skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the part where he just puts the metric values but without the crazy conversions.

I see many websites do the conversion as 1/2 lb -> 226,79 grams but guess what, I am not going to the butcher and ask for 226,79 grams of meat. Just like I won't do 14,79 ml of oil (1 tbsp) (well, I just use a teaspoon in this case but you get the idea).
Ha! Ha! How hilariously unpredictable! Just over a fortnight or so, I called this and was downvoted and accused of being pro-Russian when I commented here [0]:

>The golden rule with all such events [global and local] is to ask yourself "Qui Bono?"

>The US has been looking to sabotage any rapprochenent between Europe and Russia since the Berlin wall came down. Look at NordStream 2 --which would have brought boundless cheap Russian gas to Europe. The US has been opposed to that since the outset. And, in the usual US fashion, they don't just express their disapproval and move on. They've been bullying to get their way, by sanctioning companies involved in it. Like it is any of the US's fucking business. Any more than Europe would have any business telling the US it wasn't allowed to buy oil or gas from Canada.

>Well, the US got its wish there didn't it? NordStream 2 has obediently been cancelled by lickspittle Germany and the next stage is to persuade Europe to stop purchasing the oil and gas it already buys from Russia. And, when this happens, I wonder who will be there; riding in on a white charger in a white stetson, to make up the shortfall, when Europe can't meet its own energy needs? Who else but our hero Uncle Sam! --saving the day as usual, and selling us all the oil and gas we need.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!--Once again Europe sabotages its own economy, to benefit its colonial master. And then they wonder why the rest of the world is leap-frogging over us, at every turn.

C'mon Boris. UK's turn next. Don't let Britain miss out on the mass self-foot-shooting!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30596804
So if a parent spends their whole paycheck on a new shotgun and their child goes hungry, it is equally Remington's fault. Got it
I have an XE 4 and I also investigated the possibility but they don't even provide headers for all the models. I would have to buy one of the few supported models to be able to play with the SDK.

They are missing a big oportunity and whoever wakes up first may get a nice boost from computational photography afficionados as well as many specialized fields.

I understand that they are trying to save development time by not building the necessary safeguards and I wish they published some less invasive way to communicate with the cameras such as over bluetooth or Wifi which many cameras already support.
> Another thing is type-ahead. I remember in classic MacOS, people pressed shortcuts and started to type the filename or whatever. It was all perfectly recorded and replayed. In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.

The arguably worst offender in MacOS these days is the emoji picker. Press ctrl+cmd+space, and depending on how recently you opened it, it can take some hundreds of milliseconds to open (on an m1). All while eating your keypresses.
... Did you read the article?
That is somewhat interesting. But see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776567
Yes, somewhat reminded that some things move slow. Of note I remember the whole Microsoft monoply for web browser fiasco by the EU with the time they got around to a rulling/actioning, Google had come out of no were and usurped Microsoft as the dominante browser.
Not Verbs: Saving the world one not-a-verb at a time
The complaint about flat design isn't levelled only at FOSS, but at the whole industry. Your points may explain the situation in FOSS, but it doesn't explain the poor work being put out by the thousands of designers and UI/UX people working as professionals in industry.

The failings of flat design are everywhere.
Rookie mistake: SSH's KRL is also a CRL. See KEY REVOCATION LISTS in ssh-keygen(1). You can revoke plain keys with it, but also revoke certs (both by serial number and identity) with it.

The infrastructure I built for access control using SSH certs used it. I know it works because I tested for it specifically.
Yes they did to my regrets. I did admit whilst xlisp-stat is much cleaner implementation for stat. and is my entry to Common Lisp (via simulation of social scientist 1st edition). But lisp is in the way, sort of, for many.

It is nice to have a common lisp version to use in statistical area, for those who does not hinder by it.
SBCL was adopted in production in Lisp shops like ITA circa 2005 or so? So even if you consider production-grade, open source Common Lisp only, it's still older than Go or Rust. Common Lisp is not "super new" by any means, but it is still exciting. It's like the redwoods of California: ancient, but evergreen.
Once things get in motion it can go very quickly.
It must have looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDmoXkF-g9I

Starting very small and then growing exponentially.

When I was a child we also did something like in the video. The initial channel was very narrow and we could have easily stopped it by putting back some sand, but 15 minutes later through the game of erosion the stream was so intense that it became impossible to even cross it.
One reason the EU missed out on the internet is our unlimited willingness to be regulated. And we keep piling more and more bureaucracy on top of it.

This only cements the power of US big tech like Google and Facebook.

And it sets the stage for the next big applications of the web all being build outside the EU as well.

Here in Germany, everyone is afraid to start a web startup. And if they do, they spend endless amounts of energy on agonizing over the GDPR and how to build useful international services without using international tools. We sanctioned ourselves by making the use of foreign SAAS illegal.

