skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ratings for sporting events are down dramatically

I think maybe some of the kneeling and other political / social virtue signalling by sporting codes are having an effect too.

I know I am fed up. The same ideology is broadcast at work, on the news, on art/film/theatre/books, social media and now sports. I feel like the protagonist in "A Clockwork Orange" with my eyelids stapled open and being force fed a mind virus.
The US "justice system" is a farce, and a worth reason to leave the United States. I have a brother that was a troublesome teen, and the police basically never let him alone. Situations cascaded simply due to immature behavior on both sides, but the police are institutionally not supposed to be immature children, but THEY ARE! After decades of harassment, he left and now lives very happily in Germany.
At the very least they're capable of doing decent remasters, which why it was surprising how absolutely terrible the WC3 remaster was and how much they cocked it up. I have rarely seen such a bad series of decisions before in making a game. I've seen plenty of bad games but WC3R is on another level.
> I don't believe the vaccine is better than my natural antibodies at fighting covid.

For the benefit of people reading this, this view is _not_ supported by evidence. The fact is that vaccines give you stronger protection than a bout of COVID, and against more variants.

"Vaccination offers longer, stronger immunity"

https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/why-covid-19-vaccine...

"Why a vaccine can provide better immunity than an actual infection"

https://theconversation.com/why-a-vaccine-can-provide-better...

"The evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants ... compared to antibodies acquired from an infection."

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
>In fact I like that they went out of their way to validate their target instead of just going in all cowboy and shooting the place up on limited intel.

That's your bar?
that's terrible advertising I'd expect the secret service to come just to mock our pretensions

our biggest client just wants a offline ios printer driver for bouncing previews to Acrobat via the share option. ios so far off our path.. this client would talk about any OSS driver deal for commercial rates in fact they definitely don't want any unique driver to profile... we're totally lost to find resources we can understand or resources at all. for a business to thrive with critical necessities hobbled I think there's always a central crime like how drugs and spectacles frames prices shown constant price for 30 plus years.. something artificial is happening with pressure applied.
Because it's possible to game a system with rigid lines. Gangs could hire kids below the age cut off to do some of the work.
The perfect storm striking World of Warcraft
Oh, absolutely! The interaction between find, xargs, and/or parallel has definitely led to some interesting combinations of curse words in my life :)
There's even a recipe posted in a couple of comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082825

I followed that guide to implement a simple FORTH-like system in golang:

https://github.com/skx/foth

As I was following the implementation recipe I broke it down into "educational steps". Although it isn't a true FORTH it is pretty easy to understand and useful enough to embed inside other applications.

Now and again I consider doing it again, but using a real return-stack to remove the hardcoded control-flow words from the interpreter, but I never quite find the time.
> Why didn't social media step up and feed a huge artillery of "facts" to encourage people to do the "right" thing and get the vaccine jab?

Would that have been profitable for them in all cases? If it wasn't, then they didn't.

it's not just the effort of "step up", which I have seen on social media. It's the effort to suppress disinformation, which although we have seen some, a lot more gets through. I haven't seen much antivax stuff, but that's because the algorithms know me. You have to understand how much of the "on social media" experience is tailored to you, and how much YMMV. And how it's driven by engagement for profit, not by "stepping up" to do the right thing.

e.g. Youtube radicalisation:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...

https://theconversation.com/youtubes-algorithms-might-radica...
I disagree quite strongly with this. Yes, 40 is a smaller number than 80,000, but those are 40 _people_ whose lives and sanity have been thrown away. Apparently the bar is low enough that this punishment can be applied to at least 40 individuals.
Also, you compare to the US. Much of the world, advanced or not, has the bar set at zero.
While the nerd in me wants to agree with you, aren't all of these just great examples of deeper vertical integration?

When I started in computing most major players had their own CPU's, and over time everything converged on mostly Intel with AMD/ARM in there to mix it up. Now we see companies swinging back to the old days where each will have their own CPU's. To me its a return to vertical integration and exposes all of us to a new era of lock-in.
Ransomware shops with plenty of affiliates should rank well on it
This is not new. It works the same with the checkout command.

git checkout -
I used to know lot of terminal commands but I'm seriously falling behind due to jetbrains integration which covers 99% of my daily use case. Together with local history, I've never "lost" work in years.

Never heard of switch /restore and will probably forget about it the next time I'm on the terminal.

Rebase and interactive Rebase is so well integrated for my use cases and I feel much more productive without having to switch context.

