skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"The machine of Western Democracy"

While statistically better the democracy on its own does not stand for being "humane". Masses love government "being tough" and do not care much about them destroying lives.
This makes my day. Thank you so much for the kind words!
Nice. I assumed cryptocurrency fraudsters would stop these kinds of offerings for the near future.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN and particularly please stop posting personal attacks. We ban accounts that do that, and you've unfortunately done it repeatedly. That's not cool here.

This whole subthread stands out as particularly wretched but even in a context as bad as this, "your sneering ass" was egregious.

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Why so hostile? Lots of people like having touchscreens on their laptops, myself included. What's wrong with it if people want it?
I learned today that in California at least, they have to be designated as a Scenic Highway [1]; then advertising is not allowed.

[1] https://dot.ca.gov/programs/design/lap-landscape-architectur...
I liked the post, but why not emulate on faster, more portable hardware?
> Microsoft OS slide to irrelevance

I wouldn't call 75% of desktop share "irrelevant". Tablets are still 20 times less common than PCs. *

* data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Tolls by Mail and the customer support around it. Got one in the mail a few weeks ago even though I have EZPass. They include a pic so I know a '1' was mistaken for a '7' which made it my match my plate. For one, I got my plate a few days after the scan date, they are brand new plates, so there's no chance they were even on the road at the time. Seems like the system should know that.

The given choices for resolving are:

- Mail the slip back with a reason checked. None of the options fit the scenario, there's no "Other". Postage is not prepaid, I have to go to the post office because I haven't needed a stamp since 2012.

- Call a number, which I did. I waited 45 minutes on 2 different days, never got through.

There is no email address or contact form the website. There is no way to make a dispute electronically. (I guess this part is more like a lack of tech that made life worse for me)

The hold message said "EZPass customer services will be with you...". I have an EZPass account which the mistaken plate is on, but wasn't at the time because I didn't have the plates yet. So I figured I'd try the support system through that account, even though it's technically separate. The only option there is a support contact form. I had to type that up twice because, of course, my login timed out by the time I hit "submit" and all my text was lost, an possibility I'm fully aware of as a web dev, but I haven't experienced in like 10 years. That was a week ago, still haven't heard back.

Now I'm going to mail thing in with a handwritten choice and can only hope it's going to work out and not lead to some kind of worse mix up that cost more time or money, or flags my license somehow.
A DDoS is a pandemic friendly remote way to join a union lead strike.
"buying less and less real assets"

What is a real asset? If by "real" you mean "adjusted for inflation" then, again, you are double counting the inflation. If by "real" you mean "an object with a clear category and a clear value" then I'm curious how you would derive the clear category and the clear value? If one person says "I hate that house, I would only pay $300k for it" and another person says of the same house "I love that house, I would pay $600k for it" then who is correct?

If you want to have a sane conversation about this, I would suggest that you stop using the word "real." Use "inflation adjusted" if you mean that, and then use "actual" or "countable" when you mean those things.

About this:

"You keep confusing yourself by sometimes mushing the concepts inflation, asset price inflation, and consumer inflation and then getting upset when one doesn't fit neatly into the other."

I am not upset with you, nor did I say anything to suggest that I was upset with you. I'm simply pointing out that you don't seem to understand the words that you are using.

Also, I've avoided bringing politics into this, but it might be worth thinking of some of the notorious incidents of hyper-inflation, the political effects it had, and how such effects are simply not rational or possible or connected to increasing nominal prices for assets. I wrote about the late Soviet era hyper-inflation here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-struggle-to-save-the-so...
Comprehensive Data Science Cheat Sheets
Sometimes it's cheaper to poach key engineers than to buy a company...

Was true in 97', still true in 21'
This is my understanding of it as well. While the bug is still bad due to the fact that a JVM instance will connect to the attacker's endpoint, any JVM above 8u121 wouldn't execute the code with Java's default configuration.

It's also mentioned as part of the release notes for 8u121: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u121-relnot...

Edit: Looking deeper into it; the JDK version used within the POC's GitHub, from the screenshot in that repo, is 8u20, released in 2014.
Here’s an example of how to enable caching in GitHub Actions:

https://gist.github.com/eproxus/d74315864fd6897bb47741e8de5b...

