skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For Volyn, for OUN UPA, for Galicia, for Polesia, and for historical lands

Which are sensitive subjects in Polish-Ukrainian relations. The message was published in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, which according to several polish acquaintances of mine looks like something Google Translate would produce.

Make no mistake who the real offender is.
Yes, that was exactly my dream. My blog is at www.catonmat.net.
That's one of the great parts of GDPR, disclosures are mandatory and DPOs are personally responsible for disclosure, so they have to do it regardless of internal pressure.
Are you seriously gonna ignore that pulse also shows the diffs (additions/deletions) and that corroborate with commit rate.
Moreover I have expertise in web features, i have read a big chunk of chromestatus.com features and the gap between chromium and webkit is even bigger than the gap between chromium and gecko.
Finally the most meaningful metric is: webkit: ~60 developers worked on it this week, chromium: >700 developers
The gradient gap is pathetically big
Ah, 2004 with libdvdcss again.

Thanks, companies. Thanks, companies. You are the perfect P2P marketing advisors.
That's a very astute observation, one that I've personally seen overlooked several times by people using that data point to support their argument. That kind of statistical begging-the-question annoys me to no end.

The number I've heard from people who quote it is all over the map, sometimes it's 10%, or 20%, even as high as 50%, but I've not once seen a citation of any of them. So I'm inclined to treat that statistic as BS unless proven otherwise. But as you say, even a legit number is probably misleading due to the circumstances surrounding the data gathering.
> That is a difficult and very subjective job not generally suited for tech companies.

It is, but given the scale these tech companies can reach we have seen way too much evidence that moderation is required for a stable society. People have been literally lynched because of viral fake postings [1] on messengers, not to mention the entire clusterfuck that is the coronavirus pandemic and the influence of propaganda peddlers and profiteers.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44897714
I have mentored a number of software developers from just starting their career to a decade+ long career. Nearly every time I open the debugger to help them work through an issue I get 'what is this? Why has no one ever told me about this?'.

This is not a judgement, just an observation. I always assumed debuggers were just part of a tool set but it appears (in my experience) many individuals were never taught that it exists.

I also do not claim its a magical tool that can solve all problems. There are plenty of times i do a "print 'i'm here' + var".
SparseP: Sparse matrix vector multiplication library for Processing-In-Memory
It's the same for anyone who sells software, or access to ANY data whatsoever.
For cycling i am big fan of mywindsock.com
Interesting, so to make sure I understand, if I were writing an SQL library I could require (at the type check level) that a query I was passed was constructed with a specific formatter, and that formatter would encode any substrings that I templated into it in a way appropriate for SQL?

I wonder how this would handle something like HTML injection, where the desired encoding can change within the same string depending on whether you’re in an attribute or a text block?
Steven Levy is writing what I would consider historical fiction, but let's pretend his story is true. Context matters.

Whether passwords are necessary depends on context. Many family computers don't have accounts or passwords, and it works fine for the same reasons most houses don't have bedroom doors which lock. People are trusted to not be bad actors.

The early AI Lab was super-open, and it worked fine. Everyone knew each other, and there weren't (m)any bad actors. Part of the reason MIT CSAIL doesn't work as well is that it closed itself off.

That's very different from a 2022-era computer facing the public internet with billions of potential attackers.
Catching pokemon apparently :)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-10/appeals-...
Assuming single-use. Reusable rocket engines are different beasts.
Sure, Rust does not require that your arbitrary string is actually safe HTML, a valid SQL string, XML element, DNS name and IPv4 address.

As a result, if you take arbitrary input, and then run it as an SQL query who knows what will happen, despite it being a memory safe language.

On the other hand, (safe) Rust has strong type checking, so you can make types named SafeHTML, ValidSQLString, XMLelement and so on, with the properties you desire enforced. This does not prevent the same idiots who try to make an SQL query using format!() from doing so, as they won't use ValidSQLString anyway.

