skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't do any quantitative study, but I'd be really surprised if most maintainers in the project are not volunteers. Those contributors, though usually individually small, tend to add up. It's also probably difficult to justify Debian package maintenance to your employer, unless you work for canonical. Even products that distribute a .deb tend to do it outside of the distribution, rather than really contributing.
CenturyLink has been acting in what appears to be good faith within Denver city limits in the past few (~4) years or so. They've been offering gigabit fiber service in select parts of the city for around $60-70/month for at least that amount of time.

While I agree with the general sentiment about large providers needing to do more for less and faster, it seems that CL is being a good corporate citizen in Denver at least.

Personal Anecdote:
I signed up for gigabit fiber at a previous residence and experienced consistent 850+ Mbps synchronously, often exceeding 900Mbps. Then upon purchasing a home in another part of the city I cancelled this newly-installed (< 1 year) fiber service with no charges.

Fast-forward to last week when I see CL contractors installing fiber in my alley. I'm now signed up for an install of this same gigabit fiber service for $70/month with no data caps, blocked ports, or other random charges (excluding tax) or restrictions. It's quite a good deal compared to other offerings here. A friend in another neighborhood is also set to receive his service soon, so it appears they're investing quite heavily in their fiber-to-the-home rollouts.
A man does have a place defending the reputation of his friend though. That ovverrides his position in Free Software.
> Because UML is generally about defining processes

It really isn't. In general UML specifies diagrams for relevant system views, but it's centered around diagrams that represents the structure of software projects, not processes. Perhaps UML's most popular diagram is the class diagram, which is complemented with the component diagram and deployment diagram. UML modeling software focuses mostly on structural diagrams, whether to generate source code or dump DDLs. Most of the diagrams used to directly or indirectly represent processes, such as sequence diagrams and communication diagrams, are hardly known and far from popular. Flow charts/activity diagrams are hardly seen as UML, and UML doesn't even provide anything similar to the age old data flow diagrams.
I think the scariest part of is in the first part of this; the collection of data was voluntarily crowdsourced by repo men all acting as independent actors. While right now there is still a centralized corporation that can be targeted to stop the practice, I can see a future where this stuff becomes decentralized in the same lieu as software piracy sites and their infrastructure is done today, maintained by "helpful" repomen/investigators that each have a pervasive interest in maintaining such a resource.
Vaping can be a substitute for smoking, but a lot of people are now vaping who weren't previously smokers, especially young people.

Maybe it should be offered as a prescription drug to quit smoking...
Looks like China unleashed their bots on HN as well?
The reason why it is special cased is that on pipelined or OoO CPU, xor ax,ax would otherwise be significantly slower than straight mov as xor has dependency on its operand registers.

On a similar note on many RISC architectures NOP is actually something like ADD r0, r0, r0 and that too is usually special cased in the hazard stall and result forwarding logic (althought usually the special cased part is “ignore hazards that involve r0”)
So your argument is that the value-added of i.e. Netflix is that it allows people to avoid typing i.e. "crime TV shows 2019" into their browser's search bar?
I can't stress enough how happy I'm because Inkscape is finally getting proper macOS support, I've been using the ~suv osxmenu build for years wondering which OS update would render it unusable
To clarify: the DRN database contains 9B _scans_ of license plates, not scans of 9B license plates.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/divesting/

Today it is large corporations which have the greatest power over daily life, and they are far more susceptible to pressure and change then the insulated bureaucracies of governments.

Thankfully Bill and many others knew this years ago, and started a divestment campaign of breathtaking magnitude...
As a Finn, I really love the name of this project. Seems quite appropriate.
How is this different than CARLA? Just curious.
I understood what you were replying too, just feel you focused to much on being literal with the “large majority”, hence my reply. Glad we agree on the other part, so cheers!
I'm not a fan so far. Lots of deliberately bad C code. Using uninitialized variables, etc.

Explanation of jargon seems to take priority over explanation of the language - the term "string literal" is explained before the concept of a function.
I am not denying them their choice, nor am I in favor of the ban (I don't think bans work).

I am saying that education does not dissuade addictive behaviors.
I didn't mean what Brave does now, I meant what it could do after the competition is marginalized or eliminated.

I'm sorry if this sounded like a disrespectful accusation. It was just my attempt to rationalize and make sense of the apparently irrational things that happened around your person. When identity politics and large capital are involved, I'm always suspecting machiavellian and cynical motives.