The example is a bit Erlang specific but the cache action it contains is quite generic.
Delphi was a leading develment tool for Windows in that era.
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. We've had to ask you this before, and we ban accounts that keep doing it. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The ill-conceived idea of rebranding as "Inprise"[1] certainly didn't help.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland#Inprise_Corporation_er...
If you are a startup and using Oracle, then your are NGMI

Use common sense
Presumably you're talking about the classified nuclear material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
The poor owe a fortune in debt to the wealthy, inflation wicks this away

As long as wages increase with, and they have to. If the poor can no longer as a whole afford to pay $1k in rent because the money goes on food, then they won't, and rental prices will have to come down because the demand for rental at $1k crashes (as nobody can afford it)
>It absolutely should matter. Why should someone who's not a citizen and wasn't located in the US be held to US laws? Does every person on the planet now need to memorize the laws of every country and fear extradition if I were to accidentally view gay porn, which is illegal in Saudi Arabia?

Your example doesn't really work because it is illegal to view gay porn in Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia decided to outlaw viewing gay porn worldwide, and then another country's government decided that its extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia covers this law, and then you decided to visit such a country and viewed gay porn - yes, you should fear extradition in that case.

By your logic, all one needs to do to hack into US companies and, say, steal trade secrets or money with impunity, or demand ransom, is to be outside the US. But that's not how the world works. In addition, you gotta find a country that doesn't extradite to the US on charges of fraud, and/or theft of trade secrets.

Or, in Assange's case, actively and persistently convincing and coaching someone to exfiltrate top secret data from a US government computer system. Something that, BTW, I look forward to hearing which country in the world does not outlaw and pursue criminal convictions for.

The framework is logically and legally sound, a good idea and a good thing. As to the inputs to the process - quality of laws, wording of extradition treaties - that does vary, so choose travel destinations and elected officials carefully.
Gotta love adversarial interoperability, productionized
It seems strange to me someone would be allowed to put up billboards to begin with along public property. I assume the freeway is public property correct? It should be illegal to begin with without approval from the public.
I use skype on my cheap(ish) android phone to call my mom in France from the US and it's usually crystal clear and with no latency. Not sure what I am doing right here but I have no complaints. And so much cheaper than in the old days of using a landline.
mgorny is responsible for a large amount of deprecations of software in gentoo (including things people use because they "no longer have dependencies") so it's kind of ironic to see him complaining about an upstream doing the same thing.

And I agree, deprecating setup.py is one of the worst things the python world is doing, but breaking things for hosts of people hasn't stopped them before. It hasn't stopped anyone.
nice try Oracle!
Source? I'm pretty sure that state challenges were accounted for in 1a's derivations. The entire point of three branches was to keep the gov in check with itself. 1a helps to ensure it can be in check with its citizens as well.
I think the sweet spot for some blockchain use cases is where contract enforcement doesn't work well. It's really hard to seek redress for diffuse, low-grade breach. A 10 million people with one dollar in damages are less likely to be made whole than 1 person with 10 million in damages. And contract enforcement often fails in insolvency. Try enforcing a how warranty against a builder that's gone bankrupt.
We've already asked you not to post like this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29000160). We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, and you've unfortunately been continuing to post ideological flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines. That's seriously not cool here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
They have no means to enforce it, the judgement is what they think will happen. If, say, North Korea gave assurances on how they would treat a prisoner their judgement would probably be different.

The point is, saying the judgement is wrong is logically equivalent to stating that one of these assurances is going to be broken, which is an actual falsifiable proposition - I'm just asking which one you think is going to be broken.
The thing I don't understand, given all this - and I say this with substantial study in Political Science, including a degree - is why then we still see such widespread admiration of the notion that states are legitimate organizational structures?

Ostensibly they are different than corporations and other private entities specifically in that the standard by which their mandate exists is a public one. But once we see that that's not true (and we have seen it throughout history, but with astonishing clarity in the past two decades), isn't it time to move on?
That's a sweet deal. How much is 100GB extra disk space per month?
Reddit doesn't deserve the love. Forced to login to view content (for everyone that doesn't know 'old' exists), can't download their videos, ban bots that present a downloadable link, obnoxious popups to download their apps, unable to reject cookies on 'old.reddit.com' without first going to 'new.reddit.com' to set preferences, trick users into giving them your email, etc.
Quality of life is not measured per square foot of space.
The point is that if you want a phone with the capabilities and performance of a good one from five years ago, you can buy that today. It will cost you substantially less (in nominal dollars) today than it would've cost five years ago. How does that not represent a person with a given number of dollars being able to buy more, in this instance?
Texas limits the increases to 10% per year. And it goes up by the full 10% every year. 10% every year for just 5 years is a 61% increase. Compound interest hurts taxpayers the same way it helps investors.
That's an unhelpful thing to say. Most people agree that the Spark scala DSL is functional style. It's not as advanced in the style as other scala ecosystems but it has been a very good on ramp for people discovering functional style and is widely celebrated for that
iirc it happened on a friend's 6th gen Ford Fiesta

I doubt there's a big list somewhere as it isn't something the manufacturers are proud about
I worked for an adtech business unit at Oracle until recently (my choice to leave). It's a massive organization of over 100,000 employees (not to mention contractors AFAIK). Every business unit is run kinda like separate companies with their own cultures and practices and whatnot.

