skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As above I am trying to avoid multiple cable's in the laptop, be ideal to have just one USB C for HDMI and PD, A laptop with a load of cables in it for me defeats the object, at that point I may as well use a Desktop.
Hard to tell if you're just trolling or being serious.

* Nuremberg and "just following orders" was about actual orders to specific individuals to do things that were literal war crimes, and those individuals carrying those orders out. One country designating another country an enemy is not, in fact, a war crime.

>> Do you have to trust them for anything?

I mean, yes? Even when you live in a libertarian fantasy land it turns out you need to have some level of trust in a government. You trust the road you're driving on won't collapse and that the folks at fire department know which end of the hose the water comes out of. You trust that because you trust that the gov that pays for that made the right choices. You can pretend you can have a society without relying on an organized collective of people who live in that society but I cannot logically see how that would work.
Arguably Twitter isn't worth its market cap.
++ COLLATE "C" is your friend, particularly if you find yourself using a GUID or other text-y PK field.
I think this is one of the big unsolved problems in consumer tech.

Everyone has a smartphone and everyone has this visual documentation of all of the significant events over their entire life.

We extract so little value from our photos though. There are too many photos to even look at.
Most social welfare programs have limitations as requirements, which has a negative effect. It keeps people content with the welfare because if they work they no longer qualify for it. A lot of the time the welfare will pay similar to a job so they won't bother with the slight increase.

The military you put your 4 years in, you get your experience, and you earn your GI bill for further education (or you go into private security or whatever your job in the military was).

I've known people who went into programming after doing it in the military. Chefs, airline pilots, IT analysts, etc.

It's more of a jobs program than a welfare program.
>> I originally joined the British Army full-time after finishing my masters in computer science at Bristol in 2007. At the time, the campaign in Afghanistan was in full-swing, and the campaign in Iraq was still running. All my peers were going into office jobs in London but I still wanted more fresh air at that point in my life.

I just cannot understand this mindset. "I wanted to see the world so instead of taking a gap year I thought I'd go to the middle-east and do a bit of invading".
>I get enamored with apl/k/j every time I see it and was looking for excuses to use it despite everything.

You should do it. Nothing in my programming career has changed the way I thought so much as learning J to the point of real fluency. Though you could swap out APL, k, or BQN for the same effect.
Discussed here at length in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786512 .
Apparently the quote is: "The only way I would or could make another Monkey Island is if I owned the IP. I've spent too much of my life creating and making things other people own," he said. "Not only would I allow you to make Monkey Island fan games, but I would encourage it."
That's how I do things with my group. How do you expect people to learn to see the bigger picture if you never admit or make them aware there is one in the first place?
> It could probably easily replace that desktop you built with power to spare.

Not even close. A 5950x will absolutely smoke an M1 max on a multithreaded workload, and if your workload needs more than 64GB ram the difference is even starker.
Would love to know why Google Public DNS is responding SERVFAIL on this domain. Everyone else can resolve it :-/
yes but on the margin?
Wow - the game I've been waiting for for 31 years! I hope it lives up to the expectations...

Seriously, I was (and still am) a big fan of Monkey Island 1 and 2, but the third installment (which came after a hiatus of 6 years and had totally revamped cartoonish graphics) never really clicked for me...
s/at that point/before that point
> As such while under normal circumstances American's do have high aversion to government overreach, Americans have allowed massive amounts of overreach under the guise of protecting people from the surge of drugs

I would rephrase that to "Americans have a high aversion to overreach exercised on people like them". The Patriot Act was popular when it was passed, and only became unpopular when people realized it was being used on them. Civil Forfeiture only really came to light when it started impacting "normal" people.

We're largely fine with overreach when it only impacts foreign citizens, criminals (especially drunk drivers, drug dealers, terrorists and pedophiles, but excluding white collar crime), and undocumented workers.

I still see very little concern for how the judicial system places enormous pressure on criminal defendants to take plea deals. CBP has enormous extra-legal authority when near the border.

We've really only ever been concerned with overreach that's likely to impact us as individuals.
Agreed, likely an internal resolution of 1280x1080. You can check out the checkerboards on my blog post here, which also analyzes the chroma sub sampling and post sharpening.

