skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long time Linux and BSD user I agree with you. You still have to enable basic things that are not turned on by default - i.e. stack protection. A lot of this is enabled by default on OpenBSD.

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
Baumol's cost disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
> But when there's a whole subreddit devoted to the behavior, they may start to think they're the sucker if they don't do what "everyone else" is doing.

That matched what I saw, too - I’m thinking especially of people like a few grad students I vaguely knew who treated it as a way to “upgrade” from their personal equipment for big trips. They wouldn’t have stolen something worth that much but the loss to REI is invisible.
Buy a XenForo[0] license and call it a day. It has all the staples of social media. 'Likes', 'Follow', 'Friend lists', 'Karma' etc

[0] https://xenforo.com/
There are virtualization options in FreeBSD, but I can't use FreeBSD in absence of mature OCI compatible container support, without going though hoops on bhyve.
In present day, it matters a lot with a good amount of time being spent on docker/ kubernetes.
> If you simply select positive results and exclude negative results then even the placebo group would show great success.

Where did zosima ask to do that? They mentioned that the variable of comparison should be changes from baseline metrics in treatment group vs changes from baseline metrics in control group. That would be a fair study, and isn't cherry picking.
> The general NetBSD community is very excited about NetBSD 10.0

The upcoming NetBSD 10 will have WireGuard support, which is exciting. It's been in -current for about 2 years now.
Nebraska and Colorado are sparring over water rights
Love to see the *BSDs get some love on the front page of HN!
It is a query language in that one can select the fields one wishes to be returned, including conditional evaluation of interior clauses via e.g. https://spec.graphql.org/October2021/#sec--skip

The field selection is certainly possible in REST via something like /foo?include=a,b,c but starts to get just downright silly with /foo?include=a,b.c[1].d,e[*].f which has now become its own DSL
I really like this article about FreeBSD. One really nice feature that is not cover though is to set the immutable flags on some binaries with the command chflags. It's possible to boot your very secure system into securemode level 1 or higher. In this mode, it's impossible to delete those files.

rm -rf /* has very limited damage.
chmod -R 0000 /* won't touch chmod and all kind of ooops become much less destructive.

It's probably not useful in all scenarios, but definitely some systems deserve to never be touch live. Automation, scada, super important core backbone systems.

FreeBSD is the power to serve. It deserves more credits.
Who owns tokens and other digital assets?
Not one that anyone will use. The benefit of something like Facebook Groups comes from the network effect, in that people want to use it because other people are using it.
Jimmy Haslip does the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-3gYIGLbKM
California's McKinney fire has destroyed nearly 90 homes and only 30% contained
I have tried learning FreeBSD occasionally, mostly for nostalgia because I learned Unix on BSD 4.3 (or 4.4?) on MicroVaxes many years ago. But I get stuck on some very basic things:

- My wifi card doesn't work. The installer recognizes it, but the driver doesn't work.

- The console terminal defaults to 80x25, I don't know how to resize it.

- I can't figure out how to start X Windows.

- If I run it in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox), the network bridging doesn't work so my FreeBSD instance has no internet access.

It's probably my fault, I'm sure it's in the docs somewhere. But it probably means that I'm not the target audience for FreeBSD, since I don't have the time and patience to figure out the most basic things.
Psilocin is also present.
On the point of maps, I have had success solving this in two different ways.

Option 1: return a property list. In other words, a list of objects that have a key and a value. It’s easy write a getter function to search by key, or convert it to a map outright.

Option 2: make a Json custom “scalar”, send back whatever dynamic structure you want.
> All changes are synced with the cloud and stored immediately

An optimistic outlook, to be sure. Many Dropbox, iCloud, AWS, etc. users who've been burned by their experiences might beg to differ.
This is the least compelling argument Bernstein makes in the whole post, because it's simply not the job of the NIST PQC program to design or recommend hybrid classical/PQC schemes. Is it fucky and weird if NSA later decides to recommend against people using hybrid key establishment? Yes. Nobody should listen to NSA about that, or anything else. But NIST ran a PQC KEM and signature contest, not a secure transport standardization. Sir, this is a Wendy's.
This sounds truely nightmarish and costly. Even moderate volumes of data are going to add up very quickly cost wise.

