skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you looking at cats too? ;)
One reason the Metaverse bothers me so much is a) because it's related to the company in general calling itself Meta, which itself is most likely a smokescreen to distract from the company's negative image and b) because it includes all the properties Zuckerberg has directly lied about and made worse - notice how the Instagram people left after conflicts with Zuckerberg, how Whatsapp users are forced into data sharing with Facebook, how suddenly you need a Facebook for the Oculus - if Meta/Metaverse was a conglomeration of home grown properties, in-house, or at worst previously competitive products that neverthelss they did a good job with and fostered to grow, and weren't annoying to use, and didn't pull bait and switch - why, sure, this Metaverse thing might seem like a pretty neat idea. As it stands, not only is Zuckerberg's vision of a utopia "copy and kill everyone else" but Meta/Metaverse is directly using basically stolen properties ("let's buy up these guys to destroy the competition")
Here's the Study:
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1121993/v1

> Thirty-six healthy volunteers aged 18-29 years old were enrolled according to protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria.

> All participants were inoculated with 10 TCID50 of SARS-CoV-2/human/GBR/484861/2020 (a D614G-containing pre-alpha wild-type virus; Genbank Accession number OM294022) by intranasal drops (Figure 1b). Eighteen participants (53% according to the per protocol analysis, [95% CI [35,70]) subsequently developed PCR-confirmed infection.
Many apps have network effects. You can put together a great messaging app but if Apple bans it or cripples it, it can't catch on.

And that's just as true while you're small. You have six friends and three of them have iPhones, you can't get them all to switch to your own app.

Meanwhile Apple's "loss" is of an app that they purposely didn't want, e.g. because it might have displaced iMessage by being a better SMS app (which they don't allow). They don't ban everything, they ban the things that are in their anti-competitive business advantage to ban.
Why even still use that base except to troll enthusiasts?

At this point, people could have been born anew, grown up with the lore, had a full career and achieved decision making roles in using those bases with no budget oversight whatsoever.
Agreed, higher-order integration tests tend to offer many more serendipitous fault discoveries than unit tests. Still, unit tests add value, acting as the living "comment" on a method or module, while the higher-order integration tests act as the living "how-to-use instructions" for the application.
> I was pro-mask for a while before we had data

Before COVID-19, we had extensive analysis of previous pandemics, with the consistent judgment that public mask-wearing had no noticeable effect. For example, the DoD commissioned a study of the 1918-1920 pandemic. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179067)
I read HN regularly since a couple of years, but registered just for this comment. My first GNU/Linux distro, but in early 2000. I have great memories from that time, it was "harder" but very rewarding. The best example of less is more. Today I'm using Devuan to escape from systemd, and I think I'll give Slackware 15 a try <3
Yeah seems good. I will say, WinBtrfs is unfortunately garbage, but you can just set up a simple Linux VM as an SMB server in Hyper-V with dynamic memory, and for me it uses about 700MB of RAM. Works great.
I'm not sure that's what the article is saying, and I certainly don't think it's "ridiculous". The relevant part:

> In late January of 2021, he opened a file sent to him by a fellow hacker, who had described it as an exploitation tool. Just 24 hours later, he spotted a blog post from Google Threat Analysis Group warning that North Korean hackers were targeting security researchers. Sure enough, when P4x scrutinized the hacking tool he'd received from a stranger, he saw that it contained a backdoor designed to provide a remote foothold on his computer. P4x had opened the file in a virtual machine, digitally quarantining it from the rest of his system. But he was nonetheless shocked and appalled by the realization that he'd been personally targeted by North Korea.

The article specifically states he received it "from a stranger", not a friend, which suggests that he was indeed personally targeted. Yes, it does say "fellow hacker", but again this is obviously not someone he knows because it's a "stranger".

I guess it comes down to your definition of "personally targeted". Sure, this isn't a spearphishing campaign, but according to Google's blog writeup about these events [1], they basically targeted individual researchers:

> The actors have been observed targeting specific security researchers by a novel social engineering method. After establishing initial communications, the actors would ask the targeted researcher if they wanted to collaborate on vulnerability research together...

[1] https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-campaign-targe...
One of the last entries in the -current changelog before the 15.0 release was the following:

Wed Feb 2 04:17:39 UTC 2022
fortune -m "I will be finished tomorrow" fortunes2
a/kernel-generic-5.15.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.15.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
[...]

