skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks neat. Once upon a time -- back in the 80s -- there was a utility called 'learn' that was a Unix command line tutorial. After each lesson, you could do these exercises where you were dropped into a fake shell, replete with fake directories and that, and had to get things into a certain expected state. They were typical business-related tasks, nothing cool and dungeon-y, but I learned my basic Unix commands that way. It's good to see learning tools like this re-emerge.
The trouble is, everyone has a different opinion on what reality is.
It is really hilarious!

> Utilize a safe programming language — no more of C’s shenanigans, we don’t want to “cook” pointers out of integers, no more manually freeing memory and no more buffer overflows.

C language is little mora than (portable) assembler. To the CPU the difference between pointers and integers is in the code, not in the type.

These people thinks C is unsafe. C is as safe as your design and skills. Yes, you need to be a very careful C programmer and still getting bugs. But also be able to squeeze all the juice out of your hardware.
LocalStack is super useful tool for developers during local development and e2e testing. We have been using it for one year and it really helped us to debug and find issues without deploying to real AWS environment.
The problem is not getting your first 1k users (anyone with enough time and money can do that). The real challenge is how to make a sticky product that people care enough about to tell their friends.
They should be a lot less aggressive and assertive about it, but, given the stakes nd the history I think the polite fiction is perfectly fine compared to lots of alternatives.
10 years ago they were offering it as a significant discount if you had a compelling enough application.

( significant was for 100 € in my anecdotal experience )
Seems like privacy and OSS support are different things.

And it doesn’t seem tough to generally diff privacy between the two OSes, as this paper seems to add some contributions.
Thanks for a thoughtful reply.

> I don’t follow. Do you think a material thing outside of the person is plausibly the main cause for the having the one kind of toast over the other?

Is there a main cause? What makes one cause a main cause and some other cause a secondary cause?

Can we somehow separate people from the environment in which they exist?

To my knowledge, reality is one big quantum field, or something similar. I don't know what's underneath quantum mechanics, assuming quantum mechanics is currently the best explanation we have for sweeps arm all of this.

> The motion of the limbs appears to be a result of signals sent from the brain.

I agree. So how did the brain that sends the signals come into existence? Is the brain that sends the signals able to send the signals, because the body that supports it provides what it needs to operate?

> If one’s view of what people are is that there are no people, then it also follows that all people have free will.

I don't see the connection here.
There is a semi that we needed to rethink the whole fab flow, you will love it like we do.
We did search for buy-built just what we needed could not be built, we needed to build-our-own, we believe it will change the industry and a few others industries also.
Grief is tough to control, it comes in unpredictable waves.

Keeping that in mind, the people who made me feel better were those who added some occasional (repeat - occasional) humor and positivity to lighten up the mood.

So rather than being all gloom and doom with the grieving if you notice them going through a less painful moment until the next wave hits, try engaging them in some upbeat conversation.
I wish there were a section like this one in every tools' home/download page.

A section called "For production use this" or "if you don't know what you're looking for, use this".
And "this" can be a particular version (Ubuntu 20.04.6) or a rule of thumb (for production, always use x.y.1 version or above).

Or it can be a table like this one. Django is, as it is in many fields, the gold standard in this regard.

It gets confusing sometimes. Yesterday I was trying to update the python version of one of my applications and was wondering; should I do it now, or do I need to wait for 3.10.1? I did it anyway because the app barely gets traffic anyway, but more clarity is always welcome.
democracy=2 wolves + a sheep voting on what's for dinner
Yes, it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
Huh?

I wonder what you'd say about λόγος.
Archibald Higgins
(throwaway and limited detail as this is based on recent events in my family)

If you're not the one grieving, as others have said, giving "helpful advice" isn't helpful and it won't get followed anyway. Grief isn't something you can fix. Listen. I have several good listeners around me, including my wife, and a counsellor through work, and I'm really glad of that. Most people seem to consider "go to a counsellor" unhelpful advice, and won't, but they really should! And switch if you don't like the first one you go to (I've been lucky and haven't had to switch).

If you're the one grieving, everyone experiences it differently. If there is "someone to blame" the anger can eat away at people - restorative justice stuff can help. In our situation what happened was a geniune accident. Some family have accepted that (it was always my view) and some are just really angry. And I don't know what to do there.

Different events multipled by different people means many different possible responses! I've been told that people do go through Elizabeth Kubler-Rosses stages of grief, but in a completely random order.

Wierd stuff brings it back, you cry over things that make no sense at all. For me, gradually those feelings have lost their sharpness. I'm sad but not to the point of tears.

If you're the one who is grieving, you can give "helpful advice" that provides a sense of perspective, to yourself. For example, my understanding that this was probably a genuine accident, even before the police confirmed that. You'll still cry, it'll still be hard, you're a person not a robot.

