skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's stuff that could definitely be an improvement.

One that I take issue with is the "everything is a string" mentality of bash. It makes working with structured data harder than necessary, and a ton of stuff I do with my shell involves structured data like JSON. A sane array and hashmap implementation would be nice.

Another thing, which I picked up from elvish, is the concept of separating the textual output of a function from the value it returns. Bash lacks that distinction; the textual output is the value, which makes it annoying to do things like log from a function but also return a value.

I really like Elvish. It's similar enough to bash that I don't feel like the floor has been pulled out from under me, but it makes it dead simple to do something like pull data from a REST API without me having to pull out Python.

The other big pattern I've seen is object-oriented shells like Powershell and Nushell. They seem neat, but too complicated for me to manage in my head while trying to get stuff done. They're a little further towards "programming lanugage" on the range of shell to programming language.
Is it hard to see? App stores and the motivations of the companies governing them.

Nothing else than that is needed to explain it.
> "Google’s HR should surely know better than to get involved "

.. and yet, it happened. I was there. Maybe you should look up "slave labor and clothing factories" or "janitorial service companies."

A modern company that contracts with another company to do something for them does not get to completely wash its hands of their practices. Up to a point, they do, but when the contractor egregiously violates the law, then they usually get involved anyway. Judges and juries and regulatory officials and employees take a very dim view of illegal conduct by your contractors. It reflects badly on you.

In this case, I don't know what happened afterwards, but I would guess that Google amended its contracts with those companies to better regulate cases like this. Just a guess.

Maybe they even intervened without mentioning my cousin's name -- maybe they just said "hey, in general, you can't violate labor laws, and you definitely can't refuse to pay people for being too slow!"
Yes for python and others whose syntax matches the language more closely. Now as for languages that talk about "virtual" "methods" of a "class"...
Yeah, ThinkPads exist, thanks, but I'm replying to the guy who's saying that Linux on laptops generally sucks, and it does. Of course you can chase down specific hardware that works; that was true when the problem was "wifi on Linux generally sucks", too.

My understanding of the situation is that manufacturers tend to work really hard with Microsoft on graceful power management code, and until that effort is replicated on Linux (lol), one has to chase down specific hardware, because otherwise it generally sucks.
Yes, you can. But once you think about it, you'll see that you actually can't. Because once you're making changes to components instead of formalized settings, you are doomed to re-apply them each software update. Not a smart way to customize.
There is this story, that on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the finish athletic team arrived and started to build a sauna, because it was missing.
Trans people have basic civil liberties already. You can't kill them, they can own property, they can work a job, they can rent a house without discrimination (legally at least), and so forth.

Bathroom bills, on the other hand, require acceptance by everyone that they are who they say they are. And to put it simply, half of America (roughly speaking) doesn't find that convincing. To them, who are these people who would invade their right to bathroom privacy? Do their rights not matter? That's very different than a right to work a job or own property.
This.

Al qaeda won. They destroyed the way of American life before 9-11. We are a different country now. So much government control over the last 20 years because of the 9-11 like TSA, Patriot act, massive government surveillance all in the name of “Homeland Security”.

Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers exist precisely because of 9-11. The distrust from all of the secret government acts is only part of the equation.

The trillions funneled into the military complex has starved the education system. We have literally produced idiots across the US because of a horrible educational system. They can’t think critically because they don’t have to. So 20 years of this, and you have a large percentage of the population that are literally stupid and can’t think critically. They would rather die than take a vaccine or wear a mask. This is what happens when you spend money on the military and illegal wars than the education of your population.

The pandemic is terrible. But 9-11 destroyed the US and put us on a horrible path that we may never recover from.
I wonder if that company was a shell company setup by a 3 letter agency
Versions without a watermark are freely available from your local neighbourhood torrent site.

I consider my companies 1000+ server/desktop licences payment enough tbh.
9/11 Was an inside job. So is covid.
UPD: I checked out Graal Native. It was somewhat painful to make JavaFX work with it, due to reflective nature of the framework (which does not work very well with Java Modules), but I managed to make a native image with Gluon plugin for Maven. And it starts up FAST, I like the result.

[0] - https://docs.gluonhq.com/#_gluonfx_plugin_for_maven
Could mean that. I was just commenting that most of the games that don’t work are from anti cheat or some kind of online multiplayer issue.
This works with votes and flags, the more votes a post or comment of people visiting HN the higher it gets, inverse to flags and some other factors but you will find more detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

About quality I guess is subjective but I would say there are two options here:

- use the voting system to accommodate it to your quality standards

- don't visit the page
Rhonda IS FoundmyFitness you absolute numpty. Me cago en la leche de tu puta madre
Does this take into account the CO2/energy used to harvest the grain and move it?
I look forward to viewing it this evening.
And FWIW: It could motivate me to _buy_ ($20) rather than _rent ($4) [from Amazon] if I knew the respective portions that go to (your) production company rather than just to Amazon.
The vaccine does work.

