skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In your fair world there would be no more than one generation's worth of success in science and innovation. Success of the next generation depends on our own.

Scientific knowledge usually goes into the public domain through patents and other information-sharing techniques. We didn't lose Newton's, Einstein's, and all our other scientific forebears' knowledge because they died. Come on.

> But [socializing successes] is also unfair because it uses coercion on individual success.

Coercion isn't always necessarily unfair. It depends on context and on what your society's values are. If one of your children takes all the candy away from their siblings, and you redistribute the candy to your other children, that's a type of coercion to enforce fairness.

If you believe that a fair and just world is one where, by the sheer luck of being born to wealthy parents, you get advantages that others don't; and that you get to build on that wealth by keeping everything you accumulate based on that and get to pass it to your children, where the cycle repeats endlessly -- well, then, you have differing values than the rest of us. But that doesn't mean that alternatives are "unfair."

> If you remove the ability to pass on success, I would just quit my job and abandon my children. Why try if they gain nothing.

Or, you could not be a dick and instead spend it while you're living on your children's education, or give your excess earnings to charity.
I do prefer my non fiction without fluff, at least when it is in the form of news articles.

Otherwise, it is about as useful as writing an article about a Hawaii beach resort owner forcing me out because I am unable to continue paying for my stay at a price agreeable to both parties.
Oh but they are. They chose Airtel in their locations. I'm using BSNL as my ISP but my request goes to one of these locations that seems to be using Airtel and I get the same DoT block message.
Actually dug through because I only had a vague recollection. So the Pi-Cromite version I remembered has been discontinued. However, there is a MMBasic for Linux that cribs some code from that project. And, it can be compiled for the Raspberry Pi. I might venture to suggest that this might be one of the most fully featured Basic implementations that can found for the Raspberry Pi.
Link here: https://github.com/thwill1000/MMB4L
Not just tricks. I pay for Netflix and amazon but want to watch Mandalorian, Disney is not available in my country so my options is either try my luck with a vpn or pirate it. If Disney did their homework and launched world wide they'd have my money. Same applies to HBO Max.
nvi: invalid option -- 'y'
usage: ex [-eFRrSsv] [-c command] [-t tag] [-w size] [file ...]
usage: vi [-eFlRrSv] [-c command] [-t tag] [-w size] [file ...]
That's one way.

If these things are classes in a plain old single-dispatch oop system, you can havec a json-parser and csv-parser which have parse methods.

There could be packages/namespaces. So csv:parse and json:parse. These packages are standard and so they just exist; nothing to import.

In Python, you cannot use anything without an import! The top-level modules (which serve as de facto namespaces) themselves are not visible.

Say there is a csv module with a parse. You cannot just do:

csv.parse(...)

you have to first say

import csv

This jaw-droppingly moronic.
It's also what I read, it could be the reason why the omicron variant is less dangerous.

It doesn't make sense to do this in a lab setting without taking credit for it ( for making it less dangerous).

But this is still not sure ofc. It's just guessing at this point.
Reminder that we can't have Alexa and Google Assistant operating simultaneously on Sonos speakers only because Google won't allow it.
Zzz...my sense is that 99% of moralizing about authors is because it's a very convenient, conspicuous, and neigh-free bit of performative activism. Ask someone talking up their moral standards for authors about how closely they check that their clothing isn't made by poor & horribly exploited workers, whether their grocery store and its suppliers provide living wages & benefits, and what they'd do if they learned that their house was constructed by a notorious racist / sexist / whatever.

And maybe ask whether they look so closely at the morals of the script writers for their favorite movies & TV shows.
Ask yourself the question:

If a bunch of nations are going to get into a kind of Federal Union, and have a 'court' of some kind, wouldn't it be extremely prudent to parameterize what exactly those authorities are?

If you were the PM/Pres or Supreme Court Judge of any country, wouldn't you think it would be the most obvious and important thing to make it very clear and spelled out in law and treaty?

If the framers of the EU actually wanted to hand over 'Judicial Supremacy' to the ECJ, would they, you know actually write that down?

