skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they mean 'odd' as in 'every second one' rather than odd version number.

E.g: 11 - bad, 10 - good, 8 - bad, 7 - good, Vista - bad, XP - good, etc, etc.
How the U.S. Nailed the Economic Response to Covid-19
Why wasn't George Bush Jr. tried at the the Hague? At George and Martin's level in the global elite, you don't go to jail for almost anything, maybe you pay big fines. I certainly don't approve of them, but these understandings predate me and are made above my pay grade.
Direct Storage?
Lucid Beats Tesla in Range, Going 520 Miles on a Single Charge
Node.js adds new-style APIs all the time. The File-system API now has an async/await version which is a joy to use.

When you load a library you can load a newer version or an older one. It's up to you. You can use both.
Huh. Nothing there is overt, it all hides behind some questionable statistics, but it definitely makes me not want to have a beer with the guy.
>> As the legislative history of the law discloses, its underlying purpose was to curtail, if not prohibit, transactions in NFA firearms. Congress found these firearms to pose a significant crime problem because of their frequent use in crime, particularly the gangland crimes of that era such as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/national-firearms-...

Also, the supreme court already weighted on some rights regarding weapon registration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Freed

>> United States v. Freed, 401 U.S. 601 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the National Firearms Act's registration requirements do not violate the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
MaXX Interactive Desktop
Yeah.

In Finland also the trend is that most "T-shaped" and experienced devs seem to be either in consulting freelancing or working for smaller consultancies (50-1000 ppl).

The big shops focusing on India outsourcing like IBM, Accenture, Deloitte etc. are a completely different thing.
Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing supply
As a complete outsider, I would think of this as follows. The current status quo is a Comcast/CenturyLink duopoly. Let's imagine I wanted to start a local ISP. What would kill my company the fastest?

The thing that would pop up as #1 for me is access to poles to run fiber. If this killed Google Fiber it can definitely kill a smaller upstart.

There are gatekeepers who limit this access and they work for the county, in the permit office. The incumbents have a relationship with these people, and if they don't you better believe that their folks will start building one as soon as your project is announced. All your local contractors currently supporting Comcast are also not on your side.

It is in these people's best interest to see your project die. To make things worse, they don't have to work very hard to make it happen. All they have to do is sit on a permit application long enough to cast doubt on the project. Whereas the broadband manager has a huge hill to climb in comparison: they would have to build a relationship with all the people blocking their progress or figure out how to sidestep them.

So the person you are looking for should have high-caliber government sales skills. Good luck finding someone like that who also has a masters degree in CS and will work for 140k. This person can make millions in commissions in enterprise IT sales and they know it.
Mouse Utopia Experiment
It's definitely a big problem with software. This "need to constantly pay developers" is part of the justification for moving towards subscription payment instead of one-time payment. The logic goes: One-time payment won't pay for future changes, and developers are always making changes, and they need to be paid for. But, what if I don't want future changes? For almost all software I've ever paid for, as a user, I just want the goddamn software exactly how it is today, forever. I'd maybe be willing to pay for security updates, but that's it.

But, noooooo, the company decides developers must perpetually change the software and designers need to perpetually change the UI, and therefore you must continue to pay for it, regardless of whether you want any of those changes.
What’s Up with WhatsApp Encrypted Backups
Which is a really big deal! I don't buy into Apple's flashy marketing crap, but TouchID got a few things right. Things that are easy to get wrong. Specifically, if an attacker steals my phone, getting my fingerprint out of the touchID chip is (supposed to be) nigh impossible, but no matter how possible that is/isn't, the point is that an attacker can't snoop the wires between the touchID chip and the phone's CPU, and then replay that conversation. There's a ton of ways to implement it wrongly. That the iPhone did it well isn't a reason that it would be okay to YOLO post picture of your fingerprints on Twitter.
Technically yes, but I think this sort of argument is trying to force people to see all censorship as the same.

The type, scope, and implementation of the censorship matters. Hackernews removing spam comments is different than YouTube removing this guys account which is different from YouTube removing any video that is critical of google. And all of those are completely different from Thailand arresting anyone who criticizes the king.

If you insist on saying all of these things are the same and if you are against one of them then you have to be against all of them, then you aren't going to get much support for fighting censorship.
At a minimum, for a Win32 application to work correctly with HiDPI it needs to tell the OS it is DPI aware.

This is done by marking the application DPI aware using the settings found in the manifest file.

The manifest file is then embedded into the resource section of the application, which then lets the OS know the application will be handling it's own DPI.

So the reason many of those 'legacy apps' don't work with HiDPI is they don't have those required manifest changes in place.

That then means the OS does the DPI scaling on behalf of the application and that results in poor scaling outcomes.
Skype iirc used to have an "unlimited" talk time capped at some ten thousand minutes as fair use.

