skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> occasionally, this process will allow an upgrade to a dependency that will pass the automated build and test step, but introduce the wildest runtime error into the application

That will then happen whether you use dependabot or another approach. If you don't test this manually and don't have enough test coverage, you will fail there eventually.

Dependabot helps you fail here early when you have N packages that changed and it's easy to figure out what happened, rather than wait until you're upgrading 10*N packages together and have to isolate things manually.
I ordered some to offer as a fun gift to my family on my holidays next week. Hopefully it's not bad (never tried it so I don't know the taste, plus it took a couple month to arrive I hope it didn't go bad somehow).
My biggest issue with DDG search results was always lack of 'context'. If i type some keywords related to recent political statement or an event, even if a bit generic one, I'd like to see information about that, the most recent one, from my country, not some years old results from USA.

Like typing 'Tusk HiT' in Google, should yield me a ton of articles about what Donald Tusk(a famous polish politican) has recently said on HiT('History and Present days' - new, propaganda school subject and highly controversial book of mostly fiction and opinions that was made bu our 'government').

If I type it in Google I get newest and relevant results. Is it at the cost of my privacy(they know my rough location)? Sure. Do 99% of users care? Not really.

If i type it in DDG, I get Songfacts about 'Tusk' by Fleetwood Mac... It's not even comparable. For every day use, it's simply a no go for most of the world, which is not really technical enough to even realize they can/should use bangs. DDG will never get higher market share unless they realize, people rarely actually know what they search for, they won't know if they wanna see a Wikipedia article or something else. They just want relevant results, and DDG doesn't really deliver that.
Just imagine how great that must have felt!
Building a mixing service that allows people to buy stuff without their employers being able to track it is a legitimate, non-trivial reason.

These mixers are privacy enhancers. Privacy is a general term, and doesn't have to relate to evading the government. If you don't want your employer to know you've bought an NFT from your company's direct competitor, that is a privacy request too.
From TFA:

> It is suspected that persons behind this organisation have made large-scale profits from these transactions.

I’m sure a judge can look at more concrete evidence in the form of financial gains.
It was interesting until it auto-opened a mail window somehow without me pressing on anything obviously, and the email had a subject of "I love your work!" to the developer. Man, do I not like that sort of site behavior.
I guess the alternative is to not be arrested and locked in a cell? That's kind of up to someone else.
Lisp (nothing is impossible)
Agreed. The cynic in me hears business execs saying “we want non-programmers to be as effective as programmers”, and what I really hear is “we don’t pay these people nearly as much, can we get them to do it instead?”
"it beats ketchup hollow when it comes to the bacon sarnie"

Sorry - that's just wrong, probably should be illegal. ;-)

Brown sauce (HP if you are posh) that's the only thing to have on a bacon sarnie.
Is there a way (money?) to speed things up?
Maybe not generally, but it's starting to be a thing https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7055029?hl=en
Do people on HN feel optimistic or pessimistic about the future (both near and far). It seems we are just starting to see the disastrous effects of the current levels of CO2, with no obvious attempts in the world to curb emissions (note the recent US bill just decelerates the amount being released, bit doesn't do anything to reverse the current amount).
And if you’re a small shop who is the incumbent on a small to medium size contract through a couple of bidding cycles, if one of the big boys wants that contract badly they’ll acquire you. Much easier than winning the bud and makes everyone happy.
> There is a shortage of Dijon mustard *in France*
I was about to say it could fully defund the military and still not fully tackle healthcare and poverty problems. Especially if interest rates on government debt starts going up.
Many electric bikes are supposed to go back to the shop for maintenance once a year. If you lease the bike this often becomes mandatory. Also more and more manufacturers lock down the electronics and battery systems so nobody can really work on their own bike, at least those drivetrain parts.
There's also the native Windows version of XTree: ZTreeWin (https://www.ztree.com/index.html)
Not only that, but any theory that simplifying it down to "high levels of this neurotransmitter cause X" should be suspect. I mean, there was a massive thread not even 3 weeks ago about "low serotonin causes depression" being completely rejected at this point.

It's an interesting data point, but "glutamate build-up" is just the university's PR office trying to get eyeballs.
People want battery life most of all. Aggressive app flushing is a part of that for the time being.
I don't think it is related. Maybe just the increased publicity quickened the arrest, but I don't see any hope of extradition of a Dutch national to the US for sanction violations announced just a few days prior.
Since biology operates on video streams much more than still frames, I think the natural interpretation of the statement is “how much power would a computer draw when doing the same kind of (continuous) facial recognition that a brain does?” While I think the number is off by orders of magnitude with current algorithms, I think it’s a totally fair way to look at things.
Such shifts are’t free. If spam is less profitable, you get less spam.
Django and OpenAPI: Front end the better way
But by participating in Facebook (even just leaving your account there!) you contribute to the network effect and make Facebook seem more useful to others.
This helps Facebook snare other, less tech-savvy individuals in their dark patterns of ads and engagement. I don't it goes without saying that people who spend too much time on Facebook these days suffer psychologically for it.

