skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because B happened to you personally doesn't mean A never happens to anyone.

When a person says "A happens", and another responds by saying "A doesn't really happen - rather B happens", their assertion is insufficient to refute the existence of A, whether based on a cost analysis thought experiment or personal experience with B. It is far more accurate for the second person to make an addition rather than a refutation by saying "B also happens more frequently than A"
I don't want to downplay antisemitism - its a real problem. But why does that bother you, given he's dead?

Matilda was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. There's something in it that hits me right in the soul, even as an adult. I hear you when you say his antisemitism is an issue for you - but - I just can't see how that has any bearing on my relationship with his books. As a child I didn't understand, and now as an adult I can't bring myself to care. Its not like the royalties go to him - he's dead.

I struggle more with Scott Orson Card. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are fantastic books. Both different, and both absolutely excellent. I'd rather not support him financially given he's used his platform to attack gay people. But I also suspect it would have taken someone with a conservative outlook on life to write Speaker for the dead. There's ideas in that book I never hear anyone talk about. Hearing those perspectives has broadened my outlook a little. My life would be dimmer for not having read his books.

I also think a lot of the delight in Dahl's books comes from his unbridled wildness, and his unabashed delight in being a monster to his characters - in ways modern sensibilities don't approve of. I don't think he would have been on board with the modern insistence on political correctness in children's books. I understand the edits, especially if there's netflix deals in the works. But I suspect history won't look kindly on the edits made to his books. Its ok for Wonka to have slaves (so long as they're not african) and straight up murder annoying children, but he can't call someone fat? This all feels very of-the-moment.
OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process.

Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 on a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use.

I get more satisfaction sharing with others than driving a luxury car.
There have been exactly 0 times I left a junior hanging for more than a couple hours after they message me on Slack, which happens numerous times a day (raise that to roughly a dozen times per day if including mid-levels). I would absolutely not have bandwidth to go through the motions of pleasant in-person communication in this quantity. We all remember what working in the office was like, it was a bunch of utter bullshit that got in the way of work.
Alignment > Autonomy
If I thought someone had stolen my code, I'd want to reverse engineer to be sure as well.

"He was trying to haxxors us" might be part of the story arc but they seem to be claiming it's the beginning instead of the middle.
Anecdotally, where I live they are popular especially in the summer and lots of people ride them. I've used them a lot, always enjoyed it and hope they stick around.

But I live outside the USA and in a city where we have literal cargo trains that roll down the street in places where there are pedestrians, so the idea scooters are dangerous in comparison seems silly.
I took a look at the PDF linked from the Register article but sadly the term is replaced with an icon in reflowed text, rather than a black bar, so you can't judge the width of it to tell which term is more likely.

I agree Siri would make sense, but on the other hand I can't imagine any reason Siri would be redacted.
That's a very weak criticism. I think his analogy was fairly clear in what it was saying. "Bizarre" seems to mean "I don't like what it implied." But why bother to tell us that? Tell us why you don't like it. Better, give us a reason why you think it's wrong.
Except maybe Reagan.
A fellow cryptographer in the security board on stack exchange has shared their opinion on this:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3959/recommende...

TLDR: No. In fact, theoretically stretching the password is more effective than increasing iterations. However, I don't see him citing the fact some password hashing functions have limited input size, which means at some point having a larger password doesn't really change anything.
Never having really used DI consciously, my naive first reaction to this problem is that it should be something handled by the IDE, no?
America’s Culture Is Booming
Screeching (loud piercing sounds) is what eagles some other large birds do. It's also applied to tires which lose their grip on the road during a burnout or the like.

Looks like the character “Screech” will have to adopt a new (nick)-name.
Aah yep, I also had a Das, and the Filco Majestouch 2. Beautiful keyboards. Sold 'em.

Now I use the very-average Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic. Low keycaps, low travel. And of course a split layout.

Do not use the execrable MS mouse that comes with that keyboard. I love the MX Anywhere series, I currently use a 2 and a 3. They're light, so you can nudge them round with your fingers without having to move your arm too aggressively.
Also in the PR statement:

> "We hope that this will ultimately strengthen our relationship with the open source community, and are thankful to our Discord members for their support."

Yeah, ok. It’s amazing how tone deaf companies can be when it comes to the hacking community. You want a healthy relationship with the “open source world” or not? Because banning people without stating the reason will not do you any favors. Especially so when the supposed crime is disassembly. How about explaining what all that obfuscated data collection is used for instead of chasing down curious hackers?