If you are in the EU, try out surfing the web via a non EU IP once. It is an eye-opening experience. No cookie banners! Only Europeans have to deal with those.

But it gets worse: Look at European websites from a US IP. You do get cookie banners. European companies deal with degraded user experience, slower build time and worse monetization. On a worldwide basis. While the rest of the world only applies these downsides to the European part of their business.
I went through a no-photo phase, but switching to just my phone’s camera changed my opinion.

Now photos instantly appear on a stream, without any extra logistics. They are geotagged, and in Google Photos even tagged for search.

In a few seconds, I can figure out where I was on a certain date. I can figure out what I was doing and who was with me. Combined with a journal, they’re a powerful way to remember the past. Scrolling through the photo stream is a real delight, especially when I feel down.

The stream changed everything. Since a few months, I’ve been building a stream that combines photos to other things: journals, messages, git commits, geolocation and more. It’s a very rich journal.

Since then, I have found myself taking photos just for the record. For example a picture of the dishes I cook, of my garage, of my bicycle etc. It grounds the day in a few visual cues.

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However, I developed one habit from my no-photo days: after I take a photo, I always linger for a few seconds, so that I don’t just see things through a phone screen. I look at the details, just like when I sketch.
> kodak and fujifilm are literally the only two film manufacturers left in the business

Not at all: https://emulsive.org/reviews/film-reviews/film-list/every-si...
'Scalping' ticket is actually useful for society, to be honest.

But yeah, everyone involved likes to say that they hate scalpers. So no one will do anything to help them.
It always amazes me that reddit wants to completely ruin their product by forcing you to download an app which has no adult content.
Why not auction the tickets off in the first place?
> The new rules for so-called gatekeeper platforms, derived from years of antitrust enforcement in the digital economy, include restrictions on combining personal data from different sources, mandates to allow users to install apps from third-party platforms, prohibitions on bundling services, and a prohibition on self-preferencing practices.

The first one sounds very damaging to adtech, but might not be enforced.
I see what you mean. Brave on desktop comes to mind as an offender.
All I can hope is that XFCE with its conservative approach will never pick up this new design language. Why have changes for change's sake?
Exactly. That's the big mystery as far as I'm concerned: how the hell does the world work as well as it does, given how clueless the people running it are?

I'm starting to suspect it speaks to the adaptability of people.
"Yes".

Next.
No, forward. Because the delay is probably because all of the telemetry and tracking, that has to be activated and synced with the servers, before it can responds to your request. All that amazing technology, unthinkable 20 years ago.

So definitely forward to big brother Panopticon.
Deliberate. I think the original title is good for the writer. But for those are statisticians, I am not sure you should go there. R, pathos, SAS and SPSS (plus one I am not sure but is around) would be more common. Hence, the change to the emphasis. You know Common Lisp or Lisp, a good tool back to life.
Qt is far more popular in corporate software than GTK. It's way better, and companies don't care about Gnome or KDE so there's no reason to pick GTK.
For me it is not a matter of obsession, I just enjoy using the equipment. I also take loads of photographies with an iPhone and an Android phone and, invariably, they fall short of the full frame or APS images. Specially when you print them on anything larger than A4. I agree that for screen only, phones are enough.
I wish so much for that to happen.
I still remember jabber being popular in Poland 15 years ago. One of the reasons I switched to gtalk at the time was the fact that it allowed me to keep my jabber contacts.
Little did I know they would kill it in a couple of years.
Talking about overcoming unsurmountable obstacles, I find the story of the Brahmaputra river an intriguing (and inspiring if used as a metaphor) opposite. The river predates the Himalayas that came up and blocked its path. Nevertheless it wore it down to find its way into the sea on the other side.
>now we have a generation of devs who dont actually understand the way things work.

Can’t wait for this to be true! I will be treated as a demigod compared to them. Job security for life!
Yes!! This seems to be something from the last couple of months. It's so annoying. Though in terms of teams it has many annoyances to compete with..

Also for some reason I often seem to bring up the edit menu on the comment above the one I wanted to pick
Yeah, it’s genius. I wish every recipe was written in this way.
> Put another way, I think being neutral and silent by default is a necessary defense against manipulation.

I can sympathize with the sense of confusion, but this is one of the principal purposes of information warfare. When successful it does one of following things:

1. disengages people who would otherwise be opposed;

2. sows doubt and division;

3. makes people believe the propaganda is true.

We often fixate on #3, but #1 and #2 are the principal goals of today's information warfare, because they're much easier to achieve. When the other side's population doesn't know what to think, you're in a great position. It's effectively demobilizing the enemy.
the article that you linked is trying to debug the US life expectancy claim. i specifically wrote "international". your own article cites a (quite thorough! better than i found on short notice) analysis in latin america estimating the number between 30-35 as its 772nd citation...
> Sure, it makes mistakes and needs verification. But know what also makes mistakes and needs verification?

