skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also a risk with most other purchases, including purchases of physical goods. If the seller got the goods from an entity that did not have the right to transfer ownership or possession of that good, then the seller is not going to be able to transfer legal ownership or possession to you.

That's not what is going on in most of these cases though. In most of these cases the entity that provided the digital goods to the seller did have the rights to do so, but those rights weren't perpetual, so the seller could not sell the consumer perpetual rights.

Valve could protect against that by dealing only with developers who do have the ability to transfer perpetual licenses and requiring them to do so in their contracts. That wouldn't completely eliminate the risk because the developer might be mistaken or even lying but it could greatly reduce it if they are careful about choosing developers.
I'm doing mosly machine learning/backend. For a PoC I needed a frontend, I choose Flutter web. The tooling works great and is unlikely to change everything week like in the JS world.

Dart is easy to learn and hasn't as many footguns as JS.
> hospital won't negotiate with 1st parties

Talk to an FCRA lawyer. There are certain notices that if you send them and they are ignored can let you remove the lines from your credit report should they mark them as defaulted on. They will likely also help if the hospital chooses to sue.
There is the the Snikket[1] project which seems notable.

The XMPP newsletter[2] is a good summary of what is going on in the world of XMPP.

[1] https://snikket.org/

[2] https://xmpp.org/categories/newsletter/
People downvote you like this sort of thing wasn't actively being discussed by conservatives even before RvW fell. Restricting sexual liberty is part and parcel of the republican platform.
ed checking in, can confirm.

`The standard unix text editor` has been my Slack bio as long as I can remember for a reason.
I really like this way of exploring! Also a way to just have time to think, I feel like walks are well suited to just to flesh out ideas or reflect on things that I do not have time to reflect on normally.

I love this article from 2012, reflecting on how the web turned from flanerie and aimless surfing to a more controlled experience: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-...
I strongly disagree with this entire premise. I want cameras to capture the real world as faithfully as possible. The rest of us shouldn't all have to deal with unnecessary artifacts (which can't actually be perfectly removed in post) just because some people like their aesthetic. This reminds me of people who think we should abandon FLAC in favor of vinyl.
> It solves what part of Sony saying they are aware that people have bought things, but that they will no longer distribute those things?

Yes, in the model I and others have described.

> There is no archive where you get to download the things

Currently there is not. The idea is that in future, consumer contracts may adopt terms that say if a person has a suitable kind of proof of purchase (such as an uncloneable NFT) then "the storage net" (third party services) may provide the purchased file or stream under that entitlement. Those services would be "legal" rather than "pirate" services because the contract permits them.

By itself that doesn't solve the current Sony problem: Sony doesn't offer those terms of purchase at the point of sale.

But if the technology becomes common and easy to the point of becoming a "new normal" consumer expectation, it will increase the pressure on companies who offer "purchase" and "rent" buttons to associate "purchase" with "you are purchasing the right to 'have' this item via the storage net" contractual terms. Or, if they don't, to prominently display a notice that you are not being offered a perpetual access right and it may be rescinded later without notice or refund - I could imagine that notice making its way into consumer law eventually, if its absence is found to be seriously misleading consumers without a good reason.

It's because it will become possible and well known to be able to offer perpetual access to things like movies "as if" an actual file or physical object had been transferred, even while still complying with upstream studio's licensing and region locking demands that are designed to ensure most people pay, that some companies may start to use this approach profitably, and then cultural expectations may follow so that other companies have to do the same.

In a sense, the artificial scarcity of NFTs may help bridge the tension between file producers' desire to control access to pressure most people into paying, and consumers' desire that when you've "purchased" something it behaves a bit more like a physical object in your possession.
People don't read things thoroughly for good reason: there's too much shit to read. If we read things thoroughly, we'd all waste our lives reading terms of service, user agreements, and fine print, and never get anything of value accomplished. Internet search and ctrl+F are some of the most time-saving inventions are conceived.
Nanook of the North's depiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0G3IZA6OI
This was my first question as well. So many great answers given, and three years later absolutely zero change. To be fair, it sometimes takes me a really long time to get around to fixing things, but after so much discussion it's a bit sad to see it never went anywhere. Even just editing the graphic for colors and layout would make it harder to skip over.
Solving Out of Memory Issues in Linux at Redpanda
Except ^W performs a completely different action. I can't count the number of times after switching from a terminal to Emacs within a couple of seconds, my muscle memory still not updated, I hit ^W only to discover I've just deleted 3/4 of the file.
Speaking as someone who came from PE, agree that higher rate environment means both better investment alternatives and also more expensive capital for LBOs. That said, the firms with fresh capital can make a ton of money buying into this environment. Zendesk being a great first example. Not a huge amount of debt required to do these types of deals. Liquidity going to hide under the figurative rock of fixed income means values get dragged down, which creates an incredible buying opportunity for all these PE funds. Look 5-7 years out, I'd guess 2022 and 2023 vintage funds will be some of the best in history.
Meta will no longer require VR headset users to log in with Facebook accounts
Author here - I wrote this to reduce the amount of time I was spending looking up simple things in the boto3 docs.