I see the term zero-ops. But maintaining and debugging this pipeline is going to require some ops, even if you are not managing VMs.
I like GraphQL because it allows me to expose the data once and then let front end devs run with it. It’s a bit of work upfront but it’s less work over time.
Absolutely agree. Even more, once you are in digital, you can have actual mathematical perfection, that is reproducible and does not degrade with time.

I just seem to take issue when Nyquist is getting inwoked. That is a purely mathematical result. It is sufficient (and I think required, too) to plug source into ADC+DAC, measure the output and show that the difference is insignificant. And much less than, say, with tape.
This is the same for me. ZFS native boot environments and such is a killer feature that I am envious of.

Also proton gaming seems to be best supported on Linux from what I can tell.
I’m not an Elon Musk fan but it was 1981 when he was 10. There were far fewer resources for learning to program and make games in 1981 than there are today. Not to take away from what your nephew did, but there are currently hundreds of “how to make a game” tutorials available online in a variety of instantly consumable formats. There are even entire development environments focused on simplifying game development with low code workflows. In 1981 there wasn't even the concept of a widely accessible public Internet.
Is your nephew close to Musk's age? Programming a simple game in 1980 is much more impressive to me than doing the same in the 2010s.
As an aside, I like to quote this passage from Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People:

Other shamen ate the yellow-spotted mushrooms that were found deep in the hair thickets and said things like: ‘Hiiiiyahyahheya! Heyaheyayahyah! Hngh! Hngh!’ which certainly sounded magical.

Pismire said things like, ‘Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise. Have you noticed the way the wild tromps always move around two days ahead of the sorath herds? Incidentally, don’t eat the yellow-spotted mushrooms.’

Which didn’t sound magical at all, but worked a lot better and conjured up good hunting. Privately some Munrungs thought good hunting was more due to their own skill. Pismire encouraged this view. ‘Positive thinking,’ he would say, ‘is also very important.’

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/childrens-article/the-car...

Don't eat the yellow-spotted mushroom, folks. I guess it's not trendy to say it, but the magical shamen have had one too many.
read the handbook... it's the second chapter in this webpage.
Password Stealing Flaw in Zimbra
Agree. Was hoping to see the mechanism of how it got in the rainwater. Fluff article.
The whole securelevel mechanism is nice. You can only increase its value at runtime, never decrease it without rebooting. At higher levels, you can’t modify firewall rules. If you configure the server to boot into a high securelevel, you can make the machine effectively read-only until you boot it with console access.
You can just block them from the repo. If it's using up your emotional energy after you've explained your position, be proactive and push it away. I realise that's the nuclear option, but at some point you have to draw a line - especially when it's your time and your mental health that is being drained away.

I've only needed to do it a couple of times on my projects, but sometimes it's needed.
TeXstudio – A LaTeX Editor
I have pretty often cases where I use where and having.
Where filters the results before the group and having afterwards.
12-year-old from Haryana creates 3 apps and a Guinness World Record
Same! We’ve been using WunderGraph to help with schema stitching and integrating other data sources
My guess is Elon is just trying to slow down the takeover until he figure out the money source.
Regarding B, I had the pleasure of meeting a handful of San [1] elders to record some of their songs. I learned that some of them walked ~10km to meet with the rest of us and did not think much of it. In general their lifestyle is probably a lot less sedentary than mine.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people
Denying people's experiences and calling them delusions isn't helping them.
I have shifted nothing. I am clarifying where I am coming from. I am explaining that my words come without "hatred" for something I am incentivized not to hate. That implies nothing about yourself, but it does explain why I take the positions in conversations in threads like this. To accuse someone of hatred addresses no argument.

