skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starmer has absolutely no opinions on anything other than not rattling the cage of conservative voters. This makes him broadly acceptable, but long term nobody is truly supporting him.
WDYM struggle? That behavior is deliberate and calculated.
I had no idea. I am sure it is disabled on my corporate laptop, but definitely worth checking out tomorrow.
This is exactly the kind of scenario CRDTs rectify.
Ask HN: What's the Most Underrated Tool in Your Developer Toolkit?
Hello HN community!

As developers, we often rely on well-known tools and technologies to get our jobs done. However, there are always those lesser-known, under-the-radar tools that can be surprisingly effective. Today, I'm curious to learn about the hidden gems in your toolkit.

1. What is one tool or resource you use that isn't very popular, but has significantly improved your productivity or workflow?
2. How did you discover it and why do you think it hasn’t caught on more widely?

Whether it's a code library, a productivity app, or a hardware device, I'm excited to see what underrated tools you all are using. Let's share our best-kept secrets and perhaps we can all discover something new to add to our arsenals!
And some form of autism. If you make a "normal" person rich they would spend their time and resources partying.
It depends. One problem though is there an extreme oversupply of JDs.

In general, there is an oversupply of menial jobs, an undersupply of specialized talent, and an oversupply of under-differentiated semi-skilled workers.

It makes logical sense that industries lacking enough specialized workers (i.e., fabs) ought to collectively invest in the education pipeline and outreach to attract workers 5-10 years from now. And they can't just throw money at the situation, they must find mentors and industry ambassadors to become Youtubers, TikTokers, and volunteer for high-school and young adult outreach.

Also, another problem is that real wages for average Americans have been in free-fall for decades while productivity has skyrocketed. Most American workers are working for almost nothing and most have a worse standard of living than their parents.
The judge can't sentence him, but if the judge refuses the plea deal he can order him to be taken into immediate pre-trial detention and schedule a bail hearing in the near future; and then refuse bail due to him being a flight risk (previously ran from authorities).

He would then spend potentially several more years in jail preparing for trial, obtaining discovery, going through discovery, filing pretrial motions, subpoenaing witnesses, etc etc.
Yeah, man, but there's having a job, and there's having a job job. You know what I mean?
Also see this short post about SIMD on ESP32-S3, discussed previously. https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2024/01/surprise-esp32-...
I see you're trying the same thing. To answer, no but stealthing does.
https://archive.md/YbKB3
you are defining an out-group (those who wage war and violence) and creating a justification for potential violence against them. comparing them to animals.. it's obvious where that's going. this is what humans do. sharp sticks are a pretty great innovation whether you use them for skewering lamb or killing bad guys.
Playing sources (presumably to get information) is not suppressing stories or burying information. I find it difficult to believe Wikileaks would have hesitated a nanosecond to hang any trump out to dry given the opportunity.

So no.

I think you wanted Wikileaks to suppress the information there and they didn’t. They published. But hell maybe Assange really did decide he preferred syphilis to gonorrhoea. Just like the times do, and the post, wsj, and Fox, cnn and mother jones. It’s a very establishment media thing to do. Clapper disagrees, sure.

The content of the emails was the problem not Wikileaks for publishing truth.

Wikileaks gave access to third parties for documents they were publishing many times. So dues everyone when the story is big and impact is desired. So what?
The first link is a motion spoken to independent Andrew Wilkie acknowledging supporters of Assange. The CNN article talks about the governments bid to have all charges dropped (they were not, he had to plead guilty on espionage).

Despite Mr. Albanese (the prime minister)'s election promise to bring Assange home, he's officially refused[0] to talk to Biden about it and has never answered questions on what they're doing about it.

It is great he's finally coming home, but forcing a journalist to plead guilty of espionage falsely, the decade of harassment and false imprisonment, the fake rape case... This should not be treated as "job done".

0. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/pm-says-biden-wont-in...
Is it odd that that's how I used to see video games, as a safe environment to learn grit, how to reason about systems and choosing better actions, where "better" is defined as "actions that lead you to beat the game" or "achieve a better score"?
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. I just posted essentially the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40785120

source: over a decade of experience in pretrial operations
Part one was great, then suddenly
The argument is replaced by "Jesus is the reason I'm right"
There's a place for that, but trying to frame fairy tales as Christian fables was decidedly _not_ where I thought the essay was going after the first part.
Because backups are exceedingly tedious and cost tons of money.

Many people and organizations decide it's cheaper to not spend money against a potential threat or risk, and to their credit it is in fact cheaper.

That is, of course, until the threat or risk becomes real rather than potential. Suddenly you have Lady Luck staring you down at your front door, invoice in hand demanding immediate payment of principal and all interest accrued.