I wish you prove me wrong and Brave will become a real competitor for Chrome with strong focus on user privacy and security.
The example used in the article seems pretty blatant to me. As does your comment.
I had just written a note to myself yesterday: "Piracy occurs because the economics of content distribution is broken, not because people inherently want to steal." And then saw this.
Why do you think them making apps implies they're used a lot? It's enough that they're used some of the time by some subset of users to make it worth it to them - they get to have more control over experience, more ability to scoop data, and they can offer the ability to locally cache whole movies, which they can't do in a browser.
It's a shame they haven't adopted UHD. That'd give me a reason to re-subscribe.
More touches, yes. But the incrementalism-centric approach of the daily standup (which should be kept quite short) should lessen a lot of overhead/BS from filling out reports (or the like) post-fact; cards are kept up-to-date and problems (FUDs) discussed early and often. No one is making up what they did 3 weeks ago because they can't remember, and it is very clear when something is stuck or making progress.
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> I am not asking to remove based on that I personally dislike it.

> I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

It seems contradictory to me. According to the dictionary, "hope" = "to want something to happen or be true". Asking for something is "to want something to happen" as well. Is this incorrect?
... and thinking about it, I think the difference is this:

"At home", the police already has control over the land. They have "won" almost by default. No opponent can challenge them, or have any interest in seriously taking them on.

The military, on the other hand often operates where they are instructed to "win the hearts and minds" and if they don't get local support, things can go very badly for them.

Which gives, it's unfortunate police not more often tries to "win hearts and minds".
That was my first thought: I'd be surprised if hedge funds don't already ingest this tracking data for their analytics.
Yes, I don't have a clue. No, I'm not calling you weak/lazy/whatever. Incorrigible doesn't mean either of these things. You like smoking, feel free to do so. I'm just saying that it's known that nicotine, in general, is a bad idea. If you know that and yet you smoke, go ahead. But there's going to be efforts from any reasonable government to not get any new members to the club.

> we like smoking, and we're not going to stop

I have a feeling that you don't mean that, but would you rather have a bunch of kids thinking they're doing a cool thing (apparently a lot of kids used to think that about Juul not too long ago in the States)? For them, cigarette's not going to be a substitute as it is for smokers currently. Cigarettes are already that icky thing old people do and cause lung cancer (basically their favorite movie star told them so for 2 years).

By all means, smokers can continue smoking, but they should expect some backlash towards your new favorite thing because it might be less harmful than smoking, but is still harmful for potential new users.
Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery
This is an easy paralysis to fall into. Unless you know you need something more, just start by getting some useful content up in plain HTML.
Scientists identify weather event behind extreme cold in Europe and Asia Feb2018
I didn't say education failed in general. I don't believe education works in dissuading addictive behaviors. Education isn't helping people pursue better diets, it is not dissuading people from binge drinking, and it is not going to prevent people from vaping.
First paragraph...

> This knowledge can be applied to improve start-up performance for web apps that ship large JSON-like configuration object literals

Third paragraph...

> A good rule of thumb is to apply this technique for objects of 10 kB or larger — but as always with performance advice, measure the actual impact before making any changes.

I'd fire people who don't RTFM
Is there yet an option to hold a digital copy of film DRM-free forever, as with music?

I expect this wouldn't be in much demand since, at least for me, one viewing is usually plenty. Which is why the rolling updates don't bother me much. For those few that warrant repeat viewings I can get a physical copy.

The tough thing to find even with rental would be some foreign movies, e.g. Korean.
That is still quite expensive!
I gave the iTunes rents thing a try. It wouldn’t let me play it on my TV.

Back to torrenting I went.
The conventional thinking on this is, if it's an unsolicited RFP (eg, one you didn't help write) then your odds of winning the deal are nearly 0, so don't invest much effort in it at all. The "Column A" vendor almost certainly has already engaged with the company, written the RFP to make their solution the only possible winner, and then put the RFP process in motion just to "check the box" on the requirement that multiple vendor bids be solicited.

Of course there will be exceptions, but the problem is knowing which ones are the exceptions and which ones aren't...
What book would you recommend as an alternative?
I believe it is a valley somewhere far far away in the west.
It has to do mainly with an archaic business model where the rights are given to local distributors that have no purpose anymore.

They are the only ones allowed to license the work in a region, so providibg a movie or selection requires separate licensing agreements for every country or region it is served in.

Businesses that manage to take fees for nothing due historic reasons need to be eliminated.
I want a device like a Roku.

I don't want to think in terms of channels (streaming choices like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Google Play, CBS, Disney+, etc.)

I'd like to think in terms of content and suggestions.

I want the Roku to completely hide the channel (streaming provider) from me.

In addition to paying membership to Netflix, I want to be able to purchase content, too. I really appreciate Movies Anywhere. I hope more content can fall under umbrellas like that.
The middle of the ocean is an entirely different eco-system than the continental shelf areas.