The problem is when it makes something that looks OK but does the opposite of what you want it to. See: machine translation
> Postgres.js is also a zero dependency module, whereas Slonik has quite the dependency graph meaning - compare https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=slonik with https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=postgres.

This one just made my day. Thanks. I remember trying to build a tool at work with as little as possible dependencies (in python) and how satisfying it was to see quite a few dependencies just being wrappers replaces with 5 lines of my own code that i could easily audit and ensure no supply chain attack was possible for that functionality.
Yes. Even if it were doing important stuff, this "important stuff" shouldn't be affecting typing. We have multicore machines now, there's no excuse anymore.

Imagine if it were the opposite, and moving the mouse or speaking into a microphone caused the compilation to fail in subtle ways. Well, background compilation/typechecking/whatever is messing with user interaction.
> One reason the EU missed out on the internet is our unlimited willingness to be regulated.

Bollocks. The key difference between here and the US is the simple fact that we don't have enormous amounts of "dumb money" from pension and hedge funds screaming to be invested into anything that remotely smells like it could be worth money one time - remember Yo! which got 1M funding?! - and then founders making big money at IPO time, which many of them then choose to invest into new startups.

That means that you have to either rely on philantropic investors, family or borrow money from banks at ridiculous interest rates (and often requiring deposit of a car/house or other expensive assets to back the loan).

Navigating GDPR and the laws here is easy - one might say, life is even easier here than in the US for startups because you don't have to fear getting kicked in the nuts over bogus patent and other IP claims or absurd multi-million dollars civil damages lawsuits.
Not a problem. :) Context and tone is hard in text. I felt silly saying that but I did have the idea I mentioned. I have a pretty good track record of having ideas I have no clue how to implement. Haha. Why the visual programming analysis project went nowhere. It's like tech and programming shower thoughts.

The Copilot tech is completely of my league.
> The File menu has an "Exit" item. Does it Exit the File?

Does it ? This is the issue when people see no more as their own OS.

In the past, just like today, there were multiple modes to exit a program. One of them is to press Exit and the programm will exit cleanly. The other is to press the X in the window corner in Windows ( or send a close message from a window manager) which, depending on the implementation, might lose data. There is also the option to kill the process. Now in my opinion this Exit is a good thing and it is clear what is doing.
Yes. My reply was in response to the comment "the majority of the world by most metrics is _siding with_ Russia", which is wrong.
At least in the windows 2000 time every app was using the same UI toolkit. That helped a lot

What made some stuff hard was that there were not many pixels available for icons due to the more resolutions in those days, which made icons hard to recognise.
War in Ukraine: Is ESG at a Crossroads?
In this case, the rules only apply to corporations with large enough revenue, so startups remain unaffected.
Rift over Ukraine exposed as high powered UK delegation to India called off
> Changing the needed dynamic dependencies to point to absolute paths, especially when those paths are immutable and content-addressable, may have philosophical and legal considerations for certain open-source licenses such as LGPL.

> LGPL specifically mentions that only in the case of dynamic linking is the license not propagated over. Although these dependencies go through the process of being dynamically linked, the library they are linked to is effectively fixed.

If I understand, after running Shrinkwrap, only the pathname of the library is changed in the resulting binary. This is easy to reverse by removing the directory parts of all pathnames altogether (I can imagine an unshrinkwrap utility that does that) or by some interactive tool that can do that on a per-entry basis.

Since detecting shrinkwrapped binaries is easy and so is inverting the process, I assume there is no violation of LGPL intent here. If anything, I can imagine that a user that wants to change the version of the dynamic library in question can take an existing Guix/Nix recipe, run the hypothetical unshrinkwrap/reshrinkwrap on its binaries, and therefore create a new Nix/Guix package with a new hash that new software packages can then depend upon. Still sounds LGPLish in nature - just with much stricter binary versioning, which is a technological requirement and not a legal one.
I hate rounded corners, giant title bars, no clear borders or 1px borders for grabbig, disappearing scrollbars. I hate when artsy minimalistic designs waste my screen space. Win95 & co got these right for desktop. (touchscreen would be a different matter I admit)
Right now it would be pretty noisy even on slow-moving games, but it’s a good start. I’ve never done graphics work professionally so take this with a grain of salt, but I’d wager that fast-moving games can probably actually get away with tricks like this even more than slow-moving ones because you can add motion blur on top of it and players will rarely have a chance to closely investigate the graphics, which allows you to take more shortcuts.
> Notepad is not old anymore because it has been recently replaced.

