skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this is what forking is for. You don't have to rewrite it, you simply copy it somewhere that it isn't going to change unless you make the change happen, because some third party screwing around with your production code is just Bad News even if they have the best of intentions.

You should still look over it and make sure it's not obviously malicious, but simply using forks or local repos of open source packages would probably save 98% of these kinds of headaches (with a 2% allowance for insecure/malicious open source code).
> For example, if you bring up the question of whether the major centralized exchanges could all decide based on instructions from an oppressive government to freeze exchange of tokens belonging to a dissident, you’ll be told that that’s no problem in their theoretical world where a Bitcoin is a Bitcoin and if an exchange won’t accept yours, you can easily find an exchange that will.

Centralised exchanges can't freeze the exchange of Bitcoin. They themselves can decide that THEY won't accept money from certain individuals (Centralised exchanges are required to complete KYC for users), but they have no power to stop UTXOs being spent on the network. The only way UTXOs can be prohibited from being spent is via consensus between node operators.

This is just one example of many points where the author decides to fuse centralised services which interact with the decentralised network with the network itself.
It does know the recipient it doesn't know the sender. They call this "Sealed sender" and it is enabled by default for your friends (but you can change who gets this facility).

So instead of a message from Steve to tialaramex, it's just a message to tialaramex. Well, duh, of course tialaramex gets messages, why else have message software?

My Signal client prepared some "stamps" which are good for one message to me. It gave Steve (and all my friends, or maybe only Steve, or maybe everybody except one troll, Signal can't tell and doesn't want to know) some of the stamps when sending them other things, and so Signal just sees the message has a stamp on it, no need to know who sent it.
So at the end of the day we're both just referencing different authorities here.

Why do you trust this guy's assertion on how many excess deaths there have been over the last two years, and their cause, more than the CDC's numbers?
As long as it doesn't involve Covid, then "death panels" are fine
As someone who’s dabbled a bit with home cockpit control building for flight sims, I appreciate the value behind this plug-and-play solution, though the apparent lack of Flight Simulator 2020 compatibility is disappointing.

That being said, I wonder when we’ll get to the point where a VR system will provide a more immersive experience for casual simmers. Right now, even with top-end consumer gear (RTX-Unobtanium, Reverb G2), the resolution is less than ideal and the tactile element is missing entirely. There’s something about flipping fancy toggle switches…
The article makes some specific points, which you fail to address. Your objection is a generic "never mind that, just give it more time". You can do better.
Rules are rules… unless of course you have money to pay for expensive lawyers.
> Crucially, they prefer it not because they love tinkering,

I’m not sure what part of this article gave you this idea? It’s clear to me the author is gravitating towards a solution that allows him to tinker to his heart’s content. I mean did you not see the pile of wires connected to the eGPU — on a laptop?
This is inaccurate, or at least misleading. Your code doesn’t begin executing until all of the modules are loaded so it doesn’t “make the call stack async” just because of the import system. Module loading that’s async from the point of view of user code is also supported, but it’s use is rare.
Lemonade in the UK is carbonated, so it is very similar to what we in the US call soda.
What Is the Metaverse Really?
I don't for a minute believe this number is actually true. But on the other hand, it seems like a very strange lie to tell, because it's so unbelievable. It would be far easier to believe a claim that COVID deaths are simply very rare but not actually non-existent. That would be the sensible lie, the canny lie.

It's tempting to believe that the Chinese government just doesn't give a damn what people think, and are therefore willing to say anything at all. But if they really don't care, why lie in the first place?

The only interpretation that I can come up with that makes sense is that a) the government of China is reluctant to admit to any fault at all, b) the actual number of deaths is low but not impressively low, and c) the Chinese press (including social media) is very tightly controlled, and d) by b and c the government can get away with saying there are no deaths without looking like idiots.
You may be using the tool every day, but are you using this "disable field reordering" annotation every day? Also, after you used it, you may remember what "#[repr(C)]" does, but I bet most of the other developers working with the code in the future will have to look it up (unless you leave a comment). So the trade-off is not as cheap as you think...
As I understand it the CoW support is for (optionally) taking filesystem snapshots before/after applying package upgrades, I don't think it inherently makes disk I/O more efficient. There are some other neat tricks that dnf does though. For example, in my experience dnf/rpm are smarter in the case where N packages need to run the same post-install step and run it once instead of apt/dpkg which might run it N times (examples: updating the man database, updating icon caches, updating ldconfig cache). And as the article points out, rpm packages are smarter about skipping post-install steps altogether for package updates.