If all strings fill you with such fear, probably General Purpose Programming languages aren't for you, maybe you will feel safer in WUFFS. It looks at first glance as though WUFFS has strings, but it actually doesn't, they're just a human readable label for WUFFS non-OK statuses (e.g. errors like "#bad Huffman code"). You can rest assured that your WUFFS code for processing a PDF can't have SQL injection for two reasons: 1. WUFFS doesn't have any strings to inject SQL into, and 2. WUFFS can't talk to an SQL database at all. In exchange for this safety you give up the ability to do anything outside the tiny sphere of interest of the language.
> It seems the French do not have the same hatred of telecom that Amercians do.

Oh yes we do. France Telecom back in the day wasn't all that bad, but the prices were crazy: copper is expensive but not so much that you should pay every month dozens of francs (before the euro, don't remember the exact number) without even paying for usage. But at least from what i remember tech support and intervention times were decent before the Internet, then came Wanadoo and then the privatization of France Télécom into Orange and now we have shitty service like everyone else.
> Why is Google bashed so much more than FB or Amazon

I would attribute that to personal feelings and confirmation bias.

Facebook has received a lot of negative press coverage in recent times, for their help to nationalist parties in India, their behaviour in Myanmar, Burma, for their mishandling of fake news in the US and Europe, etc. They've also been at the heart of multiple legislative investigations in the US and abroad.

Comparatively, Google has received little backlash and attention for their own misdeeds.
Plus wind energy kills birds. Engineers try to minimize this risk, but greedy entrepreneurs with connections to lobyists and the government tend to "flex" restrictions.

Hydroelectricity also kills the nature, I heard that some argue that hydroelectricity shouldn't be classified as environmentally friendly.
What is the complaint here? If you had the power to print money, so would everyone else. And money would be worthless and you couldn't exchange it for food even if you had it.

The issue you are identifying here might be physics and reality rather than a political problem. ironically food does grow on trees, but it is still "mandatory" to work to prepare it if you want to eat it. You can't escape that.
Well, you've reduced competition for employees from THE REST OF THE WORLD to a handful of companies, the executives of which you met for golf and sherry last Tuesday.
> rods from god

These are neat as a sci-fi idea, but not really in practice. Weapons have to be on-demand; RFG is like "we'll get 'em on the next orbital pass"
Any idea what's the reason? I haven't been following Humble, but a long time ago they were a champion of non-windows gaming. Sad to see them leaving the battlefield.

Is it because they don't want to maintain a cross-platform launcher app?
Climate Impacts of Exemptions to EU’s Shipping Proposals [pdf]
It's such a shame paying customers get shafted over and over and over again.

I went through the whole piracy gamut including torrents, usenet, radarr, sonarr, plex, emby, jellyfin - you name it I tried it. The best solution I'm using today and try to keep it hush is Stremio + RealDebrid.

https://i.ibb.co/Mn6VSvq/image.png

No piracy ISP letter risk, no torrenting, just a direct download from one single server that keeps you private. Like having a Plex with _everything_ on it.
What happens if you rip out side the USA and bring those rips to the USA. Did you circumvent under DMCA?
i don't use TPB, so I don't know if they are there as well, but elsewhere on torrents you can find both full blu-ray disc copies and "remuxes", which are just directly ripped from blu-ray to mkv without any loss of audio/video quality.
Mediocrity can be very hard to explain but it can be asked for many things at apple. Why does the richest software company on earth has made almost zero innovative software products nor technologies this decade?
The only technical talent at Apple is making hardware.
I've already mentioned this won't cover all languages.
I only use the debugger when I'm really lost or when I'm suspecting compiler/inheritance/indirection shenanigans. Most of the time I try to add logging/tracing because those are reusable and can help me debug other issues later, and just the action of actively thinking where to put them and why often points me to the bug and the possible fix.
Heh, I used dvdextract on Linux or something like that with mencoder.
Seconded - especially the section on xargs & looping.
Bitlocker. Or most other software that interfaces with a TPM to protect your secrets
Engineer it for 30 minutes and swap it regularly (SpaceX swaps turbines and pumps often enough because they do break down after only one or three launches)
I agree, just I go a little further:

