skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ has plenty of issues, but it's really not that bad, especially modern C++. It's a huge language with tons of features, many of which you'll never use, but as far as writing C++, really not that bad. I've written a lot of C++ over the years, and I've also written a lot of vanilla C. I can tell you that you can definitely get a new project up and running much faster in C++ than in C.
Wikipedia says the restriction was only for a couple weeks:

>In December 2020, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis in the Delhi High Court...
>...The high court restricted the sites from uploading, publishing or making any article available until 6 January 2021.

But it's very strange to me that that could go by unnoticed.
Can it run & render openGL contexts as well?
It’s magic because you have no tolerance. That goes away after a few weeks of continuous use.
That info is out of date, bookwyrm.social is in open registration now. A more accurate list of instances is available here: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/. I signed up on bookwyrm.social (here: https://bookwyrm.social), though it took a notably long time to receive the email confirmation message.
Invite me out for coffee. Please
Well, sort of. Faraday invented the first thing that would sort of rotate given electrical power. It took another 33 years before someone built something that had useful torque at the output shaft. Along the way, coils and commutators had to be developed. It also took a while to realize that generators and motors are basically the same.

Rotating electrical machinery was considered a solved problem and kind of boring until about 20 years ago. Then people started using semiconductor switches to drive electric motors. Classic theory assumed you were driving motors with a sine wave. Motor controllers tried to make motors happy by providing a sine wave, or something close to one. Gradually it was realized that motors could be purpose designed for chopped waveforms. This broke all that beautiful closed-form math and charts on polar graph paper that goes back to Tesla. You have to simulate to design a modern electric car motor.
if you have a wound you can't clean and bandage yourself, you should probably seek medical attention. antibiotic cream is for anything that doesn't reach that level.
I'm an OO programmer, and I avoid using classes in C++. The happy path seems to be to treat at C with STL + smart pointers, not C with classes.
For comparison, over a period of 86 years in the US, 4,743 people were lynched (1,297 white, 3,446 black). About 55 per year.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynching...
> I donate to many apps on Patreon, should I just message to
> the devs and ask them to go open source and publish on f-droid?

Yes, you should. This is actually a very effective measure.
Lack of power imbalance? “I might lose my job, because my company is struggling” isn’t much of a power equalizer.
Contemporary students have no appreciation for reading and that’s going to be my competitive advantage.
Off topic question, but what is the sentiment towards employees who want to protect their privacy at Google?
This is in fact a kei car (or a mini car, AFAICT that category doesn't exist yet) if you decide to register it in Japan.

Kei car means: 660 cc engine or less (most likely moot if it's an EV), length 3.4 m or less, width 1.48 m or less, up to 4 passengers, up to 350 kg carrying capacity.

This article shows someone who has one, and note that the license plate is yellow, which means kei car.

https://www.jevc.gr.jp/%E8%88%98%E5%86%85%E7%AB%AF%E3%81%AE%...
Just checked on your model mentioned.
Seems to be a "Range Extender".
Does it still function as Router with OpenWRT?
I know it's boring and in many places unlikely, but government is essentially the only tool that could ever be effective at quelling the continued expansion of corporate surveillance.

We can likely all come up with novel technology ideas to help ourselves, but it's a blight on all of society not just those who are conscious of it. They are our governments after all, we should be using them as tools for good as best we can.
C# Is Dying. and Microsoft Is Killing It
this is pretty orthogonal to the discussion to me. i have a bunch of random linux computers already and my desire is that i could spread them over the house & have good access cards in each. that seems like it should be a pretty basic ask byt is pretty impossible & has been for a bit. i feel like we're
near to debating about the use of the word router, which doesnt seem fruitful, and doesnt impact my ask.

that's a pretty decent access point! it uses the one 802.11ax chipset which does have linux support, on mediatek chips. performance of mediatek cpus & mediatek wifi do not impress me but it is great that linksys, belkin, ubiquity all have some near $130 moderm wifi gear out that does, all in a, pretty well. hoping the rest of the world can compete! strong value. especially if we do decouple the router & ap (something i did until very recently), then some pretty good wifi counts for a lot!
I find a lot of the discussion here baffling and tone deaf. There are a lot of comments saying "but humans are primates". It's a dismissal of systemic racism issues coming from a privileged position that's akin to responding the black lives matter movement with "all lives matter".

Some of the commenters may exactly think that the algorithm is objective, forgetting that it's built by ppl, for ppl, tested by ppl. If the algorithm kept labelling bearded white dudes as vaginas, it wouldn't be pushed to production, because it would found as a bug and dealt with somehow. But labelling people of color as monkeys is apparently something they're unaware of, which doesn't necessarily point to deliberate racism, but a systemic racism issue.

