skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the tinfoilhats won't like this, but it should be a human right to have some kind of guaranteed access to an email account, something where, if you lose access, you can show up at an authority and identify yourself to have access restored.

It's absolutely insane that we're at the mercy of the likes of google for what is de-facto a requirement for life. Paying for it at something like proton-mail does not change the fact that you've got pretty much no legal right to get your access restored in a timely fashion.

This is vital infrastructure, and it should be offered and run by the state. I'm fine with people opting not to use it, I'd be fine with people paying extra for it over tag. But damn I hate the current situation.
>Remove all social media, stop reading the news

While I kind of despise the platitude you were leading with about boring people being bored. I think this sentiment is key. By removing modern stimulation (including checking HN too often), you get bored at first, very bored, until your mind can appreciate the novelty it finds on its own instead of being spoon-fed by the constant online shouting match.
Traditionally it was done here in eastern block with a beer bottle. A tool always within reach of a builder.
Absolutely agree, it took me most of my adult life to understand I was attracted to programming as a kid because of the creative flow it gives. Also why the usual day job at a bigger company in tech is not even close to fun as it is during the times I'm working on a pet project.

Anything too passive like watching films/series, or playing single player games which takes 40-80h to complete can bore the hell out of me but skill-based games are almost like crack. Same to creative efforts, making music (while trying to improve on it), photography, woodworking, they all put me into hyperfocus mode easily.
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> JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

No, he is not. Nobody can go through what he has been forced to suffer in all those years without lasting consequences that can't be undone: years of his life have been taken away, his health has been damaged, his family has been hit as well. He may be free to roam around, but he's not the same person anymore. I don't see any happy ending here, especially if there are no consequences for the psychopaths dressed as patriots who forced him into that ordeal.
Neither of these companies should be allowed to control both the hardware and the store. Having a duopoly here ensures that there will be little to no price competition, especially because the stores are full monopolies on their platforms, and developers have no choice but to use both to cover the full market.
Isnt terraforming a waste? After all, there's no need for open lakes and breathable air over the entire planet, even if it was feasible given the available water, which it isn't. Much better to concentrate resources to make human livable sealed communities with something like hydroponics for food.
Two ISS modules with leaks? Building a new atmosphere around Earth one leak at a time? :-)
Or with a magnet URI.
One thing of the dutch language is that this statement in echoed by the language itself. The most common way to say 'I am bored' is 'Ik verveel me' which literally means 'I bore myself'.
Is there a record of Xerox's Smalltalk scroll bar anywhere?

https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Filene/Smalltalk-76/.d...
> That isn't the own you think it is.

It is, however, a condition of membership under the rules of the UK Labour Party that you are a democratic socialist, and in favour of goals that include democratic socialism. Whether or not you think that is right, it is what Starmer signed up to when he joined.

> Brillant, people voted for him for exactly this reason.

His pledges when he was elected leader was to largely be "continuity Corbyn". A lot of the Labour membership voted for him for that reason. The extent to which he has been willing to lie and deceive his own party membership to get his position is quite scary given he'll likely be PM soon.
Considering what America did to Iraq, I think that's an understandable viewpoint.

However, Assange has always displayed a great respect for human life, and so, this doesn't sound like him at all.

I can't find any clip of this, nor anyone discussing this, and have never heard of it before your claim. Care to bring receipts?

Edit: Looking more into it, I found the source - people said that Declan Walsh said that he heard Assange say this at a dinner party. You really ought to be a little more discriminating when using a single quote to try and completely dismiss someone.
Not anywhere, Snowden managed to evade them.
Snopes sourced that accusation to the far right True Pundit which had also contributed to the Pizza Gate conspiracy theory. I'm done here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Pundit
I don't think Nix solves this use case, the linked binaries would still have dependencies stored at /nix/store/... and is hardly a solution for obtaining binaries that work anywhere.
> Have distros gone back to having "/usr/bin/python" available (as opposed to "python3" or something else)?

Debian provides two packages python-is-python3 and python-is-python2 to restore the /usr/bin/python.
If it's a foreigner it's possible, but it's called espionage or conspiracy
Alright, try this in Google Doc.

Two users simultaneously select the same word, and replace it by a different word each.

You might end up with: "apple" -> "carrot orange"

Sure it technically merged, and did not lose data. But you still need humans to reconcile the final state anyways. Worse, you might not even notice that you need to cleanup.
The title omits the final '?' which is important, because the rant and its replies didn't settle the matter.

Shellcheck's page on parsing ls links to the article the author is nitpicking on, but it also links to the answer to "what to do instead": use find(1), unless you really can't. https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020
>I've never once seen a Celsius-based nation put "15c", nor any non-english publication do so. They write for their audiences, the same as American, British, Canadian, etc publications do.