> Ronsor's post also questions the app's heavy use of obfuscation and the data it collects, which consists of: motherboard and CPU info; audio interfaces; OS version; enabled network interfaces, IP address, and MAC address; computer hostname; and Voice.ai install path
saying Firefox is "better than any other browser on Android" might be true, but it still doesn't make a forced whitelist acceptable. Users should be able to accept the risk and install untrusted addons with a warning. Again, if its an addon that I wrote myself, I should not need Mozilla's approval to install that on my own device.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849488>

Archive.Is (<https://archive.today>) defeats most paywalls these days. There are other options such as <https://12ft.io>.

It's generally presumed that HN readers will be aware of this.
well, they’re lying if it’s at any reasonable speed yet
I've got an SC4, and the casting and basics are very solid (for the weight and price). The compound slide is junk, but the rest is remarkably good. The DC variable speed variants are the way to go.

Obviously 'big iron' is better. But even if you've got the space, you've got to choose between high prices and the risk and project of going second hand.
"Probably the most censored book of the last 30 years."
As an experienced designer from the older generation, I have grown weary of the endless layering of software-as-a-service (SaaS) over SaaS, plugins, and extensions that has become commonplace in the modern design industry.

A decade ago, I relied on simple tools like Inkscape (to remove Adobe hegemony for my workflow) for mockups and high-fidelity design, using HTML and CSS for coding a prototype. I could open and work on those files without any intermediaries, making my work much more efficient.

Today, I find myself forced to use Figma for design and collaboration, Notion for organization, and Webflow (SaaS Dreamweaver) for creating prototypes, all while relying on countless plugins for Figma to compensate for the software's shortcomings. It seems that designers are now more focused on keeping up with the latest updates, trends and tools than on delivering solutions to real-world problems.

It's time for a change. We need a new tool that simplifies our workflows, focuses on the needs of designers, and offers a library of boilerplate design system solutions with headless components and tokens. This tool should be accessible to offer the option to export code and assets without any paywalls or SaaS limitations (on top of subscription). Such a tool could revolutionize the design industry and save us all valuable time and resources.

Currently, my subscription total for all the different tools I use exceeds $120. With a simpler, more streamlined workflow, designers could focus on their work, rather than the tools they use.
This article references a nytimes article. This article has no regional reference for the workers.
It was recently reported that Apple was experiencing 50% defect rate in India where this newspaper seems to be from.
Could be that Apple had higher expectations.
Being bad at capitalism doesn’t mean capitalism is not their MO. I don’t mean this argumentatively, just so that point is clear: I’d apply the same logic to the various banking and investment shenanigans which lead to the housing market crash in the aughts, despite the fact that those services to capital ultimately proved highly counterproductive in many cases.
Target, Nordstrom, etc?
... and?

(I'm a fan of his, for what it's worth. Your meaning / intent however is unclear.)
Cleanroom exists for a reason. One of the first things I learned about code copyright is that the Ship of Theseus applies. You can't take a game engine for instance, incrementally replace every line of the original code, and then claim you have a completely independent work. It's still based on the original code.
The words siblings, parents and children all existed when Dahl wrote these books, yet he chose to use brothers and sisters, mom and dad, and boys and girls. He specifically used these words, because he's the author and wanted to convey a specific meaning.
Most business deals are secret. Why is it so special that this deal needs to be called out as secret?
But then it's not self contained and every time you want to access the archive you also need a program that can decrypt/encrypt that format. Using a self-contained HTML file means it's currently the most portable way to encrypt something and have it available anywhere you can get the file on.

By the way, I don't advocate for this idea. But still, I find it a pretty ingenious way to store encrypted data portably. Essentially what is happening is the file contains the encrypted data and the algorithm to decrypt it with the correct passphrase/key.
Whoa, this is awesome. I feel like I could really level up my skills by watching this.
Kindly take your gaslighting and passive aggression somewhere else. I'm allowed to "yell" and write how I like. I haven't taken any personal shots at anyone - unlike yourself.

Even if shrill is "gendered" (The Google says it "hints" at gendered language, btw), so fucking what. The implication in GPs comment is that this justifies Newspeak-ification... It doesn't. And neither does referencing less "agreeable" authors, such as Joseph Conrad. I mean, wow dude. Talk about the worst possible takes.
Don't they all do? Lighttpd does: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/lighttpd-setup-a-password-pro...
Reagan's tax cuts were passed in late 1986 and didn't fully come into effect until 1988.. here's the chart of Real GDP from before Carter to early Bush I:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=10d3t

The tax cuts were incidental to the better economy in the 1980s, and couldn't have caused it since they weren't in effect until well after things had recovered.
Oh wow they won’t even let your kids finish the school year before making you move? So they don’t actually intend people to relocate, they just want more attrition it sounds like.
I'm told that (at least for the soil near my house) you want the ground source piping to make it down to the ground water because without that moisture the soil's capacity to transmit heat degrades over time.
You build the possibility of undercounting into your pricing.
You seem to have missed the point. So allow me to reiterate: fat is a derogatory term which lends itself to the idea that food fats are bad.

