skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some bias in their choice of covering Israel's crimes much more often than China's, but I don't see the China apologism. They have a more nuanced view on China's global warming actions than you often see, but that view is quite realistic. I have also found one article [0] covering China's appalling treatment of Uighurs - that is little coverage, but it at least proves that they are not entirely covering China's crimes. They also mention Mao's atrocities in another article [1], though more in passing.

When you say "China apologism" I expect to see people praising China's "wonderful socialist state", talk about how free and happy the Chinese are, defend China's treatment of Uighurs (or deny it's happening) etc. Explaining that China, while being the top country by GHG total emissions, is not even in top 10 by per capita emissions is not China apologism - it is simply stating an uncomfortable fact.

[0] https://novaramedia.com/2020/08/05/neither-washington-nor-be...

[1] https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/24/in-search-of-the-chinese-...
they can release Activision and Bethesta titles only with game pass, and let Sony and Nintendo be free to implement game pass in their platform
> and kickedstarted the oculus rift.

Did the kickstarters get some juice when Facebook bought Oculus? Or just a big thank you?
A way to visualize what a gicen salary means in a given country (in my case just Germany). See my latest submission for a better description of the problem.
I use my own domain and give each website their own e-mail address too, so I know who is breached/selling my information. For password management I use BitWarden, to which I am a paying customer of 15$ a year for their premium features (Premium features being TOTP integrated into the password manager, probably something else too that I don't use).

BitWarden is open source, both server and clients. There's even a third party implementation of the server in rust that seems to be mostly compatible. Both the official and the third party server are self-hostable.

BitWarden runs their infrastructure on Azure, uses Azure managed databases and Azure managed backups. So I'm quite comfortable having my passwords there.

The only feature I miss is that I'd like BitWarden to send me an email with all my passwords, encrypted so that I own a backup of my data too in case the worst happens.
The tech works extremely well at making me feel sick.
I enjoyed subnautica sans VR.
ED is less interesting than Euro truck simulator. :-)

I get the physical games like table tenis and beat saber, but how is this not a fad? The wii was cool at the time too. Nintendo didn’t retain the ideas in later hardware.

VR chat is about as interesting as second life, and any metaverse that follows will follow the same path.
For TV, get a short throw projector. It’s a dumb screen, and it’s fun to play retro games projected on the wall
What's your plan for ensuring that such a berserk national leader doesn't retain nuclear capability in a post-disarmament world?

When it comes to preventing war, MAD works. Wishful thinking doesn't.
Yes. CO2 can be frozen out of the air as snow at sufficiently low temperatures.

This could be done at scale in central Antarctica using enormous refrigerating complexes[1], but it would be the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken by humanity.

Generally this is not seriously discussed by experts as a solution to global warming not because it is not feasible, but because it would diminish the sense of urgency and discourage the much more prudent and affordable approach of simply reducing emissions.

[1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/52/2/jamc-d-...
That was a very interesting read, thanks for the link!

From the article:

The outage in the ephemeris provisioning happened because simultaneously:

* The backup system was not available

* New equipment was being deployed and mishandled during an upgrade exercise

* There was an anomaly in the Galileo system reference time system

* Which was then also in a non-normal configuration

So they had to do a cold boot, which is by design slow because it focuses on high accuracy/certainty. Disappointing to read that the collaboration between the involved companies is downright bad in case of emergencies such as this. And the communication is also terrible, there's no public/official report of what exactly went wrong, why it took so long to recover, and what lessons were learned.
It sounds to me that GPS being under military control is an advantage over Galileo.
Hm, that's taking it a bit far given that I've yet to see any gamer who believes that e.g. taping plastic bags with gravel to their network cables [1] will lower their ping times (if it is not for weighing down a cruddy connector which only works when you press the damn thing down, that is). There does not seem to be a gamer-equivalent of $30000 speaker cables [2] (8 ft., add $1500 per additional ft.) or $10.000 power cables [3] either. No, audiophiles still hold the biscuit for being the most easily deluded moneyed demographic out there. If Hans Christian Andersen were alive today he'd write a story about it, "The Emperor's new Speaker Cable" [4] where a little boy is the only one who dares to comment on the piece of rusty barbed wire connecting the speakers to the amplifier.

[1] https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

[2] https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-sc...

[3] https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-ac...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
We usually take out "The" when it is used as a marketing trope. I missed it this time.
> But I guess most people don't transfer files in their local networks anymore and use their network purely for internet access.

Most people don’t have anywhere in their local network to transfer things to. I still laugh when people see my home server and assume that’s “your work thing”. I do use it for work, but 99.99% of what’s contained in there are family pictures and photos.
Really?

