skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how the article just generalizes everyone as if human beings all fit neatly into one column. What a crock of dogshit.
> If you have the power to do something and you don't, that's taking a side.

Pushing political commit messages is not "power". If you like like everyone around you you are not a rebel, just a conformist.

And using indiscriminate IP-location malware to annoy people is the textbook definition of evil child behavior. I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to defend here.

> By the way, everything is not propaganda: anti-propaganda can just be the truth.

How do you know what the truth is when you have no foot on the ground?
I agree, to some extent. I think it was largely ineffective and poorly targeted protest. The media coverage is not really necessary as it's already highly reported on, and the people harmed have no control over it.

With that said, disruptive protest can be (and often is) illegal. I may think it's justified in some cases, but also if I do something illegal I expect to face legal punishment for it. Some people lay down their lives to protest: to some people committing a crime is a cost worth paying.

Again, my point isn't that I agree with the action, just that the idea that protest should disrupt no one is counter to the whole point of protest.
It's not an extremist position to say you don't have to do much about big companies feelings about using Free software. You don't have to expend your scarce resources to make them feel comfortable. Note well here I am talking about nothing whatever of substance, this is all pure marketing. If big cos turn from Free software due to prejudice and ignorance about what it is, what it does and how to manage it, rather than riding it like Google, Facebook, Apple etc to untold riches (that were not obtainable to those companies without Free software), that's not any Free software developers' problem.

The GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache licenses have not changed. A rogue actions by any supplier comes directly under bargaining powers of suppliers in your corporate strategy risk analysis. If it happens you deal with it and you've already thought about it or you have no business in making decisions in a large company. If any big company runs away scared from Free software, bye.

Google literally shot to glory when they went extra hard at using Free software when established big companies were scared. It's not a sufficient condition for their success but it was absolutely a necessary one. They don't get going if they have to pay for operating systems alone.
The problem is not protestware, sabotage, or whatever. The problem is who does it.

Suppose US government did this to sabotage Russia, since it cannot directly act against Russia because it would trigger WWIII. Nobody would care about.

But this guy doing it, or you, or me? No. We are not allowed.
It's not a huge engineering problem. But it is a huge problem, lower the rates when you have excess power and we will have more uses for the energy. But if the rates are low the revenue is low.

(This would not be so significant a problem if the capital costs weren't so high)
Well, there's a reason why we have Youtoube and PornHub on the other hand, don't we?
These two mean exactly the same thing, no? Does anyone read "linked" and infer a direction of causality? To use the famous example, there's nothing wrong with the phrase "Rain linked with wet streets"
My interpretation of the events and GPs question is that the timeline of intercourse/conception wasn't suspect, only the efficacy of the contraception. The only scenario where deception and the suggested test of such makes sense in this case would be if the partner had stopped using contraception earlier by choice and had an affair.
TIL, that there's important Bing source code???
"Our call volume is currently very high and the wait time is X minutes. Please press 1 if you would like to be put in the queue and have an agent call you."

I wish more companies did this so that I can actually get on with my day without spending it on hold.
"proestware" is just malware.
I posted a few legit (longish reviews) 1-3 star reviews, but they all disappeared from Google Maps.
No, not at all. You can tunnel traffic from any machine, anywhere to be terminated at a public IP.
- For performance mostly, Kestra rely a lot on Java thread to be able to handle a very large workload

- Because the application is built on top of Kafka, and Kafka Streams that is only available on Java

- Because the java ecosystem is very large and there is a lot good library to handle a lot of workload

- Because I love strong typing and the language (but no matter for the user, just a personal pleasure :D)
> It is politics and ideology harms open source.

The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology. Open source would not exist to the same extent without the ideology espoused by the FSF. The problem is that abandoning a key tenant of the free software movement, neutrality towards different uses (part of freedom 0 of the free software definition), does far more harm than good and contravenes FLOSS ideology.
Another interesting bit of history. An ethernet competitor, the ChaosNet, was being developed at the MIT AI Lab around the same time. It had some advantages over ethernet, especially at high loads, but no marketing push behind it. I believe it was mostly developed by Jack Holloway and others who did software for it (Dave Moon among others?). I believe Metcalf and Holloway were undergrad roommates. I was a junior helper on this project and hooked up some machines in the plasma physics research groups to it. The name, ChaosNet was objectionable to (D)ARPA and the military because they had a classified network with the same name. Do others have, perhaps better, recollections about all this?
Another day, another Github incident...
It's not whether there are people who are willing to pay, but whether there are enough such people so that mandating this would not lead to substantially less number of services provided by companies such that society collectively will be worse off. I.e. a regulation like this proposal will raise the cost of business which ultimately consumers have to bear, and the question is how much cost it will increase overall and if the consequence of that increase is actually acceptable for the society. I don't know anybody knows the answer for sure - it's possible the cost increase is marginal and can be easily absorbed, but maybe not.
Thanks! It took me a long time to figure out I needed this - now I can’t live without it!
not every politics-adjacent thread needs to devolve into "the wokes are coming for us all". You can disagree with the actions of progressives without making it this all-encompassing threat. Hell, I'm pretty left-wing and I'm fairly critical of some of the factions.

