skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Narrowband uvb is a very effective treatment for some skin conditions. The mechanism is totally different to vitamin D and oral supplementation basically has no effect. UV exposure is a significant health risk in some parts of the world and the public information campaigns to reduce exposure seem well justified. But I wonder if there isn't a case for a narrowband uvb sunscreen that only lets those dangerous but highly effective dna mutating rays through along with some sort of cheap and reliable dosimetry.
It could well have been, but the reality is that most middle managers have no idea why such decisions are taken and just try to assert them mindlessly using their managerial authority. People like that aren't worth the trouble it takes to deal with.
This doesn't stop private corporations from attempting. The Hyper loop and whatever they are calling the subway system that they are developing are "developing" still.

New York is adding a pretty massive LIRR line, so it seems like things are going ok
NeXTSTEP came with the Digital Librarian, which included a Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and a thesaurus. Beginning with Mac OS X Tiger, macOS has shipped with dictionaries. I make heavy use of the Japanese dictionaries.

Unfortunately I've had a difficult time finding offline dictionaries for Windows and Linux. Microsoft used to offer offline dictionaries (Microsoft Bookshelf had a dictionary, and I believe there was an Encarta dictionary as well), but last I checked, Microsoft no longer offers an offline dictionary. It used to be possible to buy a CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary, but last I checked there is no longer an offline digital version of the OED. As far as Linux goes, the dictionary software that I've seen largely relies on either public domain dictionaries (such as the 1913 Webster's dictionary) or open source dictionaries (such as Wiktionary), but I'm unaware of any Linux dictionaries that use commercial dictionaries.

I'm willing to pay for good offline dictionary software for Windows and Linux (bonus points if I could find good Japanese dictionary software); that's one of the things that keeps me on the Mac, actually.
Why was this recently uploaded to vermont.gov? Wouldn't it be Intuit's responsibility to inform its own users?

Confused whether this is just precautionary and given out to governments each tax season, or if something has occurred. The "Insert Date" makes it appear like the former.

Edit: According to another comment linking to "scmagazine," this is not precautionary!
Alright so I got around to testing this out (on elementary OS 5.0 Juno). I found it utterly impractical to use for anything more than 1k ebooks.

The biggest problem is that on startup bookworm loads all book covers one after another.
It takes forever until every cover loaded for huge libraries.
At around 2.5k ebooks the interface becomes so laggy that it’s unusable. Scrolling is no longer possible.
I gave up testing this with 5k ebooks.

Another thing I dislike about this application is the inability to adjust the width of the columns in the list view. There are some books in my library with very long titles. Bookworm seems to use the longest title to set the width of the title column for all books.

The memory usage got to above 11% when idling after starting the App with 5k books.
What if you accidentally cast your coding session to your Twitch stream?
The presentation you linked to by Sarah Roberts was very interesting to say the least. Highly recommended. She adds a lot of information about the condition of content moderators in other countries.
Completely agree with you, although I'm not sure how much of 'Hot take' that is.
Sorry, can't help for Berlin. My only advice is to speak to as many parents as possible. Ideally you talk to the Kita before the spots become officially available. Then you don't have to compete with 50 other parents, and they don't have to do deal with 50 applications...
> Today was the tipping when I was trying to explain some basic mathematics to my daughter, and managed to lost here, making her more confused than before.

How many questions do you ask during your explanations?

I ask because it's very easy to get wrapped up in your own words, ignoring the blooming confusion in the person you're talking with.

You might try some experiments around asking questions. For example, when you give analogies about math you think your daughter would understand, ask her to explain it back to you - before you're done. Or - after a few sentences, ask her what she thinks will come next.

On the topic of actually explaining things, you might consider doing the "tap test" with your daughter.

Pick a song you're certain she'll be able to recognize, just from the rhythm you tap on a tabletop. Then tap it out. And watch in bewilderment as she has no idea what you're tapping.

Turn it around and ask her to tap a song she's certain you'll recognize. It's a lot of fun and a very good way to understand just how hard it can be to teach anything. Works great with any friend or family member as well.

To be explicit, the outcome of the tap test is surprising because as we tap, we're hearing the rest of the music in our own heads. But the other person can't, of course. That's what happens to a lot of people when they explain things. They hear the parts they're not actually saying, but the other person can't. Understanding this phenomenon is the first step to doing something about it.

You can read more about the tap test in the book "Made to Stick," which is about explaining things in general and is a great read.
Older laptops tend to be very serviceable and repair-friendly. I use my VGA ports, USB, SD card, and Ethernet ports all the time. Newer laptops, from what I've observed, fall into two categories: either a)they are not shy about imitating a MacBook Air, or b)enter the size/weight class of a Toshiba Qosmio[0] from 2007.