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=divine_recursion
Most of the commentary I see focuses exclusively on the technical aspects of drying clothes, heat exchangers, humidity, mould problems but I haven't seen one comment on the labor aspect of it. It takes a significant amount of time to take your clothes out of the washing machine and hang each and every garment either over a drying rack or pin it to a clothes line. Each and every sock, every pair of underwear and a couple of pins for each pair of pants and shirt. Not to mention sheets and towels. That's going to take a significant amount of space with a lot of walking back and forth or constantly moving a basket of heavy wet clothes.

I'm not saying it's a Herculean task but it's going to take time and you'd better to it right. Doing it wrong is a great way to stretch your cloths out and possibly damage them. This is just not the kind of time most people working full time are going to have.

You can leave it out while you're at work but you'll probably only do that until the first time it rains while you're at work and you have to pick up the cloths that blew off and ended up in the dirt and the rest of your clothes are soaked. What about people that live in the city? They don't generally even have a washer and dryer. They'll go to the laundromat. Do you want them to carry the wet heavy cloths home?
Why unfair conditions? It's just Djokovic being stupid.

Vaccination has long been a requirement for admission into countries, and Covid isn't a new event either. The only new things going on here is Djovokic being public about it, and some minor bureaucratic issues, other than that it's very much business as usual.

But in any case I don't have an opinion on the tournament, I don't watch those anyway. It's up to them to figure out whether this is worth cancelling things over.
Yes igalia, a google paid company
Current E has nothing to do with E16.

https://www.enlightenment.org/

EFL has been supported by Samsung and Tizen, so I expect a full rewrite soon. They are doing really good changes now.
My point is that the debugger may help you understand the bug, but does not remove it. A better name for the tool would be something like bugfinder, or steprunner.

> You don't click it, even out of desperation at any point in your career?

I think I've never used an IDE since the (good) times of borland C++.

> I get really tired and demotivated working with people who are like that

You would probably hate working with me then... sorry about that.
And how is the global market not unnecessarily complex? It is optimized for the wrong metric (profit) at the cost of every other one, causing additional complexity and hurting overall resiliency.

The market is a constant failure at the only thing it should do, properly distributing resources. It's failing clamorously to distribute covid vaccines globally, for example. Additionally, it is easily exploitable everytime there is any unbalance, see bargainers.

The lack of control you seem to present as an advantage is exactly what makes it controllable by a very small minority of powerful entities.

Actually I start to see some parallels with the theoretical "lack of control" that is claimed to be the advantage of cryptocurrencies by enthusiasts.
If they want to do that, they'll do it. Governments have forced online service providers to implement back doors before, so Mozilla or Google could similarly be forced to do that.
Ask HN: Is Dl.dropboxusercontent.com Down?
It seems my public files can no longer be accessed from dl.dropboxusercontent.com, is this just me or are more people affected?
There are private trackers.
Same way I approach it. Just whatever word comes to mind at that time.
Just wanted to add that in Austria you have:

* 25 paid days off (vacation)

* + 13 paid days (national holidays/bank holidays)

* + 1 personal paid day off (this is quite new)

* + 5-10 paid days off to care for a sick child

* + 1-3 paid days off for moving/wedding

* + up to 40 days paid sick leave (per case)

* + 40-80 days paid off for pregnant women (Mutterschutz)

* + some companies/contracts offer more than that

additionally to that you have:

* Karenz - up to two years maternity leave (paid, but capped)

* Bildungskarenz - up to one year education leave (paid, but capped)

* Arbeitslosengeld - unemployment insurance for at least six months, but up to 5 years (paid, but capped)

