skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a big fan of GitHub Actions so take this with that in mind. GitLab (self-hosted) is very reliable however GitLab CI/CD is very different in design to GitHub Actions: it’s much more a bunch of shell scripts stuck together with YAML. Personally, I’d never go back (unless they redesign it).
I'm not sure I understand the value proposition. Supporting abandoned scanners is great, but $40 for essentially a driver seems rather steep. That's half the cost of a brand new scanner that will work with whatever software I want.
I absolutely agree with this premise. Software (open source or not) should be usable and perform a useful function, not swarm users with spam to protest this or that.

The developer of the software that made the protestware was rightfully banned by Github. I haven't heard if he ever regained access to his account.
Other projects in a similar spirit:

Tom Johnson's Chord Catalog which organizes the 8,178 chords possible in a single octave of the piano: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chord_Catalogue

James Whitehead's All Possible CDs: http://www.jliat.com/APCDS/index.html

> This “thought” experiment although based on real “physical” objects can be treated as a simple mathematical object and so allows us to explore some of the consequences of this object or objects. The important feature is that any finite series is fixed, so greater sized disks, blue ray, whatever, is not significant to the idea, that is in a finite universe there are a finite number of finite objects. The size of the bit strings set real limits on the number of possible objects; web pages typically use 24 bits to encode colors, 8 bits for red, 8 for blue, and 8 for green that gives 256 x 256 x 256 or 16,777,216 possible colors, and no more.

> In Deleuzean terms, you could call this, all possible CDs, the “virtual plane”, thought experiment, in the case of 2 to the power 6265728000 of all possible audio on CD, a virtual set of possibilities or a virtual plane, and the actual physical CDs in the world are actualizations of these virtualalities. Actual objects, physical CDs, being intensities on this virtual plane. Actual CDs are not mere copies of there virtual counterparts, they are not re presentations of the virtual, for they have many more properties, many physical properties, color, size, shape etc., just as in the Deleuzean Virtual and Real planes, the real is not a copy of the virtual, but an intensity.

> Using this as a model we can “experience” actualities that are physically unlikely for humans if not in practice impossible, for 2 to the power 6265728000, is approximately 10 to the power 2000000000. There are only 10 to the power 118 particles in the universe so a full and total actualization of the virtuality of CDs seems impossible.
Is there a general factor of intelligence?
Document your mistakes and then try to block them in the future
But people are specifically saying it doesn't have to be for money. If I've made some open source tool that people use for free, do I really need to provide phone support - also for free?
crazy how absolutely nobody saw nth-order effects coming
Can’t set up a sweatshop as a school and have students pay to work on Win32 apps.
Russia's stock market reopens after month-long closure
How to Test Your GraphQL API
Learn how to test your GraphQL API from unit to integrations tests. The post includes an example repo
The Lightning cables are a waste because they have one use only, on a few devices by a single manufacturer only. Type C is widely adopted, including by the same manufacturer that does Lightning. It's a no-brainer and thankfully finally someone had the guts to force Apple. We also have the EU to thank for the fact that non-Apple devices all use one or two standards ( micro usb or type c for newer ones) and not the bazillion others we had before.
I think it's just a troll comment, given that it's a new account with the text "hilarious" in it.
Their aims from 15 years ago notwithstanding, it is not a social platform, and does not get used for social networking topics.

Yes, we know git repos get used by clusters of people. That is not the accepted meaning of "social network."

Nobody is posting the news, their kids, or joining film groups on Github.
You need an education on how to bring these companies to court. You DO have a right to speak with a human on court, or else there will be a default judgment in your favor.
What's a customer? I don't charge money, but neither does Google. Where is the line drawn?
Glad you didn't get into a Twist.
BRCA sucks. My sister died from ovarian cancer. She was positive and refused preventive removal.

I need to get checked. And if I am a carrier, my daughters will need to get checked, too.
Do they count only users registered on the whole namespace/group or all users registered in each sub git project inside the namespace / group ?
China is charging ahead with Thorium - maybe after they embarrass the rest of the world people will get more rational and less emotional about nuclear?

Not holding my breath....
Indeed, by this logic, the Unabomber was a pretty effective "protester."
Please bring back desktop apps!

There are so many apps that just do one thing really well, and don't really need updates unless they're to fix compatibility issues after OS updates.

"Web app" is now synonymous with the SaaS model, which means over time, the product becomes bloated with features designed to appeal to the next biggest segment the company currently doesn't have. And there's no way to opt out. Dropbox and Evernote come to mind, but everything falls victim to this eventually.

I like apps like Sketch. 1-time fee with 1 year of updates, which is fair. If I'm happy with my Year 1 features, I don't have to update.
>Put another way, I think being neutral and silent by default is a necessary defense against manipulation.

