skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you want to get something for nothing. If you want software that meets some given standard, then someone has to invest the effort to make that happen. This isn't always expensive, but it's never free. So your options are indeed that if that should happen, then it has to be done by the author, an intermediate party, or the consumer. Trying to make the author pay when they're not getting anything out of it is a great way to kill FOSS outright. That's not to say that "open-source code" is some boogeyman that has to be kept away, it just means that you gotta pay someone to make it meet your standards. Heck, offer the original author a contract and you'll solve the problem for everyone, and other problems besides.
I never understood this "They're gearing up the IRS to get regular working Americans!" thing. Most normal people pay their taxes, right? The people who are skirting around taxes are usually the ultra wealthy elite, right?

Also, where's the 87k number coming from? The treasury department got funding which lets them hire about 87k new employees by 2031, but most of those aren't going to be IRS agents. The number also doesn't account for the number of employees you need to just keep the number of employees steady; people quit and get fired and retire.
If they modified the RNG of person A's phone app during a forced stealth update, then shouldn't person B not be able to decrypt the message? Have you ever had an app update to Whatsapp that you cannot communicate with other people until you are forced to update? The alternative is that there is a vast internal conspiracy at meta that hundreds of engineers, and hundreds of ex-engineers are somehow silent on, which would be using 2 encryption keys, one that law enforcement can read, and one that the other end of the device can read. Isn't provable that Whatsapp the app is using the operating system level secure prng functions? If there was evidence of this, wouldn't it be great for a whistleblower to come out and make a killing shorting Meta's stock? Right now would be the perfect time to be kicked while they are down.
Show HN: I built an easy to browse map of all Amazon Lockers in the U.S.
Amazon Lockers are really useful for getting Amazon orders while on the road. Unfortunately, the search function on Amazon's site only lets you search around a particular address. This makes it hard to find lockers if you're in a rural area or on the move. So I scraped all the lockers and put them on a map. Pretty simple, but very helpful for road trippers, RVers, van lifers, etc. Ideally this should already exist, but it didn't.
Ransom money and family relations or treatment of the hostages the enemy had were probably the big motivators.
Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.
Like the recent Star Wars movies. The action scenes were immaculate, but the character develoment was half baked, and plotwise it teetered on the edge between paying homage to the original trilogy and just recycling the same plot with a different coat of paint.

Some people say that hardcore fans will hate on any new adaptation, regardless of content. But the few SciFi movies that actually did commit to narrative focus and believable characters got rave reviews from the same crowd. Dune and the Blade Runner sequel come to mind.
> I find it interesting that your way of proving anti-Zionist sentiment is to demonstrate that there are quantifiably more leftist editors on Wikipedia. That does not demonstrate your thesis of anti-Israeli bias. Plenty of people who at least claim to be leftists are profuse in their support of Israel.

It’s not definitive proof of anti-Israel bias - it is, however, evidence. As opposed to the unsubstantiated assertion I responded to.

Evidence of what? A leftward slant in Wikipedia, if you believe the conclusion of these studies (or the summaries of them - I haven’t read them all). And it's easy to see that such a slant would broadly coincide with somewhat less support - though far from zero support - for Israel in 2022 and the past couple decades.

I’m not sure how leftward the slant is. It could be slight. It could also not be relevant in specific areas (such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict). I didn’t exhaustively research the topic (nor did I believe Wikipedia had any specific leftward slant before today.) If you find anything useful, please share your findings - happy to read!

“Quantifiably more leftist editors on Wikipedia” isn’t a good summary of the headlines of those 5 studies.

To your other point, number of editors matter - and the Israel-antagonists presumably outnumber the Israel-supporters - but it’s far from the only thing that matters. To name a few more things that make an editor more or less influential: the number of edits made, the prominence of their edits (for example if it is in the introduction vs elsewhere in an article), the degree to which the edits are neutral vs slanted, and the relative power they have as editors.
Let me start by saying I have no idea if Facebook is reading my encrypted messages or whatever. However, I will say that in my experience, whether something is bad for business if it gets discovered is usually not a concern for large corporations, if the thing being done makes them more money. Because everything is just a balance sheet.

For an example from non-FAANG companies, see illegal dumping of toxic waste by chemical companies, such as DuPont and PFOAs [1]. Despite knowing what they did was illegal, the math works out -- products with PFOAs were something like $1 billion in annual profit, and even when they got caught the fines and legals were a fraction of that, spread out over many years.