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I don't think the policy means "pretend it's positive intent even when you know it isn't". If you have actual reasons for why it is not positive intent, you should be able to explain them (and your employer should listen, obviously). You should be able to still talk to that employee about taking credit for the work. It just might help the tone of that meeting to be not completely accusatory at first. If your employer is ignoring you and telling you to assume it is positive intent, then that would be an abuse of it.
Don't forget the tie-in with a military or political angle. Also "gain control" is rather too tame. You want something more aggressive. Also, must always end with a possible threat whether it makes sense or not.

For russia.

Powerful oligarch loyal to putin seizes control of propaganda platform. Start of propaganda war on american people?

For china.

Powerful tycoon loyal to CCP seizes control of propaganda platform. Greatest threat to american privacy?
We should have a secret handshake or some type of insignia to better signal to our peers. I've tried draping a J colored kerchief out of my back pocket but the results so far are not great, it appears there is more anti-J sentiment than I'd imagined, as I get harassed unduely in certain areas of town. May have to switch to maybe a hand gesture based signaling that can be done on the fly to signal allegiance.
How so? According to the article this works only for serving static files. Nchan, cool as it is, has nothing to do with static files.
interoperable protocols are arguably more important.

ActivityPub is a W3C specification at the Recommendation stage, which basically means it's ready for production.

This would allow groups like, oh, house.gov to run their own platform and assign every congress person their own interoperable user account (AOC@HOUSE.GOV for example) and it works pretty much the same way email works.
Love it! :) Have been using it in beta for a while now. It's great to have everything synced automatically. Have used it multiple times to share my highlights of a particular episode with a friend by just sharing the synced Notion page!
but it has nothing to do with trust. You can trust someone to keep a secret, but not to be disappointed. an earlier post argued against assuming someone's feelings - in that case you can't be confident what the result of communicating your feeling are, unless you are confident b/c you don't care.
It is basically a big technical, isn't it?

It appears to be the replacement for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_Land_Rover , which got its name from the use by military units grabbing civilians off the street in Northern Ireland.
It's ALWAYS about what you can walk away from - any relationship with a person or organization is a negotiation, and the more powerful of the two parties is the one that can walk away first.

Just like there are other fish in the sea, there are other jobs, other forms of work, etc. The pandemic enabled a lot of healthy soul searching and introspection - many came away with the conclusion that their current arrangement for work wasn't worth the price.

In general I've heard of 3 major groups that saw this:

1. Boomers near retirement who pulled the plug early; these hit harder because they hold most corporate operational knowledge

2. Married mothers who had to stay home for childcare who realized they'd rather stay at home; this because it's always been very marginal whether working is better than stay-at-home financial for couples.

3. Younger folks who probably never liked how work "worked" and decided they had time to try other tings

The exodus from high cost parts of the US is likely part of this introspection and enlightenment as well.
Well, the two owners referenced in the articles both died - one from cancer and one from general old age (>90 years).
I personally use Stripe, but I think https://chargebee.com supports PayPal and others. I've heard good things about them but have yet to use them myself outside of Zapier.
HN was designed to be independent of YC interests.

And Paul G doesn’t seem to care to be involved in the moderation of HN. The rules were established at it’s inception and enforced by others.

Musk seems far more reactionary to hot button issues. I don’t see him as a set & forget leader.
Essentially, a JIT does static linking, just at runtime.
I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenario.

People sometimes seem to imply that if we could just select the most appropriate types of language, and only express our true, heartfelt feelings, then our language will never cause pain.

But that's just not true. Sometimes your friend may also secretly want to cancel, but other times your friend will be hurt by knowing you want to cancel the plans you made together that they have, for whatever reason, been really looking forward to. And sometimes there doesn't exist a way to communicate your true feelings without potentially causing pain. Being mature and communicating truthfully cannot solve this problem. Often times the solution is to suck it up and stick to the plans -- but that has nothing to do with communication.
if (o instanceof String s) {
var foo = s.indexOf("bar");
}

Java 17 introduced a preview of the same feature for switch statements

return switch (o) {
case Integer i -> String.format("int %d", i);
case Long l -> String.format("long %d", l);
case Double d -> String.format("double %f", d);
case String s -> String.format("String %s", s);
default -> o.toString();
};

Future versions will have improved support: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/420)
You're exactly the kind of tech person he felt like needing to explain this to.
The golden path is to use GraphQL, but you are free to do data fetching to other data sources in the normal way you would in a React app.
The author is... very nonchalant about the ethical aspect of his calling.

From the sanitized language (the "destroys the enemy through mounted close combat" euphemism kind of glosses over the killing part of said combat), to the almost smug dismissal of pacifists, I'm seeing a lot of rhetoric being put into deflecting the criticisms of the military without actually addressing them.