And absence of it being clear, why on god's green earth would nations hand over a fundamental right, one of the pillars of Liberal Democracy, over to a different institution.

Any and all 'decisions' made otherwise, are hugely indirect and speculative i.e. "Well, we signed treaties with the EU after the ECJ declared Supremacy, therefore, they have Supremacy' is still very indirect.

It's one of the more mind-boggling aspects of EU governance, and if you start to take a slightly cynical look at it, it doesn't look good.

The most pragmatic reason for why the ECJ was never explicitly given power was because: it would be illegal, it would cause major uproar in nation states, it would never pass. So what they did was 'allowed' the ECJ to make a little ruling claiming authority, and then as generations go by, as local courts pile on the deferring agreements, it just 'becomes a reality'.

That's a big speculation of course, but there's just no logic at all for nations handing over Judicial authority without it being fairly clear.

If they were 'nitpicking' at 'some narrow issue' - then fine. There is always ambiguity. But this is not that, it's more fundamental.

It's truly bizarre.

And FYI this is not a resolved issue (See Germany: [1]) and there's still a lot going on.

Also worth a glance [2]

In terms of PiS shenanigans, nuance does matter, I don't think we can just be populist and say 'oh they rejected ECJ Supremacy which is ridiculous and evil' kind of thing. All of these issues are a bit tricky.

I think a lot of people in Europe just think that the ECJ naturally has Supremacy, just like a regular Supreme Court, because that's what was agreed to and Poland is 'off their rocker' - like a US State ignoring a US Supreme Curt ruling. It's not the case though. People would be very surprised at the odd reality.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-sues-germany-esca...

[2] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/10/law-tool-eu-integration...
My all-time favorite movie. RIP, Mr. Poitier.
They need your SSN. Not specifically your SSN card. Source: lost my SSN card ages ago.
Leonard Adleman (the "A" in RSA) was a technical consultant for the film.

https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
There's significant downclocking only on on Skylake-X (aka: 1st generation teething problems).

On more recent cores, there's only ~100 MHz of downclocking, which is so small you can pretty much ignore it.
Halcyon On and On is an evergreen awesome track.
Have Times Changed
Think about a possibility of a posting like that just 10 years ago.
Need a Covid test in Australia? Try importing one from 8k miles away
I find this absolutely fascinating, especially in the context of emergent technology. One could speculate: will persistent interactive mass media platforms eliminate or vastly reduce the rate of word replacement? Or will they accelerate it? A competent linguist might be able to give a good opinion but even so it seems debatable. Maybe linguistic change is contingent on the sorts of traumatic cultural divisions that were commonplace before the advent of global culture and technology, or maybe language changes more when more people talk to each other. Is language change accidental and traumatagenic or creative and intentional?
We have got one of those as well for those interested in more details.

https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Commodore/CBM900

The boot-roms of the CBM900 has been reverse-engineered in the PyReveng3 project: https://github.com/bsdphk/PyReveng3/tree/master/examples/CBM...
to add on — before i had kids i rarely got sick. at one point i went maybe seven or eight years. now, every couple months. and at least one a year that puts me down a few days or more. And those aren’t even the flu, typically. There are many kinds of colds that can knock you out.

Each is likely an endemic version of something that was far more serious and deadly historically. Now it’s a minor or major annoyanace that is part of normal life. i bet eradicating covid would fall into the same bucket S eradicating any of the others. Something to aspire towards, but until then something to simply accept as normal and move on with our lives.
https://archive.ph/Refv8
I'm not really here to relitigate the 2016 campaign. I have a lot of thoughts on it but I'll spare you them here. If you're genuinely interested let me know and I'll shoot you an e-mail.

But I will say this much because it relates to my previous post directly:

> trying to live with the fantasy that Putin is so all-powerful that a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Facebook ad-buys were able to overthrow American democracy.

