skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the more useful standard here is "knew or should have known". They would have had to have been literal children to not ever hear that money transfer services could be useful to scammers. So assuming the executives were actual adults, they either knew or should have known that they were party to and profiting from large-scale fraud.

For what it's worth, the FTC did not "charge" them with anything. Walmart is being sued for some pretty specific violations not of "regs" but of laws: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/1823012WalmartC...

Walmart will have their day in court, and they certainly can afford plenty of lawyers. I have no concern at all for the well-remunerated executives at the top of this business, who will face no legal consequences for their personal profit from hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
I was going to ask about vimwiki compatibility but based on a read through of the github it looks like it should basically work. It also looks like the author is aware https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal/issues/436
I am not convinced by any answers. They are predictions--that's great for talking and might make a good road trip argument.

But I think this really has to be tested. Someone call the MythBusters back.
> Will desktop Linux ever solve these basic usability problems?

Never.

Desktop Linux will never solve these simple usability issues since the developers are too busy fighting for who is the smartest one of them all.

As with that, little to no-one cared about Thunderbird. I should not expect the world to care either, especially on Desktop Linux, which both are complete failures after years and years of issues.
I love his blog. It has wealth of information.
Linux really just needs to adopt AppImage as the default manual install package. A single download that runs the actual application when you click it, no installation necessary. It may have a larger file size due to bundling dependencies that are already on the machine, but people who are bandwidth or diskpace limited can use their repo or tarballs instead. Just make the default option the simplest for non-techies to deal with.
It's compiled with a C++ compiler ('_Z2f2i' in the disassembly) and the function name is 'f.cpp', so I suppose it's in the 'C is a subset of C++' part of C.
It is hard due to phasing, that is, overlapping audio signals from the same source when summed during mixing can cancel out various parts of the signal. Channels on some mixers have a phase inverter and audio engineers will also move microphones around while looking at a phase monitor.
I love the name and app based on description. Excellent job. I will start using it and see how it goes.
Agreed, we should take them both out. :-)

To be honest though, I'm interested in how the Matrix support will look. While I think the Element client is nice, and certainly the best of the Matrix clients I've tried, I wouldn't mind not having to have that during work hours so much.

For RSS, I'm sticking with Newsblur though!
I am using IMAP. I don't see this option that you're talking about. FWIW, all my custom folders loaded correctly. It is just that don't see that top bar[0], except for social and forums (my least used ones).

I also noticed something odd. I closed it and reopened and lost all the info. I didn't install from snap or apt because apt was providing version 92 so I installed manually. I do see ~/.thunderbird (no ~/.config) but seems odd that the info wasn't stored there. This is a big red flag. ~~I also can't find in the settings where to specify the storage location.~~ (found)

[0] https://i.imgur.com/AbCEZSm.png
That sounds like you're describing a current transfer regime. We're talking about requiring background checks. An NICS background check completes in 30 seconds.

California's more draconian rules than what's been proposed has no bearing on anything.
I also want a similar app for org-mode.
Presently, I'm using a cron (every 2 mins) that sync my org folder with github.
But it's not for the mobile.
I’d much rather have the option to disable password recovery processes. Don’t force me to answer questions with obvious answers. Don’t send a reset link over a possibly insecure channel. Give me a way to turn all of that off and let me be responsible for keeping my password.
- I just use the local version always and don't deal with any of the conflicts. It is however in the top 10 issues to fix.

Since the history is still preserved, no data is lost.

- I commit and pull + push each time a note is modified / created / deleted. And whenever you pull to refresh or tap the sync button. Optionally, this can be disabled, and it will only pull+push when you press the button.

- I only stay on the main branch, the user has an option to switch branches. I have no plans and no requests / use-cases for doing anything more with branches.
These are not the kind of cuts you make because you have a bad feeling. These are the kinds of cuts you make because you're seeing orders fall off a cliff. I suspect that in particular Tesla is seeing erosion in their Cybertruck pre-orders given that Ford and Rivian have beaten them to market and both those products are drawing rave reviews.
Cool, a UI upgrade. Yet they still omit proper tray support on Linux, barring hacks (birdtray, systray-x, etc.). Oh, well. At least it's maintained.
It doesn't take much guess work. The Delta IV has been used for more military missions than public or commercial ones. That's the space vehicle of choice for military satellites.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thor_and_Delta_launc...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
But shouldn't that be handled on a commercial level? Riskier site, with higher chargebacks or less identity verification (like the historical no-signature-present) get charged higher rates and fees. This already happens, but the rates could be even higher if needed. There doesn't seem to be any need to police content, that is just factored in the risk and thus cost of service.
Whenever the X-37 comes up I always re-state my theory that the real purpose is to keep a nuke in orbit at all times.