But what if the purpose of the manipulation is to suppress dissent, or at least encourage passive acceptance of the status quo, by convincing people remain to neutral and silent?
hmm, does this really count as malware? I understand where you're coming from but ultimately it's just text
Sandstorm is in need of more coders to help maintain and update apps, but it's not abandoned. I use it, both personally and professionally.

It results in a better experience for end-users because applications are actually sandboxed. This (mercifully) means that any security issues in the out-of-date applications does not become a cause for panic. The downside is that packaging those applications is not trivial.
It does, this description of what can be copyrighted is confused.
It's an alibi. Yes you received a lot of money. But because someone loved your MS Paint masterpiece.
Where does one even buy software anymore? The only stuff you tend to see on the shelves at a brick and mortar store these days are shovelware games that I assume Grandma buys to give her grandchildren something to play on the family computer when they come to visit.

Everything else is pretty much a license key you purchase online to allow you to download/register something you grabbed from the company's website.
A receipt printer that prints GitHub Issues
Apple has hamstrung Safari so it's not capable enough to replace webapps (chiefly for notifications)
> FWIW WASM GC is coming - and it looks great.

I've not been tuned in. Is there some good forward progress there? It along with threads felt stalled out. I'd love to see GC adopted as that would, IMO, turn WASM into something close to a universal bytecode. It would significantly expand the number of languages that could reasonably target WASM.
Probably, yes. I'd say most mature tech stacks provide most of what you are likely to need first party. .NET is an incredible ecosystem for this: Nearly everything the standard developer needs is available from Microsoft, most common third party packages you might want to pull in were authored by an enterprise company with support available, and if you're pulling in something by an individual, it's probably pretty niche.
Yeah and ES doesn’t scale forever, also running both of those is incredibly computationally expensive. You would really need the right use care
Hearth-breaking. All the love to you and your family.
If you're not sure how it matters that none of the users use it as a social platform, then I'm not sure what you think a social platform is.

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> explicitly for social coding

Using source control is not "social coding." You're stretching that word far past its actual meaning, in the effort to make a point.
True-fact^1: the song was actually Jonathan Davies reading out 68000 assembler.

[1] Not really.
https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-efficient-free-tier/

Q. What does namespace in the context of user limits refer to?

A. In GitLab, a namespace is a unique name for a user, a group, or subgroup under which a project can be created. User limits are implemented at the top level group or personal namespace. For example: If a user has a group named top and two sub-groups under top named child1 and child2 with 4 users each, then the top namespace will have a total of 8 users, which is above the user limit of 5.
KoЯN members are probably like: "what the fuck is a shell"?
> Could be. But by whom? To what effect?

The general public. I speculate that publicity was one of the main objectives behind this operation to draw attention to his political grievances and maybe demands.

Perhaps we should focus more on the issue of bragging rights. The perpetrator probably thinks he's some kind of a hero having conducted this operation and it was some kind of a heroic feat sticking up to Putin when he in fact is more of a lousy vandal destroying some poor guy's store window than an epic warrior conquering foreign lands and subduing evil emperors.

The more people realize this and esp. people who are prone to commit these acts, the more innocent people would be spared the damage incurred by those reckless attacks.
> The sanctions on Iraq after the first Gulf War were approved by the UN

It was not approved by the UN, it was approved by the UNSC.
Nice.

Perhaps a level generator based on some ascii art or something would be nice.

That way more people could add levels in merge requests. Or even add a level loader where you can import a list of those levels.
Some people binge 200 hours of so-called reality TV a week. Others dig into the code of dead operating systems.

I would think that on HN one of these would automatically be considered more worthy of one's time than the other.
I'm not sure I understand this comment.

We do have the right to tell others how to run their businesses.

Get food poisoning at a restaurant (btw, also a low margin business) there's protocol.

Get in a taxi and it goes somewhere it shouldn't? protocol.

Hotel spying on you? or maybe not having fire safety rules? or not having running water?

We regulate where businesses go, how they operate, how big they can get and plenty more. Nearly every single limitation was paid for in misery, lost funds, or in blood.
I remember being 12 years old in 1996 looking for Korn websites on AltaVista and found that a solid half of the links being returned were ksh guides. Maybe that's how I turned into such a Unix geek.
Unpopular opinion: telling people they need to keep their protests non-disruptive is akin to telling them they can’t protest. “Protest in a way where I can ignore you.”

Do I think “protestware” is a bad idea? Sure. Am I going to tell them to take their fight for human rights elsewhere? Not a chance.
I'd love to hear more about the lightmapping interpolation for moving objects. I wonder what kinds of efficiencies the author had to find to make it performant.
Elasticsearch is not a pain in the ass to scale, it is one of the easiest databases to scale. Kafka is medium, since they ditched Zookeeper.
There is a simple way to verify this theory. Just look at the fertility rates in Europe. Spoiler: their TFR is lower than in the US
nah, most of us like it, we just don't want to get into the fracas with the people talking about always-bad and inherently-evil
The rich go to very different hospitals?
Meta's executives are working from all over the world
You're right--and that's why plenty of therapies aren't properly tested.