In a lot of discussion here, everyone, on all sides of the argument, is getting voted down. Perhaps this shows this community is not ready for these types of discussions.
I installed Podman 3.3.1 on a Mac yesterday from Homebrew and volume mounts were definitely an issue, but it otherwise worked as advertised on the command-line.

The bugs cited in the article are already fixed in the code, so I don't hold those against it.

I did have an issue that was my fault, encountered one genuine bug, and was disappointed to find that there's some work to be done before third-party tools can use it as a Docker replacement:

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397

I agree that Podman is not yet a complete replacement for Docker on macOS, but the experiment was successful enough for me that I intend to try Podman instead of Docker on Linux servers.
I have used the old "lifetime" version. How is the new subscription software compared to it? Is it much improved? How?
> hard problems in personal finance is data capture and input validation

It's also true for business accounting. Getting data into your accounting/ERP software is always a clusterfuck, and I've yet to see a process that didn't require many hours/days of reconciliation and posting manual journal entries to close a reporting period.
It is alarming that people don’t understand that this is just another way to say inflation. The government prefers to call it a shortage.
> We already live in a tech panopticon

Which is, in other words, due in large part to what is referred to as "myopic engineering" or "engineering myopia": this idea that, as Heidegger writes in What is Called Thinking?, "[t]he most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
As an avid Goodreads user, Id say 80-90% of active GR users are female teenagers. Id suggest promoting on booktwitter or booktok instead if you want more traction. There’s also StoryGraph in the running with the same if not more features and a pretty strong network effect already, but still miles away from GR. GR is the laggiest platform I have ever used, and the tech updates are minimal at best, but people still use it primarily because of the network size. Just pure network size.
Probably because of Ubuntu branding using annoying colors like magenta and orange?
Have you ever tried to read the soup he created with code blocks rearranged to suit the generated text rather than any future maintenance coder?
> So maybe be careful with a new Chinese girlfriend.

It's worth noting that on 七夕 popup flower stalls appear everywhere. Flowers are an expected gift to your Chinese girlfriend. You should give her 11 of them.
Tons and tons of server would love having 1000 people in 1 world. The reason that hub servers generally have multiple servers of the exact same same concept (factions, towny, pixelmon, etc) is in no small part because of limitation in lag due to population. Hell, even using this to support the same (roughly standard) 300 person limited server but not have to disable the more lag inducing problems is a plus.
> Hopefully some will still find it useful.

Yes, I definitely think it will be useful for mathematically minded people who don’t find the “slow and intuitive” approach helpful. However, I suspect the fact that it is posted to HN where most of the audience would be people who only took some math for engineering students and that “popular physics book” is even mentioned on the homepage (it clearly says “unlike”, but for most textbooks this comparison isn’t even needed) might give rise to the misconception that it’s between pop science and other textbooks in terms of depth, as the root of this thread seems to demonstrate.
It depends on your objectives. One bad event can put many companies out of business. The auto industry is a good example because US-Canadian border issues and snow can fubar things for half the year.

Look at companies like Boeing with absurdly complex supply chains. The inventory numbers look good, but the factories are idle when a truckload of magic bolts is stuck in a blizzard in South Dakota.

It also increases actual cost. I supported a GE business unit as a supplier for awhile. We hosed them for stupid last minute orders due to this sort of thing. They would pay more for expedited shipping, overtime, waste money on leasing stuff to avoid capex, etc.
What exactly makes it your work? You were almost certainly educated in public schools and got there via public roads, you food and water heavily subsidized by the public. Your work probably uses a language and letters and tools you did not invent. All works have always belonged to the public. Only in the past century or two were we dumb enough to be bamboozled into granting people what was supposed to be a brief monopoly on a work before it rightfully finds it's place in the public domain.
The Stoned Ape Theory
This might be coming up again because the paper was finally published, like in a journal after peer-review, one month ago [1]. The pre-print has been available since 2018 [2].

[1]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00414
federated means your bookgroup could set up their own instance & everyone could either post their book reviewws there, or you could aggregate your own reviews into that instance. it's the freedom to start new communities, while still being able to participate worldwide.

it means that there's a protocol there, at the heart, for having multiple parties cooperating. it means anyone is free to build their own server or client. it meams we're not all trapped in one walled garden, one silo, it means the freedom to innovate & evolve.

right now there is not a lot of models for how we the peoe can host things online in an interoperable way. we can still use http & the technology that we have (unlike block chain), but we can use well defined vocabulary (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#activity-t...) & protocols as a base to communicate & interweave social networking systems.
How are we going to pressure the government, when regular people vastly underestimate the surveillance capabilities of modern ML + Cloud and willingly install surveillance endpoints in exchange of marginal convenience?