Either way, I can't see anybody putting "must add a BLM banner to their website" to the licensing conditions of their FOSS code.
I prefer to use separate terminal multiplexers - mostly because that gives me the freedom to choose terminal emulators without having to learn split management paradigms specific to each enulator. I was on tmux earlier. But I really like how zellij is turning out to be.

Unfortunately, kitty's author has a strong dislike for terminal multiplexers, and it shows in his designs. Recent updates to kitty have broken out-of-the-box functioning of terminal multiplexers. It may be possible to get them working with some configuration tweaks. But Kitty's configuration is huge - I don't have the energy to figure it out. So, I had to abandon kitty in favor of foot terminal emulator.

The author may be justified in his dislike for terminal multiplexers. They were created at a time when emulators were too dumb and didn't have enough capabilities. Multiplexers break some functionalities on modern emulators. But I wish software authors in general respected that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and made their design to be more general purpose. In this specific case, I wish there was some standard protocol for terminal emulators and multiplexers to cooperate.

The author is well within his right to choose his designs and I unfortunately don't have the time to solve that problem. And that leaves me giving up kitty as the only solution. But I miss some innovations that kitty brought to the table - new graphics protocol, remote control protocol etc. I hope that those protocols will be widely implemented in other emulators too.
Doesn't look well maintained.
This is super interesting, most writeups I've seen similar to this focus more on hardening the server itself and not the adjacent OPSEC necessary like TOR best practices or hosting strategy.
I think prolific in this case is more the "Super Whizkid DJ Creates 100,000 Tracks in a Week" sense -- not in the sense that you may or may not have heard of them...
Cool project!

Was this inspired by Golf with Your Friends? I've been playing that a fair bit, it's pretty fun and good value.
That's going to depend on the length of your password. Longer is more entropy and orders of magnitude more difficult to 'brute force' with each character added.
But what is the limiting principle? Once you allow yourself to cause disruption and hurt people, when is it too far?
Also it is a moving space. Browsers don't accept a single certificate for a site anymore, you also have to have that signed by a CA. You can create such a certificate yourself too, but as of today you will need at least two certificates for browsers to fully accept a TLS secured connection. It hasn't been that long since that rule is in place.

So it isn't only the technicalities of asynchronous encryption, there is also specific behavior of applications that use certificates to prove identities.
I came up with what I thought was an appropriate riff on XKCD 303, but I fear we might be running out of excuses now :(

https://twitter.com/shr1k/status/1504464470462017542
I used to be a heavy drinker. Shame and guilt were absolutely enormous factors in my decision to quit drinking. I'm just n = 1, but it seems crazy to me to suggest that shame doesn't work. It works really, really well on me! If you want me to stop doing something, then getting me to feel ashamed about it is a very effective strategy.
I certainly do.

I've had to put labels on cables, because I now have amassed so many, it's impossible to tell which one:

- provides power (and nothing else) to my portable monitor

- charges my phone and does USB data sync

- charges my wireless headphones (doesn't power monitor, doesn't do USB sync)

I never had these issues with Micro - USB.
Not quite an answer, but I found Gail Sheehy's (bestselling) book Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life super-enlightening. Highly recommended. It's like a road map of broadly what to expect as you go through life, and get older, decade by decade. Things you might think are problems unique to you, you will learn are normal and part of life. Hard to explain, but I found it mind-blowingly good. Hmm I must read it again, it's been a while. Good luck!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82229.Passages

Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond.

p.s. Watch this inspiring Open Mind interview with her first (it's on another another of her books, also about peoples' lives), then you'll be able to hear her writing in her voice while you read it! 27mins https://www.thirteen.org/openmind-archive/aging/pathfinders/
The incredibly frustrating thing is that the metrics they’re “growth hacking”, engagement mostly, aren’t great proxies for product success in a lot of cases! In a lot of these cases the constant design tweaks probably reduces the overall sentiment users have towards the product overall.

I’m thinking specifically of the Netflix autoplay box, which I’m sure did wonders for their engagement, but also was universally hated. I think its no coincidence that during this time my social group went from “I love Netflix!” to “I can’t cancel Netflix because it has <favorite show>”. I fear GitHub going down the same path with such tweaks.
It's not acceptable to burn down someone's house because you disagree with them. Even if you disagree with them a lot. Please don't burn people's houses down.