In general it's my impression that dnf/rpm have been much more actively developed in the past few years than apt/dpkg. Depending on how long it's been since you last used it, they've made changes to the manifest format, the internal rpm database format, and rewritten a lot of parts of dnf in C for speed, and all of these have made a huge impact on the speed and usability of dnf.
Considering this only happens to "big" projects and not a simple user making a mistake it's pointless to see it as immutable. It's immutable in practice only for you, but not in practice (like the article claims) for bigger projects who happened to make a mistake. It's all 'in practice' as yes, the original data is not lost but for all practical purposes it is.

Calling it out to all blockchains is valid in my opinion, as it counts for all blockchains despite happening more often around some than others.
Researchers develop first fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display
Everyone talks so much shit on USA car culture but our testing centers are typically a drive thru where patients are isolated in their cars thereby protecting everyone. Patients swab themselves and then hand the sample over through a few inch opening in the window.
I do combine a 'wish thinking' in my thoughts.

Just imagine it would be okay to stay at home as a restaurant worker, not fearing to lose your job and knowing that nothing changes in a bad way when the pandemic is over.

We can easily afford this as a society. We just don't.
"Deal with autistic people"? What's the difference between you saying something like that and saying you just prefer working with able bodied adults not having to "Deal with parapalegics". Good luck in your future corporate job, I hope its not sitting next to me.
Tired of your shitty boss? Try freelancing, and deal with a dozen shitty bosses.
Yup, like getting people offended because some webpage suggests that might or might not be good to eat if you haven't had food in four hours.
The article says Apple "plans" to add an oxygen sensor to the Apple Watch.
It already has that.

I am looking forward to blood glucose monitoring via the Watch.
In the long term, exercise (including very light things like stretching, easy yoga, etc.) is probably the more robust solution to aches and pains (excluding severe or chronic things that you would go to a doctor for). Plus, good for depression which obviously is a big reason to feel like shit.
You think a product manager was in any way involved with a function signature. I'm fairly certain this didn't come up in more detail than a requirement: "We need to add a way to call a macro...". And the story as told by the PM would be "...and so the engineers added a way".

I've worked with a bunch of PMs on technical products, APIs, etc. and I've rarely met anyone discussing that level of detail or willing or able to make such a decision.

The engineers chose a way that worked and it's likely the best way supported at the time, given the other comments I've read here on HN.
This is so easily disproved, just look at total deaths for the period. Where do you think they are coming from?
The wikipedia page doesn't say - do clients generally support this protocol now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clien...
3 times faster with 64 cores instead of 10, that slower single thread performance is having a big impact.
There’s a great short video on the Anglican Water website:

https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/community/rutland-sea-dragon
Codebases need to allow adding new stuff, or changing old stuff, otherwise the project is frozen and the product cannot be developed further.

And code reviews rely on the fact that both developer and reviewer can read and understand the code. If the developer can use the code to invent a completely new language, it will be difficult to review its correctness. The job of the reviewer is to review the code, not learn a new language I just came up with.

And since we are not using Lisp we don't have a problem with it nor do we blame it for anything ;-)
Rust reorders struct layout as it wishes unless you opt-in to a C-like layout, so you only pay for it when you need it.
Someone told me this a few years back and it stuck with me.

"American healthcare is the best in the world like sportscars- Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW, Bugatti, etc. are the best cars in the world. Surely they both are the bests in the world- but only for the small percentage of people that can actually afford them."

This is sad.

(Many, including me, wouldn't buy a sportscar even if they could afford one, and sportscars aren't the "best" in their opinion. But this comparison drives the point home.)
> Can we agree that >90% of non-technical XMPP users likely don't run their own XMPP server?

Yes. The majority of people cannot, and will not ever, run their own server. However my ideal is that the remaining "10%" of people who can, do so. Just as I do for my non-technical family members. I believe that there should be a trust relationship between service operators and their users, whatever form that takes. I work daily to try and make self-hosting XMPP easy and accessible to more people, so we can increase this "10%" fraction.

For a similar perspective see: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers...

Of course using public XMPP services anonymously (burner accounts, randomly-generated username, connect via Tor/VPN, etc.) is a thing that many people also do, but I think that's a minority use-case (that should still be supported). Tools such as Briar also cover many such use-cases adequately or better.
Ah, so we're currently dumping. Gotcha. When's the next pump?
The last line of the bbc article talks of a tv show. I would hate to think that this article was held until that show was ready to air. The BBC is meant to be above such commercial shenanigans.
"Victim blaming" is a little harsh when it's literally a developer not doing their job and letting arbitrary code get inserted into their product.

Do your job and make sure the code that's running is what you expect. There's no valid excuse not to.
Second life in VR.
What does "mean" mean?!

