skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quotes from the article:

"Luckily for us, we do not need to be mind-readers or fortune tellers to know what the globalists are preparing for our dystopian future. We simply have to read their documents. And boy, have they released some real doozies in the past month, three documents that lay out a precise timeline and an overview of what they're hoping to achieve and how they're hoping to achieve it."

"We learn that what is really being proposed is not that political blather about "banding together for a common cause" but creating a legally-binding agreement to govern the global response to global public health "crises" (real or imaginary)."

"The document is precisely as disturbing as you would expect, laying out step-by-step exactly how to hardwire the biosecurity state into place through the creation of centralized testing, surveillance, data sharing, monitoring and reporting standards."

"The notice asks the companies to submit “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,” as well as aggregate data on demographics that may have been disproportionately exposed to or affected by the misinformation."

"Given what we have just seen taking place in Canada around the doxing and financial de-personing of the Freedom Convoy supporters, can there be any doubt that the systems are now being erected so that thoughtcriminals will be penalized for sharing "misinformation" about the next scamdemic?"

"The social engineers know what they are doing. They are wearing the population down, first generating hysteria over a perceived crisis and then slipping in the poison pill once the public's attention has turned elsewhere."

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In response to the comment (I'm unable to reply).

You can say puerile rubbish, etc - that's fine. Stick to the BBC, guardian, NYC for information. But must we stick to those sources? Is it unaccaptable to look elsewhere too? Is the article is still a pontentially valid interpretation of the documents?

What you are ignoring in your comment is that he is providing links to the documentation so you can confirm for yourself what is being stated. The sources belong to governance structure itself - the EU, the White House. So you can check for yourself!

Ignore the article (albeit it draws these threads together) no problem - but how do you intepret the linked information?
Turkey already has a dedicated rail crossing across the Bosphorus, namely Marmaray in Istanbul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray
Ahh, I actually didnt know about that 'describe' command. That helps a lot to get some search terms. Thanks!
> When was the last time you had a chance to try your hand at literary criticism, or game theory, or learning a new language? How did it go the first time you had to ask for help with an intellectual problem?

Just to be a contrarian (on HN, of all places!), I'm in my late twenties and know a couple of people who are at least a little bit bitter/regretful that they spent their early twenties learning game theory and literary criticism rather than how to function as an adult.
Very common in British English.
Or tip them off. Raising a winch up, they could use it to lower the crane to a waiting boat.
As noted in OP, the takedown was related to reuse of trademark (logo, name), not redistribution of the modified binary.
Konstantin Olmezov, born in Ukraine & relocated to Russia for the purposes of studying additive combinatorics, has taken his life after failing to escape from the country.

Link to English translation of his last will & testament: https://old.reddit.com/r/peacehacks/comments/tj2o2s/ukrainia...

Quoted “ Unfreedom is worse than death for me.”
Not to detract from your overall point, but a one-time code wouldn't protect you from mitm.
If the syntax isn’t obvious without looking at the manual, you might as well use an actual standardized syntax. For months (without context, and where you need an absolute interval), I just interpret it as 4 weeks.
If I had to describe the migratory patterbs of half of humanity I would describe it as "they are following tge money".

When african nations import manufactured products from europe that money leaves the local community. This means african countries must export their resources to the countries they are selling to.

Alternatively they can move to europe to work there so they can manufacture products to export to africa. Except in europe they will get insulted that they are economic refugees and should get lost. As if europeans ren't running an economy that benefits from this arrangement.
I love the Duration class that Dart has:
https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/dart-core/Duration-class.htm...
Privitar and Leapyear are indeed part of competition on the more mature side of the spectrum. Even if all three of us use differential privacy, I would say that each company's core value prop is a bit different:

- Sarus: replaces the manual governance of data access by "no-access". Analysts or data scientists can manipulate data without accessing it. The absence of access means that the process is considerably simplified and no longer relies on many manual decisions and controls. Differential privacy is here as a way to automate protection.

- Privitar: it is a more traditional data governance solution. It is all about controls and manual decisions. In their own works, they feature an "unbeatable breadth of privacy techniques". Differential privacy is one of them. They leave it to the privacy professional to make their own implementation decisions, which is exactly what Sarus offers to disrupt.

- Leapyear: it is a data analysis solution powered by differential privacy. It does not seek to replace existing data governance processes. This is why they don't focus on blending into existing data workflows and only offers differential privacy as an way to access where Sarus can disappear into existing operations without requiring a learning curve on the part of analysts and data scientists.
I find it odd that the power indicator light on the front is always visible, even though the machine is clearly not plugged in.

