skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't understand how people get this impression of lockfiles as being perfectly reliable. How are they not occasionally bitten by these bugs? Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I'm a little jealous of these developers who apparently are good enough managing/updating their dependencies and keeping their count low enough that they've just never run into problems like this before.

Lockfile v1 literally ignores pinned versions of dependencies if the package.json specifies a fuzzy version number[0], and the advice of the npm team was, "it's fine, everyone will just bump a major version number of npm." And to this day, I still don't know what the expected behavior is, there really isn't a list anywhere about when the lockfile is and isn't supposed to be respected. So it's not really surprising to me that people distrust version pinning, and I always feel like I'm kind of living in a different world when people say that lockfiles just solve everything.

[0]: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/564#issuecomment-921314014
The dismantling of safety nets is a circumvoluted problem.

Safety nets are a feature of rather leftist politics (To me, helping others is the core of leftism). However, the same ones who set up the safety nets, have a racial preference towards helping those they perceive as in the worst situation. Yesterday it was the factory workers, today it’s women, african americans and LGBTQIA+.

So, by increasing the safety nets, we are not making things better for the people you are talking about, the white men. For them, no help is coming: They are the subject of the joke, the black sheep of people who want to help.

This incongruity ensures that the divide will only widen, not reduce, as you increase help for people in need.

As an example, shooters in school are often white kids getting bullied, who snap. Did we end bullying? Do we make documentaries on who bullied them? No, we further pile upon the hate towards the people who snap (hard to do otherwise). It ensures that the next guy won’t find help against his bullies, and this beautiful circle continues… I say beautiful because, to abstain from finding solutions, there has to be people who find this beautiful.

Anyway. If social help went to everyone, and if everyone were considered as important parts of the society, people wouldn’t snap that much.
My favorite metohod on how to learn kids to ride a bike is the "wibble-wobble method"[1] by Douglas Engelbart, where you instruct the kid to keep alternating between turning gently left and right on order to get the balance (as you would to if you wanted to balance stationery) and the feedback mechanism between tilting, steering and then un-tilting established. It is incredible how quickly most "get" the relationship.

[1]: https://collectiveiq.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/how-doug-engel...
There are days where I just wish we could get this collapse over with. I’m mid thirties and I don’t want to be old when the shit inevitably hits the fan. Between the situations in the Ukraine and Taiwan, the ageing population, the oft ignored second order effects of climate change like ocean acidification, and massive global economic inequalities that mean despite my parent’s generation having home ownership without onerous sacrifice compared to my own where I would basically become a mortgage slave despite interest rates less than a quarter of what they were for my parents…

It’s all fucked, getting more fucked… and I really just wish sometimes that we could just get the damn bonfire over with. WW3? Sure it will be horrible but I’ll either be able to start trying to carve out a life in what’s left or I’ll be dead, but either way it will be something other than status quo watching humanity grind itself into paste in a parody of a cookie clicker game of virtual money sitting in the bank accounts of the world’s rich and powerful.
Could scoped dependencies even work in Python? Especially if there is any native C code involved (which there will be) I imagine you may get symbol conflicts when trying to load two different versions of the same shared sofile.
Never thought that RTL styling would be that much more complicated. There really should be an easier way.
Spy pigeons.
Did you manage to get any compensation from whoever installed the ornament?
I would expect the opposite: this product needs to be cheap to have a shot at supplanting plastic; extra process to remove all such contamination would work against it
Mao’s 1920 proposal to split China showed that an ethnically integrated China, or a politically integrated China, was not a very sensible one in the context of China at that time.

Mao disproved your claim.

And that was my point: viewing certain historical events from a certain perspective is a social and political construct (the nationalism is a modern invention). The facts (Mao’s proposal) are supporting this view point: there could be alternative social constructs (for example, a split China).

Mao’s 1920 proposal disagreed with your social construct (that an integrated China was a sensible thing at that time, due to being forced to open to the world).
When I sometimes interfaced with people in the government, it was astounding how often a higher-up told me they had a "database" that turned out to be an Excel spreadsheet maintained by some GS-8
Here you go, http://pascal.hansotten.com/delphi/turbo-pascal-on-cpm-msx-d...
Is there any research that it doesn't? I mean the guy is a well-known scientist, he can make educated claims can't he. Being apart of the team that created mRNA vaccines probably means he knows more then the average smuck about them...right?
So why not take his claim seriously and figure out if its true or not.

For me, i'm young and healthy, im not at risk. Thats been demonstrated
clearly now. For me, the risk of unknown long-term side effects
related to the mRNA vaccine far outweigh my risk to covid. Also i just
don't trust the profit incentives of modern big-pharma and big-science.