Re tech solutions, I've been hearing this for 20 years. The panopticon has been built. Anti-surveillance technologies failed to materialize.
We learned a tremendous amount about how to do vaccination at scale and treat a terrible disease, polio, about 65 years ago. Somehow we have forgotten every single one of those lessons and in fact are now doing exactly the things we know do not produce the results we say we want.
That seems a reasonable complaint.

For relativity with more explanation and not much math I suggest

Relativity (The Special and the General Theory) by Albert Einstein, 1916. Translated to English: ISBN 0-517-029618

I think the book is still in print, and new and used copies are cheap if you shop around.

It is good reading if you want the details explained step by step.
Just an anecdote, but on Friday I posted a tweet about a research paper we did jointly with University. Both the main researcher (post-doc) and the professor we cooperated with do not have twitter accounts.

Is there a stat somewhere about how many academics use twitter?
> stay as far away from MicroG as possible, it seriouly cripples the security of GrapheneOS by a lot.

Do you mind sharing some details on this? I did not hear strong statements like this one before.
There are dozens of better choices to use for the sake of comparison if you want to say that you find the majority of people to be far beneath your brilliance and virtue.

The decay of civilization in idiocracy was directly and exclusively due to two things:

- intelligence is genetic

- smart people bred themselves out of the gene pool

I have literally heard people be chastised when they tell others they chose not to have kids, because have you seen idiocracy?

The basic premise of the movie is so fundamentally flawed it is beyond offensive.
> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities.

You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website.

If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever they want, and we can interoperate! Interoperate & co-evolve.
I suspect a number of quantum advancements will be this type of two steps forward, one step back as people discover that the quantum part wasn't really necessary.
Ask HN: What do you read online that is not junk?
I'm really struggling with feeling like everything I read online is just junk trying to manipulate my feelings in some manner or doing the bare minimum to hit some dopamine threshold. Do you have sites that you read that aren't dumb and/or manipulative? I know there are at least some online magazines that are worthwhile but I don't really know that landscape.
Have you never had a laptop stolen or a phone destroyed by water damage or a car totaled in an accident? Sometimes you actually need a replacement, and when you do, you need it now because you depend on it for your livelihood. Buying new is not always the mindless plodding on the capitalist treadmill you make it out to be. There are plenty of people who can and should delay purchases right now, but there will always be those who just can't wait.
Ha, wait until you visit a house where there are surveilling devices blinking at your in every room.

Also, sometimes I expect a Tesla to go full “Assuming Control” mode and continue aggressive behavior of previously encountered one. Surely they record/analyze everything encountered and pass it onto central server, so no issues “remembering” me…
Yes. Race/gender/sexuality are classes that are fighting to be respected and co-exist. This is an upper class dream. They need to be abolished. My graduate degree is in Equity Studies from the late 90s. I was trained to write what is called "critical race studies" curriculum. We did not call it that - we called it critical theory. My work was on class intervention, specifically being working class in the Academy. My advisor, the late great Roger Simon (who was also born working class) told me there was one book on this subject and it was anecdotal. I was further told that there would be no future for me in the academy if I pursued this.
This might be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think that using antibiotics unless you [absolutely] have to - like when you get one prescribed - is a problem if you think long-term because of a higher chance of antibiotics resistance. Using antibiotics "just in case" should be avoided.

Here's an example of E. coli developing resistance to a _strong_ antibiotic within 12 days [0].

Unfortunately, I know more than a few people who take antibiotics even when they get common cold/flu, which doesn't make sense since viruses are not bacteria and they should get vaccinated instead.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDa4-nSc7J8
...and Long Beach's stubbornness about that curfew and other things is a big part of the reason JetBlue packed up and moved all its operations to LAX

https://crankyflier.com/2020/10/08/jetblues-two-decade-run-i...
> They also select older versions of software than you might like due to their release cycle

Not necessarily true anymore. They have roughly the same versions as Ubuntu, sometimes newer if you compare Ubuntu 18.04 with Debian 10 and considerably newer packages than OpenSuSe Leap 15.3 which carries some of the same versions as 15.0.
There is an westernized version of Chöd, developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, which is much much less dark and arguably inauthentic.
That is correct. The author is writing about chronic inflammation.
The "Secure Folder" feature on my samsung phone is my "private space" and I'm fairly careful of it.

