skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://draftable.com/compare is by far the best solution I've found for this, and it's a shame it's not more widely known about. It's not open-source, and their offline app is Windows only, but its ability to handle multi-page relayouts is far and above Acrobat's diff functionality (as the OP laments), and there's a free online version that's reasonably secure so long as you don't share the secret URL around. I've used it many times to obtain readable redlines when only given successive "baked" versions of a document, and it's a really useful tool for any B2B startup founder.
Then, let's push for a regulation where the researchers will go to jail if there is a data leak from there.

Surely the regulation should be non-controversial since the researchers are 100% trustworthy like you mentioned.

Unless there is such protection, FB is still liable.

For FB, if the researchers turn out to be good, FB will benefit nothing. If the researchers turn out to be bad, FB will be fucked. I wouldn't want to play this game either.
When I was young I hated that my manager asked me to email many times if it was important.

Nowadays I understand … it’s the a way to keep sane and to see what matters. Mainly in companies that have been around for decades with multiple products and many many people..
Yeah this is what a lot of “food science” is these days.
Having worked for more than a decade as a jury consultant on high profile patent lawsuits, I disagree. Big verdicts are mainly attributable to lawyering and the extent to which the judge construes the patent language.
This requires that you earn your income through a company under your control and that you can pay to setup a complicated tax avoidance scheme like that, and pay to defend it, and even then you may get it wrong and end up paying taxes and penalties.

I don't recommend trying things like this.

In this specific case I guess you'd make your money from the IP royalties in Costa Rica, so it may avoid the Canadian source income. I doubt it would stand up to scrutiny though, the courts would very likely see right through it.
Or maybe it’s people who didn’t do well in school don’t know what a fascist regime looks like.
Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, we just need to maintain momentum. EVs are headed on a similar path. Some economic activism is going to required to push against the cohort of populists who are specifically stuck on CO2 intensive activities (example activities might be buying and shuttering refineries, fossil infrastructure, etc).

Democracy mostly works, but some exception handling is required in this context.
Mexico USA border seems to a pretty strong example of a contemporary wall. Imagine what would happen if it was completely removed?
I think Cue[1] is a much more powerful and useful config format that also has the ability to generate validated JSON or YAML if needed.

[1]: https://cuelang.org
Interesting tidbits from the paper[0]:

Negritos diverged from Papuans 53kya!

They estimate the East Asian influx as being only about 2200ya!

Wild to imagine what pressures caused those two events.

[0] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)...
Note that the FTC consent decree does not require blocking like this: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/consumer-blog/2021/08/...
The Explosion of Metaverse Venture Capital
Author props up a straw nihilism so restrictive such that, if one held it, one would never communicate that fact (or anything else) to anyone.

Author is then surprised that it has no proponents among academics.

The reference to uncanniness is also kind of strange. That has a pretty specific meaning in philosophy (starting with Freud) which doesn't seem to apply here.

Oh, well. The rest of the book might be an interesting read.
I was testing out MicroK8s on Ubuntu, as a Snap. Regarding stability, I can't say, I didn't use it long enough. What really annoyed me is that it's confusing as hell. Files are no where near where you'd expect them to be. When things break and you need to go look for configuration files, you'll find that they are hidden deep down in /var. Snaps add a level of complexity I'm not comfortable with, while I gain very little.

I am pleasantly surprised by how cleanly Snaps uninstall though.
I question the same thing, and would like to know how accurate it is.

Is there any peer reviewed literature that supports this?
It's damn near impossible. I admire your restraint :)
I treat artificial sweeteners like I do mask wearing -- I'm not sure how much difference wearing a mask makes for my safety and safety of others, but I wear it anyway because it's a very minor inconvenience and it probably helps.

I avoid artificial sweeteners because I'm not sure if they have any detrimental effects, but I avoid them anyway because it's a minor inconvenience, and whether they are actually harmful or not, they are almost certainly not nutritious and good for me.

(of course the big difference is that wearing a mask almost certainly helps others more than myself)
Not unlike how Homeopaths, Spritualists, and extreme political practitioners can make their targets feel special and understood.
> There's no way to guarantee that the OS won't mess with your data, move it elsewhere, etc

I mean, "moving it elsewhere" is why you'd call into linux-apfs on every boot — to find out where the rootfs backing file's extent is living today. It might move around between boots, but it won't move while macOS isn't even running.