I love your sense of wonderment at different cultures, wait until you hear about what "chips", "pants", and "fanny" mean in the UK!
FreeYourMusic lets users move their playlists between music apps
I seem to recall an experiment with corvids (crows) that showed that they can figure out whether or not another crow can or cannot see a crow treat, based on the different angle of view.

In human children this ability (to realise that other people have their own point of view) is called "theory of mind", IIRC.

IOW crows can think about what other crows are thinking.
They might be in Australia. Lemonade here is carbonated (like 7Up). Soda would be soda water. Sweetened, carbonated drinks are generally called "soft drinks". Lemon squash would be more like a homemade lemonade, but still sweetened and carbonated (can't remember if you have Solo in the US).
> I don't see the harm in not having one.

Email providers such as outlook and gmail think otherwise. Your emails will not be reliably delivered to them because you are missing a restrictive DMARC policy.
Emails send without a DMARC policy are less trusted by default and more likely tagged as spam.
This prompted me to finally look at Australian law on the point. It varies by state: some allow you to record if you’re a party to the conversation, others require consent or similar, but all of the latter have an exception for if you’re protecting the lawful interests of one party, which sounds to me like blanket permission to record.

Kinda like how snakes are protected in Australia and it’s illegal to kill them unless you or your family or such are in immediate danger from a snake, which basically means if you see a snake you can kill it.
Yes this is perfectly normal.

The XMPP account (so movim.eu) is decorelated from the mov.im pod we deployed as a public instance to show up the project.

You can connect on Movim (and mov.im, the official pod/instance) using any XMPP account. movim.eu is just one amongs all the others.

You have to differenciate Movim as a project that particular instance deployed as mov.im and the Movim XMPP server that we deployed from the project. I know it might be a bit confusing so if you have some ideas to clarify things up do not hesitate :)
> Again, he didn't comment on the factual basis of the original mask guidance, only the reason why he made a proclamation one way or another.

And those reasons contradict the earlier reasons he gave. How is this not a clear deception? Perhaps we should discuss the actual video evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXttHlUgK8

Furthermore, if the factual basis of the original recommendations were not false, why were masks mandated soon after shortages were no longer a concern? (and continue to be)

> But had it been like all previous pandemic respiratory viruses including the one most closely related to this virus, where the vast majority of transmission occurs only after a carrier is symptomatic

That's irrelevant to this topic. You don't know who else around you in public might be symptomatic, that's the whole point of wearing masks.

> But Fauci didn't later admit deception and what he said at the time wasn't out of line with a reasonable interpretation of available evidence.

Yes, he literally did. He said people should not be walking around wearing masks. He justified this recommendation by saying that it's because masks are not providing the protection people think they do, and that they might only stop a droplet or two (all clear nonsense). He even said that wearing a mask might be more dangerous than not wearing one. These are all claims he made in that interview.

When asked later why his advice around masks changed, he didn't say the understanding of the facts changed, he said that those original recommendations were made for reasons completely unrelated to effectiveness (fears of PPE shortages).

You can try to spin this however you want to suit your narrative, or try to be as charitable as you want to Fauci, but this was clearly deceptive messaging, and almost certainly intentionally deceptive. At the very least, this would make Fauci among the worst science communicators I've ever seen, at worst he violated the public trust, and is that really who you want communicating to the public in the midst of a public health emergency?
We're not talking about "a ton of OS stuff," we're talking about NPM packages.

If you have your package manager set up in a way that allows it to automatically upgrade/break your code, that's 100% on you.
A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
I also find it interesting that you assume I'm a Julia novice. I use Julia for my job, and have a few dozen commits to Julia (and several to packages)
> Just because Đoković attended a public event after testing positive doesn’t mean he’s lying about the test. He might simply think it’s not a huge deal. Maybe he’s a bit careless, but I think “giant asshole” wording is too strong. Other people attending the event were adults fully aware of COVID pandemic, they were free to skip the event, they were free to wear masks if they wanted.

Endangering everyone by knowingly spreading a disease, regardless of the type, is being an asshole in my book. Regardless of his personal scepticism. Indeed, a positive test doesn't mean infectious, but it sure as hell doesn't mean zero risk and just go mingle with people. That's much more than "a bit reckless".

