skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The computer store owner in the USA is not a foreign adversary.

Sure, if you presuppose that the people responsible for disclosing it are credible and honest.

I personally have some questions why a computer store owner would, faced with an abandoned laptop from a customer, decided to snoop through its contents and give it to Rudy Giuliani, of all people.

If you take the story at face value it's still a massive breach of privacy. You have to go out of your way to find this stuff; an ethical repair shop would go out of their way to avoid accidentally stumping across private information.

Even still, if you assume that he stumbled across extremely concerning information in a manner no fault of his own, why did he feel it necessary to leak videos of Hunter Biden smoking crack and having sex? Imagine how creepy it would be if a woman dropped her laptop off at a repair shop and the owner leaked her nudes?

The most charitable interpretation is that Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at a computer repair shop, and the owner decided to snoop for compromising information and give it to his father's political rival, presumably for politically-motivated reasons.

> Be honest, and ask yourself if that had been Trump's son's laptop would Twitter, The Washington Post, and the others have done the same? I don't think so.

I agree.
Assuming you mean OTC desks, because there isn't much proper dark pool presence in crypto.
OTC desks aren’t where majority of spot and delta one products trade although some of their advertising might have you think otherwise.
For takeaway 2, I've found using NixOS lately to be good at keeping myself disciplined about documenting the odd little hacks I've added to fix an issue. Like in this case, I'd have to add something to my boot.loader.grub.extraConfig setting, comment it and document it with a hopefully-useful commit message so that if I encounter something similar in future, I can at least look at those bits of documentation and hopefully connect the two.
I used to hear "Linux is only free if you don't value your time." - this article seems to validate that this is still the case. Am I getting the wrong impression?
Do you really think Oracle lawyers didn't put a clause that allows them to do what they want ?
I used to think this, but it's really not the case.

See, e.g. https://www.ijccm.org/doi/IJCCM/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-1007...
Not willing to pay $10 to see if it can do decent work with the limited selection of pics I’ve got of myself. I’d suggest offering a free tier, or at least a validation that the submitted pics are likely to produce a good model, before asking for payment.
He did make an example by publishing his paper on his own blog. So maybe every researcher can put a blog and upload papers there and expect them to appear in someone else's browser who followed the researcher because either he shared something interesting or someone else shared his paper?
I've always wondered why academia can't work like social media. Not Twitter or Facebook, which is algorithm-controlled, blogs would work where everyone maintains their own sovereignty.
I see this going one of two ways:

* States take a laissez faire approach to regulation these networks, we get an open source community of people developing them publicly for anyone to run on their local machines, run small clusters etc.

* States take a heavy handed approach and prevent anyone distributing a model trained on copyrighted works without agreement from the copyright holder, or paying some form of tax that gets redistributed to them. We end up with an oligopoly of ad-supported, data-collecting, heavily censored SAAS models which we cannot download, modify, or run locally.
Lichess being a project that is 85% written by one guy, and all other changes approved and read by him, he may have felt confident (until now) that he could maintain all the complexity of the software in his own head, and recall what to do and where to do it whenever he made changes. Seems bonkers to most of us writing software in teams, but compare this choice of workflow to ones made by others in similar situations: programmers in academia, who often work entirely alone, or Linus Torvalds in earlier versions of the kernel. Skipping testing is a common choice, especially when working alone and with a typed language. I could see Thibault bringing tests in now however. They would not have caught much in this case, because it seems like the problem came to light only when the software started running with real users.
The Impact of Privacy Regulation on Web Traffic
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I'm sorry but I thought the challenge as described was one of "infinite lookahead"? Similarly, the csswg profer "graceful degradation" as the reason why a declaration isn't workable. But this solution clearly doesn't require infinite lookahead. It also degrades gracefully.

In fact lookahead isn't needed at all, except in (exceptionally) rare cases. Is the problem that the parsers are incapable of using any smarts beyond what is already provided?

Am I missing something?

Aside: Good point on the semicolon! I think in the previous discussion someone was making the point that parsers are exceptionally flexible/forgiving re. weird and wonderful line break and spacing combos. I wasn't sure about the status of semicolon usage. Idea of strict would just be to put an end to that.

Edit: and hey, apologies for labouring the point on this. But I am genuinely interested. I feel like these conversations just always end up in "you wouldn't understand" territory.
Often the consulting was done... by Oracle itself!
I was directly countering the statement that people don't get confused between them. Some people DO, and it's far more common and can be less pronounces than PTSD.

So yes, they do get confused in some cases, which supports the notion that they share a lot of wiring in the brain.

"People don't confuse this" is the part I shot down. The rest of the piece is interesting.
Exactly this.

We know he's competent on some level, and a BS-er on some level given his bombastic announcements.

But bombast about literally going to Mars are different than bombast about QAnon in terms of credibility and inspiration.