This gives the following:

%% (fortunes2)
A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the
program on which he was working. "I will be finished tomorrow," the
programmer promptly replied.
"I think you are being unrealistic," said the manager. "Truthfully,
how long will it take?"
The programmer thought for a moment. "I have some features that I wish
to add. This will take at least two weeks," he finally said.
"Even that is too much to expect," insisted the manager, "I will be
satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete."
The programmer agreed to this.
Several years later, the manager retired. On the way to his
retirement lunch, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal.
He had been programming all night.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

No matter how practical it is to use Slackware in the current year (works for me!), it makes me very happy that projects like this are still going. Congratulations Patrick on a fantastic release.
Look, 53’ trailers illegally entering Manhattan is a problem. I’ll be the first to admit that. But if you think life on Manhattan is only possible because of a huge illegal trucking operation then I don’t know what to tell you.

The US doesn’t have dense cities except NYC, so you may not realise this but rules against big trucks in dense cities are extremely common globally. I get that this offends you aesthetically and you therefore want to think the people of Paris and London and Munich and Hong Kong are miserable and starving because they don’t let trucks in. But that’s not true.
This list seems pretty ridiculous to me. What they call dark patterns mostly just seem to be various things that make games more fun.

My personal definition of dark patterns in games is basically anything that sacrifices fun, consistency of progression, consistency/believability of setting or suspension of disbelief in order to get people to pay more money.

If you aren't sacrificing your vision to extract more money from consumers though, go nuts.
I hope this doesn't get flagged, because given that the same sentiment is echoed here in the US, and that whites are soon to be a minority-majority, this is a discussion that needs to be had, but such topics are censored from most polite corners of the social internet.

There's a difference between calling for equality and demonizing the demographic that appears to be in power. I fear that certain elements in our society have deliberately begun to conflate the two concepts while simultaneously downplaying or justifying what amounts to the same flavor of hatred that has increasingly come to manifest as racial violence against the white minority in SA - and the topic is being ignored and dismissed as a white supremacist conspiracy theory in the US.
someone will get stalked and murdered by someone using one of these devices before they're withdrawn. a completely foreseeable result of bringing such a stupid device to market.
CppCast: Unix and C History with Brian Kernighan
Past threads:

Slackware Linux 15.0 RC3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928343 - Jan 2022 (43 comments)

Slackware 15.0 release candidate one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201197 - Aug 2021 (56 comments)
> Any evidence for this? IMO "Sanctimonious environmentalists" only care that consumption reduces. Whether that's voluntary or due to being priced out by carbon taxes is irrelevant.

The New York Times said that their article pointing out that (most) recycling has higher environmental costs than landfill attracted the most complaints of any article for at least 10 years.

My old professor doesn't get invited to climate conferences anymore because he ran some serious research into whether geoengineering approaches were feasible.

There is definitely a large constituency of hair-shirt environmentalism that cares more about how much you're suffering for the sacrifices you're making than about how big an actual effect you're having.
I think you meant to add 'public' in there somewhere. I'm sure the large well-funded governments were well aware of all of this stuff before the public, it's their job after all.
I once saw a LaRouche protest describe the same way. The LaRouchies are crazy, but they're not Nazis - What they'd done was Photoshop a picture of Obama with a picture of Hitler.
Given that Go's original raison d'etre was Internet-facing services, the choice for guaranteed linear time execution makes sense as a default.
That is probably not a functional aircraft but instead a mounted and scaled mockup for aerodynamic tests, and it is probably upside down.
Doesn't Google already allow "side-loading"?
And they didn't even get any new regulations written that I've seen. The hand wheels for the horizontal stabilizer trim became too hard for average pilots to physically operate if the aircraft is going too fast and out of trim far enough (even without being outside the safe operating envelope). There was no regulation limiting how much force the trim wheels can need while within the operating envelope. AFAIK, there's still no such regulation. So the "fixed" 737 Max models didn't change the hand wheels, meaning the physical backup in case of a trim runaway might not actually be usable. Yet they certified it without changes, because there's no regulation saying that the safety backup wheels have to be physically usable by average pilots in the event the primary powered system fails!
No, it’s the forced isolation and fear that’s sacrificing childhoods.

All over DFW superintendents are resigning. They see the damage they’ve done and are jumping ship as the chickens come home to roost. I suspect all over the nation school and county health leadership are getting out before the full scope of the damage they’ve caused is realized.
That ad seems fair. The problem is apple the company is using a common word.

That last thing you want is ads to need to be approved by a Standards Council with appointees controlling advertising.
Once one firm has established how to do it and win it basically becomes open season for anyone to follow the exact same playbook. Even if you don't necessarily lose the other ones, simply spending money on lawyers to get dozens or hundreds or thousands of copycat lawsuits dismissed is a huge hassle.

There's a reason why personal injury and mesothelioma ads get placed on the radio and TV so often in the US; "you may be entitled to financial compensation" and all that.
Could you post a link to what exactly you found objectionable? I did an image search; I see crude drawings of animals.