If you are unwilling to accept the experiences of developers who are out there, and claim that developers have been clamoring for ads without showing evidence, and discount evidence clearly presented to you, then it seems like you have made up your mind and there is a deadlock.

> Getting caught into an irrelevant philosophical debate on the virtue of ads

I have not been caught into any of that. I am simply expressing that the ads that have been present when it comes to exact search results matching have led to a subpar UX, as seen by many, and this is a known situation, which you are unwilling to accept. Thus we are at an impasse, so I am willing to table this conversation until the actual ad product is revealed and in public. That said, a willingness to reject evidence out of hand is clearly representative of bias. And that's absolutely fine! Human beings are all inherently biased. We are not the machines that we are talking about. We ought to recognize our biases, accept them for what they are, and transcend them.
Huh, i opened in firefox mobile and just got "no results", but with chrome I do get the result.

That seems... very anticompetitive.
I don't trust random web frameworks to implement HTTPS correctly and there are lots of subtle attacks on cryptography.
NR has long been seen as a sort of necronomicon for scientific computer programming.

i don't think it's SE's fault as much as it is a historical rough edge between two fields (computer programming and applied mathematics).

the first constant is klaatu, the second is barada and the third is nikto.

(NR also tends to be fairly rigorous in terms of citations, for the curious)
> The default cell type is generic, so just assume everything is a string and don’t do any parsing.

So, if you have `1234` in A1 and `5678` in B1, `=A1+B1` should by default produce `VALUE ERROR` rather than `6912`?

That's... not why spreadsheets were invented.

> when I use excel is mostly to store a table of raw data where I want to store the actual data, not what excel thing the data is. I’m using it as the equivalent of a database,

Then use a database program, not a spreadsheet!

However, if there are no database programs that fit your needs, and you end up using a spreadsheet instead, don't complain that the spreadsheet acts like a spreadsheet instead of a database. It's not the tool's fault that you're the one using the wrong tool for the job.
A passport is a document that states whose subject you are, whether you have their permission to travel, and where you've been before. It has never been anything but a leash.
I'm intrigued by his replacement, the language E. Even though it arose in 1997, I was unfamiliar with it. I like what I have seen so far, http://erights.org/elang/

I'm relieved that Crockford suggests a substantial alternative, and wasn't just bashing JavaScript. In fact I was surprised by the headline, given his history of defending the language. Instead of just suggesting another popular language like Python or Ruby, he is more specific: "It needs to be a minimal capability-based actor language that is designed specifically for secure distributed programming. Nothing less should be considered."
I keep mentioning Cass because it is a breath of fresh air in this bitterly polarised subject area, compared to news sources. It is level-headed and compassionate, and I encourage you to try reading it, if you can excuse its Britishness.
Technological hubris is a helluva drug. We would each be wise to develop our own capacities for humility.
For anyone else wondering, the one in Montreal on St Laurent is still there according to Google Maps.
> To me it looks like Nix is firmly headed in the direction of a yet another tool with a very good idea whose authors don't want to make it more usable and thus it remained a niche curiosity for people with too much free time.

What gives you the indication things are headed in the wrong way?

I think things are heading in the right direction.

The last year has seen nix flakes release to the stable nix version. Flakes are a big UX improvement to Nix.

The last few releases of nix have added improved support for debugging nix code. (Poor debugging UX was highlighted as a major pain point).

Efforts from major contributors are acknowledging the importance of improving documentation. - From the latest community survey, the steep learning curve and poor onboarding experience was noted as a major pain point. etc.

> even looks down on busy programmers who want to memorize a few shorthands and move on

Ehhh.

