skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about bilingualism, which here means speaking two languages natively. This is vastly different from speaking languages you've learnt later on, and only partially master (or even speak very well for that matter, as is often the case for people who have learnt English).

I speak several languages with wildly varying degrees of proficiency, but only speak two natively. I can confirm that switching between my two native languages is seamless, and I usually don't even realize I have switched.
What makes npm more insecure than other packaging systems?
I am still on an i5 11" MacBook Air made of aluminum from Mid 2012 with 4GB RAM. Changed the battery twice, upgraded to a larger SSD once. I was considering buying a new laptop a few years ago, but that thing has served me so well despite falling to the ground unprotected about 3 times and being old. I do embedded and some web programming. I will use it until I am no longer able to start it up. And at that point, I will probably open it up and have a very last try at fixing it.
I would classify calculating how close you can drive to the vehicle ahead of you while being able to stop within 1.0 mm +/- 0.9 mm as reckless driving, not wreckless driving.
Agreed.

One of the first things I turn off in any application is spelling correction.
And forcing law abiding citizens to foot the bill.
I wonder how much noise they do make and if it is discernable. Sea life can be pretty noisy
To be fair I never got to use a calculator in university tests and I'm glad I learned mental math in years prior to prepare me for that. (Though admittedly that's of course a very artificially constrained school-imposed situation.)
Cyclists will spend thousands for what most would consider relatively minor improvements.
Does this link take you to Uniswap?
Trigger a review where and by who?
Very short article. Japan hasn’t executed anyone in two years.

The practice is to notify the person to be executed a few hours before the execution. The claim behind the practice is so that prisoners aren’t counting down the days. The counterclaim is that surprises aren’t nice.

My guess is that there are some people who like surprises and some who don’t. Maybe they should conduct a psychological profile or just ask prisoners if they want to know or not. I suspect that the non-announcement is useful for legal system logistics as far as setting and resetting dates due to various filings.
Technically, they're under the Department of the Navy and a sister organization to the US Navy (also under the Department of the Navy).
Finch
How does Europe get its gas?
I agree that all software package repositories -- NPM, Rubygems, PyPI, Maven, NuGet, Crates, etc -- should have two minimum baseline security policies:

1. All accounts are MFA, no exceptions.

Only CI/CD usecases justify some laxity. Only push tokens should be non-MFA-able for CI/CD purposes, and they should only be usable for push. Tokens should only be obtainable with MFA.

Ideally these too would be part of a multi-step OAuth2 or OIDC refresh token to access token flow, so that any given access token is only used once and CI/CD jobs never get to see the refresh token.

And while we're on tokens: they should all expire, after a short period of time, without exception.

2. Signing packages is opt-out, not opt-in.

The two reasons package signing is relatively rare are that (1) in most ecosystems it is unwieldy, (2) not actually that effective at providing guarantees (self-signed certs are no better than a pinky promise).

But once these are solved, and I believe they can be, making signing opt-out means that we'd see signing rate percentages in the 90s, instead of languishing in single digits as they do today.

If you work on NPM and would like to swap notes, I would love to talk to you with my professional hat on -- email in profile.
> Is it the feel of the membrane that has changed? Is it the layout itself that is missed? The shape of the keys? Is it key travel?

Yes to all four. The chicklet keys remind my muscle memory that the layout has changed from what I am used to so 'touch typing' for anything that involves pgup/pgdn/home/end/insert/delete is now a chore to look and see where they have moved things.

The most egregious crime I have seen on some models is there is no LED for fn or capslock anywhere, and is to be provided by the OS, such as the e550 and e330
https://archive.md/7j4n0
I’m doing a lot of exploratory work with BPMN right now.

I think if your business is largely transactional (think Stripe), there is a lot of value to be had by framing your development as “business process automation”.

The term (and BPMN) has a lot of enterprise baggage, but some of the tools out there [0][1] are well suited to orchestrating services (and people where necessary) as a single automated process. The the ability to build that flow visually using BPMN, and then execute it in a workflow engine where you can monitor it, audit it, and optimize over time is pretty compelling.

Here’s an interesting read on the topic: https://www.infoq.com/articles/events-workflow-automation/

[0] https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe

[1] https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine
> What's so special about D&D that makes it so it could only be created in an economic system where the person who created it would face poverty if they didn't?

Pretty sure he would have created D&D anyway, yes. But if not for capitalism he likely wouldn't have done the work to standardize and share D&D with the world and instead just kept it as his own homebrew campaign rules. Today it would be easier, but back then? No way.
I don’t know if you know but Mathematica inspired a lot of people.
I do not believe that this topic can be discussed with any degree of openness here, lest one run afoul of regime dogma, however, what is more important than remaining institutional accountability in the submarine services, is the trajectory/heading of that culture.