There are better and worse orgs and managers as you would expect of a company of that size.

As far as I can tell there was literally no specific "Oracle" culture. Some of the well-known cultures attributed to "Oracle" may be true of specific business units like Oracle database or ERP but it's hard to say without having been in every one of those business units. But my adtech business unit was nothing like the nightmare/FUD stories you hear online.
I don't notice anything in the STH article about the license terms. (Sorry if I'm just missing it.)

Given Oracle's reputation, no evaluation is complete without a thorough examination of those terms, ideally by a competent lawyer.
Rose tinted glasses. I too have watched anime since I was a kid and the quality of what they’re making in the last few years beats what I grew up with. Animation quality, plot complexity and diversity, soundtracks, voice acting - everything is as good or better. Compare anime that have been remade, like Fruits Basket. The recent version is vastly superior.

Look at the top 50 anime on MyAnimeList, probably the most used anime site. (https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php). This would be the equivalent of IMDb top 250.

- pre 2005 - 8

- 2006-10 - 5

- 2011-15 - 10

- 2016 to date - 27

You’d expect some recency bias but not to this extent unless recent anime was really good. I’ve seen most of these and they certainly deserve to be up there.

Look, I don’t doubt that you enjoyed shows from when you were a kid. I was obsessed with dragon ball z as a kid. But try watching it now, it’s just not that good. Nostalgia makes them better in our memories than they actually were.
I've just hit 40 and think tech now is far far better than it was in the 90s. Same with media, I loved things like TNG growing up, hell I'm currently wearing a "Make it Snow" christmas jumper, but it really shows its age now.

What we do with that tech is another story. Tech is weaponised against us in every way, but that's not the tech's fault.
Well nobody has ever died while in custody of US law enforcement, so this seems reasonable
A package manager in theory should manage things installed under /usr, no?
On the other hand (according to them) I am "special" as I never found any of the questions that I want or need to ask among the FAQ's, or maybe unlucky as the issue I have cannot ever be resolved by following their problem troubleshooting guides (but somehow in the end the human clerk manages to solve the issue at hand in most cases).
For logins that are important, I appreciate the extra security of 2FA and am not frustrated by it.

Also, for many people they re-use the same password for everything, so enforcing 2FA makes sense for them as well
Publish ALL prices prior to admission.

There are hospitals overseas who precisely publish their prices for standard procedures. This is why pre-COVID I would travel overseas for any medical procedures that could be scheduled ahead of time: it was a known, low variance expected cost.

There is no reason not to public pricing short of fraud, conspiracy and lack of ethics. We are already seeing exactly how much ethics/morals much of the pharma, health care and public health of USA actually have (i.e. next to NONE).
You are correct. Murders in most cities matched or exceeded their previous records from the 80s or 90s. But the population in most of those cities is almost double.

The population of Portland has increased by 92% since 1987, but the murders just passed the 1987 level.

All that said, murder *rates* across the U.S. have jumped significantly vs 2019. Though they're not yet to their highs from the early 90s.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi...
We found who's maintaining all of this COBOL code after all. They must have a lot of legacy-systems developers and can probably market themselves for expensive consultancy.
If the length field is 4 bytes then only 3 bytes are "wasted" compared to C with its null-terminated strings and 1-byte chars. The difference drops if you have wider character types. Not to mention the time saved not having to scan every string to determine its length.

I always find it weird when people fret about bytes but not cycles, especially cycles that have to be spent waiting for memory reads.
Maybe also with it is mostly affected by with whom one chooses to associate, and the habits and influences one chooses. For example, my church has tremendous programs and opportunities for:

* economic status and stability: training at budgeting, job hunting, overcoming addictions -- some of the classes have been shared in joint programs with the NAACP in the US)

* aids for refugees, families, volunteering, food aid, service projects, etc (worldwide)

* higher-educational opportunities for almost anyone globally with internet access, including groups who are traditionally excluded due to tuition cost or academic experience, knowledge of English, etc, and teachings that really help with family stability, peace/hope, and generall going forward in life.

* being a personal mentor and being mentored

* etc. It goes on and on.
It's important to remember that [excess deaths](0) aren't merely rumored to be true; they are a hard fact preventing the pandemic from ending. I agree, however, that online socializing is critically deficient, and an inadequate replacement for the communal traditions we've spent [millennia developing](1) to gratify our [social needs](2).

0. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24452.Dancing_in_the_Str...

