skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using

youtube-dl -f 251 $url

Will download the ~160kbps opus audio if available, but it comes in a webm container, so I'll use something like

ffmpeg -i "$file" -vn -acodec copy basename -s .webm "$file".ogg

to repack it (without re-encoding) in to an ogg container for playback on Android. Many talks and lectures etc. could withstand the lossy transcoding to an even lower bitrate than Youtube offers (-f 249 = ~50kbps) but space isn't that much of a concern.
It depends. Eg if you’re copying GPL code in your company’s proprietary code base, the lawyers are going to insist that you spend 3x the effort writing a library from scratch.
C:\>copy WEB LPT1
Scaleway has been hosting large scale SIP attacks for the past few years: https://badpackets.net/ongoing-large-scale-sip-attack-campai...
This was a useful and informative backgrounder on the author, and easily confirmed, if floridly delivered.

The tone police are here, so signal boosting while I can
If countries were printing money under fixed exchange rate regimes their economic policies are a joke anyway, all they’re going to accomplish is inflation.

Libra and other digital currencies might make it easier for people to switch away from their local currency, but banning it won’t affect the underlying problems.
I'm not sure that's an entirely fair comparison to make for a couple reasons: A) nobody pays to read the news anymore, and B) Facebook controls its ad network.

If WaPo or any other news publication decided to turn off ads out of moral obligation to prove a point, they'd be digging their own graves. You're essentially arguing that they should commit economic suicide if they truly care about ad tracking. Our culture isn't willing to spend as much on news content as we do Netflix, and that's just a sad reality.

Facebook, Youtube, etc. OTOH have built very profitable advertising systems that form the foundation of their entire business. They fully control these ad networks and all their data. And in this case, it sounds like YouTube may have violated COPPA, which is a totally different level of moral failure than choosing to put up ads.
Yeah - but how would they know what is legally enforceable or not?

It's really complicated and I don't think it's reasonable to assume people have access to a clear answer on enforceability and certainly not an answer they could rely upon enough to risk their job over,
I see the fact that Python has a nice syntax for writing generators as incidental to the main point of "algorithms as objects". In Rust you'd (currently) explicitly write a struct and its next() method, but its still the exact same idea.
No, this is wrong. It sounds like it's being mispronounced by a native German speaker. There is no hard initial vowel sound; the first syllable is not emphasized like that. There are three syllables in the word: com-mun-al and it's pronounced "kəˈmyo͞on(ə)l,ˈkämyənəl/" so the stress is on the second, not the first syllable.
IT-security would be achieved only if the output of hash function is truly random (uniformly and independently distributed). You need to create a randomness extractor that turns entropy from a source into a truly random bit sequence. What hash function that you know of does this?
> Rust's "generic as possible" type is an enum

What enum? We're talking about a specific data type, it doesn't make any sense to say 'an enum' is the generic version of Result.

I understand why they chose Result instead of Either. I just disagree with it; what you end up with is 2 data structures with the exact same structure and implementations but that represent different things. If you have Either in std, then Result is redundant, but not the other way around.
It only acts like console.log in the browser console, not in a script. Interesting.
I wouldn’t say it is the same kind of bubble. Not all bubbles are created equal. The bubble North Koreans live in vs the one we do are not equivalent.
I agree with the parent that the issues you show are not comparable with what is happening in china. Of course US as a country did many wrong things, for instance the treatment of native Indian people in 1800s was directly comparable to what is happening in china now.

But the bad things a country did do not reduce its right of truthfully pointing out bad things other countries are doing.
I really love KeePass. I don't feel comfortable with 3rd party cloud services.
There are also apps for Android and iOS to work with KeePass databases. It's everything easy.
This bottom up class dynamic is called tall poppy syndrome, or the crab bucket.
Not only what? Was this supposed to be a reply to something?
First past the post demands it.
It has to be taken seriously by management, however. I've worked at a few places where diversity was king but upper management continued to make the decisions of aging middle-class white folks. Not that I have a problem with that in and of itself, but it was funny how they would hire lots of women and minorities, say that they wanted to target undeserved demographics, but then never actually attempt to do it. Diversity is, more often than not, a veneer.
We visited Varanasi when I was around 10 with my family. The Ganges was flooded (some structures were underwater) and there were crocs aplenty. The shopkeepers warned us. My dad insisted we rent a boat so we could go to this holy spot where 3 rivers merge so we could take a dip. Fast forward 10 minutes and there's 4 of us in the boat with a boatman stuck in some kind of swirling water and the boat spinning round and round. The boatman asked if we knew swimming (none of us did). I look about and remember seeing a crocodile (or at least a very threatening looking floating log) some 200 feet away. The guy finally got control of the boat and we escaped unharmed. Fun times...
Maybe the exact story maybe a similar story. Death is a constant : every year millions of people are dying and a lot of people die there (in Varanasi). It would be an obvious claim to fame for the city if marketed right, and there is no better marketing than moksha / salvation, at least for the old and/or the religious.