[0] https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1683411...
What about people who work in slaughterhouses? Or a coroner or a mortician? Are they inherently "unhealthy" people because they have the personal temperament to handle a job that involves a lot of close contact with death? All nasty but necessary jobs with probably a lot more PTSD risk/scale than occasionally watching some gore and having to identify if someone's use of a racial slur violated community guidelines or not.
The document says that the accounts may have been accessed using id/password combinations obtained from other sources. But doesn't TurboTax have two-factor authentication?
If so, how is this possible?
If not, what would an extremely important service like TurboTax not have two factor authentication?
Sorry for the dumb question, but what exactly does this do?

`subsync reference.srt -i unsynchronized.srt -o synchronized.srt`

I mean, I already have a synchronized srt file, so what would I be syncing here?
Planck Seconds since the Birth of Jesus. Infallible. But seriously, since time is relative, you can only provide it with a reference included. i.e. Planck Seconds since x event (big bang/whatever) from the perspective of y. Similar to the notion of objective velocity... any object is stationary or moving only in reference to something else. Although I think we can get around that if we could get accurate measurements of quantum foam and determine if those foam bits all have velocity relative to each other.
> And suddenly one landlord owns ten companies trough subsidiaries and trusts. This is yet another nice trick that won't work.

If you own anything that owns property (and etc. down the chain) then you pay same progressive tax on all properties owned directly on indirectly (minus the tax already payed by subsidiaries if the lawmaker feels so generous, he may not be, because why not discourage creative ownership).

> Besides, price and demand curve would still apply where it was one landlord or hundreds.

Sure, but if ownership is not that beneficial for large capital holders then less money is used to buy properties. If there is less money and same amount of properties then prices drop. Then more individuals can afford properties, and demand for renting is lower and rents go down.

> What would help is to encourage housing density to increase supply. That has two main drive: building regulations (mandate building of a certain height) and taxation (tax building by footprint and not by height/units)

If there's more property to buy but plenty of capital to buy then big landlords just buy more and hold, even empty property. Higher supply would probably drive down price a bit, but not as much as you'd expect.

The problem is not only insufficient supply but competition between people who have too much capital and people who have barely enough. First group just drives the prices up for everybody, as high as the other group can barely suffer through.
Some guitar shops have a list of songs which you are absolutely forbidden to sing if trying on their guitars:

https://i.imgur.com/Pzd3lIk.png

https://i.imgur.com/qXkEUZl.jpg
Is this doing a full re-render on each change? Having not seen the state management piece... but could be nice for progressive enhancement modules in a server-rendered app. I've done similar in JS.
STM in Haskell is really nice to use also.
actually, if you need it fast, you can just duckduckgo "mint !hexpm"
My high school would play the William Tell overture in the morning as everyone was scrambling to get to their first class. It was amusing for a while but got pretty old after four years.
I'm guessing `synchronized.srt` is just the name of the output file.
Can't we say that about most of the tech?

What's the point of hybrid? Not gas, not electric. What's the point of a non-prime lens? Not wide angle, not telescopic. What's the point of the Switch? Not mobile console, not TV console. What's the point of a multi-bit screwdriver? Not phillips, not flat.
FWIW, the reports are saying these accounts were compromised due to credential stuffing attacks. While, Intuit can do something about credential stuffing by being proactive and hooking into haveibeenpwned etc. but they were not "breached" in an intrusion sense.

[edit]: Here is a source with more info - https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/intuit-the-com...
Two factor auth is not required for turbotax.
Hm, no I don't remember the frequency but they would do the standard thing where the announcer would come on and say "This is WSUK 99.7 playing the biggest hits!" and so on.
California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend
I enjoyed the Dam tour when I took it years ago. Especially when the tour guide said the Hoover Dam was the last federal project completely on time and under budget.
Suppose I, operating in the US, rent some physical storage space in Europe from a European storage company, and then ship a box of documents to them and tell them to put them in my rented storage space.

I don't think there is any serious doubt that a US court or US law enforcement with a warrant would be able to order me to contact the storage company and tell them to ship the box back to me.

The European country the storage unit is in would not see this as some attempt at exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction. To them, it is just a routine interaction between me and a service provider I am using in Europe. That my motive for asking for my box back was to satisfy a court order rather than because I actually wanted to use my documents is irrelevant.

(This works both ways. A French court ordering a French company that had stored physical documents to retrieve those documents would not raise issues in the US if the French company was using a US document archiving service to hold them).