Food fats aren't bad. So call them chubby or overweight or whatever you want. Using the word fat, when fat refers to a food product, gives dumb people the impression that fat is a bad thing.

Do you get this concept?

"Thin" isnt a food group. Short and tall, also not food groups.
What activity would the majority of the population perform now that does not require one to be in the top few percentiles of human intellect (nature or nurture argument aside)?

We moved people from fields to factories to offices with most of them still relegated to doing relatively simple repeatable tasks.

Now if you have a tool which can take over those tasks, get better at doing them and other tasks at almost an exponential rate you might have a problem on your hands.

And no UBI isn’t a solution and one of the possible danger of AI is that the change can be far more rapid than before. Mechanization and industrialization took generations, software can be iterated on and pushed at much greater pace so you also have a major risk that even if societal adaptations would be possible they might not be at the pace of change you’ll likely to see.

Now it doesn’t mean that we should be smashing GPUs and FPGAs en mass however one should not dismiss the danger of what happens when several generations both incumbent and upcoming that were educated and trained for a very specific world all of a sudden find themselves in a very different one.
>But why does that bother you, given he's dead

For example it can be taken it as a call to others to hate your guts too, and it can play out pretty nasty, if the economy turns bad and if people will start to look out for scapegoats.

This is not something entirely abstract, it happened before.
Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the claimants also entitled to request that the defendant suspend use of the code while the trial is in progress? That's often as much of a punishment as any monetary damages awarded at the end of trial. You have to stop using our work because you're causing additional harm, now let's argue about how bad the harm was.
That’s hardly the only option. Walled guardians that only protect against counterfeits or viruses is a perfectly useful feature even if they allow anyone on the platform.
I visited the Manzanar site, found it worthwhile.
The question is not specifically about ChatGPT though. What is the X that the current generation of AIs cannot do, and needs to be able to do before we can call it sentient?
I assume the fraudulent papers were the ones that claimed ivermectin was effective against covid?
> In Fantastic Mr Fox a description of tractors, saying that “the machines were both black”, has been cut. In the new Dahl world, it seems, neither machines nor animals can be described with a colour.

And removing any reference to color … for tractors.
People (ok, old school liberals -like the Clintons- as well as libertarians and other freedom loving classes) used to make fun of sects and other religious minorities with uhh, different sensibilities who were too prudish or uptight for their alternative censored versions of popular works --well, the joke's on us!

The speed at which history is being colonized to retroactively establish a new reality is pretty astounding. Elements who usually are loosely in the same camp are rushing over each other and throwing each other under the bus in order to establish moral superiority over the new barbarians.

To be clear, I'm not espousing the use of crass language; I however, would like to leave it to people to have the ability to make that choice themselves to be civilizer or vulgar rather than impose it upon them as some virtue.

IIRC, our current commander-in-chief called someone whose question displeased him "fats". Of course Johnson is the all-time winner, but what was another era.
This is going to be wild for many of you to hear, but Google gets a cut of my phone plan as part of a secret deal I have with them for phone service.
Sad. Truly.
Step-brothers, step-sisters, step-mothers and step-fathers exist, as do foster parents, foster sibling, legal guardians, etc. Some kids' mother or father died, or they're divorced, estranged, etc.

Using the perspective from the OP, it's a kids' book, using a couple of different synonyms might help them better understand what they're reading and not walk away believing that there's something wrong with their family or themselves.
> If you're using Steam Big Picture, you can leave multiple accounts logged in to every device and buy games on them…

I'm not sure I understand. Is your idea that instead of per-person accounts, you would create new accounts for subsequent copies, and then the family would work out who logs in as what user?

> Given this, rearchitecting their infrastructure (which pretty universally considers a single account a single active user) for a fairly niche case is probably low on the list.

Families wanting to play co-op games together is a niche?
If you want to send me an email I'd love to give you some starter suggestions for becoming a listener.
> avoid insinuating that the target is effeminate when they "should not" be, i.e. you avoid homophobia.

