skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps there's a similar site for 'ffmpeg'.

The link you posted looks pretty helpful. I guess my needs for "interesting" git operations are low because I've never felt the need to move beyond the CLI. (Mostly, that is. I do click the colored bars in VS Code to stage commits and then commit from the command line.)

Occasionally I need to search for help when I screw something up. More often the solution is in the git warning message ("You need to 'git pull' before you can push" - paraphrasing.)
Also the appearance of no political baggage, but that’s not actually true either.
99% of normies can just pretend that mastodon.social is “Mastodon.”
China isn't the bad guy anymore. NATO is.
It is exactly that, but you'll see a lot of mental gymnastics to try to bend around it, or they'll just mask off say "Eh, gotta fight fire with fire"
I've always preferred it to low-quality trackpads that a lot of laptops tend to have. Typically I would use my thumb and wouldn't have to move my hand very much at all.
Tiktok works fine for me if I pretend to be in Singapore.

I open up tiktok:
I see cute dog videos.

I open up Twitter:
Immediately get pushed white nationalist great replacement was Hitler actually bad? posts.

Incredible.
In Favour of Trying New Things (2018)
Per polls, his base (Republicans) supports a ban of TikTok more strongly than Democrats.
It's the most divisive part of a Thinkpad. 45% of people will say it's the greatest thing ever and every keyboard should have one. 45% of people will say it's useless and they should remove it. 10% of people don't care.
We're talking about a deck of cards that have US business executives one one side, a QR code explaining why they're evil, and a shooting target on the other side. Launched shortly after the murder of a CEO. This is an explicit call for murder.

If one of those executives ends up dead and the killer is found with this pack of cards in the pocket, everyone involved in the distribution chain is getting sued. Some may be criminally prosecuted. You might think it's funny, but judges and juries will not. Nor will grieving families.

Until recently, I ran a print-on-demand company. No way in hell I would touch something like this.
Interestingly they do not own the recipe for the Volkswagen ketchup and there was a big outrage amongst workers a few years ago when they changed suppliers and the ketchup tasted differently

[0] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/currywurst-neuer-ketc...
One could say this ban is reasonable. Better to remove an app that is clearly linked to misinformation and spreading unrest in the US than to let the app continue to make it easy to spread lies and manipulate people.
The First Fleischer Superman
I actually find the opposite is frue. YouTube constantly recommends more of the same of anything I watch, so watching one extremist or even extremist-adjacent video means I will get flooded.

What's so good about tiktok is that it keeps my interests thoroughly mixed. I'm bilingual and I see content from multiple countries about different interests and it keeps me in touch with all of them plus presenting topical and trending content. It also seamlessly measures my interest so if I naturally skip a couple of videos about a topic I'll see less and less until I see none.
I noticed there's a "tests" repository which isn't really testing any project code (since there isn't any), but rather demonstrating that the techniques work. Nice idea.
Georgia was not that dissimilar of a situation if I remember well, NATO cooperation and membership being widely discussed by Saakashvili.
GOP lawmakers waste little time trying to write Elon Musk's priorities into law
put the election on a holiday, there is absolutely no justification for it not be a holiday.
The title wrong. It's only about the 14- and 15-inch ThinkPad X9 Aura Editions.
Quite possibly the strangest stereotype ever conceived right there
Yep, same reason I never used Google, or ffmpeg, or Debian, or Kubernetes.
It was more important when the trackpads were small and not so good. For example drag and drop was difficult with small trackpad as you had to move your fingers more often when you hit the sides of pad.
See I'm the opposite, despite using primarily IBM / Lenovo laptops since it was first introduced (yes, am old) I never found it quicker or more accurate than a trackpad or mouse. The last few laptops I have had I now disable it and pull the rubber cap off.

That said the choice was always nice for people who liked it so I'm sure they will be disappointed by this decision. I wonder if Lenovo had some metrics behind this decision.
ASCII renditions of photos have been around basically forever. Certainly printing these out on a line printer (80x24 screen was too small) was a thing in the mid 70's, and I'd bet go back to the first scanners.

