skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my sibling comment. You don't need a consensus. You can list multiple perspectives and have them coexist. That's how we have to do with religion for example. There can't be a consensus there clearly, so we share all perspectives. Facts of life such as what's on Wikipedia should be edited as well as narrated by a variety of sources so that it represents the diversity of humankind
Let me just spend the next 15 minutes reading the man page for dd. But before that, let me figure out what a terminal is.

A few minutes later...

"The dd utility copies the standard input to the standard output. Input data is read and written in 512-byte blocks. If input reads are short, input from multiple reads are aggregated to form the output block. When finished, dd displays the number of complete and partial input and output blocks and truncated input records to the standard error output."

Excuse me, what?
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Are there some downsides to using Gcode or something? Or are some of these other toolchains just different approaches?
major useful software like numpy and pandas were using 0.x versions for a long time. They were useful for all that time, and books were written, but they have now both come over to 1.x versions (pandas more recently than numpy).
EdgeDB employee here. This is our final beta release, which will be followed swiftly by a release candidate in a couple weeks, then a stable 1.0 shortly thereafter. (Finally!)

A brief overview of what we're trying to do: we think some of the design choices in SQL are holding back relational DBs from providing the best possible developer experience. Namely: non-composable syntax[0], the lack of a standardized mechanism for declarative schema modeling, and the lack of a first-party migrations system. The lack of these things is deeply felt, as evidenced by the popularity of ORMs (despite their tradeoffs).

We're aiming for a unified DX, with first-party tooling/syntax for declaratively defining your schema[1], generating and applying migrations[2], and writing queries with EdgeQL. EdgeQL is a spiritual successor to SQL that’s composable, compact, and eliminates the need for foreign keys/JOINs (as it’s deeply integrated with our graph-like schema modeling system). A quick overview of the syntax is here[3].

We’ve received a lot of great feedback on HN over the years. Feel free to check out some recent threads about the design of EdgeQL[4] and the limitations of SQL[5].

[0] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/data-modeling

[2] https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/migrations

[3] https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/edgeql

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27793398

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106608
Original source code of various Commodore computers and peripherals
Understood... yes, it's all subjective, even if that screenshot makes me vomit a little!

FWIW, you aren't showing that text often overflows it's textbox and you can't actually see what's in it without putting your cursor in and moving it to the end of the text. They didn't have the concept of expanding to fit content back then? or maybe most corporations can't afford the oracle consultant that will do it for them ! :-) It's OK though, most of the time you can just export to excel with a few clicks.

Of course, such applications require lots of tuning, and though they might have been cozy 20 years ago, they seem harsh and burdensome today because no one bothers to change stuff any more. You're just supposed to conform to it.
NYC is so different from the rest of the US when it comes to transit, it seems like a bad baseline.
Get over yourself haha.
Mytv/primevideo: mytv code primevideo.com mytv
Makes sense that a cockpit wouldn't need a clear distinction between brackets and parenthesis, or |. But I am surprised about the similarity of 0 and O. I recall when I went to the ATC academy they really drilled in using a horizontal slash through zeros when hand-written. Also had to underline the letter S in any case where it could be ambiguous with the number 5 (as in a plane's tail number). I think we also had to put a horizontal strike through the letter Z to distinguish it from a 2.
> How long until media players and display devices are hashing all of our media to check for copyright violations.

Heard Sony TVs doing it right NOW.
> If you own a house, add rooftop solar. It can be financed pretty easily these days.

Before you do that, check where and how your power is generated. You might never break even (carbon-wise) on your solar roof.

If your energy is already clean, gas heating and electric cars are the way to go. EVs are getting better and better, especially if you have two cars, check if one of them isn't only used to make small sub 100 miles trips.
And 2015.
Yeah, the new tabs are a bit of a waste of real estate.
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
But it's totally a valid option to have an app that is a web app and does not have push notifications. For the vast majority of apps regardless of platform, I absolutely do not want push notifications. It seems bizarre to consider that feature as a litmus test for whether the web is a usable platform on iPhones. Would you also require web apps to appear in the App Store in order to consider a web as a usable platform on iPhones?
Is the mRNA vaccine not a gene therapy drug which essentially carries instructions on how to make the spike protein?
It would be criminal to drop spyware onto a product sold by an individual to a company.
"In all browsers except Chrome, IndexedDB is implemented using SQLite". That's a strange way to phrase the status quo. That is Firefox and ... Opera? While Chrome includes Edge.
So is SWC integrated in 11.1? Or is it still _being_ integrated? As in, will I see the performance improvements from SWC by upgrading, or is this just the groundwork for it to be more widely integrated?
Considering the amount of SWATing we've seen in the news, the police are an agent of anyone capable of dialing 911, not just the wealthy.

