skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android has demonstrated that you can have multiple app stores and that majority of users will happily use the default app store which for vast majority of Android phones is Google Play store.

Malware has made it into Google Play store which is Google's fault.
Same has happened to Apple (https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/07/emails-reveal-128-million-ios... https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-ios-...) so you cannot be guaranteed to be safe just because you are behind a walled garden, you still need to think for yourself.

Allowing app side-loading or different app store is not a security hole.
Using non-approved apps or non-trusted app stores might allow for existing security hole to be exploited more easily but it might also allow for better protection against such security hole by providing better curated app stores for less tech-savvy users.
> including experimenting to find modelines that worked for my CRT monitor.

I remember having to muck around with modelines in X11 in the 1990s - but not this century; and even last century, Windows (both 3.x/9x and NT lineages) and OS/2 (I only ever ran 2.0) never required any such esoteric configuration (I don’t even know whether either exposed any INI/registry settings for it.) Why was this such a big (and painful) part of the 90s Linux GUI experience but not for its contemporary GUI competitors?
Vaccines are still going to end the pandemic earlier with an enormous amount of lives saved.

But, you need to stop equating ending the pandemic with eliminating the virus.

After the pandemic ends the virus will be with the human race for the rest of our natural lives most likely.

We live with HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43 and all of us catch that and nobody considers the pandemics that started transmission of those viruses in the human race to still be pandemics.

When the disease burden drops sufficiently then the pandemic is over. Vaccines reduce the disease burden dramatically.
> There are mysterious matchmaking algorithms. It isn't clear how these work. At face, they appear to match players of similar skill or deck strength.

One of the dark patterns they found in Magic the Gathering Arena is "Illusion of Control" because they match players of similar skill or deck strength. I actually think it is a good thing they match games this way, and it seems like the website is just looking for things to complain about games.
Taiwan on Covid alert as domestic Omicron cases spike
‘Nuff said.
Slackware was my first distro, purchased a diskette set by mail from a company in Computer Shopper magazine and installed it on a 386 my parents gave me after buying an IBM PS/1 with a 486DX2 in 1991 (or 1992?).

I used it to get Internet access via SLIP dial-up to a mainframe at the University of Missouri and from there to play MUDs which ended up becoming an obsession for years and resulted in me learning C to modify DikuMUD.

I’m really glad to see that Slackware is still alive and kicking even though I’m now mostly a FreeBSD and MacOS user.
It is OK to use words that remind people of troubling things as long the point of using it is not to do this antagonistically.

Someone could come along and tell me my name means 'short people are possessed by demons' and I would still go on using my name, even if someone said that was mean of me. Why? Because it's a ridiculous accusation, and you are a ridiculous person if you make such an accusation, or entertain it.

Now if I started calling myself '4 foot tall demons' that would obviously be different. It is entirely implausible that the 'baggage' is coincidental.

The point is that the sort of historical baggage you are talking about isn't relevant to the word or it's usage in context.

There is nothing to excuse.
Would you rather that he invoked the treatment of intellectuals in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge? After all, the "stated goal" of that was to somehow bring forth a post-scarcity utopia ("full communism") on Earth! Since when has it ever been OK to take "the stated goal" at face value, and use it to shield problematic policies from any and all criticism?
As someone who is from the era of Ubuntu as their first distro, my natural progression towards maintainable OS made me reach Arch. As an OS for your system, it seems like the perfect abstraction layer and does just enough. The next incremental update to my system could be NixOS, Nix package manager in Arch or Nix package manager in FreeBSD.
But I am always happy to see old projects like this kicking.

I see many people mention the fact that they won't be coming back to Slackware. Could that be because they are not changing enough according to the times they are in? Is there something the project can do to attract new users? I definitely wouldn't want Slackware project to stall. It makes me really sad when OSS projects die.
Section 2 is literally the basis of my original point that declaring repayment as profitable to the tax payer is inaccurate accounting of costs. I've read the entire paper. I'm not sure why you're so bent on ignoring plainly stated facts that align with my contention that the bailouts were not profitable to the tax payer. They weren't. It's explicitly stated.

"At 3.5% of 2009 GDP it is a cost that is big enough to raise serious questions about whether taxpayers could have been better protected."

It even directly states that citing the propublica bailout tracker, which the root comment does, as evidence of "profit to the taxpayer" is deeply flawed and one of the reasons the paper is addressing the issue. This is the entire reason I cited it

"The press typically reports bailout costs on an ex post cash basis despite the problems with that approach. For example, ProPublica, a highly regarded non-partisan news organization, created a 'Bailout Tracker' that has been keeping a running tally of government asset purchases and cash receipts under TARP and from the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In their most recent update dated September 27, 2018, they report a total net government 'profit' of $97 billion. Policymakers also tend to cite ex post cash results. For example, in 2012 former president Barack Obama claimed that, 'We got back every dime used to rescue the banks.' Other media outlets report skepticism about such claims,7 but news organizations generally lack the financial acumen or resources to produce credible cost estimates of their own."