I am pretty sure even today if you have a phone call on Google voice that goes over two hours or so, your call will drop. I like it better this way because I can call back immediately after being disconnected.
ExpressVPN works for me. Can get netflix US in the UK and vice versa. Also Disney+, BBC and Amazon Prime. Works for all the streaming services I've tried tbh.
> Sir Sinclair

FYI since I've seen this mistake a few times in this discussion: Sir Clive or Sir Clive Sinclair. "Sir" and "Dame" are attached to the given name, never the surname. I don't know why it's different from other titles, and Wikipedia doesn't seem to explain, just states the rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir
Really makes you wonder: you play whack a mole and tackle the symptoms with initiatives like this search engine. But the root of that problem and many many others is the same: advertising. Why don't we try to tackle that?
I agree with you, I think?

Whether you call such a list a registry or not is fairly trivial, I think. Their web server uses such a mapping, and for some reason usernames with suffixes on that list confused something. Call it a registry, or a mapping, or a list, the meaning of the statement is the same, and I don't think it prevents most people from understanding what's going on.
Try this https://wiby.me/

Clicking 'Surprise me' gave me an interesting article from 1994 http://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html
I hardly trust the chicken I cook, I wouldn't trust anything biological I cooked up near me but it'd be nice to know the process in detail.
I'm glad we have unaccountable mega-corporations telling me what does and what does not constitute 'social harm'.
Yeah, I hated this too. I've been using the 7+ Taskbar Tweaker program[0] to change this behaviour and I honestly couldn't imagine using Windows without it at this point.

[0] - https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker
Cough spotify
Thank you Sir. My ZX81 is where it all started.
I stand corrected, this is awesome! I didn't realize it was already a reality.
> Go ask any black male from New York in their 20s or 30s what they think about "Stop and frisk" and the sense of being violated by over policing.

I mean I just linked to a YouTube channel specifically interviewing and talking to different people from these areas you mentioned and as I already stated this is not how they feel.
Committees would make decisions that are less affected by populist pandering, resulting in a more centrist policy overall, and less severe policy swings between different administrations.

Whether such decisions are better or not depends on the specific circumstances and one's subjective perspective. Populism generally translates to more extreme politics, but sometimes more extreme is what you need to dig yourself out of a hole. Conversely, less pandering to popular opinion generally means more insider arrangements and other institutionalized corruption.
I would caution against being giddy about rewrites. As an end user, you should always be skeptical of brand new fresh off the factory bugs in rewrites, especially when the rewrite is of something as complex as a network stack.
> shoe string budget

> Revenue (2018) $412,233,508[0]

That could buy a lot of machineguns, according to the ATF.

https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/01/25/shoestring-mach...
Yes, xkcd had a great comic on the toxic attitude of abusing the ambiguity of a gentlemen's agreement:

https://xkcd.com/1499/
Literally everything you said is false.

Nikki Minaj didn't tweet about a "bad reaction" but a completely fabricated third or fourth hand story about someone's balls swelling up.

She was also not banned. Twitter literally said they were taking no action against her.

Nikki then tried to rile up her fans by crying "I'm getting cancelled" despite the fact that she was clearly not.
> The more rational 'New World' comparisons would be Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and guess what: very low murder, very low rates of gun ownership.

Who could have imagined that British colonies who didn’t violently overthrow the British colonial government would end up being less violent overall?

Also, who would have guessed that former British colonies that didn’t have millions of African slaves shipped in for cheap agricultural labor and treated as a perpetual underclass for centuries would be more peaceful places to live?

Nah, must be the guns.
Can we start with the fact that not being allowed onto a company's video platform is not a criminal penalty?
If properly modelled so the modifying operations are consistent and logical, SQL for modification has the advantage over "proper code to update" has the advantage that in many cases the same query to find something is used with only minor alteration to modify it.

Now the real magic, would be to make changes atomic!
I guess in this saying what "consulting" means is some vague "Agile, SAFe" BS consulting. What is being talked here is a software consultants who actually create software.
I use commercial VPN only watching films from other countries. One thing about ExpressVPN is they were good it moving exit points to stay ahead of most of the streaming companies. Does this application matter to mullvad? It's a lot of work to stay ahead of.

(I have a separate VPN for when I'm in a public place and it terminates at a machine I own. For movies, I don't care if my traffic is spied on)
This rings so true. My company has been involved in several tech products created from scratch (we did the majority of the tech work), but the party/ies paying for the product/s were not willing to put enough capital into marketing. All of them have failed, which (despite us being paid for the work) has been extremely disappointing each time - aside from losing the potential for further equity/royalties in some cases it just sucks to see your “baby” die off.
I don’t really have any constructive critiques beyond just saying that I support what you’re doing.