And imagine the life of priests (pundits) there. Some of them are in this business from the time they are young, then all through their life. Some funeral directors in US may see less people in a year than they may see in a week. Just amazing. Sorry to have just gone on...
HN explicitly allows articles from paywalled sites that have workarounds. I'm able to read this article with uBlock Origin installed, so it qualifies.
Current students as well.
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I don't see how the behaviour he wants can work. If you dlclose a library and cause it to be unmapped then the function pointers in that library are invalid and can't be called atexit. Either, dlclose will have broken behaviour by keeping libraries mapped even though all their dlopen references have been dropped or atexit will be broken.
Basically you get paid $15 an hour to poison your subconscious mind which is 95% of your life.

Absolutely unethical.
I have a small indie group with a friend and my brother and we are developing on this block chain. I haven't seen anything on HN about it so thought I would post this quick video about it. They have a discord as well you can join. I'm Cairo on the server.

https://discord.gg/CRAuBE4
I had to move from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Georgia after hurricane Maria. It has worked out ok.
This happens because of scope chaining in JavaScript. If you call a function it will look for it in the current context. If it’s not there it will try to find it in the parent. If it’s not there it will keep checking the parent objects until it finds it, or throw an exception. Since window is the top level context and includes a print function, it gets called and shows the printer dialog.
Unenforceable laws are always a mess.
My guess based on what I read from the grandparent post is there was probably some poor product fit. Perhaps we would have done better marketing it towards "gringos"?

From your link:

> In July 2001, Dulce de Leche M&M's were introduced in five markets with large Hispanic populations: Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Florida; Mcallen-Brownsville, Texas; and San Antonio, Texas. The flavor never became popular with the Hispanic community, who preferred existing M&M's flavors, and it was discontinued in most areas by early 2003.

Perhaps there is an opportunity in introducing it to people who don't have previous experience with this flavor? Just thinking out loud...
Basically, you get paid $15 an hour to poison your subconscious mind.

Absolutely unethical. Facebook should not be allowed to hide behind subcontractors.
Set up control via mavlink <> ROS with a drone running gobot
Oooh good catch
The article’s objection is probably relevant, but not necessarily the most important. It’s almost guaranteed that this con (edit: “coin” was intended, but “con” works even better) will end up governed by existing KYC laws, just as has happened with BTC.

The more interesting objection is about Facebook “disrupting” not the payment processing business, but the international monetary system (national banks etc.). There is ample reason to be concerned about this possibility, most prominently the fundamental idea that this system should be governed democratically, and not by industry, and certainly not by Facebook. Bitcoin was bad enough, with your power correlated with your wealth like a dark age’s feudal system. Restricting control further to a Silicon Valley Oligarchy is just dystopian.

The article may have ignored this line of argumentation because the system as it is currently planned just doesn’t really do anything to that effect: it uses existing currencies as the backend, does not (yet) involve any of the usual mechanisms of monetary policy (policy-based control of currency creation etc.).

Bloomberg’s Matt Levine had a long article on this yesterday, including a discussion how the basket-of-currencies backing might be a play to actually compete with these existing currencies.
How can kiddie porn, gore and animal cruelty "flood the network" for people using Facebook? Don't you normally just see things from your friends, ads, and groups that you are a part of? If they post that, either call the cops, block them on Facebook, don't hang out with them irl, or leave the group as appropriate. Problem solved? I haven't used Facebook in 5+ years so maybe this is no longer accurate.
Abrupt topic change and thought flow, cyber criminal part, kyc...

Much better pieces have already been written
Those who are interested in this might also want to check out Kni, an interactive fiction language implemented in JavaScript: https://github.com/kriskowal/kni
From Wikipedia:

> [Cutler] expressed his low opinion of the Unix process input/output model by reciting "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture.
I’m not sure which is worse, that journalists are unaware of what their own papers are doing, or that they’re keeping quiet about it.
My attempt at a more accurate summary of the evidence from the article: some animal research labs focus on neuroscience, and some of those neuroscientists use machine learning. Sometimes, they get good enough at using machine learning that tech companies hire them. Some of the senior people -- say, the type that could lead a lab at a top university -- may eventually get paid over a million dollars per year.

My impression is that the article is trying to make a connection like "tech companies are trying to hack our brains...so they're getting in bidding wars over neuroscientists!" when the reality is more like "tech companies are always looking for people with machine learning expertise, and some neuroscientists fit that description, and in some cases their research is directly relevant".
100 inches ranges from 10k to 111k €. I know what to buy if I win the lottery.
Classroom+Technology:+8+Major+Areas+of+Worry
> Facebook is enormously valuable. They made something like $15B in net income in the last four quarters.

