skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that whether the free software people want it or not, the copyright system over code exists, and historically has been used as a cudgel against smaller players. If we got rid of copyright over code entirely I'd totally be down for this. And IIRC RMS has said the same thing; that he'd be in favor of the removal of copyright over code as a concept even if it meant neutering the protections of the GPL.

Until that happens, and copyright protections are still used by larger entities, using the same system to protect yourself and (more importantly) your users isn't turning your back on your ideals, but instead simply adjusting your strategy to the current material conditions. Remember that Google v. Oracle (while ultimately a win versus what could have been) was a step back, with de minimis claims left on the table as not a valid defense. The play field is heavily slanted towards the big players and software freedom requires every tool it can put it's hands on at the moment.
Miniflux is pretty good though.
How would you revert, merge, rollback or otherwise make sense of real world data that necessarily reflects "state"? Or is this only for development?
It's not meant to have 100% feature parity with things like GitHub, it's meant to have better integration with their other services that need a basic repo.

And that is generally the AWS MO - the first version or 2 of most of their services are super basic but will provide capabilities for customers that don't already have that capability from another vendor. If it gets traction or other customers start to say "we'd use it if it had feature X" they'll start to build it out more.
I'm just curious what would a panic!() in Rust kernel code look like - an oops log in dmesg? panics happen in Rust for example to handle indexing out of bounds errors with the default bounds checking or to guard against divide by zero.
I wish GDPR compliance would have been opt-in. For example, a GDPR compliant website could have sent a custom header indicating compliance, which the browser could have displayed in the address bar (a bit like HTTPS). Consumers would then have been free make the decision to not use websites which aren't GDPR compliant. Consumers who are more concerned about privacy could have set their browser to automatically block any non GDPR compliant website.
2 things:

1. Is intelligence absolute, or is it a scale?

2. If intelligence is a scale, is it a 2-dimensional scale? Or is it a multi-dimensional scale?

For example, in your example you suggest things like flies, bacterias, trees could be "conscious" while not necessarily being "intelligent".

In what sense are you defining intelligence?

For example, are any of the individual units of this setup "intelligent?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34NPbGkLGI

No, obviously not.

Would you want to challenge the "intelligence" of the network as a whole if it were say, armed and considered you a target?

Probably not, right?

Now, getting back to the insect/bacteria notion ...

You'd have to be in complete denial to not be aware that "TPTB" use cultural interactions to introduce things to at least some segment of the public consciousness that it may not be aware of as being within the realm of possibility/actuality of what's really going on in the world.

Hence, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Eve_(video_game)

Sure, it SEEMS far-fetched ... and yet, it's not that far removed from, say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

How do we know that things like insects, bacteria, etc., while seemingly "un-intelligent" on an individual unit scale, don't have a very different type of intelligence on a larger scale that is imperceptible to us as humans?

Keeping in mind that these things have been around for far longer than humans have and have gone through quite the evolutionary process.

We ASSUME that as the "latest" thing to come around as part of that process, surely we must be "the greatest".

What if we're just something developed by nature to be convenient hosts to other things?

Here is just one example of an arguably "more advanced", "more intelligent" life form being hijacked to not only further the interests of something arguably "less advanced, less intelligent", but to do so even to the point of the activity costing it its life: https://www.iflscience.com/parasitic-worms-manipulate-mantis...

Considering how "un-intelligent" humans can act when it comes to furthering their own interests as a species as a whole ... you get where this is going?
There is no expert consensus saying people should get 8 hours of sleep. And also no evidence that humans naturally get 8 hours of sleep.
Care to elaborate? This is not something I would've intuited.
This is true, but it is exactly what I am railing against. It's just tradition -- energy in houses is kWh, so let's use that for other things too.

Instead, let's just use Joules everywhere. Easy peasy. Why are my batteries rated in Ah -- it's not like they're providing a variable voltage source; just give me Joules.

I know this is a ridiculous hill to die on, but I will die on it!
It's a dumb objection. A mission manager was quoted using the word "diving".

It isn't the journalist but the nitpicking commentors who are clueless. The headline accurately enough conveys what is happening and the article articulates it well. Orbital mechanics isn't intuitive enough for there to be perfect fit words given human experience, human timescales, "plummet" is fine.
You should cure cancer.
I access SPARQL endpoints from inside programs written (usually) in Common Lisp, Python, and Clojure.

LinkedDataHub looks cool enough for non-tech users, but I prefer working inside a repl/Slime/etc. interactive programming environment.