It's not the same. There's only 1 Fahrenheit-based nation, and that's the US. Every other nation uses Celsius. So all the others just take it for granted and use Celsius degrees, and assume everyone else will assume it's Celsius, because 95% of the world uses Celsius. So they aren't "writing for their [local] audience", they're writing for anyone who happens to read it, and assuming, like most of humanity, that the reader will automatically assume Celsius. The C/F issue only becomes apparent when dealing with American readers or publications.
The first paragraph is whatabouttery, the second may be accepted, but the claim I replied to was he was legally innocent until proven guilty. That is what I was addressing, not some broader notion of morality.
I hadn't heard of NTS until a Debian upgrade quietly installed ntpsec. It seems to now be the Debian default.
One example of rounded rectangles added purely for aesthetic purposes was the desktop window of the old Mac. When the display turned on during boot, it was naturally square, but then one of the first things the software did was to round its corners. Then they stayed this way until maybe another software switched into full screen. There was nothing like that on Windows and it was obviously a “useless” thing to do. I liked that detail.
Oh yeah, I forgot about my terrible DotA addiction, you're right. I rarely game, but I will get sucked into skill-based games to an unhealthy degree sometimes. So far it's only been DotA and chess, but even for those, I only play when I'm not making anything.
I'm the precise other way around.

Snowden and Manning had a duty to the US. They were US citizens, they even worked for the military or spying apparatus.

For them to release information, no matter how justified, is obviously a crime, but Assange isn't American, not US permanent resident, and he has no duty to be loyal to the US.

This is why I feel that the prosecution is so insane. Assange getting extradited to the US is like Russia getting somebody extradited to Russia. Now of course, you can't expect better from the UK, which participated in the same war he is most famous for publishing stuff from, and him going to the UK was incredibly stupid.

But acquiring material actively is something you should obviously do. If you're a citizen of a third country and have a chance to obtain material of public interest, of course you should, and it shouldn't concern you whether the country whose material you obtain regards that as a crime.
As in... the force applied to a string?
Replacing glibc with musl is usually unproblematic. That's what I did for my own portable toolbox which builds to a single self-extracting binary; https://github.com/9001/lxc
Pump up the valuum was one of my first punk CDs I listened to, I didn't know the sound was punk at the time yet since I was immersed in my new nu metal phase. I've been punk rock since then.
Joke or not, assassinating him was very seriously discussed at the highest levels.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-lo...
>Should French journalists account for French-speaking Americans? What about German, Nigerian and Chinese ones?

They don't have to: French, Germans, Nigerians, and Chinese all use Celsius.

>The only reason this argument ever comes up is because English is the most common second-language spoken.

No, it only comes up because Americans are the only people who use Fahrenheit.
Speech is free unless you are telling people where Elons jet is.
Wikipedia says 422.8 g/L (liquid, −162 °C). (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane)

So nothing you could swim in, but it would be relatively easy to build a boat.

Hmm, come to think of it: Titan's gravity is 0.138 g. So you might be able to stay afloat in liquid methane by actively swimming upwards, even if you can't float.

Similar to how birds stay afloat in the air, despite being heavier than air.
> nothing is stopping a malware vendor from literally never reusing app IDs.

Or form using the ID of another vendor.

> and it can even require some form of developer identification, it just can't be very deep identification, an e-mail address is enough (along with IP and other metadata gathered during the process).

I expect the typical malware writer will easily find a way to have a unique “e-mail address (along with IP and other metadata gathered during the process)”.

Because of that, “That way they can disable all apps signed by one developer” will not be possible.
It's not about obtaining binaries that work anywhere, it's about being able to ask for a predictable environment to run in. You don't have to care about the target environment if you can control the derivation that is built to run your program.

I think we also need to separate "Nix" from "The General Approach that is implemented by Nix (and Guix etc.)". I think the "The Nix Approach" (as I'm now going to call it) is fantastic and really is the solution to a lot of problems that we have. I think that the actual implementation of Nix isn't great and painful to use in real life.
Yes, organisations that use this free service get exactly what they’re paying for. I don’t think they they’re looking to be long-term memory for free plan users. We’re all adults here that know how freemium models work.
Our core military strategy is to suck up to naval superpowers in hopes they'll include us in their own defense strategy. It's sound policy, but it means that ultimately we can't afford to piss them off.
Blocking RSS fetchers which are "bots" by design, intent, and definition, is really bizarre!

Seems the poor indy bots scraping price pages once a week are totally out of lock then.
Posts like these are like the main character threads on twitter where someone says, "men don't do x" or "women aren't like y." It just feels like people outside of you who have no understanding of your context seem intent on making up rules for how you should code things.