Why not keep nukes on satellites?

- It's against treaty

- satellites run out of fuel

- it's harder to control where they land on re-entry.
See Section 2.5
MD5(CC#) is trivially reversed, so I hope that’s not what you were doing.
So we can have separate state registries of: residents, voters, drivers, students, people on disability, people who are unemployed, among others, but gun owners would be too much?
I agree, given their hegemony of payment systems they should be required to accept payment and government should state that they have to provide payment services to any _legal_ enterprise. That would also give them cover from the bible thumpers.
This isn't just a feature, this is installing apps. Many users are failing to install apps. Users on this forum, even, which is telling because this forum is a sort of filter to select those who are more tech savy than the average person. There is a usability issue here that absolutely should be talked about and addressed, which involves a solution that isn't "switch to chrome OS".
It's likely being retried on a lower level, similar to the sibling comment about CORS.

Dev tools are not intentionally hiding the retry from you; from its perspective it's asking the networking layer to fetch a page, and the fact that that layer retries beneath the scenes is invisible to it.
Luckily we have good kids in the neighborhood.

The big problem we do have is google/youtube crammed down our throat by the school district. Yes, interaction with an advertising/surveillance company is required to participate. Even just under 13 where it is ostensibly against their terms of service.
Isn't it a good thing that armed citizens and the professional warrior caste like police and military -- who are also really just other citizens -- work together?

If you are asking why the glorious revolution hasn't happened despite having an armed to the teeth peasantry, then the answer is simple: the peasants are still getting their bread and circuses.
> Sure it may affect performance some, but thanks to having done that I was able to port the app from SQLite to PostgreSQL in like an hour.

This is unpopular because it's a bad tradeoff. In the real world, performance matters all day, every day, while switching from Postgres to SQLite is an incredibly unusual scenario (especially because their hosting models are completely different).

Tuning a database for performance (or just taking the hit and scaling the database) is far more expensive than the likely-not-going-to-happen migration from one RDBMS to another. The vast majority of companies will never do it. It makes no sense to optimize for it at great cost elsewhere.
I agree, I'm thinking of Missouri accidentally publishing SSN info on a govt website.

Also the OPM not being able to secure the personal info of everyone with a security clearance.
I think its real purpose is to deliver a nuclear warhead with less warning and less attention than a traditional ICBM launch.
I've got a backpack-wearable one from Ego and I love it. That said, my comment above was mostly a joke. :)
The problem is not fat. The problem is insulin resistance. You can be skinny and extremely unhealthy (non-alcoholic fatty liver for example).
Turn your best blog post into a talk ;)
You’re clearly still confused and I think that’s why you are being defensive.

I replied to sha256sum’s (not you!) comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31912312 with a rhetorical question. You then answered it as if it were an actual question. Since that wasn’t the reason for the question I then explained my interpretation of the original post (that again, you did not make).

Since that point you seem to believe I claimed sha256sum’s post was yours but in fact I did no such thing and actually disclaimed it specifically.
How does watching paint dry work then? Does it only dry when I'm not looking?
I was actually clueing you in on a protip, as most people I know don't encrypt emails and I wonder what percentage of mail you receive went through PGP. I advise people to follow up with me, and would rather they sent three mails instead of one.

My point is you seem to think most people are like you, but I don't think even in the tech space that that is true. If you were (maybe you are, I don't know) important enough putting out your "rules to contact me" is sufficient. Otherwise, it's judging people harshly for following what we have decided is a best practice.
So… to undermine one-person-one-vote and give extra power to some people?
>Now Thunderbird has added chat, that's great. What does it support, Slack? no. Discord? no. Oh. That's not great, then, that's useless. They're intending to jumpstart a chat protocol with a client that's used by like 0.8% of users? Sure.

Thunderbird has had XMPP and other chat for many, many years now.
That's a straw man (I never said this applied to ALL gun owners), and I'd actually say that making straw man arguments in response to perceived negative comments about guns is also correlated with ownership - thus, I assume you are a gun owner. Not that hard.
2023-2025 wide rollout https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
GitJournal doesn't yet support LFS, and since neither libgit2 or go-git supports it, it's unlikely that I'll implement it. (last I checked it wasn't supported, maybe things have changed).

I do, however, want to support partial clones and easier tools to cleanup the history and reduce the repo size.
>SIM cards have their own cpu, memory, and OS running on them

That might be the case, but they still rely on the phone to feed it information. I doubt the sim card interface provides a way to send the currently connected wifi network or what apps are installed.
I can confirm that in Thunderbird 102 on Windows 11, you can use View -> Font Size via the menu. It changes all UI font sizes I could find. I don't remember if this setting existed in the 9x releases.

The default is 12px. The max appears to be 30px.

