skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're removing dislikes because of a multitude of reasons, from my own thought.

1. Movie companies don't like releasing trailers and seeing their dislike numbers reaching orbit.

2. The current US administration doesn't like the vast number of dislikes on their videos compared to likes.

3. Advertising agencies don't want their ads related to videos that have high numbers of dislikes, so google is finding "middle ground" and only making the counts visible to the creator so advertisers have less to complain about.

4. People get their feelings hurt when they put a lot of work into a video, only for it to immediately get disliked or "brigaded" by people.

I think the whole fear of "people might dislike-brigade videos" is really only a concern for any online "celebrities" who upset their fans, and for large companies who for some reason think like/dislike ratios are any indication of actual opinion.

Possible solutions other than removing dislikes:
- Youtube doesn't count a "view" unless some criteria are met - I assume watch-time is one of those. Just do the same with dislikes/likes. That will immediately get rid of the vast majority of spam up/downlikes. (Sidenote: if they don't have any current criteria for what constitutes a "real" like or dislike, that's on them lmao)

- Leave it up to the creator to show or hide likes/dislikes.

- Leave it up to the advertiser. If they don't want like/dislike counts to be shown on their videos, they get less ad revenue (which will never work, because Google likes money)

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I guess since Youtube "is a private company and can do what they want!" they'll just keep forcing up and coming competitors out of the industry through predatory practices and maintain their top status as a video upload platform.
This is some great stuff. Thank you! I'm definitely going to lean into chocolatey. My daily driver is Linux but I still need a Windows machine around.
I went a little ways down the rabbit hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
> written by a team constructed by a label to create the most generically likeable music possible

A few years ago, a group engineered the most unlikeable song ever:

https://youtu.be/-gPuH1yeZ08

Featuring bagpipes, a rapping opera singer, country music, and a children's choir singing holiday music that ends with telling you to do your shopping at Wal-mart.
Back in the late 80's I actually had a COBOL compiler on my 8-bit CPC-464. The CPC-464 had a port at the back that you could connect an EEPROM box to. I had an assembly compiler, a COBOL compiler, a BCPL compiler, and a C compiler on it at various times. At the time it was awesome to be able to just switch on your computer and go straight into your compiler with absolutely no loading times at all.
I don't really buy this. Take modern American pop country. People LOVE that music and it is some of the worst of the lot.

And again I have nothing against the genre. I listen to non pop country. But people are specifically attracted to the worst of it and they seem to very actively like it.
The first line of my above comment was a direct quote that was removed from the above parent's post. Making my comment now somewhat pointless, yes.
> Do you really think that most people that use git and GitHub are under the misapprehension that Git and GitHub are the same thing?

Yeah actually, a lot are. There are also a lot of GitHub users who don't know what git is at all.

I don't think this blog post is going to further misinform them though, they also don't read technical blog posts.
It’s not really a conspiracy because it’s a single company acting in its best interests. They came up a lot in Epic’s lawsuit against Apple.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22421912/iphone-web-app-pw...
I read that as "QWERTY For Real". :)
Win11 UI is noticeably bad. Harder to read, harder to notice buttons. Useful functionality is hidden behind more clicks, etc...

It might have some aesthetic value, but it's not necessarily nicer, just different and more trendy. Which quickly wears off.
> factually justified (i.e. anti-natalist) position... I want to hear from people who disagree with the original comment

Does your mom agree with this "factually justified" position? She might have more patience with you than you'll find among strangers on the internet.
I put the boy on an old Dell Vostro running Fedora.

Installation and updates took about 30 minutes.

Updating the machine is a `sudo dnf update` and done.

Though I did get in trouble when I shelled into his machine did and update and rebooted without checking he was using it first - killing his call to his (not)girlfriend in the process.

He's just start secondary (high) school and they are using Google Classroom so all he really needs is a browser and a webcam/mic.
Say happy 50th birthday to the microprocessor, part I
Good god, organisations/enterprises really have too much control over the browser. I believe that only top secret organisations like... The NSA need such a locked down browser for employees/students. I also believe that locking down internet access only limits ones ability to work and be happy, ultimately being detrimental to efficiency. While there are plenty of outlets for distraction, workers have managers and the work that's been done can be seen. Team chats exist.
Yeah, I guess that could be it. And no, I'm not aware of any accessible option for karaoke lyrics. But as I like to say, real performers have been memorizing their songs for thousands of years.
I am french speaking person and a programmer. I switched a year ago to qwerty and wish I had done so decades ago because the shortcuts in programs are conceived for qwert keyboards. I use karabiner and goku under macOS to produce accented characters. It is sufficiently fast to be usable.
Scan of the Month
Well the US data is certainly garbage - obviously if you ignore "breakthrough" cases in the vaccinated unless they're very serious, the vaccines will look great. That's just lying though. It's exactly this sort of thing that destroys people's willingness to trust governments or take the vaccines: it's just obvious that public health will do or say anything to get people to take it and couldn't care less about the consequences.

