skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent question, and one I hope others answer. Here's my personal take.

First, prune out really low quality sources of information, as they perpetuate uncritical thinking. The worst in my life are the Twitter trending tab (I did the "Indian Ocean" hack) and cable "news," especially the opinion section (and there's a lot more opinion stuff on even the "straight" news these days).

Second, spend some time editing Wikipedia articles, and become familiar with their guidelines. They are a digital community that has managed not to become a trash fire. My take is that being a decent WP editor requires a fairly low level of critical thinking - it can be defined as making good tertiary content (encyclopedia articles) from secondary sources, where the goal is simply verifiability rather than of truth. "Real" critical thinking might be defined as making good secondary content from primary sources. But I think the former is an important foundation. Did person X really say Y? If you get this wrong (which is super-common), there's no hope to answer deeper questions.
I don't particularly like the way you said it, but the sentiment is most definitely shared. It seems like this attitude is incredibly common in the Linux Desktop community and it is definitely not working in their favor.
While it might solve issues with the norm process, it introduces more problems, specifically that two players of equal rating can have vastly different performance against a computer because they don't play like humans do.
It's a huge failure of the (mis)education system that almost no one learns math.
Listary is a good ui for full text search, and integrates with the default file dialogs nicely too.
I think it's important to emphasize that, in the US, it's not "some" areas that are just plain impossible to live in without driving; it's the overwhelming majority.

Time and time again I see Europeans and even some people who live in the US (but who have only lived in Cities) who completely underestimate the magnitude of this.
I'm convinced most of this anti-malware software is largely security theatre, but it helps IT departments sleep better at night I guess.
It is my belief that Australia will become unhabitable by the 2050s. Cattle cannot survive high temps and droughts.
In utah 80% of our water is spent on alfalfa for cattle. The governor is an Alfalfa farmer.

The Great Salt Lake is about to be renamed the Minor Salt Lake as it's bone dry.

Seems to me Utah's biggest industry isn't Alfalfa or Cattle though, it's tourism. Especially skiing. Much of the slopes get their snow from lake effect snow. That's not likely to be as much this year, and might not be a thing at all if the lake dries up completely.

On top of that the lake will create a deadly arsenic dust bowl that will damage the health of all creatures locally including humans for years to come.

Lucky for me, I'm in southern Utah where we only have to worry about rising # of forest fires. /s

I feel like if we had more water...if we didn't use it all, perhaps the lake effect snow would fill the snow cap, and then the droughts would be less.

It'd be a shame if cropdusters accidently put salt in alfalfa fields, a real shame.
I suspect it would cost more than $20 to bypass the ads
Love borg with the desktop client vorta. Gives my time-machine like time travel :D

Even wrote a blog post about it: https://simon-frey.com/blog/borgvorta-is-finally-a-usable-ba...
heat pumps aren't common in the US?
That sounds a lot like Oprah. Her given name was Orpah (a biblical name)
Secret Life of Machines – The Fax Machine
> Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia

Sanger left Wikipedia over 20 years ago, he only worked on it in its first first year from earlier 2001 to early 2002.

Besides, Sanger has always been a bit of a cook, on CZ he just outright rejected feminism as an academic field because it was too left-wing, never mind his love for all sorts of pseudoscience on CZ. It's hilarious, because he started an entire site based on expertise, and then just rejected this expertise if he didn't like it in all sorts of fields.

This is the man that's we're supposed to take serious when he talks about Wikipedia? Pull me another one. Wikipedia has its fair share of issues, but CZ was outright and openly partisan in a way that Wikipedia never has been.

A lot of it was scrubbed of nonsense after he left, but by then he already managed to chase off most experts he had initially recruited and the project was pretty much dead (I'm amazed it's still online today though, although the only real edits in the last 30 days is one person editing the Peter Jackson page).
Right click -> open
What is the said propaganda? The article does not articulate but I do remember one of which came up in an earlier discussion being a tourist promotion.
Was not surprised to see MS Teams with 12k+ open handles after only running for less than an hour.

Click the details tab in task manager, right click on any column, select "add columns".
You got me well confused here. Take my experience of the phenomenon as you wish and incorporate it or not into your decision making process, at your leisure. I'm not the only one who feels this way when citizens corner us immigrants into pronouncing our names for a while.
Yes and:

Sign your name, cite your sources, share your data. aka authenticity.

Extra credit for verification, fact checking, vetting sources. aka journalism.

And as you say, earn merit badge for intellectual honesty. Including retractions, updates, followups, listing assumptions, etc.
> Critically, apps can not directly read your files, they can show a button which will open the OS file picker and the user can pick a file to open which then provides access to the app.