Actually, one could argue the police are more likely to respond with greater exuberance when responding to a reported hostage situation in a mansion vs. trap house.
Not relevant to the general topic, but, from that article, TIL Pakistan has a city named Jacobabad (cf. Islamabad), which was indeed named after a (British) Jacob.
> Apple has no "plan B," it's China all the way for them

I know many people who work, or worked for Apple on the hardware side.

I assure you, Apple has "plan B," and it been trying executing on it relentlessly for the last 2 years — just without any success.

Vietnam's total electronics industry output is like a single district in Dongguan. The supply chain is very, very immature there, despite it already towering above any other place in developing Asia, but China.

If what my buddies tell me of Apple's internal assesment of countries is correct, no other countries are even close to a 2nd place alternative on that, except for Taiwan, which is their "plan C" — a sure to work, but expensive option if everything else fails.
This article talks about non-English Wikipedia sites, but it's worth noting that the co-founder of Wikipedia (the other one, not Jimmy Wales) no longer trusts the English site either.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU
Basic critical thinking skills would tell you that Apple would spend millions of dollars developing something that isn't making them any more money. The most obvious explanation is that the government is pressuring them to somehow.

As far as the attack goes, I have a few more details, but I'd rather no reveal them since I could be violating confidentiality somehow. I understand why you'd be skeptical.
One struggle I have is how to simultaneously embrace uncertainty and take responsibility for the impact of my actions. A high amount of uncertainty makes me feel like I’m a chef taking chicken thighs out of a warm fridge.

I think there is a time to just say “no” — even if we fear that others will accuse us of overthinking.
Look, you still aren't addressing the issues I'm raising.

>> What are we doing now to prevent a grim future?
> Simple - not use it.

You are not using it already. Didn't stop TikTok from getting to the #1 spot. Saying "it's bad, don't use it" works about as well as abstinence-only sex-ed.

>I think the point there is that until a new biz model comes up for social media there is always an incentive to abuse privacy (Facebook/IG) or be abused for surveillance by a gov't.

OK? We aren't talking about that.

What I am saying is that people don't use a social network because of its business model and privacy stance. You might, and you are not representative (again, #1 app!).

If a non-evil, different-business-model social network springs up, it would need to have the good sides of TikTok for users to switch. Otherwise it will fail.

Do you understand that if you want TikTok to fail, you need to understand why people are flocking to it in droves? Queer/disabled/neurodivergent people in particular?

>It's entertainment.

If you only see TikTok as entertainment at this point, after I went to more than extensive detail about the value it brings beyond that, I perceive it as staying willfully ignorant by choice.

>There are more suitable alternatives (reading books, watching movies, etc.)

Suitable for whom? Again, you can only speak for yourself here. My point is that there are no suitable alternatives for large groups of people, particularly neurodivergent/disabled people and folks with mental health issues.

I have written a lot specifically to convey the point that both the value they get on TikTok (beyond entertainment) and the barriers they face elsewhere are not well understood here, and spent quite some time writing about both.

If you could do me a favor and re-read the entire thread before arguing further, I'd feel like my efforts to explain both the value and the barriers were not in vain.

>that have far less evil externalities.

FYI, shifting the burden of responsibility for the externalites onto the shoulders of consumers has not worked once. We have seen this with environmental damage, transportation, smoking, and so on. (If you want to argue about that, let's do it in a different thread, and please look up some examples before trying to reason about what "should" and "should not" work).
On a side note: I love the example with the airtravel time series (# of passengers). It fits almost perfectly but I love to see how it holds up with data from around March 2020 until now ;-).

Disclaimer: studied econometrics so I will try do this on my own :D
>The final reason to get the vaccine is that it's common to have the virus with no symptoms and still spread it. Even if you're willing to bear the risks of infection yourself, are you willing to make this choice for others? (Or else self-quarantine?) With "breakthrough cases" becoming more common, the vaccinated can't be assured of safety unless everyone else gets the vaccine too.

Is there sufficient evidence to support that the vaccine reduces transmission? If not, then you're not helping anyone but yourself by taking the vaccine.
Something the whole Apple kerfluffle has revealed to me is how many services were already scanning for CSAM in the cloud and reporting to authorities. E.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft. I consider myself tech-literate and had not known about this.

Are there other types of material or kinds of activity that cloud services might already be scanning for, but might not have much public awareness?
Interesting behind the scene take on crypto trading markets.
The difficulty isn't for folks like you and myself - curtailed, very conspicuous, TCO-conscious consumption is not that hard if one has the brain cycles and will to defy a lot of social norms. But given the efficacy of advertising campaigns and how spending tends to go up with income it's clear that people spend more on average when they make more money even with more time and brain cycles to spare.

