skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a shit rubbish reality that the only moderation option is infinite, is forever. Sever ties. End it. Write someone off as garbage.

Your comment is way way too cancel culture for me. It hurts a lot having one bad exchange & having the door slammed in your face. Especially if it's some topic you feel strongly about, that you were trying to engage in.

You may be right that it's a better tact than engaging. It's a shit system though, deeply dehumanizing ways of treating each other.
I think this could be done as a community.

Imagine if npm allowed organizations to publish "vetted pointers" to packages. So redhat could publish a "{redhat}colors", which would include only the vetted versions.

When installing, you could choose to setup your installation to allow "redhat-vetted" versions only. And that would apply even to sub-dependencies.

This becomes a community tool if "redhat" could tell npm to vet anything vetted by another org.
How big would the telescope need to be to be able to produce high-res images of Earth from a distance of 200M+ light years away?

I realize that a civilization could be 50M light years away and witness Pangea, but the idea of a civilization 50M light years away observing Pangea and then persisting data for 150M years presents it’s own challenges.
I recently had to use eval to solve a shell scripting problem.

During the same task, I also discovered that a for loop on it's own is run inside the same shell as the code around it (duh), but a for loop which is feeding a pipe is run in a subshell. This was a surprise, because I wanted to set some variables in the for loop, piping progress indications to the `dialog` program, and then use those variables afterwards. My variables kept disappearing after the for loop exited, but not when I removed the progress indications.

Shell sucks.
I'm seriously downvoted for this? We have just had an incident where a maintainer acted maliciously and has demonstrated that a single point of trust is insufficient. If we really care about avoiding issues with open source software, clearly it is necessary to get multiple maintainers to sign off on changes to widely used open source projects. We have had all the technology components needed to implement this for decades, we just need the will to implement a system that is better. If we don't use this incident to improve, then it's going to happen again, and maybe the consequences will be worse.
AFAIK pinball has been included in various source code leaks of Windows over the years. So you could presumably build it yourself should you somehow get the code, although as noted from this saga it seems to be a bit sensitive to floating point behaviour so might not work right.

It would've presumably been removed from the Windows source code tree circa Vista, so a while before even Windows 8 when ARM32 support started being added, let along ARM64. So I doubt any "official" builds exist.
And there I thought that I was mistaken when I felt that I'm eating more when sleep deprived.
Exactly, because it's an acronym for Giraffe-ics Interchange Format.
Morals are about as far from instinct as one can get. They're also entirely subjective, fwiw.
Yes. You don't inconvenience thousands of engineers for philosophical reasons like "someone signed away their legal rights and now they regret it". FOSS is FOSS. The end-users are entitled to those packages -- the licenses explicitly say so.

It would be a breach of trust for a package manager to unjustifiably revoke users' access to a package. They don't have an option to be kind to the package author, because their duty to their users comes first. Putting the author's wishes over the users' professional expectations isn't something they have agency to do.
We all get there eventually. Now get off my lawn you little hooligan, I want no more japes or knavery here.
I'll admit that I cracked up pretty good over this, and am glad that I'm not working in JS/TS every day anymore for reasons among these kinds, but I am firmly on the developer's side on this one. Github suspending the developer's account is well within the realm of the type of questionable actions I expected out of Github after its acquisition by MS and only makes me feel even better about my long-ago move to Gitlab (a story for another time).
Oh, man...thanks for this. I need these words for tragically large numbers of my on-line interactions.
It's like the level Seaside Shock in Cruelty Squad

A group of seasteaders have recently acquired vast fortunes through biocurrency speculation. It wasn't however enough to attain their dream of building an artificial floating island on the open seas, so they've had to settle for a compromise and have purchased their own cruise ship, the 'Titanium Princess'. It is now a den of pathetic losers living out their depraved fantasies.
> because it makes it obvious that the "gift has a hard G, therefore..." people have made a mistake.

That's obvious anyway; gift is one word (well, also give) swamped in a sea of other gi- words.

And gift is a very strange one. What is it, a loan from Norse? You'd think, if it were a native word, that it would have turned into something more like "yift", the way we see in e.g. day, I, or yard.
Considering how US food policy continues pushing sugar consumption, driving mortality from secondary effects of liver disease (diabetes, high blood pressure, circulatory disease, cancer metastasis, obesity, gout) and tertiary effects of those, that makes COVID-19 look like, well, flu, he is not pessimistic enough.