I know that for you it's just a "friend phone book and chat app" but for others it's basically a casino. Consider deleting your account and keeping in touch with your friends via other mediums (email, text, letters, and phone calls go a long way!) instead, for the good of the community at large.
And the Dijon mustard shortage led to a mustard shortage. Until a couple of weeks ago I could not find any mustard in any supermarket here (near Paris). It was a bit surreal the first time I was told.
> This is the latter case.

You're stating this as if it's fact when it's really not. Tornado Cash was certainly not designed with the intent of criminal activity, but for privacy - and as for "significantly more for crime than not", I've not seen any actual evidence for this, only evidence to the contrary. People claim it's mostly used for crime, but those are purely conjecture, at least the ones I've seen are.
After making it repeatedly clear that you think Bittorrent is the next big thing for pedos and that your client is intentionally optimized to keep pedos safe from the government.

Nearly every time someone gets arrested for developing software they where also advertising and in some cases outright advising people on how to get away with illegal shit using their software.
So how do these languages (Scottish Gaelic and Irish) express affirmation and negation then? I couldn't find it on Wikipedia. I can imagine that affirmation would be a repeated variation on the question, as some languages do (e.g., "Have you got your ticket?" "I have it"), but negation?
Sorry, poor copy+paste

DORA: https://www.devops-research.com/research.html
> They have the technical means to control what goes on there or not.

Imagine the scenario wherein potential "illegal" crypto is mixed through another service. How would you expect Tornado to verify that without straight-up blocking specific services through transaction patterns?
Many models are great and optimal and they work... right until they don't.

Many people in quant trading industry learn it every year the hard way.
Fantasy Football, where millions of players compete in one league, and every top team has a Mohamed Salah, is just too boring. It was boring then, it is boring now.

I much prefer the US fantasy sports format with a draft and only a dozen of players in one league, such that there is only one team which has a Mohamed Salah.
Look, I'm not disagreeing with you about any of that. But if you're going to say Canadian politics are weird (which is the actual point I was addressing), you need to look at it in context of the other nations.

I stand by my contention that we're boring and not-weird compared to what I see every day in the U.S., the U.K., most of Europe, Russia and the former soviet states, China (!), most of Asia, the middle East, South America... I mean I struggle to think of too many countries with politics less weird and more boring than Canada. The closest that comes to mind might be Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands... the nordic countries I suppose. I'd joke that it must be the cold that does it, but then we would have all of Russian history (and present news) to contend with.

Coincidentally, I happened to hear an ad for a podcast here in Canada called... Canadian Politics Is Boring: https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/

So it's not like this is an isolated opinion.
> I guess you one of the well-informed french that would probably have called on chirac being a crazy man for not siding with usa when they went to bring "democracy" to irak against a bad dictator that had weapons that did not exist

This was actually probably Chirac’s (and Villepin’s) finest hour.

It is also a non sequitur. Invading Iraq was (as was predicted back then) a catastrophe. We are still paying for it, even France, and will in the foreseeable future.

Invading and annexing a peaceful, if corrupt, neighbouring country, however, is much worse. Genocide in Iraq was well documented and at least the point could be made. There is nothing remotely similar in Ukraine, even ignoring both bits of disinformation (WMDs in Iraq and Nazis in Ukraine).
CNCF landscape: https://landscape.cncf.io/
I think you're missing the intent part of crime. Someone selling a duffle bag or producing one for production is likely not selling it for the purpose of facilitating crime, they just are selling a bag. The question with guns/knives/Tornado Cash is "what is the motivation behind the producers/service provider once put under scrutiny?"

A textile mill producer who gets an order for 5000 duffle bags likely has no vision in mind for the use of the bag beyond "sell to N stores at X price for profit". The storeowner who buys the duffle bag likely also has no criminal motive and instead just wants to sell inventory at profit.

Tornado Cash devs will be scrutinized to understand their main goals, and their communications/advertising strategies, likely as well as any correspondences will be considered for this determination.
It's part of the issue. And I believe it's going to be pretty bad.

For example in France, we already see some wines and champagnes change taste. After such a hot summer the next batch of a few domains, gathered in fall, will probably contain many disappointments. Other regions which used to not have great conditions might become much more interesting to grow raisin. Maybe some clever (or lucky) guy will buy the next good fields while some of the existing domains will go bankrupt.

