skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilariously backwards. Black protestors in Ottawa are arrested all the time. These people have been paralyzing a massive part of downtown and violating the law for 3 weeks and they're finally now seeing some consequences.

Also, yes, some protests are moral and some aren't. If there's a Nazi march shutting down main street I have no objections to shutting it down. It's not logically inconsistent to say that people shitting in the streets, having drunken discos and harassing people day and night aren't really "protesting" at this point.
Isn’t there a standard process of dealing with employees who are unable or unwilling to do their job?
Since the tapes are physical, can't you protect them using different strategies? Like how banks protect stuff contained in safe deposit boxes? I imagine the stuff stored in safe deposit boxes can be quite sensitive too.
I am frankly still not understanding your point, sorry.
Managers are involved in choosing who is on their team
So all causes are equal? Is it bad to apply informed judgement on society issues? If you go by that, then the US revolution should have been a bad and illegal thing.
The conflation of "anti-vax" and "anti-mandate" is absolutely infuriating, and I'm sad and upset that so many people are falling for it.

It is perfectly possible to be pro-vaccine and anti-mandate, because the case for mandates makes no scientific sense. Forcing the vaccines on people will create more anti-vaxxers, not fewer! The whole thing is completely counterproductive.
It's peaceful when it's my side doing the protesting!
Me too. Till it gets traction and then corruption.
Just an hour ago I got reminded how user-unfriendly some terminal utilities are.

# ln
ln: missing file operand
Try 'ln --help' for more information.

Yeah what a helpful error message. Yes I know it takes two file paths to link one to the other. But for the life of me I can't remember which order it wants them in.

I wish there was some sort of "parameter hint" for the terminal, like in an IDE. You type `ln` or `find` or `grep` and it pops up above the cursor and tells you what parameters the command expects.
Well sure, but the first sentence of the article is practically the title of Andy Hertzfeld's post. It would have been perfect for a link at least.
I think JWTs are pretty good in a lot of ways, but like any tool you have to use it correctly. And you can certainly misuse JWT or use them in error.
> best you could do is report it and hope for recovery

At the end of the day isn't that all you can do? File a report and hope for recovery? Is the complaint that you need to go to the station to file a report? That was already the reality for so many people. The police don't go to every neighborhood. Some neighborhoods, it's self-serve.
Go to audio games.net. That's a whole website dedicated to accessible gaming.

From the more mainstream ones, The Last of Us 2 has famously implemented accessibility. I haven't played it, as it's one of the only games for the PS4 that is accessible, but people are saying that it almost plays itself when accessibility is enabled, taking away part of the enjoyment.

Other mainstream games are getting accessibility mods, Hearthstone has a really great one. Audio Quake, an accessibility mod for Quake, was also quite popular back in its day.

Text based games, from Infocom's interactive fiction to MUDS and MOOs are also pretty accessible, a significant portion of people still playing them are blind.
It existed, allowed the media to work together on how to represent certain issues, it stopped existing and there is a new version that replaced it? What did I miss?

I assume you are talking about Klein's statement regarding Tucker?
Hmm. Maybe I'm just a mediocre maintenance dev but a decent tech lead. I went back to being a dev afterwards, and I was shocked by how much harder I found it.

I'll say one mistake is to have a tech lead that spends most of their time coding. I don't know how you can do everything else effectively if the company still relies on you to deliver code.
November 5, 2009 (29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924859

I thought I'd seen this here more recently, but I guess it was another similar article.
Love this concept, I hate bait and switch meaning you buy the thing and it has quality parts then then it gets rave reviews, everyone buys it and give it a solid reputation then they gut it and start cutting corners, making parts plastic to save costs while they milk it for every penny. I’m looking at you Craftsman, Wahl clippers too even Braun stuff ughh
This 2015 post (Bastian Bloessl) digs in a bit, then point at a short video.

https://www.bastibl.net/reversing-bus-telemetry/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwQUHeWftc

Useful 'Darc side of Munich' page:

https://apollo.open-resource.org/mission:log:2014:08:08:darc...
I recently went through a whole big tooling push where I switched from neovim with a set of configs and plugins I've been pulling along for a decade or two, to (eventually) LunarVim and mostly the stock config.

But, in screen LunarVim and kakoune and other editors I was playing with were totally jacked. So I finally made the switch to tmux and oh-my-tmux.

htop is good, but check out btop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
For me, getting value out of tmux required some significant overrides of the default configs, and knowing where to start was super daunting for me. From a HN post a few years back, I started installing the Noobs Term (https://noobs-term.com) defaults on any new system that I install. This suite of defaults does a lot of things, including installing nvim over vim, an opinionated zsh config with oh-my-zsh set of defaults and a quite nice tmux config, making it easy and reasonable to create new tabs and panes, swap between them and navigate around. With this, tmux quickly went from chore to pleasure to use.
50% in a tiny district, 33% whole Canada.
No, he isn't calling in the army. See:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/justin-trudeau-invokes-em...

etc.
There is an issue that a lot of cheapy electronics aren't even still available after one year. :(
For now, I will give them the benefit of the doubt, because they didn't use the law to even a fraction of its extent - they really could have done so much worse.

