skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, this has the risk of the rise of a race of 'Pigeons' - we have seen how cities have 'do not feed...' signs. This is usually the end case of people taking pity on the hard life they have = free food = pigeon numbers tend towards infinity...
That said, what will we do if the rise of newly created jobs does not match the number of people rendered unemployed by newtech?
So far the newjobs have stayed ahead and even exceeded losses = worker shortages = drives even more automation.

I suggest instead of free money to people, UBI, we have free education for people of an automated nature. By automated, I mean an 'AI' mediated system of education that is based on a highly AI operated method of teaching/training of almost all disciplines. This is quite doable - the MIT open course work (https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm) is a leading example. This has grown into a huge and valuable resource. It needs further development to the point where segments are discoursed upon to a student. The student is then tested on a segment and failpoints identified - the courseware should then go over these failpoints with a more detailed discourse, perhaps varying the POV, leading to a retest and even more detailed discourses. This will accomodate students of varying capability. At some point the limits of that students intellect has been reached in that segment. On to the next stage - perhaps a human teacher can take the students to the next level, or he has plateaued on that module. On to the next in a continuing process with a new module that the student is capable of achieving. The system will accumulate a profile and will seek to expand the capability of the student across a wide range of modules in all human disciplines to, hopefully, keep making progress.
The student will be paid for his work and rewarded for his continued progress - even if minimal, as this is to replace a dole with rewarded work. As the student progresses he will at some point (I hope) reach a point where his capabilities meet/exceed the needs of a genuine job - which he can take and which will bring far higher wages. Some will, some will not, but they will all be on a path of continued education, Math, Physics, Roman History, Music, Art etc. Since 24/7 study can be a little daunting, there will be game modules, recreational reading - Sci-Fi, Super Hero action novels etc. to break the pace = recess for the mind.

I feel this can work, as the people climb in skill, they can be the humans that help the others (through teacher training modules - what else?).
I feel this may be better than increasing the number of Human Pigeons towards infinity.
This is exactly what my business does! It's certainly not a new model of working but nice to see more exposure to the billing model.
D is nice. I find Nim even nicer (the static introspection is more complete, and syntactic chatter/noise is lower). https://nim-lang.org/

Several people have done the entity component system (ECS) thing.
Remember MKLinux as well?
Thing is that people in russia are flooded with false information and Putin propaganda. If you trust these kind of news (like many US citizens believe in stuff that Trump says including voter fraud), then there's no need for them to stand up. And everyone who is trying to tell the truth will go to prison.
None, I think. Best case you have somewhat graceful handling on out of memory, but that handling isn't going to give you the result of the addition.
WordPress is pretty good until you start adding loads of content because it's built-in API is REST. You can get a lot more out of a plugin which adds a GraphQL layer to WordPress, but I have experienced issues with that before because GraphQL is strict on types whereas WordPress (based on PHP) is dynamic, so if there's a type mismatch (say for example someone has a number as a slug, where elsewhere it's a string) the GraphQL layer can break unexpectedly.
I agree, that's why I have muted any source of (digital) negativity since 2020.
I think this is a deep misunderstanding of cultural appropriation, but it is the misunderstanding that has gained traction in twitter circles. Cultural appropriation is a denunciation of exploitative oppression, not "anything where someone copies something that his culture (??) didn't come up with".

The problem is when corporations make facade copies of cultural heritage to profit from them, while the cultures that originated them not only get nothing out of it, but are actively oppressed in the meantime. That is your typical Taco Bell phenomenon (notice how Taco Bell almost never comes up in the public discussion?)

The public discussion is full of examples where some kid makes a Native American hairdress from feathers they found. No corporation profit, nothing is taken, and as long as it's not part of some roleplay where the natives are the bad guys to be killed by the good cowboys, it's also not necessarily reproductive of oppressive structures. The fact that the debate is skewed this way is already a misrepresentation.

Now, a corporation that got billions in tax credits and research from the government, making software off the labor of underpaid and overworked developers, deprived of their revenue model because someone copied it? Not cultural appropriation in the least.

A deeper point: The public-facing version of cultural appropriation is also low-key ethnic nationalist, because it objectifies ethnicities and the belonging to them, and holds them eternally stable at that. It reinforces "natural" ideas od being a member of any ethnic group, which is the exact opposite of any emancipatory discourse on race and ethnicity.
Looks like only Russia and Belarus.
Fear of missing out on software? You ain't missing out
document.getElementById('hnmain').style.filter = 'grayscale(100%)' // for Hacker News :)
You can also explore Webiny CMS https://www.webiny.com/serverless-cms
It's WYSIWYG editor is similar to Medium and currently offers a basic publishing workflow. By the way I am one of the project authors, and a quick update, our team is also working on advance publishing workflow.
Tizen is practically dead.
The justification that "Qt might be used in military applications (it is today)" is ridiculous. This isn't going to stop the military from using Qt. It's only going to stop poor ordinary people who can't afford a VPN and don't know how to use Tor.

