skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can. Contracts are simply bargaining for promises to do or not do something. Here, the “order” is the licensee promising not to do something.
I wonder how much of it is driven by the company leadership owning very expensive real estate that would lose a lot of value once tech workers are not forced to spend money into those rental or real estate markets.
Project Pegasus – Individuals listed, targeted, or compromised
We can't keep pretending that our justice system is utilitarian. It's so very clearly not about helping those that commit crimes improve themselves. If it was, we wouldn't be punishing people with literal torture methods such as solitary, and we wouldn't care so much about being 'tough on crime'. We need to refocus our justice system on the criminalization process so that we reduce the importance of 'correctional' facilities. There is nothing utilitarian about the above story, let's not deceive ourselves.
The only visual git tool I really like is gitextensions for windows.
GP probably meant that people pay more and more for apps. They buy more apps or more expensive apps or more people buy apps. In other words, even with rate staying the same Apple has ever increasing revenue from the App Store.
I wrote an algorithm to determine what the most performing cryptocurrencies are
> Anyone who writes software knows that supporting older systems starts becoming more and more expensive.

With last quarter's profit at $16.5B (+47%), running an activation server for their flagship product can indeed be a challenge.
> Ever start a new job with a bulk of code you didn't write? Worse, ever take over code written by novices who ignore common conventions?

Yes, I have seen lots of this in scientific computing. However, things like too many/not enough spaces, line widths, etc, are never a huge hindrance for me.

What does make code "hard to read" are things like bad and inconsistent variable/function/class names, bad inheritance practices, bad file organization, and not adhering to common language idioms. That stuff is rarely, if ever, caught by linters.

Great talk by Raymond Hettinger about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
Weren't the main grip about that movie was about the lab leak theory that’s now mainstream? It seems a little harsh to call this misinformation as a negative light.
Huawei P50 Pro
On Cooling the Mark Out
Then every printer would just have the warning, making it useless like the California Prop 65 warning label. Seems like everything is labeled with a prop 65 warning, and I for one completely ignore it because it doesn’t provide useful information (beyond ‘everything will kill you, good luck’). The printer manufacturers would say that the registration is super important and it’s critical to get their spammy low ink level warnings or something.
What a disgusting and condescending article. Basically saying we should be grateful that printer companies give us cheap printers so they can bleed us for the ink.

Printers suck because it's the only physical thing we ask computers to do, and it's a difficult thing. But that doesn't excuse the fact that printer companies don't give a single shit about the user experience.
This is an interesting angle I hadn’t considered but I think their net worth is likely pretty diversified. If not then weighted on stocks over real estate.
Good points. But the story probably isn't complete without mentioning how Erdogan has transformed Turkey from a secular democracy to an islamic something?
What means being right about the lab leak theory?
Nobody is asking them to stop updating the software, or to implement additional things to support old versions. They are merely asked to continue to run the infrastructure they imposed on the software, or if they wish to stop doing that, provide alternative solutions.
I don't know how else to word it. Every thread about D has people going on and on and on and on about the GC, and they aren't always wrong (there is always good information here) but fundamentally it doesn't matter. Many D programmers come from PHP rather than C++ - D isn't attractive to them because of systems programming but rather high level programming e.g. metaprogramming.
Georgia Minute by Minute
Reverse Waterfall
On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal (2005)
I like this headline "Is Turkey's Military a Drone Superpower?" - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/turkeys-military-dron...

They base this not on the drones but it's drone designed munitions, the MAM-L missile

Here is one of many videos of combat footage from the Ministry of Republic of Azerbaijan Defence channel, it is graphic of people dying - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUB3TLnpiWY

People claim it's the MAM-L, but I can't confirm.

One comment is Azerbaijan got a lot of footage because it uses drones, Armenia did not. The propaganda alone is interesting.

I'll say it again DARPA Subterranean Challenge is for urban warfare, because you can see in the videos they are running a MAM-L (I assume) into the bunker openings, subterranean is a solved problem. Cities are the only places left to hide.

I would not be underestimating Turkey's reach, but it's not "supersonic, stealth, 1.5 tons payload" if it's possible, it's continuing its cheap, light and willing to sell model.

If anyone recognises the missiles Azerbaijan are using in their videos are not Turkeys I'd be interested. Can you identify off the software or do drone operators use generic software?
> You make it sound like you don't think people (or corporations) should be able to own property.