Their profit is not proof they are valuable, because they are willfully abdicating responsibility for the damage they cause, and, further, involving themselves in government debates over their own regulation.

Advertising businesses are inherently suspect, and when one is addictive and potentially enabling election fraud etc, we need to be extra careful in declaring its value.

Anyone participating in the debate should have to disclose if they are a daily user or if their company advertises on any social network. (I'm clean)

Edit: my opinion of course is that FB, Insta, etc (any advertising product with push notifications and/or infinite scroll) ought to be illegal. In 50 or 100 years we'll all recognize that social networks are like internet cigarettes.
A bit of Fry and Laurie, on language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg
Man guilty of making a gun using a 3D printer
1) erm, good luck with that. Why not just hash random strings you come across in that case? May I suggest a text to pick them from?

2) That isn't what the article said. The article asserted "quantum computers" were uniquely and inherently excellent random number generators. I assert you can only say this if you never in your life interacted with matter, which is generally accurate when discussion "quantum information theorists" who come up with gorp like this.
make it silent? like chrome update?

silent download and auto install on next startup
To start, there's nothing linking the left and right variants together in the implementation shown in the blog. In Haskell and F# (never written f# but I assume) left and right are variants of a data type. In this blog they are just 2 disjoint classes. Those classes just happen to have the same functions implemented, but there's nothing specifying that to be the case.

There's no support for sum types in js, or good support for pattern matching. If you like to use your home-grown Either type in js then more power to you. But there's no denying that you're shoehorning a concept into the language that it doesn't have good support for.
>> If it's a shit job that isn't worth the pay, people won't do it.

Tell that to the people who pick your fruits and veggies.
That's definitely not true...at the level of the TDF, every gram of excess weight matters, and there's a vast weight difference between a cheap $5k bike and a "fancy" $20k bike.

If you're not at the TDF level, there's no point in spending more than $2k on a bike since the difference in weight won't matter.
The standard library has far more unsafe code than an average Rust project. One of the major reasons why is “needs a lot of unsafe to implement” is a historical criteria for “this belongs in the standard library”.
Right, he should be using a destructor instead, although AFAIK that requires (in C) both ELF and a non-standard compiler extension albeit those are available everywhere it matters on Linux and *BSD.
The Monopolies of the Future Will Be Chinese – and State-Owned
A pacifist’s guide to military aircraft: Warplanes as a guilty pleasure
Spammers call this article spinning or content spinning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
In my idealized universe FB engineers would have to rotate through moderation for 1 week per year. In my impossibly idealized universe the C suite would do the same.
Sounds the same to me.

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&t...
A lot of people pay for the Wall Street Journal. If the news sites would stop giving it away for free maybe people would be forced to start paying. You may think this would just drive people to fake news sources but people actually want something accurate. Fake news only works if it mixes with trustworthy content.
The problem with diversity is that it's thought of wrongly most of the times. What people think of is not actually the diversity that creates the value.

I believe many groups that are diverse by gender or race or ethnic composition are actually quite similar if they are the same age even though they might have different upbringings.

I explored this subject in this essay a while back which was based on some reflections I did after an ASK HN i did became quite popular.

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

my conclusion was "which diversity" is an important discussion to have.
Information addiction: Information is like snacks, money, & drugs to your brain
It is a real thing. On the other side, I am a black female who grew up in middle class suburbia and has a typical Bay Area accent. This affords me a level of privilege because I can easily "class pass" as someone more affluent - even though it is generally assumed black people are lower class. This means I have the "right" mannerisms and speaking patterns for corporate jobs and other things and it is easier for me to be perceived as a good culture fit because I have the right class markers.
It also meant, particularly earlier in my career before social media, I would get some interviews and then the interviewer was shocked I was black when I showed up.
The Market Police don’t haul you off if you pay something different than the “market wage.” Markets set a floor on wages by making it so you won’t get enough workers if you pay less. But companies can easily pay more than the floor if they want to. Obviously they don’t want to, because they love money, but it’s ridiculous to frame this as some iron law of markets.
I believe with fixed 20k UBI, that is increasing when income tax decreases, the hyperinflation would happen very quickly (1-2 year) much quicker than the business cycles. But even if i am wrong it is better to start with small and conservative UBI scheme to be safe.
Isn't AML just a bandage applied on top of a larger issue? What are the use cases for AML? How effective is AML in preventing and or solving for those use cases?
Oh absolutely. there are definitely situations where you cannot take shortcuts. I'm just saying that most workplaces weigh productivity far higher than originality.
Use Tor impossible on palemoon? Is Palemoon that Secure?
Use tor impossible on palemoon ? Is Palemoon that Secure ?