Trump warned Europeans about Russian encroachment but he's cried wolf so many times he has no credibility.

Elon was nothing without the koolaid - I think he's a bit of an imposter - he's 'Iron Man' because they said that in a movie, and, SpaceX was able to stick the landing which gives him insane cred. He could make a million gallons of free koolaid for his staffers.

Smoking dope on YouTube is fully on brand.

Even calling out people on 'free speech' - fair enough.

But he's crossing a lot of lines and it's going to affect his ability to put people on Mars.

I have never had any aspiration to work for him, because I think he's glib - but - I would probably enjoy a tour at either organization, because hey that'd be fun. But now - I wouldn't really want to spend time there.

The Hero->Super Villain story is starting to become a meme.

Nearly all the dudes in the Valley I used to look up to are starting to act like like are a 2-pack-a-day smoker, 3 days after going 'cold turkey': thin skinned, short sighted, angry, arrogant, crude, conspiratorial, cynical, greedy, needlessly cold.

Some of the things they say make me believe they stopped reading books (other than business books) or travelling at age 19 to focus 100% on 'the game', and it's cost them deeply in terms of personal development and perspective.

They are not making the leap to 'Wise Sage Leaders' very well.

I wonder if regular corporate personal development is a better preparation for leading large, mature organizations.

I don't agree with Tim Cook on a lot of things but he definitely seems a league ahead in terms of social maturity than some of the Alpha Dogs of the Valley. Ditto for so many others.
Bonfire: Social on Your Own Terms
Multiple views into a single file have been supported for a long time; I believe as far back as ST2. Currently it's easily accessible by right-clicking on a tab and selecting "Split View".
If output is your KPI, you should certainly define it precisely.

If purely net worth, Musk isn't the 'most productive' because he simply isn't the richest person in the world, and has been loosing billions in months. But I presume you have a different 'productivity' in mind than just worth.

If it's purely numbers of products, someone from the Tata family is probably producing way more cars, rockets and social media platforms. Or else someone in Ali group. Or someone at Aramco, idk. Tesla sells way, way, way fewer (electrical) vehicles than most other large car manufacturers indivually do.

If it's relatively to where they started, Musk comes from a (very) wealthy South African family. He certainly increased his wealth incredibly, but I'm certain you'll find a Nigerian, Bangladeshi or even European person who, relatively, increased their wealth much more. Simply by being born with a debt, or nothing, and becoming reasonably rich, will make such a KPI higher.
>WeChat: "am I a joke to you?"

WeChat is way beyond Twitter. It's nigh an alt-OS. Doesn't really follow (any) Store policy, but allowed due to CCP influence. If it becomes popular in West, West will very likely ban it, maybe based on store policy. If TikTok is problematic, no way WeChat will be allowed.

>mastodon is effectively community moderation.
>it's different on a per-pod basis

Exactly. It's not a free-for-all, but being able to operate their own pods and infiltrate others is a preferable state for 'transgressives' than 'old' Twitter. Decentralization is still worth it, but the end result would inevitably allow them some freedom to do shit.

>there is no one single finely detailed moderation policy for you to play games with

Moderation policy was result of Twitter becoming gigantic. I suspect any huge enough instance will have to adopt a policy and reach same impass.
I wasn't making a judgment here. I was just pointing out that most of the manganese ends up in the waste stream. One would not be mining these things for the manganese (although what manganese that could be sold would be sold.) In a world mining manganese nodules, the price of manganese would be very low.
“You get what you pay for.” has always been my reaction to Linux issues.
Oh don’t worry as a daily user of windows 11 I can assure you that Microsoft is doubling down on random mystifying problems, paired with no useful forum for users to collectively figure things out.
>Research has been done showing that different brokers split the price advantage differently. Robin hood, IIRC was one the worse side, allocating 80% of price advantage to PFOF, leaving only 20% to the customer. But the customer is still better off than paying the public exchange rate.

But why should Robinhood or whoever else get part of the 10 cents that the algo is offering me, the little ol' retail investor? Just because they're in position to gobble some of it up without me knowing?
Interesting I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
Just tried Readwise out - very nice! Pocket seems to have stagnated, so very refreshing to see innovation in the Instapaper/Pocket space. I know you all are working on a ton of things, but one suggestion is to add in other SSO options like Google (gmail). Right now I just see Amazon and Email.

Also when syncing with Pocket, perhaps mention it might take a bit to sync and you'll find the article in your Inbox - I thought the sync didn't work, but eventually appeared under Inbox, as opposed to where I expected in recently added.
I've been using this for eons:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.t...

