skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point seemed to be “conspiracy theorists are proven right in the end, it’s the only rational approach”, but then it claimed as evidence a bunch of stuff that hasn’t actually come true.

Conspiracy theorists are not driven by facts or evidence, as a community they have a scatter-gun approach, and then retcon in “see, we were right all along” by claiming a tiny portion of their collective predictions came true, neatly forgetting the rest that didn’t. Often even those they do claim have come to pass have not, and rely on a misinterpretation or exaggeration.

It’s quite funny to watch, a combination of survivorship bias, confirmation bias, wishful thinking and at times downright disingenuousness.
I'm nzithze using linkers or macos, what is the rationale of selling it just for macos ?
This other post has details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145286 .
Do I think it’s good? I do not. That’s one of the reasons I dislike the crux of the argument about free speech on Twitter. Social media doesn’t care about those things. They may say they do when they are flush with money (remember Google’s “don’t be evil”), but when push comes to shove, they’ll do anything to make a buck.

There is a place for social media in our world, I just don’t want to hold it up to such lofty aspirations that it will never achieve.
My Dad used to say "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.", which is from Poe "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." [1]. Nothing much has changed.

[1] https://poemuseum.org/did-poe-really-say-that/
You do yourself a disservice by the ignorance of this comment. British rule of Ireland was cruel and self interested and persisted well into the 20th Century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_civil_right...
The concept of using it to sync with an external system makes far more sense.

React 18 introduced a new hook called useSyncExternalStore for that, which implies useEffect isn't quite right for that purpose otherwise there'd be no need for a new hook.
The part that you should be concerned about is that factual reporting (and it is clearly factual - it cites specific emails and specific tweets) on this subject had to be published on a fringe site like this, because a mainstream outlet wouldn't pick it up for ideological reasons.
What I find frustrating is that eink displays are "expensive" when you want one that you can use with your hardware projects like an ESP32 or raspberry pi.

However you can get replacement screens and old e-readers for super cheap but these displays can not be easily used or not at all in your own projects.
That's just evidence that the Bundeswehr did indeed participate in the collection of the data.
What's a safe way to try this? DOSBox?
A no-code tool that generates code
Hi !

Here it is : drag&drop Figma-like editor to create SAAS web apps in no time.

Hit the "generate" button and it generates all the source code (React/Typescript/Nodejs/Postgres front, back, APIs, migrations).

What do you think of it ?
I jump between neovim and vscode with neovim every few months. Neovim can be faster and more scriptable but vscode just works.

If you start using Neovim know you'll be spending hours breaking and updating your config to reach "vimvarna". Let me know if you ever get there ;) you can enjoy the journey getting close to perfect just for something else to break the next day.

It is crazy to me people try to shoehorn jupyter notebooks and debugging into Neovim, if you haven't try the jupyter notebook extension in vscode, will make you reevaluate your life choices
LLNL plans improvements to fusion lasers
So how much money does Google make from their music streaming service? They can exit the business citing the shitty, unfair practices of music/movie licensing.

But they won’t. They aren’t in the business to ethically make money, just legally. Many times, what is legally right is not ethically right.

They can also use their vast resources to try to change laws, even if it is a Herculean task. They won’t try that either. Because the only thing that matters is profit, everything else be damned
Oops, yep, my mistake.
You're probably right about that, I have noticed a pretty good line up on there when we had it for Silicon Valley, Game of Thrones, and Barry.

But I'd expect that of HBO also. They were the original channel to go to if you wanted to see great movies when I was a kid.
Left-wing authoritarianism is by definition not fascism. It lacks the ethnonationalist and patriotic elements for it. Fascism is exclusively pushed by the far-right.
So where is the National Guard and FEMA? Isn't this the kind of situation FEMA was created for?

https://www.fema.gov/about/organization/tribes

Why hasn't Biden declared a Presidential Emergency?
> I believe there's now also a VS code plugin for the same behavior, but I don't know what it's called.

It's called "sticky scroll". It's a relatively new feature of VS Code.
This has certainly been discussed albeit not widely, but you do not own data. You do not buy digital movies. You don't own it, whether or not you paid for it and whether or not you have a file containing that data, with DRM or not.

You pay to enter into a contract to obtain a license to do things using the data, under the legal system for your jurisdiction.

Hypothetically, if people could be trusted to follow the law or the law could be enforced practically, it would be fine if all digital media were widely available. You could obtain the data, but being a law-abiding citizen, you would not play it without having obtained a license to do so.