To your point, the heading of the accountability culture is in fact bleeding into the civilian world, just likely not as you may want it to. The submarine services are a severely lagging, not leading indicator, the antipode of the canary. Expect more of these kinds of events, because the pillars that uphold and scales that measure health of any system can only be fudged and messed around with for so long before reality will no longer be refused its pound.

The reason why the submarine services have been the one of the far outliers that cause them to be extreme lagging indicators, is that the consequences in both life, treasure, and consequences is so immense that there was always not only a zero failure policy, but a multiple redundancy zero failure policy. That is also why these sailors were held accountable, because as in all the other recent events, multiple redundant system nodes were undermined to produce the failures.
On that scale HN has existed for about 30ms and us for a few times longer.

Maybe singularity type stuff will allow us to hang out a while longer. Physics type evolution of stars and plants -> biological evolution of lifeforms reproducing and dying -> AI evolution of our mind children as it were.
Why can’t both be true?

There is an argument to be made that gangsta rap made a generation of impressionable kids much more rough around the edges, as it defined the new “cool” for them. Even though it wasn’t “supposed to be for them”, they knew all the words, which are loaded with expletives and misogynistic lyrics, and sowing distrust of the police etc.

Maybe I am just a social conservative but I agree with this lady who tried, in vain, to fight against the capitalist machine that is ths music industry: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr6gb1w72xA

Kids are impressionable — the Merchants of Cool documentary clearly shows how capitalist industries exploit that to sell more stuff: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showscool/

It also helped shape a rift, in my opinion, between the Black and the White youth that grew up now, which had been closing thanks to Liberalism and efforts to move past it.
Having spent a week battling a particularly inconsiderate scraping attempt, I’m quite unsurprised by the juvenile tone and fairly glib approach to the ethics of bots/scraping presented by the piece.

For the site I work for, about 20-30% of our monthly hosting costs go towards servicing bot/scraping traffic. We’ve generally priced this into the cost of doing business, as we’ve prioritised making our site as freely accessible as possible.

But after this week, where some amateur did real damage to us with a ham-fisted attempt to scrape too much too quickly, we’re forced to degrade the experience for ALL users by introducing captchas and other techniques we’d really rather not.
Not really, but you might get bullied other cyclists/fans.

https://chrisfroomelookingatstems.tumblr.com/
I've seen swimming googles with the same idea around (virtually in adverts, not in real life)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/09...
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Excalidraw can do the same for both png and svg iirc
It is a problem at higher speeds (>40 km/h) so in sprints or more typically in downhills.

In downhills live data aren’t really that useful. If it showed a live map, that would be very useful.
I can bet that a MAAMA (Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon) company is going to acquire this smart glasses technology.
Kind of, volatile meaning changed, but they are looking into it for C++23 as the embedded community is not happy with the outcome.
You can sell education.
Micro Center often has off-lease ThinkPads at very attractive prices. They may have scuffs and scratches, but they've always been solid performers. The TrackPoint seals the deal for me.

I do have a recent Dell Inspiron, but I find I'm mostly using it like a desktop, with an external keyboard and trackball, and a second monitor or TV set plugged in. I just can't stand trackpads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116878#29117433
You can't take D out of PID.
Even their own dialects, as if the acronyms weren't enough!
It strongly depends on the problem set.

For teaching id broadly day either set it as a prerequisite to examine something it can't do or leave it until the last lecture to show the course material can be applied more efficiently.

Learning is as much getting used to using tools correctly as understanding what the tools do and how they do it.

I've worked with those who yes, have had their brain rot due to blindly trusting Mathematica or equivalent and they never spot first step errors from their blind spot.
That being said I've worked with one person who used it really well and I think they were genuinely more efficient for it existing.
There was a screenshot showing the URL: I simply typed it in :D

Sometimes, even when I google things out, I type the URL in myself to avoid going through multiple redirects on google.com pages and to give me a clean copy-pasteable link right away.
it's a problem not having the data in front of you at high speeds? I don't get it. wouldn't it be unsafe having stuff obscure your vision constantly?
Hehe. Well I guess you would have a unique insight into his thought process. ;-) But yes indeed that's certainly another explanation and it did indeed work that way.
What do you mean by targetable? The only thing that should be modifying the styles of MyComponent is itself. Any necessary changes should be exposed through the component's public API. Because of this, whether the styles live inside the component itself or in an adjacent css file doesn't matter.