Perhaps it would help to translate this into something more like, "what pitfalls do you run into if you parse `ls`" but it's hard to get past the initial language.
Agreed. The challenge I had was that the juniors helping me out were obsessed with applying these low hanging fruit style modernisations because of an unqualified "it's better".

I had to sit them all down and explain a variant of your point and the one another poster made about second system syndrome.
NuExtract: A Foundation Model for Structured Extraction
Good to see you on here posting correct takes, coach.
It's nice that this seems to address the problem of microplastics, but how about the other problems associated with plastics? Phthalates/endocrine disruptors/bisphenol?
As much as I hate what browser devs have done to scrollbars, I tend to agree with you. The one thing worse that fucked defaults is everyone throwing their own fucked personal preferences at you. Which is why sane defaults matter so damned much.

There are browser configuration tweaks which can be done in at least some cases. On Firefox Mobile / Fennec, for example, there's a configuration hack which can be done.

I'm having trouble tracking that down but I think this might be it:

In about:config:

### scrollbar width
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 30

### scrollbar shape
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style 4

From: <https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ujo1xy/how_to_incr...>
One noteworthy thing about architecture is that it’s a field of design where execution is extremely expensive and often politically fraught. The majority of architects’ designs are either never built, or transformed into something nearly unrecognizable along the way.

For this reason many architects end up seeking smaller design challenges where they can still leverage their understanding of materials and people flows. A coffee pot isn’t so far removed from that after all.
That was a double prank. He made it look like he peed on a bottle and then served its contents to some people, but there's a video where you can see how he switches it by a regular bottle last minute.

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/nofxs_fat_mike_comes_clean_...

https://www.punknews.org/article/38407/fat-mike-comes-clean-...

In a quick search can't find the video right now, but I remember watching it years ago.
People are manipulated all the time in attempts to keep interest and attention, by just about everything they consume. Conversations with others, news articles and books that they read, music and podcasts they listen to. I imagine you can find it in just about anything in modern society if you look hard enough for it.
How convenient for you to not speak swedish and be able to magically ignore anything that has been written in swedish then! Lucky!
Bidirectional trade would require Mars to have something Earth wants to pay for. Given the costs of sending stuff, it would have to be something that’s very valuable per kg.

What is there that could conceivably fit that bill?
But still no option to switch your tabs to the side. :(
What to do instead: use pwsh to completely obviate all these issues.
> an entryist trying to tank the Labour party on the behalf of some British spy-lord

I'm far from following current UK politics, but I've heard the same thing about Liz Truss...
You mean the second strike?

I tend to agree, the problem is, this was not a conventional war, for which the concept of war crime was made for.

The combatants were not wearing uniforms. The van was not marked as an ambulance. All civilians and some had weapons - and on the other hand US soldiers thinking only in terms of conventional combat, where there might have been an rpg still around for an enemy to retrieve and fire at them.

"Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle"

But they happened to live there. They did not visited a battlefield for fun. So yes, the video showed quite well to the world the reality of urban fighting against an uprising. Dirty as hell.
> and more all barely used.

Barley used.

FTFY
Until you find out it's actually useful for creating subtitles for no-audio video watching for videos that don't supply their own subtitles. Improved grammar and style checking without the cloud. Maybe a whiff of telling GIMP what to do instead of clicking through 1,000 menues. Automatically creating calendar entries from emails that lack an *ics attachment.

NPUs are able to do more than Recall and Bing search. Don't fall for Microsoft marketing.
A compromise exists :) - Public sector (e:g govt or academia). Due to lack of a need to show quarterly profits, its less stressful. But its also challenging. You can work hard, with intelligent people, on stuff that matters, but you won't get asked to work the weekend. Flexible family-friendly working can be a thing. Base pay is usually less than private sector. But pension likely to be better. And, getting burned out and/or laid-off is expensive. As is trying to save tons to get out of a hell-hole. Whereas, chugging along doing interesting fulfilling work for years at the same place with people you get along with, seems a good option for me. I recommend this to everyone :)
> The FAST feature detector is an algorithm for finding regions of an image that are visually distinctive, …

Is that related to ‘Energy Function’ in any way?

(I ask because a long time ago I was involved in an Automated Numberplate Reading startup that was using an FPGA to quickly find the vehicle numberplate in an image)
Where does the expectation come from that Bash should come ootb with BSD? Or anywhere else outside of mainstream Linux distributions with GNU userland? Bash is the standard Bourne/Korn-like shell for the GNU project, which was envisioned as a FSF Unix clone/replacement. BSD and other Unix-like systems pretty much always had their own separate userland, with often different syntax than the GNU tools.