There's a feature limited free version. Lots of options to track times, jobs, breaks, options for how to deal with day roll over, etc. Unfortunatly Google forced them to break/disable the location tracking feature (despite that it was only doing using the information on-device) - which was super handy to 'clock in/clock out' when arriving at a site.. There's no server, but several backup options to some services or on-device storage.
EU warns Musk of 'sanctions' after journalists booted from Twitter
Here are some parallel benchmarks from the Sandmark continuous benchmarking service: https://sandmark.tarides.com/?app=Parallel+Benchmarks&parall...
Fivetran, Stitch, Meltano and Airbyte are tools used to extract data from tools such as these into databases.

Census and Hightouch can be used to sync data into these tools from databases.
Cant offer free trails as we have to pay for techstack useage per run. In market everyone is charging $20-$60 per run without trails (outputs most of time patheti c) but we are offering cheapest possible pricing
The irony is that many people have cited "free speech" in reference to past actions taken by Twitter that they disagreed with politically. And, of course, the biggest irony is that Musk was one of them.
We allow devs to do things in prod. We are a public company. Sox, Hipaa, ISO27001, GDPR, and all that. Every dev on my team has access to their prod servers and databases (but no access to other team's stuff usually). We deploy multiple times a day. We handle our own oncall. We process billions of individual requests daily for millions of users. We have several thousand employees.

Our compliance requires that all code be reviewed and pass quality assurance before merging and that all prod changes be documented.

That means Dev1 writes the code, the unit and integration tests, sets the right configs in each environment, updates the dashboards for any updated metrics, sets up alerts, and updates runbooks. Dev2 reviews the work, pushes back when any of the above needs more work, and then documents on the jira ticket how they verified stuff. Dev1 or Dev2 merge the code, observe the build, and ensure the code rolls out to prod.

When something goes wrong, the oncall dev on the team is paged and can access all prod systems, and can log in, start and kill things, move files, etc.
Calculating the maximum diagonal distance in a given set of points
> With PG? I don't even know who to call if things are up the creek.

There are plenty of companies offering commercial support contracts. Most of them are also active contributors to Postgres so they do have the ability to create bug fixes and patches.
Right!

I’m wondering if this is how multicorn works even now. It seems to be an out of process thing. I wasn’t aware of multicorn before.

But python… wish it was elixir :-)
The book “Why We Sleep” discusses this. I believe it was Thomas Edison (I could be wrong) would fall asleep with a pan next to his chair, his hand over the pan, and his hand full of marbles. When he’d fall asleep, his muscles would relax and he’d drop the marbles, waking him up. He used it to harvest ideas.
I'd suggest you read their ToS[0], specifically section 2.1(.2). It shows that they'd really like you to make all content public. To guarantee that publicity, they rake care of the listing. There is (currently?) no option for unlisted repos. just either public or private. And by the observing the way they think about privare repos, you can form an idea about how they'd think about unlisted repos.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/TermsOfUse.md
+1 on this. I use to consider those Linux evenings as a waste of time. But with every bit of NixOS tracked within git with some history and context, I now think of it like an investment for the next 50 years, which has way more chances to pay back
Ok. Given that everything about Godot, including support, is already available for free, why do you want to pay a team of people six figure salaries to do that when countless indie developers manage to ship games on a fraction of that budget?
The amount of rationalizing and speculation in these comments is something to behold. This article presents a well-reasoned argument supported by data.
By this definition, they cannot be "fucked" in any situation - only their customers could get "fucked".
> I don't think that's true. RAC/data guard are solid, and I don't think have any competition.

RAC does not indeed.

But the equivalent of an active data guard can be setup in minutes (even less with the right tools) with Postgres. I am sure this is possible with other databases as well.
I prefer to make my spectrograms by hand. https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU
They do say "The Gitea project will of course remain open source, and a community project."

It's not clear to me if they intend to further develop Gitea or work on the non open parts. Looking at the reactions and the announcement it looks like everyone assumes the latter.

I wonder why not both?
"> Do you have any PII/Sensitive data flowing through the
service?
While this question is important, this is one of the
problems that has to be a particular person's
responsibility. Any dev that answers anything but
"probably not, but I don't know" shouldn't be trusted."

GDPR makes it the responsibility of the organisation to know. You can't safely say "I don't know" about PII.
i only love chrome, youtube & maps
> After all, if I elect to use Linux, a niche market by all means, shouldn't I be ready for these kinds of quests?

Yes and no. I think if our only tools are are Google (well, now Kagi for me), Stack overflow et al., and the sites that hold quality content quick to the point, you'll be spending a lot of time on the info finding and not the fixing.

