skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but I feel that, at that point, we're getting into semantic weeds over the definition of "poor", eh?

For concreteness, I'll say that I would define "poor" as not having the capability to satisfy the lower tiers of Maslow's hierarchy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs ) By that standard Bhutan isn't poor despite being technically a Third World nation.
Disclaimer: I am the author of this article.

What kind of pragmatism would you prefer? LastPass messed up way more than they are willing to admit. And it’s not like nobody warned them before, quite a few of the issues which turn out to be very problematic now aren’t news – I brought them up years ago as did others. LastPass should be warning users now and suggesting mitigation steps, instead they claim that nobody has a reason to worry.
Considering the average fitness level of an adult in Western society, it's entirely likely.
In my experience that is just the silly amount of variables you have to export to use the VC++ compiler and this is why they provide a dedicated terminal prompt for the VC++ compiler with all the right env vars loaded. I've struggled as well automating VC++ compilation in rust as a result.

If you're so inclined to revisit this using mingw with rust you can see how here https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/windows.html

This is far easier to automate imo
WHOIS[1] masking hides your information from the world. It's a service provided by some domain sellers who, obviously, will know those details (given them by you), as well as your financial information as you can't usually lease domains using untraceable transactions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
I guess it depends on what you like. There's plenty I like and though of a few. Picked a few that wouldn't be on most people's list already. No 1 I'd recommend for those who like comedy - Mortadelo & Filmon if you like comedy you'd probably greatly enjoy if you don't mind subs or understand Spanish.

Funny Farm (1988)

Kuffs (1992)

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Asterix live action films (1999 - 2012) [1]

Ice planet (2001)

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003) (Spanish, cartoonish humour, I found very funny)

Gettin' Square (2003)

Suspect Zero (2004)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.(2005)

Slipstream (2005)
[2] (mind the write up there of the plot is daft)

Dark Sense (2018)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_films_(live_action)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(2005_film)
Have to plan ahead and have the keypass password in an envelope in the safe deposit box.
Great science fiction but in our world somebody long ago would have leaked hi-res photos and other proof of these craft if they existed.

This type of information would inspire countless Snowdens to risk life in prison just for the sake of informing humanity, much less their desire for fame.
What _should_ Twitter have done? I see plenty of "nothing", so that's not interesting. But if there was a Blue, and surveys where you could see the opinions aggregated by, say, doctors with ivy league degrees, would that be useful? It would allow for dissenting voices but (maybe?) less likelihood of those voices overwhelming the majority? Any other opinions?
You can submit a PR here.

https://github.com/Soft-wa-re/password-manager-comparer
Some might be genuinely trans, but others are just making a mockery of women and women's issues, e.g.

https://twitter.com/LabelFreeBrands/status/16031779022916853...

https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/145376090877835673...

https://twitter.com/MYST_MX9/status/1607401871739879429

Why should anyone support these men and their misogyny? Why should they be allowed into any space for women?

It's basically equivalent to white men wearing blackface in terms of offensiveness, yet we're expected to go along with the pretence that all of these guys are women.

If the trans movement wants to gain support across the board, they need some serious gatekeeping to exclude these type of men from parasiting the wider activism.
> Can you provide details?

Sorry, no. I'm not an expert. I'm just pattern matching.
Putting functions in the wrong place is still a thing. Having to refactor or rewrite things because of decisions made at an executive level is still a thing.

Over-complicating code has always been a thing, too. Admittedly, "Information Hiding" has only really been a thing since Parnas, but I think it's more true than not that most developers are making the same categories of mistakes developers have always made, and when new programming languages and paradigms are created specifically to avoid those errors, they bring with them new categories of errors.

Syntactically, the majority of code today looks completely different from 50-year-old code, of course. But I'm not sure things have really changed all that much on the human side.
Where I live we have a very capillary public transport. The time to get to it and to get from it to the specific place where you have to go, is often the biggest time consuming part of the travel, and that is far from ideal
Simple. Portable. Works across platforms. Local. If that is a selling point for you, password safe just works. I apologize if it sounds like an ad, but I am a very happy user.
>I fail to see why then it is Twitter's responsibility to report this to the general public or even allow its existence.

Should Twitter remove all evidence of other people's crimes or just Hunter's that get posted?

>Authorities exist for a reason, twitter is neither part of the judicial, executive, nor legislative branch, nor does it have any jurisdiction in conducting research into criminal offenses and prosecuting people.