Like... the author mentions the Peterloo Massacre, the Boer War, and the Iraq War, and completely blows past them, and then goes on to explain how good the military is at building character and stuff. And I have no doubt it's true, but somehow I don't think Iraqis were especially thrilled to know the foreign troops occupying their country were from socially and economically diverse backgrounds.

Speaking as someone who supports my own country's government, mostly supports my country's military involvement abroad, and would enroll (hopefully) without hesitation if our territory were invaded, I've considered taking military-related jobs in the future, and I still might.

But if I did, it would be because I decided the positive outcomes of France's military interventions outweighs the negatives; which, given our past exactions, and the current state of Lybia, is... not at all obvious. My moral calculus certainly wouldn't be "on the one hand we're destabilizing poorer countries for cheap oil, but on the other hand the army sure pushes me out of my comfort zone and that's great".
I had the same impression. For a turnover of 50 EUR per year and instance it was hard to see (for me as a complete outsider) how it could be an interesting business. Amazon charges more (as usual...), I know even less about their hardware.
To be fair the hardware in question is not just accelerated crypto operations. From what I’ve read on this topic there are network cards that handle the end-to-end TLS protocol (sans negotiation).

In general you have a point but it’s a judgement call like many things in engineering. Even in the absence of specialized TLS hardware, TLS operations are so common, there is a strong case for pushing it in the kernel if that improves efficiency by a double digit percentage.

SSL_sendfile in particular is an efficiency boon for large static site hosts, it could result in significantly less hardware waste and/or reduced power consumption.
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The military is no picnic and it’s no savior. It’s not billed as a day spa and the people who join up are without question taken advantage of. It’s hard on many families, including mine and yours apparently. Support isn’t there once you’re out. Support probably isn’t there while you’re in either.

But there’s nowhere else to go for someone stuck in the cycle of poverty. They don’t have money. They go to one of the few places that still recognizes that cash isn’t the only currency the young have to give and offer their bodies and lives. If you’re just as likely to get shot in the streets of Chicago as overseas, well you might as well get your tuition paid for.

The groups you support (progressives, similar PACs, politicians) have recently started telling the world about how poverty is systemic and how useless poor people’s actions are in the face of such a fucked up system, so how can you sit here and tell me that these people need to find a new way to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps while taking away their army issued boots?
I try to lead as ordinary a life as possible, within reason, and use general problem-solving techniques for any issue I need to solve. 99% of the time, this doesn't happen by writing software. Which, it turns out, is actually a pretty good thing, because writing software is slooooow for most mid/big-sized problems, and overall if I'm not getting paid for it, it's usually a net loss. Plus it means more time off the computer, going out and actually being an active member in society.
We're not on the savanna hunting antelope anymore, so knowing that you're feeling, "scared of being eaten by the lion behind me" is no longer granular enough to be useful.
That's great and I'd love to defend my country.

I don't care about doing missions somewhere else in the world though.
War is mostly killing random people just because politicians decided so and it would be impossible if stealing money from people through taxes wouldn't be so widespread, easy and accepted. The cost of war is always socialised and it's huge.

I think the ideal way to defend society is to teach everyone how to fight, allow people to own guns and have a small army branch to do monitoring / deploy army leaders to assemble people when the enemy is approaching and organise local combat. There are tons of things to consider (think about airborne / naval defense) but that's something we can figure out, without having to steal profits for people and funnelling in war machines that are rarely used for defense. I'd be happy to chip in money to make sure we have anti-air weapons to fight the neighbouring country fighter jets, in case they invade us.

Instead what's happening is that the government spend my money, buy weapons and then give them to the Taliban, another country or use them to go and kill people in the middle east - without me having any say on the topic.
The top-down approach of the army and its reliance on corrupted governments makes it so that soldier are, most of the times, just an armed gun for the mafia you call government.
I like this article, but I wish it was phrased "are you being a baby" instead of "are you a baby". Labeling oneself as wholly a particular attribute is one of the mechanisms by which anxiety takes root: you _are_ or _aren't_ something, full stop. Labeling actions or states shifts your mindset so that you can clearly see this is something you're free to change. It's the sort of thing that makes no difference at a factual level (they're logically equivalent! right!?) but emotionally the tone shift makes a huge difference.
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To say nothing of the fact that the air quality in war zones is not particularly good.
> ...I am still using laptops with mostly USB 2.0 ports and internal SATA SSD's. That means dealing with very slow backups. I seem to be forever making backups. Eventually, laptops manufactured before 2012 will be too slow to do the things I need to do...

