skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wtf. Were these protocols designed to be insecure? Reading that page, how can you mitigate against it?
When someone is obsessed or drugged to the point that you can't have a rational conversation and they're too angry or volatile to approach with any criticism, then it's not really your fault for coming at them the wrong way.

Sometimes caring about someone means showing them that what they think they want is garbage that's hurting them. That will probably hurt their feelings, and they might lash out at you for it, but the alternative is doing nothing or enabling them and watching them drown.
>Metal Gear Solid

And maybe the OGs Metal Gear 1 and 2 under MSX, which now have proper English translations to be played anywhere. OpenMSX it's a good emulator.

For Spanish speakers/readers, there's a short,half hilarious scifi/fantasy/triller/comedy novel called 'Más fría que la guerra' (colder than [the] war), which begins with Woodstock hippies summoning dark entities from who knows where, a la Lovecraft. You'll get these military/agency tropes and lots more. BTW, for Latin Americans, CESID = basically old CIA-like state agency from Spain.
In fact, monolithic solution is much faster to ship. And cheaper. And much easier to support.
> I like Go. But how come they have not fix the issue with implicit nulls? Null guards everywhere... I cannot believe that a company as mighty as Google did not choose to use decades old insights on how to fix this

They relied on decades old insights of persons who worked on C and Unix. That said, I'm honestly still on the fence about if nil checking is really braindead, or just what it boils down to in the end and the rest like exceptions and Options/Result is just theatrical.

What I don't get is that they are not more pedantic about checking nil errs in the compiler. They error hard during compilation on unused variables, but err checking is simply not done.
One of the motivations behind Pijul was to manage custom versions of Nixpkgs while still benefiting from upstream commits. One issue that's hard with Git is that when you also want to contribute multiple changes back, you have:

1. A branch pointing to the latest nixpkgs head.

2. A branch with commit A (let's say commit A introduces a new package to nixpkgs).

3. A branch with commit B (changing some config file).

4. A branch currently at in use for your own machines, with branches 2 and 3 rebased on top of branch 1.

Every time you do anything, you'll have to remember the flow for getting the commits fetched/rebased. Which is fine if you have a DevOps team doing exactly that, but isn't too cool if you are anything other than a large company.

In Pijul, you would have a single channel (branch sort-of equivalent) and two patches (A and B) instead, which you can push independently from each other at any time if you want to contribute them back.

Darcs does the same but wouldn't scale to Nixpkgs-sized repos.
The GitHub implementation of git archive does it's best to be deterministic. Some reproducible build systems like e.g. Bazel heavily rely on that.

GitHub had a bug early last year[0] that broke that determinism and it caused a huge uproar. So through a mixture of promises to individual projects and just so many projects relying on it, GitHub's git archive has been ossified into being deterministic (unless they want to lose a lot of goodwill among developers).

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/45830
I'm more hopeful. Just as most wouldn't bother digging through their settings to change their browser away from Safari, they also won't bother digging through their settings to change their browser _back_ to Safari. I think it'll make a small dent, which can hopefully be capitalised on later.
based on our current knowledge, not only of the science that we can extrapolate to the future, but of our technology and how we will apply it

note that that list is all negative things we suspect will happen and include no accounting for our own intervention in matters
There can also be cases where nobody in the area actually uses anything close to the "official" name - e.g. Fraserburgh being known as "The Broch" or Aberchirder as "Foggie", Gardenstown as "Gamrie"...

NB Been a while since I lived in an adjacent area, things may have changed...
Yes, and back-end features like syncing to your desktop browser.
What makes you think they expect the EU working for Firefox? It is not indicated at all in the comment. Is your world view already that there is only Webkit-, Blink- or Gecko based browsers?

We steered into a corner that is hard to get out of...
Why do you say Mozilla doesn't care about Firefox any more?
I didn’t know Threads is still a thing. It is still very much barebones and frankly laughable for a product pushed out by a trillion dollar company. The fact that it took them five months is even more comical considering that all they did was pare down IG.
Your idea of an 'end' seems to start somewhere other than the developer inputting the code which seems odd.
I’d recommend listening to the Hard Fork podcast to answer some of these questions. In particular the March 22nd and 29th episodes.
Twitter is also where the discussion about my field takes place. What's not to like? I find Twitter's recommendation algorithm does a great job of honing the content down to just the relevant information I need and then I can go back to carrying on with life.

Before Twitter, you had to go to the coffee shop and listen to people ramble on with their inane political rants and conspiracy theories just to get at the occasional tidbit of useful field-related information. That was depressing.
Heck, even the cameras I bought my mom were PoE with in-situ SD cards for self-contained recording and NVR, with a cloud option. An armored car company holding zillions of dollars can't bother to secure itself with even 2009-level residential technology or wall/ceiling penetration sensors is an absolute case study in security theater.
I can easely see some under pressure dev use this project not as an joke.

