a mechanism for back-testing strategies?

If so, do you/how do you correct for slippage?
I still use my Steam Link, and still love how smooth and easy it is to bring the game picture to my living room's TV. (wow that sounded like a commercial)

btw to this day it still receives updates!

But, what were people sideloading on it? any alternative usage that might be interesting to explore?
Absolutely no reason to 3D print this. Even if that ugly POS is what you wanted, you could mold it cheaper.
IPv6 still 5–10 years away from mainstream use
I agree, but keep in mind that children grow up in a society, and make friends in school. You are influencing their relationships by restricting their internet access.
why should there be an option? is there some kind of moral imperative?

At the market there is one way to buy, I don't get to ask for alternatives to paying upfront. This (for lack of a better term) entitlement really puzzles me. In the physical world, if I don't like the terms, I leave and don't do business. But on the internet, when people don't like the terms they flout the rules and consume anyway.

edit: I think it would be ideal to have multiple options, I would rather pay directly myself than paying by watching ads. I just have a problem with justifying refusing to pay in the way the business wants, yet still consuming their content.
This is not the first time I've heard someone say that they just enjoy Liveview. Puttin it on my list. thanks!
I dislike the way the 'net has gone such that this kind of measure is probably inevitable—I prefer one that's anonymous-by-default where revealing your real identity is strongly discouraged by norms and it's hard to gain anything "real" by revealing it, anyway, so there's little incentive to—but on the anti-anonymity side, I'd agree it's pretty damn weird that we treat shouting crazy or abusive shit (or anything, really) into a world-reach megaphone with so little gravity, or expect anonymity when doing so.
> Commercial egg-laying hens aren’t going to be let anywhere near a rooster, so you’re not going to get fertilised eggs from the store.

That's why it's rather obvious when they are fertilised. Because you actually will often have to consciously go out of your way to ask for fertilised eggs, usually specifically for chicken breeding purposes.

Sorry for that I could have made it more obvious. Haha.
>For Debian it means version numbers stay the same as much as possible.

I would call that stagnant rather than stable. If a version of software remains the same with the same bugs/issues not getting resolved, that seems unstable to me. Yes, not crashing could also be considered stable as well.
Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?
Just don't give your children internet access till they are old enough that they can be responsible enough to use it correctly? Why this is not an option?

I got a PC that was all mine and an ADSL internet connection at 16 years old, before of that I used the family computer, but not really used the internet a lot since back in the day it was quite expensive, and when I did I was monitored by my parents. I got a smartphone that was capable of accessing the internet everywhere at 18, before of that only a phone that did phone calls and SMS. And still grow up fine and managed to get a good career in IT.

There is no reason whatsoever for a child younger than 14 to use the internet on its own, without the surveillance of his parents. And there is even no reason for him to have a smartphone. If as a parents you are concerned about giving him a phone for emergencies, just give him a 10$ feature phone that can only do phone calls and SMS. It's as simple as that.

Nowadays kids are always in front of a computer or a phone, they no longer go out to play, instead they spend their time on Tiktok or other stupid social media. We must change that, not the internet.
Do we have any proof that Copilot works?

I assume it's a pile of rubbish that's currently fooling Youtube hype based programmers and followers. Has any ok but real programmer used it solid for a week yet and wants to keep going?

This is tied to the legal argument.

If Copilot works (Which I cannot believe it would) it changes many legal points. Garbage spewing out copyright code is different to something that 'understands' copyright code.

And who cares about copyright if it's like all other hype based AI currently, unusable in the real world. All the current HN seems to be bike shedding around legal. Does noone program anymore?
Most comp-biologists who work directly with programmers are some of the biggest jerks, and the least qualified tech folks.

They hide all of that under "I'm a scientist, you're not".
> Personally, I find unit tests to be mostly useless. Every time I touch code with a unit test, I also need to change the unit test. Rather than testing, it feels like writing the same code twice.

I think they're mostly useless when refactoring, but they're useful when writing new code and and making relatively small to medium sized changes. For new code, it's helpful to me at least to express my intentions in a more concrete form and it gives me more confidence that I didn't miss something. For making relatively small changes, they help catch fined-gained regressions. Even if I meant to make a change, a failing test forces me to think about handling a particular case correctly that I might have forgotten.

The kind of unit test I do hate are the ones that are so mock-heavy that they're pretty much only testing the structure of your codebase (did you call all the methods the right order and nothing more?). I was once on a team where that was pretty much all they wrote, and they were very resistant to any level of integration unit testing because (I think) they read in a opinionated book somewhere that low level tests were good enough (they weren't).
Indeed! Mine is advertised as 16Mbps which isn't great to begin with, but I can only burst to that for a few seconds after which it quickly drops to something like 3-4.
If you want to see something heinous look at Skyrim's price. 10 years old... $60...
> because it asserts the existence of natural numbers that have no "written form"

I don’t see why that should imply it wouldn't be "okay" to add ¬Con(ZFC).

It may be highly counterintuitive, but the history of mathematics is full of counterintuitive results that nowadays are accepted as true in mainstream mathematics.

Well-known examples are the existence of irrational numbers, the claim that the set of natural numbers has the same size as that of the rational numbers, the existence of hyperbolic geometry, and the Banach-Tarski paradox.
I am dismissive. Because the opposing viewpoint is believing literal lies. Of course I will dismiss that. Everyone should.
> It’s inexplicable why EBay captchas me AFTER I submit 2FA…

Google does this too and it drives me nuts. What's makes it even more of a "fuck you" is they will do it to paying users, (business accounts)... if you refresh the page three times the captcha goes away, they are just trying their luck at using people for free ML training labour.
They do. But in my experience only a limited part of their full inventory.
I appreciate your hard work. I will try it
It isn't standard in the US, although at some point I memorized them to prepare for buzzer races in math competitions. It was in no way reflective of anything useful in real life, but it was fun.

