skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a massive fan of your work on VLC, but I feel that's a bit of a mischaracterization..

The author of the issue spoke about his troubles with MinGW in four bullet points at the top that are not related to DirectX at all, whether you agree or disagree with those the fact is most people (including Andrew Kelley) rebutted many of his arguments, and Andrew even reached out to MinGW devs on IRC to chat about the topic of contributing upstream. That seems a reasonable approach to me.

I chimed in on the issue because DirectX 12 was the problem _I_ faced, explained what I learned, complained I still don't have a super official way to get up-to-date DirectX headers that are compatible with MinGW, and ultimately said I gave up on working on the issue out of frustration.

Throughout the issue there are people suggesting throwing out all of MinGW would be reckless, heck even I concluded that would not be possible for multiple reasons in my write-up.

I think people are reading too much into the title and trying to make this out to be some sort of attack on MinGW, I really do not think that was anyone's intent - we're just exploring if we can improve the status quo..
It is a curse of human condition. Never feeling 100% satisfied for any longer period of time
> given enough people catch this variant

Please see the point Derek Lowe makes in the first article, of Dec 2 (point which I have abridged in this page): cases of mild immune response which let the virus dwell for a long time in the organism can be the proper places for a virus to develop mutations.

Also, the paragraph closing this article of Dec 17: that the main future mutations will be of high contagiousness and low impact is a non granted possibility.
The laptop camera can be disabled with small bit of black electrical tape, but I don't understand whose crazy idea it was to put microphones into laptops in the first place, especially without hardware kill switches like the Librems have. The same thing for modern cell phones, of course.
I’m Successful in Tech Because I Managed to Visit the Future Without a Time Mac
So basically a deregulated, market based approach. This will work great in wealthy areas with good schools with educated and supportive parents.
> Or open up your laptop and (carefully) destroy it.

OK, I destroyed it (carefully). Now it won't boot. What do I do next?
What it means is that you can't compare funding between the US and other countries.
afaict That was a “prototype”. Was it ever made available to anyone beyond the authors?
Tinylog – lightweight logging framework for Java, Kotlin
It's that hard working and caring doctors, teachers, and nurses are unable to buy houses and/or save money. The repayment terms help them be able to pay bills using their income but not to thrive.

I don't think blanket forgiveness is a good approach partly because of unfairness to those without loan balances and partly because it would drive up the cost of education, but I would like to see some programs to reduce the burden of education expenses that both those who owe money for loans and those who don't would be eligible for.
Hole Card Cam Inventor and Transformers Catalyst Henry Orenstein Dies at 98
Worrying about

> Permissive licenses are equivalent to unpaid labor in the eyes of SaaS companies and other freeloaders.

Is a way to unhappiness. I MIT/BSD stuff and no worry about who uses it and how much money they make. The attitude above is like given to poor people at the sour kitchen and then getting angry if they make it out of poverty, become successful, and don't follow in your foot steps. What they do after I've given them the soup is irrelevant.
Europe has been under stresses that are not really comparable with what the US underwent in 2 centuries. The only really existential crisis was the civil war, whereas most European countries have been invaded a couple of times, and almost all of them had battles on their soil.

It is true that some compromises were needed because of its federalist character. In this it is much closer to Germany than to France.

> It's almost like a bunch of highly educated and intelligent individuals spent several years studying the failure modes of previous republics and then designing a system that would be robust against those failure modes.

I am not really disagreeing with you here, but what makes you think that this was not the case in other countries? Were there no highly educated and intelligent people in Europe for 2 centuries?

There was a lot of cross-pollination between France and the US at the time of the revolution, several people were involved in both. The American constitution is built on enlightenment values that were quite widely shared and Europe was not short in political thinkers either. A lot of them also benefitted from the American example.

What ended most of the French republics were coups d’états and wars. As in “the enemy is a 2 hours drive away from the capital”, not “let’s bomb another country on the other side of the world”. It’s not because of its immutable constitution that these things did not happen in the US.

In short, I think smugness is unwarranted, and the US is not immune to coups d’états, even if its geography precludes almost any wartime occupation. Also, philosophers in the 18th century were not super-human. Their work is not perfect. The lack of evolution leads to fossilisation and a shift of power towards the Supreme Court. This is a serious threat to the separation of powers, and should be taken seriously.

There are other failure modes that have been made clear in the last 2 centuries, Americans would be wise not to dismiss them and learn from others, as other learnt from them.
Perhaps cutting to the chase: I'm aware that it's popular to discount those issues and education in those areas, but I think that just a little critical thought shows that the situation is quite the opposite, and on a very serious, urgent level: The issues are tearing apart our society and world, and it doesn't hold any water to say that we do not need to study these very difficult issues (we can see how human society has performed through most of history) and that we won't benefit from all the prior and contemporary knowledge in humanity. Why wouldn't you study what the ancient Greeks, Enlightenment thinkers, etc. have to say about it, and study it now, urgently?

