skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and that's one of the reasons cash is going to disappear in the coming decades and yet another flaw in the design of bitcoin (which was modelled on physical currency or some sort of electronic gold just as that loses favour). It's not competing with cash, it's competing with free instant transfers between bank accounts and free payments (for the customer), which many people enjoy right now.

Physical currency was always an instrument of states, and now they have better ones, which retailers, consumers, and states prefer (digital currencies, not cryptocurrencies). In many countries cash usage is down to 20%, it's expensive to produce and manage and not required any more.
So right now when an x86-64 CPU boots it starts in 16bit real mode regardless of everything else. The UEFI then has to set up a x64 protected mode env then the OS picks up from there. If you drop that backwards compat (e.g. 16bit, virtual 8086 mode etc.) you can remove a lot of cruft that is mostly worked around. If nobody is setting Local Descriptor tables then why support it? Or the hardware task switching support that's not even supported in long mode etc.
IMO it's not "GPL virality" that is at the root of the issue here. The authors' decision to license theis works this way causes the problem. You can still ask both libraries' authors for relicensing their work in a less restricted / more compatible way.

If they don't want to do that, then being authors and owning their copyrights, that's their right to do. That's nothing I would blame on the GPL.

I mean we should be grateful that these authors made their works available free of cost in the first place.
This looks like the published study: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about...
It certainly would be quite the assertion if one were to choose to interpret "a 25yo device" to mean "any 25yo device", but doing so would be obviously ridiculous.
It's possible that by "(modern)" the author means hydrogen bombs which are 3 magnitudes more powerful than the fission devices used in WW2.
Yet another video chat app to connect you with strangers
This is a valid point. I'm teaching a compilation class to undergrad computer science student, so we actually first learn each "horizontal" step separately and work on them during lab session, and then for their project I strongly recommend that they take the "vertical" approach, because it is systematically what gives the best results.

In a sense, even if my student's project is their first compiler, they already saw and did exercise on each compiling step individually, a bit like you said.
So, he’s stirred the pot over and over, including bringing in people who’s main claim to fame is grievance, but he still had a job at the university, and he quit, for amongst other things, too much grievance.

I’m not sure that this proves it’s the university that’s intolerant (although I’m sure some faculty and staff are). Or that he’s capable of enough self-reflection that he should be teaching reflection to others.

Plenty of blame to go around. Resignation letters are attempts to write history, but as he himself should be teaching, there are surely differing views here.
This happens everywhere. When I was 20 I went to a UK university as an exchange student and tried to open a bank account (needed for some reason I can’t remember). I expected that to cost zero and not come with any strings attached but the bank person started talking about minimum deposits and yearly fees just to open a standard account.
Memento mori.

I think about my own death, or some disability, at about the same frequency.

What would I do if I lost my hearing, or my sight.

It is one of the reasons I try to live this life, instead of waiting for some future rewards in an uncertain afterlife.

Yes, I am not religious, and I think being religious has little to do with thinking about death. Death is the great equalizer.
What about adding "not recyclable" messages to things? Maybe along with images of the plastic bag islands or something, like those cigarette pack warnings. Give everyone that painful reminder whenever they buy these things.

Or what about just actual economic incentives to get people to live sustainably? High taxes on carbon and plastic and highly subsidised public alternatives
It seems odd that the takeaway is "GPL sucks because it got in my way" and not "both authors' explicit wishes were respected." Assuming that this is in error and this isn't what the authors wanted to happen then it's fixable by someone changing their license.
If you trust a developer - why not? And if not then an app store model is not a panacea - there are examples of pushing fraudulent/malicious app into them.

Better sandboxing would be welcome, but it coming to desktop slowly (and it typically can only limit damage from a malicious app, but not prevent it fully).

Web-apps come with own security trade-off: infrastructure can have poor security and data can be leaked (and or destroyed) by hackers, a government can request all you data without you knowing about this, your data can be abused by an web-app creator e. g. sold to an Ad targeting company.
I bought five cloth bags (strong canvas) at my food co-op in 1992. Still using them now, 28 years and many washes and many many shopping trips later.

