skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Linux is the name of the kernel, not some distribution.
nothing like Ubuntu introducing a backdoor comprises of an empty Chromium APT package that activates SnapPak. :-/

https://techwiser.com/remove-snap-ubuntu/
Why does there need to be a government at all?
I think that Sneakers was, at its heart, a heist movie and generally heist movies need to have a technical element and be generally believable. There was the "crew" and each member had their expertise.

It's strange how Sneakers never got the nerd love like Wargames and Hackers did. Maybe because the cast were older, established actors and not young people?
The only thing I don't love about it is the macguffin-ization itself. An algorithm is an idea and could've been communicated, published, spread around the world in the blink of an eye.

Some years ago I wrote down a sketch of a sequel based on this exact idea, but the paper is encrypted and the key is sharded, and much of the plot revolves around trying to convince the trusted people who hold the shards that the researcher is actually dead and they should unseal the document, while the adversary tries to convince otherwise.
Just to play devil's advocate, it's also easier when they come at you with automatic weapons and cut law enforcement officers' heads off.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478782546624360453.html
Steering Innovation Toward the Public Good
Are there other agencies we have to do this for as well?
Evolutionary Software Licenses
I ran into the same issue a few weeks ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685966
I'll bet it does. We don't have a generic description of what autism means yet. I'm sure what we describe as autism is a cluster of differences.

So it's hard to imagine what it would look like in other primates.

Like these[1] loners in slime mold colonies. We don't even know if these kinds of variation are common or not. Autism-like variations might be like this or it could be human specific.

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/slime-molds-sh...
I'm curious if you are a farmer yourself or in some other way qualified for such a pejorative statement.
Based on the past two years and especially right now, we're not going to do a damn thing about it. Everyone's going to have an excuse or "don't tell me what to do" until it finally kills everyone or destroys the economy. Then it will be too late.
If the creator is reading, consider adding “user-select: none;” to the button. On iOS when you hold on it it tries to select the text.
This seems like not a big deal. It’s a common mistake and is in 5% of repos but it’s not causing major damage.

And there’s no evaluation of importance as to whether these instances are in test files or non-critical code. Packages are big and can have hundreds or thousands of files.

It could be that if these mattered, they would have been detected and fixed.

A good example for unit tests and perhaps checking to see if these bugs are covered or not covered.

I like these kinds of analyses but don’t like the presented like it’s some significant failure.
The problem with "double PATHing" is that some things get doubled and some things don't. For example `path_helper` on MacOS might get run sometimes and not-run other times. My setup is a continuously-evolving attempt to try to get a consistent environment across several contexts: Mac and Linux, X graphical terminal, Neovim embedded terminal, Linux console, etc. Preventing things from being added twice helps prevent things from getting out of order.
Julia: Contribution Pathways
Well, for one thing, we Americans claim to value honest communication to each other in our personal relationships. Whether we actually live up to those values is a different matter, but my point here is the Japanese do NOT. Honne/tatemae is pretty ingrained into Japanese society, and you must avoid embarrassing yourself and, more importantly, your ingroup (family, company, club, etc.) by being too honest around outgroupers. The Japanese are so pressured to not lose face that they are actively encouraged to hide their feelings and intentions, even when showing them would be mutually beneficial. You see it in business -- the old saw about circumlocutions like "We will give your proposal the consideration it deserves" meaning "no freaking way"[0] -- but you also see it in modern Japanese drama. Taro loves Hanako and Hanako loves Taro, but they are from different social strata and their parents would be shocked to find out they're in love, so neither of them says anything and neither of them knows the feelings of the other. Plus Taro is going to America to play baseball and Hanako is going to medical school. Will one of them work up the courage to go against the social grain and the wishes of their family, and confess their feelings before it's too late? Or will they just say shouganai and go about their lives without ever knowing what could have been? That sort of thing.

So as a Japanese person you are tasked with not only following the rituals, but also sussing out from the vaguest of cues what your friends, family, potential mate, etc. are thinking because they're following the rituals too instead of engaging in explicit communication.

Regrettably, I had to learn a lot of this by reading; I don't have a lot of personal experience with this because I'm a Westerner. The Japanese are generally more willing to be open with foreigners because of the relative lack of social repercussions for honesty with foreigners than with Japanese. They don't have to be "on", they don't have to actively be Japanese in front of us and that makes for some interesting and refreshing barside conversation, lol.

[0] Earlier negative stereotypes of Japanese as being "sneaky" and untrustworthy are partially rooted in this sort of thing. They mask their true intentions to avoid embarrassment, but to Americans it looks like they're trying to trick or defraud us. And they see us as loud, pushy bulls in china shops who are unable to handle delicate affairs with any nuance, even if we're well-meaning.
Subjectively google's results have got dramatically worse over the past 10 years. Whether this is intentional on google's part because they have decided to prioritise ad revenue over useful results, or if it is because the problem has got much harder because of the increased number of pages and the increased sophistication of spammers is open to question.