I don't see why there should be any difference between my physical documents that I keep in a box in a Paris storage unit, and my electronic documents that I keep on an Amazon server in the Paris AWS region.
Ask HN: Where to Find Designers?
Assuming one wants to redesign an existing site or start a new one, what is the place to meet good designers?

Seemingly simple question, but I am still struggling with an answer, in about 15 years of running a business online. Popular freelance sites offer myriads of options, however, many appear to be proposing variations of cookie-cutter themes.

Where one may get a chance to approach such a rare and elusive species as a designer?
I'm also sick of Sweet Child O' Mine.
This is a wonderful little tool, thank you for publishing it! It was super easy to install and run.
Once you share a sketch it gets encoded in the URL, so then you can embed the URL using an iframe :)
P2PSC: Point to Point Secure Chat
I find it interesting that while the price of hard drives has decreased by about 50 percent over the past five years, the price of cloud storage has remained roughly flat.

As margin continues to expand, the need for alternative models and competition in 'Cloud' is becoming increasingly apparent.

https://storj.io/blog/2018/11/the-high-price-of-traditional-...
It's almost like he wants to fix the system itself rather than simply pay more out of pocket.

What an awful way to look at the world.
Does the desktop edition not utilize the server side logic that might have these accounts? I'm unfamiliar with that product and actually curious.
It's not like you just send the government more money if you feel like they should tax more... People like Buffet and Gates donate so much in part because they believe that wealth should be redistributed better than the government currently does
You're still missing a few of the finer points of stage 0-3 optiosn for babel. Also, that bloats out to a lot of requests with full round-trip time, and no real good server solutions for bundling via HTTP2/3 push yet.
You're blaming me for responding to a comment that responded to me. But apparently everyone else was immune from this, despite the absolute derth of evidence to support their claims.

The person replying to my comment is wrong about his point. DNSSEC is fine, it's seen as fine, and it will be continued to be implemented. Pretending otherwise is bland nerd contrarianism against standard bodies.

Other severely erroneous claims were made about the security industry, and software development in general. Which apparently was beyond you to read.

You are trolling. This whole thread is part of the reason many people who have the sense god gave them avoid this forum when attempting to discuss technical matters. Have a nice day.
I enjoyed your article very much. I'm a huge fan and proponent of this framework. Since I come across Mithril I have used it exclusively on all internal projects at our agency and haven't looked back.

Adopting Mithril also opened me up to a whole list of lesser known but vigorously thought through projects like BSS, Patchinko and the beautiful Meiosis pattern which changed the way I went about developing resulting in far better productivity.
Surely you can do much better than this using a speech recogniser?
ReRe's Law of Repetition and Redundancy [2] seems appropriate here:

A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule for only the repeated and the redundant. Yet,

A programmer's job is to automate the repeated and the redundant. Thus,

A programmer delivering to an estimated or predictable schedule is...

Not doing their job (or is redundant).

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12150889
I doubt speaking German helps much. Or, at least, I know plenty Germans here with the same problem. If I ever have a child, I would probably join the church across the road just to get a spot for them.

Sorry for not being able to help! I hope Berlin treats you well otherwise.
Cool! It looks to me like most of those approaches are a lot more sophisticated and work even when the text doesn't have any time annotations. At a first glance, it looks like the major downside is that these approaches are geared toward particular target languages. Subsync's advantage is its simplicity: by limiting the acoustic analysis part to simple voice detection, it can perform alignment between subtitles and audio/video in different languages, which is great for when you want to watch a TV episode in another language, but your video includes the previous episode's recap and your subtitles do not (or vice-versa). I'll definitely be taking a deeper look at these to see if there's any ideas / functionality that can be further incorporated.
https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/Venture+capita...

rhymes with... misallocation exploration.
People like this are the whiniest when they don't get what they want, oddly enough.
Software has a luxury of being discrete most of the time. So we can actually do discrete―and automated―checks on whether something works as we think it should. Humans only read the end result, and even that isn't always necessary.

In fact, maybe NASA should have similarly ‘unbendable’ (cough) software checklists. The temperature is 39ºF? Red color says no launch today.
Because "negotiating" the blank check that you already signed does't work.

Yes, it works if they have actually stuck you with a bill that exceeds your net worth and expected income, but in that case you can't afford and/or don't need a negotiator -- you just default. It also works if you've stirred up a media frenzy, but you can't turn that into a business model for obvious reasons. The only place it does reliably work is in the imagination of those looking to downplay the severity of the current state of affairs.
libraptorq (lgpl3+): https://fenrirproject.org/Luker/libRaptorQ/wikis/home

zfec (gpl2+): https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12976168)

liberasurecode (bsdesque): https://github.com/openstack/liberasurecode

cm256 (3 clause bsd): https://github.com/catid/cm256

openrq (apache2.0): http://openrq-team.github.io/openrq/

openfec: http://openfec.org/

lt-codes-python: https://github.com/Spriteware/lt-codes-python
Side note: TurboTax's updater still requires TLS 1.0. facepalm
The further apart the observers are and the larger their relative velocities the larger the effect is. There's nothing to stop the differential from being years in extreme cases.
Not similar at all.