But something that causes significant nerve damage in 15 out 15 test patients during a study is not a top candidate for chemotherapy.
To be honest, I'm annoyed by the benign protestware messages when they start to get in the way of using the software, particularly on mobile. I was looking at the isomorphic git documentation the other day, and noticed that their "#BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice" banner scrolls under the rest of the content, leaving this annoying gap that takes up screen real estate, especially in landscape mode on a phone.[0] What's the point? Is a single person going to be persuaded to support either cause by seeing this banner on a relatively niche JS library that reduces readability of its documentation? Will anyone find the library any more useful because they support the cause? (I support neither cause, but find the library useful nevertheless.)

Recently, I saw a similar pattern with the Svelte REPL adding a pro-Ukraine message.[1] The banner along the bottom is so large that landscape mode becomes unusable, and non-trivial examples are hard to see even in portrait mode. Again, who does this help? (I support Ukraine, so feel like, "yeah, I get it; can I close the banner now?")

The worst part about these patterns is that they can't be disabled and seem to be deployed haphazardly without regard for the overall design.

While these aren't malware, they are still hostile for the majority of users who aren't so gung ho in their support for the current thing.

[0] https://isomorphic-git.org/docs/en/deleteBranch

[1] https://svelte.dev/repl/hello-world?version=3.46.4
Ask HN: What's your opinion on a hybrid work from home / work in office model?
What are your opinions? I really enjoyed the flexibility to work from home, the saved time and money regarding the daily way to work...

But in a few weeks we should come to the office again for at least 2 days per week, so I'm a bit frustrated.
If I go to a taco shop but order fries instead, and eventually they focus more on tacos and change the recipe for their fries, I would certainly be mad about it. If you are doing a good job for a domain, folks are going to inevitably be bothered when you do worse by that domain, for whatever reason.
From another article https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/investing/premarket-stocks-tr...

> The benchmark MOEX index surged by as much as 10% in early trading. The index was up roughly 5% in afternoon trade in Moscow. Here's why: Russia's stock market isn't operating under normal rules. The central bank has blocked foreign investors from selling their shares and banned short selling. Only 33 stocks were allowed to trade on Thursday. Context: Foreign funds held more than 80% of shares trading on the Moscow Exchange in the first half of 2021, according to Reuters.

> "Russia has made clear they are going to pour government resources into artificially propping up the shares of companies that are trading," deputy national security adviser Daleep Singh said in a rare White House statement on another country's financial markets. "This is not a real market and not a sustainable model — which only underscores Russia's isolation from the global financial system," added Singh.
>Fortunately for them, they only need to care about shareholder value. Users come second 


I think the fact that Valve doesn't need to worry about being strangled by shareholders has been a major advantage for them, and has led to a higher quality service than the competition can provide

Uplay and Origin look like the a cheap ploy to try and extract more money from users in comparison.
If you don’t care for the way pull requests are usually written, then feel free to write your own and submit it.

See how little sense that makes? Even if I were to write an obituary that included some of the critical points I think should have been included - and were to somehow get it published instead of this one - that doesn’t change the fact that almost every other obituary (for this person, and for every other person) follows this convention.

I’m criticizing the convention and the norm, not this particular piece of writing.
the adjectives and adverbs in front of 'country' suggest something 'particular' about one country or a category of countries, which is the word I used, purposefully avoiding the word 'unique'

the difference now seems to be that I avoid words that I don't mean and can't rely on

it seems like you mean to say that a country has a cultural misunderstanding of a shorthand version of the first amendment that is so pervasive that many people think they can rely on it out of context, except for people that choose to operate within reality when convenient

is that closer to the point you are trying to make?
What I mean is that the user of a food bank would be un-housed or homeless.
I don't disagree. Corporations leaving environmental cleanup as a problem for government (i.e. taxpayers) and future generations is a severe form of externalising costs, which I think amounts to theft.
If this TV tower is hit, is there any photo of damaged/fallen tower?
I have not found one.
Only photos/videos with explosion behind the tower.
NFT is just digital art fraud. Fine Art is often used to transport millions of dollars across borders. NFTs are `probably` used in a similar way.

We make a deal via some marketplace. Doesn't matter. We agree on a price and an amount, and some other specifics.

In a different marketplace, you offer up a jpg of a monkey. I offer thousands of dollars to own it.

