skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a charge that people are critical of this series only for political reasons, and not aesthetics. (Ironically, these are also the people who loudly proclaim that everything is political, and that is a good thing.)

I'll submit that this proves the existence of people who only LIKE it for political reasons, and not aesthetics.

The latest Star Wars trilogy was heralded as magnificent, and only bigots wouldn't be able to appreciate it. Really feels like The Emperor's New Clothes here.
I think a lot of people will disagree, which is cool and I'm fine with that but I do hope that this discussion can be had.

> The problem is that somewhere someone who is supposed to be held to some standard decided to pull that code in without looking at it

Why is it that there is no standard applied to those who publish code for distribution purposes? Why do we want that to be the case? Again, publishing to Github or some source repository is fine, that should never ever be restricted, but publishing with the express intent for others to use it? I don't get why we're trying to ensure that that's something that shouldn't at least imply the bare minimum of assurances.

> if people share their code for free, they don't owe anyone anything

My point is that they don't legally owe anyone anything but we should impose a moral standard in lieu of a legal one. If you are saying "here's this code, I've packaged it up and sent it out for distribution" I think it should be perfectly fine for us to say "did you do the bare minimum to make this code acceptable for others to use?".

I don't get why we say "you have no ethical obligations in open source", why do we do that? Who benefits? I get not having legal obligations, but once you're distributing code for use it seems absurd to say that you have no ethical obligations. You chose to do that, you chose to distribute it, you didn't have to do that.

And while I do think that the obligation exists regardless, I also feel that if we don't step it up here, these things are going to be forced on us. I'd rather we do it ourselves.
> Which honestly makes it impressive, especially given that the whole project is only 354 LOC.

You'd be shocked at how far you can go just by gluing together existing programs: https://github.com/lelanthran/terminal-todo
Its not really a game of cat and mouse. Law enforcement can seek penalties sufficient to prevent the behavior from proliferating.
Nigga, is you taking notes on a motherfucking criminal conspiracy?
While their answer is true, it would have been more honest to start "Yes. However..." instead of trying to camouflage it.
Hi everyone - I go into slightly more detail on my twitter thread on the same topic: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1573218394358386688 (Yes, the PNG also survives being uploaded to twitter)

The pleroma instance linked in the OP is hosted on a very tiny VPS with no CDN, I fear it may fall over - if it does, consider swapping to the twitter URL.

Direct links to the image itself:

https://retr0.id/media/a13f403f-fff5-4f40-b9a2-13cce355f61b/...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdUxWg-XkAE5FBx?format=png&name=...
It's amazing how many really interesting and deeply thought-out dev platforms are being built right now. We're lucky! Aside from these 3, replit is doing unique things by integrating the development experience from writing code all the way through hosting, and while they don't compete with a full PaaS like fly for hosting complex apps, for smaller services they are better than people realize already.

I would also be remiss not to mention Coherence (withcoherence.com) [I'm a cofounder] where we're trying to deliver some of the same magic as the best in class PaaS's above, but we are running your workloads in your own AWS or GCP account. We're really excited about the potential future of a great developer experience that can be delivered as a service instead of rebuilt over and again by platform teams in-house.
Are you able to compare scoop to Chocolatey? I've stuck with choco for years now, because it has so many packages that I haven't wanted to try out scoop or WinGet.

Regarding PowerShell, I've found that it has become incredibly customizable these days. For example, I just enabled Emacs keybindings for it a couple days ago. So it feels almost like a bash terminal.
If you’re used to loneliness and not talking to others, traveling doesn’t change that much. You’ll just be a lone traveler; you’ll discover things but travel in itself won’t "get you out of your box of loneliness".
I’m sure you already have something in the pipeline for fully managed Postgres on Fly (I Really want something Heroku Postgres like, but on Fly). If not, have you reached out to Crunchy Data? They seem to have a solid product.