For the record, I'm originally from nearby, Bulgaria, and COVID and vaccine hesitancy and skepticism is even worse than Serbia. That doesn't in any way mean people who chose to follow their feelings of fear and mistrust, and ignore any sort of basic logic or established facts aren't really really stupid. They probably can't help it, but the rest of us can't excuse their behaviour. They should know better, and two years in, it's a 100% their fault when they do stupid things like get sick and not even have the basic decency to wear a mask. ( And i know i won't convince anyone with those sorts of words, but honestly at that point they're beyond convincing)
Well then I wish we could swap bodies, that sounds superb for weight loss.
i do love that it immediately goes into yet another crypto bashing comment chain while not realising that a crypto company owns bittorrent:

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-confirms-acquisition...

and that after the creator of bittorrent left he created his own cryptocurrency:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)
I'm unsure what you're trying to say, I was responding to a point about investors understanding the medium they're investing in, not users of something understanding what they are using.
Excess deaths will need to become the standard statistic used to compare nations. Otherwise, we'll be debating "deaths FROM vs. deaths WITH COVID" and the differing statistical definitions from nation to nation. Moreover, is a death from lack of access to medical care due to the collapse of a medical system a COVID death? Is a death of despair from isolation and unemployment a COVID death?

My sense is, when the pandemic is analyzed historically, "excess deaths" will be the only salient statistic in the literature.
But Baby Yoda!
what is the consequence if i set my dmarc to reject? i'm afraid
Exactly but why not blame the people who can't afford health insurance of committing fraud instead! After all if you're dying and have other choice than die or commit fraud, you're definitely a dirty fraudster!
I suspect some of it is about security, keeping it secret until they have it securely out the ground. Although that must have been completed months ago.
I considered this option with NoMachine and in-house power-machine or cloud workstation. In a way make sense, but ultimately, I decided against because:

Security – having open port to workstation makes me scared; bugs/0-days are discovered every day;

Quality Internet Connection – less tricky as most access would be local LAN, but I am certain that few times I need it remotely to fix a production issue, something will go wrong;

Maintenance vs Cost – in-house machine would be cheaper but will require remote power on/off capability vs in cloud server being rather pricey

But yes, in general, I agree. Having a light, portable device with long battery life and connecting to a remote, beefy machine would be a dream. And I am not imagining it, as this was my workflow back in 2013 when I was working for a bank. If it was possible then, it definitely is possible today.

Have high hopes for https://shadow.tech/
No, basically I delivered an app, but the engineer on their side got fired so the back end didn't get done. They didn't want to pay me until they rehired and finished the backend so they could see the app working.
First bullet on qBittorent's changelog for v4.4.0 is that they do. So I'm sure it's rolling out quickly to others.

v4.4.0 changelog: FEATURE: Support for v2 torrents along with libtorrent 2.0.x support (glassez, Chocobo1) - https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php
I'm a very similar anecdote. Yes, covid sucked, but it was a mild 48hr illness in my experience. (And in the experience of dozens of my friends.)

It's quite incredible that the GP can complain on the one hand about "the pure bullshit peddled by fear mongers" and then — without apparently recognising the irony — goes on to peddle fear themselves.
NFTs. Then it will be whatever the gamestop mob is after. Then investments in e-sports teams.
With bones like that I'm imaging a peasant digging up some skulls/bones like this in the medieval ages, and then later on, getting drunk and popping off as a farfetched story teller in the tavern... not surprised at how tales of "Dragons" would pop up.
It doesn't appear to be RDP. All this seems to be doing is taking screenshots of the Desktop, which is similar to how VNC works. RDP is a vastly more complicated protocol.

Last I checked the reverse VNC shellcode was literally part of the Metasploit suite, so not really any easier there either.
Difficult in this case; some of those anti-vaccine people are terrible about misreading and misquoting. You may have seen statements recently along the lines of "high vaccination rates don't lead to improvement, study says" that started out as something more like "dropping lockdowns and other measurements in favour of high vaccination rates doesn't lead to improvement" in the study.

Depressing.
During the start of the covid mess, Amazon was unreliable. I started using ebay again. Deliveries were much faster. It doesn't make much sense, but those were the results of my n=1 trial.
Your choices are constricted by quality and quantity. Thats why there's private health services in most countries with free public health services
Politics is definitely not unique to humans - alliance-building is commonplace among social animals. It's well-known that primates have a sense of fairness, so they might have causes too.

News is essentially gossip writ large, so if other animals have language then they definitely have this.

Banking, photography, driving, movies, software and hardware are all recent human inventions, so it's kinda irrelevant whether other animals have those

Clothing may be unique to humans, but historically not all humans have used clothes.

Bird and whale song is probably music. Birds do courtship dances. IMO this probably counts as art.

Again if other animals have language they might also have comedy, religion, theatre - without knowing that they don't have language then we can't rule those out.

Business - not sure. If other animals have trade then I guess that's business? There's some evidence of exchange among other animals, but I'm not sure it counts as "trade" https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-ab...

All that's left unique to us is cooking.

I suspect your first list could be reduced to one definite - "fire" - and two maybes "language" and "trade". I'd bet that maybe animals have language, but that we haven't deciphered it yet
This is just down the road from me - the reservoir is quite interesting in that they submerged two villages to make it - back in the 1970's from what I can recall...