So I personally believe these companies 100% would do shady shit if it increases their profit margins. And why wouldn't they? There is no room for morals in capitalism, and the drawbacks are slim.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
Impressive! This is the true “hacking” spirit!
What jumps out to me is that spreadsheets, and especially Google sheets, are opaque and often have weird issues that are difficult to diagnose. Eg, someone disabled formatting on a column for some reason, and now your mathematical functions aren't working.

I really don't like the idea of a stateful document, in general but for configuration especially. If I have to look through the edit history to figure out why the document is behaving in a certain way, that's a hard no from me. (Reading history to understand intentions is a different matter - you should be able to understand a document's behavior just by reading it though.)

This is fairly tolerable for one-off spreadsheets because you're free to throw the entire thing away, import your data again, and have a clean start. A Google sheet which is a living document, that's just a liability in my mind. I know people do this with Excel, and I can only assume it's leagues better than Sheets.

A lot of this would be fixed by using a CSV and/or by using a reduced spreadsheet program that doesn't carry do much baggage & isn't fit for analysis purposes. But at that point I kinda wonder whether SQLite is what you're looking for. You'd be able to do all the functions you'd like, but you could introspect to your hearts content, and there's a huge variety of good tooling to choose from; you wouldn't be forcing everyone to use the same interface. You'd also eliminate a dependency on Google Sheets, which as someone pointed out elsewhere in the thread, might be correlated with your downtime if you're using GKE.
You do realise the two things you are suggesting are contrary? How is the driver giving the cyclist space if they expect the cyclist to move out of their way?

The central issue here is that it’s simply not safe to ride over to the side, being constantly passed by fast moving cars.

As demonstrated in more civilised places, it’s easy for cars and bikes to coexist if people just adopt a different attitude. And that is, essentially, that the drivers must drop their insane entitlement and realise that being stuck behind a slower moving vehicle for a 30 seconds (or even a couple of minutes!) will have almost no effect on their life.
Oh hey! I wrote this, so if you have any questions, glad to talk about it here.
Good observation. I wonder if we go through certain cycles of polarization and if there are external causes for these events. I believe there is something to astrology, at least the part about the planets gravitational forces having an effect on human physiology. I'm not sure what that something is, but I don't reject it out-of-hand simple because there isn't enough scientific understanding around it.
>"Mozilla, the non-profit proprietor of the Firefox browser, has accused Google, Microsoft, and Apple of "self preferencing" and nudging consumers towards using their own browsers."

Is it not odd that that Mozilla is taking a stand against tech giants abusing their position when the giant with largest share of the browser market is the same company that pays them hundreds of millions a dollar a year to be the default search engine on Firefox.[1] Don't they basically survive on this Google money? Don't they basically promote Google with this arrangement?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
You have to have a certain level of subscribers before youtube will let a content creator decide how the ads work.
Yep. I've found that the ticket or tech debt isn't important until it becomes on fire and must be fixed ASAP. It doesn't matter that the possibility for the bug to happen has existed for 2 years, the organization doesn't find the investment worth it until it's burning down the house.
Why limit it to open source? You wouldn't let an engineer build a bridge with car-sized holes just because the blueprint is not open.
> Was there some kind of official policy shift, or did the government just give up?

It's not just government - every single day I'm seeing Americans being directly hostile against free markets and choice. A lot of people (and media) expect and demand that a single corporation builds all of their things and owns all of their data. Plenty of people get outright hostile and dismissive of anything and everything that might create competition with the brand they're religiously following.

Politics is just following the people.
I know this is against the grain, but I do think clean hydrogen is the future fuel.

I know hydrogen is less efficient than Battery-Electric, but it's not about efficiency, it's about convenience.

One can transfer millions of joules at the petro pump in a few minutes without having to actually "handle" said joules.... but to transfer hundreds of joules with a battery-electric vehicle, one currently must actually "conduct" or directly "handle" all of the power that will eventually be used to propel the vehicle. Gasoline in a sense, "compresses" the energy for transfer...

That being said, Battery-Electric is a "here and now" technology. Perfection is the enemy of progress, so I'll gladly take a 1000HP Battery Electric GMC Hummer thank you.
The original comment was entirely arbitrarily limited to the 1900s, and as it brought "the left" into the discussion unprompted, I can only assume this was done intentionally to justify specifically going after left regimes. So firstly, I don't see why a counter-argument should stick to this arbitrary time frame, and secondly, some of my examples do in fact apply to this time frame too.
Again, why write a story set in Middle Earth and market it towards fans if they don't even have the rights? Its just begging to hated on by anyone familiar with the ACTUAL story. If they didn't have the rights, they should have made an original work set in their own world, and not tarnish the works of someone else.

