skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thunderbird has a mobile app as well? The website says it doesn’t.
S&P cuts Russia's foreign currency rating to 'selective default'
That doesn't make any sense. Mods (not Reddit employees) can't ban subreddits, because they only have control over their own subreddits. The admins (Reddit employees) did ban subreddits, but it had nothing to do with the new tools the admins gave to subreddit mods.
This is a really bad article. It screams from the hilltops that crypto is bad because it doesn’t support the author’s statist/authoritarian worldview.

For example one of the article’s first points is that crypto is bad because it makes it harder for countries to enforce sanctions while ignoring that sanctions are acts of economic war and without recognizing that they have been horribly abused by governments in the past. (See Madeleine Albright defending her sanctions against Iraq which directly led to the deaths of 1.5 million women and children)

The author goes on to regurgitate every standard criticism against cryptocurrencies but in the shallowest of ways and without bringing anything new to the table.

I’ve seen many far better critiques of crypto. This article falls far short.
Complaining is against the party.

China makes use of people who complain to much

https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/researchers-claim-chinese-surg...
On the Mr. Rogers website [0] there are some complete episodes from 1970 currently available. Also, in my region Amazon Prime Video [1] has Mr. Rogers from 1979-2001 available for purchase.

[0]: https://www.misterrogers.org/watch/
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B004DKDOWY/
Indeed : see also PDFs being (ab)used as a general computing platform.
How does content like this end up here? I like to think HN does more than just read the headlines to confirm personal biases
The issue here is not so much that it's the output that is indeterminate, but the "algorithm" itself.
To be fair they did say at the end they added a regression test to look for malloc calls in the binaries.
Idk how this works in software but the demand is so high and in DevOps that Içe not seen less than 80k Gross being paid in Germany (remote). I'm interviewing now.

I just feel the locals are too less in number for ofcourse product based job. Not talking about standard banks or non product roles. Often these non product ones (if big like banks) prefer giving contracts to Indian service based companies to cut cost.
The ios being exclusive to MacOS is an Apple made problem though.
So you're paying double in hardware cost because of some decision by Apple that no other platform may compile for ios.
Is Nuclear Power Green? [video]
I'm starting to be convinced that symlinks are way more trouble than they're worth, especially in modern filesystems with reflink support.

Reflink copies are basically invisible, except when you need to meter disk usage. Symlinks and hardlinks add a billion corner cases to file handling.
> More and more I find I'm using gmail for my store of knowledge.

While I think Mail is a possible way to store knowledge, I try to prevent google wherever possible.

> I suppose your blog is searchable via google though.

No, it is a static json file with some lines of javascript. If you would like to know how to build a blog like this, here is an article about it: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/ :-)

> For example, the instructions for renewing my let's encrypt cert pop up in my inbox every 2 months in an email reminding me to do it.

I follow a pen and paper approach for my daily tasks. And I try to automate everything, letsencrypt can easily be automated.

> If I order something online I snooze the confirmed order email to some date in the future to remind me I should have received it, etc.

This is a nice idea... thank you.
> It sounds like Githubs DMCA process works exactly as legally mandated...

I would hesitate to say 'mandated' here. It is available, but not mandated. You canegally ignore DMCA takedown notices. You lose your safe harbor in the process, but in and of itself, it is not illegal.
Then they become the next Facebook or Twitter.
Navigator.sendBeacon() doesn't reliably follow 30x redirects in my experience. About 30% of the time, for no obvious reason, it stops following redirect chains after hitting the first redirect in the chain, even though it's supposed to follow those for analytics purposes.
I did something similar a while ago by explicitly adding a call to disable all theming in an app. That way you can even make the window decorations look like old Win9x borders in Windows 10. Disabling theming makes window creation measurably faster, by a lot. That includes lack of animations for that specific app, of course.
why do you assume recycling works? If it has never worked (for plastic)? The devil may not be pretending to recycle, but pretending that it could ever work. Pretending recycling works is also to the benefit of commerce to never have to "degrow" or "turn off the tap".

If they genuinely cared about recycling, containers and bottles would all have standard shapes and sizes. That is not a thing afaik.
> 3) JavaScript. the places this language is used today, where it should never, ever be used. excruciatingly slow language.

[citation needed]

Slow, fast are relative terms. What are you comparing it against?
Where can you buy gas and oil? You have a good choice of dictatorships! The game is to try to control those dictatorships but that only works with small countries.
> The comment I replied to clearly stated…

No it didn’t. You’ve just quoted a few words out of context and prefixed it with “missing”, adding an accusative tone that was not present.
> as a percentage

Buddy I don't even know where to start here, while being polite.
Cracker Jill
https://archive.ph/HTAPl
My search engine is self-hosted off hardware with those rough storage specs (well, sans ECC).