If the answer is a) then Kagi or another disruptor could undoubtedly produce better search results, and probably in a short period of time, with a small number of decent engineers as there is now a vast body of research and praxis to build on that didn't exist when google was starting up. If the answer is some variant on b) then they're on a hiding to nothing.
that's a brilliantly simple way to explain it, lol
We need the following:

1. $500 campaign donation limit, per person, per candidate, per year.

2. Corporations not allowed to donate to politics in any way, shape, or form. Subject to a fine of 20% of the corporation's deductions or taxable revenue for the current tax year, whichever is greater (catches the "break even" monsters like Amazon), per infraction.

3. Large financial and jail-time penalties for materially incentivizing a politician for the purpose of manipulating their stance on an issue, for both the manipulator and the politician (if they are proven complicit). All that needs to be demonstrated is a quid pro quo.

4. Corporate death penalty and/or jail time for a variety of corporate issues that currently result in a mere slap-on-the-wrist fine

5. Abolish the electoral college, so we are not living under a tyranny of the few.

Collectively this would end lobbying and make it impractical to entwine money with politics, resulting with, as you say, a number of policies like UBI, high quality public housing, and a social safety net that are provably more conducive to technological and societal progress.

And I say this as a YC CTO who used to be a DoD research scientist.
I really like the idea of automated code review tools that point out unusual or suspicious solutions and code patterns. Kind of like an advanced linter that looks deeper into the code structure. With emerging AI tools like Github Copilot, it seems like the inevitable future. Programming is very pattern-oriented and even though these kinds of tools might not necessarily be able to point out architectural flaws in a codebase, there might be lots of low-hanging fruits in this area and opportunities to add automated value.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297689.
Ag was a nature reliant optimal process. Free sunlight, water and manure. Good reliable germ lines.

Population exploded and we discovered fossil fuels. Ag scape and scale changed.

We should have kept the system intact. We should go back to renewable sustainable ag. Yes, it’s labour intensive and no, no one wants to farm anymore.

Solution:

1. Automation for big and small acreages. Not AI fetish to sell more shit to farmers but to eliminate labour. Not labour costs but labour. We need more ag bots of all sizes.

2. Soil health. We should grow healthy soil. If we grow good soil, we can grow any food. Ag industry has forgotten this.

3. Water shed protections. We should stop poisoning our waters. Water is life.

4. Habitat conservation. We are super apex predators. We can’t synthesize our food and so must rely upon habitat and others below us in the food chain to make this food for us. When bees and frogs and even mosquitoes disappear, then it’s an indication of imbalance in the ecosphere. No ecology, no earth.

5. Short supply chains and local food security. It’s gone out of control. Container ships criss crossing the world’s oceans have jumped the shark.

Ag is not farming. Ag is a multi billion dollar industry. Farming is about feeding people. Ag has eaten farming. Now we have to smell the farts. Let’s hope we survive this century.
Ha, I made a point to visit Culpeper specifically because of the TV show Turn (and the book it’s based on, Washington’s Spies).

I guess the Culpeper spy ring in the Revolutionary War was named for this town that George Washington had surveyed in his younger years.

I happened to be road-tripping through VA and NC, saw it on a map and thought, I can’t not go there.
What if the entry is already present, but at the end or the beginning?
This is fine.

I'm okay with the events that are unfolding currently.

:S
Texas is a bit of a special case in the US power grid... They're not a part of it, Texas decided to not connect itself to the national power grid because it wanted to go way further in on deregulation and couldn't do that if it was connected to the national grid and had to follow the rules that came with that. That's why you don't really see huge blackouts very often in the rest of the country, power outages are usually due to direct storm damage and only affect things on a particular line/circuit. Texas couldn't bring power in from unaffected areas to balance the spike in demand so they lost the whole grid, it's harder to have that happen in other parts of the country.
I like to use mainstream definitions that are in dictionaries, strip away all the rhetoric and focus only on substance, precise descriptive language and meaningful predictions: property X usually leads to outcome Y.

Here is the first definition of Socialism from Google: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Here is what Wikipedia says: Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership[1][2][3][4] of the means of production.[5][6][7][8] It includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems.[9] Social ownership can be public, collective, cooperative, or of equity.[10] While no single definition encapsulates the many types of socialism,[11] social ownership is the one common element.

