skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would be surprised that they probably actually do.

I would change to directly from the CCP, because there is no independent free press in China at any meaningful scale.

Not only does a lot of their media get big readership online here, People's Daily and others.

Also does anyone know how much SCMP's independence has eroded now? I don't know that much on that one but it still gets placements in news aggregators for example as if it were the NyTimes.

CCP also pays for reach, spending millions to get their content in the large US based media like WaPo. Most people don't realize they are reading an ad, not an actual article by a WaPo reporter.

Though maybe funnily on the opposite end, a CCP persecuted group Falun Gong owns the Epoch Times, which has grown huge too. In the past few years they have been one of the top sources of social media/fb links. A lot of it is just meme & engage bait. but it's still interesting to think about.

Russia Today too ;)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-...
https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/beijings...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/ccp-buys-med...
> There were even local toll calls, a number might be in your area code by far enough away you were charged to call. You wouldn't pay long distance rates but it wasn't free.

And in the late 80s long distance rates meant something like $4/minute inflation adjusted. Even "local" toll calls were up to $1/minute. Of course the billing scheme was far more complex. The paper phone book would usually have a page or two to determine the rate between various exchanges.
I personally don't want to do what the cleaning staff does at work.

But to me, that just indicates that they do it so that I don't have to, which in turn indicates that I should value them a lot.
Yeah--what matters is two means of egress. It doesn't matter what form they take. We live in a two-story house, the stairs are the only normal means of escape. But the building code requires bedrooms to have windows sufficient for a firefighter in full gear to go through and there's an emergency ladder stored next to the most accessible window in the one upstairs room actually used for sleeping.
To me the crypto technologies are only one possible application on the Web 3.0.

There are voices, that Web 3.0 is the same as the DWeb - the distributed web. Like IPFS, which might be indeed a solution against DDOS attacks and censoring. [1]

On the other hand, there are people who think that "The promise of a decentralized and trustless future is forever just that: a promise, and in the future." [2]

1) https://decrypt.co/resources/how-to-use-ipfs-the-backbone-of...

2) https://networked.substack.com/p/web3-i-have-my-daots
Those who want same pay for same title and experience w/o variance in looking at very difficult to price details like overtime, contribution, and sacrificing family time for work etc.
As a very pragmatic approach it's likely the most reasonable one. But it doesn't make it easier emotionally. It's like forcing yourself to use golang knowing fully well that you'd suffer through early-day-Java-level inferiority all over again.

The Borland example is confusing. The way I remember it their Pascal and C++ support was equally official. BC++3 was comparable to TP6 though the latter was less resource hungry (and at <700KB fit a single FD). Then for many years Delphi was well ahead of C++ Builder. But in the end professionally C++ skills were much more valuable.

Ten years ago I hoped that ORCL would acquire Typesafe and make Scala supported officially the way MSFT did with F#. Instead they left the space open for Kotlin to appear. And then antagonized GOOG into making it a juggernaut. There must be some Innovator's Dilemma-style explanation here but as a developer I regret it.

As a side-note I believe Martin made a huge mistake by allowing Haskell fans to highjack the narrative. His original strategy reminds me Elon's a little. Make industry finance and popularize high-impact type system research by using its impressive end result. Investing in Scala ten years ago prepared me well for Kotlin and modern Java (not to mention a few years of data engineering jobs around Spark and ML).
Same. That was _the_ tool I used for "multiple desktops" after I discovered `ssh -X`.
Yes, it would be far-fetched. The conspiracy theory here is self-evidently implausible. We need to stop pretending that the accusations here were made in good faith, or are anything more than wishcasting. People write about these things because it's a lot more fun for them than to write about what actually might have happened, even if what actually happened is probably a better, more lastingly valuable conversation to have.
I use it to check if an app uses xwayland when I use sway
To thermal.
I think I failed to explain the crucial part of the argument so let me try from another viewpoint: OEM like NVIDIA do not make their drivers FOSS because it makes device-specific features and improvements known. To make something work well for the device as well as FOSS, they would have to publish the software instructions specifics. That sort of things enables competition to better understand their silicon and thats exactly what they do not want.

