skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem in today's world is that we're so overwhelmed with daily doom stories that we've normalized a persistent inner apathy, cynicism, fatalism. It translates into it being impossible to make people care about anything, no matter how existential.

You could predict that without change, the world will be an unlivable hell hole and people will just accept that. It could directly jeopardize their children's future and still nobody cares.

It's a kind of crisis fatigue that has made everybody numb. On top of that, volatility in living conditions forces people into short term self-interest. These "luxury long term beliefs" can wait.

Easier said than done, but as humanity we need a better story for the future. One that is more optimistic, has tangible benefits, something to get behind and fight for. "Everything's is going to get worse" is not a narrative, people will instinctively reject it at any and all costs.
Nintendo ships (and encourages developers to ship) Cloud-only versions of their titles. On top of that, Nintendo recently spearheaded an initiative to add Denuvo DRM to Switch games. This makes it a lot harder for preservationists to ensure Switch games outlast the console's support lifespan.

Nintendo does a good job of preserving physical novelty, but they're equally as bad as Apple, Google, Sony and Microsoft when it comes to running a sustainable digital storefront.
> most lost their shirts

or in this case, their pants :)
I think they are using automation in detecting "violations" perhaps, given the other commentors did seemingly no-op updates and resolved things -- and any pushback would show the wizard behind the curtains, so they keep it vague as possible?

Unless someone who actually works behind the scenes can chime in.
Google Launches Cloud Node Engine for Ethereum Developers
The POSIX shell does not implement regex.

What is used both in case/esac and globbing are "shell patterns." They are also found in variable pattern removal with ${X% and ${X#.

In "The Unix Programming Environment," Kernighan and Pike apologized for these close concepts that are easily mistaken for one another.

"Regular expressions are specified by giving special meaning to certain characters, just like the asterix, etc., used by the shell. There are a few more metacharacters, and, regrettably, differences in meanings." (page 102)

Bash does implement both patterns and regex, which means discerning their difference becomes even more critical. The POSIX shell is easier in memory for this reason, and others.

http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/
It clearly means something, both from a legal perspective and a moral perspective.
While I think it would benefit Apple or Google as a whole to explain their reasoning clearly, it'd make things harder on the app approving teams, who probably don't want to do this for a number of reasons: it'd take more time, it'd expose inconsistency/mistakes/incompetence (why was this okay last time but not this time?), and worst of all, it'd lead to the organic creation of a binding network of labyrinthine precedents.
Which way though? It seems US senate voted to make DST permanent. Mexico senate voted to remove DST completely. So the trend is bifurcated?
I'm convinced that the only way this situation will improve is via legislation. There are simply no other sufficient incentives since strikes/bans/policy enforcement is uniformly broken across the large players.
Good intro to using UML effectively: http://agilemodeling.com/essays/umlDiagrams.htm
There is no lithium to mine around your corner. Half of all known deposits on Earth are in Bolivia and Argentina.
Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! Christopher Hitchens gave an excellent overview of that case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY
How is there still an ecosystem?
A guy literally self immolated on the steps of the Supreme Court in the name of climate change and it was barely covered. Anyone who is getting riled up over these glue stunts has lost the plot. Don't look up!
I mean, at least "fish are sea kittens" has some connection to their cause. The girl with the pearl earing isn't exactly mining coal.
The floor of the entrance is exactly at the right height, a little to the right of a crucial element to get access to the upper chambers: The crossing between the ascending and descending passage. This is where the ascending passage was blocked - you can see one of the large granite blocks still in place today. The (presumably) robbers goal was to get behind those granite blocks. This passage leads straight on to the crossing, then taking a sharp left turn just right behind the blocking. Whoever built this path must have known where it should lead to. That makes the story that Al Mamun did it so unlikely. He might have enhanced an existing tunnel, but there is no conceivable reason why he should have built it in the first place.
Here is a rough illustration, the dark brown being the robbers tunnel:
http://www.benben.de/Architektur/Cheops/Grafik/Mamun3.jpg
The difference between an 'abuse filter' and a censorship mechanism is semantics. By classifying political speech or image hashes you don't like as "spam", you've effectively implemented a political censorship mechanism and just gave it a different name. This is also why many privacy and security advocates are against on-device CSAM scanning. By classifying hashes of memes shared among political opposition parties as CSAM, you enable censorship, or even worse, targeted tracking of individuals over protected political speech. These systems need to be evaluated by what they can be made to do, not by what we're told they're for.

I have personally witnessed political messages being censored on Signal, server-side.

I recognize that keeping that private is what makes it effective. The argument being made isn't that the filter would be more effective if it were open source, the argument is that the filter is being abused to perform censorship, and that's the reason why it's not open source.

