skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my Toyota, a wired connection from a phone's headphone out to the car stereo aux-in sounds terrible. The amplifier in the phone just can't send a loud enough signal to compete with the noise. Even a lossy Bluetooth connection from the phone to the car stereo sounds better in this case because it's not dependent on the phone's tiny amplifier to drive 6 speakers. The Bluetooth audio quality is almost indistinguishable from the high bit-rate MP3s stored on a USB drive.
XPC requires a specific set of classes to be enumerated outside the core datatypes, and that is something bounded. There is no part of your software that should ever be enumerating anything other than a deliberate concrete type. That's how we got into this mess in the first place :D

[re formatting: my desire to indent bullet points is matched only by HNs desire to then make each bullet point a single line \o/]
E-readers to borrow ebooks from the library
Any method that mutates returns a copy, pretty easy to preserve immutability in OOP.
The Data or the Hunch
Twitter Gets Its Hands Dirty with Chinese White-Glove Service
Systemic Games: A Design Philosophy – The Artifice
This is like software marketing 101:

You're going to have much happier users if you do that thing that "anyone could do" rather than ask that each person who might want to use readline read up on Tcl's C API and hack together something that links to readline.
I am not missing the point, fixing the climate has nothing to do with emotions of people either.

All a politician has to do is present a real solution, and you will have lots of support. That hasn't happened yet. It wasn't hard to get people to stop littering, because the leaders did something about it, and the followers followed.

It's a leadership issue, not a follower issue. So stop blaming the followers, and blame the leaders.
And Plex is just getting better and better:

- Netflix-like UI with integrated IMDB ratings, cast, description, cover, etc

- support for many devices and TV players/dongles

- unlimited concurrent stream count and full control over the streaming bitrate (as long as you have the bandwidth)

- remote access from any location/country
A Dead Cat, Lawyer's Call, & 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short on Epstein
Couldn't find mine either. I had a Pantera fan site and a joke-tribute page to Victoria Bitter even though I never drank it.
"Our service is prorated at $100/mo per 1Mbps download. For customer convenience, we also cap the monthly bill at $75/mo. You always pay the lower of the two prices." Done.
https://www.iheart.com/content/2019-08-22-eight-year-old-tak...

Probably more specific than you want, the story of an eight year old who took his parent's car for a spin. He eventually felt uncomfortable, pulled over, put on his flashers, and put out a safety triangle.

My man, my little driver man.
China is 50 times North Korea’s size, which was why it was able to prioritize economic development at the expense of the military.
It doesn't have to be formatting...

It is not a "very bad idea" it is "an idea you do not like." Those are different things.

The way you're describing UTF-32, it can't work at all, and it definitely does.

Trying to save space by using UTF-8 over UTF-32 seems like a very small gain to me, is all. UTF-32 is simpler, for text created in that encoding.
Damn.... between this reply and csande17's[1], this thread is pure gold. I hope iOS folks are reading this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773002
there are many geocities backups but I have yet to see a backup of the hotbot.com pages
The climate issue would end tomorrow if the government made it illegal and started arresting people. So it's not a problem with the people.

It's a childish ploy to play with emotions, and you will end up with a childish solution playing this game.

Science has won over millions of people with the truth time and time again. To pretend like this issue can only be solved by emotions is a giant lie. We have history to demonstrate this.
computronium
> I don't think I've ever received such a message, and I'm surprised Apple bothers to support such a thing.

I'm just a layman guessing, but I'm thinking Amber alerts and Flash Flood warnings... or the Hawaiian nuclear strike
Thanks for taking the time for this reply.

I was partly just taking the part of Devil's Advocate to at least represent the cons of remote working amid all the sunshine and rainbows of this post and the replies.

A key element of my comment (maybe not well communicated) was that remote work also includes people who are struggling at the living wage mark. When you create a thread on HN, the assumption is that everyone is making significantly greater than the regional median household income. People who are struggling may be living in a location with a single bedroom or studio and can't afford anything bigger. They may be living in a home in which the spouse is abusive or doesn't respect the need for a quiet place to work. If you're in the position of "any emergency is going to drown me" then there's no easy recovery from equipment issues.

As I mentioned before, if you're working for McDonald's, all you have to do is show up. Even showing up is a big obstacle for many (lack of transportation) and if the employer required much more than that, then they might not find any workers.

> 1. No but I can read Tim's blog post about the same subject.

The point of what you are replying to is that you learn things from working with others that you won't learn by following their online activity. I can't believe this would even be a point to argue. I learn things by being around co-workers in person. I would feel sad for anyone who wouldn't. I'm regularly floored by what co-workers can show me and I do the same for them. The "WTF, why didn't I know about this before?" moments from them casually showing me something which was never a big to them.