I do wonder how modern western life make us less prepared for this sort of thing. The world for us westerns (pre COVID anyway) is so safe that outside expected deaths of people in their old age, experience of grief is uncommon. In e.g. Britain this change happened in the mid 18th century. Now, most people haven't experienced a younger person they know dying, so have no clue what it's like. And that brings on the unhelpfulness.
Which opens the question, is it a good thing that a tool like twitter is able to make these groups voices much more noticably amplified? It was one thing when this stuff was limited to the AM bands of radio or tabloids that everyone knew were nuts. Now we have given these people the equivalent platform of anyone else and there’s no learned cultural knowledge to ignore these voices like we’ve learned to do with AM radio crazies, since its being amplified on the same platform used by even the POTUS and all sorts of official sources of communication which acts as a signal of legitimacy for a lot of people buying into this crap.

With platforms like twitter we’ve in effect removed editors from the paper of record and let anyone contribute articles, which has turned it into a tabloid rag at best and outright propaganda at worst, but guised as where legitimate truths are found since officials and legitimate businesses and professionals have sanctified the platform with their own use.
What is a disposable mower? That number is way off, checking my local hardware store a brand new mower is $150AUD.
This seems pretty tame. Not even 200 likes between the two. Not much of a "mob"
Yep; the account for each wiki is automatically created the first time you visit that wiki, and rights are mostly local.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login

You can list your local accounts at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth
>Once you compare anything to nazism you pretty much forfeit the discussion, even if it's a valid comparison.

This is an extremely stupid statement, and we shouldn't support it by repeating it.
Yeah I ended up working at a place that was already using NixOS -- as in developer laptops come with NixOS, and that was definitely a huge plus. Much nicer when the war is already won, and there is no class of macOS or Windows-using devs to appease!
So here's a question to think about... how do you tell a culture 5000 years from now of an arbitrary technology that the nuclear waste dumps that we have are "bad"?

The Clock of the Long Now is an artifact from thinking about that and other questions.

I'll certainly grant that many times the art or artifact that comes from that idea may become more visible than the idea itself... but for people who are inspired by the artifact and go on to disover the idea behind it, it can be, well, inspirational - and a way of doing something today that will have repercussions centuries and millennia from now.
I’m afraid that iOS release quality has always been terrible garbage for me even if I liked Scott Forstalls design aesthetics.

I have had an iOS device since iPhone launched. October of 2012 my iPhone backups made locally and in iCloud could not be restored due to corruption. No one at Apple could help. I contacted Tim Cook’s office and they spent a short period of time confirming the inevitable.

I lost about a year of text messages that I thought were backed up. Everything else I could recover from other systems.
i got a chance to learn this tool and it’s super useful tool for developers during local development and e2e testing
Autotranlated title: "Grating Cap for Spectroscopy", perhaps you can change the title to "Grating Cap for Spectroscopy [French]"

https://www-jp--petit-org.translate.goog/bonnettereseau.htm?...

It's nice that they publish the 3D printer file to build the support. Some years ago, I took a few photographs using a CD or DVD as a diffraction grating. It's not very precise, but it's interesting to compare different light sources. But the trick with the CD or DVD looks very weird when you use it in the street.
i got the chance to learn this tool and it is super useful tool for developers during local development and e2e testing
I learned with Kano OS (kid's computer kit) running on a Raspberry Pi at age 12. A similar console-type game that taught me all the common commands still sticks with me to this day. This will be a good refresher, years later. :)

https://allthingsd.com/20131203/the-99-kids-computer-kit-kan...
“Everything sucks the same, why bother” is the cry of those incapable of nuance, or more commonly, on the losing side.

There are objective reasons where Apple is better at privacy.

For example, one of the things that benefits me the most personally:

iCloud Mail aliases versus Gmail aliases: Google exposes your main address at all times:

HeyGuysLookWhoItIs+TotallyNotMe@gmail.com

What even is the fucking point?

iCloud lets you have completely different aliases all forwarded to the same main account which no one else ever has to see.
Well all the software on the iPhone was closed source too. If it insults you to use technology you didn't invent and don't control go find a cave and invent something bigger than the microprocessor. Just hold your breath for that open platform.
There’s enough time between April and publication of this preprint that they should have addressed it.

Also, this is a preprint, so maybe they do expand on the final pub.
Benchmarking really does need repeated inputs and outputs. Otherwise you can't make a meaningful comparison between the systems that ran the test.

