skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely anecdotal of course, but currently, covid is rampant here in Germany, at least my region. Everybody and their mom is catching it currently, I had it two weeks ago, most of my colleagues did or currently do. All were vaccinated, nobody went down for longer than 2 or 3 days with a fever, and a few more days to get up to speed again. No loss of sense of smell/taste, nobody short on breath. This is very different from any cases from my circle of acquaintances in 2021/2020, which were way more severe. Also, no more overloaded ICUs here. I guess this is why they're lifting all the restrictions here currently, despite case numbers skyrocketing.

This seems to be the norm with Omicron. If Shanghai is just Omicron too, I'd be surprised if a wave of deaths will follow.
It's running on a proprietary RTOS.
> But on the Ruby side, stuff gets deprecated/broken all the time, so we need much more manpower to maintain it.

Maybe you should consider Perl? I'm only half joking. I have a few Perl projects running unchanged for 15 years and hopefully for the next 15 years as well.
my biggest sense of pride back in the day was being "unpuntable". the process was insanely simple, delete or move aol's RichText.dll file and the client defaulted to plaintext. i would also use older versions of the client (i think 2.0 and older did not support HTML).

people would try to punt me and all i'd see in the IM window are the various (and there were many) combinations of HTML tags, which i would save and use myself to manually punt others.
These Men Think You Won’t Like Their Views but Want to Feel Free to Express Them
> the USD is down

The dollar is approaching a 3-year high [1]. It is up close to 9% over the past year.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DXY/
When you travel by train you are treated like an adult, air travel treats you like a child and herd you around like cattle.

Getting a 100 dollar fine because you didn't click a button on a website, being commanded by uniformed people to "show your papers" over and over, standing in line waiting to stand in another line. Being forced to stand in crowded "designated areas". It's super creepy, gives me the heebie jeebies, like I'm being shipped off somewhere..
Don't confuse faulty hardware with software abstractions of perfect hardware. Those cloud VMs are still running on some hardware somewhere, even it's been abstracted away from your control. And that hardware can and does fail.
yeah, that's what we should be doing...

People shouldn't do back breaking work that robots are better at and going back to treating humans like robots ins't a solution - working less is a viable option and the promise of tech. I'd happily work 20 hours a week to split my job between two people because the diversity pays off in spades and we'd all do better working less anyway
Brands should treat diversity like new technology
Is accessibility mature across platforms? If not, then nope.

Accessibility is the hill virtually every FOSS UI cross-platform toolkit dies on.
Part of it has, but then there are those guys working on 3d printing houses.
Or yours?
And, who is 'we'?
And why is "politics" in quotes?
Building a Streaming Music Service with Phoenix and Elixir
That's just all i could think of.. there are many more out right now
> Am I crazy to think Gtk4 is now a viable cross-platform alternative to Qt?

Dream solution is having a nix flake setup with correct compiler selection and switches for Windows/Linux/Mac and Android.
That is basically every tech company founded outside the most expensive cities in the US. :)

It's just that lots of people like living in/near the most expensive cities in the US so you don't see these companies as much.
I think at one point the canonical approach may even have been:

java -D-version
This video is on how to generate IOC matching queries for majority of SIEM, EDR and even grep friendly. As well as behaviour Sigma rules to see traces of the latest attack by Sandworm APT group targeting power grid in Ukraine, and maybe not only in Ukraine. Full details on how to hun in the video.

From CERT-UA research:
"The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has taken urgent measures to respond to the cybersecurity incident involving a targeted attack on the Ukrainian power facilities.

Cybercriminals aimed to destabilize a set of infrastructure elements, more specifically:
1)High-voltage electrical substations using the INDUSTROYER2 malware; each file contained a statistically defined set of unique parameters for the corresponding substations. The file compilation date is March 23, 2022;
2) computers running Windows OS, including the personal computers, servers, and automated process control systems by means of the CADDYWIPER data destructive malware. To decipher and launch the latter, cybercriminals aimed to apply the ARGUEPATCH loader and TAILJUMP shellcode;
3) Server equipment running Linux OS using the malicious data-wiping scripts, like ORSHRED, SOLOSHRED, and AWFULSHRED;
4) Active network equipment."

original research in Ukrainian https://cert.gov.ua/article/39518
Yes, it seems to me like the lessened severity must necessarily be some combination of:

1) Improved immunity (vax and/or recovery)

2) Improved treatment

3) Virus evolution

What else could it be (not rhetorical)?
Have you read/study about Category Theory?

I find it incidentally related that you named your project "Monocle" while it does something quite similar to a concept there called lenses, so have a look at it if you have a chance!