And this approach presumes that there exists an explicit file attribute for keeping a file single-extent / contiguous-on-disk (as far as the host-NVMe interface is concerned, at least.) Such an attribute does exist on NTFS, which is why WUBI continued to work there. I've never heard about such an attribute existing on APFS, which is why I said I'm not sure whether APFS "supports" this.

Usually there is such an attribute in most-any filesystem, though — it exists to be used with swap files, so that kernels can directly mmap(2) the disk-block range underlying the swap file rather than having every read/write go through the filesystem layer.

I know that macOS uses an APFS volume for swap (the "VM" volume), which is kind of interesting. Maybe in APFS, there isn't a per-file attribute for contiguous allocation, but rather a per-volume one?

In that case, it might be possible for the Linux rootfs to be an APFS volume, in the same way that the macOS VM volume is an APFS volume.
They still end up being the subject of jury trials, and the outcome is often not FRAND.
Does anyone know of good books or other resources to teach kids (7-10 years old) about the evolution of humans? Things like different homo species, how they are related, evidence that has been found, etc.
>It is cost free. It prevents people from filing it again. It provides insight into later problems. It provides a place where people can ask and offer advice on working around it. Sometimes an intractable bug becomes more tractable later. It can provide a clue to a later bug report. Sometimes someone new has a brainwave on how to fix it.

I have to disagree at 1) the assertion that it's cost free, and 2) it will prevent people from filling it again

re: 1) - it creates clutter, which at least to some individuals like myself, can be costly in the form of being overwhelming/frustrating/obstructive/etc. YMMV on cost:reward on keeping issues open indefinitely. There are other solutions like filtering, but if everyone is filtering out untouched issues, there's not much difference from closing it.

re: 2) is predicated on issue creators actually searching the entire backlog for a pre-existing issue, which they may or may not find.

I certainly agree that the issue itself should be kept in the tracking system, and continue to be able to be viewed and referenced for the reasons you state. Also consider that issues can be reopened if they were closed in error.
I am definitely feeling more inspired than jealous.
Can't you use ulimit for this? Finding out the exact flag combination might be gnarly
South East Asia became a key geo-polotical theater in the Cold-War right around that time. Hence two different East/West wars (Korea, Vietnam). US strategically became strong ally/supporter of S Korea and enormous growth in US/Korea trade policy, particularly textiles, dramatically grew S Korean economy.

1800s is a long time ago, but it's consequences continued long after. Debts were still being paid until almost 1950. It's easy to underestimate debt impact. US Debt to GD ratio, is about 100% and there is a lot of concern on long term US economic health. Venezuela is essentially a failing economy and is at 350%. France came and instituted a debt of 300% debt to GDP as reparations for slaveowners. That's essentially Venezuela territory.

What happened to Haiti between 1950s to 2010 was the Duvalier family who came to power on a movement that grew out of the US occupation of Haiti in the first half of the 1900s. Not the same, but similar to Castro coming to Cuba post US actions there, and Iran post US propping up the Shah of Iran, US occupation created a groundswell against. It took a bit more time, but it eventually enabled the Duvalier family dynasty. And they were horribly corrupt, but they rode the wave.

Haiti finally got rid of them and things started to look better. So why has it diverged from Vietnam since 2010? An enormous earthquake hit in 2010 and devastated the country. 3% of the population was killed. 15% of the population had their homes destroyed.
Agreed. This trendy new use of emojis everywhere, even in somewhat serious articles is quite off putting. It just seems juvenile and doenst add any substance or information to the content.
Debian has the alternatives mechanism for that kind of thing. It works quite well.
> More likely is that if you boot Linux, a driver bug will cause data corruption. We've had some reports of filesystem issues, though as I said the kernel tree situation is haphazard right now, so we'll see if they still happen once we put together a tree with properly vetted patches :)

Well that is another notable risk isn't it? If something goes wrong on the filesystem level (since you admitted it) then the worst case is that the OS and your important files become corrupted some how and it is back to recovery once again, if not then they will use Apple Configurator which requires another Mac.

Regardless, I would most certainly use another machine to test this, hence why I said 'use at your own risk', especially when the installation script is pre-alpha.

What is wrong with such a disclaimer?
F Eric haney (just passing along the feelings of a buddy that was with CAG for a time)
If you want to lay out a structured space of addresses you can without worrying how much it will cost. Of course other problems don't change.