What he means by naming one off elements is that within MyComponent there are multiple native elements that may need to be styled.
The Japanese justice system is all kinds of messed up. Here's what happened when an American was falsely accused of shoplifting:
https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/truth-lies-and-videotap...
I can do similar stuff with C++, so it is a dynamic language now?
D20 is released under the open game license, so anyone can use or modify it.

License here: https://www.d20srd.org/ogl.htm

Basic rules, classes, monsters etc are included: https://www.d20srd.org/index.htm
Vendor lock in is a non issue. Prices have been dropping across the board for basically all cloud services across all providers as long as cloud has been a thing. While the hosting itself might be 5x more expensive, you can generally run a large scale app on serverless infra with 20% of the SRE/platform headcount, and for nearly every engineering company the savings in salary costs and focus on product instead of platform will pay for themself very quickly and become a huge asset in the long run.
Shrink-wrapped software back then weren't cheap too, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars per copy.
Apple will not enter the server chip market, hell Apple is not even selling any B2B products, and Jobs was always very vocal about how he doesn't like B2B.
Why can’t there just be multiple curated repositories like how Linux distros do it?

Having NPM just be a free-for-all is a ticking time bomb. It is only a matter of time before an event like this results in something very serious.
It would be helpful in some situations. Especially when you're trying to execute a structured workout or race pacing plan based on power or heart rate while avoiding potholes and dodging other cyclists.
fargate is "serverless" and has the same vendor lock in that lambda does
This app changes everything https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
"Hey kid nobodies gonna be able to protect you if your germs kill your mom!" You want to go in that direction be my guest I suppose, but on its face to me its a direct threat. The marketing departments of these companies are probably pissing their collective pants at what they are getting away with with the governments backing of course.
Nobody looks at their watts or speed while sprinting or descenting.
I don’t know. If I knew that I’d really have to spend the rest of my life behind bars, I’d rather they just take me out back and shoot me right now.
LXQt 1.0.0
Improving long-running jobs for OpenFaaS users
To be fair, this didn't exist in 2002 when the article was written.
> Did they navigate into one of the Chinese man-made islands?

This was my pet theory as well. Man-made sea mounts would be inherently uncharted and would be a great defense against adversary submarines.
Couldn't agree with this more.

The idea that D&D has hoovered up so much of the world as to deny people of their own creative expression is absurd and I couldn't get past the first paragraph without thinking the author is off his rocker.
My professor had a variant of that discourse regarding the computation of Linear Programs : "Prefer Gurobi (or Mosek) over GLPK because GLPK is bugged". My (limited) test show that GLPK works just fine. (GLPK is free software, Gurobi is proprietary)

Now to be honest, the skills I learn over Gurobi, at the level I am, are super transferable to other software, so I'm not trapped into that proprietary stuff.
In city traffic it's never save while you are moving, bike lanes are frequently intruded by parking or moving cars, or pedestrians if they are part of the sidewalk instead. And outside of bike lanes you're a car without crumple zones, not a good situation to look anywhere but the street either.

For leisure biking you obviously choose paths where it doesn't matter.
>yes I read that, but is that a problem? can't you just look down when it's safe?

I didn't downvote your comments but have you heard of HUD and why those augmented displays exist in some airplanes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display
The idea that seemingly motivates this project -- that it is somehow impossible or undesirable or not ideal for people to learn enough symbolic manipulation to do basic algebra -- is depressing to me.

Now we're going to have people who know algebra programming apps to help people who don't know algebra solve extremely specific problems with no ability to generalize.
Given the use of COM and ability to create code pages and turn them into executable code on the fly, C and C++ are also dynamic then.
Nothing in this article justifies the title. Broadly their primary complaints seem to be that Hasbro is selling anything aside from a core rule set (or really anything), and that the founders of TSR were slowly pushed out. These somehow means that art is killed.

The D&D founder weren't gods. If they wanted complete control, they could have not sold their company. Or once they were out of it, they could have filed off the serial numbers and made a new system (like Paizo did years later) having learned how to protect themselves from being pushed out.

The complaint that Hasbro sells things is asinine. Sure the digital dice on D&D Beyond are tacky, but you can just not buy them. The same goes for all the toys and trinkets that they sell on the side, like pins and minis.

I especially don't understand the complaints about the OGL because it seems like exactly what they want. That's what led to Pathfinder, a competing system that Hasbro doesn't control! (Unless they bought out Paizo when I wasn't looking.)