I do not regret one bit going for this set-up, although my next step toward scaling this up is indeed going to be some sort of hosted solution, the primary reason being the BTUs and decibels involved in running an actual server from my apartment.

Running a search engine or not, anyone with a serious interest in programming should have a server. I really can't recommend it enough. The ability to run large jobs that chew through hundreds of gigabytes of data for weeks if need be, without considering the cost, that dramatically increases the level of ambition you can have in your projects.

* I had an idea for a re-skinned wikipedia. So I processed all 40 gigabytes of wikipedia articles from an OpenZIM file. Took a week. No big deal. Later I used the same corpus to calculate language data models. That's another several days.

* I had an idea a while back. It required me to screengrab 500,000 websites. So I wrote a python script. Takes anywhere between 0.5-120 seconds per site. It's still not finished by any stretch, but I'm up to about 322,000 screenshots now.

It's just great.
> extrapolation and generalization from personal experiences leads to biased perspectives.

I agree, biases should be avoided. My point is that GP had a biased view of casteism which doesn’t help in eradicating it from the roots. He seems to be pasting the same links that confirm his bias and seeking internet validation in an article that has nothing to do with casteism. The real need is to bring the change on the ground by understanding the problem better.
https://innit.cz

Did this to try out Fable. If you mess up the letters and wait a bit it will put itself together :)
Please re-read the sentence. The TraceTogether app can be used or the picture id. But the information in TraceTogether is the same as in your NRIC/FIN. So you are authenticating with two strong keys phone number and NRIC / FIN wherever you go. The "ambassadors" walked around taking pictures. I think you combined two parts of the sentence into one.
It's a reasonable request though. Something that definitely shouldn't cost them much to fix.
The article provides no direct evidence of people starving, only that 'We cannot freely choose our recipes'. There is also a picture of 3 fresh fish!
emails are so phenomenal. However email security is so so bad. User experience of pgp is crap. :(

But agree emails still work as standard. SMS not for me. The number might change :)
They have a cumulative deaths option on their Covid data (the link is scaled to population, there's a toggle for that on the graph header).

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

The low China numbers prior to Omicron certainly seem to be a result of successful containment, I guess we will find out more over the next months about how Omicron goes (and whether they report it accurately).
Hong Kong has a worse vaccination rate amongst the elderly and better vaccine mix than the mainland (more imported vaccines, probably less of the more dubious Chinese-made ones), but broadly speaking they're very similar. I think even the Western countries with comparatively poor vaccination rates are still better than either.
With a 20 million euro minimum fine on the table, I don't think I'll feel comfortable on this topic until either the law is clarified or someone sets precedent.

My lawyer's great, but he won't be paying the fine if he's wrong.
I believe there was a typo in the post you're replying to — it looks like the poster intended to write "I don't think they're in Shanghai or all recent."
Has Roger Waters taken part in this?
Large scale infections like we've had elsewhere would be impossible to hide. China's low case and death rate is broadly accurate.
Probably because this is discouraged.

Check here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...

> However, this is extremely unreliable. In many situations, especially on mobile, the browser will not fire the unload, beforeunload, or pagehide events.
Huh, fascinating! I always imagined that, if adjustments were needed, they'd be done on some sort of off-line jig where deflection could be precisely controlled. But no, it's just some guy using his body weight to bend the door into shape.
I've noticed this too. It is really pronounced when you watch old movies vs new movies today. Probably because editing was a PITA and now is really easy.
This user in the comment above mentions that China blocked it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30967224

Which makes sense for the CCP. If everyone gets the western vaccine then it makes the CCP look bad.
Manjaro also just works.
If I didn't have arch running I'd be using that.
Arch isn't perfect but pretty close on the desktop.
And since you don't want to deal with setup and configuration, Manjaro handles that out of the box.
The big advantage to mapping is that you only read from disk the portions of the file you need, and only when you need them. Disk access is monumentally slow, so this can be a big win: if you don’t need to access all of a large file, or don’t need to access it all at once, mapping saves you very expensive operations or spreads them out over time.

The problem with that for a text editor is that probably the first thing you want to do is process the line endings. So you’re just going to access the entire file, right away, as fast as possible anyway.

So mapping doesn’t really give an advantage in this case.
Animal Emotions
No what a ridiculous statement
Well I also think it is the other way around. Producers think a show should be fast and flashy because else kids don't like it. This is bullshit.

The same is happening in movies. A bad story is sold with great looking explosions.

People like great stories, you don't need flashy graphics for that.
This is why libraries are amazing - they are objectively funded so that “free” really means “so essential it’s funded for you.” In the case of vulnerable populations that are driven to free services (like the socioeconomically disadvantaged or especially kids), it relieves the pressure to engage in selling one’s self to receive some “free” service. This was more widely accepted in the past when services like NPR and PBS were publicly funded. You know, when we cared about education.
https://archive.ph/GJL2O
> Keeping everything locked down has a huge human cost too.