I think this is motivated by bigotry against Russian and Belarusian people caused by a collectivist view of the world where people who had nothing to do with a crime should still be punished for it. It's really scary and disappointing to see.

As a black person living in a European country with very little racism, I thought my non-experince of racism was evidence that it's possible for a society to move past racism all together and treat everyone as the individuals they are, but in the last week I have heard more bigoted statements about people based on their origin than in all my life beforehand, including from people I would never have expected anything like that from.

We are seeing Russians who have strongly condemned Putin's war being ostracised and denied opportunities for something that's completely outside of their control. This is both morally wrong and contraproductive.
I see a lot of people say they’re moving to a no-income tax state, but don’t you just make up the difference in fixed taxes like property tax? Maybe California and/or New York are specifically bad in ways I’m not aware of.
Why the U.S. Doesn't Mind India's Notable Silence on Ukraine
Toolkit-agnostic system tray in Go (based on getlantern, using DBus for Linux)
>It's been shown time and time again that automation increases economic activity and jobs in an economy.

Even if it spurs economic activity overall, it doesn't mean the gains of that activity are fairly distributed. Many towns were completely ruined by the decline in manufacturing jobs, even if others propspered.
I don't think cultural appropriation is wrong. I think it's mostly original Americans who said 'stop mocking our rites and religion' and it grew from there. It grew in the US and reached the rest of the Western world quite fast. But as long as you're not a dick about it, it should be fine.
Fashion driven development more likely.
Well, you get pirated Windows and Office, which is probably all that your average Russian business needs.
You compiled to flash. Content served that were run by the flash runtime were valid or didn't work at all. The amount of code dealing with malformed content in browsers is staggering. A browser deals with everything that flash did, but in more complex ways, while also doing a LOT more.
> The problem is - as long as the economy is fine they don't care

Personal anecdote:

In April 2010 I was protesting ratification of the so called "Kharkiv Pact" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Pact) in Kyiv. I remember a moment, when I was single-handedly pushing three rows of soldiers (national guard; they didn't really try) and almost no one else joined, one of the members of our group said to another: "There won't be a revolution today. Let's wait till they start losing money, then we'll try again".
I wasn't familiar with Freshmeat but you just unlocked a part of my memory mentioning everything2... I spent a lot of time of that site in 2001-2002 (probably earlier as well as a lurker, but that's the years when I wrote things), I really loved it and was also very useful for me to practice English writing at a time when my English skills were still rather limited (I remember writing my texts painfully slowly, and looking words up...).

I've just checked and felt a warm feeling in my heart seeing that the website is still up, and not only that, but I can even login into my account that hadn't been used since 2002 or so (didn't remember my username, but the account is tied to an email account that I've had since around 1997 (!) so it was easy to recover).

I might write again from time to time...

Thanks for mentioning it!

PS: How can one have such fond memories of something locked in the brain stored somewhere, and only remember them when someone mentions it? I wonder how many nice memories from that time are still lost somewhere in my head.
> Are there people with experience in a wide variety of languages that prefer Go?

I used to love Go, but that my "wide variety" of language experience was mostly all dynamic languages.

My current opinion of Go in short is:

> Gives micro-level simplicity at the cost of macro-level complexity
Throwaway - this happened to me. For anybody curious, my guess is somebody hacked the server or figured out some URI enumeration vulnerability and at minimum gets your email when you submit the application.

You then get an email from "Thailand Pass <support@consulatelteamthailand.com>" (hacker I guess) saying there was a problem with your application and requesting your name, DOB and last 4 of passport. When you reply you get another email with the bitly link the OP shared, which then eventually (in a roundabout way, involving having you download a copy of a mock version of the real site) gets you to download a zipped vb script file.

IMO the sad part of this and what made it actually believable to me is that the Thai government is so disorganized generally, and does things in such an ad-hoc way that if you've been living here awhile it actually seems plausible that this is somehow real...
For a counterpoint, check out this collection of guages and dials and ails from texture.com. My favorite texture and visual reference site. Some of them are wonderfully decayed.

https://www.textures.com/browse/gauges/1731
I don’t see much value in comparing random companies across verticals, but I’ll bite.

Tesla is a luxury electric car company that is dependant on a very immoral supply chain to procure various raw materials, for their cars and batteries, i.e. pretty much everything. Of course, nobody cares about the hidden blood/slavery inherent to their supply chain.

Facebook is a social media company, that billions of people use and enjoy, while being monetised by ads (attention). It has been used as a “weapon” to create radical parties and subvert democratic process - but at a larger global scale than traditional press media could achieve.