Changing font size only appears to change the UI font, not the message fonts, but it does appear to change all UI sections I tested. I saw increased font in the 5 major UI sections and the Settings section.

When setting size to 30px, the the email panes looks mediocre, but usable. The icons do not increase in size, but the bounding boxes for text areas do, so things lay out approximately correct. It's clear this is not yet fully supported.

The Address Book looks like garbage, and clearly has a layout bug. In the list of contacts, the selectable boxes around different contacts do not scale appropriately, and the text from one sits over the text from its neighbors. It functions properly, and the individual contact view is usable, so this may not be a deal breaker until its fixed.

The other sections I use (calendar & tasks) look fine. I do not have any chat accounts set up, so I cannot test that section.

Overall, I would rate it as a usable first step, but hopefully they do not consider it finished. As a minimum, icons need to scale with font sizes, and the padding between elements at high font size needs to scale, or at least have some breakpoints.
If you expect Linux to be like macOS, you can only be disappointed.

It is a different operating system with completely different trade-offs. People are trying to improve usability on Linux (and things have changed substantially for the better since I first used Linux in 2006), but generally, the OS and software will hold your hand less than macOS. Actually, even Windows probably holds your hand less, macOS is clearly an outlier here.

People who like using Linux generally put up with the occasional nuisance or the necessity to sometimes dig a bit deeper when there's a problem for the increased flexibility and independence.
It wouldn’t surprise me if in a few years the same AGs sue Walmart and Western Union for allowing employees to suspect fraud for the wrong reasons and denying transactions.
I keep trying to convince my parents to sell it. They're spending a lot of money on it for property taxes and HOA fees (it's a condo unit) but they simply don't care enough. On the bright side, it's in a town that hasn't yet been swept up by the housing crisis. Only a matter of time though.
Did you parents have a hard time banning Playboy magazine and cigs, even though other kids had access?
Nix/NixOS, Tailscale, lazygit
My experience is that tarballs and RPMs are most common. Regardless there's a lot more diversity in how things are packaged on Linux than on Windows or OSX.

Even if I get a tarball on OSX I can double click on it and then drag the application into the "Applications" directory or run the installer. I'm not sure why this is so challenging on Linux.
To a point, anyway.
https://www.builderonline.com/land/local-markets/californias...
> "Straw purchases" then means there has to be intent to provide it to someone free of charge

This isn't a very good definition of a straw purchase. Buying a gun as a gift for someone is legal (federally, at least) and usually not considered a straw purchase. It's a straw purchase if you aren't the actual buyer, but are acting as an agent for somebody else, whether or not they could have bought the gun themselves legally, and whether or not money changes hands. It is, of course, up to the prosecution to prove you were acting as an agent rather than gifting, or buying for yourself and then later deciding to resell.
I think the prudent thing to do would be to replace the "Download Thunderbird" button with a "Get Thunderbird" one which has instructions for how to get it via distro repos at least for Ubuntu/Fedora (and maybe flatpak/snap if they endorse them?), alongside a "Download for manual installation" which replicates the current behavior.
Zeller, founded by ex-Square exec now valued at $1B
Sometimes happens in the same house.
What you think of as “average” is actually obese/unhealthy. It is “average” because of most Americans being overweight/obese. Look at photos form the US taken 40 years ago and you will see what healthy non-obese people look like.
Yeah FB has a bad brand name but I actually find their news tab to be pretty unbiased. It’s also basically the only way I hear about local news since I don’t watch broadcast tv.
> You end up with language learning that is watered down and generally a waste of the learner's time

I agree it might often be a failure, in say, achieving fluency. But certainly no a waste. Exposure to foreign languages, and their cultural contexts, can be very enriching, especially the more distant they are from your own culture and language family. And the contrast with your own language and culture can teach you much about your own.
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SQLite supports named parameters: https://sqlite.org/c3ref/bind_blob.html

I don't know if Go's SQLite support in turn supports named parameters, but if it does, then that would likely help considerably with readability.
Like I said, 0.8% of users. Slack and discord and maybe the MS product are what matter in the chat space. If you're not offering that then the dev resources would probably be better funnelled into bug chasing and UI consistency.

'It supports XMPP' that's great. ICQ support would arguably be more useful.
Kind of.

There is basic support because of another open source org mode app - Orgro (https://orgro.org), - the author was even gracious enough to relicense his code away from GPL, so that I could use it. since GitJournal is shipped on the iOS store and GPL would not be compatible.

However, GitJournal internally expects everything to be markdown + yaml. So anything else are hacks I've done on top. At some point, I want to refactor and remove this hard dependency on Markdown.