Maybe the first quantized picture credit should go to Roman mosaics which quality wise are about the same as a lo-res JPEG.
> You think that a social media app is trade?

When it crosses international borders? I'm sorry, but duh?

Do you think websites and apps somehow aren't trade? I'd love to hear your reasons for internationally used online services not counting as trade somehow, that's gonna be fascinating.
Guess we're not going to mention McCarthy...?
Yeah, so I'm just paraphrasing the appeals court ruling above.

There's no dispute that this bill exists specifically to target TikTok, and that it will likely result in at least a temporary shut down, permanent if they choose not to divest.

Apparently there are a bunch of prior rulings on the meaning of "bill of attainder" though which say that that isn't within the typical meaning of punishment as used to define it. To quote just a bit of the courts recitation of previous cases

> See BellSouth I, 144 F.3d at 65
(explaining that although “structural separation is hardly
costless, neither does it remotely approach the disabilities that
have traditionally marked forbidden attainders”); see also
Kaspersky Lab, Inc., 909 F.3d at 462–63 (comparing a law
requiring the Government to remove from its systems a Russia-based company’s software to the business regulations in the
BellSouth cases)

I'm not really knowledgeable about bills of attainder, but I think it might be useful to understand the distinction they're making to be one between "punishing" (the bill is, it hurts) and "punishment" (it's not because that's not the purpose, it's a side effect). There also appears to be a higher standard to qualify as punishing a corporate entity than an individual, which strikes me as a bit strange, but if I'm reading this right is settled law.
As a European born in communism, you think if a communist country censors our information, we should censor theirs? Hard to believe.
Don't forget about all the deaths related to unnecessary poverty or lack in health care.
Nvidia drivers are holding back a widespread SteamOS release
Interesting point...that leads one to think why did they make this stumble? US generally is a smooth political operator. I immediately go to the theory that their hand was forced to make this bad move by another actor (maybe pro-israel donors). Of course who knows the truth really.
It need not be someone in the US, just a country which is not one of a few named adversaries. A Singaporean owning company would comply with the law just as well.
Because they're trained by CIA.
Well, there is this looking not cringey for me: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite
This is a great argument for the rest of us banning nearly all US social media tech from our countries. Frankly I'd support it given the new US government.
Better for you? Better for discourse? Better for protecting your echo chamber from things that might challenge you?
Were those numbers from a survey?
Twitter/X had a hard time in Brazil recently and was temporarily banned. Meta is now feeling more intense pushback from Brazil's judiciary power.
It's a good thought without practical implementation. How does the international law enforce anything?

Actually, why do you pay tax if you don't have to and there is no IRS or whatever agency chasing you?
How convenient. A "Science PhD" who is unable to understand how Ozempic works is also too lazy to explain their point of view when their misinformed view is revealed to them.
Quest for Talent Tech
on an ironic twist of events: the POTUS himself promised to save Tik Tok

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-goes-dark-us-users...

Is it because he his a collaborator of the CCP or because the accusation against China where just a ruse to move the attention away from the Dem losing the elections on their own incompetence? (I am in no way a Trump supporter, but honestly the Dems did everything in their power tho lose the elections)
And if you have free speech without exceptions, foreign actors will see it as a weakness and use it to brain rot your society.
HP sold (sells?) Elitebook laptops that have a trackpoint but with 2 mouse buttons instead of 3. But you can change the right button to right click on press and activate scrolling with press and hold.
There's always the basic drives that his mental illness place in his actions. If nothing else, attention, validation and social status are plenty enough for someone of his condition, that of narcissism.
Hey, I mine the stuff needed to make this stuff, but it sits as display pieces in my fluorescent cases.