One of many downsides of trusting centralized platforms/services like Signal.
Obama Said Some of What the Progressive Caucus Got Slammed for About Ukraine
Stumbled is certainly an adjective.

The dual counter intelligence and criminal thing has made them fuck up in so many interesting ways over the years.

I have still not gotten an apology for my 100% accurate take that if I did scholarship for service, a fascist and/or especially moronic president might pull stupid bullshit like initiate a government shutdown, making it impossible to fulfill the service requirements.

(The ping pong of career decisions that convo sent me down continued until... well the two week notice period will end around Halloween of this year.)

Anyways, I was pretty annoyed. Time for war stories!! Let's take a moment to think back to 2009.

This was shortly after I watched a (probably still living) FBI agent stroll his ass on down to CMU and give a public presentation that basically consisted of demonstrating he doesn't know how to get a USB into a computer. Someone had to help him get powerpoint open, then help him at one point advance the slides properly.

He was talking about some bust... maybe it was Silk Road? Maybe Silk Road II or something from around that time?

Years later, we had ourselves a little "coming out" party when I walked down to one of the local universities, told one of my contacts I'd lost that dumb fed's card, and said they need to quit busting these drug dealers and go after the goddamn pedophiles.

This was after the Alphabay bust, but before the Sunrise shooting[0] -- they should have checked for a ring after Paddock, and it makes me angry that some rude people exploit the strict liability nature of CSAM to try to drive away legitimate researchers when running servers for the good kind of weird stuff... but weird stuff like... Goatse[1].

Goatse, to my knowledge, never murdered his neighbor like John McAfee did. He was just a weird guy, who possibly goes to fundraisers for Ron Wyden[2], who put his whole butt on the internet and had more people look at it than he thought would.

I feel sincerely bad on days like today (Thursday), because "the blue lives" do have a point in the whole "we'd prefer not to be murdered" stance... the issue is the laws and policies that draw together folks who at least pretend in public to respect each other... but strongly prefer not to interact.

Anyways, I still strongly suggest nobody work for them, but at least they've been doing more than convincing Middle Eastern guys to go buy dynamite lately -- I'm off to go re-watch Four Lions[3] again.

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[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963206415/2-fbi-agents-are-ki...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx#Website
[2] One of Wyden's staffers got fired from the ACLU for being too mean, which is harder than you'd think.
[3] "Just this once" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions#Reception
I like protonmail. It’s come a long way. Plans are much better now, and you get end to end encryption on the same platform.
Not GP, but I think the argument was: "IAP is easy and simple and secure and well-known, and should be used." Spotify is acting as if Apple is blocking them in many different ways, but all would be solved if Spotify would use IAP, which is super-simple for users, but doesn't make Spotify as much money.
Well not everyone can be involved in international diplomacy.

So for the rest of the world maybe we can focus on climate change.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I'm basically responsding to the implications I perceived in the "are you a hermit" question, which I feel are quite disheartening in their own right: that meeting society on one's own terms is impossible without imposing on oneself the near-total isolation usually associated with hermitdom.

In another recent comment thread, the refusal to use the conveniences of Big Tech was compared to "self-flagellation" - another quaint association with the atrocities of Western religion - while the fact remains that entrusting contemporary connected technology with stewardship over one's social life is the actual self-harmful approach.
Whilst I don't agree with the opaqueness policy, I understand why it's in place.

It's because it leaves them at risk of using previous precise answers to others as precedents for future cases. Being opaque allows them to not be too committed, and outside of situations like "but you accepted XYZ app which does exactly the same, I don't understand"

You can still claim XYZ app does what you did and didn't get punished by that, but they can never admit it in paper/words.
September 12, 2012.

https://www.engadget.com/2012-09-12-apple-details-new-dock-c...
It's interesting how it exposes the hypocrisy of how millions of people feel incredibly concerned about, say, a can of tomato soup destroying a small bit of our shared cultural heritage, but many of whom don't feel anywhere near that level of concern at the wholesale destruction of our natural heritage.
I’m not necessarily blaming the law, but saying that a new law (or change to the existing one) is needed to ban cookie pop-ups.

It’s clear at this point that the problem is not going to go away without intervention. The industry isn’t going to fix itself.

Also, it’s unfair to blame developers here. Devs don’t have some perverse desire to create annoying pop-ups. They’re being told to do it by management and legal teams, because that’s how the GDPR has been interpreted.

> ”So it won't be a pop-up. It will be an interstitial page.”