Also, Google, Facebook, most banks, etc., etc., use Knowledge Graphs - pretty solid technology.
This is debatable. If there is a critical mass of people doing cocaine regularly, then more people will get addicted with that availability.
BBSes without FideNET were pretty much isolated.
Depression Sucks
I will self promote as it’s one of the main use cases of Boomerang. It’s a minimal mail to self app for iOS and Android with share extension to bookmark website in one click. Emails are super convenient because you consult them everyday so your links doesn’t get lost in an app.

https://boomerang-app.io
I do a lot of work as a contractor to the public sector and I can tell you that very little of the $86M will be spent on software development. The vast majority will go on hiring a massively bloated team of non-technical people to go through the motions of whatever delivery methodology they use, producing a huge amount of documentation and getting various people to sign it all off. Assuming it’s outsourced the vendor will have its own team producing similar quantities of paperwork. The ratio of developers to paper-pushers will be lower than 1:20.
I don't believe the length is a major issue. It's "upgrading" references to a new hashing algorithm that's the issue.

If for some reason length was an issue, a base64 encoded 256 bit string, like a SHA-256 digest, is 43 characters. That too can be truncated to 40 characters, which has 238 bits of security. SHA-256 is not only a better hashing algorithm than SHA-1 but it could also result in higher effective security even when truncated.
"The Constitution explicitly states well regulated militia"

As a subordinate clause; what follows is independent of it. Read the book I recommended in another comment for how it came about, as a political sop to those who wanted to flatly forbid standing armies and/or regulars, which those actually experienced in the Revolutionary War starting with the indispensable man Washington were not about to accept.

"and at the time the amendment was passed the lethality of guns was much less than it is today."

You ready to surrender your assault ink jet and laser printers?? For that matter, the lethality of the huge hunks of lead shot by the common muskets and rifles of the day was pretty serious.

"It’s time to be like Lincoln"

And there is goes, we get our war or we'll have a civil war.

Well, that's implicitly true in what you're saying, trying to confiscate the 600 million or so guns owned by the US people will most certainly result in another civil war. But you should think harder about this; to quote Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds:

"Here’s the problem with public officials — because that’s really [Seidman’s] audience — deciding to ignore the Constitution: If you’re the president, if you’re a member of Congress, if you are a TSA agent, the only reason why somebody should listen to what you say, instead of horsewhipping you out of town for your impertinence, is because you exercise power via the Constitution. If the Constitution doesn’t count, you don’t have any legitimate power. You’re a thief, a brigand, an officious busybody, somebody who should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail for trying to exercise power you don’t possess.

"So if we’re going to start ignoring the Constitution, I’m fine with that. The first part I’m going to start ignoring is the part that says, I have to do whatever they say."
Yeah, indeed. Thanks for sharing it.
Releasing new software is the simple part. The problem is that versioning is lacking in the old software, and therefore it doesn’t know how to talk to the new software. So for the old software there’s no difference between “invalid data” and “I’m too old, please upgrade me”.
Am I missing something? Looks like blog spam with no content.
Yep my daughter had a friend introduce her. She spent 5 years on it. 100% dependent on it. Entire time swearing up and down it didn't affect her. Of course we could all tell.

Only when her finance had a psychotic breakdown and tried to kill everyone from it did she finally get off of it.
Was 2 months before he didn't sound like an anime villain who was going to take over the world.

She keeps commenting at much more energy and less depressed she is, how she isn't always irritated at everything. She had no idea it was affecting her like that.
For us we have our sweet loving and caring daughter back.
Google Expands Its Distributed Cloud Platform with Anthos On-Premises
> Consumers who are more concerned about privacy could have set their browser to automatically block any non GDPR compliant website.

It may not be your intent, but defaults matter and what you're wishing for here is de-facto scuttling of the GDPR.
It really makes no difference where the data is stored once it's accessible by a US company:

"The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
So I'm trying to figure out if setting up a new plant costs $100 million and takes a year to come online, and if there's no neon then we can't produce $500 million worth of chips a month. Why isn't some chipmaker or consortium fronting the $100 million and starting to build the plant now, as a cheap insurance policy to make sure they don't lose billions in revenue if the Ukraine production remains inaccessible for years?
Do the crypto negative comments on HN ever gain the self awareness to see their reasoning is as shallow as the takes they cherry pick to strawman crypto?
That was helpful in letting me know it's just as bad as all the rest of them, since

if object_name is None:
object_name = file_name

only is meaningful if `file_name` is an unqualified one, otherwise good luck uploading c:\Users\Desktop\awesome.txt to S3

Their Java example isn't even legal Java as `string` isn't a type (it's `String`)
Google is sucking in so much data that at the end it will be outlawed everywhere.
You're right that it does contradict itself, but the unfortunate situation is that public domain declarations don't work and would make it harder for people to use your code safely in the current licensing model. The closest options are Unlicense and CC0 afaict and both don't work in many European jurisdictions.