On the older aluminium MacBook Pro, it used to blend into the chassis.
Is this not what comments are for?

frobnicate(300) // Duration in seconds to do X

Sure, change the variable names or whatever as well, but ... kinda seems we already have a way to make less obvious things obvious?
Isn’t Gy a bit much even in astronomy? With 15 Gy you have the age of the universe right?
Wouldn't it help other to learn though if it's clearer? As you have to label variables, why not include units? How does that hinder you?

Do you label your variables a, b, c,...?
Its not open, if you open the box of pandora just a little...
Highly trained is the operational word here, untrained Malinois are a nightmare. I agree with the above for most dogs, trained they are fine but most dogs are not trained and not very easy to control in unfamiliar surroundings.
Assuming it is actually possible to identify "disinformation", why not down-rank all disinformation?
The biggest misunderstanding about TDD is that you need to do TDD to be good engineer and write good code as promoted by some TDD evangelists. Writing tests is important, writing good tests is important... what is not important is the order you write the tests or if you follow an arcane set of "rules" about how you should write tests as if they are some ancient divine wisdom someone discovered on a stone tablet that's the key to writing good software.

No... forget about writing tests inside out or outside in, top down or bottom up. Forget about the bs about "TDD is actually there to help you design the code so you SHOULD write tests first to expose flaws in your design". It does not matter as long as you write good tests and feel productive while writing code.

Maybe TDD "rules" and rituals are useful when you are a relative beginner and instead of overwhelming them with a ton of information it is nice to have a set of rules and steps you can follow that have a good chance of resulting in a decent final product. But at a certain point you need to what works best for you and ignore the TDD dogma.

I am not anti-TDD, I practice TDD for parts of the code but do it in a way that if a TDD purist saw it they would term it blasphemous. I never use TDD as a design tool, on the contrary I always design the general structure of a class or a package based on intuition and experience without writing a single line of test code. Then when I have the general design and skeleton functionality of the module fleshed out I jump into tests and start doing TDD to start filling out the functionality, addressing edge cases and so on. Coupling design with tests slows me down as it results in a lot of thrashing between tests and real code. I think a large number of developers feel this way and have never really bought into the "TDD is for design" hype. If on the otherhand TDD helps you design, go for it. The point is that TDD should not be treated like religious dogma that it often is.

The biggest advantage of TDD is the dopamine hit it gives you when a test goes from red to green. That hit is so powerful that I continue to do TDD maybe 50% of the time but don't it dogmatically like TDD purists would want people to do it.
I don't ever use :normal so not sure but wrap the curreny block in a tex quote environment and append a backslash to the end of each(?) line?

If so I'd probably use a substitution after the visual select to do that instead since I use those more often.
xwayland is still being actively developed, xserver is in maintenance mode, which isn't a bad thing, especially for such an old, somewhat mature tech, but being actively developed is something else in my understanding. And one just cannot do away its architectural problems, which was the reason for a "from scratch with (some) hindsight" approach in the first place, under which new approaches like Wayland and mir got developed.

> It does what I need.

If the features of neither of those fit your use cases: great, be happy and keep using what works for you.

But I, for one, like to have no tearing anymore, no random apps just stealing my keyboard input or clipboard content, having a more efficient way to operate on (frame) buffers, having active development for new tech features like HDR and that all while still running xwayland for 100% x11 compat; you cannot do the reverse, at least while not also getting the same features.

So, I really like wayland as it gives people the possibility for better security/sandboxing and new features while I can just run x11 apps fine.

> From my perspective, Wayland is like btrfs

The same with btrfs, as RAID0/1/10 its just nice and stable since forever, its architecture is seemingly just a bad fit for RAID5/6, the single possible problematic part since a while, CoW and rebalancing are really nice to have on a server with important data.

Multiple FS catering to different requirements are there for a reason, and not everyone needs to use every type of FS to give it a reason to exist...
Does the type system handle equivalent units (dimensional analysis)? eg, N.m = kg.m^2.s^-2.

Does the type system do orientational analysis? If not you to assign a value of work to a value of torque and vice versa, as they both have the above unit.

There are several other similar gotchas with the SI. I think descriptive names are better than everyone attempting to implement an incomplete/broken type system.
The title question can be answered with one sentence in the article itself: "As with all preliminary scientific findings, there is still a need for large-scale, reproducible studies before researchers make broad claims regarding the usefulness of dogs in diagnostics work."
Quite a few people are saying it doesn’t work. I have worked on TDD codebases where anytime you changed a function or tried to refactor something trivial it took 3x the amount of time to fix the tests even though the code worked correctly as written. This is due to mocking or naming or expecting functions to never change. TDD proponents would say that is the “wrong” way to do it, which Im sure it is but that doesn’t stop it from happening and killing productivity.
Yeah as alphager said, it’s a router by Ubiquiti that solved a lot of my networking issues. I wish I knew what exactly it was that made Remote Play work, but that was just one of the many things that didn’t work before then I realised later suddenly worked with my new router.
In this case, the units are in the variable name. I think that was what the author was arguing for.
Don't think he was talking personally, but rather list arguments that few people will bring up...