My rule of thumb here is "go to the primary sources".
I mean do we really think the pipeline was built for environmental reasons? Since when do oil companies make decisions to maximize environmental- friendliness?
Have you tried http://Circuitverse.org?

It's by a friend who initiatally built a digital circuit simulator and then turned it into a GitHub like collaborative website.
It's possible it was a giant screw-up, those are known to happen from time to time, but I'm sure your perspective is more right most of the time.
The ultimate answer to this is to go self-powered. The sun will never raise its rates, and PV panels+batteries are getting cheaper.

Utilities are not admitting that independent power generators contribute to creating a more resilient grid at no cost to ratepayers/full cost to the homeowner.
Interesting. Looking at this repo, they have

Rust -> Ruby -> Java -> Golang

https://github.com/mariomka/regex-benchmark

Though it appears the numbers are two years old or so, and only for 3 specific regexes.
What objections do you have to the evidence presented and logic used?

Again I'll ask, do you dismiss black BLM supporters on the basis that because they're unabashedly pro-black, they can't present objective, unbiased evidence and arguments for their support?
I agree with your sentiment, but how would apps be scanned by Apple if you are allowed to sideload via 3rd party stores? They don't exactly scan apps downloaded from Cydia today.
It's one of the cheapest casual dining restaurants that provide table service but avoids being fast casual dining and still tries to avoid a cheap look. Basically if eating out in general is a luxury due to cost then to you an Olive Garden or an Applebees type place is where you go to have your celebratory types of dinners because either your small town doesn't have much more to go to and/or your income doesn't really let you go spend on 1 12oz steak what could cover the entire meal for a small group at Olive Garden.

Of course there is nothing wrong with thinking OG is fancy and so on. Better to avoid folks who make a big deal out of it IMO.
It's not that easy. Carbon is largely a subset of the classic MacOS toolkit APIs reimplemented in MacOS X to provide a migration path for existing application to MacOS X. IIRC carbonized applications commonly targeted version going back to MacOS 8.6 - 10.x with a single executable. From my unreliable childhood memories the next common range started at MacOS 9.0 (or 9.1).
Excellent question. Would be great to see some real stats about download numbers and available apps (and not only from the two big ones: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-av...).
> In addition to the fees DoorDash charges you they also charge the restaurant ~20% revenue behind the scenes.

I don't think the point is wrong though. You can bypass DoorDash both as a customer (using other service or going personally) and the restaurant (by having online ordering on another platform).
I got into Slackware in high school in the late 90s because it was associated with the l33t crowd that I looked up to at the time. Now there’s a nostalgia associated with it.

At a utility level, if I want a simple performant Linux that’s not doing any unpredictable automagic it’s my go-to.
Are you out of your mind? This is not an accidental collision on common keywords. This is a malicious company squatting ads on "apple support".
This blows my mind. Dan deals with so much belligerent user feedback and is nearly always positive, understanding and polite. To me he is the gold standard of open source communication.
I'm a long term ZoL user that's been looking over the fence at btrfs for a long time. I've been tempted to switch since I only use ZFS mirrors (RAID 5 instability isn't a deal killer). If you don't mind me asking, how long have you been using it and have you had any stability issues?
>are instead about literally banning anything that would make white students uncomfortable

Why would something that supposedly doesn't assign collective blame based on skin color make all white students uncomfortable?

I wonder what Ibram X. Kendi, the most well known proponent of CRT, would have to say about the subject: "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

Yeah, CRT is racist. Anybody who supports it is racist.
The most bizarre case is Twitter forcing me to see tweets in order of some algorithm instead of in chrono order.

They let me switch to chrono order.

And then automatically switch back after a month or so.

And then I switch back to chrono order. And so on. Resulting in a constant kabuki.
That can't possibly explain all the difference. Mean family income is $115k, still lower than what they have for average salary in any region. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAFAINUSA646N

If this is meant to be a representative sample of the US, the data doesn't pass the sniff test. They don't provide enough context to understand how else we should understand it.
I considered Slackware but I'm under the impression it has no analogue to apt or dnf/yum.

How on earth do people running Slackware manage their library dependencies and keep everything up to date?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park likely is the study you were thinking about, studying how the willingness/desire of rats to self-administer morphine changes depending on their living conditions.
Because they exercise enough control over their platform, the App Store is far from the only avenue of protection.
I acknowledge you're right, life is definitely possible without it.

New Yorkers have decided to keep buying stuff brought on these trailers. You probably have too. People voted with their wallet and decided they would buy the goods that came in on the trailer. The reason is because it's just way more practical, and cost efficient, to go along with the standard the rest of the country is using.

