skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right! I remember having the same experience when visiting a friend - misterious Turbo button that (apparently?) didn't have any effect :)
The impact of missing important personal news isn't quantifiable in practice. Different people want different things from the platform too. And Facebook can't put everything people care about into the equation as long as the real goal remains getting them to look at more ads.
The power user thing in most "omnibars" that's been around for a long time at this point is that if you prefix search queries with a question mark ? you get an explicit search behavior (with your default search provider) and for instance auto-complete doesn't show recent URLs anymore.

Firefox (and Edge; don't know about Chrome as I don't use it) still have the concept of "Search Keywords" that you can prefix searches with to get into search modes for against specific non-default search providers. For instance in the Firefox bar you can type @wikipedia and go directly to a Wikipedia Search mode.
> Make it part of the FEC charter

Adding things to the FEC responsibility is not a solution, because the FEC is by structural design nonfunctional in normal conditions, and has sometimes been (e.g., most of 2020) completely nonfunctional due to lack of a quorum.
I use teddit. Quit reddit some time ago. Don't like my thought to be checked by 6 mods.
All US tax payers have a tax payer ID - attempting to use that for anything else would likely be shut down really quickly by republicans.
Yes, because Ubuntu doesn't ship everything you need, third-party repositories are needed for my day-to-day job. None of the packages I get from that are overwriting existing software from official repositories, but still Ubuntu recommends turning those off, not sure how that should break an upgrade. On the other hand, my Arch installation runs with tons of custom software, with repositories and more added to it, but still somehow can handle upgrades 100 times better than Ubuntu.

Regarding the python, the error message was something like "python is gonna be python 3 after the upgrade, and we can't handle that so you should uninstall python before upgrading", or something similar.

I'm just using what Canonical/Ubuntu are providing me when it comes to Python, but still somehow it's up to me to remove/install stuff manually when it comes to upgrading.
Dont worry, I only do all this behind 7 proxies. Plus I called google and they know all about it.
I really don't think they are. The 24mm "probe" lens is pretty famous and widespread, and it's actually the #2 item for the query "macro lens" on Google shopping and it's the first macro lens you'll see on Google images. Beyond that, there's a whole plethora of ~24mm macro lenses and they're pretty dominant in the budget side of macro lenses nowadays.
There's a tiny part of your brain called the Ego that thinks it is human and special. The rest of your brain knows you are just part of the universe. Inextricably so, from before birth to after death. One and the same, like a drop of water returning to the ocean. What could be more intimate than that?
And no difference in the level of verification to get the ID. You need a state issued ID, and federal background check, and full fingerprints to get a Student ID, right?

In terms of rigor of identity authentication: CHL > Driver's license.
This is such a weird article. All of his examples are insane strawman non-idomatic C# code, and then he complains when they don't do whatever he decides "an average programmer" would expect them to do. Huh? They were all either doing exactly what I expected them to do (silly things), or were so strange and alien that even Visual Studio has no idea what to do with them! I've never seen anything like that Cell<T> example and it doesn't come close to compiling. What a weird, weird thing to do: write code that literally does not compile and then complain about it!?
A CCL requires a background check. A student ID does not.
Use AppImage + firejail (optionally, to fully sandbox AppImage)
I've never seen one in the wild, thought it would be interesting to see what they want you to paste into the console, probably something to transmit them your session token. I know Facebook has a huge warning about it when you open devtools on their site.
Carbon capture and sequestration, as it's called, suffers from a major co-ordination problem, the free-rider effect. Why pay yourself if others are paying? You get the same benefit. Every country can see that, so no-one pays.

Look how well the world did with covid-19. Low income countries are still desperately short of vaccines, which means that covid is going to be endemic from now on.

Or look how well the world coped when there were commodity food price spikes in 2005-2008, and 2010-2011. Countries banned exports, rather than co-operating.

We're going to have more of those (food price spikes), btw.

Something that has been vanishingly low probability (once per 5_000 years, say), until now, is simultaneous harvest failure by say 10% or more in two or more of the four "bread-basket" (grain) regions of the world.

Simulations suggest that probability will rise over the course of the century to about 50% per decade starting in the '40s.[1] I hope we're planning for it.

1. Daniel Quiggin, Kris De Meyer, Lucy Hubble-Rose and Anthony Froggatt, Climate change risk assessment 2021, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House Environment and Society Programme Research Paper 2021. ISBN 978-1-78413-491-4.
I don't see anymore than 3mm in focus in the images of the post.
How many of those vulnerabilities have patches available ?
You have maturity. :)
> And that scrutineers were kicked out in places was a disgusting act

I'm not aware of that actually happening. Here are some details on some allegations that were made, but the gist is that nothing improper actually did happen:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/12/donald-tru...
Amazon asks Ring owners to respect privacy after court rules usage broke law
> but I will just add that few people/families historically have been entirely self-sufficient

I'm not sure why you think that should be the goal.