Some workplaces have publicly visible CI dashboards and managers put fire under you if there is some useless blip there.
Bzip2 Format Specification (2016) [pdf]
Maybe try explaining why you don’t use Facebook, and why it is not an appropriate, inclusive way to organize the group. Or, maybe Facebook has some kind of E-mail gateway that can notify people who are not on it (I have no idea, I’m not on Facebook either). You’re just one person, but if the group sees more people not participating because of their bizarre insistence on use of social media, maybe they can eventually be convinced to change.

This seems so weird to me. I help organize some local groups centered around hobbies and games, and none of them use Facebook because we know not everyone will be there, and we don’t want to exclude people. Sorry, but that musician group seems pretty poorly run.
From what I heard from engineers working for Alibaba, my understanding is that they are fighting with their own bureaucracy structure for quite long time to make any effective decision, at same time facing fierce compitition from JD and PDD. At some stage they released new prodect to compete with PDD every few months while still keep losing in their core e-commerce bussiness till now. All these were before government cracking down their financial business.

Most of the people I know in the industry think Alibaba is one of the least efficient big tech company in China compare to e.g Tencent, Baidu, Bytedance, Huawei. They all have somewhat similar bureaucracy burden as big corp but not at the level of Alibaba. Their problem is much complex than pointing the finger at Chinese government to explain everything.
Cwmystwyth is 10 letters with no vowels.
On Stalwart you can implement masked e-mail using address rewriting:

https://stalw.art/docs/smtp/rewrite/address
The scenario is a nightmare to people doing the work, since it seems to indicate there will be no new physics until energies at far beyond what can practically be reached. So, particle physics dies as an active field.
The closest neighbouring country, Norway, also have a state monopoly, only with even higer taxes on alcohol.
Something that causes some friction might absolutely lead to people treating others this way. Like if coworkers stop by your desk to invite you to lunch but you are in a meeting so they go without you. Should they have left a message? Track you down in the meeting? Waste their lunch time waiting for you? Friction matters in a social context.
I have often thought of finding some obscure nook or bit of waste ground in the city and simply building a secret house there.
How we treat these animals is a blessing compared to how Mother Nature would treat them. We protect them from parasites, bacterial infections, malnutrition, rabies, predators, the weather, physical injuries and yes, ingesting things they’re not supposed to.
I know, it's probably a bit late now, but you can clean install from the upgrade media. The setup program merely asks you to insert the installation floppy or CD into the computer to verify that you actually own an older qualifying operating system.

To clean-install Windows 98 using the Upgrade version, it would accept either 3.1x or 95 installation media. After the verification, it'll proceed to work exactly like the fully-purchased product version, no cruft from an older OS (since the older OS was never installed in the first place).

I know they continued doing this at least up until Windows Vista and 7. Helpful especially since Windows 2000 was a qualifying operating system for Vista upgrade, but a direct upgrade wasn't possible from 2000; it could directly upgrade from XP, though. Windows 7 would restrict the qualifying OSes to XP and Vista, and only allow direct upgrades from Vista. (Never tried newer versions of Windows, can't say what 8/10/11 do, but I have little reason to believe the practice has changed.)
No Substitute for Victory
The issue isn't social media in itself, it's how social media has become this absurd commercialized parody of what social media should be about.

Back in the day Facebook was actually decently good social life because it augmented it with helping you easily connect with others and get to know events happening (and other stuff too).

Instead everything has turned into some bizarre race to the bottom where communities are slowly becoming glorified cult of personalities, social engagement doesn't mean people socially interacting but instead it's a statistical term now, etc.

Instead of connecting us it's gamed to exploit us and there's plenty of people willing to be 1 step above the exploitation (influencers).

Just looking at how different twitch. tv is now compared to how it used to be, it used to be that pretty much everyone watched streamers just to see someone play something or do something extraordinary, now while it still is a bit true, there's a growing shift that people don't watch for any other reason than the influencer the self.
No :(

I _really_ hope Mozilla will pull their thumb out on this, but the baffling omission of iPads, and the EU-exclusivity of the law, make this an unattractive endeavour in terms of investment.

I really can't understand how the EU let iPads off the hook. Can someone explain that?
>The thread seems determined that no contribution should be made to a project that ends up going commercial.

The thread seems to have no issues with free software being commercial, they take issues with a CLA that either allows an organization to relicense your contributions or have an exclusive ability to sell those contributions. In essence, preventing you from selling their free software while they can sell yours.

Also, the conclusions of that thread largely seem to be the same ones you reached. Refuse to sign a CLA you don't agree with, fork projects egregious policies, and don't contribute to things you disagree with.
Because people don't think the government should always prioritize protection over freedom, nor do people think the government should always prioritize freedom over protection.