If you burn down people's houses, you will be arrested and go to jail.
It harms all of technology and by extension anyone who participates in the modern world. Just like any malware or other antisocial behaviour.

It's a bit too indiscriminate to be a good protest, unless the thing you want to tear down IS the whole modern development process, which is based on the idea that most people are somewhat trustworthy and you can get the risk down to an acceptable level through the usual means.

It doesn't quite work if malware is not only a threat, but a semi-mainstream thing sometimes made by people you would think you could trust. The normal social process of trust breaks down if malware is included in the scope of normal things people sometimes do, as opposed to purely being something by the more criminal types.

I almost wonder if these people don't actively want to tear down tech itself, or not care, given how many coders dislike the fact that society is tech dependant.
> just keep in mind that even if you talk to a human, your millage may vary greatly depending on who you speak to and what side of the bed they got up on.

It goes even deeper than this. Often times when you "speak to a human", the capabilities of that human are essentially limited to just putting things into an internal ticket system. A lot of companies set up their systems this way - front end support who talks to customers and really isn't empowered to do anything, and a back office that acts on those requests (iff a request is well-formed).

Even traditional businesses like brick and mortar banks can operate this way, with your local rep at a desk calling into a call center to straighten out account issues. Regional banks seem to be the worst offenders here, having gotten large enough to implement a system but not large enough to address it's failings. So don't think that simply talking to a "person" will save you!
I have CFS/ME/Dysautonomia and apart from the lack of physical damage to the lungs I don’t see much difference at all between what I have and Long Covid. Because of the medical gaslighting that is still pervasive around CFS/ME I just tell people I had Covid and am experiencing long Covid despite the fact that I don’t think I’ve had it and my symptoms existed long before the outbreak. I have hEDS which is a autosomal dominant mutation that almost always results in getting CFS/ME. My hope is that the number of people afflicted with long Covid will make it impossible to ignore and lead to effective treatments.

It also makes sense that a number of people who get long Covid would have got CFS/ME eventually anyway either on their own or via another disease stressing them into it. It seems that the likelihood of getting CFS/ME is determined by genetic predisposition with some people unable to get it at all.
That would be a wonderful thing to able be do, if the woke brigade wasn't screaming "YOU'RE WITH US OR YOU'RE AGAINST US" a parent over. ;) Ignoring that isn't an option, unfortunately, believe me, that's been tried.
Hmmm, in America the most common intervention is AA, whose doctrine is that willpower alone is not sufficient, that you must appeal to a higher power. We also know this intervention isn't any more effective than someone just trying get over it on their own, yet it persists, and is even court ordered often. There will be replies to this post about how AA "worked for them" or something to that effect. Which doesn't mean anything.

My brother struggles with alcoholism and has been on and off the horse, with AA as the main thing all the time. The primary impact it seems to have on him is that all he wants to talk about is AA and alcoholism. It becomes his identity. "Alcoholics do this, alcoholics do that, alcoholics are like this". If I thought that was helpful then fine, but it seems more rewarding identities would be possible and less limiting.
>Javascript developers have a whole different culture than the developer circles I like to frequent.

Most Javascript developers I know are just writing code and that's what they're concerned with.

Vocal voices on twitter or etc != most Javascript developers.

I'd argue most vocal folks on forums or etc don't represent most developers of any given language.
if only there were a way to have immutable packages without saddling it to web3 garbage
I predict we're not gonna see anything resembling a baby boom until/unless we fix healthcare. It's too expensive, otherwise. Might need subsidized or free child care, too, before it's even slightly likely. You burn $100k surprisingly fast with even a healthy kid and without splurging a bit (pre-natal care and birth, increased insurance costs afterward, child care or lost wages due to one parent staying home, et c). Throw in our mediocre public pension system and the death of significant retirement benefits at most jobs that used to have them, and if you're having a kid these days and don't make excellent money you're signing up for an unpleasant retirement. Out-of-control housing costs and the current inflation levels just make that deal even less appealing.
Congratulations, you're part of the problem. Enjoy creating a world in which open source cannot be relied upon for any purpose: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
I certainly hope people don't just load this random website's script directly from their website frontend. That seem super insecure. If people want to use that popup they should download the code, give it a quick review, then host it themselves. This also solves the issue with that domain getting blocked.
I thought this would be another grim medical tale, I'm glad I was wrong :)
I used to judge banks until now I run a company that handles deposits. On the third day of launch I ran into a small bug that allowed some rogue users to drain all the money in our account at the time (which was about $400 only at least). Right then and there I fully understood why an organization dealing with money needs red tape as more of a safety harness than anything
Precisely this. From what I've read it isn't that easy to setup a CA.

