skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m stumped, tell me who said this quote.

As for questioning authority: the notion that COVID is more harmful to the elderly than the young is generally true - but then a line is drawn through some alchemy from this to the notion that COVID is not dangerous for most young people, which regardless of how completely dubious a statement it is, still leads to a host of bad public outcomes.

We know that vaccines reduce the incidence of infection and the the severity of infection, and also that masks effectively reduce the incidence of infection. There is a popular sentiment that these things are either generally wrong (or lies), or that they should only apply to people with underlying health conditions making them more susceptible to infection. I don’t agree with the people who claim the latter, but I can’t and wouldn’t say they are lying or being dishonest - it’s a perfectly valid opinion to hold (and after all, it’s not illegal or immoral to be wrong :-) ). It’s the former case which is much more concerning, when people deny or contort the facts to suit their own agenda.

The concerns that people like Neil Young have is that bogus science from bogus professionals is being peddled to large audiences of platforms they share. It is their right to withdraw such association and, if they desire, to give an explanation for doing so. You have to really stretch the issue here to culture-war proportions to make this a matter of pro-government censorship etc.
Prettier is equally amazing indeed.
If history has told us anything, once everyone adopts a new standard port, it's time for someone to make a new standard.

Anyone remember Micro USB?: https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-european-standardization...
I think GP is trying to make the opposite point, that Calvus (not Curio) introduced too much nuance in his speech, making himself a less effective orator.
if you have fun with this, play around with the music maker in ansiwave bbs: http://bbs.ansiwave.net/
Genuinely curious: why would I choose the digital mars C/C++ compiler over GCC/clang?
I wonder whether you could jump onto the Cloud as DevOps person or something? Found a little O'Reilly book on Cloud security, might be helpful:

Practical Cloud Security: A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment by Chris Dotson

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Cloud-Security-Secure-Deplo...
This is a post about youtube-dl. Why are nearly all the comments about yt-dlp? If I didn't know better, I'd think yt-dlp users have massive inferiority complexes because they never seem to miss an opportunity to attempt to recruit everyone else to be just like them, even shamelessly trolling the announcement. When did this turn into Ford vs. Chevy?
The article says 480. Do you have a different source, or is the about 100 a figure of speech?
The photo shows pickup trucks, too. Do they count as trucks for the convoy?

[Edit: found "About 100 vehicles are idling around the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa" on https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/covid-19-freedom-conv... so that or similar might have been the source.]
I think fixed-voltage chargers are supposed to all do 3 amps max for any voltage below their top voltage. If that's wrong let me know.

I don't know what the rules are for programmable supplies.
I think there is a transaction per move, since everything is recorded on the block chain, so the transaction number might represent ~15 moves per game on average, the mean is probably skewed to a lot of people messing around for a few moves then stopping... Or optimizing for a win by stopping early as soon as soon as the odds are against them?
Employer and customers don't see checked out white collar programmers, managers and analysts and testers either.

Checked out foes not mean going put of way to show you don't care. It means not caring and doing the minimum to get by when no one is looking.
How many watts are these lights provisioned for? Is charging at 200W going to get you charged and ready for the next day's driving?
Shut down the internet in Windows 98 style:
http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/
I'm on carnivore, and although fruits are no-no (for me at least), in my own research they're better than grains and other vegetables. Unlike leafy vegetables, most fruits are evolved to be eaten by animals, and have the seeds pooped out or discarded in the ground. That's why they taste so fricking good. Though evolution didn't make them this big and full of sugar, we did. And then we juice them so you can consume 20 apples in one sip, and call that healthy.

In my eyes and personal opinion, the diet we are most genetically optimal for is high fat, mostly carnivore, with seasonal fruits and berries, and remembering that modern fruits are nothing like what we have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years. And ideally insects, though they weren't a huge part of our diet. We after all are big herbivore hunters and scavengers.
Yes. It doesn’t play nice with goroutines and Go’s concurrency model, from what I understand.
When they already track configurations on their orders page?
Good write up. Your assessment on how Stripe (and others like Cloudflare) won favourability among the HN audience definitely rings true.
Or just use remote desktop.
Interview Theater
check out searXNG:
https://darmarit.org/searx
Regarding the headline, it is absurdly unrealistic to expect that any consumer-grade software can defend itself from state-funded hackers. Not even the entirety American intelligence apparatus can defend itself against state hackers. Why would we expect lowly iOS (or any other consumer software) to do better?