Ok, so you phrase it more generally: “it is not permitted for consent for tracking cookies to be obtained when a user visits a website”
> The federal reserve act (1913) - enables government to self-fund by printing money

The government was always able to do that. Independent central banking made it harder, not easier (that’s why independent central banking helps trust in the currency, because it divorces monetary from fiscal policy, and helping maintain trust in the currency is why you do it.)
The same reason they are not thrilled about support in general: Manual labor is expensive, and at the scale that Apple or Google operate, the amount of abuse and unwarranted complaints you receive at high traffic, low entry barrier, outward facing services is absolutely insane and can not realistically be shouldered without heavy reliance on tools and templates.
It's true that there haven't been too many deaths from existing nuclear accidents, but that seems to be more by luck than judgement. If we got a chernobyl-like accident near a major city then the impact would be off the scale. I live in London, and I don't even to think about what it would mean if London ended up in an exclusion zone (and there are plenty of nuclear power plants near to London that could cause this if things went south and the wind was blowing in the wrong direction).
It was very good for the time the game was launched, but it is quite outdated. I loved the game, but it is in the category of games I would love to play again, I install it, then the graphics looks so bad it turns me down. Believe me, I started playing computer games ~ 1986, so I know what bad graphics is, but Witcher 1 is a lot more recent than that and the expectations are a lot higher.
Lots of pseudo-intellectual text mixed in with the pictures. There may certainly be reasons this technology is concerning, but the constant blaming and projection is not informative. It certainly doesn't move the conversation forward.
Iraq nets handsome profit by dumping dollar for euro (2003)
From most friends and colleagues I know that most of these rejected updates simply go through if you resubmit it a second time a day or two later.

Somewhat frustrating, but most of the times the issue was just that the apps were already compliant, but the reviewer on Apple/Google side was just not carefully checking
Zion v2
Nonetheless, there is nothing that stipulates two parties and certainly not the two parties we have currently.

We're too top heavy and we're governed by a cartel. That's not The Constitution's fault.
Resize an image on the front-end before you send it to a server
Yes. I’m from Denmark, but I check the weather every night before stepping out as I have experience 13 C nights where the previous night was 20 C. And this is not uncommon.

When I first got here I was stunned by how noticeable nicer the weather was when driving from Santa Clara to Palo Alto, and more than once have I forgotten to bring a sweater to SF.
Still cheaper than Petrol or Diesel at non-US prices.
I thought I had seen them all but nope so I downloaded the single file .prgs on the first page and zipped them if anyone want to give them a run:

http://move.rupy.se/file/prv.zip
I'm curious how the real time overlay works. It's probably somewhat useful for certain aspects of situational awareness, but I'm not convinced that it's that useful in reality. "keep going down abc street and turn left at the 1000 block" really isn't that good of a way of giving directions over a radio unless the people on the other side have an inhumanly good sense of where they are.

In any case I remember recently overhearing police activity where my local (US) police were trying to catch someone with a helicopter. They had FLIR and all sorts of goodies and they somehow managed to lose the guy. The prevailing theory of these cops was that the guy had just called an uber to get away.
How does the energy in underground hydrogen get utilized? Is the capacity the combustive energy, or only the energy from the gas pressure?
I'm just commenting here to say that you're not the only one. My dreams always go wherever my mind wanders, so any nightmare events are just moments in a longer episode in which I'm aware that I'm dreaming. Any bad dream can be turned around as long as the thoughts inducing it are not intrusive.

Exception to the above are only 5 one-off "nightmare" dreams:

1. When I was a very little, I had a nightmare after watching/about The Little Toaster. Probably a lot of kids did.

2. Slightly older, I dreamt that flowers were growing out of my skin and I was becoming a plant.

3. Same age range, dreamt an evil clown had provoked me into a fight and none of my swings could hit him.

4. When I was a tween, I had a nightmare that my mother kept a small wooden box full of my father's freshly severed fingers.

5. In my 20s, I had a nightmare where I told my sister (I don't actually have one IRL) that I shot and killed a demonic horse who was actually myself.
First off, there's no human involved in the first couple passes with this. Also bad actors could then use that detail to tweak things and get around policy. It's not a great answer either but possible.
To be fair the corporate drama is usually dressed up as contorted consumer opinion drivel. The true reasons for most of these moves behind the scenes aren't as altruistic as these folks like to let on!
Unfortunately there barely is.
becoming a sustainable food item is actually a great survival strategy at the level of the species, something to consider should earth ever be invaded by hungry aliens
So why are you still going to your job and working/studying/ doing whatever you do daily instead of going full time political activist or something else? After all your jdaily thing won't matter if the world dies in nuclear fire. By your own logic it makes no sense to continue working and instead you should divert all your resourced to stopping Putin.
>Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

It recently went up almost 50%.