All this stuff does not depend on your employer. For some

(everything based on 5 day workweek)
Funny how people are suddenly concerned with other species when a wind turbine is placed near their home. But when an out-of-sight coal plant belches out tons of pollutants which affect thousands of species, that concern seems to vanish. Quaint.
The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)
This is great! Fully functional and works (as in: is able to look up people and their numbers). Brings back old fond memories!
I suspect this will be controversial, but I read TPOP at a young age and I think it still summarizes my overall view. The quote from the article continues:

Blind probing with a debugger is not likely to be productive. It is more helpful to use the debugger to discover the state of the program when it fails, then think about how the failure could have happened. Debuggers can be arcane and difficult programs, and especially for beginners may provide more confusion than help. If you ask the wrong question, they will probably give you an answer, but you may not know it's misleading.

In the ~15 years since I read this I've seen dozens of colleagues try to use a debugger in place of thinking harder, and it never goes well. Sometimes, but much more rarely, I see someone use a debugger after thinking hard for a while. That usually goes excellently, and probably creates some unrealistic view of the tool's effectiveness because other programmers see the debugger and not the thinking. 99% of problems are solved during the "think harder" stage, and if I can't think my way out of some local problem I probably wrote too-complicated code anyway. (And if it's a non-local problem, the debugger may not help too much.)

The goal of most IDEs seems to be first help with a debugger / executing code/tests, second help with writing code, and only thirdly help with reading code. The older I get, the more those priorities seem inverted to me.
Last I checked (November), in some countries, including the US, the doctors signature is not required.
I think it's genuinely because wind is a pretty mature technology, lighter-than-air turbines notwithstanding. We know what a state-of-the-art turbine costs, what it produces, and we can make a good estimate of its useful life. There's just not much for a capital allocator to do in the wind space. Solar still has startups and experimentation, so there's at least the perception that as a capital allocator it's possible to pick winners.
But that contractor would have to limit itself to not make more than 1M revenue, why should it?
From looking at the budgets from 2014[1], it's increasing. Also the "$150 million" cut figure is the difference between the council approved budget and the mayor's proposed budget, not the difference from the previous year.

In billions of dollars:

2014-2015: $1.338

2015-2016: $1.438

2016-2017: $1.485

2017-2018: $1.578

2018-2019: $1.609

2019-2020: $1.733

2020-2021: $1.721

2021-2022: $1.760

The city also took on $47 million in overtime debt in the year that the budget was cut [2]

[1] https://lacontroller.org/budgets/
[2] https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/la-cut-the-police-budget...
Yes, I made a mistake in the article, and I corrected it. Thank you.

The people who have worked on the EI2030 community are working on this project. As we worked on the project, we realized the need to start Modos to achieve our goal of building an eink laptop. Happy to talk further.
I would argue the golden parachute is better, since it leaves both parties in a state of resolution. A whistleblower law may provide legal coverage but it is not difficult to imagine the social pressure being applied afterwards to someone who "stirs up a mess"
I am also open to new ideas. So let's try to have a conversation about this.

Let me clarify (or add to my initial comment): When I say "we cannot go back to that stage" and "our society has given up on that" I want to say that we cannot feed 6-7 billion people with the process of hunter-gatherer. Or at least I cannot see how that could be possible.

So let's try to imagine how can it be that we all 7 billion are hunter-gatherers:

1. Are they enough animals to be hunted (not raised in farms - right?) are enough vegetables/fruits to be eaten? Can we make it so that we can assure at least 1-2 billion people (if not more) a sustainable way that we consume natural-grown resources and at the same time help replenish them without establishing a system that is like agriculture?

2. Can billion of people migrate every season to gather food?

I see no concrete answer in the now for this. It might be that we want to go there but in my assumption, this could happen either due to a catastrophic event or in hundred of years if not more.
So, ideologically we might want or not be like that. But pragmatically that is not possible right now.

Or maybe I have a different definition of what that state of living is, so maybe we should define what a hunter-gatherer society looks like?