I think the long game that local politicians miss (or are financially motivated to not see) is that broadband is becoming as important to communities as roads. It facilitates lowering the costs of so many things, benefits companies+individuals+government, improves equality of access+opportunity, on and on.
Is it such a big deal with numbers? I mean, yeah, maybe some teenage girl with an astrological sign in her bio will be mad, but anyway, do people really care?

Well, while I was replying, I just remembered that Chinese companies usually skip 4 in their models because it's an "unlucky number."

Maybe you're right. Still, it's a funny thing if it's true.
Are you suggesting that a country needs to take away press freedom as its population increases or it becomes more diverse? Otherwise I don't see your point. I can concede that economic freedom might become more complex for larger countries, but why shouldn't press freedom scale? We rank in the 30s and 40s on those press freedom indexes. If you want to eliminate smaller countries, why can't we keep up with a country like Germany who is ahead of us on both lists?
Living through Covid: Two basic global scenarios for 2025
In other words, mailing lists are a poor replacement for private instant messaging. Indeed!

They (and news groups) are better for a different kind of discussions, and especially for digging out things that have been previously already discussed, and already contain a solution to your problem. Good luck doing that in instant messaging software.

In short, pick a right tool for the job.
They did an amazing job transferring more wealth to the rich.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/07/09/us/covid-fed-qe-p...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/12/opinion/covid...
the US does seem to have a rather unique problem with school shootings. it's certainly worth investigating why this is the case and considering countermeasures. at the same time, and I know this is a cold thing to say, the issue really gets blown out of proportion for political reasons. it's about as likely for a US student to get killed in a school shooting as it is for you to get hit by a bolt of lightning.

> From outside that society, how people put up with this, living with regular active shooter drills, managing the additional anxiety, etc, is definitely going to be of interest.

I was in grade school not that long ago, and quite frankly, there wasn't much to "put up with". we did active shooter drills as or less frequently than fire drills (not often). I don't remember ever feeling anxiety about being shot at school, and I am a lot more anxious than the average person.
Don't forget long service leave. A uniquely Australian/New Zealand leave offering. After 10 years you deserve a nice long break from the office. Came about due to the excessively long travel times back in the day to Europe.
True, the letter S in PHP stands for Security.
And I think it’s those aspects are great. Students should absolutely know about classes , encapsulation, arguments and method return types and Java reinforces that learning by having them always included. Students are force to learn these early and learn a valuable pragadim.
Right, but this is not a problem for IRC which sort of does the same thing.

And IRC has solved this problem for like what 40 years. The issue, I think, is discord servers have variable and unintuitive rules that users fail to understand.

I think I like protocols that follow the robustness principle in being accepting of lots of different inputs.
Ok I'll take my downvotes, but if you read the article this isn't about people who oppose lockdowns, this is about removing organized groups that unlawfully flout lockdown rules, as well as inciting violence, using hate speech and spreading misinformation that puts lives at stake. If you oppose lockdowns you still need to express your views lawfully just like anyone else.
It's very possible that the resources (tubs) for a large amount of cars, as in this scenario, would not be available. Even if it's a yesterday problem in the operational level, the logistics look fragile.
> Remember the kangaroo court that is FISA? Bored old men rubber stamping whatever is put in front of them

What about incidents like https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/2011-ruling-found-an-n...?
There's a huge difference between government regulation of email services and a government email service. I doubt many people calling for the former would use the later.
> Youtube has no realistic way to tell whether someone producing home-made science on youtube is a phd ex-nasa biohacker who follows best practices or just a complete quack who tries to sell dangerous fake remedies to vulnerable people. In practice the incentive to promote the latter probably far outweighs the former in number given the huge, generic audience on Youtube.

I think that the author would agree with you here- but it’s still worth calling out as something that changes if we move from a centralized content production model like PBS to distributed with moderation like YouTube.

I think that they get the “cause” wrong, attributing too much to the “cult” of mainstream science, when it seems like a logistics problem, but the effect is still that no one is able to do a deep dive on validating content. The best they can do is diagnose how far content seems to be from the mean.
The real reason is that Aussie start to view themselves as Asian as a whole. Demographically they are more and more Chinese+Indian than Europeans. They are also way closer physically to majority of Asians than any Western countries. Turning into police states or abandoning majority of Western ideals for "safety" is expected. I would say by 2050 Australian will have more than 50% paliamentary and government staff consist of non-whites.
"The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials."

- Yes, Prime Minister
This advice is from lawyers who are looking to make your actions as legally defensible as possible. That isn't the same thing as maximizing your odds of surviving the crime.