Unfortunately this model breaks down for any kind of file type that doesn't simply consist of a single, atomic file, e.g. various constellations of media files (playlists, subtitles, multi-part videos), multi-part archives, HTML files, georeferenced imagery with sidecar files, etc. etc.
"you get what you pay for"

like your tax dollars going to genocide, slavery, and war, huh
> It's not reasonable or constructive to expect their software to never have bugs

I think nobody demanded anything of that sort, that is just a strawman. What was actually demanded is that priority of such bugs be raised, and perhaps users be adequately warned about known defects that may compromise the confidentiality of their messages.

That Signal developers didn't have an idea what was going on for 6 months? And then it turned out to be similar to that other stale/invalid database bug where messages were sent to unintended recipients? Back then fixing only the bug at hand but not taking steps to ensure that the type of bug (wrongly matching expired message IDs to existing messages) won't happen again? Doesn't paint them in the best light.

> to throw around labels like "proprietary" just because they don't release something on your schedule

I throw around the label "proprietary" because software which doesn't come with source code is in fact, proprietary. If Signal pushes new server code to production and keep its source to themselves, calling that still "open source" requires serious mental gymnastics.

> Signal, for whatever reason, seems to attract a lot of entitled complaints like the ones I enumerated.

No, besides your strawman the other commenters were all reasonable and constructive.
> The "AT&T" philosophy.

If anyone reads this and is wondering what exactly it means, I highly recommend the book The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T by Steve Coll.
No, there are only very little payments beyond the pay check. The employee does of course only get payed out a large part of the pay check, the rest goes to taxes and social insurances.
It sadly doesn't make a difference. I have about a dozen keygens on my machine and they get quarantined unless they're zipped behind a password or zipped into a 7z.

Just downloading a zip with a keygens inside, it gets removed from the zip before even unarchiving it.
Haiku's icons are vector based right? Is there a native Haiku vector art software?
> “I’m sorry sir or madam, but this is some of the most expensive real estate in the entire world, and you may not just pitch a tent here on the sidewalk. If you refuse to remove yourself then we will remove you.”

I mean, this is what they do in a lot of cities (albeit not San Francisco), except it’s usually far less polite than this. It’s not uncommon to see LAPD breaking up homeless camps and destroying their possessions (funny how selective property rights are), and it’s not exactly fixed the problem in LA.

At best it tends to push them towards cities that’ll not abuse them arbitrarily, at least until the voters in that area vote in a police chief that’ll be “tough on crime” and they’re turned out, repeating the cycle.

> Am I wrong to think that enforced removal is necessary to any serious solution?

Yes, because it’s what we’ve been trying for about half a century and it has failed miserably. At best it results in us playing hot potato with them between different cities. At worst it involves illegal application of state violence against the poor and powerless.

It’s genuinely hard for me to understand how “enforced removal” could possibly be seen as a solution for homelessness. Maybe if your goal is to stop seeing the problem, perhaps. But it’s not exactly a solution; are the homeless going to stop being homeless after you’ve “removed” them? Or are they just going to be dumped somewhere else after getting roughed up by the cops a bit?

> If I’m missing another possibility here, then somebody please point it out to me. Note that I’m purposefully leaving out any discussion of where those that are forced to leave should go, which admittedly must be a part of any solution but is not the part that I’m interested in for now.

There’s a good reason why I accuse a lot of people of not actually wanting to solve the problem, but rather make it happen out of sight. It’s rare to have someone say it so nakedly though.

Maybe you should focus less on where they should go, and more on rehabilitating as many of them as possible back into society? If they had homes in which to secure their possessions, maybe fewer of them would feel the need to camp out on the property you seem so concerned about? Or better yet we can take a look at what policy changes have caused the homeless population to grow and change those, so that fewer of our fellow human beings end up on the street? Just a thought.
Yeah was about to say reddit is good enough. The old one.
I think the BBC can only show 2 live events at a time, unlike the previous 2 Olympics where they had amazing live coverage of pretty much every event.

Can't help feeling this is a very very short-sighted move by the IOC (selling the European rights to Discovery), and will further dimish the prestige of the Games.
There is a project for offline knowledge resources called 'Internet-in-a-box' which includes an offline Wikipedia too (presumably unfiltered) :

Internet-in-a-Box brings the very best of the World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and many others) to those who are offline — e.g. anybody nearby with an old smartphone, tablet or laptop.

http://internet-in-a-box.org/
> As for SQL injection, were prepared statements even a thing back then?

wow.

yes, prepared statements have been a thing since there were relational databases.

but also, (server side) prepared statements are not required in order to use SQL with bound parameters. the binding can occur just as easily on the client side, and this is in fact quite common. the point is that the programmer is not manually deciding whether or not to escape a parameter on a query-by-query basis, the process is automated.
If you ran Linux executables you torrented you'd have the exact same problem.
People don't perceive driving their own cars to be a problem.