You can use these distributed computing projects for burn-in testing though. When you just want to run your computer hard to make sure it can manage N hours at 100%, and don't necessarily need to know how it compares to others, distributed computing can work (although, there's some risk of wrong results and therefore more work for the organizers if you're testing your system in extreme conditions, sometimes those lead to miscalculations)
Technically it's the Groovy runtime that doesn't support 17 (or specifically, JVM bytecode v62+) yet. And then only because it seems to do an explicit whitelisted-version check during some buildscript static-analysis bootstrap phase.

If you switch your Gradle buildscript files over to being written in Kotlin, the problem goes away, as Kotlin's runtime doesn't seem to use any similar explicit checks.

(Doing so also allows you to go further and test out EA JVM builds, e.g. Project Loom, which Groovy-based buildscripts have never been, and will never be, happy with.)
Individuals are not the collective. Not only is it inaccurate as a generalization, but it personifies the collective. A nation state is an abstract concept. Politicians and leaders act. Individuals may agree or disagree. Abstractions have no agency.

This is most apparent for me in the false narrative of, "China lifted a billion people out of poverty".

Unpack that one. This advancement is relative to a largely agrarian society which was then subjected to the Great Leap Forward. Loosening your grip on the victim's neck isn't the same as performing the Heimlich maneuver.

China, the nation advanced economically. Business people worked together to develop an economy. These individuals are the real heroes, not the state. They prevailed despite government regulations, corruption and central planning. Going back to the propaganda narrative, how much better off would the people of China be if they were not under the yoke of the CCP?

From there it is not only easy to see how this narrative is inaccurate, but a toxic mistruth in service of authoritarians. The distinction is important.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2012-mapping-chinas-red-n...
The cheapest Honda push mower at home depot (today in the midwest) is $420, the second cheapest is $550.

They will easily go 20 years without much maintenance. Nobody I know buying $180 mowers gets more than a few years out of them and they are off to the landfill.
This is not an issue in reality where devs just use whatever chocolately, brew or apt-get pull for them to develop and use whatever is the latest docker image for prod usage.
I worked on a system called Quartz at Bank of America. It wasn't an AWS clone, but was targeting the same flexibility for the development and deployment of applications on 'programmable' infrastructure. The team that built it had done similar projects before at J. P. Morgan and Goldmans. It was a set of infrastructure and services all accessed through Python APIs, with YAML config, all stored in a single distributed version control system. It was a lot of fun to work on.
People really do need additional functionality beyond what the browser provides.

The browser should offer the user controls on what data plugins can remit from the computer.
If I understand that page correctly, you can use Java 17 to compile and run your program, as long as you also have Java 16 or older installed to run Gradle itself.
God knows what is the actual model, but googling for "Stork scissors" yields a lot of results.
SQL also enables stored computation of columns through views. How does a feature store differ from a view? Or is it just a different name for basically the same thing?
You get what you pay for. I assume the comment refers to free/ad-powered media. I don’t remember the last time I saw a celebrity news line.
> Writing quality and wit has definitely declined

I concur. The skewering of Sarah Palin "I can see Russia from my house!" by SNL was brilliant. SNL's skewering of Trump just wasn't funny.

Edit: Ok, if you disagree, note that everyone recognizes the SNL "I can see..." quote. Any memorable ones from SNL's Trump skits?
Thanks for pointing me to that. It's hard not to agree with the Transparency Matters conclusion but the 13% drop in Tracking Attempts is worth calling out so I'm glad the Oxford researchers did it.

This is not my field but one thing that I don't get when looking over the Transparency Matters report [1] is why do some apps have 9 trackers and others have 300 requests? Are they really so different? And are they able to get information that Starbucks didn't with only 3 trackers and 21 requests?

I guess in the end the magnitudes aren't so important but I found the large differences pretty amazing. If nothing else I would think they might want to reduce the amount of data they need to retain, reducing their costs. It seems like there has to be diminishing returns there.

It also shows how much data Google has as they show up on 8 of the 10 apps tracker lists and one can only assume they keep a copy of all that as well.

So perhaps the iOS/Andriod comparison is meaningless anyway as Google knows all about you either way.

[1] https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2021/09/22/study-effectiven...
Couldn't agree more on this
Study saying Covid-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation withdrawn over errors
>It had a built in de-interlacer

Interlacing is easy, deinterlacing not so much. The scan doubler was a very welcome addition, and it worked much better with non-interlaced modes. Obviously, productivity modes were pass-through.

>Maybe they were more useful on other machines

Big box A3000 was not as common as the other machines with ECS.

These would be A500+ and A600, alongside A500 with upgraded Denise (upgrade kits were sold alongside AmigaOS 2.x disks/roms).

>I personally never knew anyone with a monitor that could use them.

DVD era, many TVs supported "progressive" mode. Before that, it was not exactly common, but some Multisync VGA monitors could take both the 15.6KHz and 31KHz modes.
Fair, but at the same time, "setuid" is a war where everyone looses, IMO :).