If you have reason to believe you're targeted by state-backed intelligence agencies, you really oughta be working under the assumption that they can see everything you're doing.
I like how this still does jQuery, if not only for nostalgia's sake...
Part of the modern USB PD spec is that the two sides of the negotiation usually have a set of voltage/amperage pairings that they'll do (the highest aggregate pair(s) giving you the wattage of the adapter). Sometimes the things won't find a configuration that matches and so it won't charge. That's why, for eg., you can't charge the Nintendo Switch Dock with a macbook charger but can charge the switch itself. The dock is really picky (basically only does the pair the official nintendo adapter wants) and so is the macbook charger. The switch itself is more flexible though.

That said I would have thought the toothbrush would just do normal old USB charging, and that should work on a macbook charger no matter what I'm pretty sure? But maybe not.

Edit to add note: I think the most commonly missing voltage is 12v, so your toothbrush might want that.
It’s true that people want to do their own thing, but at what level? People don’t want to write their own HTML, or run their own server. They want to solve problems that matter to them. Give them the right tools and you’ll grow your platform. Think how Windows benefitted from Excel.
The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ compiler on DOS.
I think one of the great benefits of Black is that it is opinionated. Giving folks the option to select the type of indentation blunts the benefits. If you have a huge code base which mixes tabs and spaces it’s going to be hard to diff and merge code (or even reuse code snippets).
This! Try stuff you want to master. Pays off over and over and over!
Sorry, but it just isn't, and I can say that from personal experience. Yes, the % amount looks high, but your 400th thousand dollar just isn't as impactful as your 100th thousand dollar.

50k post tax is not enough for someone currently maxing out their "retirement" to "nearly double their retirement investment, that isn't correct.

The point is, after a certain absolute dollar number, additional dollars are incrementally less valuable, which makes questions like, "What does this do to my happiness?" a lot more relevant.

Even if it allows you to retire meaningfully earlier, so what? Dying at 65 because you were stressed is definitely not worth it.
People write games for DOS emulators (especially DOSBox). Mostly mods of existing DOS games (our son loves Commander Keen mods), but more rarely new from scratch games as well.

However, the problem with developing games/mods for an emulator such as DOSBox, is you may find they run fine in the emulator but don't work in real DOS. Some years ago, I had MS-DOS 6.22 running under VirtualBox and our son was using that to play DOS games. He wanted to play this Command Keen mod he saw on YouTube, but it kept on crashing with an "out of memory" error. Eventually we tried it on DOSBox instead, there it worked. I tried to free up memory by tinkering with CONFIG.SYS/etc, but it appears to be impossible to get that much free conventional memory with real MS-DOS, even when making fullest possible use of UMBs and the HMA. I never tried FreeDOS, but it might have the same issue.
> The default style is updated yearly.

I'm hoping there will be minimal or even zero style based commits, excepting those related to new Python features. It wouldn't be very Black-like to force a commit of a potentially enormous size on users of the library every year. Probably something you're already thinking about.

I was apprehensive about taking our legacy codebase Black, but zero regrets. Thanks for your work!
It's a bit funny, the ToS state that players suspected of cheating get their account terminated and must pay back any wins within 90 days.

Problem is, the company is based in Germany and I don't see any way they could possibly enforce the refunding internationally - neither legally nor by technical means.
Not so sure that'll work due to the fact that the first segment in a subset of segments is not the init segment (thus missing atoms like moov, ...)
Basically unleashes a rant on Substack and its CEO for proposing he shut down his youtube and patreon channels and move to substack "for free".
I had seen an hybrid Nissan turned into plastic carnage just 15 days ago. Apparently the car confused a line for blind people in the sidewalk with a continuous line and blocked the steering wheel (refusing to invade "the other lane"). The car was parked and one minute later crashed at 5Km/h against a lamppost.

I assume that Tesla is not the only maker having problems with those autopilot features.
This sounds good to me.

So much of this sounds like another overengineered solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.
Interesting. The few Chinese students I had in my Japanese class back at university were so much faster than the rest of us.

I agree than Korean to Japanese might be even closer.
I programmed as a teenager and through university but didn't find it as enjoyable as Linux.

My first job was as a sysadmin. I then chose a career path to DevOps then Platform Engineering.

Finding people who have a depth of Linux and systems skills but can code is like hens teeth. Companies will pay a premium over Devs for that intersection of very niche skills.

As well, Platform teams are often smaller and bypass some of the processes like having product owners, unnecessary agile rituals and are far more empowered than many Devs are who often work to already designed/scoped/architected tickets which while understandable from a business point of view takes much of the fun out of the job.

As Platform all Devs teams are our (internal) customers so we talk to all of the dev teams, some of which don't talk to each other, so we get to see a more complete picture of the engineering org and because of that we are brought into architectural discussions and lots of open-ended fun engineering problems.