In an ideal world, libre is fine and serves all devices well. But with commercial interest in play and so many differentiation in features, it is hard to imagine libre drivers being able to cater to all device optimally
Yep, early 6th grade for me.
That’s not how it works. If the price of coal goes up, other generation technologies outcompete it (renewables and natural gas).

By disrupting the fossil fuel supply chain, you apply pressure to the point where coal generators are taken offline and demolished (lots of videos if you Google for coal plant demolition). This ensures you can’t go back, as the lead time is too long to build new coal and no one will finance it in the developed world. Natural gas is already marginal against renewables in many markets, and will face the same fate as coal as renewables build until they’re overbuilt.
You're just describing signing tokens which has been around for decades with smart cards. There's no need for a blockchain to be involved in that process. It just makes it slower, expensive, and public.

If you want some personal data to show up somewhere be it a name or avatar it has to leave your device. At that point someone can and will copy that data. If there's value with associating that data with your activity someone will do it.
ffmpeg is great.

I wrote a thing to proxy a twitch livestream and return it as lazy animated gif, so it could be embedded into, like, old-school messageboards and proprietary chat clients that allow hotlinking images. At the core it was feeding a .m3u8 URL into ffmpeg and asking it for a gif. When it turned out that gif was kind of awful for that use-case, I just asked ffmpeg to give me an mjpeg instead, problem solved.
I have no clue how you got strong-arming of Hungary and Poland, two countries that signed treaties they refuse to honor. If they want to be in the EU they don't get to pick and choose which laws and regulations apply to them
This is a great example of one of the tactics CCP deploys. Whataboutism.

As shown to be actually happening (does not give facts showing it happens on HN but I personally think it's reasonable, or at least not unfathomable) by this recent HN top thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654137
Awesome.
Been using 5.99 nightly builds for a long time.
At last I can upgrade to the proper 6.0.0 release build.
I've tripped dozens of times on lsd, shrooms, dmt and a few RCs. I'm also suffering from such fears during the comeup. after it it's usually smooth sailing. but during my 50 to 100 trips i never actually did anything harmful in any way. so that's that. but it's really annoying.
I think this, really, is the take away. Everyone is getting stuck on the subshell part, but it's the untrusted data part that's the problem.

Especially because the early examples in the article (making subdirs for something like different packages/release - "project/staging", "project/production") are almost certainly safe to use a subshell for - so much so that I was genuinely wondering why the author wouldn't just call out to "mkdir -p" for that use case.

The error came when someone decided to pass untrusted/user-supplied data to this function (the later example - usernames).

But I think doing the later is a huge mistake either way. Don't pass untrusted & unsanitized user data ANYWHERE that isn't explicitly designed for it.

Who gives a hoot whether that's to a subshell, or a pipe/stream, or to a sql query, or your DOM, or any other of hundred of places that user supplied data isn't safe.
Why buy coal mines if you could just by oil tankers and let them idle? This would drive up oil prices in many places, reduce demand demand for oil and make renewables and energy efficient technologies more competitive.
I have been feeling the same, and I'm in the same situation on all accounts. I think it may be all that has been going on the past months is just starting to now manifest itself in these feelings.

I also noticed that in instances where the one or two families still home on my block who had friends or family pull up I felt kind of envious, which has never happened before.
(Apologies, a medical event delayed my reply by a week. I appreciate the time you spent replying, and I’ll try to keep it brief.)

I think this only impacts EU providers who sublicense to US providers, if/when they record any ephemeral data collected prior to the user consenting.

So an EU business logging the IP addresses of visitors might be not-okay until they consent, though GDPR has some flexibility around “IPs power the Internet”, so long as you don’t try to convert them into personal identifiers.