Read https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Pharma-Democracy/dp...
I haven't tried hacking the OS yet but I'm sure it's possible.
Yep, I made a watch that tells time imprecisely, called "Imprecise word clock" aka "The No Shit Sherlock Clock" - https://banglejs.com/apps/apps/impwclock/bangle1-impercise-w...
Lada
It doesn't have to be deep to be evil.
In which case why am I writing chapters in MMT books alongside Warren Mosler and Bill Mitchell and you aren't?

The Job Guarantee is designed as an automatic stabiliser that dampens inflation both expectational and financially as well as providing stimulation. It works like this: https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-jg-controls-inflation/

Levies and Duties are political deductions. They are not required. Taxes are required for the public purpose. No matter whether you are hard core libertarian or Stalin's best mate you will likely need to taxes that stay in place even if everybody does precisely what is required, because there are public positions that need to be filled.

However if everybody stops smoking then cigarette duty naturally drops to zero.

Taxes are best thought of as the secondary countercyclical stabilisers or the static payments required to Drive the Denomination. Warren, for examples, favours scrapping all taxes and relying upon a single property tax.

Most importantly taxes are never altered by policy settings in response to the business cycle. They are set so the cyclical autostabilisers do their job - primarily on the spend side.

Levies and Duties are set for the political purposes of whichever view is in power at the time. They come and go with the political cycle.
Yes it is generally a bad idea to use -Werror in a release build. Fortunately this is easy to fix unlike the library version capping conflict.
Which is why they have been in a slump for this long.

As Warren Mosler would say, they are overtaxed for the size of government they have.
Twitter log4j RCE!
If governments could put half the effort they put into chasing drugs into actually policing these substances…
I remember doing this on accident noticing 20,000+ files starting to get uploaded, was waiting like "something's not right".
Look a systems programming language for 8 bit CPUs with safe strings and arrays. /s
Precisely, it's complicated. Nobody recognises Taiwan as an independent country and they don't really claim to be one; some small countries recognise the Republic of China as the China, but the vast majority including the UN, count the PRC as the China, and nominally the island of Taiwan is a part of China.

Of course, for most intents and purposes Taiwan is an independent country, but them declaring it as such or anyone recognising it would piss off the PRC, who still view it as a part of a unified China. The civil war ended 70 years ago, they should let it go, but that's easier said than done.
You don't even have to move to far up or around the social ladder/network to run into these people. They aren't that far. It's just that they might as well be a light year away if you never pierce your social bubble.
Looking at the security of twitter account, it looks like an insider job at Twitter. Unimaginable without inside help.
All to promote bitcoin. Sounds about right
From that page:

- “The practice was prevalent in ancient Rome, as well”

- “Infanticide became a capital offense in Roman law in 374, but offenders were rarely if ever prosecuted”

374 is fairly close to the fall of Rome, which Wikipedia sets at 395-476 AD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...), so from that page, it doesn’t seem it was that severely punished during most of th years the Roman Empire existed.
the agenda of the politicians they are in bed width to get the laws and subsidies that support their business. In the case of SV, the politics of the DNC, which isn't really any better or worse than the RNC, but has it's own logo, theme, and set of shiboleths.
Upgrading could introduce vulnerabilities just as easily as fixing them.
Thanks for sharing, Couldn't have asked for someone with better authority for an open-source project vital for both business and end-users; Payments from the latter can be excused as they're largely poor but we need better ways to make the greedy corporations pay.

Many open-source project maintainers wouldn't go to the length of setting up companies like you've done, The paper work and compliance don't cut slack for building an open-source product.

Perhaps there's a need-gap for services which maintain those for open-source projects and acts as a middle-men between the maintainers and the Account Payable of companies?
Do you not feel that their relative success during your ride in Chandler is at least partially due to the specific location (easy suburban streets) and the geofenced boundaries (they require high quality ground truth labels in order to be successful). If we took the car and dropped it in the middle of Manhattan would it work as well?
That is the fixed amount of money idea. Money isn't an IOU pointing to an underlying physical wealth. It is wealth in its own terms that is created by government out of nothing based solely upon its future ability to tax. Even some bank money is secured on future income streams, although that is mostly discounting physical collateral.

There isn't a one-to-one mapping between money and stuff. Never has been.

"You're misunderstanding the term "rent""

I'm not. You're hoping I am.

The economic rent comes from the capacity to hoard. Once you remove that the economic rent is eliminated. In other words ownership isn't the root cause of the problem - it's the capacity to prevent use that is the problem. So you eliminate that by forcing things to be rented out and used, or they will be confiscated.

Which incidentally is a function of tax. Either you pay it, or you lose assets. So either you rent it or lose assets does the same thing.
> self obsessed

You mean like the rest of the people on Instagram?