There were a few sets of common numbers, formulas, and mental calculation tricks that were useful to just always have in the back of your head. Perfect squares and cubes under 1000, powers of 2 and 3, prime numbers below 100, interior angles of regular polygons up to 10 sides, binomial coefficients, Pythagorean triples, factorials up to 9!, common roots out to 3-4 decimal places, and a few others that I've no longer needed for almost 20 years at this point.
"evil" and "evilness" are not interchangeably usable, especially if you talk about the evil/evilness of X. The evil of X (or more frequently, evils of X) refers to the evil things that have been caused by X. This does not speak to whether or not X itself is evil, except insofar as doing evil is a sign of evilness. By contrast, the evilness of X is directly referring to the degree to which X is or is not evil (although were X not evil, you'd be more likely to talk about the goodness rather than evilness of X).

For an analogous example, try replacing "lightness" with "light" in a discussion about color and see how much sense the text makes afterwards.
Apparently they are working with anti-cheat makers to get those games working on Linux before release? This honestly seems like the best news for Linux gaming... ever.
> Absolutely no reason to...

It's art. There's never any reason for art.
Actually, you don't have to do a full system upgrade, you can update a single package.

People have used Arch in prod. But personally I'll still use Debian to be on the safe side despite all of the issues that comes with.
Always be merging to master (or main).

Feature flags make functional overlap and branching explicit and prevent difficult merge conflicts. They're easier for humans to reason about, and far easier/safer to do percentage rollouts with.
> This is a wild misrepresentation of the opposing perspective. Nobody is arguing that we can't discuss election fraud.

The comment 2 levels up by eggsmediumrare seems to be arguing exactly that.
I have found a lot of joy/fun in coding web apps in Golang. Something about net/http and the joys of building your own http framework around it is cool.
Or you can put in enough time and effort to actually read error messages and do a little work

If you want iPhone ease Linux use Ubuntu based distros. But traditionally Linux hadn’t been single click easy. Much like smartphones weren’t originally iPhone level easy.

Polite edit: if you’re a Linux noob start with a vm or live disk Ubuntu image and play around. If you like computers and understanding them, you’ll find the lessons you need as you need them by searching the web. Then you’ll install a bunch of distros and understand what I mean.
The web was originally designed to be hyperlinked documents. So all the tech we've developed to make web applications has been a horrible hack.

With that in mind, my opinion is that all these web stacks have made things worse. I've been on multiple projects now where it was the web framework that put the project in jeopardy of missing the deployment deadline.

I have found just using Javascript, HTML, and CSS to actually be more productive and maintainable if one knows what they're doing.

I've also found it's actually better to separate the front end and back end. The front ends I develop are completely independent of the back end and can simply be dropped onto any server that provides the required API.
Those in-app browsers are so annoying. They make it intentionally difficult to open those pages in Safari

A potentially controversial take, but I believe that Apple can force developers to use SFSafariViewController to enhance privacy and UX, without too much blowback. SFSafariViewController is a privacy-friendly alternative that prohibits third parties from seeing your browsing data (unlike the custom in-app browsers used by apps like Instagram). I’ve yet to see a custom in-app browser that has ever provided a better experience than SFSafariViewController.

Exceptions could be provided where it makes sense. For example, I would still permit apps to load webpages owned by the developer in their own in-app browser (this is necessary for web-based logins, for example).
Everyone says this about advertising, it's a tired narrative that has been disproven countless times in the aggregate. Advertising works. Even if you are correct about yourself (many people don't realize the subliminal impact of ads), the loss of your business is more than made up for by others.
And that's the point - for such a contractor, the only punishment available is through courts, with more or less a presumption of innocence, and where the officer is in a lot of career jeopardy if the tribunal digs up that they were being unreasonable.

By contrast, a soldier in the chain of command can be punished administratively, and disobeying orders is a crime that in most militaries is only excusable if the order is criminal, not if it's stupid. Rarely brought, but the spectre of it is there
Also an Arch user, I've saved countless hours running it. I tried Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse. Arch has given me the least amount of problems.
It would be good to list what features are really of value to us that are funded by ads.

For me, I pay for email and web hosting. The only big thing I rely on is news, I believe. And Internet search.

Youtube is mostly useless except when I'm trying to repair stuff at home. Almost everything else falls into the category of "entertainment", for which there are plenty of alternatives that don't involve ads. If there is one thing there is no shortage of in this country, it's entertainment.

Most of the (non-news) articles I read online really don't add much to my life, and there were plenty of choices pre-Internet (e.g. magazine subscriptions).

I'm happy to get ad-subsidized stuff like they did in the old days (news + magazines) because although it was annoying, it was not invasive.

So apart from Internet search, I'm having trouble finding anything that is (invasive) ad supported that benefits my life. If most of these things will go away, I will happily revert to the old ways. I'm definitely not happier now because of ad supported services.
You may have missed the point of the question. All my machines (business and servers) are currently linux because I know how to update and secure linux.

The parent poster is arguing for diversity for the sake of it. To me, moving from my linux monoculture to a linux+windows diaspora seems less secure.

I'm talking specifically about the idea of security through diversity, not about this specific incident, so backup recommendations aren't really related to this thread.
As much as I love tdp, he has been promoting the same topic for years. Time to change and start talking about... euh... CICD promotions considered evil!