skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine is preparing to attack Donbass. Of course Russia is gathering army to be ready to defend from Ukrainian forces if necessary.
Git Bash is a nice tool. I used it for some time, and still do in some circumstances.

But when I wanted to have more and do more from the command-line re: a *nix-like dev experience on Windows for building native Windows software, I found my way to MSYS2[1]. Note that Git Bash is in parts based on MSYS2, but installing and using MSYS2 is not 1-1 with installing and using Git Bash:

At first I didn't quite understand what I was working with, but MSYS2's website provides the needed info, I just had to take the time to read it.

The History[2] page helped me understand better the relationships and differences between MSYS2, MSYS (not "2"), MinGW/-w64, and Cygwin. One of the more salient points being:

MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software ... MSYS2 is ideologically a successor to MSYS and MinGW. MSYS -- although definitely useful -- is really old and getting in the way of developers. MSYS2 was created to replace the original MSYS while avoiding its problems.

Other pages provide complementary information on that same topic.

Another thing I appreciated was the explanation of MSYS2's environments[3]. Being able to painlessly switch away from MSVCRT to UCRT was helpful in solving some UTF-8 difficulties I was experiencing.

Package management with pacman[4] is rather pleasant, and the setup-msys2[5] GitHub Action makes it simple to provide your GHA workflow with the tools and libs you want.

Whenever I've encountered a problem or had a question I couldn't answer via web search, the community on the MSYS2 Discord server[6] has always been quick and happy to help.

[1] https://www.msys2.org/

[2] https://www.msys2.org/wiki/History/

[3] https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/

[4] https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-management/

[&] https://packages.msys2.org/queue

[5] https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2

[6] https://www.msys2.org/contact/
Thanks! That was great timing.
Both this draft and eSNI unfortunately are not widely in use.
Oh, that could very well be the "secret new SEO sauce". I could well imagine Google having an entire division focused on the quest of dealing with backlink spam SEO that is targeting OG pagerank, perpetually kept occupied by SEOs that don't know better, while a new generation of SEOs simply avoids that battlefield and aims directly at ranking inputs beyond pagerank.

Thousands of artificial Chrome instances, or maybe just hundreds of Chrome extensions running on millions of instances engaging in a DSEO attack each individually well below the background noise floor. If that browser feedback is easy enough to fake then the visit pretender SEO wouldn't even need to poison an extension, they could just run it from any site they can get to run some JS on.
Why would a web browser need async? It can use threads.
Nextdoor also used to do it well, but it has become like Facebook with flame wars and political craziness.
This is allowed in many areas but it's a bad compromise: in much of the country, there aren't many sidewalks and they're not safe — e.g. you'll have a sidewalk in front of a strip mall but then it just ends on a busy road, driveways are often blocked by cars and are high risk zones with people flooring it as they leave or pulling in without slowing down much, there are random barriers and obstacles between properties, it's not cleared of trash effectively, etc. — and they're often _much_ longer trips. The last time I went to PyCon I was disappointed to see that the path from my hotel to the conference was like 0.7 miles in car and almost 2 on foot because there was a gnarly freeway bridge which forced pedestrians to walk around some unsafe roads.

Maintenance is also a big problem: a sidewalk which is cracked or full of snow / puddles is unpleasant even if it's relatively safe to ride through. One indicator you can use are the number of people riding motorized wheelchairs on the road shoulders — we generally have decent sidewalks here in DC but a lot of the neighboring suburbs added bike lanes during the pandemic and every time that happens you'll notice a ton of people using wheelchairs and strollers there because it's so much better than bumping around over broken concrete and dealing with random poles in the middle of the sidewalk.

The single most important thing which needs to happen is thinking about connectivity: what a lot of places do is make a couple of bike lanes which don't connect places people live/work/shop and then say nobody's using them without recognizing that the miles of unsafe streets on either end are probably the explanation.
No. That way you get debris. That's really bad.
This is very problematic.
Disagree, as somebody who is both. (Albeit not AMAZING at either).

Lots of art forms/media involve rules or creative restrictions. Off the top of my head at 10:30 in the morning, I can think of:

- Sonnets/villanelles/other form restricted written art, particularly once we get down into things like syllabic stress and rhyming restrictions;
- Music is full of rules and math that musicians learn before they can break them. Tempo, meter, octaves, etc.
- In the visual arts, you have medium restrictions. You can only sculpt marble once; you had best make sure you know what you're doing. When working in watercolor, you need to have your shadows/highlights/entire composition planned out because you need to avoid/layer properly. There's also color theory, composition rules, etc.