The same goes for speaking with the boss, management, or anyone else outside the people you are working right next to. The information flow is massive compared to the peephole you get with remote communication. People "say" things they don't even realize they're saying. They don't have to say ANYTHING and they're still telling you a lot. Maybe I just pick up this more than other people do?

Here's an idea. Try recreating the experience of "let's go out for a beer" with a co-worker online. You can't do it. You both have to be experiencing the same environment, seeing body language, reading emotion and all that is before you even get to the point of actually speaking.

Take all this away and we might as well be robots communicating because by removing these things you are removing what makes us human.

That said, remote communication still works. I did say that in my comment.
Physicists discover hidden text in what was thought to be blank Egyptian papyri
You have it backwards!
Nuclear war notification.
Thanks, I was searching the comments to see if anyone suggested a phonetic variation. The default Linux spelling checker is usually good enough but sometimes I only remember how a word sounds and the close letter variations are clearly wildly incorrect, while asking a search engine or phone is able to figure out exactly the word I mean nearly all of the time.
You cherry-pick a one-off example (# of clients) and ignore the rest. Feel free to remove that one if you don't think it is pertinent, and address the remainder of my comment.

You also cherry-picked the letter. Yes, 5 years after a history and pattern of security negligence, they are now able to repeat that pattern on H1. Hurray, positive delta.

Even if all issues have been addressed, the fact that it has happened in the past (many times) means that Valve deserves skepticism going forward. You a big fan of Facebook now that they deleted those cleartext passwords? They are cool now and anything else that comes to light must just be an oopsie, deserving of no scrutiny? Or are you skeptical because Facebook has a proven pattern of dishonesty? The same thing applies to Valve. They have a proven pattern.

>they responded constructively to public criticism
Uhh, you'll have to link me to a constructive response of public criticism.

Since you cherry-picked one issue from the letter (which should still prove to show the pattern of bad behavior that, at the very least, used to exist), I will put a few others here:

>A few members of the developer community, and no doubt members of the community at large, have received infractions against their accounts for the discovery and disclosure of bugs – a subset of which are similar to those that have been rewarded with economy items.

>During this time we caught the occasional mention that Valve’s servers were indeed leaking sensitive information (such as partner session IDs, logins and cleartext passwords), however upon patching the bug Valve did not mandate a password reset.

>As a result, an unknown user changed a different app’s name up to three days after the servers were patched[4] – proving that Steam Partner credentials were indeed exposed and abused during Heartbleed.

I see bad security practices piled on bad practices piled onto a culture that spurns security.

>I'm really at a loss as to why I'm supposed to see Valve as the villain here.

I'm not telling you to look at them as a villain. I'm saying that perhaps, given a proven history of bad practices, it would be good to look at this situation with a skeptical eye (they are trying to save face, nothing else) rather than shrug it off as an "Oops! Haha, we didn't scope our bounty quite right!".

Obviously we don't see eye to eye on the subject.

I'll keep looking at Valve, with their repeated security blunders, with skepticism. Feel free to continue to chalk it all up to an oops.

Remember the whole "Trust takes a lifetime to build, and a second to destroy"? That's the heart of where I am coming from.
Only the readme is rendered as markdown right now.
At least on Andriod, I've got an "Emergency Alerts History" where I can view those. Does that count as being saved automatically?
Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card
The lawsuit was withdrawn; VMware is no longer using GPLed drivers.

No precedent was established as to whether their prior use actually was a derivative work - personally I've always shared the VMware take on it that this was a loophole, and that if the VMkernel was a derivative work of Linux by virtue of the vmklinux compatibility layer, then Windows becomes a derivative work of any open source driver, which doesn't make any sense...
>going to Sri Lanka for the weekend. It's a $150 flight. Ummm yes!!
>Travel is easy, don't make it hard - why do we so easily forget that everything we need to survive can be obtained at the destination.
>If you're stressed about work, you're probably making decent enough money to retire on a beach in just a couple years.

69% of Americans have less than a thousand dollars in savings. 34% have no savings at all. Normal human beings are stressed about work because they're barely feeding their kids and trying to decide if their '94 Nissan Sentra will make it another year or if they need to give up their health insurance so they can afford to replace it. They're not killing themselves to earn a gold plaque to hang on the wall of their private office. HN's comment guidelines prevent me from using the proper vocabulary to express how much I detest the nauseating level of privilege in this article and its author. Of course life and travel is easy when you're rich.
Redux forces you to write lots of ugly boilerplate, its the same way in all code bases that use it.
> In our first year, we didn’t want to use unnecessary plastic, so we didn’t bother investing in individual opp/poly bags UNTIL we learned that a few of our diaries arrived with water damage.

