skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related, I have a dozen or so of my favorite games from the mid 90's through early 00's on CD-ROM that I would like to preserve. Unfortunately they seem to almost all have some DRM that prevents me ripping an image from them, but I'd much rather keep a few hundred meg ISOs on my media server than a stack of jewel cases in my closet.

Has anyone else solved this issue?
Just want to share a little dating android app
Of interest: 1994 Time Magazine cover with altered mugshot of O.J. Simpson: https://people.southwestern.edu/~bednarb/su_netWorks/project...

Note that the linked article incorrectly says he was "found innocent." In fact the jury found the prosecution failed to meet the burden of proof that was he guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt."
She was a 1.5yo employee when the equity discussion happened. Then she left shortly after.
What scale do you mean?

As individuals, most plants and animals will grow to a certain size, presumably an evolved optimum for their ecosystem. cf. Foster's Rule, insular dwarfism, island gigantism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_rule. Indeterminate growers are the exception.

At the ecosystem level, some species can kind of self-regulate: eating babies or siblings, lack of food driving irregular fertility cycles, etc. And two or more species interacting, like the classic predator-prey dynamic, are usually how they regulate.

Now are they consciously doing it? No, but it's arguable how consciously humans are doing The Great Contraction or our various environmental regulatory frameworks.

Presumably hunter-gatherers spread when their bands would grow large enough to split, taking more resources from their range than it could support.
> I'm a tech pro and even I haven't used ftp in years.

That's why you haven't. Ask regular non-tech people doing office jobs in non-tech companies. Some FTP use will show up. Random example I've seen recently: a sports clothing vendor giving seasonal copy bundles for marketing posters to its partners via a password-protected FTP server.
Mozilla certainly would like that new influx of users. I think user retention is one of Googles most immediate issues.
This is a commonly held belief but I don’t think it’s true. There is a lot of surface-level technical turnover in software. A lot of “new framework-of-the-month” churn. A lot of project management/methodology fads: Agile and Pair Programming and Test-driven development. The tooling changes slightly every so often. But the fundamental principles and techniques of good software engineering have not changed in decades.

Take a good productive software developer 30 years ago, and time travel him/her here today and they will be productive with very little ramp-up. A bad software developer from 30 years ago will be bad today too.

Learning for its own sake is great, but don’t actively try to create and get on an unnecessary treadmill.
For those of you who don't know, RED has for years been using these patents, which include claims on techniques that would have been obvious to a domain expert at the time of filing, to stifle competition from other camera manufacturers.

v. Sony in 2013: https://www.engadget.com/2013/02/14/red-sues-sony-over-paten...

Blackmagic also recently removed CinemaDNG from their camera lineup to avoid the considerable expense of litigation.

Thank you, Tim Cook!
FTP as a protocol doesn't have interesting metadata to collect (which would be technically challenging in the first place, without redirection and JavaScript tricks) and doesn't allow advertisement, while FTP as content is hard to index and promote in ways that generate "value".
How to use the react context API with hooks for a clean code architecture (2019)
As a kid, I never understood how the CPU could be too fast for the software. I'm not sure I do now either though. I get timing issues on ROM emulators for the old games using quirks due to NTSC/PAL issues. I know there were other programs that did not work with the Turbo button engaged that were not games where timing might be much more crucial.
If it doesn't involve cryptographic proof, it's bullshit. This reeks.
That's super sad. I follow him on Twitter and he's been quite active over the past few years, chatting with fans and speaking of his craft and influences: https://twitter.com/rwanimator

I really thought he had the health and energy to finish one more big project. It was clear that he was still drawing and animating frequently even well into his 80s.
And if you’re new to the genre, definitely check out FTL. https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html
We absolutely want to integrate with OpenTelemetry, and I'd love to work with the OpenTelemetry community on that. We have an issue (https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/issues/89) tracking integration with distributed tracing systems --- it would be great to get input from OpenTelemetry folks if any of y'all are interested!
Worth noting here, if you open an FTP url in Safari on Mac, it will open the Finder and connect to the server there.

Since we’re talking about utilities built into the OS, I’ve never had a problem with this.
Leaving aside company founders who hit it big, the people I know who are the most successful (i.e., as employees), don't seem to be of above-average IQ, and many of them have poor written communication (i.e., spelling, grammar, etc).

What makes them successful is that they are good at interacting with other people, and they can communicate quickly and assertively and see to it that important things get done.

Such people tend to work in customer-facing roles, such as sales, client-relations/customer-success, but they could also be in internal roles like marketing or management (including engineering management).