Addressing some details, in case the paragraph above misunderstands you, thought I think these are a bit too much in the weeds:

> A post-secondary 4-year education in the humanities is a luxury almost by definition, since it is not available to a substantial portion of the population (including many who attend 4-year college!)

Availability doesn't define luxury. When food is unavailable to most of the population, it still isn't a luxury. But we're not here to define words; I think the core issue is that, IMHO, such issues in the liberal arts are critical to the individuals and to our society.

> 4 years of courses on "communication, conflict, power, democracy, capitalism, communism, etc"

Reducing essential knowledge on these issues to just "courses" is like reducing knowledge about food supply to 'courses'. It's not 'courses', obviously, any more than nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements are 'paper'. The idea that you know without studying is hard to fathom (beyond the popular trend) - how does the knowledge get into your head? Should we all rediscover through personal experience the most brilliant in human history have discoverd over billions of lifetimes? It seems a bit unlikley and inefficient.
> Hopefully we can then compare COVID to the season flu on any large media outlet

It will never happen, humans take more and more to recover from traumatic events and people who claim that it's time to put the traumatic event behind our back and go on with our lives are singled out as irresponsible .

See the 2008 financial crisis, we are still doing QE, Fed balance sheet would never go back to normal , we have scam companies worth hundreds of billions and perhaps the most scammy one just went above a trillion in financial value with no real tangible product presence in a market in which commands a 1% presence.
Employees hospitalised after food poisoning at iPhone maker Foxconn in India
> CAOS stands for the Commodore Amiga Operating System.

It also stands for "Cassette Aided Operation System" - in the GDR. It was used for East Germany's 8 bit computers (KC85 line).

Even as an East German pupil, the physics teacher in my school who started a "computer club" got us ZX Spectrum, C64, C128 and 8 bit Atari. I got to use and later own GDR-made KC85 elsewhere. Having used both, for 8 bit machines the KC85, especially the last model KC85/4, was really good - for work (no way to beat the game abilities and huge amount of software of the C64).

I still remember how you told "CAOS" about software loaded into the computer: You had 7F7F (7F is LD A,A in assembler if I remember correctly, so unlikely to be found in any code) followed by a string used as name for the software followed by either 00 or 01, I don't quite remember, I think two values existed which lead to two different uses of the name. The program started in the next byte. CAOS would search the RAM for /F/F and display the names in a menu. You select the program you want to start and it jumps there. Software was soooo much simpler. To call an OS routine you put a number into register A and called a fixed memory address. You pretty much knew every single byte of the 64K RAM personally.

I only had a DIS-assembler - which I found in a printed computer magazine and manually entered as HEX code before being able to save it to cassette for later repeat use. To write assembler code, I wrote it all on paper. Then I used a booklet of assembler codes for the Z80 clone U880 CPU to manually convert it into HEX code. I had to do a bit of binary arithmetic especially for relative jumps backwards. Then I used a hex editor to enter the code and used my dis-assembler to check if I had translated it all correctly. Ah, good times.

There were radio broadcasts of software, which you could record to cassette and then read into the KC86 computer. It was actually fairly easy to tell just from the sound if a piece of software was written in BASIC or in Assembler.

I played a bit on a friend's Amiga but in the end got an Atari 1040ST with 70Hz B/W monitor, which for screen work was far superior to the 50Hz of the Amiga. Only black and white though, still, enough for work.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_Aided_Operation_Syste...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85

http://www.mpm-kc85.de/html/CAOS_42.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880
> the problem is no one has actually expressed a goal we're working towards

I hadn't thought about this explicitly but I'd also say this is most of the problem. Working in academia, some facet of our policies changes on a daily basis in knee-jerk reactions. Worse yet, my area of research is infectious disease and I imagine this must be how climate scientists feel when policy decisions just get drawn out with no goal.
Wow. This is very slow. If the only feature here is that it supports colors (so does ls, by the way) or extra information (so does ls, by the way), all while being much slower, then I do not see the point in replacing ls with this.

Someone mentioned that you can just do:

alias ll='ls -lahF --color=auto'
Ok, so people are too stupid to decide for themselves. In that case can we trust their “chosen” leaders? You know they may be too stupid to pick a good leader too. Monarchy sound good?
How have you found things since going back after the 3 weeks?
I identify with what you're saying quite strongly, I'm still debugging the fundamental issues and how to fix them. For my situation I suspect a strong component is personality-related and that I probably need some prolonged period of time away from work to reset my body and brain and be free from high stress situations for a while. From browsing past threads of others' experiences with burnout and stress on HN I keep seeing 3 months mentioned as the magic number, but I'm worried this is too big of an ask from my current employer.