As someone that's had a great deal of difficulty justifying a lot of longer lifespan timeline consumption patterns due to moving constantly weighing living circumstances and career I'd say that difficulty varies considerably for households even when one's aware of the TCO. I'm not going to tell an undocumented migrant family that they can just save more and spend less with more conspicuous consumption like buying a reliable econobox car like I did. Decisions and habits are also much easier when one has a partner or support system aligned with one's longer term goals and habits. It seems quite tone deaf to outright declare all of these factors are simply "easy" because it is easy for one's own intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
Specifically, I think SEV is lacking attestation that would be needed for DRM.
Does this leave anything possible?
Ask HN: Webm/propes is good for animation?
I know this is a joke, but...

Honestly, nobody gives a damn about software version numbers outside the developer world.

Do you think your endusers care about semantic or zero versioning? Probably not.

I liked the Ubuntu (or previously msoffice) approach, as people can predict when new software is going to be released, and they immediately know how old an installation is.

Maybe someone should propose a year / datetime based versioning scheme here...
The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing
>The U.S. military maintained and fueled-up all of those tanks and jets for 20 years in Afghanistan and accomplished nothing.

The subsidies aren't protection against this scale of military action. It's a protection against a real war where the enemy has the ability to cut off our international supply lines or where are suppliers themselves are the enemy. This is the exact reason we subsidize corn farms.

It's very analogous to the PPE shortage we just had in the US because we outsourced all of our manufacturing to countries that took first dibs before exporting.

>What is more important, climate change or the fuel supply of tanks?

To the existence of the US government, tanks and airplanes are a more immediate need.
If you're concerned about a web site silently having access to personal data from your phone, surely it doesn't matter whether that web site is storing it silently in your device's browser storage, or storing it on the web site's servers.

If, on the other hand, you're explicitly uploading or entering data on a web site, well then yes, the default assumption would certainly be that the data is getting saved on the web site's servers (if it's being saved at all). That's how the web has worked for a very long time, with the exception of cookies and a few other more recent but not widely known storage mechanisms which in most cases aren't considered sufficiently robust for persistent on-device storage.
This is like those Californian appeals to shower less to save water, when some ridiculous majority of water use comes from irresponsible agriculture. You can tell they are bullshit, and as a result through a 'crying wolf' effect they weaken the power of better informed calls to action.

Aviation contributes a relatively small amount of emissions in the transportation sector, which in turn also contributes about 1/4. So why does it have to go? Why not attack the actual big problems first? That would be passenger vehicles and medium/large trucks. I am pretty encouraged by where the industry is going so far, even if the trucking sector is not as far ahead as the passenger cars seem to be.
... and "slaveni" comes again from "slovo".
You need to see their original Chinese documents and compared with documents that are talking about what @yorwba said and documents specific about surveillance.
Chinese watching is hard.
The article doesn't describe a language problem, but an abuse one - Wikipedia does not have effective tools to deal with misinformation for topics/pages with a small readership/number of editors.

Machine translation doesn't fix that; it changes the nature of the bias and which targets count as niche.
I’m reminded of Moxie Marlinspike’s comment about emails that come with a PGP signature.
Sure, and I can do that, at least in Firefox.

https://superuser.com/questions/318912/how-can-i-override-th...
5% of $10/ride would be $0.50/ride. Maybe they could charge a $0.50/ride flat fee for rides under $10. CC processing fees, retail, are about 3% and $0.30 each, so that can be added on to uber's cut as well.

They did 5B rides in 2020. At $0.50/ride, that's $2.5B. That's enough to pay 1k employees $1M, and still leave $1.5B for infrastructure, business expenses, and profit. It's also a business that requires no on-going capital other than operating costs, it's not like they buying steel and stamping out widgets, it's practically free money.

Right now, their revenue is over $2/ride, so what are they doing with all that cash? Nothing useful.
It's not even a 'struggle'. The truth is that whatever system a society uses for its measurements in daily life does not matter, as long as they are consistent. It is perfectly fine to have all of science and medicine using metric while people use miles and gallons in daily life.

Whenever someone decries that the US has not adopted SI, they always do it with a sense of "oh my gosh, just look at how backwards we are", without ever realizing how much we actually have adopted metric.
And this isn't analytics/surveillance?

- "We collect information about how you use our Service, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities"

- "Includes name of the device, operating system, and browser you are using"

- "Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site"
"providing a richer inbox experience"

Nobody on the planet wants this.
> But what if we could ensure that everyone across the globe saw the same page? What if we could create one universal Wikipedia — one shared, authoritative volume of pages that users from around the world could all read and edit in the language of their choice?