I found this line interesting — many people don’t realize that companies themselves don’t like using unnecessary packaging — most packaging decisions are made for very good reasons. The despised clamshell happened because of shoplifters and on-shelf marketing tests. “Unnecessary plastic” happens because manufacturers know about water damage. Individually wrapped parts happen because of shipping damage or lost parts. What consumers see as “unnecessary” comes as a result of very good reasons and likely thousands of customer complaints when their stuff arrives damaged or with parts missing.
I believe they could easily have wriggled out of it.

You can't infringe on the GNU license of something that is 1) not shipped with your program and 2) your program runs fine without.

CLISP has a very good FFI which could be used to attach to a user's readline installation dynamically, if so configured by the end user.

This be packaged up in .lisp file that is not even officially bundled with CLISP. Thus if there was any shred of a basis for infringment, the only offender would be that file, which anyone could share over obvious channels. (Good luck suing a file circulating on the Internet, or having all copies of it taken down ...)

If I have a proprietary or otherwise GNU-incompatible program, and some GNU library, and as user (not redistributing anything!) want to put that together with the help of some config file on the Internet, what is the basis for stopping me? And would RMS even support a state with the level of surveillance required to catch people in such acts ...
Thanks for the corrections. I mis-read the documentation and thought erase returned an iterator to the elements erased.
"Diary" in Australian English means "daily planner" or "date book" in U.S. English.
How much WeWork pays the owner for his properties would look bad through this same lens.
Perhaps some meaningful alliteration like Karmic KitKat and Lucid Lollipop would have helped?
According to one of Jaron Lanier's books, the 'musician as a middle class job' has pretty much vanished because of all the piracy and streaming services. Plex is wonderful, but its nice that people can make a good living making the content too.
> Dumb metrics like this cannot replace actually talking with the students, asking questions about their choices and alternatives, having them do presentations or lab notebooks/logbooks etc.

As said in the parent:

>> Over-all it helped the prof grade faster, at least in the degenerate cases.
What Is Aggressive Behavior?
Have been there. Ultimatly you have to decide who you are. Are you a person that acts to their word (I assume your contract has a notice period). Or decide you will act badly if others act badly around you.

In my situation I'd gave them my minimum notice and did the job with full effort til the last day.

And at least in my case, it was a much easier enviroment once I had handed notice in. You can see the end of the tunnel and toxic behaviour washes off more easily.

Good luck.
I applaud your greater perspective and motive, but at the end of the day a very real course of action needs to happen. Do we turn right or turn left? That decision needs to be based on achieving a very real goal.

As adults we have to do things we don't like every day to achieve our goals. We have to choose things that make us unhappy and miserable so our kids have food. Emotions are more often our enemy than our friend.

Science and truth are always neutral, and must be the basis of decisions, unless you are going to agree that we must act like adults and tell everyone they need to chose misery to make a change.

I agree with that, but the people saying it aren't doing it first. That is hypocrisy and the worst form of leadership, and is the enemy of change. Therefore, until the current hypocrite leaders of climate change are replaced with honorable doers, nothing will change.

And shaming the followers into following hypocritical leaders is a recipe for disaster. Hypocrites have no moral base, and act to their own benefit, not yours, the planets only their own.
We’re just relatively polite bots with insightful viewpoints and witty jokes.
You can just sign up and immediately cancel to make sure t doesn’t renew at the end of the month.
But you could always go with one those reloadable debit cards, no? Though those usually come with a fixed setup fee of, say, $5
Have we done _nothing_ to improve the environment that effects the climate? Nothing at all?
Your sample use case in your 'At Google' response is eery.

> "At Google, say we had 1 million plaintext passwords..."
I've read enough of that to reach this conclusion:

- the motives for dropping the bombs were various, and it depends on whom you asked, but also dropping the bombs was not that significant a thing to the Japanese (for reasons given above),

- wanting an unconditional surrender seems like a legitimate or plausibly legitimate motive,

- and the Soviet entrance in the war definitely sharpened minds all around.
And then after 3 releases did you laugh in their faces for believing you?
It's not exactly what you are looking for, but I did a blog post about the TRE regex engine which does approximate matching and included links to some other good blog posts: http://ducktape.blot.im/tre-a-regex-engine-with-approximate-...

Also, my favorite library for approx matching, which is heavy duty in some cases, is https://github.com/Martinsos/edlib

Which has python bindings and Nim binding among others.
Having bboying in the Olympics is an affront to our culture. Storm just sold breakdance to the mainstream for its own ego.

This is exactly like David Belle selling the whole Parkour culture to the Gymnastics & Olympics.