Until 1997 Hong Kong was a possession that functioned much like its own country. NYC is simply incomparable to this situation; NYC is less than 5% of the country. I'd also note the tariffs and regulations on goods coming into Hong Kong were way more liberal than NYC before the handoff, so Hong Kong as able to withstand some higher ground transportation cost than NY can withstand at same price.
I disagree with it, bit I still think an actual mandate is much more honest than eg Canada's defacto mandates where nobody forces you to get vaccinated but they force businesses to check vaccination on entry and make it so someone who doesn't want to provide medical information to every business they enter is excluded from daily life. At least a government mandate is honest about how totalitarian the government is
Not in the most meaningful sense of "natively and without heavy modifications", because the GBA's ARM lacks the proper MMU. You could always go the route to just emulate something that runs Linux, but it's probably not going to be very usable for anything.
yeah, it'd be nice if Amazon had an urban discount in the US :). Deliveries to large multifamily buildings must be tons more efficient than to the 'burbs.
Totally agreed: almost all users (me/GoAWK included) want performance and don't care nearly as much about simplicity under the hood. Simplicity of implementation is of value for educational purposes, but we could easily have a small, simple 3rd party package for that. Go's regexp package is kinda too complex for a simple educational demonstration and too simple to be fast. :-)

I actually tried BurntSushi's https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go (bindings to Rust's regex engine) with GoAWK and it made regex handling 4-5x as fast for many regexes, despite the CGo overhead. However, rure-go (and CGo in general) is a bit painful to build, so I'm not going to use that. Maybe I'll create a branch for speed freaks who want it.

I've also thought of using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo to convert Mawk's fast regex engine to Go source and see how that performs. Maybe on the next rainy day...
Makes me wonder how easy it would be to implement something like this with WASM and either WebGL or WebGPU.
> There is no formal issue tracking system and no official procedure to become a code contributor or developer. The project does not maintain a public code repository. Bug reports and contributions, while being essential to the project, are managed in an informal way. All the final decisions about what is going to be included in a Slackware release strictly remain with Slackware's benevolent dictator for life, Patrick Volkerding.

This is from Slackware wikipedia page. If this is true, this could be the next logical step to increase some development involvement and noise maybe? Patrick should be also thinking about the future of Slackware right?

Am just an outsider since I don't have skin in the game. But Slackware is not a distro that comes in your conversations more often and I am in a lot of Linux communities. And the comments reflect the same as well. Maybe this could improve the scenario. Again, this is with the best intentions. Please ignore if the comments doesn't sit right with you. :)

---

Also, I don't think Slackware should be like GNU/Linux distros or alter course radically. But I think a small modernization of the project could help everyone who wants to keep the Slackware way of doing it alive.
The right edges of both of those charts would have, in retrospect, been wonderful times to invest.
Reminder of the risks of generalizing from one's personal experience, quite especially if one has an HN account. DoorDash revenues & delivery volume show that more people are placing orders, and for more money.

And this is for basic delivery, where many buyers will be a short drive away and could in theory have placed a 1985-style pickup order. There's no captive element like an App Store.

https://s22.q4cdn.com/280253921/files/doc_financials/2021/q3...
The world if you have something and then take it away is not equivalent to the one in which said thing never existed to begin with.

Before globalized trade each country had more local manufacturing.
> Does that justify how countries like Cuba dealt with HIV?

The declaration says “in a democratic society”. Are we counting Cuba as one?

> That's why I find it incredibly concerning that people seem to just be happy to suspend individual rights so rapidly. The state of Victoria in Australia recently passed legislation that lets it ignore certain human rights - such as the right to employment - in the face of the pandemic.

One might argue they prioritized the Article 3 right to life over that of employment; loss of life being permanent, and employment not, this seems like a justifiable use of Article 29, especially given Australian per capita deaths being massively lower than here in the States. We’ve killed two Tasmanias worth of people over here.

(I have relatives in Ballarat, Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobart, incidentally. I’d trade my pandemic experience here in upstate NY with them in a heartbeat.)
It's certainly increasing the availability of power but I fail to see how it makes a "more resilient grid". Who is gonna fix a power line that goes down?
The domain name makes this appear to be an authoritative source, but it’s a website that exists specifically to promote the agenda you’re describing, run by the conservative publication Legal Insurrection. The fact remains that critical race theory does not assign blame to everyone of a given race, no matter how blithely they lie about it.
Version Numbering bothers me.

Mathematically 1.2 is greater than 1.18. Yet in versions it is lesser.

I find this annoying and counter intuitive.
We Need to Let Go of the Bell Curve