I love all animals, but still, the "unhygenic" argument is a thing (humans can sanitize and wash hands e.g.), that is why in a lot of food shopping places or restaurants it is forbidden to bring dogs inside (even if just more theoretical than practical).

And lastly, the allergies is also somethinng you cannot persons just talk out of, every "office dog" was always impossible because at least one guy having allergies...
There are just so many patents on things both specific and vague, that you can't ever be sure you're not infringing on some. As far as I know, all serious companies using HEVC pay to licence relevant patents, while the big players using AV1 don't. If I was building a business than had a choice of codec, I'd rather bet on AV1. Worst case, you get dragged into a legal battle, but so do Youtube and Netflix.
Ethically I agree with this but I also think it’s really dangerous because it’s crossing the limit where a "neutral" (technically) search engine starts to make editorial choices.

I have nothing against editorial content but it comes with the legal (and moral) responsibility of what you show. So I’m not certain it’s worth the censoring. It’s not like censoring result will change anything on the people’s mind about the event. But maybe I’m wrong on this.
I wouldn’t call xorg “being developed”. At most it is on life support.
It is a slippery slope and I honestly haven’t formed my opinions fully on this. I tend to believe that if there are state run actions like botting or state funded journalism, that private companies that want to uphold ‘free speech’ ideals can work to down-rank or counteract those actions.

If private citizens or journalists are repeating ‘disinformation’ I would think it should remain untouched.
For me Windows is starting to resemble consumer routers. I mean, some serious resources and engineering talent had to have been spent on the internals, the kernel, networking, drivers. But the thing that the users, the people paying and using the OS end up interacting with ends up getting the least resources and even less focus.

My theory as to why that is is kinda like The Color of the Bikeshed Theory. New management hires want to make a name for themselves and want to work on something that's visible, that they have an illusion they know something about and something that they can use to climb up the corp ladder. So with each iteration some new idiot comes along and wants to start over. Two years later, when the thing's half finished, they move on and a new person comes along...
Not OP, but I see that a lot in the aerospace and heavy industry sectors.

We keep laughing about "if we engineered bridges as we engineer software" ... the truth is that the areas where correct software matters tend to write very robust code, and the rest of the industry would be well advised to take notice and copy what they see.

Of course, writing robust code is a skill, and it takes extra time.
What's that even mean?
It's cloud gaming which means you can access it from a Chrome window.
I think the subjects HN broadly has blindspots in is actually really wide but maybe being aware of them is specific to one's field. For a long time until recently I was similarly outside the tech space and the misconceptions about my former field that are asserted here with absolute confidence are staggering. Conversely, surely there are plenty of us here from all kinds of fields, so I even feel silly talking about HN as any kind of monolith. It's sticky!
Problem with this is that you now need to ensure everyone adds that comment everywhere the function is used.

If it’s in the parameter name it’s impossible to use it without doing it correct, which is almost always preferable.
You can construct a linter that will prevent you from trying to add seconds to dollars.
When I dealt with the Azure SDk for Python I frequently wrote small scripts that created the types in question and then called breakpoint() so that I could examine the types interactively.
Kinda at a loss for OS/DE at the moment.

Lived on Windows for over 2 decades (completed work via a Linux VM). Windows 8 was horrid and Windows 10/11 is hostile towards user experience (etc, etc privacy, but mostly user experience).

Used MacOS for half a decade after that and loved the Unix terminal and tight desktop experience but underpowered and overpriced hardware had me running a hackintosh for over half of that time. The move to M1 (and general difficulty maintaining a Hackintosh) means that MacOS is off the table for me.

I am currently daily driving Gnome 4 on Fedora and loving it. It has some user application UX issues (like Google Chrome mouse scrolls slowly) and some questionable desktop environment design decisions - but overall a nice place to land.

Not quite as nice as MacOS but it gets the job done.

It's sad that after 30 years on computers, my user experience has gotten worse - Gnome 4 came along at the perfect time to catch a bunch of MacOS and Windows refugees and I pray the developers push it in a direction where it becomes the most ergonomic desktop environment available on the Desktop - at least for engineers.
> Indian food, labor, supplies, and soldiers did play a large role in WW2 allied countries' military successes in Asia.

And Africa, and Europe, and in WW1 too! Indian contributions to the world wars cannot be understated.