That applies whether US or EU providers are involved, but as the courts point out, any non-ephemeral data within US territory or corporate boundaries is an automatic GDPR violation for an EU company.

So, in the gopher example, as a US provider you can do whatever you want, and as long as you’re approximately complying with CCPA, you’ve got GDPR in the bag as well, especially if you just offer the same rights to all users (to not be tracked by default).

But as an EU provider, if you host your Gopher server in the US, you may well be violating GDPR as a citizen of a signatory country, since a U.S. provider can’t honor the choice to not record ephemeral data, and therefore compliance is impossible even if the provider currently honors it.

This means that AWS is probably not a legal provider for GDPR purposes, since they can be compelled to ignore GDPR, unless the US signs a new treaty. And that’s the terrifying reality of that safe harbor agreement expiring that may result in Amazon having to restructure itself to avoid losing the market; the US entity would have to become a subsidiary of a parent in a treaty-signed country.
Imo, 'continuum' still fails to clearly connote the characteristic of having multiple dimensions of variation rather than just one, even though in some contexts (like in the phrase 'space-time continuum') it is used to name something more structurally analogous to 'spectrum disorders' than spectrums.
In embedded systems, space can be a premium (e.g. a recent project has 75MB for a rootfs). With C++, need to link to libstdc++ and libc, with C only need libc.

I find a number of developers reach for C++ because they aren’t comfortable with C or low-level development. For instance, will copy memory into a std::vector or std::string just to use the STLs search functions where a simple finite state machine would be more appropriate. I also find a correlation between C developers having a better understanding of things like file descriptors, poll/select/epoll for an event loop, while a C++ developer is more likely to use std::thread and then have to deal with proper locking.

Working in a constrained environment, I like C exactly because it “does less”. It’s more explicit, simpler, hides less behind abstractions in practice.
The USSR was in terms of violence and human rights violation at least equivalent to nazist germany, and in practical terms worse, as the Soviet State was far more long-lived than the Nazist State.
WHO is giving loans? Oooh, you meant vaccines. I thought we were talking about financial loans.

By the way, I come from a country that was bombed by the US (doesn't narrow it much, I know) and can you guess what the new puppet government did after the war ended?

Yeah, it sold nearly all domestic companies, mines and factories for pennies to the western capitalists. It also dismantled a very efficient domestic financial/accounting system, replacing it with foreign banks.

So, don't talk to me about how the West is somehow different, or better than China.
Came to post this. Top Gear found it back in 2015 or so.
When editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley would go to Olsson's, which then had the biggest bookstores in Washington, DC, and leave slips redeemable for $10 or $20 inside copies of the books that "everyone" was taking about and supposedly reading. He never had to pay out.
If you're talking about different mushrooms with different compounds in them (like fly agaric) we are specifically talking about psilocybin mushrooms here.

If you're talking about different species of psilocybin containing mushrooms like wood loving ones and what not, what are your experiences with them? I've only had cubensis mushrooms, but I assumed the primary difference between them would be potency considering they have the same active compounds.
Yes this is similar to China attempting to corner the market on Lithium, but then as soon as they squeezed prices, Chile suddenly built out a massive amount of Lithium production.

You cannot "buy all the coal" any more than you can:

- buy all the oil (OPEC vs. NA shale fracking)

- buy all the lithium (China vs. Chile)

- buy all the magnesium (Freeport, TX vs. China vs. get from any seawater anywhere)
Some highly intelligent people simply need new challenges. So maybe you don't need to change yourself so much as embrace this new-challenge-seeking behavior as one of your strengths.

As to finding something you love, for a lot of people the problem really isn't the finding. There is something they love, and the hard part is finding a path to the doing of it -- to dropping what they're currently doing, and finding an easy viable way to do the other thing while paying their rent and other bills. And honestly, this is usually made easier by money. If you could stockpile a "stake" and then take some time off to explore only things you're deeply interested in, that might help. Another avenue toward that might be living someplace cheaper, so the money piles up quicker, ultimately giving you more flexibility and freedom to pursue things you love.

