skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying they need to be stuck in poverty, I'm saying the Government of Brazil, the UN etc, should stop this from happening because we know of the dire consequences of it.

If Brazil requires financial assistance, so be it. They shouldn't be allowed to destroy the Amazon rain forest because stupid people did it back in the gold rush.
Why can’t you share the bounty between the people that report the bug while it is valid (ie. actually a non-fixed bug)?
Sometimes the rule is to not editorialize, sometimes you get slapped for it, other times the hall monitors step in to change the title after the fact because they don't like the article's actual title. They want you to remove clickbait numbers so maybe that's what happened here.

Don't think too much about it.
Here is a bisect scenario that seems to be happening before my eyes.

I was using git bisect to find a problem. Let's call it issue A. During the bisect, I discovered that some builds are not testable at all. Let's assume that instance of that problem are all issue B. So the verdict from the git bisect is that there are four possible consecutive commits that could be the start of A.

But those four include commits afflicted with B, which seems related. Why it seems related is that the last of those four bad commits suddenly fixed B, so builds became testable, but introduced A.

Since I was bisecting for A, I don't have a complete list of commits afflicted with B; git bisect just happened to find three commits afflicted with B.

Thus I have to do a second git bisect, this time validating for issue B, to see where exactly the builds became untestable.

That will hopefully put together the story: something like: at commit X, a serious problem showed up, rendering builds untestable (issue B). Then at later commit Y, B was fixed but A started happening, which wasn't a problem before X.
America needs to set pedestrian and cyclist safety standards for motor vehicles. Europe has mandated survivability in crashes at certain speeds, but America continues to believe that the only relevant actor that needs safety in America's transportation network is the driver of their own vehicle. Here's an article from 2007 (!) [1] that talks about how America continues to try to focus on driver education, despite America consistently having some of the laxest drivers' license standards in the Western world. A recipe for a public health disaster indeed. No wonder Americans see anything other than a car as impractical; anyone other than a driver or a passenger is a safety afterthought.

EDIT: Here's a more recent take on the same issue. Not much has changed apparently. [2]

1: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2007/12/the-truth-about-eu...

2: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/12/07/while-other-countries...
People were spreading misinformation about the link. Just to be clear, there is no recall. The test is not defective. The test can be used through the end of the year. The CDC recommends using tests that can detect flu as well as COVID.

The current PCR test from the CDC does not detect flu at all, or other coronaviruses. The test is very specific. See pages 40 on in the Instructions for Use[1] if you are interested. The test sequences were compared (by computer) to hundreds of thousands of genomes of flu, the human genome, and other organisms, as well as tested on physical specimens.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download#page=41

Here is a sample of messages that were shared on Reddit:

> The FDA announced today that the CDC PCR test for COVID-19 has failed its full review. Emergency Use Authorization has been REVOKED. The FRAUDULENT PCR Test has finally been ruled a Class I Recall. This is the most serious type of recall. All measurements based on PCR Testing should come to an end ASAP:

> CDC retracts PCR test as it can't differentiate between COVID and the flu. It was all a Lie.

> CDC pulls PCR tests because they can’t distinguish Covid from the flu. We finally caught the SOBs who have lied to us about the coronavirus numbers the last year.

> The Pandemic narrative is unravelling... The FDA announced today that the CDC PCR test for COVID-19 has failed its full review. Emergency Use Authorization has been REVOKED. It is a Class I recall. The most serious type of recall. Too many false POSITIVES. This is the test that started the pandemic!

> CDC to Withdraw Emergency Use Authorization for PCR Test Because It Cannot Distinguish Between SARS-CoV-2 and the Flu.

> Watch the panicked minority bombard the comments with establishment talking points to try and refute this tweet.. PCR is being rescinded as a test, vaccinated people are filling hospitals, and our government officials are still urging us to get tested using PCR and get jabbed with the Covid vaccines. Alrighty then.
> When's the last time you walked the streets of Berlin at night?

Half a decade ago, at least where I was there wasn't many homeless there, but the rents in Berlin have exploded since, so the situation might have changed there.
And the real shame is, it's a perfectly rational one. I might be starting a family soon, and I honestly don't know how I'm going to navigate this hazard.
Is there any timeline for the stream release? The release date on the store page just says, “Time is subjective.”
It's equally dishonest to discount the positive mitigation of a reasonable fire prevention budget and burying/maintaining infrastructure. Especially when the presence of Fraud is taken into account.

The Climate may be famously closed to negotiation, but it doesn't mean human artifice need exacerbate the problem through avoiding doing necessary work.
I never said flat-earthers should be censored. I said they are objectively wrong, no matter what they claim.