I don't use dynamo at my current job, but I hope this might prompt folks to think more about ergonomic client libraries. Also, if you're interested in dynamodb specifically, I'd be open to adding maintainers :)
> oh no i reinstalled the os on my vps and now ssh has it on good authority (said authority is line 68) that someone is doing something nasty

ssh-keygen -R $HOST

IIRC the security warning actually used to suggest this command, but then stopped in order to discourage people from thoughtlessly bypassing it. (I don’t like this pracrice of deliberate unhelpfulness—cf Chrome’s “thisisunsafe” HSTS override—but neither do I like the results of being helpful in such cases. Ugh.)

> also it's a nicely "semantic"/compact/comprehensible way of expressing patches in things like portfiles or nix expressions

As far as I can tell, your ed script sans the wq at the end is a valid sed(1) script, and that is what people usually use for casual patching in packaging situations (although Nix also has substituteInPlace et al).
If you don't understand why it is a good thing to generate machine code with an assembler of a few thousands of lines (simple C or even assembly, see fasmg) instead of an absurdely and grotesquely massive (several millions of lines of c++-written code) compiler completely impossible to audit and which generated machine code has to be checked each time it changes... cannot do much about it, sorry.
This is clearly conscience-assuaging rationalization. You must be in marketing.

But ya, "psychic violence" hits the nail on the head nicely.
They were way too early. Think of it as the Apple Newton. Eventually everyone would carry around a mobile computer but miniaturization and wireless networks weren’t ready yet when the Newton came out. I don’t think AR popularizes until it can be put in something that looks like a pair of Ray Ban glasses. We are a long way off from that.
I wonder if Messages will be available at all in lockdown mode? If Apple can be compelled to build in surveillance (and it's not clear to me that they can be), then it really should be.
Consider the flu vaccine. This is one of the most widely used vaccines, and it only lasts for about a year. My understanding is it's due to the rate at which the virus mutates, as you allude. Essentially the flu is different every year, and the vaccines only work against last version as more variants are created. COVID similarly mutates frequently, leading to a similar situation. In contrast, monkeypox and HPV do not mutate frequently leading to variants.
Venice has been for the rich for 1000 years.
The art of programming is finding the fit and exceptions to the rules. It's just, frankly, a lot easier to be dogmatic.

Someone says "never do this" or "always do that" and you can apply those rules with abandon (often leaving a maintenance nightmare in your wake).

There are no rules to programming.
> These sort of issues get sorted naturally if yew build in series instead of one-of-a kind

That would appear to rule out any possibility of rapid increasing nuclear generating capacity if we are going to be forced to build them one after another in order to work out how to do it well?

> The Chinese did not have any problem building two

...that they've admitted to?

> the British one is progressing more or less as planned

2022: "The nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point will start operating a year later than planned and will cost an extra £3bn, EDF has said"[0]

2021: "British Hinkley Point Nuclear Plant Delayed With Higher Costs
First reactor will start producing power in June 2026. Cost will be 500 million pounds more than previously planned"[1]

2019: "Costs Rise Again for U.K. Hinkley Point Nuclear Project. Utility increases bill for Hinkley units, flags possible delay. EDF also cuts estimated return from plant to as little as 7.6%"[2]

My issue with it is more the spectacularly bad deal for the consumer that it represents. Originally the UK government insisted that "the private sector would shoulder both the development costs and risk", but then the financial crisis happened, and they ended up having to rework the deal to the benefit of EDF, who basically had them over a barrel.[3]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-61519609
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/edf-sees-...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/edf-raise...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...
I really liked The Shellcoder's Handbook, as a general approach to the problem.
Good point, I missed that one.
Try understanding the scale of Roblox first before thinking of anecdotes as relevant.

Unless you're also terrified of cardiologists? [1]

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...
I went to LunarVim to try to get out of the business of fine-tuning vim configs and custom configs, so I'm trying to keep my changes from stock as minimal as possible, adapting where possible. One of the things that I can't adapt to is ESC+j/k moving the current line up or down, I was always accidentally moving lines around, sometimes not noticing it until code blew up.
New James Webb Space Telescope image shows deepest field of sparkling galaxies
Loop unrolling seems like something that should be done by a compiler when you turn on aggressive optimization flags, and not something you need to code explicitly.
Forking it is the real threat. If some entity does end up controlling 67% or doing something the community does not agree with, people will just stop using the chain.