I agree that some of the lighter weight ‘cloth-like’ bags made today would not be able to stand that duty cycle.
I'm pretty sure that a people that watched people hack each other to pieces for entertainment would not be impressed by what we consider 'dark'.
I agree - but that isn't a consumer decision (not a decision made at the time of consumption). A government agency has to determine the cost of the externalities (where the science and economics isn't easy) and then set taxes accordingly (not always politically viable).
Any biological life keeps itself alive by maintaining a steady state of entropy. Making even a small changes like this is never going to end well.
Is that actually true? According to [1], McDonalds (in 2020) was buying EUR160e6 worth of Irish beef accounting for 20% of its beef sales across Europe. It would make quite a loss for them if they shipped beef into Ireland while buying that much locally and exporting it. I can't find anything that mentions this "100% Irish beef" theory.

[1] https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0323/1124769-corona...
Let's say they decide to put it out of commission. How do they get rid of it? Regular orbit needs to be actively maintained, I think. Will they let it enter the atmosphere, whole or in chunks?
I am a little bit skeptical about the microwave theory. The transmitters would have to be very powerful and very close by. Also, the signal would be very easy to detect with a cheap receiver. Since this problem seems to be around for a while, I would assume that embassies would be equipped with receivers.
Still sounds weird tbh
> Jane Poynter helped design and then lived in a 3-acre dome called Biosphere 2, completely sealed off from the rest of the world, for two years and 20 minutes. Walking back into society was a shock.

>"I run over to say hello to all of these people and reel back," Poynter said in an interview with Bizwomen. "We all stink from all the chemicals we put on our bodies. It wasn't that we didn't have shampoo or toothpaste [in Biosphere 2], but it was all very organic, no perfume, no hairspray. Our noses were hyper-sensitive to it."

Just to clarify, it’s our world she said stinks. I interpreted your comment backwards.
No, they built Naples first, then Rome. :P
This is a specific threat model where the attacker can watch live file changes undetected. This may be acceptable e.g. for a laptop without historical archives of the file.
Free advice: Don't wear a mask if you have a day-long interview at a FAANG. Don't wear a mask if you participate in an athletic competition. You won't get peak performance for either intellectual or physical activities. Masks are not zero cost, they reduce airflow. And their effectiveness against covid spread remains to be proven, especially as strains get more and more infectious.

Now consider that kids are forced to wear cloth masks all day long, day after day after day. This is a choice, there are places in the world where they are just as serious about covid as US, and yet kids can stay in class without masks.

It's a rough tradeoff. I wish we could have an adult conversation, not pretend there are no minuses and masks are a no brainer in all situations. We have replaced conversation with Twitter sloganeering.

An example: https://nltimes.nl/2021/08/23/school-year-starts-north-nethe...

> In secondary education, teachers and pupils who have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks won't have to quarantine after contact with someone who has the coronavirus. Only unvaccinated teachers and -students need to take a self-test twice a week. Teachers and students need to maintain social distancing, and face masks are mandatory in corridors and canteens.

> In primary education, adults like teachers and parents must keep 1.5 meters apart. But for the kids, no restrictions apply other than the general rules like washing your hands regularly and staying home if you have symptoms.
> Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet.

Chrome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
Field-Reversed Configuration
Could I have a source on the waste on local rivers being local?
You can formally prove that a function always does exactly what the author intended, no less, no more. But it still might be the wrong thing to do. The question is, do you count that as a bug or something else.
I have always wondered how they handled mismatches between timing of the food finishing and the driver arriving and assumed that the restaurant uploaded time to completion estimates.

Apparently it seems like the delivery apps don't care about that.
> There is no publicly acknowledged succession plan

Oh that's easy. You bring all maintainers in the one place, disconnect their internet and wait for the white smoke.
Funimation DMCA Shut Down Pirate Anime Apps, Force Others to Consider Future
A little off topic but are we talking about Country Companies? I know of them only because I worked at Iomega in the late 90's and they had purchased a lot of Jaz drives and had a very high failure rate.

I went on-site to check it out. The company was amazing to me. A massive, newish building in the middle of a very wide expanse of corn fields. I felt like I had landed in the wrong state.

In the end, I thought their SCSI terminators seemed awful small. I brought one back with me and the hardware engineers found that the company making their computers had skimped on the terminators in some way. Switching to Iomega's own terminators solved the problems.
I don't think I am misreading it, but rather thinking about the holistic solution differently.

The waste processing that the various CA communities have contracted for is not recycling those resins, even though they're capable to be recycled and being presented for recycling.