Those people have to big of an ego to let their reputation fade away as they get older, so they betray their own culture and people just for the sake of recognition and money
Origin of methane reservoir under seafloor identified
A fun (troll) use that I had for an AOL CD... I borrowed a CD from a friend in high school. It was their favorite CD, but we were friends so they lent it to me. When it was time to return the CD to my friend...I took an AOL CD, ground it into the dirt, held a lighter to one side, shattered it, and then scotch taped it back together. When I "returned" my friend's favorite CD, I gave them AOL CD shiny-side up. After a short (fewer than 5 second) freak-out, I returned my friend's favorite CD in pristine condition. I was a bit of a jerk, but they took it in good humor.
I love this. Reminded me of one time some 15+ years ago I did some back-of-the-envelope math like yours but on people using colored characters on every message on IRC w/ scripts and how much meaningless data that generated... it's astonishing how quickly you can get to the PB scale
"Financial Engineering" Why make anything anymore when you can do tricks with, and for money?
The comma operatory leads to bad bad bugs (especially when mixed with misleading indentation) and if its use was punishable I wouldn't even be sad.
C2Rust now on crates.io and supports C variadic functions
Googling distance between two strings has Lev. dist as the top response.
If API's are protected by copyright, and GNU takes action on such a thing, then that would be very hypocritical, giving all the proprietary API's cloned in GPL-ed software, including GNU projects.
Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests
Dell owns VMWare, and it could be seen as the only public part of Dell computers, so that's why they are using it to backdoor into the market.
> but really they're robots that are mindlessly striving towards being the perfect neighbor

Once conversational algorithms reliably pass the Turing test, I guarantee this will happen. State actors may be doing it already. A non-conversational version of this has existed in online gaming for decades.

The catch-22 in starting any new forum or social network is that to attract new users, there must be old users. Some social networks (notoriously dating sites and reddit) started out with employees acting as many users to make the network seem less empty.

It's already possible to pay humans to do this, but it's likely prohibitively expensive. If machines can do it, suddenly you can have thousands or millions of "users" for almost no cost.
Personally, it become very disappointing when multiplayer games become less and less interesting for players who seeks for challenges and problem solving. I like to think today's gamers are mainly going for bragging rights, and studios are catering just that with IAP, loot box, decos etc.

I checked out let's plays for Nier Automata, Zelda BotW and had my expectation blown out of the water. While on the other side of the spectrum I see big name franchises packed with microtransaction ideas yet no substances to back it up.
Corporate policy: also install CB on all VMs running too. CB inception.
... because you're developing ON kubernetes instead of FOR kubernetes. develop on your regular Linux machine, run on k8s. That's how it's suppose to be.
Is there actual data on this? I did not think the tail of professional musicians was ever fat enough to support a sizeable middle class. Mostly just a handful of megastars (who today are indeed capturing a smaller fraction of the value they create) and a large population of struggling musicians that have always supported themselves through other means.
Restoring Trust to the Internet
Works well for Michael Dell.
Oblig- the Internet Archive’s gif search engine, GifCities:

https://gifcities.org/
Whats weird is you implying I think liberal democracy has had it's day and that the state should be all powerful and led by a strong-man based on a summation of my decade of experience interacting with people from Japan noting the individual differences and aggregate similarities are something I find, and I quote, "curious".
Well it won’t be Ellison looking into dollar value but judge and lawyers. Besides this whole scheme could be filed under insider trading in some form. And Martha Steward went to jail for much smaller schennegans. Ellison could be in much more trouble than just hasing out a $ penalty and settling a lawsuit.
From the article:
>>As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.)

"The US space agency, Nasa, has on the other hand said that overall fire activity in the Amazon basin is slightly below average this year. "
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49443389

I am getting the impression that the BBC doesn't trust NASA. Is this part of the current administration's war on science? Is the world blowing this out of proportion? I don't know what will happen if NASA isn't a respected scientific institution any more. How does anyone know what is actually going on in the world?

I tend to believe what NASA says, I still think all the publicity this is getting will make the world a better place. We can not have a big enough carbon sink.

Everyone has an agenda and the news is trying get clicks, so they sensationalize everything.
Adidas? You serious? Why?

No on elevated. Definitely not lifting heavy then.
A Full Derivation of Noise Contrastive Estimation
Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed reading that. I have found personally I enjoy the more interactive learning more engaging. There are some pretty nifty online carto-courses floating around.

I know Esri runs a free one every now and then, it would be interesting to see how much of the teachings from different sources align with one another. Maybe once day there can be an open standard for cartography!
https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/596e584bb826875993ba4e...
It might help to know that control+x+e will open the current command being typed in $EDITOR.