In the real world, you ship me a big box full of dope, and email me a hyperlink to a jpg. I send you bitcoin, and all of a sudden, we're both legitimate actors in this little NFT art biz.
HeidiSQL is one of the most prominent real world applications in Delphi I know of. It's been hard to find many others. Most likely they exist at many companies in private.
Yes it's local, but also can be taken away to run on a cluster. Looks like ssh-keygen is using 16 rounds of bcrypt_pbkdf. My laptop just took 185ms to try a password. So I guess I could run less than 10 passwords per second (per core?).

I don't keep an ssh key on disk though. I use my gpg key on my hardware security token, which gives you 3 attempts before you have to unblock it with a separate management password, which again you get 3 attempts at before the key is entirely locked.
For paid software piracy is still a problem. With SaaS you don't have to think about it, especially if your service uses SSO.
There are US companies still selling health products to Russian citizens. What is the expectation, to let them die? I fully understand that cars, fast food, liqueur or perfumes are things to stop selling, but essential products not. The average Ivan and Natasha should not receive a collective punishment (to death in some cases) for what some guy they may not have even voted for is doing.
I believe they're right. The cost advantage of having standardized, factory built reactors is enormous. Instead of having one big reactor providing 1,5GW you can have five 300MW reactors strapped in parallel and have the same output.

The reason nuclear reactors are so expensive is that each one is more or less a bespoke build, with regulators changing the rules constantly, sometimes during construction. There's no reason for nuclear reactors to be more expensive than a similar non-nuclear plant.
This is empirically a false dichotomy. You can have flexibility and safety. It just takes the right culture. You have to do away with hierarchy, blame, etc.

In fact, I believe flexibility can ultimately lead to even greater safety than bureaucracy, which is, as Graeber put it, active stupidity. And while aiming for stupidity might rule out some classes of errors, it definitely introduces even more of them.
They’ll most likely use it to pay their employees, since employment costs are the biggest chunk of expenses for many companies. From the money that goes to the government, some will go to fund the war, but some will go towards social support, maintenance, etc just like any other country.

Where does this black and white caricature of an idea come from if not twitter? Acting like all the money in Russia is used to make bullets which are sent directly to the front.

Not to mention that there’s quite a few countries killing people today and nearly nobody’s boycotting them.
The defense budget increase is $70B this year, Covid spending was $45B and ran out this year for things like securing next gen vaccines and stocks of drug treatments.
good point!

though having a kid being a luxury good is likely a persistent condition regardless of how strong the welfare state is, unless you actually go to the point of paying women to have more children (something we should try btw). Right now the incentives are weak - cash bonus in some countries, some form of income support in others - all pretty small beer, not enough to make a difference!
There better ways to destroy one's ego than destroying the mind and body.
I own a small SaaS. If such legislation passed, I'd instantly close it to small customers and set a much higher minimum subscription. Dealing with small clients is almost charity anyways.
NYC Uber users will be able to choose a yellow taxi under a new partnership
A friend once wondered why there are nations. I responded that because even one nation will expand until it is stopped by another. (A nation usually meaning one geographical location and it's people, language, etc. Or, uniquely for the US, meaning one set of values. Used to mean enlightenment values, but now means Jerry Springer, WWF, Payday loan values. But I digress.)
Somewhere along the switch from "System Programmer" to "Sysadmin", probably around turn of the century Windows Server timeline, "sysadmin" somehow started to imply there's no programming.

Despite ridiculous amounts of Perl written by system admins, among other things.
According to Hindu philosophy, there are 4 ways to explore spiritualism:

1. Doing one's duty with detachment - the mind is trained to detach from the results of one's action and not attach positive or negative associations to it, thus weakening the ego and leading to enlightenment.

2. Self-enquiry and awareness - Pursuit of knowledge, and understanding of your own self in relation to the world to achieve a heightened consciousness of how you perceive the world through your senses, leading to liberation of the self.

3. Meditation - Related to 2.

4. Devotion - Loving devotion and surrender of self to a God leading to enlightenment.

Which one does Orthodoxy fall under? (Sounds like 4).
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this is another decade-long battle.

I have a few laptops here, the newest is from 2016 - none of them has USB-C and they all still work and will probably be in use for another few years.

My 1y old work Latitude (attached to a docking station via USB-C, but the wallplug charger is a proprietary one) is being replaced with another Latitude which only has USB-C. So because I didn't notice that I need a new charger now I can only run the new one on battery or with the docking station until I get to the office.. Great, I just managed to have the one breaking change :P
> doesn't explain the mobile app boom then

If my laptop is connected to the Internet, it's fast. That isn't as universally true on mobile. (Desktops are also more reliably connected to the internet when on.)
> because "everyone else does it"

This is an extremely powerful force and should not be underestimated. Not just with alcohol but in all aspects of life.

In evolutionary terms, being well liked and accepted by the "in-group" even if it means being wrong tends to be more successful than being a smart outcast.

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

Glad to hear you were able to over come it for the sake of your own health.
How many people are willing to pay on Windows Desktop for apps vs iOS consumers?
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