The best artists often make these invisible, just like the best programs (from a user perspective) 'just work' and users have no idea what restraints/rules went into them.

It's just that instead of getting an error message, writing a shitty musical composition hurts your ears. Also we see more of the shitty art than the shitty code.
If an undergraduate accepts to cheat as exchange to have a career in science maybe simply shouldn't have a career in science.
I wonder what would happen if the telco would say "we wont pay the bill, since we believe it is fraudulent".
They wont "lose much" if some fraudulent telco from third world cuts them - the numbers dont work anyway.
And what can the scammers do? Try to sue an US telecom? If they reveal their true names, then the embassy knows where to send the "operators" who will solve the case for good.
I think there were a few more things that transpired between those two events
(Disclaimer: I work at Datawrapper)

For most projects, our free plan might suffice: https://blog.datawrapper.de/create-data-visualization-for-fr...

It’s fully usable for commercial use as well.

In terms of in-between projects, if comfortable with a bit of programming I would probably look at Vega Lite [0] or Observable Plot [1]. For GUI tools, there’s also the excellent RAW Graphs [2] to consider!

[0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
[1] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot
[2] https://rawgraphs.io/
Booze is not served in economy class, only business/first passengers get booze on American flights.
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I didn't realize it was timed until I finished reading the directions.

I'd have liked an option where it didn't show the letters until I chose to reveal them, and started the timer at that point.

I knew the word right away, but tapping the letters didn't enter them, so I went to read what I thought would be the directions, which didn't help me with that specific question, and then finally figured out I just had to type the answer in the box and submit, so I wound up 25 seconds in instead of <5.

Obviously these are first-use-only problems, but they'd be nice improvements for first-timers!
WebSockets is just another transport method, by itself it is not going to be very different from plain old TCP/TLS sockets. Other things are going to matter more, like how 'chatty' the protocol is, especially while you are not actively sending messages. XMPP has historically been quite chatty while idle, but todays modern XMPP servers know to optimize traffic so that your phone can sleep undisturbed in your pocket until something important like a message or a call comes in.
"I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan".

Maybe you should start there. It pays to learn to empathise with and try to understand other people. You don't have to like someone else, but its not that hard to see why people do listen to his podcast. You don't have to be that dismissive of other people.
I had this crisis several years ago with the whole "Jordan Peterson controversy". I found myself listening to a man who told me how to get out of my depression when everyone around me thought he was an evil bad man, but they were all miserable people who definitely didn't help. So I stopped hanging out with them. My life got objectively better, too. I wouldn't consider myself a Jordan Peterson fanatic, but that was when I really realized I wasn't whatever the "left" wanted me to be.
I think censorship is morally and ethically wrong. I'm center right, I voted for Biden, I don't have a "team". I find it mostly sad and amusing that you think insulting me for defending Rogan will get you anywhere... on a thread about Rogan. Christ almighty.

And yes, I'm feeling a bit baited that I even bothered responding to your throwaway troll bullshit.
From your linked Wiki article:

Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making claims about the toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[4][19][6][31] using interviews on mass media to popularize medication with ivermectin;[32] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[4] He said that LinkedIn temporarily suspended his account over a post stating that the Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation was also a board member at Pfizer, and other posts questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[33][34] Malone has also falsely claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections,[1] and that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.[35] In November 2021, Malone shared a deceptive video on Twitter that falsely linked athlete deaths to COVID-19 vaccines. In particular, the video suggested that Jake West, a 17-year-old Indiana high school football player who died of sudden cardiac arrest, had died from COVID-19 vaccination. However, West died in 2013 from an undiagnosed heart condition. Malone deleted the video from his Twitter account after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from West's family. Malone later said on Twitter that he did not know the video was doctored.[36] On December 29, 2021, Twitter permanently suspended Malone from its platform, citing "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy",[37][38] after he shared on that platform a video about supposed harmful effects of the Pfizer vaccine.[39][40]

On December 30, 2021, Malone claimed on the The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that something called "mass formation psychosis" was developing in American society in its reaction to COVID-19 just as during the rise of Nazi Germany.[41][42] The term mass formation psychosis isn't found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is not based on factual medical information, and is described by Steve Reicher, a professor of social psychology at the University of St Andrews, as "more metaphor than science, more ideology than fact."[43] Clips of the podcast episode were removed by YouTube from their platform for violating the site's Community Guidelines.[42] 270 physicians, scientists, academics, nurses and students wrote an open letter to Spotify complaining about the content of the podcast.[44][45] On January 3, 2022, Congressman Troy Nehls entered a full transcript[2][46] of The Joe Rogan Experience interview with Malone into the Congressional Record in order to circumvent what he said was censorship by social media.[2][47]