Incidentally, this is why (at least at the consumer level) cloud storage and backups have become so prominent and in many cases forcefed by hardware, software, and service providers: Because it's hands-free and cheap data security for most consumers. Unfortunately, this doesn't always scale to large enterprise organizations.
Keyboard on Apple Watch

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/14/flicktype-develop...
He is also personally responsible for the persecution of Assange. He was head of Crown Prosecution Services in the UK at the time we know (from Stefania Maurizi's FOIA requests) they actually threatened Sweden when Sweden wanted to drop the case.

Wet blanked doesn't begin to cover it. I honestly think he's an entryist trying to tank the Labour party on the behalf of some British spy-lord. He's failing, but that's more the Tories' fault.
Or somebody tethering abroad to do some quick online task, then needing to pay 500$ in roaming fees.
> It has resulted in the creation on some of the most corrupt and mismanaged governments and centralization of power in the hand of these rulers.

Yes, but, colonial rule was a) not at all sustainable b) probably thoroughly corrupt in favour of different rulers and c) directly responsible for the shape of Indonesian politics today.

So, yeah.
Have you actually read their policies? There are plenty of big changes.

Maybe you are referring to them not stating that they will change taxes significantly? Well, yeah no shit. a) they can't, taxes are at their highest level since WW2, and b) they don't want to destabilise things like Truss did.

I think his biggest issue is that his voice sounds a bit wet and that makes people think he is wet.
East Timor was particularly bad.
Is that a block of cheese on the cover there? It is definitely fitting, because this text may as well be about the esoteric quantum forces in cheese holes.
He fled and let the statute of limitations expire. His excuse was Sweden might extradite him to the US, but the UK wouldnt.
Is package stealing a problem in your country?
thank you for the feedback! Ah, I can see how switching from column form to row form right away is confusing, especially if someone isn't familiar with all the notation and the code yet. Same with introducing the tensor method without talking about what a tensor is until later. Thanks for pointing this out! I'll make some adjustments.
CRDT's largely can't rectify merge conflicts... what CRDT's can do is make your merges convergent. If I auto-merged your Git code using a blunt policy I don't know if you'd reach for "correct" as your first description as opposed to "convergent".

The longer you're offline the more you have to explain to your users the circumstances where they might need to do manual data cleanup or expect creative merging policy. No matter what tech you're using.
I've encounter barely any evil, violence, violence or danger in my life on a personal level, let alone the amount seen in fairy tales. It's quite unclear how reading the Grimms would have better prepared me for anything at all. If anything they'd have mislead me.

I might have enjoyed it, but this article claims fairy tales are a way of telling the truth about how the world is.
Interesting, I’m guessing he didn’t expose many Australian secrets? Their government is fresh off of jailing a whistleblower (David McBride) ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ 5 years who exposed a so called war hero as someone who actually committed war crimes.
> Rejecting it and remanding him to custody would cause a diplomatic incident.

Australian Politicians: collective silence

We let dodgy Uncle Sam do whatever he wants to us.
Thank you
The Chinese watches supported by WaspOS are not available in India.
Considering purchasing the PineTime but shipping costs more than the device itself :(
Except you are making an unproven accusation. Just because Swedish prosecutors do, you should not.
The wikileaks subreddit was never official, and it was a train wreck. Two very dodgy Trump supporters "volunteered to help with the increased traffic" around the time of the Podesta releases and basically took over.
Understandable it's good to ask this bluntly as it's not very clear by title alone.

qq currently supports hcl/tf, csv, ini, json, toml, xml and yaml. On the roadmap there are more to come soon such as protobuff, html. as it currently stands yq and qq don't support all the same formats as one another. A few examples:

- qq supports hcl but yq does not.

- yq supports lua, qq does not.

- qq and yq have different quirks in marshalling and unmarshalling data. For instance yq only supports toml output with scalars and on the other hand there's a lot of room for refinement with qq's encodings as of the moment.

qq's goal is to have a very comprehensive set of encodings many of which are yet to be included or represented in a single tool (qq will not cover most binary formats however). It also has a interactive query mode with auto-complete which is pretty handy on top of having a unique and growing set of formats supported.
It most definitely is a control group is what you are researching is if the amount of money matters. Just not if you try to measure if any amount of money VS none matters
Pretty lousy comment after the person has been outrageously persecuted for over a decade now, including spending the last five years in prison without being convicted of anything.
Being a professional musician is a job.