This already happened once with Ethereum.
> To attempt to reorg a finalized block (blocks are generally finalized after 6 minutes) you have to commit to losing 1/3 of total staked ether, currently several billion dollars.

Hmm... Several billion dollars is not actually that much money for nation states. Am I misunderstanding something here? Shouldn't it be much more expensive than several billion?
The hot water from the cold tap reliably went away once the water started running which is what made me think that it was sitting still next to the hot water that caused it
A lot of the anti-nuclear opinion is passionately opposed to scientific analysis.

They're convinced Chernobyl can happen again, and that scientists are arrogantly playing god when they explain what can and can't happen
No, this article isn't good because it discusses alternative options within the boundaries of seriously wrong premises (write nonsensical hardcoded recipes "right"), and unsurprisingly all the options are bad.
I would (if I was an insane masochist) start with reading the source code of JS from the first version onwards to get a sense of things.

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_history.asp and

https://www.w3schools.com/Js/js_versions.asp
This is already not always the case, depending on which bridge they use.
Yup; same here. It started with the earliest intrusive ads. At this point you could display a big purple banner on my screen and then 60 seconds later break into my office, put $60million on the desk, a gun to my head, and ask the content of the banner to keep the money and not get shot, and you'd likely have to shoot me.

I'd like to have an eye tracking study done on my viewing because the brain has a separate center that controls direction of gaze that is not part of the visual cortex that processes sight. With a normal human subject looking at a normal scene, an eye-tracking study will reveal in a few seconds the outlines of everything in the scene, trees, doors, windows, people, etc. because the eye tracks the interesting parts and edges.

Also relevant is the fact that only a tiny section at the center of the field of vision is actually in any kind of focus - you cannot read anything resembling normal sized type with your peripheral vision.

There's also the phenomenon of 'blind sight' where with people who are cortically blind, i.e., their eyes and optic nerves work, but their visual cortex doesn't (e.g., due to head injury to that part of the brain) When shows a panel of vertical or horizontal stripes in a forced choice test (i.e., they can answer "vertical" or "horizontal" but not "I don't know"), they answer correctly at rates much higher than chance (iirc from courses a decades ago, ~70%). It was thought that they might be unconsciously extracting the H/V information from the area that still controlled the gaze direction.

I'm wondering how many of us have 'ad-blindness' that isn't just filtering our visual input, but is actually guiding our gaze away from intrusive content so we literally never see it because the focal area never rests on it.

Anyone more up to date on neuroscience have any info?
> Maybe governments need to force interoperability by law

This is what the EU is doing, although I fear for E2EE in cross-app scenarios.
You might as well ban the internet too. And all phones. While you are at it make them where a gag when traveling between home and school to prevent them from talking to strangers.
Fixing it's probably as much cultural as legal. On the legal side, a full fix would probably involve moving away from common law, which is a tall order.
Forgive my ignorance, what is a vintage fund?
NASA sounding rockets blasting off to assess Alpha Centauri habitability
How are your products ranked on ASOS?
Apple’s disaster scenario is a real possibility, say US and UK security services
GP is talking about the size of economy, not the area of land.
>but PA was just yet another sound server in a world that was already full of them and didn't really bring anything to the table

I seem to remember that the main thing it did was bring "being maintained" to the table, because esound was unmaintained and stagnating. I still find this to be really ridiculous that people complain about supposed "hostile takeovers" in open source when, for a lot of categories of project, there are still somewhere between zero and one alternatives for any given thing. All you have to do to become the top dog is make something that does the bare minimum and doesn't crash, and has like, one person to triage bugs.

>PA was becoming toxic in the meanwhile (see the Bluetooth codecs drama).

I also still find this to be really ridiculous when people call maintainers "toxic" for being slow or for rejecting patches. Every open source project does that.

>has not been adopted by Pipewire

Actually it has, Pipewire implements the pulse protocol for backwards compatibility. The pipewire developers are also still encouraging developers to use it because it is a lot nicer to use than the pipewire API.
Trash bag jettisoned from space station in waste-management first
The book "The Rebel Sell" points out that creating businesses and selling products was central to the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. The "Whole Earth Catalogue" was not a 'leave a penny, take a penny' dish!
I find ed to be the perfect program to test a new programming language. It demands good support for strings, regexes and data structures while being reasonably sized to be completed in under a week. I polished my C skills as I was learning it by writing this from scratch[1].