Not everything is cut and dry, and most mainstream opinions are manufactured by the global media. Why /did/ we all collectively forget about every other industry than tech? Because the media is being replaced by social networks, and they’re facing an existential crisis, so they respond with biased coverage. Think hard about that!
Ghost's editor is probably the best I've seen. However if you're looking for content types or fields outside of what they provide its a challenge to add them because the CMS is written in EmberJS. As a straight-up blog (and membership platform) it does its job very well but I'm not inclined to use it beyond that.
> What is the right amount of sugar? What are the health benefits of sugar?

I don't have to answer your questions and it's not like you'd care about my answers anyway. The guy I'm responding to said "over-sugaring" which implies there's an amount of sugar that's not too much. I would expect something like eating an apple would fall under his definition of "not too much" but I wouldn't know.

What's the point of the rhetorical questions? I feel like you're trying to "own" me in order to put me into some Ben Shapiro youtube clip. If you want to make an argument, just make it.

> No one is saying

That's an odd point to make for someone just entering the discussion. I'm telling you what impression it leaves on me. Just saying "well your impression is wrong" is not really an interesting observation. Communication is a two-way street where we collaboratively create the impression we want. If you want to leave a different impression, then communicate differently.
Ask HN: Should there be a “draft” for cyber war?
If so, who should be called?
I think this has a pretty limited view of history. If you think no one is forcing anything, I'd encourage you to look at how Commodore Perry opened Japan with gunships, the Opium War which did much the same to China, the East India Company, and similar incidents. Countries which wanted to stay closed to Western-style trade didn't do very well.

The tools have gotten more nuanced, but they're still at play. There are quite a few books on the ways the West subverts democratic structures in Africa in order to be able to extract natural resources. China is now getting in on this game too.

We still use militaries to protect Western trade interests, especially around key shipping lanes like the Panama and Suez canals.
One should take this with a grain of salt. For now, it’s only a rumor.

And it may stay that way because there’re a lot of domestic software in Russia as well: you cannot legalize piracy without hurting your own IT.

The same was with IT industry support rumors last week: one (among several) of the leaked proposals was to remove taxes on salary for IT. It stayed off the table.
"Cultural appropriation" is newspeak. It defacto must be considered to be wrong because the term was invented in order to put a negative spin on sharing.

By the same token "discrimination" is seen as being defacto wrong even though no-one would take issue with the fact that you literally distinguish people by their physical attributes "yeah, he's the one with the brown hair".

It literally means "the bad form of cultural copying". As "discrimination" in common parlance means "the bad form of discrimination".

Contrast with the sentence "how do I discriminate between French and German words in this text". In that context, 'discriminate' doesn't have a negative bent. But in basically any context to do with real people it does.

Linguistics(?) is hard...
FWIW, most of the untrusted code execution "platforms" these days use Docker with some hardening (dropped capabilities, syscall filtering, readonly fs etc).
Eg. Repl.it and Rust Playground.
Ah, my old enemy: this useless bike stand that damages your front wheel, it's hard to lock the frame (not just the wheel) to it, and even if you do it correctly the thieves just take the whole thing including the locked bikes.
The author responded to a similar argument in a follow-up post:

> Your bug doesn’t bother me (or my paying users). If it did, I’d have fixed it myself. When submitting a bug report, you are not working for me, you are working for yourself and the user community. The same way I was, when making the original software available free of charge (whether or not you want to do it is entirely your choice, I’m not asking you to). Does your bug report include a patch? If yes, then the problem’s solved for you, if not, then you are expecting me to come up with a fix. That’s a work order, here’s my bill.

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I'm personally in the middle; if the bug is posted on an open bug tracker, it can be a good way to coordinate the community to find workarounds and get a patch started. Also triaging a bug is work, so it could be considered helpful to say "I've tracked the cause down to this module/function/line" even without a patch.

OTOH, a Github issues is also a great gathering place for entitled jerks. and many an issue thread has become the HN/Reddit/4Chan punching bag of the day and now the project maintainer is expected to both write a patch for free and moderate / lock and clean up an impromptu internet complaining situation, so IDK. Open source is a mess sometimes.
biggest "open letter" (petition) https://www.change.org/netvoyne - has more than 1 million signs (not only from Russia, but it has). Peskov (Putin press secretary) reacted: "It's bullshit and sign cheating with bots"

You even can't use word "war" in massmedia - you'll be instantly blocked in russian internet and fined for 5 mln rubles (about $50k for now). If you want be approved massmedia you must use "special military operation" phrase. They even want to block whole Wikipedia because of this

4th March was signed new law - you can go to jail for 15 years if you participate in meetings against war, if you call war with word "war", if you posting some information against russian army.

