skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, "grandfathered in" is a historically terrible term. The term you're looking for is a "legacy license".

It's not terribly well known just how terrible this phrase actually is. I ran across it myself probably a few months back.

> "If all these white people are going to be noncitizens along with blacks, the idea is going to lose a lot of support," says James Smethurst, who teaches African-American studies at the University of Massachusetts. The solution? A half-dozen states passed laws that made men eligible to vote if they had been able to vote before African-Americans were given the franchise (generally, 1867), or if they were the lineal descendants of voters back then. This was called the grandfather clause. Most such laws were enacted in the early 1890s.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586...
I don't think it's entirely true that the current Google results are merely a matter of decent sites being hard to find. I'm pretty sure that two years ago, Google found a great portion of "real content" pages than it finds today and SEO was already huge then. And Google does a significant amount of human testing right now.

It especially noticeable to me that just in the last few months, Google has changed their algorithm so some product will be the first item on even the most generic search.
So when people say "save the planet" they also mean preserving a completely unsustainable standard of living? I disagree, but if I wanted a strawman to shoot down that's a good one.

To be clear, I meant protecting the current ecosystems and I don't believe we need to regress or eliminate the human race to do that either.
I would be very very cautious about any sort of relationship with anyone that you are working with. Any sort of denunciation makes the front page, and that can kill a career right quick.

Go to a bar. Or a reading group. Or Tinder. Far less likely for something bad to happen.
Go 1.18 Beta Released
GNU coreutils are an exercise in software bloat.
From what I see the proprietary operating systems are in decline now

[Citation needed]

If anything, one of the world's most-used OSes, which could have gone more open, did the opposite: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

Yes, I approve of e.g. https://puri.sm, but they're so far behind.
> Is it really that weird?

Let's be decisive about this. Yes, it is weird, and not just weird, also unethical, even if your job takes all your time, leaving no time for social life, and you're really really lonely, or you really really like someone, it is still weird. It is saying, "I work here, so I am entitled to engage in activity for which I was not hired, has nothing whatsoever to do with the work yet I will be paid while I do it because I do it on company time, as well as, at the very least distracting, if not disturbing, harassing, and threatening coworkers."

That said, it is also a really bad idea if you care about the job, but I expect anyone who engages in that activity could not care less about the job. There is an idiom that applies here, "don't shit where you eat."
> At that level, lawyers should be involved on both sides anyway and your $20K fee is better spent on proper legal services to get it done. Escrow.com is notoriously expensive.

Yea so, that's kinda the point of what he's saying. Why is it that a domain transfer for $2M is so much more expensive than one for $2? Intermediaries.

Smart contracts eliminate the intermediary. Whether you are selling for $2 or $2M, it's gunna cost the same small fee (and the fee is going to be negligible within a year).

> this means that a single security slip-up or even a single disgruntled employee with the right access can forever destroy your company's internet presence with no recourse

This is actually extremely easy to avoid, to the point that it's far more secure than DNS (domain names get compromised via social engineering of registrars all the time, btw). With ENS, for example, the "owner" can be divorced from the "controller", so you can "own" it with a multi-signature smart contract wallet, or even lock it into a smart contract and make it non-transferable with a time-lock and require a quorum of signatures to unlock.

Any mechanism you can imagine basically, but you have full control of how it works. Point is, it's entirely possible, and easy even, to make your crypto assets VERY secure from hacks, it's just the current market isn't that interested in it yet (most easy solutions would be too gas expensive atm).
I think web3 is still a fuzzy concept, but if it's less divisive maybe it would be better to call it a possible evolution of how we share cat pictures.

The boom of cryptocurrencies, and NFTs, and all the jazz, sparked a need for thinking about data differently. We already had much in terms of traditional protocols, and there was already work in the space in terms of IPFS, so we already had some tools for reasoning about the data.

What's important for a decentralized internet, is learning to stop referring to data by location, and instead, refer to it by its contents. This is an interesting shift in thinking about accessing data, the integrity of data, and other things which can yield real benefits in certain areas.

So my bet is, whatever this web3 / possible next step of the way we distribute cats between ourselves is, it will involve a lot of immutable data structures, a lot of hashing, of merkle trees, a lot of consensus building, p2p routing, encryption, the jazz, and I think our infrastructure will become more resilient and scalable for that.

This might be a new internet, this might be a side-thing with web2 still going strong, but there is work being done in the space, there are a lot of traditional data structures and algorithms and it's exciting to reason about data in a new way after all these years.
> a bad cold or the flu

If Covid was only 40% worse than the flu and the cold, then this wouldn't have been a pandemic at all.