Medical literature appears to be heavily adjusting the raw data and using a methodology that is known to overstate vaccine effectiveness if a vaccine causes "viral interference", without bothering to show that no such interference is taking place.

The entire thing is just a dystopian nightmare of lying and manipulation, really. In the past I've used the term anti-vaxxer as an insult, as I guess many of us have done. Never again. The whole story around vaccines will eventually have to be revisited - you can't witness this stuff up close and not conclude that public health has a blind, near fanatical ideological bias in favour of vaccination to the extent that any bad news is immediately covered up or obfuscated.
That's cool, we are only talking about COVID vaccination right now. I've been thinking about this deeply for 2 years.
Think about it this way. It is about margin (where the profit comes from). Keep that marginal cost equal to your marginal rev and you are doing good. Stray too far and you are leaving money on the table or maybe taking a loss. Control a couple of key aspects of production and your marginal cost can be low. In this case I would say the jar and lid is probably the most expensive bit and the salsa is probably made by the barrel full. Also most grocery stores do not set the prices or own goods on the shelves. The wholesalers/vendors typically do and the grocers rent out the shelves to them based on location in the store, height off the floor, and length/depth of shelf needed.
I keep beating this drum; The consequences for not accumulating wealth at every moment feels too high. This society is horribly sick with a case of prisoner's dilemma.
Land Value Tax is better than the current clusterfuck, but doesn't address the problem of existing residents being priced out.

Property tax / land value tax on primary residence is just rent collected by the government for living somewhere.

That rent shouldn't be higher in lucrative locations. Grocery store employees should be able to live where they work; we should not be pushing them away with higher taxes on top of the pressure the market puts on them.

Perhaps food and shelter shouldn't be taxed altogether. The government shouldn't be collecting a rent on people existing.

That would also make redlining of residential neighborhoods harder, as if will force decoupling of local infrastructure funding from property values.
Not nearly as sad as pols who are only interested in liberties that generate a political high.
What would those reasons be?
I was about to say why do we need another layout but this appears to solve real problems that I've never encountered as an English speaker.
Try the Canadian Multilingual French layout on a standard QWERTY keyboard.

à is \

è is '

é is /

ç is ]

accent grave is right-alt+[+letter

and

"specials" are right-alt+num (±@£¢¤¬{}[]) but for any glyph used in programming, I usually switch back to US keyboard using alt+caps-lock. Ça fonctionne très bien pour moi!
edit: I was a bit blind and didn't realize that my point was made an hour ago (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229793 ) already. So I'll change my previous post to ask the following question:

> That and the location is part of what gives a property its value.

Would you support policies that would keep your property from increasing in value? Or at least to keep it from increasing relative to inflation? If not, why not?
I think if Apple really really wanted to implement it if not for the risk to app sales, they'd have it on desktop Safari, at least. As it is, I just think they don't want to implement it, App Store or no.

From observing non-geeks use the "feature", I think that's the right call regardless. It needs to go back to the drawing board, or be scrapped. In general, anything that expands the reach & capabilities of websites should be treated with a ton of suspicion, as a likely vulnerability vector (leaking tracking info; social engineering/phishing vector; straight-up exploitable bugs) or simply a net-negative annoyance for most users.
> The fact remains that poor people have more children.

Not quite. $ rich people can't afford time with children.
You can absolutely make a web interface that is snappier (not quite like a terminal application). You need to spend a lot of time with your layouts and jettison a lot of your web assumptions (like using javascript for a lot of things, spending a lot of time on tab progression, and forget about responsive designs). My current job when I started maintained a web app for a medical research outfit. The person that developed it came from a COBOL/RPG background and applied that knowledge to this application (which required tons of data entry via web forms). It was a python backend, minimal JS on the front end, and our data entry folks could fly when they were entering data. The endpoint that the data entry screens pointed to were implemented with speed in mind so saving a form was almost instant (from the user perspective).
A giant cable seems less likely to be able to (accidentally?) be repurposed as a space-based death ray.
Projects like this would be easy if we had cheap high-temperature superconductors. Until then it's gonna be very expensive because it will require very high voltage (which means very thick insulation) and high I^2R losses -- even with the high voltage -- just because of the distance.
Dammit, the sun is my battery! and the earth's tilt, spin and orbit is my load balancer!
It's possible to set "valid-before" and "valid-after" timestamps on SSH keys in the allowed signers file:

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen#ALLOWED_SIGNERS

When validating the SSH signature, Git can set the verify-time option to the commit timestamp and the signature will be rejected if the key is not valid at that time. Git doesn't yet do this, but will in a future version.