It lowers your chance of getting it and thus spreading it significantly and it severely lowers your chance of having a severe reaction in the case of a breakthrough infection.

The only reason it hasn't worked at a societal level is that not enough people have taken it.
From the video:

> Sledgehammer - One of the more tolerable songs by Peter Gabriel

O...kay...I think it was supposed to be witty but it sounded strangely subjective-analytical for a joke :-)
I was in elementary school at the time 11 miles away, just across the river, in NJ. They really didn't want us to see the news so they took all of us into the main auditorium and had us just sit. A few of the parents of the other children worked in the city. They made it an early release day.

One of my parents worked close by and my cousin lived close too. Her house had a clear line of sight to the towers with some binoculars. I remember seeing little black dots fall out of buildings and I remember wondering if they were chairs. I am older now and understand it was people. I missed the collapse of the first tower but saw the second fall through the binoculars.

A lot of my classmates didn't show up for a few days. I didn't understand the gravity of what had happened until was quite a bit older.

I remember ABC news was playing all day and associate the voice of Peter Jennings to that day.

I plan on watching the Nat Geo documentary, One Day in America. Last year I tried the 110 flight stair climb challenge, the same total as the towers, and gained a different level of appreciation for what the responders and volunteers faced that day.
9/11 was an inside job. So is covid.
Meh, I recently thought I try that and bought Battlefield 1 on sale and tried it on my Debian 11 box. Once it started to download that Origin stuff I thought "that won't work" but it just did perfectly for me, no tuning needed.

Some even work better, e.g., >10 years ago I had a very crappy ADSL connection and in Counterstrike I got latencies of >150 ms with quite some jitter to >250 ms under Windows and even got kicked off from some servers for that :(

cue to WINE and running it under Linux (IIRC I was using openSUSE then) and I got 80 to 90 ms stable on the same servers, I think that was the time I decided for myself that I'll never go back again, and so I dropped my dual-boot setup in favor of Linux only.
In the end, games need to be built better by sending the least information needed to clients, ie. zero-trust. This is a big part of things like CS:GO, Valorant, and RTS games like starcraft/League/Dota since they can implement a 'fog of war' and only network information if their client actually needs it[0].

The only cheats that still plague Dota are scripts that perform tasks automatically, such as disabling an opponent as soon as they're visible (beyond human ability), and those are taken care of by heuristics[1] and a community-voting-based 'overwatch' system in CS:GO and Dota 2[2].

0: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...

1: https://youtu.be/hI7V60r7Jco

2: https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3025824821114909461
That sounds absolutely scary... ML with thing we haven't used properly with humans in loop. So we don't even have proper good data for it...
Which is some fine news for World's Top Beef Supplier on Bloomberg.

What share of world wide greenhouse gas emissions by cow burbs is it again?

Around four percent?

So Brazil maybe two percent?

And they reduce them by what?
Let's say, by half?

That is one percent.

Well Okay...

It's a start.
Police accountability and women's reproductive rights are very popular outside of conservative circles. The rest are status quo ideas or nonsense.
I was once using an old but high end HP DC power supply to test a repaired 12V microcontroller circuit that someone else mysteriously blew up "with a spark". Before I hooked up the fraying and grimy alligator clips coming off the supply, I had the thought to check the actual voltage with a multimeter, in case the supply was out of calibration. Before I consciously perceived what my multimeter read, my hands rapidly dropped the frayed wires. I connected up the multimeter again, and it read 120V! Someone had mistakenly missed a decimal point, and the archaic LED display made it look like 12.0V.

A low level part of my brain definitely took over control of my hands, based on interpretation of visual signals. That was 6 years ago and I still think about it every few days.
Nothing wrong with aggregating records of a historical event and presenting them in real time without commentary. Put together the records and let them speak for the event.

Your verbiage indicates the mere portrayal of what happened is deeply at odds with your opinions about it. Care to elaborate?
Yes and it makes sense because great software eventually becomes worth internationalizing. If you start with a non-English code base and documentation, good luck translating that.
Genuinely the most terrifying/saddening movie I have ever seen. Imo that was one of the most effective anti nuclear content ever produced.
COVID-19 is not as bad as Smallpox or Ebola. The lack of acceptance of vaccines (partially) shows people aren't afraid of this disease and view this as an overreaction. If people were terrified because people were visibly dying in the streets and vomiting blood or walking around the grocery store disfigured for life - they'd get the vaccine like past mandates.
1 why/how would you break glibc? This sounds like you're "holding it wrong"? You don't go willy-nilly changing system dlls on windows, do you?