First, history of the past 80 years casts doubts on your claims:

The USSR-Afghanistan left an estimated 2 million dead. Nigerian Civil War between 1 and 3 million. France-Algeria War about 1 million. Korean War between 1.5 and 4.5 million dead. Vietnam between 1.3 and 4.5 million. I could go on really.

MAD doesn't stop wars from happening. It only stops nuclear powers from using nuclear weapons. And it stops major powers from targeting each other directly. That's the extent of MAD. Even that's a contentious claim to make: Pakistan vs. India over Kashmir comes to mind.

Even more so, MAD isn't the only incentive for not going to War. After World War II, the World got profoundly reshaped with new economic and geo-strategic treaties and alliances. Bretton Woods, United Nations, NATO, European Union,... come to mind. In fact, after 1945, European integration was considered as an antidote against extreme nationalism in Europe and was heavily advocated for by Churchill.

Second, "global casualties from warfare being in decline" doesn't imply that no casualties of war, or atrocities, have been committed since 1945. Neither does it imply that things can take a turn for the worst without resorting to nuclear weaponry. For instance, the Syrian Civil War sits at about .5 million dead currently, and it has essentially been a proxy war between regional as well as global powers. And let's not forget the Ukraine situation that's currently playing out.

Third, the "lack of a contingency plan" is essentially part of the Prisoner's dilemma which the arms race during the Cold War was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Internati... But that doesn't render the argument moot: objectively, casting nuclear weapons out of this world is the best outcome for everyone involved. But rationally, that's not possible as you end up in a situation where owning nuclear weapons while everyone doesn't is the better option from the perspective of a single nation. Albert Einstein was well aware of this dilemma and said he wouldn't have participated in the Manhattan Project if he had known that the German bomb was a figment of imagination.

The main reason why MAD has become a thing is because a chunk of humanity just wants to see the rest of the world burn. No matter how rational and bent on peace between nations you are yourself, you can't possibly predict whether the other side has equally rational leaders or, as it turns, absolute mad men behind the buttons who are very much willing to use them when push comes to shove. And that's absolutely not a great outlook for humanity in the long term. We're extremely lucky to not have had a war between major powers over the past 80 years; it's been a close shave a few times as well (e.g. Cuban Missile Crisis).
Right, I was thinking about that but I would not call it a "casino gaming machine" in this case, more like a casino security system, so I thought it could be something else.
I got a retail kit as well as the DK1, which was nice.

I did feel shafted by Palmer when he took both my and zucks money, but looking back now, it was buying a devkit not equity.
I fear articles like this rarely serve their purpose and sadly not due to any inherent weaknesses in the presentation or arguments. Rather, they rarely land in front of the people who disagree with the contention held within. Instead, they tend to be nearly exclusively read by those who agree. When said pieces do land in front of those holding alternate views, invariably it is by the propagandists and those whose views are forged in iron. The individuals who might be convinced inevitably avoid such articles thanks to the filtering power of today's social media platforms and the dogged pursuit and (not always successful, I'll admit) elimination of such essays from news feeds and sometimes even search engines and their hosting platforms themselves.

I have been very lucky that the majority of my friends and acquaintances hold diametrically opposed political views from me, as this has allowed me to watch this very phenomenon unfold on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. The most incredible platform to watch this on is TikTok - if one doesn't purposely engage with opposing viewpoints, one's "For You Page" will be nearly entirely filled with shorts confirming your existing ideological biases. The only remaining few percentage points of content will be extremely popular Toks, which are almost always non-political trending memes, such as dances.
> If they intend for people to use and copy the code without restriction there is no one else to say otherwise.

At that point you rely on a statement that is not legally binding and could be changed at any time. Wouldn't be the first time a software dev. rage quit and decided to go scorched earth on his projects.
Just buy the company-tethered stuff and return it. It's your right as a consumer, and one of the few ways to take action and make it hurt.
People almost always make such points as part of an agenda against of the sides. If you insist you didn't mean it way, ok, I believe you (though that would be highly unusual)—in that case, though, your comment would have needed to come with enough information to make that clear. Otherwise the default interpretation kicks in anyway.
How long can humans survive?
Sounds exactly like the sort of thing execs think when buying a company but then don't include in their due diligence.
This doesn't work for me, I had a VPN and resreshed on and off and it doesn't change
This kinda shows the problem with self-hosting though. Expectant parents just want an app they can directly use. Even something as simple as Heroku is outside the tech skills of 95% of parents.
>Boycott Israel because they are a bunch of greedy Jews.

There's no evidence of any BDS leaders saying this.

On the other hand, there's a bundle of evidence of vehement racism in the highest levels of the Israeli government (calls for "racial purity", collective punishment against arabs, "all arabs grow up to be terrorists", etc).

The fact that apartheid south africa was closely allied with israel, shared a nuclear project and was taken down by a BDS movement is, of course, not a coincidence.

