skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is irrelevant. Financial services are not enough to keep the UK running. The UK is a large net exporter, and all of its sectors are hurting.

The financial services arm of the UK is the major moving force behind Brexit in the first place, they did that knowing full well that the rest of the country would suffer. It won't take forever for people to realize this.
No, it still means nothing. The essential difference here is that if you buy all the stocks of a company, you own the company. The company still exists, it is still working, but it is now all yours, and you can control it as you'd like.

If you buy every bitcoin, you have nothing. I don't meant that in the sense that bitcoin isn't backed by anything, I mean that in the sense that bitcoin is only meaningful when it is traded between people. If you buy every single bitcoin, bitcoin is dead. It is a nonsensical thing to do. Trying to figure out the price for which it can be done is nonsense, as well.
VNC Connect by RealVNC is good. So is remote desktop and/or zoom. I'm in the same situation.
So far, things are happening almost exactly as people told back before the referendum, when some muppets called it “project fear”. Brexit has not brought any of the economic benefits it was supposed to, so I am not sure where you get your economic data. The NHS is still on the verge of collapse, for a start. I guess the upside is that now a lot of smaller British businesses have opened a subsidiary on the continent.

If your social data is the number of continentals in Britain then, sure, it is delivering. Shame it’s tanking the whole country in the process. Otherwise, poverty and inequality haven’t exactly improved.
Try offering to help. No, it's not your responsibility. But if it's something you want done, and the other person is struggling with it (they are, you're just not seeing that part), then help can go a long way. Even just company.

It'll also help build your relationship with that person, and they'll most likely want to repay the favor in the future when you could use a hand.
Same here — found it in college in the mid-90s and it became my code editor of choice for years. I brought it back recently on some test machines just out of convenience and nostalgia.
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Being able to better communicate with one another is obviously a good thing. The point is that the language being used isn't facilitating that and that is why the autistic community has pushed back on it. So it seems to me, that it is now on the neurotypical community to listen to that feedback.

Also, autism isn't just about social quirks. These are people with different neurophysiology who experience the world in a different way. It is not simply a matter of holding a different opinion or learning a particular behavior. This is not something that can be 'normalized' by talking through it.

The autistic community is largely against gate keeping, and are quite accepting of people who are self-diagnosed. This is not about not being 'properly' autistic, but about having a voice. Being a part of society for the person you are. To not having the challenges you face in a world defined by and for neurotypical people being trivialized.
Decentralization without blockchain has existed and worked for decades.
This happened 150+ years ago. Tianeman square was 1989, the "Great Leap Forward" with its 15-55M estimated dead was in 1960. And to this day China denies these things happened, purges the Internet of any records, and punishes/arrests anyone in China who mentions them. I'm not even going into the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims in China, their forced detention and "indoctrination" camps... which again China denies, covers up etc.

Western Europe and the US, while they have done some shit in the past, can't really be compared. At least in these countries, people are allowed to discuss these things, protest, vote out politicians whose views they disagree with. China meanwhile, is cracking down on free speech and democracy in Hong Kong.
Pity that the article doesn't show a comparison between the two fonts side by side.

Here is one: https://www.quora.com/What-if-any-are-the-significant-differ...
It also reminds me how many people were incapable of understanding, that some people are fine with being poorer if they aren't controlled by a central unelected bureaucracy far way. National sovereignty actually means something to many people, as does having locally elected representatives.

Many many people seem fine giving up democracy for no roaming charges, no passport checks, and being a bit richer. It's a bit sad.
It's an automated bot, and it's an edge case that wasn't considered and is going to get fixed soon.
As a European living in UK that's the saddest thing, that feeling of 52% of the British people saying "we don't like you coming here for our jobs" but then you have people that have voted for Brexit to, and I quote, "keep the pakis out", so I bet the Brexit vote was less about not liking foreigners but just putting all your anger at the system into the Brexit vote, resulting in shooting yourself in the foot big time.
Our solution was to buy them iPads. From 4-5 visits a year to none.

I’ve never used a chromebook, but I imagine it would work as well.
It is nothing but a marketing term at this point. Various groups are trying to claim it and normalize their own meaning, but there is little consensus whether it even has a shared meaning.
Y'know, it actually slipped my mind that Microsoft transformed into a much more open-source friendly company. That makes some sense now.
I only used OBS for the first time recently and was blown away by how stable and feature-rich I was. Truly a great OSS project.
Obsolete? We just had a President Trump not even one year ago. The regressive ideals of toxic masculinity still have deep roots in our culture.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were. But no offense, so what if it isn't acceptable to employees? The decisions by Microsoft are made by the management of the company. As an example of another company with severe credibility problems, I'm sure there are plenty of employees at Facebook who don't like working there now, but they are still there. And still implementing the policies and directions of management.
Maybe if you think effeminate is the same as gay. It's not, and there are masculine gay men.
Hey what sort of bullshit is this HN?

