skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I cannot see the issue because the regex are pre-approved by GitHub.

GitHub is a private company with one dual obligation, to prolong its existence and keep increasing its profit margin.

It is not any sort of arbiter for morality - morality being an externality to its central obligation - so it cannot be relief upon to “do the right thing”.

So it is not in any position of authority that would enable it to “approve”, in the moral sense of the word. They can only “allow” for the regex to be ran and the results sent off.

For example, the “right thing” for GH would be to increase profit, while for another entity might instead be to uphold its users’ privacy.

(You may think that it’s only for public repos, so they’re already made public, but isn’t GH here facilitating an aggressive collection and summation of information, that would otherwise be much more difficult and error-prone?)

The power of approval would rather come from an elected entity that would also determine who may request that such searches are executed, and which reasons would be valid.

Otherwise, we get a William Gibson-esque megacorp cyberspace future with clear but corporate Orwellian overtones.

Isn’t this obvious?

(I’m not being snarky at all - I’m genuinely asking: isn’t this glaringly and terrifyingly obvious?)
Using lock files is a good way to make sure your software never ends up in a distribution and in the hands of users.
I find it somewhat curious that they bundle demoscene productions in their PAID for software, even offering more demos when you pay more. This is completely against the demoscene ethos. A lot of demos even had notices forbidding the commercial PD libraries of the time from distributing their wares.
> There needs to be some kind of end, some kind of closure to hurt - otherwise we have a positive feedback loop that amplifies suffering and eventually turns violent.

I don't see why the end can't be education on the part of the person saying those words. The reasonable response to someone saying they're impacted negatively by a phrase is to find a way to rephrase it, maybe this isn't always possible, but 90% of the time it is and doing so will result in a more positive outcome for both parties pretty much always.
Thanks! We thought it was interesting too, but that's probably obvious since we decided to invest the time to develop the game from the that idea ;-)
@l3uwin your comment is [dead] so I can't respond (I didn't flag you) but when I said "how can you be 'born' as a woman, which is a social construct?" I was refering to people who claim to be born as the opposite gender, such as a male saying they were really born as a woman. If gender is a social construct, this claim makes no sense.
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This is much better:

echo -n "$(diceware -d '-' -n 3)"$(( RANDOM % 10 )) | xsel -b

It copies passwords like `Uncertain-Postbox-Cannot5` to your clipboard. Much easier to remember/type, and just as secure. I've assigned that to a hotkey, so whenever I need a password I press Super+G, Ctrl+V, and that's it.
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I'm shocked by the number of respondents who felt the need to point out what public means.
They are also historically credited with inventing usury, so presumably yes. This describes the situation fairly accurately: https://thetemplarknight.com/2010/12/22/templar-usury/

Essentially, the Roman Catholic Church turned a blind eye to the Templars usury, largely because of the value provided by the Templars in enabling an endless stream of warriors for Christendom. They did set some arbitrary limits on the amounts that were permissible, but didn't have much in the way of methods of auditing or enforcement.
I came here to post the same as I love this so much. Their newsletter brings joy, I can highly recommend it.
The security part is a solved problem, unless you think a burglar is obsessed with your house in particular; they've made outlet timers for decades.
An example of what can be done with it - https://melongaming.com/games/melonjump/ (hold the left mouse button down and move your mouse to play).

More here https://www.melongaming.com/en/Games
Decoders also have the difficulty that you need to support most of the format’s features before they can support content found in the wild. Also you often need to add hacks to support encoders which technically violate the specification but are commonly used.

In contrast, you can build a very simple encoder using very few of the format features and still have it be usable/useful (albeit with poor quality/compression ratio).
Nice! Is this yours?

I've tried building a few real-time games with different implementations of these HTML5/JS game engines, but I always hit a wall when trying to add multiplayer capabilities.

The main issues I've found is there's never a way to get a "universal" X/Y/Z position for an object that can be accurately stored in a server that syncs with the position for players. It always tends to be ever so slightly off in a way that desyncs over time, making a stutter when the server has to force a resync. This is then compounded with collision detection physics, which these engines never do in a "standard"/specified way, requiring me to reimplement their physics server side, which inevitably causes occasional game breaks from the inconsistencies - going through walls, or total desync.

Anybody have any suggestions/solutions/recommendations?
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Honest question - why do you still have an account with them?
I don't mean to defend xenophobic attitudes against immigration, but labor shortage should lead to higher wages, so the argument against immigration that they depress wages would still hold.
I do not agree about the master/slave idiocy. These terms have been used for ages in the IT universe, and never once have I come across someone who insinuated racism. What about "server", does that not insinuate that there once were serfdom? Or "protocol", we are all on a spectrum now, that old fashioned way of thinking triggers me!