I will note that the Russian GRU was able to hyper-target Facebook advertisements in large part because they were receiving updates on who to target from the Trump campaign. I think it's a fantasy to suggest that Putin can overthrow democracy this way, but that's not really what happened. Trump and Putin coordinated through public channels and behind closed doors through intermediaries (let's not forget that Trump's son, son-in-law, and aforementioned campaign manager turned GRU liaison, met with a Russian spy at Trump's residence to discuss an explicit cooperation deal). Putin couldn't have done what he did alone -- he needed a willing, like-minded, yet distant partner in one of the two major political parties in America, and he found one in Trump.

> Hasn't this been the exact claim of the Clinton campaign post 2016? That the election results are illegitimate?

It's was entirely warranted to question the results of our electoral system, and honestly it was Trump's right to do so after the 2020 election as well. I think it is important to probe weaknesses in our system and to fix them where appropriate. But after that probing is done and the vote is certified legitimate, the questioning needs to cease.

However, when a candidate has exhausted all legal remedies, they can't continue to call into question the results of the vote. That's where this all fell apart. Trump lost his claims in 62/63 cases and that should have been the end of it. But it wasn't, and look where that got us.

I think no one should listen to Clinton anymore, and I never wanted her to be President, but she has a point about Trump's legitimacy. The legitimacy of a leader in the US is usually established by the results of an election, but what if material crimes are committed to win the election? And once a leader is elected, are the legitimate for their term or can they lose that legitimacy through abuse of their power?

Trump aided and abetted the hacking of his opponent and then lied about his campaign's direct involvement with the organization that did the hacking, both to the American people and the FBI. He lied about the fact that at the time, he was in talks with Putin about building a Trump Tower Moscow, with a penthouse gift dedicated to Putin. After he was sword into office, he swiftly used the authority granted by the American people to quash the investigation into that very malfeasance. He also obstructed the subsequent Special Counsel investigation by destroying evidence, lying to investigators, and attempting to quash it as well. This behavior is not the legitimate exercise of trust placed on our leaders, it's a pattern that more closely resembles a prolific serial criminal covering his tracks.
Plus tips.
They aren't beggars. They're a well-respected software foundation. Being a nonprofit doesn't mean you're forced to beg for money from every source imaginable.

If this move was done out of desperation, then they're dead in the water as an organization. More likely, some tone-deaf middle management team thought it would be a good "trendy" outreach initiative.
YES, that was exactly my point.
What? People cheat in america constantly. Wasn't there a whole ton of fraud recently when it came to unemployment and the small business loans? People cheated for billions, capitalism definitely doesn't prevent thag
>Is it stupid to decrease your salary by that much when changing jobs, or is this something that everyone does in exchange for working at a smaller company?

IMHO it's dumb. "Get while the getting's good" is a good rule and the getting's really good at FAANGs these days. Unless the start up is doing some unique whizz bang thing that you're super interested in work is pretty much work. It's going to mostly be pretty boring stuff.

Start slacking off at work a bit and start working on a side project that interests you to scratch your itch. Do that until you're set for life and then do whatever you want.
> Complex is better than complicated

What? Something being complex is artificial, we try to avoid it. Problems can be complicated, we try to simplify them, and more complicated the problem is, we tend to develop more complex solutions. So comparing them does not make sense?

Or did I always know them wrong?
I was reading "The C Programming Language" as a teenager, probably around 1994. I had a question, so I looked up Brian Kernighan's email* and wrote him. Ten minutes later I had a well written answer that explained my issue. It didn't seem like a big deal to teenage me, but now - wow, that was the magic of the early internet.

* There is a small chance I am remembering this wrong, and I'd written Dennis Ritchie instead. I know I wrote to either K or R :)
Users who are not Airtel customers are impacted.
Virtually everyone who uses C++ knows what Boost and std are.
It's kind of fun to imagine "what if" in these situations. Like, what would it take for such a box to be real? It doesn't seem all that far off from a low pin count bus, or from a modern game console mod chips that spike the voltage outside normal ranges at just the right time. You could extend that idea and wonder if a single contact would be sufficient, given the right out-of-spec, no holds barred, analog waveform, to both read from and write to an arbitrary circuit.

