skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fundamental principle thing, that has some knock-on practical effects. Navigation is fundamentally getting from point A to point B. To do that, you steer a course between the two. Do you want to describe the angle of that course in reference to

(a) A fixed line that never moves, such that the angle ('bearing') of that course is always the same

(b) A line that moves around, seemingly randomly, particularly if you are near one of the poles of our planet

Obviously from first principles, you'd pick the first. Due to historical navigation technology it was more convenient to use the second though. We had an instrument (magnetic compass) that would directly give us reference for (b), and so we described everything in those terms, and maintained tables of offsets so that we could calculate (a).

Using (b) - magnetic North - causes some problems and because very few aircraft, and no commercial ones, rely on magnetic bearings as a primary source of navigation those problems are not worth it. One of the problems comes when you start labelling things that are fixed relative to (a), because they're attached to the ground but you label them using (b). After a few years the labelling is wrong and they need relabelling. This requires everything from pointing of radio beacons to repainting runways. It's all needed for effectively historical reasons.

There are two Norths:

The one that points in a constant direction on the Earth's surface. Getting from point A to point B on the Earth is fundamentally what navigation is and so having a fixed reference for that is good (modulo continental drift).

The direction that a magnetic compass points. This is at an arbitrary and changing offset to any direction on the Earth's surface.

Why
Poor Sudan. This coup means its process of democratisation is back to square one. Awful news. The West should take its fair share of responsibility though. The structural adjustments that the IMF and World Bank were demanding from the new government were going to be brutal for Sudanese society, and it's no surprise that people were out protesting in force, which lead to the military taking back control on the basis of imposing stability and security.
On the popularity of Haugen: I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.

The fact that Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are treated the way they are (and the earlier treatment of Manning) gives the US government zero credibility on press freedom, social media legislation or anything remotely related to privacy.

EDIT: Furthermore according to the FBI it's ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm.

The optics are absolutely terrible on these issues. If I can speak for some of the folks in the rest of the world, we're laughing and shaking our heads.
> out-compete the liquor scene with free but watered-down beer.

Make that: free strong beer versus liquor that has a 2% chance to be mixed with rat poison, is illegal to sell or buy, and costs more to use than the average job pays. A quite compelling offer for any drunk, but, yes, some lost souls will still go for the "real" shit.

I understand the whole "reduce harm, addicts are lab mice caught in a chemical trap" philosophy. But providing ever increasing doses of hard drugs, as most addicts eventually require when left to their own devices, might be an even faster way to the grave.

Let a doctor make the choice minimizes overall harm, not consumer preferences.
> On one hand, it seems everybody wants more freedom and less surveillance, but they give FB a hard time for not monitoring content better.

I don't think these are conflicting views:
(1) Less monitoring on private messages
(2) More monitoring on public posts
What is poor is not providing the Twin Cities with fiber to the home internet. No need for it to be one or the other.
Twitter is working on blockchain-linked Collectibles tab
This is a good detective story - would make a good Netflix show
What's happening with the Cyber attacks in Iran. Their transport ministry and railways got hit back in June, now this.
Modern systems with multiple DC sources are usually all tied to a common DC bus (24-60V depending) that is parallel with the batteries. Devices called charge controllers take the unregulated DC from a DC source (PV, Wind, hydro...) and output a constant voltage which can be used to charge the batteries or be directly consumed by the inverters. The inverter takes care of tying the DC bus to the AC side of things including the grid and/or generator. Modern DC tied inverters perform multiple functions as they can be programmed to use AC or DC as the source, charge the batteries and even feed power back into the grid.
You could even have a friendly bot nag the user a few times over several months for the extra info, perhaps eventually closing it after a year.
And there are a ton of non-bug issues that people feel entitled to your time (as a maintainer) to respond to and help them. Often for many, many comments.

Unfortunately, most maintainers just don't have the time to handhold 5-10 users per day for there projects, not when that means they'd not have time for other things, like family, recreation, etc.

We have extremely limited time, it's an impossible task to manually handle the deluge of issues.
Many people believe that autoimmune and/or psycho-somatic disorders are vastly underdiagnosed in the populace, that there are millions of Americans undiagnosed with those disorders. If so, having a few thousand coincidentally appear after vaccination is likely just that, coincidence.

And those are nasty diseases. I have one friend with Guillaim Barre as a side effect of H1N1, one friend with
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a side effect of H1N1 and a cousin with Lupus.

So doing all you can to avoid these diseases is smart.