And they certainly have accountants, lawyers, insurance, agents, financial planners, etc.
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

[Takes a bite of steak]

Cypher: Ignorance is bliss.
Good for him, and I'm glad he's out. But this remains a lesson to whistleblowers: "we. will. make. you. suffer". At least he's alive.
What about compilers? What is an OS without a compiler?
USPS has its own law enforcement agency, USPIS
PyTorch Geometric – Graph Neural Network Library for PyTorch
Light exposure was measured by a "wristwatch" worn on the dominant hand, so reading a book is going to get coded as more light than smartphone use probably.
S-curves only look exponential at the beginning.
Yes, and politics is not about supporting only one side either. If transparency makes for more informed decisions, who’s to judge the better outcome? Meritocracies die in darkness and evidence of corruption scares lots of voters away. Especially the unaffiliated/independent ones that decide elections.
How can it be "proven" if he flees justice?
A lot of exciting development happening in the package one has to appreciate. Also graphs as a modality in general :)
Xtensa architecture is flexible and extendable by the user. Ability to define new instructions, hw features and VLIW configurations are some of the key features. You can find more details on the internet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica
The main problem with canaries is that it's dead easy for a government to remove them from existence, simply issue subpoenas to every website that has one.

The users could then decide to jump ship but realistically they won't.
I made a RESTful Anti-Virus for developers
Nothing is ever truly 100% private, but certain things are "private enough".

A password can be leaked just as well as any URL, particularly if the password needs to be periodically sent to a downstream server to do the feed polling, and hence stored in plaintext.

URLs generally have less protection than a password because that's how we design a lot of our systems (and this is a property of our systems and not of the URLs themselves), but the protection they do have is often enough.

You protect podcast feeds for revenue, not privacy. The negligible loss of revenue you're going to experience if somebody hacks into a feed reader isn't worth inventing a new protocol. You need to protect against abusive sharing of URLs by authorized users anyway, usually by having a system that forces the url to be re-generated when it's getting too many visits, so if one of these databases becomes fully public, the problem is already solved anyway.
Helps explain why Jobs turned out the way he did, when perfectly capable people behaved this way around him.
Surprising that the author doesn't mention Arlie Russell Hochschild's idea of "emotional labor," which Hochschild first wrote about over 40(!) years ago.
Heh, try the process for getting a dev kit from Nintendo. Or going through the lotcheck process for actually publishing/updating.

I made an app for the Wii U. There were multiple times before putting it on the store that my app was rejected for one thing, and then the next time I submitted it they rejected it because they wanted it the way I originally had it.

The app did decently well, so I thought I’d make a sequel for the Switch. I spent a month or two on enough of a prototype to show them and had my request for a dev kit flat out rejected multiple times, with absolutely no reason given. Not a single freaking word. I gave up.
I wasn't even aware that the Mac existed at the time, but I always had a fondness for rounded rectangles because the Amstrad CPC character set had 16 characters that represented all possible combinations of a central dot with N, E, S, W spokes. They were rounded for the 4 cases that represented 90 degrees, and the rounded rectangle look was perfect for using as borders around things.

This was 1984, so wouldn't have been long after the original Mac but was maybe influenced by it. As far as I know, no other 8-bit computers have rounded container characters like this. I later used PCs, and the CGA text mode had its nice 1/2 line variants, which were good for variety, but they were square so I never found them as appealing as the rounded ones I knew from the Amstrad.
Why would he have a prison term in Australia?
Your tone regarding a woman getting her husband to help turn in a terrorist definitely elicits a fuck her husband's feelings. If even one more person was murdered after the fact, the brother should have been charged as well. Seems like the only person doing the right thing was the wife.
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Hacker news: the place where Americans find out about current and future EU legislation through the lens of propaganda from American corporations.
Thats why Dr. Manhattan is my favorite superhero; he can appear anywhere he wants in the universe and observe the glorious interactions without any harm to him. What a grand universe and how little we can observe with our mortal eyes!
I see. I don't subscribe to Tantra, so can't comment on that. What I believe is that there is no magic and it just depends on the conditions. Those can be from your birth or before your birth. Like if you have a genetic mutation that inhibits brain developement, it will make it harder to grasp these concepts and / or meditate.
This is a bit of a weird question. Scientific testing - just like any other material? Why would it be different for this case?
Did you know that in quite some countries you are officially not allowed to mock foreign leaders either? I mean it’s usually not enforced, but it’s definitely part of the law
Biodegrading plastics require above normal amounts of heat in order to degrade. I imagine this new bio plastic will be similar.
I agree that plastic replacements come with their own set of problems. But what do you see as a better alternative?
A single person doesn't have the power to change how a government system has worked for decades. Snowden merely made the truth public, but change can only happen if the majority of people want it, and even then have to fight hard for it. The sad reality is that most people don't care, and have even less of a desire to fight for it. Governments love complacency.
"These scrolls were scanned at Diamond Light Source, a particle accelerator near Oxford, England. The facility produces a parallel beam of X-rays at high flux, allowing for fast, accurate, and high-resolution imaging. The X-ray photos are turned into a 3D volume of voxels using tomographic reconstruction algorithms, resulting in a stack of slice images."