It's like asking, if people are okay with the government restricting the sale of bombs to private citizens, why aren't they okay with restricting steak knives? They're also dangerous weapons.

People judge the cost and benefit of each situation.
> you wouldn't think that mobile phones would be that common at that age

Elsagate videos got many tens (hundreds?) of millions of views at the time. If you know where to look you can see the cumulative engagement of babies in front of their tablets.
You seem to be trivializing experiences I shared without providing a basis. Please correct me if I am wrong.

> would be solved with a little bit of advance planning instead

We needed more planning, because ...? I am lost as to your criteria here.

We solved many complex family issues with smart phones, which the kids used responsibly, largely due to lots of planning of healthy activities and quality use of time.

The kids also competently leveraged their phones for other valuable benefits, and it was especially nice for me to be able to contact them at any random point (outside of classes), without having to know where they were. They are my kids - being electronically present, via voice, text, pics, gaming apps, etc., when I was not able to be physically present, meant a great deal.

> Obviously your mind is made up

My "mind is made up" because ...? What is your basis here?

Throwing around an empty (potentially projecting) accusation, does not make it true.

For 25 years and going, we have adjusted our parenting roles by trying new things, seeing what works, seeing what stops working, and adjusting. "Making up our minds" would not be a useful means or goal.
Then either they should figure out a legal way to comply or leave their products out of the union.
Bro... serpentza and C-milk did very qualitative videos around 2015 and 2016 if my memory is correct but the content produced over the past years has turned completely sensational and they accentuate on it purposefully (probably due to Youtube's algo. Some of their content remain super good though and the soundtrack of serpentza's videos is very good ). Their content has to be taken with a (big) grain of salt.

I sincerely hope that you'll get the opportunity to experiment with the immigration process in China which is straightforward and hope that people may overcome the initial reluctance to draw some of the lessons from a country that is far away and has a questionable political system.
I am not saying that it is perfect, I am just stating that we have things to learn from it and that I believe it is sad to just overturn anything that comes from countries that are different.

I believe we can end this thread here as it seems that we will definitely not agree, but that's OK. Have a good day and sorry if my behavior appeared as rude to you.
The Black Market That Delivers Elon Musk's Starlink to U.S. Foes
I read through the agenda and skimmed some articles -- this is certainly for a younger / less money savvy audience, but it's well written and covers the important basics.

The chapter on "investing" is well done. I'm going to send it to a friend who asks me to explain low-cost index / "Bogleheads" investing every so often. This might save me from having the same conversation a fourth time...
We have to move away from prerun autotools scripts in tarballs entirely, but honestly I don't expect curl to be at the forefront of that.

It's not clear (to me) that Lasse knew that Jia Tan was pseudonymous. I agree with him that it's going to be harder to target curl though, as it's a larger project (maintainer-wise) and he's personally releasing all of the tarballs.
This. If you go even further back like 1890-1920s today numbers are also looking very good. This whole mental health pandemic is over blown. People had it even worse just recently - and they didn't get much help outside of drinking.
I've always interpreted it as "improved". That's probably the reason for my disappointment, which highlights a disparity between my expectations and the real state of the world. Yet another reason to abandon hope I guess.
Posts related to PHP usually become discussion if the language sucks or not here on HN. I am co-founder of a PHP PaaS and I can confirm that almost all clients are using frameworks or even CMS systems on top of PHP to build stuff. Why not?

I am interested how PHP and frontend tooling will work out in the future. Nobody is compiling JS/CSS with PHP (as far as I see). That is usually done with Node.js. Livewire (and Inertia.js) are bridges. Sometimes PHP becomes a backend to provide an API for an SPA frontend.
Love your "About Us" page
I don't know how much you care about her, but it sounds like you do care at least a little.

Don't tell her what to do, or how to fix her life.

Go to her and tell her you are worried about her, that you are always no matter what there for her. And if she ever needs help you will be there for her.

Don't judge dont advice but make sure to let her know you care and will help when she comes around.
Was an example given its maker communities of gaming handelds.
Ban smartphones. It really is that simple. Children and adults alike will benefit.
> or if you are going to use Dockerfile only use ADD

So we should do

ADD https://example.com/fetch-and-install.sh
RUN sudo fetch-and-install.sh

instead of

COPY fetch-and-install.sh .
RUN sudo fetch-and-install.sh
Bicester is another canonical example. Pronounced like "Mister" with a "B" in place of the "M". I don't think a single native English speaker would correctly pronounce Bicester on their first attempt.
I'd guess these poor teenagers were mentally sick of something else before the social networks thing came to be. And they will be sick of another thing after social networks get replaced.