Not one step back, or they will rip us apart.
I would assume a larger portion of being graceful would be to not intentionally use words that you know have a negative impact on someone.
P: He has no morals and no principles.

> I think he just approached Twitter like he approached building electric cars

aren't tesla systematically overconfidently marketed self-driving car capabilities which caused fatalities proving P's point?
If clients ain't willing to pay enough to pay salary workers are willing to work for... Maybe there's no product-market fit and/or business model just does not work?
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"will not fix" is now called "duh! its by design!"

then the actual design is probably just badly thought through.
The problem is: you can't compete with the scale of these mega-corporations unless you have something like a sovereign wealth fund backing you. It is simply unviable to try and open up an alternative to Amazon or Walmart - network effects, exclusivity deals, credit history, officials letting it slide to pay your workers pittances because they don't want to battle with the lawyers a billion dollar company can put up against you... and especially, if you do try it, then the mega corporations can and will price-dump you out of business. Subsidising losses for one location for a year or two is nothing for Wal-Mart, especially not if every other store around them is closed afterwards and you are the only player left.

Oh, and not to mention that while $VENDOR is willing to give Wal-Mart a special deal for, say, a bottle of soda for 20 cents in exchange for Wal-Mart placing an order for a million bottles, they will not give that same price to your small corner store. You cannot compete with that without going into loss leader territory, which is highly dangerous.
The key wording here is:

> reported publicly

For various cultural reasons people rarely want to talk about negative NDE. This is why studies into the phenomenon that look for possible cases are more objective than interviewing people who come forth.

So a study like :”A 1975 study conducted by psychiatrist Raymond Moody, MD, PhD, on around 150 patients who all claimed to have witnessed an NDE stated that such an experience has nine steps.” Shows different results than the recent UK Clinical Trials Gateway where out of 465 patients none reported any visual memories.
St Petersburg has very few crossings that have traffic light buttons. When there is a button, it usually comes with a huge bright yellow sign with an arrow pointing at it. So for me, when I visit other countries, it's sometimes very non obvious that there is a button in the first place — I'm just not used to them being a thing. So I'd stand there clueless, waiting for the light to change, only to realize a minute later that there might be a button that I have to press.
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In addition to George Orwell's 1984, are there other books that describe what's happening to American English and the control of speech to dictate people's thoughts?
I imagine if you’re willing to live four to a bedroom things get substantially more affordable. There are plenty of people who are willing to do that, though fewer in the legal economy. If building housing was legal that demand would be satisfied by new building but that’s democracy for you. The people get what they want, good and hard.
There is no doubt that this is a controversial area of discussion. When we don’t have any scientific paper on the ground, it may be hard to agree with such a statement. However, let’s face it – you must have thought that full-face helmets are safe due to their structure and shape as they cover your whole head.
I thought the same thing (got one for a gf), but since the introduction of pointer support in iPadOS, I look at the kinds of things most folks with the 12” books do (word processing, light spreadsheets, web), and I think Apple is correctly betting that that market is going for iPads with keyboard/trackpad folios now.
Ah, interesting - genuinely curious:

Assumption: You're abroad, with your Yubikey, in some weird scenario you either lose or break your Yubikey. You're supposed to access your accounts for the rest of your stay, what is the solution here? Or do you bring multiple keys with you and just grab another one from your suitcase? I'm curious about a realistic (not extreme) scenario where a key breaks or gets lost, with the physical backup key not being within reach. Do the backup keys often need to be synced in some way and kept updated?

I use 1Password with a backup at a trusted location, that can be sent digitally to me (but it also in the cloud), and all I need to get into my accounts is the password to recover if my laptop gets stolen or breaks.

I wonder if what you say is the only way to make Yubikey work in a travel scenario, to just have multiples of them with you, or if I am grossly misunderstanding it, still.
It is a hit or miss, as some password fields don't get this. However, I personally fund it useful and use it about 100/% of the time in new signups/resets when available.
He is certainly got journalists' attention. Maybe not in a way that is great for recruiting them.
A guilloutine wouldn't have worked in this case
... by working for much lower wages than locals are willing to work for.
That level of profit oppptunity doesn't occur until the company is massive. Small business owners, in contrast, mostly run on tight margins and have to live with a high likelihood of their business failing.

Effectively, you're asking us to solve the income gap by becoming billionaires ourselves. Can you see the irony in that?
Wow! So many negatives. I had to whip out pen and paper to figure it out:
Negative: "avoid"
Negative: "not"
Negative: "rejecting"
Negative: "too late..."