The truck drivers still have their ability to make ends meet. They can either take in-Canada jobs which will pay a bit less but still provide a living above and beyond the average salary, or they can take a jab and work internationally. When I had to get vaccinated to cross borders, no one went and blockaded anything, because that's a completely reasonable and normal thing to expect. I don't understand why I should care that they have to do the same.

And as we're entering the third year of emergency measures, all provinces are already scaling them back. I agree that some measures were excessive and useless; I also think that earlier on many emergency measures were lifted too early.

I don't have any sympathy for them or their goals of ending all health measures and, for some, deposing the governments. I don't think that asking for vaccinations to engage in cross-border activities is even remotely unreasonable - and I've had to comply by such rules many times. I know because of working with people in the industry for years that there's plenty of work to go around inside this country for them if they really don't want to take the vaccine, albeit with a pay cut that still allows them to provide for their families.

All in all, it's perfectly fine. They aren't victims of any real opression. If they were, I'd support them, I might even put up with some of their methods. As it stands, I don't think they're justified in blocking critical infrastructure or blaring train horns in residential neighborhood.

They haven't taken any rights away they hadn't already. I'm sorry, but I already have to live with the risk of tear gas, agents provocateurs, rubber bullets, broken bones, and getting closed-in by police for hours if I ever want to protest tuition hikes or imperialism. I don't see how their treatment by Trudeau whose being infinitely gentler for much more disruptive behaviour infringes anymore rights that are already being infringed on by police for any other protest.

I have made my line long ago and I'm perfectly honest with myself.
1. On the contrary, this is about giving everyone a fair chance. In no universe are protections for marginalized groups "racism". I would strongly encourage you to read about John Rawl's "veil of ignorance" concept. [1]

2. Pretty much 1:1 correspondence with the social determinants of health. [2]

[1] https://fs.blog/veil-ignorance/

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promo...
My vanilla vim on ssh begs to differ. Offline readability matters
This was cringe. I don't know how it even got traction. Someone was on maternity leave with access to offline backups, which doesn't mean a "baby saved" the movie. Misleading headline.
Whether it is Black Lives Matter or Canadian Truckers nobody has the right to block roads.

The funniest thing about the direction the world has taken since 9/11 for me is the extent to which people are being played against each other according to a plan.

The plan appears to start with increasing social disorder from fomenting identity and grievance politics.

At one time the organisation behind the plan was know as the Illuminati but this is now considered not to exist.

Whether the human organisation exists or not society appears to have the emergent quality of implementing the "plan" autonomously.

Imagine how many nutcase truckers there would be with out social media?
Imagine how many vaccine and mask karens there would be without social media?

Both sides are wrong and the powers that be want both sides to fight. Divide to conquer.

But alas this is a conspiracy theory and can't be discussed in polite company.

Absolutely hilarious to me is that the organising principle of capitalism is called the "Invisible Hand."

Yes lets all work together and build an Orwellian technocratic hell so that we can get rich individually.

Blind leaders leading blind men in a blind world.

Compete to please the Boss...lol.
Do you understand how public health works? The vaccine does not 100% prevent any infection, it reduces the odds and intensity. Some people cannot be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons. You would think computer people would understand "defense in depth".

Meanwhile, anti-vaccine people are single-handedly working to revive diseases that were almost eradicated:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/03/28/anti-v...
Support for the right to protest and support for a particular policy are orthogonal, is there any indication that the Canadian government supported their right to protest contingent on the policy in question?
Should we apply the same standards to things like BLM or Moms Demand Action?

Those standards being "billionaires donated, therefore illegitimate" as far as I can tell.
Is preventing the next rape/murder not worth it?
My git logs don't represent all the code I didn't write. Solving a problem doesn't necessitate me writing the code, or even having code written at all.
I'm glad we agree. We should also fine people that are using otherwise reglementory horns in order to cause a nuisance, as we normally do.
Hopefully they'll switch to Node soon so I can help too
> When the principal danger is to oneself I think restrictions are rarely justified, but when the consequences are borne by others, I think it's more justified.

I think this point makes broad sense but needs refinement. For example if we assume there is a vaccine available that:

- Reduces personal injury
- Does not prevent transmission

Using the above logic would mean that after taking the vaccine restrictions are more justified because the burden of the disease has shifted. I don't think that's what you intended and probably means that there still needs to be reference to absolute harm and taking reasonable minimization measures.
I do not buy AppleCare, especially for MacBook Airs. There are no moving parts, and I feel like the likelihood of something not working is so low in the period that AppleCare covers that it is just worth it to buy a new laptop if anything happens to it.