I think it requires a a lot of information organization tools to continue to keep up with it. Or sink more time into info finding. Or just memorize everything if you have a brain for that
Ask HN: Almost 32, should I go back to University?
Hi, I’ll be 32 years old in March 2023. I’m from a top 10 from the bottom country. I have a master's degree in business administration from France. Worked for a few years before burning out, so I went home with my fiancé. Now I'm studying programming full time while chilling on the beach. The thing is I love this ** so much, I wish I had discovered it earlier. Here is the thing, I'm confident in my ability to learn on my own, but my chance to get a job is pretty low from here, one still needs to eat. So I am wondering if I should go back to University? (Mathematics) Why math you may ask, well It's one of the only degrees from my country that is recognised internationally. So I can do a bachelor's degree here and emigrate for my master's. I want to study here to keep my COL low in order to not burn my savings. Is it too late? Are there any companies out there that would sponsor something like that, where they pay for your degree and you go work for them after?
As someone who hasn't been following this: what's the split look like between Forgejo and Gitea for where the contributors are going?

Is is mostly going to Forgejo (other than Gitea Inc employees obviously), mostly staying with Gitea, a mix?
> Musk has a disproportionate amount of nuts in his corner.

Can you prove this statement or is it just how you feel about it?
Honestly I’m not a fan of VSCode as a user. It’s too generic and lacks identity (too powerful to edit simple configs); it auto-updates every time I start it; it’s too complicated to configure; JSON is ugly and it’s 2022, why not favor GUI configurations?

If my goal is to program in language X then I should be able to grab a product and get started without fuss. VSCode is a whole lot of fussing about.

That being said, it’s very stable and performs well—I will give the devs a massive kudos for that. Also if I did a lot of NodeJS dev work it would probably classify as a proper IDE for that.

But all-in-all I would prefer something purpose-built with minimal configuration out the gate for development workloads (C/C++, Java, C#) and a more minimal editor (nano, vim, eMacs, notepad++, geany, etc) for editing configs.
I wouldn't mind an algorithmic feed, provided that I a) am given a list of the factors the algorithm takes into account b) ideally, am able to tweak the algorithm myself. Failing that, I'm just getting a stream of stuff for some reason I'm not aware of, and a chronological feed would be far preferable.
Here is the result. What do you think?
What's the approach used by OSes that "just work" for things like this? Is this due to the more monolithic kernel of Linux making more things required to be known up front than e.g. in Windows?
Release of OCaml 5.0.0
ty. I think you made my point more eloquently than I could. Agreed that h1b has _several_ flaws, but then so has SS, Medicare/Medicaid, VA etc. Those aren't shining examples of good governance either. All its flaws notwithstanding, quite a lot of good comes out of h1b - the number of foreign born CEOs and entrepreneurs in tech is telling. I'd go so far as to say, no other program has done more to keep America competitive in tech than h1b.

There's widespread support in business for reform. Many of us are supportive of a points scheme for visas using salary indexed to COL, academic credentials etc as a better filter. Unfortunately congressional gridlock makes it extremely unlikely.

My objection was to the smug, sneery condescension about "cheap labor","wage suppression","no shortage if you pay enough". IMO it's driven in large part by racism and nativism coupled with self-serving avarice (delicious irony there) - not "wage concerns" or "h1b worker exploitation". That's the BS cover story!
Yes. Never too late to pursue higher education
More than 13,000 new JFK files released; hundreds more held back
Maybe add a sentence saying what to do... I was waiting for some kind of prompt to tell me what number to click before I just starting clicking.
The Overture Foundation and Its Tech – TomTom Newsroom
I think it's less that Twitter doesn't have the right to do these thing (frankly I agree that in the specific case of ElonJet that it's reasonable to have a policy around that), and more that a lot of chaos that affected a lot of people had to happen in order for Musk to realize that it's not as simple as "just have free speech, bing bong so easy".
For some reason "A Fish Called Wanda" comes to mind!

Or maybe that should be "Fish go Wandering"?!
The other irony is that many people cited "private enterprise" in reference to past actions taken by Twitter that they agreed with politically.
It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics. He has now a lengthy and growing history of this type of behavior, so it was 100% foreseeable. He could just come out and say that its his twitter and he can do what he wants, but no, because he also wants to be seen as a 'defender of free speech'. He acts like a-hole, but then expects unquestioning adoration.
I see all comments, logged in our logged out.
Ninja is not self-hosted is it?
Is Twitter really in trouble? I'm asking because if we look on Facebook, which has lots of content that is misinformation/hate while still being mainstream and huge.

Maybe Facebook is still dominant because it actually is Social network. Twitter was and still is dominant with news organizations. So maybe it just need to keep them engaged.
I've read that. It doesn't say or even suggest anything like what we're actually talking about here. Someone pointing to those terms in the TOS is either confused about what this discussion is about, confused about what exactly the TOS is addressing, or both.
> not least because someone has posted elsethread that the early signs point to material fatigue

I don't mind it being posted here, but to be fair that is just repeating what one politician is saying: "'Of course, the investigation into the cause has not yet been completed, but the first signs point to material fatigue,' said Berlin Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) of the German Press Agency."

Now if someone were to point at some image and explain why that makes them think it was fatigue that would be great.
Be cool to see the source - I assume he wrote it in assembler?