34.7576, -116.2790

Lots of agate in the area, too.
While your words make sense to me, I cannot wrap my head around viewing it that way. It clearly makes them post facto guilty of the crime of owning the company (which is also not constitutional) and their punishment is either divestiture or shutdown -- which is an actual punishment given out by courts, not congressmen.
I never liked it, it's too difficult to use precisely. So I'm happy it's gone.
xip and https://nip.io are common workarounds for this.

I can't remember if one or both are in the mozilla list of public domain prefixes though.
I wonder how much foreign disinformation misinformation campaigning is gaming the priority here.

It's in China's interest -- not a small population -- for tiktok to continue to influence American thought.

So I speculate we are witnessing HN being influenced by mis/disinfo.

Eg I see here many repeated "Free Speech" being a corporate mandate claims, and other easily discounted factually unsound claims, misleading the conversation.
It's useless. It's a relic from an era when trackpads weren't good. I'm glad they got rid of it.

It's just not needed anymore and the left/right click button space can be used to make the trackpad larger.
Hi 76j67kj67k67, I'm matthiaswh. I use the nub every day and admire its ease of use and precision. In fact, I like it so much I went out and bought a separate keyboard with its own nub that I can use when the laptop is docked.

Now you know someone.

P.S. The drift usually happens when you hold the nub in a particular direction for too long, or on occasion if the screen is pressing on it when closed. It's irritating, but can often be addressed (although some models are worse than others).
The VanMoof e-shifter is awful: Every shift comes as an interruptive surprise which makes for a very uncomfortable ride. The test ride was the reason I did not get one.

Cowboy bikes are much better, but mine broke on the second day. I sent it back.

Now I got big legs thanks to those brittle novelty iPhone e-bikes failing me.
Oh yeah?

Because in the first half of last year, pro-Palestine discourse has been occupying heavy majority of my social media feeds (twitter, reddit, ig, etc.) without me even engaging with any of that content. Not even mentioning all the pro-Palestine protests outside that I got to witness myself. And I had a chance to witness plenty of anti-Trump protests (both irl and in the media of all kinds) during his first presidency as well. Open any social media, and you will see tons and tons of people talking plenty of very strong anti-Trump and anti-Biden rhetoric.

How well would any of that fly in China?

P.S. If pro-Palestine content was “suppressed in US public spaces and social media platforms,” they were doing a really poor job of it. My IG and twitter feeds were just filled with it, despite me hitting “not interested” on most of it. Meanwhile, TikTok algorithm was actually respecting my preferences, and my feed there was filled with stuff I actually cared to see (like 3d printing projects).
Zuckerberg would rather have them hooked on the "save europa" content in his platform, there's little more than that to this ban.
I'm expecting random person to reply to my comments here, and expect my reply to yours shown to you. I don't expect* others to be on a blocked sub-cluster of HN server that my comments would not show or someone else's response to be removed from my sight.

*: for the sake of argument
I also love cycling and engineless sailing- and see cycling as more practical transport around town, and cars for long distance recreational trips. In my lifetime I have put far more miles on bicycles than cars, as I’ve almost always had a daily bicycle commute to work. Sadly I no longer have a situation where bicycle commuting is possible, and miss it.
Check out local weight-loss and hormone clinics, which often have connections to reliable compounding pharmacies.
When China does it, it's authoritarian. But when the USA does it, it is to protect our freedoms. It's totally different!
/s
> This is just the paradox of tolerance, if you allow everything you won't be free for long.

This. As a nice clear-cut example see the propaganda being pushed on how Haitians were somehow eating everyone's pets. Even if someone somehow ignores the extremist call for violence, the fact that this propaganda campaign was targeting perfectly legal and legitimate immigrants should be very telling.
This is it anywhere near good faith. Also, aren’t you tired of “everyone I don’t like is a fascist”?
>Who is more likely to lobby my government to adverse affect?

Dude, the concern is that allowing TikTok is quite literally allowing the CCP to indirectly lobby. It's how this whole thing got started in earnest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...