But contrary to stereotype, the ones I've seen be effective are not insincere charmers/schmoozers, nor bullies. They are just fast-thinking and fast-acting and able to work their way through organisational barriers and ensure things get done in order to satisfy their customer or meet the business's requirements.

On the other hand, I've observed that a lot of people who may be of above-average IQ are less comfortable with social interaction, and less able to engage in the kind of fast, confident communication you need to do well in an organisational context.

It's not always the case of course - plenty of highly intelligent people are great communicators, and these people can do the best of all.

But where a person of "high intelligence" does not achieve great success, low confidence/assertiveness/effectiveness at interpersonal interaction is likely to be a significant factor.
The source links appear to no longer work. Do you know where we can download Japanese subtitles?

I would love to attempt to segment a bunch of Japanese subtitles into words and then do frequency analysis. My interest is in increasing my listening ability, so I want to put the most frequently spoken words into SRS/Anki, and perhaps even break it down by anime.

Alternatively, has anyone already done this?
OTOH, automation enables things that fundamentally aren't possible with any number of humans, due to economics. If we find ways to lower the cost of automation itself, lovely things can happen.
Isn't that the same limestone that can capture carbon if put into the oceans? or is it olivine?
> "Denmark is not really in the position to really use that place, even in the future. The only thing they can do with it is sell it, so the question becomes when and for how much."

Greenland is a dependent territory, but it is not part of Denmark. I invite you to review the right to self-determination as enshrined in the charter of the United Nations.

It would ultimately be up to the people of Greenland whether they want to "sell" their country. Not, according to the principles of the UN, something that Denmark could do unilaterally.
Also likely, "culture of life" virtue signallers will prevent you from doing what's right for you by nudges that make suicide difficult, painful, and illegal. Part of your plan should be to support assisted suicide politically. For example, Neil Gorsuch wrote a book advocating against euthanasia, making him one of the worst Supreme Court picks I can imagine. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8317.html
As someone who is (more or less) in marketing, I'm not sure what studying/practicing marketing outside of work even looks like. I suppose I could read more business books--I read some--but mostly they don't have a whole lot of value. Am I supposed to have a side gig where I do some consulting? I'd think you might have a problem if I were to do that for closely related companies where I had the most experience. (Not that they'd hire me if they were ethical for conflict of interest reasons.)

What's the sales rep supposed to do in their spare time to study and practice? Or the finance person?
> one for databases

as a DB guy, there's no 'one task' for DBs . The only thing I can think that is nearly characteristic of DBs I've worked on is that they're IO bound.

That's possibly true of most things except Floating point and graphics.
Are there any studies that check % Denisovian DNA versus living elevation? All I hear about Denisovians are that they were more adapted to higher elevation living. So if there were a mixing event or multiple mixing events however many tens of thousands of years ago - could it possibly be that the offspring naturally end up at different elevations based on what was optimal for their genetics?
Hiding Text in Plain Sight
I guess, if all else fails, mail them to the Internet Archive Physical Archive in Richmond California:

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...

It should be a matter of time until someone figures out the DRM, and this is the right place for these historical artefacts to be.

(And if you do manage to rip them yourself, please upload the images to their cdrom collection (https://archive.org/details/cd-roms)!)
Ouch.

For what it's worth for her peace-of-mind, I really doubt they would have given her options if she had made a push.

Essentially, the decision had already been made. It's not impossible that they could have been convinced to change their minds, but it would have required some new or unexpected leverage to make it happen. (They would have already factored in that she could have become disgruntled or quit.)

It certainly doesn't seem fair, though.
I dont know about carpenters but car mechanics are known to have a pretty crappy car themselves. It’s a generality ofc, but that says something on its own. I personally think noone should look at the personal life other people. There are countless examples of people who despite being good and productive employees, their pesonal life wouldn’t indicate such.
Also, from my exprience, since I started coding for a living i found myself wanting to fill my life with something else outside the 40 weekly hours spent in front of a computer. Wanting is not always possible but a desired tendency.
While it would be nice of these companies to out themselves so we can avoid them, it’s usually pretty easy to read between the lines and spot them. Their job descriptions tend to have more red flags than a Chinese parade. I can spot a “you must have no life outside of work” job opening a mile away and avoid it.
That looks awful, tbh. Sure, the smoothness is there, but it's also full of distracting artifacts.
Alias it then
Microorganisms and Other Life in Unfiltered Pond
"The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it during the last generation—may have changed the at­mosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warming of the world by about one degree Fahrenheit. "

edit : this PDF looks like it has been scanned, but the text is selectable. Not sure I have seen this before.
Most of that luck?