Even if it's not Instagram, that is what most politicians do to stay in power (advertising things done by them and hiding the things detrimental to them)
Human cells/neurons also run in parallel.
A blatant insult to Aston Martin.
Wait are you saying YouTube's political agenda is egalitarianism and diveristy? Amazing.
> MOst of the CP/M stuff is on the Internet and some is public domain by now.

Sure? AFAIK something can only be considered public domain in one of the following conditions:

- author explicitly uses public domain as a license,

- 120 after publication,

- 120 after registration,

- 95 years after publication if it is corporate work or

- 75 years after the death of the author; whatever comes first.
> good visual ways to make use of the information

<marquee> and <blink>, obviously.
Are you discussing the current public health emergency?

YouTube auto-generates transcripts, and is owned by an organization well versed in search... it would be quite surprising if they didn't weight things based on words spoken during the videos.
yes, sure. Probably he believed that Obama and the international community would save him. In another hand back in the days he didn't have the same offer on the table as he has now.
That’s already exactly the same risk almost all web developers take currently. Yes it is a real threat, but it’s too hard to deal with and not often exploited.
The article covers that just a few paragraphs below.
Both of those countries have better things to do than obsess over a nobody :)
Given that secondhand smoking is very harmful to others, this is less about morals and should be seen as saving everyone's health/lives really. In a nutshell, smoking is a big negative externality.
I always deeply appreciated this strict code of honour in the 'industry'. But one should take care of what constitutes the workweek here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend
> ...at the expense of local languages/dialects.

Worth noting that many Chinese languages are facing extinction, including Mongolian, Manchu, Bouyei [1]. In particular, Manchu, the imperial language a little more than a century ago, was known by less than 100 people and mastered by less than 10 in 2013 [2].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-languages/chinas-mi... "China's minority languages face threat of extinction"

[2]: https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/once-imp... " Once imperial language, Manchu facing extinction"
Loads for me on ACT fiber
Thag would also mean blocking any apis that use json. This would not end well in the short term, or long term.
This is why I’m kind of surprised to see the use of stunners (taser with out the gun part, and usually with longer, usually spring loaded for safety, electrical contacts, yea you have to be closer. But you also are now in range to ensure the delivery of the electric shock and to grab them in order to ensure they don’t hurt themselves when they collapse. Walk in arms up doing the de-escalation stuff and then if shit hits the fan try and quick draw the stunner and jab them in the chest like it’s a knife. Just as non-leather as a taser but with much less risk of injuries to the person being shocked and also much less risk of failing to work since up close making physical contact is something you can train someone to do well, no inherent inaccuracies involved.
Mechanical engineering: How to build machines from liquid metal
Do you think that people in charge of shipping the product know about this (i.e. management)? What about the typical role focused teams - whose role would low level optimization be? Do you think that optimization was a separate epic or a number of backlog items? Would the team that implements the game code even get that much direct help and support from the people who developed the engine tech?

Maybe i'm wrong about these particular ideas, but to me it seems that there is something wrong in the industry, where slow software is routinely shipped (e.g. Electron apps and lots of Wirth's Law in practice) and where the exact same extends to games, for example, how Cyberpunk 2077 was at release.

What can we do to solve this, as developers? Can developers even fix this and possibly provide the necessary pushback or something else? Should someone else fix this, maybe at a different level of the org chart?

In contrast, here's a positive example: Visual Studio Code. It's built on Electron, yet somehow feels far more snappy than the likes of Brackets or Atom. It doesn't feel an order of magnitude or two slower than the likes of Sublime or Notepad++ at this point! What is Microsoft doing differently in this regard? Prioritizing performance? Throwing resources at the problem, in the forms of specialized optimization teams and commitments to this? How much does that cost them?
Didn't say anything about algorithms improving faster than hardware. With better initialization and regularization, more efficient layers discovered by AutoML, sparsity, lower precision, or by directly combining models trained separately on diverse tasks instead of training sequentially we could have better models at the same hardware cost.

Even by improving the way people collaborate on model training we could make a huge leap. Instead of retraining from scratch we could reuse and update existing models. [1]

[1] A Call to Build Models Like We Build Open-Source Software https://colinraffel.com/blog/a-call-to-build-models-like-we-...
This!

As somebody who lives in an area where people mainly uses wood stoves to heat their houses during the winter, I think it's a terrible idea.
Aren't hacker groups notorious for being state sponsored?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China

Also, relations with the Chinese government have reached an extremely low point
under Xi.
Interestingly, the AG of Washington state just settled with Amazon over this same kind of borderline and illegal sales:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-agrees-t...
Excellent work. An accessible and comprehensive look in to an aspect that was previously unknown to me.
self obsession - Modi posted an obituary the other day with 4 pictures of himself attending the funeral.
I doubt Modi's a nobody. Prime Minister of the world's second largest population, fifth largest economy and largest democracy seems like more than a nobody.
"No such thing as a free lunch." should be tattooed onto to foreheads of every charlatan claiming to be able to use water as fuel.
Too bad there are tankies on this site as well.
How many people who have access to the internet (family computer or capable personal phone) don't use it?