Thus, the current state of affairs is really just the reductive case of the prisoners dilemma combined with society's decision that content creators deserve to be paid for their work (a tangential discussion on copyright as a concept).
That's the part about passion industries people don't understand: the distribution side doesn't have much power to structure the payment to artists, it's all in control of the publishers (labels/movie studios/game publishers) who control a large catalogue of works and have immense leverage to negotiate all this bullshit on geo-locked content, royalties' payments to the creators, etc.

Ranting about Spotify's, Apple Music's, Tidal's payments to the artists or region-locking IP is a smoke-and-mirrors move from major labels, they are the ones forcing these practices unto the distributors/streaming services.
Show HN: Dog API
Hello there, happy holidays.

I've been maintaining for 6 years this Dog API that only returned facts. I recently rewrote the project to make it more flexible [1] and I had a blast doing so.

This API has been used by a lot of computer science students, as well as bots and other 3rd party services that integrated in the past. The old endpoint receives around 1,000-1,500 requests per day, which makes me happy.

The goal is to extend it to make it more interesting and usable, I collect dog data in my spare time. I'm not looking to monetize it, it's just for the love of education.

Feel free to use it, and share it!

[1]: https://github.com/kinduff/dogapi.dog
Obviously you didn't understand parent comment.
What about telling people the truth, that there were no masks for everyone and they had to prioritize first responders? Treat people like adults and they will behave like adults. Treat them like kids and they'll behave like kids.

Also, once you know you have been lied to, the trust is shattered, whatever the excuses. How people is going to trust again the CDC, knowing that it lied before?
> There is no way to derive a common-denominator configuration for a dependency shared between two dependent packages, each with their own configuration requirements (a la portage). Nix style is to install the dependency twice.

I've never used Portage; what did you mean by this? If you recompiled a library with different flags then you'd expect it to produce a different result.
To use the exact same library in multiple packages, change their `buildInputs` by overriding their argument attrsets (`aPkg.override { aLib = aLibModified; }`).
To replace it in every consuming package, use an overlay `final: prev: { aLib = prev.aLib.overrideAttrs { ... }; }`.
Now we need a leak of Flash Player source code :)
As far as I understand the proposal, it's "just" standardizing how some high level Rust types would be automatically translated into a "C ABI" compatible representation, sort of like a builtin bindings generator.

But I wonder why DLL linkage wouldn't already be possible without this proposal.

C++ doesn't have a standardized ABI either, but it's possible to load shared libraries with C++ interfaces just fine - as long as they've been created with the same compiler and compiler version. Since there's only a single Rust compiler vendor I'd imagine that dynamic linkage should already be much less trouble than in C++ land?
All the truth revealing footages and videos of the US' wicked, inhuman, evil works, actions and measures currently exposed are the most valuable videos you've been seeing
These are not apples to apples comparisons though, for the very reasons mentioned upthread.

A median wage of $32K in Sweden might come with near zero expenses for health, education, additional security, daily transport, etc.

A median US wage of $47K might incure additional expenses for health, education, etc.

These are post tax "median disposable income per person" figures - and other countries get a great deal more direct benefit per citizen post tax than the US provides.
Clipboard doesn't have support for either Xorg or Wayland yet, but the headers are already included to make it easier to add when it's ready. I know this because I wrote Clipboard (check my submissions)
That is exactly what the op meant with " flatpak-style monolithic executables".

In MS speak, it is xcopy install, based on how MS-DOS applicatons used to be distributed, even when static linking was the only option (with overlays).
The Weltrechtsprinzip only applies for a limited set of laws. I am not sure this would fall under them.
Sure, that would have worked.

People were fighting each other over toilet paper.
They did the same in Spain. And it is very very hard not to fall for conspiracy theories when essentially all the west governments simultaneously lied about the face masks effectiveness.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101113442...

thats ok. you can lie and twist the reality but it won't work with people who can read or listen.
Does it matter if some supplies are let through if the end result of attrition is still achieved?

"Cases of child malnutrition double in Gaza because of blockade"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1172086/
After spending a lot of time watching your dream app getting developed, you must be excited about its launch. But do you know how to submit an app to the app store? Check it out!
Rayman Legends on Nintendo Switch (2017) is one example, I guess?
Maybe that is the prism of living in europe.
> followed this format

And comments like yours are following one as well.
The point of TFA is preventing piping curl to bash, not preventing from running bash scripts.

The problem with piping is that bash will read line by line, keeping the connection open while it runs. If the connection fails for any reason, the script will stop, potentially breaking or corrupting things.

This can be prevented by first downloading the file, and then running it.
Ah sorry no I wasn't referring to you derisively there, but these "experts" and grievance peddlers like in the link you sent. I'm really not swayed in the slightest by "won't somebody please think of the children/nazis/lesbians/whatever" shtick. It's just intellectually lazy.
This primarily helps you write dynamically loadable modules without being restricted to the unsafe C ABI that Rust already provides.
Please consider a review of the HN comment guidelines, not sure this adds to the discussion and is basically name calling and insinuating a bot
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“Unconstitutional” in which countries and by what constitution?