It's been many years but most software I work with just works. Granted I don't work with a ton of old proprietary software.
Gino Strada, unsung hero to the poorest victims of war
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Yes I have a very tight group of friends I have maintained since grade school, and a very tight family. My brother also became self-made wealthy which is nice. I keep business associates separate from family and friends and don’t mentally believe my coworkers or business partners are friends even if I do friend-things with them. If someone is unhappy with my success no one has told me or dropped me. But I still believe in family above all things, and I invest a lot of time in the friendships I maintain, which is an old-school belief especially in tech.
46 percent higher than what? Do Australians have 0% of total? 50% of total?
I’m disturbed that he needed a for loop to compute 100*(1-0.9^10)
46% higher, but what total percentage of DNA is Denisovan?
Undoing in what way? Btw my friend hasn't changed in ways that I've noticed.
They didn't miss the point. They get the point.

Their point is that they don't care about that other point.
I have Facebook messenger app installed for the sake of a couple of people, and I check the Facebook main page once in a blue moon to respond to event invites from a friend.

Other than this I don't use Facebook at all any more and have used it very very little for the past several years.

I use a browser that tries to protect me from trackers and ads.

To me, this is what makes sense to do.

But they still get a significant amount of my attention because I use Instagram though.
Tangential: it would be nice if `@font-face sans-serif { … }` (likewise for other generic families) was a thing in user-injected stylesheets. Especially when you don’t have such options in UI.
If Debian were Windows, that would be 3+ millions of users with unbootable PCs.
It's maybe also speaking past what Racket really is?

It's first and foremost an academic project. It's not really the job of the core team - mostly academics - to implement a all those utilitarian bits on top of the language. Their job is to work on ideas in the design of the language itself.

Ideally, then, that work enables whatever wider community of non-academics it can attract to build web frameworks and database bindings and whatnot.

That said, I do get the impression that Racket hasn't done anywhere near as good a job of carrying things through to that second step as comparable communities such as Haskell and Pharo have. The rumor mill would seem to suggest that the project's leadership engenders an ivory tower culture; and perhaps there's something to that? By contrast, even as someone who still hasn't finished learning Pharo and isn't really active in its community, I've still managed to have some direct (if small) interactions with Stéphane Ducasse, and that does, in some subtle way, leave me feeling more personally motivated to contribute to the project.
In my opinion, the amount of risk taken on has a large role to play in the vast difference in outcomes. Starting a company would be like buying a bunch of lottery tickets. For every winner, there's a huge number of people who lost a ton of money or are just generally doing worse than if they had chosen a stable career. The key benefit of being an employee is protection from this risk. Contract work could be in between the risk/reward of a startup and the risk/reward of an employee. An employees could get paid significantly more doing the same kind of work on a contract basis, but a lot still choose the least risky option of being an employee. As an employee, you're not getting a million dollar check, but you do get consistency and a timely paycheck.

A fair wage doesn't necessarily have to be tied to the amount of money the founder receives.
Masks are far more annoying than seatbelts. I got vaccinated. I don’t mind wearing the mask in stores. But wearing it in a social environment does significantly alter the experience for the worse, in my opinion.

Why don’t we pay people to get vaccinated? And mandate that employers allow people to take days off if they are sick for a bit after the shot?
Exxon for example made a shockingly accurate prediction of global warming 40 years out in 1982. Critically emissions is cumulative so your annual emissions estimate may be less actuate over time but the difference between say 2x and 3x baseline annual emissions in 39 years only represents a small chunk of the total.
We have visual detection of very few of the exoplanets we have identified. Detection by wobble gives mass and orbital period. Detection by transit gives cross sectional area. Anything detected by transit is not a black hole, but anything we have only a detection by wobble we don't know the size, it could be a black hole.
Maybe that was the point? To temporarily re-divide the city as part of the ceremony?

If not intentional now, I can see that kind of thing happening in the future.
My dog won’t play with used balls. They have to be new or he’s not interested. We keep a bag of “used” balls and drop them off at the dog park after awhile and they seem to get used.

God this dog is spoiled.
The mass rapes and ethnic cleansing performed by the Soviet armies in the East gave the Germans an existential reason to embrace a distant benevolent empire. No such external threat exists in Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_German...
> For example, in USSR I remember wiping my ass with cut-up newspaper for months at a time.