That article is really cool BTW, amazing stuff. Give it a read.
I think boredom is basically the result of a mismatch between small and big concepts of identity. By that I mean the feeling of being bored arises when the following conditions are true:

1. You don’t enjoy the thing you’re doing for itself, intrinsically

2. You can’t see how doing this thing now adds up to a greater purpose and long-term goal. This lack of a path leads to a loss of interest in the particular moment.

For #1, I really like what Japanese thought has to say about this. More specifically, Zen Buddhist-adjacent ideas like wabi sabi and the haiku poetry form. [1] They really help you center yourself on the moment and appreciate the impermanence of existence, which gets rid of that “wasted time” feeling.

#2 is more tricky and this problem is more endemic to modernity as a whole. I’m not sure what the solution is, other than to make long-term life plans and consistently fight off all of the cultural pressure to discard them and YOLO instead.

1. I wrote about wabi sabi and haiku on my (somewhat inactive) Substack last year, which you might find interesting:

https://onthearts.com/p/how-to-write-a-proper-haiku

https://onthearts.com/p/what-does-wabi-sabi-really-mean
sarcasm right?
I don’t think our dependency tree is perfect, but I think our dependencies are reasonable overall. We use JSON for transferring metrics data from our NTP daemon to our prometheus metrics daemon. We’ve made this split for security reasons, why have all the attack surface of a HTTP server in your NTP daemon? That didn’t make sense to us. Which is why we added a readonly unix socket to our NTP daemon that on connecting dumps a JSON blob and then closes the connection (i.e. doing as little as possible), which is then usable by our client tool and by our prometheus metrics daemon. That data transfer uses json, but could have used any data format. We’d be happy to accept pull requests to replace this data format with something else, but given budget and time constraints, I think what we came up with is pretty reasonable.
I'm all for thinking economically and deciding based on numbers. But we shouldn't forget to include the negative externalities into the calculation.
EU says Apple violated app developers' rights, could be fined 10% of revenue
I'm not sure that's true that it's (always) done in software. For example, the newest Framework Laptop 13 has higher resolution screens that come with rounded corners, because whatever supplier had a large stock of them lying around. If it was just software, the concept of having a "rounded corner screen" from a supplier wouldn't exist.
Yeah, NYT butchered that. The actual statement was

> Fat Mike’s main argument — “You are getting into bed with a corporation. You are not an artist. You are an employee.”

He was talking about being an employee, not "having a job". Being signed to a label means that they call the shots, and you record albums when they demand even if you want to tour and you have to write albums that they are happy with.
By the laws of a country he's never been to?

Your comment actually violates the laws of my micronation. Please come here and face summary execution.
> Considering he served 12 or so years I’m not sure he won anything.

He didn't serve 12 years. He locked himself in his room for 7, then he actually served 5.
[Not OP]

> So you're saying Chinese law applies to you when you're a US citizen in the US?

Sometimes

> We can't be subject to every country's laws, irrespective of citizenship or location.

No, that's why countries have extradition and other treaties that detail what foreign crimes they will recognize and provide reciprocity for with enforcement. Usually the answer is "Things that are also crimes in our country". Hacking is a crime in both countries, so Australian laws could be enforced on a US citizen through the mechanisms established by those treaties. Disparaging the CCP is explicitly protected in the US, so it wouldn't - so long as the US citizen never visits China.
Redefining Leadership in Self-Organization Without a Management Team at VSHN
If you're your own rightsholder, obviously you can do whatever you want. The NYT archive is one such example.

In the more common case where you are not, though, the law already provides exceptions to copyright for archiving and redistributing materials that are no longer available. This generally only applies to content that isn't audio/video/graphical, but a wider exception is provided specifically for "news" (journalism).

If you want to negotiate a contract making such archival exceptions explicit within the contract itself, that's probably not a bad idea. Even if not though, the law provides for archival protections already.

Further reading: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108
I appreciate that I came on to see you say this, because I was about to reply quoting you saying I can take the win, saying I wasn't trying to compete and maybe that was an issue.

FWIW, I don't doubt at all that you could create a local account. I have yet to move to 11 from 10 for my VM setup and want to avoid doing so as long as possible, so I've been sort of tracking the issue, as that they may remove it permanently is a slight concern and interest to me.
> I am strongly opposed to replacing dequal with a mess of dependencies that will bloat everyone's node_modules for absolutely no good reason whatsoever

For real? The last dozen client JS Projects I looked at had dependency trees that looked like NPM had been turned into a game of hungry hungry hippos.

> “This PR extends support down to node 0.4 and equivalent browsers, which is useful because accessibility means including everyone, even those few users on old browsers.”

I miss when the web evolved on the w3c's time line. Now it's technological magpie's shoving shiny things into the browser every release. Dam things are bigger than most OS's now (By LOC) and candidly that's kind of dumb. Were just making more legacy nonsense to support that might not have a good rhyme or reason.