For those without a samsung it's basically an encrypted sandbox environment.

sure its not perfect but it is a good way to wall of a private environment for yourself.
> It's interesting to consider how many common names are forms of "Smith"

It's especially an interesting contrast to China, where common last names tend to be originally aristocratic.
That's a good opportunity to mention Zeal, an open source Dash alternative: https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal
To set the record straight, the tree I'm climbing in the photos was the tree by the living room. The tree by the big bedroom was around the corner and had the compound leaves RMS fears.
AI/LCS denizens of every gender hung potted ferns in their Tech Square offices to keep RMS away. He once asked me which Lab women I liked and I foolishly answered, to the distress of the grad student in question, as I learned later when she rightly chewed me out.
My last 5 laptops, with the exception of my Chromebook Pixel LS, have been Windows laptops I wiped to install Linux on. The worst issue I had was one needed a BIOS update so that Wifi would work properly. Things working is less of a concern if you stick to the more common config types: eg, no gamer rainbow backlit keyboards and weird bells and whistles like that.
What was the confusion? The title right now is "Pollen - A library of CSS variables inspired by TailwindCSS"

I get that I'm kind of contributing to the problem by even commenting here, but the incessant name-clash and "omg the design/contrast is so bad" threads in HN just get tiring, and amount to little more than noise.
Oh, why use specifics when you can just say "A lot" and "don't work at all"?
I found that it was convenient to reuse Dockerfile rather than learning a new domain specific language and also for some reasons I was not able to use podman inside docker when I tried (our CI runs in docker containers) while kaniko works well inside docker. I'll have a second look to podman, maybe it's better now.
"least impacted" = 360,000 Toyotas not being built this month, or 40% of normal production.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794
A library for Python is not Logo. Logo is more of a cut-down Lisp, and some very remarkable things can be written in it:

http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html

That said, Python with the turtle library is still a great way to show kids programming. I did this with my nephew a while back, and now he's started on his next project: a robot car controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
this worship of solving user problems pretends like the one or two companies running the big huge massive winner take all monopoly walled-garden networks are going to keep being good, going to keep doing things in the users best interest, are going to make better and better product.

it's a world view that does not click with how i view software development & progress. i see long term stewartship as hard, see most walled gardems eventually succumb to acceued bad decisions or events that they become saddled with, or poorly steered into, or simply not aligned with their users on. federation isnt an answer to a problem, it is the theory that many problems require more than one ultra-massified uber-answer. federation says that problems and their answers require experimemtation, require adaption. it believes in protocols to agree upon & communicate across people & communities with. federation is freedom to generate new interfaces & extend capabilities.

i think it's dangerous to only ask "what can help the user now". technical environments need to be diverse & potentiated, need to have creative possibilities open. federation gives us both a quick, well known, easy to adopt, easy-to-host users & communities basis, and gives us the liberty to keep exploring further. i would trade these liberties for no products, and i think users over time will see how trapped they are & appreciate living life not under the auspices of ultra-massified software titans, but instead, with smaller, more adaptive, more community based (but interoperating) federations.
What Aaron Swartz did in the 2010's was what we all talked about around that time.

It was everything we read about as hackers in the 90's The Phrack stories for instance about missions to steal (liberate) hardware PABX's from offices.

Swartz literally went into a library to break out info, fucking Gibson.

Alexandra Elbakyan and crew beat that. And bent history. If you think history is a line, Sci-hub (Which is a little different to Libgen) changed that.
Moth or cockroach? I feel the authors are being polite.

Not doing this provides a substantial amount of motivation for choices I make in small projects I do.

While yet to think of a blog post or snazzy term for this, which won't be posted on Medium, every action, every feature, is one to consider for the value it adds, not just it for the sake of it. And every choice not to do something is equally a choice.

Should login be via Google, Facebook, email, other? Why is login necessary? Could value for services be provided with no need for login, 80% of value, 60%, then if so, and if integrating to 3rd party services what value does that add? And what does it take away in getting padlocked to a walled ecosystem that can be slammed shut with no recourse, be that Alphabet, Tencent, or any other?

Do I need to access your location and photos for a todo app? If so, that's not a todo app, or some pretty poorly thought-out feature creep is being build in from the start. Is having access to your contacts going to make me the next unicorn? It's been done already. Too competitive today for the next big thing which will be something different anyway, the next big iteration in the sense of not being very revolutionary at all. Has the potential for liability been thought of when sloppy code deletes valuable pictures, or causes a device failure that does so?

The noun that was 'creativity' has been replaced by the corporate-safe one-step-at-a-time 'innovation'. Nobody got fired for innovating. Marketers get bonuses for dressing up the mediocre-inducing term innovation as something remotely creative.

The future is here and was here all along. It's for us to see.