You’re implying that homosexuals are effeminate?
Now if only the worked on reducing the capital cost of the heat pump itself.
Most litterature doesn't last for many centuries until the language is so outdated that laypeople find it difficult to read without translation. It will then be translated, adding a layer of interpretation. All translations have that layer from the very start.

Yet the original versions are still around for those who prefer them.

Is it not okay to be able to pick a 2023 version, or a 1960s version depending on your own preferences?

How is that nearly as bad as banning a book?

The only problem I have with changes like this is if there's a lack of transparency, which I would to some degree agree is the case here.
I wasn't sure of this claim and it looks like it's unclear if they did ship GPL xBRZ code: https://twitter.com/_Ninji/status/1242853245564919821
You could do it unofficially forever just copy the steam apps folder from one PC to another or back it up and manually restore it.

The client would pick those up as valid installs as long as the signed in account has those games in their account.
I'm sorry, but it is as if you did not even read my post:

> The artist is dead.

That is why I used the word "posthumously".

> This is absolutely being done with the permission of the copyright holder.

That is why I said there was a moral question aside from the purely legal question of copyright.

> What if it was public domain?

I would 100% make the same argument. The problem is changing an author's work without their permission, and failing to indicate that. As others have said, if this were marketed as "The bowdlerized Roald Dahl" in clear print on the cover, it would not disgust me in the same way.

> Would you make the same argument about a modified Shakespeare performance?

It is typically clear in these cases that Shakespeare is being modified.
More like we've repositioned everything back to fragile.
Not excess of capital, but rather excess of money, due in large part to expansionary monetary policy such as reduced interest rates, allowing companies and investors to scoop up housing, supply of which is not flexible in the short term. In a smaller part it is decades of NIMBY activism and zoning laws making it near impossible to build new homes.
I've found the exact opposite. We have lots of gcp cloudsql instances. Each team handles their own dbs for however they decide to split their services.

Our operational costs are more distributed, they are more but they indicate the cost of each product and they separate our data very well.

Teams can do their own migrations, and we can prevent some rogue service from violating the data.

We are currently in progress for a very large migration from what you have. But I'm sure we just did it wrong.
I've looked... there haven't been any NYT articles about Apple.

In trying to find other articles that might have a link directly to it I also found https://www.outlookindia.com/business/tech-layoffs-2023-appl...

> According to a report in the New York Post, over the last few days, Apple has laid off hundreds of contract workers – workers that were actually employed by outside agencies but worked alongside Apple employees on various projects.

which... doesn't fill me with confidence that I will find one. ... and digging a bit more... https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/apple-has-begun-firing-contrac...

It is the New York Post (not the Times).
From the article:

> The Dahl estate owned the rights to the books until 2021, when Netflix bought them outright for a reported $686 million, building on an earlier rights deal. The American streaming service now has overall control over the book publishing, as well as various adaptation projects that are in the works.

I suspect they're hoping netflix will make movies based on his books. Netflix seems pretty sensitive to twitter opinions. They're probably trying to throw a bone to the twitter mob to make it less likely any new movies get "cancelled".
The whole value proposition of a contractor is that you can onboard them quickly when you need to augment your existing staff, and can terminate them just as fast when they’re no longer needed. This is in no way a layoff or mass firing, it’s a standard contract termination that occurs all the time with tech companies.

The “previously assured jobs were safe” claim is ungrounded in the article, which lamely provides little more than an anonymous source mentioning an unnamed Apple employee: “One of the contractors reportedly said that Apple previously assured the workers that their jobs were safe.”
Flux+touch: strip a relatively long length of both wires. Twist them together in a way so that the whole thing remains in a line. Touch with flux. Touch iron tip to solder. Touch soldered tip to wires. (Flux will flow through) Heat shrink after. (You may need to place the heat shrink first)
>It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, once you take a position of empathy.

It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, and it has nothing to do with empathy.
How Toasters Work
I suppose this is part of the "culture shock" I'm talking about. It is outside, it's literally the unwashed sidewalk we're talking about. What other "meaningful impact" does one need to be grossed out by this?

Would you feel comfortable lying down on a sidewalk and sleeping there, in a major city? Well, that's how I feel like when my friends walk around their houses with shoes, socks then jump on their couch. Their feet touches the couch which, to me, means couch == sidewalk. It's gross.

EDIT: Now, to be fair, hygiene is all about culture. I fully admit that. E.g. I seem to have no problem eating things off of a table in restaurants which is likely equally, if not more, unhygienic. But it doesn't bother me. Walking in my home with shoes on completely devastate me. Maybe it's a form of OCD, I don't know.