Like 2 months ago their price was around 77-80

Now it is around 120~

I expect (I bet my money on) it to be around 150 around december/january
Genuine question: What would you expect a rational actor to do FOR the cause? Because to me this looks very rational and very much for the cause.
More American students mull college in Europe
Good choice imo, agree with your extrapolation as well, but for years we've also recognized that SW shops want senior engineers without going to the effort of training juniors. That, to me, hints at how remote work will be treated in this context. I imagine your sons perspective will be commonplace, but it doesn't seem typical that an intern/junior stick with their first shop long term, so I doubt the significance. Would love to gain some perspective if there's disagreement
> I’ll choose not to [...] dialogue
> just strengthens the divide

Non sequitur, but ok.
There seems to me to be plenty of room for interpretation (and potential for foul play) in the TOS. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but to call it a "complete lie" is itself to misrepresent facts.
We switched to distributing our own APK after Google forced Android App Bundles. Definitely sleep better at night because of that decision.
Pokemon Card Animation
Ppl are slowly fighting with millions of requests / messages per minute.

Java is not feasible to work in that world. JVM is too heavy to do that.

Modern languages like Go are much better for that. If I recall correctly soon half of all new projects will start as a Go project.
Apple security bounty upgraded
Maybe this is a weird question, but how does Deno compare to Node when it comes to the various "languages that compile to JS"? For example Purescript, Fable, Elm, etc. does everything mostly just work, or should one stick to Node for those?
I also wonder this. Some thoughts:

1) Life is remarkably adaptive.
2) There probably won't be much longer.
> only if generation efficiency is at least 33%.

the efficiency of a combined cycle gas generator is usually 50-60%.
> "We just had another warning from the UN that we are essentially on course for the end of the world"

The UN Report said no such thing. A world past 1.5 degrees is going to be very unrecognizable to us, but referring to it as "the end of the world" is complete hyperbole.

> Please do not moan when people block roads.

Consumer resistance to nuclear (spearheaded by environmental groups!) has been a larger contributor to climate change than even the automobile.
>Building a modern zero carbon economy based on renewable energies is not only possible but also close to cost competitive to the nuclear-intensive alternative [1]:

Oh yeah? Point me at an example.

This is not a question of ROI. Wind/Solar could be free and still could not power a modern economy. There are no economies of any significant size (say, larger than a mid-size city) that are powered by wind/solar. There are no economies that have plans in the near-to-mid term to be powered by wind/solar. Why was Germany, up until recently, investing billions to ship Russian gas for decades if wind/solar is just around the corner?

So what are we talking about here?
it skips over the data warehouse. directly connect hubspot to a google sheet without a warehouse in the middle.
The argument isn't that it should be open sourced to improve spam detection or efficacy, the argument is that it's being misused as censorship mechanism without calling it that, and that's why it's not open source - it would become readily apparent that it's being used for political censorship if it was open source.

If it was just being used for spam filtering and not censorship, it would make much more sense to implement the blocking client-side (on the recipient's device) and provide a user-toggleable flag to disable that functionality. This would enable those who don't want spam and trust the filter to keep the exact same functionality, while allowing those who distrust it or suspect it of censorship to voluntarily opt-out for messages they receive. This would also offload processing costs from Signal's servers to user's devices, which would decrease the operational expenditure incurred by Signal.

One reason not to take advantage of that economic incentive is that you don't want your users to have the choice, and you'd not want them to have the choice if you're trying to censor them.
I switched to Fastmail a few years ago. Took about a day to go through all of my accounts and update the email addresses. I was really, really glad that I had Bitwarden to use as a list of every online account I've ever created.

I've been happy with it ever since. In every conceivable way my experience with Fastmail is better than Gmail. I pay $50 a year for it.

The only Google product I interact with these days is Youtube. There simply is no alternative to that, unfortunately. (I'm a consumer, not a creator, so no: that alternative video site you're about to recommend to me will not work.)
They have. It's a few levels higher. The robbers tunnel is easier to reach from the ground, so it became the main entrance for visitors for centuries now.
They're allowing devs to resist foolish performance pressure. This is a language for good developers, built by good designers.
If you're outraged by the damage of a small part of our artistic heritage, while turning a proportionately blind eye to the wholesale destruction of our natural heritage...

There's something that may be worth a moment of introspection, and a reconsideration of where you want to devote your energies.

These events are a nothingburger, if you care enough to be outraged by them, you should probably be many, many orders of magnitude more outraged by what they are protesting.
>"There's a much simpler theory: Just Stop Oil is a bunch of normal, fallible, non-conspiratorial people using a distasteful and likely ineffective tactic to advocate for a sensible policy..."

My view is that there are people in our society whose personalities make them so passionate about righteous causes they wind up becoming delusional extremists. When enough of them get together and have a source of support, you can end up with this kind of thing. I have no doubt they truly believe they are helping to avert the apocalypse by doing this.
> their own raison d'être

It's growth, that's why they exist, searching for growth
Omg, what will the GNOME haters do now... They will have to make up something new.
I mean, i think that terrorism is the wrong way to fix problems, so i dont really see that as a counterargument to the grandparent's post.

After all, sincere people can and often are counterproductive.