This is considerably simpler than the rigamarole of GPG subkeys.
Is this not true on Mac? Updates in particular take forever on MacOS. I find Windows updates take like 5 minutes usually. MacOS has been a half hour or more for some of the point updates I've done.

Bloatware is still there, iMovie, Garageband, iWork is IMO bloat. Slightly more quality bloat maybe but I don't need 20GB taken up by stuff I'll literally never use.
So basically in that list you’re suggesting disabling the ability to download web content, syncing of address books, getting updated security signatures, connecting to iCloud, downloading dynamic assets that many apps use to reduce initial size and provide non-binary updates, Siri keyword suggestions in Safari, Airdrop, Maps integration, push notifications for Messages, etc.

Most Apple users will definitively want those on, and will break your system in subtle ways if you disable them. I wouldn’t make such assumptions about whatever you use the service or not. If you don’t use a service, it typically will have very little traffic if any at all.
Is COBOL somehow faster than any other back end language? I mean there is no way it's faster than C/C++.
Has git published their own release announcement like this for people to read?
Isn’t [1] the official git home page? I don’t follow your comment.

[1] https://git-scm.com/
I interviewed one of the creators of the Git sparse index a while back: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-32-derri... which had some interesting tidbits.
s/promulgators or/promulgators of/

Yeah, it's usually used in the context of the unilateral issuing of decrees.
> and there are many productions which take virtually no effort which people love

It only takes a quick trip to reddit to see this in action.

In a thread where people were talking about the jails and the overall penal system, someone said "heh...penal" and it had several Golds and thousands of points.
> is an attempt my mothers to minimize wage decreases

There's a lot of evidence around wage discrepancies, but I have never heard anyone claim that it's the _mothers_ who are forcing themselves back to work. That seems like a huge stretch and doesn't align with anything I've seen before.
Nah. The future is random static, where the signal is indistinguishable. Any framing of metadata of matadata as some kind of way of avoiding backdoors is a subversive back door play.

In the future you will see and hear nothing, and you will be happy.
https://archive.md/Z5oOg
the review should also be reviewing the tests, and you should really have a test if you have a standard.
> The word "salary" has roots in salt, as well as "sauce".

Same as the expression "(not) worth one's salt". Roman soldiers used to get paid in salt instead of money a lot of the time.
For those of us in smaller businesses, any chance of supporting Google Analytics as an integration? The ability to detect statistical anomalies across random pages/events would be a godsend, especially for organizations that don't have a proper data warehouse and dedicated BI staff.

I guess that'd be kinda a crossover between data integrity and marketing... in this case, an anomaly IS the data, where an unexpected increase/decrease in pageviews somewhere is something we'd love an alert on, but only after some threshold. As you pointed out, doing that manually just results in a bunch of false positives for those of us who aren't professional BI or statisticians.
If you want to invest in something, it is best to follow as many pages as possible to write the growth and decrease of a company and see from the bloggers who keep investing which is the most suitable company for such a thing. For example, before I started investing, I learned a lot from this site https://www.playlouder.com/w4-vs-w2-vs-w9-vs-1099-tax-forms-... differences / because it is better to inform yourself before doing something where you do not know for sure if you will have a stable income or not. But you already see how it will be more profitable for you.
Get yourself a macro pad. I have a KeebIO BDN9 rev2: https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/bdn9-rev-2-3x... - It requires some soldering, but there's other versions and types of macropad that don't need assembling.

Here's mine, top left: https://imgur.com/gallery/Pa51o8c

(apologies, that was the image I had immediately available)

Top row is volume, Emacs save (ctrl-x ctrl-s), scroll/zoom
Middle row is layer change, Meta-x (command palette in Emacs), Ctrl-g (quit/escape in Emacs)
Bottom row is Meta, Super, Esc-c (in my zsh, it runs "fd --type directory" in the fzf tool, which lets me type a few characters of a directory to cd to it, however deep it is)

Macro pads can be controlled by QMK firmware (which I use) which is reconfigured by editing c code. There's also VIA firmware which is also very flexible. Other manufacturers will have their own proprietary systems.
From the US live in Norway now.

In Norway there are a lot of political parties that can matter. All depends on the election. Some grow, some dont,
new ones are added, old ones go away.

That is a dynamic that is entirely missing in the US.

We have parties in the European left and we have parties on the European right, parties in the middle, green party etc etc.

I try to get people to understand that we do not have a single party that is far right enough to compare with the Democrats in the US. (Discussing the Republicans is just hard).

There is no left in US politics.
and you could say that there is no right in Norway.

The party considered to be "far right" would never think about advocating doing away with universal healthcare.

The same for our main right party (Høyre == Right) would not attempt such a thing either.
MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes bought the company back and plans a relaunch
I'd imagine there are still different situations at play here.