Which means getting COVID and flu vaccines. Even if the vaccine causes these chronic diseases, it does so at a very low rate compared to the actual disease. Millions of Americans already have long COVID. Herd immunity may eventually protect future generations of Americans and current citizens of New Zealand and Singapore, but it's not going to protect the current citizens of the US.
Obviously it's a subjective thing. I disagree with Drew and his incredibly entitled perspective on this completely. As a user of OSS, the project owner owes me nothing at all, and has no responsibility to field my requests, however valid they may be. From a solo dev to a large team, there's still only so many barrels in your gun. Mad that no one fixed it? Send a PR. Issues is not a customer service counter.

It's not like project owners can't still see / search / work on closed tasks. They could still maintain data elsewhere about tasks which didn't get priority, or with a click or two see every stale issue that was closed..

I used to work on OSS health, and feel very strongly it's much worse (for most projects) to have hundreds/thousands of open issues stretching years.
> No official package manager.

That's the app store. It just needs to be extended to deliver a wider range of things like CLIs or system extensions.
> but rather down to it emerging just as C++ was finally reaching that critical mass point where developers are fed up with it's complexity and ready to jump ship.

I think you're on to something here.
No, it's for people who are legal to work for UT, in fact. While in the program, you are an employee (albeit with a lower salary than after you complete it). They ask that you commit to working for UT for 3 years at least. It's meant to fill UT's need for developers for their administrative systems.
Yeah, it started around 2017 with dark patterns to try and get you to create an account on their website and has only gotten worse from there. Can you even set it up locally anymore without forking over your email address? Shame how they shot themselves in the foot like that
If you like security through isolation, I recommend to try https://qubes-os.org.
It's not even fair in opportunity since not everyone starts from the same place. For example, It's based on your already existing resources (computing power).
Yep, brings be back... + AIM, MSN, they even had a primitive IRC connection if memory serves me right.
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You have two choices:

1. Trust one of the Big-Tech platforms. Use all the conveniences that it provides, such as Cloud storage, integration between devices, etc. Trust them with not leaking/selling your data (or maybe you are ok with this?). You can be damn sure they will analyze your data, for yours and theirs benefit.

OR:

2. Local computing with Debian (or preferred alternative). Participate in reviewing the source code that runs on your machine. Store data locally in your computer or NAS at home network. Do the boring work yourself.

You cant really have "no surveillance" and cloud services at the same time.
> The shareholders should ask Facebook management how they allowed their growth to be tied to the decisions of a completely unrelated third party

They tried to sell their own phones to not depend on Apple and Google. That did not work out because it turns out it's super hard.
Now they are betting that the next platform is going to be VR/AR, a space where they are currently #1.

What else are you suggesting they do?

> it's hard to see Zuckerberg as anything but a failing CEO at this point

I think he's been doing a really great job. For instance everybody thought their acquisition of Instagram (led by Zuckerberg) was a waste of money at the time. In 2020 Instagram represented 37% of the group's total revenues (which includes Oculus, Whatsapp... and Facebook!).
So the encryption is there so that you can't access your own data (and migrate to a competing app/service), rather than to protect your privacy. I kind of ran into this issue myself when I was helping a family member move to iPhone. Since Whatsapp uses Drive on Android and iCloud on iOS, there was no way to transfer the data.

I wonder if you can get them via one of those data access requests?
SQL in the browser again: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql
Late adopters do not have equal opportunity when the coin distribution is heavily biased toward initial years.

Imagine if half of all gold on earth was already mined in the first 4 years (and over 99% in the first 27 years) of gold mining millenia ago.
By my math it should be roughly 1.6 grams of calcium in a cup of dried basil. I was curious for some reason and had to check
what licensing fee?
Using Floppy Disks in 2021 for Data Transfer in Japan
Too bad they didn't spend the efforts on actually creating a decentralized protocol.
OK but the vacuum gyro in said raggedy-ass 172 needs setting against something as part of the checklist (and quite possibly in flight), which today is the magnetic compass.
In top of that this is a WiredUK article. Of all the existing pervasive normalized surveillance in the UK why are they targeting Apple for “normalizing surveillance”?
But we're working stories with points that are mapped to days and all the epic deliverables are planned according to the story estimates and this epic HAS to be done before the next epic and those epics both must be done by X date.

Now picture you are reworking almost an entire process or part of the system that has already been delivered (management jumped up and down congratulating everyone, promotions handed out), and is highly complex where new issues are discovered that were never thought of in planning. There is no "fast" in this situation and it's where most of us live every single day. And they want it all by X date or everything goes tits up (not really but managements' metrics: dates and "done," are causing them to pressure people--and by people I mean junior devs who are running on the career treadmill at a corp).