Probably a weak analogy but think forest vs plains (if not desert). The coasts, fed by nutrient rich rivers is where a lot of the life is.
Isn't modern C pretty much Rust?
The middle of the oceans are the deserts of the marine ecosystem. Nutrients are washed into the sea via rivers, so coastal waters are rich in nutrients and support complex food webs. The middle of the oceans are poor in nutrients (and shelter for fish!), and don't have many fish.
Cox is now offering universal 1 gbps services, so I'm not sure the "do as little as possible to upgrade services" is accurate any longer.
> All of that being said I'm not sure who you worked for but sorting through 100 resumes seems like a colossal waste of time. Lifehack: Just tell the recruitment firm "Give Me Your Top 5" and that's that.

You're right. The filtering is/was done by recruiting, but I had some insight into their general content. And yes, education is almost never at the top for senior positions. At that point it is mostly irrelevant.

My comment was a response to OPs statement that 100% of non-degreed candidates are better than those with degrees because they are more motivated. This is certainly not the case for entry level positions which is what I was referring to.
UX Design Tutorial for Beginners (#1)
The Freelancer approach does not work, if the data you extract is time critical. But then again, why would anyone not try to find an api for such data and rely on dom parsing.
So, OPs product is worth it, if you validated and trust their ML model to work correctly, believe they can guarantee a certain uptime and the data you extract is time sensitive or mission critical. Also the data cannot be resourced from an api.
People with such needs may be willing to pay good bucks, but good luck finding early adopters as well as the data-niche where there is demand for something like this.
US only though.
Since I'm one of the original EVE's authors, let me start by saying this: EVE is different from Balena in two fundamental ways:
1. EVE believes in Edge Virtualization (hardware assisted virtualization) as the only way to build secure-by-default edge computing systems
2. EVE supports a variety of workloads (VMs, Unikernels and Docker/OCI containers) and we’re in a process of defining a spec for this called Edge Containers
You can read more about EVE's architecture (and please let us know if anything is not clear so we can improve our documentation) here: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/blob/master/docs/README.md)

Honestly, I think #2 is the most exciting part of EVE and there’s an evolving doc here: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/blob/master/docs/ECOS.md

EVE does have a pretty decent support for various gateways: https://wiki.lfedge.org/display/EVE/Hardware+Platforms+Suppo... but as you can see there’s a heavy tilt towards Intel-based systems (simply because they are the ones with way more existing workloads available for them).

Now, let's talk about business side of things: Balena and ZEDEDA are very different when it comes to the value add on top of the open source platform. Balena aims at being more of a PaaS solution (sort of like Heroku of that space) where ZEDEDA is clearly an IaaS/CaaS (or better yet ECasS) solution. That said, both companies have their Cloud Based portions. Balena has https://www.balena.io/cloud/ and ZEDEDA has https://zedcontrol.zededa.net/

In EVE’s terminology that zedcontrol service in the cloud is called a Controller https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/tree/master/docs#eve-controll...

At ZEDEDA we believe that we’re providing the most scalable controller to our customers, however, there’s an open source controller implementation as well: https://github.com/lf-edge/adam

Adam is somewhat new and we’re still working on making it a bit more polished so all of your pull requests will be very much welcome!

Finally, there are other architectural differences that are mentioned in the doc I linked about. Things like Balena is build on top of Yocto, while EVE leverages amazing linuxkit project (the same one that powers Docker Desktop product). I'm only mentioning this because ironically enough, while Balena was a pioneer of Docker containers in IoT space, the way the system itself is put together is still very much embedded-like.
define: hyperbole

noun
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
>You know what I wish was still open? Blockbuster.

Try your local library

They often have a significant DVD section.
Why can't it be related to health? It seems like it's an attempt to prevent Indian youths from developing nicotine addiction, which is probably a pretty smart idea even if it's done for culturally chauvinistic purposes.

Personally, I'm ambivalent on whether or not nicotine by itself is harmful, however, I would use the precautionary principle here for the following reasons:

1) vaping isn't just nicotine alone, there are other chemicals and the jury is still out on their effects, why take the risk? which leads to...
2) risk profile: the risks associated with not vaping are virtually non-existent whereas the risks associated with vaping include consuming chemicals other than nicotine and any risks associated with chronic nicotine consumption (both the risks we know and the risks we don't know about).

In other words there's no actual benefit from chronic nicotine consumption.

Now, I do believe occasional nicotine consumption can be used to enhance cognitive performance. Of course, the business model for vaping doesn't support occasional use. Vaping is all about getting people addicted so they're forced to buy your product even though your product doesn't benefit them beyond just alleviating withdrawal symptoms - symptoms which wouldn't exist if they hadn't been addicted in the first place!

For those who can control their addictive urges I recommend using nicotine gums, lozenges, and patches once in a while (as long as you're in good health).
I am curios - hktruth.

What is your background and interest in this subject?

I mean: you call yourself hk truth and your only two posts has been on Hong Kong.
Ocean Obs '19 Livestream
> With the current state of the government and media the doom and gloom is mostly a power grab and a further means to divide.