This is just an example of course.
Scams are everywhere, though. Millions are scammed through shitty toolbars, and personal data is brokered to the highest bidders. Cryptocurrency has issues, but generalizing it as the problem isn't necessarily constructive to society.
> Convenient and efficient text processing was the original goal of Prolog

That was actually where I first saw "real" Prolog program: in University in the introduction to computational linguistics lecture.

Parsing syntax trees, annotating trees with semantic meaning, and calculating all kinds of cool stuff I don't remember anymore was eye-opening.

Unfortunately, our lecturer used IBM Prolog, we students had only access to SWI, and none of his programs worked on SWI.

That made the lecture very frustrating, and doubly so, because the lecturer all those years before our cohort was excellent, with great study material and exercises.
I think "fitting the entire X within the image" is not done on purpose. The results are more aesthetically pleasing when the subject is large, even if a part of it is missing.
They should all have white wine as part of their formulation.
>>I guess you one of the well-informed french that would probably have called on chirac being a crazy man for not siding with usa when they went to bring "democracy" to irak against a bad dictator that had weapons that did not exist.

I'm not french, I have no idea who "chirac" is, and in general I think you maybe replied to the wrong comment?
I am not sure that git needs to be rebranded - nor do I believe that calling it a blockchain will help that effort in any way.

Good day sir.
> I doubt Dutch judges can rule him guilty for money laundering.

Sensible position given he isn't actually being charged with money laundering.

He is being charged for facilitation and since you're a little sloppy with the facts there will assume that you're not a EU/NL lawyer with expertise in these matters. I know as a layman I will assume that FIOD/Public Prosecutors wouldn't arrest him if they didn't anticipate a successful conviction.
I think the people behind those clients were clear targets back in the day, before the advent of services like Netflix and Spotify alleviated some of the financial troubles experienced by the entertainment industry.
I guess we could call it rather comedy than tragedy that there are still powerful people on this world who deny this in 2022.
I thought BBC Alba was there to broadcast in Gaelic.
> There's no meaningful in-between.

Completely disagree. I believe it will come eventually. Check out AssemblyScript for example.

People choose TypeScript because it's simple and easy. They choose Rust because they need the features and ecosystem that are not available in another syntax as of yet.
Ah yes, arrest developers of open source privacy code and blame them for North Korea money laundering rather than going after the people actually committing crimes. Sounds about right.

Privacy is not a crime, it’s a human right! Sorry that it makes the polices job harder, but our rights are more important.

And didn’t we go through all this already in the 90s? Are we now gonna start arresting all cryptographers?

This is because they don’t like money that is independent from state control. They hate the idea of bitcoin and eth not being $ or €. The large majority of money laundering happens through banks, who just pay a fine and sweep it under the rug.
> Downrank the New York Times because it has ads and uprank your local conspiracy theorist because he doesn't?

If the only difference in ranking between the NYT and the local conspiracy theorist is the presence of ads then yes absolutely. Realistically speaking there's no way the local conspiracy theorist will get the SEO "juice" of the NYT (including domain age/reputation, backlinks, etc), but if he does then he deserves his place. I don't want a search engine to be the one deciding what is considered the "truth".
Yep, there's far more GUIs and desktop support for tasks than in days of yore.

There's definitely still a mindset that the command line is much easier from a documentation/support point of view which means that forum responses and tutorials will still refer to the command line a lot.

However, compared to when I started in 2011 there isn't a need to use the terminal like there was back then. The terminal is only really needed if you're doing something new or niche
This reminds me of multiplayer video games and to a lesser extent board games. What I really enjoy doing is exploring different elements of the game, map, characters, mechanics. But lots of games have been “solved” and playing with certain people is just minor variations on an optimal path.
O&O's similar thingy even tells you this for some options: that you should only use them if you're really sure that you want the effect. This is what made me give up tinkering with Windows, it's just improbable to get it doing what you want, it will instead do what they want.
Excellent point.

But note that calories scarcity is a simplistic model.

What I'm trying to show with what I was saying, is that there are stocks of scarce molecules imposing performance limits too.
I've noticed Google has started to ignore the Reddit postfix more and more. Now I have to add site:reddit.com to get reddit results
Supercool, keep at it, never mind the bollocks!
I think the point is that MS install adware and spying viruses on your computer with Windows 10 instead if hackers.
There is a paper called "The rsync algorithm"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5...

Just FYI ... Or just for trolling ;-)
> Most cultures historically didn't have any education

I'd say that's untrue.

What I am particularly thinking about is rites of passage in primitive
cultures. Education may have been as simple as learning to hunt, light
a fire, fight, play with children, and cook food - but there were
teachings and tests the tribe provided.

> (as we understand it now)

My point would not be that that's trivially true (nothing is as we
understand it now if history implies progress), but that education as
we understand it today is precisely the functional slight of hand I
describe. A study of Mann, Dewey and the Prussian system introduced in
North America will bear that out.