I don't think it's fair to say "vim is a bad tool because it requires learning to get used to it". -- Fortunately, developers aren't stuck between nano and vi, they've got highly accessible tools like VSCode.. or on the command line, even micro https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
There’s a few decades of small studies confirming this: from 2000:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11035391/
diffpdf doesn't look very pretty but it sure is useful. I use it for all my legal paperwork. Glad OP is contributing to this space.

https://screenshots.debian.net/package/diffpdf
We should create a group for developers who will never finish their game.

I also work full time and also have other hobbies, plus I really don't get motivated by the proper process of developing a series of games with growing complexity, so instead I keep designing my dream game as I'm working on it. So, I dunno if I will ever finish. But hey, if I wasn't chipping away at it I would probably just be playing more games instead, so why not?

My wife actually suggested I join some group, but I suspected the exact feelings the OP has - serious developers rightfully would not want me in a group :) Maybe there's potential in a hobby-slacker group :)
Txties are fast web pages for everybody
Solar panels can last 50 years. The main reason they don't is that they improve so much every decade that the opportunity cost of doubling power output per square meter makes it worth replacing them.

So you're left with 2 theses:

1: solar panels will stop improving, so you should amortize over 50 years.
2: solar panels will keep improving, so cost / kWh will be less than a 50 year amortization.
Gifts aren’t “sharing”.
They may consider you an asshole. But if they do then you can enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that they are dumber than you.

That's the implied equation. We all know it well.

And consider the realm of smart specialists. Every time your circle and the other guy's circle fail to intersect. So he fails to get your subtle jokes. Which happens a lot. Bam! There's another dumb asshole.
There's no point in importing your stuff. It's not like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram offers this feature either, and they seem to get along just fine.

> Yes, folks. Come to the fediverse. Where every day is 'Ground Zero Day'!

OP was asking for a "less gross" alternative to Instagram. I gave them a suggestion, so unless you have a better alternative I guess we're at an impasse. I'm not claiming it's an ultra-popular site or is completely normie-friendly, just that it's less-gross than Instagram.
I'm on Firefox mobile and was confused what everyone was talking about until I saw this subthread. Very anticompetitive indeed.
Fallen unicorns: retailers that have recoiled from sky-high valuations
I can't tell if you are clever or asshole.
I'll second Serious Python. It's a fairly quick read, and introduces a number of topics concisely. It helped me become more aware of areas of Python that I'd like to learn more about.

I have other higher-level Python books that I'm taking much longer to get through because they're more in depth. Serious Python strikes a really nice balance of covering things well enough to help you understand them, but not going into so much depth that you take forever to get through the book.
Titles have a max length, in case you didn’t know
> Sadly there is not much we can do to prevent it ...

The people could demand a resolution to the politician's issues which are holding five turbines in Montreal that could be installed in a pipeline which supplies gas to parts of Europe. It is almost like some political segments don't want a resolution before winter.

Edit: I had read one was returned, five being repaired, and Germany restarting ten coal plants.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9002839/canada-turbines-return-ru...
Wrong type of sim swapping. What I suspect they are talking about is when someone uses social engineering to convince your phone provider to swap your account (and the phone number attached to it) to another sim. They then perform the SMS recovery/2fa method.

Often the first you know about it is when you realise that your phone have been disconnected from the network.
Most of that progress is catching up with what we already had, as you kind of point out on your memory safety remark.

C++ improvements are related to the bare language itself, in regards to tooling, no one seemed to have cared to go beyond what something like C++ Builder has been doing for the last 30 years (more or less).

Python improves on BASIC, while still missing the compilation story from most BASICs.

Diving into Xerox PARC documentation about Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa XDE and Mesa/Cedar is quite revealing in what we already had 40 years ago, and how long it has taken to bring those ideas back into mainstream.
I think you are saying why not combine specialists on one team vs the “everyone is fullstack+devops” amateur hour dystopia that is becoming all too common?
> and to what degree it is a generational shift where more people (though there's always been a subset) will just take advantage of any system they can.