I think the odd one out was really Apple, which ran Bash as the standard shell for many years (a choice they probably regret), while most the rest of the userland was largely from BSD.
The example case of "sanitising" Cinderella, do not have a lot of sense. Sure if you compare the Disney version to the Grimm one, the Disney version look like far less horrific. But the Grimm one is just one of the many versions of Cinderella.

The (probably) oldest know version is the story of Rhodopis, where there is only an eagle who bring the shoe of a woman to the king. Apart from the fact than Rhodopis was probably a slave, there is no need for sanitation in this story.

Also, Disney have used the older Perrault version as a base instead of the Grimm one. In the Perault version, Cinderella forgive her stepsisters in the end. There was no need to sanitise anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella
It makes me think of this Google search: <<russia fall out a window>>

The second link is: <<Full List of Russians to Fall Out of Windows Since Putin ...>>

Ref: https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-put...
agree totally
that ended about the time engelbart first publicly demonstrated hypertext (i'd say windowed guis but sketchpad and grail had windowed guis)
interesting. the sing-up friction and overall restrictiveness clearly demonstrate why the grey area is necessary
This is one reason why I never really got into microtransactions. Oh, you want me to pay you money just so you can toggle a 0 to a 1 in a database to signify me being able to use a particular hat in-game? No thanks.

I do still enjoy making numbers go up when I don't have to pay anything beyond an initial purchase, though (i.e. I still like playing games)
> Two most used OSes on the planet - iOS and Android - force you to create online accounts and do not allow you to fully use your device without online accounts.

Last time I checked, AOSP based phones as well as Samsung's and Google's lineup as well as iPhones can be installed without an online account just fine and everything works, the only thing that doesn't work is the Find My stuff, it obviously requires an account on either platforms.

You do need an Internet connection of some sorts during setup though, because iCloud Lock/Samsung Knox was the only way to get theft and robberies under control.

> Windows does not force you to use the online account to access all the features of your computer

Unless you know about the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick, you literally cannot proceed in setting up Windows 11 at all.
We all wish he’d wear something, anything, however.
No, no, no, just implement microfrontends obviously, with 2-pizza-slice sized teams. This way you can improve all the KPIs that matter: builds become MUCH FASTER, and direct reports become MANY MORE. No manager can say no to this amazing architecture!
WSL2 and Docker seem to work already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1dkxtb8/wsl2_and_d...
Take a closer look at the tables.
My experience with the new compression formats they added to Explorer has not been great, overall performance is poor, larger files get stuck and it straight up can't extract some perfectly valid files. I'm wary of more integrations if they didn't polish something that regular people may use daily
It is perfectly normal - If the judge orders the person's extradition, he must remand the person in custody or on bail pending the extradition. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

In reality he is not "free" till the judge slaps their hammer down.
Most people who achieve great things or stand out far from their peers are not nice people. It is almost a prerequisite. Musk, Gates, Jobs and pretty much every really successful artist are all monumental assholes.

If you can't seperate the person from the art or achievement you can't really enjoy a lot of things.
Also what the Tories did for the UK since the 2008 crisis. Austerity means the dismantling of public services by cutting their budgets instead of raising taxation to cover the costs, leaving behind the less privileged members of society (the disabled, the poor, the sickly) to suffer while the rich can keep increasing their wealth instead of paying back into society through taxes.
What's the problem with storing dependencies in /nix/store? Nix removes the downside of having dependencies. Manually finding and installing them, conflicting dependencies, multiple versions of the same software/libraries, dependencies that are no longer needed but you don't know it, different installation method and instructions for different platforms, temporary installation - all are solved problems with Nix. Every package in nixpkgs, world's largest software collection, is a `nix-shell -p <package-name>` away.
They're definitely not superellipses these days, but to answer your question in a more interesting manner: you don't have to stretch the superellipse. You can just split it so that the corners are rounded with a 1:1 aspect ratio and cheat by stretching the lines in the middle.
There's no political will to repeat the economic damage which anti-COVID measures inflicted either.
>If god had wanted us to live in permanent daylight, life would have been created on a planet rotation-bound to its star...

Keep that notion in mind next time you get badly sick and seek medical treatment.
Securing the Software Supply Chain: SLSA (Salsa) Framework
> In my experience, very few people appreciate that the issue with "SQL query forming via string concatenation" isn't in the "SQL" part, but in the "string concatenation" part.

Really? To me it's pretty obvious that not escaping properly is the issue, and therefore the same issue applies wherever you need escaping. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that SQL itself was the problem with SQL injection. (Although you certainly could argue that - SQL could be designed in such a way that prepared statements are mandatory and there's simply no syntax for inline values.)