More general, every time I see a proposal/discussion about how we should live I am always concerned about "how can we all live" not just a group of people/or a specific country. Because if we cannot find a way for all of us to live then that is not a stable model.
I hardly ever use them. I think it's mainly that I don't know how. I also generally dislike having to learn "context specific" tools, since you generally need different debuggers for different languages/environments/runtimes.

I also do a lot of low level code (kernel/bootloader) where debuggers can be available but are often a lot harder to setup. Keep in mind that I also don't like IDEs and my coding setup is mostly vim + ctags + terminal.

I really agree with the quote in TFA, when I write rust code a few judiciously placed dbg!() calls are generally all I need to identify the issue.
Ever since they've been bought out by IGN, humble's strategy has been baffling.

They switched from Monthly to Choice but quickly had issues because they had to provide a lot more games (reducing the quality of each individual games), the price for new subscribers (20 usd) was too high and existing users who were grandfathered could easily skip a month (I'm pretty sure they still made money on those who forgot to skip a month).

Now, they're returning to a similar model as the Monthly, but long time subscribers end up paying more than new subscribers (due to currency exchange fees). They should have fixed the amount to something like 14 usd so that long time subscribers would stay to keep their discounted price.

And, to prevent skipping a month, they now reset the 20% discount on the humble store to 10% every time a month has been skipped and only increase it back to 20% after 12 consecutive unskipped months. It could be a good strategy if not for the fact that the humble store is not cheap, the 20% discount barely made it competitive with other online game stores. So, instead of incentivising people from not pausing months, they're just incentivising people to not buy from their store.

And then finally, I have no idea for the reasoning behind locking the games behind a launcher. Why couldn't they keep the DRM free games for platforms not covered by the launcher?
We don't even need to get rid of parking lots, we can build roofs with panels over them, which will help shade cars and even minimally lower co2 emissions from running car ac units of people who get back to cars.
>There's no guarantee that the phenomenon we're interested in will be expressible in an F=ma manner. Complexity exists.

That's a fair point. But having a good theory doesn't necessarily mean that it's expressible as a succinct equation. The theory of how metabolism works is insanely complicated, but it's a good theory nonetheless, because every part of it plays a functional role, it explains a wide range of phenomena and it's logically compatible with other successful theories. None of that holds for deep learning models.
Sunswick Creek, Tibbets Brook, Sawmill River, Park River, Bluespring Caverns, Arroyo de las Pasa, Arroyo de la Sacatela...
Similar thing happened with DVDs long time ago, when newer DVD drives could not be used to decode older DVD disks, due to incompatibility with early CSS systems.

Meanwhile, the torrents, with Dolby Vision or HDR10, play just fine everywhere, without any hardware restrictions, any software arbitrary nonsense restrictions, etc. I’ll continue buying those at the torrent tracker shop.
I hate the way HN hides comments like this. People should be allowed to see the idiocy of others, lest they be doomed to repeat it.
HackerNews is really a bubble sometimes. I don't get who the "many people" that "got used to macOS" are.

Apple had fiery fest of sales in Q4 2021, outsold all Wintel manufacturers, let alone Chromebooks. And after that, guess what, they now have 8% of desktop/laptop market share, instead of 6% they used to have. You can guess who covers most of the other 90+ percent.

Sent from my 2021 M1 Max MBP.
Even for things like this, of broader interest and some controversy, the news articles often are just abridged versions of a press release, anyway.

Might was well get the full sack of horse shit from the original source, than half a sack from a secondary.
> The bulk of that money — about $67.7 billion — will go toward a new power plant and hydrogen system, the company said in a stock exchange filing. Reliance plans to make the massive investment over a 10-to-15-year period, and has already begun scouting for land for the 100-gigawatt capacity site.

If I'm reading this correctly they want to build 100GW worth of solar capacity and a hydrogen plant for $67.7bln.

That's actually pretty cheap.