That gives me the view that the most effective action is not an on-the-street "consumers, please put these into the landfill stream" but rather a "communities, please choose to upgrade waste management practices on the blue stream".
Most banks are not WU exclusive in El Salvador.
"Technically, Intel ME is still operational on this laptop. However, malicious features such as Intel AMT are removed using me_cleaner. For all intents and purposes, this laptop is very similar freedom-wise to a Libreboot laptop, but it is absolutely true that a Libreboot system is superior in terms of software freedom. However, if you’re willing to slightly compromise (neutered Intel ME, after running me_cleaner, is fairly benign and does barely anything), these laptops offer a huge performance improvement over Libreboot thinkpads.

Minifree runs me_cleaner which modifies the Intel ME up to the point where it is only active during the boot process, but otherwise disabled during normal operation. Only basic hardware initialization is still performed, but otherwise the Intel ME becomes benign from a security perspective, providing only basic power management. Coreboot is handling the vast majority of the hardware initialization and is 100% Free Software on this laptop.

Proprietary features such as AMT are no longer present or accessible after me_cleaner is used. The me_cleaner program removes all networking from the Intel ME, thus removing any security risks associated with Intel ME."
The evolution of the "glasshole."

Wouldn't catch me dead in a pair of these.
How to Hack the Media’s Biases
Planets are tough things. Destroying them is hard, oh the things on them sure. But the whole planet no. It will just probably gather itself together in a while anyway...
> It also doesn't really make sense to me to uninstall some app because of some theoretical bad thing that could happen in the future

In hindsight, I was perhaps being reactive and might've acted irrationally but I still believe that I should try to stay away from anything related to GNOME or GTK, if possible, simply because I don't trust GNOME/GTK developers to keep their "every preference has a cost" philosophy limited to GNOME itself. Like this, for example.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

If I'm being polite, pretty interesting comments from Clasen. Subpixel Positioning might make sense on HiDPI displays but most people still don't have them.

Yes, that philosophy makes sense in some kind of apps but it isn't one should follow universally, in my opinion.

Another simple example is GNOME Screenshot and Spectacle. Spectacle, in my opinion, is perhaps the best screenshot tool on Linux because it offers sensible and basic annotation tools. This is what Android does using its Markup tool on Android and Windows with its Snipping Tool. I suspect Mac has a similar offering. If I want to share a screenshot with some personal information redacted, there's no way to do that using GNOME Screenshot. Yes, I know I can find another app for doing that but that's not the point. It's the "every preference has a cost" philosophy in play again which makes some things dumbed down and deprived of sensible features when they shouldn't be.

I am by no means a KDE "fan" though. I ended up uninstalling KDE fairly quickly when I tried it a few months ago.

I also stand by my statement of "GNOME not really being a community project" after reading the blog posts by Tobias. There is little room for disagreement besides what the "GNOME way" says and little care for downstream.

Thanks for your time though. I appreciate how you've been patiently replying to my comments. Most people I talk to in FOSS communities generally aren't even receptive to discussions when its about disagreement. Everything is either the user's fault or his hardware is faulty.
I'm always wondering what the right approach is when using third party authentication. Use scopes or just store user identifier and permission in your own database.

I have seen the two authorization approaches get co-mingled, which leads to issues.

Also, often scopes are two large.. but that's mostly an implementation choice, like read all, rather than allow access to only a specific item - maybe scopes are just less easy to handle/maintain/define for the average developer.
I've used this in the past. https://choosealicense.com/
Anecdote time (throwaway account from a regular). From 2017 to early 2021, I was in an on/off relationship with a girl. Every time it ended, it would end up in the next few months of me getting drunk and then abusing her via messages or phone. I am also introvert, depressed and lonely so the abuses could get really bad. She eventually had to block me from all communication except email.

The last time this happened was in early 2021. At that time, one of my friends was about to leave for another country for work. My friend luckily managed to find a dealer. For around 3 months before he left, both of us would have an ecstasy pill each (not pure MDMA) every weekend and party. The abuses stopped and over time I did not feel any more anger towards the girl. Once my friend left, I stopped the ecstasy every week even though I take one every 2-3 months. However, my mental health has improved remarkably and I am now focused on re-skilling myself. I have never been so positive in my life.

I like to think MDMA has given me a second chance in life and it is up to me to make the most of it.

My supposed girlfriend actually enjoyed experimenting with drugs before we met, and occasionally used to do cocaine. I never touched them, even though I drink and smoke. Perhaps if I got the chance to do MDMA with her a couple of times our relationship could have been better. But I will never know.
I strongly feel that governments should intervene and mandate a limited subset of plastics - including colouration - that can be used for food and beverage packaging, etc.

My bottle of sparkling water doesn't really need a green top. The bottle itself doesn't really need to be a light colour tint.