More often than not involves being born into wealth that the rest of us cant even grok. So very few of them even can, and its supposed to be "their" money.

Or we can grovel at their feet. "Please mister Bank, mister VC - can I do a thing to maybe make the world better?" Lick that boot. Sell out your premise. Only think about what will make money for them.

And we wonder why even hackers go homeless as real estate prices explode.
How many women were at the company at the time and how many of those received equity?
Ok :) but WebDAV has the advantage that it's integrated with .htaccess permissions on Apache shared hosting.
Greenland is a NATO member and, via Denmark, represented in the European Union. Greenland ain't worth picking that fight over. China won't invade it for much the same reason.
Haha, it was 1,945 when I was studying Japanese, times change. Kind of surprised they added characters rather than further shrink the list.
Exploiting Low Entropy in Encryption Key Negotiation of Bluetooth BR/EDR[pdf]
That’s what “found innocent” means. There’s no other definition in our legal system.
i prefer the river view for each, similar to hckrnews.com

https://www.techmeme.com/river

https://www.mediagazer.com/river

they also run one just about baseball - https://www.ballbug.com/

the world would be a better place if someone wrote a platform to make your own platforms of these. i imagine a community, like a subreddit, would have a set of rss feeds etc that it follows, a group of people "swipe left or right" on the stories, and the winners move up the page. the difference from other platforms being that stories dont get direct submitted, and that the editorial boards ranking the stories stay fairly small and specialized.

also shoutouts to https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com https://longform.org https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/
Contact them and let them know! Their webmaster email is in the home page.
I've seen a couple, but they all rely very strongly on ignoring the testimony that came out in trial, the police reports, and especially the internal Oberlin emails, which were very damning.

I think the most pro-Oberlin spin you can get that doesn't completely ignore the factual record would be something like:

"The Gibsons did nothing wrong, Aladin and his friends were shoplifitng and did assault Allyn Gibson, and the resulting student protests were utterly groundless. However, Oberlin College itself was merely a hapless bystander. The internal emails, although they sounded terrible, were taken out of context; a small number of administrators may have mispoken, but phrases like "unleash the students" were utter hyperbole. The guilty verdict against the college hinged very strongly on the extent that Raimondo was directing the protests and, especially, to the extent that she was distributing the flyers, and there was a legitimate factual disputes about this. Yes, a jury determined that Raimondo had distributed the fliers, and her contention that someone had merely passed her a flyer which she had unwittingly passed on to someone else, perhaps without realising the content, and certainly without endorsing it was not deemed credible. Still, it's not implausible that the jury got it wrong, and Raimondo was right. In that case, Oberlin was merely guilty of incompetence and poor phrasing in internal emails, neither of which is strictly speaking a tort."

I don't entirely agree with that take, but it's plausible. A lot hinged on the actions of Raimondo during the protests. Had she simply avoided touching the pamphlets (and even better, not been there with a bull horn at all), presumably all the events would have still taken place (the boycotts, the harassment, the protests), but Oberlin wouldn't have been found liable.

I mean, that doesn't make them the "good guy", but maybe they're not the Machiavellian villians of the piece, but just idiots, and unfairly were hit by the guilty verdict. That's about as good as you can hope for I think. :)
Isn't that a matter of custom, given that there is no judicial outcome that specifies complete innocence.
The protocol is buggy AF. All that crap about sending data over a separate TCP connection, the weird way you have to deal with state and authentication; ftp is an utter shitshow. Just because a protocol is old doesn't mean it's matured to perfection. Telnet is old, so is RCS, and UUCP.

Many protocols evolve not by being replaced by incrementally better point releases, but rather by being supplanted entirely by a better designed alternative.

FTP effectively evolved into HTTP for this use case, and scp/sftp for the authenticated file transfer use case.
The book is still on my todo list... perhaps you could give examples from the book?
Also there is a difference between studying and reflecting on something outside of work, and actually practicing outside of work.

Do I want my surgeon to be studying the latest techniques outside of his work? YES

Do I need a surgeon who dissects animals and removes tumors at home as a hobby on weekends? NO
The curve of money supply versus output is flat at the "way too much money" end of it. If there isn't enough money then obviously you fix the problem - but this isn't where the deficit hawks are usually worried about debt.
"The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warming of the world by about one degree Fahrenheit."