Also, one thing that possibly distorts this study is that a large amount of South Africans got only vaccinated in recent months. Given that the vaccine is most effective in the beginning, this might positively affect South Africans's resilience against Omicron and it's not clear yet (afaik) to what extent that skewed the stats.
See https://semver.org/ for more details. https://0ver.org/ is fairly popular, and I see https://calver.org/ pretty often too.
Hackers claim to have stolen more than 4 terabytes of Health Ministry data
Facebook claims its ‘fact-checks’ are ‘opinion’
It amazes me that there remains this misguided view that vaccination efficacy around protecting others is a binary mechanism. It's not. There is evidence of at least partial reduction in infection, not just outcome, by being vaccinated.

That's not including the nuanced aspect of it where being vaccinated reduces the severity and duration of symptomatic cases, which by nature reduces the likelihood simply based on time alone, of exposing others.
Are Facebook's look-alike audiences implemented using faiss?
I think the decentralization only matters in edge cases, I'm guessing 99% of users won't care. But for people who are spending a ton of money on skins, they should care that it is decentralized. If I was the guy who spent $60k on a CS skin I would rather own it in a decentralized database vs Steam.

With that said, I don't think this is enough incentive for major gaming platforms to adopt NFTs any time soon.
An LTO4 drive is capable of writing 800GB raw capacity cartridges, and it can be had for ~$120.
I stand corrected. Apologies.
Those are difficult projects, not difficult clients. Totally different beasts.
Southern Oregon is a far cry from Texas and Florida as the top comment mentions. I don't see how either of those states would factor in especially for my partner who champions women's and LGBTQ+ rights...
It's not, really, but it is more pervasive. In 2001 the internet was a thing, and one with great potential even if massively economically overvalued at the time (dot-com bust), but primarily relegated to those with a baseline interest in technology. Dial up was still used in a very large way. But in 2001 we were on the precipice of the explosion of web 2.0 and better hardware, namely smartphones, and that's when things really took off.

I think the difference here is the overall human approach to digital and physical lives. In 2001 the line between the two was clear and distinct. Now, for many, those lines blurred, and have blurred hard. Almost to the point to where their online manifestation has become their physical manifestation. Look at the language carryover from online to meatspace. More than once have I heard someone say "el oh el". And not in a sarcastic way. It's only a matter of time before desired physical characteristics bleed over. (Pretty sure it would be pretty easy to make an argument that it already has.)
the website would be better without curse words
I don't think Arabic people need to dignify terrorism with any response or condemnation at all....it's not Arabic people commiting the crimes, it's fanatics.

Just like republicans don't need to dignify this Jan 6th protest with any response at all, it's not republicans, it's fanatics.

I believe you may be looking for reasons to condemn republicans.
I think the intrinsic value is coming from the fact that you need to spend eth to run smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
Yep, the result of a large number multiplied by a small number is still a large number. It's definitely a worry.
That's not true. France constantly steals US Defence tech. China constantly steals Russian tech and they are still on good terms. The US probably also tried to steal what it can from everyone, and we know the US facilitated industrial espionage of German companies.

Also, China is pretty different in that the PLA allows their researchers to publish a lot of research that gives away their capabilities in sensitive domains like EW and submarine warfare. I'm not sure they would react massively to something that doesn't even entail any information leaking.
What net-beneficial applications of crypto would you suggest I look at if I wanted to re-evaluate my perspective on crypto?

I was a very early crypto fan, loved talking about decentralized trustless networks, legal smart contracts, that kind of thing. But after years and years of just getting burned by the space being taken over by financial people spouting cultist rhetoric, the space has lost it's shimmer to me.

Asking somebody to join a community and look around themselves is a huge demand of trust when the industry has coordinated rugpull after rugpull using social tactics very similar to your own.

I would very much like to hear about promising applications of crypto and blockchain outside of some esoteric financial ploy for more money.

What I am most interested in is making something like game cosmetics into NFTs that can be traded around players. For example: Imagine getting a rare Season 1 helmet in the new Halo game, and then being able to trade it with your friends in season 2 for something else. The blockchain is actually useless here aside from the fact that it's a protocol that defines ownership outsde of the game so that the central authority can't place limits on trading.

But I just haven't seen anything in that capacity so you'll still have to color me cynical
Ah, even after all these years I get tripped up on which terms only apply to viral-license open source.
Yellow has always been minimize, did you mean green? The green button’s function used to be roughly “resize window to fit content” which makes sense because Mac desktops have never been built for maximizing windows, but it depended on developers to let the system know what a program window’s ideal size was and cross platform devs never did, so they changed its primary function to full screening the window and putting it in its own virtual desktop.
China Initiative Set Out to Catch Spies. It Didn’t Find Many
So when they say your files expire they aren’t deleted? You’ve only lost access to them until you subscribe again? Am I understanding that correctly?
You’re most welcome. Please read the article before downloading or cloning from GitHub: this “solves” the acceleration issue by not breaking it in the first place; imho what libinput should have done by developing gesture support on top of the existing, working driver/hardware stack instead of throwing away the userland/kernel separation and all layers of abstraction.