Maybe the single contact is just for establishing a common ground level, and all the magic happens with ultra-high-angular-resolution wireless beamforming. Like, just imagine what you could do with a bidirectional 2D beamforming array with the same resolution as a cell phone camera sensor.
This is an interesting, if long, take on Rust's ranges and some of their creaky design elements. I found it particularly interesting due to having recently researched Rust's ranges while adding ranges to my own programming language project. A few remarks from my perspective outside the Rust mindset:

- An awful lot of the problems have to do with ownership semantics. If ranges are immutable, referentially transparent, those problems go away.

- The author suggests (in the "Where to from here" section) that ranges should be convertable to iterators, rather than inherently iterators themselves. In my experience this works very well. Ranges can always be integer-based, and, as long as the collection can efficiently be mapped onto integers, conversion to/from iterators is trivial.

- The notion of "directional" ranges seems ill-posed. As described, such a range would actually be more like a vector. Also, in a language which uses wrap-around integer types (modular arithmetic semantics), a "backwards" range is still well-defined and finite. For example, an 8-bit 6..3 range is 6..=255 + 0..3 (the complement of 3..6).
There are 80MB of images on this page, you really need to downsample those JPGs.

Even with a large enough downstream, Github is understandably throttling connections.
This is why we can't have nice things! (CPUs without Microsoft on the die)
Try debug anything in boost. I didn't enjoy it. It's a heavyweight dependency, all on its own.
Poisoning? That's a bit bold. Can't take seriously a study with an agenda.
If a person dislikes Git then the best they can do now is to use another VCS locally and only interface with Git remotely. Although they might be forced to use a lot of Git features if their boss wants people to actively rebase their own pull requests.
Meme Coins Return to Earth as Gloom Overtakes Crypto Fanatics
Somewhere in the US, a child accidentally shoots someone every day.
This is the same Python that you can't even use for any projects at all.

Python dependencies break if you even so much as rub two brain cells together wrong. I have wasted weeks of my life trying to get x python library to work with y and I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible. I have no idea how people use this god forsaken programming language. I guess they just keep everything in one monolithic .py file and pray to God that python doesn't do some shit in the background that makes even that fail (which it has done to me).

It's no surprise that this amount of bureaucracy goes on behind the scenes as well. The entire language is held together with duct tape and Van der Waals forces.
Mastodon runs just fine in single user mode—in fact, it's was one of our most popular options back in the beginning. I personally don't think of single user and multi-user mode as particularly different, and neither is "core" to the functionality of Mastodon—the core functionality is the ability to interface with other users, whether they're hosted on your server or elsewhere. In that sense, whether a server is single- or multi-user is really isomorphic to the way I think about Mastodon's user experience, most of the time.
Gossip as a Failure Detector
I know Python, and my niece love’s Minecraft. Maybe this is the missing link, since I’m in NY and she is in CA
Chinese Rover Finds Moon Cube Is Just Rabbit-Like Rock
I tried to make vim work like VSCodium (VSCode on telemetry diet), but found it too hard and gave up.

1. How well do you handle the mouse in xterm? Vim actually has fantastic mouse support in xterm (:set mouse=a), e.g. you can use focus-follows-mouse scrollwheel to scroll individual split content panes, drag click to resize the split dividers, etc. (Although, last time I tried under WSL with the old-school win-console, vim's focus-follow-mouse scrollwheel scrolling didn't work there whereas emacs did work (with xterm-mouse-mode)).

2. Can you handle multiple cursors gracefully (vim-visual-multi) with the mouse like VSCodium? Emacs doesn't have a non-buggy multi-cursor mode and I gave up on achieving this with Emacs. I just use VSCodium now, which means allocating over 300MB of system RAM and gigabytes of dedicated graphics VRAM for its 'HW accelerated' rendering that decelerates all other HW graphics rendering on my machine.
Right, but Starlink may not serve locations in the country which forbids its use. Would be glad to be wrong here.