As a Romanian who grew up as a kid in the '80s and the '90s I'm sort of glad that this was a shared Eastern-European experience, it's something that people from the other side of the wall will most probably never understand completely. When I was spending the summer at my grandparents me and my brother were sometime wiping our asses off with pages taken from "Munca de Partid" (roughly translated as "Party Work"), which was the official magazine of the Romanian Communist Party's Central Committee. Our granddad had been a communist mayor in the village and he had almost the entire collection of those magazines.

[1] https://www.cosminnasui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Munca...
It's annoying because it interrupts the flow of reading the text. Let me read an emojii article out loud:

Today I went to RIGHT ARROW the supermarket GROCERY BAG to get some groceries VEGETABLE and I saw EYE my friend WAVING HAND.
From a PR point of view it is probably not a very good idea to call yourself a troll.
Also it does not describe what these people are doing. Typical trolls do not really believe in what they write, they are just trying to start a flame-war.
The people that are described in this article obviously believe in what they write, and are using it to push back against the propaganda by big corporations.
The "AI" doesn't "know" anything.

GPT-3 is a big data version of autocomplete. Just has a much bigger database and longer training than any autocomplete on your phone. But it's the same idea.

There's no "knowledge" here.

If instead of calling GPT-3 "AI" and instead we called it "Mega-Autocomplete" would you be just as wonderous about the outcome?
He may think so, but it is one thing to agree that the disasters are making it hard for Haiti to grow and another to blame disasters as the sole reason for the current situation.

For me at least there is an important distinction.

I will give you an example.

There are children who had really tough childhood. Being extremely poor, having abusive parents, having misfortune, so on. Not their fault.

Some of them grow to be criminals but a lot of them grow to be good people.

"It is one thing to to agree that the childhood abuse made it hard for this kid to grow up to be a good man, and another to think it is the sole reason for his current situation."
To your point, I bought a food dehydrator recently and made a batch of dried apples. I was watching a movie and midway through realized that in my snacking while watching I had eaten 9 whole apples. That water content really prevents a lot of abuse.
DSL's have been proliferating as of late in the dev ops / IT space, such as with Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, etc. On the frontend we also have Vue.

I personally would've rather them use Lisp than tack on their own conditionals and loops and such.
Are there any (continental) philosophers you would recommend over Nietzsche? I keep trying to move past him and Stirner, but have not managed so far.
He claims hard sci-fi but his stuff is actually pretty soft.
Recognize that those millions probably have very little impact on his actual happiness, and don't let them steal your happiness.

Life isn't a leaderboard. Assuming you're making a comfortable tech salary, you probably already have as much happiness as money can buy. Give your energy and attention to other things.
UI discoverability has massively declined with the advent of touch UIs though. You can't hover a UI item to see what it does, and there's a lot of non-intuitive "magic swipes" and hidden UI elements in smartphone UIs which you just have to know about.
Nihilism can be a positive force in people's lives.

Nihilism allows me to not take anything too seriously because I know that nothing is important and everything will end eventually.

Surprisingly, it can also be a source of altruism.
For example, I know that once I'm dead, I will be nothing. My consciousness will be destroyed permanently and all my achievements will cease to be my own since I will have no connection at all to the universe or my former identity.
Any trace I leave behind in the universe might as well have been left behind my someone else who is not me.

The fact that when we die, we all end up in exactly the same state of absolute nothingness gives me compassion towards fellow humans and other conscious creatures. We are all the same in the end; nothing.

It also helps me to enjoy life more because from a nihilist perspective, every second of my life seems to defy the foundation of my belief system. Even though I know consciously that this sense of meaning is just an illusion in my primal brain.
That framing gets my anti-colonialist emotions stirring.

I guess it depends which myth you're more likely to subscribe to, the 'white savior' or the 'noble savage' (please don't mistake this post for advocating those tropes)

Edit: Getting downvoted to hell because people are so sensitive and think I'm implying early homo sapiens were light-skinned. That's silly and I probably should have just not posted anything in a conversation like this where everyone is looking to be offended. That said I'm leaving this here for context.
Based on the examples they gave in the news report, it appears their motivation is partisan. So they intentionally pick one party line to conduct a “research” on “disinformation”. What exactly do they want to know from this “research”?