They said the same thing about my parents dog which died last year.
That's exactly why they set up Open Web Docs and this new funding stream, I think: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/mozilla-and-open-web-docs-...
> mandates to allow users to install apps from third-party platforms

Some people at Apple are getting a headache right now. Other companies that have been dabbling with the idea to lock down their OS probably too.

If this happens my next phone might even be an iPhone.
I walked into this trap yesterday as well. The reason being, they also changed many of my settings regarding application handling. While before that change, it was "Always ask" across the board, after the update, many file types were set to "Save File". So in addition to the about:config setting you should also check what is set for specific file types and revert that to "Always Ask".

This is the kind of change, if there were competition, I would have stopped using Firefox for good.
Why do you say it was a fiasco ?
It seems to have worked as expected, browsers are much better than IE from those days due to competition.
> will have to be decrypted inside those platforms.

Only on the client.

> (IP protected) algorithm.

I hope that they do not use some secret IP protected crypto algo...
Light phone looks pretty awesome
It will be fun to see how tech companies will react when they get to taste their own “my platform my rules” medicine.
> meaning outfits such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms

The way i read it, they're calling for open standards, which can be a good thing.

Sadly, open standards also slow down the development of new features, as everybody needs to be "on board" for new features to roll out. Take email (SMTP, IMAP, etc) as an example, where no major progress has been made in 25+ years, despite the platform being hopelessly insecure.

There has been some unsuccesful attempts at security, like PGP and Protonmail/Tutanota, but as they're addons they haven't seen widespread adoption.

Feel free to replace email for TCPv4/v6. The only successful open standard i can think of would be HTTP.

Open standards, once they mature, usually mean "lowest common denominator".
Children cannot be expected to make responsible decisions. Kids might not understand properly why they are being taught basic math, but it'll most certainly be helpful to them in the future, anyway.
It's the same as a parent, you're not going to allow children to drink alcohol or smoke either.
Oh, man, such a shame about all these laws.. [checks notes].. protecting users from predatory company behavior. Things would be so much easier if we didn't have those laws - we could all start web startups.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978219
which, BTW you need to search in internet which they are because the company doing the software did not bother to make them accessible in a help menu

At least on macOS and Windows the shortcuts are shown in the (traditional) menu bar. With GNOME's use of hamburgers, it's anyone's guess. As someone who likes shortcuts, I found it very hard to figure out shortcuts in GNOME apps that have a lot of functionality hidden away. (Aside from keyboard shortcuts not being very consistent between apps on Linux.)
Pidgin is still there, still works and supports modern chat platforms too, via plugins:

https://pidgin.im/plugins/

Of course, some platforms ban you for using alternate clients.
"Resource Snapshot along with Any ID Proof" -
It means a screenshot of the interviewee and their ID proof together.

It's a virtual interview invite. They usually ask the interviewees to hold up their ID proof, then take screenshots, before starting the interview.
KyuWeb: A proposal for a simple document-oriented web
My Experience Working with Ukraine’s Offensive Cyber Team
I feel somewhat the same. Not necessarily with photography, but the act of planning it makes the experience better. You can go somewhere, look at it, snatch a photo and leave, and be perfectly content. But the payoff when you achieve what you planned makes it an even greater memory.

I don't do much photos, but for me it's action shots with gopro. An example https://youtu.be/oCXlwJYt0mg

The shot is not super spectacular, but it was lots of planning. Building the contraption, iterating on it, then trecking up the side of a mountain multiple times to get the shot I wanted. The skiing/conditions weren't out of the ordinary that place, but it's still one of the things I remember the best from that trip.
Okay, let's qualify that a bit. The majority of the world is not not siding with Russia.
I'm less concerned with artists bypassing record labels because "artists already get enough promotional value out of social media" (and they actually might if they're full-time marketers and part-time artists). If I were a label, I'd be worried that the death of radio and rise of personalization kills the demand for professionally written, produced, and recorded tracks, eventually replacing them with ephemeral, low-value TikTok videos. How are you going to find out about that latest Dua Lipa single if you're not hearing it anywhere? And why would you care?

Labels sell polished, high-value tracks to listeners, marketing services to artists, and to pay for this, they need a large market, broad appeal, and residual revenue. That's just not a match for TikTok. It's not that they're being disintermediated, it's that there isn't any value left for a middleman with short-lived, low-value niche products.
OpenBSD runs on a lot of different platforms, and for inclusion into base it has to run on every platform. A few years ago this meant even on a VAX.

The most "obscure" platform today might be luna88k(m88k).
Would be nice if some of this stuff were part of the toolchain/stdlib so it would be closer to a simple recompile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

It's relatively early. Nobody is associating this with software yet. But given the unique salaries in the US (with the epicenter being the bay area) it's quite obvious this is what's going on.
Yes, but would you like to have a choice, when to look at these photos?
Imagine that someone buys a bottle of alcohol. Should he not have an option not to drink it, even if Alexa says he should?