On the other hand, eliminating sugar (actually, just fructose, and then only with not enough accompanying fiber!) from the US, UK, and Indian and Pakistani diets could be overwhelmingly easier than getting and keeping everybody vaccinated against SARS. Doesn't mean it will happen, though. It is easier to pretend it is not a problem, and blame all the deaths on the tertiary effects.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252066
Of course he acknowledged his reality:

"they can legally copy your Intellectual Property"

But let's be honest - if they hadn't copied his, they could have easily used the Ruby or Perl version. All he did was port a previous library.
I often find myself... ripping out a lot of what I 'need' into something that maybe isn't always well-maintainable, but it's my fuckfest of code, and if something breaks it's because I choose to eff it up myself. Esp, when it's something API related, most php api sdk's are poorly maintained anyways and need updating as I go, plus I usually learn the api pretty well as I rebuild and test the new classes.

Ironically, I'm working on a laravel package myself that i'm hoping to maintain (and turn into a viable side project) that's basically jetstream with SaaS components, and UI elements... (think ui component libraries + laravel jetstream + extra SaaS/ERP things like tenancy beyond just teams but..like Org which can have teams, projects, employees, and each user can belong to multiple orgs, teams, projects, and have attached profiles to each.

For a lot of the UI stuff, I've basically repacked MIT stuff for tailwindcss components, and laravel/livewire added some extra configurations and options, and made it so you don't need Jetstream, just this thing... so a lot of it is actually other's packaged code pulled into one package so, ideally there's one dependency that could even be easily forked and repurposed for a team's needs but cover a lot of boilerplate possibilities.
Well the tools we have are vaccination and avoiding human contact. We don't do either.

Unlike what politicians say the models and prior history simply say you got to vaccinate everyoe that can get vaccinated.

Also we need international soft real time cooperation and transparency. We are incapable of either.

It is just that COVID has the sweet spot of being transmissible but not causing grueling enough of deaths like measles or the plague so some people may ignore it or believe they can skip vaccination until it's their turn. And of course this is the perfect environment for a virus to mutate.

Also there is the misinformation that the virus has to become less deadly or has less long term impact as it mutates. I have no idea who had that bright idea and why it propagates. See the plague who as bubonic has the optimal close to 100% transmission and 100% fatality rate.

People are still in denial and we all pay the price. So the plan is just masses of people to get actually fed up and force things into other masses of people and slowly drag our economies to the ground, as pandemics do normally.
Indeed. One thing I would really like to see and frankly, it is needed with urgency is a Twitter clone strictly for Gov use. Hosted, maintained and managed by US Gov. It can be used by local fire departments to federally appointed officials and politicians alike.

The idea that Twitter, a private company, requires me to provide them personal information (phone number and OTP verification), to sell ads and to access, sometimes exclusively hosted Gov content needs to end. Politicians won’t use it, for that a new law is required. I really don’t want Elon vs Elizabeth Warren bullshit. Politicians need to be shamed into submission.
Vpn's?
Why would anyone want to block, rather than mute? I suppose it's more 'honest' in some ways but the implementation as described almost feels designed to create drama.

Is it easier to block or to mute? Which one is the de facto default in the UI?
I cant wait till you realise you too are considered vintage!
In this case, the problem isn't in your own source code, it's in someone else's source code.
Perhaps download's value could be weighted by associated domains? For example if Apple.com is relying on it the author will get paid more than random.example
Those tiny deeps means less time looking at nothing with direct imaging and much higher likely that something will actually be seen. Those tiny dips also help loosen the grip on the purse strings when it comes to financing new projects to peer at those tiny dips.
Sure but "the klept" according to the article are doing their benefitting (stealing) now, according to the article. And the institutions are still kind of working. There would also presumably be enough poor already to form a scary mob, even without immigration.
Ruby version was based on the Perl version, and this author acknowledged his was based on those 2 versions (from the previous version's README):

faker.js was inspired by and has used data definitions from:

https://github.com/stympy/faker/ - Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Benjamin Curtis
http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Data-Faker-0.07/ - Copyright 2004-2005 by Jason Kohles
Yes, note the large number of absences — that was basically the point: schools which have been resource-starved for many years don’t have anywhere near that much slack capacity, especially since one of the sources of substitutes are retired teachers who are at higher risk.
It is not based on the cube rule of food.

A food can be classified by which faces of a cube the outer layer of carbs populate. In the case of a hot dog, it is a taco, since the bottom and two sides are the carb structure.

https://cuberule.com/
How is "no" not the right answer?
We didn't really try. Vaccination is a statistical game that requires everyone eligible to participate.

The question is if we still have that card to play correctly at all.
doesn't npm have policies for packages to follow semvar? I could see why they would have policies to rollback broken minor versions that are distributed via npm.
They last a hell of a lot longer than they did when we were still putting TEPb in the fuel.
The EROI of oil has dropped steadily over the years and has probably dropped below 8 now (8 units of energy produced for 1 spent):
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/10/20/oil-system-collapsing-so-...