Nobody is asking for Twitter to arrest Hunter or hold a trial. They just wanted to be able to spread information about the crimes.

>I fail to see why Hunter Biden needs to be held at a different standard than other people

He was held to a different standard when Twitter removed people posting pictures and articles about his crime. If I committed a crime would Twitter ban those pictures? Doubt it.

>especially given that he did not hold office

The only time Twitter should allow evidence of crimes is when the person is a government official? Seems like a weird standard.

>nor was in the process of doing so via cronyism

How did he get his job in Ukraine and why did the prosecutor get fired at Joe Biden's request if it wasn't for cronyism?

>nor did he make millions off his [non existent] position in the government.

He did make millions in a nongovernmental position that he was given due to his relationship with his father though.
In my book, it’s way better to install one Vim extension in whatever your favorite IDE is, than to install Vim with a hodge podge of 5 extensions and 300 lines of Vimscript. The keybindings are really the unique selling point of Vim, and you can get them anywhere.

I actually view this as another advantage of Vim; you don’t have to learn new keybindings every time you switch editors.
I think so much of the messaging would have been better if there were disclaimers about “we are still doing research” and “based on our knowledge at this time”… or even timeboxing the advice so it’s updated every 12-48 hours even if unchanged.

This specific messaging has been a rallying point for people who don’t even believe covid exists. At least that was the case in the US
The contemporaneous statements often mentioned shortages and preserving masks for healthcare workers.

This Fauci interview in early March has him saying that he thinks masks aren't necessary at the time but also saying that he isn't against people wearing them (both things together at ~1 minute if you are impatient):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI

This CDC transcript doesn't talk a lot about PPE, but it talks about directing it to healthcare workers that are at higher risk:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0303-COVID-19-updat...

I'm sure there's stuff that looks worse if you go back through the 6 weeks previous to that, but early March is when things started to really happen in the US (I remember making a relatively large shopping trip that felt like it put me on the cautious side of things, and then the next week I started working from home).

There's a lot of people saying that the government was saying not to wear masks, which is subtly different from saying that people don't need to wear masks, or that masks won't benefit most people. The surgeon general was out there saying they weren't effective for the general public, which is bad but still different from saying not to wear them. And I'm not sure it's entirely fair to attribute his comms failures to the CDC (they might have had a hand in it, who knows, but they don't control the surgeon general).

Given how well people do with their masks (I still regularly see people wearing low quality masks incorrectly!), it seems true enough that they should be secondary to things like social distancing. I was sort of pleased and surprised a few weeks ago when my hospital was handing out N95s. Of course, it didn't matter much when half the patients had them under their nose (one confused lady had it sideways with the straps around her ears). They started self screening the next week, with only procedure masks available.
I agree. For public interfaces/types or global variables descriptive names are important.

But for temp vars in short functions or closures, I also use single letter vars because I want to see what is being done to the variables rather than the description. If a description is needed I'll use a comment.

Another pattern I find myself using is trying not to use `else`, instead using a function return (either returning early with an if, or a default return at the bottom of the function).
Forestry is a dead product.
Netlifly CMS seems dead as well, only the CMS part though.
recently conspiracy has been the more pragmatic and logical answer though, that's the point
I vaguely remember seeing a black and white screenshot of this in the back of a 3D Realms manual/cd-booklet (possibly for another 3D Realms game, or for the Macintosh release of Duke Nukem 3D which would have released after development on Duke Nukem Forever was underway).
Valve also currently sells the best handheld console on the market.
Happened to me recently due to a circular dependency issue between Google and LastPass.

Both of which I pay for.

Turns out losing both my laptop and my phone simultaneously was enough to lock me out of both forever - LP wanted me to click a link sent to my email to login from a new device, and said email account (GSuite) required a password stored in LastPass.
It would be nice if everything worked that way. When it works the opposite way, it's a vicious cycle of letting the biggest fish grow and making them even harder to go after.
If an user is not logged in, there should be zero cookie, there is no need to differentiate cookies.
Catastrophic breach after catastrophic breach since 2011. Lastpass has failed their fiduciary duty as a steward of sensitive information and IMO exhibited gross negligence in not encrypting URI data, ostensibly as a trade off for consumer functionality.

not to be overly vindictive, as I understand the near impossibility of running a perfectly secure service at absolutely enormous scale…but does anyone else feel LastPass should shut down the businesses, refund customers, and help them migrate to a new service? You are just not the organization for this job.
I don't see why self driving cars need true reasoning. If you have high resolution sensors, you can use deterministic algorithms to avoid hitting anything or being hit by anything. Especially if you start putting some kind of easily detected nonlinear reflector sticker on all cars and backpacks.