Like, imagine if I wrote a story where everyone who died in Hunger Games duked it out as zombies, then claimed it was Suzanne Collins because I have the rights to the characters but not the books. I would rightfully be mocked, even though the story was loosely based off of the original story.

Rings of Power should have been its original world. Not a ripoff of an author that people love dearly, because they wanted the name recognition without the rights.
I've written code for a few different large-scale SSI architectures. The shared-memory programming model is less efficient than explicit message passing in practice because it is much more difficult to optimize. The underlying infrastructure is essentially converged at this point, so performance mostly comes down to the usability of the programming model.

The marketing for SSI was that it was simple because programmers would not have to learn explicit message passing. Unfortunately, people that buy supercomputers tend to care about performance, so designing a supercomputer that is difficult to optimize misses the point. In real code, the only way to make them perform well was to layer topology-aware message passing on top of the shared memory model. At which point you should've just bought a message passing architecture.

There is only one type of large-scale SSI architecture that is able to somewhat maintain the illusion of uniform shared memory -- hardware latency-hiding e.g. barrel processors. If programmers have difficulty writing scalable code with message passing, then they definitely are going to struggle with this. These systems use a completely foreign programming paradigm that looks deceptively like vanilla C++. Exceptional efficient, and companies design new ones every few years, but without programmers that grok how to write optimal code they aren't much use.
Isn't it the opposite, i.e. share issuance? With lower taxes the government leaves more money in the system (and generally borrows/prints more) which lowers the value of each unit of currency, hence the pound declines.
Emacs, Firefox, ssh, Linux in general, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Thunderbird, email, OSMAnd+.
> while being able to remove anything they don't like, like MV3 limitations on adblockers.

… which might actually not be as easy as it sounds. Sure, as long as Chrome/Blink internally retains MV2 compatibility behind a configuration setting for enterprise customers you job is easy – just hard-code that setting back to enabled for everybody instead of just enterprise users and you're done.

However once Google starts ripping out the MV2-related code from the Chrome/Blink code base, all that code suddenly becomes your responsibility to maintain – and from that point on there's always the risk that Google suddenly decides do to some large scale refactoring or internal architectural change that radically conflicts with your attempts to maintain those old features alive.

Once you reach that point, you've then got the choice to either spend ever increasing amounts of effort on maintaining those features on top of the current code base, doing a hard fork and therefore having to suddenly maintain the whole shebang, which would be an even larger effort, or instead giving up and dropping those features after all.
Techdirt has really slid into the gutter over the last few years. Used to read them daily; now I usually actively avoid them.
"virtue signaling" is doing something useless in order to make yourself look good to a particular group.

Could it be that this isn't "virtue signaling", but rather people overestimating the impact of the action? In other words, an honest (if mistaken) attempt at doing a good thing rather than just wanting to be perceived as doing a good thing?
Sorry, but comparing Mozilla to the company that offers the about most visited website ever isn't exactly fair. Google had a lot of opportunities to push Chrome and they did. Doesn't really say a lot about product quality imho
Probably not, because you already have a functioning orexin system, and presumably whatever modulates that would just module the extra orexin as well. And anyways, who knows if consumed orexin even makes it out of your gut and past the blood-brain barrier.

You could just take modafinil if you wanted to stay awake.
Copyrights are assigned to inventors. How can you legally not create the patent under the inventors' names and then assign the patent to the company? Maybe my company's lawyers were just doing CYA, and granted I took much of the patent stuff on the lawyers word, but I don't think the process you describe is legal. The fact that my company owns the fruit of my labor has nothing to do with the legal requirements of an inventors name being on a patent. Your refusal to acknowledge that these laws require an inventor/artist is the core of my argument.

If you generate images in the manner you describe you are nothing more than a machinist plugging in coordinates and generating widgets, not an artist using tools. The generating program meets the 'anonymous artist' portion of the relevant Title code in that case, and you can not copyright it. The office might mistakenly give you copyright, but I don't think it would hold up to a challenge.
I've modified the first option

1.We are correct, and manage to build the right thing [developer first cloud]. We'll get to work on this *until we exhaust that market and are forced to grow beyond it"
At least it's not Gnome "Let's rewrite again what we didn't get around to finishing and fixing 2 years ago"
However, note that Galadriel is supposed to be over six feet tall, and her Teleri name is Nerwen - man-maiden - because she used to tussle with the boys back in the day. She's "a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth" and "she was then of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feats".
The win11 / Edge bullshit finally pushed me to migrate my last win machine to linux. I used to love Windows, nowadays it just makes me bitter. Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all.