Although I suppose that raises the point that part of solving these issues is learning to put my wellbeing above my employer's problems.
LoL, are you saying WV is the only people that pay Manchin? His top donations this cycle are from businesses that stand to gain by this measure not passing (see OpenSecrets.org, etc).
Edit: This isnt to say the measure not passing is all his fault. Im way tired of all bill passing on party lines, however, its disingenuous to pretend Manchins motives are mostly for the people actually picking the coal out of the ground for him.
GPL Release of IVR Implementation of Liquid Democracy
In addition to an LD implementation, it provides a local currency system providing mutual support for participation.
China does not have that much of a problem with the status quo. The status quo with the One China Policy has worked very well for decades. In fact, 2015, right before the DPP got to power, could be regarded as the height of cross-straight relations. Things only started going sour after the DPP started making moves towards true independence, and after the US sent increasing numbers of warships to China's back yard.

It is not China that is deviating from the status quo.
> the latest being the Australian submarines, but also our interests in Iran

Good point.

I think Europe is the only continent that can oppose to colonialistic empires like US and China, but needs to have a single voice, France, Germany, Spain, Italy etc. alone are insignificant in the scenario.
I stopped when I read that. Terrified woman stays with friend after being alerted to a tracking device on her car. While she sleeps, the friend searches the car and discards a tracking device. Right. And everyone else here treating it like that is fine.
> The Sappir-Whorf hypothesis refers to specific languages, and is all but proven wrong in its strong form (a person speaking English and a person speaking Japanese seem to perform exactly the same at all cognitive tasks).

I believe it's a bit more complicated than this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referent

> In fields such as semantics, semiotics, and the theory of reference, a distinction is made between a referent and a reference. Reference is a relationship in which a symbol or sign (a word, for example) signifies something; the referent is the thing signified. The referent may be an actual person or object, or may be something more abstract, such as a set of actions.

> Reference and referents were considered at length in the 1923 book The Meaning of Meaning by the Cambridge scholars C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards. Ogden has pointed out that reference is a psychological process, and that referents themselves may be psychological – existing in the imagination of the referrer, and not necessarily in the real world. For further ideas related to this observation, see failure to refer.

In this case, what has been ~"proven wrong" is Whorf's specific hypothesis (the reference) of the underlying phenomenon (the referent) that he was observing, whereas the general notion of whether language fundamentally/substantially affects cognition seems to remain unknown.

As a thought experiment: imagine a culture where this psychological phenomenon of "referent" is a "first class" concept in a language, and the culture that uses it insists that the distinction must be at least taken into consideration whenever a disagreement arises between two or more people....after several decades under such a model, might substantial differences arise? Perhaps this isn't a "proper" example of Whorfism, but it seems to be in the neighbourhood.
I'm not particularly happy but I do know that pursing happiness as a goal is a bad idea. It's worth trying to set a different goal (health, career, family, whatever) and pursue that. Once you feel like you're making progress toward something meaningful happiness usually shows up as an ancillary benefit.

Check out number 39: https://gist.github.com/hcgatewood/dfcd27127cd977762ea038a75...
> why take on responsibility through having children? Why not pickup any other type of responsibilty? like, community service, tutoring/helping kids from less fortunate places or in the worst case even Picking up more responsibility from work?

The other day I was flicking through my notepad in my home office and found hand written notes from my 6 year old daughter saying how much she loved me. Yes kids are a massive responsibility, but the payback you get if you do it right is immeasurable.

I'm not sure you'd get quite the same from the things you listed, perhaps a little...?

Anyway what is suggest is you enjoy your 20s, but make sure you are in a position to have kids by your early 30s... Otherwise it may be too late for your other half (women's clocks do tick rather fast). If you wait until she is 40 then you are really risking it.
Yes, well, and that would require a willingness to maximize the population.
I'd really like to see an analysis comparing covid to the flu. There's the vaccine and omicron making it less deadly than before, but I have no idea by how much.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Of course the topic is flammable to begin with, but what you did here stands out noticeably as more flamey than the rest of the thread.

Edit: you posted a whole bunch of flamewar comments to this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again, regardless of what your views are or how right they are or how right you feel they are.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615430.
Of the podcasts I’ve listened to with scientists and epidemiologists they all say that policy is not their domain. They say we are to provide advice within our domain and keep out of policy.