Note that apple would not sell AppleCare if they were losing money on it. If you can afford to replace a laptop, you might as well do that. Dell’s professional warranty sends someone to your house next day to fix it, which is worth something extra, especially if you are far from an Apple store. But I do not think Apple’s does anything special like that.
I am not a fan of Trudeau, but I do live in Ottawa.

These are not peaceful protests. It's an occupation backed by our extreme right wing and significantly funded by people in other countries (cough). It's been terrorizing local residents night and day. Too loud to sleep, get harassed if you leave your house, and in one case the occupiers attempted to light an apartment building on fire and trap the residents inside.

Our local municipal police and council could not have done a worse job in the early days of this situation, and now the occupiers are well entrenched.

The occupation is also easy to mimic. A small group closed down a $300mil/day border crossing into the US. Another blockade in Alberta has now had 12 arrests and two caches of weapons siezed.

Before anyone brings up BLM, I will say I don't agree with violent protests on either side and that BLM protests were peaceful here in Ottawa.
That is not true at all. The greatest burden on the economy was the lockdowns and extreme countermeasures. People choosing not to get vaccinated may have caused unnecessary burden on the healthcare system, but to blame them for the struggling economy is just wrong.
Yeah. Somehow "What is good for Delhi, is not good for Ottawa" and actually in case of Ottawa the protests are about freedom and actually peaceful. (The protests in India were demanding preferential treatment to certain groups and protection from market forces).

I am not surprised, this is the usual hypocrisy of the far left wing do gooders of the western world. Anyone who opposes them is a "violent fascist" even if there is no real violence and their own supporters turning violent are social justice warriors fighting the inequality.

Trudeau is a pussy and a tyrant and I hope the honking continues and truckers wont back off. Indian community in USA and India would gladly contribute to the protestors. For FREEDOM.
Sometimes called race to idle: https://lwn.net/Articles/501913/
Has anybody tried to use mouse to 'echo-locate' parts of the screen? Bats, with far simpler brains, can see complex scenery and prey in real time, so I'm sure a small portion of the visual cortex could figure echo location. The idea is to generate sound based on close surroundings of the cursor, in real time. To an inexperienced user, this sound would be meaningless, but witj practice that sound would let the user see.
It's an interesting point. A significant number of Apache (big data) projects do indeed seem to be "in the attic"[1]. But they have high profile projects that are well maintained. AirBnB created Airflow then donated it to Apache. Do they still use it internally and contribute to Apache Airflow? Do other companies contribute?

Spark is central to Databricks, the company started by the original creator of Spark.

So at least for a couple high-profile Apache projects there are for-profit organizations with an interest in furthering development.

I assume Databricks pays devs to contribute to Spark, I actually don't know.

So maybe Apache Firefox with a Mozilla corporate sponsor isn't such a terrible idea. Although again, I have no idea what the commercial motivation would be behind supporting Firefox development.

[1]: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data
> only because it serves their ends.

Discrimination based on skin color is morally reprehensible. Doing it systematically at an institutional level is particularly damaging.

The 'conservative party' as you put it recognizes this. The 'other party' only recognizes it for certain skin colors, which is a subset of the aforementioned discrimination based on skin color.

So yes, you are correct in that the ends of the conservative party seem to be to end racial discrimination. The ends of the other party appear to be stoking racial hatred to garner support based on an outdated perception of their role.

I much prefer the conservative take on this issue in 2022.
It's pretty well accepted that the jets are powered by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, and MHD simulations of accretion disks do show that the BZ mechanism can in fact generate jets. There are, of course, open questions about the details, in particular where the magnetic fields come from.
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Will Most Likely Be the Most Secure Base Layer
You should be upfront about his political bias (which is in his best interest as it is his source of revenue).

Don't get me wrong I like his videos but I also like hearing from the other side for good measure. Perhaps it is pedantic to point out that everyone has a political leaning but I think it is good to be upfront so that people can consider the biases of the input in order to make a more informed opinion. Or perhaps others should gauge the political bias themselves? That's a question of philosophy and ethics. I wish that everyone had enough skepticism and critical thinking to question everything and be conscious of their measures of validity and invalidity.
On the other hand I have a deep hate for things rounded in 3 dimensions for physical objects. They look cheap. Round in 2 but not 3 dimensions.

3 dimensions: https://www.macworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/iphone-s...

2 dimensions: https://4.img-dpreview.com/files/p/articles/2759540226/Apple...
and here is the australian govt absolving themselves of any bad effects of the vaccine after having forced their citizens to take it.

These give even more ammunition to the skeptics.

https://nitter.net/ChickenGate/status/1492673621344632835#m
> Big bang rewrites are dangerous, gradual migration is a better plan for larger systems.