So, you're saying: you wish people accept its ok to have kids at 43?
not so much a privacy issue than a security one
When you put it that way, the landscape makes a lot more sense. Just as there would be no convincing people on a Ramadan pilgrimage to Mecca of a better option, there may not be any convincing people who worship the black box of legacy banking. In fact, they might ridicule / murder you if you do — a tale of caution?

Seems people everywhere are largely the same.
VLC can play MOD. files quite reasonably.
There is also a cross platform modern clone of ProTracker 2 available : https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone
automated light switches == outlet timers for decades

> unless you think a burglar is obsessed with your house in particular

IMO burglars are obsessed with an easy score - "Lights on looks like someone is home - fuck it I will rob the empty looking house up the street"
They did this in winter in England. Even if the track was dry, it was still far from the ideal surface temperature for something like this.

The conditions certainly weren't aweful, but they were not ideal (or less-than-ideal).
Question: how does /dev/urandom ensure that two different users, both reading from the stream, don't get the same output?

(ignoring that they could get the same output by chance)
great, redistribute it to your employees instead. It will still go to taxes (income).
But people pay for goods using the "some bucks" they earned as salaries.
While you're not concerned with uptime an old laptop isn't a bad way to go: built in battery backup!

As far as exposing to the net, ngrok seems cool.
That would be the A2024 which is emulated by WinUAE. It did not flicker or have long persistence phosphor. What it did have was frame buffer RAM on-board. The video signal output by the Amiga determined which 1/4 or 1/6 of the screen was refreshed. The driver code had a feature where the pane containing the mouse pointer could be refreshed more frequently.
Some parts of the world do require licensing.

You 'could' take it cross country but that depends on your health and financial status...which means you won't because it's incredibly impractical for the vast majority of people.
Maybe “revenue” is masking the reality of the situation here.

No alt right echo chamber is ever in a million years going to be able to provide a good return on investment for $44B.

If they go down that path they WILL die which was my original point.
> code monkey

Please don't use that term as it summons the Ghost of Racism Past.
Just make sure your secret doesn’t look like a WeChat secret
A blockchain in this context is much worse than a 3rd party because there's nobody to sign a contract, arrest, subpoena, or bring a lawsuit against.

"It's math, bro" isn't actually comforting if the contents of the distributed database are actually in question, perhaps because of mistakes, shenanigans or misbehavior.

No sane risk assessment of "our company depends on this being correct and consistent" is going to sign up for this.
Given he was forced to follow up on the deal or face a market manipulation lawsuit, my personal opinion is that Musk wanted to work directly hands-on on Twitter's direction, overestimating his knowledge and know-how from the early dotcom. Given thefame he got from SpaceX and Tesla he seems to have fallen victim of his own illusory superiority. It's just a website right? For the matter I really have my doubts of him being able to personally code review a modern complex stack).

This is the only difference I spot, meaning no one was oversighting his internal management of the company. His inputs went live into operations as if they were tweets.
In Germany they're calling them selves 'Querdenker' (lateral thinkers).
Ask HN: How do you monitor robots or IoT devices in the field?
I want to deploy a couple of semi-automated measurement robots (stationary) in a research lab. I would like to track the robots state.

When an error state has occurred I would love to be able to collect some debug information and move it to a server for debugging.

Does anyone know any libraries/services that can do something like that?
The downforce fan technique was also done by Formula 1 in the late 70s before being banned the year after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B_%E2...
Shipping it! AWS Snowball all the way. I know that many production houses move those huge files in this way.
Password is leaked. Firefox continues to suggest the same password, because there's no random generation.
I got really excited about the title of this post, thinking there might have been some 100 year breakthrough in quantum mechanics before I realized that was not what this was about.
We need money not for funding, but rather to organize the division of labor. The strange thing is that money does not come with obligations to those holding it, only privileges, so it can be withheld from the market, leading to the appearance that there is a lack of funding.
I use the feature all the time, and I'm happy with it. Please don't remove it.
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No no, I think the majority getting mad, or at the very least myself, see two things: (1) the vast majority of the words on this list do not have the claimed negative connotations in the slightest, and should be liberally used in Stanford materials, and (2) if the geniuses who compiled this list are allowed to make it a standard of speech for Stanford materials, it will sooner or later be adopted by many other places looking for a list of "safe words".

The whole thing has to be ridiculed from top to bottom, both for what it's direct stated goals are, but also for fear that it will make its way into more places if it's not nipped in the bud.