Can you be more specific? Which entities are using environmental issues as a power grab? I don't see any of that in the article under discussion, for example.
The fundamental problem is that technology has made collecting this information too cheap. Instead of manual entry and uploads, it's automated with essentially zero marginal cost over and above putting the cameras on cars or buildings.

The solution is to make license plate collection expensive again - allow people to install license plate covers that people can manually lift to read the plate and automatically retract when the car is started.
They build downloadable binaries every 12 hours, called Firefox nightly, which is to say the bottleneck for full releases isn't building or automated testing. Mind you, the nightlies are experimental, and not for general use.
You can still do it at the library, and for free!
You say "I would have done a lot better having one". Explain?
If by interesting you mean horrifying then yes. Let's be clear, tracking people this way potentially gives you information about their job, religion, health status, clubs, friends, romantic relationships, and family members. It is a massive data liability, comparable to the credit score companies.
Just wait... if scientists figure out how to live much longer lives (but at a great financial cost) you can guarantee boomers will spend the money and live as long as they can rather than passing on any kind of inheritance.

I've explicitly warned the boomer parents of people we know that their kids won't be paying for their care in old age but you still hear about them having cashed out their pension early, spent the inheritance that they were given etc. to travel around the world multiple times, have botox etc.

They honestly think when the time comes to it they will be ok - they won't and unlike in previous generations, their kids and grandchildren won't feel guilty about granny and grandpa eating dogfood in a cold apartment in the bad part of town.
Michelle McNamara's tantalizing roadmap for finding a long lost serial killer
Even more reasons to pirate. I don't pirate because I think it's right. I pirate because I just don't care.
Battery life.

People seem to love to dismiss small improvements, even if they're practically effortless. Remember, faster performance equals lower battery consumption. Bad slow javascript causes browsers to waste energy.

Small things add up.
If you aren't trying to use your site as a sales and marketing platform, then just put them on different pages. The only reason you wouldn't put up all this stuff on the same overall site is if you are trying to maintain focus to optimize a conversion funnel.
Anecdotally, after fishing in the Big Manistee River in Northwest MI for about 20 years. The salmon population has definitely dwindled from my experience during our last few annual fishing trips. We tend to go right around the time of the "Run", where the fish come into the river when lake Michigan gets cold.

I've only caught maybe 1 the last 3 years I've been where usually it's 4-12 a trip (1 week).

All anecdotal but the zebra mussel issue in the river has gotten insanely bad. The entire riverbed feels like dead shells and they're starving the river of nutrients.

It's been a huge loss and I've stopped contributing to Manistee's tourism as a result. Huge bummer.
There is no such thing as an unlimited supply of fish. Even if there were as many fish in the middle of the ocean as near the shore we would deplete it quickly.
Related though. Anti-competitive ISPs also don't like net neutrality, since it's essentially aimed at curbing anti-competitive network behavior. Quite unsurprisingly, the same bad actors are usually opposed to direct ISP competition.

I.e. if they oppose net neutrality, high chances are they oppose municipal networks as well. To put it differently, once they have monopolist mentality and anti-competitive behavior, it spills out to everything.
> He's a genius, so let him be

I haven't seen anyone actually make that argument, but I have seen a lot of people arguing against it.
You probably wouldn't learn A* unless you took an AI related course. Or specifically studied graph traversal.
TalkScript Episode 46: Access – Libraries, Braille
Google - “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj why your internet sucks”
> I would love to see SQL grow a concise navigation/join syntax

Yeah, what you need is a specification of a name to use for the referenced table in implicit joins when you sepcify an FK, then if you reference the linked table, it performs the join (to bring in a different subthread, such an implicit join specification could be the mechanism of opting-in for index-free adjacency on that FK, too, so you'd combine syntactic support with the supporting query optimization.)

Maybe something like:

REFERENCES <table> [(<key columns>)] AS <link-name>

So, your example would be be supported by (assuming all the FKs are to PKs so you don't need columns specified on the FKs):

FOREIGN KEY department_id REFERENCES departments AS department

FOREIGN KEY head_id REFERENCES employees AS head

FOREIGN KEY assistant_id REFERENCES employees AS assistant

...on the relevant tables.
Does little to change the point, piracy still doesn’t have these restrictions.
Thanks. I was thinking more about desktop apps (Elecron, CEF, etc).
> The first German science fiction that comes to my mind ... "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" (great book from 1995): no idea if it sold well in English.

Oh, i read that! It's "The Carpet Makers" in English. I rather liked it; it's one of those stories which zooms out and out and out to reach dizzying perspectives of time and space and whatnot. Bit like Star Maker or some Stephen Baxter. It's definitely more modest than those, but it has a sort of creepiness to it that's unusual.
Denver has it but it's not expecting to are outside the metro area. I had an installer tell me that fiber would never come to my neighborhood despite it only being a 10 year old development in a fast growing city (Castle Rock, south of Denver).