I think we're on the same page. Yes, it needs to be gradual, and devs need to become familiar with new languages, which is why I am proponent of slowly "modernize" old stacks even if there is no immediate need to do it.
As others have pointed out - security restriction.

The service must allow most variables to be set by connecting clients.

If TERM were included in this, you might as well install the terminfo! Fortunately that's not the case.

One could do some interesting things if say SHELL or LDPRELOAD were allowed to be forwarded.
Someone in a sibling comment linked the article about attempted arson. Here's one about protestors attempting to handcuff the doors on a condominium building:
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/mcleod-street-condo-residents...

Here's one about "unruly protesters" (quote from the article) shutting down two grocery stores: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/unruly-protesters-prompt-earl...

Here's one about a restaurant deciding to close, and stay closed, due to an assault of and racial epithets directed at employees: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/moo-shu-ice-cream-empl...
It is far more mind boggling to me that you think that this is an effective way to communicate.
the article says “walking 50km as fast as possible takes nearly double the work and energy than running a marathon, even though the distance is just 8km longer”
Ah yes, thanks for pointing out that it's compiled to WASM... I meant in comparison to other languages like Python were it's compiled (transpiled?) to Javascript: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/languages...

Using Python for Workers was weird, and it felt like you needed to be both a Python and JS expert to make it work.
The Nazi flags, the Gadsden flags, the Trump flags, the fact that they're saying racist, sexist, homopobic stuff in the Zello? The fact that their contributions are from right-wing US sources and the extreme right press is giving them publicity? How about the fact that they love Pat King?

I've been living in downtown Ottawa for weeks, I've been harassed.
Their stated demands are the dissolution of the current democratically elected government, they've conducted educational seminars about the dangers of vaccination full of outlandishly false information.

Anyone can believe anything they like but none are required to be so credulous as to believe that the protests are simply about vaccine mandates given the large quantity of published evidence that the organizers and participants have a bevy of other agendas they would like to promote.
I always felt that walking was more efficient intuitively but I'm happy to see it quantified in the article.

> First, even if you happen to hit exactly the minima of the walking cost of transport curve, you’ll be consuming nearly 80% of the energy per traveled distance as compared to running
you're welcome[1]
[1] https://archive.is/miQXP
I went with oh-my-tmux, and added a few plugins for copy-pasting in the buffer, and now I'm wishing I had that ability in my kitty term as well. I can hit a couple hot-keys and get quick copy/paste access to: git revisions, file paths, words, or any random start/stop letters on the screen. Using the plugins extrakto, tmux-copy-toolkit, and tmux-copycat.
When you screw up and delete the ip address from a remote router it will come in handy.
Yesterday BLM, today vaccines. I don't care about the issues anymore. It'll be a different one tomorrow. I just hope that the people advocating for selective enforcement of the law and flip flopping their position based on the which side they like rather than arriving at their position via principals are young enough to be alive to reap what they sow.
DNA samples would have been taken from victim directly, for comparison. I guess samples and records also include location of sample collection (hair, skin, mouth, etc), time, date, circumstance, etc.
Replicating a Sense of Touch in the Metaverse with Robotic Hands
It’s sad the author even had to write this article, but a lot of devs do act and think like this. It’s also one of the reasons bullshit bureaucracy seems to be ever growing.
I am a life scientist, and with respect, you're flatly incorrect. The first-order costs of public health measures scale linearly, and the first-order costs of infectious diseases scale exponentially. Higher-order costs are at least comparable between the two, and I would argue much higher in the case of covid than in the case of lockdowns.

(This being said, very few governments did lockdowns properly, and therefore almost every half-measure taken was ineffective and wasteful.)
Note to self: Stay away from Dells and stick to ThinkPad.
The responsible upvote on /newest was probably mine. I always upvote the chestnut things I see because I greatly admire it as an example of long-term thinking/projects and the benefits of selective breeding & genetic engineering, and of course the history angles are just cool.
Supercharge your event-driven architecture with 2nd-gen Google Cloud Functions
Looks like the WWW site as well as some other subdomains (including bugs) are also down
Yes. They could google as much as they liked.

It's possible they were asked about the projects. But if they were it was waste of time. It's easier and faster if you sit someone down and check the basic capacity to do the job they are applying for. Even faster in some cases because some candidates that sent in CVs didn't even show up.
Don't call their attempt at a coup a junta. A junta is by definition in English a government by the Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(governing_body)
I'm seeing this on the second page, and I have yet to see a top-level comment that's in favor of this action. Most of them repeat near-identical points about how peaceful the protests have been, red herrings about Trudeau's stance re: India, and so on. The upvotes/downvotes seem to have swung heavily the same way at the same time. So I guess you don't need to act astounded any more.