Ideas aren't property. Copyright law, patent law, trademark law, service mark law… they used to be very different to property law, and for good reason. “Intellectual property” is the power to silence your critics, sue your competitors and profit from other people's work – if you have enough money to throw your weight around. (Contrast with copyright, which lets you get a cut from those publishing your work; or trademark, which protects your professional reputation…)
The Shine Starts to Come Off President Macron (2017)
I think it's that the companies themselves own expensive real estate, campuses, etc.... not necessarily the leadership.
In praise of defensive football
just to keep the non-serious stuff together, this topic always reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1116670170980859905
“I'm sure the US is guilty too”

I’m tired of this assumption being treated as intellectually valid. Where is the proof? Maybe we did stuxnet, but that’s a far cry from solarwinds and other high profile incidents (OPM) that hurt innocent citizens. The US is better because we have more regard for ethics in our system than does a totalitarian or despotically ruled quasi-legitimate regime.
- That was hardly a theory limited to them. Many people were saying that that was a possibility right from the start, including me, and I’m not a conspiracy theorist.

- There still isn’t conclusive evidence on that question, unless I’m missing something

- A broken clock is right twice a day
The sea was never blue (2017)
Fork has its advantages too (and a slicker UI if that matters for you)
> [...] Often contrasted with traditional single-library dead code elimination techniques common to minifiers, tree shaking eliminates unused functions from across the bundle by starting at the entry point and only including functions that may be executed.

Assuming, that methods of classes count as "function" in the terminology of that wiki page, then it seems to say methods of a class are shaken out. If they are not seen as functions (again, in that terminology), then I guess not.
Well, Friedman says inflation is driven by the money supply, which is partly true. But it's also true that a shrinking money supply is associated with both deflation and recession/depression.
No, version control is not simple, never was. git was the first vcs that didn't suck because it was the first tool that understood the nature of the problem. All others were ass backward and instead of solving the problem stood in the way and actively made things worse.
"It is well-established that a complex set of conditions and factors enable people to adopt beliefs in conspiracy theories, including personality types, heuristics, and cognitive biases to sociological factors such as level of education and political orientation"

It's true. Some fools will believe that Covid was a grand plan by the elites to control society, while other fools will believe that the 2016 election was stolen by the Rooskies -- both for the reasons cited above, right? Or, I wonder if the author meant only "those people" (i.e. conservatives). I'm betting on the latter.
I just bought a new printer and got me the Epson EcoTank. No more printer on subsidy. You a a bit more but it got delivered with a set of ink bottles (no more cartridges) and now that I filled it I should be able to print for the next 3 years (that's how much ink these bottles contain). The ink is not super cheap but then again: they contain 10 times more ink than the old cartridges...
Ok, well, if not rich, it sounds like you have the choice of buying or renting. Lucky you! I don't know anyone who has that choice. The person I responded to initially only meant, I guess, that some people who have the choice, prefer renting. Hm..but they were also talking as if people without the choice, like renting:

> it would be nice to live in a world where everyone is wealthy and capable enough to own and maintain their home. But there are actually people who like to rent

It just sounds like landlord's rationalizations. Also, the landlords here don't "take care of building..the house"—that happened 100-150 years ago or so.
Sublime merge would have been a good suggestion in this scenario. It's UI uses standard git terminology and concepts, so you'd have been sneakily trainig them in the command line whilst they used the UI!
Steve Jobs was actually asked in an interview about Foxconn, and while he said suicides are horrible, they aren’t out of line with the general population statistically. Even though that was widely considered unfeeling.
Except those supposed broken clocks have been right more than that
I think this has been going on forever. I've had to deal with folks since the dawn of time who want to just try and make the geekiest new nerd tech out there part of their project because they want to screw around with something fun. It doesn't matter if it's 10x more complex or hard to support, it's a new toy to play with so folks want to use it.

You have to filter those people out as being unreliable, and also when dealing in enterprise level companies also keep out of the room the complete and utter idiots who have no idea what they are talking about and haven't touched any of the tech hands on in decades but want to also throw up road blocks to everything you propose.
Internet Growth Statistics 1995 to 2021
Any clue as to why the film was made and distributed in the first place and who funded it?
I agree, its alot of trust to put into your only safety. A good comparison, the Rope Access industry (windmills, arenas, etc) has a zero-fatality rate due to training, but also because they are always double roped.
How crypto uses open banking?
Learnfun and playfun: a general technique for automating NES games (2013)
Look no further:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zpbXpHWSB0

But I don't really think its cost effective.
Or renting very expensive office space in various cities that have harsh terms for breaking said lease.
> I'm advocating for understanding - not low level, at least high level.

It sounds a lot like you mean low-level, not high-level, though?

There’s more than enough to be achieved by just knowing the tree concept of git, and using a GUI to visualize it while running the basics - checkout, commit, branch, rebase, etc.
FTA:

> Without artificial fertilizers, hydroponic equipment from the Soviet Union was no longer usable. Instead, this was converted for the use of organic gardening. The original hydroponic units, long cement planting troughs and raised metal containers, were filled with composted sugar waste, thus turning hydroponicos ("hydroponics") into organopónicos.