You're not going to force your flawed interpretation onto me and convince me the author is not stating exactly what she's stating plain as day, and has reinforced with subsequent work and commentary. That's called gaslighting
I still regularly go to a library and take random books off the shelf and read them in the branch.

It's silly and paranoid, but I want to know some things without a record existing.

No web browser, or online payments.

It doesn't even need to be anything interesting. I just want to have some skills/knowledge with no documented evidence
MIT Engineers Create New Material Stronger Than Steel and Light as Plastic
Dedupe is a lot less memory-intensive if you have larger files and tune your datasets' `recordsize` to 1MiB instead of the 128KiB default. It makes per-file deduplication less efficient but makes the overall process much more usable since there will be much fewer total blocks for it to keep track of. I use it to maintain my torrent seed directories while also moving/retagging the files into my own separate hierarchy.
Second the suggestion of a raspberry pi.

The book getting started with raspberry pi was the best introduction to computing I’ve ever seen.
The bit between the truck and trailer is a drawbar. As mentioned, it is indeed mainly for manoeuvreability. In Australia, that combination is called a 'truck and dog', the dog being the rear trailer. The front axle(s) on the dog are steerable by the drawbar. The upshot of this combination is that you can tip the truck without having to disconnect the trailer, by 'folding' the combination up on itself, turning the whole lot into a U-shape.

As for load, these trucks are completely loaded, there is no waste. This is simply because the things that a tipper transports (bitumen, dirt, grain, gravel etc.) are very dense. Load limits, at least in Australia, are based on the amount of axles under the vehicle, so the only way to increase the load capacity of these trucks is to increase axle count. Example: https://www.aeitransport.com.au/biggest-load-to-be-moved-in-...

The image of the truck and dog you linked seems especially long. This might be a specialised setup for roadworks, where the driver can actually tip the load (in a controlled manner) through the drawbar and drive the dog over the top of it. The longer drawbar would leave room for the tipping body on the truck to raise completely, and also lower the angles experienced by the hitch if the driver offloads too much material between the truck and dog.
It's Banksy Jr.
The exterior does look like shou sugi ban wood which (done properly) should indeed last for a long time.
The history of racism has been, and will continue to be taught. That isn't what critical race theory is. Critical race theory posits that an entire race of people are to blame for the actions of people with similar colored skin. That is of course racist, so giving those racists the ability to assign collective blame based on skin color is getting pushback for obvious reasons.
https://iohk.io/team/ is probably the best single link that demonstrates how absurd that statement is, but that group is far from the only one where basically any of the senior technical people could work basically wherever the hell they want.
Europe consists of 44 different countries with sometimes vastly different developed, and funded, infrastructure.

There is a big difference between the motorways in a country like the Netherlands vs those in Moldova [0]

There is often also vastly different regulations in terms of vehicle safety requirements, and many other differences, the combination of which also leads to quite different per capita traffic deaths [1]

[0] https://landgeist.com/2021/09/07/the-best-and-worst-roads-in...

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2018/12/07/which-countries-in-europ...
Is that true? I still have to remove AltAdBrowser fairly often from my mother’s relatively new Dell laptop when I visit.
I don't think you can say the paper is 'suspect'. It's primarily factual findings of a pollen analysis. But a criticism you certainly can make is that it's just one study from one geographic location. And that's a very valid criticism and looking back, I am guilty of over-extrapolating from this one single study in one location.

> Lightning during the drier days of fall would lead to grass fires, burning the trees.

This is one dynamic. There are other dynamics that help (not hinder) the expansion of forests. So again, I don't think the story is so simple.

> There were microenvirons near streams that had trees but they were not common.

Australia also has microenvirons along water courses where tropical & temperate rainforest species are preserved. Rainforest species are much more resistant to fire as opposed to the very fire-prone (but also fire adaptive) Eucalypt species that are highly dominant across the Australian landscape. But this is a change since the arrival of man, when rainforest and other less fire-prone tree species were much more predominant. In other words, fire-prone but also fire-adaptive trees/forests were 'selected for' by humans in Australia. Trees along streams on the North American Great Plains could also just be remnants of earlier much more wide-spread forests.

So you can see that I'm continuing to push the influence of humans in the diminution of forests. In many ways humans are 'the enemy' of forests (with the exception of some rainforest tribes that are highly adapted for forest living). Anyway, it's a very interesting topic and I've appreciated this exchange of views.
Yes its not an outrageous amount, I was just expecting something more diy/homesteading from “Building a home in the woods” then it was more hire contractors and an architech and build a massive modern house in the woods.
>> I’m looking forward to someone improving the performance of Go’s regexp package, which is quite slow.