I was reading a reply by a guy who counter-commented on this, a bunch of links of people on YouTube walking around this same area and not seeing anything like this.

Then went to comment, and it says "flagged" and was deleted, in under 10 minutes.

I don't really care about politics or China at all, but that is some spooky-tier censorship here on HN. Wtf is going on here?

Here's one of the links I followed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENwvxsfVM8
I once heard this observation: judgement and curiosity are two distinct states of mind. If you’re curious about something, you cannot simultaneously be judgmental.
Very long history of breaking.
It depends on your perspective. The extant reality is that we are all alone, although we perform incredible feats of mental gymnastics to convince ourselves otherwise.

OP has decided to simply rip off the band-aid, and accept reality. This is very painful in the short term, but incredible fulfilling in the long-term.

Human existence is individual existence. Human survival is group survival, but that is another matter entirely. Presently, our societies are not structured to incentivize survival (quite the opposite, in fact). The dissatisfaction expressed in this discussion is a result of this dissonance. However, individuals can rarely alter the behavior of society, and as such, investing one's energies in this direction is often destructive. This iteration of society will cease to exist, and the society which survives it will by necessity value relationships and fecundity. However, societies can stay unhealthy far longer than individuals can remain sane. Therefore, it is best to accept solitude, and be pleasantly surprised, than to dread it and suffer.
GIF of Webb Space Telescope unfolding solar panels
This pandemic is mild only in lethality for <50 year olds. The spread is anything but mild. Preparation varied greatly among countries, some were more prepared than others (mostly in East Asia), but even they were heavily impacted. Many countries have drastically improved since the start of the pandemic, and after all, we now have vaccines to help.

If the public is getting divided over a subject like if wearing masks to limit the spread of an airborne virus, it's the public that's wrong and that's not the fault of a public health authority.

> They should have been using the past 22 months to improve services and improve general health (obesity? mental health?) instead of dividing the public and destroying small businesses

Some did. France did, and also did everything possible to limit the impact on children (schools stayed open) and businesses ( free loans, grants, covering of expenses like salaries and rent etc.). And the society isn't divided on masks and vaccines, the ones opposing the latter are a small minority.

> Suicide and fentanyl overdoses far exceeded covid deaths in those under 45 this year

Don't people over 45 matter too? I agree that for 80 year olds with a limited time span remaining it's not that tragic, but 50-60 year olds still have decades of life remaining in normal circumstances. Not to mention a non-zero number of <50 year olds have also died from Covid.
ChrisLAS/Linux Unplugged/Jupiter Broadcasting and the AskNoah show do talk about remote IT support. Like them, I prefer open source solutions.

RustDesk (yes, remote IT software written in Rust) is one option I hear a lot about.

https://rustdesk.com/
Not sure it will "solve it"... yet following Adam's (Douglas?) suggestion to become top-25% in three fields.
Then merge those fields.

That has worked awesome for me. I merged technolgy (software dev/sys adm) with motor sports and with management. Love it so far. Good luck and Merry Christmas!!
Just getting to bed after an overnight in the ER and subsequent Christmas with the wife and kids. Thanks for the shout-out, and likewise for all the other cogs in the wheel.

Discovered today that the hospital IT has decided to disable rebooting our computers through the usual Windows 10 menu, which I usually do at the beginning of each shift to optimize the chances of a smooth-running EHR. Power button still initiates a controlled shutdown. Unclear what they accomplished here.
This is the absolute worst place to ask that question
Wrong. keewee7 assumed all Americans are Christian. This is absolutely not true. Freedom of religion has nothing to do with it. Believe whatever you want, just don’t drag my name through the mud.
Any culture with nasty winters has dealt with months worth of "forced isolation" for millennia. No FaceTime calls, either.
That’s what I heard. They have billions therefore they can pay billions. Purposefully complicating that logic so that they somehow end up keeping more money is an instant red flag.
Is there anything about the studies on safety linked in the article that you would specifically refute?

I think you are right that particular substances have immediate, serious, irreversible harm to your brain.

Psilocybin is not one of those substances.
Maybe you are right, I've only been to, say, 5-7 major cities in Russia.

What I am saying is that for people like my parents, grandparents and myself it's really hard to compare life in Lithuania these days and the older times as there's nothing left to compare, really. 27 of 30 of my classmates are spread throughout Europe, including myself. I have more lithuanian friends in uk than I do back in Lt.

Good for them, I suppose, not so good for places I care about. And this is how many ppl from remote Lt places feel like.
I don't know. In my experience the people hating foreigners are those that live as far away from immigrants as possible. If you live in the big city and see that Europeans, Chinese and Arabs eat, shit and look exactly like you, you'll tend to moderate any tribalistic views.