However, my statement was regarding the claim that the Bengali famine is "how the second world war was funded", which is bullshit. It happened years into the war, and compared to the costs associated with waging a conflict of this size, it would have been miniscule to distribute rice to the population. It was war, bad weather, incompetence, negligence, not financing that caused the famine.
TIL that a GPU has a ToS?! What's next ToS'd RAM and storage?
They are doing this with Teams and it gets better, it’s a different Teams than normal that looks the same but only accepts personal MS accounts not business / 365 ones. WTF?
Being somewhat sarcastic, but Ubuntu’s software center doesn’t work anywhere.
Java has a good library that supports a variety of measurement units: javax.measure
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KhosAFriGCczBs6gwtJJDfg...
http://unitsofmeasurement.github.io/unit-api/site/apidocs/ja...

The java.time API goes in the same direction, but is obviously limited to things around time.

I think units should be really expressed with the type system, because types give meaning _and_ safety. If used APIs require typed units you wouldn't even need a coding convention to put the unit in a variable name.
I've been wondering about that as well, never found a comprehensive answer to why is the difference so stark. I'd be willing to use Linux on my laptop when the difference would be 10-12%, but as of now I just can't. I have laptop because I need to use it on the go and linux makes it harder for me.
> We’ll be talking not about the actual model of space in our Physics Project, but instead about the cellular automaton systems I’ve studied for many years in which space is effectively predefined to consist of a rigid array of cells, each with a discrete value updated according to a local rule.

And here we go again. I'm sorry, but when it comes to physics I'm not interested in beautiful pictures of mathematical models. Show me the real world! Show we experiments and show me how your model can predict the result. That's the baseline. Once you've been able to do that then we can talk about the beautiful mathematical structures which emerges.
Windows is free as in adverts for beer
Did you just label your comment with the first word? Thanks!

Gnome is not just javascript, it uses js as a scripting engine similarly to how AAA games use C#/Lua.
Why would the database be particularly hard to stub?
> so they blindly believe all the fake comparisons that apple makes on their webpage

They're not that fake to begin with, at least not in "experienced performance" aka how performant the system feels for the user. Apple's stuff is expensive but in terms of performance even the Intel-based Mac lineup just blows the direct competition away:

- Apple's solid-aluminium body provides vastly better thermals than the Windows world which is usually plastic crap, which allows them to run the same Intel processor on boost mode for a longer time, and the fans are at least in my experience a lot better (especially in loudness and "annoyance" factor - even at full power, the fans of a MacBook are way better to listen to than those of your average Windows laptop). For the Mac Pro / iMac lineup, same thing. Most of the Windows world ships with barely adequate coolers and no thinking of airflow, whereas Apple... well, open any tower Mac Pro and see for yourself. That's what a cooler is called...

- Apple's OS has way less crap and clutter going on that gobbles performance (there's just at this moment a submission on the front page that details among other things how Windows got transmuted into a horrible mess of advertising and half a dozen competing frameworks), and they have a lot more control over the hardware and driver stack which means that Apple does not depend on the shoddy work that vendors for the Windows world can pass as "quality tested drivers". The result is better battery performance (because as Apple can control the entire stack they can make full use of sleep modes and other energy saving measures) and less bugs.

- related, but not by something that Apple has done: There isn't much malware going on on macOS and never has been when compared to the Windows world - you can get by without a virus scanner just fine. In contrast, most of the Windows world ships some crap "free for three months" virus scanner bundled which just destroys performance.

- Apple's own chipset designs are, while still based on standards such as the ARM ISA, completely fine-tuned to their needs - which means that, unlike the Windows world which carries about three decades worth of old garbage in their CPUs, Apple can devote more of the same chip area to the needs of modern computing.

- Here's a bit of a controversial take: Unlike the Windows world where most vendors ship systems with highly modular components (i.e. CPU, RAM and storage can be taken and upgraded), Apple solders the chips to the mainboards, very near together. That allows not just for higher performance because the latencies are lower but also because the chips can be cooled together and so run at a higher frequency.
Put "...on Windows" in the title.
> But, regardless, most files are not text

Hence the initial post. (Are we running in circles now?)
A yeah 100%. You couldn't replace an ICE with an electric motor, at least not with current technology, but you could definitely replace it with a more efficient one. Maybe even with a hybrid if you're willing to give up some room.
Not the commenter, but I work in scientific software development and it's just a minefield of different units, so being explicit is generally very useful. Even if you can assume you can stick to metric (you can't), what different users want varies across countries. For e.g. here in the UK we often want to represent data as millilitres, but in France the same measurements are often centilitres.

I don't use libraries to enforce it though, we did try this but found it quite clunky: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> Who uses a home computer anymore?

Me (but not Windows), my three grown children, my sister, at least one brother in law. At least half of the people I know personally. Half of them using laptops, the rest desktop machines. All of them have smartphones, and sometimes tablets, as well.