If they're mostly self sufficient they'll be off to a much better start then others. Even if it's not perfect, its definitely better

And if it actually does get really bad... They'll probably have people join them so self sufficiency won't be necessary anymore.
are these message channels deterministic? Or would order of delivery and processing be resolved by chance?
I’m not aiming for anything as radical as a lot of the replies seem to think. I just want bit of space to breathe cleaner air, grow food and install some renewables.
Is there evidence that there isn’t ? How would you tell?

(Anecdotally, from talking to my friends and acquaintances from Arizona, I think at least one type of voter fraud is extremely widespread: remaining registered there even after you’ve moved away, because you want your vote to be in a purple state and therefore count more. Most people don’t even think of this as fraud.)
I thought this was about deep packet inspection. Maybe we should disambiguate acronyms in the title if there’s space.
> They want to know what data has been exposed

They should check their own logs instead of relaying on a 3rd party that may not tell the truth. This shows incompetence.
A lot of negativity in this thread.

I've been using Ubuntu for about 10 years and is my favorite distro after trying a few others. I went through the whole distro hoping thing and using Arch to set up everything just the way I wanted phase, and while very fun & educational, it isn't good for getting things done.

Ubuntu just works and let's me be productive with things I care about.

Thank you Ubuntu team!
The ACLU cites a 2006 study which says that 25% of African-American eligible voters lack government-issued photo ID, and 8% of white eligible voters. Those are pretty huge numbers, not to mention the conspicuous ethnic disparity.
"I can't help you"

No, you can't, because you are painfully ignorant on this topic.

Literally, spend 30 minutes with an iPhone and an SLR and you'd be illuminated. Instead you seriously argue that I need to look at the "physics" (which is farcical when you ignore the most important part of a camera, which is the focusing from the lens to the sensor. Dismissing that betrays a complete misunderstanding of optics).

This conversation is clearly futile, but again - spend 30 minutes and actually test your theories. Or, you know, read any single article on the tubes.

Or how about simply ask yourself "why does the iPhone need to do computational bokeh"? 65mm equivalent lens, f/2.2...should be the easiest thing in the world. In SLR world that is bokeh gold.
Why doesn't HTTPS://hackerne.ws/ work?
I know it's a redirect URL, but it's the one that I've used forever and I'm curious as to why the redirect only works on HTTP and not TLS?
Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.
I love the way “cloud architect” becomes “arse clown”.
Correct. I’m not American and not subject to them, but I believe people should make their own decisions, while the protection offered by the state should come in the form of education and catching bad actors. Restricting access is a form of throwing one’s hands in the air and deciding the issue is too complicated so we’ll just hide it under the rug. This goes beyond accredited investor status. All too often laws and regulations hide issues under the rug rather than actually addressing them, perhaps because the systemic changes required to fit a framework around the world are too difficult to achieve vs fitting the world inside the framework. We’re trapped in legacy code.
Army Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Dollar Advanced Aug Reality Goggle Program
Can you download Github and host a private Github instance? No? Then its web-only. Like Google Docs is web-only, while MS Word is offline.

Gitlab is hostable software. You can buy and host Gitlab on your own servers, in private. That makes it a fundamentally different market than Github.
I expect there is such a treaty, but presumably it specifies that the Netherlands will have certain obligations regarding US citizens that reside in the Netherlands. I doubt it will be specific on who actually is a US citizen.

Further, you might still be able to prevail in a court. You would essentially be asking a court to find that you have a unilateral right to renounce a citizenship. Again, I doubt such a right is explicitly set out in any Netherlands law, but you would would be arguing that such a right is implied by some other principles. If the court were to find in your favor, the fact that the Netherlands has a treaty to the contrary would merely mean that the treaty was now incompatible with Dutch law.
This article reminded me that I had to report a data leak I found on an ecommerce website from my country some months ago, so I just did that. I reported it to a government agency responsible for cybersecurity in my country, which apparently accepts reports about private companies.

Any precautions that you recommend when reporting this kind of vulnerability/data leak? (Apart from "do not access other people's data if you can avoid it")
OpenBSD uses a really simple rc.d to get going:

* https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/337_bsdcan-...
Yeah I switched to Fedora recently, with pipewire setup by default its really easy to get great audio performance out of the box, I used to have to build custom kernels for jackd.
Not sure their snark works here since the holocaust isn't "widely debated and currently controversial”
I agree as well. I suggested using parameters/bindings. Hope you saw that in the article. Thank you for your comment.
> You don't have to be a citizen to have a driver's license, either, but they're accepted.