Sounds to me like this definition fits many Web3 crypto projects (like FileCoin etc) almost like a glove. Compare that to Web2 (basically all Big Tech companies) in which venture capitalists make early investments in shares (instead of tokens), prop up money-losing unit economics fo years, then dump the shares on the public in an IPO and Wall Street bigwigs who buy shares (instead of tokens) can thus force management to keep their backend source closed, their server farms centralized and extract rents forever, from users and advertisers etc. in order to satisfy wall street quarterly earnings goals.

It is fashionable in the USA to associate Socialism with State Socialism — and impugn to Socialism all the famines etc. done by governments claiming to enforce it (like holodomor and China’s famines under Mao due to enforced collectivization)

…while dissociating Capitalism from State Capitalism — neatly blaming it on “Corporatism” — and avoid having to answer for similar things done by governments to enforce it (like the various famines under the British Raj in India and Begal region, and the Irish Potato famine which was perpetuated primarily BECAUSE of government enforcing the private property rights of landlords even over the basic survival needs of peasant tenants).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

Both capitalism and socialism taken too far and using too much force to enforce the system can have bad consequences. But there are libertarian versions of both. Google “libertarian socialism” to find things like kibbutzim, moshavim, housing cooperatives, food cooperatives, as well as credit unions etc. These are all examples of socialism without the state. And many times they have far better outcomes than their capitalist counterparts (landlord-owned buildings, commercial banks etc.)

Remember that socialism can be embedded in markets. But socialist organizations have no profit motive and no class warfare between landlords and tenants, shareholders and customers, because they are one and the same. So the organization tends to have some democratic governance mechanism (governance tokens, DAOs… are you starting to get it now?)
I threw all my google home devices into the recycling bin a year ago. They had become comically bad. The only thing I haven't replaced are the nest thermostats but I'd like to get rid of them as well.
A day in the life of a blockchain enabled future
>Just because it's factual that I caught gonorrhoea from a prostitute while on holiday in Thailand

that seems to be an entirely different issue because the information is privileged/confidential. For the purposes of this argument I'll concede that information obtained under confidence shouldn't be able to be disseminated. That said, I can't really imagine "you didn't pay your debts" to be in the same category of secrecy as "caught gonorrhoea from a prostitute". That's even more true for something as public as your name.
Study: 1960 ramjet design for interstellar travel–a sci-fi staple–is unfeasible
I think an expanding sphere would be correct. My assumption with the cone is that, for visualization purposes, many outlets use a circle and make the 3rd dimension time, giving a cone. Doing this sort of visualization for 3 spatial dimensions + time doesn’t seem practical.
I've commonly said that the Japanese are Germans to strangers and Italians to family and close friends. Sometimes as a quip I add that they're Irish in the bar, lol.

Japanese society is not really safe harbor for Japanese on the spectrum. It is, however, quite gracious to foreigners. As a foreigner no one will say anything to you, for instance, if you use the wrong honorific or something; most will be impressed that you can speak the language at all.

Once you've been living and working in Japan for some time and have started to assimilate, though, you are on and you've got to perform the appropriate rituals or people will start to think you're being aggressively rude.
Corn and soybeans are cheap because they're really easy to handle. The process is almost entirely automated at this point, allowing one person to do what would have required thousands of people in the past. Other areas of agriculture have not been so easy to remove the human element, requiring nearly as many people today as a century ago. With reduced scaling potential, you don't see the same cost reduction.
To prevent the bureaucracy from charging off to pursue goals they weren't asked to pursue.
Not paywalled source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/polish-leader...
Just casually wondering here... how do you evaluate the voice assistants to claim that Alexa is improving, Google Assistant is getting worse and Siri is terrible? I used all three and honestly I don't feel a whole lot of difference between them. They all control the lights and set the timers/alarms just alright, with similar "error rates".
> For some readers today, this agglomeration of personal failings — after such knowledge, what forgiveness? — carries over to a blanket rejection of Eliot’s creative work. This would be a mistake. Art and morality belong to separate spheres. Flawed, often seriously flawed people create immortal works.

I used to think this way too, but there are popular people in my life whom I revile despite the valuable deeds they are known for, because that person happens to specifically offend my own personal traumas. So who am I to say that it is wrong for people to reject other people’s work just because they are flawed? What do I know if their flaws affect people in a deeply personal level? Do I know what it is like to be a victim of such circumstances?

One should also take with a critical mind such narratives that elevate an imperfect talented person into a hero. It’s not necessary for one to cause hurt upon others in order to produce something good.
@snapcraft.io: Please fix the cookie controls to make it just as easy to deny all cookies as it is to accept all.

See https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-m...
50% from (FIXED) nitrogen is wrong, though.