If you happen to have a service beta testing anything I would be interested in joining it.
And the hottest band on the internet.
You can't imagine being cynical about a trillion+ dollar company taking advantage of serious issues and socially manipulating people so they can make more money?
Why is "legally" in quotes? That's the way you're supposed to ride a bike. Where dedicated bike infrastructure doesn't exist, you have to use the street, and this is the safest way to do so. If you want bikers off the streets (which you should), build biking infrastructure.
>I can't see this as anything else than sexism - there was no complaints at the absolute insanity that Legolas did in the LOTR trilogy.

Incredible that you were able to go back and verify that "The Bottom Feeder" had not complained about the absurd depictions of Legolas in the LOTR trilogy. Alas, more misogynists and bigots!
there were no fat ppl in concentration camps.

genetics matter but not as much as you think they do
That's not the only thing that can go wrong. It takes a properly babysat server in general. My end result with Pihole was, my wife occasionally asked why her internet wasn't working (for whatever reason of the day), and eventually I took it out.
It all depends on your needs.

I am using FreeBSD on my desktops/laptops since about 2006.

I work with Linux systems (mostly RHEL/SLES/Ubuntu) and some other UNIX systems daily and I still prefer to use FreeBSD for its features and simplicity. More about these here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/

You can use for example ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th edition for some more modern hardware. I really love this old 7-row classic ThinkPad keyboard so I use ThinkPad W520 from 2011 (last one with such keyboard).

Here is a list with FreeBSD laptops with various features tested:

- https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops

I write and maintain my own 'FreeBSD Desktop' series here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/freebsd-desktop/

... but there are plenty of other such guides - just type "FreeBSD laptop" or "FreeBSD desktop" to get more howtos.

Regards.
To reiterate:

> I'm specifically talking about Java EE, and Java EE as a platform at that, not as one-of-many libraries supporting the various other platforms.
One of them (Brave?) did actually have a list of patches since the source was actually patches against Chromium.
Keychain is opt-in, users choose wether they want to use it or not when configuring their iPhone for the first time.
Unfortunately, many of my users are in Asia. It is challenging to audit their user experience.
Mozilla should totally build an OS / laptop and do the same
Because then it's a concrete, immutable, fact and anyone who disagrees is flawed.

The reciprocal of this in comedy is claphter. When people clap or laugh because they hear something they agree with, whether it's funny or not. Usually not.

People say things like "It's/They're not funny" if they don't agree with the person, sentiment, message a lot now.. Which, doesn't work. My favorite thing to do is give comedians, any comedian, at least 5 minutes after the end of their first joke to see if they can make me laugh. There are comics out there who really rubbed me the wrong way at first but had me laughing before time ran out. Can't make me laugh in 5 minutes, your special is over. If I'm giggling before then I'm watching the whole hour, don't care who you are.

I'm not really digging Rings of Power but She-Hulk is the current "show that is bad™" that I really like. I was a huge Marvel kid but I've been sick of the MCU since about Iron Man 3. [0] She-Hulk gets the comedy structure right (the show runner wrote for a bunch of Adult Swim shows and Silicon Valley) and doesn't feel like it was written exclusively for ten-year-olds. Feels like they'll get their footing by season 2.

I've been reading a lot of articles saying things like "the men are unrealistic in She-Hulk." But, I've heard guys say some of the lines from She-Hulk verbatim. The dialog can be an exaggeration.. But it's not that inaccurate. I'm guessing parts of the scripts were transcribed more than written.

The best part about She-Hulk is that you have people who are good at what they do but are still pathetic playing off pathetic people who aren't good at what they do. It's funny.

[0]: And yet, I still watch every single one of them. WHY? I don't know, hope? Hawkweye was pretty good. And, that's from a guy who would say "Shut up Hawkeye" to his girlfriend every time Jeremy Renner opened his mouth.
I'd also add the "Googlability" factor to this. If you want to check how to do anything in bash, you will have your answer within seconds. Not so with PowerShell. It's a much newer system that doesn't have decades of history.
It's very hard to find in Massachusetts grocery stores. I go out of my way to Trader Joe's to get it. When I lived in California every grocery store had piles of it.