> This would be a technological feat, but probably not an impossible one. Machine translation has been quickly improving in recent years and has become a part of everyday life in many non-English-speaking countries. Some Japanese users, rather than read the Japanese version of Wikipedia, choose to translate the English Wikipedia using Google Translate because they know the English version will be more comprehensive and less biased. As translation technology continues to improve, it’s possible to imagine people from all over the world will want to do the same.

IIRC, Wikipedia used to have a machine translation utility, but they canned it because the results were so bad, and actually had a project to clean up the mess.

I think the issue is that machine translation is usually pretty good, but also frequently introduces significant errors (e.g. missing or misapplying a negation, which totally inverts the meaning of a sentence).
didn't know about Google takeout
still I'd prefer if it was just accessibile from Drive
Yeah, AirBnB definitely originally traded on the idea of the kind of hosting associated with a traditional B&B, but that was pretty typical of the exaggerated “sharing” marketing of regulation-dodging two-sided marketplaces (Uber’s “ridesharing” being the other poster boy for this,)
"Slippery slope" is so overused that we forget the original analogy. It needs to have a pressure in one direction and very little to resist that pressure. That is, it has to have a slope and that slope has to be slippery.

In this particular case, it's a slipper slope on which we already have a ton of momentum.
Cast iron is excellent for storing a lot of heat and then releasing it over a long period of time for searing things, etc. I love my cast iron cookware. But it's not a good choice for more delicate cooking where you want to change the temperature of the pan quickly and temperature control matters. Copper is noted for this and is popular in professional kitchens for precisely this reason. And gas allows you to tilt a pan to blast one side which is important when reducing sauces or when you want the oil to rise up the side of something to crisp it, etc. Alas, copper won't work on an induction stove.

I've never heard a chef say that getting a pan hot and staying hot quickly is their number 1 optimization. Except for boiling water, which induction is great for.

But every home cook has different things they like I guess.
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That's exactly right. Under-thinking is often more obvious in terms of consequences so you talk about those.
the base is under a salt!
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Exactly. I take issue with the article's implicit assertion that English Wikipedia is somehow less subject to manipulation than Wikipedias in other languages. As Ryan Holliday pointed out all the way back in 2012, in his book Trust Me I'm Lying, the PR and reputation management industries love Wikipedia. They know that reporters are lazy, so in advance of an interview they'll go to Wikipedia for the background information, and that information sets the framing that they use for their narrative.

If Wikipedia describes someone as a successful director, they'll get questions about movies they've directed, which actors they enjoyed working with most, etc. That same person described as a failed actor, will get questions about their acting career and why it never seemed to take off. Same person, same accomplishments, two completely different narratives, driven entirely by which facts are more prominent in the Wikipedia article.
Also consider most of those devices after 2-3 years as insecure. Many running a decade old version of linux at its core, and the other bits of software usually just as old. Written by someone whos job was outsourced 4 years ago. Never to be updated again. Just assume someone is going to do things with it that you do not want them doing. That the gov wants in on the action is just another in the list of threat actors.
Have you ever seen nerd fonts? This is not a new idea at all:

* https://www.nerdfonts.com/

* https://fontawesome.com/

I don't think this will push fonts/foundaries to add the twitter logo any more than I feel pushed to use the twitter logo in handwriting. Fonts are very nice in that the user still enjoys a high level of choice in the matter. Heck, even the twitter nonsense could be fixed with a stylus/tampermoney script of one or two lines.
Pledges for things that will happen after a politician dies are even more meaningless than pledges made before an election. Zero value should be attached to them.

The only thing that matters are actions that are happening now which is... not very much.
Consider reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow if you haven't. Excellent book - I haven't read the one you're talking about but from what you mention I think it deals in similar themes
> I managed to get logged in to the SDF MetaArray,
open mutt and send an email

Is there an easier way to set something up to contact 911 via command line in a pinch?
App stores will likely be legislated to relinquish their control on developers
Sigh! --if you do eventually adopt the METRE, can you at least spell it properly.
TFA:

...software versioning best practice is like the modern list/array: 0-based.

elsewhere in TFA:

Welcome to ZeroVer 0.0.1.

Anyone familiar with zero-based lists surely would have suggested "0.0.0"?
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Or you could have just kept the existing AppKit version and update it to work with the Rust core?…
> My impression was that wikidata was the main answer to this problem by centralizing all the facts in a central database to avoid each page having its own data and sources, but I can see how there is much more than the data at stake.

IIRC, Wikidata doesn't centralize "all the facts," it just centralizes the basic infobox data, which is only a small part of any article