Note: some words on the list, such as a several obvious slurs they chose to include, of course must be avoided. Black hat (hacker) or black box or blind review or commited suicide or user (!!!!) or calling a spade a spade or man-in-the-middle or [...] are not among those.
Preferably one with NetBSD support
Labor shortage is a capital euphemism for "the labor market isn't completely saturated and we are starting to have to return some of the rewards of work to the workers as opposed to the capital side". Personally I wouldn't allow any low skill immigration (happy to import lower priced doctors, etc in areas where costs have gone insane) until the standard of living for the poor increases to a more reasonable level, it has shifted to be far more in favor of capitol over the past 50 years or so.

In before the lump of labor folks wake up, low immigration can't simutainously explain why inflation is high (due to high wages) and also not cause lower wages when you increase it.

Edit: made more clear, added context
You can use a RockPro64 and set up USB boot to avoid the headache of SD cards.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64#Booting_from_USB_or_P...
Definitely if you're an oceanographer. Interesting link here [0].

[0] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f1...
The article explains that the low-paid EU workers are no longer there to fill service sector jobs. Domestic employees won't accept those wages or working conditions.

We can see real time in the UK the effect that mass immigration has on wages: it keeps them way lower than the market rate otherwise.
Thanks for the appreciation :)

I put a lot of thought into this system so it's nice to know someone at least took notice of it!

Your problem of larger scale may or may not be alleviated by the details I left out for simplicity and because I assumed a typical reader may have a low scale:

- In practice my "ToDo" and "Constantly needed" folders do have registers such as "health care" etc. as those are the ones where I usually have to search for things. The date sorting there is inside the registers. For "ToDo" I also color-code the registers by priority and sort them by priority.

- The "Done" folders have a register for each year. For very high scale you might add registers for month. The folders are also labeled on the outside with their years. To make it easy to access things which you might have to go back to, you could add "look here!" registers which do not affect the date-sorting, i.e. like bookmarks.
For what it's worth, my experience (use 'they') was (not that long, but) before then, in the UK.

What really irks me (as a result I suppose) is the sort of passive aggressive use of 'she' for gender unknown, as though righting some wrong or making some sort of point that we don't know it's 'he' either - true, that would be wrong too!

Matt Levine does it an awful lot, recently-ish I even noticed one was actually a man; he was just using it in the general sense not having checked who the specific person was in the role that he was talking about - 'they' would have been fine, but 'she' was more incorrect than usual, a factual error.
In motorcycle riding the idea of "failing" is more of a warning. You will fall off your bike one day and that fall could kill you. It is not if but when. So the culture is more about when the fall happens how can you do everything in your power to prevent it from being deadly. But then some idiot pulls out in front of you when you have a green light and you go across the car hood, land on your back, break a few vertebrae, and the idiot who cut you off drives off never to be seen again. But at least most riders I know are thinking about safety in some way as opposed to pushing yourself to the limit on your motorcycle.
Definitely heading towards neofeudalism.
Simple question: Why don't they just stay?

There are an estimated 10 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, mostly from Central America.
To the contrary, switching to a new technology is a favorite reductive excuse of poor management. They choose one early technical decision and try to hang all the failure on that.

As a sibling comment states a screw up of this magnitude is never simply a technology issue — it requires bad management at many levels.
If I recall the took a bus from her senior care home. Then she was in police custody for 5 days.
For people who have time to burn being uselessly pedantic, is this a topologist's world map up to homotopy equivalence or homeomorphism?

[edit]

I think I get how to encode a hypergraph as a topological space. Let S be a set consisting of two kinds of points: Nodes and hyperedges. Endow it with a topology whose base consists of singleton sets containing only single nodes, and sets containing a hyperedge together with all the nodes it's connected to. In particular, a hyperedge cannot be in an open set unless it's accompanied by the nodes it's connected to. Observations are: The resulting space is usually not T2 or T1, but is always T0; connectivity of the hypergraph is equivalent to connectivity of the topological space; the Sierpinski space results from using a graph with one node and edge.

I don't know what that accomplishes except validate the intuition that graph theory is somehow connected to topology.
I sometimes regret having built up tons of Bash aliases, because in the long term it ends up with me not really knowing half the tools I use, just my little cryptic vocabulary.
I'm late to the party, but dox'ing someone is violence against them.

When anyone dox'es someone with the intent that they are harmed, that's inciting violence.

Doxing a [insert minority group leader] is an example of "the right" using violence against someone and pretending it's free speech.

I think more people need to hear this.

The right is not alone in this issue, but they certainly have more criminal convictions resulting from violence than I can remember "the left" having.
I care for a number of reasons:

1. I had friends at Twitter who were laid off

2. I actually do think Twitter has value

3. I don’t think Elon is good for public discourse

4. I don’t think Elon is good for tech culture

5. I think we’d all be better off if he STFU and went back to working on rockets and electric cars.