This is the exact reason that issuing indistinguishable driver's licenses to non-citizens was controversial.

> Doesn't matter if you're a resident of the state.

The point is that maybe it should. It's reasonable to say that people should vote in the place where they're a permanent resident and not somewhere they're likely not going to reside by the end of the term of office for the election in question.

It's not as if they can't vote, they can vote where they're actually from. Or demonstrate the intent to move to the state where they want to vote by getting a state ID there.
If you like (or are okay with) GNOME, I'd recommend giving Fedora a try.

Been using for a few years now and it has been the closest thing to "set up and forget" to me (I needed to install some codecs to play H.264/HEVC video). Painless upgrades, decent software catalog... It has been extremely reliable. Highly recommend it.
My complaints (not looked real recently though):

Snaps are Ubuntu specific and the server side/repo is closed source.

Snaps pollute the df/mount points with per snap lines.

They rolled out in a LTS release with minimal testing. Caused quite a few problems like not being able to boot as multiple snaps drained /dev/random (instead of /dev/urandom) and waited on more entropy, which was god awful slow since the boot hadn't finished.

There was no automatic cleanup of older snaps.

Generally it just seemed like a silly proprietary setup that Canocial tried to claim had wide industry support, despite not having that support. I'm not against the ideas, but why not docker? Flatpak? AppImages?
Oh, well, when you put it that way it makes sense. We can just not authenticate the votes at all then. Then anyone can vote.

That is absurd. That's not the goal. Only citizens can vote, and the votes need to be legitimate.
USS Iowa Turret Explosion
My high school rolled out an ID system in 1998 using SSNs printed on every ID (staff and students). About a week later, they realized this was a bad idea and reissued 1000+ IDs without the SSN.

I still don’t know what the point of the ID cards was. They were just laminated paper, no RFID, magstripe, or barcode to open doors or to buy things from the cafeteria or school store. You didn’t need it to check out books from the library and no one ever asked to see it. And we got a new one every year.

I guess some vendor convinced the school that they needed ID cards and so they got them.
> All US tax payers have a tax payer ID - attempting to use that for anything else would likely be shut down really quickly by republicans.

For most taxpayers, that's the SSN, and its widely used for other purposes.

Republicans mostly seem to have a problem when people point out that their incompetence is causing them to leak publicly, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867562
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYC_8998-760-1 cites a paper with spectroscopy results.

> TYC 8998-760-1 b is a gas giant exoplanet which has a mass 14 times that of Jupiter, and a radius of 3 RJ. It orbits at a distance of 162 AU (2.42×1010 km; 1.51×1010 mi), or slightly more than 5 times the Neptune-Sun distance.[5][7] In July 2021, astronomers reported the detection, for the first time, of an isotope in the atmosphere of an exoplanet; more specifically, the isotope Carbon-13 (C13) was found in the atmosphere.[8][9]
Well, in the rest of the industrialized world the thought of voting with your gas bill as "ID" is laughable.
Here’s a guide to RSS: https://wpmayor.com/beginners-guide-simple-syndication-rss/
There's still several big differences. It's not so difficult to filter out good programming languages from poor ones - the barrier to entry is still fairly high on both sides of the equation (production and adoption) and thus quantity of new languages is low. Even creating a bad programming language requires a certain degree of skill. Further, programmers have a much higher qualification to judge programming languages than the average person has to judge the quality of their news, which could span every possible topic. [0] And lastly bad amateurish programming languages can be ignored. They have little consequence on the whole of society.

None of this is true for poor quality or fabricated news. It's easy to produce [1] and trivial to consume and share and thus it is everywhere, it encompasses every subject matter and thus nobody is well-qualified to judge a significant fraction of it, and the desire to believe in fabrications that align with one's own beliefs is wildly stronger than the desire to strongly commit to learning a new programming language.

[0] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
> Trivial app portability

The "registry" is not an issue anymore?
Desktop PC sales are in freefall and were stagnant years before that.

Laptops nowadays are about ~2 years behind mainstream desktop platforms and are now capable of serving the needs of most gamers, video editors, and programmers. Consumers, prosumers, and businesses are increasingly are asking themselves why they should give up the flexibility of a laptop and dedicate valuable space to a traditional desktop setup. From the business perspective, laptops are also logistically easier to deploy.

The biggest ways I've seen upgradability used is to deal with HDD failures, which are several times less likely than they were ten years prior. To deal with running oom, which is far less of an issue because swapping to SSD isn't as profound of a performance hit. To deal with running out of disk, which you can compensate for with cloud storage. To deal with running out of compute, which can be dealt with using cloud compute. It should also be said that an alternative to upgrading a component is to just sell the entire machine and get a new one, even if this might be less efficient, it's still an option.