Meanwhile there are devs who go fast because they like the immediate praise. They literally print bugs with their keyboard--and they bite hard.
Linux boots on the M1 and the Asahi Linux project will soon have a reasonable installer. NetBSD and OpenBSD also having working ports. Sure all of the bells and whistles don't work now, but none of the bells and whistles worked in the beginning for any of the FOSS OSs until people had time to reverse engineer it. I've got an M1, and once NetBSD has gotten to a certain level of maturity on the M1, I will be replacing MacOS with it.
I would only call it a disgrace if the issue did not appear in testing yet appeared for a large number of users or if Apple released and update where problems appeared during testing.

Keep in mind these upgrades are being done to an OS that has a unique history based upon how the computer was used in the past. Issues that did not appear in testing are going to come up after release. Then there is the potential defects in the manufacture of a particular unit or due to how it was handled. In other words, it is legitimate to miss an uncommon fault.

As for Arch, I understand why the warnings exist. That being said, I have found it to be very reliable. I typically attribute it to changes being incremental, meaning that problems are less likely to arise; and due to development being done in the open, resulting in a larger pool of testers before it even hits rolling distributions like Arch (never mind distributions that do their own testing).
https://www.cinc.kitchen/info/features lets you fork recipes. forkthekitchen.com (now dead) was another similar effort. So did diy.soylent.com (now dead as well).
> I hear no critic of Zuckerberg as a CEO

Al Franken was on CNN this morning and he was saying it's time for Zuckerberg to go. He blames a lot of Facebook's problem on Zuckerberg.
Welcome to open source. Even projects that don't use the stale bot and let open issues rot forever "don't have enough resources". Case in point, look at projects like Drupal, with tens of thousands of open issues, a large portion of which are verifiable bugs.

The problem is those bugs don't affect the right people to have them care about fixing them, so they'll just sit there open forever.

At least the stale bot would signal "as a community of developers, this issue doesn't have enough interest or priority to get fixed".
Natural gas was possible but would require more capital up front, a lot more space and a specially prepared site for the tank, annual safety inspections and a place for a 40' truck to deliver it and turn around again (and of course it still required the genset itself). Diesel was by far the easiest solution, especially because we used the generator infrequently and once the windmill was up not at all.

We used wood for heat and limited shelf life for diesel is not an issue at all (it is for ethanol based gasoline).
Indeed:

"Call myself a faggot"
- It's rude

"Call myself a faggot if it creates jobs"
- It's suggestive

I'm generally not convinced that this AI is somewhat useful...
I spent a few moments on this question. I do not think so.

Confusing the brand value with the product value in a marketplace with no competition led you to think that he does harm as a face of Facebook. He is a CEO. He is a good CEO by metrics that matter for CEOs.

Disclaimer: I do not like him. I do not use Facebook.
I see that you have expressed both sides to some degree however I find what you say a mischaracterizes the history significantly. There was very little tolerance of muslims when the reconquista happened, muslim rule had a much wider degree of tolerance for the era despite not being up to modern standards.

This is from a student journal so you can follow the link and look up their citations but this quote sums up what I want to express.

"In contrast, other scholars may argue that the position of minorities under the Ottomans was lenient compared to minority treatment elsewhere in the world, such as in certain parts of Europe. According to Edward Said, abuses of “Orientalism,” which he described as a Western way of “dominating” or “restructuring” the history of the Middle East because of prejudice against Arab-Islamic peoples, has caused a misconstruction of the historical narrative.2 According to Bruce Masters, Westerners were typically biased against Muslims, and often distorted realities in the relationships between Christians, Muslims and Jews under the Ottoman Empire.3 As such, it must be noted that historical interpretations, or misinterpretations, must be intensely scrutinized when discussing the position of Jews and Arabs under the Ottoman Empire."

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/242/the-position-of...
Yeah sorry for that, it's a multichoice page which inherently asks you a "what are you trying to do?" question.
"...(it was Linux at home, windows at work, now Linux for both)."

That's my ideal plan but for many reasons it's been a long road for me and others I know.

In controlled environments where the outcomes are either narrow or clearly defined then money can be thrown at the problem to ensure that Linux penetration is 100%. Unfortunately, I'd hate to count the number of times I've seen this objective come unstuck for many reasons, thus an annoying residual of Windows installations remain.

Generally, it's not the lack of Linux applications that's the problem but more a mixture of compatibility issues brought about by a diverse range of hardware types and vintages thereof combined with either a lack of Linux drivers or the poor performance thereof - for instance the nVidia driver and Linux's native NTFS driver that's now old and leaves much to be desired (yes, I'm aware of Paragon's NTFS diver and I'm hoping that it will, in part, improve matters).