Sysadmin is (like QA) sadly a rather disrespected (almost janitorial) title now. Don't fight a battle you can't win - but you don't need to jump all the way to Dev to do it.
This kind of activism usually elicits the above sort of smug dismissal. If the op and others really thought it was nothing, they would just ignore it.
gofmt, on the other hand, gives you a lot more flexibility to wrap lines how you deem appropriate. I like gofmt way more than black.
You're not familiar with the fact that there are people to the left of establishment Democrats? We could start with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA); India Walton, who won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo; or even the Bernie Sanders campaign. It gets more left from there, beyond electoral campaigns.
I'm talking about the general failure of all large construction projects, not just highly regulated ones like nuclear builds.

The US economy no longer has the productive capacity to do large-scale logistical coordination needed for building big things. Until this is fixed, nuclear will be a pipe dream. And by the time it is fixed, it may well be the case that all steam-driven electricity generation has been made obsolete, in terms of cost, by solar wind and storage. Maybe not, but in any case that's more than a decade away.
What's the alternative? Resources, in a very direct, physical, way afford one power. As soon as you allow unequal distribution of resources, you create unequal power. The fact that the 'donor class' are put on a leash to the degree that most demand be done means things are working well no?
Which scientific journal are those complaints published in? (:
How is coordination achieved otherwise?
It sounds like you're saying that even reviewing code of subordinates is micromanagement? If you have a team of junior developers, who should review their code? Someone from another team?
That's... really not how any of it works, and the ping examples are a red herring.

IPv4-compatible IPv6 addresses basically allows applications to connect to IPv4 hosts using just a single IPv6-compatible network stack. The operating system kernel handles the translation to and from IPv4 native. There's no way it can "bypass NAT" -- that doesn't even make sense, NAT causes the hosts behind a network to all have the same external network, the exact same incoming rules would apply as they always have.

As for ping: back in the 1990s and 2000s, ping only understood IPv4 addresses and an independent command "ping6" was made to work on IPv6. In the mean time, regular ping understand both protocols just fine and you don't need a separate one. Modern Linux distros don't even have a "ping6" anymore.
One thing the article doesn't really cover is how Hayes solved the problem of it being extremely hard to avoid +++ appearing in th data stream - Hayes required that there be a pause where no data was sent both before after the +++ before it would transition into command mode, and otherwise would just continue in data mode. Hayes patented this and charged other modem manufacturers to license it - not everyone was willing to pay, so an alternative approach was to change the behaviour to only transition to command mode on +++(valid AT command), which is the reason sending IRC CTCP PING messages containing +++ATH0 was effective at dropping people off IRC (the incoming +++ATH0 did nothing, but the IRC client would then send it back and the modem would drop if it didn't implement the Hayes solution).

Thanks, Hayes. Thayes.
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Reminds me of googlewhack days.. those were fun
Please don't take HN threads into yet another tedious generic flamewar about this stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I respectfully think that teaching only Spanish would be a terrible idea, not because of Spanish or those speaking it.

Teaching Latin makes many languages after Latin trivial: the case system and inflections on the verbs, adjectives, nouns reveal a common theme across many IndoEuropean languages. Russian would too, I believe, having had Russian after 4 years of hardcore Latin. Polish would do better than Russian in this regard, since Russian has simplifications of grammatical distinctions still present elsewhere.

Not faulting any language, as English and Swedish, for examples, simplify things more complex still in German.

I just think if only one language were to be taught, it would be strategic for it to represent more than one present-day set of simplifications of a richer grammatical past, one to which people might be exposed in other modern day languages.

(Spanish and Italian, for examples, collapse/simplify some of the structure present in their main common predecessor. )
You might be surprised how refreshing it can be to host your own alternatives to cloud services. It's a matter of incentives. Cloud services will always evolve to maximize profits. While this is closely tied to customer satisfaction, you might not be the customer. Often advertisers are the true customers.

Open source tools tend to be much more user-centric. Even just dropping dark patterns and constant upselling often makes it worth it for me.

It's not a panacea. OSS has its own issues. But it feels better for my mental health to not be using software that's constantly trying to manipulate me in some way.
What? Of course, the existing nuclear capacity is not enough to cover full migration to EV. The same applies to the existing capacity of renewables. You can not have 150% of nuclear (or any other kind of) generation relative to your current electricity consumption in anticipation of future migration to EV.