One might say "but aha - doesn't an upgradable laptop give you the best of both worlds?" but being honest a framework is not a better value or better performer for most users than a 8gb MBA even if you can slap in 32gb of memory and a 1tb drive into a framework for cheap. The integration of the MBA offers unique benefits when it comes to battery life and performance, and just the fact that TSMC n5 is only available on an integrated laptop is really a huge if artificial competitive edge for integrated laptops.

I don't really see repairability coming back if I'm going to be honest, I see the laptop of the future being harder to repair not easier.
This paper lays it out pretty well. There’s a parallel tax code that is more complicated, and that’s before the nuances of tax treaties factor in.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3795480
Yes, somewhere around 24mm. You'd need to step down a bit more at 90mm.

However, at 90mm the object would also be farther away, so you wouldn't need to stop down a lot more than you'd expect.
Is it? Whose objective is that?

It's not the objective of the ruling party in the UK, for example. Quite the opposite...just to get the right people to vote.
I'm imagining The Universe™ sitting in front of a crusty old interdimensional space laptop, thumbs-upping your actions in the ol' Fatebook once in a while. Probably The Universe™ ran out of space cats and you were the next best thing. What a fortunate turn of events.
Sounds like the author is just frustrated he can't offload his parental responsibilities onto YouTube.

You are your child's parent. Not YouTube. If you want to control what you child watches, its on you to figure that out, not for YouTube to do it for you.

If you don't like the controls YouTube provides, don't use it. Or better yet be an actual functioning parent and don't just plop your kid down in front of screen and expect it to parent for you.

Play with your kid. Do activities with them. There are near limitless other far more healthy ways a kid could be spending their time other than watching YouTube, but that stuff takes time and attention, so rather than spend that time and attention on their actual child, the author would rather spend it writing whiny blog posts.
A good faith reading of that statement interprets it to mean: the act isn't intended to keep pertinent information away from the public, but to protect the identities of officials who were tangentially involved.

Surely no official interprets it to mean: protecting the public image of officials by way of hiding pertinent information from the public, right?
Punctures are much more of a problem for me - the roads are generally good, but tradies seem to love scattering nails, bolts, and other random bits of construction crap on the roads.
Confirmed, it was Eric Schmidt (2009):

If you're concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn't be doing. At least that's the word from Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt tells CNBC. . ."

https://www.theregister.com/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/
Living remote does not limit your income. And in fact, from reduced spending (due to lower CoL), you get way more bang for your buck.

Living rural can work if you reduce your consumption and travel. If you're getting your water from a well in your land with electricity from natural renewables, and you also grow your own vegetables and raise your own chicken, you're self-sufficient.
That reminds me of when I was at university in the 90s, a favourite trick was to set MSWord's auto correct on the communal computers to change the word "the" to "wanker". People would arrive with their floppy disks, print out their assignments ready to hand in and then notice (or fail to notice) a page full of wankers. Hilarity ensued (...mostly)
Sure it can generate tons of sale, but "best economics of any game franchise in existence."...
[1] contains some numbers, Madden is probably placed around number 30 if you look at only the numbers for video games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...
Amazon leadership has zero sense of humor. I say this as someone who works with them professionally frequently. It's amazing the level of fear they instill throughout the whole organization
I used to work across the hall from a startup called CloudHealth... just saying
Or you have a sense of humor :)
First result is this: https://www.goliath.com/gaming/10-games-that-were-broken-at-...

Some of my all-time favorite games in that list so I definitely do not agree that those companies should be fined. I've gotten extremely good bang for the buck considering the thousands of hours I've put in.
> since the law of the country says different.

But this is exactly the point. US law specifies what you must do to give up US citizenship. And the US would continue to regard you as a citizen - you definitely put yourself in a position of not being able to set foot on US soil without consequences if you go this route.

But remember, in this scenario you live in the Netherlands. You want Dutch law to agree that you are not a US citizen, thus relieving you of your obligations so long as you continue to live in the Netherlands.
How could you possibly deny the existence of your subjective experience? This is just utterly incomprehensible to me.
Prefix one word searches with a question mark and then space ("? ") will always search in Firefox. Old Power User trick from decades ago even when Firefox still had a split search box by default. (There's also search keywords to force it to search with a non-default search provider such as starting a search with "@wikipedia " to search Wikipedia.)
That's why I say it is unsatisfying and the universe is ultimately unexplainable because either there is this final "god" and we are incapable of understanding it or there is not and there is infinite levels and we are incapable of understanding it also.