Of course, for the fully self-actualised person of good social
conscience, learning does not have to align with the formula of state
school and higher education. People with the courage to follow
different paths are rare, or they have unusual parents who push them
down that route (home-schooling, Steiner/Waldorf etc).
Well-behaved usages of pointers according to the C standard can be implemented by whatever means fit best. Fat pointers with metadata about the destination and a huge block of memory for generic cases come to mind. The rest is undefined behavior where the runtime can just nuke the program, aka segfaulting.
https://youtu.be/x-Y2FHLGhEY

Languages without yes and no are called echo languages. English used to be four-form with yes/no and yeah/nay, but now it's two-form.
Anonymous cash transactions in the Netherlands over €10,000 are already illegal (https://www.amlc.eu/cash-limit/). The government intends to ban cash transactions over €3,000.
Ask HN: How would you grow a newsletter from 1k to 10k subscribers?
I think someone who believes that it will bring certain death could resist.

It wouldn't surprise me if he destroyed his private keys to prevent himself from ever succumbing to the temptation.

Those coins are of little value when using any of them would kick off a race to track you down and kidnap you with the intention of rubber-hosing the key out of you before going short on bitcoin. Having a secret in your head that can be converted into billions of dollars is not a good position to be in if you are not already a highly powerful individual with tons of people looking out for you.
It was a progressive school in the country side. I think most of the students are from the local farming community.
This was an element I was curious about and didn’t get, I assumed most fantasy football groups had a draft and a player couldn’t be in one team. TIL I guess.
Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
There's no obligation, but criticising the stutus quo without supplying an alternative is just stating that things are bad. Talking about how bad things are is pointless; why not talk about what could make things _better_?

If somethings broken and you can't fix it, then you either learn how to fix it or you need to accept that it is broken and move onto something you can fix.

P.s. I really like the engineering analogy, but remember when discussing politics: other people have probably already defined the problem and come up with solutions. As a citizen, we need to choose which solution is best; or promote our own solution.
Elected officials decide where the military goes, so the criticism as to where soldiers are sent needs to be directed to the right place.

And yes, there are certainly civilian deaths that are caused by the US military making the wrong decisions about how to achieve the objectives they've been given, but even then, they can't just refuse to do the job - that's the entire point of civilian control over the military.
Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?
And what is that new project where C++ is the main language? And what other languages and tech stack are you using in that project?
We don't buy the next iPhone because it has a better camera, but because it makes us feel not being left behind. I routinely see people who can't afford one splurging on the newest iPhone and AirPods. People even wear fake AirPods.

Radiohead has an entire album about how fake and ultimately unfulfilling this is, but the problem is that we live in a society, and nobody wants to be an outlier. I may like the sound quality of my old earphones, but I still feel a tingle of shame when everyone else is sporting AirPods. We are evolved to follow norms, those who don't were ostracised from the community with dire consequences. This kind of fake happiness is thus an advantage.
They are held responsible to a certain point yes, and shipping services actively control high-risk shipments (up to the point they check the box contents, for airplane shipping, for batteries for example).

It's forbidden to send money through mail in many places.
When you go to the post office to send money, the post office verifies your identity, the payment method, the sanctions list, etc and keeps the records for the authorities.

If you decide to violate the rules and send cash in a letter, the postal service allows the authorities to access the raw packages and full information, and full access to it, whether to use cash sniffing dogs (they really exist), etc.

Also, a fundamental difference with crypto exchanges:

Whether you send large amount of cash for criminal activity via the postal service or whether you send a large amount of books the postal service isn't going to benefit more, so they don't have to encourage criminal activity.
>I’m pretty sure the majority

I'm pretty sure that's not true. 1-1 we tied :)

And again , not equivalent. If local duffel bag makers knew duffel bags were used significantly for crime, and added features to facilitate crime, and ignored laws requiring tracking criminals (which is what money processors have to follow), then the duffel bag maker would be criminally liable.

In the cast at hand, the company processes the transactions for criminals. That is vastly different than selling a duffel bag. And it runs afoul of criminal money laundering laws that all processors have to follow, and for good reason.

This is why the courts are the place to hash such stuff out - internet opinions are vastly inferior to people performing investigations using evidence.
I associate the US flavor of "defense" with war, murder and racket more than actual defense or anything ethical. Who can blame me after seeing what they have done in the Middle East for the last 20 years?

It's a shame to see Unity supporting something like this just to increase their revenue.
It doesn't – you'd still theoretically see aliasing of frequencies above the Nyquist limit, but the 5 GSPS QSGMII signal is well below that.

(Also, the probe itself has a max bandwidth of 10 GHz, so it will filter those frequencies before they're sampled by the oscilloscope)