The "Sourdough" that my normal grocery store sells isn't sourdough at all. It's shaped like Wonderbread, has the same texture as Wonderbread, and a slightly different flavor.

I got into Sourdough because it had the least amount of sugar compared to all of the other breads. When I tasted it for the first time, I was hooked.
Hopefully this is not a controversial statement. But I think it's interesting how this law and it's existence is being contextualized in wildly different ways depending on political leanings.
Thanks for confirming Angular is over-engineered.
Exactly.

--A guy who watched Suits
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32941613 was posted recently as a Show HN, I think we should move the comments thither and re-up that post. Hopefully the author will participate.

(Sorry bpierre! The long term plan is to have some form of karma sharing to take care of cases like this.)
For a few things (the one thing I'm familiar with is the lock screen if you've left the "show random pretty pictures" option turned on, but I think there are a few more places besides that) Microsoft does force links to open in Edge instead of the default browser.
Adobe CS5 user here - 12 year old software.

CS5 Master Suite w/discs and valid serial from a reputable seller on eBay still commands $200-300+ which is nuts to me. But, when I realize that I can do all of my modern graphics workflow in this 12 year old software I get it.

I would love to use some of the newer parts of the suite but the functionality of my CS5 still 100% covers my use-case. For photography I've ended up on Darktable, and if I need to manually retouch a photo there's nothing stopping me from a Darktable <> Photoshop CS5 workflow.

As much as I want to love Gimp - I can't. It is outright ineffective and lacks features compared to even my 12 year old Photoshop. The people who continue to tout it as a 1:1 replacement have never worked in a professional graphics workflow.

Also, Procreate is amazing for doing illustrations though - I really wish I had it when I was learning digital painting!

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Regardless, just wandering sharing anecdotes because I relate to your experiences. Hard agree that legacy versions of Photoshop (and honestly the entire suite) are still insanely powerful. I also find them to be way more stable than their newer counterparts. They're just objectively a better financial decision - I bought this a decade ago and I don't have a monthly $50-60 Adobe draw on my bank account.
Actually if you just chug a bottle of water 5 min before the blood test you can fake internal bleeding and be discharged. Just say your poo looks very dark but you're doing fine
I suspect they used quotes as emphasis. Common but super stupid.
With the Earth’s crust missing I assure you that certain genotypes will fare worse than others.
You also have to ensure the Xfinity box's DHCP server doesn't lease the Pihole's IP address to a random device. Like set a 1-250 range for DHCP and give the Pi 251.
I strongly second these suggestions - the Gibson book is absolutely excellent, and finding a good therapist is worth the search. Doing the work is time-consuming (and can be costly) but the returns are totally worth it.
Keychain is opt-in. If you have it configured on your iPhone, it's because you accepted it when configuring your iPhone for the first time. You had to choice to refuse it - and you still have the possibility to disable it in your iPhone settings.
I think there's a natural bias people have to want to NOT see the bad in the organizations that pay them $$$$.

This is certainly true in a lot of finance.
Prove it. Open source the client and open the server for 3rd party apps to use.
It was effortless to send files of arbitrary size over AOL Instant Messenger's Direct Connect.
Yeah, at a certain point, if you see everyone(or every cop) doing or not doing something, you need to ask what the incentives are or what is wrong with the system which they are working in.

I'm not familiar with SF, but in my little liberal-city-overrun-with-homeless-drug-addicts, the cops want to arrest more criminals, but the people they arrest get released immediately back out to the public again, so it's sort of like, why even bother?
No, that’s very definitely a C64C, which was released in 1986.. But kudos to its little capacitors hanging on for so long ;)
> but we should impose a moral standard in lieu of a legal one

I agree with you, but these moral obligations tend to get enshrined in law eventually (or quickly! See Covid)
Was the 1337 at either end of the hash intentional?
They're describing the PNG hashquine, which is referenced near the start of the article.
I'm fine with them warming up by catching tax-cheating millionaires.