Look into step-ca though, I've heard it's.. Okay? I don't know. It seems too complicated still - I'd rather stick with pubkey auth
“Politics” Is often what people call serous issues that don’t affect them. So, maybe you’d just like open-source to be the domain of privileged people.
This might sound rough, but don't you think some brainwashing could help your situation?
How do you explain the people who complain of long covid but have no evidence of any infection?
I own a Tern Verge myself. Got already > 1'200 km tracked, although not using it that often. Beside some ... issues (a pedal broke, the brakes need some adjustments from time to time and one tire (that I changed myself, I have to add) loses some air over time) I really love it. Especially being able to push it and not having to carry it when it is folded is a big plus for me.
>I think keeping up on things like this

Keeping up on actual code related concerns yeah. Internet drama, no.
> who have no influence

I believe the crux of the political theory is that in a representative democracy, nobody has no influence over the issue.
I have a wall outlet that has a USB-C port along with two conventional 120v sockets. (It's also got a USB-A port on it - there don't seem to be versions with two C ports widely available yet.)
But Wordle takes what 15 minutes of your day?
My Pixel phone tells me the charging rate the lock screen when I plug it in (outside of the adaptive charging hours). There is a notice at the bottom that either says "charging slowly" or "charging quickly".
>gas turbine generators based on airplane engines have a capital cost about 10% of the steam turbines used for coal and nuclear.

Do you have a source for this? Most gas power plants today are combined-cycle [0], meaning they first put the hot combustion gas through a gas turbine as you said and _then_ they use the waste heat to drive a steam turbine as well. This design is responsible for the significant efficiency advantage natural gas generation has over coal. So it doesn't make sense to claim that gas power plants are cheaper due to the turbine technology because most built today use both gas and steam turbines.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172
> If the new plant meets its daily production target of 650 tonnes of environmentally friendly ‘green’ hydrogen, it will become the world’s largest.

650,000 kg/d = 27,083 kg/h

If one assumes 100 % of the contained energy of 39.39 kWh/kg can be recovered in a power plant connected to the grid, this equals power generation capacity of: ~
1 GW

So this is roughly equivalent to one big coal or nuclear plant. Considering this will be the worlds largest such plant, it shows that we're still far away from powering the world with renewable hydrogen to a significant degree.
In the California data, there's a pretty clear trend of (pop2020-pop2010)/pop2010. The counties losing population were mostly those under 100k, with the exception of Kings and Butte counties, the latter being exceptional as they suffered from an entire town being destroyed.

Note that this means the weighted experience of the overwhelming majority of people is they live in a growing county.
Has he looked into, researched Ayahuasca yet? Legal in many places now including Canada, and plenty of anecdotal evidence that it helps break addictions/dependancies.
Better situational awareness: The exact reason why I choose a particular kind of motorcycle over the "fast ones" that make you lean forwards.

These bikes I ride get very little respect in my circles but I will not trade "better situational awareness" for peer respect.

I live in a country with good motorcycling infrastructure, still I prioritise the situational awareness.
> Every winter I see the same post about how little energy solar panels are producing today and why this means we need more nuclear plants.

The low-wind periods last December had a peak of 1.2 GW solar.

Combined wind and solar right now are producing only very slightly more than a tech that has had zero real investment in thirty years. I wouldn't brag about that.
3D printed 66mm recoilless launcher
I suppose condescending smugness can read like surprise in certain cases.
Yeah but so what? Disagreements are going to happen in politics. Other people disliking your politics and vice-versa is not an existential threat.

Anybody who legitimately makes a "liberals only" stand in their license will get forked and their usage will drop off.
It is interesting that your description isn't too far away from saying "reality is a consensus built up between entities", which is itself not too far off from Donald Hoffman[0] hypothesizes, which could possibly be framed as "reality is a protocol conscious entities use to communicate".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman
Those two lists should probably be combined - at least the hosted services.
Our company sells HW and SW for the dental sector.

Our desktop scanners for dental labs and our intra-oral scanners for dentists generate 3D meshes of the patients oral situation. The UI of the intra-oral scanner is done with javaFX tool kit/libs. A little impression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4IWd3Svm0

Those meshes are the input data for the CAD/CAM Software my team builds. It is a desktop app for the digital design of dental restorations. The GUI is in javaFX and 3D visualization is done with OpenGL 4.5.

Once the restorative Design is done, that app can generate many different output formats. Labs will feed the design files their local milling machine or 3D printer. Dentists can send it to centralized milling facilities of their choice to produce the crown or bridge or what have you.

Some impressions of the CAD can be seen here:

https://youtu.be/5THQMr5SAH0