The geopolitical utility of the app is to give the CCP more power to manipulate and hurt you. They want to get closer to the level of power that domestic US powers-that-be have. I'm blown away that this seems to lost on so many people commenting here
Social media doesn’t sleep anywhere but the ccp does and they are currently staying rent-free in the minds of millions of Americans.
The only way me as a regular person is able to 'take a stand' is to take my income and assets and move somewhere that I believe is more conductive to the way I want to live.

Maybe another open source library will fix it.
> you're trusting software developers either way, whether it be at the app level, the language/runtime level, or the operating system level.

I trust systems to do better based on observed behavior rather than a software engineer's guess of how it will be scheduled. Who knows if, in a given use case, the program is a "small" part of the system or a "large" part that should get preferential placement and scheduling.

> If a threadpool manager is hinted that 4 threads are going to share a lot of memory, they can be allocated on the same l2 cache.

And so this is kind of a weird thing: we know we're going to be performance critical and we need things to be forced to be adjacent... but we don't know the exact details of the hardware we're running on. (Else, just numa_bind and be done...)
Yes, both launched in 2008 and yet Github was launched first.

According to this archived article[1], there is a quote saying: "It [BB] sports a feature-set much like Github." That is an indication of which one came first and was already a success story on the market and served as a blueprint for BB, which was made in its image with the difference of supporting mercurial, instead of git.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200833/http://code.djang...

(edit) forgot the link to the article
I hated my T440s for having no physical buttons for the trackpoint. I would not buy a notebook without a trackpoint. I hate trackpads. I have two mice on my desk one is a trackball.

I would get an ultimate hacking keyboard with a trackpoint adapter. But the keyboard and the adapter is way too expensive.
SpaceX does have the freedom to choose, but as they say, freedom isn't free and comes with costs. In this case the cost is people that are interested in their launches getting scammed.

It's also difficult on the YT side. Users are 'free' to change their channel name. You are also 'free'ish to broadcast the SpaceX stream, as many other non-bitcoin channels do it. It's really the near end of the broadcast where the scam it self comes in.

This said, YT does need to put a special flag in for channel names like SpaceX and do an immediate check or put some kind of very long delay in particular channel name changes.
Speak for yourself. I'm typing on a thinkpad at the moment, I use the trackpoint all the time. Once you've mastered it, you no longer need to move your hands between typing / moving the mouse. Your fingers stay on the keyboard.
Serializing Ruby datatypes in JSON (2024)
Digitization of the Pudú at Chile's National Museum
Tags: Gaussian Splatting and AI
The Gentle Romance (Sci-Fi)
> because the left is demanding censorship of just about anyone that doesn't agree.

I have seen many things that leftists would not agree with, but no one has demanded them to be censored. Honestly no idea what this means. However, if you want to see something like this in action, check who Musk is blocking on X and why.

> "Cancel Culture," while legal, is fundamentally against the concept of free speech.

The people typically practicing "cancel culture" do not own any platforms. They are a loud minority not officially attached to any political party. I claim the real reason for this is that it is a backlash to decades of repression of minorities and women, who finally had a channel to express their frustration. Some good came out of it, such as getting rid of Harvey Weinstein. Other rapists, such as Donald Trump were immune to this culture.

> We can't have democracy without free speech

I claim the opposite is true. In the current era of personalized social media, the fire hose of misinformation and emotion driven messaging far outweighs reasoned information. We will see a new oligarchy emerging in the US in the coming 4 years and beyond, and they will want to control Europe as well.
Yes, but only in hindsight - and you have to take the "part 1" into account too.

An oscilloscope is able to show analog values. If you have no clue what a signal is, it is your best bet to start with. In this case it turned out to be a simple digital serial signal, but it could've just as well been a 0V-5V analog one or perhaps an open drain bus with pullups like i2c.

Logic analyzers only really work for binary values. You are able to set a single threshold: everything above becomes a 1, everything below becomes a 0. Great if you've got a purely digital signal, useless if it has analog components.