Important thing is that we have developed rules that parents teach to kids in regards to many things, but we've developed those rules for centuries, now with internet we need generations before kids will be ready to dangers of internet as good as they are prepared for the dangers of the street for example. Damn we still have bullying in schools, because schools are around just recently, like 100+ years, we have not adapted yet.
Bubbles in an ocean of native desktop applications.

iOS is only relevant in 29% of the world, many countries don't even have a relevant iOS market at all, they are fully into Android and feature phones.
> I'm not sure if your comment applies to Threads but if it does, and why not given the short time to launch, that Threads MVP had 100 M app downloads in the first 5 months.

Irrelevant. I'm talking about the feature set, which is not determined by the volume of clients being downloaded.

> I guess that it means that an MVP is all we need.

The clients need content. The business, in order to make money, needs way more than that.
Bending Spoons to Acquire StreamYard
I really can't believe Windows 10 is 10 years old and is still a heaping pile of trash. I'm so glad I switched to Mint 3 years ago after being pissed at Windows 10 for 3 years.

The only thing keeping me on Windows really was gaming, and all of that works perfectly for me thanks to Steam.
Pretty sweet site, thx for sharing. Hope y'all will start bringing token count up at some point. Will be testing this newer version too.
Brave will use manifest v3 too though, no?
100% agreed, I really have to question the motives of people who lump the likes of Discord in with Instagram or Tiktok. They are not comparable.
University of Minnesota researchers tried this and got banned!

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-uni...
4bit should take up less than this, there are quite a few shared parameters between experts.

But unless you’re running bs=1 it will be painful vs 8x GPU as you’re almost certain to be activating most/all of the experts in a batch.
Heh, the ultimate Spanish slapstick comic book called "Mortadelo y Filemón", which first began parodying Sherlock Holmes and, next, James Bond, it's a more proper depiction about who idiotic state agencies where in Spain in the 70s-80's, if not worldwide. Imagine a more idiotic duo than Don Quixote and Sancho Panza but in a modernish set, a la Supeagent 86, where the Spanish CIA-like agency it's filled with dumb, incompetent agents and superiors everywhere fighting outdated technology and with an 'IT'/scientic lab with a mad doctor proposing crazy inventions to fight the crime...

And the IRL depiction wasn't that far fetched...

In the Arpanet days, a lot of people walked 'inside' the net as if your aunt Gertrude walked inside an official secret bulding carelessly without too much effort...
Yes but, at least in the EU, there are strong consumer protections around what can and cannot be considered "usual" in TaC texts - the courts already gave credence to the idea that while people may not sensibly read the terms in full, there is an expectation that the contents cannot be too whacky when dealing with B2C such as apple.
Social media becoming an absurd commercialised parody of itself was inevitable. They're for-profit companies and that's where the financial incentives are. If there was a period when you thought social media was 'good', it's because the operators hadn't yet optimised their corporate mind-control machine.
Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
Hi, all!

I'm not an accountant but decided to study double-entry bookkeeping and basic accounting a while ago. I learned a lot from many places, including great threads here on HN, and wanted to give back to the community. In this article, I explain the mechanics of double-entry bookkeeping and how I came to realize it's a directed graph.

I know there are many accounting nerds on HN so please feel free to criticize or suggest changes where I got things wrong!
Veterinary models also assume that the subject can't sue you.
Corporations can be defamed?
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

For anyone else looking for the link.
You suggest non-interventionism leading to collapse events that then cause reform.

I think an even more successful strategy than is to sabotage the wealthy with social and economic attacks designed to stress them enough to effect change. Hypothetically, the wealthy can be made to feel intense pain without triggering collapse events that kill millions or billions. If that's true, then that's the better strategy.
And the just as close (sea borders are borders too) Denmark has low alcohol taxes and no state monopoly.
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I have tried being supportive on multiple occasions. I offered to help with building her a platform online since she spends so much time there. I offered to team up with her in case she wants to create an eCommerce site. The discussion always ends with, “I don’t know”.

I have tried various approaches, including being provocative, and that is why I said it is not worth it.

I am not abandoning her by any means and we talk. We are on good terms so to speak, but sadly those good terms only extend to lengths of her own comfort. She has a genuine problem with sharing who she is as a person and that is not easy to work with.

When every other thing you say gets interpreted as an “attack” or “you are crossing boundaries”, it makes no sense to push the person to end up where you started.
> With PHP to move my code to a production system I just need to run `git pull` and the new codebase is instantly live. No builds, no server updates.

Make sure your .git folder is not "instantly live" as well...
In short, the police department's involvement (or lack thereof) has made parents feel that they can't rely on the police to communicate or coordinate during a mass shooting.
Social media probably has some share, but look at the world those people grow up in.

Some of them only remember thing being bad and getting worse.

A 20 years old with basic education is fucked. They will be surviving not living the life.

Then social media reinforces the idea of being destined for failure with all of those 'successful' 'people'
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin#Exploration_of_RMS_T.... It was only found in 1985.
And macOS too, with CVPixelBuffer.