So it seems the name might come from the composted sugar waste that was used as an organic substrate for the plants to grow on (as opposed to the prior water-based hydroponics systems).

Therefore it seems the name might not be related to "organic farming" etc. as we tend to see in the West.
What I find very disappointing is that instead of addressing this misinformation and actively informing the people as well explaining to them (without being condescending, a huge issue IMO) why what is being reported is untrue we decided to just ban these people from discourse fueling the conspiracies.

Things are not always black and white and we as a nation need to understand that. Nothing is 100% but that is ok. No one is 100% good or evil, we all have our flaws and we need to deal with that.

Only because someone believes something "stupid" doesn't make them unable to change their mind.

I have talked to many who did not want to get vaccinated. I never told them they should, I respect their choice. I did inform them and answer uncertainties that they heard about and had. I also listened and acknowledged the concerns they had, even ones that are completely baseless but I was diplomatic about it. You can tell someone they are wrong without throwing it in their face or making them feel like an idiot. To my surprise a lot of these people ended up getting vaccinated which was never really a goal of mine.

EDIT: if you are down voting me please explain why.
Can't they just sell real estate? I mean, remote working is not a thing for the vast majority of jobs out there, so office space is still a valuable asset. So if you are in IT and have offices that are not going to be used (because your employees want to work from home) then just sell/rent it to other companies in which their employees cannot work from home.
1. In real life, you shake real trees, to get fresh fruit.

2. In JS, you shake fake trees, to shed bad fruit.

3. Common wisdom says: "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

Therefore, all JS dependency trees are rotten. /s
Well after seeing that Facebook is now censoring links from CDC.gov [0] and now this, it seems that you are going to get banned regardless of whatever the algorithms say about the guidelines. [1][2] You can get banned for no reason other than 'guidelines' and they can edit and alter them ahead of the ban. Good luck trying to appeal this.

This is all fine right?

At this point, it is time to delete your accounts off of these websites.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003635

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28005238
> And there’s not a single young programmer that cares about that. Seriously. You’re young, you want to do a fun project, your managers are saying, in three months I need this thing done. You do whatever you want to do. Well, they get it done. And then you have new a data silo.

Ironically in this one quote that is the basis for the entire article and headline claim, it’s not even the young programmer at fault. It’s the manager. They set a tight deadline, they want it done in three months, you do what you have to do, etc. It’s the manager’s responsibility in this case to specify they want it hooked up to some kind of data mesh.

I’ll directly refute the whole article by saying that in my experience as a young developer, I try to suggest doing projects in a more “strategic” “long-term” way even at the expense of requiring a bit more time to refactor and complete, and my grizzled 40-year old manager shuts me down.

Because he’s being judged by upper management on how many features he ships and how much the product has advanced, and not on the level of crust or techdebt in the stack. It would look bad for his release velocity.

But I guess that’s why I’ve never heard of AllegroGraph. Because they’re busy selling to 40-year-olds who are set in their ways and don’t want to rock the boat, instead of new talent that is still adaptable and searching for new ideas.
Because not fighting for your intellectual property has legal value, and even more PR value. Given the /s i am not sure this was not a joke.
Would if I could. HN doesn’t let me edit after so many hours.
I've noticed an interesting congruity - people in the FIRE community tend to target saving two-thirds of a modern western income, with most finding that living on less than one-third begins to have serious impacts on quality of life. From some studies I came across while studying sustainable energy it also seems as though a well-designed community in which residents make certain lifestyle choices can reduce resource requirements by around two-thirds.

Most people in the FIRE community of course work more than the minimum long enough to save money and then join the investor class, without doing paid work at all from that point - but it's fascinating to think that we could all reduce work and lifestyles by two-thirds in a sustainable, ongoing way.
There are four Americas.

Left fools, right fools, the people in charge and the people who aren’t in charge and are not fools.

The final group seems to be growing, as the lunacy of the others increases.
My experience also supports this. I think resolving complicated merge conflicts is the best argument for using an IDE with Git. My experience of having to maintain a fork of a code base where there was frequently a lot of conflicts showed that I would reach for IntelliJ to resolve complicated conflicts even if it wasn’t Java files. The 3 window visualization they use is just great for seeing conflicts in large files that span hundreds of lines of code.

I use the terminal commands for everything else though.
It’s clear russiagate was a disinformation campaign which was also a convenient cope for all those people that were losing their minds that America could elect Trump.
> In the end I recreated the document from scratch in LibreOffice. I should have done it years ago to be honest.