2 yeah, nvidia does not support linux/Foss. It sucks. Buy amd, or use windows.

3 I've not really seen this lately. Ubuntu/canonical does a pretty good and pragmatic job of enabling non-free drivers - but sure, not all vendors care. See 2.

4 not with eg Ubuntu 20.04 lts Wayland. I'm rather positively impressed with the settings app. I'm not all that happy personally with all the dbus/changes that enable this pretty gui - I tend to prefer simple config files. But at any rate - I don't think your point 4 has been true for a while.

5 yes and no? Honestly I think the only config files I'm editing is nvim and vs code. My terminal for example has a perfectly usable gui preferences coupled with a perfectly readable and version controllable config file.

Well and the occasional bash rc tweak.

6 maybe?

7 I think it's more that hw vendors don't care about Linux, so it takes a lot of time for drivers etc to materialize.

8 Hopefully pipewire will kill pulse audio, and this will cease to be the case.
This guy built a 10 micron fab in his garage and has fabbed 1200 xtor die. That's bonkers. It is odd the article claims he's not using dangerous chemicals, but yet he's using nitric acid to etch. Wonder how he got all these parts and chemicals in highschool?
Stop serving requests until the finances are rectified, delete the data 30 days after it stops. Final migration out/egress requires a small balance for that purpose.

The engineers designing and building these systems are some of the best in the world, this is relatively trivial.
> Converting Thunderbolt to DisplayPort is technically possible, but completely pointless because both TB2 and TB3 are natively DisplayPort compatible, at both protocol and connector level.

One exception: it's useful for a Thunderbolt Dock to have a Thunderbolt connection to the host system, while offering another Thunderbolt port that can emit a standard, un-encapsulated DisplayPort signal. But for an adapter with none of the other ports offered by a dock, it is generally pointless.
I actually had changed some about:newtab styles. They even outlived one or two updates after that, until full reset.
No, not what happened. The contracting firm was officially "arms' length" from Google and no Google employees even knew my cousin's name.

However, it turns out that "arms' length" doesn't mean the contractor can get away with absolutely anything.
You have every right to protect yourself. I don't think police will stop you from wearing gas mask and bio hazard suite. As such you have every right and capability to protect yourself. Or just don't leave your own home. Simple. No need to force others to do something against their rights.
> First the GUI to edit the GUI disappears, then the about:config option follows later.

> That's what's been steadily happening.

You wrote this in a way that is (probably deliberately) misleading. Neither of those things have happened nor is there any indication that they will.

Especially about:config which (probably) provides an enormous amount of benefit for early testing of features.
Why the unusable interface
Does anyone know why I can't reach archive.is anymore from The Netherlands these days?
Yeah, the use of 'prehistory' seems not great in this context; there's a fundamental problem of how we would know which bodies were known prior to the existence of a writing system.

But there are a number of things that make these very discoverable: They are visible with the naked eye, all lie in the ecliptic plane, and behave a bit strangely if you watch them over time. Mars is a bit red, and absolutely stands out... And of course Venus can't be ignored. Once you've noticed Venus and Mars, finding the others is a matter of looking a bit harder.

Using stars for navigation or for measuring the passage of time involves observing them consistently, which leads one to notice 'odd' things. So I wouldn't at all be surprised if the planets were known in, say, prehistoric Polynesian cultures... The appearance of mathematical astronomy in Babylonia tells us that the movement of celestial bodies is approximately the first scientific knowledge a civilization will bother to write down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy#Old_Babyl...
> Would be interesting to have an entire website like this where you can tune to any day and hear the news. And eventually more than just media.

When you mix archive.org Wayback Machine and the back footage of many of the news networks have with their giant software platforms, I'm sure that most news editing rooms are already like this. Probably just a matter of time/infrastructure until we all get a chance to access such things, assuming we don't fall to entropic decay.

I think you'd have to solve the "unified theory" physics equation before you could predict where all particles were in the past, though. So like rewinding and seeing where I am right now and what is happening in my life (or yours). That one I personally am not entirely sure can be accomplished.

There is a Babylon 5 episode about this, though, in season 5. Takes place millions of years in the future.
UI is fine but
1. Battery consumption is at least twice the one of Brave
2. There is no option to always get the desktop site which makes it useless for tablets

Main reasons I also moved to Brave on all my devices. If these are fixed and Mac battery consumption is fixed I'd go back asap
> As a result, many people are dealing with what's commonly referred to as "eco grief," a type of mental exhaustion that stems from accepting the harsh realities of climate change and feeling overwhelmed or hopeless. Added to that is "disaster fatigue," another type of emotional tiredness that comes from dealing with an abundance of bad news and steadily occurring crises — like near-constant headlines of devastating disasters.