Possibly there is sampling bias with the podcasts I’m listening to and the people going on them.
It's sad to see this in popular culture, but reationality does not mean total suppression of emotion. To be more accurate, modern concepts of rationality means that you are aware of your emotions, and that you can effectively process them in the correct context. So, crying in a support group is a completely rational thing to do, crying in a finance meeting, or during open heart surgery, much less so. It also means that you acknowledge and take responsibility for the care and upkeep of your emotions, and don't pawn these duties off on those who have not consented to it. Spock, while a fascinating character for a space opera, is not a good example of either rationality or emotional maturity. (At least not in the human sense.)
> I propose that the universities should be financially responsible (instead of the federal government) when the student cannot repay the loan.

I suspect there would be widespread opposition to this idea on the grounds that "education is about more than getting a job".

If universities were paid based on students' future earnings, would they still teach liberal arts?
Nope, can easily clear 300k+ TC as a senior/staff/principal at FAANG fully remote without any of those accolades. Just need skill and a bit of luck.
> AirTags will also beep if they're separated from their owner.

Why didn't the AirTag beep in this situation? She said she went around the car trying to find it.
definitely ThinkC - note the pre-unicode PI symbol for project name..
>When software makes it harder to submit issues I often just don't submit them.

That's the goal.
Between reports of AirTags being used to enable auto theft and stalk targets, it is pretty obviously a very handy criminal tool. Apple definitely needs to do something about this for both ethical and reputational reasons.

the beeping if separated from owner after 8-24hrs is a bit helpful, but likely not noticeable if attached to the outside of a car. This is also a pretty big window in which to pull off your crime.

I'd suggest that all tracking come with logging of the original owner's Apple device and it's location. The handy general use case would be to find your phone with an airtag (e.g., on your keys) and another phone (e.g., friend in the group). The obvious deterrent to criminals is that their target and the police will have their device ID and location. They might still get away with it, but would need effectively a burner Apple phone & location history separate from their real device.

Other ideas?
Make it work, make it correct, make it fast - perhaps they haven't reached phase three yet?
> likely meet the mortality rate of the seasonal flu

We should consider the possiblity that we are already there with omicron.
You're probably looking for an immunologist.
Good point though, to be fair, email is just a way to safely and with enforced limits on size (10MB), bring files into the CMS.

I wouldn't get too hung up on the messaging.

(Safety: mail providers like SES will verify incoming mails for viruses and spam
Size limits: SES limits email sizes to 10MB.)

Using email as a delivery mechanism let me focus on building the backend plumbing and not on virus checks/File Upload UI.
The other downside being even less inclusivity in higher education, as these uncollateralized loans just won't be made to those without capital and credit criteria

So restructuring of the loan program has to be in conjunction with other education and access reforms
my bet is on "no more than the current situation" which is already causing big social issues in all western countries.
It's almost as if the way you use the tools is what matters.

I hope that works itself out for her.
We had that too and our QA team made good use of it.
> GTK's team is still fine (barely)

Really? Isn't GTK where the CSD (client side decoration) is being forced onto every app, with no way to use native/normal window manager borders? It seems rather widely despised:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16241923

https://old.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/lcj7cq/why_is_csd_bad...
Find times where you completely tune out of email, slack, or whatever communication software you use. For emergencies, set up a mechanism where you can still be reached.

Don’t worry about immediately responding to every ping.

Reduce the number of items on your plate or delegate them to others.

Don’t always immediately jump to helping someone when they ask for help. Figure out the balance between “is this person actually blocked or are they not applying themselves on this problem?”

My main point is this — there are too many distractions. If you are eager to help everyone else and take on every little thing people throw your way, you’ll never get your work done. The constant context switching will slowly chip away at your soul, in my case leaving me with feelings of disdain towards certain colleagues. And that also isn’t fair to them.

It’s up to you how to manage and set expectations, but prioritize your well being first and then many things will fit nicely in place
Fake student bots at community college? Prof is on the case
> China can no longer afford to use empty threats

And yet it keeps making them, and no actually doing anything about any of this.

It has been decades of empty threats. I am sure people said the same thing, the last time more empty threats for made.

Yeah, no. Thats the facts. They keep making empty threats, and not following through on them, and they are still doing that to this day.

> more serious about true independence

Well, Taiwan is already truly independent, and that has been the case for decades. They have their own laws, borders, and taxes. That is what an independent country is.

Furthermore, the official stance of the ruling party, is that they are already independent.

Nothing really needs to change, for them to become independent, because that is already the case.

> had maintained the One China Policy.

They have their own taxes, laws and borders. They are already an independent country, actually. There is nothing to be maintained, other than some fantasy make believe lip service.
Thanks for the link, that's really interesting.