And when they argue that the earth is flat, they aren't arguing about whether it's flat on the scale of my basement.
Dubai Is Using Laser Drones to Shock Rainwater Out of the Sky
And hopefully a lot of pattern matching?
If you were trapped and the only way to free yourself was to cut your arm off like that guy in 187 hours, any person could make that decision.

A sane person would verify that they are trapped, call for help, wait as long as possible in hopes of rescue, and then when it was all for naught and it came down to life or death, if they had decided they were going to live no matter what they could start cutting.

An insane person might also make that decision, but might make that decision without verifying that they are trapped first. Might make that decision in response to a feeling of being trapped, an internal one with no external verifiability.

The idea that psychotic people are sane people in a crazy world sounds poetic but doesn't hold up to examination. If you are trapped in a rushing river you can swim against it or give up and go with the flow, but psychotic people are trapped in the raging river of their perceptions and can only "go with the flow" under the effect of exogenous chemicals.

It's not a "sane reaction to a crazy world" to go crazy, going crazy is a helpless reaction to a crazy perception of the world.

It's not always forever though. I've heard of people who go crazy for a while and then return to normal, or find an outlet for it that allows them to adapt and integrate. Maybe everyone should go a little crazy every once in a while just to shake things up a bit.
Are you sure he was lying?
> I'm not making the connection between an algorithmic feed and anything I wrote.

> The title of this thread is 'Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”'.

> I don't believe the problem is facebook recommending anything -- the problem is facebook trying to ban certain content entirely

You say you don't believe (a), and you state that the problem is (b). I'm seeing "belief" without substantiation in both of those sentences. I'm also actively not taking username "gunapologist" as related to the merits of beliefs or statements in any way.

Finally, it's not clear to me that Facebook is a censor. I hold they have a right to promote or not promote whatever they want. Give someone a megaphone, suddenly anyone not handed a megaphone cries censor. No, just not amplified. Commercially, choosing not to promote a thing is much like a TV channel choosing not to run an ad or sponsor an event, something they choose to not do all the time.

I'd rather FB promote nothing, go back to a timeline of posts from my connections, and seems like "a problem" (one of many) is solved.
I know it’s comforting to imagine that anyone who says something that you don’t like is just a troll, but I’m not here to lie, distort reality, or say things without proof. Both cases were clearly proven, but what does that matter when you obviously know the situation of my friends better than me…
yeah thank goodness I'm a liberal or else I would have died on a ventilator lol ok we got the politics out of the way.

I'm sympathetic to some of the article's points but I do disagree with the articles optimism on the intelligence of the general public. The argument about trust and credibility is right on target.

I personally feel Fauci is still a good source of information for me personally but I understand some folks use whatever OAN has to offer and who am I to argue? Some folks set their opinions early and don't like further debate and who am I to ruin their day about that? Just dont' get too close to them thats all lol
I'm pushy (not deliberately) and seem like a jerk to some people. I've spoken to a few folks like myself and the consensus seems to be we all wanted pushback but it really wasn't for any other reason than we wanted to hear good ideas/thoughts.

Pushy people probably all lack a little empathy because we only care about the topic at hand. In your example - it doesn't occur to many people (me..) that saying "i don't like where that button is" suggests anything more than that specific thing.
> I guess you can't trust the vendor to determine how exploitable a vulnerability is?

Not Microsoft at least. Most vendors, and the percentage grows with the size of the vendor, are very coy about it. And I get it: it doesn't look great for your shareholders, and it gets to a point where yes really you should be ashamed (looking at HP Data Protector here (note the irony)), but if you own it up and also put countermeasures and hardening in place then really everyone is going to feel like they got their money's worth in the end. If instead you hide vulnerabilities, not mention them in changelogs so we can't even check which version is fixed or anything, yeah we'll be recommending the client to look at alternatives. (Though it's not us security consultants that ever recommended a sysadmin to put a proprietary VPN in place in the first place, but then there's more at play than purely the security aspect.)

Microsoft's advantage, of course: try getting out of that ecosystem if you have everyone implicitly trained in using Outlook and Windows. Microsoft gets to do with their advisories whatever the hell they like.
This reeks of survivorship bias.

Making any decision based on this would be similar to examining warplanes for sign of bullets to determine which parts to reinforce.