Seriously, pay your taxes.
I haven't used any of the Affinity apps. But are we talking about the same Photoshop?

> I counted 20 processes running the last time I had PS installed

I don't check how many background processes are running when I use Photoshop because I don't notice them at all. Almost every feature I use in it feels responsive, especially compared to how it used to be. If you're talking about telemetry, yeah, I hate that too, but I've more or less resigned to it as a necessary evil in all my professional tooling.

> The apps all take forever to load

Photoshop opens nearly instantly on my M1 Max Macbook Pro, as it did on my M1. It was slower on Intel, but what wasn't. I can open and close Photoshop three times before Discord even loads an empty window.

> drain battery if working remotely

I've never tried a remote workflow with Photoshop, so can't speak to that at all. Definitely does not seem like what the program is optimized for, and I would think battery drain would be the fault of whatever tool you're using to remote in, no? Or do you mean just working on an unplugged laptop? In which case, I find Electron apps that do one task poorly tend to be less efficient than even heavier desktop apps that 100 things well, Adobe or otherwise.

> and are far more unstable than in the past.

Sorry, what? I haven't had an Adobe app crash on me in probably eight years. I of course count that as good luck, but to say the current builds are less stable than older versions is just … insane to me. Thinking back to, say, the CS2/3 days, half my time in the program was spent Cmd+S-ing for fear of the inevitable hourly crash and loss of work. Photoshop crashes were a legitimate part of creative culture from like 1999 to 2012.

Sorry if I sound like an Adobe shill. We've just clearly had very different experiences with their products of late.

Where we are in agreement is that Blender is cool! I'm too much of a neophyte in 3D workflows to assess whether I think it's ultimately well designed (some bits seem to be … others not so much?), but it seems to run very well on the various machines I've tried it on and I have a great deal of respect for the nature of the program and the people behind it.
The Abitur isn't a thing anymore?
When cycling without bike lanes, I ride in the safest way I can:

I often take up the middle of the lane at stopping intersections so that I get a turn in the queue and I have direct visual communication with drivers, and to eliminate at least one of the potential conflicts at the intersection. (Right hand turners from beside/behind in your lane.) I sometimes use a car in my lane as a "blocker" if I'm convinced it's not turning to help shelter me from other potential conflicts. I generally ride with aggression and quick acceleration in these situations.

If no one is behind me, I also take the middle of the lane to avoid doors. When someone is behind me, and I'm not riding at the speed of traffic, I get the fuck out of the way and I let them through, being cognizant of the proximity to doors, then bump back to the center until the next potential passer. This is courteous, costs me basically nothing and keeps everyone traveling efficiently. On gridded streets with stops at every intersection, this is usually a non-issue because cars don't have the distance to exceed my speed anyway. I'm not afraid to assert my space in the middle of the lane when it doesn't impeded anyone, but I also make effort to be courteous.
I couldn't find data more recent than 2017, but as of 2017 fewer than 4% of utility customers were using time of use billing.
But that's your choice. Almost all of my PC games are 4X and turn based RPGs. All of them make heavy use of a mouse and keyboard. And in addition, you don't need stupid 4 slot cards to play them.
So when I'm detailing to a cop how my ex partner broke into my house and raped me, you think you have a right to that information?

Cool man.
I use lxd for running core services at home, such as samba/sftp/webdav or home automation. I find it easier to attach a vpn to the container, which combined with a nat traversing sdn/mesh gives me easy, private, encrypted access to data or services. Also easy to pass a usb device (say zwave controller) to a container. I run it over a btrfs array and have a workflow to snapshot containers and send to a backup host. Using unique namespaces for each unprivileged container, I am reasonably confident that a security oops in one container should be isolated.