"Even in an airplane the number of vacuum tubes now approaches or exceeds a thousand. Other machines, containing up to 10,000 vacuum tubes, up to five times more crystals, and possibly more than 100,000 cores, now operate faultlessly over long periods, performing many millions of regulated, preplanned actions per second, with an expectation of only a few errors per day or week. Many such machines have been built to perform complicated scientific and engineering calculations and large scale accounting and logistical surveys. There is no doubt that they will be used for elaborate industrial process control, logistical, economic, and other planning"
God that game was so hard. Maybe I’m a wimp about rogue likes in general though. I enjoy stuff like XCOM where it’s a puzzle you can reason your way through and use save states to re-try when you realize your plan or your execution of the plan is insufficient for the task. There are random elements, but it’s mostly a puzzle.

FTL was just confusing, hopeless death for me.
Commercial games are shipped on a quick schedule, so this doesn't always apply unless its a project that's maintained/cleaned up.

What I'd like to see (2D games): Permissively licensed, widget / sprite tooling, handling of rotation, blitter, canvas resizing, scaling.

Anecdote: I made a request for a Zelda clone to make their code available via a commercial-friendly license here: https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/issues/826

Look at this, well-maintained C++ bits and pieces wrapping around SDL2, that could easily apply to more than just this game:

https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/tree/dev/src/core

https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/tree/dev/src/graphi...

If something is open sourced, I highly prefer it if generic parts are available for everyone to use on their own projects. Keep the creative work proprietary / GPL / etc.

One reason we do open source is we don't want to perpetually reinvent the wheel. Projects last longer when they have users. And in this case of a library, your stuff is directly used by developers, further increasing the likelihood of reciprocal contributions / sharing the burden of maintenance.
Olivine is usually discussed. However, I think limestone would enable some CO2 uptake, by formation of bicarbonate ions. The calcium ions would have to stay in solution, though.
Fixed, in the short run, with respect to money, while there is sufficient money in the economy.
They wouldn't be using FTP is they care about security.

I don't get why there is so much resistance. It's an old, outdated technology that has to be replaced eventually. Yes, change is always painful. But this isn't like with RSS were the tech provided clear benefits we would loose.
The developers didn't use fixed time points to update their games logic, they just updated the logic at the same speed of the proc, which leads to some interesting things.
> the belief in many corners of tech that writing software must be some all-consuming passion is unhealthy.

To add to this, it’s not only unhealthy but leads one away from the concrete reality we live in and this results to out of touch thinking.
There would be no fight over it. It's a territorial protection maneuver to protect Greenland, led by the US.

US media combo military industrial complex headline: US does the security job that some NATO members refuse to do.

The PR push would be that it's not an annexation. It's not an occupation. It is temporary. It's about keeping Greenland safe, defending Greenland.

The representation at the EU via Denmark is meaningless. Neither Denmark nor the EU have any military power to stop the US from doing this. The US will easily be able to muddy the water enough politically by leaning on allies in Europe like Poland and Britain, to argue that it is in fact important to keep Greenland safe. In the end nobody will really do anything to stop it.

Which part of NATO is going to fight the US to stop this exactly? Right, none of it.

You know how batshit crazy Iraq was? 10x more so than what going into Greenland would be by comparison. And yet the US won't do it? Of course it will, if it thinks it needs to in order to prevent China from setting up there militarily. There are countless ways to spin it, to play it, in order to get from point A to point occupation re NATO.
We get dust from the Sahara in the southern US as well.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/dust-sahara/
Exactly. The default setting is "innocent until proven guilty", so if someone fails to be found guilty, they are inherently innocent in the eyes of the law.
The underlying assumption is that when you code outside of work, you're working on things that are different from what you do at work.
See https://www.apnews.com/4a19347996e34a5f904543d1f656b04f for example.
The population growth is basically a transitional state between high infant mortality / high birthrate to low infant mortality / low birthrate. There's no society in existence that had sustained "high birthrate / low infant mortality".

Play the following graph from 1800 to today:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$marker$axis_x$which=...

It's very clear where we're headed and we're actually closer to the stable point, given China and India are already near the birthrate of 2.

> ... are still happily multiplying in an unsustainable way.

See the graph above. This is already not true.

> Unless we manage to export this kind of progress

This has already happened mostly. Africa is the laggard currently but is already rapidly catching up, and it's crystal clear that we'll get there.

I recommend taking the gapminder.org test. I think you'll be surprised how wrong you are.
> People are not interchangable, but their skills very much are

Why doesn't this apply to directors?
Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)
Nice work, I like the design too.
In fact, we also have another word that serves both as a multipurpose substantive and an multipurpose adjective:

"¿Yo dónde dejé esa chimba?"

"Está muy chimba su carro"

"Esa chimba estaba muy chimba"
There are no legal penalties, but striking a whale is non-trivial and can damage the ship.

Separately, naval vessels are ordered to maintain 1/4-1/2 mile standoff from whales unless safety of ship overrides.
China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power?