In the first part the author had to start with an oscilloscope to begin exploring. They could've probably switched to the logic analyzer before the first step of part two, but there isn't really a strong reason to do so - and there would still be a nonzero chance of analog components playing a role. Seeing that it was a simple digital "one wire TX, one wire RX" probably gave enough confidence to assume it was something like serial uart and move on.
I thought this was actually a good question, so I have trued to look it up. If I understand correctly the CPU tells the scheduler! I could not find exactly how though, maybe an MSR?
what “false flag” war has the US engaged in? would love a single legit example of a false flag, closest i can think of is gulf of tonkin which was quite some time ago and not actually a false flag.

i hate that nationalism is becoming another hyper-polarized topic - now we get people who are ridiculously jingoistic/anti-cosmopolitan and other people who reject fully the notion that a government’s first responsibility is to its own citizens. both are radical views that are no way to govern a well-functioning republic.
I've been fascinated by the shift towards Trump by 18-29 voters in this past election, and I think this is a good explanation that I haven't heard before. Yeah, and Bush 43 was so long ago that his popular image has turned from kind of a villainous "worst president ever" to a favorably remembered elder statesman according to some polls.

Note that it was a shift for Trump, still not a majority voting for him. Exit polls that I've seen still indicated an 11-point lead for Harris[1], but that's much more narrow than the 24-point lead that Biden had in 2020[2]. Anyway, I've been fascinated by this because it kind of broke my mental model imagining that the Republican party would eventually be marginalized as its voters died of old age. I definitely thought Trump was going to lose this age group in 2024 by the widest margin ever.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/exit-polls
Deceptive. While half the tech people I used to follow on Twitter moved to Mastodon, three quarters of them have either shifted to bsky or post to both via mirroring.
I don’t use it therefore nobody else should have it, even if they like it. Right.
Not needing to reposition your hand to switch between typing and operating the mouse makes the TrackPoint super efficient. The difference is even greater in cramped places like airplane seats that don't have enough room to place a separate mouse or comfortably use a touchpad.
> Certainly in the US there doesn't need to be a negotiation for a contract of adhesion to be binding. Not sure where you got that from...

Not sure where you got that from! The original question was about the legality of reporting the facts of an ongoing game by a spectator. I don't think that contracts of adhesion are in general unenforceable, but only that they are not so obviously enforceable as standard contracts or copyright law.

In fact I agree with everything you've said, except to say that I can imagine an unreasonable clause in a contract that prevents you from describing what you'd seen. I guess it would depend on the particulars though.
Show HN: Halfbaked- Untappd for Cannabis
Hey guys, we created an android app to allow people to track their use of cannabis products.

Specifically, it allows you to track how effective different products are for either a medical or recreational goal. Using this data, we then generate insights and suggest products to other users with the same goal.

Lastly, it has some social media functionality to allow people to connect with their favourite dispensaries and producers- similar to how you can follow a brewery on Untappd or check-in a beer with a friend. iOS should be coming out in the next week or so- once Apple finally approves the build (-_-)

Last thing, we had to apply an age-gate to get published- so you do need to create an account. Apologies!
Yeah, the government loves to be the only one that can brain rot their (loved that you used the possessive pronoun!) society.

When did the US citizens become so subservient to their government? I thought distrusting the government was American tradition?
Yeah but what was the prevalence of anti-Israeli sentiment prior to the 40k civilian massacre?

I wasn’t even paying attention to the news one day and CNN was casually interviewing a Palestinian father holding a dead baby corpse in his hands, with the head covered in a blood soaked bag. On CNN, at 10am.

You don’t have to be particularly impressionable to be affected by this.

History is going to be unmerciful in its documenting of this, no one is going to forget the sin here.
Google Trends VPN interest since TikTok ban
Decap CMS – open-source CMS for static sites (Hugo, Jekyll etc.)
> Does that mean the TrackPoint is dead? No, thankfully. It will still appear in the other ThinkPads made by Lenovo, said a company spokesman.

This is not about the death of the nub, but about how far the Thinkpad brand name can be diluted.