Hah, this reminds me how over several years ago, I rewrote one of my homework from Go to Python, since Go version was so terribly slow because of regex. I really hoped it was better in 2021.
And check out Ubiquiti and Mikrotik for more hardware that does this sort of thing.
Probably challenging given that the GBA's ARM7TDMI core runs at about 17MHz. Perhaps doable if the graphics hardware as accessed from the ARM core can operate in the same modes the Z80 core uses (I forget if it's a strict superset, or what, exactly).
There was SLS before it. By the time I could afford to cobble together a machine capable of running Linux, Slackware had superceded SLS and Red Hat and other distros you may have heard of didn't exist yet. Red Hat became the beginner's Linux very quickly after it was released. All this happened in a pretty short time frame from 1993-1996 or so.
> My immediate thought: how could this be used to make a really cheap desktop pick-and-place system?

The limitations of homebrew pick-and-place are the vision system, not the control system.

If you solved the vision system problems, you could probably build a pick-and-place out of Legos.
I think it can depend a lot on the style you're going for, but also on what kind of video it is.

With multiple speakers at once, I think removing a lot of silence can make it sound pretty unnatural.

As a solo person speaking to a camera, or recording a screencast, when I'm not perfect out the gate (read: I repeat each line like 6 times), I've found it easiest to take a breath and leave a pause between each take. After that, the editing is pretty straightforward, just cutting out the silences and keeping the good takes.

Some people are super comfortable on camera and can just talk for a few minutes and it's done... or memorize a script and knock it out... but sadly I'm not one of those people. Even with upfront planning, I'm more like "record 45 minutes to make a 5 minute screencast" so removing silence automatically is a huge time saver.
The Soviet Union and China aren't "a little bit of central planning" though. They're entirely centrally planned, with little to no market influence.

Having the markets captured by private actors winds up badly too - that's why "a little bit of a central planning" goes a long way - it can take the rough edges off of Capitalism and structure markets to result in fair, distributed outcomes.
I am with you. Thank you for speaking up!
Fantastic piece of history about TBL and Ian Ritchie.

When APK of Wolvic for Quest 2?

Edit — found it: https://github.com/Igalia/wolvic/releases/download/0.9.3/Wol...
Yeah it's that first one, I checked the 4plebs archive for the relavent posts. Doesn't seem to be any specific reason they targeted her beyond the usual /pol/ cancer that's tainting so many boards nowadays

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/234859630/
> So - how often do sexual harassment incidents occur such that the obvious line of report is to the instructor (as opposed to say, the department chair or an administrator)?

If incidents like this are reported at all, they are most often reported to instructors first. The reason is that the issues are quite sensitive, and often times students have a well-developed relationship with their instructors (in some cases it may be the only relationship with an adult on campus). They often do not know the chair or administrators, so the instructor takes the role of guiding the student though the process. Usually it means handing the issue off to someone who is more qualified, but it's important to be ready for when those students come to you.

> Are you literally saying that, literally, every post doc should have (with 99 percent probability) been the recipient of such a report (on the basis of the handful of likely very small classes they've taught by that stage)?

No, but a post doc should be aware of the high probability that something along these lines could happen with regularity when they become an actual professor. A post doc shouldn't sit there wide-eyed and slack-jawed when we ask them about these issues during an interview.

> I guess that post-doc shit out luck when applying for a position by your DEI board, because they have no sexual harassment reports under their belt?

No, expectations are calibrated based on the experience of the applicant. If we go by the Berkeley rubric, a candidate could score very well by:

- Comfort discussing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging related issues

- gives some detail about specific strategies for effective mentoring

- Mentions plans or ideas but more is expected for their career stage.

So if you can comfortably talk about salient issues, have some experience mentoring students, and have some plans but maybe not concrete ones, you are in a solid position. I don't see this as unrealistic.
How is it that you know exactly what the thinks?

Your argument is exactly equivalent to me telling you that you don’t really care that much about the rights of the individual.
We know the root cause of the problem. It is very well defined. The elites of this country have essentially sold out the middle class by shipping their jobs overseas and depress wages in every industry by methods such as H1-B visas to further keep people from climbing the economic ladder. This has destroyed countless towns and cities and left millions in desperation with no hope for any dignified future for them or their kids.