I just want people to be able to take my code and do whatever the hell they want with it (including commercially) and optionally contribute to it. Having a license currently makes that easier but every time the Free Software lot going zooming off into the weeds of GPL v3 versus GPL v2 versus LGPL my eyes roll back into my head and I internally start screaming "get a life!".
Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems Course
For temporary or read-later items, I have a Todoist project called "Links to Read" and I use the Todoist browser extension to send the page to that project.

For more permanent links, I maintain quite an extensive collection of bookmarks, all neatly organized by subject area and utility.
Ask HN: How to Bookmark Videos on YouTube?
I often watch long videos like podcasts or interviews on YouTube. Since I have turned off search history, YT usually restarts video from beginning. Is there any otherway to bookmark a particular timestamp?
They were responding to a weed smoker who claimed to do exactly that.
Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember coming across.
Yeah first thing we hear of US gov using tech companies for spionage and data mining. So much tinfoil yadda yadda
Banking/finance/crypto developer. Economics major. With a keen lifetime interest in finance. Here are some shiny gems in this space.

Economics Foundation:
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell - https://www.tsowell.com

Personal Finance:
The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel - https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-Lessons-Hap...

The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Stanley - https://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Next-Door-audiobook/d...

Building Wealth:
Ten Roads to Riches, Ken Fisher - https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Roads-Riches-Second-Wealthy/dp/B0...

Financial Freedom/Independence:
Mr Money Mustache - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com

FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early - https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
I love the performance of blake3 but my understanding is it's still a bit of the new kid on the block. Blake2 is a SHA-3 finalist so should be perfectly sufficient, plus it has variable digest sizes, reasonably fast, and other nice features.

Either way, anything relying on hashes for data integrity should at least be flexible to the option of multiple hash algos. But with git, it's going to be hard enough as is to change to SHA-256, and I don't know how parametric it'll be.
Bizarre idea. Should websites be allowed to opt out of anti-fraud legislation? Anti-money laundering? Human rights protections?
Xmoto is so cool, I was pretty addicted to it haha! Very fun game. I'll introduce it to the kid, at least there is no ad flashing behind it.
Are you implying that the vast majority of consumers aren't concerned with their privacy and would keep using GDPR-compliant websites? If that's the case, isn't the regulation somewhat against the spirit of democracy?
Yes. Sadly you have to install it via dev mode, and chrome seems to deactivate the extension whenever there is an update (as it needs more permissions for more sites), and I haven't found a way around it yet.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Hint: you can use it in Firefox Nightly on Android by defining your own extension collection:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
With all due respect, there's a point I think you're missing here.

What I'm saying is that, even if you're only going to use Deno Deploy, it is an objectively better proposition because Deno (the runtime) has a much broader use case.

Would you rather use something that (for now) can only be used on a single cloud provider for (let's call them) "edge HTTP" workloads and integrations with services of that single cloud provider...

... or use something that can be used on any cloud/hosting provider, for any HTTP workload (plus many other non-HTTP use cases), which also happens to have an "edge HTTP" service custom tailored for it?

And let's not forget, Deno (the company), is much more focused on real developer needs. Workers still have a mediocre DX (although it has improved considerably lately) and still no framework for Workers like Fresh.

https://fresh.deno.dev/
Do you have a pointer? I know they rewrote Firefox components, but I am not aware of a real study with a 1:1 comparison.
Watching your child being content to work at Taco Bell for the next 50 years is not something to be proud of. Regardless of contentment.
No, but currently cannabis use is the one exploding in popularity compared to those others
Seeing Nim danger made me think, shouldn’t rust unsafe be added?

Seems inaccurate to display rust as safe and not include what actually allows memory bugs to be found in public crates.
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I built a little chrome extension[0] that allows you to like and share links as you are browsing the web. It was originally intended to be kind of like Digg, but most people just use it to bookmark.

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My hard working farmer grandfather (1920-ish) always said to sit in a chair with your hand holding a spoon hanging by your side. When spoon hits the floor nap is over.
Email rocks for this. I have developed an app to email myself in one click : https://boomerang-app.io
What do you use for permanent links? Manual maintenance?
>Look, all that the lack of domination of solar/wind shows at this time is that solar and wind are not yet cheap enough to displace already installed, capital-cost-sunk fossil-fuel-using plants which are not being charged CO2 fees.