And the acquisitions...

I've had countless minecraft sessions ruined because of microsoft account / store issues. Don't even get me started on realms and the chat policing bullshit.

Github new PR review UI is great on paper yet completely useless to review large PR because of performance issues.

It took me one month to upgrade a zoom account to pro because the checkout would just show a blank page. Oh and I can't stay signed in on zoom.us because I disable "Functional Cookies", yet that's the only website that's ever had an issue, and I'm not using a hardened setup, just vanilla FF.

So much for the modern, developer and open source-friendly narrative.
"I read it on Snopes. It must be true." People believing in one site that holds the facts for everything in life is a recipe for disaster.
IO wait is counted against load by linux. So high IO pressure, i.e. found in `/proc/pressure` will cause high load. When considering reclaim (dropped file pages which then need IO to read the page on demand again) it makes sense because high IO wait will delay reads (and writes) slowing everything down.

I'm liking this project https://github.com/facebookincubator/below

It's packaged in Fedora.
It sounds extremely similar to the executive order from Biden last year. For what it's worth, I think some parts of that are valuable such as productive a bill of materials for all the software that gets shipped. That way figuring out of if some product uses a vulnerable version of log4j is very simple and independent of particular programming languages.
The first of those (https://mathstodon.xyz/web/@retr0id@retr0.id/109046752062665...) does not redirect when I load it in my browser.

The link we have in the submission is now behaving differently from how it behaved when I first submitted it. Certainly when I first submitted it, the URL it got changed to loaded to, as dark-star describes, a login box, some links and an empty "conversation" panel.

Next time something like this happens I'll document and include screenshots. It's impossible to reconstruct or recreate.

Doesn't really matter, no one has upvoted it. Whether that's because (a) people didn't see it, (b) people don't care, or (c) people don't realise how amazing this is, is anyone's guess.
If they extend an existing GPL work, the work as a whole is GPL, even if their added code is PD.
Actually you can use fish-like autocomplete feature in zsh with this plugin [1]. It works well for years in my machine.

[1] https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
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Descript was the first thing I thought of. Since it does audio and video, I am not sure this can be called a competitor. Descript has such a head start with features I don't think Adobe will be able to catch up.

I wonder if they made Descript an offer before starting this project. Although, the base problem of editing audio or video with text isn't that difficult. They probably thought it could easily be cloned. The devil is in the details however, and the rabbit hole runs deep.
In this case, permanent == indefinite, and temporary == ephemeral is a good way to think of it.
Thanks, enjoying this remix album!
You're right, it doesn't matter, they spend so much time and take so many risks (and pay so much in fines) to push their own settings for absolutely no reason.
No one said this is a solution to "solve crime" just like throwing all criminals in jail doesn't "solve crime". There will always be murderers, rapists, and just generally evil and deranged people. The goal isn't for San Francisco to have zero crime. That is impossible. The goal is to reduce crime. Reducing homeless and poverty would lead to a reduction in crime. Do you agree with that?
I suppose AssemblyScript fits some of those points: no any or unknown; compiles to a binary; GC; cross-platform.
What will the CISA actually do?
I think their Game and Watch systems show it too.
I mean...

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. Genesis 6:5

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one. Psalm 14:3

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! Job 15:14
The whole article must be a very subtle humor which I did not recognize at first.
And none of that comes close to being installed as a default handler for every single web interaction as Safari and IE/Edge were.

Chrome, for a long time, was simply _better_. It's bizarre how you want to erase history when we installed Chrome originally because of how much darn faster it was than Mozilla (not to mention IE7 and that crap).
VueJS: Time-Travel Debugging for Pinia
Saying "it's bad" is exactly the same as saying "I don't like it". At least when talking about art, there is no objective measure.
Does the character work or not work? For me, the character works. Why do we need to be talking about his race again?
Really fun little piece. More emacs posts should read like this. Clear communication about goals, the functions involved, the code you actually wrote and how that translates to the motions used to execute what you want.

Too many emacs posts are just lists of keyboard shortcuts presented without context, and this was a refreshing change of pace.
> VDOM is a virtual representation of the document, actual DOM references the document (e.g. .click() isn't on VDOM structures).

This sentence is unreadable. The superfluous/incorrect use of parens for `.click()`, in combination with this page's style sheet and the way that paragraph wrapped in my browser are all things that didn't help, but eventually I was able to move past it. (It still doesn't make any sense, but I know that part isn't where the weirdness is.) Still unreadable. Bad for something pulled from a written work that's supposed to be a list of definitions you reference.