For instance, I'm Jewish and my mother made potato latkes one way throughout my childhood. I loved those and various details about them (texture, flavor profile, doneness, etc.) but would go to other friends' house for a meal or whatever and they'd have their own latkes that just didn't taste as good, were much simpler flavor-wise, texture was more homogeneous, etc.

And then of course I've bought frozen pre-made latkes from places like Trader Joe's.

I'd imagine it's like buying frozen gyoza at H-mart vs making your own from scratch with either pre-made wrappers or even homemade ones, plus the filling.
Their next gen "normal" server CPUs also have "cloud optimized CPUs".

While this seems to be mainly about Power/Heat/Perf. optimizing for typical "cloud" workloads it might also have design decisions related to this problem. We will see, but they look interesting anyway.
The short answer is that if 10,000,000 L/s of well mixed water passed over the wire, it’s temperature would increase by 0.75 degrees Celsius.

The long answer is that this is not quite the right way to view the question. There will be a temperature gradient around the cable - a zone where water is heated. The question is, how hot is this zone and how large is it. The cable will be buried, which makes the zone larger and less hot. However, this all depends on the type of soil in the ocean floor.

One thermal study estimated that, with typical operating temperatures and burying depths, the sea floor temperature (of the soil, not the water) would heat by 10 to 18 degrees Celsius. This is enough to potentially interfere with ocean life, according to the authors of the study. Because of limits in the operating temperature of cables, a project like this would make a larger zone like this, but the maximum temperature would stay the same.

It’s important to note that we already mess up aquatic life by discharging thermal energy into bodies of water. High temperature water discharge from power plants can make rivers more friendly towards invasive species and shift the balance of aquatic ecosystems. This project might be a net neutral for aquatic life by reducing high temperature discharge into rivers while creating hot spots in the ocean.

Thermal study: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw195
I was under the impression that AWS provides vCPUs, not dedicated CPUs unless you go bare-metal?
I hate when things jump in front of me - which chatbots tend to do.

In theory they are useful, in practice they are really, really bad and it would be quicker for me to find the help I need elsewhere.
Apple ships the pf fireball by default. It's a powerful firewall (same as OpenBSD AFAIK) but the way Apple configures it is very permissive. You can use a utility like Murus to configure it to your liking, although the configuration is rather complicated. It's also a network-level firewall, not an application-level firewall.

If you'd like an application-level firewall, you can check out Lulu or Little Snitch. Back when Little Snitch still(?) installed kernel extensions, it was found to be quite insecure—there were talks at DEFCON about it. Lulu is a lesser-known alternative.
The same could be said for anything. If you know nothing about programming and see something about Java, you'd likely assume they're talking about coffee. Don't be ridiculous, we're talking about one of the most-used frameworks in the world here.
Z Series is very much susceptible to meltdown, spectre, and rowhammer. IBM says that it should be fine because Spectre et al need to be running untrusted workloads to work, but they haven't updated their advisories since NetSpectre. : /

A lot of the talk of mainframe levels of security is specious at best.
Something related. Brazil exports more water in form of grains and meat ("virtual water") to China than the huge South–North Water Transfer Project.
That article is pure propaganda and not factually true.

To give some background, the Portuguese government failed to get the annual budget approved, the president dissolved the parliament due to that, and scheduled new elections that will happen in a few months.

Due to that the current government asked the leaders of all political parties to give urgent treatment to 7 diplomas / laws that are almost finished and should not have to wait until after the new elections to be approved. There is no secret move being made here, everyone knows that this is happening.

Regarding the "biometric mass surveillance", one of the 7 laws that where requested to have urgent approval was about allowing the use of video surveillance by the police. The wording of the law was a bit too vague and as such did not get approval from the National Data Protection Commission.

Also, it's worth to mention that the government can't approve the law by themselves and needs support from other (and opposing) political parties.

As it sits now the government has to change the wording of the law to be more specific and ensure that it complies with data protection laws (as in GDPR), and even after that the opposing parties are only willing to approve the use of body-cams by police, and the use of video surveillance to prevent wildfires (which are a major issue in Portugal).
Switch unwilling for unable and you've got it.
I am sick of this "othering" the problem.

N million barrels of oil a day show why Westerners won't quit oil.

N thousand tons of ship bunker fuel a day show why westerners won't quit buying junk.

N million cubic feet of gas a day show why westerners won't quit gas.
I’m not sure if I’d consider it hidden, but there’s so much that can be done with the oascript utility. The idea that most GUI apps can be queried or controlled from the command line is super powerful, even if AppleScript is somewhat obtuse.

As an example, I have shell aliases setup to cd into the folder(s) open in Finder or reference files selected in Finder.
Scaling Apache Druid for Real-Time Cloud Analytics
Looks like DC power is more efficient for long haul cables.

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/a/19759