Put branding on paper labels, or better yet - go monochrome and laser-etch/mark everything. Have QR codes on bottles that can have fancy interactive digital marketing/advertising/information.
I have a somewhat unusual use case that Workers are perfect for: I want to collect analytics on a SaaS service that is a CNAME under my domain, but that I do not control.
Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
> the planet itself was fine

That depends on your quality metric. I don't think the dinosaurs thought it was fine.

IMHO, destroying all of the things that are cool and interesting (to me) about this planet counts as "destroying the planet" even if there is still a hunk of rock orbiting the sun afterwards.
How large the spread between two stable currencies USD/CAD can be? Compared to USD and Bitcoin.
> Capacitor marketing on motherboard was a thing.

That is a thing? What do they advocate, the fine smell of rotten eggs when they die?
Absolutely.

One strategy I employed with a very old code base with a gajillion warnings was to output them to a file and compare against a reference file at the end of the build. If the output changed we would fix those and maybe any that kept happening if you added new compilation units etc. It at least helped us slowly reverse the trend of accumulating warnings.
What you say, plus occasional reminder to wash your recycleables before throwing them into the bin, is why I consider the whole recycling scheme to be worthless distraction.

Nobody in their right mind has the time and space to properly sort and clean the trash. For the rest, inefficient use of water and detergent has an environmental cost too.

This stuff should be all handled by a combination of centralized work at sorting plants and alterations to packaging. Containers can be cleaned more efficiently in a centralized location, and as for the pizza boxes, perhaps it should be mandated that pizza boxes must be fully lined with aluminum foil on the inside - this would be a win for both recycling and product quality, as the pizza would stay warm for longer.
>"I've worked on gravitational (gravity / telekube) flavoured K8s distribution designed for on-prem data centre deployment models for the past few years."

This sounds interesting. Can you say what K8S distro this is?
This one million times.

Down here, packs of cigarettes have horror pictures on them and, sure no smoker ever stopped because of them, but once you show that to your kids, they just don't feel like trying anymore...
Have you heard of Lightning Network?
Would you prefer to not have been born in the first place?

I'll have enough children to sustain humanity and keep consciousness in the universe, having 2.1 children still means a potentially infinite line of descendants, so no reason to have 12. 12 would decrease the average well-being, while having none would decrease it as well.

Also, I would be interested what you think the crucial difference is between not continuing to live and not being born.
Could it be looking for a match after every (potential) newline character?
Basic Latin, Diacritical Marks and IMDB
Man, why do you need to go back to 2008-2013 to get real freedom? Unfortunately, I have to be pragmatic and use a modern machine.
Why not just call them out for the bad things and support the good things? Assuming everything will inevitably go bad at some point is (a) false and (b) misses the point: While Amazon carries the Open Search torch right now, at any point in the future everyone else can contribute.

They do deserve credit for stepping in to help even if it does support their own profit margins. Profit in itself isn't evil.
Not to mention the reply left out my original "possibly also a major change in financial status, relationship, etc", since my entire point was that late term abortions, while for a variety of reasons, are not simply people taking the most expensive, most traumatic, most controversial option as a form of contraceptive. It's for a variety of nuanced, complex reasons that aren't "for convenience", as the convenient path is always to abort or prevent the pregnancy earlier. Which is why pro-choice advocates say it should be between the woman and her doctor, -not- government; the fact the situation is arising at all means it is exceptional.
> Also how vertical is the "vertical" approach really?

It can be quite vertical, really. Like starting with a compiler for a language where the only correct programs consists of a single integer. This is what I do with my students to get them started on their compiler project. Of course you may have to rethink and rewrite or adapt some code depending of the order in which you're adding features and how they interact, but that will be true anyway if your language evolve :).
its arguable when it comes to dynamic shared libraries (i.e. the ZFS argument).
are you aware of any voxel-space toys that can run these? 'cause i think that -- as volumetric beings, we need that space to think right. will check out the vids. tyvm!
Ask HN: Best practices for creating dynamic SQL Tables?
Anki allows creation of custom flashcard types[0] and I was wondering how that was done programmatically. I know about CREATE TABLE in SQL, but is it unsafe to define a table on the fly? I tried checking Anki's source code[1], but there doesn't seem to be any mention of how this is achieved.

Thanks in advance

[0]: https://docs.ankiweb.net/editing.html#adding-a-note-type
[1]: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/ca0374782e709b6877162328945b55181cdb2445/rslib/src/storage/notetype