Along with this, it's important to be honest with yourself. If you can really get in touch with what you like and don't like about the fields you've been in -- those are the truest clues for what you'll want to do. (I mean, your only other option is to talk to other people doing many different things, until you hear about something that also sounds interesting to you.)

I guess the last bit of advice is have hope. Because that's where it starts.
It was immediately obvious that it was a script gone awry. Sorry your team had to spend your holiday on something so trivial.
Hanlon's razor to the rescue!
Banking doesnt get you anywhere with a frustrated workforce
Well if you're being that reductionist, what's the point in doing or learning anything? Why is tourism any more useless than any other pointless attempt for a woke guy to learn something?
Literally half the operating system is open source macOS, they have an entire site dedicated to it. opensource.apple.com.

Oh and don't forget googles ridiculous amount of effort poured into Android open-source source tree, just to name one of many.

I honestly can't tell if you are trolling here or not.
What is best way to master Ruby for generalist engineer? I know C++ and Python, JS, Typescript well enough.

Python was easiest, since it took couple of days to master fundamentals and I was writing good code in no time.

Also anyone working on Typescript equivalent for ruby?
That's an expensive bet if your model parameters are off by just a little bit.
> I'll be at least spending part of the day in the PacNW forests to keep the depression at bay.

Enjoy some of it for me. I will get out there, someday...

I keep saying it, before I visit any foreign country, I'm spending some time in the PacNW.
The major premise of such a city is generally that you own more space than you could ever get in New York.
I learned about sam's structural regular expressions after learning about vis[1] on a post in this website. It aims to combine the modal text editing from vi(m) and sam's structural regular expressions, plus some cool stuff like multiple cursors or a Lua API.

I feel more comfortable with it than sam's given than I'm not as much as a mouse person but a keyboard person (even though being a graphic designer). It's development is not as heavy as is stuff like neovim or kakoune, but still at this very moment I find it usable, quick and reliable.

[1] https://github.com/martanne/vis
This is true regardless of expansion, the important thing is that the space be infinite.
Sure this might be an innocent mistake, but if you were to infringe a nanometer on Microsoft intellectual property, never in hell would they be like „oh an innocent mistake, we don‘t sue you into oblivion then!“
It sounds like you’re assuming the price elasticity of demand of coal is low.
AITA for “perpetuating ethnic stereotypes” about Jorts?
The tech to do it is almost there. https://www.windytan.com/2017/07/gramophone-audio-from-photo...
"The Mission" did not impress me. The Jesuits of that century did not train up teddy bears.
What an insensitive take! It is a religious holiday. I don't celebrate it. It's fine if other people do.

Stop trying to shove it down everyone's throat.
Microplastics found airborne in French Pyrenees, 2,877 metres above sea level
Thanks for jumping in and trying to explain what actually happened.
No, the rate of funding is slowing down, and unlike Apollo there's no political urgency to the JWST. With 5x the funding you could afford to have less stringent manufacturing and verification (resulting in less cost-per-telescope and build time) and just accept that even if one of the telescopes fails, you can just build and send up another (or another five).
My two cents -

Don't feel too bad if you can't find something you love to do for a long period of time. Many many people don't know what they love to do their entire life. And that's totally okay.

We've been exploring... We might like doing A for 1 year or 2, then switch to love doing B for a few months, then switch to C for another 3 years... It's normal.

How about thinking in this way - What you don't like to do? Just avoid things you don't like to do as much as possible, then you'll be happier.
And having been "grad school broke" during that era, it absolutely destroyed a decade's worth of cheap "runs and drives" grade cars that I drove and most of my friends drove.

$100 cars were suddenly $1000 cars in a few months, which was fine if you owned one, bad if you were looking for another backyard project you could limp home and work on for a while.