That really depends on what's your personal definition of "keeping everything locked down".

European countries like Spain and Italy showed that lockdowns work quite well in quickly halving infection rates with negligible externalities, but their lockdown focused on non-essential work and everyone was allowed to do basic provisioning things such as going to the supermarket.

Also, if I recall correctly Spain also had in place a kind of stimulus program where people could apply for a guaranteed minimum income scheme.

It boggles the mind how some people conflate a quarantine with solitary confinement under house arrest where people are left to starve to death.
> you know what was working in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 and will work and 2025, with everybody, and everywhere ? SMS and emails.

I genuinely can’t recall having had a single standard SMS conversation with anyone in the last ~10 years. It’s all WhatsApp, Line, Telegram, IG, or WeChat.

I realize my perception is skewed by living outside the US, but the only people who SMS me these days are delivery services and banks.
Oh you are right, my bad!
I respectfully disagree. Early into the pandemic there were quite a few folks writing of evidence that massive amounts of Chinese were dying. They were quickly silenced.
Starting up a new virtual thread and writing “blocking” code in it, while the VM schedules it on top of a single thread is entirely possible and will make everything happen quasi-instantly, the same way as async is.
This is all correct. I don't think it needs to be this way though. It could plausibly work in a way that doesn't make async functions special other than that the compiler must calculate the size of the deepest stack they can use, and then TFA's code would work rather than not working. (Well, other than the thing where the author wanted to make a function that suspends only once, then call it, then resume it, the await it, which will never work by design)
All the old episodes are available on HBO Max, I’m watching one from the 70s right now on Saturday morning with my toddler. Hand drawn animations, stop motions and original songs with full bands make for an excellent show. Highly recommend.
Covid variants are more likely to arise through large scale infections, as each infection is a chance of mutation. Long lasting infection in immuno compromised patients is also a fertile breeding ground (it is believed that Omicron was produced like this).
Thanks for the response!

With data sources, I mean if you have multiple services/products delivering data (e.g. an analytics platform, a CRM, all hosted on different servers).

> uxwizz, and a quick perusal of their documentation did not turn up how one goes about connecting to the underlying DB

UXWizz is self-hosted, so you just have a basic MySQL/MariaDB database that you have full control over (so you can connect remotely with the host/db/username/password you create). This is the database structure: https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/database-querying

> you have one big data table you might still find it useful to have declarative metric definitions defined in Metricflow

Oh, so this is like saving queries? Why would I write the MetricFlow config instead of saving the SQL query directly? I had look over https://docs.transform.co/docs/metricflow/guides/introductio... but I found the concepts and config file a bit hard to understand (but maybe I'm not in the target audience).
I never read the book/story, nor do I know anything about it. Star of David and the stuff around Jews in Germany I do. You can't blame people for not knowing some "more" obscure reference that you know.
You are confusing parallelism with concurrency. It definitely can be a problem.
Be careful - they are killing peoples dogs that test positive for covid
“everything I disagree with is Holocaust references”
It used to work fine with an extension called Virtual Identity. That no longer works (hasn't been updated in a long time, and I'm not sure if it could be made to work again).
>"- vertically integrated and sells a very narrow selection of hardware"

Or maybe this really is just the 10%, as we will both agree that this part is also true for every single Windows PC laptop OEM - Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer etc.
Who knows? It’s possible, but unless the Russians document everything well we will probably never know for sure. My only point was that if anyone has died, it was not because they got cancer.
> My point is that GP had a biased view of casteism

That's your opinion and personal experience against his.

I have been in contemporary situations steeped in casteism as well as where it has played no role. Absence or weakening of caste dynamics in certain states does not make it a non-existent or irrelevant in others.

That national politics in many Indian states are campaigned along caste lines is proof enough that caste is well entrenched even today in many of the Indian states. Observing election campaigns and their results is in my view a good indicator where caste is a dominant force and where it isnt.
Corporations aren't good or evil.

Corporations are just a group of people. Corporations do evil because some of the people in them are evil (and the rest are ambivalent).

The problem is we, as a society, tend to hand-wave away corporate malfeasance as some sort of unsolvable problem. It’s not - when a company does evil, we need to hold the leaders responsible. Yes, proving those individual actions/decisions is hard work, but it’s work that needs to be done.
> How you can tell if the data you're collecting is PII?

No. How can you tell, as a user of any random website, that the script your browser is running as part of that page you've opened isn't shipping PII collected from your usage.
For anyone interested, here are a couple Instagram accounts I am following posting from inside Shanghai. Scary stuff. Potentially NSFW (sometimes they post videos of some nasty stuff happening)

https://instagram.com/kaypapaii

https://instagram.com/ciaransingleton
You misread the comment you are responding to. It has typos, so maybe not suprising.
> Americans feel that the country is full and will increasingly be enforcing the letter of the law.