Edit: I mistakenly thought the app was Orgzy. I've updated the comment. Sorry.
In addition to Evolution mentioned in another reply, KDE's KMail supports exchange (through Akonadi), and it seems to work quite well for me.
Glad to see Maildir support hasn't fallen off the map:

https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#maildir

> Maildir is a message storage format that should improve data safety, allow for incremental (delta) backups of messages and allow for antivirus to interact better with messages. Maildir will be vastly improved for 102, but may not be pref'd on by default.

> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845952
> I think parent describes a certain class of people who are constantly in fear of getting done over. Everything new is an opportunity for them to take the short end of the stick

I mean... perhaps they have been taken advantage of a lot.

I feel like the US has become a society basically built on taking advantage of people, so... it's not actually unreasonable to worry you are being lied to and misled for someone else's advantage.

It's a mess. It all becomes circular and self-reinforcing, but we're going to need some fundamental changes to society to get out of it... that are made harder by the very conditions we're talking about.
Biologists have been refining and extending the theory of evolution since the beginning. Things like epigenetics, jumping genes, and group selection are just some of the components that are part of the theory now. It’s come a long way since Chucky-D went on his little cruise.
Regarding 7, working in such businesses I've often felt a tingling of "someone with greater mathematical sophistication could cut through the complexity I'm getting bogged down in and/or improve performance."

If I had the same feeling about a Java consultant I know about how and where to find one, how to present the problem and what form their solution might take.

I think spreading the word about how to do the same with an applied mathematics consultant would be very useful in expanding the market.
> What, exactly is the alternative?
A simple solution is to let the government do the blacklisting, and payment providers only need to (1) comply with the blacklist, (2) report suspicious activity, same as today. It would be a serious offense for companies to keep their own moral blacklists.

It would be for the government to do it as well. Your solution is for the government to re-enact McCarthy Era tactics without due process of the law. What makes you think that this blacklist will just be limited to the "bad hombres"?

> Under monopolistic market conditions, there's way less incentive to saturate all corners of the market. Just because it didn't pass VISAs risk/reward calculation doesn't mean that other companies would come to the same conclusion. It's hard to give an exact prediction, but generally when monopolies/oligopolies go away the market situation improves for all other parties.

Your monopolistic analysis is entirely irrelevant as it fails to account the big elephant in the room. It's no longer a free market if the government makes the way people get payed unworkable. By making porn a third rail, the government has imposed a ceiling on growth in the traditional credit card sector. It's regulation that's created a zero-sum game.
> One example was the mint at one point was selling some coin online with free shipping, after receiving the coins you'd just deposit them into your account for zero loss. It looked like a normal purchase to the CC so you got the full points for it.

Presumably the mint was eating the credit card fees on this, so effectively it was a transfer of money from the government to the churner, with the credit card company keeping some amount on the way.
It also gets more complicated when considering that many "conquests" actually end up being cultural rather than genetic. So it might still be the same "people". And plenty of migration and mixtures as well further complicate matters.
It has. AppImages work exactly as a user would expect them to. Even if the AppImage is not marked as executable, one of the problems I can imagine a new user encountering, Dolphin (KDE file manager) asks if I want to trust and run the file anyways.

It is on Thunderbird for just distributing a weird tar file. Preferably, their download button would take you to an installation instructions page.
I dunno, I read it on an old iPhone, by “scrolling”
You guys seem to also have missed the trick of people reporting their gun was "stolen", when in fact they may have illegally bought a weapon for someone else. So, was it "stolen" or a straw purchase? Then there is also the trick of buying from private sellers (private seller exemption), where a background check is needed or not gets even more murky (depends on state). This makes such situations even more fuzzy. Just one big (purposeful?) continual mess, that's not going to be fixed anytime soon, if ever.
You may be right - but enough people do make it obvious that criminals wouldn't ever have a problem locating those households. Even without that obvious stuff, I've found that a lot of gun owners can't resist 'gun talk' which is also a pretty obvious giveaway.
For those that believe Brad's take on Wikipedia's content isn't adding a fair amount of value...

Presumably, if Legiblenews takes off and doesn't add value, Wikimedia is free to compete with it. Wikimedia could form a for-profit company that donates more of user revenue to the foundation and feature that company on Wikipedia. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, Wikimedia effectively retains the option to copy & crush Brad's side-project. And if Legiblenews takes off Wikimedia does nothing at all...they will still almost certainly receive more $$$ than the current state of the world.

In that way, Wikimedia is outsourcing innovation to Brad, who Wikimedia is well-positioned to copy/compete with in the future, and being paid to do so. While Brad loses money.

I'm not 100% sure who is on which side of "fair," but ultimately if it complies with Wikimedia's license I'm good with it. And if you don't like it, why not start something better?
Pinterest is one of those sites / apps that I think could be so so much better from a product and UX experience point of view. I just don't know that they have folks with the right perspective, vision, and UX intuition.