With trucks there is a big problem. Quality drivers with a CDL are hard to find. My brother-in-law who works in road construction tells me all about it: in Binghamton NY there is a bridge with a low clearance that some dumbass gets a truck stuck in about once a month.
> Truly shows how oppressive Mainland China government has become.

Or rather how much power they have to force their views internationally, even when those views are objectively unreasonable.

Here's another recent example: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/fast-furious-star-john-cen...
For a long time it was, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”[1]

Now it is, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read Twitter. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

There is a world of difference between those.

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
This is why my grandfather never played chess with me and actively discouraged it - "too many great minds are wasted on chess".

We always instead played checkers, for real - always encouraging and teaching, but no patronizing wins for me - it was a long time until I could actually take a few games. Great memories, and he was gone too soon.

I did play some in HS & college, very much enjoyed some intense games, and still think it was good advice.

The Paul Morphy quote is spot on, save maybe for great champions like Garry Kasparov, who also went to to greater things. I suppose the same could be said about many pursuits where only a few get to truly earn a living, such as acting, music, sports - it becomes what you make of it but perhaps chess is a bit more extremely consuming?
TFA is not well-informed. Maybe the NBC people should have better marketing, but the Olympics coverage is not terrible. If you have a basic cable or satellite package, you can sign into this app:

https://channelstore.roku.com/search/nbc+sports

Presumably some of the lesser TV appliances also have a similar app. If you don't subscribe to a basic pay TV package, maybe you could do a trial subscription to Hulu or something and sign in with that. With this app, one can watch the entirety of live and recorded events. Many of the live feeds will have "down time" between matches, rounds, etc. There are ads, which are especially annoying for "one-at-a-time" individual events like whitewater canoe slalom. I suspect it would be possible to pi-hole the ads.
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“Has become”? That’s international standard until Taiwan truly declares independence. Quote Wikipedia:

This dissension eventually came to a compromise when the term "Chinese Taipei" was first proposed in the Nagoya Resolution in 1979, whereby the ROC/Taiwan and the PRC/China recognize the right of participation to each other and remain as separate teams in any activities of the International Olympic Committee and its correlates. This term came into official in 1981 following a name change of Olympic Committee of the ROC to Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee.

Edit: great job downvoting when it doesn’t fit your narrative
I don't know where you get the 400k number for an engineer, typical salaries are rather about 100k, somewhat more, a lot less.
The hebrew ‘jacob’ is pronounced with a v rather than b sound at the end as well. It’s more like Yaqov than Yaqob. It uses the same letter ‘bet’ but with a dot in the middle its a b sound, without the dot in the middle its a v sound, and in modern use they don’t add the dots in at all and assume everyone knows how to pronounce things.
They gotta talk about something…

and for that they need to amplify the smallest signal into a trend! I mean noise…
Apple doesn't throw away their SoC design and start from scratch. Future iterations will share much of the same code. For example, the interrupt controller and the UART hardware haven't really changed since the first iPhones.
Byju's spends $750m to buy Great Learning, Toppr
While computer engines that are significantly better than the best chess players are plentiful, computer engines that are human rated and play human like moves do not exist. From the definition of ELO you could make a 1500 rated chess engine that plays perfectly half of its games and plays random moves the other half of the games, and it would stay at 1500 ELO if it continued to play against 1500 ELO players. This is an extreme example but it is not too far off from what chess engines do to reduce their ELO.
But if you are willing to own that responsibility then you should read the code you're importing to begin with. I know I do but I also know most people don't bother.

I do acknowledge that there will always be bugs that are identified by your users but equally if you're not auditing your dependencies first then it's hard to argue that you're not just passing off that responsibility wholesale to your users.
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They also blocked Kevin Beaumonts GitHub repos in Smartscreen because of some vulnerability writeup about HiveNightmare.
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1419569833298038784
> no one corrects Italians for saying "Germania" instead of Deutschland

This is a strawman.

Italian here. I would never dream of using the word "Germania" with someone that does not speak Italian expecting them to understand that it's the Italian way to pronounce Deutschland.
An interesting primer on Tether, and whether it is a scam:

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/what-effect-would-tether-be...