Btw, really neat idea.
Happy Hacker- that's a blast from the past I had nearly forgotten about. Do you happen to know if any culture like this still exists today? I am sure there is something somewhere, but it was a fairly significant part of the early internet, these days, I am sure it still exists, but it seems to be in far more obscure corners of the internet. I wouldn't even know where to start, but I would suspect discord might be hosting a lot of this type of discussion.
and right at the top of CNBC we see

BREAKING Stocks rebound on hope inflation is peaking, Nasdaq adds 1%

On top of the defaults with China now looking like it won't be able to avoid Russia's fait down the line, with no end in inflation (prices keep going up across the board), with Shenzen and Shanghai in indefinite lockdown impacting supply chains, with BRICS + OPEC signaling they want alternative to USD + crypto/stablecoins impacting financial markets.

We are headed for unprecedented market deflation.
The CPI includes energy prices.
Trying to contain the virus was the bad strategy because of the effectivenesss of the virus in spreading, with/without masks; protecting the vulnerable (mainly elderly) would've been more effective, as I understand. See the excellent interview of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya by Lex Fridman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOGUYOPAsA).

On the plus side, producing vaccines by end of 2020 was nothing short of stunning IMO, with all the skepticism at that time on the timeline. Bid kudos to the pharmas of course, but a lot of credit should also go to the Trump administration, whatever you may think of the president.
"those who went bankrupt under the old system would instead be dead."

The people who went bankrupt before were generally those without insurance. You've not said anything that explains to me why they wouldn't do the same under this supposed new system.
But with an autoscaling group a new one magically pops up in the same AZ if an old one dies. You don't get that by rolling your own rack (without having hot spares on hand, in multiple racks or data centers). Not to mention getting a managed SAN basically for free (EBS) and backup/restore, and managed DBs... I'm a pretty good engineer, but I'm not good enough to be an expert at managing racks of hosts, switches, routers, storage, tape robots, databases, etc. And I don't have to be with cloud services. I just press a button and it's all there.
The point is that you forget all the inconvenient facts - from American national guard murdering students in broad daylight, without any kind of punishment afterwards, to secret military kangaroo courts - and build your arguments on plain ignorance ("China has none of that").
Couldn't the people who own the windmills just as easily hold the country hostage as you put it? Who do you think is paying to build and operate these things?
There are several causes of death that are responsible for 500+ deaths per day in the US, most of which are significantly preventable. We do not treat any of those causes of death as a crisis that requires intervention to the extent we have COVID.

This obvious inconsistency is relevant to the discussion.
I understand this as it being profitable to make and sell accessories, but not to engineer the accessories. The engineering is done in the hope of being able to sell the accessory. If they can't sell the accessory, the engineering investment is purely loss.
Private Blogs Are a Better Social Internet – Motivations for Haven [video]
One of the weird things I found after returning to work after a long period of illness (cancer) was a notebook where I had scrawled all over one page, "Why do I have headaches all the time?".

I had completely forgotten about that until I found the notebook, and in retrospect one of the (many) warning signs I had missed.
How does it work? The docs don't seem to mention.
I have an inkling of the pendulum swinging the other way. Even beyond the usual “all the nerd boys are stoked about iMacs having colours again after decades of boring grey”, there are other hints at people increasingly pushing for more self-expression online. I hope that the next Facebook is a bit more like MySpace in this regard, though that’s certainly an extreme pipe dream.
It's a completely fair question to ask what is the Chinese justification.

I found this documentary[1] by CGTN about the recent history of extremism and terrorist attacks in Xinjiang to be useful in outlining some of the context for this.

These terrorist attacks were a real problem and have resulted in the deaths of over 1000 civilians (including Uyghurs). China's argument is basically their re-education "camps" are an attempt to address the underlying causes of this, which is basically economic under-development, lack of education and job opportunities. So China basically identified the people who were involved in these groups and susceptible to radicalisation by them, and set up these schools for them which would teach them skills, including Mandarin, that would help find decent jobs that could provide for them and their families, which eliminates the underlying material basis of the support from some parts of the population that the terrorists may have had.

Having said that, there is still a huge discrepancy in what China says it's doing and what the west claims it's doing. Western sources claim that these are actually "concentration camps" and that there are as many as one or even two million Uyghurs interred there. These allegations are dubious for a number of reasons, but that's a topic for a different post.