If it's really important, Recreate in Latex or HTML+CSS if possible, more future-proof this way.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020...
I’d be more inclined to think this article is part of a disinformation campaign.
This is why zoning is really bad. Those company could have converted some of those space into housing. Provide it to the employee as benefit for cheap/free. I believe quite significant number of employee would happily live on campus.
I think the article is over-simplifying, I believe most tree-shaking is done at the `import`/`export` boundaries.

Code that isn't used locally in a module and is not imported by any other modules is omitted.

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It helps that there isn't a global object for the local module scope, otherwise in-module dead code detection would also not be possible, since any line of code within it could use dynamic access and static analysis wouldn't be able to prove that it isn't used.
I was a pretty big emacs fan in undergrad about 15 years ago. Since then it seems like editors/ides have advanced and eaten emacs’s lunch, and I can barely understand my own .emacs anymore due to disuse.

Org mode is the one thing that keeps me interested in emacs, but every time I try to get into it I get hit by emacs anachronisms.

I’ve not used this tool or Roam, but are there modern org-mode front ends?

Aquamacs is a macOS-flavored emacs distro, but it still intentionally feels like emacs. I’d really like an “org-mode-only” app that feels modern and lets me forget I’m using emacs under the covers.
For that reason, laser blinding weapons are banned by international treaty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_W...
> Figuring out what "properly" means is the whole problem with git.

I think you've missed OPs point by focusing too much on a single word ('properly'). Yes, there's no clear-cut way on how to use git, no silver bullet, but the main problem with git is that most devs simply panic when they have to do anything that goes beyond the bog-standard commit/pull/push/merge. Rebase? Squash? Reset? Rebase interactively? I think OP was referring to this cluelessness with 'not using properly', rather than which approach to git is the best.

I work on a monorepo with 40-something other devs, and we've recently switched to enforced linear history because the history got to the point of being completely useless, it was an unreadable spiderweb. The problem was not that folks didn't see that what they were doing was not-so-good (introducing often more merge-commits with every PR than non-merges), it was that they had no clue how to avoid that.

It took us quite a bit of time to get everyone up to speed but pretty much everyone got around to it after a while. It's not rocket science after all.
I was wondering the other day: Without the Internet and round-the-clock updates via Twitter, Facebook, etc - Would the pandemic be as pertinent in people's minds?

Social media is still relatively new, and the pandemic was amplified way more than it should have been IMHO. Nothing to tweet about? Tweet about COVID. No dramatic headlines to conjure up if you're a news outlet? COVID it is.

The pandemic didn't need 'campaigns', for it is its own campaign. With little effort it has graced news outlets' headlines for nearly 2 years now.
I was going to comment on the same part of the article, but you’ve summarized my thoughts perfectly.

Especially being a manager (the CEO), you’d think he’d be more self-aware of the problem while spelling it out so clearly.
> I'd be pretty pissed if I bought a copy of the product with a perpetual license, and the seller switched it off by turning off "activation".

I delayed paying for a certain piece of software I really needed (Tripmode for MacOS) because it uses online activation.

Having software NOT require online activation (I don't care if there's offline activation) makes me 1000x more likely to pay for it, honestly.
TJ uses a "holistic admissions" process. This is not race agnostic. This is the same kind of admissions process that Harvard uses, for example. TJ now uses a "Graduate Portrait" with criteria like "ethical citizen" which supposedly measures how an applicant, "Acknowledges and understands diverse perspectives and cultures when considering local, national, and world issues" . These sorts of personality scores are used as proxies for race.

Lawsuits are already moving forward to challenge this admissions process: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jeffer...
> This license is not written by a legal expert, I suspect.

FWIW, it's written by Kyle Mitchell [1], an attorney. It's just that he places particular emphasis on writing his licenses in plain language, not legalese.

[1]: https://kemitchell.com/
Long live EcoTank.
Ideas to Stay Consistent in Your Learning Journey
That's unfair. Imagine that we suddenly find out that Kennedy was not assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, but that one of the alternative explanations was accurate - you could still write down those same three bullet points, and by doing so, you would unjustly deflect from the outrage of getting it wrong the first time around. Sometimes you just have to take things on the chin, hold people accountable, and learn from it.
I'm sorry to hear that happened. I am preparing for that exact scenario (we live in an area with wildfires), which is what brought me to that link. Did you have any trouble being reimbursed? Did they cover everything? How long did it take?
Wow, that was really involved. The breakthrough seemed to be him seeing the through-hole via with the microscope where no branch in the circuit was supposed to exist. That is, after a whole bunch of dead-end exploratory exercises. Feels like the Pine folks should ship him a thank you package of goodies.
Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine, 746 million euros