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478.Bowling_Alone
This is great news!!!! Go AlmaLinux team!!!
I used xneko a lot many years ago.

If you're using Ubuntu a variant called oneko [1] is still available in the repositories (not sure about the differences, it looks like the xneko that I remember)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-04lSS99z0
Enticing, but a part of me is still very hesitant to get in bed with Oracle.
They've gained a reputation of trying to lock customers in so that their legal department can "innovate" more ways of squeezing money out of them.
The common joke remains that Oracle is actually just two law-firms in a software-company trenchcoat.

Until this reputation changes, any offer they present smells suspiciously like a baited hook.
Isn't decentralization just a definition of Web3? After web2 has been hijacked by a handful of companies, with associated surveillance, censorship and manipulation, people just want some freedom.
This interview was in the year before he left Borland for Microsoft.
Tech gave me both a hobby and a career and guaranteed I’d never want for something to muck about with. It’s made for easier, distributed working environments and allows for what was science fiction level of communication. It’s also made my music and video library vastly larger and right at my fingertips. It’s also made travel much easier and more flexible.

My only regret is that it all started out social due to the size and limitations of technology and it’s become single individual. A f2f hacker community was more enjoyable than a larger yet remote one.
I played around with Oracles free tier. When you first sign up, you must choose a “home” region. You cannot add another region on the free plan.

These awesome free instances are very limited stock. You have no way of knowing if the region you choose has stock of the desired instances before you select the region. You may not change your “home” region.

You will get sales phone calls. Caveat emptor.
Please do not take HN threads further into political flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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"Not Going To Make It", for people who are not into the latest trendy acronyms.
It seemed like a near-mystical piece of technology when I encountered it as a kid watching The History Channel. Tech-minded people probably self-select here anyway...
The only way they will ever deploy IPv6 on FIOS is if someone forces them, e.g. a major content provider like Netflix goes IPv6 only.
>In 1996, five economists, known as the Boskin Commission, were tasked with saving the government $1 trillion. They observed that if the CPI were lowered by 1.1 percent, then a $1 trillion could indeed be saved over the coming decade. So what did they do? They proposed a way to alter the formula that would lower the CPI by exactly that amount!

I know this is a direct quote from a Slate article, but it's a blatant lie. The commission was officially the "Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index", i.e. it's founding purpose was to evaluate the accuracy of the CPI, not an open-ended mission to save the government money.
I'm wondering what it will take to stop this, it's basically institutionalized loan sharking across a giant chunk of the economy critical to society. The entire market, from insurance companies to providers is falling over itself trying to out-gouge the consumer because there's no repercussions. And why aren't there startups out there coming to compete for this gigantic money pool by offering a mere 400% markup?
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No it isn't. It's their response to CF's crap test which CF then posted on their blog <---THAT is mud slinging.

And Kenton himself agrees:
"On a serious note, I've been saying for decades that benchmarks are almost always meaningless..."

Benchmarks can be used to mislead which CF was clearly doing and which Fastly pointed out with their "Lies, damned lies..."
That's not a great comparison. Lawnmower salesmen don't actively try to persuade you to stick your hand into the moving blades.
I think you're being disingenuous since it's hard to believe that you still don't understand this.

1. Alice hires Bob to do a job.

2. Alice deposits money into the timelocked escrow smart contract.

3. Bob signals that the job is done.

4. If Alice signals that it's all good, Bob can withdraw his paycheck from the escrow.

5. If Alice is not happy with the job, she has predetermined amount of time to raise a dispute and get it settled, to decide whether Bob gets the money.

6. If Alice is not available for some reason and just disappears, Bob will still get his paycheck, although after waiting for the predetermined time.
China doesn't care about the debt payments. It is about maintaining the relationships in Africa so the countries there will favor China over the US in trade deals for resources.
IIRC, Wittgenstein describes the usage of type to create a smile face in one of his writings and provides an example (I want to say I saw this in Culture and Value, a collection released in 1970). He died in 1951.

This is of course, not to throw shade on the authors claim to original invention. I believe that without doubt :)
I was just telling my son about POV-Ray yesterday, since he's starting to learn to use Blender and I dabbled with POV-Ray as a teen. I'm quite impressed that it's still being actively developed 30 years later.
Socializing.

People don't know how to communicate with their local surroundings anymore, or don't want to.

I was in one of the first groups of kids to grow up having a fair number of online-only friends, and I think it's great in a lot of ways, but I also see an atrophy of civility and sociability happening in physical communities, and think the accessibility of niche culture online has something to do with it.

Some of this may be rose colored glasses or the fact that I'm older and less pleasant to look at, or other biases/confounds, but that's my observation.