The vast majority of EU haters has never crossed the Channel nor met any European in their whole life. That's how racism work.
Well, that all depends on what the SNP does, they hold the cards at the moment. If they go for a referendum then all bets are quite literally off.

> From my perspective (American with no ties to the UK who thought Brexit sounded like a terrible idea), it sounded like it might have been a scare tactic from remainers.

Not really. The Scots held a referendum on staying in the UK prior to Brexit and the general feeling seems to be that if the UK had been clear on wanting to exit the EU that Scotland may well have seceded the union prior to that.

So now the question is whether or not the SNP will hold a new referendum given that the situation has materially changed, and the outcome of that referendum (which, if the vote leans to 'leave' will be heavily contested) will cause a large amount of headache.

Even just threatening with a referendum could have major impact on the future of the UK.
As a category, most of Web 3.0 is dominated by decentralized finance, which is why it is so closely associated with cryptocurrency and other blockchain products.
As someone who has been trapped in a building during a fire by a pipe wielding maniac. It isn't always that simple.
> Now imagine various small unaffiliated armies all the way to Ural.

So a bloodbath? Like the breakup of Yugoslavia, just with almost no ethnical divisions, with nukes and much bigger scale?
Helvetica looks better
To be perfectly frank, how well or bad brexit is going is pretty impossible to tell because Covid smashed through the middle of it and has probably had a more profound effect on day to day life than brexit would have had on most people.
My opinion as an autistic person is the more people who think they’re autistic the better, it’ll normalize it and we’ll all have better lives. Look at the old chestnut: gluten. Now, because everyone thinks they have a gluten allergy, people who actually have them can eat so much more good food. That’s my hot take for today.
also,

- meeting deadlines is rarely the best or most information rich heuristic about re-planning what to do with a beleaguered plan, but it is what people fall back to bc they think others must be adjusting plans that way for good enough reasons
Could you give more details on how it did not turn out well?
It is not a net exporter and has not been for some time.
I am still surprised when people underestimate the absurd complexity of this project.

This is a novel masterpiece of science and engineering, not a jet fighter or rocket destined for mass production and deployment. There will only ever be one, so there's literally zero room for error. Better to measure twice and cut once, so to speak.

These projects are subject to incredibly rigorous post-mortem investigations, and each cost and time overrun is _already_ documented thoroughly and publicly. Congress doesn't give this money away lightly. We know exactly why, and when, things took longer than expected, and those lessons learned are already being applied to subsequent observatories like Roman.
It was also on The Memory Palace a few years ago.

https://thememorypalace.us/safe-passage/
Those two things are far more similar to each other than to a public repo whose intent is to redistribute. So no, this case is not the same as either a misconfigured FTP server or a misconfigured repo.
I’ve been looking to get into SDRs. Do you have any recommendations on what to buy?
There's a Christmas every year. A major telescope launch is apparently once a generation.
> Coronavirus restrictions deliberately took and removed almost everything it means to be human from people.

Can you clarify which restriction regime you're referring to?

I've got relatives in Australia, and I live in New York state; both are on the heavier restrictions side, and the idea of describing our lives as having "removed almost everything it means to be human" is baffling to me.
It sounds like you're worried about theft of master password or theft of password database once gathered in one place.

For the former, use auth app-based 2FA against your master password to guard against unwarranted access, preferably using a physical key.

For the latter, review the security protocols your third-party provider specifies for how they protect your data. That should give you confidence about the likelihood of database leakage. If even that doesn't give you confidence, look at keepass where you can control where and how your passwords are stored.

Remember: you always had a password database in one place (your head), you just leaked information about it everywhere because you invested in a mnemonic for easy lookup. With a password manager, you've only increased the number of database accessors by one while guaranteeing significantly less leakage of your mnemonic, which was always the most likely danger.
At this point I don't think that the year of linux desktop is even a thing to root for. What could there be to gain?
Wait for ToS banning 'double encrypted files' aka 'we encrypt your files on google' and user adding rclone or other crypt on top.
MIT doesn't promote proprietary use cases any more than CC0.

I do (somewhat but not really) get why people use GPL but that's another story. Here we are only talking about people who use MIT instead of CC0.
Practical Transformer Winding (2010)
That's a good idea but nobody knows the mechanism for most brain diseases. When they know they say something like "you have a lesion in your right parietal lobe."
Not too interested in what an oligarchy has to say about human rights.
I have been there more then once. Most of the web outside of China is blocked. The government actively blocks VPNs and any long lived connections (more then a few minutes) that cannot be identified is dropped. Not sure why that is so hard to understand.
I feel strongly that you shouldn't go looking for external code that does simple things like this. You can reimplement the relevant parts of mkdir -p in 20 lines of C code, and I think that's what you should do if the standard library doesn't have it.