(Yes, I know it's zerohedge, but this is a decent article)

Tether usually has 2-3x the volume of bitcoin in any given day. And no one seems to know anything about how it works. So in my estimation, it probably is a scam...
You posted an OPINION piece as a citation? And you call me false information?

You better learn what VALID citations are before you call ANYTHING false information.

You manipulate with incomplete truths and poor statistics. You're a fear vector. People like you are what hundreds of thousands of people in Paris are protesting. Things are not going to end well for people like you.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protesters-against-covi...

I would like you to read this and attempt to understand it:

If the vaccine has an improvement in 70% of hospitalizations, like demonstrated in your diagram.

(34,000 fatal / 34 million infected) = 0.001 percent chance of fatality in the under 50 age group who are unvaccinated.

Now...you're talking about .07 of .001 percent improvement in outcomes.

That's insanely small percentage of an insanely small number.

You want people under 50 to get an experimental vaccine for that?

Apparently the natural immune system is working well enough.
Just a gentle reminded by US Gov racketeers ... and statists who like to constantly remind us about that
Right, often what they do is they try to find "close" syllables. Close is the wrong term as some are not close at all. Vancouver and Philadelphia for example.

It's like taking Milano and cutting it up into Mil + Ano and saying, hmm, in English the closest syllables are approximately Mill + Anus, we'll call it Millanus, oh, but that's got a word we should avoid so let's call it MillLand.

The point is, it's not wrong or bad for (any) people to get foreign words wrong when they pronounce them.
The infrastructure is decent, only the last mile stretch (uphill of course) is shared with car traffic. Still it's not a relaxing ride, and would probably double my commute time even with an e-bike.

As I mentioned there are people doing that anyway, but even the hardcore cyclist types are doing it only a few days in a month.
Ask HN: Does it have potential? I made a GUI tool managing remote Linux server
Yeah, I once circumvented gmail's antivirus detection by sending a (perfectly legitimate) installer executable as a txt file because gmail apparently just has/had a strict "no files with certain extensions" policy. And IIRC Zendesk applies the same rule to file attachments on support tickets.

I had pitched for my team to build a tiny widget that would send attachments to virustotal, but it would have required a license for commercial use and we never had a security incident with files coming into our support center so it never became a priority.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...
Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that the olympics should have picked a less confusing acronym for the Russian athletes.
its not that simple. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27700339#:~:text=24%20d...
As opposed to our establishment media meddling in elections right in front of everyone's faces. These media giants are just mad they are losing their monopoly status on propaganda.
I like how defender has been a daily thing on HN for the last week.

If you want to turn this shit completely off (or actually remove it), you just need to find a way to elevate a prompt as TrustedInstaller. This is the magic spell required to carry out extremely dangerous actions, such as 'net stop windefend', or otherwise adjusting permissions so the local administrator is allowed to do administrative things again.

I hesitate to share the actual mechanisms for elevating TI at this point. God forbid Microsoft plugs all those little holes and I have literally no choice but to move everything to Linux. I don't mind hacking around the consumer safeguards to get rid of cortana/defender/telemetry/etc because everything else about win10 is amazing. Ideally, I wouldn't have to jump through these hoops and could just pay for a properly-licensed copy of Windows that I actually own.
To be fair the full expansion of A and B are literally on line below.
I'm getting misty-eyed over here. Seriously, I thought I was the only one.

I have heard almost no advice that's anywhere near actionable in our industry. The way I see it is that we have no objective ways to even talk about good code versus bad code (and forget all of the support tasks like "can we estimate this"; those require some objective understanding on how terrible the code happens to be).

We've got code smells. Like, the most primitive and "from your gut" sense. This for-loop makes my tummy feel bad.

It all feels like poetry to me.
> It's absolutely their prerogative to give him a guarantee.

By breaking the law? You can't just request something from a prosecutor. You have to follow the process for these kinds of things. The prosecutor has no right to grant what he requested, so how do you propose he would do it?
Even at an inflated rate of $50 per 1000 impressions (which is higher than most broadcast TV charges), $20 should let you bypass 400 commercials. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
The white man's burden is a heavy one...
I feel bad for the Oxford people.
You can't ever just read the law and know what it means, because law, unlike a formal system, is written in natural language (a semantically open system) and interacts with the real world, so it requires non-trivial interpretation.

To make the law more predictable, a notion of 'precedent' is used to help make future interpretations adhere to past ones, lending some continuity to all this. But this means that an interpretation of a law in a new context can partially determine what that law means without modifying the text of the law.

Abandoning the notion of precedent might avoid that, but it just makes the law unpredictable in other ways.
Huh, I may have (wrongly) assumed it'd be the same in Germany as in Austria.