Like I said, your question is the right question: what is the Chinese justification for this? And I think it's fair to say their answer is at least plausible on the surface of things and internally consistent. But it leads us to another question: if the claims of western sources of one million plus Uyghurs in "concentration camps" are true, then how does the west explain China's motive for that? China isn't stupid. Why would it put 10% of the population of an entire province in a concentration camp? Are they just that cartoonishly evil? It doesn't really add up to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlzunwilGM
Thanks! Yes, it seems like an underappreciated direction. Hoping that this'll be a push towards that.
At least from the outside these are pretty cool buildings if you give them a pressure wash and maybe add a couple more windows.
Thanks for these insights and listing these alternatives in one place and showing their commonalities (like tagging, hierarchies, and parsing/subdividing). One book I have found interesting along those lines is "The Discipline of Organizing".
https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/tdo4p/

Tangentially, William Kent's "Data and Reality" (the first two editions especially) also explores the larger meta-issues of moving from human-ish nuanced thinking to more limited formal representations (i.e. "The map is not the territory").
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm

Coincidentally this other HN article showed up the same day:
"25+ years of personal knowledge management"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903940

I have my own FOSS explorations to make software related to these sorts of themes called Pointrel/Twirlip -- but still a work in progress after over forty years. Indirectly Pointrel did in a sense help inspire Wordnet though. :-) And Wordnet was core to the rise of Google (via Adsense) which claims to want to organize the world's information (even if they may have other goals as well).
self driving tractors have been around for years already. The guy operating usually just chills there listening to the radio and occasionally engages to help with precise turns or whatnot.
Is anyone still using DDG after they stated that they will be editing results re the Ukraine war? This was a clear statement that they not letting the algorithm do the talking - they are taking a parental role and deciding what we can and cannot see.

I've switched to presearch - https://engine.presearch.org/ - which I have to say I'm enjoying.
That doesn't explain why they couldn't have used `Not_Found` or `NotFound` instead.
Scalability might still be a major advantage if you have infrequent enough needs for HPC-scale compute. Basically, use the cloud service as a pure computational "grid". But the pitfalls of cloud business models (including sky-high costs for data egress) often make that unworkable.
Have you ever developed a cross-platform application for desktop or embedded? It's quite a challenge, especially if there's GUI involved. Qt makes that a breeze.

As for mobile: if you can afford to develop completely independent apps for mobile, then do it. Many organizations cannot, and saying "we'll do the backend in C or C++, then call that code from a Java/.NET/Swift/HTML5 UI" looks fine on paper but then reality hits. Is the deliverable big? Yes it is, especially if you don't compile statically. But there's no good and cheap solution (and yes, Qt is cheap for the kind of savings it provides).
USD is not down. The dxy index has been going up all year. Inflation is a global phenomenon.
A local restaurant just got rid of their paper menus because it was too expensive to reprint every time they wanted to raise prices …
Pretty much, yep.

Once you get creds, you stop and report. You don't use, you don't enumerate, you dont do shit with them.

Getting and reporting is good faith. Getting and using is likely starting a felony case.
The biggest perk of being president is the dial under your desk you can turn to raise or lower gas prices
well, as much i wish we will not acheive said speed to propel human to that planet.
Sounds like multiple code violations, you should report it to the city or county.
> Nobody pretends that business skills are especially hereditary

Is this a joke? Nepotism is a huge problem in every step of the executive pipeline. The children of executives are often groomed to become executives themselves from basically the time they can talk.
Are you off by an order of magnitude here? The closest star to the Sun would be around 4 light years
Core inflation is 6.5% yoy which is very high. The other figures are month to month and are noisy and have a seasonal component.
Amazing, I was just thinking, how would I be able to find all these wonderful personal sites?

It's like Stumbleupon has been reborn!

And now you have gone and done it. Thank you.
Yes, since this release (Qt 6.3)
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-68406
>> I'd be okay if the US simply stopped invading some countries or toppling random governments every 5 years.

> Me too, not sure what that has to do with anything.

Nothing about the topic at hand. It's a distraction, an OT axe to grind, or both.
My Pebble Time Round was one of my favorite gadgets, and its slow descent into a very light paperweight, due to not being able to hold a charge, broke my heart. I'm now a happy owner of an Apple Watch, but it's definitely much closer to small-computer-on-your-wrist than the watch-first design of the Time Round.
> Congress gave themselves a 21% increase in House office budgets to account for inflation

For staffers. Not members of Congress [1]. Never officially tied to inflation.

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/spending-bill-includes-pay...
Tough to say because Biden is also pushing policy to curb demand and EVs are rising rapidly. I'm not sure if markets have fully absorbed the world of falling supply and falling demand. Or if they actually believe demand will fall appreciably in the near future.
With a central authority to issue unique "authentic camera keys"? What dystopian nonsense you're suggesting!

Because without such an authority, what's to stop the deepfake source from generating its own unique key? And we're back to square one.
The US Department of Agriculture doesn’t have natural resources conservation programs for shits and giggles. They do it to conserve natural resources for agriculture, as the words plainly suggest.

https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas

> Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the Nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance, conservation programs …

> The mission of Natural Resources and Environment is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.

> So far there is no evidence that is the purpose, since it has never been unenrolled or utilized, even as there is talk about food crisis related to the war in Ukraine.