On January 23, 2022, Malone spoke at an anti-vaccine and anti-vaccine mandate rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.[36][48]
No. It is censorship. 100%. And there are no excuses. The new thought gestapo must be stopped.
To my recollection, Rogan sold to Spotify with the express agreement that he would have complete control over content and publishing. It will be interesting to see what happens now.
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I am building a desktop app and comparing different cross platform tools (Electron, Flutter, Compose)

I can see the memory usage and CPU utilisation, but is there any standard way to compare performance for desktop apps.
> Too bad only one side of the analogy gets banned.

I don't understand what you mean.

> when the individual can't even yell "I think there might be a fire" without being censored

Um, don't you think they should get banned when there isn't a fire?
> e) So, seemingly paradoxically, the more the vaccine seems to not be working (it actually still is, the virus is just mostly much more contagious), the better the case for vaccine mandates. We really, really need to starve the virus of hosts, particularly so we don't breed ever more variants.

This seems so unrealistic when most of the world's population is still unvaccinated and the virus can jump from and to animal hosts such as mice too, which seems to be the case with Omicron. So what is left? Mostly just the tyrannic aspect of vaccine mandates, besides of personal protection against severe diseaes for some of the few people who would not get vaccinated voluntarily and some prevention of transmission that does not provide any meaningful personal protection.

Under the current circumstances a more likely outcome is that everyone will be exposed to the virus, regardless of vaccination status and those who survive that (partially due to being vaccinated) will gain some natural immunity and this is what starves out the virus in the long run.

Especially when the vaccines do not prevent (most) transmission.
This is not true, I was on a flight in economy just yesterday where passengers were allowed to purchase alcohol.
> He started by reaching out to the biggest corporations. If they would agree to give him data on their employees’ paid medical claims, he would return to them an analysis of their cost drivers, benefit designs, and manageable risks that would give them leverage in negotiations with insurers

What? Isn't this exactly the sort of thing HIPAA is supposed to ban? What happened to doctor-patient confidentiality? Why do employers even have that information?
i recon he'll get blocked from contributing to the block-list
it's considered a mental illness because it goes against basic natural instincts

we lived shitty lives for millions of years, but we kept going.

+ if you get cancer because of pollution, you're still sick, even if it's because of your environment, and we're still gonna treat you

same goes for hating your life, if you don't have the means to change the shitty environment making you sick(anxious, depressed...) we can at least put some mitigations in place

if I knew that I was about to die in 6 months, I would feed justified despair, but I'd still like a bunch of drugs and some support/therapy, to try to at least soothe the pain
Any suggestions for talking about things amidst a global pandemic?
>Russia is obviously preparing for a full-scale invasion.

It was not obvious recently to German navy chief, it is not obvious to Ukrainian government and to plenty of other experts. All the evidence about "imminent attack" is fed to media by US government without sufficient proofs. Whatever are your sources, try to find more information.
My job these last few years has mainly been focused on trying to get games running smoothly across all platforms and finding workarounds or optimizations for switch has been the biggest part of it. It's so incredibly weak in comparison to any other modern console. It's literally a mobile SoC from 2015.

As a user, however, the switch is by far my favorite console. It might not look as flashy but I can play almost any game I want anywhere I want.
Hey! At the moment, we solely focus on providing the best experience for our direct users, but we have received requests like this in the past, so it might be something to consider in the future. Happy to chat about details (email in my profile) if you want to.
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> even if you can't find a PCB replacement, a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them

Yeah right. Maybe if you're lucky or it's all low power stuff but circuits aren't generally designed to isolate failures. If one thing fails it will often cause other components to fail invisibly.

And yes I have tried it. The main transistor on an amplifier I had blew. Replaced it. Still doesn't work.
I don’t think that’s how contracts work.
has_my_thing(some_array) can be encapsulated too, using modules. For example, in elixir you have functions like List.to_string(some_list) and Map.values(some_map). This way, you get encapsulation and don't have to have a class.
Yeah, I know that, I've even mentioned it above as I mentioned that gas does not lose nearly as much heat as necessary to make a 3.5Kwatt stove as efficient as a 28Kwatt one.
> Unaligned" was not the best word to use. What I really meant was byte-aligned

Yeah, I figured just few moments after I replied what you actually meant. That's why I edited the post above.