Smuggling and deploying fakes have their own problems. I'd also propose optical channel - with its own pro and contras - or means to cheaply manufacture receivers. It's a big discussion.
You sound incredibly entitled. "Give me free things done to my specs, or Microsoft won. No, of course you don't deserve a salary for that."

> Are you writing your own OS, prog-lang and compiler from scratch too?

Yes -- I'm an OpenBSD and 9front committer, and I have built my own language and compiler. My website -- https://orib.dev -- runs code I can commit to all the way down to the hardware.

But that's neither here nor there. I do that because it's fun. You also don't get to demand work from me without paying.
"However shinenigans you mention were executed in accordance with the law "

That's disputed, which is the point.

But it's clear they were politically motivated actions to stack the Supreme Court with an ultramajority of Judges of their own liking. Just as PiS did after the fact.

Opening that rabbit hole requires some nuance and objectivity, it's not nearly as one sided as it's presented in some media.
Welcome to Ruby.

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> { hello: "world" }.to_json
NoMethodError (undefined method `to_json' for {:hello=>"world"}:Hash)

irb(main):002:0> require 'json'
irb(main):003:0> { hello: "world" }.to_json
=> "{\"hello\":\"world\"}"
fanfiction.net has also simply broken the Calibre FanFicFare integration thanks to their CloudFlare shenanigans.

The workaround is to simply visit all chapters separately and then point Calibre at the Google Chrome cache folder.

So nice going there, fanfiction.net. Instead of offering a 1-click .epub download like AO3 (which is completely CDN-able with a very long TTL), you now had to serve 50 individual requests. Great engineering work there.

(Obviously they do this to serve ads on every request)
I'm glad you're having a positive experience.

I really like my current company because it's small but people have well-defined wheelhouses. I don't really have to think too hard except when I need to defer to more experienced engineers.
I must say, I've really liked github pages for static projects. But yes, for this postgres is essential.
Everyone is flawed. Everyone.
The internet certainly isn't what it used to be.
Not a substantive comment here, just saying thanks for this extremely cool thing.
in a blog post about the evils of typos there was a typo! classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law ;)
They voted for PiS time and time again. Any party with the words "justice" and "law" in it are probably fascists that would cling to power by any means necessary. Look at Turkey's AKP.
> It is an institution of violence, funded coercively.

Goodness, what a weird thing to say. It is Britian's most-loved institution.

I've never met anyone in Britain that disapproves of the NHS. We were all born in the NHS, doctors visited us as children when we got chicken pox, and the whole thing was organised so as to provide the best response they could to the public's needs. Village hospitals, visiting midwives, comprehensive GP service.

We were never asked to pay.

So are you seriously advocating a "system" where all services are provided by private businesses that are free to withdraw services at any time? Where different services (IC, CT scan, MRI, ENT, surgery) are all provided by different companies in different locations? Where unprofitable locations get zero service?

Even bosses love the NHS - it means they don't have to include insurance in the comp.

Thatcher privatised nearly every government-run business operation, but she balked at privatising the NHS. It was too popular.

Of course it's funded coercively; it's funded from general taxation. But "violence"? What can you possibly mean?
Twitter account known for finding Playstation 5s lends muscle to Covid fight
https://archive.ph/Gcbgu
I have an extreme nostalgic attachment to Sneakers.

I went to a summer camp for kids interested in computers (was it called Cybercamp? who knows, this was in like 1999, Google was barely even a thing yet) at Illinois State University for several years in a row when I was in junior high and high school. And every year, to cap it off, they’d gather us in an auditorium to watch Sneakers.

So this movie is now inextricably linked up with, well, adulthood for me. We were staying in college dorms, and working in real computer labs, and going to head shops with the computer science kids who were the camp counselors…such good times for a nerdy kid from the boonies. The movie just felt sophisticated to a hillbilly like me—I mean, Sidney Poitier and and Robert Redford having a cocktail party after pulling off a heist, all set to a minimalist jazz soundtrack? So urbane.