Even if solar/wind were free, they still can't displace fossil-fuels(i.e. they need coal or natural gas to serve as base load). That's the problem.
It's even stranger when you look at how I chug decaff.

I hate what caffeine does to me, but I like the taste of black coffee.
> If all network traffic is malicious, just unplug your device. Boom, more secure.

I'm not sure why you're saying that like it's ridiculous, it's just plainly true.
indeed, and with LDS sometimes it's even less than an exploration of other faiths, and more about hoping to project their own faith on others' histories. e.g. https://www.science.org/content/article/how-mormon-lawyer-tr...
How about people who are crazy but have no access to guns on the black market?

Do you think unrestricted access is a solution just because gangs? Seems a bit dimwitted to me but that's subjective of course, I'd never ever have the desire to own a weapon, let alone shoot one. I have different hobbies, you know...

Also I understand the self defense stance, but why would anyone be able to own machine guns and weapons of mass destruction? It's beyond me. And not wanting to restrict crazy people from having this ability is starting to make me suspect gun proponents are a lil crazy themselves. They have and agree on no limits on what one can own. But when it comes to weed or prostitution or abortion they're the first ones to scream murder.
Interesting. Had looked at doing something like this but embedded in to Wordpress, which is where a lot of certain types of people do their writing/composing.
I am skeptical until I see the details, and strongly suspect you are dealing with a "safe-ish" language rather than one which has Rust-level guarantees. Uninitialized memory reads are undefined behavior in basically all memory models in the C tradition. In Rust it is not possible to make a reference to a slice containing uninitialized memory without unsafe (and the rules around this have tightened relatively recently, see MaybeUninit).

I say this as someone who is doing a lot of unsafe for graphics programming - I want to be able to pass a buffer to a shader without necessarily having zeroed out all the memory, in the common case I'm only using some of that buffer to store the scene data etc. I have a safe-ish abstraction for this (BufWriter in piet-gpu, for the curious), but it's still possible for unsafe shaders to do bad things.
Breathing in humans is driven by the need to remove CO2 from the blood
thanks for reminding me that's enough hn for today
Wow, that's saying something!

The tool is called Pure [1]. It was originally written in JavaScript and open-sourced, then rewritten for Microsoft in C at their request for performance (running sandboxed) after it also detected David Fifield's “A Better Zip Bomb” as a zero day.

I'd love to rewrite it in Zig to benefit from the checked arithmetic, explicit control flow and spatial safety—there are no temporal issues for this domain since it's all run-to-completion single-threaded.

Got to admit I'm a little embarrassed it's still in C!

[1] https://github.com/ronomon/pure
If you're an enterprise, and have company-issued devices, you can use this to load company-specific apps onto your iPads/phones. Think ordering kiosk apps, stuff like that.

And since they're company devices, either IT can set them up before handing them out, or you can use tools to pre-install the certificates.
>then they act as protection for all ancestor commits

How does that work? My understanding was that a git gpg signature only signs the project at that commit state.

It says nothing about past (or future) commits outside of a digest reference to past commits, which if that digest wasn't upgraded, would be considered insecure.

Said another way: Git does not rehash past commits, or the present commit, when gpg signing. A commit itself only includes the SHA-1 digest of the previous commit.
... from 2007 no less!
In high integrity computing that is pretty much safety related, if that logic error causes someone to die due to corrupt data, like using the wrong radiation value.
"Gun control will quickly occur once black men arm themselves"

Are you really that ignorant about current gun ownership patterns in the US (OK, the biggest new group is black women, but...)? How many black men in Chicago for example use their legally owned and Shall Issue concealed carry licenses to defend themselves, and everyone but people like you are cool with that, US V2.0 gun culture, the NRA which is more V1.0, the local authorities etc.? It doesn't even count as more than local news, except we RKBA activists try to collate all such reports.

"Similar to how religious freedom arguments get ignored when the Satanic Church makes them."

Citations? Because I'm not getting the impression you have any knowledge of what's happening with the law and facts in the US at all. Except of course the government impunity through judge made "qualified immunity" and rigging of the game, which applies to all races and creeds. Ask us what we think about Eric Garner's fate while or in times past engaging in one of the oldest American traditions, unjust tax evasion.
How do you deal with the privacy implications of noting your deepest thoughts, insecurities, actions, desires, etc. in a presumably single place?
Yes, that is one of the use cases that it could be used for. It does require of course that your UI library understands fibers, and as I understand it most ruby UI libraries depend heavily on C libraries that are not designed with Ruby fibers in mind.