When you're being squeezed by every system, and housing/life goals become increasingly unattainable and wages stagnate - you better be sure that people will try to exploit every system they can.

Can't really even blame them for it, except for some egregious circumstances.
Just a small note but my understanding is that “CBT” aka cognitive behavioral therapy is a specific form of therapy, while most research around psychedelic assisted therapy centers around traditional talk therapy rather than a more specific technique.
That seems a bit simplistic of an interpretation when there are no similar effect for dehydration, hunger, loss of a limb, or other potential harms.

Many animals are seasonal. And extra sun exposure might indicate a good time to mate (spring/summer)
Abbreviating technology to “tech” would be better
The central concept of Minority Report, based on a novella by Philip K. Dick, is that D.C.’s new “Precrime” division has eliminated murder in the city by tapping the brains of three psychics dubbed “precogs,” whose dreams of death are used to prevent killings before they happen.

P.K. Dick spent a lot of time thinking about the apparent fluidity of reality and worried that he was creating new realities for people by creating possible futures in his books and publishing them to a mass audience

source: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick Unabridged

If you'd like a smaller sample of his brilliant work read: "How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later"

https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
I know you are making a reference to 1998's "You've Got Mail!", but that movie was (besides being based on the earlier movie 1940's "The Shop Around The Corner" hence Meg Ryan's store, and the Hungarian play that movie was based on), inspired by the story of how NYC's Shakespeare & Co. bookstore was driven out of business by a new Barnes & Noble nearby. That Barnes & Noble has since closed itself.
That’s garbage. If I input a number in to a spreadsheet I expect that number to stay exactly as-is.

That a Excel could introduce bugs due to doing floats behind the scenes.... Completely unacceptable.
Why? Do you care to elaborate, or do you prefer to just cast vague aspersions?
was referring to some of the replies
Aside from other stuff listed: Local businesses enrich the local economy, while buying from amazon does not

Also I’d suggest checking out a good local bookstore, it’s a whole different and IMO a more wholesome and relaxing experience.
The line is "whenever they're old enough that the publisher doesn't see any commercial disadvantage to releasing an update that removes all DRM, unlocks all DLC, and allows multiplayer without a centralized server".
Don't forget Stephane's other project:

https://brainaural.com

Multitrack, knobbed, and high quality sound. Instantly installs a laser-guided focuser behind your eyes - unless you start playing with the settings. Haha.
There have been a number of genetic studies[1] that can identify caste heredity going back to almost the time of the Vedas showing VERY little genetic mixing between the castes.

[1] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetic-study-finds-caste-syste...
Cool, thank you! Will be trying it out at work..
Done :) thanks I didn’t even notice when submitting
I think the usage to store other type of type is getting popular very late after excel has being invented.

It was created to count money. So it would make sense to defaults field to number unless it obviously isn't.

People are just using a tool that isn't designed for your current purpose.

I think probably the best change it can do is don't alter the data at input. Instead, alter it at display and compute. Then it won't actually corrupt your data anymore.

Then for a wrong field type, you just need to change the type, and the correct data will be displayed as expected.
> Srinivasa Ramanujan

So, about a century ago. That'd be my estimate as well. And only if are on the "otherworldly genius" level as Ramanujan was.

> Dismissing this author for a lack of affiliation is probably accurate

I'm not really dismissing him just for lack of affiliations. That's just one of several "smells" that point towards the crackpotedness of the whole thing: single author, personal self-promoting website, lack of peer-review, vague non-mainstream-academia language, selling own ideas as generally scientifically accepted ones, and, yeah, lack of affiliations. To me, that's too many strikes to dismiss the whole thing outright.

> to improve the public discourse with engagement with ideas that arrive in it

I would really like to improve the public discourse here. The problem with your proposed approach is that it doesn't account for Brandolini's law. People with overinflated egos can and will generate bullshit faster than actual experts would be able to disprove it.
I don't see how being high is an insult. OP didn't seem insulted to me.