I'd assert that a good fraction of exploits are never caught/analyzed.
> During those tests, we noticed the machines were randomly freezing after some time, so we decided to upgrade the firmware of the network cards,

Reminds me of the various i40e Tx freezes I debugged while at Joyent. Granted, this is the illumos driver, not Intel's, but basically there were issues with the programming guide that I had to figure out the hard way. The 700-series controllers have not been the easiest to work with.

https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7492 [Tx freeze when b_cont chain exceeds 8 descriptors]

https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7457 [i40e Tx freezes on zero descriptors]
Doesn't ship to New Zealand :(
To be clear, you can load games via USB. It exposes a filesystem with a games folder that you can just drop code into. The required wifi might be for license checking for the games in the subscription or something.
Dwarf Fortress was a staple of my childhood, even if I only understood maybe 5% of the mechanics going on at any given time (even back when I used to play it). That was part of the appeal though: if you could learn how to do something in Dwarf Fortress, it felt like an accomplishment. Learning to dig better bases is a several-hour research project, and simple tasks like brewing beer can proliferate into any number of different problems. This kind of trial-and-error problem solving is probably responsible for getting me into development.

Nowadays though, I mostly play Rimworld for my colony management fix. I love Dwarf Fortress, but I could never comfortably learn it's mechanics in a lifetime (let alone several). Even still, the emergent, chaotic gameplay of Dwarf Fortress should be picked apart by any budding game developers. Even after 15 years of playing PC games, Dwarf Fortress still feels the most "next gen" out of them all.
>I love the idea of Dwarf Fortress and I think the internet purest mission is to disseminate works of passion such as this, not to sell me ads instead. That said, I can't get past the ASCII interface -- I'm a huge fan of IF games (which used to be called "text adventures" in the olden days) and I can deal with spartan UIs, but for real-time strategy/sandbox games, I absolutely need some sort of graphics.

You can see the new tileset in action here, demoed by Tarn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlzCrJS1Fho
Call me pessimistic, but my thoughts on the matter is that TSLA and by association Musk have become too big to fail. Anything that would take Musk down would harm a lot of very wealthy investors.
Case closed, everybody go home.
Not that guy but similar problem, Berlin.
International Space Station briefly loses control as new Russian module misfires
Today we have used the resouces for the whole year
It's comical to me how poor packaging solutions are across distributions and languages. It's all just namespace management at slightly different levels.

Can anyone give me one good reason a programming language should bother with dependency management?

Nix has the right idea, but the execution is spotty and poorly documented IMO. Not to mention they have a serious problem with package naming, which strikes me as a glaring issue.
> ince people receiving money for housing do not tend to treat the housing well most landlords reject them. Why rent to somebody who is at an increased likelihood of damaging your place and won't have enough money to cover the damage?

In Germany the government gives you the money, and you to the landlord. The landlord doesn't need to know where you got the money.

Having said that, many landlords will reject based on looks, which can be tough.

> Wait so I could go to Germany, find an apartment that costs €10000 a month and the government would pay for it? Surely there is some kind of limit?

The government collects the rent prices of the last 4 years on each area, and uses them to create tables per region / city, of the upper limits.

Depending on the city, that might allow you to live downtown, or force you into the suburbs.

You can see one of these tables, e.g., for Munich, here: https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Sozialrefera...

There are single rooms < 50m2 for less than 680 EUR/month in munich. Not downtown, but not too far in the suburbs either. The prices there look ok for somebody without any assets nor income. Its not going to be luxurious, but it won't be crappy either. A university student might be living in worse conditions, which isn't bad for someone without income nor assets.
Yes this, but also you shouldn't do an analysis like this on all of PyPi. Anyone can upload to it. It's full of abandoned experiments, name-squatting, and college students uploading hello world libraries just to learn how to do it. Analyzing those is pointless because nobody is using them and nobody is going to use them.

Also listing the subprocess module as a standout because of code injection seems silly. That's the entire point of it existing. You may as well say a shell is insecure because it allows injecting shell commands. Obviously, don't put strings from untrusted sources in there, but Python is largely intended for system administration automation, the first thing to turn to when the shell isn't enough if you don't like Perl. It would be pretty useless if you couldn't actually use it to orchestrate arbitrary shell commands.
Minivan might be a good compromise, arguably more practical than the truck anyway, unless the truck is for work or other usage that actually justifies the truck-ness of it.
Causes bipolar episodes for me.
It's not like that at all, because in this case the market needs are the same. It's more like a contractor who needs a truck wondering why someone would pay half of a full truck for a truck made of paper.
CDC mask decision followed stunning findings from Cape Cod beach outbreak
While True, if you abolish copyright then there is nothing preventing me from Installing Microsoft office on as many machines as I want never paying Microsoft a dime....
How many employees need to be able to run executables from their email?

If they somehow need to be able to do that, I presume there is normally some form of sandboxing?
What's the point of this when a Switch Lite is $20 more?
I’m surprised that Tenerife didn’t come up. It’s a Spanish island of the coast of Africa which gets great weather and a narrow temperature band all year round. Half of the island is quite green and lush because it gets a decent amount of rain, while the other half is more dry. I suspect Madeira is similar but even more green.
> airplanes

That’s exactly the point. You take these risks all the time. Every day you take these risks, often far more likely and unnecessary. Yet you draw the line at vaccines? That’s irrational. You know the danger.