Since the issue was first closed, there are some solutions for NixOS that I hope for discoverable. For Nixpkgs alone, I really don't think see any solution that is both secure and ergonomic -- setuid is bad.
The fact that a single state can accomplish something of this magnitude gives me hope for America.
I think that comment was tongue in cheek. It would take an utterly massive amount of nuclear weapons to appreciably melt the poles and it would likely poison the environment.
Sure. But, not sure how to process that as a reply to my comment.
Great question - we're working very closely with moto, in fact our team very actively contributes to the moto core on a regular basis.

The main differentiator is that moto is a Python library that mocks out / implements the AWS APIs, whereas we see LocalStack as a platform that aims to support the end-to-end development lifecycle for your cloud apps.

A lot of the work we do in LocalStack is to create a seamless dev experience in your local environment - providing local DNS integrations, persistence features, Lambda code mounting, CI integrations, transparent injection of "localhost" endpoints into AWS SDKs (e.g., for your Lambda functions), and much more. Also, today we already provide some fairly sophisticated integrations - e.g., our Athena API which allows you to run your SQL-like big data queries natively over the local S3 filesystem. This is out of scope for moto, but a big focus area for us.

Our aspiration is that you can take any (AWS) cloud app and deploy it natively to LocalStack - which is already the case in many scenarios, and improving on a daily basis.

Btw, we're currently working on revamping/polishing our docs with lots of more content and details - we'll push out an update to https://localstack.cloud/docs in the next couple of days!
Maybe with different VPN endpoints on each device it could work. But it would require a strict discipline. Google is very good at finding the same person in 2 very different devices.
Super useful tool, we use it as part of our CI pipeline to test our Lambdas, works great
After trying Half Life: Alyx on a quest 2 I am absolutely convinced that VR is going to be huge for the general public in the future.

I saw a comment that said it feels like a game from 5 years in the future and I agree.

VR/AR in general feels like a young field with lots of room for innovation.
As an interesting related data point. Edge has a mode with no JIT and it might be usable for a lot of practical scenarios: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...

Our current software is designed around a particular set of operations being the "expensive" ones. Maybe other configurations are workable too, with enough rearchitecting. For example, Singularity IPC looks like it should have about the same cost as a typical userspace dynamic library function call.

(IMO the main problem with Singularity's approach is instead that it leaves everything wide open to Spectre...)
I think as long as you think (know?) this is true the easier it makes dealing with work stress. "It has to get done or else" is so common in my place it falls on deaf ears with most the devs.

At my place, I think its more CYA than BS. "See VP Person, i said it has to get done or else!" so its not my fault!
Which will never happen you child
"dc space"?
It can actually be good to go to a football school if its large enough. That wing of the university prints money to support all the other branches that otherwise would be starved of funding. Ironically, its probably disinterest liberal arts students who benefit the most from their school’s football program. Ohio State is very much a football school and it has great academics especially in engineering, business, cancer research, a national leader in agricultural sciences too, with brand new buildings all over its massive campus. Other public schools in the great lakes region that aren’t in the B1G ten football conference look like satellite campuses by comparison.
Yes . . . that was my point. There is not a legislatable way to compel Twitter to stop this behavior without violating Twitter's and protestors' free speech rights.
He meant what is the practical use of this new discovery
The History of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Maybe if you read the page, you'll find out!
dc=datacenter
Beyond emotional support, if they have lost a parent or are in charge of an estate for any reason, make sure they get a lawyer as quickly as possible. Common media makes everyone aware of dramatic family battles which may or may not actually happen, but it does not cover the soul-sucking bureaucracy you have to deal with. The government is happy to drag it on beyond all reason. Even if you are supposed to give them money, they will give you task after task in order to actually pay them, they won't tell you all the steps in the beginning to hasten the process, and simply filing the death certificate is not enough to trigger the start of the timeline.
Yup you're totally right. I got mixed up with Connaught's sale to the Canada Development Corporation in 1972, and again confusing NAFTA's ratification with Mulroney's gov't.
> Two wrongs don't make a right?

Where do you see "two wrongs"? I don't understand this reply at all. I don't see the connection to what I actually wrote.

> Ultimately, it's not a question of how deserving billionaires are (they obviously aren't). It's more a question of how to best advance the interests of our species as a whole.

I agree, and I don't see any connection to what I wrote here either, meaning how this is supposed to be a contradiction to my point?
Gnome UI is perfectly fine on a touch-driven device. Less so on a desktop, but since there are a number of viable alternatives (MATE, Xfce) that still integrate OK with Gnome components the UI itself doesn't matter all that much.