The linked project is only the userland daemon that uses the raw Linux Multitouch Protocol events to interpret gestures; to get the acceleration curves working again I recommend using this in conjunction with xf86-input-synaptics as your actual input driver (which provides the correct acceleration curves for compatible hardware - basically all touchpads since they all cloned synaptics’ hardware once upon a time - but doesn’t by itself have gesture support).

Side note: Syngesture (this project) isn’t dependent on X11 or Wayland, but I don’t know if anyone has ported or will port xf86-input-synaptics to Wayland, which is/was pretty much developed along the same lines as libinput: rewrite everything from scratch without taking into account that some things you’re throwing out actually work really well (regardless of the fact that they are built for X11 or not), get rid of all abstractions that made it possible to plug in better components/replacements at various points in the stack, and without a concern for actual feature parity for what they are purportedly replacing.
>FYI, Gimp have a single window mode since about a decade.

I know, I used it recently. They are so bad with the UI I find myself using Krita as a better photoshop replacement.

>I think saying it sucks is just being rude against one of the most amazing foss project of all times and it’s maintainers.

Comparing it to Krita, it is hard to compliment any of it, the UI, the features, the difficulty. Its been 25 years, and lots of FOSS stuff has caught up with paid options, and I see Krita being a photoshop replacement way before GIMP becomes usable.
Ah yes, Google Kubernetes. That's where money should go.
I do my part by bike commuting, conserving energy, reducing consumption, etc.

But I don't worry about the big picture because I can't change it, and I think at this point it's too late to "fix" the problem anyway.

If humans drive themselves extinct it's not going to happen in my lifetime, and it's really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. We won't kill everything, and something else will evolve to take our place.
Alternate Data Streams are pretty interesting, cause I'm pretty sure Services for Macintosh weren't the only users - it's also way more powerful (closest thing on Unix would be Solaris-style extended attributes) and pretty fundamental part of NTFS on-disk structures (in fact, "alternate" data streams differ from main one only by having a name - the default data stream simply has no name, and all data streams are equal in importance)
This is already a problem with some artists where I literally cannot purchase anything higher quality than 128k Amazon MP3.
People who commit crimes act under the assumption they won't get caught. There's a body of literature showing that increasing the penalties of crime doesn't deter potential criminals.
Your sentence has a lot of negatives so I'm not sure what you're exactly trying to say but I don't think there are that many people that are happy with the state of dating and coupling right now, except perhaps very attractive heterosexual men.
China has no ambition and no capability to control the planet. Why the hell would they bother?
I tried doing the modules tutorial a while back but had difficulty with the directory structure. At some point I think the "recommended" directory structure became mandatory and I don't think my personal dev environment ever quite lined-up with it. Perhaps I should wait another year then buy a book.
Note that a lot of that old code that caused so much of the fuss in Y2K wasn't ever supposed to be around even a decade after it was written... the phase change caused by IBM OS/360 and widespread backwards compatibility froze it in place.

Normally, you rewrote everything for the new system when it showed up, and used the knowledge gained from the old one to make the new one better. This suddenly stopped when you didn't need to do it, and everyone decided to save time/money and make due with the old code.
For me it comes down to utility: the web was full of immediate, obviously beneficial things you could do with it and that just grew with web 2.0. Normal people would come to you with ideas about how it’d make their lives or businesses better.

Cryptocurrency has been the opposite: we’re over a decade into endless talking it up from the sales people but there’s still no reason to buy in unless you like day trading. The pitch of “wouldn’t it be great if everyday life was as full of microtransactions as a mid-2000s mobile game?” just isn’t appealing, and the need to recruit others so your down line makes you rich is actively repellent to many, especially for those of us who grew up in an era where the dream of the web was making everything accessible to everyone, not just the rich.
This is a bit like saying that the planet would be better off without humans. And maybe that's what you believe, I don't know. It might even be true!

But I don't care: I'm a human and I love other humans and I want humans to prosper as much as possible. Which requires activity which contributes to our shared prosperity. Ideally that prosperity would also include a nice planet to live on though. Earth is a reasonable choice.
I get what you are saying. I recently watched this presentation from DevGAMM 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk. The TLDR is that software is experiencing reverse evolution such that we are regressing in terms of most metrics that we care about (user experience, performance, reliability, etc), most of which I agree with. If what you are trying to build is a low-level portable system utility, then sure Electron is the "wrong" choice. But this feels a lot like the argument around low vs high level languages. Sure, coding in assembly has the potential to be more efficient, but it does not make sense in every (most?) cases. There are valid use case for high-level languages.