Reflog and bisect are when I nowadays switch to the terminal, have not discovered an equivalent last time I checked.
One of my most used tools. Absolute joy to work with it and its Helm integration.
haha, glad you noticed and thanks for the compliments!

i think this could become an open-source BrowserStack and Cloudflare Browser Isolation alternative

generally, i’d trust a product more if it has an open source version and business-wise it makes easier to market to the developers, because they can try the product at home with no risk of getting a huge cloud provider bill

but as you pointed out, not any org can self-host and that gives you a opportunity to offer a subscription-based service

the technical difficulty here is in figuring out how to run at scale

right now, as i understand you are hosting each instance manually, which is fine for bigger clients, but makes the service for smaller developers like myself unaffordable

you could solve this by packaging the software in a Docker container and then use a orchestrator like Kubernetes to supply a copy to each client, automatically

you can then monitor the usage and issue a bill with payment provider like Stripe

generally, i’d recommend having a limited free tier, but if not possible a free trial

for paying customers, you could charge per second spent in the browser window, instead of seats

the reasoning for it, is some customers would cause more traffic than others and traffic is not inexpensive, therefor you should make a pricing model, which is linear with traffic

hope this helps

if you need further support, you can email me at mish at ushakov.co

thanks
TL;DR because 'checkout' was found to be confusing, as of git 2.23 the switch command can switch to branches or commits (git switch master, git switch 0c38cf) and the restore command restores files (git restore pufferfish.txt).
Replace the word idiot with 'fool' and see if your point still applies.

In other words, the problem is not stupid people (or people with learning disabilities, which I happen to have btw), who undoubtedly exist. The problem is foolish people who think they can cheat their way through life.

My contention is that we're sinking under the weight of foolish people cheating their way into positions they have no business being in.

Foolish as in lacking wisdom. Not foolish as in lacking ability to do calculus. We have plenty of calculus, we severely lack wisdom :)
You assumed the risk of causing more harm than you wanted the very moment you pulled the trigger.

Did you pull the trigger by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to cock the gun.

Did you cock the gun by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to engage.

All that said, I don't believe in punitive justice. For me, justice should be reparative.

It's great if he has recovered and been pardoned by the victim.

I also don't think isolating someone as much is good either.

However, I can understand how you might want to isolate someone who does such wicked action.
It's a shame nothing else was done during incarceration, though.

Thankfully death penalty wasn't applied. We can't trust the state to decide who lives or dies.

Not only are there too many victims of wrongful convictions, but the cost of a single miscarriage of justice is unbearable.
I knew about `git switch` but this is the first time I hear about `git restore`.

It also never occurred to me that the checkout command was overloaded in that particular way.
I don't see why a 13 year old could be punished to life without parole. Surely he's going to change in 20 or 30 years?
Matplotlib style library for Scientific plots
I can think of several things, but perhaps more important here is that I didn't make the link between a nation being advanced and it locking people up in solitary confinement. Check my original post to see the argument I was making against using phrases like 'advanced nations' (it's just a cop out to hide the authors complete lack of research).
On Windows there's the Windows Store, Chocolatey and Scoop. Of those three, Choco has the Brave browser.

Of course all three options fail to gain significant traction. The Windows Store tries to change the entire concept of a Windows application, while Choco and Scoop are command line applications targeted at IT admins.
Whoa, you remind me of walking through College Street in Kolkata. A whole locality named after books- Boi Para (literally- a locality of books).

The place has colleges, schools, parks, and book shops- a whole lot of them. And the book shops kept and organized books randomly. Many focused on academic books but most did not.

It was a pleasure walking through the roads and buying second hand books based on pure interest and exploration.
Police Activities Leagues, in cities all around you.
>99% chance this is wrong, just because you placed it into garbage big does not mean it wasn't shipped off to china to a poorly managed facility and didn't end up in the ocean

My trash is burned locally there is zero chance it is moved somewhere else. The plastic bag is not separated from other (non-recycling) trash and the energy released from burning is actually used to heat buildings and water. This is not true for different trash like e-waste which could be moved far far away and there is no way to know where it finally ends up but its 100% true for the normal trash.

>Do you remember when milk was delivered to your door, and you returned the bottles, and they were reused?

That was never the case here. Like 30 year ago you could bring your own bottle and fill in milk form large containers. However you would need to go to a place where they fill milk in bottles an not to you local shop where you would usually buy milk.
This was only feasible if you lived near such a place. Also dont think this is possible anymore due to hygienic regulations and most likely also because it did not generate enough revenue.

>Reused glass products make perfect sence.

Most dont. Glass is heavy and moving glass bottles around especially empty bottles (return for cleaning/refilling) is a huge waste of energy. It may not cause the visible kind of pollution but it indirectly burns way more oil than plastic bottles would.