The point is that it was demonstrated in practice that high (~80%) nuclear ratio of electricity generation works well and results in stable and affordable long-term electricity prices, so you can scale it following mass migration to EV (it's a multi-decade process, so quite enough time to build new reactors). Meanwhile, we can see that grid starts to struggle when renewables get to 30-40% of generation capacity and you have to rely on fossil fuels to back them up during unfavorable conditions. Yes, in theory it could be solved, but those solutions have not been demonstrated in practice on large scale and long time frame.
My favorite American Artist for Lithography work is John Muench - https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5047.html
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/muench-john-ythzz2i4fm/sol...
It's not with the author. They might have been confused because the co-host was a Marine officer as well.
My guess is bad regression testing based on subjective qualifiers at best or incentivize poor results that promote as revenue at worst.
Sounds like you actually are very opinionated about your coding style, so it's both totally understandable and yet ironic that you'd begrudge that of others. I've tried hard to internalize that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they all stink. My own included.
I think it is a reasonable thing to not leave misinformation unchallenged, especially when that misinformation is correlated with a rise in (lethal) hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Please avoid generic comments like this. We've had the generic flamewar about this stuff countless times already.
Now we need two decades before all the studies of the past 10 years are common knowledge and I can buy full fat yogurt in my corner store, but right now it's only stocking reduced fat ones with added sugar, because some pillock in the 50s construed the idea that saturated fat is going to kill us. Sorry, but the obesity epidemic isn't because everybody is eating butter.

/r/ketoscience has plenty interesting studies about high fat low carb if you're interested in doing your own research. And I'm a big fan of the "Low Carb Down Under" Youtube Channel for latest research talks.

https://youtube.com/c/lowcarbdownunder
As a self-described libertarian -

I respect the job the police do, and I wouldn't want to have to do it myself. But that is completely orthogonal to holding individual police officers accountable under the same laws as everybody else. Agents of the state summarily executing people is one of the most egregious violations of individual liberty possible - larger than "licensing for lawn cutting" or most anything else. The "thin blue line" flag is a counter protest to the call for police accountability, and it is blatantly hypocritical to call yourself a libertarian while opposing a major libertarian critique.
> how many of Europe's messes was the US supposed to help clean up before saying "No more"?

Personally, I'd like to just say thanks!

And hope you stick around to prevent us creating a new mess.. I think we'll be happy to purchase a few useless F35s in exchange :)
One thing missing in this article, and in a lot of understanding of the Hayes protocol, is that the escape sequence wasn't just "+++". It was specifically: Pause, +++, Pause. So a series of "+" characters in the transmitted data stream would not make it listen for an AT command. When the modem wasn't online, it was in AT command mode by default anyway. But if in a call, the way to hang up was "Pause +++ Pause ATH0 <CR>" (the zero was implied, "ATH" would work just as well).
> For example, the "We don't recommend the general public wear masks at this time" was consistently misinterpreted to mean "Masks don't work", which is not what was said at all.

Anthony Fauci literally said that "there's no reason for the general public to be walking around with a mask". On television. I'll link to this version, since hilariously, facebook has "fact checked" it:

https://www.facebook.com/DeannaForCongress/videos/3682499312...

(note that I have no idea who "Deanna for Congress" is. This is the first version of the video I could find -- linked from a reuters article also claiming to "fact check" it [1] -- because google has gone out of its way to bury the video.)

It's pretty darned ironic that this is your preferred example of people "not understanding" messaging. If you search for this, you will find hundreds of other articles "fact-checking" this, even though he said it, it's not debatable, and the various walk-backs and fact-checks and whatnot simply make the issue look ridiculously farcical.

Just to underscore the point here, the Reuters "fact check" admits he said it (since, to be fair, he said it), and the only "fact checking" involved is that the official government position has changed. It wasn't taken out of context. It wasn't a misquote. It wasn't "misinterpreted". He said masks don't work other than blocking "the occasional droplet", and that there's no reason for the public to wear them. This was March 2020.

While it's true (and obvious to anyone) that the government position has changed, it doesn't change the "fact" of what was said in the past. And yet, people persist in trying to do this absurd stuff.

Let's be honest with ourselves: if this leads to doubt amongst the public, is this the fault of a dense public not understanding sophisticated, super-nuanced messaging, or simply that the messaging was muddled and has wavered over time, and that some parties are engaged in blatant attempts to re-write the factual record?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-...
I guess I'm ok with going through with this because the legacy G Suite account was already a "special" kind of account with all kinds of weird restrictions, and will become even more so once they close off access to the workspace features.

Migrating back to a regular @gmail.com account has been something I wanted to do before they even announced this shutdown TBH.
This is a recipe for people spending time cleaning up files, back and forth, ad infinitum. Or, just letting the stubborn person win.
You can do exactly the same thing without regulation.

Regulation exists because the alternative is what’s happening. More than half of these are scams where people are running with the money. And the majority of the rest are people buying a copy of Dune thinking they now own the rights to it.