I learned that a lot of people think contrarianism makes them smart, and that even if everything everyone was saying about covid was true, they felt it necessary to ‘resist’ purely for the sake of it.

I never though that in a pandemic, so many people in so many places would both politicise public health measures and actively side with the virus. But here we are.

Trust has indeed been lost, but it might not be where you think.
Rant to HN: Do Microsoft developers themselves use outlook?
Sorry for the rant, but using outlook on the web has got to be one of the most frustrating web app experiences that have been forced on me. I've embarrassed myself professionally a number of times after the app and the phone app glitch out and send things I don't intend to. The thing is I know microsoft hires some of the brightest minds out there, and I shudder to think they themselves use outlook and are proud of it. Is this a situation where the microsoft gets to brag about housing people like Miguel de Icaza and Guido van Rossum but not have people with as sharp chops working on what has to be one of their main, most widely deployed software products?
No, there does not have to be advantage nor clear answer to question. A trait that produces no advantage can remain. A trait that produces disadvantages can remain too - just less often.

Improbable things happen in practice. Just less often.
This is a real problem that I believe will become increasingly commonly used by attackers to break into companies.

Unfortunately, it's not an easy problem to automate the detection. There are some heuristics, but you're basically writing something like Norton Antivirus for Python packages lol.

A sufficiently skilled attacker can make their code look totally innocent[0]. :)

Source: Former security engineer at Uber/Snap that's now working on tooling in this space[1].

0: "Underhanded C Competition"
http://www.underhanded-c.org/

1: Open Source "Supply Chain Security" platform https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
Ask HN: Thread or taper shaft in doing fastening and releasing?
Which system is easier, threaded or tapered rod male-female pair, in doing fastening and releasing of connection mainly between arbor and chuck ?

and else sich connections if generously want to give extra information
It actually ships with vscode!

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_70#_editor-sticky-s...
I can understand that. But I figure, I live near a huge shopping mall and a golf course, built on what used to be the finest farmland for miles around. The winter flock of crows, probably many thousands strong, still come here every winter.

They're now competing with the endangered seagulls, which used to roost in large colonies on the coast, but due to predation from introduced species (mink), plastic pollution in the ocean and commercial fishing, have now decided it's better to live on the flat roofs of our malls and apartment blocks.

We're messing so much with their lives already. A little kindness on an individual level doesn't seem like it would make things worse. I try not to humanize them too much, let them be birds, let them be wild (in particular I don't try to tempt them to overcome their natural wariness at humans).
I stated this multiple times: piracy is not a crime when the alternative is to spend your money on a temporary license to access something that lives on somebody else's computer, and that license can be revoked by the owner of the remote computer for any number of reasons. When that happens, the owner of the remote computer doesn't owe you any explanations, and you have basically wasted your money.

Not only piracy is not a crime in these cases, but it should be morally encouraged.

Of course I feel sorry for the creators whose work gets ripped off (and, being a creator myself, I know how much it hurts when somebody eats away my already thin profit margins).

But creators have lots of distribution channels today that they can actually own (from Bandcamp, to Funkwhale, to Peertube), that they can monetize however they like, that don't throw some spare change back at them (like Google or Amazon do), and that don't encourage broken and exploitative business models.

I feel like we ought to build more platforms that are actually owned by the creators in order to get out of Big Tech's grip over the creative industry - with all the distortions that come with it.
The officials at Ellis island did not ask for names and then write them down, they used written manifests from the ships.
Hallelujah! At last.
Unfortunately it takes awhile to compile Bun from scratch. It doesn’t need root privileges though. To compile Bun completely from scratch, you’d need to compile:

- Zig

- mimalloc

- libtcc

- zlib

- picohttpparser

- sqlite3

- BoringSSL

- WebKit’s JSCOnly port

- libarchive

- lol-html (+ rust)

From there, you also need clang 13, which you might also want to compile from source (though that can take an hour or more). When compiling Bun in CI, many dependencies are compiled from source (excluding Rust, LLVM, and Zig)
I think most people would agree that getting hospitalized beats brain surgery. The only comparable Covid outcome is the ICU and that’s very rare for people below 40.

It probably makes sense to get a vaccine for younger people, just not the awful AZ. And many countries agree, having switched to mRNA. What they didn’t do yet is admit that they were pushing the AZ crap much harder than was called for and apologize for screwing up vaccine procurement.
So it mostly helps making libraries in Rust for other languages to use?
Email has never been "private" per se, it's unencrypted as it flies across the internet.