[1] Shameless plug, here it is: https://github.com/bojle/edd
WP says the plant has been "largely decommissioned". To my reading, that means the same as "not decommissioned yet".
Ask HN: Is Ansible Still a Thing?
Number of Ansible related posts is decreasing on HN, if one takes a look for the last month at least. I wonder if Ansible still a thing ? I know that k8s slowly kills it, however I think there is still some niche for it … Or even in the area of configuration management and server provisioning it is being replaced by something else?
Honestly I don’t think there’s a single mega-platform which hasn’t failed to scale their moderation team.
As long as there is an automated tool that offers pages to users that aren't personally selected by them or by someone else, toxicity will rule the day because outrage drives engagement. If you want to kill that you have to kill the algorithm.
How Wish Built (and Fumbled) a Dollar Store for the Internet
Oh that's like the US thing of saying something as "10 times less than ..." rather than "one tenth of ..."
Ofc, it could be indeed 100% silicon... but for very complex hardware like GPUs, better to have some jingle software room in order to be able to fix "complexity bugs".
I just gave in and spent $2 on a minecraft extension that my kids wanted. The whales here are a segment of the kids/teens (and their parents)
CMS just fined some hospital $900k. So it's not nothing.
I do. They've done similar things in the past and are still doing them today. Big Tech constantly tests out what society will let them get away with and it turns out that it's a lot.
This is pretty absurd for two reasons.

The poster was clearly writing a jocular, one-sentence sci-fi story to express how they felt violated by the constant vieing for their attention. That's why it's _set in the future_ and regarding a _fictional constitutional amendment_. Making up words is a genre trope of sci-fi.

The second is that languages just change and people make up words. This isn't unique to the political arena and isn't necessarily malicious. Every term you have ever used exists because someone needed it, didn't have it, and so they made it up. You'll need to actually argue that introducing a term is harmful or deceptive in the particular instance that it happens.

This is pearl-clutching to portray people you disagree with as being shrill and ridiculous and not worth listening to. It's a bad faith tactic which you should desist from.

ETA: Because I seem to be earlier in the sort order, I want to point out that there is a much more important third reason is a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32016181
Good faith actors want to serve a market. Bad faith actors want to exploit it.

If you are seeking out a way to hide information, you are part of a market that is signalling you have something worth hiding (to you, at minimum). As a bad analogy, it's a bit like putting up a sign in front of your house that says "We went on vacation, but the door is locked!"... basically, begging to be exploited.

Short of regular, independent audits, you are mostly reduced to guessing who to trust, and even then (as demonstrated by Lavabit) the trustworthiness of the actor isn't always the only relevant factor.
This is skin gambling, where in-game items are wagered by proxy, so the actual structure of the gambling is unfortunately somewhat nuanced.

I agree that it's unethical and Roblox failing to crack down on these sites by any means they can, again, represents a failing.

But I'd have liked to see a separate post with a deeper investigation into how the gambling sites are structured, and how the cash-out economy works.

Proxy-gambling using skins and secondary markets has been highly controversial since at least the CS:GO days and unfortunately it _isn't_ that clear that there's a serious violation of gambling and AML/KYC laws on the part of Roblox. Valve have been somewhat successful so far in defending themselves against the Washington gaming commission and many lawsuits surrounding CS:GO skin gambling.

But, Roblox have a direct cash-out program for in-game content developers which may change their situation.

I'd again, have loved to seen this investigated more in another blog post. This one was weirdly unfocused to me because it started with serious, well-founded allegations of inadequate moderation leading to harm to children, in contrast to "safe" marketing. Then it progressed to a random aside accusing a safety officer of being a furry (???). And then flipped to another aside about finding a gambling site.
Bob Dylan’s New Recording of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Could Sell for $1.2m
https://archive.ph/Cp7Zj
If a selling point is run from "one file", that's quite difficult to do in python. There are things like pyinstaller but you end up shipping the entire interpreter in the bundle.
Well users are one thing but what I am barely able to cope with are coworkers that are illiterate.

Especially in a remote context. In the office face to face communication can be often faster - though even then you need to write stuff down or you will suffer long-term - but remote it just sucks. The whole advantage of being able to work asynchronously gets lost because everything needs to be a call.

So either I get totally exhausted from constant calls that kill my productivity or they get pissed at me for "not communicating enough" when they ignored every single email and JIRA comment.

Any way to better cope with this?
I also switched to the picks with handles as part of that change. I used to do the "tie floss into a loop" trick, but it was kind of a pain in the butt to do that. So part of lowering the barrier was going with picks. I also hate the waste, but figure it's worth it for the tooth longevity.
"It is nice to end up where you wanted to be, but the person you are when you get there is far more important."

- Richard Hamming
If we’re talking about inconvienent facts being ignored in regards to whether the right to privacy is in the constitution then we need to bring up the text of the 9th amendment, no?
failure of their mentors? To an early point, but beyond that everyone who considers themselves a professional needs to sit down with a book or three and understand stuff. 'mentors' is a small excuse IMO.
Tarot with YouTube: an interactive reading experience