There are also aseptic packages with significantly reduced the amount of plastic needed compared to plastic bottles.

>We now use inefficient, plastic laden and polluting processes because we are lazy. Most people don't have a real coffee machine, they buy shitty overpriced plastic pods filled with second rate coffee that then pollute the environment for 'convenience'

I agree with the fact that single portion packages of many products are needlessly resource wasting. But nowhere in the western world these plastic pods go in to the environment at any significant rate. In many places these are actively collected for the bio material inside which actually has value. The plastic is then likely reused for something or burned an used as fuel.
There is simply no finical incentive to somehow move this kind of "trash" over long distances (which is expensive) and possibly dump it in the environment if people can make money by re-using/burning it locally. Even in places like the US where they would dump it into a landfill, it makes no sense to move it further than the next landfill.

So I agree reducing the energy and plastic needed is good. Replacing it with glass however is nonsense. And assuming the plastic goes in the environment simply because it exists is nonsense too.
Now, if they had given ceramic cups and a water dispenser...
Another difference is that with git checkout you can create and switch to the new branch in one command using the -b flag:

git checkout -b new_branch

You can do the same with the new one, but the flag is -c:

git switch -c new_branch

A good example why developers should not try to be designers. Even of talking about "API/CLI design.
> Murray sought to identify women victims of sexual assault.

Which sexual assault would that be?
Nonexistent for the most part unless you were born recently :)
It's usually not necessary for checkout either
Brother or Kyocera
Instead of one confusing command we now have three confusing commands.
>The UK had exactly one case of children being given effectively life imprisonment

UK life imprisonment is not the same as American life imprisonment, as in the latter you will in most cases be dying in prison.
He eventually learned how to read later in his life (after his teaching career!) by seeking help at his local library adult literacy initiative.
That deal was in 2008. Five years later, in 2013, Kotick raised money to buy out Vivendi, and Vivendi exited the industry shortly thereafter.
It's actually a bad piece. Let me explain why.

Given that Taibbi is writing in English, most of his audience has not directly experienced censorship in China, even though they might have experienced censorship in America.

So what he's doing is taking something people understand through experience (censorship in America) and drawing an analogy to something they don't understand, because they've never experienced it (censorship in China), in order to use that analogy to make an argument about the thing people already understand. That's the opposite of a good explanation, where you take something that people don't understand and illustrate it by analogy with something they do understand.

Since Taibbi wants to talk about censorship in America being bad to an audience already familiar with censorship in America, he should've cut the circuitous "censorship in America is like censorship in China, which is bad because (insert half-remembered news report here), therefore censorship in America is bad" because it is much less illuminating than "censorship in America includes censoring Matt Orfalea, which is bad, therefore censorship in America is bad."

A lot of reporting about China is like that, where a bunch of people who've never been to China use "China" as a symbol for "things we don't like about America."

Case in point, censorship in China isn't like censorship in America. Yes, in both cases removing a social media post requires the social media company in question to do the censoring. But Chinese companies do it because every time they try to censor less, the government steps in and shuts them down. https://www.whatsonweibo.com/tuber-app-that-promises-access-... If the Chinese government were to be miraculously replaced tomorrow, the social media giants would stop censoring most content.

If the US government were to be replaced... Well, electing a Republican president didn't stop social media companies from censoring him, because their leaders and most of their employees thought that was the right thing to do. So combating censorship in America is much harder, because it would require replacing large parts of the technology landscape. And that doesn't seem to be realistic, since e.g. Parler is so dependent on being in the Apple store that they censor content just for Apple users: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-requires-partic...
Pentagon Is Experimenting with Using AI to “See Days in Advance”
I'm playing WoW since 2008 and don't plan to stop. I don't like the direction that gameplay has taken, but I understand that's because of players changed and what worked in the past, will not work in the future, so I adapt. The only thing that bothers me is western propaganda (strong women everywhere, gay characters) which significantly increased in the last years, but that's a rather minor annoyance for me.
Brother software? I bought a Brother a few months ago, no software install on any device required. I just plugged it in, and it worked. Hell I can even print from my phone to it.
I recently removed my personal todo list.

I found that it was usually a way to not think about the different issues/projets I had in mind.
Removing the todo list forced me to remember the list, to think about possible solutions or related task I wanted to do.

I was really, really productive for few weeks...

Unfortunately, I quickly fallback to my old habits of listing todo... Simply because I don't give myself proper time to think about what I want to do.
It is pretty meaningless.

I have looked up before that the average person in 1914 worked 60-70 hours a week for a 2020 inflation adjusted wage of 5 dollars an hour. 60-70 hours a week in deplorable conditions.