TrackMeNot runs as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.

https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
How were you measuring magnesium need, blood tests?
The languages and systems change. Some time ago, I had a job freshening up a large, ~30 years old Common Lisp project and it worked mostly fine, with minimum changes attributable partly to evolution of Linux, and partly to some pieces of code being older than the ANSI Common Lisp standard. I don't believe it would be as easy with Python or JS.

That said, I don't buy "software rot" as a proper name. Software does not "rot". The concept of rot implies an internal change that makes something fail whether or not the environment around it has changed. This does not happen to digitizes data. Programs only stop keeping up with the Red Queen's race of computing environments.
Not sure if this is current, but apparently you can kexec to grub4dos, an on to windows (i assume this won't work for W10 with secure boot enabled, though):

http://reboot.pro/topic/7223-how-to-boot-directly-into-windo...
Well, I mean morally, you still owe the money. Just because the law has protected you from legal retribution after 7 years, I don't think it is necessarily right to make it illegal to ask for what is rightfully yours.

There are other laws in place to keep creditors from harassing you forever. So worst case, you could receive mail for the rest of your life asking for you to pay up.
Show HN: Deep Learning-based 3D print failure detection
How exactly do you "break up" Facebook (FB + Messenger, not the subsidiaries) without breaking Facebook?
> This means that maybe now the private keys are on your device, at any point in time they can update their frontend javascript code to get your private key and read all your emails.

That's the risk. By default, the filesystem isn't accessible to Javascript. But here, you've authorized key access for encryption and decryption. I suppose that Thunderbird and Enigmail could be modified to do much the same. But arguably that would be discovered quickly.
It's not the same, but even if you are not a billionaire, there comes a point where giving relatively more of your added income serves a greater good (i.e. funding for gov't) than the money just being in your bank account. Once you make more than you need to keep up your lifestyle (at whatever level that may be) the suggestion to give back more is not unjustified.
Great question. The main use case I can think of is when reference.srt and unsynchronized.srt are in different languages, and you want to eventually merge them into a single dual-language subtitle file.

EDIT: Oh, I should also mention that you don't need a reference.srt -- it can look at the video directly and use that as a reference.
I remember taking advantage of the promotions at places like UrbanFetch and Kozmo.com. Once I ordered a couple of music CDs and had them delivered to my door same-day for a total outlay of a few dollars. I remember seeing all the delivery guys with their Kozmo-branded messenger bags hanging around on the sidewalk outside their Manhattan offices, waiting for someone to order something I guess. I had a feeling this couldn't last.
I think the argument is that half the animal are killed, because they are roosters instead of hens. In addition to whatever their living standards are.
How to Block Any Site from Showing Up in Google Search Results (2012)
I believe it's a typo and should read "Although it can usually work if all you have is the subtitles file [...]".
This means that you would use a reference file that would allow you to synchronize your subtitles.
What enraged_camel said. Machine code is easy to parse. Yet we don’t optimize our tools for that. Readable code is more important than parsable code in most cases.
The computer was invented in the 30s, and the internet in the 80s. People remained "pretty unconvinced" by those technologies for quite a bit longer than 10 years.
I think they were referring to the fact that "reference.srt" would already be synchronized.
Hey I'm interested in a version with RT in it - do you have a link to the repo?
It's largely desperation, perhaps.

But they do seem more privacy-friendly than most.
At least on iOS the only option is "YouTube kids" application which allow you to restrict content to pre-approved by YouTube as kids-friendly.

I believe YouTube Terms of Use prevent anyone from making third-party youtube app on iOS. Android is maybe another story because you can sideload.
Many will argue that there is no way to know if there was true consent when there is such a power differential between the two parties and especially when the act is taking place in the workplace between boss and subordinate.

Which is why most workplaces require any kind of relations like this to be declared in writing to HR or in some cases forbidden all together.
You also get better low light performance, more dynamic range, and video capabilities.
I was just wondering if this feature is gone forever or anyone knows how to implement it now. If so, I'm about to ban half the internet like businessinsider.com and all the other spam nonsense that comes up when you google things now. I'm just astounded at how bad and gamed google search results have become.
Oh, that's wonderful! Your explanations are always the best. Thank you, magical girl Nayuki!