The veneer of anti-racism has seemingly been co-opted to support a white european colonialist project behind an apartheid state
that purports to represent a race (again, like apartheid South Africa).

>it should be clear that a boycott can clearly have both appropriate and inappropriate motivations.

It should be clear that evidence-wise, being anti boycott most likely indicates at the very least stark naiveté and perhaps darker, more racist motives.
Take your favorite digital camera, and take a picture the likes of https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski/untitled-1976-... or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Caspar_D...
How do you battle-test in an hour the ability of the upstream developer to provide security fixes? To provide updates at all as the ecosystem develops (e.g. the rise of systemd, taking advantage of advancements in worker models, SSL library API changes, new Lua versions)? Ability to keep backward compatibility with modules?

Your approach might have led you to invest heavily in lighttpd at some point in time.
> Is there a good string-manipulation C library?

You will have to define "good". My string library[1][2] is "good" for me because:

1. It's compatible with all the usual string functions (doesn't define a new type `string_t` or similar, uses existing `char *`).

2. It does what I want: a) Works on multiple strings so repeated operations are easy, and b) Allocates as necessary so that the caller only has to free, and not calculate how much memory is needed beforehand.

The combination of the above means that many common string operations that I want to do in my programs are both easy to do and easy to visually inspect for correctness in the caller.

Others will say that this is not good, because it still uses and exposes `char *`.

[1] https://github.com/lelanthran/libds/blob/master/src/ds_str.h

[2] Currently the only bug I know of is the quadratic runtime in many of the functions. I intend to fix this at some point.
That scene really stuck out to me when I read it. It enraged me. It reminds me of some of the "softer" floggings going on today when Professors won't adhere to the new collectivism of our University system.
I believe Sqlite was in base when BCHS was first presented. That and you can just grap the big single c file version of sqlite, no need for a package.
>we know that automation is coming after office desk jobs first. Those jobs are much easier to automate

I would like to hear peoples' experiences with taking non-programming jobs and automating them.
A little surprised the Liliget Feast House in Vancouver, BC wasn’t mentioned.
Crypto.com acknowledges 'unauthorized activity' on servers
Why do we learn that passwords are obsolate and webauthn is the only sane choice?
CSS Tricks is one of those websites I never regret seeing in the search results
Aside from the usual Guardian dalliance with identity politics, this article comes across as either nihilistic, or making the case for contentment with what we've got rather than to strive to improve oneself. The latter is perhaps what we collectively need to hear as an alternative to the productivity porn, but it's a depressingly low bar to me.

All of these can be true at the same time:

* holding yourself to a standard

* striving to better yourself

* caring about your own mental health

* giving yourself time to rest/recover

* being kind to yourself when it comes to past failures

The article goes a bit too far with lowering expectations.
Your post reminds me of how ironic it is that despite the amazing wealth of software that exists today day, if your use case involves any expectation of privacy you generally can't find anything that fits your needs.
Matt Levine is funny and interesting. He can be hard to follow, but only because he talks about really complicated things. No one can explain it better than he does.
I also hate visiting Medium, but enjoy visiting Substack. They both have paywalls on some of the content, but Substack is much more enjoyable, even when you don't get to see the full article.
I returned mine after a month but apparently I didn't do enough research into how to get out of the little walled garden that is set up for you. I had the Samsung Gear a few years back and felt like it was the exact same environment.

In both cases one of the most interesting experiences was the movie theater. It somehow works. The social aspect was creepy, i'm an old guy and all i could hear was voices of young children...i felt like i shouldn't be there haha.
Surely I’m not the only one wondering how many “prediction tweets” they’ve deleted?

It’s an easy scam, if you’re prepared to invest the time. Make lots and lots of quite vague claims. Delete the ones that don’t pan out. Cash in as a “futurist” on the TEd talk circuit or similar…
Who paid for the study?
I agree, VR absolutely provides an experience flat-screen gaming can never deliver.

With the Covid situation being what it is and sports halls are closed, I’ve replaced live table tennis trainings with Valve Index and Eleven Table Tennis VR game. It has stunningly realistic physics and the immersion is so good that I don’t miss the real thing much. This wouldn’t be possible in front of a flat screen.
I have one of its predecessors (2GB USB 2.0 flash drives). Costed around $60 back then and it was worth it. There's hardly a day i don't use it.

After a very long time of daily usage one of the knifes broke. Totally my own fault. I sent Victorinox an email to thank them for their excellent product that lasted a long time of abuse. They replied to mail the thing to them so they could get it repaired for free. Everything was replaced, except the flash drive. Awesome thing, awesome service!
Leave it to humans to optimize for the most Armageddon per $.