> You mention science a lot in your posts, in a manner that makes me wonder how much of these questions is genuine and how much is just a rhetorical device.

>
Explain the science behind the concern, you say. Really? Are you really interested in the immunology of Guillain-Barré or in the hematology of a thrombosis? Something tells me that you are not.

Does it make a difference? Why do I need to be interested when you’re advocating that people don’t take the Covid-19 vaccine? If you are going to advocate that position at least have the courage to explain exactly what the facts are, using numbers and science.

> A tiny risk of what, you are asking? A tiny risk of serious adverse events — anaphylaxis, thrombosis, myocarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome — depending on the vaccine and the age group.

What is the risk? What are the numbers? Explain exactly what the risk is and explain exactly what the risk numbers are.

> The numbers? The numbers are tiny, like I said, but greater than zero.

… there is a non-zero chance you can get struck by a meteor. Do you stay inside? I bet the probability of that is higher than complications due to a vaccine.

> Some countries discontinued AstraZeneca over the fear of those tiny numbers. I do not remember whether the same happened anywhere for Johnson & Johnson.

And that was at an over abundance of caution. But you can just… take the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine? Or are you going to say that since they temporarily got scared of these other two that you’ll take no vaccines in the future (and I assume in the past) b/c they light experience the same scenario?

> From the title of the article that set the topic of this conversation, and from your mention of employers, I assumed that we were talking about workplace, and more specifically, about white-collar office workers. It is true that in some professions (teachers? the military? medicine?) people have been required to have certain vaccinations. For me, personally, the last place that made that requirement was secondary school. Neither the university, nor my employers have ever made such a demand.

Idk what country you live in but in the US universities and grade school require vaccination. As they should, obviously.

> As an aside, I find it interesting that you mention a religious exemption. I don't know why it would matter to you that a potentially contagious person sharing your space is such because of their religion; or why someone's sheer fear of the vaccine, however irrational, is any different from a religious belief.

You’re drawing interest where none is warranted. I’m speaking factually here how things work at least in the U.S.. I don’t find religious exemption compelling.

> Because their terms of employment made it difficult for them to stay at home

Industrial revolution is over. Which the 8-5 is a product of. Time’s are a-changin.
I honestly don't remember what mine was, but I know it was less than 10%.
A simpler add-on for words and phrases is FoxReplace. [1]

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/
Last year my government (Eastern Europe) started requiring some extra documentation to be submitted by companies, yearly, after it passed a law to do so. It being a strange time in human history they had to twist themselves in all sorts of knots to try and make that possible so they gave in and - I assume - they put out a giant government contract searching for an IT company to make that happen. And make it happen they did, through usual nefarious means or otherwise, that much is unknown but they created a portal. You could enter your details and it would return you a document to download and sign and hand off to the nearest government agency that was officially supposed to handle these. And so my friend got to work… first thing he noticed: the whole thing was insanely slow and then he took a look at the URL and found that it was basically someone’s Windows PC, just serving the entire C:/ drive on a public URL. Even worse, all the documents generated (which contained all data, private and public related to the company owner - even ID data) were named in an incremental fashion. Meaning that you could’ve, were you a bad actor, dump pretty much the entire country’s privately owned business owners’ details with a simple bash script.

So he took it upon himself and called the specific government branch…

… and within an hour the whole portal was offline and the deadlines ended up being extended. This year was the earliest time I needed to submit said paperwork.

Handling stuff online is not easy and sometimes goes very wrong. That being said, for most general company admin things you need to do here you can buy a hardware cert and avoid this entire risk and they’re supposed to be rolling out IDs with similar features and a similar promise in August. Though as to how that will function, I have no idea as I couldn’t find any info on it.
A scam can't be defined by the mere legal definition of fraud. A true scam is all about the feeling of people on the internet.

Somehow people always forget that.
Ask HN: Creating paid courses for Open-source Languages a right thing?
I'll start.

A programming language with the ability to dispatch on version could be very interesting, and possibly allow for safer upgrades on a per function basis.

Still it feels like this should be part of an interface between a PL and some other set of packaging options. A convention for where to place libraries (with versions) like /lib is basically the solution. But I guess the various communities don't really want to get into a turf war, so maybe it's /lib/ruby and /lib/python in addition to the rest?
I learned web development looking at websites code, and open source libraries

Now with JS Obfuscation, and Web Assembly they are attempting to make websites like complied software
I am so glad to see San Diego on this list. I am generally not fussy about the weather but I love San Diego weather.
Clearly meant for people with sufficient disposable income and not the mass market.