Also, ordinary users still have significant difficulties in installing Windows apps in WINE not to mention getting printer drivers to work. I don't know how many times I've heard "I tried to install the CD that came with the printer and it didn't work".

It would be nice to see the Linux community spend more time on these compatibility issues for if we could solve many of them then we'd see an upsurge in Linux usage on the desktop.

Even I haven't eliminated Windows completely. As far as I'm concerned this is now a high imperative given that Windows has morphed from being an independent operating system into a fully-fledged functional appendage of the Microsoft Corporation.
> I do not believe that there are other solutions which would scale. If you can see a viable liberal means to keep people safe other than “the status quo, only moreso” then do please let me know.

Hello Alec, if you are reading this.

This is what it looks like when you choose profit over safety. Facebook chose to enter a market with a business model that depended on "doing things at scale" but it, in fact, could not do safety at scale. You and Facebook knew that you could not do safety at scale. The business model is flawed. Facebook should not be in that market. But profit dictates that Facebook stay.
> I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.

That is because e.g. Snowden is actually a whistleblower, warning the people against the powers that be, and Haugen is an activist pushing for an agenda which aligns with what the powers that be want, making her a useful political pawn.
How come the new MacBook Pros are available for order all around the world, but in SG the website says ‘Check back later for availability’
I wonder what the mood is like at Facebook at the moment. It must be pretty demoralising to see revelations about your company's behaviour in the press, especially if you believe in the mission. Yet I wonder if there's a different narrative that employees internally are believing in.

I've been freelance my entire life and never worked for a large corp, so I don't know what it's like. But I'd be fascinated to be a fly on the wall in Facebook's offices this month
I thought I'd look at the actual company after hearing about this. I'm just not a silicon valley person. Here's their how it works page - https://worldcoin.org/how-it-works .

It includes a projection graph that has a scale in 500m user increments and 2 years. Then you have the real data: over 6 months they've signed up 120k users. Or to put it another way - their real data doesn't even appear on the scale that their projections are displayed. They've basically extrpolated from 0 to 1.5bn. Oh and the graph lists sign ups per orb as if manufacturing the orbs is the limiting factor for signing people up to your shitcoin.

It also claims they're going to give out thousands of these orbs. But these orbs are the trusted hardware devices for generating unique hashes from biometric data. So if 1 of these thousands of devices falls into the hands of a hacker who can crack the hashing algo they're done. Not only will they have no guarantee that the users are unique, and probably they've also leaked huge amounts of biometric data. They actually mention this on their how it works page - don't worry guys, they'll make it hard to spoof! Honestly. It'll be tamper proof!

I kind of understand how you could try and argue that these devices are ok if you're going to have a small number of them extremely securely protected, but the plan is literally to manufacture 4,000 of these per month and hand them out to random people. Honestly, it's like they've just never had a conversation with someone who thinks critically about anything.
"terrifying and debilitating disease"

The only country I know of that treats addiction like a disease is Portugal.

I don't know how this worked out for them but years ago I read that this had a really positive outcome because being rejected as an addict only makes things worse.
This is how you destroy small farms.
AC as much as you can. Wiring thickness quickly becomes a limiting factor so you site your inverters right next to your battery banks and you keep your solar voltage as high as your inverter allows you to (up to 400V these days).
> I see the same thing here. While it's interesting, I'm failing to see what the use case is. What's the niche that needs this solved in a big way?

I used Pidgin a lot. I always found it very convenient to have everything in one place and UI. Better one client than MSN + AOL + ICQ + IRC + Yahoo! + XMPP.

In the last few years I haven't used it much, but that's because it just doesn't support the popular messaging apps of the day (or maybe it now does, I haven't checked in a while).

Also, as others have pointed out, Pidgin is not and never has been a "service", it's just a library (libpurple) that implements various protocols, with Pidgin as the GUI (they also make Finch, a TUI).
Working with the API Calls in the Playgrounds
You can use multiple tabs but to have more than one write to the DB and not be overwritten relies on (online) sync.

The problem is that Watermelon assumes a consistent view of the entire database, so you can't have multiple writers - at least not without synchronous notifications from IndexedDB (not a thing), leader election (cannot be made reliable), or some design sacrifices. To be reconsidered in the future...
It's interesting that 90 years ago, supplying your own electrical power was unthinkable. Also, there were communities that existed in advance of electrification, so there was at least some population density to justify wired power.

For people moving into a relatively unpopulated area, in a different country, it might make more sense today, to let people bring in their own power generation, maybe subsidize it a bit if needed.
So what roughly would you regulate about "software (and hardware) development"?

FYI this project (and basically every cryptocurrency project) already falls under some kind of financial regulation in most jurisdictions.