There's a non zero chance each year that we trigger Armageddon. Given enough years it will happen with certainty. Yet nothing is done about it. I think our first mistake in thinking about the possibilities of other intelligent civilizations in the universe is to assume we are an example of one...
PSA: You can no longer buy a business-class Oculus Quest 2 from Facebook/Meta.

Presumably while sales reworks the product line for Metaverse pricing.

If you don’t want a Facebook account for your VR device, the only other option for Immersed looks like a Vive Focus 3.
I'm pretty sure it was Vanessa Selbst who said that, not Doug Polk
what a genius this person is
I have a Quest 2. It's definitely a massive improvement and I really wanted to enjoy it, but I can't spend more than 15 minutes wearing it without feeling ill. It seems to be getting worse with time rather than better. I played 3 Beat Saber songs in a row yesterday and felt slightly sick for an hour afterwards.

The idea of squinting at a text editor using a fraction of a VR screen for hours at a time feels insane to me.
Rather as in the pandemic, the attention paid to models is remarkable. You can cherry pick a model to suit your predilections. They certainly cover a wide range of possibilities. I do wonder what your view is of the utter lack of any concerted action by countries in response to these models? If we're off to hell in a handbasket, it does seem that few in power, with access to the best authorities available, are really concerned. How is that? Extinction Rebellion are certainly logical on the basis of their belief in the views of some climate scientists. They sound and act rather like people who'd say yes to O'Brien's question in 1984 when he asks Winston if he's prepared to do some pretty horrible things in pursuance of the objective of overthrowing Big Brother. But when it comes down to it, no one is convinced.
Example: Coal is now back on the menu when power shortages loom.
I am almost 50. I don’t really notice it when working.
Thanks Igor for making a difference! I've always been after simple tools that do their job well, and, for the past 15 years, nginx was always one of them. Good luck with everything that comes next for you.
Mjpeg over Http is not a live streaming format, it takes a lot of bandwidth, it has high latency, it run on TCP which it is not a protocol for streaming,
the only advantage is that all browsers support it.

So (i) if you want a solution that works out of box on any device, (ii) if you have enough bandwidth and (iii) if you are not interested in video quality, Mjpeg over Http is a good trade-off.
I think the biggest problem with Medium is the fact that nothing was paywalled and then they introduced the paywall, which caused frustration. Substack, on the other hand, is much more pleasurable because there is an expectation from the start that some of the articles are going to be paywalled.
Pijul 1.0 Beta
This basically means that everything that has software updates can be returned forever.

It doesn't. It means that functionality cannot be changed in a degrading way, but upgrading and non-conflicting security updates are still allowed.

For a customer, money upfront and money over time is the same (adjusting for the interest rate). They don't need just a dead brick, whatever it costs in production. When your saas stops having a feature, you stop paying. This is no different, except that I'd vote for a law which amortized the upfront cost to the real usage time. E.g. I bought a treadmill with 2-year warranty for $4000 and it stopped doing a claimed feature after a year (iow, became broken from my perspective). I either receive a service which returns the feature, or get $2000 back + 20% fine for inconvenience.
I know zero Russian, or any other language other than English. I had a very similar reaction to you. It sounded almost like an obituary.
So, did you deliver the update?
You are right, of course. The Xboxes are better and better hardware-design-wise each generation, and the Surfaces are highly rated.

I should have been more specific - I was thinking of the CPU and GPU design.
And end mortality!
Does your non-materialist theory involve true randomness (which is not really making a decision), or is it just more mind-stuff behaving deterministically in another dimension (which is not really free will)?

I'm not sure there are alternatives to these.
Unicode?! YAGNI!

Advocating for a universal language (that must presumably be written in Latin letters) is an entertaining way to round off the manual to one's editor.
16 years without reviewing password security seems like a massive oversight. A major leak like this it's a high price to pay to learn this lesson.
I just use the MacBook trackpad; works fine for me. And yes I touch type. If I couldn’t I would struggle. When I was in primary school (in the 80s), I had a choice from our municipal in the Netherlands between learning to touch type and something else (I forgot) or nothing as extra curricular. I am still happy I picked touch typing! Gift that keeps on giving.
Great description of why hard problems are hard :) Thanks for the time and hard work!
our discourse often seems to lack the nuance, that two opposing ideas can (and should) be held in our heads at the same time.

that we should hold ourselves in unconditional positive regard and that we can strive for more

imo, this article is attempting to push the pendulum back towards the positive regard as, and i would agree, the author feels that were too far into striving
You can do similarly in Apache with the Perl sections...

<Perl>
# dynamic perl config goes here..
</Perl>
I'm confused, aren't 'constant' and 'invariant' the same thing?
For calendar I would say: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync + https://syncthing.net/ and for sharing with someone you would run some web client on VPS talking to https://github.com/39aldo39/Radicale-DecSync