I used to think the same, that the Americans don't really want us. But when the corona pandemic related lockdowns happened, and US banned people from India, US still allowed Indian college students. So there must be some need. These students are not coming to US for education, they are coming here to work, and get green card and become a citizen.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/05/03/us-rest...

> For a long time, d###s treated the H1-B system as a permanent immigration visa...D###s should internalize that.

And that is why I think posts like this are important. So that Indians who are considering moving to US know the ground reality, and make informed decisions rather than regret it later in life.
I find this either delusional or disingenuous. Putin has been Putin forever. Remember that Khodorkovsky had a massive fallout with Putin and ended fleeing the country, he has a vested interest in painting himself in a certain way.
I nearly fully disagree with this article. Yes, there are still some inconsistencies with GTK3 and GTK4+Libadwaita, but that is expected, if you update your toolkit from one major version to another.

But for example blanket looks a lot better now, the button of the slider is far more visible.

kgx is, compared to the old GNOME-Console a lot nicer to use. Already the changing colours to violet for SSH and red for root-access are already a really nice feature.

Sure there are maybe some bugs and/or leftovers from the GTK3-GTK4 transition, but same as above, it will be fixed sometime.

> GNOME is still coupled to dubious libraries, with no way to avoid them unless heavily patching the code:

GDM depends on systemd || And now we also have libadwaita

systemd is standard for linux. And libadwaita is well, an extension to GTK, the Toolkit for GNOME => Absolutely appropriate.

Sure the dependency on WebKitGtk and Evolution is not that good, but at least Webkitgtk is installed on every GNOME-Desktop for other things.

But calling it "dubious" is not that appropriate, as they always have a sense. A dubious dependency would be - imo -, if GNOME depended on Wine or Qt

> ...Nvidia drivers can be problematic,...

That's only the fault of Nvidia. If they would do the same as Intel and AMD, nobody would have problems with those drivers.

> clearly incomplete and, in a nutshell, meaningless

Maybe for the author, but a lot was done, the screenshot tool is soo nice to use, the applications often got better. (In my opinion at least)
It’s telling that you skipped the real criticisms about your toxic empathy and lack of solutions to the casteism problem. Grovelling in firanghi forums and seeking gora validation by finger pointing will not help eliminate the problem in rural India. Avarnas are not a karma farms for savarnas on the internet.
There is a fine balance here, I believe. Java plans on introducing something called structured concurrency to tackle this problem, but even without it I don’t believe that this is a unidirectional tradeoff. Async programming even with syntactic sugar can be overwhelming easily as well.
This is a neat project. Visual tree/outline approaches to s-expressions is an idea which recurs from time to time. I haven’t embraced them myself but I appreciate the approach. That said, usually if you are many levels deep in nested parens and need a map to find your way out it means some refactoring into smaller simpler functions may be in order.
I think the very different age distribution explains a lot of that
Picture id was only used before trace together was mandatory. If you signed up for trace together early you didn’t need photo Id.

Ambassadors were never walking around taking random photos.
The lockdown is cruel and extreme, but it will save many more lives than anything less drastic. China understands the threat and isn't fucking around with the response. They're not locking down the country's economic engine for fun, or (according to the article) to save face. Thinking that is both racist and childish. They're doing it to save lives. This guy is caught in the middle, and I feel for him, but he's too close to it for any sort of perspective. The city will be up and running by summer as if nothing ever happened.
Oh look the goal posts moved again. The ego will not permit the truth to enter and so it will be pure horror for them when the dam breaks. When at last they hold the gaze of a machine more intelligent and more alive than themselves, they won't know where to turn, but inwards into rejection and fantasy and racism.
Ask HN: Getting a master degree in CS abroad
Hey guys,
I am going to finish my Bachelor in CS soon. Currently studying in Germany and was looking forward to get a master degree abroad.
I know that this will look good on my CV and I can get to know another culture/country and I really like that, but that is not my main reason.
My main reasons are to learn, expand my skills, network, but also find some friends for life.

For that reason I was looking into the University of the countires, which are considered to be the leading Cybernations (UK, US, Russia, China and Israel).

The US fees are way to expensive for me.

Do I need to explain why I dont want to go to Russia?

UK is a solid option imo.

I read a lot of different opinions about a master degree in China. Some say it's awesome, some people say u actually don't learn much, if u attend classes in english.
(Of course I would learn the language, currently starting, but I don't think I can get good enough in one year to attend classes in chinese)

Israel is a solid option too, but the lectures of they top Universities are in hebrew, unless a student, who studies abroad for a semester, is attending the class. So i would need to get good in hebrew asap or did I missread something on their website?

Any advice or proposal of an other country/city would be greatly appreciated.
See you there my friend :)