The solution to this issue is not a "conversation", its action. Obama was elected in a massive landslide by these very people because he promised "Hope and Change". Instead he accelerated efforts to further destroy what little the middle class had left. So as a response, the people elected a populist who promised to stop the bleeding in an aggressive manner (ie. stop immigration). He did not fulfill any of his promises and now we are left with a population that is even more angry. The next step is going to be even worse.
If you buy your toothpaste and soap and bandages at the place you buy your fresh food, Amazon doesn't save you a trip to the store.
Can the GBA run Linux?
Though, $500 deposit on a $50,000 car is different from a $500 deposit which is about the cost for the whole thing.
This just reduces to security vs freedom trade off. Just don’t assume your stated example here is interpreted as an obvious con by most people
Counter anecdote. I've never seen a Gadsden flag flown by a confederate flag. It's mainly flown by libertarians and others who respect privacy and freedom.

Either way, confederate flags aren't normally flown in racist intent. Most people fly them to represent their heritage. The Dixie line, Outlaw country, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a libertarian from deep Georgia fly both and not be racist in the slight.

I think you need to leave your bubble and learn about the people you are trying to demonize.
> residential neighborhoods that are literally some of the densest on earth.

“Some of” is flexible enough to be completely meaningless, but the top, well, many of the densest neighborhoods on earth are anot in North America and have densities in people per square kilometer similar to or greater than NYC’s densest neighborhoods do in people per square mile.
> cost is covered by a fraction of a percentage of sales

Does their licensing cost relate to your sales?

I remember inquiring some time back, and to buy the commercial version, you had to, among other things, agree to their right to audit your books, which to me seemed draconian.
I haven't been able to do so, but considering Zotero uses a SQLite file, and Chrome uses a JSON file, you could hook up a Python script to carry all of them over.
I just cancelled and did not recieve a pro rated refund. It simply stops you subscription from auto renewing.
"If Facebook is found guilty, it will face a maximum penalty of A$126,000 ($90,000) on each of three charges"

Would they even find it worth employing a lawyer to defend it?
I'm not doubting this statement, but just am curious about the physiological machinations of it, how does a vaccine (especially one designed for a different mutation) help prevent the severe symptoms of the disease? Like whats going on in the body to make that happen?
Ethereum daily trading volume is $21B, the 120k ETH purchase (about $320M) is 1.5% of daily volume, so it wouldn't move markets much at all.

They just market bought ETH, nothing to do with ETH/SOL ratio.
No, generally we just have a few dozen at most per font, so we put them in the latin alphabet where they'll be relatively easy to find, and then keep a corresponding SCSS file where each is mapped to a single character of content by a descriptive name, similar to how FontAwesome does it.
I've used SBCL in production (75k lines of Lisp) and it worked very nicely on Linux.
To that point:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115

The QALY tallies are not pretty.
inbound/outbound tcp connections over time and discovering extremely high connection churn rates on ephemeral ports are both great reasons i've used it.

eBPF can (basically) monitor anything at a low level! check out ebpf_exporter for some other great examples of real-world use.
No not propaganda and corporate media. A problem with how the elites run this country. They use tools such as immigration to depress wages and destroy towns and cities when whole industries are shipped overseas. As a result, a desperate population will cling to scapegoats such as immigrants and will be motivated to put a stop to it. Propaganda and corporate media are just tools used by opportunists to make money.
All that means is that supply met or exceeded demand, which is the point that I'm making - we are precluding supply from meeting demand via artificial supply constraints.

In their case it was a combination of a declining population and zoning rules. However, the decline AFAIK was concentrated outside urban areas. Tokyo grew from 32.5M to 37.5M between 1990 and 2022 without any increase whatsoever in the real dollar price of housing.
Strongly disagree. 30% cut is a robbery that only a monopoly can get away with.
Believe me, if I could buy unlimited 5G (or 4G, my phone is old) for $15/mo here in the US I'd be doing it.

I'm paying $10/mo for 1GB.
I'm a long-time ZFS fan, and still for storage of my digital artifacts I don't really trust anything else. For backup servers, where performance isn't really critical, and snapshots are a huge benefit, it is great!

However, ~2 years ago I installed my laptop with encrypted ZFS, and frankly it kind of sucks. I don't know if this is the SIMD thing, or something else, but I can basically count on 1 full CPU running some zfs process at all times. Any apt install takes a stupid long time because it's doing something with snapshots. And I think I've only used the snapshots a couple of times. When I did though, it was handy.

But, I can't complain about my track record with ZFS: Over ~15 years I've never had data lost by it, despite having some horrible things happen to the systems that have run it.

I will fully agree that dedup is effectively useless. I've never had a system that had enough memory to reliably run dedup on any real workload.

I'll disagree that there are other tools better at doing what ZFS does though. In particular, I've had 5 events over the last year where our (normally reliable) PERC storage systems experienced corruption on LVM and RAID-6 arrays. I believe it was related to some issues with the Dell drives and Kafka broker activity on the arrays, but it sure would have been nice to have had ZFS on them instead of hardware RAID+LVM.