This other article has a graph that shows why 8 is critical threshold. Dropping below 8 means production rapidly starts to consume all of the energy produced.
http://theoildrum.com/node/8625
This is circular reasoning. "Only mental health professionals can have an opinion on the matter because mental health professionals say so, and the opinion of mental health professionals is authoritative because it's a mental health issue". Why can't we disagree that it's solely a mental health matter?
Hehe. Rookie mistake. This is how you do it:

i=0
for foo in …; do
i=((i + 1))
done > >(stuff | goes | here)
Go does this well. It chooses the minimum viable version that satisfies the constraints for each package.

The minor security updates are solved well by periodically running security linters and scanners. There's even a recent GitHub feature for it. That will alert you that you need to update a package.
I think ICE cars will see a retro use period like many nostalgic things, so while I agree the daily driver will change, it's very likely that fuel will be seen as some sort of luxury product. Right now fuel is a loss leader for most gas stations, that dynamic will definitely change as ICE vehicles become a toy or status symbol for upper middle class and wealthy people.
Ether is in part premined. Before the token went public, a select few insiders were able to buy lots of it at practically no cost.

Here the co-founder explains how to buy more than the agreed maximum per holder, by simply creating multiple accounts to buy them. The founder actively encourages fraud and does it on record.
after an initial kneejerk reaction, i've realized that this is a really complicated issue to think about.

the future is exhausting sometimes.
Tangential PSA on a lesser known work by CStross: Palimpsest, a novella that is one of the most interesting and original time-travel stories that I've come across.
I prefer to look at the code, decide if A. it's worth it, B. it wouldn't be funner/better to just clone it as a 'plugin' in my own code, and C. it looks like it has a good team/support around it.
Understandable! I was just curious how you'd handle your manager(s) trying to connect with you. Would make sense to just say your fundamentally against such things. Be Ron Swanson.
People use it that way.
Thank you, really cool the hear that!
Not exactly silent, it's like the `j` in the Spanish `jefe`.
Can we please stop linking to such long winded crazy ramblings?
If this came from certain other news outlets it would have been dropped as spam
> It's his code to break if he wants.

This is a library, not standalone software. Breaking it means breaking the code of every software which uses that library.
You are assuming that the true rights holders of all the code in the package actually agreed to the given license. Someone unrelated to the package development can still claim it includes an illegally-copied, unlicensed version of their code.
Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point.

I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain.

How did the de-facto solution become "Just use Gmail" or pay a third party to do it? It's a little sad for those of us who like running our own servers, total uphill battle. All that work in the early days of the internet to ensure such a feat was possible, only for it to become near impossible for most, regardless of technical prowess.

Just give all your data to a huge company, it's fine. Pft.

Sorry for the rant. Am I really becoming those old hags I used to make fun of on slashdot? Shoot...

p.s. It's easier than ever to do, too, because high-quality docker images are abundant. Tragic for nerds like us!
Federated Networks Association ry will be dissolved
I don't think it is trolling.

Crypto has made it so a lot of young people have randomly gotten extremely rich. For some of these people, it is bound to go to their head and make them think that they are actually business geniuses. Sprinkle in a dash of bro culture and suddenly "buy an island and have a huge nonstop party" feels like an attractive idea.
Do androids dream of Berkeley? The city of Philip K. Dick's youth
> the Haskell-aligned habit of asserting that functional matches how you think about code, while pointing at an IO system that involves a function taking the observable universe and returning a modified copy of it)

The idea is that most code is pure, so we accept a slightly inferior model for code that does IO, in exchange for a significantly superior model for pure code.
Their argument is that word pronunciations can mutate over time.

Knife used to be pronounced k'nife. This slowly faded over time and is now completely eliminated.

By analog, jif being the original pronunciation is not important because the majority of people have decided to go with a hard G.

In other words, the "correct" spelling or pronunciation of words is democratic.
> I think the forum is more about how an unhappy (or angry) minority have

I don't think it's a minority though.
The software industry doesn't have any standards about how to publish or consume software, and that leads to problems like these (not the conflict over OSS, but the ability for random upstream software to randomly compromise thousands of other projects).

We all live in this 'wild wild west' of software that has no guarantees of quality or safety or rigor. We could really use a regulated license for software development, and minimum industry standards, so software can be certified to have the bare minimum of quality and safety processes.