"Destroying the long tail of cheap resources for political points" is the sort of "reverse thinking" that we need less of, especially by politicians who make the right noises about caring about the poor. Great, a bunch of older cars are off the road... sucks to be someone who used those for transport if you couldn't afford the payments on a new car (or didn't have reliable enough income to even consider that option).
Not enjoying family life. Guess I'm done.
I find that generally true of every other language except JS. You run `npm i` and all correct dependencies are installed.
Boilerplate. Writing serializers and deserializers by hand is not an efficient use of developer time.

Related to ORMs, but not quite on topic - query building. Type checked queries, parts of which can be passed around business logic, are very powerful and flexible.
Anton Balazh [a.k.a. “Antartis”: exaggerated relief world maps]
But if there are no alternatives to google or Coca Cola, why do they need to reinforce themselves as a household name?

Truth is, if neither brand doesn’t keep fighting for their top position they will lose it to competitors.

The walls are being pushed from all sides, but both Coca Cola and google has the strength to hold up those wall. But that doesn’t mean the push is insignificant.
Great engineering teams have engaging products they work on as well.
They were extremely influential during the Counter-Reformation. By comparison, their influence in Latin America was limited.
I am a scientist: yes.
I’m stuck in a COVID hotel (in Denmark) on Christmas Eve
And often vanity.
How is this commit in May related to the current thread? Your post doesn't contain enough information for me to understand your meaning.
I gave up trying to find a job that I "love". Don't get me wrong I absolutely enjoy programming, I love many aspects of it, there are just too many things out of my control.
I found hobbies like home improvement, home automation, pet projects around development a lot more "lovable" and easier to stick to.
Forget all those tools, you should be putting all of that information into your source–code repository. Especially since those kinds of thing change as the source changes. Today your code is designed around a SingletonFactoryBuilderWidget, so the documentation has to talk about it a lot. But Bob over there is going to refactor that tomorrow and it’ll be gone; any documentation that continues to mention it will be out of date. That means everything stored outside the repository is automatically out of date, while anything inside the repository has at least a chance of getting updated by Bob at the same time he does the refactoring.
I've used https://www.copilot.com/ and works well for me. Used to be a Fog Creek Software product.
The Original Remote Developer episode was an absolute gem too. https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/
What a charming rumor! He did attend a Jesuit university, but somehow didn't make time for the rather extensive training the Jesuits undergo. But now I'm going to have to make an effort not to refer to him as "Bill Clinton, S.J."
Share point?
Feels like the reverse Streisand effect at play here; a high-profile minor fuckup that helps popularize a positive thing. This was fun to meme on, but I'm glad Microsoft appears to be on an upward slant ethically. It also makes me more comfortable being a Microsoft customer.
before brexit, things also werent nearly as bad as the leave crowd made them out to be, considering they were worried about a nonexistent migration apocalypse. Kind of a moot point to say "well the other guy was being crazy"
Yup, but I believe that only affects fast charging and the laptop can run at "full blast" on 96W.
That sounds extremely gratifying, congrats on finding a passion that's so beneficial to the people around you.
Eggs, comrade, eggs. Specifically your eggs.

No, there won't be omelets. What are you, some sort of kulak?
There is a lot of non religious content in there.

https://michaeldevfay.medium.com/the-bhagavad-gita-for-athei...

The point of Gita's message is to NOT worry about karma and reincarnation.
Can't wait to give this a try on the next project. I'm impressed with KiCad every time I use it. I can see why CERN likes it so much.
Because volunteers spend so much less of their time actually fighting fire. 70% of firefighters being volunteers doesn't mean anything like 70% of firefighting is done by volunteers.

And don't expect the volunteers to accomplish much--when the alarm goes off they have to go to the firehouse first, and thus will have a bad response time compared to a professional fire service. They're far more about keeping the fire from spreading than actually putting it out.