You might get a few false trips if a trash bag blows in the road and the rear sensor says nothing will hit you if you stop, but who cares? If we really prioritize safety, we'll just accept that, and find other ways to save time.

A self driving car would essentially give a person extra hours in the day, and allow people with disabilities to go outside of major cities unassisted.
In my experience, similar devices fail in similar ways, so simple Internet searches turn up lots of information. That knowledge is something that you keep forever and can assist others in fixing their devices. Otherwise, its just more repairable devices in the landfill.
Show HN: nothelm.py – Templating for Docker Stacks
Why do you would it ever change, in 100 or 1000 years?
Why did people think that using a cloud based password manager (or for that matter: a closed source one) was ever a good idea?
Lol. The irony is delicious. Largest is size, populous is population.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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Isn't bread terrible for birds?
It’s all hypothetical at this point, I reluctantly followed the guidance, more or less because I didn’t want to be inconvenienced too much. You are right I could have suffered worse, but then again I have absolutely no risk factors and statistically my chance of death or serious outcome was very close to zero regardless of vaccine status.

There was a clear indication from the data in Israel that nothing was working as it was advertised in Europe. Now high profile publications are coming out that confirm some of the worst fears, so who knows maybe at some point these people will have to take some accountability.
If you are in the US or any developed nation, chances are that you are working pretty hard to maintain your life style. So enjoy that warm balmy room, with hot chocolate in one hand and a mobile in another.

This post sounds like a teenager who's just read Dune and thinks "Sardaukar tough but Fremen tougher".
Those are all good selling points for me. Thank you! I'm building the Linux version now.
100 years?

First, how 'bout 100 years ago, i.e., back to 1923?

Telephone: By 1915 in the US we had
long distance telephone coast to coast.

Cars: The cars of 1923 were not so bad -- had tops, doors, glass windows, electric lights, rubber tires filled with air, a rear axle differential, ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cars_introduced_in_19...

Airplanes: The Wright Brothers were at Kitty Hawk in 1915, and airplanes were important in WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Hawk

Physics:
By 1923 we had explained the photoelectric effect (one of the foundations of quantum mechanics) and both special and general relativity (1915),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

The Schrödinger equation was on the way, published in 1926,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

From the past, one possible lesson is that progress is enabled or constrained by fundamentals.

So for the next 100 years, what are some of the likely important fundamentals?
Tell HN: WFH is the future thanks to inconsiderate people
I'm very recent to the workforce (less than 6 months into my first job ever).

Today a co-worker came in with a constant, never ending cough. According to her "it's from singing too many Christmas Carols" this last weekend, but I doubt that.

She's obviously not wearing a mask, not even one of those cloth ones. Heck, she doesn't even cover her mouth when she coughs.

Not only it is annoying, but it's a reasonable health hazard I thought everyone post-2020 understood could be easily avoided if you stayed home.

Nobody cares, I'm the only one who's fully masked up.

I cannot fully WFH as I'm not in tech, but as an office worker, it's the future with these kinds of people.
I am sorry, I did not understand Analytics engineering. do you mean that the BI developer will be expected to do DE stuff?

it was how my prev org rolled!!
KeePass(X), Password Store/Gopass, pwSafe, ...

Plenty of good choices.
Eliminating harmful digital technologies in universities
> It's like, the purpose of becoming hard, tough, and a badass is to sit there enjoying that you are a hard, tough, stoic badass. What are you going to DO with that?

I mean, yeah, kind of. The purpose of things like this, imo, is general durability. It falls into the same category for me as lifting, or cardio, or even non-specific math. It may have no immediate purpose or intent, but it has a positive impact on everything else you _do_ have a specific purpose for.

In the same way that it's never a benefit to be weaker, or out of breath, or slower at math, it's never a benefit to be less mentally durable than you otherwise could be.
I was in Taiwan (and also was for the first SARS), and I think the messaging here was much more competent but also more humble and less aggressive than much of the rest of the world’s.

To be fair though, the VP was an epidemiologist, so there was an unfair advantage.
> if amazon abandons Alexa then I'll just move everything to another ecosystem.

Why? I'm not an Alexa user, but I am a Prime and AWS user. I don't understand how having a voice interface for weather reports impacts your decision for cloud computing or package delivery. Additionally, what other ecosystem would you move to? Google or Microsoft because they offer both voice interfaces and cloud computing? Why does that impact Prime?