Any money sended to Ukraine (even if you have relatives and want to somehow help them) are considered as betrayal of Russia and you could go to jail for years.
Peter Attia has some great podcasts on this. Here's one [1] about how fructose drives metabolic disease.

[1]: https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson2/
Were these laws even really enforced in the first place?

Russia has always been pretty notorious for piracy.
It's a hellscape of misery and suffering.

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
Super cool dude, thanks for building and sharing this!
Industry secrets are a freely-chosen alternative to IP; they're not the same as IP. Proper IP protection requires disclosure and is either time-limited (wrt. copyrights and patents) or constrained so as not to impede competition (trademarks). When IP is extended beyond these boundaries, it becomes wrong and a severe drag on economic growth. Such as when IP-related laws are used to impinge on fair dealing, fair use and first-sale rights, e.g. by enforcing oppressive DRM.
The instance I use is called freshcode [0]

[0] https://freshcode.club/
It was enforced selectively (as many laws there) with occasional arrests of freelance computer technicians. They would be asked to do a minor repair and then install pirated versions of Windows, MS Office, Autocad etc to reach a certain threshold after which it would be qualified as an "economic crime on a particularly large scale".
> Typically, a light-gun game will make the screen flash white when you pull the trigger. The console will then check the light sensor in the gun to read when it goes from perceiving black to sensing white as the beam reaches the part of the screen the gun is pointing at. The console can then work out how long it took from the start of the screen flash to the moment when the gun sensed white, and that timing reveals where the gun was pointing.

Is that really how it worked? My understanding was that when pressing the trigger, the game drew the targets as white rectangles on a black background and a light detector in the gun was checking whether it's pointing at white. That's why an easy way to cheat was to point the lightgun at a lamp
eBPF CO-RE on old kernels
He worked on OpenMoko for a while when they chose enlightenment libs for the UI.
Crimea was the Sudetenland; Ukraine is Poland.
No, you don't want random people running around with knowledge about your country's cyber capabilities. Cyber attacks target strategic companies and infrastructure, so a proper cyber defense would work to impose good security regulations and practices. If they need offensive capabilities, countries should invest in a standing teams that know what they are doing and are properly vetted.
The goal of sanctions is generally not to make anything impossible, just to make it painful and/or expensive.
During WWII, a nutritionist called Magus Pike worked at the UK Ministry of Food, post-war he became something of a TV "boffin", called on whenever food was in the news. I saw him once on how to eat healthily: "Eat what you like, try not to get overweight".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Blinded_Me_with_Science
list countries that have paid for war crimes when not forced to do so.

an unrealistic choice is not a choice.
> Uh-oh!

> This screen is too small—I won't be able to fit in all the controls, buttons and gizmos! Sorry!

Most things like this say a vague "invalid browser" or try to let you play even though it's impossible. I like this approach better.
The name 5th Pillar represents the organization’s central idea; that people have the power to change the fundamental conditions that corruption depends on for its existence, and that popular mobilization against corruption will strengthen the four traditional pillars of India’s democracy.

Those are traditionally: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and the Media

Via https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openindia/fifth-pillar-of-i...
I’m going to be that guy. It’s not “the Ukraine”, it’s just “Ukraine”. There’s a significant historical reason why this matters.
Character counts: 3, 4. "Red pill".
I don't know why everyone assumes the US should be picking sides in wars half way around the world. We've been doing that for quite a while and it only seems to make things worse.
I grew up in farming country and nobody I knew had an american-style truck. Some farmers had old military-style jeeps, but none of them were particularly large, and if they wanted to carry stuff, they could put it in a trailer. Guys who haul stuff like scrap around typically have a flatbed van.

I get that a van isn't sexy, but it's a great value proposition if you want to haul stuff about.
For many years, Israel used both - injection, followed by oral a few years later. At some point, it stopped with the oral - but e.g. in 2013 following some increased sewage levels detected, Israel had a population wide oral vaccine drive[0]

I'm not quite sure what the schedule is right now, but the heavy handed essentially mandated covid vaccination is reported (so far unofficially, official data not yet released) to have caused a non trivial drop in standard vaccine uptake.

Last time Israel had a vaccine mandate was for a short while in the early 50s; Since then, there were no mandate or general requirements e.g. in schools. Uptake was still very high, at over 95% or so until the MMR vaccine scare, which only dented it lightly. Officially and technically, Irsael did not have a covid vaccine mandate - but practically, it did for many people, much like it did in France until a few days ago.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922746117
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
What if the Russian made a similar legislation - enabling Russians to seize assets of select American citizens? What would that be?
AFAIK you can disable content filtering in settings in web or desktop version, though I am not sure if it also lifts regional legal restrictions.