How do you measure use?
In situations like these I tune into a local radio stations online. Most of them do streaming.

Also, you can google quickly what siren signals mean. There are specific patterns for various disasters and tests.

And finally - if it’s in the middle of night, for sure it’s something serious.
This is fantastic! Marvelous piece of work, thanks.
Hmm, TBH I think that is pop-science (wrong) take... Humans can stop being self aware and we can measure that very easily. There are many different degrees of self-awareness damage, and many of them are precisely codified.
In 3000 years archeologists will think we practiced Purge and Hunger Games. But Cold War was obviously a religious metaphor for climate warming.
WhatsApp web Node.js client
Hence why SaaS are thriving, what better way to get free beer while charging subscriptions to their users, and give zero back.
With all due respect, I don’t think you do. Open source is about rights, and creating a secondary unwritten set of rules about obligations that are extralegal is just a more advanced way of circumventing them. Please read the DFSG, or OSI definition of open source, or the FSF definition of free software for what I mean. All of them are explicit that you can not discriminate on endeavor (explicitly including commercial) or the licensee. That’s not accidental.
I think of open source as a force of nature, sure you can create incentives in your own proximity, and if you are FAANG the radius can be huge, but finite. The fundamental failure here is not related to open source but in how software is integrated and isolated. We need more robust typing in the integration and capabilities to define the isolation.

Capabilities alone might have eliminated this whole class of failure to escalate, but not eliminate the initial injection failure. Pretty sure that could have been demonstrated on wasmcloud.dev
Commenting may work if the issue has one or two large backers that can independently be vetted to be trustworthy. But if there are several dozen small backers, having to track them all down after closing the issue seems less than ideal.
As someone who needed some rodenticide, what is actually needed is not restriction on these poisons, but rather very authoritative sites with advice on the best stuff to get, that is actually safe and effective.

It's surprisingly hard to research what poisons are actually good to use, you'll either gets sites shilling stuff that completely doesn't work, but is "eco friendly" (for example "Rat-X"), and sites that simply give you the "most effective", i.e. most poisonous (like the ones in this article).

What's needed are sites explaining, for an average person, what's they should be getting. People aren't trying to kill birds, they just are getting really bad advice on what to buy.

Bromethalin is a good choice, if you use a bait station (it has no antidote, so always use a bait station, never just tie the blocks somewhere).
This explains how such a “solution” Benefits log4j and log4j users. The part I question from the start is why “google should”
Vs “google should” pump the equivalent money into medical research vs “google should” make what is does better
Make a profile card using HTML and CSS
The reason is that in RTL languages you typically mix RTL words with LTR words. In LTR text this is very rare.

For example western brand names or simply just digits, even the arabic versions of digits, are rendered as an embedded LTR word.

The dir="RTL" tag, apart from adjusting alignment, gives a hint whether this paragraph has RTL as a main direction. Otherwise the browser will pick the direction from the first letters in the paragraph (RTLness of a word is an intrinsic property of what unicode character is used). And if those first letters happen to be a western brand name or a digit, the whole sentence would be flipped.

Anyway great article! I cringe when I think about all the bugs and glitches arabic or hebrew readers have to endure in software. Not only in browsers though.
In my case, it took much longer to convert the program from what I am seeing into a in-head representation. Perhaps I am just too used to textual code, but I really tried to do it another way... Or perhaps it's simply not for me, but others might be happy.
Well, no, we've already got rice. Maybe these people are making it better, but just the fact that rice is valuable doesn't justify anything on its own.
> To me, helping others is the core of leftism

People on the right wing also want to help others, but the method is different: helping people to help themselves.

I think there are risks to both. People can become dependent on safety nets. People can also need more help than just "pull yourself up by your bootstraps".

> I say beautiful because, to abstain from finding solutions, there has to be people who find this beautiful.

From an outside perspective, shootings are an intractable US problem because of the US's relationship with guns. It's not that people are "abstaining" because they somehow like the situation.
I think we have to interpret it as "we have named this vague notion we feel ourselves as Self-Awareness". Now we're searching if others have it too.

It's clear we can classify stimuli, and responses, in various ways: internal/external, autonomous/conscious, selfish/altruistic, fast/slow. So I don't think it's strange researches want to understand the notion of self-awareness. Whatever that might turn out to be biologically. The problem is it's way out there on the emergent system spectrum, so really difficult to pin-point.

In short, there doesn't have to be anything magic about us putting names on classes of responses. We already know we are self-aware, by unknown definition.