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=22341
a copy on:
https://web.archive.org/save/https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=22341
https://archive.fo/sNoNj

On the page
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=22321&sid=abb0c878b8073d4e24e1442f331a0dba
(Captcha Cloudeflare)
a copy on:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190619190433/https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&sid=abb0c878b8073d4e24e24e1442f331a0dba&t=22321
https://archive.is/ivB1R

It was asked why palemoon configured under tor (127.0.0.1:9050)
could not access addresses with a 'cloudflare service'.

Cloudflare blocks the 'exit node addresses' of 'the tor network':
These addresses are well known and are increasingly used as spam.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets/master/firehol_level3.netset

The technical Question that Was Asked on this page was :
- Can Palemoon be considered a secure browser ? Since it is now impossible to use it with the tor service, in more and more sites, sites using the cloudflare service ?

The question remains unresolved and as long as a TECHNICAL SOLUTION IS FOUND :
- The Answer is NO, Palemoon is no longer Secure.

Examples of increasingly common and important addresses, websites that have subscribed to 'the very restrictive Cloudflare's service':

Try running tor, set palemoon for tor (127.0.0.1:9050), palemoon or any other browser.
And you will see the growing number of sites now using 'Cloudflare's restrictive service'.

Examples for technical addresses revolving 'only around palemoon':
www.palemoon.org
https://addons.palemoon.org
You could write a book which is about 4 fictional books that never got published :-)
I 100% agree.

But it's important that diversity be considered in all forms, not just based on race/sex.

If your "diverse" team is made up of different ethnicities and genders but only consists of ivy league members who grew up in California... well, not really diverse then, is it?
If someone’s coordinating the US media, they’re also doing the same to high quality UK outlets too. The FT and Economist have been publishing a lot of stories that are very critical of the Chinese government.

I agree it’s good to question. What do we think may not be true? I can fact-check HK situation via personal sources to some extent. The other stories that I’ve seen recently are those about re-education camps for (reported) hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the country, and the campaign against Huawei’s involvement in 5G and other projects.

I noticed the “2 million people on the streets stat” wrt HK was met by the government with a number in the tens of thousands. That’s a ridiculous discrepancy; at least one party is outright lying. Perhaps fact checking that stat would be a good indicator of how much to trust the Chinese media vs the protestors or western press.
So true! Now you are lucky is an IC on a team can be groomed to even be a manager.
Nope, the other one is right:
https://forvo.com/search/communal/en_other/
see also: "clique"

The first four pronounce it like I think it is pronounced
then the following five pronounce it as "click"
(ignoring mis-subtitled cases of cliché and claque)

It doesn't seem to be consistent in either British or American pronunciations.
Yes, yes he did. He made an existing idea better, which is why we know his name today and attribute him to the invention.
What these people do not understand is that, after millennia evolving morphologically, we have done it thanks to consume meat (both flesh and organs). Yes, good quality meat, full of saturated fats, blood. This is how we have developed our system. Today a portion of the population is being malnourished and malnourishing their children with the idea of not killing animals, so as not to cause them pain and thus ethically live well. The truth is that these people become addicted to sugar, either in the form of carbohydrates, and believe me, they always throw everything down, but all vegans end up fatal. Just watch them on YouTube, when they give up their unnatural diet.

There are 15 nutrients (Vitamins: A, B6 [pyridoxal, pyridoxamine], B12, D, F, K2; Aminoacids: Creatine, Carnitine, Carnosine, Taurine; Heme-iron, CoQ10, CLA) that are only obtained from animals and can not be found in plants. From animals we can not only obtain all the macronutrients, but also all the necessary minerals to have a healthy body, even so, there are people who believe that eating fruits, vegetables and carbohydrates is the healthiest way. This is how they lose their hair, this is how allergies on the skin, intestinal problems, constant gas, lack of libido and sterility come for both men and women. There is not such "I'm allergic to meat" but there are uncountable allergies to plants, seeds. Plants don't want to be eaten, that's why they contain antinutrients and toxins. It's their way to survive from predators.

People who eat plants get intoxicated, reducing the absorption of minerals, weak proteins and the few macronutrients that one can ingest in a meal. This is studied. Anyone interested in this topic can investigate it. I can recommend the excellent book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration from Weston Price as a starting point.

BTW: I am ex vegetarian/vegan. I didn't "did it wrong".
"Interactive fiction" generally refers to a specific style of game along the lines of the original Adventure, Zork series, etc. Generally it supports navigation, inventory management, and full sentence interactions, so while it's "lite" programming it's still more than multiple-choice questions.
One good example would be containers used for CI jobs, which get downloaded hundreds/thousands of times a day. They benefit from being based off as tiny an image as possible.
How would that be any different, sorely a destructor function would also be unmapped with dlclose
That is true. Books are read after centuries, magazine articles not
Not the parent objects – the containing scopes. (Which is how scope works in most languages.)