Things like an upstream dependency breaking can be caught well before it makes it into downstream projects. But you need the process in place to catch it. We all know what we're supposed to be doing, but few people actually do it, for all sorts of reasons (no time, no money, didn't think it was important, didn't know how to do it, etc). I think we should have regulation to require it, and an actual body that regulates how this is done, just like in every other "real" engineering discipline.
I guess that I still consider global nuclear suicide-"war" to be very unlikely even (especially ?) under these conditions, but it certainly changes the calculus if you don't think the same way.
Check out my reply to a sibling comment. TLDR: huge
People like Elon Musk or Andy Scheuer probably would come up with the 'ideal' solution.
Just chuck the trees down.

I hope such people won't be asked for a solution to the problem d(^,^)b
Just in case anyone need this, I’ve built pkg.land (beta) to help developers find NPM similar packages, here are the links for colors and faker:

- https://pkg.land/package/colors

- https://pkg.land/package/faker
It should be, but there's likely not the same level of quality control as there would be with food for litigious and/or cautious humans.
> Frankly, I would not be surprised if millions of Russian bot accounts are behind this sub.

Do you honestly believe that it's impossible to find a few thousand persons from the US who have bad experiences with recruiting and/or bosses, or experience any sort of abuse at the workplace?

I mean, given how widespread is at-will employment in the US, and how that ensures employers have all the leverage they can possibly have on an employee, specially in high-unemployment regions, isn't abuse a natural occurrence?

More importantly, a hefty share of posts in /r/antiwork are about workers quitting abusive jobs or reporting bad interview experiences. Who in their right mind denies this sort of stuff ever happens?
Them? I though the message was another tech support scam message.
This is incoherent rambling.
"The wrong question" is subjective though. I meant in the technical sense.
I strongly encourage anyone reading this to watch Dr Ben Sessa's lecture on using MDMA to treat addiction and trauma.

https://youtu.be/11u7iX4j1tA

The reality is, SSRIs and other pharmaceuticals that have been used to treat common psychiatric illnesses (anxiety/depression) have dismal outcomes and fail the vast majority of patients that they have been given to.

I'm optimistic that the next few decades will bring about better approaches to these massively underserved (and largely exploited and discarded) people.
In my opinion this is only true until the "unplanned" usage becomes mainstream. Language is always evolving. Once the majority is using the g sound from "gift" not "gin", the majority rule is correct, even though they would have been initially incorrect.

Consider the changes of people's names as they migrated around the world. In NZ, we pronounce Craig as "Crayg", in the US they pronounce it "Creg", which I struggle to make sense of, but that doesn't make it wrong. There are better examples than Craig but that was the first one that came to mind.
I'm confused. You're looking for a way to go back to the last good version. By your methodology wouldn't that be before you last updated? Or are you looking for a curated service?

A reasonable maintainer semvers their packages.

You shouldn't update to the latest version if you want to minimize the likelihood of issues. That's what stable releases are for
marak has a documented history of mental illness and downright odd behavior. Talented dev and troubled individual. There's a pretty concise video covering what went down with some history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6S-b_k-ZKY
And the birthday problem applies; the probability of a collision goes up quadratically. If you have N objects, you've got N^2/2 pairs that could collide.
Not just inundated places.

Much of the tropics will become literally uninhabitable: being outside, in the shade, not moving, you die of heat stroke. Not every day, but in several days of the year, which is entirely enough. Before that, of course, the crops fail.

The effect of massive refugee influx has been seen to drive a rise of fascism in democratic nations.
I think as JS developers, this should be a wake-up call, to never trust npm semantic versioning if your project it's critical.

In this case, it's a dev who decided to use his right of doing political activism at the cost of his reputation. But this it's a best-case scenario. Another dev of a popular NPM library could get hacked, and insert malware.

I wonder if there are zombie servers out there mining crypto or doing DDoS, just because an obscure library dependency of a dependency of a dependency, got compromised.

I don't think Marak was "right" (In bird culture that is considered a d*ck move), but legally he owned nothing to anyone. Adding a new update to production without testing first, it's in the hands of their devs of the apps, not him.
That's great but I'm getting tripped up when I delete a word with ctrl-w and correct it. Even if I get it correct, it marks as incorrect.
This is funny, because this is like a confirmation of a comment I did a short time ago, that strangely, political leaders in Australia were looking like driving full speed the dumbness (or corruption) road:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469665#29469963
There are many philosophical points if view thought.
If I may suggest dabbling in the BLIT short stories that the Langford fractal mentioned in the fifth decade of the century of wonders.

https://ansible.uk/writing/t3_002.html
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/44964
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of-darkness/

And following up from Glasshouse with Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams where the exploration of what could have been without the Vile Offspring and computers were harnessed without a singularity... but "tools" such as Curious Yellow are a part of the nightmare scenarios in the possibilities of war.
This was pretty cool work done at the University of Toronto many years back.
Craig in the USA is "Creg", and in other countries it's "Crayg".

Language is constantly evolving.