Fixed nitrogen, ie ammonia (for instance), is made from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen. 3kg of hydrogen makes 17kg of ammonia. 200 pounds of ammonia (16kg of hydrogen) will make about 250 bushels of corn. 1 bushel of corn is about 370MJ. 1kg of hydrogen is 142MJ. So 2.3GJ of hydrogen makes 92GJ of corn. That’s about 3%, not 50%.

BTW, the US produces about 17 megatonnes of ammonia per year, or 3 Megatonnes of hydrogen per year. At 60% efficiency, that would require about 22 Gigawatts of average electricity, or less than 5% of average US electricity usage. The US grid is about 40% clean, so that’s still only about 10% of US’a clean electricity usage.
It actually wasn't until about 4 years in to working on this that someone told me "it's basically social media". Certainly that wasn't my goal when I set out!

My early customers have channels that only administrators can write to so the paying use-cases aren't as social media.

I do hope to open the service up for more use cases outside of mobile apps. For example, it would be pretty cool if my customers could embed their maps on their website via iframe.

The #sf-311 channel retrieves data from an external API, and so posting already isn't limited to the app (the data is all proximity based so you can't see incidents unless you're nearby):

https://app.radar.chat/#/channel/sf-311
This is the kind of nonsense article that gives cryptos a bad rep 'round here
When I first heard about the AdBlue shortage my response was "Time to reinstate the barrels outside the pubs for Monarch and Country!
A Founder's Guide: Thoughts on Moats
Not to mention that IMO, AA batteries are an asset on vintage portable electronics. The last thing I need is to search for overly expensive, and possibly already dead, battery packs on eBay when mine turns into a spicy pillow. AA batteries are much easier to acquire, and can be rechargeable to reduce environmental impact.
Emphasis on little, I think. IRL, I shoot for an exact number of liters, not an exact number of dollars.
Seems expected, as linters can't be sure when it's not intentional. Like this request to pylint:

https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1589

Is there usually enough context for a linter to make an educated guess?
> Hospitals are definitely under a lot of stress at the moment, but that's hardly the same thing as a health-care system "crumbling".

What would you call it then? People not getting the care they need and expect, compound effects over time. How is that not crumbling?
> suspect that the outcome of this where Google devices have to have volume controlled individually isn't due to a patent on that specific functionality

I couldn't find the complete list of patent infringements (Sonos alleges more than 100) but it does seem there's one in particular about controlling volume on multiple speakers / rooms at once.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22871121/sonos-google-pate...
This is a highly encouraging comment, and just what I needed today.
Can you? You're presumably the one arguing, in the face of the majority of climate scientists, that more CO2 is actually a good thing.

For what it's worth, no gardener or farmer is having to pump CO2 into the air because their plants are dying.
We stopped doing A/B tests after I insisted that they all be done as A/A/B tests. Suddenly the "clear winners" weren't so clear after all. It confused and frustrated the marketing department so much that it was decided just to stop doing them all together.

The reason I wanted this type of test was because it was a waste of time testing shades of blue or two headlines that only differed by 2 words. The test variants were never radical enough to see any kind of significant uplift. Then after 5-10 tests the design starts to suffer by wandering down some weird path that nobody would consciously design from the outset. But the series of test "winners" made things go off in wild directions.

I still think there is some value in A/B testing (A/A/B only, if I'm honest). But in a small team, it's a waste of time.
The poor have plenty of government support. You can live the liesure lifestyle if you choose to. I used to work 30 hours a week @$9 per hr and pay for an apartment, vehicle, and all of my expenses. The work (cook) was fun and I had a lot of free time to explore tech.

Right after that I got a job as a mechanic and then was laid off. I spent two years on unemployment. I have actual real memories from living a good life during that time. Developing software, hanging out with friends and family, fishing tributaries (walking for hours through a creek or river), tinkering with cars, and reading everything I could get my hands on about world events.

I barely have any memories from when I was trudging through 50 hours a week in a job. Except for those times where I was at a startup trying to change the world (80 hrs a week). But that was an event where I could see the beginning and the end.
Sneakers gets plenty of nerd love in all the social circles I'm in. Like you note, it's right up there with Wargames, Hackers, and the Matrix.
How so? I often fill my tank much like this, making note of the current year and the precise amount of cash I have on hand. It might be a regional thing, but I felt it was very realistic.
One of the best films portraying Robert Redford's work. Crazy how all the scenes they were filmed in were easily recognizable as SF Bay area locations, such as their office above the current FOX theater in Oakland, the San Mateo Bridge, and the Embarcadero building that is now one of Google's San Francisco locations. I couldn't place the main villain's headquarter location but I imagined it to be somewhere in Hayward's industrial park areas.
Intel explicitly states which instructions sets each processor supports. They don’t list every random register or instruction. Those are captured in the detailed documents.

e.g. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/226066/...