This article fundamentally doesn't demonstrate how capitalism had any marked impact on D&D as an art form. And there are some things they could have talked about that might have landed. For instance, the need to be pushing out new content all the time resulting in lower quality or the inability to fundamentally fix real problems. They could have brought up how 4.0 pulled the rug out from under people with the way more restrictive GSL. Or how in 5.0 the only option to make money off of more than just the SRD is to use a specific site and accept a 50% cut.
That's 12/66
After trying partial fasting periodically for years, I hit in something earlier this year that works for me: eat only two periods each day, from 8am to 9am and from about 4pm to 5:30pm. This supposedly has two benefits: 1) by not eating for about five hours before going to bed I get much more deep sleep which starts soon after I fall asleep 2) avoids snacking between meals which is hard in the digestive system.

I started a full time job last month and with a more busy schedule I have temporarily stopped this eating schedule but plan on getting back to it. A device like the Apple Watch can let you know when you are in deep sleep and the positive effect on sleep with this two big enjoyable meals a day plan are verified, at least for me.
> They have software economics, not commercial real estate economics.

I don't believe this. Snowflake for instance could be profitable if they chose and they have almost no debt. Furthermore their expenses grow logarithmically with their revenue. It doesn't cost much more to have 2 customers as it does to have 1, but the revenue doubles. Their services are an add-on that supplements the revenue from the platform. Its the growth in platform adoption that moves the earnings number.

>They're making hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

No they are losing 10's of millions of dollars a year. Revenue is not earnings. Wework had revenue of billions of dollars a year and but the cost of that revenue meant they had no path to profitability.

I see the same thing here. The bulk of their revenue come from selling services on top of their software. Services have a high COGS. For every service contract you sell you have to pay someone to service the contract. Your costs grow linearly with your revenue. This is the trap yelp fell into. Making billions by paying 95-105 cents for every dollar because opening a new market meant building all the infrastructure for that market.

If hashicorp can't find a way to make the growth in adoption of their software directly influence their earnings I don't think this is a good investment.
They just feel great to type on. It's probably a combination of key travel, getting the scissor mechanism right, perfect force needed and the feel of the depressing and popping back up of the keys.

The current gen is oookay to type on after you get used to it, but when I go back to my X220, the difference is that the X220 is a _joy_ to type on, rather than just okay. They also seem to last pretty well, given how old that X220 is now.

The 7 rows were nice because you had a few extra "media" keys without needing to Fn-combine (assuming you've set Fn to be off by default so you can use the function keys for your software).
It can be, but I was mostly trying to list a benefit that the "good old" apps didn't have, i.e. not needing to install it.

That said, I'd also misunderstood the grandparent comment: they meant that it's a shame that Excalidraw is one of the few apps nowadays that have these features, even if the other ones also have advantages like not requiring an install.
Some societies have determined that some people have commited such abominable deeds that they simply no longer have a right to live. Doesn't sound very barbaric to me.
The entire point of a submarine is that nobody knows it's there. If they are using easily detectable equipment then people who are listening know they are there.
Ah, I understand, thanks for explaining. I would still argue that something specifically focused on flaws in the marines is probably left-field of someone who was in the US navy if they’re sister orgs. (This is not to say the flaws are inaccurate or that the navy doesn’t have issues, only that they should be leveled accurately to the organization of the military.)
I don't use Mathematica or similar software, so it's an honest question: is there an open source alternative that would be that good?

If there is, then it's a genuine grievance.

But if there's not — what's wrong with paying for a good product? I have yet to see an equally good alternative to other software products, like Excel, Photoshop or Logic Pro. There are alternatives that have the same functions, but none that have the same level of quality.

After all, most of us here on HN are being paid to write code. It's really weird that we would expect to use someone else's software with thousands of years of developers, designers, testers and other professionals without having to pay for it.
Why is that? Sure, the game wouldn't be as popular without marketing, but information traveled before we had people dedicating their lives to making you click links.

For proof of that, you just need to look at Tetris. It spread so quickly that it had to be banned from universities. Tetris' history does bring up other issues, but spread of information is not one of them.
Was just gonna mention something similar but on iOS and with the microphone, opened Whatsapp and the "Using microphone" thing started showing for about 5-6 seconds before disappearing. Turned off most permissions after that and will only enable when I know I need it for specific things.
I get that, but wouldn't it be worse having stuff obscure your vision, especially at night where I assume it would be illuminated? reducing your ability to see dark things at night (assuming it works at night).

I guess I don't understand why you need to see your heart rate and speed constantly. presumably any device (bike computer or phone) could just record your position and speed and you could just look later if you cared.