For open source projects in particular it seems like having a tech-stack that many people are familiar with and like to code, is easy to "hack", and publish to multiple platforms in is a clear benefit.

Edit:
And, yes, the performance for the end user suffers because of these concessions to the developer. But in my experience with open source projects, these trade-offs can make the difference between having a viable application and not. I would love efficient, optimized, native apps, but given the choice between an Electron app and nothing, I would rather have the Electron app.
Sure. My point is only that temperature changes in and of themselves, as bad as they are, aren't the most incipient danger.
Puffery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
Well the last dude I know who took LSD tried to call an ambulance for a pile of sacks of builders cement and pissed himself. YMMV on that one. There are probably more failures that are not romanticised and more successes that involved hard work.
The donors to LF, or at least where the money comes from are big tech corporations like Microsoft who likely insisted on inclusive language.
"Doomsday Glacier".

At some point we'll run out of hyperbole right? What could be worse than doomsday? Perhaps, apocalypse? Maybe cataclysm?
Can you quantify that? How is it the best or better than the rust ones?
Winter solstice celebrations predate Christmas. Jesus and co. crashed the party.
“The World This Week” by the Economist [1] provides a quick glance of prominent current events each week.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/
> Firstly, a marginally lower case fatality rate is a linear improvement, whereas much higher transmissibility is an exponential worsening.

With the current data available from SA, EU, and UK, the CFR has not been shown to be marginally lower, but dramatically lower. Things could change, of course, but right now the first part of your statement is really the case (as observed).
KDE global menu is nice in theory but too many apps disregard it entirely which makes things awkward. Might be ok if you can restrict your app selection to Qt only but that’s very difficult to do for most of us.
you weren't unclear I was just curious how they resolved it, since that's a really weird scenario...
Nice idea, ihnorton. Thanks for the feedback.
I am happy to report that winters up here in the sub-arctic part of Alaska are cold AF. Winter even arrived a bit early this year.
Meet video randomly stops working (typically excessive freezing) for me in FF, too. I also resort to using Chromium, since it is de-googled to a degree.

Youtube also takes ~30 seconds to fully load, too, versus <3 in Chromium.
This literally sounds like the whole "your gay marriage is ruining my marriage, just by existing" argument, but for the web. Like, what are we talking about here?
“Oh well”, that’s pretty much all I saw happen at COP26.
Not sure what you're getting at? They released the Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina security updates all at the exact same time. They're all vulnerable, and they all had patches released at once.
Although I hate to recommend proprietary software, you might be interested in looking at Inform 7, designed for authoring interactive fiction; https://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz#Inform_7 has an example:

The space is a room. An item is a kind of thing. In the space are 100 items.

To say the name:
let the count be the number of items carried by the player;
say "[if the count is the count to the nearest 15]fizzbuzz.[otherwise if the count is the count to the nearest 3]fizz.[otherwise if the count is the count to the nearest 5]buzz.[otherwise][the count in words].".

To count:
if an item is in the space
begin;
let the next one be a random item in the space; silently try taking the next one;
say "[the name]" in sentence case;
count;
end the story;
end if.

When play begins: count. Use no scoring.
This seems like a positive to me?
Ball is in your court now typescript-on-the-serverside ppl!
This needs more discussion. The underlying problem is there for all to see but we allow "your solution entirely won't work because" truisms to block things.

Btw the root problem isn't the tech, it's the people doing the trolling. But that doesn't make this any less of a tech problem in my opinion.
Be careful what you claim in order to win a lawsuit...

(IANAL. Can anyone answer this question: If in lawsuit A you claim X, do you get in trouble if later in lawsuit B you claim not-X?)
No, it can't be used for "proof of ownership" at all. Crypto only barely works because it lives inside blockchain completely. Anything external to the blockchain (which is practically everything) can't be verified using blockchain. Only using some centralized and opaque/corrupt additions to the blockchain some rights can be maybe transferred (but not enforced even then), but at that point blockchain is useless can be safely removed if data is stored centrally.
(No relation to XXHash (XXH32, XXH64, XXH128, XXH3): https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash )
I love this idea. I would pay for that service!
when would you use this?

Sounds like an awful way to distribute and run software...
Here is actual release announcement:

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/eAjK4Oezs_A
The lower vaccination rate is more than offset by the high rate of prior infection. This might also mean that omicron is mild if you have been previously infected. Populations with high vaccination rates and low infection rates might be at risk. Or they could be fine. We can't extrapolate to them from the situation in SA.
The Gerrit view of the same commit transfers far less data than the GitHub view. https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/368254