If you want privacy, you need to add a layer of encryption on top.
That begs the question, how does it benefit humans in any way, to find rainbows etc beautiful?
Wow I'm shocked how cheap this is:

Prices, to keep this data anti public and affective only 5 copies will be sold

price per copy is 400$ [ negotiable ]

exclusive sale, only 1 person : 1500$

if you want to have the data + vulnerabilities we used to get into the database - 2000$
It wasn't a crow it was a blackbird [1], they're smaller and definitely lower down the food chain. If a fox came by while he was still on the ground it might have eaten him, they don't normally come out in the daytime though

[1] https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2017/06/European-Blackbird...
I’d pay $12/year for gmail. That would give Google the revenue they need to keep everything humming along. I’ve been living with free e-mail for almost 25+ years now, but a dollar a month would be easy to rationalize for the service.
Reputability won't help you if someone intercepts your connection and replaces the script. TLS helps, insofar as the version of curl you're using and its configuration is correct, your machine has the right certs installed, and the remote domain and/or host and/or repo hasn't been hijacked.
Speaking of making everything worse...

I'm far left politically. I found COVID very concerning, I'm fully vaccinated, and I still wear a mask indoors.

And yet, after seeing some of the tweets that were labelled as "misleading", I believe that the way the govt and Twitter moderators handled this was a disaster that makes me extremely unlikely to trust anything that either will have to say on any contentious topics in the future.

And if I'm not the only one, what do you think this lack of trust will do to "civilized society and democracy"?
"Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes"

Author writes like he has a picture of himself on his bedside table and an old flickr account abandoned after realising he spent all this dedication and effort on deciphering some kind of ephemeral beauty in the world other people saw, but that was somehow always just out of reach for him.
It sounds interesting but your landing page is broken on mobile as it has a min width wider than my screen and scrolling disabled.
Disturbing. I think I'm becoming dyslexic. You're quite right.
Don’t take it on my authority. Read any historical source about what happened at Ellis Island, eg. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/ellis-island-facts-and-...

Even wikipedia has it under the “Name-change myth” section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island

> Records show that immigration officials often actually corrected mistakes in immigrants' names, since inspectors knew three languages on average and each worker was usually assigned to process immigrants who spoke the same languages.

> Many immigrant families Americanized their surnames afterward, either immediately following the immigration process or gradually after assimilating into American culture. Because the average family changed their surname five years after immigration, the Naturalization Act of 1906 required documentation of name changes.
Definitely not, geographically-speaking. If your hunter-gatherer group is deciding where to settle down for a while then the area with tons of flowers growing everywhere is far more likely to have abundant available food than one where no flowers are growing at all.

If you think about how modern people use flowers today (indoor plants decorating their homes and outdoor plants landscaping their property) then it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that we evolved to prefer flowers in the environments in which we live, not as a hard-wired signal that "this plant is edible" which is clearly unreliable.
> to put tons of effort into an ice breaker

That's the neat thing: you don't.

If all still works as in my dating days, you have decided (on some shallow criteria) to approach someone, and they decide (also on very shallow criteria) whether to continue the interaction or reject immediately.

Unless you have an obvious ice breaker, don't overthink it. My generation used "gotta light?/haben Sie Feuer?/t'as un briquet?"

You may be surprised how effective (in the correct league) low-effort openings are.
I don't know why people did make fun of him suggesting using UV. CNNing of the mind works well in the distopia that has became the western world.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101113442...
Awh yeah, I see quite a lot of blackbirds and I always look out for one with a broken eye. I haven't met him yet, it was back in the summer some time
Hong Kong was leased over the course of two opium wars that were won by the British. Opium and tea were valuable Chinese commodities at the time.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/hong...
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

I don't care much for anything Musk says, or even what the reporters who publish this stuff say. The meat is the emails themselves, and the referenced tweets. And none of that has anything to do with Musk.
Almost every park has one
Do you think datacenter security and techs in a small town get paid the same as software engineers in Silicon Valley just because they work at Google?
I have a similar setup with Emacs + Evil + Poly + Quarto Modes. Evil for vim keybindings, Poly to read cells as buffers and Quarto as a superior alternative to Jupytext [1].

[1] https://quarto.org/
you should get their passwords and use chatgpt to write their comments too, so their relatives don't get suspicious after they go missing...
+1. The page is not viewable on mobile (Safari on iOS 16)
Because large groups of people have shown, time and again, they don't act rationally.

Look at toilet paper - one rumour that it would run out, despite shops, the government, everyone, saying there is more than enough and the rabble went out and hoarded.