I also use lxd on vps hosts, often nesting docker to give more granular control over networking.
> they analyzed the rules of the game and realized that the reward for a criminal career is better than the reward for a legitimate career, with few downsides.

I don't think you realize that you are agreeing with me.

There are benefits to committing crime.

There are benefits to not committing crime.

There are downsides to committing crime.

There are downsides to not committing crime.

These all come together to help influence a person's decision. We can impact that decision by tweaking any one of these 4 results. Yes, increasing the penalties for crime is one way to address it, but we can have the same influence be decreasing the benefit of committing crime or increasing the benefit of not committing crime. I happen to think that is the morally superior choice because the result is fewer people in jail and the US already jails more people per capita than any other country.
Splink: Fast, accurate and scalable record linkage
I have relatives in Ukraine that don't have a burning desire to fight, but it is a bit more reasonable to go fight when you're being shelled by some other country.

As for my Russian friends, they do not want to fight in this war because

a) most ppl in western russia have some sort of familiar ties to Ukraine and are baffled by the whole nazi storyline

b) people just straight up don't wanna go die in a war in a foreign country they have nothing to do with.
The questionable part is them re-asking "hey kid, wanna switch to Edge? we are cool now" after some updates.

I doubt your regular Firefox user falls for it but your parent's computer that you installed Firefox on will
The blog seems more readable than that pdf so I've changed the URL above from https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind to the first blog post.

Part 2: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...

Part 3: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...

Part 4: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...

Part 5: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...

(you're on your own after that)
I mean... It's pervasive? Many elected officials across both parties in the United States have advanced the surveillance state and have passed legislation at the behest of 3 letter agencies. Of the last 4 presidents, 3 were pretty involved with advancing it: Bush, Obama, and Biden. I don't know if Trump did anything to advance the surveillance state.

Bush+Cheney did the PSP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Surveillance_Pro...

The courts found that unconstitutional: https://www.aaup.org/brief/aclu-v-nsa-493-f3d-644-6th-cir-20...

Obama publicly condemned the Patriot Act, but extended it in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act

Meanwhile Obama's VP (Joseph Biden) claims to have written the Patriot Act: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...

In '91, the FBI got Joseph Biden to introduce a bill banning encrypted cellphone calls in the United States (Subtitle B: Electronic Communications): https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266

This move by Joseph Biden was condemned by the founder of the EFF: https://www.eff.org/pages/decrypting-puzzle-palace

You can watch a gaggle of senators from both parties go to bat defending the PSP in 2013 here: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fi...

After the PSP was found to be unconstitutional, you can watch another gaggle of senators from both parties go to bat defending the PSP in 2017 here: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fi...

A notable quote from the above video from Senator Wyden suggests the 3 letter agencies are harvesting location data in mass from cellphone towers.

You see surveillance legislation move forward with support from both parties - often under the guise of protecting children or stopping terrorists. It's not a stretch to connect the dots between our 3 letter agencies working with legislators in the background to advance the surveillance state, and those legislators simultaneously working with MAANG on multiple fronts, to assume there is some level of crossover with the surveillance agenda. It would be more unreasonable to assume they keep their surveillance objectives isolated from their interactions with industry after the Snowden revelations - which showed us that they absolutely worked with industry to collect PII of U.S. citizens in mass.
It does strike me as more than a little ironic that you are advocating to moving to a country with famously low historical corporate tax rates[1], and which has a similar tax rate to the UK without the (just removed) 45% tier[2]. on a thread which is about the British government lowering tax rates.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/ireland-poised...
[2] https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-e...
how about Iraq
They're gonna get enshrined into law eventually one way or the other. If we do it ourselves and we're effective at limiting the damage we cause we'll be able to maintain control over our own processes. If we don't it will be taken out of our hands.