At that time you basically worked to pay rent and buy food, then drank to find some kind of happiness.
I don't find switch or restore confusing? And also I never found checkout confusing, but that might only have been because I never realized it had multiple functions. I've been using it for both things (switching and restoring) for years, but I remember starting to read the article and thinking: how did I never notice this is the same command for two completely different things?! Maybe I used to know and now it's just not something I think about anymore? Either way, I can see how checkout can be seen as odd, but why switch or restore?
Entrepreneur Has Raised $230M to Reinvent Cooling Solutions with a Chip
existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649
Is the cookie web tracker dying?
Machine Translation Shifts Power
waiting for the next article, "I was CTO for 17 years, but couldn't code"
Not typing it with "checkout" gets in the way of good tab completion. At work we have at least tens of thousands of branches and if I hit tab after "git checkout file_path_prefix", my shell is going to freeze for a while, while tab completion is going over remote branches.
Yes, this truly doesn't tell anything about Turkey having very robust tech industry, and legions of very qualified engineers, many times the number of other countries their size.

Be him Erdo's in law, or not will not make any difference to Turkey having many other equally well performing heavy industry, and military hardware companies.

This is very distracting from the serious conversation when everybody keeps calling out one man's family status, having no bearing whatsoever on the wider industry as a whole, as a sole thing worth talking about Turkish industry.
I currently use a third-party git GUI (GitKraken atm) but I also use jetbrains products, am I missing out by not using the integrated git functionality? If so, is there a tutorial or guide you could recommend, or is it all fairly self-explanatory?
So, can we see the photo? Now I want to see it.
If you follow the link in the article to the EFF site, they basically warn that they no longer maintain a list of printers that have these dots, because every modern printer has these. Basically there are no options if you don’t want these dots.
Developers/designers are always torn between the competing priorities of preserving consistency and making a new interface the best it can be.
Would it be cheating to use Racket?

https://racket-lang.org/
Apple Yanks Anti-Vax Version of Tinder from the App Store
I wonder if HN’s demographics contributes to a general disdain for middle management because, from my non-software engineering point of view, software doesn’t need a lot of management to produce.

Hardware on the other hand, needs an organization layer on top of the production layer. Removing barriers, creating traceability, improving processes, and trying to get multiple different teams to work together efficiently.
Humanity better find a better system soon. It's not sustainable.
How do you end up with that many branches? It sounds like you keep every feature branch around forever. Keeping one around for a few months I get (although personally the sooner they're gone after rebasing or cherry-picking them the better), but this sounds like a full on history of every branch ever.
> And that One True Morality is from the Enlightenment

Probably not, because anything human will only be an approximation. It's probably a whole damn closer than the Chinese morality though.

> To suggest that there's somehow a single philosophy that's correct is quite pompous.
Why? In science we accept that there's one true way that any process can be described. Others might be entirely wrong (theory of Humors), or partially wrong, but useful (Newtonian physics). Why is the notion that there's on true moral framework so outlandish?
A third world country whose offshoring programmers are regularly mocked by the ivory tower SV elites can do voter id but not the world's richest country
"This was a large Government project" that's your problem right there :)
User education is the only long-term solution that also retains the freedom to use general purpose computation. Otherwise the market will differentiate into hyper-locked down, curated devices like the iOS but even stricter, and customisable ones targetting tech folk.

In the meantime browsers can include a list of all popular software vendor domains and flag users navigating to similar but different domains. This will not be the first or the last whitelist that browsers include.
Apple and GNOME are even better examples of why designers should not try to be designers. Now what options do we have left?
* Russian-leased ship under apparently untraceable ownership.

* Captain receives an order to make unscheduled stop for an undisclosed shipment. Which means the destination was never announced under the travel plan.

* Ship is impounded and intended shipment never arrived, yet owner shows no interest despite supposedly being fleeced.

* Government prevents any legal attempt to clear the cargo, yet leaves it unguarded.

* Cargo is pilfered by unknown people. Whatever they do with it is something that does not mind the poor storage conditions.

* Cargo turns out to be rather explosive.

* Did I mention there was a large civil war next door, and one side is a significant Russian ally?

Assuming a plot in this case is hardly unreasonable.
Yea it's terrible but she got 20 years while the man who beat her child got 11.
And thanks to the American moral leadership with drones innocent people will not be bombed. /s oh wait the US just put the Whistleblower that showed most US drone attacks kill innocent people in prison for 4 years. Our moral standing in the world is in the gutter which is extremely sad. Don't expect Turkey to be even close to the US moral standard. We are heading to a very sad future.