Well, to make it more robust one would have to wrap it in it's own pointer type but I think it's doable. I don't know whether or not it is a wise choice to make it a dependency in the OS though :)
Even though the WMD charge appears in hindsight to be fabricated, Sadam invaded Iran (1980), continued war with Iran (until 1988), used the Iraq military to level entire Kurdish villages, used mustard gas and other chemical agents against the Kurds, and invaded Kuwait (1990).

Objectively good world leader, he was not.
If you do that the earth will freeze.
> and even White House statements addressing the JR issue.

Which I think you can argue is a problem (to the original question). Dragging company execs to testify in front of congress about misinformation and then framing any (in)action as monopolistic (during a time of anti-trust inquires) isn't exactly "free market" either. I'm not convinced that influence has fundamentally changed the outcome in the past year but it seems a bit naive to think the government has no influence in these moderation decisions. It's not hard to imagine an example where this would be less defensible; "WH strong disapproves of these 'powerful' tech companies amplifying content that contains misinformation about our justifications to invade Iraq".
There are blue haired cry babies who work in the mail room that must be happy so censorship it is!
Synthetic-aperture radar is making the Earth’s surface watchable 24/7
ipv6 block-lists are not a thing, hence all big mail-senders use v4 only
Go ahead and link to a clip where he or his guests are denying the existence of COVID.
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/ps3/
So far the isotopes called "stable isotopes" are ones with unobserved decay, and slowly over time ones that used to be called stable are being found to decay (e.g., Bismuth 209). Quantum uncertainty (and still theoretical proton decay, expected to happen, just not measured well yet) are expected to get the rest.

Ultimately quantum tunneling will get them all. There is no known mechanism to prevent it.
Where is the modern data stack for software engineers?
Is that a new thing during the pandemic? Because booze in the economy section was definitely a thing before.
Ok this got a genuine chuckle
Apologies if you felt shitted on, but I do believe that you are inventing straw men pressure groups and ignoring the fact that there might be a legitimate organic movement. So I am, in fact, making my case.

> It's a few [...] musicians making a negative publicity fuss

One thing I'd like to add on this point is that this kind of negative publicity fuss, raised by musicians, can be incredibly powerful. If you aren't familiar with the work and impact of Neil Young, especially songs like "Southern Man" and "Alabama," I encourage you to consider his work.

His music likely opened some eyes in the 70s while the American South was still gripped in racist fervor (as someone who grew up in the south, I too was impacted by these songs when I encountered them in the early 2000s). Musicians have the power to influence public opinion. That public opinion is influenced by them does not imply that all influence is the result of a greater agenda.
A half-life of 10,000 years means the fraction (0 to 1) of healthy bonds at year t can be modeled by (1/2)^(t/10000). To have 1% bonds broken, it would take an expected 145 years.
EDIT: Fixed the numbers, my bad!
Python exceptions are low-cost. It has to be that way because every for loop in Python throws an exception.
I vaguely remember learning to bike when I was 8, what they say is true! I bought a bike a few weeks ago and decades later I could still ride.

But a few obstacles I had:

- At least right now, I can bike at best 2 miles round trip without getting too tired. That's not far enough in most US cities, can't even bike to the nearest walmart/target/whole foods just to a convenience store.

- even with bike lanes, cars are scary, especially when the bike lane runs into puddles of uknown depths and isn't flat/stable.

- Is it allowed to bike on roads without a bike lane? If so, that's even more dangerous.

I think converting sidewalks into wider bike trails would please everyone. Pedestrians (rare) can walk on right side and less risk of some inattentive driver steering just over the lane killing you.

Westcoast bike friendly city sounds like dream
I agree. I’m a free market, free speech guy, and I have no problem with companies doing whatever they want with their content. There are fortunately plenty of places to get podcasts, and there are plenty of podcasts. If you want to dig into any issue, you can do so on the free and open internet. May it ever be so.
Rogan needs to sue them for breach and walk away with millions.
S3 bucket with an RSS feed. Done. And not about to be shut down.
> No sane court would rule against you for having random IPs in a blocklist.txt file.

challenge accepted
Sure but that was not the pretext they used. They used fabrication instead.
I'm surprised to see these talking points still being repeated. They were plausible a few years ago, but now? Just silly.

> The people who find themselves “cancelled” almost always still end up with large platforms.

Survivorship bias. Most of the people who get cancelled just disappear. They don't have FU money or a big following. We only keep hearing about the few who are too big to cancel.

Plus you're not taking into account how much of a chilling effect all of this has. Many people are now self censoring. That has a regressive effect on society. We can't progress without free and open exchange of ideas.