I don't understand this. If you look at global deaths from natural disasters, you'll see this has went down over the last 100 years with fewer large spikes. It makes sense considering modern buildings and cities are more resilient to climate events. [0]

Global deaths from natural disasters, 1900 to 2019

year | deaths

1900 | 1,270,000

2009 | 11,142

2010 | 317,757

2011 | 30,969

2012 | 9,732

2013 | 21,696

2014 | 7,959

2015 | 22,861

2016 | 8,681

2017 | 7,341

2018 | 10,809

2019 | 11,719

To put that into comparison, mosquitos kill 725k people per year. Snakes kill 50k, dogs kill 25k and freshwater snails kill 10k people. [1]

One number you often see thrown around is the number of climate events with $1 billion+ in damages, but that doesn't consider inflation and expanded development. For instance, if the same storm were to hit Florida today versus 20 years ago, you can bet the amount of damage that would be caused today would be much higher since there is so much more development there.

I think the main difference is the media focus on these events and the hopeless tone. For instance New Orleans was woefully unprepared for Katrina. They didn't build for a 100 year storm. It was almost criminal negligence. Something can and should be done to ensure people and property are safe from climate events in addition to reduction of carbon emissions and removal of carbon from the environment

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-nat...

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/2203/the-worlds-deadliest-ani...
My point being c-level executives don't need comfortable, low-distraction work stations to perform their work, so its not like their work life alters much in the open-office fad.
Their work is done primarily in conference rooms and in meetings.
Engineers, for the most part, do.
> Because I'm pretty sure that the people going through the trash would stop in an instant if they were offered a better alternative.

Mostly, yes. Having been homeless myself for an extended period, I saw just how much mental illnesses impact so many people experiencing homelessness.

In my completely unscientific lodgings with them, I'd say its probably around 30% of the people have some sort of debilitating mental illness. I had other reasons for homelessness (lost job, eviction) which are much more mechanical and easier to fix.

I've talked with my SO about the mentally ill on the streets, and the only plan that seems to might work is to forcefully treat them, get them mentally sound, explain their whole situation, and have them choose. It would be in writing, and sealed with a palmscan. And I get that forcefully treating them once may be considered abhorrent, but they are not able in their state of mind to make decisions for themselves.

Once they're of sound mind, they should then have complete agency to choose to remain on the streets, or to obtain emergency services to get out of homelessness.
When reviewing 9/11 attacks (likely the biggest and most disastrous intelligence failure in U.S. history, give or take Pearl Harbor), it's worth remembering that it could have been much worse. If the first plane had hit Indian Point nuclear reactor what, 30 miles from NYC and upwind? It's likely a Chernobyl/Fukushima disaster would have resulted with an exclusion zone well into NYC. That was reportedly part of the plan but as I recall they wanted a more media-friendly target.

Additionally, the fact that members of the Saudi government aided and assisted the hijackers, and that they were tracked and monitored by both the FBI and the CIA, yet no action was taken to stop them, not even a simple warning to airlines to increase security after that Aug 6th Presidential Daily Briefing? What a debacle.

We should have left Iraq and Afghanistan alone and done the regime change op in Saudi Arabia, except that Wall Street likes its petrodollars so Washington props up the House of Saud and its theocratic dictatorship. And that's still going on.
I don't think "PeutÊtre<T>" is a good substitute for Option<T>. The direct translation is Maybe<T>. Maybe<T> is used in Haskell. Haskell was made in the UK. There's no way we could accept this for our French language.
CS Syd – JSON Vulnerability in Haskell's Aeson Library
I found that article to be thoroughly unconvincing, and the article itself also seems to fall for the same trap of defending political positions rather than sticking to basic civil liberties principles.
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> It's almost like they've been deliberately trying to sabotage themselves for years.

I believe it to be corporate sabotage by Google ... due to the 100's of millions of dollars that Google gives to the Mozilla Foundation, they have a lot of influence over Firefox.
Heh, funny how fast things changed. In a 2001 episode of South Park, they mock Token for bringing a movie on DVD, assuming their family was rich enough to have a DVD player [1].

But I watched the episode on DVD in 2006, when everyone had one, and so it aged like milk.

[1] https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Neighborhoo...
In France, contractors cannot work in the same way than the regular employees. They have to be hired for a well-defined mission (on-site or on the staffing firm site) and take orders from their hierarchy, not from people of the customer company (otherwise it's called "délit de marchandage"). It has been abused a lot (to get staff that can be fired quickly and legally).
Alright, and the "we" you refer to still technically own those addresses.
Huh. Never heard of that novel, but now I'm wondering why perfume seems to feature so frequently in french-influenced literature.