There's a reason every professional military trains soldiers to that their knee jerk reaction to a threat should be to attack it as violently as possible (with some nuances). Taking back initiative counts for a ton in an ambush situation.
Teletransportation Paradox
I do think consoles should be required to be open (as I think all phones should be), but I am sympathetic to the idea that consoles are somehow in a different class than phones or desktop/laptop computers. Consoles feel like purpose-built game machines, whereas phones feel like general purpose computers, albeit small ones.

Really, though, I don't have a good reason why I think it might be ok to lock down a purpose-built game machine. So maybe that's just not ok either.
> younger users prefer chat because they are used to looking at screens with a constantly updating ticker of new info.

Maybe, but I assume it's not age but because they have more freetime to sit in chatrooms.
AFAIK it's Electron (i.e. javascript, chrome as the renderer, node.js I think looking at the processes).

So...not a lot of Microsoft product in it. Ironic.
The only thing i liked about Donald Trump was his anti german stance. If the world spoke german they’d understand what a menace that country is to europe. Not only are they using “clean coal” but boy are they uneducated. Despite their hate for the east european untermensch they do quite a lot of harm to europe themselves.
Here's a pattern I've been using for some time in ES6 JavaScript (on Node.js) :

module.exports =
class MyClass
{ // ...

static init ()
{ // ... do something, like create and
// cache a Singleton etc.
return this;
}
} . init();

The static method init() is executed only once when the class is created and exported. You could add some check to it that causes an error if it gets called more than once.

Do static blocks allow me to do something more?
Its a high margin subscription service, invest in ads and it prints money.
It really depends on what phone you had and how old it was when you switched.

Most of my friends are very surprised when I mention that my Android phone lasts more than 2 days on a single charge; their iPhone barely lasts a day. If they switched they'd come to the same realisation as you did but with phones reversed. If they upgraded to the latest iPhone I am sure they'd also be pleasantly surprised.

I think something that has happened in the last 2-3 years is that the average phone has gone from 'full day battery' on purchase to '2-3 day battery' and there has not really been much marketing around that fact (or at least as far as I can see), so people on older models don't quite realise what they're missing (and are of course also suffering from battery degradation).
Wouldn't this also open up to foreign influence dumping money and misinformation to promote negative policy decisions.

Or not even foreign influence. It's just rephrasing money = speech. Instead of spending millions to influence voters, you spend millions on positions, and you get your money back if you don't win your side? So it lets the megacorps/trade groups get richer by removing the uncertainty of lobbying in place of buying policy once you hit a certain critical threshold of money to throw around.
> There's something admirable about the idea that a government would not take away all the guns. The idea that people should not have to give up all of their ability to fight.

This is the glass half full view.

The other view is that gov. doesn’t need to care about people with guns because that long hasn’t mattered in any way. A civil war hasn’t been at stake for a century, and the gov got away with anything it really wanted without ever having to fear for physical unrest. It feels a lot like letting your kid have his plastic knife so he can wield it to you to protest your authority when times come.

‘Not having to rely on police” also means they give themselves the option to just let civilians fight it out when shit hits the fan, which doesn’t look like a great thing to me.
This is absolutely dreadful. I love it.
Effbot.org on Hiatus
I agree with you about revolution, though things could play out more along the lines of 1989 in Romania or East Germany. At some point, officials quit obeying orders among mass demonstrations.

> ...undermining corporate feudalism seems more likely. People just have to sacrifice convenience and support ethical small businesses.

I am dubious that we can essentially consume our way out of our political problems.
am surprised there isnt amazon currency. youd think they could basically corner any crypto at their whim
Seconded, I’d like to incorporate it into a project of mine.
That's the opposite of firmly established. I say that as no fan of the practice.
> "Passports" based on strongly held beliefs about identity (global, regional, tribal, or otherwise) as opposed to national citizenship and the legal frameworks

Those are also just strongly held beliefs, only they're held by people with more power.
Wasn’t a woman shot in Indiana for saying all lives matter to BLM protestors?
Feinstein’s career is the perfect example of why two-party, first-past-the-post elections are fundamentally broken. Feinstein is universally disliked by Californians across party and age demographics, yet she keeps winning because the people who run against her are typically clinically insane (even more than her).
That’s quite possible. And probably because you’d worked on something where this applied before.

Also exactly the reason I posted my message since that doesn’t apply for everyone. People that already know may be blind to that though.
I was surprised (and mostly shocked) by the ISP oligopoly in the US. When I heard that it killed Google Fiber and even such a money giant as Google can't properly fight it, I finally understood how bad it is.

It there any perspectives of game-changing in that field? And what can be done to change it?

I'm genuinely curious about it.
I'm an ExpressVPN customer. Is this a bad thing? Does it make my data less private? Should I move VPN provider? To who?