Having the code inline makes it easy to audit, and prevents problems when a dependency changes 5 years later.

It also trains people to write proper C code. Writing loops and checking errno should be second nature for a C programmer, and doing it often helps you learn.
We are living data points right now, I don't think we are post fact, I think we are pre fact ... in fact.

Totally agree though about the inability to interpret complex arcs of reality based on some selection of this or that study. The story that emerges should always be understood as skewed towards the narrators intent.
It's the same kind of frustration that drove the Maga movement in the United States, a wish to go back to days past and some convenient scapegoats. But denying reality usually doesn't work, the past won't come back and shooting yourself in the foot simply hurts.

But it sucks for all those people that worked so hard to lift the UK out of the mess they were in in the 80's, going down is usually a lot faster than going up.
Its a marketing term in the same way web 2 is.

That doesn't mean it isn't something new and useful though, just like web 2 was.
You have literally no evidence for that number and you used it to convince yourself of you what you already believed.
Don't you mean short it?
Examples presented without much exposition or explanation.

Piecing together a conclusion is an exercise left to the reader.

When authors do this, it's because they can't determine a conclusion themselves i.e. there isn't one.
I always use x2x. It allows sharing of the keyboard and mouse between several machines.
The ruling regime/Edrogan are not interested in the general wellbeing of the country, only of looting it.

I've come to realize that there are a significant number of politicians who will happily oversee 100 units of 'destruction' if it means they are able to generate 1 unit of personal profit in the process. When applied to an entire nation state, the results are significant.
Look at the corrupt wealth generated by the current US Speaker of the House, for example.
My philosophy is to try to make an effort to make the best decisions you can make given what's available to you: your values, information and resources. When you live your life trying your best, you will be able to tell your future self that you did the best you could given each situation, and have no regrets.

Why? because even if your decision was mistaken, it was the best decision you could have made at that time.
Where would be better? A forum of non tech focused business people simply throwing around terms?
Back in the 90s, I has a fun pool/snooker game in 2D for x11. My encounter was in the default install of the ARM port of RedHat 3.0.3.

I've asked on these sorts of threads before, but can anyone remember what it was? I seem to have lost all trace -- source code, screenshots, anything. I thought it was "xpool" but that didn't turn up much.
Too bad its not a plugin for browsers, and you could post ansiwave content on any site, browsers just detected its its ansiwave code, like an extension to html.

Imagine reading a tweet or reddit post with ansiwave content imbedded. (Like Microsoft Chat tried with gfx and irc)

Internet really needs to break free from all the control. An overlay network like that disenter browser plugin, you could read comments on any site. Now that all popular sites are closing down comments, kinda shame it died.

Also for video, I remember small rle text stream videos on modem, just black and white, pretty easy to do now with unicode, a small 64x64 text box.. (example).

Also midi's and awesome .sf2 sound banks.

Good times back then, seems the internet lost so much in exchange for government and corporate control.
If they can change the copyright ownership from an individual to themselves, then they could (however unlikely) change the license on subsequent revisions to no longer provide the software free of charge, and could prevent anyone from using the software and associated documentation files in an unrestricted form.
My experience is that people who supported Remain think it’s been a disaster and people who supported Leave think it’s fine or great.

Are there any prominent voices who have changed their minds since the actual event?
I guess I don't understand your point. Are you saying non-GPL open source licenses (Apache, MPL2, MIT) aren't FOSS? That seems like a pretty extreme position.
Though the origin of both names is indeed the same: https://blog.system76.com/post/622541723365769216/the-meanin...

Thus proving 76 is not the smallest uninteresting natural number.
At no point had the UK "given up democracy".
Thanks to local toll or long distance fees your local BBS was literally local. Everyone on it lived nearby and if you were an ass you were close enough to get punched in the face. Contrast with Usenet where trolling and flamewars were rampant because instigators could hide behind a veil of anonymity or pseudo-anonymity.

The BBS era was also long before public doxxing and spammers scraping any and all personal info. At least before the Internet made such things easily amplified and trivial to do.
In the States, areas with few immigrants are much more anti immigrantion than those with lots. I suspect it's the same in Britain.
Youtube had no revenue for years, they dont NEED money magically right now.

If you can freeload something from a big co just do it. Its not a morality debate
>CCP maintains considerable support among the mainland population

How much of that is genuine support vs saying the party line to avoid persecution?
By keeping taxpayers engaged, they'll hopefully be more willing to provide a bigger budget in the future.

>If you spend more on marketing, you spend less on science. It's called a "budget".

The snark isn't appreciated. Happy holidays!