This my dilemma as well. I love me some older machines (thinkpad as one example), but the slowness of those older components kills me for running backups. Yeah, i know that there are tools which backup only deltas, etc...but scripting for legacy backups methodology seems so much easier for my brain...i guess either i have to get newer machines, or adapt to leveraging those backup tools that rely on deltas (in essednce sending less over the usb dongles). /old-man-rant-over
They did a really nice job creating an awesome experience by having picked up a nice set of tools and bundling them together. IMHO It is the first true full stack Javascript/Typescript framework that thought on all the important details: logging, great tutorial, community that helps, etc.
I think we fundamentally disagree about what constitutes a "cause" for an accident. You say speeding causes accidents because "speeding always reduces reaction time for something unexpected," where I would say that the "something unexpected" was the cause of the accident. If people are driving correctly, drivers should be looking ahead and not taking erratic, unexpected, or sudden actions. When people don't drive correctly, they cause accidents. Speed is not a causative factor, in the way that I look at this issue.

I'll reiterate, I'm concerned with reducing the number of accidents that happen, not the consequences of the accidents that do happen.
is it career suicide to take 3-6 months or more off of “official” work?

no
Thanks, we're getting closer, that's interesting as it has power pass through. Now to find something similar with a longer lead so I can tuck it away, to Amazon I go..
I've encountered this before when preemptively using they/them for someone, that it was robbing them of their choice. I do my best to use a name or point until a pronoun is defined to avoid uncomfortable moments.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15040525
... and a lifetime to monitor and administer it.
>> Was Afghanistan better off before the pull out, or now under the Taliban?

Why is that the comparison? The comparison should be was Afghanistan better off before we invaded in the first place. And committed war crimes. And radicalised a tonne of people who then came into Europe to murder civilians. You'd have to do mental somersaults to justify the Iraq + Afghanistan wars and think they were the right choice.
Thanks for lecturing me, I'm aware of all that and know the genesis myth of CSS ;)

Sorry but I think you guys/gals don't get it - the question is why do we need two item-value syntaxes. Like, HTML has 'bgcolor=black' as markup attribute, and owing to SGML, the effective value for that attribute can be defaulted, inherited, and assigned in a context-dependent way. Those mechanisms aren't directly part of HTML because they don't need to be when it's understood that HTML as an SGML application can of course make use of all the authoring mechanism SGML has. But then comes CSS and defines an entirely new syntax that's almost the same (eg. "background: #000"). How is that helpful?

To say it in another way: let's assume we want web pages in 3D space, and yes I know z-index and CSS parallax effect are a thing so bear with me. Following the CSS logic, we should tunnel a background depth/z coordinate via CSS-in-HTML, like

<p style="background-image: url(bla); 3d-props: 'z is -100angstrom, depth-of-field is 123deg'">

where I deliberately have chosen ad-hoc characters for the item/value separator and multiple-properties separator to make the point.

You know, having a common meta syntax for elements/attributes is the entire point of SGML as a text format after all ;)
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id Software and Carmack often gets credit for this, but I remember seeing a number of games already using smooth-scrolling in EGA before. Zanygolf from 1988 and Rick Dangerous 1989 comes to mind (albeit vertical scrolling). Harvard Graphics 2.3 (from 1990) could also use smooth-scrolling in EGA (640x350) when running presentations.

I am pretty sure Lemmings (early 1991) also used the horizontal smooth-scrolling capabilities of EGA/VGA.

For reference, id software's Commander Keen is from late 1990.

I remember trying to work with the smooth scrolling registers on VGA (256 color mode) in 1991/1992 myself. The registers were described in the EGA/VGA programmers reference (1988), and I suspect the author of that book must have known that the hardware was capable of this. Unfortunately, smooth-scrolling required using a combination of several registers, so as far I remember, the documentation of this was scattered all over the book under the different registers, and wasn't really easily approachable for the reader.

Of course, the techniques behind smooth-scrolling and page-swapping for VGA (e.g. mode-X) were really popularized when Michael Abrash published an article about it in 1991 in Dr. Dobbs.

Gaming on the PC from '87 to 1992 would probably have been very different, if IBM had just described smooth-scrolling and other hidden gems of the EGA/VGA cards in more detail.
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