I really don't see how these three things are linked in your mind. I could see some link if you used AWS to provide custom Alexa services, or used Alexa to play Prime content (music, audio books) but you specifically said you don't use Alexa for anything other than two really generic use cases.
Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221226195913/https://www.washi...
Well put. We were given Facebook for free on the basis that they can advertise to us. We voted for behavioral advertising with our feet.

Yet, we consume documentaries about how evil zuck is and love to hate him.

But shouldn't we take both into account or just think about it hard once and then be done with it? We're wasting a lot of time and energy.
Your proposed alternatives to using Lua being a LISP and Forth says a lot about why people will in fact use Lua.
you should add apple keychain
Here's what I think happened.
Storm happens, Southwest demands all hands on deck with stipulations outlined in that memo, staff gets upset and walk off making the situation worse. The only evidence I have is that Southwest seems to be uniquely impacted by the storm
I don't understand why we're still stuck with hooks. JSX was a syntax change introduced to support things that were hard to express with existing JavaScript syntax, why not do the same instead of hooks? Using function-call notation to create hooks seems like a kludge, and if you are going to process your source with an transpiler and add browser-incompatible syntax like JSX, why not do hooks the same way?

This would allow us to avoid all the gotchas with non-pure functions in useEffect, breakage when calling hooks in conditions or loops (hoist them!), and whatever restrictions might come next.
Could never get over seeing a bunch of stolen graphics from the Amiga game Turrican 2 in one of them.

Didn't help that that game was far superior to Duke
I think most parsing-heavy code are just use C/C++ extension.

Example I can think of include:

1. pyyaml’s parser in C vs the Python version get a huge speed up on large files

2. some parsing table (~GB size) using pandas vs self-implemented Python code with a lot of for loop gain 20x speed up at least.
>He also was not the candidate, did not have a chance of getting a government position like his predecessor’s children

And? Does that mean we should suppress evidence of crimes that are posted on Twitter because of that? If I committed a crime, should Twitter delete the articles and pictures?

> It would have been newsworthy if they’d tried to hide the story of Hunter’s addiction but it was public knowledge already along

It is more than just addiction. He may have had child porn on his computer and may have had sex with an underage girl.

There is also the question of how he got such a cushy job with no experience and a drug addiction.

>with Joe’s desire to help his son get treatment.

Joe seems like he genuinely cares about his son and wanted him to get help. I don't think that is relevant though.
Fines will be minimal and just a cost of doing business
The widespread use of social media has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information, but it has also introduced significant risks to personal privacy. When we use social media platforms like Twitter, we are constantly generating vast amounts of personal data that can be easily accessed and analyzed by others. This data can include our thoughts, opinions, and personal finances, as well as our physical locations, connections to other users, and even our online behavior.

When this data is collected and combined, it can provide a detailed picture of who we are and what we do.
How would a national ID make anything easier for the states?
Concur on probability of failure here. Want to add that Meta does need to bet the farm on a personal device that they're able to track and monetize in the way that iOS and Android offer their corporate parents.

Without a device in every hand/household Meta simply pays rent to Tim and Sundar and, as ATT demonstrated, is up for eviction at any time. Meta needs a hit device to survive.
Yes. I do this. I have all my financial account numbers and passwords written on a piece of paper stored in my safe deposit box. If anything happens to me (knocks wood), my family will still be ok.
Yeah, my experience is that they really don't follow directions with precision and they seem to always identify themselves.

The quality/cost of service have dropped off imo, I used to rave about them circa ~2017 but the intelligence of the service really dropped off.

The idea is great, I still use them once in a blue moon, but the execution is in this uncanny valley of not being cheap enough for rote work (like compiling expense spreadsheets from texted receipts) and not intelligent enough for complex research tasks.
Take a look at the JSON:API specification https://jsonapi.org
“It may not be a national security concern yet, but the reputation (of a country) is involved, and we don’t want India to suffer on that count,” Daud told the publication.

What about the victims?
What if you want to support shopping carts or chat bots for anonymous users? Or what about ddos prevention?

Isn't a cookie (or local or session storage) needed in those cases?
Incredibly pathetic. I am so disappointed in LastPass. I was willing to forgive their subpar UX because hey, at least my passwords were safe. I've moved over to Bitwarden and am happy for now, but man what a shitshow.
Do you use any tools to generate the documentation? Also are you planning to make C# bindings?
Train Wreck (2005)