The US Department of Agriculture protects the interests of agriculture in the US, not the Middle East and North Africa.

The evidence that it is used for agriculture conservation is the fact that it is called agriculture conservation.
And yet you can openly criticize those actions, mobilize people to fight against it, file lawsuits, create and distribute alternative resources to continue to educate about whatever is being censored, and no one will stop you.
> It turned out that either visual stimulus—the grating or moving dots—resulted in the same patterns of neural activity in the visual cortex and parietal cortex. The parietal cortex is a part of the brain used in memory processing and storage.

> These two distinct visual memories carrying the same relevant information seemed to have been recoded into a shared abstract memory format. As a result, the pattern of brain activity trained to recall motion direction was indistinguishable from that trained to recall the grating orientation.

Isn't the alternative explanation that our tooling for inspecting the brain at work abstracts too much detail away for us to be able to tell the difference?
I agreee that RSS would be awesome. I would prefer 5 RSS items with direct links to the original post.
There are a ton more games out there, i just know what i know and what i've played. I'm an old fart that remembers shareware and buying floppy disks with trials and getting on BBS's to download more... the entire experience of gaming has never been better. I have GamePass today and can play many of those titles on PC/Xbox and the developers seem to be doing well.
So nobody got fired for buying IBM?
We do, with a slightly charitable interpretation of LAMP.

We did have a brief stint with AWS, but that's thankfully over, partly because their Aurora Postgres-like cloud thing regularly would thrash to death because it doesn't have anywhere to store temporary data so a biggish join means out of memory, partly because the US law that says foreigners have no right to privacy from NSA with judicial review makes it illegal in Europe to use US providers unless data is encrypted client-side (see Schrems II).

I wish someone would start a sysadm contractor company offering setting up and maintaining servers at something like Hetzner. Take a service fee for being ready to respond to emergencies, bill for hours spent, and let Hetzner bill the hardware. Setting up a server isn't that bad, you can do that with a script, but ongoing maintenance and having someone always ready to respond to emergencies (that never occur, almost) is something you wouldn't mind having a competent sysadm take care of, as a developer.

I think there's a huge market for this in Europe with Schrems II, for those that aren't really deeply dependent on the software stack in cloud services. And you can get some beefy machines at Hetzner for pennies compared to Amazon or Google.
> but I trust Apple... mostly

This for me is a big part of privacy. It's not about making sure nobody has my data, that's a near-impossible task and never ending. But if I can consolidate and limit who has my data to entities I trust slightly more than others, it's a win.

Example, using a credit card comes with the inherent idea that you can be tracked. Your bank obviously tracks you and knows everything about you, Visa sees it all as using their network, and the third and most important, every merchant/vendor you visit can now track your purchase patterns and tie that with other information about you. Using Apple Pay, I'm giving Apple my purchase history at the benefit of having a randomized number for each transaction that the hundreds/thousands of vendors I shop at can't track me by.
Wipr is a one time fee of just a couple dollars, and it receives pretty consistent updates.
Earlier blooming flowers for an earlier allergy season.

The rate of changes from significant weather events is up (e.g. number of storms and the amount of the change in pressure).

CO2 concentrations are changing quite enough at ground level, though that gets to even a ventilation issue in the house or workplace. Working at home I've put a CO2 meter in the room where I work and I can see the fluctuations in that room over the course of a day with me working in it. Overall the world has gone from about 320 ppm in 1960 to 420 ppm in 2021. My reading for "in this room" is currently 687. Normally its in the 530 to 640 range across a day, but if I do any baking (gas stove) it can go up significantly and takes a few days (cold weather - don't have windows open) for it to return back down to pre-baking levels.
Have you ever done the math on what developer time costs? Even if Qt looks very expensive, it is cheap when you take that into account (not to speak of the savings in Qt and post-release bugfixes).
Yes, anyone actually interested in maintaining Liberal Hegemony would be better positioned if they tried to make the US actually like the "shining city on the hill". Instead the US "projects its values" by committing the "crime against peace" that contains within it all the other war crimes and that's against the UN charter, aggression, on a regular basis. Another way the US "spreads democracy" is by providing full military and diplomatic support (usually by stifling all criticism rather than full-throated support) for highly repressive regimes and full-on wars, including with the use of landmines, cluster bombs, white phosphorous, etc.

A particularly egregious example of this was the US condemnation of Russia at the UN for using cluster bombs in Ukraine, when the US has directly used some cluster bombs in Yemen in the last few years, and continues to supply massive quantities to Saudi Arabia. This claim is often "disputed" by saying that the US stopped manufacturing these weapons years ago, but with stockpiles as high as the US has, that is no refutation at all.

Focusing primarily on these US failings is exactly what a US person should do.